skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>" As unpopular as it may sound, the reason we have so many homeless is that the people who have more deciding power decide to vote to focus on very different issues. Slowly more people slip through the cracks into homelessness and lose all their power, and fewer people are left to care about them and vote in their interest."

I think your points are actually the popular ones. The less-popular view is that the current homeless crisis is highly correlated with drug-addiction, and it's not clear that just providing housing to fentanyl addicts will solve it.
A military invasion costs more, especially if it doesn't go well. Better to buy, bribe, and bully.
A thing I've been wondering for a while now is how many NFT advocates have ever bought, like, a physical painting from an artist? I think that data would be good at identifying whether people are in it because it's an arbitrary hyped investment or whether they're in it because it's a "better" way to buy art or support artists.
Mm. Yes, also a misunderstanding of fertility. The Israelis for instance were of a mindset to go into an extremely arid place and plant grasses and harvest water until they could hold down the dunes in some places, grow crops in other places. Whereas there was a big misunderstanding in the 1800s, in the plains of Argentina and the Great Plains of America, that the thin soil which supported grasses would be able to support wheat or corn. The constant replanting without rest or irrigation was more like a religious belief than an understanding of the land.

Maybe yeah, too much land can lead people to casually screw it up. Or on the other hand, knowing your land is so small and limited makes you have to act more carefully...
Great story and amazing engineering. I got curious and found this article which has more details and a bit more sceptical take.

https://sahara-overland.com/tag/emile-leray/
Sort of but you don’t even need to have an S-Corp, you can apply as an LLC filing as an S-Corp. BUT You have to do it at the beginning of the year.
I don't know much about this guy, other than my conspiracy-laden mother citing him as reason enough to not take a vaccine. Along with the vaccine giving you the virus, it being dangerous, and so on. She's a polio survivor former alcoholic who has smoked a pack a day for most of the past 40 years - the hypocrisy and blindness hurts me.

So I'm inclined, without knowing more, to say this man is at the least an unwilling tool of antivax conspirators. Does that mean it's right to ban him from social media? It was one thing to ban a treasonous president for fomenting an insurrection at the Capitol. It's another to ban scientists who invoke Godwin's law on a discussion regarding vaccine mandates.

Suspending public figures should be a matter of emergency and dire consequence, not a habit. Even if I understand the "private website" perspective, and believe individual websites have a lot of legal leeway to ban as they wish, bans like this will have a backlash effect. Victim-complex people will cry out, and slippery-slope people will cry out.

At least the man can still have a personal website if people wish to listen to him - he is still more accessible today than most people in the world were just 20 years ago.
This is just disingenuous, because it can also be easily stated as “people for whom the system isn’t working, affirm that the system isn’t working.” Except it is much easier to state that the system is not working, because one can easily attribute personal failures to the failures of the system.

I am yet to meet a clearly skilled software engineer who took a bit of time to study for interviews who couldn’t pass the interviews. And we aren’t talking some insane prep, we are talking either a couple of weekends or an hour a day for a month at the very most. To add, it is mostly upfront work, and you dont need that much time to study later on. With every interview, I need less and less time to study in the future. Back in college, i used to study intensely for those. But many years later, I find it sufficient to refresh by grinding leetcode for just one weekend being enough to pass your typical FAANG interview.

Paper credentials don’t mean much, and relying on those is setting yourself up for some poor experiences. I’ve seen candidates with 15+ years of experience and impressive resumes not being able to code their way out of a wet paperbag. We are talking not being able to solve actual FizzBuzz in a language of their choice, which is mindboggling, as it is literally just a for-loop and 3 if-conditionals (or 2, if you want to be fancy and use string concatenation).
I've heard a few people with no GPU accel having issues with the wallpaper. I should probably find a way to detect that and unload it. Thanks for feedback!
Thanks! Haha ya that is the next step.
You'd rather gamble on >=15% returns rather than just pay off that debt and get an immediate 15% savings? That may work in the short term but bull markets don't last forever.
Posted last week here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29723433

TL;DW Guy thinks information should be free. Thinks an informed society is important. Thinks journalistic freedom is necessary for that. Thinks Julian Assange should be free.

Video is about the circumstances around the foiling of the plot to get Julian Assange out of the country by means of becoming an Ecuador diplomat. There was a meeting between JA and an Ecuadorian diplomat during the final stages of the plan (end of 2017 I think). This was high priority for US intelligence. One company inspected the fire extinguishers just before the meeting. The fire extinguisher was later found to be bugged. Each day around the time of the meeting there was a Ford Focus or a police car parked in front of the building allegedly collecting signals from the bugs and being ready to rock if necessary (often there were multiple dudes in the car, once 8 cups of coffee were brought to a police car). High quality surveillance of one such car reveals a dude holding case notes mentioning what to do in case the video surveillance goes out and JA tries to leave the building, including shooting out tires. Mentions operation kudo (meaning has something to do with “friend”), which the presenter suspects to be a joint operation between the CIA and the London metropolitan police since it used MS7 (something like that) and MET acronyms. This would all be very much a breach of inviolability of diplomatic missions from Vienna convention. Lawsuits are underway apparently. In the end Ecuador gave up on this plan due to diplomatic pressure from US.

Presenter was himself surveilled on behalf of the CIA but things have calmed down since a yahoo news article last year described some of the circumstances above, though he said it was also filled with some misinformation.

Might not be 100% accurate. I was distracted.
Programs that were launched with impossible command line options
Yes, as the previous responder mentioned, finding the right community is the first step.

But tbh, it's much harder than it feels like it should be.

I think places like Human Capital or OnDeck are taking a cool hands-on approach to this.

The thesis being, let's find the best people, help them find eachother, then invest.
Thanks! I wanted to try and make things interactive enough where people could mix and match ideas.
How will these search engines interoperate?
Moving cities is expensive (the actual moving expenses plus up front costs of a new lease, and also no income until you can find a new job). If you're already struggling to afford rent then it's likely beyond your financial capabilities.
On the other hand Romania is having startling amount of nostalgia over the communist regime

https://euobserver.com/news/30890

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/18/nicolae-cea...

etc
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Ah darn. Some of the libs are less stable than others. I will attempt to recreate that. My main test browser has been Chrome.
Alternative theory, women are more risk averse, and founding a startup is extremely risky.

Or: being an impressive fintech founder requires high intelligence. Men have wider spread of the bell curve and are overrepresented at both ends.
hot take: why would I need to enter my email to do a search online? You already lost me :o
Most of the awards she received were honorary degrees. They don't enable you to do anything, it's just a fancy cardboard that you can hang in one wall of your home. For comparison Bill Cosby used to have 72 honorary degrees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_honorary_degrees_award...

I agree it's a shame that university are issuing honorary degrees in exchange of publicity, but nobody takes those cardboards seriously.
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Just 12k citations? Hardly a real scientist. Follow the real science.

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I'd combine them slightly differently: As cities get bigger, lower incomes get forced either out of the city or into more and more precarious living situations.

But I wonder to what degree this is a US phenomenon. Take Tokyo, for instance. It has an amazing array of commuter rail lines linking it to the surrounding area. And it sits in a country where the population is not rising. So, to what extent does this dynamic apply to Tokyo?

And if it doesn't apply to Tokyo, could we fix it in the US by 1) adding huge amounts of commuter rail, and 2) stopping population growth?
Thanks! I think the slowness, ideally is a cache thing. At least there is a case where it can be "snappy"-ish.
I also find the up/down voting to provide very little value.
This was Yahoo in late 90s early 2000s. They had a human curated directory search where one could look up something like "kayaking" and find a bunch of sites on kayaking. Then if you wanted to search on keyword it was outsourced to AltaVista and later Google. Altavista results were terrible and were almost nothing more than a keyword search (IE the word you were searching appeared on this page). Google got much better at the general search and this was history.

I think the death of the directory search dramatically dropped the number of self-curated, informative sites from a domain expert that were common in the early internet. Now instead of making a website, many people are on content silos like Reddit/FB
Really glad to hear. I find GnuPG to be invaluable.
Thanks! Ya it took a long time, a year for this v2 one.
> So do you think it would be better if Facebook didn't do any moderation at all?

I think the GP was referring to the status before Section 230, which was exactly why Section 230 was passed in the first place.

The internet is a very different place now, but repealing Section 230 is likely to have a host of unintended, mostly bad consequences (while doing very little to rein in FB/GOOG et al).
I remember having similar sentiments in junior high. Maybe I was right back then, but I have a different view, now..

That is, the ability to draw rotated geometric primitives without reference is not on the critical path to be taken seriously as an artist.
I wish FB would be more open, but since they have all this walled garden info, are they well placed to start a competing search engine? Would be interesting if their activity could help filter out seo hackers.
It's relevant in that there might be a huge conflict of interest at the NIH that has undermined the pandemic response.[1]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRCowOPL5Vc&t=229s
No, the guy who re-wrote Larry's research code into Python and put it in production.
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I'm not quite confident enough in my writing yet to do that, but I appreciate the curiosity.
Thanks, I read it, and sure, with so many citatitions and edits the page gets extremely boring. Also I see some forced changes that are very clear part of the feminist propaganda: I don’t believe that false rape allegations are under 4%, as it would mean 20 real rapes for every person who just goes to the police because she can.

I had an experience a few years ago when a teenage girl was having consensual sex with me on a party in her room, but she didn’t like the sex, so she just casually told me that I have to put my clothes on fast and get out of the room (so that she can have sex with another guy), or else she goes to the police and tells them that I raped her. At that time I believed that it would be impossible to get me into prison for something I have not done, but the ease of how she said it scared me: the incentives against false reporting are clearly missing.
HN is rife with "technical solutions to human problems" already, which is why new users can't downvote posts. It improved Stack Overflow, it would work here.
Oh interesting, I'll have to try that, didn't know there was a built-in one
This feels like a piece that has some good ideas that are expressed in a very off-putting way.
Yes you can programatically generate a key.
You talk about this "constant assault from spammers" like it's not Google's fault and it's an intractable problem. That is not a correct characterization. There are plenty of low hanging fruit that could easily be detected and deranked, for instance scraped stack overflow spam. But google chooses not to deprioritize these results. The reason they don't is that they make money on ad clicks, which many responses have already elaborated on.
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And it's even possible to target element content with regex with the `:has-text(/regex/)` selector.

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Some are, some aren't. As the cost of housing goes up, the fraction of the homeless who are homeless for economic reasons also goes up.
How does Google already handle this exact problem on YT?
Ah good point :)
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According to Our World in Data [0]:

> Smallholder farms (farms with less then 2ha) use 24% of agricultural land, produce 29% of crops, providing 32% of the world's food.

That means that the larger ones use 76% of land to provide 68% of the world's food. Looks to me like small farms are indeed more efficient...

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/smallholder-food-production
Homelessness also decreases when cities simply let more housing be built, even if luxury housing. https://fullstackeconomics.com/how-luxury-apartment-building...

For some reason liberal policymakers (or their constituents) either can't seem to get that in their head, or can't act on it. And instead cling to things like rent control, which "feel good" in the short run but end up doing the opposite of what was intended.

Sometimes I think that every policy (that isn't a "duh, of course" policy) should come with an expiration date. So that the people you wanted to help are specifically identified, and given a finite time to be helped -- and people who come after know that it's a one-time intervention and the system is what it is from now on. Then when the people you thought it would serve / benefit are gone, you are required to assess whether it worked as you thought, and it doesn't just go on autopilot forever. Now, whether the policymakers would respect that, or simply keep on extending it on public opinion, who knows.

It's just too easy for well-intentioned people to put in place rules they think will work, and go away for 10 years and discover it didn't, and then still do nothing to fix it.
I saw that micro center was selling "Monster" branded LED strips and some wall led tiles that looked kind interesting albeit expensive. I just assumed the brand name got bought, but I just assumed overpriced...

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Schools should teach ratios about housing expenses vs income. Somehow we should make kids practice budgeting, controlling spending, etc, not just teaching, but practicing for years, because when you get out of school, there are are a few simple, yet difficult(emotionally), things which will dictate success more than the memorized logic. Emotions take practice.
"the people who have more deciding power decide to vote to focus on very different issues. "

I think that's becoming an ever bigger problem. The decision makers are completely disconnected from the concerns of people with low incomes. They live in different areas, go to different schools, have different entertainment and work at different workplaces.

I remember chatting with a waitress last year on a hike. She told me about reduced working hours during COVID, worries about paying rent, car insurance and health care bills. She was really close to losing everything because she had no parents or relatives she could move to. And I thought about how I personally barely noticed COVID other than a few minor inconveniences like mask wearing or reduced socializing.

I don't know how to fix this but this complete disconnect between people who are in a position to make decisions vs the people who are most affected by these decisions is pretty scary.
Thanks! I know AaronOS and no it's not competition! His OS did help inspire me though!
Probably, if killed responsibly. The scene in the movie is just animal cruelty in my opinion (edited my comment for clarity).
I certainly can, though I have some ambivalence. If you’re referring to the statement that the horse was eventually sent to a slaughterhouse, it doesn’t address the central ethical question of purposely torturing a horse to get a good shot.
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Most NFTs are procedurally generated. Artists are not involved anywhere in the process. Infact a lot of art communities are openly hostile to NFTs
Thanks for the tip! I am hoping it's ok as I have seen many people use the logo and I actually got it from the free font-awesome SVG icons.
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Correcting whatever is suboptimal needs to be done in the context of the larger forces. E.g., if you're being carried away from shore by a rip tide it's useful to have enough theory to understand that you should swim parallel to the shore rather than straight in. In the same sense, to address homelessness effectively we need to be aware of the larger economic incentives. Rent control is a notorious example.
I disagree that they're unethical. The deal you get with Ryanair is the ticket is as cheap as possible, then they nickel and dime you. A lot of people want that. A lot of people want better service, and they can go with a legacy carrier.
I agree that Africa is a huge continent, and one person’s experience in one country at one time may differ enormously from others’, yours included. I disagree with your assertion that user scabarott made anything resembling a “substantive point” in his reply, which ignored everything ChrisMashallNY said in their comment about growing up in Africa and seemed to malign them purely on the basis of their European ancestry. You appear to be piling on based on the same sentiment. If I missed the substantive point, could you please explain it to us?
It seems like the original text is from 2005, and 2019 is just the date of reproduction online, no?

> Originally published in Granta 92, 2005

14 years makes for an interesting difference in context.
I just love try to copy details of something. I've been coding for 20 years, this is just a passion of mine.
He was also a very popular figure in the West because Romania went against the USSR.

The only leader from the East who was welcomed with full regards by the West at every opportunity. Understandable since as a dictator Ceaușescu only cared about himself not Communist ideology.
I generally take old Macs to the Apple Store. They remove the drive and recycle the rest of the hardware.