skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too am appalled by the rapidly growing poverty, which has accelerated in the pandemic of course but was already incredibly visible to me when returning to California every six months while the economy was supposedly going great.

If many of these people are leaving California, where are they going, and why? Did any of them tell you?

It seems to me that if you're down and out you are probably better off actually staying in California, but not in a big city, because we have a pretty big tradition of tolerance and state aid. Are they hoping for better in Nevada or Arizona?
Coincidently, the transformer unit in our neighborhood failed on Friday.

The storm was a welcome surprise.
I can't say I've read a ton of NWS weather bulletins, but are they usually so colloquial in the discussion or is this one of those "so nuts its warranted" situations?
Even at my mid tier company we have processes around the crucial but (to me) boring parts of the software industry, which involve building, deployment, version control, access control, connection drivers, requirements gathering, provisioning of resources, maintenance...

The list goes on and on and if someone doesn't do any of these things, the whole operation will grind to a halt. And absolutely none of these procedures involve reversing a linked list or traversing a binary tree inorder (maybe git does but that's an implementation detail hidden from me ^.^)
Digikey is one of the primary vendors of 3M, and well known for reliability as a counterfeit-free distributor.

https://www.digikey.com/short/zrz730

Also, even if you've not used them before or have no need of kapton tape, take a look because their parametric search is one of the greatest I've seen, and makes Amazon's Choice system seem awful in comparison.
Communist parties in America are nothing but there are communist parties with seats in national legislatures throughout Europe. They’re not specifically Maoist because that doesn’t make any sense for developed countries.
Maybe, but this is different than quid pro quo harassment or other kinds of sexual harassment which is what Title IX is concerned with. Fugrther, your scenario is implausible because she would have stood to gain very little from their relationship—her grades were locked-in at that point and her future PhD program was secure. Her employers would care very little about her masters advisor’s opinion compared to her PhD advisor. Further still, none of this justifies railroading someone out of their position.

Title IX guidance is horrendous and it leaves a trail of victims in its wake. I don’t understand the desire to impugn these victims and distract from the pressing problem. I guess I strongly disagree with the idea that we should punish someone because they might have done something wrong in the utter absence of evidence. Which is to say, I’m opposed to injustice.
This post seems kinda defensive.

Who says we don't listen to young people? We listen to their music and their art and they're thoughts on how to use these devices. Dr. Dre used to use one of these in his music in the early days with great success. He made gourmet meals out of it. Many people listened to his thoughts on the MPC 3000 when he was young cause, clearly, he mastered the use of it.

But then when it comes to the engineering of the device in the first place we listen to the old guys who built it. Cause that's usually who builds these things. Expert engineers, who busted their asses in school to understand the science to create these things.

Anyone who's rational listens to other people regardless of their age, depending on the domain of knowledge. The point is that we listen to people who have proven themselves in a certain domain.

So, just cause I'm young, don't listen to me about car repairs and or car maintenance. I know jack shit about it. My track record with cars has been awful.
> as someone in NYC

NYC is a legit megacity - New York has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world.

SF is small by comparison. Only a small portion of SF is walkable and even then the blocks are long. Transit is sparse and dirty and most people end up owning cars. Despite this housing is more expensive than NYC.

Unless you think it's reasonable to pay $4k a month for a one bedroom in Indianapolis it doesn't make sense to stay in SF.
refactoring common distributed data patterns into s4
> If the city effectively ceases to be outside your door for weeks or months

I think the key here is that even in the pandemic, while things have adapted and taken a different form, this isn't true. We lost some things, but solutions have popped up. Due to outdoor dining, in many ways the streets in my area have become more pedestrian friendly. Many blocks are actually now shut down to cars and are designated explicitly for pedestrians.
> Maybe we make the Post Office ALSO the Office of Elections and run them nationally or in partnership w/ locals.

Aside from the Constitutional issues that raises, the Post Office was disbanded almost 50 years ago and replaced with a government-owned self-financed corporation, the Postal Service.

So, first, we'd have to re-establish the Post Office.
Nimph has had lockfiles for months.

https://github.com/disruptek/nimph
This is not really true. The TSA does not intend to collect, but to obtain an "ok person", "not-ok person" stamp. Then they decide with the info they gathered in the conversation with the person in question. They are not obtaining the data and have no intention of doing so. Yet a stamp like "criminal activity in the past" would be a questionable one. I don't know how they stamp the person.

Nevertheless I think they are doing a bad thing, because you can rest assured that this collected data won't get deleted, possibly even sold to 3rd parties.
Google's actually tried a native payment option more than once (Google contributor). Web sites dislike it. Established Web content producers prefers ads to micropayments.

There are obviously subsets of the web where this doesn't apply (twitch and YouTube where patreon is common, onlyfans, etc.), but that's almost solely for video and live interaction.

Micropayments are, apparently, not what the textful web wants.
Maybe the problem is you and not the Bay Area.
While couples and families are making (probably overdue) decision to live the city I don't seen the magnet effect to die down for younger and single people anytime soon.
I live in SF. I'm from Florida. I was impressed.
Most likely you either don't have 5 years of professional experience or they are filtering you based on visa/citizenship status. The industry is very broken.
Yes, I regularly order from them, but shipping via DigiKey hasn't been great lately where I live so I went with 3M. I also highly recommend digi-key for anyone's kapton needs.
Edit: spelling
Thanks for the precisions, my bad :)
If I understood correctly, this means that every time you add a new dependency, it takes 15 minutes to rebuild the first time you `docker-compose up` right?

I assume this is due to docker downloading the related image and running the container.

If this is the case, isn't this orders of magnitude faster than adding the dependency manually. And aren't the gains are even more significant when we factor the fact that most of the cases dev and prod environments are identical? Or am I missing something?
NLP is great for many things, but, from my own experience as a NLP developer, machines are not even close to understand human language. They can interpret well some kind of written speech, but they will struggle to grasp two humans speaking to each other.
The progress we are make on building chatbots and vocal assistants is mainly due to the fact We are learning how to speaking to the machines, and not the contrary.
As a former forecaster, I've always appreciated the little Easter eggs and irreverent comments that are occasionally embedded in forecast discussions... But yeah, this actually sounds like insane conditions for that area.
Has anyone here ever had a use case for toLower() where they actually wanted localization to apply?

Yes. In a system I'm about done with, there is a sortable chart of dates and times. In some languages day and month names are capitalized, and in some they are not.
It’s harder to isolate than a sports team, but that there is an effect is just common sense.
>If what is written here is true ...

So is it? The guy is mining theoretical examples, but I wonder if in practice anyone has been hurt by this. And if they have (let's say a non-failing student was given a failing grade), why not handle those cases within a manual appeals process? After all, the exams weren't written, so no matter what mechanism you choose their will be students that get higher markers than they otherwise would have received and lower marker than they otherwise deserved - but I suspect, even in those cases, the marks will be in the same ballpark.
Which is fine... There's nothing wrong with buying grey market products as long as that's what you know you're buying.
Forget ascii conversion, that also fails on contractions like "don't".
It has gotten a lot better I think.
"To keep reading this story, get the free app or log in."

No thanks.
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>dying from sporting event-acquired flu is really, really low on the list of dangers to worry about. worry about the trip getting there instead, if you must worry.

these kind of statistics are not for personal caution, they're for risk assessment and public policy.

141 total infant botulism cases were reported in 2017 -- it still warranted a report and investigation work in order to assess the possibility of future problems that stem from the case, spread characteristics, etc.[0]

My point being : the rarity and generalized 'total danger' of an event should not determine whether or not it is investigated by public-policy makers and groups like the CDC/WHO.

Another facet never mentioned : sporting event-acquired flu is really low on the list of dangers to prioritize, you probably won't be bothered by it -- but the existence of yet another now-quantified danger does nudge your average 'danger score' higher. It always did, of course, but now people have actionable data about it.

So, sure, event acquired flu is really rare -- but I bet more people than before will now consider this when planning the trip with or around people with compromised immune systems.

[0]:https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/surv/2017/index.html
Many times I get university assignments that are compulsory to be submitted as handwritten document. Most of the information needed for the assignment is available on the internet so why not save time? Just make a text document and let handwritten.js do the writing part!

example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alias-rahil/handwritten.js...
Os.scandir looks like a very good improvement to Python. I haven't coded anything to Python 3.5 or newer, however, so I have no experience with it.

The last time I needed something along these lines the only option were os.listdir or using FindFirstFile through win32py. Os.listdir was an order of magnitude slower for my use case.
When did they add this?

No reason to shop there anymore. Micro Center and B&H have been great.
Actually SF was really inexpensive when I moved there in 1993.

Apart from that I enjoyed your rant. :-)
It's very clearly unfair, I'm not sure what your example has to do with anything.

No students performance should be a sum based on how previous students have done at their school. That's literally reinforcing the postcode divide in education quality that were supposed to turn a blind eye to.

My home town school has historically refused to even put children in for exams if they didn't get at least a C grade in their mocks because they valued league table position so highly (helps with investment and alumni donations etc). That cynical and should-be-illegal approach clearly benefits their students in this situation more than schools in the area that do right by their children.

And more than any of that, this is the real world effects of the bullshit algorithm peddlers have been pushing for the last few years. Algorithms can solve any real world problem given the data. Well they can't. They can give the proposition of an answer to the problem, but at costs to some that are too high to bear.
No, this is speculative. To be clear, the absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence at least in the very short term. Research and analysis take time.
You are incorrect, in fact the Halting Problem is RE-complete,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RE_(complexity)
does it include system files?
2FA is another layer of defense to defeat.

We can all agree that 2FA based on SMS sucks, but some implementations allow you to not have SMS as your second factor.
Nice post as always Greg.

To those who aren't familiar, gk1 is a regular HN commenter / contributor and excellent consultant who knows his stuff.

This piece is also a gold mine of info for those looking to grow their consulting practices:

https://www.gkogan.co/blog/consulting-advice/

(no current affiliation other than being a former client via Scalyr)
Impressed compared to the craziness that is the southeast's weather we all know and love/hate when the elements decide to spice things up, or compared to the usual bay area fare?
Why is that a threat?
Great Escape Room business opportunity!
It's called (human-induced) climate changes
But you can't use those things to insure a voter intent is actually used for the tally.

Without publically identifiable votes, records like banking has for good reason, voter intent cannot be trusted to contribute to the final tally accurately.
I've said this there, but your solutions are highlighting that its a question of values. None of your suggestions actually sate what I value in those things. I'm not looking for a personal chef or climbing coach, I'm looking for the culture that surrounds both of these things. I want to work through climbing problems with other people. I want the people that created the food to be supported by the food I eat. I'm not someone who wants to live in nature, I actually do prefer a city with access to groomed nature. No, that's not everyone, and that's okay! But it's many people who enjoy and stay in major cities.
Yes, but he's talking about an equivalent of Rust's [must_use].

I actually made a post on the Rust subreddit inquiring why Rust made must_use opt-in instead of opt-out like Swift and, apparently, F#. The reaction was OVERWHELMINGLY negative toward the idea of it being opt-out, which I find very surprising considering the kind of code one typically sees in Rust.
On Ubuntu, I use xmodmap to turn Print Screen into a Compose key. Then it's: <compose>"i

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
What about SLIP?
Yeah but indiegogo builds vs an established maker of PCs?

Still, like many of the mini and nano itx "white box" companies this hits the right notes for a small home server.
TinyGo (https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo) is the Golang equivalent of this for anyone who wants a more performant (than python) and simple language to use.
%90 of homeless are not the chronic homeless, it's the ~%10 chronic that really need mental health care that are ruining it for everyone.

The numbers are also very low, around 10k 'chronics' for the entire bay area as far as I remember.

You need different solutions for different types. The poor / down on their luck types are definitely helped by free housing.
Of course children have been hurt by this is practice, there are numerous cases of children getting down graded from their predicted results so badly they're having University offer places withdrawn, and it's not by a point or two, we're talking straight A students getting demotd to Ds across the board because their school has a history of bad results, which are irrelevant to any given student right now.

Oxford have decided to ignore results and honor previously given offers because the process is so untrustworthy.
This is a study which looks at the relative impact of pro sports on influenza deaths in cities, not a study on COVID-19. But if a pandemic did hit, and we didn't have any data on the relative impact of different events on death, then you're more blind than ever in making judgments like whether churches should be restricted to 50 (why not 25 or 100?).

Similarly, there ought to be discussions on increases in mortality for any other causes under current contexts, including deaths by suicide — there's certainly been a lot of resistance to discussing the impacts of lockdown on public health.
The best part: "...only three or four of the dozens of people who commented on his top post on Hacker News raised suspicions that it might have been generated by an algorithm. All those comments were immediately downvoted by other community members."
I recently moved from champaign to the bay area.

I was reminiscing and missing the midwest summer storms earlier this week.
Yeah, I read most of it. Sounds nasty. Lots of wind, lightning, only scattered rain though?

I can’t really figure out what is so insane, or even very interesting about this at all? Just that it’s uncharacteristic for the area? Is it that a large number of HNers are in the Bay Area this is trending?
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That’s a useless definition of “removed”; using that definition, ME can never be “removed” at all! But that’s not what we’re talking about here. A more useful definition would be to use “removed” as in “not a security problem anymore”.
> The syntax for make files and target deps are also very complex "Do I want to use % or $ or @?"

How is this any more complex than any programming language? Take javascript. Do I want to use =, ==, or ===?

> I cannot test if my Makefile will run on a developer's mac if I don't have a mac myself and even then it's a crap shoot (do they have homebrew? is their PATH correct? etc).

Containers suffer from these kinds of problems as well. For example, if your ip tables are not set up just so, you get no network access from inside your container.
This is not a weather bulletin meant for public consumption. It is a semi-formal "area forecast discussion"[1], aimed at other meteorologists.

[1]: https://w1.weather.gov/glossary/index.php?word=AREA+FORECAST...
(2019). The report was released mid-2019 covering 2017 and 2018, based on the title and second page date stamp. This year’s report, assuming one is released, would be posted without any (20xx) at all, even if it covers 2019.

I would have corrected the title for this post as:

State of Mozilla 2018: Annual Report (2019)

Which is a bit hilarious, but complies perfectly with the guidelines!
UK weather has been very odd over the last 12 months. We’ve just had a week of record August temperatures, and very few people in the UK have air conditioning in their homes.

Climate change seems to be really starting to have measurable day-to-day affects.
I assume, from their statement, it's simply the ergonomics of not having to explicitly name ad-hoc sum types. Which I do agree goes a long way in ergonomics and reduced friction for leveraging the type system.
Is this why AWS doesn't support IPv6? Because they're running OSPF (v2) across their datacenters?

After all the work they (apparently) had to do to get OSPF to work, I can understnd why they'd not want to repeat all of that to test and validate OSPFv3 too.

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For the uninitiated, OSPFv2 only supports IPv4. IPv6 would also require deployment of OSPFv3. BGP, which is typically used in these situations, supports both IPv4 and IPv6 (and many other features which are often desired).
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A big pile of 'meh'. They are trying to make a statistical guess based on priors because the pandemic prevented the exams from being written. They are going to get things wrong. If they have an appeals process for things that are completely out line (e.g. a passing student getting a failing grade), then that's the best you can hope for given the circumstances.

In the big picture, the good students are going to get good markers, average students are going to get average markets, and bad students will get bad markets. Again, it is what it is.
2500 lightning strikes does sound like a lot. Would be interesting to know how the world stacks up in terms of "average lightning strikes per hour" during a typical thunderstorm for that area.
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Maybe that's why it loaded so fast it was done before I could switch to the tab.
Except San Francisco has nature (and even more nature close by) which makes all the difference to me. The few times I’ve been in NYC, I found the sheer amount of gray concrete and steel to be unnerving and dystopian; I’m legitimately amazed that humans can live in such an environment for so long without becoming depressed. That’s not to disparage the city or people who like it; there’s just many of us who need at least some amount of natural beauty (and I don’t mean Central Park).
A nice alternative (without text chat, for now) is vs5x. You can get it at http://blog.x-row.net/download/?file=vs5x&ver=015. The only issue is that it connects by using IP addresses. You and the person you're wanting to chat with can install ZeroTier (https://www.zerotier.com/) configure it to make a network and join it and then authorize the person's IP address.