skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this were true why are the giant homeless populations almost exclusively in insanely expensive housing markets like SF, LA, NYC?

Drug addiction is far worse in WV yet they don't have a major homeless problem.

Explain this discrepency please if it's all because of drugs
Well, the nerds aren't the super rich here. It's still about public schools and old money and people who studied law or the classics or at least graduated from Oxbridge. The big money in software is all from the world of finance and there's nothing tech about them - no heart or vision except how to make a faster trade.

So who will foster a company that's not going to make money for 10 years?

I think there's also an attitude here that "having failed ever" is a black mark against a person. We really need to believe that experience is helpful and that would require some kind of cultural/personality change which I think are difficult.

Occado is potentially interesting - a lot of technology there - but it has had a lot of the "praise and then trash" kind of attention and it probably just needs to invest a lot more.

Arrival is another interesting one which might or might not make it but we should be hoping that it does and trying hard to enable it.
In my experience doing detailed projections of exactly something like this - with racks full of GPU compute power - the infrastructure has paid itself after one quarter, maybe two, depending on what volume you're at. There very rarely is a reason to use GPU compute on the cloud - and advantages start as quickly as with just one single GPU.
It's crazy to me how long it takes Amazon to notify users that there is even an issue. I think it took 15 minutes for them to acknowledge an issue, thats a lot of time for our services.
The CAPTCHA makers won't be filtering it out, they literally have to build support into their CAPTCHAs in order for the "Automatic Verification" feature to work.
Probably because it has nothing to do with the article. It is derailing the conversation from something interesting (the legality of the war against homelessness) to something unsubstantiated (whether substance abuse is to blame for homelessness, and the role of organized crime). I’m gonna go so far as to say that it is even a little flamebate-y.
> Giving these individuals expensive housing is not going to solve anything.

The "housing first" approach does seem to have a number of successful examples.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First#Evidence_and_out...

> we have a chronic opioid and meth crisis which tips many people over into serious mental illness.

But also the most visible homeless population is not the only homeless population, and people who became homeless through other paths can get stuck. Having a home is really helpful for e.g. getting and keeping a job, resolving or managing health issues, etc.
Before you jump to comment on downvotes, just give it some time. The comment is 13 minutes old as I type this, things can change.

Also, commenting on downvoting is generally frowned upon here. Discuss the article and the comments themselves instead.
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There are people out there (https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/09/sex-work-...) advocating for prostitution as a reasonable career path which should be discussed openly with women who feel undervalued or unfulfilled in their current career.

I don't think people are gonna start plowing each other in public, but I think there's a very real possibility that in a decade or two it could be considered strange and prudish to tell your friends and family that they shouldn't make an OnlyFans. I've seen some spaces online that are already at that point, although it's always hard to know whether online subcultures represent anything in the real world.
Well it's a shame they still want my phone number. I don't wanna give some random company my number if they aren't gonna call me.
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One potential foundation is the tradition of reading the Riot Act. Normally citizens are allowed to move freely and gather. This is suspended during a riot for public safety. Homeless in general and encampments specifically can be seen as also a menace to public health and safety. Observe and record incidents of disruptive behavior, public drug use and pooping, and calls to responders and at certain level issue a warning then take action. These problem cases can cost communities hundreds of thousands. At some point something has to be done.
Is there data showing a migration of homeless people towards SF? Presumably we would see a reduction in homelessness elsewhere if SF was acting as a magnet?
Expressing certain thoughts is already dangerous in some contexts. Not state-actor-is-coming-to-get-you levels of danger just yet, at least for us common folks, but it's already happening and it ain't gonna get better.
great solutions is maybe an overstatement. If you build a bridge that puts everyone else out of business, and later discriminate on what traffic is allowed on the bridge, and after that you put an expensive toll booth on that bridge, that's a problem for everyone else if no one else can compete. At some point, you are doing society a disservice. At some point, great solutions become meager solutions by merit of a monopoly's ownership.

The solution is to make the internet itself resilient to this mode of attack. Not to create a single company big enough to gatekeep and spy on the whole network and to just trust them to act virtuously forever.
Sourcery looks to be a commercial product of some kind whereas I can just `pipx install refurb`
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"Write $POLITICAL_OPPOSITION_PIECE in the style of Hemmingway".

AI fall down go boom.
How did you get them to approve a large amount of Cloud instances / dedicated servers?

I heard they are very stubborn to increase the per user limit of cloud instances.

Also how did you deal with S3? Did you switch to another provider ? Like B2?
I know plenty of homeless people in San Francisco without drug issues. The reason they are on the street or living in their cars or crashing on a friends couch in between either other spot? They cannot afford rent. Both friends I am currently in contact with are also CURRENTLY employed.
I'd guess a significant portion are low(er)-wage technical support folks. When the partners at Hamlin-Hamlin-McGill can't remember their Docusign password they need someone to call.
Maybe this says more about the devs I've worked with than devs as a whole, but most devs I've personally met know next to nothing about servers, and wouldn't be able to set one up if you asked them.
To add what others are saying. I CC-BY all my photos but just because the photo is CC-BY doesn't mean it's safe to use. I don't know all the other "rights" but for example a photo I took of Mickey Mouse, or a movie poster, or a photo I took of some art in a museum may have additional rights issues. Even pictures of buildings

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/known-image-r...

Note: I get that adobe might be wrong here. Whether they are right or wrong on particulars is beside the point. I just linked there because it was clearer than most other search results I found.

Here's another

https://mymodernmet.com/eiffel-tower-copyright-law/
Enough that I had to use it via Fiverr projects to Enterpise in-house projects.
If their AWS spend is $1M/year, it is not as simple as "docker compose up" on bare metal.
Half-Life 2 came out around the same time and I think had better graphics, story, and realistic physics.
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ignoring the plight of the homeless for a second.

these camps are a serious problem for the rest of us in SF that are trying to lead quasi-normal lives. it just cant be acceptable to have dogs trained to harass and attack people running around free on the streets.

i'm hardly a law and order kind of person, but methheads arguing outside your window every night is real problem. it really hard to run a retail business when there are 5-6 seriously messed up people living right outside you door who have reluctantly agreed to keep a tiny path free.

it really sucks to have to pick up their biological waste because they cant be bothered.

as a society, not just the city of SF, we should really wonder what we're trying to accomplish here and how this situation came to exist instead of wondering if there is another rug we can push this all under.
Is this in reaction to the "auto-feed" soldering idea from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982310 ?

As shown in the part 2 follower of the this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrhg5A1a1mU), the whole point is to get the wire hot enough so that solder wicks into it, which is I think a risk of failure with "auto-feed" (besides using too much solder).

But more generally I love the idea from this video of a "workpiece indicator" (WPI at 17:36) as the way you get feedback from the thing you're working on, to ensure that your work is proceeding as intended. I think this is a great general idea, which could also be applied to debugging code, but so far I haven't been able to do web searches that point me to resources about workpiece indicators in craft more generally - do any others have pointers?
I guess it depends on what "real world" means here. These are all things that people would want in the real world, but this collection isn't built for the real world. Am I really going to build my business around a cache service with no meaningful operational documentation? I mean I guess if I need to also get NFTs and Islamic prayer times, this is a compelling package.

But really: much of this is either a) stuff that should be a library, even in a microservice ecosystem or b) could just be a static file (like the list of holidays).
I understand why you might be sceptical but your comment has motivated me to decloak and respond. Fastmail really do provide an excellent product. Like many of the other commentators I moved over to them from Gmail and am very glad I did so. Sometimes things truly are as good as they seem.
And the current approach of leaving them to the streets is failing much much worse in practice. Of the politically and economically viable options, kicking them off the street and sending them to shelter (which they can refuse, but they can't stay on the street) is the best option I have seen. Long term we absolutely need to address the issues that cause homelessness, and I think we are overall heading that direction, but the problems of today need to be addressed with solutions for today.
> but is the IP ownership a big deal compared to the manufacturing?

Yes, it is.
The problem, at least in California, is that there is too much of an incentive for a long-time resident to not sell even if they want to move out permanently. Because they are paying extremely low property taxes that cannot be passed on to the next buyer, so even with high overhead, the efficient outcome is still for them to rent their place out instead of selling. So existing houses go on the market at a very low rate -- often only when the owners die.

Combine this with the number of Bay Area potential buyers who are relatively insensitive to interest rates due to being able to make very large down payments, and of course the lack of new SFH construction relative to SFH demand... I don't think Bay Area SFH prices are actually going to drop much.

I'm more optimistic about affordability of denser housing. I'm unsure how many Americans are actually happy with that, though (which is part of why it's relatively affordable...).
I bet Amazon doesn't regret that they sold more than the customer needed. Amazon wants to eat.
This is the most cynical and heartless response I’ve seen in perhaps ever.
You're confusing terms.

That's a home equity loan, not a cash-out refinance.
I've been homeless without using drugs and without being mentally ill. Honestly I don't see the big deal if you sleep in a tent and use appropriate sanitation. I was always careful to pack in pack out, to respect the community, to not become intoxicated, and to dispose of waste appropriately.

IMO the homeless issue is San Francisco is because they've practically incentivized being homeless by subsidizing the homeless and also making any defense against the crimes of homeless toothless (misdemeanor theft is barely enforced, it is illegal to use violent self defense to defend property, and weapons laws are among the most restrictive in the nation.)

You don't even have to incarcerate them. Just make city policies such that there's no advantage to being homeless in SF, other than maybe the weather.
It seems like they are literally bussing in homeless into San Francisco because of the services and money. It has become a drug distribution hub that is supported by the govt and tax money. There is little to no consequence for peddling drugs on the streets right under the nose of law enforcement.
Some S3 providers can give you free egress when using a CDN.

For example backblaze B2 offers free egress through Cloudflare, Fastly, BunnyCDN.

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666928-Using...
Noteworthy: HN originally though this company was a scam https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18620766
For the alternatives section, there is another way: apply Stripe events directly to your Postgres DB as they occur.

I wrote about this here:

https://table.dog/blog/stripe/how-to/stripe-graphql/
It's unfortunate that they rejected my attempt to create an account because my phone number wasn't from one of their standard providers.
I think part of the reason SF and LA have large homeless populations is because of the temperate climate. It's much easier to survive a winter outside in LA than in WV. NYC is a different story, and I'm not sure that if they have the same number of homeless on a per-capita basis as cities like LA, SF, and Sacramento.
https://blog.tineye.com/tineye-whats-in-a-name/
I didn't know about read_text() either and I was even somewhat embarrassed when I looked it up in the docs and discovered that it (and its bytes/write counterparts) were added in 3.5 which is basically forever ago.
Why is it so Russia dominated? This was also visible in the article. Any particular reason or just coincidence?
CEO salary transparency caused a rapid increase in C-level compensation, nearly 10 fold as it became a public race.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2020/
come on this is anecdotal
Just to expound for a bit, labor market efficiency would be increased by income transparency. We all want our markets operating with as few distortions as possible, right?
> We’re experiencing a temporary issue with signups due to a vendor outage. We apologize for the inconvenience!

I can’t imagine how many signups they’re getting right now. It’s almost behoove them to pregenerate a bunch of prompts and give people a sandbox version without signing in.
The article doesn't seem to be posted on 1st of April, so I have to conclude that the author does not understand philosophy at all, and swims happily and carelessly in doctrinarianism about “scientific knowledge” instead. A philosopher should be able to see that the linear time and overlaying “progress” is just a transfer of educational imaginary model of physical experiment onto the whole world, and that any thought, no matter what it source is, can only exist in the present moment in someone's head. And even in that primitive linear model, every bit of “knowledge” we have is inherited from those horrible, horrible idiots from the past anyway.

It would be funny to read something like that for the first time, but the author doesn't seem to know that the same approach have been proclaimed (and subsequently ridiculed) for at least 200 years. The irony of ignoring history!

Also, it is mentioned that studying other sciences doesn't work the same way. Of course it doesn't, as for quite some time students haven't been sharing any state of mind with people whose portraits hang on the walls. They don't even share more than required between themselves, because they are given instant noodle type understanding with famous scientists simply printed on the packaging that results in everything, including theory, becoming applied, and never-ending compartmentalization.
The crisis of England's rural homelessness
I think we ought to be able to have a model that suits the Windows model better which doesn't require centralisation. A piece of software running on the desktop that provides update capabilities but where each piece of software is picked up from its original site and the location is set to that site. Somewhat like the Ubuntu repository model but without the multiple steps just an installer that installs the common updater tool if needed, registers itself and then this works for all over software too that buys into the model. It should be fairly cheap to run such a tool since the bandwidth is for all the different software tools and completely common features are available to everything. Its just the updater with some standards for implementing software updates without a store.
In most of what I have seen, human nature has been very consistent over the years.
Someone explain to me why someone would ever get an ARM unless you were planning on selling the house before it adjusted, because it just seems like an invitation to get fucked.
I wasn’t able to create an account either, didn’t say why just gave me an error. Disappointing after I gave them all the info they wanted. Stable Diffusion and Midjourney it is
Is there a plain and simple C written text shaper for unicode Katakana, Hiragana strings?
The source for this story is shaky at best:

A report in the Moscow Times quoted KGB veteran Vasily Pchelintsev as saying that there was a natural gas pipeline explosion in 1982, but it was near Tobolsk on a pipeline connecting the Urengoy gas field to the city of Chelyabinsk, and it was caused by poor construction rather than sabotage; according to Pchelintsev's account, no one was killed in the explosion and the damage was repaired within one day.[2] Reed's account has also not been corroborated by intelligence agencies in the United States.[3]

Another point of criticism of the sabotage allegations is that, according to Prof. V. D. Zakhmatov, an explosion safety expert who has overseen the safety measures on many of the Soviet oil and gas pipelines built in the 1980s,[4] at the described timeframe Soviet Union simply didn't practice digital control of its pipeline system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss
rclone is indeed magical. I recently migrated a customer's business from Box to Dropbox, using rsync.net as an intermediary to save my own bandwidth. rclone and rsync.net work very well together.
I gave them my phone number, only then the signup failed. Well thanks for nothing, that is on par with scammers.
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I’m aware of both of these things.

My overall point to the GP is that the sleep disruption of finger sticks is less bad then the sleep disruption that happens when you go too high OR too low.
> Long-term public support for the entire population, even the inconveniently vulnerable and expensive part of the population, is the only solution.

Ok, what will you do about the people who actively refuse to accept that support?

We are talking about non-rational, mentally ill, addicted people. You can't just offer support. If that worked, this problem would not exist.
This suit is the kick-it-down-the-road and make someone else pay for it answer. Most of these homeless are not from SF or nearby. Moreover, their salvation isn't going to be sitting in an open drug camp. People are acting like SF is pulling people out of hospital beds or something when they actually try to help.

The correct answer is what Portugal does. Detain and imprison drug users for three to five years in a non-voluntary, non-criminal, detox programs where they don't receive a criminal record from merely non-violent crimes.
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I haven't done any work on this since July due to needing to prepare a new TLA+ workshop from scratch, but now that that's over I plan to spend a day each week doing updates. On the docket:

- Moving some of the examples from Practical TLA+ over to the site

- Adding more exercises to the core

- Adding the new modules and TLC options showcased at this years TLAConf

- Way, way more examples and advanced topics. I have half a dozen pure TLA+ specifications on my computer I need to write up.
> Serious question: which law protects salary information? And if this law exists, does it apply to employers only or does it extend beyond that?

None. Incidentally your ability to communicate your salary is protected by the first amendment and various labor laws: Your employer cannot prevent you from sharing your salary information with anyone (which makes sense: it's required on a ton of forms)
IMO, it's worth it. People spend that much on Starbucks every day. The key feature I like about Kagi is that being able to downrank or outright block certain domains is built right in. I also like that it doesn't throw a bunch of crap on to the page above the fold and it doesn't pretend that it found results when it finds no matches.
It depends on where you draw the boundary between "you" and "not-you". If that boundary extends only as far as your skin, then your cell phone makes you forgetful and dependent. If that boundary extends to tools that you use, books in front of you, texts that you can summon up at a moment, then your cell phone gives you a phenomenal recall for facts, though also an increased risk of mind control.

For me, I draw the boundary based on latency, unconscious guidance, and predictability. I can send a thought to move my hand, and it moves as I think of it. The hand is within the boundary of "me". Holding a pencil, I do not need to consciously consider how to form each curve of a letter. The pencil is within the boundary of "me". I can predict what emacs will do when given keystrokes, so emacs is within the boundary of "me".

On the other hand, there is a large delay between deciding to open a door and it responding to my pull, so it clearly is not "me". I need to consciously consider what search terms to query, and cannot do so at an unconscious level. Even when I repeat the exact same query as I did a year ago, I may not find the results I was searching for, and so there is no predictability. These lead me to feel that a search engine is not within the boundary of "me".