skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in SF for 10 years and seeing this problem grow everyday led me down a rabbit hole where I tried to understand what I could do politically and who I should vote for and support to at least show that I cared about the problem. It led me down a path where I came to understand housing and it's role in Europe and China. The most important thing I've learned is people don't care about the homeless and just think they are unsightly. It's a humanitarian crisis in the same way your dirty dishes are a humanitarian crisis, for most people. These are not people to be saved, but dirt to be washed off the sidewalks.

There are 4 ways to deal with the homeless that I've summarized:

(1) Kill them. I mention this one first so that it's in the back of your mind as you read about how politicians, nationwide, strike down any effort to alleviate this problem. It's the feeling I get when people say "we should do something" but then oppose any housing-first approaches.

(2) House them. Another poster mentioned it in this thread but this is essentially the approach to Vienna took. House people, in houses, not shelters, unconditionally. Once they have housing, then you can work on rehab and social/mental work. Without housing, the mental problems are impossible to solve. Of course, this would require effectively socializing the housing market and people & blackrock would scream about asset prices.

(3) Inprison them. This arguably more expensive than (2) but it doesn't affect asset prices as much. You could even recoup that cost with free prison labor. Sure most of the guys who argue we should do this are also the ones that say vaccine mandates are an infringement on basic freedoms and that being forced to wear a mask is essentially 1984. Of course you would have to figure out where you would build this prison, and the NIMBYs would prefer you built it on the Moon (they wont say that though, they will say something like "Building prisons is racist").

(4) Let them camp on the streets. This is unsightly, but it costs the less and maybe you will get a bit of (1) too when they die of exposure. Most cities already employ (1) through (4), they just wait for winter to roll around and problem solved. And as we see in San Francisco, as long as the housing market is sufficiently limited, then having a homeless camp outside your window wont reduce your property values all that much, and you get to use them as a political tool to prevent even more housing from being built.

Barring some political revolution or deadly plague I've become doom-pilled about this situation ever being resolved. Too many people, either directly or indirectly, largely benefit from the status quo. Paying $1B/year and extracting taxes from Salesforce is ultimately preferable solution than tanking the housing market.
You don't usually need to store energy for a significant period of time, just until the daily peak. Last I checked, the efficiency for charge + discharge was something like 70%, which, in any case, is much better than the 0% energy savings from using that energy to mine crypto.
>Wow. How do they let this happen? Google never deletes an email.

I'll add that the deleting of signed orders in the background I witnessed occurred a few EHR upgrades ago but after we had been using the EHR for 3-4 years. However, in a high-risk setting like a hospital, once you witness that happen, you forever feel like you have to be on-guard with the EHR for the sake of patient safety. Trust but verify, etc.

>If paper flows are better, why haven't they reverted to paper.

Most of us would love a return to paper but this is not allowed in the US by government regulations unless the EHR has gone offline or is failing in real-time.
Yeah, I don't see how the maintainers can patch security vulns or add support for newer web features (e.g. CSS variables) when the upstream fork is no longer maintained. They would have to write the fixes themselves, which just does not scale for a project that has 1 or 2 developers working on it part-time.
If you grow up in a shitty environment there is an increased probability that you will get into drugs. Once you start doing strong drugs all day, there is a considerably increased chance of shitting all over the place and causing havoc.

I don't know if you grew up in a shitty environment or not but please consider that even if you did, the fact that you are not smoking meth in bookstore bathrooms cannot be purely a product of your own stout moral fiber, it is also due to luck, and the people that you see running riot in the city are the other side of that coin.

Speaking for myself, I am a post-graduate educated rich white guy who does my recycling and helps old ladies cross the road, and I am absolutely certain that if I got deep enough into serious drugs I would be shitting and yelling with the best of them, and I fuckin pray that if I ever get into that state, that educated people would have the sophistication to view me as something other than the unforgivably evil cartoon villain that you describe.
They are, for the most part, going to be the same experience for most people.

I like Fedora because it has newer packages and I interact with more RHEL-like Linux at work, so its more comfy cozy on my personal machines than Debian-like or Arch-like Linux.
That's how the start of an exponential growth trend works.
> But there's no need for this "five-dimensional" bullshit.

Sure there is. It's going to sell great with idiots. I still remember morons super hyped about Opteron trying to claim it was an optical CPU.
Somehow we've collectively decided that the best way to deal with people who can't take care of themselves is to ... let them take care of themselves and also give them free needles.

We clearly need to bring back insane asylums and institutionalization. Why can't we just try this again and try to make them less abusive?
If you're suggesting you'd burn trees, that's carbon neutral (very nearly, maybe a tiny bit used to fell and move them.)
I think you may have missed the point. It's Ryzen, meaning AMD, not Intel.
Making NREPL and Cider More Dynamic (Part 1)
I always find the nature of Tierra del Fuego kind of funny in old maps like this. So many ships navigating the treacherous Strait of Magellan instead of going the other way around the Island and going South passed Cape Horn. All because they'd assumed that Tierra del Fuego was much larger than it was in actuality - some massive landmass or even a part of Antarctica itself, as shown here.
> district makes $168,000 a year (he’s the CIO). There’s a “L4” software developer making $131,000 a year.

I think that really says more about the absolutely absurd cost of living and non-rational real estate costs in the SF bay area than it does about the school district. In many places with normal cost of living, if your US W2 take home is $129k a year, you can live a very comfortable upper middle class lifestyle. Whether or not you have a spouse or partner with their own career and your combined W2 gross income might be $210k a year.

Same as what I said above also applies to absurd real estate and cost of living in Seattle, Vancouver, New York, etc.
> So it seems like it actually modifies the drawing at the application level rather than rescaling it like an image.

X also supports exactly this. Qt uses this information. gtk doesn't for whatever reason, forcing the workarounds.

Most the so-called "X limitations" are actually just toolkit bugs if you get into the weeds.
Not really the typical fare here, but it was interesting how different the actual challenges were from the sort of general fiction/fantasy inspired stuff I'm familiar with. The combined siege tower/battering ram/archer firing platform described seems like a really cool setpiece, I'm surprised it hasn't shown up more often in fiction.
This is the right answer. The size of the company also often has a lot to do with different mindsets and what fits for some people. Some people like the relative stability of a large corporation (you're more of a "number" but you are more likely to be able take a paycheck and clock out mindlessly), the pace and learning curve of an agency/startup (higher risk/reward threshold, wildly wonky work-life balance), or even consulting as a different career path for more independent types.
They don’t need 32 models, they need 1 that doesn’t suck.

As it is, I expect Dell to buy a bunch of Xe cards and then bury them all in a landfill like they did with those ET cartridges.
Waymo is doing autonomous driving though, autopilot is driver assist, they're not even remotely the same product.
Systemic corruption
I don't think Go will be huge 10 years from now but maybe I'm wrong. We'll see.
you're turning the case around- yes, you're right, the reporter and academic could sue, but it's not worth it (the defamation wasn't particularly effective) IMHO. It would mainly just make money for lawyers and mildly embarass the state.

Realistically, there's an IT executive in the Missouri government who screwed up, and the newspaper should be suing the state for criminal infosec practices (they did, after all, leak individual SSNs).
> They're colour themes. Mozilla's celebrating the fact that you can change Firefox's colour theme while trying to spin it as something super unique.

This is incredibly misguided to me.

Who is your core base? Clearly, someone who went out of their way to install a third-party browser on an operating system that likely comes with a pre-installed Chromium browser (whether Microsoft or Google) did that for a reason.

And they likely didn't do it because they wanted better themes or were unaware such a feature exists.
Encoding is not encryption. That’s like if I got the raw bytes of Unicode characters and converted them to legible text. Or another way, that’s like two people talking about me in a language I don’t understand, and then I respond to them in said language.
To "have" nuclear weapons in your context likely means "controls". Meaning, some of those countries store part of their nuclear weapons in other countries that are not on your list.
SF isn't sending anyone to prison. It's open season on any type of burglary or theft. You have to leave your car completely unlocked and windows rolled down or they will 100% get smashed in.
> No, I want the few tens of million ex-Firefox users that have left during the last decade because of being annoyed or because of the pragmatic reason that Firefox doesn't offer any experienced direct advantage anymore while Chrome is pushed heavily and has a experienced direct advantage: that Google web properties are optimized, not sabotaged on it.

Me too.

Leadership at Mozilla is interested more in social justice, diversity, and equity issues than engineering issues. Don't look for this to come from today's Mozilla.

There is lately a push for privacy issues at Mozilla, which is nice to see.
What I'd love to know is how to find the smaller more "hacker" oriented shops. I've worked at a few over the years... the kinds of places where everyone in engineering uses Linux desktops because that's the best choice for the work at hand and everyone's comfortable with it. Where the product is good, makes money, but is maybe kind of niche so the company isn't adding 10 people a week.
Live somewhere for a long time and in a close knit community. Eventually you hear through word of mouth long before you even consider applying.
That advance fee scam is old, just add bitcoin to it and you find new suckas.
> The US needs to stop using public facilities (schools, the military, etc) as white-collar welfare and hire more people that actually care.

In my experience, most IT/CS people who seek to work for state/federal government do care.

Unfortunately the combination of extreme red tape, low pay, inability to fire lazy employees, and occasionally being punching bags for politicians trying to score cheap points with their constituents, take their toll over time.
Note that Reagan had been shot and had surgery, so nobody's surprised he didn't fully recover at his age.

Biden however has been reported as declining mentally since 2012, yet his family and the Democratic Party knowingly propped him up as a Presidential candidate. And here we are.
I work for ITHAKA (parent of jstor.org) and I think they are decidedly non-suckey: https://www.ithaka.org/

- Great benefits

- Very transparent leadership

- Nonprofit (501c3) - long-term sustainability of the org & product are major goals which (IMO) makes for much better project/team/personal incentives

- Remote work for any position, but also offices in Ann Arbor, NYC, and Princeton

- Education-oriented mission
Stripe comes to mind. I haven't worked there so I don't actually know.
"You don't have the social skills to realize people can infer tone, so here let your fellow computer tell it to you"

third person shows up to pick a fight with the computer.

Never chance y'all.

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And for the record, if someone complains about a piece of writing, and you tell them "simply not to read it"

You are being a passive aggressive joke, and you are clearly upset with their critique.

People are allowed to dislike things, and gasp even hate things, you don't need to get all max passive aggression over that.

Not everyone lives in an echo chamber of timidity where all emotions must be moderate some of you put yourselves in.

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The person I replied to had no answer to the actual point I made, so they tried to derail the conversation to "how dare you claim I'm upset!" which was a complete aside in my comment as it was in theres.

Yet now I am talking to a guy who wants to argue with an ML model so I guess well played?
Oh god. Personal stuff avoids the work laptop like the plague.

Resume is updated, applications have been in all over. Thought I had a new gig lined up, but it fell through. I’m continuing to look too.

The few folks here I’d like to work with again are aware of the issues.
Let me put my perspective on this.

The answer is both yes, and no.

Why no:

Seriously, if you need certification to put your processes in order you are in a deep shit anyway. As an organization, you should be striving to continuously learn and improve. ISO 27001 is just a standard, a minimum you should be doing anyway.

Why yes:

I think it makes sense to go over that material. A lot of that stuff makes total sense. Why learn the mistakes yourself when you can get over a lot of that stuff in one, easy to consume package? Security is a tough thing to get right, there is a lot of possibility to forget/be blind to some obvious things. While it is up to you to figure out what to do (see above) and you will be paying the price of missteps, it is always good idea to get some external validation. Especially if you are top level manager and you don't exactly know if you are getting accurate assessment of the situation from your underlings.
I wouldn't consider managed kubernetes services as boring. But I think nowadays more people accept that Kubernetes is an overpowered solution for most projects, especially side projects.
People where I live get a ballot and a book in the mail weeks before the election with details for all the candidates and questions, and all you have to do is drop it in the outgoing mail. Takes no more than 30min of your time, maybe 1 hour if you are a slow reader. And yet, less than 20% voter participation.

It is ironic that turnout for national elections, where their vote is moot is much higher. But for school boards, county positions, and city positions that actually have an effect on day to day life and expenses, people do not care as much.
Meanwhile in Texas, each State Senate District has 940,178 people. 70,000 people in a state senate district just seems more workable.
First driverless robotaxi in San Francisco
The struggle is that some of what we think is reality is actually not reality. What I learned is its only a conspiracy theory if you don't believe it /right now/. And what you believe right now is highly influenced by your culture, parents and media. In a Nietzscheian sense, I have had to start from ground zero, about what I believe, and derive understandings through direct experience of nature. Unfortunately this is slower than consensus, so I also choose to trust sources on non-political topics such as math, physics, and construction/engineering.

These days I look back on how much I used to think was truth, and I later came to a realization that it was actually illusion... I don't take much as blind fact these days, and try to stick close to things I can easily understand and get immediate feedback on, such as math, engineering and growing plants. Unfortunately, since so much of my life also consists of economy and psychology, I can't completely ignore the facets of reality out of my control.

At least when people tell me they actually believe in a conspiracy theory, they can give me some pre-formatted viewpoint which I cant test their premises against.
Quoting Durr in Politico: [0]

Durr said Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s coronavirus executive orders, vaccine and school mask, unemployment benefits snafus and a general distrust of the South Jersey Democratic machine that has dominated the region for years all contributed to his strong performance.

Sweeney, Durr said, “never challenged” Murphy during the pandemic.

“You have the debacle of unemployment. The masking of the kids in school.
You have Senator Sweeney trying to take away peoples’ medical freedom rights.
I think the perfect storm was that he stepped into
a pile of you-know-what and couldn’t get out of it because he didn’t
know which way to turn. I just tapped into the right focus.”

[0] https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2021/11/03/...

I think many people, if they aren't exposed to it or live around it, underestimate the massive anger and frustration that exists towards the Covid restrictions and policies, and vaccine mandates.
Agreed with this, we still get questionnaires.
Maybe the employees will need to buy their own laptops etc as freelancers or something, and then they'll get reimbursed
Drug use is more likely a symptom rather than a cause. They are used for self-medication for other underlying social, mental, and other maladies.
This. Juniors will have a hard time in any tech. It's not like employers are gonna be impressed with a junior node dev - wow how special a junior that want's a node job, never met one before. There are millions of javascript developers, maybe tens of millions, it couldn't be any harder to distinguish yourself by learning javascript nowadays.
I don't understand why this philosophy discussion seems to get brought up so frequently or why anyone needs to care about philosophy in the context of a computer program. Linux distributions that adopted it are not sitting around pondering the meaning of life or the existential nature of what it means to boot a computer, they were using it to solve a real problem that they had. It was a complex problem, it was not a simple problem that could have been solved with a simple solution. So what you are saying is not really related to the question.

I don't think the opinions of ESR, Linus, and tytso are relevant here either as none of those people work on init systems. If you developed your own solutions with shell scripts, that's great for you, but I hope you can see how that doesn't work at scale in a big distribution. BTW systemd includes a lightweight implementation of containers so I also don't understand what you're talking about when you said you needed to then put it in a VM or container. The exact problem you're having can also be solved... by just using systemd. So it actually seems like you're making things more complex than it needs to be by jumping through hoops to avoid it.

Audio is also my expertise, and using just ALSA is an experience in pain. You need some kind of userspace daemon in order to get a good experience with that.
Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer and Developer Advocate
I consider "no blockers" to simply be a nicer way of saying "I'm done talking now". Developers aren't always the most socially gracefully, but hopefully we can continue to avoid saying "I'm done talking now".
Hmm.

Can't quite put my finger on it, but this type of thing rings a bell.
> that even in sucky workplaces,

I would say... if there is a company with 6,000 employees... it's going to depend way less on the company and more on the team. Your direct manager, your teammates, the other teams you work with, the other managers involved... that can all wildly vary even within the same company.

They are fluid too. People come and go. Circumstances change.

I don't know how much top-down leadership effect really has. If the CEO + board of a 20,000 person company feel a certain ideology, is it really passed down 10 layers lower to managers working on small projects?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxFhMVIPodk

Rossman is biased, but the facts do speak for themselves here. I couldn't believe this video
It's really cool that this is possible. TypeScript has developed an incredibly advanced type system in only a few years.
> The biggest reason is security. X offers no GUI isolation.

This is completely false. X offers both nesting for full isolation and a concept of "untrusted" connections for partial isolation. This is the reason why ssh -Y and ssh -X are separate things.

These facilities could use a little love to make them user friendly, etc., but they're there and have been for ages (enabled by default around 2013, present before then).

X also supports advanced mixed DPI, providing all the information to the application to handle it as they see fit.
yah, i use cmd-drag sometimes too, usually for smaller adjustments, using my pinky on cmd. it's not quite as reliable (for me), as i lose the drag occasionally, having to go back and pick it up again.
Latest packages, little effort
They're just ideas - maybe apply a federal grant to the builder of 60k for each house they make. :shrug:

The problem with market rate is for homes is that it turns one person's ability to be homed into another person's extraneous income flip.
I've been having a great time at Apple. I joined a bit over two years ago (coming from a 7.5-year-long stint at google). The people are great, the work is very interesting. Highly recommended.

Google used to be a non-sucky place to work, but from what I hear from friends still there, it's not at all like it was in 2012
150,000 people eligible to vote. 32,000 votes for the incumbent. Hence, 118,000 people who would either vote for someone else or could be persuaded to come and vote.
Remember that France was the first country calling for intervention in Libya, and made a big deal of pushing Clinton and Obama towards intervention.

They are also wrapping up their own counterterrorism operation in the Sahel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barkhane
If YouTube finally off Python? ;)
You can build such library in any language with operator overloading, but the point is, it's optional library. It isn't built into language, therefore randomly picked library just won't support it.
The St. Louis Fed disagrees.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=IuLV
A fork() in the road (2019) [pdf]
Disclaimer: Not a regular Go user.

I was thinking of how you can embed types in structs. You automatically dereference the fields and methods of the components directly from the outside.
Kidney donors in Iran get ~6 month salary, kidney donors in the U.S. get 0 months salary.

Are Iranian kidney donors the ones getting scammed?
Looking at decision desk, he's leading with 96% in:

New Jersey State Senate 3

CANDIDATE | VOTES | PERCENT

Edward Durr GOP | 32,682 | 51.85%

Steve Sweeney DEM (Incumbent) | 30,352 | 48.15%

63,034 votes. Estimated 96% in. DDHQ, Updated 2021-11-03, 5:00:25 PM

https://results.decisiondeskhq.com/nov-2-2021-elections
My Linkedin shows 37444 Ruby jobs in the U.S to 488 ColdFusion jobs. I don't think this comparison makes sense at all...
>narrow pickup microphones with live headphone monitoring

Does someone know why this matters?

None of his samples show him with headphones, so what are they used for?
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