skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You really have to explain this to me because I'm leaving SF now even though I could save 50% off my current market rate rent if I move to a new place.

What am I missing that I haven't seen in the last 6 years? I've walked/biked the city hundreds of times up and down from GGB to Stonestown and Dogpatch. Visited every nook and cranny of the city, tried living in different neighborhoods and I have always been sorely disappointed by the rampant crime and homelessness. I made life-long friends, attended tens of meetups from hiking, to biking and tech. Tasted food from all over the world, sailed on the bay, saw all the touristy and local spots. Day-tripped all over the bay and hours in every direction. Got an amazing workplace experience that is unlikely to be rivaled anywhere else in the world.

Yet, I can't ignore it forever, I end up driving through downtown to get to Sausalito or eating at a nice restaurant while this person decides I am a demon and begins screaming at me while menacingly coming towards me.

I had my bike stolen from my garage, my car window broken and been threatened by a random person on the street.

You really think most people haven't had enough of this? I tried my best to love SF despite all of it's serious problems but after all these years it got to me and I have to leave, no matter how cheap it would be to stay.
Have you checked whether replacing the screen yourself is cheaper?

As an example, I had an iPhone SE with a broken home button. Repairing it would cost 60 euros, which wouldn't be worth it. On the other hand, a single replacement home button was only 8 euros, and it included the tools. It worked.
The way I understand it, the two subproblems are supervised in the sense that they are trained using data sampled from a fixed distribution, instead of data sampled from a distribution that changes as you update your model, as it is usually the case in RL. This makes the training more stable.
Oh, I've been wearing my mask wrong... My glasses fog up as well, and I've been putting my mask at almost the same height as the lower frame of my glasses...
The alternative you are proposing is arresting them, right? I'm not saying you're wrong, and I'm not attacking you or anything. I just want to play this out, because if there's a good solution, god knows I'd love to discuss it.

Is it constitutional to arrest mentally ill people for being mentally ill?

That's a complex question.

I don't think homeless advocacy groups have any interest in obstructing homeless people's access to municipally-administered mental health and substance-abuse programs? Sure, they don't want people harassed, but I see no evidence they're actively trying to prevent people from getting treatment.
> Samsung and Android are big on the half baked gimmicks and lackluster supports. Those phones you have to upgrade after a few years as they become more bloated than a Windows 95 machine bought from CompUSA.

Am I missing something? What are the phones getting bloated with?
Just to clarify he did not say this in any sort of derogatory sense, nor do I wish it to be interpreted as such. Just that he can't understand! I think the difference is greater than the author states (except written, which is is a little easier to understand because of the borrowed characters).
I'm pretty sure gentrification is the primary driver. You also have Ikea and Four Seasons within the city boundaries, and Facebook HQ right next door.
Ah Wim Hof, reminds me of my friend that had to fight crippling depression.(and still is fighting) He found out about the cold shower, breathing technique from Win Hof, and started practicing it.

What worked better than cold shower was Ice bath in the frozen lake. I were very skeptical at the practice first but oh boy, the sudden freezing shock really do wake some survival instinct inside you out, and your mind becomes really sharp. Until you keep doing it to a point of dizziness reminiscent of certain highs. If you are going to try cold shower, ice lake bath with sauna is also a experience worth trying out!

It didn't help him get out of depression, but sure did energize him more for a brief period of time in his life. (until his routine collapsed)
Did East Palo Alto actually turn things around, or did it just gentrify as housing prices in the nearby cities went up and up?
Hey, nah, coding is fine. But since you ask for feedback: I tried to visit your submission on mobile, please link to something that doesn't ask me to create an account and instead shows me what I'm getting for that. Without that I usually assume I'm getting weekly marketing emails.

Since you make some bold claims in your pitch: do you have technical resources that address bias and data extraction from deployed models in your application?
My Bose QC35's thank the OP. Now if I can only figure out how to improve HFP. It sounds so horrendous on zoom when using the microphone.
Common Front End Testing Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Wonder how long until we see the “reddit shutting down” post. I give it a solid 20 years.
On housing - Nimbys.. folks that fight change.
Susie-Video
In java land, I have found multi-projevt gradle builds and copious tests have gotten us pretty far without needing to resort to a custom package manager.
Ransom Denial of Service Campaign Continues Rising Trend in Global DDoS Attacks
I see your argument as avocating for a flavor of wealth redistribution. Is be interested in hearing more, but would prefer to explore the idea in a less polarizing, more academic way. Any sources?
Missouri spent $1.6B in 1980s dollars on the inner city schools in Kansas City. It didn’t do any good.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-03-27-me-51685-...
Those aren't death rates, they're the rate at which violent crimes are committed. Only some of which result in deaths.
BTW the price elasticity of supply equation is always discussed as how the price affects supply. Anyone know how economists think about changes in supply affecting the price, is the same equation used? Eg destruction or creation of housing units.
Biological sex has more than two configurations of sex chromosomes possible, in humans. This isn't rocket science, although it is biology.

Also, on your other points: Objective truths can exist, but not all measurements are objective. Not everything is a social construct, but the things that humans believe without empirical evidence are all social constructs.

Postmodernism isn't hard. Y'all're just extremely convinced that reality is locally real, just because you can sense it so vividly, and you're blind to your biases as a result.
It does! :)

My setup: Pi-Hole, PiVPN and Passepartout App [0] on iOS.

As soon as i connect to the mobile network or another untrusted Wifi, Passepartout automatically starts the VPN connection in the background and disables it once i either connect to a trusted network or trust the currently connected network.

Works well for a few years already!

[0] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/passepartout-openvpn-client/id...
And at best it will only be a two party system.

Democracy needs more than two parties to thrive. That will never happen when every battle devolves into entrenched red vs blue attrition.

The protestors chant they will not divide us! as if that’s a positive message. A little bit naive if you ask me.
Filtered-popping recursive transition network
SF's population is about 800K, so a $12 billion budget could fund a $15K/year universal basic income.
It's interesting how everything revolves around money in the US.

I take it from your name that you are French. Here the quality of the school has more to do with the education of the patients and the general "proper raising" approach.

Take Versailles for instance. The best school there attracts peuple from vastly different backgrounds and wealth. This is not a discriminant but rather how parents educate their children.

Private schools have a payement system that takes into account the revenue of parents.

Sure,you can buy your way to education but you will never hit the best (or even good) schools.

Then you have the worse neighborhoods, the problem there is a lack of interest or time of the parents rather than money on schools (they get more than the affluent neighborhood ones, take the north of Paris as an example and look at their infrastructures vs the ones in, say, Versailles).
Power is uninteresting for some folks. Working for Big Co. and having the freedom to focus on deep coding problems without fear of where the next paycheck is coming from is very nice.
East Palo Alto also received significant law enforcement assistance from the state and neighboring cities. I wonder if SF leaders would want the CHP patrolling their streets?

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-01-09-19940090...
You've missed the fundamental flaw in the logic - as you spend lavishly to 'house' (actually pay to put in a flophouse) one person another shows up, having heard through the grapevine the pickings are excellent in San Francisco. The 'nearly 20k people off the streets' was proven to be wildly inaccurate. Austin's Loaves and Fishes was just a small scale example, there are lots of practical ways to manage the rapidly increasing transient population and help with addiction and mental health issues that don't involve inner city camp sites and hotel rooms.
This is the first time reading those threads for me, being the young'un that I am. That said, the some of the posts in the thread you linked seem prescient. Supercomputers these days are a pile of commodity microprocessors clustered together with high-speed interconnects, just as predicted in that thread.
Democrats != one unified party. Republicans are a minority united under the same terrible platform. Democrats are everyone else. From progressive to centrist or even right wing (what would conservative in other countries).

You also have "democrats" that act with conservative values that are vocal and prevent any changes. Check Nextdoor if you want to get a wiff of how crazy people are here.
I don't see much in this post that doesn't apply to most jobs.
That happened in the mid 1990s before the latest wave of gentrification.
My dad watches Craigslist for old Airport Expresses because he wants to replace their Chromecast Audio with something that can talk to Apple Music, but Apple bafflingly doesn't have any current AirPlay offerings to connect external speakers.
Welcome to the Jungle! We got fun and games...

* https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversatio...
* https://www.city-journal.org/html/california-jungle-predicta...
Give them housing. It's not that hard, lots of people have done it.

It saves money and it's more humane.
Largely agreed, which makes for accord but lousy debate ;-)

In light of the monopoly-power-control dynamic, though, I see frames for analysing and room for thinking about how federated systems should be structured to avoid creating cryptic control loci.

As an example, Mastodon (on which part of this discussion is occurring) saw a remarkably bad interactiion two hears ago when a set of griefers followed Wil Wheaton from Twitter and swamped Mastodon's feeble harassment and abuse detection-and-mitigation systems (they've been improved, I'm given to understand).

Diaspora, where I'd posted this article, has a nagging (though unclear if growing or just persisting) issue with disinformation and propaganda dissemination. On the one hand, effects are pretty limited without algorithmic amplification. On the other, blocking, reporting, and content- or account-removal seem ...underpowered.

The worse forms of abuse seem infrequent, though, which is a good sign.
Well, even in Canada / UK / Australia / Germany software developer salaries are about 50% less than in America. There's nothing in terms of workforce education or productivity dictating companies should pay the American 2x more. Offshoring is difficult for small companies to do (taxes, accountants etc) but any unicorn startup has the means to do it.
This is the sort of thing people in their 20s tend to write.
I often end up spending more for distinctly worse food in other American cities. It is sometimes hard to swallow paying premium prices for food and then immediately realizing after the first bite that the ingredients are subpar or there is more focus on making it Instagrammable than actually delicious

From that perspective, eating out in SF always felt like a good deal because for $15 you can get some truly exceptional farm to table food.
What would be the approach you're describing? I'd love some bullet-points and I'd be happy to take them into consideration.

The only way to implement what you're describing I can see is arresting people and putting them in prison on non-violent drug offences.

That brings with it it's own set of problems.
This really isn't how this works.

Stylometry is a thing, sure. But it's rarely accurate enough to use on bulk archives in an automated way, especially when archives come from different domains (eg, technical vs social writing).

It's useful for identifying possible alternate authors plays attributed to Shakespeare[1], but a lot less useful for trying to tie a reddit identity to a github profile.

Anyways, what can be done probabably will be done, for whichever reason because it's getting cheaper and cheaper.

Crawling and storing is cheap, but analysis is harder. Automated spell checking ("probabably" above not withstanding!) and auto-complete means stylometry is even less useful now.

Source: myself - I work in natural language processing, and have talked to people applying these techniques.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0028...
Stop writing for medium. As a blogger, you are writing for influence, not for money. You throw that away the moment a reader sees the message: To keep reading this story, create a free account.

Seriously, take an hour of your time and learn how to use Hugo, buy a cheap domain name, and set up your blog for hosting directly from a CDN. Stop being that person that helps medium make money off of other people's content.
Just got the email:

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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
Show HN: Learn Kubernetes basics in 30 mins
(2011)

Edit: Thanks for updating the title.
Patent: Multiplayer video game matchmaking optimization
First cell I clicked on was a mine. So far it behaves exactly as the original. ;-)
OLED's have vastly superior picture quality and are easier on the eyes. I would say this is kind of the "4.7 inch iPhone" moment where Apple is finally giving iPhone users an acceptable screen at an "affordable" price. OLED displays have been dominant on Android phones and high end iPhones for a reason - they are so much better in picture quality.
I had to ask PulseAudio to use the A2DP sink only once, through the UI (either the Audio applet of Plasma, or pavucontrol, I don't remember). It's one too many, but since PulseAudio 12, A2DP should be the default [1].

As for using the microphone, I haven't tried but using the mic requires using the HSP profile unfortunately (because of the bluetooth specification). Other systems auto switch between the two profile. I think it is possible on Linux [2], but I hope it will come out of the box soon.

[1] https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentati...
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_headset#Switc...
Hi Tasroder. Approximately 70% of the world use some form of visual thinking. However if like me, a person is a strong visual thinker and mentally atypical, coding can be quite challenging. With Canopi, I've attempted to rethink how we work with data. Conceptualising it so it is not longer tabular or nested KVP.

I'm sorry you assume I will market to you. I'm not intending to.

I didn't think they were bold claims.

'Technical resources that address bias and data extraction' is quite vague. Can you please ask your question more explicitly?
Thank you.
Most cars probably don't store that data. The opposition ad is lying about whats in your car and who can access it.
Black Hole Visualization in Unreal Engine
Operational effectiveness is highly tied to values, politics, and policy.

From federal down to local, every bureaucracy has to deal with changes and interventions from outside in the form of budget, direction, etc.

Bureaucracies are only as effective as the political environment in which they operate, and they are directed at the behest of voters and politicians which tend to change every few years or-so.

My point in sharing the reference isn't to say 'oh, I know something you don't know.' It's that I read it, and went, 'oh, I know nothing, this stuff is waaay more complicated than I thought it was, and no wonder nothing gets done.'
School choice movement, charters, voucher program. If you search for these you will see a lot.

A list of relevant articles https://reason.org/author/corey-deangelis/
I think devs (not just devs, everyone) should save aggressively for rainier days. If it's not offshoring it could be automation or just plain ol economic downturn that could kill scores of jobs in the coming decades.
SF transit sucks.

- Street parking allowed in high traffic streets instead of public parking.

- Pedestrian crossings allowed in high traffic streets instead of pedestrian overpasses.

- Popular conferences allowed to completely saturate the city.

- Construction jobs in high traffic streets allowed to take months or even years.

- Inadequate public transport, and rideshares everywhere.

- If there's a non-zero amount of precipitation everyone instantly forgets how to drive and the entire city collapses.
There is comp.os.cpm
That is a naive (and demonstrably false) assertion.

Apple's privacy stance is really just marketing, like "There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it."

You don't have to use an apple device for more than a minute to realize this.

For example, you cannot use a new apple iphone without activating it with apple.

In the first screen or two, you are presented with their privacy policy, with is literally hundreds of pages long.

The rest of the setup is full of dark patterns, and even though it is GDPR compliant, it is very hard not to come out of the process without signing in or allowing them access to your data.

I think all of this comes from "business common sense" which is based on fear. They want data (and control) because it is an easier and more guaranteed way to make and sell things.

The only way out of this (for all of us) is actually robust competition by someone who will do it right and not collect data in the first place. (hint: it will help if they use rounded corners, gradients and transparency)
Yeah. TFA has a follow-up [1] which is cited right at the top, and is somewhat closer to reality. The entire original article (and the book it's citing) is simply technical-sounding nonsense from someone with no idea how Soyuz-1 worked, what happened, and how the flights were organized.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/03/135919389/a...
Stacked diffs have been a pain for me as well, but recently I found a tool that makes it super easy to implement stacked diffs on top of GitHub! I started using it a month ago and it makes complex code changes so much easier to split up into manageable chunks.

It's called ghstack (https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack)

If you want to learn more you can email me at ericyu3@gmail.com. Also happy to help you get it up and running - just put some time on my calendar at https://calendly.com/ericyu3/15min
Has anybody legitimately had good experiences with microservices these days? Especially if you're not starting with a monolith that has done well? My experience at several companies, several projects, has been that what was actually just a poorly built, inflexible, monolithic application becomes a poorly built, distributed, networked, polyglot application that is now 100x less flexible. Sure you can reimplement any microservice interface any time you want and drop in the replacement, but good luck figuring out where that was being called and how many unique and interesting ways it might break if you don't implement the edge cases in the same way.

Microservices and patterns like the ones in this article really add a serious amount of cost in the form of complexity, and you had better understand much better than this article explains the actual ways that your new and distributed system might fail. What happens when this circuit breaker opens and you stop creating accounts, but your transaction circuit breaker hasn't opened and because you're CQRS, you've already told your client "201 Accepted"? Be ready to deal with that.

In my experience, you're much better off knowing how to build and iterate on a scalable monolithic architecture first. Built something that's good and that you can iterate on pretty easily. Figure out how to profile monolithic applications for performance and squeeze more throughput out of your system before you try your hand at splitting that architecture up and adding the myriad of distributed systems problems on top of the essential complexity.

Don't underestimate the value of a compiler error or a right-click-to-refactor IDE. You don't get those when suddenly everything is loosely coupled microservices over a service mesh.

There is plenty of tech to master to manage a half decent networked monolith without adding your own accidental complexity to the equation.

Just to add a reference to a primary inspiration, on top of my anecdotes: https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html
For some time the software updates I received on my Note made it worse and worse. It’s like each major update was loaded with crap to run on the new hardware, making the experience terrible for the legacy phones.
This is a problem I want to see solved very much.

If there are practical ways, throw some bullet-points down, and I'll be happy to consider them.

It there are easy solutions, I am as interested in anyone to see them.
America's, and particularly the west coast's, homeless problem is uniquely bad. It'd probably be worthwhile to just scrap whatever they've been trying these past few decades

Specifically in California, among them are:

* weather that's survivable without permanent shelter

* other states in the American West bussing their homeless to the state

* CA Governor (and later US President) Reagan's abdication of the role of the government in aiding the chronically ill (especially mentally ill) and/or homeless.
This guy's in for a shock when he's built it and they do not come...

I like how utterly brazen his job titles are, he was the 'Director of Engineering' of a team of him, and is now the 'Co-founder and Editor' of his own blog.