skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US the state of Utah decided that the cure for homelessness is housing homeless people. They stop asking if the person was worthy or will be responsible and just started to house them. Turns out that the vast majority of homeless, mental health issues or not, prefer to live in a safe environment.

“In terms of preventing homelessness, it’s pretty straightforward. It’s housing.”
Preston Cochrane, former executive director of Shelter the Homeless.

There are still homeless in Utah, but the government priority is House them first then figure out why they became homeless after.
> I'm curious if your opinion on this extends to, say, IG Farben providing Zyklon B to the Nazis

Wasn't IG Farben already taking in political money to find such chemicals?

> Research by Fritz Haber of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry led to the founding in 1919 of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH (Degesch), a state-controlled consortium formed to investigate military use of the chemical.

of which IG Farben was a part. So it seems like this would suggest to not add politics (la military weapons research) to engineering
Yep, exactly same in app on regular Rokus - I was referring to the fact that the on-screen "Skip" is a relatively recent addition (at least on my Roku, Roku Express)
Not hiring someone because of their religion - that's illegal in most free and democratic countries.

Would you feel the same way about someone who believed fervently in the singularity?

I don't think religious prejudice for hiring decisions is excusable in a society that values freedom. You each might have your own world views but professionalism should prevent you each from forcing them on each other.
> no-one cared enough to make a working backup

Where I come from, that's called "negligence" and depending on motive might rise to "malfeasance".

I've had to fire people for less.
Is "PG's Submarine" what we're now calling the fascist subtexts of his writings?
I would ask about clomid instead. It's usually prescribed for women, but it works for men too. It's kind of the inverse of TRT, it's one of drugs you can use to get back to baseline after abusing steroids or TRT.
>> the indications I get from those statements are that this individual ultimately hasn't progressed very far intellectually or challenged their beliefs strongly enough

That attitude is intolerant and toxic.

Would you really not consider a candidate because of their religious or political beliefs regardless of their other job qualifications?

In many places this type of discrimination is illegal.
We don't always get to pick independently. Capitalism is largely a force of nature. Even Communist societies end up becoming state-owned capitalist.
WordPress Launches “Stories”
The Shark-Fighting Brothers Behind 20k Leagues Under the Sea
> Fundamentally, homelessness centers around being unable, for whatever reason, to work.

No, as the parent said, homelessness centers around the fact that homes cost money. There are all kinds of people in this country who have homes, sometimes many homes, and they don't do any work at all. Conversely, are you aware that many homeless people have jobs and they do actually work? “about 30% of … homeless people have a job” https://theconversation.com/factcheck-qanda-do-about-30-of-h...

As a society, we have the resources to say "Everyone should have a home, no matter what." We have enough homes. There are more empty homes in the US than there are homeless. So it's not even a case that we don't have the resources to end homelessness. We, as a society, choose not to.
> Wow, if I ever saw a comment on HN that was fundamentally wrong on many levels, this was it.

You must not visit political threads much.

But seriously, you could have said that in a constructive way.
> Homelessness is not a rampant problem except on the west coast

Not that this source is anything close to a comprehensive view into national homelessness patterns, but it's clearly an issue throughout the country [1].

[1] https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/#fn[]=1400&fn[]=2...
Craft is cool too! A lot like Notion, which is actually the tool we use internally for a lightweight CRM and such (though as we've progressed with SN we find ourselves using it less and less).

I definitely think people are more accustomed to documents vs. cards, but we've many users say they enjoy the card format more once they acclimate. The real power in the cards though is less that they look like cards and more just encouraging people to be a little bit more modular / atomic in their thinking (which humans seem to do anyway). Other great tools like Roam/Obsidian do this by encouraging your atomic thoughts to be represented as bullet points and that can work great for some people too, but one of our goals is to have a fairly portable format that you can use anywhere (hence the push for embedding) and cards works very well for that.

On Supernotes you can also turn on "seamless mode" which makes delineation between cards disappear entirely so it just looks like you're reading a document, and we want to add more flows like that in the future so that the line between cards and docs blurs even more when you want/need it to.
lmao ur dumb
VS Code: Open files always in a new tab
Good point. Pity it's proprietary.
Is it just me or does it feel like in the past 5-7 years it doesn't really make that much of a difference when new CPUs come out? My laptop is a i7-4800MQ and it still feels incredibly snappy. Anything I need to do for work I just farm out to AWS. All of my gaming is on Stadia. Personally its just easier for me to use the cloud for all of these things instead of cycling through devices all the time.
I Designed a Free Music Font for 5M Musicians
"This video covers how I designed a music notation font for MuseScore 3.6, in collaboration with my friend Simon Smith, a professional engraving expert. Apart from MuseScore's 5 million users, this font is available for free for anyone to download and use. Along the way, I also discuss the inspiration for our font: an application called SCORE, created by Leland Smith."
I can say that I would, because I was in your place, and I did reach out - even though it took me a long time to do so, which brought me far closer to the precipice than I'd care to dwell on.

I can't say that I did it without trepidation or concern of stigma, but I was surprised at the degree to which that fear was unjustified. In hindsight, I don't know whether I was over-exaggerating the feared stigma in keeping with our cultural expectations, or as an expression of the depression itself. Either way, I can tell you that the experience was painless. Getting appropriate medication also made a world of difference, to such a degree that nowadays, when things deteriorate, I can qualitatively recognize "those" thoughts and feelings as not belonging to my normal palette, though there are grey areas that sometimes sneak up on me.

I don't speak up on my behalf, as you're right - I'm just a stranger on the internet, and we'll forget about each other soon enough. I'm speaking up on behalf of the people in your life that you're currently telling yourself will be better off without you. Because they won't be better off, and they'll carry the pain of your absence as a wound that doesn't heal.
Yes, they only thing I ever use one for is reattaching to sessions.

I think the reasoning is that the client terminal could change, so the multiplexer ‘must’ emulate a terminal. However, my client terminal type in fact does not ever change, and I would prefer to have it available rather than the multiplexer's half-baked emulation.
If capitalism is defined as "everything people do that has has negative externalities" that's tautological and useless.
This has been so since a year or so, still very annoying.
What Happens Now to Director Michael Apted's Lifelong Project ‘Up’?
> Ads on Amazon Prime are infuriating. And I can't help think how annoying it must be for people with disabilities.

I usually watch TV with subtitles on (it means I can have the volume a little lower), and I find that cases where pre-roll ads are inserted either don't adjust the subtitle sync or don't adjust it properly. Amazon's subtitles are generally 1-2s ahead of the video, which is just enough to let the air out of a big reveal or ruin a joke.
Why care so much about fakers vs. real? Just provide a solid base for living for everybody, regardless of economic standing. Stop making people jump through all these hoops to prove they really need help. This is the same animating principle underlying UBI, but I think UBI fundamentally won't be effective as long as it can be eaten up by rent, healthcare, and education costs which will rise to meet what is available.
I suspect they could do a fair bit. An obvious thing is that they look for this pattern of behavior and turn up the speed with which they kill processes. They're still meeting their terms, and the normal Java users never notice.

A more subtle thing is just to tune the lambda eviction code to be aware of profitability. The instances that get evicted first are the least profitable, the ones that have the worst ratio of billable to unbillable GB-miliseconds. Good customers get good performance. And the other ones say, "Gosh, cold starts are expensive; I'd better pay extra for provisioned concurrency."
I feel many of the comments here are akin to saying "laying out in documents latex is hard, if you can't figure it out you're not ready to write" while the author of the article is saying "I think writing documents could be easier." Google docs is proof it's possible.

Sure everyone could learn about $path with a little research but there is SO MUCH to learn to get started with a "simple" react app... It's not necessary.

Great tools hands a "low floor AND a high ceiling" meaning it's easy to get started and possible to go really really far.

Clearly tools like replies show there's a desire for easier to set up environments.

Have you never wished you could save your css tweaks directly from chrome dev tools?

Why should the browser show you the page source when you could just curl it? Well... Let's try to make the unimportant things EASY so we can focus on the useful parts.

Firefox could absolutely come with a standard node server and editor. And it could integrate with providers like GitHub or netlify.

Gatekeeping getting started benefits nobody.
C2-Like Script, Living Off the Land (PS+VBScript)
No matter if you are interested in Deno or not, seeing this amount of features in a year alone gives you an idea of what's to come for Deno in the future
This didn't work for Steve Jobs
No, I wasn’t, thanks for pointing it out! I’d love to hear which of the issues I listed that it addresses. The tag line “welcome to your new favorite browser. Get the latest features, fast performance, and the development tools you need to build for the open web”, as well as the features listed on the homepage, don’t address any of the points I listed directly. (This doesn’t mean the app itself doesn't, but I'm not encouraged by the features as they’re listed on the homepage, which feels more like some new features for developers, rather than a re-imagining of how we think about how developer tools are integrated into the browser like I’m describing.)
Looks like a fancy version of a wiki. Ward would be pleased.

I'm worried about the "drop a note-card" on websites I visit, sounds like some Google / Amazon level tracking going on, why do I feel I'm ( my data ) about to be monetized?
The community has started a mapbox-gl-js 1.x fork called maplibre-gl-js, I'll be migrating to it in the future:
https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-js
I agree, but isn’t it a positive feedback loop? Just because the result is deemed negative didn’t mean it’s not feeding on itself.
At $80, and likely an ARM processor, emulators have a larger game library. Wine doesn't work on ARM, and there are relatively few open-source games that stand out.
I think davorak is right, malux85 never says lack of understanding implies stupidity. I'd go even further. I don't read malux85's comment as an attack on your understanding personally. I read it as referring to people like the blog post author, who clearly don't understand the basics of the tools they're complaining about.

No one is screaming in rage about anything here. We do tend to get frustrated hearing complaints from people that are unwilling to take even the smallest amount of time to learn before complaining about the state of things.
Dumb devices can also be controlled to some degree- power can be easily switched using smart plugs, and you can convert an Arduino to use its GPIOs to "press" buttons
> “Nothing you buy will be anonymous,” he said, adding a positive outcome would be that it is harder for criminals to evade detection or anti-money laundering controls

But centrally issued digital cash can be anonymous. There exist cryptographic schemes where tokens can be exchanged peer-to-peer in a way where the issuing bank can't identify participants until tokens are double spent. Double spends can then be charged against the account of the double spender when the recipient of a transaction deposits the tokens. These schemes are far more efficient, natural progression to our current fiat monetary system than Bitcoin or any of the other "crypto currencies".

The only reason we don't have this tech today is there are no incentives for our governments or banks to maintain the anonymity of cash.

https://archive.org/details/CryptographyOfAnonymousElectroni...
How Much UX Have You Put into Your UX Portfolio?
Oh yes, you are correct lol.
First up I'm an atheist.

Really weird to see people admit to blatantly discriminating against people who have a religion.

In the UK what you're describing is unlawful.

> but the indications I get from those statements are that this individual ultimately hasn't progressed very far intellectually or challenged their beliefs strongly enough. I fear it is a limiting mindset,

Can you see that here you're doing exactly what you describe people with a faith of doing? You're not examining nor challenging your beliefs.

You'll say that you haven't met many scientists who also have a faith, but you're not examining why people with faith don't want to tell you about it, and how that factors into your confirmation bias.
From a non-medical professional's perspective it doesn't seem that strange. Medical treatments for cancer include "let's slowly irradiate you and hope the cancer dies first" and "let's slowly poison you and hope the cancer dies first". "let's slowly starve you to death and hope the cancer dies first" doesn't seem all that different.
The law precludes backups containing DNA or fingerprint data that are meant to be deleted:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/part/1/chapter/1...

"(1)If fingerprints are required by section 63D to be destroyed, any copies of the fingerprints held by the police must also be destroyed.

(2)If a DNA profile is required by that section to be destroyed, no copy may be retained by the police except in a form which does not include information which identifies the person to whom the DNA profile relates."
Thinking out loud, I imagine this working quite well:

1. All contributing musicians broadcast they're ready to "jam"

2. Each musician taps a key on their keyboard (spacebar maybe) when instructed to on the 1st beat of a bar from a metronome written into the software

3. The software works out the delay, and plays back the rest of the audio stream with delay applied
Sort of.

On Windows:

choco install tad dbeaver postgresql

Tad and dbeaver usable ASAP.
PostgreSql requires creating empty database and single table once, with json type column, then insert json each time.

On the more positive side, you have infinitely more capable features in those tools and standard SQL

However, for quick and dirty and ad hoc place, web tool looks like a way to go.
If I’m not mistaken, studies have shown this to be a quite effective way to help people out of homelessness.
What does "heading towards a Japanese situation" mean?
Paper launches everywhere, as far as the eye can see.
HyperCard, Excel, and (at the upper end) Flash are basically end-user programming that allowed for some really great creativity. I get the feeling most corporate programmers want to ban Excel and force the users to had over their code to have it properly programmed. The other two were gotten rid of. Instead of making easier and easier tools, we've gotten harder and harder. I still contend that NeXTSTEP was an easier programming environment than the web of today.

Javascript is not a beginner language anymore. It has a lot of edge cases and traps that defeat the average person.
That might be especially difficult right now with the government mandating that people shouldn't leave home.
This and heating districts with any power provided as an extra benefit are far better use cases for this technology than trying to compete with renewables, batteries, hydro, and transmission, most especially in markets where they absolutely need the heat but are also attempting to avoid CO2 emissions to obtain said heat.
Dichloroacetate influences NAD+ level (but increases)
A recurring $99 -- I can't think of any other subscription service that doesn't take you through an explicit approval for signing up.
I don't know if "scam" is exactly the right word, though the sentiment is likely close enough. At those lower levels anyone buying those laptops is going to have much more power than they need. Someone buying a Ryzen 5 4500U to do regular spreadsheets, email, documents, video conferencing, etc. will have ample horsepower. And a Ryzen 5 5500U is not much different. The clocks (base, all-core turbo) might even be lower, though the GPU is slightly better. However, for that kind of user, they might get better battery life, and if they fire up games, a better experience.

This isn't ideal if you upgrade every generation - that wouldn't be worth it. But in those $500-600 laptops, it probably doesn't hurt. I suspect they have Zen 2 chiplet supply and buyers in that price range will be plenty happy. If they really need more CPU power from Zen 3, they could step up to Ryzen 5 5600U. So you need to be better educated on those little nuances, but only if you really need the CPU power.

Presumably anyone buying that doesn't dig into these details reads reviews and looks at the benchmarks on those reviews based on programs they run that are CPU intensive. Otherwise, they probably won't be affected greatly by the difference.

It's not ideal but given supply chain issues, it might be a necessary evil.
Fair enough. I think you've called me out reasonably there.

I still don't think you've addressed my core point, and it's quite probable I wasn't clear enough to make that possible.

My white pixel example was referencing the talk, where I interpreted Jonathan saying almost verbatim about the barriers to just lighting up a single pixel on a modern computer. I made the assumption that everything he opines on publicly is in the context of him making games.

Is this whole stack overflow thread just a bunch of masochistic programmers, or is it needly complex to achieve consensus on how to plot a pixel in a browser canvas? I'll take responsibility for begging the question in jest.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4899799/whats-the-best-w...

If one wants to start the game they are going to make in the same engine the are going to finish making it in, for most people, unity is going to be worth the gigabyte download. If you just want to teach kids html/css, the server stack in python, and how to change the color of one pixel in the browser is lesson one day one on a raspberry pi, fantastic. If one wants to write a mario clone and ship it in electron, bravo.
He wasn't fasting, he was on fruits diet.
This story reminds me of one of my favourite HN comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24949815, by "theshrike79"), which I will quote here in full:

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Americans have developed a survival strategy of turning horror stories into heartwarming tales.
"Homeless person turns to crowdfunding to get themselves a home!"

Americans: Aww how cute!

Rest of the world: What the actual fuck?

"Family turns to internet for insulin supplies because they can't afford them, man drives 1000 miles to give them some."

Americans: Amazing heroism!

Rest of the world: How the hell does a diabetic not get their life-saving medicine?

"96 year old woman flies 200 miles to queue for 6 hours to vote!"

Americans: Wonderful determination!

Rest of the world: Why couldn't she vote where she already was?
The thing is, our expectations on software has changed drastically since then [0].

With that said, I frequently do perfectly usable stuff on a 0.6 MIPS Amiga, in high level languages no less. I've even written a web server in ARexx, which is interpreted. Granted, it won't serve a whole lot of simultaneous users on an Amiga 500, but it works perfectly fine and even runs basic CGI stuff.

[0] https://datagubbe.se/small_efficient/
Wow. As a former "IAAL" (but not in the US), this gave me shivering ideas.Time to write some article/book about it.
Outside of proton there are other platforms I've mentioned already, which help you to run the games on Linux, or check how well they run.

https://www.playonlinux.com/en/

https://lutris.net/
Nations that claim to be civilized are mostly judged by how they care for their most vulnerable citizens/inhabitants.

If you feel otherwise, feel free to campaign for that throughout your life... don't be surprised if most people think you're a dick for it though.
You people are mentally ill! Get a life! Go help someone who needs help!
> Why do people use Tether exchanges, over Coinbase? Not just because of leverage, but also because many do not AML/KYC, especially if you only deal with crypto. A LOT of people in the crypto community don't like to pay taxes, and we've known this from day one.

I don't know if evading taxes is the main reason but it is definitely not the only one. Going through KYC is an embarrassing and demeaning experience, unless you like prancing in front of a camera.

It is also close to equivalent to just plastering your picture and ID all over the public Internet as that is exactly where they'll end up when your exchange of choice is eventually broken into.

Just another gift from the anointed ones.
Meanwhile I still have problems getting my hands on a mini-pc with a Ryzen 4000 mobile APU.
HN is more stateless than the average internet forum. HN could embrace moving the forum forward beyond threads and votes, and maybe you'd have a platform that you could moderate fairly and didn't require so much self censorship; a platform that elevated unpopular but thoughtful ideas. It seems like HN is proud of being low tech, your community management issues are solvable.
Yes, cpu performance no longer increasing by factors of 2 with new generations, so a CPU stays relevant for a lot longer, unless you have compute heavy jobs that can leverage the new core counts. (compilation sometimes fits that description)
Bear is a really powerful markdown editor, and we are big fans ourselves. However, you are tied down to the apple ecosystem, and it still relies on files / tags with no hierarchical organisation.

Supernotes is entirely web-based and responsive, as you can log on and access your notes from any device. We are working on desktop and mobile apps at the moment!

Similar to Bear Supernotes uses tags, but our note-cards are also nestable. For example, you can write a note-card with a brief summary on a book you are reading, and then add child note-cards which are quotes from that book.

Once you have written a few cards you can filter by tags, connect cards together with bi-directional links and even add those child cards into other parent cards – we are the only PKM with a true multi-parent hierarchy!
Be careful there. Some of the smartest and fairest people I've known are Christians and Jews, and not. You don't have a lock on intellect or self-challenging, as your post might suggest.

signed: a small-a atheist.