skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many years ago, I read of a study that measured poverty not in terms of income but with metrics like "How many meals per day do you get?" and "What kind of shelter do you have?" It concluded that less than 1/2 of one percent of Americans were poor by standards in India.

When I've repeated that online, on at least one occasion someone who lived in India got mad at me for supposedly promoting negative stereotypes and told me my info was out of date. They seemed outraged.

I spent some years homeless in America. I'm still quite poor and frustrated with that fact.

I don't know what the solution is for trying to promote better cross cultural understanding. I try to focus on how to get the word out in the US that lack of appropriate housing supply is a primary root cause of homelessness in this country. It's shocking how many people insist that lack of affordable housing has nothing to do with homelessness and homeless people are all just crazies and junkies who don't want to get better.
Not sure I'm going to go all in on unqualified support, but it seems like comparing an image to a series of known hashes is qualitatively somewhat different than the postal inspector open all your mail. Though those convenient little scans they'll send you if your mail if you sign up suggests they do have some interest in who sends you mail already.
The flexibility is a distraction. I've been using Emacs for over 40 years and have a very small init file which is gets modified once or twice a year at most -- most of the time not at all.

It's simply a powerful tool. Not the only one I use, but certainly it's easier to type to it than it is to type, say, to the input box here in my browser (even though it has at least some emacs commands built in).
The Segway's illegitimate child is now ubiquitous - all the electric scooters littering our cities...
>If the AMOC collapsed, it would increase cooling of the Northern Hemisphere, sea level rise in the Atlantic, an overall fall in precipitation over Europe and North America and a shift in monsoons in South America and Afria, Britain's Met Office said.

Have the other major climate models accounted for this? Most I've seen have predicted rapid warming in North America. Not sure how to reconcile the difference. Perhaps the cooling effect is more concentrated over the oceans and coasts?
My first thought for the Scheuklappen-Effekt was blinders. Blinders are used to prevent horses from seeing sideways.

Turns out, blinders are also called blinkers.
That's an interesting idea. The amount of work even for a techie to maintain all this, is considerable. Could it be set up for a "user".
Tech support, would be;
Interesting.
These days, it's more like "TEDx meets Yo".
Apple has had this we are righteous attitude for quite a long time. Somewhere along the line, Steve Jobs' last message to Apple to do the right thing has taken them into this direction. Without some sort of self reflection ( which they dont have ), it wont change.

And this email is showing.
> Even the much-vaunted look of King’s Quest VII, although impressive in its individual parts, made for a rather discordant jumble when taken in the aggregate, being the work of so many different teams of animators.

It always really bummed me out that the beautiful oil painting style of KQ 5 and 6 and SQ 4 and 5 got thrown out for the cartoon/primitive CG style of the sequels.

Like compare the atmosphere of the main town in QFG4 to the main town in QFG5:

https://r.mprd.se/media/images/94592-Quest_For_Glory_Iv_Shad...

http://speed-new.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/3253453.png
That’s not cognitive dissonance. It’s just the tendency of human ambition to outstrip action because of myriad reasons - lack of expertise normally being the root cause. It’s the same reason my shed is filled with expensive tools I’ve used once.
A lot of people in these comments will likely miss a lot of the relative value in NZ as a bunker-of-last-resort:

Factors:

1. Radioactive fallout patterns in a hot nuclear war between any of US, China, Russia, Europe. NZ has low target priority and wind driven fallout spread may be lower.

2. Spillover effects from climate-change driven mass human refugee migration (water and distance are an effective barrier from hundreds of millions of displaced people from Africa, South Asia, or Latin America who may be forced to flee areas that cannot grow food or which reach the wet bulb mark in temp+humidity).

3. Low population density relative to natural resources / nature / arable land.

4. Relatively high amounts of freshwater resources relative to population (and possible population post-refugee/migrants in an adverse war/climate scenario).

In the event that the proletariat rose up and demanded support from those in bunkers, the number of 'normies'/refugees that 'robber barons fled to NZ' would have to support is much lower than the number of revolutionary poor that could storm the Bastille in most other continents. The amount of 'bread and circuses' you need to supply to avoid ending like Versaille is cheaper. If you decide mercilessly to just kill any refugees / migrants in a post-apocalyptic scenario, you can do so while they are still in the water / on improvised rafts rather than defending an area on land.

Of course I may be wrong and am happy to be corrected on any of these points.
I can’t really take this seriously when it starts in 1932. Natural disasters didn’t just start happening because humans showed up. Show some data from 200-400 years ago and I’d be more inclined to believe we are living in an outlier.
From Data Driven to Driving Data– The Dysfunctions of Data Engineering
People always say this until CP is put on their computer by an intelligence agency and they don't want to go to prison as a child abuser... Who's going to believe a pedo anyway...
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28073586
I've been an emacs user for, oh god, almost thirty years now and I completely agree.

If I'm gong to be using a particular account for a while I'll set a few variables (show-paren-mode is the big one) but otherwise it's pretty much stock.
The external note was attached to a team memo from Apple VP Sebastien Marineau-Mes, who introduced it with: "I wanted to share this note that we received today from NCMEC. I found it incredibly motivating, and hope that you will as well."
I'd say that it being your life from birth to death is worse and your parents and grandparents likely suffering the same back who knows how far.
They should have been prosecuted. Instead, Obama gave a blanket pardon for everyone involved and the US has threatened sanctions against the ICC if they attempt a prosecution.
I should have know that. Now I understand what you meant in your first comment.

As long as the app doesn’t rely on Play Services it shouldn’t be a problem. By “degoogled” phone I mostly mean taking Google out of the critical (privileged) path in the OS for software and app updates.
> BoomerFlix

I'm not actually a "boomer" (I'm too young), but my kids call me one anyway. But I'm a little surprised that there's no streaming service that includes nothing but old 60's/70's/80's movies whose rights could almost certainly be obtained cheap, and not even bother with more recent movies.
"Megabytes And Constantly Swapping".
Can you point to something concrete that makes Privacy Not Included clueless or scammy? EDIT: Or if it's that the foundation did some clueless and scammy things earlier that cost them all their reputation, what were they?
Whoever said anyone ensures a .com is credible? I don’t think anyone said a .com guarantees credibility. I said, other tlds aren’t as credible, and everyone knows that.
They have 140M .com domains.

Everyone holding a .com domain can't simply move its registration from Verisign to somewhere else.

(Moving to new gtld is not equivalent at all)

They're holding their customers captive and profiting from it.
Don't make me context switch between being an engineer/designer and being a bureaucrat. That's all I ask. (Okay, not all. It'd also be nice to have ticketing/project management software that isn't super ugly, clunky, and slow.)
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28060743
New Archive Reveals Treasure Trove of U.S. Media Experiments
There are plenty of outlets for distinctively and unapologetically ethnic content that serve other ethnicities; we don't know about them not because there isn't much of it, but because we're not the intended audience. I'm not watching any Polish-language dramas because I don't speak Polish, but they certainly exist, as do Korean soap operas and Japanese game shows. We hear about some of these things when they break into the mainstream, but most of it doesn't.

We don't even get all the English-language culture there is around the world. Easy example: most of us are totally unfamiliar with popular Christian media.

Really, the appeal being made by people objecting to this site is that Black people shouldn't have sites that nurture that kind of content, because it somehow squicks white people out. That is a weird argument to make, and not one these founders should take seriously.
GrapheneOS, lacking MicroG in the default install, is therefore more private than CalyxOS. Keeping Google out of the loop entirely is necessary for true privacy.
pretty sure they dont pretty it as wide as this one was. My complain was not about length of the sentence, but about absurd width.
That doesn't sound fair: PDF is ubiquitous. Organizations easily have thousands (maybe even millions) of PDF files lying around, and you can't just convert them to SVG and expect them to render faithfully.
>The idea of listening to party-line style conversations isn't totally insane

I honestly think it's one of the most perverse ideas in a long time. We built the internet, a tool of frictionless communication, where everyone can talk to everyone without the limits of the physical world, and what do we get, a nightclub with artificial room size limits so people can brag about attending a virtual cocktail party with Elon Musk
I could never play VGA versions of Quest for Glory 1&2. Combat was so much better with the keyboard than with that mouse-driven abomination.
The closest you can get with '2 state' (by which you mean SPST - single pole single throw; SPDT is the standard way to achieve this but is usually still '2 state', it's just that 'off' (if you like) has a terminal too) switches is to add a 'don't care' state, and accept that first deliberate ('do care') switch wins.

To do this you have a live rail and a switched live rail, and two SPST each end: one switch SL hot or not; the other to break its connection to the light. Open the latter for 'off', close both for 'on', close break & open SL for 'don't care'. (Then in the 'don't care' state, SL is hot iff switched on the other end, and if so is also closed through to the light.)

Not legal, not (that I can imagine) desirable!

Proving it is actually simple if you continue your Boolean line of thought: you can't build XOR without an inverter; an SPST switch is only a sort of 'half inverter', a mux between '0' and its input. Since it can never give you '1' from '0' input, you need a schematic for your XOR where each constituent truth table in isolation has '0' out for its '0;0' in line. Which can't be done, because clearly then you could never get '0;0=>1' overall.
Perhaps I'm being too cynical but I think the difference is they haven't figured out a convenient, automated way to do the latter
Building Image and Video Creation Tool for marketing and social media
Hi,
I'm building an image & video automation creation tool with API.
Long story short, I was working on a project where the marketing team changes their image frequently using the same design with only a minimal part of it changed.

This tool will help to create images & videos through API, URL or form just need to change the part. It’ll help to create images for social media, content marketing, AB test for marketing and many more

Currently running a closed beta

Link here -> http://duply.co

Happy to hear any question or feedback!
The thing with LaTeX is that it's a full text-oriented programing language. What is great if you want to extend it, but a problem if you want to use it on any context not supported by the interpreter. So, if you don't want to create a PDF, it just sucks.
What happened 1200 years ago that caused a more severe drought? Clearly it wasn’t man-made Climate Change so what was it?
There was a time I would have gone with B), but I've been burned by too many "companies" with almost nothing to lose suddenly becoming malware or some other exploitive.

This new wave of privacy branding, without 3P verification, open sourcing, or even means of recourse seems to be the new frontier for these used car salesman "trust me, it's private" pitches.
French will need health passport by Monday after court approval
I can't imagine any event that would make us extinct, we're very stubborn. Maybe sudden and surprising planetary destruction.
I would define no code & WYSIWYG as different things. No code includes deeper, server side functionality; whereas WYSIWYG for HTML is simple page editing. Even the Javascript based actions an editor provides are only client side.
I'm not an expert statistician, but why can't you classify people's economic class based on the quantile their revenue falls in? You can assume a distribution based on the data (probably normally distributed) or go all non-parametric based on empirical quantiles.

I don't see how this cannot be easily understood with a number. Sure, you can never predict one observation, but the average in some quantile is quite standard modelling.
In many jurisdictions you are.
I understand that. I don't think I can cut it off entirely, but I'm going to segregate my usage of the platforms as much as I can. My personal cloud archive won't be on my phone, that's one thing I can do.

I may not be able to take down the beast, but I'll try not to feed it much more than crumbs.
There's definitely something to having face-to-face interactions. When I worked IT, I loved coming upon someone's problem, diagnosing and fixing it there, and making their day. I just am not able to do that behind a ticket system. Though sometimes I _like_ the predictability and transactionality of fixing a ticket too...

Neither situation (informal issue passing via word of mouth, or a ticket system) even work close to 100%. A lot gets lost in translation. Maybe we just need less layers and more engaged engineers? People who care? Though hard to genuinely find.
it might go back to the american superiority complex; african and asian homeless people are different and distant enough to make us feel good about ourselves (poor foreigners), american homeless are “like us” so they shouldn’t have an excuse (just get a job like i did)
I do agree with the broader point that they are not comparable, but one interesting caveat with Toronto is that come winter time, you're dead due to extreme cold and being homeless.
How do you differ from Airtable?
So where is my OpenBSD phone?
Nope I was referring to HBOGo. Bamtech’s first customer was HBOGo before Disney bought them.
If the laws have been successfully ignored, then something is severely dysfunctional with the current approach.

I don't think this can be explained just by "individual people being evil". You can't just designate a few scapegoats at the CIA, ruin their lives as punishment, and call the problem solved. There are severely wrong incentives in place.

We do need to write more laws. Or rather, your country does.
Don’t agree. Longer pieces of code are way easier to reason about. Deep function nesting, which seems clean is very confusing mentally, and also difficult to describe in terms of function name.

Explain *why* you’re doing something a certain way. This also includes a little bit of how and what.
Other than that, just make sure your business terms are reflected in the code, or at least have a proper definition of things, which you can easily reason about.
Well I will call them Lower-Upper-Middle class.
> It’s not about building more housing.

It actually is. From: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/06/08/1003982733/squ...

> By the 1980s, homelessness emerged as a chronic issue. There were many factors, including the federal government deciding to slash the budget for affordable housing. By then the California state government had significantly cut taxes and gutted social programs, including for state-funded mental institutions, resulting in thousands of people with mental illnesses and other difficulties struggling to make it on their own.

> Yet the core reason for the crisis boils down to supply and demand for housing. As regions like the San Francisco Bay Area became magnets for highly paid professionals in the computer-driven economy, they failed to build enough new units to keep up with demand.

> A 2016 study by McKinsey Global Institute estimated that California needs 3.5 million new housing units by 2025 to deal with its chronic housing shortage. Yet new housing construction has only slowed since then, despite Gov. Gavin Newsom's campaign promise to lead an effort to produce those 3.5 million units. Even before the pandemic wrought havoc on the construction business, California was constructing only about 100,000 new homes per year, way below the minimum 180,000 per year that analysts say the state desperately needs.
Presumably other satellites and space deliveries offset the cost per launch - and how many service years per satellite? How much are they paying their noc and customer service people, in addition to ground engineering and interconnects to ground stations? I'm guessing they've run the numbers and expect to make money.
Right. For that, you need a timer, which you can also get at Home Depot for a few dollars. What else you got?

The timer is something you can leave on all the time. If you don't come home before dark some day, you still want the lights to go on.
And if we don’t do it, we are no better than nazis.

Whole lots of them were indicted and charged for the simple crimes not of their own but others. Applying the same standards to ourselves will result in similar indictments and justice.
Sounds like it was for the best. Are you happy with your new country? Any sense of patriotism there (using my definition)?
Maybe, but there are more examples along those lines that don't introduce single points of failure.

E.g. very all-encompassing logging is generally good for security, and if the logs are stored in a secure fashion, there is also no security problem created. However, privacy suffers because one might log things one shouldn't log.

In the other direction, file and traffic encryption is good for privacy, and the less "permeable" you make it, i.e. the less readable for admins, system task, scanners, the better for privacy. However, for security, encrypting just for the user's eyes is a huge problem, because you cannot do malware scanning, you cannot do exfiltration prevention. Having users bring their own device into a work network is good for privacy, because those devices don't have central admin access, but bad for security, because same reason.
I loved tinkering with Emacs, reading through code of packages like org-ql, writing my own helper functions in Elisp, migrating every tool I use to Emacs (Editors, IDEs,
file explorers, diff tools, dedicated markdown editors, and many more). At some point I realized I was spending more time configuring Emacs instead of doing work. I have a tinkering-vs-doing chart in my mind where both activities are on opposite sides. With a limited amount of time per day, I was on one extreme side of this diagram (tinkering a lot, getting not much done).

When I took over new responsibilities, I could not justiy this time anymore. I had to move quickly and deliver results. That‘s when I went back to dedicated tools (Ulysses app for writing markdown, Notion.so as a personal wiki (previously org mode), Logseq for personal notes, VSCode and PyCharm as an excellent Python IDE, etc.

Now other people work intensely to perfect those dedicated tools. And I can solely focus at the task in front of me. With this shift in focus my productivity increased immensely.

Now I still use Emacs. For text editing purposes. And I use macros a lot to transform text. But that‘s about it.
You have an army of volunteers backporting patches, in the case of Debian. It's been done, but it takes a certain amount of support.
Well, I wouldn't say "better" just things I miss and notice that bug me about TablePlus. This is specific to my workflow and my project.

There are a couple quality of life things:

1) Postico can infer that I mean NULL if I delete a column value. TablePlus thinks that if I have clicked into a column, I MUST mean that I want an empty string. It happens to me pretty often where I accidentally click the wrong NULL column to update, and when I click away it sets it to "EMPTY", but maybe the column type is a timestamp or something...so I get an invalid type error when I go to add the one I meant to change manually. It's frustrating, but very common. You have to right click and click, the "SET NULL" option.

2) Postico gives me a toggle for ENUM types and Bool types. I can't remember what ENUM values I can choose in one of my tables, so that can be cumbersome.

3) Postico has DDL right at the bottom of the table

4) Table right click options. In Postico I can right click a table name and Open contents/structure/ddl, Copy Name (really useful for those dumb tables we set up in camelCase in the migration from mysql to postgres...), delete, truncate, Analyze, Vacuum, Reindex, Import CSV, and Export
In TablePlus I can Import/Export Delete/Truncate. That's it.

Positive on TablePlus is that they did recently add some nice things to the SQL Query like wrapping my camelcase table name in double quotes for me. If only they could do that for the column names too...but it's not their fault we have our setup this way...

Also, I readily admit that Postico isn't as powerful as others. But I cannot use PGAdmin one more second in my life. I'd rather just use the cli.
I was assuming binary format. 128-bits is a pretty heavy data type in many data models with measurable impact on performance versus using something smaller.

You also do not need 128-bits to decentralize unique key generation, even though it is quite reasonable if you design your keys well. Many do it with 64-bit unique keys in massive scale systems.

A subtle point that you may be overlooking is that while large-scale distributed databases, including all the ones I work on, export globally unique 128-bit keys, in most systems I’ve worked with they are internally represented and stored as 64-bits or less even if the key space is much larger than 64 bits. There are many different techniques for doing key space elision and inference that are used inside distributed databases to save space. The 128-bit value is only materialized when sending it over the wire to some external client system. But you don’t need to store it.

Literally storing a primary key in a distributed system as a 128-bit value is all downside with few benefits. For small systems the performance and scaling cost may not matter that much but in very large systems it matters a lot. It can — literally! — cost you millions of dollars per year.
It seems just as plausible that viewing such depictions could feed into someone's urges. Without some evidence I'd be hesitant to go with someone's conjectures here. There is also, frankly, the fact that a lot of people find viewing such stuff so shockingly depraved that they don't care if someone is "actually" harmed in the process, a claim that is hard to evaluate in the first place.
Obama did not issue anything binding on future administrations, unlike formal pardons. He just expressed his intention not to act as the law required.

A good first step would be to stand aside and let ICC prosecute, which even actual pardons would not block.
Don't flame me, but I think APL is the perfect language to introduce coding to kids. I've had great success with it personally. The symbols are suprisingly intuitive to them, and APL's strengths match the domain of what kids typically do with computers at first.