skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, we should be providing enough of a safety net that no one ever becomes homeless. But given how bad we are at that as a culture...

The fact of the matter is, there are two populations of homeless, and while they are not defined the presence or absence of drug use and mental illness, there is a correlation. These populations are those that will accept housing and shelter, and those that won't.

The former population is easy to deal with. Give them housing until they are able to obtain it on their own.

But what do you do about people who would rather stay on the streets? Let's split this "unwilling" population once more. There are the unwilling that are unobtrusive, don't bother anyone or hurt anything. Not a problem. But what about the unwilling that are a public nuisance? Erratic, violent, etc.?

What, realistically, do you do about them? They won't go, but they can't stay. Define "long-term public support" for a population of people that is dangerous to the public and unwilling not to be. Eventually they will hurt someone or damage property and end up in prison anyway. Should we not address a clear public safety hazard preemptively?

Yes yes, slippery slope. Care will need to be taken, people will fall through the cracks anyway. Every system has cracks, but god knows the current one has big gaping gashes. We are already failing these people. I don't know that incarceration would fail them worse.
I believe only the Kindle Oasis has physical page-turning buttons, and it (inexplicably) still uses Micro-USB. I suspect this situation is what the parent is referring to.
Is there a download here? Sorry, can't find/see it. I want to run this on my 16Mhz 286, possibly with a variety of VGA cards to see how it performs on real hardware.
I bought a DX so that I could read PDFs and whatnot. It went unused; it was VERY slow and most papers still required (slowwww) scrolling when viewed at a readable scale.
No worries! We'll just build more prisons! Perhaps a second "inflation reduction act" could be passed to print some more money to pay for it and also to make sure there are more dollars out there to help pay for these rising prices.
Link to the full legislation text: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml...

Note that this legislation primarily covers just salary ranges. For most tech companies equity is a large component of compensation. Definitely a step in the right direction nonetheless.
I'd actually prefer reading a PDF on a phone over a standard sized kindle.

All I ask for is a A4 sized e-reader that doesn't cost five million pounds to buy.
I can’t comment on Mortgage News Daily but the FHLMC, affectionately called Freddie Mac, is a pretty good source. They have a decent graph on their homepage. 30yr fixed rates are currently at 6.29%.

https://www.freddiemac.com/pmms
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I worry that the temptation to defeat Russia is stronger than the desire to end the war. No one wins but many lose.
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I don't think the Chinese have bought as much goodwill as they think they have, and right now many of those loans are going south fast, so it will be a real cost.
Throwaway here. I work for a startup which runs compute-bound scientific simulations. We are considering migrating from our single self-managed HPC, to AWS EC2. We anticipate using the largest standard instances, with highly spikey usage: frequently none, at times up to 10 concurrent instances, perhaps more later.

AWS seems ideal to me because it would let us easily scale up and down as our usage varies. But some of the anti-AWS sentiment in this article has given me pause. Any reason not to do this? Any alternatives I've missed?

Our storage and transfer usage will be negligible; it's all compute.
Never heard of boox. They have a wide array of product offerings.

https://shop.boox.com/collections/eink-tablet?
Good for you. The closest I've come to homelessness is renting a room so shitty that sleeping in the lab at my university was preferable. And I hated even that. I'd never be voluntarily homeless.
what is a text shaper?
I think you are woefully mistaken here, plenty of mail providers allow you to scrap your account and get a new one with the same mail address.
All the downvotes.. Decibel is an independent venture capital firm created in partnership with Cisco, their play is to invest strategically in companies that Cisco can acquire. This isn't some made up witchcraft.
Just wanted to say that I think you single-handedly have made formal methods approachable to an order of magnitude more people (at least) than it was before.

TLA+ is much easier to get into than, say, Coq or Isabelle or something, but a lot of the "pre-learntla" content out there is still really mathey and scary for engineers to jump into. I think you did a really good job making TLA+ and PlusCal a useful tool for non-scientists. Thank you.
My perspective is that code reuse is a problem when "business logic" gets fused together with implementation details. When you evaluate bringing code into your project as a dependency, the primary blocker is all the operational assumptions and baggage that comes with the core functionality.

For instance, the assumption that everyone wants to use an HTTP request for every little query and deploy, maintain, and debug dozens of live services. Don't buy into the microservices thing? Then you can't reuse this code.
Do they classify "boosted" posts as ads? They mention restricting boosting advertisements, but isn't there a separate thing where you can pay to "boost" anything?
The only reason to use it imo has been if you need mac/m1 support, but that's probably in other forks by now
They struggle because Apple paid upfront for capacity that didn't exist. That allowed TSMC to buildup capacity and secure lithography machines from ASML.

Intel struggled because of piss-poor decisions by execs:

- Reduce stake in ASML

- Not use EUV for 10nm

- 14nm++++++++++

- That was fine (for some time) because Intel had no competition from AMD

- Thinking that 4 cores 8 thread is what consumer needs (if it weren't for AMD we'd still top of the line i7, or how they call it today i9, would still have 4 cores and 8 threads)

- Not seeing that new node is getting more and more expensive in terms of R&D and that pure-play fabs have gigantic advantage

When AMD Zen happened, Intel got caught with its pants down.

Samsung "struggling" because they couldn't outbid TSMC for EUV machinery (wonder where TSMC got money from...)

Capacity for cutting-edge nodes is limited purely on how fast EUV machinery can be delivered. Currently, it's limited by ASML production capacity.
Why would anyone expect that from a small country? If it was part of the EU - yeah you should expect the EU to be technically sovereign. But not a small island who decided to leave (so they could make bankers richer and the poor poorer).
Wait until you hear about the Speech-to-Text AI they've been building.
Scott Tolinski (Syntax podcast, LevelUp tuts) did a video about Penpot on the day that the Figma acquisition was announced. Check it out to see how it compares to Figma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj7D0tSNmEg
Also your company needs to be mature enough to know really well what your hardware requirements are. For a growing company, it's really great to switch your RDS instance to a bigger type because your database load has tripled in a few months and you didn't know that was coming.
> Meanwhile, in the West, where feminism has proved more successful than anywhere else, anti-male grievance dominates the mainstream, with solidarity between men and women replaced by a desire for polarising identity politics. As America’s feminist movement collapses under the weight of it its own divisiveness, I can’t help but find its Iranian counterpart far more inspiring: men and women standing together, speaking up for each other’s rights. How much better this is than the violently woman-hating Taliban or the petulant privilege of so many Western feminists.

What a strange argument.

edit: strange too that there seems to be a shout-out to the 1970s feminist Kate Millet, who was like the Anita Sarkeesian of her day, and worse, bisexual.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/07/kate-millett-o...

> And the well-respected critic Irving Howe wrote that Sexual Politics was “a farrago of blunders, distortions, vulgarities and plain nonsense”, and its author guilty of “historical reductionism”, “crude simplification”, “middle-class parochialism”, “methodological sloppiness”, “arrogant ultimatism” and “comic ignorance”.

...

> That December, Time outed Millett as bisexual, and claimed that “[the] disclosure is bound to discredit her as a spokeswoman for her cause, cast further doubt on her theories, and reinforce the views of those sceptics who routinely dismiss all liberationists as lesbians”.

> At the time the women’s movement was divided over the issue of lesbianism – Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique (1963), had labelled lesbians the “lavender menace” – and many liberal feminists turned against Millett.
my least favorite region tbh
Advertising platforms like Google and FB already have specific exclusion options to avoid running your ads on "objectionable" pages (violence, adult, etc.) so those would just get lumped in there. That technology has existed for at least a decade and anybody who has ever run ad campaigns is familiar with how they work.
Ho hum. Another inbound marketing page with an interesting premise that turns out to be “we run all of the traditional infrastructure for you, and you pay us a lot.”

I think event-driven job processing is an interesting idea… it reminds me of Redux. If the pattern is interesting, it should be independent of a particular implementation of it.
Zack fox website is a Google sheet I’m losing it
Because they weren't in the past. And because HN is an international forum for tech geeks; I think social conservatives and Christians are underrepresented in tech; and I am quite certain the kind of social conservatism and "Christianity" that exist in the US doesn't exist in the same proportion, or with the same beliefs, elsewhere. In Europe for instance, so-called "pro-lifers", while they exist, make up a small minority of the public.
So how are you supposed to look up salaries by company? According to the shrm.com [1] article linked in TFA:

"Most of the debate this year around SB 1162 focused on a public shaming provision that would have published pay data reports to the public on a state website."

If that's the case, would someone need to scrape this information across job sites to get aggregate ranges for a company and/or job title?

[1] https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...
Has anyone tried looking into how this "unofficial" program was uploaded without any policy violations? Are they using some sort of code obfuscation or UPX to bypass automatic checks?
Oh yes mobile, there it is.
Crazy talk. Next you’ll be saying Human Resources isn’t about protecting employees!
> people worried that the electric push button would make human skills atrophy. They wondered if such devices would seal off the wonders of technology into a black box: “effortless, opaque, and therefore unquestioned by consumers.”
Name brand recognition goes a long way.
huge salaries + ten "ops engineers", lol.

I know *data centers* that run on a few naive 20 yos admins/technicans + 1-2 "engineers" and all of them combined do receive salary of $5-10k/month in east eu
> Wise people existed then and wise people exist now. The new wise people's wisdom is much more relevant.

Without discussing politics or political topics (e.g. the benefits of diversity in a group of people,) can you give examples of this 'much more relevant' wisdom of today? For example, Aristotle taught metaphysics and aspirational ethics, amongst other topics--can you give examples of today's 'much more relevant' wisdoms that are more relevant than what he had to say? Examples that leave no question as to how much more relevant or, perhaps, more wise those (new vs old) wisdoms are? Thanks.
The phone number is to try and stop people signing up multiple times to get more free credits.

At least in the USA, getting hold of large numbers of phone numbers for free isn't easy.
Just look at cancel culture.

It can be anything from opposing the war in Ukraine to opposing lockdowns, or mandatory masks, etc.
And they again subtly condition everyone to think that political advertising works and you certainly shouldn't stop spending on it or even question the usefulness thereof.
We reduced our server costs 80% by moving away from AWS
And here's half-width katakana in non-Unicode, circa 1979: https://github.com/receipt-print-hq/escpos-printer-db/issues...

This is probably the system that is still used today by most bank printers in Japan. The code point usage was carried forward to JIS.
Trivia: what country incarcerates the most people per capita? Oddly, that country is the topic of discussion here. And I live and work in/near San Francisco and it's plenty a shit show depending on neighborhood, but a very far cry from an "open-air drug den". Let's dig in deeper for solutions.
I don't think he's talking about tech employees - he's talking about capitalists.

The tech industry in the US is mature enough that there plenty of "rich nerds" who made their fortune in the early days of the industry and today invest in tech startups. Hardly anyone with the money to jumpstart a startup in the UK has any interest or involvement in tech as an industry.

The capitalist class in the UK is very old and very established, and likes to invest in old and established industries. If they're not just passively extracting rent from their assets they might go as far as to let their friends in the city play with more interesting financial instruments. Pumping money into different probably doomed startups in the hope that they'll land a unicorn isn't really their style.
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Yep they are extremely aggressive. The technology is also extremely hard though.
Not every article. I just find it quite amusing that HN rails against the replication crisis, but when a clearly fishy publication that comports to its iases gets to the front page suddenly it's not an issue.
I assume you are referring to Xcode's on disk size on Apple Silicon because I downloaded Xcode 14.0.1 yesterday (a 7.6 GB download) which expanded to 23.01 GB on disk. This is on a MBP with an Intel chip.
If that is the point of the justice system, then we really need to reconsider in light of how actual humans behave.

It has been shown multiple time over in experimental settings that punishment is a pretty poor means of modifying behavior. The deterrence of punishment is marginal at best. For punishment to work consistently you need to apply it consistently and immediately, law enforcement does neither.

There are other means of modifying behavior that are both scientifically proven and have shown results in the real world. This includes accommodating the desired behavior while disincentivizing the undesired ones.

If you want the unhoused to leave their surroundings cleaner, give them trash cans, public kitchens, safe use shelters, regular street cleaners, etc. If you don’t want them to pitch a tent on 17th and Mission, designate an area where they can.

No the point of the justice system is to give victims of crimes some solace that justice has been served. It has nothing to with the behavior of criminals.
Unless you pirate, for most publishers, there's no way to buy books without DRM. If you buy books for Kobo, you are locked on Kobo.

Also, last time I tried, Kobo's phone app was just not good. There was no vertical scroll like Kindle, the animations were not smooth. The online store is also a bit weirder for me to navigate - but that might be just me.

And last, if it was not bought at their online store, it won't have sync between devices, AFAIK
No one knows how a military conflict between China and Australia would end. I can’t imagine it helps Australia to have a major naval military installation between Australia and one of its major allies however.
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Studying for SATs? Strategic self-control may beat pure willpower
So non drug addicted people work to help and support drug addicted people enjoy life?
It's almost as if OpenAI got the right idea at the beginning but sometime somewhere maybe in a meeting room, contrary to their initial openness goals they decided to be closed walled garden for a product that doesn't exist. IMHO giving a prompt to generate image is amazing but isn't a product because you can't actually produce useful stuff(it's great as an exploration tool). It seems to me, OpenAI rushed into monetisation and control before having a killer app.

On the other hand Stable Diffusion emerged as a free tool where large community can experiment and search for the killer app together. People started adapting it into other tools and workflows and so far it seems like the magic is in finding prompts that make the device generate good quality outputs. Earlier today I saw announcement about lexica.art(Stable Diffusion prompt tool) getting funded.
If you think it’s bad in the US, it’s going to be a total catastrophe in the UK.

* Similar problems with house prices going up

* If you default on a mortgage in the UK, you still owe the difference between what the bank are able to sell it for and your original loan.

* The period over which people have fixed interest rates is most commonly two years, and at that point, people have to remortgage, or go onto a “variable rate”. Many people will not be able to remortgage, so they’ll end up at the Bank of England’s interest rate plus an additional 3.5-4%.
It certainly is, but anonymity and pseudonymity tend to protect you unless you get some sort of celebrity or need to communicate for your job.

Anyway, one expresses one's opinion for the sake of other people. Maybe instead of worrying about what other people think, I should concentrate on my own safety. I can do other things for people.
I don't think that's connected at all. I'm guessing a trademark would only be relevant if KeePassXC went to court against Microsoft, which is far-fetched.
>condition everyone to think that political advertising works

Political advertising _works_. Regular advertising _works_. You are not immune to propaganda.
There was also a large amount of Christians who thought slavery was permitted by the Bible so I don't think that argument has a leg to stand on
> attracts the most problematic homeless people from all over the country

Here's a study someone else posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010913

"The data shows that over 70% of all of SF's unhoused people became homeless while living in San Francisco"
You lost me at "stealing from the country they broke into illegally." I see people working hard to try to improve their and their families' lives.

Surely the employer is deducting for income tax, SS tax, and medicare tax from their paychecks, and they will not see an income tax "refund" next April nor will they ever collect SS nor Medicare benefits.

And if the employer is not making these deductions then who is doing the "stealing" exactly?
I usually go with the default parameters.
Updating to be more accurate, it's more like 2 spam messages a week on average make it through. It's a nuisance for sure and not a dealbreaker but does make me wonder if Gmail would be catching them.

Also I do have to praise their web interface, it's startlingly fast.
Nobody needs legal permission to grab all the YouTube content they want to keep. Just dedication, youtube-dlp, and a ginormous RAID array full of empty drives. This is surprisingly affordable as a hobby.
Fair. I'm not a fan of any of the chain wings.

Our recipe is simple: decent sized wings, deep fried naked, sauced and served. Good sauces matter, of course.

Given how easy that is, it's amazing to me that almost nobody else has good wings (at least around here). I'm not sure what they're doing differently.
It's been a HUGE impact - https://steamcharts.com/app/1091500#3m
Love what Cloudflare has been releasing lately!
Language models are becoming more accessible all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a similar system out there right now that can be run locally on a consumer grade GPU.
My 10 year old DX just kicked the bucket, I'm actually really bummed about it.
I would love to be able to cron rclone (e.g. have it run automatically) on rsync.net :-)

- a happy rsync.net customer
I don't understand this comment: even if there were times in past years when AMD CPUs were significantly less performant and more energy-hungry than Intel CPUs, Macs with AMD CPUs that would have sold at least well enough to keep the Mac alive as a product line.
Companies likely already have access to your salary history because Equifax sells it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753

So if you think your salary information is private, it's not private from the entity most able to abuse your salary history to suppress your wages, a new employer.
In theory it should restrict the representatives who got voted in from using their religious beliefs in legislating
This is a grotesque mischaracterization of conservatives. Just because a group of people do not agree with you does not make them violence-obsessed brutes.
> Some countries (including one that coined the term Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) ban the use of gender and race statistics in the interest of equity.

So what does a different jurisdiction (e.g. France) have to do with a California law? I posit nothing will change, job reporting/requirements are highly dependent on jurisdiction, and companies are well versed in juggling those differences.
Note that the Google Photos API which rclone uses for gphotos sources does not allow downloading original quality images (only re-compressed versions), and strips EXIF. So I personally don't use it for backup purposes, instead I:

1) Sync my Google Drive to a local Synology NAS

2) Periodically request a Google Takeout, which dumps the entire contents of my Google account (including original photos) into Drive.

3) A nightly script unzips the takeout archives so they can be picked up by an incremental backup to Backblaze B2. The NAS also does local snapshots.

This has some nice properties:

- There are 3 distinct copies

- If a file is inadvertently deleted I can restore from either local snapshot or B2.

- If my google account is nuked I still have an archive of mail, photos, etc. Though that's limited to the frequency of my Takeout requests.

- Since the NAS is the single point for backups it's a natural place to put non-cloud files, or Dropbox etc and have them automatically picked up for backup without setting up anything new.
Beyond the meme, this seems to be a brilliant idea - just like how we have coding standards, why not make writing standards, several levels beyond what we have currently? Constrain the "syntax" of expression (the way you communicate, as opposed to the ideas you want to communicate) to counteract fingerprinting. Sure, you'd have to restrict your creativity and prose, but you'd get anonymity in return.
The iPhone 14 Plus hasn't even launched yet, so kind of hard to tell either way. I think it'll be one of the more popular phones for the walk-in crowd who only replaces their phone when their existing one breaks.
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I'm not from the US, don't live there (and don't vote there).
Same here, I have a Google Voice number and it rejected it. Pretty lame, it's not like I am going to be banking with them.