skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Providing shelter for homeless people without making them not homeless doesn't resolve the problem.

Homelessness is a symptom of deep issues in the US. We have broken housing policy. We have bad healthcare policy. We have saddled a lot of people with student loans under conditions where the loans are a huge burden and the education they got wasn't the slam dunk solution to making life work that we convinced them it would be.

Homelessness means "The lives of these people simply don't work for some reason." Lack of housing is one element of that, but it's not the entire issue.

We need to design an America where the lives of most ordinary people work again. Where you don't need a college degree or can get one without it being an undo burden. One where if you are willing to work and aren't a criminal etc, then it's possible to make your life work.

There's no single thing that will get us there, though fixing our broken housing policy such that affordable housing can exist again would be an important step forward.
It will allow for only activating the gyro when the stick is touched, which is a great feature for augmenting aim without having the gyro wobbling the view all over the place all the time when not wanted (like when staking out through a window in an FPS).
> One could argue that they shouldn't be and that's maybe a separate conversation

Yes, it's probably a separate conversation, but I don't think we should give these bad laws more teeth.
lower incomes end up paying a negative tax [receiving money]

And depending on how it's implemented, there'll be a segment of the population whose net UBI will be zero, so you'll save most of the processing costs of handling income tax and UBI.
Not a mom, but if I want to learn about a better [photographer/plumber/mechanic/whatever] I will use the tools that list and attempt to give accurate information about businesses (yelp, angi, BBB, ?), inadequate though they may be. My brain doesn't register your ad. If it does, I'm probably less likely to consider your business, because you shoved an intrusive internet ad in my face.
> Should I run Windows, Plan9, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux on my 5 servers to ensure I have diversity?

Running Windows and Linux would be a good start. Plenty of business-y software runs on POSIX systems: perhaps your business processes don't have to run the same operating system as your desktops?

Having a file share appliance (e.g., TrueNAS, NetApp) would be a good step after that (if things get encrypted just revert to the last snapshot).
Yeah I think this is the real point of a nursing home often times: making sure you can get medical care as you age.
This is big! Can't wait until we have radios that can also show images.
I just think advertisement is when other people pay for the media products you get for free, if you don’t buy the ad product. It’s a plus. Why are people so charged up about it? If you don’t want to be manipulated by ads then just don’t be.
> If we want top-grade products to remain available without a direct monetary transaction (i.e "free"),

Is Facebook a "higher-grade" social networking product than other free ones that exist without the same monetization of personal data, or than other free ones that could exist without the same monetization of personal data if such monetization of personal data was considered unacceptable? I don't doubt that Facebook delivers more value to shareholders than if they were not able to monetize personal data to the same extent, but I see no reason to believe that they or their competitors would be less of a "top-grade product."
Does anybody know a programmatic VOIP provider that will appear as a standard mobile number? I've got a voip.ms number that cannot text with some other providers (like xfinity phone service), and website snake oil auth doesn't like it either. I've got another number with Google Voice that hasn't had these problems (I think because it looks just like a Project Fi number), but the lack of software choice sucks. I'd love to move away from Google, even if it means paying a bit, but the number has got to work as a general number.

I've got a plan to set up a fixed cell modem with a cheap SIM for snakeoil auth, etc, but that won't help for keeping a long term well-known number.
Strong agreement here.

The principle driver of antisocial behaviour online seems to be impunity, immunity, and/or disinhibition. Anonymity and/or pseudonymity are related, but nowhere near identical.

As Yonatan Zunger, chief architect of Google+ (and now an ex-Googler) pointed out, compulsory identification amplifies rather than removes power relationships. This is his principle (and IMO devastating) response to David Brin's Transparent Society argument. Minorities and the disempowered obliged to identify themselves lose even more power in the bargain.

What empowers abuse is the ability to inflict harm without perception of risk, whether that perception is accurate or not. Disinhibition reduces perception whilst overall risk remains high. (The concept is captured in the word "assassin", deriving from the Arabic, hashīshīn, referencing hashhish --- assassins had reduced inhibitions through pharmaceutical influence.) Legal immunity, the cover of a crowd, operating extrajurisdictionally, cover of a state or other significant actor, or simple mass delusions can all provide the reality or appearance of impunity.

Mandating identity itself creates new avenues for abuse, including the revoking of official credentials, bureaucratic incompetence, bribery, and the potential of a "permanent archive" of all accesses (already substantially present through numerous mechanisms) which can be mined at arbitrary future dates, but as-yet unknown entities with as-yet unknown motives.

I'll note that I'm one of numerous reasonably-well-know pseudonymous HN members.
> But don’t pretend that by offering your site for free and me using it for free somehow requires me to see shitty ads.
If you want my money, ask for it. If your content is worth it I’ll pay for it.

One of my personal favorites: movie theatres.

You pay, a handsome amount of money, to see a movie, once, and if you happen to have the weird idea of not be just late enough to the movie, you get the wonderful, once in a lifetime opportunity… to get ads shoved in your face. Ads for food, ads for random stuff, and ads for other movies.

The best of both worlds, really.

Used to drive me crazy. Now I simply don’t go anymore.
> NixOS promises stability, you just walk back to a previous version! Alas, i've had NixOS hose _all_ of my previous versions because of X server issues.

I'd love to hear more detail about this, because `nixos-rebuild switch` is not capable of causing such a problem in a permanent way.

(It can arise temporarily, though, if you switch to a new configuration without rebooting, and that configuration requires a different kernel than you are currently running. Rebooting and choosing your old configuration at the bootloader menu fixes this.)
Of course, I assumed that you had sex many times more than you conceived. Keep in mind, I wasn't the other person who commented.

If pulling out, having sex while not ovulating, or whatever you did, is satisfying for you, great! I applaud your satisfaction.

However, as I said not everyone is satisfied by that kind of sex. To say that the limitations imposed by a lack of birth control don't exist, or aren't important, fails to capture the depth, breadth, and variety of human sexuality.
Modern FPSes like CS:GO don't even send you data your client can't see/hear, so wall hacks are effectively near-impossible.
I am not an user of this service, can backups be deleted due to inactivity? This sounds very confusing.
Google remains the copyright holder of the submitted patch. There's nothing special in this from the project's perspective - in the absence of copyright assignment as a required part of patch submission, the default is that the submitter retains copyright. In this case, it's just Google claiming ownership of their employee's patch rather than the employee holding the copyright.
> Think of it more along the lines of what mcdonalds did to themselves. Their milkshake machines are broken (10%-20% of the time) because they outsourced fixing it to a third party.

Ye there is no end to such bullshit deals with 3rd party suppliers that pop out from nowhere from the top.
I'm not a heavy gamer so don't have great insight, but it seems like you might be undervaluing the problem.

> I find it really difficult to see the value proposition for anti-cheat companies in spending time developing that functionality.

Let's say 1% of the population cheats. Maybe that's high
(or low, but I could easily see 1% of the real world population having less than stellar morals w.r.t. cheating). So you play an online game with 20 people in it. That means on average one out of every 5 games there is a cheater in it.

That ruins the experience for you (and everyone in it). Not to mention now because there are so many legit cheaters, people start mistaking really talented players of cheating. Accusing them, starting back and forth arguments online which worsens the experience even if they're not cheating. This adds to the frequency of assumed cheating. Then one of those 20 people decides the way they'll fix it is they'll download a cheat a next time someone on the other team cheats then they'll start cheating too. And so they do, but sometimes they do it when someone is actually just good an not cheating and so they worsen the game.

Overall if you're a company, trying to run an online game you need a positive environment where people will want to return to play. Cheaters very quickly ruin the trust in a game, and that leads to real financial impact.
With a bit of DDGing I found something [0] from March by the chemical society. With respect to storage density, NH3 is better:

Ammonia has a higher energy density, at 12.7 MJ/L, than even liquid hydrogen, at 8.5 MJ/L. Liquid hydrogen has to be stored at cryogenic conditions of –253 °C, whereas ammonia can be stored at a much less energy-intensive –33 °C. And ammonia, though hazardous to handle, is much less flammable than hydrogen.

This doesn't even mention how elemental hydrogen weakens metals over time ("embrittlement"), which makes storage even more challenging. There are lots of other issues discussed at that link, and it's clear that NH3 will be more expensive than e.g. gasoline, at least until there is better solar power. Still, if hydrogen makes sense, ammonia makes sense.

[0] https://cen.acs.org/business/petrochemicals/ammonia-fuel-fut...
And then one day, somebody asks you calmly: "what about 2^31-1"? Better memorise the small Mersenne exponents as well!

https://oeis.org/A000043
You can charge your residential or utility battery storage from the imported hydro or solar depending on spot prices, no need to consume immediately at that time.

Transmission is crucial for flexibility in balancing generation and consumption, as well as optimizing storage utilization. You can also assume there will be times you’ll throw away (curtail) clean energy as it’s cheaper than it would’ve been to store and then deliver it, but you still need that capacity available at other times (seasonal variability).
The source is available without paying, you could have had asked.
"I don't know where these figures come from" isn't a question, it's the start of a bad faith argument.

As for your claim about the IEA, you're welcome to post some source to back that claim, other readers may be interested.
What is the process for taking iPhone portrait-mode photos and moving them to the LookingGlassPortrait for viewing in stand-alone mode?
Well, the CASP14 results do speak for themselves. Protein structure prediction is not necessarily of great meaning to drug discovery or biology, but they pretty much blew everyone else out of the water in a fair contest. For that reason, they deserve praise.

It's a little like making a robot that is very, very good at something pointless (say, using a yo-yo). Who knows where it might lead, but if they make the best damned yo-yo bot in the world, they deserve whatever praise they get from the yo-yo community.
Sure, but is it not possible that a hardware acceleration, if not also proven correct, could subtly undermine an otherwise valid software implementation?

I do not assert that this is the case generally, nor particularly here -- I would be quite happy to be wrong about this. But if there's one thing I've taken from my admittedly minor study of crypto is that the most trivial of details can be critically important, and failure to get a detail exactly correct can compromise an entire algorithm and anything built thereupon.

I would love to see hardware acceleration for ed25519, just like there's been hardware acceleration for AES. It could help drive adoption of an algorithm that is less fiddly and easy to get wrong than RSA, and maybe in another 15 years, I'd be able to purchase IT equipment that supports ed25519 and not just hardware accelerated RSA and AES.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObhK8lUfIlc

They are using deep learning to detect hackers, since 2018
I guess fancy pants California wine then. I know the valley grows a lot of grapes. I interpreted the thread as Napa /Sonoma
> Gamestreaming (Stadia etc) shows that this absolutely is possible. It might not be feasible due to players on bad connections and hardware cost (in fact, the reason that games do so few checks serverside is hardware cost), but it's not something impossible anymore.

That's a fair point, and maybe we're closer than I think, but I don't think that fully-streamed games demonstrate that we're there yet. At the risk of sounding too elitist, those games aren't "hardcore". The things that streamed game players expect and will put up with are a far cry from the things that hardcore gamers expect.

A serious Counter-Strike player wants things to operate as close to the limits of human reaction time as possible. People can typically react (as in press a button) in response to visual stimuli in something like 150ms, and to audio stimuli in something like 50ms (I don't have good links for these, so don't hold me to the numbers; there are studies out there).

While this may seem like it's slow enough that processing and network delays don't matter too much, when you add those in, you're well into the territory of perceptable delays. Advanced/pro gamers (especially younger ones) are even faster. I don't know that it's possible for fully server-side systems to compensate for this. Anecdotally, I can't tell the difference between 20ms and 70ms latency while gaming (at least not now that I'm old), but I can tell the difference between 20ms and 120ms. If everything had to happen server side, I think it'd be noticeable.
How is it not wrong?

The battery energy storage is 8GWh with a power capacity of 2GW. There is no such thing as a power storage capacity, because power is a rate. However, the storage may have a power capacity. pedantic, I know.
No, it absolutely did exist, but it only applied to the new tablet/store app environment and APIs exclusive to it (such as native/WinRT XAML). Win32 apps weren't locked out from running, but they also couldn't use these new APIs. If you wanted to rewrite your app for the tablet environment (perhaps because Win32 was entirely inadequate for developing apps even back in 2012), then you had to also distribute that app on the store, as AFAIK there was no easy way to sideload AppX packages. In fact, games that were packaged for the store couldn't support things like G-Sync, Vulkan, or overlays because the lockout technology also firewalled off external DLLs.

You might not have noticed this because nobody cared about the store and just used Windows 8 like Windows 7 with some annoying tablet UI duck-taped to it.
Hey there, can you please let me know what you're referring to? We largely haven't touched the site at all other than hosting it on our AWS account which as far as I know didn't impact anything negatively.

Additionally, we've built an API for the data served through it: https://vantage.readme.io/reference

We have future plans to develop the site but I just want to ensure I'm aware of what you're referring to if you're seeing something we aren't aware of. Please feel free to email me directly at ben@vantage.sh if you'd like.
I stumbled upon a security issue with your site. I was reading this LP trying to understand what this product does and saw this quote

> Military-grade encryption and security

Then I checked your site’s CSP policy on Mozilla Observatory:

https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/coinrule.com

coinrule.com scored 0/100 (F), because your site does not have the Content Security header implemented. I’d expect a software product focusing on security to have a strong CSP.
There's all sorts of programming styles in use and calling stored procedures from dot net programs for instance is at least a thing.

Plus, lots of those ORM things get plenty of hate from DBAs, I mean I like them but then again I'm not a very good programmer.
"they" is the game developers of this game.
1. Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPcgEBbNQvw

2. Recognise that you have an opportunity to practice the courage of telling people things that they do not want to hear.

3. Recognise that when you have employees and investors, they'll be relying on you to tell them things they don't want to hear.

4. Recognise that your future self will find it far harder to practice courage if his past self abandoned him to the risk of homelessness.
It’s already too late for anyone more than 200 ly away. They’re better getting used to us.
Long Overdue.
1,78 e 1,67
> I can't explain that it will be more than this single product, investors are getting lost.

It sounds like you need someone to translate this effectively from “techno” to “MBA”.

Messaging is the single most important thing when talking about your amazing product with complete strangers. Don’t discount it.

Maybe look into getting a co-founder?
> monthly cash payments to qualifying pregnant people and young adults who recently left foster care with no restrictions on how they spend it.

Temporary cash payments to
people who are currently one of pregnant or recently out of foster care aren’t, even approximately, a UBI.

EDIT: If there are no means tests (and there is no indiciation in the article that that is a restriction on the county programs this will fund, its not a direct state program), its approximately a situation-tested social benefit program, otherwise its just a situationally-limited means-tested welfare program.
> "Ive got 400 watts of solar feeding into my 400AH of batteries with a 3000w inverter"

Assuming 12V, that's about 400Ah*12V=4800Wh of storage. 4800Wh/400W = 12 hours to charge those, which seems reasonable for an RV. The thing that seems a bit oversized is the 3000W inverter.
Yes, and I'm sure you can jailbreak/root your mobile devices or use a VPN running Pi-hole to remove all YouTube ads. You can also download YouTube videos with youtube-dl (another feature of YouTube Premium). But for me it's well worth the $12 a month to remove ads and get mobile downloads without any hassle or nonsense.
One is not a prime number. If you allow one to be a prime number, then you can no longer say that each natural number has a unique prime factorization.

This makes the concept of prime numbers much more useful when one is excluded.
I'm really pissed at Signal because they went the same route as WhatsApp
and tied the account to a phone number and it's not possible to use it
on more than one (android) device or just on a PC (without phone).

WhatsApp gave us the chance to convert a lot of people to a
facebook-free messenger because of their change of terms and we did
convert a lot of people.

But meanwhile I have to agree with most people I know: the Signal app is
just shitty compared to WhatsApp (often crashes on android, you can't
set a custom notify sound, messages arriving late, ...) and now it also
lags behind this new feature.
What has China accomplished militarily in the last 30 years?
Data doesn't back this actually happening, though. If this were true, homeless people would be rushing to NYC. See https://medium.com/@josefow/new-york-decided-to-end-street-h... and https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xzwb5/california-is-despera...
For example Microsoft kept Forza Horizon 4 Microsoft Store exclusive for 4 years.
More of governments who have no idea how technology works trying to solve technology problems.
The whole premise of “doxing” being a problem is that people have a right to say things on the internet that would get them in trouble in real life.

I think the pro-real-names position would argue that it is net negative for society for people to have this ability, we should only be saying aloud what we are willing to put our reputations behind.

I don’t agree with this position, but afaik that’s the position.
This is a great "theorem", thank you!

It's easy to determine divisibility by 2, 3, 5, and 11. 7² is also easy because it's a square. 7×13=91 is the only composite number under 100 that isn't caught by these rules.
I don’t follow anyone on Twitter I agree with on most issues.

However I don’t think your concern here is unfounded but in my personal experience the bigger issue is on the surface non political or non biased organizations or “content creators” who’s bias is very similar to that which the viewer shares.
Emotion-to-understanding ratio
I agree on the reasoning, but at the same time, they might as well have just gone with a single USB-2 port and had people buy a <$10 USB hub off Amazon or something (or offered it as a peripheral for $20). Although, you can buy a few port USB-c hub for almost the same price, and if they just had two USB-c ports it would all work just as well with the addition of a hub (since you only need to add a keyboard and mouse when stationary).
Yes. It’s a PC running Linux and can do anything a regular PC can. It’s probably a little lacking performance wise for VR though. It’s optimised for the native 1280x800 resolution.
Honest question, what is the usefulness of proving such an obvious thing?
i'm not suggesting you should switch to a new role that is more of a people person role. I'm saying as an _engineer_, learning how to "politic" is way more important than learning a new language, or having a deep understanding of security, or some other significant technical thing. Not that those aren't good to know, but at some point the "politicing" will be your limiting factor if you can't play the game.
> The argument against this is that there are real numbers with an infinite number of digits, which will not have a specific integer associated with them. Or do they?

If it was possible to construct your mapping, then there would be a well-defined sorting of the reals between 0 and 1 based on their integer representation (e.g. we could sort the set {0.05, 0.1, 0.2} => {50, 1, 2} to [0.1, 0.2, 0.05] => [1, 2, 50]).

How would you sort the list {0.5, 1 / sqrt(2), pi - 3}?
I'd argue that kids need the tools and techniques to understand how to deal with dodgy online content, rather than locking it away. Prohibition tends to drive things underground; I'd rather have (and am having - I have 2 teenage kids!) realistic and honest conversations about porn and other content. I don't lock my router to stop adult site access, instead we're having a conversation about it.

I'm under no illusions, btw. I know they'll access it. I know I did as a teen (albeit magazines rather than the web) but I think a dialogue is sorely missing about damage, the impact on women, body image, etc etc. The more this is pushed into a black/white old enough / not old enough over-simplified scenario, the less we can have nuanced conversations about it all.

I suspect this whole move is purely an optics piece. That doesn't make it any less dangerous, in fact it maybe makes it more dangerous, but it explains the incompetence and lack of thought behind it.
Vulnerabilities Equities Process!
You don’t need to be dogmatic about it!

You can have a little file server, and have it backup to something like backblaze, aws, rsync.net, and just focus on the backup aspect.