skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a problem Seattle can solve on its own -- whether resident, business owner, police, mayor, or otherwise. Hyperfocusing on RV vs concrete blocks is missing the forest for the trees. This is the new face of urban America, where rampant wealth inequality makes it so that many people have no viable alternative to living on the streets. Instead of depression-era tenements, we have luxury apartments next to tent cities. There is a lot more money these days, but it's so concentrated in the hands of so few that everyone else is left fighting over scraps. Seattle is dying. San Francisco is dying. Portland is dying. All victims of their own successes, that perfect storm of a gilded, top-heavy society crushing those beneath them, combined with public policy that has turned a blind eye to decreasing real purchasing power for decades, all veneered over by a thin layer of new money and bravado.

Blame drugs, blame political opponents, blame the government, blame developers, blame tech bros, blame whatever or whoever you want... but at the end of the day, still no solution is in sight. There is no widespread push for affordable housing or a pathway out of poverty, no real long-term care for people fighting addictions or mental illness. There is only the relentless push for profit for a few as society crumbles around them and more and more Americans get displaced.

It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. We're circling the drain with no end in sight.
Note that we actually have wind and solar right now.
To me it seems that for a while Apple has become a bit Microsoft-ish with iOS (certainly influenced by its immense popularity) in that they never clean out the old stuff, only add in new stuff on top of it. Exhibit A: Stage manager living on top of but not replacing the previous multitasking features. On your point I totally agree, app usage should be unified with focus mode.
New York in the 80s also got the other part of the puzzle: they enforced the laws. The people who are breaking the law - all of them, not just the politically convenient ones to go after - need to be fined and/or arrested.

Those blocks will come down really quickly if business owners started getting fined for putting them up and van-dwellers started finding their houses getting towed. However, the city likely can't do one without the other.
> I get that there are issues and unknowns, but it’s better than the current death march, isn’t it?

This is really what the whole argument boils down to: nuclear, or global warming. There's really not real, feasible renewable answer. It takes over 1300 wind turbines to match the power output of a single reactor. Solar? 1-3 Million panels. Most civilian facilities operate 3-6 reactors. Fission is the only technology that can make a dent in co2 emissions quickly. The only viable argument against nuclear is "cost" and that is only because of the ridiculous level of regulation and litigation surrounding nuclear power.
500 us is still 2.5 orders of magnitude slower than Commodore 64 from 1982
Satin Island and Remainder by Tom McCarthy had me livid and apoplectic! His writing style is devoid of emotion which is what triggered that for me. I’m reading his current novel Making of Incarnation and it is similarly emotionless but I’m actually enjoying the technological themes and plot line, so there’s that. It can be a real effort to read his books, they’re not the most accessible.

The novel that touched me the most was Naguib Mahfouz “Cairo Trilogy”. It’s a family saga of an Egyptian family. I’m middle eastern (not Egyptian) so I could relate with all the characters and their lives. Plus, Mahfouz is a wonderful storyteller and can craft characters and stories so beautifully. I was in university when I first read the novels and remember I would have dreams with characters from the novel. No other novel really bore into my subconscious like that.

Most recently, this past year I read Omar El-Ekkad’s novel “what strange paradise”. This also impacted me since it concerns a small refugee boy from the Middle East. It’s a quick and accessible read.
Whens his OS coming out? I'm stuck in August 25 1991 and it hasn't come out yet
The author posted this in a recent discussion on GitHub [0]. Thought I'd share it to get more opinions on the matter.

Personally speaking it irks me a little when different terms are made ownership by someone. OSI is doing great work but is it considered an authority when it comes to defining what open source is? In other words, can open source exist without OSI? I certainly think so.

For example, what does it mean when Sentry says their licensing scheme is not acceptable by OSI [1]? Does it change the meaning of open source?

It's really confusing.

[0] https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook/discussions/747#d...

[1] https://open.sentry.io/licensing/
Why did Turbo Modula-2 produce a binary that was 3x as fast as Pascal? Is M2 more suitable for aggressive optimization? Was the M2 compiler just better, with the tradeoff of a much longer compilation time (9x)?

M2 seems like a forgotten language. It was what my intro to CS course was taught in back in 1989, and I really haven't seen much mention of it since.. We used some compiler on Macs that was super flaky. I remember the Macs would sometimes lock solid when compiling M2. I also remember grumbling because Pascal seemed to compile faster on the Apple IIs back in highschool than M2 did on the Macs in college. Thankfully we switched to C on SunOS or Ultrix for the upper level classes.
A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
For me F/LOSS is a perfect example of how anarchist philosophy let’s perfect be the enemy of good; practical solutions become as bad as no solution.

Most end users are just happy there’s a ton of free, quality code to run and study. Admittedly that’s only the case because of the FSF, but I think they should just accept that “open source” is a perfectly good term to describe software that is free and you can download the source.

Everything else is licensing nuances e.g, politics
I couldn't find that number. Is it hidden in the figures or did you calculate it off something?
If all of those alternatives mentioned were superior options, they would be industry standard. They're not because of their big gapping flaws you pointed out in most and hand-waved away as not a big deal.
> How did people ever manage to do anything before k8s?

a lot of scripts crammed together that could be broken by any single dev
The land is so valuable, the city is giving it away to everyone with a hunk of metal that happens to have four rubber wheels. And I'm not even joking, cities of course do that all in the name of public parking no matter the opportunity cost. I guess unless the undesirables park on it, then concrete blocks will also do (everything but housing will do, presumably!).
An abstract is supposed to be a summary. Many people will read only an abstract since they think they are just getting a shorter version of something and stop there
San Francisco spends $61k/year/tent [1] on homeless tents, which is more than median income in the US. The problem is not funding. The problem is that the local population would rather spin performative activism instead of taking real action (i.e. institutionalizing mentally ill people and forcing people off the streets and to stop using heroin and meth).

[1] https://sfist.com/2021/03/04/insanely-it-is-costing-san-fran...
PEX is banned in California. I think most other states its normal now.
Unplugged the sim module in my gmc. Never thought about it since.
Yes — that’s a sad fantasy.

But it’s just that: a fantasy, born from ignorance.

These are mobile drug dens often inhabited by people with long criminal records who throw trash all over the area — not middle class people down on their luck.
Logical fallacy: Every storage technology is scaled up/down linearly in terms of cost from a daily to monthly or even higher cycle

Another thing: Demand based power consumption
theres a lotta bullshit but also theres some interesting studies that get posted sometimes. like any other place it aint all good but kinda a good meta feed.

probs not the best place to start tho ig
The people of Mariupol are being disappeared by the Russians and don’t have any food or water.

Mariupol was peaceful before the Russians Nazis invaded. You can try and shout about Azov all you want but it might be better to do that in a war where the Russian Nazi PMC (Wagner) isn’t committing war crimes left right and centre.
Drone explosion hits Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters
A lot of companies, Google included, seem to lack focus and vision. Google is doing a million things and seems half committed to most of them. How many products and services have Google launched, neglected, and then killed in short time?

Look at Stadia. What was that? Why even try if you aren’t going to follow through.
Soylent Green, apparently.

Edit: I just realized this after writing this comment, but Soylent Green is supposed to take place in 2022. Life imitating art I suppose...
Wasn't there an article about situations like this? Something about "The Elves leave Middle Earth."?

It's going to be interesting to watch what happens over the next year or two.
Amazon also burns through employees so quickly that they may be forced to resort to these sources. But they will burn through them as well.
> and now that the US seems to be seriously exploring a viable alternative

This phrase sounds weird to me, given that US explored nuclear power more than 50 years ago, and is also exploring other viable alternatives now (wind and solar).
Build a new city somewhere just for homeless people to sleep on the sidewalks in.

Maybe name it New Detroit
> there definitely seems to be some quality of immigrants that makes them more successful entrepreneurs

There are around 45 million immigrants in the US. 319 of them founded startups valued at $1 billion or more. The number who did not found startups valued at $1 billion or more is... around 45 million.

Many immigrants do have hunger. I mean literally, not enough money for food. We can't just look at the successful immigrants and ignore the unsuccessful ones.
Why does that seem to be 'too strongly'? Just like how being very fit requires some level of guilt with eating cake, so too does avoiding overuse of smartphones.
What’s wrong with Wiktionary, which the author used for this?
The Chinese government is cracking down on debt-fueled property developers.
How is it a different story? Those wires still need to terminate and will oxidize at the connections and produce a lot of heat.
The hand writing was just bad. It wasn't full chicken scratch, but the idea that you would look at negative comments, look at the content and think it's fine, then aimlessly acuse readers of being young is rather absurd.

One way to improve would be to trace a font like comic sans or ames (I'm not actually a font connoisseur). The tracing would be for keeping the kerning and spacing good, not for literal cloning. You can do your own style, but your style itself still needs to be legible.

You can also make your own font file from your hand writing.

Pinch zoom didn't work on this website in Firefox for Android. This would also compound the existing problem.
For a busted dam to destroy a city, the city necessarily would have been built on land that was literally underwater until before the dam.

This isn’t common, to say the least.
I'd love to use this service if it was offered without crypto mining and it didn't pay hosts in Ethereum. A community Blender farm could be nice. One that mostly mines coins is not for me.
Clinical features and novel presentations of human monkeypox
Is there really a place where there is equivalent power from solar and/or wind alone?
You don't remember the late Stephen Conroy of the Labour Party who is responsible for single-handedly imposing sweeping Internet censorship laws onto the Australian public and mandatory ISP level filtering with the public not having the right to know what has been blacklisted?

From the horse's mouth – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...:

> In May 2008, the government commenced an $82 million "cybersafety plan" _which included an additional mandatory filter with no opt-out provision_. This ISP-based filter aims to stop adults from downloading content that is illegal to possess in Australia, such as child pornography or materials related to terrorism.

> In March 2009, Stephen Conroy dismissed suggestions that the Government would use the filter to crack down on political dissent as "conspiracy theories". He stated that the filter would only be used to remove "refused classification" (RC) content, using the same rationale as existing television, radio and print publications, and that the Senate could be relied upon to provide rigorous assessment of any proposed legislation.

> On 9 November 2012, Stephen Conroy shelved the proposed mandatory filter legislation in favour of existing legislation, touting that _it was successful in compelling the largest ISPs to adopt a filter. As a result, 90% of Australian Internet users are censored from accessing some web-based content_.
I do my damn best to ensure that I am no more productive in the office than I am at home :)

You can't use the stick to make people more productive/less lazy, unless you're watching them 8hrs a day 5 days a week.
Perhaps there focus and productivity will improve if they had a proper vision to work towards from upper management.
FLOSS is not an anarchist philosophy, since it relies on the state for enforcement.
5nm is still the bleeding edge, and chip fab machines can be replaced.
I have also been keeping an eye on [0] and [1]. Super interesting but just it seems like a deeper rabbit hole to get production-ready that I'm willing to bargain for at this point.

[0]: https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/03/07/qubes-lite-with-kv...

[1]: https://github.com/talex5/wayland-proxy-virtwl
> Copper is used for heavy-gauge electrical wire. For many of these applications, aluminum is much less expensive and arguable superior (it’s lighter and more flexible).

For which applications? I've been told to avoid any houses with aluminum wiring because of how dangerous it is.
So they can make money charging you fees when you go under the minimum? /S
230/240v does have it's advantages, primarily being able to use smaller diameter wire for the same current carrying capacity.

But 50 Hz as a system frequency is just wrong. It results in oddities like running your railroad at 16-2/3 Hz.
Was curious about the article, so searched for it. Pretty sure this is it: https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
Productivity to build what? To do what? To make the world better how? Optimizing ads better?

The difference between an Elon and a Sundar is on full display here.
But Google doesn't hire engineers to produce anything of value. They hire engineers to keep them from working at a potential competitor.
This is, in my experience, not true. "Most" is a very strong qualifier here.
Thanks, how common are 30 year fixed mortgages? In NZ, I've never seen a bank offer a fixed rate for any longer than 5 years, and 5 years tends to be 1.5 - 2% above a 6/12 month fixed rate term.
That famous tech called cgroup was actually a Google contribution. But I agree that k8s is essentially Google's step to make themselves relavant in Cloud. They have missed the initial opportunity by promoting their PaaS AppEngine instead of something IaaS like ec2 in the beginning of the cloud competition, so Google just play the open-source game and keep releasing stuffs that can be used in all three clouds to lure people to use GCP. But then k8s is a very nice piece of tech that allows one to manage large clusters without vendor lock-in.
> Meh, since everything on your phone is digital, loosing it and restoring everything including your digital wallet is a few taps away after buying a new phone.

In this thread where the assumption is cashless & wallet-less, I have to ask: buying a new phone with what?

Seems like you'd need a friend to spot you a few hundred until you got your access back…
I get what you're saying, however I disagree with the characterization. I don't want to be free of making all decisions, I just don't see much value in deciding mundane things like what turns to take or how fast to drive or where to park. I would rather spend my time deciding what work I will do, who I will love and befriend, what I will learn, and so on.
We understand that the crypto payouts aren't for everyone. We started with crypto since many of the hardware owners on our network are crypto miners with multiple graphics cards, but it's on our roadmap to offer payouts in USD in the near future!
Uh… what free market?

Seattle heavily restricts development of housing, from zoning to committees that can veto buildings for the wrong facade to regulations that drive up expense like mandatory unit size and parking.

You’re witnessing the failure of “feel good” government regulation.
The 1960s were a long time ago. It's pretty sad that "as good as the 1960s" is now an unobtainable aspirational goal.
you answered your own question -- OSI activity exists exactly to publicize LICENSE and reduce confusion.
> cities of course do that all in the name of public parking no matter the opportunity cost

Cities do not give away public parking. Either you have to pay for it (metered parking), it's provided "free" to customers only (i.e. paid for by the profit margin on goods and services), or it's only available to people who live in an area (i.e. those people paid property tax, either as owners or renters).

> everything but housing will do, presumably

Housing doesn't solve rampant drug addiction, theft, mental illness, and laziness. The article in the OP literally cites trash accumulating, rats running rampant, and vehicle fires spontaneously occurring. That is not the environment that a rational person occupies.
Nicely done.

It seems to put the "transitive verb" definition at the top, followed by the noun, even if the verb-usage is less common. Is there metadata that indicates which is more common, to adjust the order?
Well now you've sent me down a whole other rabbit hole wondering about who these people are who keep their hot water at 180 degrees or about how much chlorine constitutes high levels.

Fascinating stuff, thanks for the insight.
Chicago finally did that couple years back, parking meters in the loop are making minimum wage.

It's still crazy to me that I can park a block away from the world trade center for $0 (there's usually open spots around the federal reserve on the weekend), when the real estate there goes for $1500+ per sq ft
Why should governments get to decide which words we use? Unless you are a plusgood citizen making agitprop for the proles.
Would you do the same for someone working at Facebook? Someone who makes alcohol?

It’s a moral stance and those are personal, not societal.
Is there any current support for this fundamental rights/free speech movement?

As an American, I can tell you just because a movement should exist doesn’t mean it will.
Lol, their problem isn't their employees, it's their leadership and management. They've been stagnant for a decade.
Yep - we've run many switchback tests so I'm happy to chat more about it. It's a lot more akin to what you're building here, from a stats point of view.
I'm confused as to how this is at all uncharitable, here is a direct quote from the commenter: "I guess that would work for a lot of people, but I'm personally not attracted to bald men. So I think I'd prefer if my husband got the transplants, I think our only problem is money... but the more I think about it, it'll probably be worth it for our marriage in the long run."

Is it being uncharitable to assume that she thinks that her marriage will be negatively affected by her husband going bald? She specifically states she's not attracted to bald men, and says she'd be willing to spend money they don't currently have for him to get a hair transplant in order to save their marriage "in the long run".
Well if it was $100k to purchase and place them, then you're paying $1000 for the block itself, and for each one to be transported and placed. Not saying it wasn't grift, but it's not as simple as $1000 - $75 = $925 in the bank.
Here's a table in a 1966 book showing the different keywords across implementations: https://archive.org/details/breuer-dictionary-for-computer-l...

(It uses a weird glyph for NOT that I've never seen elsewhere, probably a limitation of typesetting.)

Edit: Interesting to note that the English Electric KDF9's Algol used * at the beginning of all keywords, I suppose that's to simplify parsing, or maybe just to avoid reserving words.
> That actual Marxist have cultural theories and thus the term “cultural Marxism” is a description of things other than a conspiracy theory

I think you're just looking for the pretty different https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_cultural_analysis with that description.
You don't even have to do that. It takes your city council 15 minutes to pass a nuisance abatement ordinance that says that if there are blocks in front of your business, it's your job to get rid of them, just like it would be your job to clean graffitti off of your building even if you weren't the one who'd painted it.

They can as easily fine a business for not removing the blocks as for placing them, and it's not like there's a question about where the blocks actually are.

It's more a matter of how far you're willing to go.
Maybe Google should just start building cemeteries. They're really good at that.

https://killedbygoogle.com/
It could have provided for 10% of the demand, cost billions of $ and years to build. Unfortunately the campaign against it and referendum were led by a publication which had conflict of interest in hydropower and used the `scare` tactics for people to perceive the risk in a very extreme way...

Morgan Housel talks about this case in his talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9pk3ecuucs

Risk perception ties to the country that you live in, generation you are born and values that are instilled in you based on your surroundings.

All this features are outside of your control pretty much but they dictate a lot even in cases like this...
It means we'll be getting two.
If the van dwellers were being towed nobody would have put up the eco-blocks in the first place.
Thanks for writing accent! It makes my life just a little bit better, and I'm grateful for it.
Also failing to provide reasonable customer support for their successful projects worsens my trust in future projects.
Product = Features and Narrative
Stadia has not been cancelled. It's a rumor. It has traction only because Google has cancelled too many products. Go read the HN thread on it, people there were calling it poorly sourced.
The larger the geography of the grid (tied with HVDC) the more supply and demand average out. This minimizes the need for pumped storage (and its variations). To give just one example the UK is building an underwater HVDC directly between Morocco (solar) and the UK. So the known solutions are already available they just have to be implemented.
I believe I've ABS pipes in the condo in suburban hell, but one cracked and left a pretty nasty mess. The whole development is about 40 years old so maybe it's age related, maybe not. One thing I've learned is that these pipes had a high rate of defects when new.

It's been interesting living in a new-ish apartment building. Everything in the condo was garbage (the early 80s were not kind to construction in the US) assembled reasonably well. Everything in this apartment is pretty reasonable quality assembled by a small army of blind glue sniffing idiots.

My concern with plastic pipes is wildfire. Up in the north bay the municipal water was rendered toxic and unusable after fires got things hot enough so that carcinogens were leeching into the water. That's less of a concern with individual buildings, but it's not fun when a city or water district has to rip everything out of the ground.