skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The homeless problem was exacerbated by a housing shortage, not by people thinking that there should be a better solution to people's problems than sewage in the streets. SF spends a ton of money keeping people out of homelessness through rent assistance, and this is some of the most effective public money that can be spent to help with the problem. But even more effective would be to stop the ever rising costs by allowing more people to live in the city, and allowing them to spend their own money to construct this new housing. High homelessness rates are not caused by drugs, or by mental illness. High homelessness rates are caused by artificially constrained housing and the ever increasing prices that this sort of market creates.

I fear that by embracing the status quo, refusing to allow homeless shelters, refusal to allow housing for anyone, really, that there will be a growing anti-homeless backlash. Otherwise normal people are upset that there is no solution year after year to the displacement and misery. People are becoming tired of pols claiming that they care, claiming that they will do something, only to have those same pols reject the obvious solutions to reduce homelessness. I seriously fear for the increased human toll that will result from continued inaction housing.
I think the easiest solution would be tie all infrastructure funds railroads receive with the delays Amtrak incurred on their tracks due to freight trains. Do it to many times and you lose out all funding for the rest of the year.

Trying to block Amtrak from services should automatically incur a funding pause for those tracks.
Analysis of Roman coins uncovers evidence of financial crisis
How about their export file? What happens if/when this software disappears?
Islam is hugely important for explaining the failures of the US and Soviet Union in being able to exercise influence in the region. It provided ideological resistance to the spread of communism which largely explains communism's failure in the region[1]. It played a role in the overthrow of the US-friendly Shah in Iran, and that's in small part because it is a non-secular religion and so it can easily substitute for nationalism (although those two get intertwined) as a mobilizing political force. It's played a large role in the failure of US policy in Iraq post-Saddam, due to the sectarian conflict brewing between the now-dominant Shia and the Sunnis who feel displaced in society following the purging of anyone that was aligned with the Baathists. Although it's still an open question in my mind whether it's just a regular tribal marker (similar to national or ethnic identity) or if it is something beyond that.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/opinion/muslim-communism....
This is just the first part of the scientific method to create an hypothesis/theory. Unfortunately, the next part--testing the theory--is rather difficult. Making it worse, the final part is to reliably be able to recreate the results in subsequent testing.

With this particular set of tests, the only winning move is not to play.
> For X number of people that hold an opinion on you, 33% will support you, 33% don't care, and 33% will dislike you. 1% of the opinions may change you

I've had my fair share of 15-minutes of fame online. I will tell you that 80% of people don't care and the 20% of people who do either really love your stuff or constantly sling shit at you for no reason other than envy or to prove you wrong.

You do get these 1% life-changing gems though where someone will email or message you saying you changed their life in some way. They always outweigh the trolls.

On-top of that, developers and software/tech types are just generally hard to please. Especially when it comes to community things and when they feel said community is being "threatened". People would get very territorial over meetups that I created for similar dev groups and provide similar feedback when they would hardly ever show up nor help pay for any of the pizza/swag. Lots of entitlement for the spectators vs. those who are actually in the arena.
> no, it's actually worthwhile. [...] Households account for like 43%[1] of gas consumption in Germany

no it isn't.

does Germany produce the smartphones its citizens use? does it mine the rare earth minerals inside those phones? to pretend that we originate from inside of imaginary lines on a map and therefore should only be concerned with national issues is false. our world is one whole and we are all children of the same tribe.

Global North capitalists hoard science, send commoditized 'intellectual property' recipes for black boxed hardware to the Global South, collect rents on those recipes while not physically producing anything themselves... all while plundering the resources and labor/life-energy of people in the Global South.

this is a dirty rentierist black-box technological hellworld through and through. causing ecological and social damage and externalizing responsibility/costs is the name of the game here.

adding this as a source these highlights from a recent paper (especially the last point is relevant to this convo):

• Rich countries rely on a large net appropriation of resources from the global South.

• Drain from the South is worth over $10 trillion per year, in Northern prices.

• The South’s losses outstrip their aid receipts by a factor of 30.

• Unequal exchange is a major driver of underdevelopment and global inequality.

• The impact of excess resource consumption in the North is offshored to the South.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802...
Overextending and Unbalancing Russia

Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10014.html
Overlooked Problems
> perhaps to tweak said flow.

Yeah, that was the goal of my opener.

I'm happy with my set up but there's always "unknown unknowns". I use like 50 Vim plugins but never felt the urge to add more functionality to my shell because it feels great as is with just the 2 I mentioned. I was hoping maybe someone would suggest something really useful that I wasn't aware of.
Is Virtue Signalling a Vice?
Cities around the world did something similar (and didn't just trolled) during the pandemic. A lot of people had the same idea while seeing all these empty buildings.

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/07/15/downtown-hotel-tu...

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-requisi...

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/dartmouth-hotel-to-be-converted-...

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/10/12/toronto-has-2500...
I believe I may have run into this issue trying to get an old IDE hard drive from a NEC PC-9800 computer to load elsewhere. Truthfully, I had more issues than just the capacity being terribly wrong, but I bet that does explain how that happened.

I wonder if then, there is a particularly good IDE controller for this use…
> If "US training" is such a big deal, what the hell happened in Afghanistan?

I think if anything Afghanistan shows the strengths of the US military in regime change. Where the US failed is where many empires fail, in long-term occupation. But the initial assault was a success, and I would imagine US military training is very effective when it comes to toppling governments.
I can’t imagine the chaos among product org caused by Elon’s recent Tweeets. It’ll have thrown their planning completely off gear.
> A bit manipulative

No. That would require a theory of mind, intention to deceive and a lot of cognitive abilities that cats don't have.

The cat simply learned to walk you to the food bowl.
Is there an argument, if you zoom far enough out, they are both strategic powerplays one military, one economic, but both with the same aim to increase influence? Especially relevant if you follow the arguments in here about the US being on the decline and China on the ascendency:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8

It's hard to see how the US's more divisive approach can beat China's more inclusive one. I assume the reasons for this, as mentioned above, tie into the different setups, America with a huge military/industrial complex and China with a much better infrastructure track record (e.g. compare the high speed rail networks in both countries).

Gross simplifications obviously, but maybe the argument still holds?

Disclaimer, not read the WSJ article due to paywall.
Huh. I knew the common peanut was a legume but has no idea most of the other nuts are botanical fruits/drupes. In my container, the only real nut is the hazelnut
But why Twitch? Seems like YouTube would be the place to get eyeballs on this, if not in place of Twitch, along with it.
I used a proxy like this for a few years, though in my case it was to handle spam. I based my work on this extensible / plugin-based perl daemon:

http://smtpd.github.io/qpsmtpd/

I'd reject spam at SMTP time, but also capture the rejected messages, so that users could view them in an online quarantine. Worked pretty well, though I think these days the original perl-based project has been reworked into a nodejs thing:

https://haraka.github.io/about/
I'd suggest a read of https://everything2.com/user/sensei for one such tale.
> "That's my leg" or "that's my ear" seems a reasonable discovery for a cat. I doubt that there was a deep existential discovery because it happened in a mirror.

It does, except that mirrors are not truly a natural phenomenon (most animals, contrary to literature, never really see their reflection in the water, only a shadow). So there is a chance that something more fundamental and novel is going on in the cat's mind.

And in most people's experiences and the view of science, cats do not appear to ever understand it is them in the mirror, whereas other animals (some crows for example) definitely do.

Of course cats know they have ears in the sense that they can touch them themselves. And they know other cats have ears because they can observe them. The question is whether they understand that their ears are the same concept as other cats' ears.

This cat appears very clearly to be learning that, in real time.

Whereas other cats don't ever do this in mirrors. They try to reach the cat in the mirror, they try to outpace it, they try to attack it. They don't usually look in the mirror and then touch their own heads or bodies, and they are not known to be able to pass the mirror dot test, where only understanding that the reflection is actually _them_ should allow them to pass.

This cat looks very much like it could pass the mirror-dot test, and that could be of interest to science.

(Though given how sensitive cats are to things placed on their bodies, how routinely they clean their own faces, and the presence of whiskers on their face, it may actually be impossible to apply the mirror dot test in a way that is meaningful)
One of my cats looks me in the eyes through my bathroom mirror on a nearly daily basis, often meowing at me while doing so. He also likes nuzzling his face up against mine while our faces are close to the mirror, almost like he enjoys seeing us cuddling as much as actually cuddling.
Nope. Realistically YES. I worked in some less than ideal places in my career, but even the ones I quit, this wouldn’t realistically happen.

A junior being able to delay a process for a month means gross incompetence from everyone else involved.

We as developers have the duty to push back against stupidity in the workplace. The labour market is in our favour, those companies should die.
Tried it (Calm, Headspace) several times but it didn't really work for me; what worked for me instead is just using Otter.AI to make voice memos and so that helped me to get things out of my head.
Well, people are preoccupied with children with the recent abuse video of (reportedly arrested) Russian soldiers and small children in the war zone.
What would happen if NATO just didn't respond to a Russian first strike?
No, I installed it and saw they offer a subscription. There is no one off payment, they offer a yearly VIP package for £35.99.
George Lakoff: Moral Politics [video]
the stainless yes, no paint shop.

> Well we have this things called Ethernet and PoE. Works pretty well for me

maybe I’m just being nit picky, but Poe isn’t power over the same data lines, it a separate set of wires in the same insulation jacket carrying power. I don’t see Tesla switching away from CAN to flex ray or something custom.
Somehow this seems to say distrust the user. I get the drawbacks that the user is the weakest link here. However, is there still a method to trust the user to hold the data even if they don't know the secret during the authentication. For instance, I have very long complicated generated in a password manager. I still have ownership over the passwords and in a sense the user is still trusted even if they don't have those passwords/secret memorized.

I don't think for the average user a hardware token is going to become mainstream, nor do I think biometrics is appropriate due to the privacy aspect and spoofing techniques.
It's proof by contradiction. Either you are against bombing innocents or you are not. By holding a stance that only Russia bombing innocents is wrong you are not only for bombing innocents you are also a russophobe at the same time.
I just did a quick google for the PS/2 mouse/keyboard protocol. It looks pretty straightforward. It's something that a mere mortal like me might be able to implement, or better yet, be available as a peripheral on a microcontroller in the same way that SPI, I2C and UART is.

The USB protocol looks to be a whole mass of complexity. So if you want to write your own toy OS then you're going to hate the very existence of USB.

And what is actually broken about PS/2 keyboards/mice anyway? I only ever want to plug in one keyboard at a time. Being able to plug it into any slot doesn't really buy me anything that a dedicated slot doesn't.

The trend in computing is to make things more complicated, not less. We keep shovelling the spaghetti on. We just can't help ourselves.

In the early days they just wanted things to work. Sure, I don't necessarily want brutal simplicity with a lot of jagged, flesh-tearing edges. But, then again, I don't want the big steaming pile of complexity with dubious payoffs.

I have some vain wish that maybe RISC-V will take off in a big way, and some clever operator will come out with a computer that takes 80's simplicity and moves it into the 21st century. In fact, I'd hope for something simpler, yet more powerful.
Why so? If you don't have second factors in your PW store, then any service which actually implements MFA properly shouldn't let anyone have access to anything.
Canada made it illegal to wear a mask while protesting a decade or so ago (a rule that was probably not enforced during the freedom convoy protests because of Covid).

Imagine a world where every single protestor is on record forever as being at x and y events, leading to profiling and being turned down for jobs and future police harassment. Protesting anything is extremely dangerous from here on out
The Sun research is pretty outdated, that was probably around 20 years ago that happened. I don't think any of it is relevant anymore.

There are still ongoing user studies happening in GNOME and KDE. It's probably not anywhere near as rigorous as at Apple, and I doubt you can easily assign a dollar value to it, but it does happen.
I’ve not used headspace specifically all that much, but I do think meditation is very helpful. You don’t necessarily need an app for it[0], but they can help provide some structure.

[0]: There are books you can use as guides instead, or local meditation centers, or to start: every morning sit for 10 minutes with your back straight, eyes closed, and focus on the physical sensations of breathing. You’ll get distracted; when you notice, just begin focusing on the breath again.
Interesting question. Do we still have Internet infrastructural problems left?

Akamai solved POPs (point of presence). Equinix solved DC. Both are matching towards table stakes in the context of internet infrastructural. (Not business models). We have lots of under-sea cables / international expansions on-going and planned. And it is now more of a cost efficiency problem, not an infrastructural problem.

We have a decent Ethernet roadmap [1], Terabit Ethernet, Petabit under-sea cable by 2030. If anything I see the only internet's infrastructural problems being closer to the consumer / client side of things where Fibre Cables are not being deployed. But I sense the pandemic has changed a lot of perspective on fast internet and Government are now willing to put more pressure into making FTTH as requirement.

If we look at Mobile, even carriers were a little too optimistic in Data usage projection. 5G proved to be sufficient enough in terms of Tower capacity with enough headroom for expansion without requiring Small / Nano Cells.

It might be different set of infrastructural problems, but more regulations on internet in a per country / jurisdictions basis, which would require Internet infrastructure to adapt to these scenario.

[1] https://ethernetalliance.org/technology/roadmap/
Try this quick self-retro to re-align and reboot your 2022 goals
Ask HN: How do you keep up with replies to comment threads on HN?
Hi HN aficionados,

I was wondering if anyone has a good system for keeping track of replies to comments you posted on HN. As far as I am aware, HN doesn’t offer any type of notification mechanism that would include notifications for replies to your comment (it would also be nice to be able to subscribe to all comments for certain posts). The lack of a notification mechanism means you need to manually monitor your comments page and see if there were replies. I was curious if anyone has a good solution to this.
If you’re a Twitter employee who doesn’t like Elon, he probably wants you to feel like quitting.
The important next step is to tweet meaningless nonsense. So short that it can't be wrong, but so vague your followers will create their own illusion of your brilliance.
You type in the word “site:”. That is crafting.
Elon if you are reading this please change yourself ASAP for HarryHirsch.
Yeah I'm surprised people here are treating this so seriously. Not much to see here, the joke is pretty mild. Seems like people are having a hard time accepting his new Twitter role? I guess I might too if I didn't think Twitter was such a hopeless cesspool.
Gurman: Apple could announce two new Macs at WWDC 2022
Just curious, what are the advantages using w3m instead of eww?
Swipe typing appears to substantially worse now than it was 10 years ago.

In that sentence, "typing", "now" and "then" all needed correcting from the first guess, and in this one also "sentence" and "correcting".

All this AI and they can't predict a word from a set of nearby keys?
Isn't the joke that he has passive shares, but is able to push a vote through the board without involving them?
> There is another "cat theory of mind" video where a mother cat purposefully and deliberately retrieves an object its kitten wants to play with, that scientists have talked about on twitter, but I can't find it.

You are likely thinking of https://youtu.be/whVMP6BqcqU
It's not going so well for Ukrainians, and it remains to be seen for the Russians, but recent events have been a triumph huge success for those particular foreigners whose primary goal is selling more weapons manufactured in USA.
They are very fragile. I’m here to join the other grey comments in laughing at them.
Ask HN: Why isn't Go adopted as Course:101 in academia when it adopted C?
When start ups hire execs
The risk is overstated, many people have used without any issue and there is no control group as well, those programmers might have issues either way, Emacs or not.
Twitter is permanent work from home. He's making a joke about the office being empty and the streets outside the office being filled with homeless people.
The goal posts move because society evolves. Why aren’t encyclopedias, deep blue, or the internet already smarter than any of us?

They are an no one cares that they are. We just use them and move on. That’s not what society finds interesting. It’s not society rebelling, it’s the engineers being mad we don’t look at their creations as important as they think. You thought you had a hook on society to effect change as you saw, and society simply ate it up and moved on.
If you think art or creativity have been automated then we must be looking at two very different "AI" fields.
Show HN: Mindboo – Spaces for your mind to develop, chat, play, and connect
Quite a few "new" languages target the JVM and thus use JVM GCs, which are all state of the art. E.g. Kotlin, Clojure, Scala. And of course then there are the new implementations of other languages, like what Chris works on (Ruby), which also run on the JVM.

Most new languages are either high level languages and running on the JVM, or they're attempts to compete with C/C++ like Rust, Swift, Zig etc and thus don't use GC at all. I don't think many people use Boehm anymore.
I switched from Evernote to Joplin
I don't know but if the military didn't dominate Pakistan, I wonder if there would be such a regime right now.

Even if Pakistan breaks the mold, there are lots of Muslim countries that don't. Even actual Arab countries (as in the Arabian peninsula) have dictatorships that are far more secular than the population and exert violence to control Islamist sentiment.
I tried headspace for a while. I think it's possible it could be helpful but what really helped me at the time was getting in the habit of a regular practice of silent meditation. I found this much better than guided meditation and ultimately just used headspace as a timer.

The common recommendation, which I also now believe is correct, is that meditation will only work if you do it as close to daily as possible and the sessions must last pretty long, like 40-60 minutes. I found that when I managed this level of practice, I was actually developing the skills and getting somewhere with meditation. Doing 10 minutes guided meditation every once in a while when you feel stressed won't bring much. It's like trying to get fit, it won't happen if you just do a few pushups once in a while, you need a pretty strict routine.

So, like most good things in life, you really have to work for it. And that's not something that's easy to sell in app form.
Not meaningless, merely ambiguous. Twitter’s pithy format expedites this bigly. Entire site is one big series of Rorshach tests.
Well, in fairness, the industry has got quite far with "everyone writes JARs". There are a heck of a lot of them out there. And now with Truffle you can mix JARs, Python packages, Ruby packages, JS packages ..
One of the most forward-thinking prescient cultural predictions of the modern era just keeps becoming more and more true:

What we have is a glimpse of how these skirmishes will unfold in the future—all the rhetorical weaponry and siegecraft of an internet comment section brought to bear on our culture, not just at the fringes but at the center. What we're seeing now is a rehearsal, where the mechanisms of a toxic and inhumane politics are being tested and improved. Tomorrow's Lee Atwater will work through sock puppets on IRC. Tomorrow's Sister Souljah will get shouted down with rape threats. Tomorrow's Tipper Gore will make an inexplicably popular YouTube video. Tomorrow's Willie Horton ad will be an image macro, tomorrow's Borking a doxing, tomorrow's Moral Majority a loose coalition of DoSers and robo-petitioners and scat-GIF trolls—all of them working feverishly in service of the old idea that nothing should ever really change.

https://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-...
Centralization and decentralization. We need an internet that serves the people first.
If using a regular modern browser is a superset of the experience of w3m, why do I want to add the extra level of inconvenient indirection?