skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For years, the number of people living homeless in Santa Rosa and the verdant hills and valleys of broader Sonoma County had crept downward — and then surged, exacerbated by three punishing wildfire seasons that destroyed thousands of homes in four years.

Glad to see this early in the article. I get really tired of the "It's got nothing to do with housing supply. They're all just junkies and crazies!" meme.

The city contracted with Catholic Charities of Santa Rosa to manage the camp

When I was homeless, Catholic Charities was one of the best things I dealt with. They had some of the best programs that actually treated homeless people humanely and were genuinely helpful and not looking for some BS excuse to kick you in the teeth and actively make life harder.

About a quarter of the nation’s homeless reside in California... The pandemic has exacerbated the crisis for a host of reasons, including covid-related job loss and prison releases and new capacity limits at homeless shelters.

California has a lot of homeless in part because of so much of the state enjoys a temperate climate with little rain. (I've written about this and can post a link about climate and homelessness if anyone cares, but I get tired of people accusing me of "self promoting" for trying to provide original research and subject matter expert opinions like I'm somehow committing a crime for rolling up my sleeves and trying to do a thing in an area with too few good answers.)

Rosa Newman was among those who turned their lives around. Newman, 56, said she had sunk into homelessness and addiction after leaving an abusive partner years before. She moved into her designated tent in September and in a matter of days was enrolled in California’s version of Medicaid, connected to a doctor and receiving treatment for a painful bladder infection. After two months in the camp, she was able to get into subsidized housing and landed a job at a Catholic Charities homeless drop-in center.

“Before, I was so sick I didn’t have any hope. I didn’t have to show up for anything,” she said. “But now I have a real job, and it’s just the beginning.”

This is a really good way to handle things. It's why the informational resources I work on focus on helping homeless people in the here and now with a need for things like earned income.

So many programs put homeless people in an impossible position where you need housing to get other answers (like an earned income) and you need other answers to get housing and people end up trapped on the street with no way forward.

This was a good read and I am glad to see people trying to focus on solutions for a change. This makes me feel teary-eyed and I'm pretty callous at this point and not easily moved.
> now investors need founders more than founders need investors, and that, combined with the increasing amount of venture capital available, has driven up valuations.
You can't assume good faith on the part of your attacker in building your threat model.

Also: it could have been much worse than this irresponsible disclosure, at least it was disclosed.
I've seen cave paintings that convey more intelligent thought than this article.
But is a triple jump the same as a hop, skip and jump? It seems to me that a hop and a skip are each smaller than a jump.
Just Be Rich
1) Capability Based Security - Makes it possible to have actually secure computers, and return the fun to computing by allowing experimentation without fear.

2) Reconfigurable computing - The power of the FPGA without the hassle, a homogeneous lattice of computing nodes as small as single bits allows for fault tolerance, almost unlimited scaling, and perfect security. It offers the power of custom silicon without the grief.

3) Magnetic core logic, initially realized when transistors still weren't reliable enough to build computers out of, may be making a comeback for extreme environments, such as that on Venus.

4) Reversible compilation - being able to work from source --> abstract syntax tree --> source in any language (with comments intact) will be a quite powerful way to refactor legacy codebases in relative safety.

5) Rich source / Literate Programming - embedding content in the program instead of having a ton of "resources" helps reduce the cognitive load of programming.
I couldn't wrap my head around how such a polluted city could have such clean water and found this:

"New York City drinking water springs from 125 miles away in the Catskill Mountains -- 90% of the water comes from the Catskill/Delaware watershed, where waters from tributary rivers collect in 19 reservoirs. The other 10% comes from smaller watersheds in Westchester and Rye -- all of it traveling through vast underground aqueducts to supply the city’s residents."
It would be great to see AlpineJS as a first class option here, especially since it's already there in the source for the examples.
Intel made military versions of their semiconductors for three decades (inclluding the 386). Rad hardening anyone? (In fact, alpha strikes are part of their low-voltage memory QR statistics). Military is far more robust than automotive. There is probably still enough tribal knowledge there to call back on. Maybe. They might have all retired or died.
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The Bill subsequently gives police new powers of entry to a home where <...> there is “evidence” of an “offence under section 3” having been committed.
This will allow police to enter a premises “by force if necessary”, “seiz[ing] and detain[ing] any materials” <...>

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I wonder if it opens up a whole new avenue of swatting tactics: report someone for hate speech so that the police would come and seize their Alexa.

Seems far-fetched, but not entirely impossible?
>Pedophilia is child sexual abuse

Pedophilia is the sexual attraction to children to be more specific, it is not child sexual abuse.
A profession relies on specialized know-how and or tools. In my view, the skilled chippers of flakes from stone suitable for making tools would qualify as the first professionals. Making an arrowhead, ax, or a chopper by flaking pieces off a suitable rock is definitely an acquired skill.
Thanks for the comment. I do hope we can offer such a service someday. But for now, the direct to consumer sofa file market is not one that lends itself to building a sustainable business around. Eventually, when HRTFs are as commonplace as prescription glasses...
Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Coronavirus Vaccine
This sounds really handy. Have you open sourced it?
My bet is that they are afraid of regulators fining them. The multi-billion dollar fines they received over the last few years constitutes a significant portion of their profits and has probably made them hyper-vigilant.

One of the unintended consequences of the Total Information Awareness / financial mass-surveillance AML/KYC movement is banks derisking at the expense of marginalized people and industries:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MakerDAO/comments/de0sys/kyc_is_abs...
In 2014 I started a company, and chose Heroku as the easiest way to get my (Go) code running in the cloud. Last year I started a company, and to my surprise, Heroku was still the easiest way to get my (Go) code running in the cloud.

I fully expected to be on a more 'modern' platform, but virtually every other provider requires at a minimum a Docker config. Docker has its purposes, but I can literally push an arbitrary Go/Python/Ruby/Node/etc. repo to Heroku, and it will be hosted on the Internet successfully. It's still SO much faster. As a comparison, I did need to get one project running with Docker and it legitimately took 16+ hours of developer time to get source control authentication working as a part of the build process.

None of that delay is a huge issue when you have limitless engineering resources, but for someone starting from scratch Heroku remains (bizarrely) the fastest tool out there.
My understanding of the issue with pumped well water (at least where I am) is more that you don't know how long the water has been sitting in pipes or tanks. (Open wells - with a bucket - have different issues as they are open)

The wells here are typically 50m+ meters deep, so if you have a 1 inch connection that's more than 25 litres just sitting in the pipe. For longevity you don't want to run the pump every time you turn on the tap, so there's usually a pressurised tank with another 25L or so and a pressure controlled switch in the pump.

So if you want to get 'fresh' water you first need to run 50L through the system. There's also the issue of extra minerals - the water here has a lot of iron, which turns everything red unless you have a good filter. The filters will have a low flow rate, so you need another tank to store the filtered water. Much easier to just get a RO system or bottled water for drinking :-)

50m of earth is going to produce some of the cleanest water you've ever had, unless of course there is pollution from heavy industry nearby. I know a few people who collect water daily from springs and drink that as is. If you lookup DIY water purification systems they typically have one plastic tank filled with sand and another with charcoal which filters pretty much all of the stuff out you don't want to drink.
Violent BLM Terrorists Burn Brooklyn Center to the Ground
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode
To me the question always was what’s the point of [ba]sh for non-interactive shell scripting, when there is perl (I’m aware that it has issues with versions, portability to non-PCs, etc, so think “theoretical standardized lightweight perl mode for sh”, not a real one). Shell syntax and semantics are a pile of ugly hacks and landmines, which were done because everyone wanted to program cli. When you want to program, just take a programming language, not a poor excuse of it. The amount of time you end up wasting with bash is much greater than reading perldoc *, and mastering bash never returns an investment.
New York Times is a CCP propaganda front.
Maybe they have issues with people taking on a margin that they cannot afford? Cryptocurrencies being as volatile as they are shorting them on a margin can result in high losses that HSBC prefers not to be involved with? Just a guess.
“The author of Cydia” is probably more striking introduction for you :)

HN post on Orchid Protocol for curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15576457
Uber reports record demand in March as more in U.S. are vaccinated
I think what he meant is:

> Most frontend developers in my experience don't know about developer tools.

I still don't know how that's possible though.
Do not casually browse the web with JavaScript enabled. The idea of trustless secure computing is compelling but it’s ultimately not reality. There is a new browser engine rce vulnerability on a regular basis, whether it’s chrome or mobilesafari
> and I hope they can rehabilitate their image.

Do you believe they are making a genuine effort to do that? Or is it arrogance on the part of Stallman and co. which is still keeping the FSF closely associated with the Epstein scandal, while MIT and others have successfully moved on.
The acid's definitely right- 'formic' comes from fourmis, the french word for ant!
Not impossible, but IMO highly unlikely: stocks, especially smaller ones can be way more volatile than any currency with over 1T market value. And you can still buy those on margin.
Writing NES Emulator in Rust
The pr adding this says that you need to run chrome with —no-sandbox to get the exploit chain (since they don’t have a sandbox buster right now). Kinda feel like the PR to metasploit is more interesting as a link
Governments that are democratically elected aren't scared of anything but losing their job if they don't get re-elected. When a government starts to defend it's own existence against people's will, it becomes fascism. And by the way, this ideology you are talking about is called liberalism. The idea that money could and should be provided by open market rather than a central government is not some crazy idea. It's just wasn't possible before bitcoin.
Just as one hopes that socialist hellhole can't sink any further...
That's a different deal where you pay once upfront. A user shouldn't have to open a different deal to see how they'll pay for something else.

Either way, that still doesn't tell you explicitly what the cancellation fee would be.

In Australia there is a thing called a 'Critical Information Summary' required for phone/internet plans. This is an sample of one from an old plan with similar terms to Adobe's (monthly payment, 12 month contract): https://imgur.com/a/bBVuip2 . It states how much it'll cost if you stay for 12/24 months. It also states the maximum that'll you'll have to pay to cancel, and how the cancel fee decreases as you go.

This isn't hard... they could put it upfront, but they don't and it only benefits Adobe.

Also, you might want to check those prices in the screenshot you linked, none match the price you would actually pay over 12 months, or the minimum cancel fee.
unless adobe hid the fact it's an Annual plan paid monthly, this guy should be embarassed for crying about paying the money he agreed to pay.
What you often see about really wide rivers:

> Depending on the geographer, the Río de la Plata may be considered a river, an estuary, a gulf, or a marginal sea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%ADo_de_la_Plata

Fine to assume the river isn't miles wide.
true on the concessions, not quite as true on the souvenirs. I got to go to the kids drive-chip-putt competition a few years ago. The branded shirts, blankets, bags, etc all go for quite a premium and people love buying them anyway.

It is a very well put on event though, and it brings an absurd amount of money into the Augusta area. Many businesses make another month of revenue during Masters week and a lot of residents rent out their homes for several times their mortgage payment.
Pop OS is great. Of course I had some issues with UEFI stuff (since they don't use GRUB) but their website had great tutorials for NVMe SSDs.
And you have flatpak instead of snap (so no snap folder in your case).
But most importantly, they have a killer tiling extension for Gnome. It is superb.
...In Los Angeles. For Bay Area folks, I can recommend the Chabot Space and Science Center, in Oakland. For Seattle, consider The Museum of Flight.
"took 16+ hours of developer time to get source control authentication working as a part of the build process"

Probably best you stick with Heroku
I use jspaint.app constantly (particularly on macOS). This is awesome.
While his follow-up comment isn't ideal, it is in response to an ugly personal attack. I deleted my reply to that now flagged-to-death comment because I don't want to make this about me.

I'm quite confident the intent was to be kind to me, not commentary aimed at javert at all.

One of the challenges of interacting on the internet is that it's very hard to say a thing aimed at one person that cannot be wildly misconstrued as being something ugly about someone else. I think that's all that happened here. The comment was aimed at me because my behavior looked extremely defensive rather than looking like "Oh, river factoids! I wonder how wide rivers are? (starts googling)"

I wish people would drop this. It's an unfortunate incident rooted in a well-meaning comment and I hate seeing this go sideways.
You're probably thinking of ASML. They have indeed done great!
Competitor extracts developer dev key, abuses it to get them banned by Google
> One can't deny, sadly, that a software freedom geek with consistency and integrity as applied to that philosophy and insight therein of RMS's caliber doesn't yet exist.

All of these statements are arguably orthogonal to actually leading the FSF. I would in fact argue that such rigid consistency is actually a serious detriment, as it explicitly lets the perfect become the enemy of the good.

> I'm afraid, for this reason alone quite a few people get to think that if you consistently apply software freedom principles in all parts of your life where you use or produce software, it must come with the baggage of all other flaws of RMS's character, complete with questionable hygiene habits and abrasive personality.

Well said.
DNS based block lists are incredibly easy to implement and maintain and require very little resources. All of the complaints from corporate IT admins about DoH demonstrate this. (I believe Chrome still won't default to DoH for corporate managed browsers)

Any normal home users can setup dnscrypt-proxy or PiHole and have it 'protect' their whole home network, but actually filtering your whole network's traffic based on IP is out of reach for most.
Intel actually pays fairly decent dividends. Always has.
Banks are zeroes.
> intel xeon (ECC PLEASE!) as the ECU.

LOL. Any code that relies on fast interrupts is a lost cause on x86. A 32 MHz ECU may dramatically faster at interrupts that a top of the line Xeon :)

The power consumption of a pile of Xeons will add up fast, too.
Okay, but before everyone freaks out, 2 of the 5 samples for this year are record lows for a data set of 8 years. Also they seem to have taken only about 2/3 as many measurements this year as previous years, because the low points for previous years are between a number of the samples for this year.

The trend for the final two samples is well into new territory, for sure, but the overall tone is... shrill.
What's the slowdown like on this? Any stuttering?
I haven't seen any formats that give you that much space in a reliable way, but even then, you won't get any texture mapping, normal mapping, animation, etc etc. Why bother when you can reliably store a link and have anything you want?
There’s a lottery where you can get them basically free.

The members of The National, and the club itself don’t need the money.
If you can actually get a badge (not tickets) directly from Augusta National (likely via the lottery), it costs $115. If you're a random person trying to buy one on Stubhub, prepare to pay $6000+.

https://golf.com/news/tournaments/2019-masters-tickets-absur...
How do you test "a reasonable person would consider to be threatening, abusive or insulting"?

It seems likely that the test for a "reasonable person" could be easily abused with a motivated majority.

However that doesn't bother me as much as the virtually untestable "threatening, abusive or insulting" which is almost exclusively a personal interpretation. How is there any test or defence for this?
Knowing absolutely nothing about this particular situation I’d be willing to bet this decision is a lingering side effect of HSBC’s most recent (and seemingly perpetual) AML issues. I suspect they’re trying to appear squeaky clean and an action like this is quick, easy to implement operationally, and looks good to regulators who are uneasy about cryptocurrency’s reputation for facilitating criminal activity online.
This is a bit "I don't even own a TV" in a thread about TV shows. The topic is wealth and the industries/methods behind it. You're responding to two people having an interesting discussion about known and unknown riches.
This might be less true than you think but it all depends on local laws.

In Oregon, USA, for example, early termination fees can’t be more than 1.5 months rent. In most US jurisdictions landlords are required to mitigate their losses by finding a new tenant. Few courts will let a landlord twiddle their thumbs and collect much more than a few months rent if a tenant leaves early.
I guess that can be tracked back to the use of fancy new buggy tools ;)

bc <<< "0.1 + 0.2"

.3

bc <<< "1.0E4096 +1 -1.0E4096"

1.000000

node -e "console.log(1.0E128 +1 -1.0E128)"

0

python -c "print(1.0E128 +1 -1.0E128)"

0.0
> I often wonder whether we need yet another UI framework implementation?

Because the web wasn’t designed for applications UI interfaces (hence the CSS grid which landed only in 2017), so it lacks basic primitives and behaviors that are then re-implemented slightly differently by different people. On the contrary, a UI framework designed for this such as the Windows Forms on Windows desktop is still very usable (and used) to make applications, 20 years after its release; and is only concurrenced by a single newer framework (WPF) which actually brings a lot of improvements on the table.

Actually the web does it half-way: there are a set of common elements (input text, button, etc.) but some useful components are missing, and some of the existing one are hard to style. This support should be added in browsers, then custom code wouldn’t be needed anymore.
> That said, as long as RMS didn't do anything outside of the law.

I always balk at the introduction of "the law" into these discussions. Inherently there are all kinds of behavior that is legal but can and should get you fired. Talking about the law here is just setting the bar unreasonably high.
Good.

When you make everything that's not permitted and highly taxed illegal, you find yourself in a money laundering war you can't win.
Former automotive R&D guy here. It was quite some time ago but my colleagues in the chip department (we were all new grads at the time) were telling me that they were designing chips with triple redundancy. "Hood Space" is a fierce competition among vendors to get into car models 5 years in the future, but miniaturization needs are nowhere near that of the consumer electronic space (this was shocking to me, having been raised in SV in a family working in the PC industry!)

Fast forward some years later and I was working at a motion sensor company for consumer electronics. Our node sizes were like 40-50nm and many generations behind cutting edge ICs. Lower margins but meaningful volume. Our fab was naturally, you guessed it, TSMC.
You mean the most conflict driven and passive aggressive feature in any programming tooling?
> the _other_ times he spoke out in implicit support of pedophilia,

His support for pedophilia was explicit (though in context it was actually support for “consensual” sex between adults and children, not support for mere pedophilia, which is an orientation, not an action.)
Tested this today.

- Opening anything larger than a megabyte causes long load times (compared to `vim` and other editors), as well as extreme lag before each cursor movement.

- The code, relying extremely heavily on various Rust libraries, is extremely difficult to read due to how it's organized: directories like "view" (which doesn't contain source code pertaining to rendering any actual characters), "models", "modes", etc.

- The "jump" feature is good in theory, but in practice is significantly slower than simply continuing to move the cursor normally, as it only works with tokens currently on the screen.

- Opening any files in the editor requires the construction of an index so that it can search for things for you. This runs seemingly-unending on both the `/home` and `/` directories.

- Does not include very many `vim` commands, and therefore shouldn't be called "vim-like." Cursor movement uses "hjkl," but otherwise, the editor is used in a very different manner.

- Does not support any plugins, extensibility, of any kind (that I could find).
I believe you are thinking about lignin digestion - an action of certain fungi, but its contribution to the end of the Carboniferous is debated.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/why-was-most-of-the-...

As interesting as it would be, ants don’t seem to play a big role here.
How do you have uBlock do this?
Does this mean some cars will have Intel inside stickers?
A source for what? Billion dollar capital projects have a lifetime of at least 30 years.

RAD6000 CPUs are still made on 0.5um fabs.
Fox News? Finding consistent application of a journalistic standard in any of the major news channels (MSNBC, ABC, Fox, NBC, CBS, CNN) is practically impossible. It's become more and more a game of "Gotcha" between them than what I think is anything resembling journalism.
...right, but you can't look at someone and based on looks end up thinking, "That person is a victim of human trafficking!" in the same way you might look at someone and think, "That person might be younger than 18 [or whatever the local law says]!". It might be possible to blame Minsky for the second thing, but the first seems completely crazy to me.