skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that a high percentage of the homeless don’t want the housing

That is not a problem, that is a consequence. And its something you'd have hard time fixing. And if so why not start with homeless that want the housing first?

People who what and are helped back into society are going to be net benefit financially, even people who hate others and love money cant argue. Helping those people back up is investment that always pays off.

So why is this an issue?

Also:

> high percentage of the homeless don’t want the housing

> Many prefer to live in the homeless encampments

A snarky Citation Needed. Where did you get that?

It not like those people were born homeless and this is their 'lifestyle' majority tripped and felt. Nobody helped them and they are stuck there.

Given enough time and they will become disillusioned and resentful of outsiders. Worse get used to living rough.

That said, there will be always a % of people who cannot be helped. And that's ok, we can't save everyone.
Item A being at index 0 of a list doesn't imply the absence of item B and item C from that list.
I still haven't found the "holy grail architecture" for offline-first with backend sync where the backend isn't just a simple data store but also has business logic and interacts with external systems.

Doing offline-first well implies that the app has a (sqlite or similar) local database, does work on that database and periodically syncs the changes to the backend. This means you have N+1 databases to keep in sync (with N=number of clients). Essentially distributed database replication where clients can go offline at any time. Potentially with different tech (for example sqlite on the client and postgres on the backend).

When the backend isn't very smart it's not too hard, you can just encapsulate any state-changing action into an event, when offline process the events locally + cache the chain of events, when online send the chain to the backend and have the backend apply the events one by one. Periodically sync new events from the backend and apply them locally to stay in sync. This is what classic Todo apps like OmniFocus do.

The problems start when the backend is smarter and also applies business logic that generates new events (for example enriching new entities with data from external systems, or adding new tasks to a timeline etc). Obviously the new server-generated events are only available later when the client comes back online.

When trying to make the offline experience as feature-rich as possible I always end up duplicating almost all of the backend logic into the clients as well. And in that case, what is even the point of having a smart backend.
Check tebi.io - it is a geo-distributed S3-compatible storage that does exactly that. You can configure global consistency level for each bucket individually.
Can I guess, your area is experimental science/engineering? I notice that in the more theoretical fields (theoretical physics,math,CS,stats) the open access channels are on par with the paywalled ones. Curious as to why. Perhaps its more expensive to replicate results, perhaps the fees are nothing compared to what you pay for the labour and equipment..
It's been repeated a few times here that SQLite is a big attack surface - might be worth taking that discussion to a new submission rather than continuing to hijack this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28691759
It seems obvious that glasses help at school if you actually need them. But I’m happy to see that it was also proven by research. This will definitely help get funding for more programs like this.

I couldn’t afford glasses during my high school and I bet my academic performance would be much better if I could see what’s written on the blackboard.
The Fusion of GraphQL, REST, JSON-Schema and HTTP2
Two Shopify stores increased subscribers by 1,400 with OptiMonk
Oh hey, I sold them that github account name for 0.11 BTC. They obviously had deep pockets but I wondered whether they'd end up having any success.
I can deal with it thanks to ebooks and the like, it's the serious problem of "if transaction gets declined because I forgot to top up the card, I have to leave the shop to fix it".

With boredom I would just read ebooks, practice that goes back to very expensive mobile internet era and a symbian s60 phone. I knew a queue was epic when I had to go online to download another book because I finished one end-to-end while waiting...
In case you didn't see it: They explain the reasoning behind the "steal button" in the FAQ and on the About page.
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html

> The first web browser - or browser-editor rather

> ...

https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/worldwideweb/

> Editing

> To edit any document, whether it's one you created, or a page on the world wide web:

> Click on the text you want edit.

> Edit it.
The beefed-up version gets to a whopping 4 MiB!

OTOH, having to abuse the MIDI port for network connectivity makes downloads rather slow. And how many floppy disks would Electron require?
This is looks like a horrible idea. The system violates anonymous peer reviewing standards. These are sometimes even mandated by law, e.g. our funding institution would not allow us to count such a publication as "peer reviewed." There are many good reasons why peer review needs to be anonymous on both ends (the reviewer is anonymous and the manuscript is anonymized). Many reputable journals have even switched to triple blind peer review, i.e., the editor in chief does not know which two peer reviewers are selected.

The biggest problem I see with the proposed system is that it's unfortunately often easy to recognize who wrote a paper (which is bad for ordinary peer review already) and in a personal endorsement system this would lead to collusion among researchers with low integrity. You wink through my papers, I wink through your papers. Also, imagine you don't endorse the paper of the senior researcher in charge of your postdoc funding...
Wouldn't I only need an image viewer? I have my QR code saved as an image. Didn't need it yet and I think I might delete it after I went for holidays.

To be honest, I think this form of passport isn't worthy to support, so I wouldn't condemn Alberta here too much (not from the US)
Yes but it was a transition. So some very prominent software applications still were not event driven approaching year 2000. Then the new paradigm caught - but the frameworks became increasingly complex.
My understanding is that when it comes the US maneuvers in international waters of the South China Sea, the purpose is actually defensive. Part of international maritime law determining the owner of waterways includes considerations for actual control of areas.

By navigating international waters against China's wishes, the US is demonstrating to the international community that China does not control access to those waters. This prevents China from making claims that those waters should no longer be international and instead be China's.

So this isn't the US going off to provoke China (or if you still wish to see it so, at least not for no reason). This is the US exercising rights granted by international treaties in order to prevent China from making effectively false claims to those waters under those same treaties.
(sameless plug of Sumo Logic employee)

The SaaS vendors are much better solution for logs, such as Sumo Logic. They have multiple tier of data (continuous, frequent, infrequent) which different performance and cost trade-offs. Most companies would be better, dividing logs into different category than running and tuning Elastic Search.
It's a simple starter example in a blog post. Stratified sampling, with pros and cons, is covered in an intro stats course. This is not an intro stats course, it's a short article on a blog.
Again and again US surprises us all as if it was a third world country.

Study shouldn't be surprising at all - pupils who struggle to see, struggle to learn. Giving them eyeglasses helps a lot.

I would imagine a study like this would be a thing in some third world country. Reading the title you would imagine some poorly lit classroom, wooden walls and clay floor and etc.

But it is Baltimore?

I grew up in Soviet and then Post-Soviet country. We all had eyesight tests every year, maybe even twice a year. If anything - you got eyeglasses. Yeah, maybe you were bullied for a week by pupils but that's it.

To be fair I am a bit shocked with US...
Apple Watch able to detect arrhythmias other than AFib
> A regular ballistic missile hits mach 20+ on reentry but I don't know if it maintains that speed all the way to the target.

The word "ballistic" means it doesn't maintain the speed. Etymologically and practically it's about throwing a stone, i.e. finding out what happens when you give it an initial velocity with approximately zero delta-V budget for the main part of the flight.

But everything gets complicated with time, so there are now depressed trajectories (i.e. not-entirely-ballistic flight paths) for the ballistic missiles. But these still do not carry dramatic delta-V.
indeed the -s option helps, thanks for the tip.
> These companies don't exist in a vacuum. BP aren't pumping up oil and hoping that an evil megacorp will just buy it. People like you and me are driving the demand for products with huge amounts of waste and dirty manufacturing processes.

Oil companies like BP and Shell blocked the dissemination of vital scientific research on climate change. They also blocked the development of electric cars, or alternatives in general. [1] Executives in the car industry also hold back the development of high speed rail networks through lobbying.

> Westerners will do literally anything except make any changes to their behavior.

It's hard for the working class to see the full picture when we live in a proprietary, black box -world that only allows a small group of people to become science literate. A society where the propertied class undemocratically charts the direction for science through 'intellectual property' claims, which blocks scientific progress as it commoditizes and removes important feedback loops/learnings from the commons. [2]

[1] https://archive.org/details/vimeo-210171457

[2] https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
>The public may have thought that vaccines would produce covid-zero

The public were led to believe that was the point of mass vaccination. That is part of the whole point of the article.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/24/8941488...

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news...

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/herd-immunity-lockd...

https://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/2020/12/17/covid-19-vaccines-a...

Yup, in 2020, there are dozens and dozens of articles on sites with impressive sounding names which were implying or saying outright that vaccines would lead to herd immunity.

The original article's assertion that this is a propaganda-sell of vaccine as a service is imo correct.

I am not disputing that vaccines are effective in preventing serious disease and are safe, compared to Covid risk.
The killer "corporate" app for VR in my opinion would be some kind of teleconference app. I absolutely HATE trying to have interactive brainstorming/collaborative design meeting remotely. There are various pancake tools, but none really compare to the experience of 2 people standing in front of a white board, and making wild motions with their arms that seemingly both people understand while drawing on a board.

Some of the experiences I've had in VR are unrivaled by any pancake game i've ever played for that very reason.

I'm not 100% sure I want to be in VR all day all the time. But VR should have a place in at the very least a remote workforce.
I think this, like healthcare, is a place where the world needs to reckon with the limits on the usefulness of profit motive. There are a lot of benefits to capitalism, and it has produced both societal wealth and innovation in a lot of contexts. But there are some clear cases where the most profitable way to use a resource is a net harm to humanity, and organizing it in a way that removes that motive is the most parsimonious solution. Nationalizing and then freeing scientific information, as this article proposes, is a solution that has widespread support among the experts generating the actual knowledge that would be shared, has obvious compounding benefits, and only harms a business model. I think so many people have become disillusioned with the promise of capitalism and profit motive precisely because we keep insisting that it needs to be our only tool in every situation, with frequently disastrous consequences.
> If he wants to lash out at anything, I suggest lashing out at a system that requires us to work while going through such awful life circumstances. That man shouldn't have had to work.

And yet, this man worked for a company who could very reasonably enact such a system if it desired to, at least for its own employees.

There is no law which requires corporations to do the minimal amount required by the law. The fact that many chose to do so is a choice motivated by profits and expediency.
>> But you might not even know...

> I think if you are developing a software and a library dependency causes subtle data corruption, you should take explicit action

I think that's obvious, which is why highlighted that you might be unaware of the problem: it's something you get for free with shared dependencies.

Basically, if you rely on a distribution with commitment to keep packages secure for a long time (like Ubuntu LTS main packages), that removes a lot of work for you: basically, work is shared between people, and you get to enjoy the benefits.

> Dependency management happens not at installation but at build time using the dependency management provided by the build system.

We seem to be saying the same thing: dependency management at build time is what I dislike because you don't get that burden shared.
You can question my agenda all you like, though I think it's against the 'guidelines' here.

But the fact is that the world agrees with me. More people on this planet think that America is more dangerous to democracy, peace and stability than Russia or China, or Iran, or Pakistan.

Thank you for the vivid illustration of my point though. I had nearly added a line about how deflection kicks in like an automatic reflex the second America's superiority is questioned, but kept it short and sweet.
> First, the world is going to need more containers..

Isnt the issue with ports and their infra rather than containers or ships count?
I spoke to Red Hat's Dan Walsh, container team lead, and Brent Baude, the lead architect of Podman, on my podcast last week. It's a good primer to the what and why of Podman, Buildah, and all the other "not Docker" tools Red Hat makes.

https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/164-podman/
Kubernetes Podcast: Podman, with Red Hat's Dan Walsh and Brent Baude
Not to be that guy, but you got any source for this?
My first computer was an Atari 65XE, the smaller 8-bit sibling of the ST series. Almost everything that was produced back then was well build and still runs today (even my 65XE). Atari means “about to win” and the history of the company is very interesting [0].

In the "old" days there was great competition in Europe between Atari, Amstrad, Sinclair, Commodore and later on Amiga. You can see a very nice timeline of home/personal computers in [1] and [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari
[1] https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline//entry/501712/Personal-Co...
[2] https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/
All Hell Is Breaking Loose in Energy Markets [pdf]
Doesn't that graph non-critically equate cost of living increases with monetary inflation? I other words, it doesn't take into account the fact that many assets (such as housing) have increased in price much more than inflation would suggest, nor does it takes into account changes in basic necessities (one landline vs 3+ mobile internet subscriptions, one new POTS phone every 10 years vs 3+ new cell phones every other year).
He's right though, there are lots of articles being written by bots even in print these days, not being able to tell the difference between a somewhat bad writer and a bot is what makes them viable. And the tech just keeps getting better every day.

Same goes for cars, it's not a thing until it is.
Cryptocurrency expert admits aiding North Korea
It's still a good story and I like it :)

I don't have anything else to add.
That API exists btw.

https://www.watttime.org/api-documentation/#introduction

There's other local ones too.
what do you know about true humour? :P
The high carbon footprint of German auto-translation models
I think its pretty likely they don't care, otherwise they have other options then testing it in literal broad daylight, uncovered in a RCS site that has construction happening.
> For schoolkids it's probably even bigger. They don't even know that their eyesight might not be just like every other kid.

This is definitely true. I got my first pair of glasses at 7, and I hadn't realised I needed them. Luckily my mum is also short sighted and she noticed me straining to see things.

Also interesting: my eyes worsened to my current prescription of around -4 relatively quickly over the next 4-5 years. But I only started wearing my glasses full time when my optician mentioned that he was amazed that I didn't. Until that time I'd been quite happy wandering around with blurry vision most of the time. Kids truly are very adaptable.
> makes 5G as easy as WiFi

Except for the little question about 5G spectrum licensing. :-)
What are you _showing_ HN here exactly?
Fair enough, tho' my experience is different. I find it equally quick and easy to flick my eyes to the speedo in the M3 vs. a traditional location.

And I'd argue it probably better than some traditionally-located speedometers, given challenges of poor contrast or visibility, different gauge styles, and the unpredictable coverage of the cluster by the steering wheel in various cars.
>the cause of open access to information enjoys broad support in (...) the machine learning field

Ah yes, as shown by the example of OpenAI.
if you're doing performance-critical work in Python, you're using the wrong tool and it's been always known and reiterated by Python developers themselves. Python is a glue language at heart. Complaining that it isn't performant is like complaining you can't drill a hole with a knife. Get a different tool and glue your stuff together.
And many governments are happily subsidizing fossil fuels.
Also to: https://github.com/public-accountability/oligrapher
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/woman-says...

A Canadian public-health Web site says although deer mice are the primary carrier of hantavirus, "all rodents including squirrels, rats, chipmunks and other kinds of mice should be treated as if they might carry the virus."
> a single person found something that persistently reduced TCO by 0.5%, that would pay for the team in perpetuity,

This means that when you are operating at hyperscale you need a world class team. But the tricky question is calculating when that happens!
Isambard Kingdom Brunel built a rail tunnel in England which has the sun shining straight through it on his birthday
That’s actually exactly the topic of my next post, and the reason I even started looking at this. :)

As the sibling says, there’s some data that is useful to store in every code to enable user-friendly offline check-ins, but they could indeed be much easier to scan and still retain this property.
I really miss the ST's mono monitor, was a pleasure to use it, esp for CAD and DTP.
> https://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/tech-gaming/almost-...

Why not link instead to the article this article links to and is based on, which is far more informative:

Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook...
This thread reminds me of many videos from Louis Rossmann unfortunately.
A name that is ironic in the same way as the "academic publishing industry" (as mentioned in the article)

OpenAI's weird insistence that its "open" research only be accessible to entities it trusts not to do harm with it (like... Microsoft of course!) is indicative of a divide between academic research and corporate research that exists in all fields. While there are serious concerns about AI risk, when I hear it in a corporate context, it always seems to be a thin veneer of affected concern painted over an all-too-familiar drive to keep innovation under lock and key

When talking about ML's preference for open access, the article was probably referring to the fact that ML literature is overwhelmingly published on arXiv or similarly open-access places (even if it's also published elsewhere) compared to most fields. Personally, I think this is strictly because it's a relatively new field without as many entrenched norms
You can also disable JavaScript and everything will load properly.
I don't think I can agree that the GIL is mostly unnoticeable. I don't do all that much in Python and mostly use it as a scripting language for little personal stuff. I haven't had all that much need to dive into multithreading, but the few times I have, the GIL has always become vital to keep in mind.
What do you do with 8 terminal open at the same time? I can never focus on more than one or two at a time.
As a scientist, I am obliged to cite every paper that is relevant to my work and that I refer to in any way, be that by paraphrase, mentioning, or direct quotation. You can't just ignore previous work because you don't like the way it was published.
Indeed, all of these platforms have been "free speech" but banned pictures of naked women from their inception. They're not free speech in any way, they're just okay with racism.
It is reported in the book Absolute Zero Gravity, about having happened in a military context, while others here mention a bank: the only reason to believe it may have happened so infrequently that some call it a urban legend is that in the past that infrastructure was rare. The rest - failures in the workflow of instructing and monitoring "innocent" personnel and contractors - is an "overly" normal factor.
No, it's philosophy. I believe theoretical physics and math are special, as you recognize, because they need a lot of additional vetting. My work is mostly in formal philosophy, which does involve a bit of math, and I'm constantly worried the reviewers might not spot a mistake and send it to colleagues for additional checking. This must be a hundred times more pressing in math and physics, so they developed open archives. As for CS, the reason for more open access archives may be a bit different. My personal impression from reading many CS papers is that 90% of publications are garbage whose only purpose is to satisfy some publication requirements. There is also a lot of repetition by authors. That's in my view understandable since many funding authorities also expect fancy prototype systems and concrete implementations, and computer scientists have only 7 days a week to achieve all this. So in CS hurdles for publication are kept low by having a lot of proceedings and open access journals and archives.
Actually, since the invention of ballistic missiles we are permanently 30 minutes from death. There are around 900 flight ready warheads both in US and Russia.

https://uploads.fas.org/2014/05/Brief2017_GWU_2s.pdf
China's power shortages threaten more supply chain chaos
I had the Atari 800 XL and then the Atari STE... both were good, the real the thing that seemed to keep the STs around for a long time after that generation had given way to PCs was the MIDI port and the music software.... I saw them years and years afterwards for that purpose.
A glimpse into the psychology of corporate dystopia.