skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another problem is that SF shelters have schedules that exclude working people.

Shelters require folks to line up for entry in the early afternoon. Many unskilled jobs require late evening work (restaurant dishwasher, line cook, bus boy, janitor, etc). So folks leaving work at 11pm cannot get into the shelters.

Shelters kick everyone out in the early morning. Folks who work at night cannot get in to shelters at all. Night shift work is very important for unskilled folks (security guard, janitor, warehouse, etc).

Also, many shelters are run by religious organizations and require guests to spend time attending religious presentations every day.

I think 80% of the homelessness problem can be solved by providing free housing for these extremely poor people. Housing will not turn them all into successful citizens, but it will stop them from sleeping on the streets. Comprehensive health care (including therapy and long-term psychiatric care) can solve another 10%. The last 10% are folks who just prefer to live on the streets.

Unfortunately, free housing in SF is very expensive because of the housing shortage. The city already houses many formerly homeless folks, spending $200M/year. Housing the remaining 8,000 would take at least $200M/year more. This would be a 4% increase in SF's $5B annual budget.
I remember watching some of his stuff and thinking, the guy knows his stuff. But then I started watching more and it didn't make sense.

He sounds more like some kind of new age guru or a motivational speaker rather than someone with a good insight into the future.

He's probably in the position he is because he bows down to the CCP.
I remember this one and I’m pretty certain he is not that stupid. Must have been political pressure. Maybe AI is/was taboo.
MY recommendation would be a modified iPod 5th or 7th gen Classic if you don't mind the larger size. These iPods can be upgraded with larger batteries and flash storage instead of a hard drive making them long lasting and robust.

You can do the modification yourself on iPod with a broken hard drive or buy one on eBay already modified. (Tip: The 5th gens are easier to modify than the 7th gens since they come apart a lot easier.)

Personally, I use a 5th gen Classic with 32GB of flash and a new battery. I modified it myself with a compact flash card and a new battery. It's been in use for about 3 years and I've had no real issues.
My thoughts exactly. Bowed down -- and then got too big for his britches maybe, and forgot who was actually in charge.
Companies fill ecological niches. When new technologies emerge there is room for a new apex species/(company), and a few smaller wannabes. There just isn't unlimited room for large companies to emerge, and that is the principal reason why there aren't more googles and facebooks around. In the end it has very little to do with VCs and entrepreneurs, except for the ones who happen to be in the right place at the right time to take an as yet non obvious idea and turn it into something huge.
In many cases, Pluto's execution model would be prohibitively obscure (despite being 'pure'). E.g., at work I quite often have 100gb-ram Jupyter notebook kernels, where running one extra command or running commands in a wrong order would simply cause the box to crash.
I wonder if he just doesn't have a good enough grasp of the English language to articulate his ideas well enough. I would go as far to say that no self-made billionaire is stupid.
Which is more of an indication that they realized this is costing them too much good will after the fact.

He did still require code to be removed in order to reinstate the repository and the RIAA still managed to cause turmoil, so I would call this too little, too late.
> Assessment is a usually necessary part of education. You need to figure out what your class knows. And a fair proportion of your students won't bother to really know stuff unless it'll be formally assessed.

I don't think this approach is right. There is an obvious conflict of interest when the same party provides (1) education) and (2) assessment. The better approach is actually that taken by the College Board -- they do assessment, and only assessment. If you'd like to do well on their test, you're free to get whatever training you see fit. And that training is, theoretically[1], evaluated by how you eventually do on the SAT, not by how well you do on practice exams provided by the educator.

This should be the practice everywhere else: credentials are given by assessment, and the assessor doesn't do anything other than assessment. If the assessor sells training, that corrupts their assessment.

[1] In fact, the system seems to have broken down; SAT training is widely accepted to have large effects, while actual measurements of those effects have difficulty distinguishing them from zero.
There is a good reason why advice typically flows in the opposite direction. As a junior/mid-level anything that I can say in this context will be closer to a request than giving actual advice.
High rate symptomless Covid-19 infection among grocery store workers
Yes, I agree. But it's easier doing the structure while you're getting money in the bank.
> I would go as far to say that no self-made billionaire is stupid.

Making money is far more about luck than skill. Always has been. Net worth is not a proxy for ability.

[edit] Don't get me wrong I'm not saying billionaires are idiots. I'm just saying that having a fat stack is not in and of itself a proxy for aptitude. Judge that on the person instead. Just judging them on their bank balance is an unnecessary appeal to authority that hasn't historically held.
I'm reading some very interesting comments regarding learning the language. As an expat in a non-english speaking country myself, I have just one piece of advice: if you are considering moving to a foreign country and you don't speak the language, start learning it the moment you have taken the decision to move.

Think of it like playing a game: no language = hard mode, no access to hidden quests, always stuck in the low tier. language = medium mode, access to all the maps, NPCs are friendlier.

In my experience, based on how hard the language is, you will see great results after investing 500-600 hours into it.
Why do you put free in quotes?

Weather its wort it is still a personal question, but my education was certainly free including my masters degree (I even got paid a stipend to study like everyone else).
It sounds like condoms were made from younger animals (lambs), and treated with lye to make them thinner. Maybe that made for a low yield? Offtopic, how about a condom with a mercury derivative coating? https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/wp-content/uploads...
That may be the case for millionaires in the right place at the right time but not for the self-made billionaires.
Colour me biased but how is innovation supposed to thrive in an environment where a "miscalculated talk" is enough to halt a $37b IPO?
I had heard Matt Ridley speak about how [0] innovation thrives where there is "freedom" and gives me doubts about China's capabilities to innovate as much as it wants to.

[0] https://www.aier.org/article/matt-ridley-on-innovation/
I Want to Sing in a Crowd
I really miss that. Do you?
My list of the 95 Entrepreneurs book recommendations:

* The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos by Christian Davenport

* Do Purpose: Why Brands with a Purpose Do Better and Matter More by David Hieatt

* The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by MichioKaku

* The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte

View full list of 95 book recommedations: http://casualwalker.com/95-best-books-to-read-in-2019
It’s certainly weird to deliver a speech about how you operate in the gray area of regulations to facilitate risky loans and you’re proud of it and regulators are all wrong when said regulators are sitting in the audience...
I'd say normally it requires both, or extreme levels of either. Not sure normal rules apply under CCP though.
I've been living in Finland for close to 10 years and I'm from Spain. Came to study an university degree and stayed after that.

If you're pretty young and you work in FAANG then stay where you are and save money. When you get older and want to form a family then move here.

Another option is if you're living in a poorer country and you want to pursue a degree (for EU people it's free) or have a decent tech job (stress is the lowest here, pay is good if you don't compare to FAANG). Spain is good to hang out and socialize but when it comes to work it's usually miserable so it was an easy decision for me since I can visit the country often while my daily life has been simplified a lot.
Have seen lots of talk around identity at the moment. Seems like they need it across the pond right now.
> Jenkins pipelines are written in Groovy and you do not need to use the web ui, everything is exposed via its API (i.e: new job creation).

There's several ways you can codify Jenkins pipelines, Groovy being just one of them. But ultimately it's secondary to the main design of Jenkins. I'm not taking anything away from Jenkins as a solution - it has been invaluable over the years. But the way we write, test and deploy software has changed since Jenkins rose in popularity and as such we need to rely on different workflows that utilise different tooling. While Jenkins can be used in that way, I'd sooner use something which was primarily designed to be configured via code and used docker by default rather than something that requires enforcement to follow those best practices. That doesn't necessarily mean Concourse, there's Travis, Circle CI, AWS CodeBuild and a bunch of others that all default to that kind of workflow too, but it does mean I'm unlikely to ever advocate Jenkins again in future jobs.
Yes, that's exactly the idea. This is called "mutual aid".
Not sure if it's common across all tar implementations, but you can use -C to let GNU tar change directories before performing any operation. So this command is equivalent:

$ tar -cC /source/dir . | ssh rhost tar -xvC /dest/dir

(I also left out -f - because it's the default)
More importantly, if a work is distributed under a "protection" mechanism that is regularly bypassed by browsers, does that mean that browsers are circumvention tools too?
In Australia, our cyber security laws are very strong. There is no way I'd attempt to access services on random IP's to test if they use no password with common usernames for those services. Any semi compotent prosecutor could argue I accessed a computer without permission and they'd be 100% correct.

The only way I can see myself accessing a computer and not breaking a law is through a genuine mistake i.e. mistyping an IP/url and somehow having the right username + password.

I prefer to stay 100% on the legal side. The only way I'll touch a computer is with a signed document from the owner giving me permission and with clear instruction on what I can and cannot do.
The question is that, AFAIK, there is nothing to circumvent by downloading from Youtube: there's no DRM or anything at all to actually be cracked. Right?

To over-simplify, you just need to implement a streaming client that saves to disk. That's the reason there are a gazillion youtube downloaders and custom, also open-source, clients that can "show" Youtube.

Thus, unless I've been misinformed and, extrapolating a little, they could just as well take down 'wget' in the same go because it also downloads potentially copyright-infringing files over various protocols.
Not OP but he is probably talking about this extension https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim
If still legal, yes.

But they also sort out some other paperwork, I assume.
Given that Jack Ma has been a member of the CCP since the 80s [1] I think his success has come a lot easier than Western entrepreneurs

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/27/alibabas-jack-ma-has-been-co...
He can do it with Zuckerberg. Pretty sure the result would be the same.
His grasp of English is pretty decent, he was a lecturer at Hangzhou Dianzi University in English and International trade.
I had a really good laugh, don't delete it! :)
I'll raise you to extreme levels of both.
We've been working on our Xamarin Forms based product since the first beta in 2014. We released to Android first. Then in 2018 we built a UWP variant of our app. This process barely took a week if I don't include the technical debt that took an extra week to sort out. Then in 2019 we built an iOS variant of our app too - again barely taking a week to do so.

Xamarin Forms let us build 4 years worth of tech for Android only. And then, when we had time and the customer demand to do so, with a small amount of work - port our app to 2 other platforms in fairly short order.

I don't know of any other platform that could do this - particularly when considering the years involved.

Our app uses local databases on the device - so a web based app would not have cut it. And our app has roots in 2014 tech when many possible alternate approaches did not exist yet.
Linux 5.10-Rc1
Helpful, thanks. Old habits die hard. Tar wasn't always GNU tar back when this became useful to me.
You are lucky that someone is working on a rewrite! If it were up to me I would have solved the problem with a nice rm -rf. Be careful what you wish for..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19520312
Can Ma even speak freely? I find it hard to judge a conversation when one of them is under incredible political pressure by a powerful regime that has no problem squashing him at any time.
Hence me saying 'on average'. In a sane country, you can use insurance to convert variable payments into average payments (plus a bit of overhead).

Or, you just self-insure for dental, if you make a reasonable amount of money or have some savings.

(It's much more feasible for dental where the realistic maximum amounts are still quite small, compared to cancer treatment or similar.)
It isn't the same thing, if you try to speak poor Finnish in Finland they just switch to English since most people speak English. In Japan most people don't even understand basic spoken English so getting them to speak Japanese with you is really easy.
The reason they sell out is essentially that they don't expect to be able to do better long term (risk adjusted) essentially regardless of reason.

If the entrenched company is offering a large value for a company they recognize some sort of value to it and could try to replicate it with the funding if told "no" and that may be a fight they feel would have a good chance of losing, that growing bigger means it is "not enjoyable/in their skillset" anymore or similar reasons.

A doom of stagnation is also less than certain - the sellers care about cash first and foremost and would not priveledge entrenched beyond what they can pay and the given source funding may hypothetically come from many others - whether CEO or even "large collection of retirement or university endowment funding" even if they are run by CEOs essentially are not necessarily the status quo.
Eh, scp-the-command (interface) may be here to stay, but scp-the-protocol (implementation) is definitely due for replacement. Under the proposed change, scp will remain the easiest way to transfer files for you. It will just no longer use outdated scp protocol and will use sftp protocol instead.
Its approach to accessibility is terrible.

https://dashboard.hcaptcha.com/signup?type=accessibility

As a user that can't answer the challenges, you have to register with hCaptcha in advance of using the website you want to.

This lets you bypass the verification checks for a while.

The discoverability of this is poor
Charging for reCAPTCHA, and even removing the free tier, seems like a good win for consumers. By having a non-zero price tag, companies are forced to actually attach a monetary value to the service, which will discourage them from using it so frivolously. As it stands today, reCAPTCHA costs consumers both privacy and time, and costs the companies nothing.
Well, maybe being under an oppressive regime makes him look dumber than he really is.

If you can't say certain things and have the obligation to say others...you could end up making no sense.
I've been living with this for nearly a year now:

alias scp='rsync --verbose --progress --partial'

Since my decades-old scp habit isn't changing anytime soon, and it hasn't shown to be a problem yet - with the added bonus of resuming partial copies.
You are free to grow as much as you can until it’s time to harvest
First alleged benchmarks of Apple Silicon A14X
Hey, I love third party and objective measurements. But we can hardly give the SAT every week.

Educators need quizzes and other assessment measures. That way, I can know how my class is doing. My students can understand where their performance falls short. And their parents want to know how the class is going along the way. These let all the involved parties adjust for better performance.

And these interim assessment steps need to count for at least something to get a reasonable level of effort from students. (My classes are "fun", but that only goes so far: there's the fraction of the material that's intrinsically less fun, and there's the fraction of students that will not do anything without a grade incentive).

In turn, these quizzes and other assessment measures that I use, let me eventually score well on the metrics of engagement and scholastic progress that are used assessing me. ;)
Summary (for those not logged into AWS)

Original Request from Feb 22, 2017. AWS person says it has been added as a feature request but no ETA. Occasional updates since then with people requesting and AWS saying "No ETA".
That are some really good points. I would also add, that while you lose on the money you could earn as a developer compared to eg SV (or Zurich), you get in turn a comfortable life without being forced into believing that money equals happiness. You won't live in poverty of course, but it's telling that many Finnish companies consider their cheap engineers to be one of their main advantages.

However, if you enjoy family life I would say Finland and Helsinki area are really great places to raise your children. If you enjoy getting rich as an elite programmer, maybe SV would be a better match.

I think part of it is cultural too, and if you are a sort of honest type who enjoys actually working socialism I think you'll find the way of life easier to adapt. Learning Finnish as an adult is difficult (especially if your SO is not a Finn) but certainly in Helsinki area there are a lot of companies that have only-English speaking employees. Really good tech-workers will always find a job if they can just bother applying hard enough. IT-consultancies here seem to attract most of the tech-talent.
Small, luxury apartments are going to be more profitable than something more affordable. Landlords will build the most affordable thing they can, to do anything else would be irrational. If only luxury apartments are being built, that means demand for such apartments hasn't been satisfied yet. The solution is to allow MUCH more building, so that something affordable will eventually be built. Even without that, having luxury apartments prevents the renters from competing on more affordable units, so it likely does have a positive impact.

I don't know anything about Berlin, but in San Francisco, there are plenty of affordable housing requirements placed on developers of new apartment buildings. This ends up just making new construction MUCH more expensive, as a single unit has to support itself as well as some fraction of an affordable unit. The result is that it's even less profitable to build new housing.
Once you get into the big companies, not all teams are work yourself to bone. Many people work 40 hour weeks (with an hour long lunch included in that time) and have very little to no responsibilities outside of core hours. Vacation time can be quite decent as well. (4+ weeks plus quite a few holidays)

Even the unicorn startups don’t always work you to the bone. Honestly, I see it more like many people who /want/ to do that end up in that position because they want that stuff. It makes them feel like they’re doing something with their life (usually because they have an empty life outside of work).

I mean, think about the effort it takes to get into some of these companies. You don’t do it because you’re just a regular person who wants a well paying job. You’re career oriented - your career dictates your life satisfaction. That’s why you’ll work yourself to the bone - because it’s what you wanna do. This area attracts that mentality massively.
Recompile – a 3D Metroidvania-inspired hacking adventure game
>I only need it for podcasts. I like dedicated hardware to reduce the temptation to connect to the world.

the newer cell-phone-yet-unconnected Sony Walkmans are pretty neat, and they have some nice DAC features.

The price is steep, but not Apple steep.
When it is over what is a means of accountability for them (it is the media and not the tech which draws the aggro)? Fuck no - they already forget they are servants and not masters.
Yep. Allows for some seriously cool programmatic editing:

g/^abc/norm ^3wciwHello^V^]2ei!

Any line starting with abc, replace the 3rd word with hello, and append an exclamation mark to the end of the 5th word. ^] is the control char for escape.
How much does it cost to become a registrar of .at domains?

There's definitely a fair bit of overhead for becoming a registrar of all gTLDs and ccTLDs (there is generally a different application needed for each ccTLD), and for smaller countries the overhead might not justify the number of registrations they expect to get.

I had a quick look at Cloudflare's offerings and it looks like they're only offering gTLDs but intend to expand their ccTLD list.
On the other hand I also hope the financial elites would stop innovating with shits like "sub prime".
We pay 3000 SGD for 1,200 square feet right next to the CBD. Plenty of trees around here, too.

(We are looking for someone to take over our lease by the way, as we are moving into a bigger place.)

In the last few years I usually paid out of pocket for any medical treatments.
I thought it was about the book and almost skipped the link. It would help to name it "Real World Haskell 2020" or something distinct.
> So, what’s the catch?

No windows support. (Seems to be progressing, though)

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/5430
A person's social worker can make that decision. It is based on documented observations, interactions, interviews with neighbors, police reports, and hospitalization reports. Local and national laws provide a legal basis and rules for it.
Anyone have some insights on what a registrar usually needs to do to add a country's TLD? Sounds like it might be the kind of problem that's simple on paper but in practice requires jumping through all kinds of regulatory hoops for each new country. It does seem to be pretty common for registrars to be missing ccTLDs - .ai (for Anguilla), for example, is not supported by some registrars even though it's popular and at a glance it's just another ccTLD like the more widely supported .de or .ca.
Even the CBD has quite a few spots of green, I find.
What's that actually mean? Does he even have a choice to not be a member? What are the chances this is rewritten history for PR?
> before rsync is available on the other end.

I’m curious, is this in an embedded environment or interacting with some sort of boot loader?