skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Edit to add: before someone mentions "mental illness" and "drugs" and other contributors to homelessness, yes those are real factors: that said, the lower the cost of housing, the easier it is for someone on the margin of being housed or being homeless to stay housed.

I live in Santa Monica, CA. The notion that mental illness and drugs are not the primary contributors to homelessness runs totally counter to common sense and my lived experience.

Today, on 4th & Pacific, there was a man passed out asleep on a the median in broad daylight. No tent. Just splayed out baking in the sun. Earlier this week, I saw a man stop by each trash can along the Venice boardwalk to dig through and pick out half-eaten fast food. Eyes rolled back. An emaciated old woman passed out in the sand in a fetal position. A man using a power drill on the air and muttering to himself.

These people are not on the margins. They are never bouncing back. Homes could be $0 and they would still be on the streets. And they are the rule not the exception.

Meth is dirt cheap, widely available in Los Angeles, and it induces psychosis. Isn't it obvious that's the issue?
>Given past witch hunts it could be decades before people get exonerated.

Given how pedophiles are treated in prison, that might be longer than your expected lifespan if you are sent to prison because of this. Of course I'm taking it to the dark place, but you kinda gotta, you know?
Slippery slope fallacy is often implied incorrectly when it comes to people. Human nature is subject to the "foot in the door" sales tactic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique
> Furthermore Lineage's official root addon writes to /system.

LineageOS no longer offers an official root add-on as of December 2019.

https://www.xda-developers.com/lineageos-dropping-superuser-...

The most common rooting solution is Magisk, which is systemless.
Same here. Most of my cross country trips are in an ‘08 corvette. It gets about 26 mpg if you leave it on cruise, and takes about 8 minutes to fill up. And I can also stop wherever I want for a nice meal or whatever. Combined with zero maintenance because it’s built for about 10x as hard as you’d ever think of driving it, it works out just fine. I think electric vehicles are awesome, but it’s pretty hard to beat gasoline in terms of power for your money.
Simpler to have rail to alaska and cross the Bering Strait by various means I would guess.
Maybe when someone and their customers don't feel drawn to create and consume something like this?
They really did write that. And fall back to “think about the children”. I know the word dystopian gets overused, but it really fits here. Wow.
Magit Has Been Added to NonGNU ELPA
As was mentioned above, tea grow back rather quickly...the U.S. great plains area would be a forest if not for regular fires...in addition, crude oil reserves regularly replenish themselves...and they are certainly not related to fossils, despite the incorrect use of the term. The original oil fields of the northeast were the first to be tapped dry during the 1800s...and are now nearly full again...
I think its exactly the people that get promoted disproportionately to the rest. That's their thing...
To make cities more walkable, changing driver behavior needs to be a significant focus.

Minneapolis consistently ranks as one of the better cities for pedestrians, but even here the drivers here are really aggressive towards pedestrians to the point that some don't even care if you're pushing a stroller. Bike lanes, trails, and enhanced crosswalks are great, but they can't protect you from drivers that ignore traffic laws and drive dangerously.

The city knows it has a problem. This picture taken today is of a sign posted on one of the main bridges into downtown:

https://imgur.com/gallery/NsLGfk4
That's a different thread of comments. This one is about automated dispatching of SWAT teams.
Nobody campaigns on parking minimums, setbacks, etc and most people you speak to haven’t heard of these things. Municipal election turnout is low.

I’ll admit it’s certainly possible. Or possible that decades ago people voted for this and the laws stayed.

But the argument seems pretty indirect given how few people are familiar with these issues.
I stopped watching around half way. Now I think might have to finish it.
You like pollution? You like polluting waterways with micro plastics from your tires? You don't care about the 40k killed every year in the USA? You don't care about the destruction of countryside with roads???
They thought the article was referring to there being no mosquitoes in the Disney universe stories/canon, but then realized it was about the theme park in Florida.
They may not have mosquitos but boy do they sure have love bugs! When we went the year before covid there were so many at Hollywood studios that we skipped one of the toy story lines. They were literally everywhere.
I've this feeling too. The people on CS today is way more "normal" than even in the 90's. But there's a shift in salaries: the biggest bite now goes for managers and developers are mostly seen as replaceable lower value workers. True nerds don't feel at home in the marketplace anymore.
Marita Rodriguez seems more candid about the trade-off being made here, even though she downplays her opposition.
Technically that description was from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, not from anyone at Apple.
Installing Magisk requires you to patch the bootloader or recovery image, which would break verified boot:

https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html

The only way to preserve verified boot with Magisk is for the bootloader or recovery image to have Magisk compatibility built-in prior to signing. I don't think any flavor of Android that supports verified boot is currently doing this.
$ sudo apt install texlive latexmk
$ latexmk -pdf main.tex

I didn't try it, but it wasn't much harder than that if I recall... If you're on Windows, well, it's your loss :(
Hilarious. I knew what they meant. Fanboys and their short memories. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2019/07/30/confirm...
SEC charges crypto execs for the first time over unregistered token sales
Some of what you said wasn’t there when I replied. It could be because most of my replies were composed quite slowly from a mobile device, giving you plenty of time to make edits while I was writing. Whether this was intentional or not, it means I wasn’t replying to what you wrote.
Excuse me for being one of the 80% of working Americans
Fidelity has been offering all crypto funds for a while, including to its 401k IRA clients. I guess Fidelity is not a bank, but from user perspective, I don’t see groundbreaking here. No one seems to be offering the trading of cryptocurrency itself for the regular clients. I think that would be groundbreaking. Goldman and maybe JPM offer that to the high nets already.
To me it is clear they are bowing to government pressure to add this feature. I cannot imagine any other reason they would go from drawing so much attention to privacy of their platform in their communication and general PR around the launch of the privacy labels in the app store to then make this change which is a clear violation of their user's privacy.
For some reason I couldn't reply to your comment initially, so I put this in a sibling (typos and grammar excepted):

I haven't touched any of my comments since they first received a reply. I often touch my comments within a couple minutes of posting in order to correct typos or clarify my intentions, usually by appending a paragraph. But I don't do so without remark once they've become canonical in a thread.

Your replies to my comments are as they were written.
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As a recent graduate of a high-ranked uni, this is somewhat true, but i think CS pulls some from IBanking but also from law, general engr'ing, and medicine. I and many others i know entered school thinking about medicine.

While many people in CS that go to FAANG, et. al are high-achievers, most are the cohort of those people interested in science and technical work more than social focused work. Much bigger overlap with pre-med defectors. Also we had plenty of "anti-social" kids, but interestingly they achieved less and were more likely to work at a small regional company after graduating than a SV tech firm.
You're being pedantic.

Chaotic systems, in essence, are known for its unpredictability. Watch this to get an idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEjZd-AvPco
This isn’t a normal file hash. It’s not SHA or bcrypt. A wide variety of states (1s and 0s) can have the same hash.

The idea is to take an image and have all of its possible derivatives create the same hash.

For example, if a hash was made of the Mona Lisa, any copy no matter how large, small, black and white, would have the same hash.

Think of all the ways the Mona Lisa could be transformed and still be the Mona Lisa.

The combinations of ones and zeros would be in the billions. If not more.

And all those possible combinations of ones and zeros go back to the same “hash.”

That’s extremely resourceful intensive.

My guess is that they are going to transform the images into a very low resolution, black and white thumbnail. Then compare it against known abuse images that have been similarly transformed.

Or they’re using AI. They might be using AI.

Either way, it’s guesswork. How many images might be transformable to the same black and white thumbnail. I don’t know.
The lower edge of the top 10% is about $110,000. Not a lot of public sectors earn that much, so it's not a significant fraction. When they do earn that much, comparable jobs in the public sector almost always pay more, and only pay as much as they do because they require either a higher level of education, a specialized skill, a high level of personal danger, or some combination of these.

Also you started by mentioning unionized workers as a whole, not just public sector. Let's be consistent about who you're talking about, because a large portion of public sector jobs are white collar jobs requiring higher education, while large portions of typical union labor is much less well paid and has lower salary accordingly https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Union_Laborer/Hourl...
Is this supposed to be a trick question? For example, if you tax people and build a highway (or a rail line), someone driving on it/riding it but not paying taxes does not contribute to this particular QOL improvement.

Generally, there are plenty of people who do not contribute to society in any major way (e.g. even taxes), or even directly harm it.
I suppose it should be fairly portable, except for missing packages maybe. In my case I have literally every common package installed so that's not an issue. But LaTeX errors are a real pain, I'll admit that.
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I did a ~965mi trip regularly in my Model X 100D during the pandemic when I was not comfortable flying. The trip is about 18hrs door-to-door, with about 14hrs driving and ~4hrs charging. Autopilot is very helpful in reducing fatigue, as are the required frequent stops.

The charging time was somewhat inflated, because my friend does not have destination charging at her downtown condo building. That meant that on the outbound leg, I needed to stop at a close by, but slow, urban supercharger and top my car up. And on the return leg, I was not starting with a 100% charge.

This was especially frustrating, because there are chargers in the garage they share w/a hotel, but the chargers are for hotel guests only...
I have openvpn so the block will remain in effect.
I don't plan to use apple services ever again but the hard ware is pretty good.
The "I'm watching with amusement..." tweet was me. The person who posted the "FAILS.FEATURES.BUGS" was Will, who is not me.

Important you don't continue to believe that Will posted the reply that you're criticizing here.
A few hundred dollars per year increase (at the pump or registration fees) still makes financial sense for an awful lot of people.
If by "They" you mean Apple, then they did not. As noted by jsnell, and properly attributed in the linked article, it was written by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Looked it up because I was sure I heard this before. Brunswick house balls are indeed listed as being urethane [1]. I can say from experience that my polyester ball is both less durable than a house ball and curves less than a house ball when thrown two handed.

There are plenty of professionals that bowl two handed like that, including the most successful bowler of the past decade. It is a completely valid and accurate method to hook the ball a lot.

[1] https://brunswickbowling.com/bowling-centers/equipment-parts...
We have no idea what is in the db of photos, or what innocent photos will match beyond "less than 1 in 1 trillion" which is almost certainly false.
A system on my phone where it has a list of bad files and a threshold on how many of those files are allowed. If the threshold is reached Apple can read them. Both the bad files list and threshold is controlled by Apple and is explicitly designed to be un-auditable...

Honestly I would have been fine with Apple scanning my all photos after they are uploaded to iCloud but this is deeply disturbing
I'd subscribed to Lex based on positive comments I've seen elsewhere and ... am not impressed.

His guest list is impressive.

The topics range from interesting to overhyped (bitcoin/crypto).

Lex's own problems start with his voice: he sounds drugged, slurred, and frankly somewhat dim, the last impression strongly reinforced by his questions and follow-up.

The episodes themselves run too long, and would benefit greatly in my view by much tighter editing. Aiming for a set length (20, 30, or 60 minutes, say), going over that in the interview, and editing down, would be a vast improvement.
Recently my IPad’s AI made a montage of my pet cats.

Only, my daughter was included in the montage. Why?

She was wearing a shirt with a cat on it.
I like using standards, but the advantages of KSUIDs over existing UUIDs has led me to adopt them by default in new (and where possible, existing) projects.

I was sort of hoping this would yield something obviously superior to KSUIDs, since nominally this is an attempt to create an IETF standard to solve the same problem KSUIDs solve, but...

...I'm not seeing it. I just want enough random bits to ensure I don't need to worry about a collission, combined with enough of a timestamp I can roughly k-sort them and get acceptable performance using them in a DB index. KSUIDs do this. These proposed formats...not so much.

Specifically:

1. All three of these standards devote significant numbers of bits to providing timestamps with very high precision or very distant epochs, or both. If you're generating a v6 UUID and your device's wall clock says it's currently the year 1582 (or really, any year prior to 2021), something has gone very wrong. As for accuracy, there's nothing wrong with it, but you could also shave off a few bits and spend that space on more randomness.

2. All three of these standards devote shockingly few bits to containing raw random bits. v6 has 48, and v7 and v8 don't require any (!) and maxes out at 62 bits. If you could trust that all devices generating v6 UUIDs had super accurate, super in-sync wall clocks, I suppose 48 bits of randomness and a 100 nanosecond timestamp might make sense. But in the real world, I think you're better off focusing on randomness, with only enough of a timestamp to make your database happy.

3. Both v6 and v7 devote significant attention to a clock mechanism. Clocks make a ton of sense in a system like Boundary's Flake (and Twitter's Snowflake), where you're embedding a node ID in the generated value, but these proposed formats don't do this. (Aside from an offhand commend that you could repurpose some of the random bits for this, but that this is "out of scope" for the spec.) Which is fine, but if your UUIDs aren't namespaced per-node, then your clock now needs to be synchronized globally, which is somewhere between "unfeasible" and "outright impossible". I appreciate the review they did of prior solutions, but you can't just grab arbitrary features from successful designs without considering the context that made the feature work in that design. As far as I'm concerned, if the format doesn't have a node ID, then all the bits devoted to clocks should be spent on more randomness.

I assume/hope that these UUIDs are useful for some applications, but I'm really struggling to see it. They seem good at things that aren't going to benefit users and bad at the things they're trying to solve, particularly at scale, although there's no real point for hobbyists either.
And they are the rule not the exception.

Meth is dirt cheap, widely available in Los Angeles, and it induces psychosis. Isn't it obvious that's the issue?

As a long time volunteer and giver to drug rehab programs, I'm very sympathetic to this argument, but I still agree with OP.

People don't really like drugs. That kind of addiction is usually closely connected to something else in their life going wrong. If the only happiness you can find in your life is in a pill or a pipe, then that's where you will go until it destroys you.

This is where OP's "on the margins" argument comes back. If housing is more affordable, you'll have fewer miserable people and fewer people on drugs. If you transform public schools from prisons/daycares into institutions that actually feed and empower the curiosity of children, they'll have less a reason to buy drugs from each other. If you make it easier for people to start businesses and follow their dreams, they'll have a purpose that feeds them instead of a chemical.

You can't eliminate the drug problem this way, but it can be improved on the margins simply by giving more people an easier path to happiness.
Personally, that's the biggest lesson that I got from traveling in India. There's no question that people's living standard needs to be improved there, but I saw something that's lacking in a developed country (especially in the country I live): mutual help, or the "love your neighbor" mindset. I hope that tradition last long.
Increased error rates for DynamoDB in the US-EAST-1 Region
Dev environment. Mocks are a bad way to test certain things such as db interactions and generally can be a pain
Well, if housing construction cannot keep up it would balance out the quality of life, right? People will move as long as negative QOL delta from expensive housing is, in their view, less than positive QOL delta from other sources.

As for the homelessness example, that is my point exactly, and the general problem with welfare state. You have to choose - restrict the access to welfare state specifically, restrict movement generally, or don't have a welfare state. I do not view welfare state as a sustainable QOL improvement (or a QOL improvement at all), so I am in favor of the last option. For me, people moving in to abuse a local welfare option is a positive development. Contrary to GGP(?), the localities that get punished are not punished for "improving quality of life"... they are punished for stupid policies.
The Apple VP did say the NCMEC note was incredibly motivating though. And he could have distanced himself from that part. Or told the NCMEC director he'd love to share her note with the staff if she removed the disrespect.
Normatively preferred? Nice resemblance to English grammar.
Next thing you'll be telling me, it will one day beat a human champion...ha!
I don't understand the claim that this system improves their ability to detect anything. If it's really true that the system only works on data uploaded to icloud then apple could have easily just done all the scanning in the cloud, because icloud is not end-to-end encrypted. In that case, all this feature does is move the computational cost of scanning from Apple's datacenters to Apple's users, saving Apple money and costing users battery life. It doesn't change anything about how effective the scanning can be. Unless I misunderstand how it works.
> The only thing Overleaf adds here is a button and a 10x compilation time overhead.

Overleaf removes the need for local install. A full MacTex.pkg install is 4.4GB. I've lived in LaTeX for more than 30 years, and I love the ability to edit docs from any browser.
BLUF: can use python statement in SQL with this util.
The Purple Air network and their map is great. Each has two Plantower PMS5003 sensors for redundancy or accuracy. However, you can purchase the Plantower sensors yourself at about $15/unit, which could help with the costs when you're trying to roll out a lot of them.
What does docked mean?
Other than this anonymous blog post https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21... and some comments he made on a mailing list that were completely twisted, what exactly did he do wrong?
> This matters because politics is downstream from culture.

I don't think this is true, at least not most of the time. We had a summer of "defund the police" protests and BLM signs seem to be everywhere, yet police budgets in most cities have only increased[1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-city-budget-police-f...
As long as you use taxes to internalize the cost of those emissions for people who don't want to wait an extra 15 minutes to refuel (and those funds go into air source carbon removal), that's a fine solution. At the rate at which EVs are selling [1], it seems the wait is not an impediment to ownership. It's important those who don't want to wait (and require liquid fuels because of that) don't put that burden (carbon emissions that aren't paid for) on everyone else collectively.

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2020
Ask HN: Best Cloud-based, private photo storage option for sharing with family?
In light of Apple’s recent decisions[0], I’ll be moving all my photos out of iCloud. I want a completely private way of sharing photo albums with family/friends. And to backup my photos. Recommendations?

[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life
Clover is a popular alternative. Some homes are xeriscaped (no lawn). But converting an existing lawn is expensive, even with subsidies. Selecting native grasses and watering less is an affordable compromise.
Eh, humans make mistakes, that may reduce the false positives but if this program runs long enough, I'm sure it will happen to someone when someone accidentally presses the wrong button.
Perceptual hashes don't involve diffusion and confusion steps like cryptographic hashes. Perceptual hashes don't want decorrelation like cryptographic hashes. In fact they want similar but not identical images to end up with similar hash values.
> Apple keeps adding more and more user control of privacy

Against other tech companies. This whole debacle is a clear example where customers have no control. They can't even not update their device because its already there.

I can actually name a privacy feature that they took a long time to replace: Siri voice recording accountability. Siri voice recordings were saved in the cloud. They were linked to your identity. If you GDPR'd apple they deleted these recordings. They stripped the identifiers. Then you can't GDPR them, and its arguably no more private. LATER they stopped saving them to the cloud (yay more private again!).

To be clear: the voice recordings can identify you even without identifiers. Its your voice. You might say "how do i get too <work address> or <home adddress>. You might say "Hey siri, tell <secret lover> that i love them" and boom now that is out there. Lots of reason people want control there.