skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homeless shelters aren't a new thing, but there is a wrinkle in SF where financial innovation might work.

- SF homeless budget is $300 million per year, yet there's only 5,000 to 10,000 homeless people. So if you can do an Elon Musk and have the govt. bankroll your companies

- US cities outside SF would love to bus their homeless to SF, and keep on trying. Instead of letting them off with a 1-way bus ticket, charge them $10,000 a head.

- And as I have said previously, can't 50% of the SF homeless be helped with job and interview skills to get them off the streets, so the other mentally ill 50% can get focus? It's amazing how the SF Chronicle can always find 5 homeless people to do a lucid interview with.
We also need to buy less clothing overall. But this doesn't invalidate GP's assertion that natural fibers are more desirable.
World Wide Web (www or W³): (between 1992 and 2042) Technological economic subsystem designed to monetize the intelligence of a few to produce ignorance in many more others. Internet is a fertile space for baseless or futile controversies (see "nihilistic relativism"), bad faith arguments (see "trolls") and personal attacks (see "DOTA 2"); it's been shown to warm up populations to authoritarianism and speech control (see "Xiism"), and to generate the cannibalistic stock-splosions of the early 21st century. It was eventually replaced in 2042 by radioweb, a quantum mesh network which ultimately spanned forty-eight thousand stars centered on the Sun by the year 4000. The only remnant of the World Wide Web in use today is Javascript. Replicas of the W³ circa 2020 are commonly used in airgap VR settings, to train soldiers to resist torture, or as horror depiction in movies. Psycho-history estimates that the human race would have gone extinct by 2145 at the latest if the W³ "experiment" hadn't been shut down prematurely by the Pixies.
I was hoping to see 'live' on the list.

> I live in US.

vs

> I went to a live concert in US.

The Alex voice on macOS used to confuse them a lot.

Ah, and 'ML paper' read as 'millilitres paper'
This is both an incredibly uncharitable representation of postmodernism and also using it as a whipping boy for no reason. Postmodernism is not the same thing as gender or racial analysis and it very much does not declare that facts are "not really a thing".

So you say it depends on who you ask. Who have you asked?
Advertising is different than letters to the editor. There is a rather large bit of law on the what and how of campaign advertising. It actually dates back quite a few years.
Ex soviet block street gangs dont have easy access to firearms. Yes real organized crime have all the cool toys but general street hustling punks not as much. Not so in the us
>I don't agree with this. While it's made it possible to be better informed, it isn't the case that everyone is

the now-informed go and inform the uninformed, affecting everybody in a slow and gradual manner -- regardless of the individuals participation.

One didn't have to read in order to be affected by the advent of the printing press.
I’m trying to figure out how PP is the problem. You send police to a high crime area and they incarcerate people that break the law. Let’s instead send the police to a zero crime area. The cops have an easy shift and arrest no one. That high crime area now has businesses and such moving out because they can’t afford the losses. They take the jobs with them. Now people in the area are unemployed and soon become homeless. Now you have a problem that is spiraling out of control. You think the people that are now left in that area are happy because their lives went from poor to shit? How is that helping?
This is just a conservative grievance list. Nothing to do with being “free”, he just doesn’t like the fact that the west coast is a certain kind of liberal. Which is fine, but it’s disingenuous as presented.
Please do not use justified formatting for text unless you can hyphenate it. Otherwise you end up with large chunks of white space between the words, especially in narrower (then 6070 characters) columns.

Browsers don’t hyphenate, so avoid justified text on the web.
My daughter get the Kiwi Crate (gifted subscription from Grandpa), for about a year now, and it's an absolute highlight of our month. We make a day of it each time one arrives and put together a little video of completing it to send back to Grandpa. It has become very special to all of us.

They've created something really amazing with this. Other crates/boxes/etc exist, but they consistently nail the balance of challenge vs fun and overall quality. My 5 year old can follow the instructions herself with only minor prompting from me, and you always get some form of lasting & inspiring object afterwards rather than just stuff that ends up in the bin like many other similar programs. Her room and our house are littered with things she's built herself and that still get use many months later, and they've taught her heaps about how things work.
The baby’s already been tossed my friend.

The police actually have a terrible record when it comes to handling the crime of rape.

They downplay it, deprioritize it, etc. Read about the massive backlog of rape kits.

Literally - rape crimes that are reported to the police, and that they deprioritize or ignore.

https://www.rainn.org/articles/addressing-rape-kit-backlog
What-aboutism is not a valid argument. And there are programs in place for some of the issues in your list (none of which really stack up much to America's history of slavery and jim crow).

Who said anything about cash reparations or Democrats? Yes, programs should be better funded to make up for the past evils of our society. But what about the people here and now that are disadvantaged due to past evils and the lack of these programs in the past?

It's the pairing of past injustices with the inability to just "blend in" with the rest of the crowd that creates a special case.

If you are born poor as a black person, you are still twice as likely to remain poor.

As for your comment that being born white is some kind of disadvantage is just laughable. Look at the data, what does it tell you? The fact is, almost every statistic out there indicates the opposite.

Median net worth for black families is 1/10th that of median white family net worth in America.

You may think that your success in life is entirely dependent on your personal grit and whatever. But the reality is that wealth and success is heavily dependent upon generational wealth and social capital. Which means that those whose ancestors were enslaved and otherwise abused are by definition starting way, way back from the starting line.

You don't get to have a head-start and then halfway through the race declare that from this point forward, all rules will apply to everyone equally. You especially don't get to pretend that those that had to start way back from the start line don't have some little weights attached to their ankles (i.e. modern racial bias).
I'll probably be down voted, but this article seems incredibly out of touch with reality. I was a Marine and a Federal civilian for 11+ years, but this is solely my opinion/based on my own experiences. I am also generally proud of my service and have a great deal of respect for current/former service members. Hopefully I don't offend any of you - my angst is directed towards the cherry-picking and misrepresentation of facts in this article.

That being said, at least in my experience, it is, and always has been, very much culturally ingrained that you handle problems internally and you do not rat on friends. There is an implicit trust that exists for those in combat-oriented roles, that others will watch your back and you'll watch theirs. That doesn't stop at combat situations. Trust me, the forms of reprisal taken against people in the military who rat on others is far worse than simply ending your career.

I find it a bit ridiculous we are now holding up the military justice system as some kind of panacea or institution that has it right. Just a few years ago, we were castigating the military for it's handling of sexual assault. One of the key issues? Sexual assault reporting being handled at the unit-level, unit commanders being disincentivized from escalating reports (e.g., it reflecting poorly on the unit commander when sexual assault takes place in their unit), and as a result, sweeping the issues under the rug. Now we are holding up military culture as being at risk of the "camouflage wall of silence" rising?

The Eddie Gallagher case is another great example. The article conveniently fails to mention that one of the key reasons Gallagher was able to walk away was due to an SF soldier covering his ass. One of the Government's key witnesses, who had already been given immunity, decided to change his story and take the blame for the killing the boy Gallagher was accused of murdering. Kind of throws off a murder charge when someone else says they're the ones who committed it. Less explicit, is the fact that Gallagher bragged about averaging three kills per day, including four women, over 80 days. You're telling me that, through the course of this guy's service, this was the only time he messed up?

The SEALs that finally did report Gallagher will never work in any kind of a special operations, law enforcement, government, or any other field where their skill-sets can be used. That may not seem like much, but it's akin to someone becoming a doctor and losing their license to practice. People outside of these communities don't realize just how small these circles are and how pervasive their former/current members are elsewhere in the industry/government. Word travels and stuff like what they did is not forgotten. Look no further than the Navy Times article from 2019 titled, "What motivated fellow SEALs to dime out Eddie Gallagher?". For the uninitiated, "dime out" is synonymous with "rat out".

There are many reasons law enforcement recruits heavily from prior military service members (e.g., prior training, physical fitness, etc.), but a big one is because they're already at least partially vetted as being a good "culture" fit.
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I landed a full time remote job in 2 weeks
Yes it is man.
Buy good quality clothing with timeless styling (not fashionable, or worse fast fashion). Take good care of it. They can potentially last decades if taken care of properly (obviously not cycling the same three shirts every week, but a proper wardrobe that’s seasonal with enough option for any occasion). Goes a long way.
10-year timelapse of the Sun – in 30 seconds
Nikolay Ironov – neural network for design
One interesting thing about the 712 "Gecko" was that it had a bi-endian CPU. So it could run HPUX in big endian, and Windows NT in little endian.
The Chinese really have efficiency down to an art form. The last time I was in HK, I had breakfast at Dai Ga Lok. I put in my order and by the time I ambled over to the next counter, my noodle soup and toast was already ready. It blew my mind just how fast they managed to put it out... and this was with an all-human staff!

It was like that scene in The Founder where Ray Kroc eats at McDonalds the first time and he doesn't understand how he could possibly get his burger ready so quickly.
Also posting this to HN, and seeing that you got here first :)

I just wanted to add, that this seems like a very US-centric view. Here in the UK, I have worked with many non-white people over my career, and I've hired several to work on my teams. Certainly in London, race doesn't really come into it - if you are the best fit, you get hired, regardless of your ethnicity (it's illegal to do otherwise in fact).
Awesome job! Super cool.
> but you know what you meant.

Yes I know what I meant because I wrote it, I'm telling you that you interpreted wrong.

> I didn't take the pro gun-confiscation side in that comment.

You didn't have to, you were defending the confiscation process. As another user pointed out to you, the government asking before forcing to take your guns is no different than a bank robber passing a note to the clerk with a threat written on it.

> It more neoliberal (lower taxes, less social safety net)

I don't ever see anyone on here advocating for less regulation and lower taxes. I mainly see marxists, socialists, and liberals.

> Outside of the ethno-nationalists, most of those viewpoints don't get downvoted unless they use personally offensive rhetoric

That's convenient and untrue. No, not all viewpoints that get downvoted are offensive unless you count them being offensive to the opposing political ideology.
Suppose you fire a photon through a polarizing filter. If the photon's polarization is orthogonal to the filter, it will be blocked however if not orthogonal, the photon can pass through with some probability. Does putting the photon through the filter count as a measurement?
>other problems, such as with providing universal healthcare, ending homelessness, poverty, etc, are inherently non-profitable

These are also problems that have no real solution outside of a general economic improvement.

Universal healthcare is a black hole for money. You can literally spend all of the money in the world on it and you'd still be lacking in funding. It's a problem space that expands the more we learn about it requiring even more funding to actually help people. Gene therapies are so expensive that if universal healthcare offered them the governments would go bankrupt. Yet the hope is that as we improve our understanding we can improve the price. Antibiotics cost next to nothing in developed countries. 200 years ago you could've been the richest person on Earth and you still couldn't get them.

Homelessness is a multifaceted problem. If you look at it from the perspective of trying to build more homes to offer it to people then you run into regulation issues. Everybody is in favor of it, as long as it's not in their backyard. On the other hand, if you try to focus on the homeless themselves, then it's largely a lack of self-help issue that ended up spiraling out of control. It's very difficult to help them, because many of them have different issues. The lack of a home is (usually) just a symptom of another issue. This makes it difficult to scale any actual solution.

Dealing with poverty is an interesting issue. When you look at developed countries, then you're almost always dealing with relative poverty. It is impossible to get rid of it, because relative poverty is simply the bottom X% of the population. The US (relative) poverty line is $12,760 a year for a single person. The average income in Poland is $16,052 (~$12,000 after taxes). Are the Polish poor?

There's also absolute poverty. This is set at around $2.2 a day or roughly $500-600 a year. We have been quite successful at improving the conditions for a lot of people in countries with large amounts is abject poverty. China is the poster child of this. China went from 88% of the population in 1981 living in absolute poverty to 0.7% in 2015. One of the main ways this happens is through sweatshops. Contrary to popular belief, sweatshops tend to be better than alternatives for the locals. That's why they work in them. It's not easy, but they've certainly lifted countries out of poverty.

All in all, I don't think the problems you mentioned are solvable by capitalism, because they're not really "solvable" by any economic system (other than abject poverty). These problems largely improve when we improve our economies. Capitalism seems to be the best at that.
Utah is one of those states that has laws that were originally crafted to prevent municipalities from providing the service by big ISP lobbyists. The law prevents municipalities from offering the service directly to consumers (still does), so UTOPIA was born with an open access network via a 'loophole' if you will in the laws.
> Your final sentence is an oddly specific claim

Only among people unfamiliar with history. The Mediterranean is among the most famous works of all time and was written from memory while he was in a concentration camp. Historians love him, though his later work on economic history garners mixed opinions. He is the archetype of "famous white historian from the 1st half of the 20th century". His geographic history and macrohistory approach is no longer in vogue but that doesn't destroy the work.

One tweet suggests an alternative for undergrad work (not removing Braudel from the field). One is outright critical (though not incorrect - geographical determinism is a huge part of his work and it merits criticism). Your last tweet is lamenting that people don't know Braudel anymore... which is just whinging. Go look at a qualifying exam booklist for anybody working in a remotely adjacent field. It's there.

So across all of twitter we've got one historian with harsh words. Not exactly evidence that the field is throwing out great scholarship foolishly.
Cool! Another suggestion: why not extract and show the text of the leading comment (or maybe some other metric) of the articles in question rather than lorem ipsum filler?

And an option to "turn the page" for more content from the select subreddit would be even cooler!
Ah, NetInfo. So many memories! The HP was a nice development machine, definitely faster than the slabs.
Show HN: 11 MIT licensed repos related to multithreading Apps
Hmm, apparently I'm the only one who had a not-great experience with these. Our child received the Kiwi level as a gift and thought one of the months was cool (the arcade claw, pictured on the site) but the others were pretty lame. We would have considered continuing the subscription if we could have seen what was coming, but given our mediocre experience during the first stint, we didn't spring for a renewal ($20/mo for Kiwi level, and more for some of the higher levels).
That’s not entirely true is it? Browsers can hyphenate (using the hyphen property in CSS) but it only supports certain languages, which need to be specified in the lang attribute of the html tag.
What’s your point? I’m hoping this is not yet another contrarian remark without an end.
While I agree that was the end for Usenet. And it for told what would become of the wider internet. 2005 saw the creation of the modern social network and the start of the centralized services we have today. A move from 100's of niche forums and blogs to a few social networks. Which is where I place the beginning of the end of the wider internet
I hadn't heard of Mermaid. Looks good!

https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/
I don't see myself switching away from Firefox any time soon but the "megabar" fiasco really rubs me the wrong way and I hope it isn't indicative of their direction going forward.

In the past when Firefox has changed default behavior there's almost always a way to revert the changes. They move tabs to the title bar to match Chrome, I change an option that puts them back where I like them. They auto hide the bookmark toolbar, I re-enable it. With the latest Firefox release I've yet to find an easy way to disable the godawful, distracting zoom effect for the URL bar. The about:config options that used to work no longer do. I really hope they reverse course and give us a straightforward way to disable it.
The current iteration of the trope also infantilizes actual black protestors and rioters, as if only “white outsider anarchists” can lead black folks to express their anger in ways that don’t please white notions of “model minorities”
In Historic Vote, House Approves Statehood for the District of Columbia
Verizon's is $70/month with no datacaps yet.

Speed and ability to get the service varies greatly by distance and LOS to the tower.

Source: https://www.verizon.com/support/5g-home-faqs/
Also look at the other side: if you’re at&t and have the opportunity to lock in while buildings or neighborhoods into your service and dictate their pricing, that’s ... well, priceless!

So the expenses around lobbying, wining and dining a few politicians etc. are totally worth it.
> - Foreign interference - when internet use was not widespread, it was difficult to infiltrate a foreign election campaign and interfere with it.

Hahahahaha
User agent isn't reliable enough to do this and definitely wasn't intended to be used this way, so you're just asking for brittle code. Supposedly Chrome is freezing its user agent very soon, so it's not even a good path going forward.
> which someone would have to listen to 471 times to reach Spotify pricing.

You might have misphrased, but in the event you didn't: How does listening to a CD generate revenue?
Unilever's marketing team rightly recognizes this as a moment when temporarily boycotting running facebook ads gains them more attention and good will for free than their ads that were previously running on facebook did for pay.
same day ships... kinda super impressive
Here in Northern NJ Comcast is a quite reliable broadband provider... but in the almost 18 years we've had their service the download speed has risen to 225 Mbps, while the upload speed has remained at around 5 Mbps. In practice this doesn't seem to matter much. I assume they could potentially add additional upstream frequencies but I doubt they get many complaints about it, or that very many of their customers are even aware of the asymmetry.
Right, there’s also overflow-wrap though it’s intended more for preventing layout breakage in a language-agnostic way. Maybe it could be useful if you’re working with a language that isn’t supported by browsers.
This was a very clever comment, and I don't think most folks understood it.
When possible I want to run my apps on OSX. It’s not always possible, but usually works.

The scripting environment managers have made big improvements in the past few years. Nvm/virtualenv/rvm give me 90% of the docker value prop with none of the performance impact or debug hassle.

Haskell/clojure/java all seem platform agnostic out of the box.

C/C++ is probably still a hassle with libs being platform specific.
Yes. I’ve tried to tell people what it’s like to be near a strike. You feel it more than you hear it. And very scary.
UTOPIA in Utah is an example of a network that is pretty close to what you propose. The city installs all the last mile fiber and leases the lines to private ISPs. They have ~10 ISPs to choose from, and you can get 10 Gbps connections.

My city is placing a similar proposal on the ballot this November (https://connectkaysville.com/).
https://www.miltonglaser.com/the-work/
I like the gallery posted on his website. His work was really high profile.
Off topic.

I really like the colors, theme and fonts of your terminal. Can you share them?!
Relying on the UA string for browser detection is an anti-pattern. Instead, you should do feature detection. Modernizr [1] is nice, but you can also just do it yourself. Look into CSS @support too.

[1] https://modernizr.com
I'm no RF engineer, but I'm pretty sure a 60Ghz link will be crippled when it rains.
Sadly there's a long history of American companies taking our NZ identity, after they renamed Chinese Gooseberries as "kiwifruit" many people stopped recognising "kiwi" as a nationality.

Nowdays if you claim to be a kiwi in the US people look at you blankly trying to figure out why you might be a small fuzzy fruit
> but then it's really interesting to see that so many people repeatedly pick the very-moderated HN over places like 4chan.

Do they? HN seems small compared to 4chan and tiny compared to Facebook.

I’d say more than three quarters of my tech friends have never been on HN whereas they have all been on Facebook at one point.
It Was Sell at All Costs How AT&T’s Staff Created Fake Accounts for DirecTV Now
"Foreign interference" is as old as the hills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_electoral_intervention
Same, not too knowledgeable but I thought this was no longer a mystery.