skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its hard to be 'upwardly mobile' and drop an addiction, find a job, get out of depression, have positive self image - when you are homeless, and every US service designed to help you is fucked beyond repair and stealing so much money.

I once looked at the SF budget for SFDPH and it showed all the roles, budget and costs. Payroll being the highest - but it also stated the number of homeless people in the city

I did the simple math of dividing the budget by the nu,ber of homeless and at that time the number would have equated paying every homeless person $12 an hour. or ~$24,000 per year.

Whichwould equate to UBI for such folks - and one could put stipulations on that such that it automatically made a savings account for the user with some % of that savings going into a fund which would be designed to, with the interest made on investment for that fund - be used to pay for more housing developments, job training etc...

regardless of my lack of expertise in developing homeless help programs (I have thought of several - here is the one I wanted to apply to YC with) I try, and compared to what the city of SF spends and how well their policies work, I think evaluating other options is critically needed.

Here was my concept for applying to YC (this is from ~5 years ago or so)

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'Care Fleet' -- Mobile hygiene and necessities vehicle:

A box truck with a built out full set of bathrooms with capability to self steam sterilize after each use.

A one-seat barber station.

A service of providing clothing to all homeless in the form of, effectively, Scrubs. And not some crazy embarrassing color. Offer them in grey, black, brown/khaki only.

Socks and Shoes.

Basic hygiene kit (tooth brush, shaver, soap, whatever, wipes, female hygiene stuffs)

Allow homeless to take a shower, get a cut, get some scrubs and help info and some hydration and help info.

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How I maintain compassion for the homeless is twofold; I have three precious beautiful children.

So whenever I see a homeless person, I see someones precious baby, a human who was once perfectly innocent.

Whenever I see homeless walking in absolute shreds of clothing, no shoes, or like one sock on, it breaks my heart.

If you have children, look at them - now imagine them walking through the streets filthy with shreds of clothing barely clinging to their bodies and being invisible to the rest of society aside from their disdain for your situation.

See your child in that person.
If they just sold test validators and certification services instead ("Certified by ISO"), it'd be such a healthier dynamic.
That's a nice subtle insult there - I can obviously understand what a for loop does.

You can resort to explicit loops in array languages anyway. I doubt the lack of looping mechanisms is why they've been as successful in general purpose programming, probably more to do with unfamiliarity + historical lack of open source implementations I would guess.
I don't recall this ever happening to me in KDE under X, at least not in a way I've noticed.
>>CBL-Mariner is an internal Linux distribution for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and edge products and services.

Oh yes please...i want that universal Linux Distribution ;)

>nothing beats FreeDOS

Dosbox and dosbox-x beat FreeDOS anyday.
All media outlets are, only the degree of audacity varies.
It's not a monolithic solid entity, is it? As I see it, those doing actual work deserve praise and respect (Red Hat does a lot of kernel and low-level plumbing work), while management is… typical management. Same as Mozilla and some other companies.
That combination works but it doesn't solve the issue for apps and smart devices. At that point your only real options are PiHole or a VPN with builtin ad filtration.
I don't know about you - you might be insane for all I know - but I'm MUCH more likely to report a bug if I think there's any chance of it being fixed
My partner who works at a grade school with this mandate says: This is not a big deal. The kids are told not to talk while eating, but when they are done eating they can put their masks back on and chat away to their heart's content.
The southern us doesn’t even walk, much less bike. The car infrastructure down here seems insane, but you literally do get covered in sweat walking from your car to a building. The southern us is not good for the outdoors due to weather, and because no one bikes/walks the infrastructure is horrible.

(I’m in Tennessee on vacation, walking everywhere. Many sidewalks just end, no crosswalks, etc. biking here would be dangerous)
Someone recently got Windows 11 installed and working on a Pentium 4, so it doesn't seem that the restrictions are hard to bypass.
Running NixOS unstable on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th gen. Sway tiling wm, Wayland, fractional scaling, damn long battery life, hardware acceleration on Firefox, fingerprint reader all work 100%.

I'm surprised how good this is, and I've been using ThinkPads for a long time. This model works way better even compared to the mighty X230 I still love and adore as a great product from the past.

Config: https://github.com/pimeys/nixos
Yes - the TPM isn’t a Windows-only thing. For example: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Trusted_Platform_Module
I recently switched to neeva for search and it's great. No ads. The search results seem much more relevant.
> In UK we have something like that(can't remember the name of it though).

Super-injunction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-injunctions_in_English_l...
This is cool use of deepfake!!
Those 2-high zoning laws aren't new, are they?

Presumably the port would've architected its systems to work within all sorts of constraints, come they from physics, or business, or regulation. The fact that one of them can easily be relaxed is immaterial to their failure to account for it in the first place.
Back to the Mac for me. Yeah, they have the walled garden problem too, but *nix environment for my development hobby is better there than I have on Windows 10. I’m not willing to go all the way to Linux for my main system since my wife has to be able to use it.

Numerically developer desktops aren’t significant, but mindshare is.
Some context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28920693
I expect professionals to be able to distinguish between the two instead of being suckered into some sort of hive-mind thinking of "all data gathering bad hurr durr".

I'm absolutely all for privacy and limiting unnecessary gathering of data. But there's nuances to this discussion and labeling everything that has any amount of telemetry as "Spyware" does not do anyone any good.
They can definitely be much shorter than other languages in golfing, no doubt about that. I wouldn't say they're golfed by default though really.
The only true transporter is a wormhole
Its not black and white. Of course they can use some help, but they also need to face consequences for they own choices. Just read the book for examples of how other countries, like Holland and Portugal, have been very successful addressing their own addiction problems. In all cases the addict is provided support but is also held accountable for his own part in the addiction. This is how adults operate and the sooner we stop infantilizing these people the sooner we can see results and the better off everybody will be.
35 years ago.
Synthwave is funny, but I don't have any real affection for it because it lacked eros. Even though I like a lot of the original artists it borrows tropes from, the pecularity of synthwave is it does it all without any edge. It's the easiest of smooth listening, which I think is its point. Bret Easton Ellis wrote American Psycho about the very people original synthwave was written for in the 80's, and I suppose that's what makes it such an amazing and appealing retro movement today.

The music is like the bland, empty affect part of the Patrick Bateman character's outward personality, which only barely concealed the serial killer "depth" on his inside. Any edge in synthwave at all appears to be playing on this, where the smoother it is, the more meta and uncanny it seems, and with it the implication of extreme and bizzare hidden depths behind it. Like a David Lynch theme.

To me this makes synthwave perfect for the way millenials and younger people have had to manage their smooth social brand exterior in every concievable micro aspect of their lives, down to the organization of their bathrooms because it's all being competitively scrutinized for performance on video. When I hear synthwave, to me it is the soundtrack to embracing that insanity, which I don't have, but can appreciate.

Maybe people just like it, but that seems more insane than I'm really prepared to consider.
Looked for a spec, but couldn’t find it, so here’s a _guess_: there’s significant whitespace between the colon and the opening brace:

age:{int, min:20},
address: {street, city, state}

Alternatively, there may be a set of forbidden field names, including bool, int and string.

Of these two, I like neither, but would opt for the latter.

I also considered that min:20 implied the previous had to be a type, but I don’t see how that’s consistent with

active?:bool

and

tags?:[string]
There are a few reasons:

- The text format is designed for human reading and input. Nobody is going to understand TAI, or bother to look it up. They're going to enter time like they see on their clock.

- Special time representations like TAI require a bunch of complicated machinery to convert to/from a human-friendly format. It's complicated, requires regular maintenance, and implementations have varying levels of buggy. Keeping it human-friendly in the first place eliminates this whole class of problems.

- Leap seconds are already a thing because of the above two reasons, and they're not going away since we're not going to change humanity's understanding of time to something more precise.

We're perfectly capable of handling future dates beyond 6 months without using TAI (and keeping our clocks in sync well enough to be on time).
It's not meant to be an insult, I'm trying to reflect what you're saying. You seem to be saying it's much harder to understand the algorithm in the for loop formulation. That's mind-blowing to me. I feel like it's a very small difference, and the same concept comes across in both formulations, although I agree it's a bit nicer in the K version.

If that's how your brain works, and how a lot of APL lovers' brains work, I definitely get how APL would be strongly preferable to folks like yourself. To each his own, maybe.

I think there can be a lot of diversity in how smart people's brains work, so it's really not meant to be insulting or condescending. It's hard for me to understand but I can accept it if that's how it is.

We all want our languages to solve problems with concise, easy-to-understand, nice-looking code, but the considerations that go into that can perhaps be very different by individual.
> A second employee captured Google’s ultimate aim of destroying header bidding altogether, noting in response that [redacted]

So from a probably naive view, getting rid of header bidding seems like it would be faster, not slower. Is the assertion being made that it isn't faster and it just so happens to also enrich the ad network?
Crimes DO NOT require concrete damages. Civil claims do require concrete damages.

Being convicted of drug possession being one really clear example - there is often no need to even prove the person was aware of the existence of the drugs. Mere actual possession is usually enough (depending on the jurisdiction). And there is no need to prove the person intended to sell, distribute, harm, or even do anything with them. Even if the person literally was taking them to be destroyed, they can still be convicted of the crime.
IMO Action should be taken against Google here, not the average user (about 70% of whom use Chrome).

Throttling based on user agent (Firefox, WebKit Safari, etc) would be a bad thing if you ran YouTube and wanted to encourage people to use Chrome - it would likewise be bad if you ran a website like HN.

Users have power when they have control - Google is taking that away, and that's why antitrust legislation makes sense. But users lose power when their choice of browser (in a market where there are only 2-3 choices) makes their web experience artificially worse.
No, I just want to make sure what am I looking at.
Ask HN: VPN for Traveling Abroad to Turkey
Hello. I'll soon be traveling for work overseas to Istanbul for approx 1.5 months. In preparation, I was evaluating the need for a) a VPN and b) device for personal use.

I was wondering if anyone had any experiences they could share. Ultimately, what risks should I consider when using my personal device while in Turkey for casual streaming, social media, and banking?

My initial reviews of VPNs have provided in mix results. I understand many VPNs and domains are blocked. Will a VPN provide me any advantages?
This is a very real problem being addressed here and I am intrigued by all the great comments in this thread.

In the Zed project, we've been thinking about and iterating on a better data model for serialization for a few years, and have concluded that schemas kind of get in the way (e.g., the way Parquet, Avro, and JSON Schema define a schema then have a set of values that adhere to the schema). In Zed, a modern and fine-grained type system allows for a structure that is a superset of both the JSON and the relational models, where a schema is simply a special case of the type system (i.e., a named record type).

If you're interested, you can check out the Zed formats here... https://github.com/brimdata/zed/tree/main/docs/formats
Most of these products are leaded or toxic. I had a Mandalorian mug gifted to me by a dumb gen-Z friend of mine and it came with an Amazon return receipt showing it came from a 3rd party seller despite the availability of the same official LucasFilm mug being sold by Amazon.com. I don't trust products from random sellers so I scratched off some of the glaze and tested it for lead, and what do you know..it was leaded. Buying from random sellers is a recipe for allergic reactions, toxicity, bad airdoor air quality from off-gassing, ad infinitum. If you have pets, toddlers, or care about yourself, you should be very careful what objects you put around your home. A shady pillow or carpet could be destroying your air quality with VOC dyes. I gave the friend a stern talk but it's doubtful I changed the habits of an uninformed consumer.

When shady manufacturers are willing to do this kind of substitution on pet food [1] and medical supplies [2], one should expect any kind of safety regulations for fabrics, dyes, paints, etc to be ignored as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/24/health/medical-gloves-us-thai...
Well, actually ;)

That relationship has become a lot better over the years. We get early access to new hardware, Lenovo did a lot to get fwupd integrated, etc.

No OEM preload necessary on the business line machines. RHEL/Fedora installs just fine OOTB. Some problems remain, especially with Thunderbolt (docking stations) but that’s not just Lenovos fault, IMHO.

Disclaimer: Red Hatter since 2005
Nope, but also please don't try to shut down conversation this way.
But there is likely little or no understanding of what those decisions are or why they were made. Ask why the fence was put up before you start tearing it down. I agree the problem is huge, but the solution is unlikely to come from some outsider making a basic change. That change is likely to ripple into an even worse situation when we run it against the one testing environment we have.
Average daily commute in Barcelona is 48 minutes-ranking along with the best cities in US where minimum is 44, and you don't need a car in Barcelona to achieve it.
Also shapes can be made arbitrary smaller. For example, tetrahedron -> rectify -> rectify -> contract will result in a smaller tetrahedron.
Not even country based? When I tried without targeting I got a load of bots that tanked my page reach

I paid to destroy my page haha. Fuckin Facebook
Agreed, it's never absolute, it's about if the measure that curtains freedom is appropriate to the threat. My personal belief is that in 2021, taking off your shoes at airport security isn't necessary (but I'll comply, of course), but refusing to host COVID disinformation is a good idea.

This attempt to make COVID control measure into a scare story about a slippery slope where the "freedom" is vanishing over time is IMHO wrong (COVID control measures are not that) and misdirecting (pay attention to what FaceBook does, voter suppression, etc, if real examples that slope is what you are looking for).
It obviously is motivated politically. Let’s wait and see if it’s actually true.
Exactly. (Fixed objective time) -> (current subjective time) is a problem with enough nuances that you probably don't want your format making assumptions for you.

Look up the Japanese calendar, if you want some fun: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Ja...
Recent discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28900180

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28886814

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28913378

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28626361
Mdx seems great. Love how actively developed/updated blog too.

I might try switching.
> You get housing when you comply, it's the carrot that is used to motivate people to engage with the program.

Note that Finland famously has a "Housing First" policy that has practically eliminated homelessness there, so that seems to be a direct counterexample to your comment.
In 2017 I found a security issue with the Tesco website. It was a minor security issue, but I could see they had _attempted_ to stop people doing what I could do.

I did manage to find an email address, but I got a templated response, and when I checked a year later it was still not fixed.

Sure, it was a minor issue, but I was surprised Tesco didn't have a proper Vulnerability Disclosure Program or Bug Bounty program. A bug bounty program is an inexpensive way to avoid exactly this sort of issue.
Sounds like a fun computer!
> I intentionally claimed "faster travel times", not more capacity for people

If faster travel times means shorter commute time, surely public transport with more capacity improves the average time for the average person going to the average places.

> They are a significantly better option in terms of travel time than even the best public transit in the world, simply because you are going directly from point to point, at relatively high speed, with no stops, no wait times

I believe the problem with this reasoning is that cars take space, and roads too. Lots of roads and parking will make a place less dense, and will increase distances.

The best public transit in the world covers the areas where on average most people go (thus serving the most people), has better energy efficiency (a single bus consumes less per passenger than a car), and removes the need for lots of parking infrastructure.
Everything else being equal, public transport is the most efficient, and provides faster travel times on average for the average person (I concede, not for everyone).

In a place not built for cars (like Barcelona), rush hour is a nightmare where cars hardly move (take the tram in Diagonal in the morning and you will move faster than the cars next to you). Most people there take the metro/bus/ride a bike + walk for less than 30 minutes. As an example, a 30min ride on the L1 red line metro (without changing lines) will bring you from Hospitalet de Llobregat (metropolitan area of Barcelona) to the city center.

I might be biased in favor of cities made to walk, instead of made for cars. What I do not concede is that cars provide faster travel times than the best public transport. I would be happy to get some data that supports your assertion.

That said, I agree with your other usages (cargo, transport people, go to places far away, independence).

It is also true that while traveling on public transport you can read, and by walking/riding a bike you improve your health compared to sitting in a car. A city with less cars is also more walkable. More "walkability" might be better for shops, maybe even improve safety. These advantages need to be weighted against cars too :)
What a terribly written article, let alone that it provides no sources. London Daily isn't a reputable and reviewed news source and it admits the following on the About Us page:

> Publishing news is very simple, just click ‘add your news’ on the site and it will take the author to the article upload interface.

Why was this excuse of a news article even posted here?
Read up on apartheid - there are no decision makers. Maybe a few bad apples, some sociopaths, sure, but by and large if you look at Google, for example, you'll find mostly average people, content with doing whatever it is they are doing to get by, maybe cutting a few corners here and there and trying to get promoted so they can afford that new Tesla model. Product manager responsible for introducing the auto login in Chrome sure wasn't trying to think about how he's helping embezzle billions of dollars; poor guy was just trying to get to that sweet L7. There are no grand master minds here that you can put in prison and make an example of - and if there are, these guys would be way too well connected, and isolated with 10ft of 2000$/hour lawyers.

We need to stop looking for the responsible, evil, individuals that are making this happen and start treating the problem like the systemic problem it is. We need to dismantle the systems and organizations that allow these things to happen. The US government is using these techniques against other governments, and often against terror organizations (if not against its own citizens via the justice system), so why not do the same for domestic organizations and corporations? Because they (govt & corpos) are all intertwined, to such a degree that this relationship is itself is codified into a "system" (one aspect of which are the lobbyists).

We live in a world of systems and rules - we've been living like this since before Jesus walked the Earth but recently this trend has accelerated significantly: individuals can no longer be held responsible for much of anything: they depend too much on the state, on the organizations they work for, etc. etc. If you think on it every single significant aspect of your life depends on someone or something that is external to you and you have no control over. And so, good policing isn't chasing after criminals in the streets while shooting at them; good policing is preventative and in the more advanced states wouldn't even be necessary since all people would've not been allowed (or rather, given a chance) to misbehave.

You don't blame or punish a man, you make it so that he can no longer do anything bad.

p.s. Shit sucks, I know, I want to be free too but what can you do; we were born into an age of hyper connectivity and over socialization. We are basically slaves of the machine that I can't even name. Used to be capitalism, but I don't think that word has any real meaning left behind it any more... not when China is the most successful capitalistic nation in the world.
Ok, that was confusing and no one seemed to care. Some Monty Python vibe here.
How is this legal? This should be illegal.
Well they never give a profit breakdown in their results which suggests it isn't.

Also, paying someone to pick items off the shelf and paying another person to deliver the items to your home has a cost and that cost is not covered by how much they charge for service, which for regular subscribers is negligable.

The grocery market in the UK is highly competative and margins are quite low.
> You are right - That’s another practice is morally dubious (And imo should be outlawed!)

Where this gets tricky is when a business has a name along the lines of [city name] [generic product category].

If this was outlawed, a competitor to a business named Foo-town Yard Care would be effectively blocked from advertising on Google.
What's Missing from 'The Missing Readme'