skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to eat sardines every day trying to get the health benefits of fatty fish. They were packed in soybean oil. I drank the oil too. With time I began to have bizarre mental issues that I finally tracked down to the sardines. Sardines packed in olive oil don’t cause this issue. That’s my anecdata to share.
Some of my apps are back up. Others are not.
I mean, we don’t need custom browser components. We need certain functionalities that just cannot be given by default components without a ton of ugly hacks.
Our apps are all down as well, Heroku Status not loading either (or just incredibly sluggish).
ALA is one type of Omega 3 fat. LA is Omega 6.
Ah... Definitely good to call out. The domain looks like complete anti-porn religious propaganda without diving in further.
Well, they aren't completely down now either. Heroku Shield is up. Dashboard is up. EU is reported as up.

As an aside, I spoke with our AE in early January on where they are going in dealing with AWS unreliability. One would think they would have a good answer. They don't.
Good trouble?

"Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble." — John Lewis
They've already re-locked one of the accounts Twitter's Head of Site Integrity apologized about a few hours ago...

https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1496488410596392971

https://twitter.com/OalexanderDK2/status/1496491420957483016

>"This is unbelievable. @OAlexanderDK has had his account locked for the 2nd time in 24 hours by Twitter with absolutely no explanation. They "apologised" this morning and said it was a mistake. Is this time a mistake @TwitterSupport ?"

edit to update: This account was re-unlocked for the second time.

https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1496513006657839108
Facts:

1. Putin is a dictator. He is able to change Russian constitution to stay in power, etc.
2. He murders people in a very cynical way. Polonium tea, novichok, etc.
3. He is filthy rich, owns billions of dollars worth of assets, possibly hundreds of billions.

Do you have doubts that a dictator can have an ambition to get more fame after he got all the money he wanted? Or that dictator can send troops?

Look, I know about game theory, microeconomics and such. I was a co-author of a paper submitted to NetEcon conference, for example.

But in this case, you need to understand that money, or prosperity, or safety, is not the only metric people optimize for. Many people optimize for fame. This is what a lot of people on hackernews are missing.
This is such sloppy journalism:
> one project under development expected to hit as much as $837,000 for each housing unit,

How typical is that? where is it? how long is it expected to last? what other features does it have? Does that include one-time architecting costs that make future developments cheaper?

> HHH project includes 8,091 housing units — most with connected services for mental health and substance abuse treatment

so how much of the $800k goes to the mental health etc services? the paper apparently read the audit, but doesn't bother going into any detail about this.
Is fixing a typo in the docs enough? What about bugs reports? These are useful tasks for a open source project.

You may get contribution-spam fixing inexistent errors, just to fulfill the clause.

If developer X is working in company Y and a year later X changes to company Z, who can use the software Y or Z? What happens if X dies? What happens if Y goes bankrupt and W buys all the assets?
Maybe not heroku per se but something hosted on heroku?
I came to HN to make sure it was actually down.
Something like 85% of those homeless have unresolved psychiatric & drug-abuse issues. It's not compassionate to let them do their thing, and squat in filth on public sidewalks untreated.
I understand it and it’s also legit but my point here is still: what the social platforms will do in the future when they will be full of DMCA takedown requests from the people who bought a NFT and others have made a screenshot of it?

Is the web we want? Just asking. Maybe yes. I don’t known, I want only to talk about this.
>Android ecosystem survived without iPhone grade security

Survived but didn't thrive. You don't know how many people have had information, data, identities, or other assets stolen or compromised because of the lack of security. People on Hacker News don't need that kind of hand-holding but, unfortunately, I feel like the majority of consumer device users do.
$837,000 is just the cost of the unit.

If you are housing actual homeless, you MUST offer supportive services on-site or have some other types of supervision or these units are going to be trashed.

You MUST budget for a lot of ongoing costs.

I'd say $800K+ per unit + maybe $100K+/year for supportive services / maintenance etc?

One question is, would that 800K + $100K/year go further somewhere else?
I'm arguing that you DO need custom controls. Did you read the thread?
I'd just look at the C++ Standard Library which relies far more on the procedural, generic, and functional styles than OO. Using it, you often (IME) end up writing code more along the trait/interface style than the OO-hierarchy style that was popular in the 90s. But I have no idea about open source C++ projects, I don't follow them and mostly don't care. I've really only used C++ at work where 99% of the code seems to be procedural, not OO. The closest is that they have "classes" which are barely more than plain data objects ("smart" structs), if they have methods it's to enforce data invariants and almost nothing else.
San Francisco had a similar problem in recent years, where trying to build housing for the unhoused was running a cost of about a million a pop.

It's perhaps possible that this isn't a deliberate display of incompetence, but a set of systemic problems that make housing in California very expensive to build.
Numbers vs. names for months is a legit casus belli
i think this is more of a problem with human nature than it is Reddit.

why go through all the trouble of being objective and introspective to form your own opinion, just so that someone else will challenge your assertions and hurt your feelings? just latch onto the group and move along. life is so much easier when everyone else does your thinking for you.
Thanks for the feedback, we can do that soon.
It's solely based off social media and user reports. It's the "smoke" in the saying "where there's smoke, there's fire" with the caveat that in some cases there's actually no fire even if there's a decent amount of smoke.
My research shows that coconut oil's benefits are chiefly as a topical treatment. As far as ingesting it, the benefits are minimal to nonexistent, and better derived from other sources.
If NATO had met the Russia's demands, wouldn't the invasion have been prevented?

I don't understand how the west didn't see that they should at least accept to exclude Ukraine from NATO. Why, giving in to Russia's demand (even partially) would be a loss for NATO?
Here's the relevant ADs for Boeing...

AD 2022-03-05: https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf...

AD 2022-03-20: https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf...

AD 2022-04-05: https://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgad.nsf...
Social media has simply poisoned a lot of discourse. The loudest and most controversial voices rise to the top, even for something relatively anodyne such as a “mom’s group.”
Liberal policies is why Los Angles has been dealing with a homeless crisis for so long. Spending $837,000 to build a single studio to house a single homeless person seems insane to most of the country.
Do you realize that you could give that homeless person a first class ticket to Detroit? Put them up in a hotel until an abandoned house could be totally rebuilt for them. Pay their electricity, water, heating costs and taxes for the next ten years and still save California taxpayers $600,000!
No. Dictatorship means someone else holds absolute power over the basic rights of all subjects including their right to live. There is no equivalence with a corporate org structure. I don't know how the two can even be confused.
"But muh ML classifier reduces moderation costs by 71% and is more a c c u r a t e"
I had to check but wow I always thought Ukraine was size of Florida, apparently it is the size of Texas (and larger than California)
The Invasion of Ukraine and Russian Product Exports
Given how early we still are we first want to focus on podcasts and make sure we nail the functionality & experience. In the future, we then want to enable users to also upload their own audio content (e.g. an audio book) and benefit from all of the same features.

For now, we haven't really thought about enabling text mediums and going the other way around (text to speech instead of speech to text). You could however check out the Matter app. Not sure whether you can upload your own pdfs, but you can do text-to-speech for blog posts, including highlighting. They also have a Readwise integration like us.
Judges have found that retail websites are subject to the ADA[1], and sites for things like utilities definitely are. Your personal website does not need to comply though, since it’s not considered a public space.

[1]: https://myblindspot.org/2017/09/retail-websites-are-public-a...
This can be true but also better than all other alternatives.
Cypress is also down
Care explaining what bizarre mental issues?
A useful distinction if one migrates between locations in the Arctic and Antarctic Circles that are never clouded, possibly. Anyone else has to deal with pesky details like weather and night-time.
I have seen events unfold at the School Board level which stretch the imagination -- a combination of poker face, herd mentality, deniability and secrets keeping, and unending, years long funding cycles. BUT "the primary measure of success in the last two generations" is just snark, since there has been lots of success in other ways. The problems here are bad though, since some kind of natural selection has resulted in people and processess that are very hard to get rid of, even while flatly and objectively failing in plain view.
For a week? You should have been preparing for years. Seriously.
Yes but would they want to go?
10/9 times
I don't think calorie restriction will lead to you breaking your hip because you are so emaciated. I think the current status of fitness (going to the gym and lifting weights then eating a bunch of protein) is a totally backward approach to health and exercise. If you want to be muscular for aesthetic reasons that is totally valid, but it is misleading to pretend it is healthy.

This is coming from someone who did tons of hard exercise from 16-26 then completely reworked my approach from intensity to volume, started restricting calories and reduced protein intake. That said fitness is a journey and you should always be willing to completely reverse everything you think you know.
It's largely illegal in California to have any criteria for selecting contractors based on anything other than lowest bid. This is because historically cronyism was a worse problem than poor quality.
There are also temporary "checkpoints" (the real term escapes me at the moment), where police park their cars, funnel traffic to one or two lanes, and ask for ID from all cars passing through. I've only ever seen this done at highway on-ramps or major roads on nights notorious for drinking. With those, anybody driving on the road would be stopped, even if they followed every law.
Fixating on lineolic acid is kind of hard when basically all high-heat vegetable oils contain a lot of it. If lineolic acid is the problem then basically every unsaturated cooking oil other than olive oil is now unusable. Maybe canola, depending on how much lineolic acid is safe.
It's a very German thing to not use olive oil for frying. It took me by surprise when living abroad, and to realise it's a common frying oil in Mediterranean countries but also in the UK.
> Then women were allowed to vote in the 1920's. In a rights-review, black men were seen as higher standing than women.

Did you actually mean to respond to my comment? I acknowledge this and mention Switzerland, where I lived for years, due in part to its refusal of women's suffrage through much of the 20th century (1990 or so in one canton). That seems to make this definition of democracy, if used to preclude the US, rather questionable if not inaccurate.
Notably from the graphic, not having school early in lockdown was great! Lower suicides.

Once Hybrid/Remote started, suicides worse, implying worse than baseline. But slightly within error bars for most.

So order of good > bad: No School > In-Person school > Hybrid
Exactly, I was wondering why none of the comments were talking about sunflower oil, which is what I used in my whole life along with olive oil. Vegetable oil does exist in Germany, I think it is sold as pflanzenöl, although I just don’t use it.
Russia's Twilight War
Using ffmpeg for Overlays
L.A. is fighting against CEQA, Prop 13, and its own bureaucracy and process: https://seliger.com/2017/08/30/l-digs-hole-slowly-economics-....

If we're actually going to do something substantial about homelessness, we need to focus on abundance, not scarcity, and supply-side progressivism: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/opinion/supply-side-progr...
Not every creator has a Patreon or other forms to receive payment.
Sunflower oil has even higher PUFA content than soybean, which is presumably the cause of these health issues in mice. I believe soybean was just chosen for the study because it's extremely ubiquitous in the US.

edit: Partially wrong! I'm told above that high oleic sunflower oil has a different profile with less linoleic oil, and apparently it's becoming more common: https://www.nutritionletter.tufts.edu/general-nutrition/what...
Collateral damage (but probably DNS lol)
Wildly superior in the physical realization of governance? Please. The reason why you don’t see homeless in these places is their policy is to use their police to force these people into LA. Go to venice and note how the tents stop immediately at the border with santa monica, and no its not because everyone who sets up in santa monica gets put into a shelter.
> Requiring medical treatments

> Free country

That choice is a radio button, not a checkbox. Can't have both.
I'm finishing construction next month an 1,100 sq/ft single family home in the north bay area; a very high cost-of-living region. We started construction in Sept 2021, after an intentional delay of a couple months to let lumber prices drop after peaking in May-June. My home will be built for about $350k (less land acquisition). I'm acting as contractor and have connections in the industry so very few can build at my cost. BUT, When I see numbers in articles like this ($837k ea), after dealing with pandemic construction pricing myself, it's painfully obvious there is a terrible lack of cost-control. This is not a sustainable solution. And scapegoating on the pandemic is not helpful.

I'm convinced most government agencies cannot manage this type construction in an affordable way, including my home county of Sonoma where we are spending $250k - $350k per homeless person to house them in refurbished hotel rooms (remodeling, not new construction).

I don't know what the solution is, but I have become convinced that local governments cannot build their way out of this. We have to come up with something better.
>>>You can't seriously make this argument, the whole Donbas independence movement was a Russian ploy from day #1 to create the pretext required to do exactly what they are doing today.

Isn't that pretty much the argument Russia made, when the US supported Kosovo independence from Serbia?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%27s_reaction_to_the_200...
Believe it or not, but there are quite a few people who are very much pro vaccine and have taken the covid vaccine that are opposed to the mandate. The idea that anybody who does not support a mandate is anti vax is ridiculous. The majority of the people I have talked to about the mandate who have taken the vaccine are opposed to it.
There are 750 million acres of forest in the US and each drone can cover 40 acres. That's 18,000,000 drones required.
Not only was it not "required," nearly 30% of the state of California remains short of full vaccination and restrictions are dropping daily.

You can demand an end to "mandates" and public health emergencies, but you must then applaud when those things end.
US and Russia still tethered by ISS during Ukraine conflict
Codeberg.org and Codeberg Pages comes to mind.
837000 is the maximum, not the average, so your math is just made up BS.
AWS status page is all green.... Just kidding! I know the information content of the AWS status page is literally zero, it's always green!
In the same way that Silicon Valley was enabled by Cold War defense spending, perhaps the entertainment industry created the LA Charitable Griftocracy.
It's every high-heat unsaturated cooking oil. Basically every cooking oil except olive oil and full-fat stuff like coconut, butter, and lard contain a decent amount of linoleic acid.
Smoke point refers to the temperature at which an oil will break down. You're right that broken-down oil is unhealthy but, more importantly, it makes for bad-tasting food and should be avoided when possible.

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/cooking-oils-and-smoke-...
> there is the infrequent, but apparently very real risk of Google locking your account

Or the very real scenario where you've been using a free Google Workspace account (is that what it's called these days) with a custom domain, and suddenly Google wants to start charging you for it. Meanwhile you've "logged in with Google" using that account across many, many sites and Google hasn't offered anyway to migrate away from that. So you either pay up or lose access to any of those accounts.
That's the point. Their guy won the free and fair vote, but people in Kyiv decided he was unacceptable and overthrew him. (There were a lot of extenuating circumstances I'm glossing over, and I tend to agree that he was a bad dude - but if it were a president you voted for, would you be convinced by someone arguing that extenuating circumstances mean it's best to undemocratically toss him out?)
> While Parliament had a restricted franchise (as did the USA until the 20th century) it was an elected body with full powers.

Indeed—one of the key factors for the US war for independence was that rich Americans wanted to expand the franchise to all rich men, not just rich men who happened to be born to the correct parents. They wanted to do this only in the colonies, but that likely would have emboldened reformers in Britain proper, too ("why should those colonists get more of a say in government than we do?"). This would have threatened the power of the British nobility, so of course war and (ultimately) losing the 13 colonies was chosen instead.
Cyber attack thread of the ongoing invasion
Consumer Reports, from 10 years ago: https://imgur.com/a/ChyyFnw

Personally I only purchase California olive oil, I don't trust anything coming out of Europe due to the risk of adulteration. If you want a widely available brand: California Olive Ranch but look at the label carefully, you only want their 100% California olive oil.
The $800k isn't being paid to the folks doing the actual construction. It isn't dominated by materials cost either.

There are a lot of hands to be filled as money goes from the "house the homeless" fund to the actual projects.
And we're back? I think.
yeah communism is bad because it expects people to be fed and housed on state expenses while capitalism throws freeloaders off the wagon.

sure its such a difficult proposition to implement in a free country. i mean i am in india and every poor household gets basically free rations every month, free healthcare in government hospitals and now even a medical insurance for treatments in private run hospitals at no cost. sure that costs a shit tonne of money but what else to do with the tax collections? spending on weapons is one but other than that, yeah.

i have to ask, why is construction costs so outrageous in the US? here, labor costs ~$6-8/day, on an average the cost of construction per Sqft is around inr 2000-3500 or $25-$44 /sqft. there are resources that say usa average costs around $100-$200.

that is a lot confusing because the article mentions $837000/150=5580 sqft. is that a good size home for homeless?
Ukraine had been interested in joining NATO and the EU for 10 years now. The west has used this conflict very well but that is not the reason for the conflict. The reason for the conflict is entirely in Putin's head.
> This is literally a public health crisis.

Was and could be again. Not “is.”
Why would he nuke if he didn't? It has no benefit to him.

No rational agent is going to use nukes. And no diplomacy and leniency towards tyranny will save us from the crazy ones.
I used to volunteer on Wikipedia's private help desk (OTRS). I saw this exact scenario happen once. A volunteer can try removing the image with some boring edit comment to avoid drawing attention. Or you can comment something like "Image replaced per OTRS ticket 3432984324" or reach out to an admin.
Auditory Beat Stimulation and Its Effects on Cognition and Mood States (2015)
Yes, there was! And there are even some similarities.
My understanding is that they focused on collecting valuable pages from the web. In comparison, we are focused on collecting valuable moments from podcasts :)
> [...]
types were not remotely the most common type of problem I ever ran into, and certainly not "every" bug.

That's a typical response from dynamic typing advocates, but the response is that in a language with a good type system, many more things can be type errors than would be in a dynamically typed one.

For example, from my time writing Ruby, trying to call methods on `nil` was an incredibly common error, but this is simply a type error in some more modern statically typed languages (including Kotlin and Swift).
My heroku app was back up again as of about 100 seconds before this comment timestamp.

My app was down about 35 minutes total, according to my monitoring.
CA has both cronyism and poor quality.
This is not a story about government waste, it's a story about the high cost of building housing. If you want this price to be lower, lower the general cost of housing. The median sale price in Los Angeles is about 1 million dollars, and new construction sells for more. New construction at $837k is a comparative deal. Also, if you read the report, a significant part of the cost is intragovernmental transfers, i.e. they are charging themselves all the usual impact fees for water and sewer and whatnot.
It can be useful, but you have to take it with a grain of salt. A perfect example is the recent Facebook (Meta) outage. When that happened, Downdetector showed that ATT, Verizon, and T-Mobile all had issues. They didn't, it was just Facebook and users mentioned or otherwise claimed that it was their mobile carrier.
Presumably, the Indian immigrant populations discussed above would belong to upper middle classes, by virtue of being able to immigrate at all. But also, the sheer scale of Indian population can mean we are talking about a couple hundred million people easy in India whose lifestyle is no longer conducive to the amount of ghee they were used to eating.
If the goal really was to get as many people off the streets as possible, why don’t our builds look more like the dorms at ucla with shared facilities instead of private apartments with a kitchen built and bathroom built into every unit? Follow the money and see that this is a cash cow for certain developers and nothing more.
Heroku runs on AWS, so it would be an AWS attack of some sort. But AWS in general seems to be up from what I can tell, so I'm feeling like it's not a cyberattack, and just a Heroku specific problem.
> Because war doesn't really have an upside

Putin thinks there is an upside - It will deter west from integrating Ukraine into NATO. In a way this makes sense. West just don't want to deal with a Russian headache like this.