skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> homelessness at 71%

Stereotypically, not conclusively, speaking:

The most bizarre thing about this problem is that both sides don't want it solved. The NIMBY crowd obviously doesn't want affordable housing, or housing programs, anywhere near their million-dollar home, or city for that matter. The YIMBY often oppose extremely effective (although never perfect) approaches to this crisis.

These people are bringing one of these attitudes with them to wherever they move. The homeless [generally] aren't the cause of homelessness, the homed are. I'm sure many of the QoL problems will follow these people/attitudes around.

[1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/homelessness/id1380008... "You're wrong about: Homelessness" (Available on other platforms too)
The US is the most deregulated, pro-market, capitalist developed nation of size and we are doing much better than the UK. Jobs are plentiful and our corporate titans continue to dominate global equities.

Maybe the issue in the UK isn’t as simple as tax rates. But you can always try to pivot hard left, maybe it will work this time. Capital does tend to flee when serious attempts to expropriate it occur…
What happens if your remote server thinks the primary is down when it isn't really, and you end up with two hot primaries? Is this just not an issue in practice?
Ok yes this is the true meaning of mob referring to in-person groups. But 'mob' in this discussion was being used with respect to groups of people in a more general sense like people on the internet whom all act individually from their own houses.
To add onto this point, many states are larger than countries in Europe. Each state is in itself a country in all but name, given the difference in values, traditions and culture. You can travel all across the US and it's exactly like travelling across Europe given the diversity.
The main point is, in Puritanism, thinking the wrong thing is a sin, so even writing it down is seen as bad. Other cultures can discuss without dirtying their souls/minds/egos.

The issue isn't that "writing it down is bad" its that certain descriptions of a character are going to cause readers to judge that character differently depending on the culture the reader is used to. People who think smoking around children is a bad thing, are going to judge a parent doing that around their children. So, an editor might believe that removing that reference will avoid people focusing on an unimportant detail in a way that negatively affects the story being told.
The first question that comes to mind is why has mental illness been substantially increasing recently over the past few decades? Something about our lifestyle definitely contributes to it.
What they mean is that instead of using "serverless" hosting running a rust program to generate ics files you could literally just have a statically hosted html file that uses a couple lines of javascript to generate the ics files within the browser, so there would be no rust or server component at all.

You could just host it with github pages.

Actually I'm confused why you're saying:

> The Rust part is just for the routing

Because it appears that you're generating the ics files in rust?
Original Leslie Lamport lectures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p54W-XOIEF8&list=PLWAv2Etpa7...
Same as today, so that's not a compelling reason. As mentioned by someone else, Obama did make some overtures that allowed the party to feel out the base's reactions. Legalization was always going to be a process. Right now, I believe this is typical (D) politicking. I think it's likely that this is something like...Biden needs a positive press to boost for both his approval rating and visibility within his base, for the next election cycle, with a minor symbolic gesture. Obama never needed to do that.
I agree, it's not what we'd like to see. But It does not have to be binary. We must celebrate all wins, no matter how small.
Doing so would be ill-advised because it increases chances of winning for candidates that you actually dislike.
(Hypothetical) breaking point: Cost of housing for a family in desirable SF neighborhoods and the SF public school system.
> The benefits of serverless are two-fold:
> You only pay for what you use—just those 10 seconds if that’s all that’s happening on your app.
> You don’t have to worry about all the DevOps side of servers. No planning, no management, no maintenance.

The second benefit can be had without serverless. Anything that runs containers offers that. The first one is a nice to have for side projects, but pretty irrelevant in the cost of a business building and shipping a product. If they're referring to autoscaling then, again, anything running containers can do that.

And no mention of where the data is? As far as I can tell, this is buzzword soup with no broadly applicable use case.
Twitter 'won't take yes for an answer'
Azure Media Services?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/media-serv...

Supports HEVC (H.265) output.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/media-services/lates...

You can put budget alerts in place on Azure resources to handle costs.
Thanks for your response.

I've been involved and making small changes since my first week. I'm at a point now that I should have a clearer picture of the larger system, but there's still so much I don't understand or have difficulty with.

If I were to switch roles, I imagine another agency would really be my only option if I wanted to avoid large codebases, right? I'm also a bit hesitant to "give up" so soon, but that may be my pride thinking for me.
Running a jammer as you approach the home would prevent it from uploading video to the cloud of your vehicle (perhaps the license plate can be seen), and your appearance/gait/etc. as you walk up to the house. The baseball bat is just insurance against any locally stored footage.
Sure, but do we even know what the law currently says on this matter? I've seen a lot of speculation in the comments here, but very few facts. Even the original blog post seems to have been written before consulting an attorney.

For example, does the law have any mechanism for compensating SimulaVR for their work on this case? What mechanisms exist for appeal? Does Meta have free reign to examine the subpoenaed documents, or are there restrictions on how that information can be used and who can see it?

It just seems to me you ought to know what the law says first before arguing it needs to be changed. Chesterton's Fence and all that...
I've long thought that our intuitions about IQ tests are backwards; they are the most fair and least biased method we have to sort applicants for things. The more 'holistic' the process, the more that subjectivity (and therefore bias) creeps in. The only way around it is affirmative action, which leads to the current state of affairs.
Okay, maybe 7x, that's subjective, imprecise and strongly dependent on how experienced you are in Java. For a skillful Java developer that may be as low as 3x.
It's a sharded key-value store with stored procedures written in JavaScript.
Ask HN: Would you invest in real estate today? Why?
Context: My friends and I are starting a “Robinhood for real estate” – you can trade homes like stocks.

Our inspiration is that many ordinary people want to invest in real estate, but it’s still difficult for the average folks. Main bottleneck is usability. So, we are creating a Robinhood-like app – You can open the app, browse listings, and buy shares of a home. Then, as a shareholder, you can either sell your shares to others or get paid when the home gets sold.

Here’s more: https://forms.gle/CaErVA7NNsAfvsPM7

Question: Would you be interested? Why / why not? What segments of investors would be interested in this today?
“Staff” has been a regular title for SV software companies for quite a while now.

It is basically the next level past “senior”. Whereas a senior will normally report to a line manager, staff engineers will often report to a middle manager and have managers as their peers.

A normal range for a senior is 5-10 years of experience (but still many people will have more experience than that but not be “senior” depending on company), whereas staff is 10+ years. Obviously these are not wholly sufficient conditions but they’re common buckets, especially for external hiring.

There is some title inflation going on where staff engineers are typically acting more as tech/team leads as opposed to senior engineers. IMO it’s a good title because “principal” has connotations of doing really big-picture stuff that may involve some resting on laurels. Also the bar for “principal” varies widely across companies - at Microsoft it’s the same as “Staff” at other places, at some places it’s like the top <1% of IC engineers, others are probably even more lax than MS.
Experiment “Universe-25”: a paradise became hell (2016)
Just finished "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Good read. Having read "the innovators by walter isaacson", it's interesting to note how similar the two takes on the history are. It's almost like they're the truth! Glad you posted your comment here. It pushed me to actually dive in a read this essay.

Edit: O boy, I accidentally read "a brief history of hackerdom". Now to dive into what I actually meant to read
> They are the glue that gets buy-in and agreement between people talking past each other. They demonstrate how a healthy organization can lead a team by setting guidelines for collaboration, communicating, being constructive, and removing barriers or silos between key stakeholders.

That's a management function.

If I took a Staff Engineer role and my job was to compensate for organizational dysfunction and fill voids left by underperforming managers, I'd be leaving that role very quickly. Either that or requesting a formal title change (or promotion) into an actual management position.

Hiring a Staff Engineer when you really need better managers isn't a good solution, especially because a Staff Engineer wouldn't have the necessary org structure authority to be an effective manager-of-managers.
IANL: How many would this be? Considering 21 U.S.C. 844 applies to federal jurisdiction, this would be those simple possession convictions at military bases, immigration/airports checkpoints, federal facilities and employees, and ? That does not sound like many people...

More interestingly, I wonder how this will apply to federal contracting. IIRC, Elon smoked a join with Joe Rogan and had to submit to a year of drug tests per his contract with the federal government, visavia NASA, etc.
That may be how the term was coined, but that is not the common usage in my experience. Simply Googling 'Mandela Effect' will yield many examples of widespread misconceptions and false memories that you can easily verify with a few peers. Just because one explanation is implausible doesn't mean the effect isn't real. False memories are pretty common.

I've noticed that I can vividly recall experiences in other countries but my memory has altered itself to match the side of the road I'm currently used to driving on, and have confirmed this experience with others.
But you don't need political capital to make a unilateral executive decision? He could have done this after he was already a lame duck. It's not like a president can undo a pardon.
The Quietest Room (2018)
Sounds like you live in a really shitty city to be honest. I have lived in car centric cities and walkable cities, and neither had that issue.
I consider myself a 'Solver'/'Fixer', mainly because that's the title others gave me, and I mostly disagree with this.

Specifically the problem with me is I don't have deep expertise in any area. This is fine in most cases but there are areas where expertise is important. And more often than not titles and levels are a reasonably proxy for expertise in a large organization. Turns out asking "who's the expert in X" really, really doesn't work once you disregard titles and levels. Disregarding titles and levels is a good way to turn engineering into a popularity contest so "who's the expert in X" becomes "who do I know best who recently said something like X to me"
Is our current DNS on the edge? Decentralized all the way down to one's host file. Fully centralized all the way up to the 13 DNS servers. It has the issue of keeping up with state yet almost the entire internet rests on its shoulders and it works.
Why don't you like that book and which Haskell book would you recommend then?
Hello --- author here; thanks for the kind words!

Responding to a few random things posted here:

- yes, that 8080 emulator ought to work fine. Not sure what the performance would be like but it's certainly worth a try. Sadly, unless the author shows up and relicenses it I can't use that one ('may not be redistributed without express written permission of the author').

- llvm-mos: the only bits in C are some of the utilities, and that's only because I happened to have (buggy) C versions from one of my other CP/M projects. What I'd actually like to do is to write a PL/M compiler with LLVM and try and compile the original Digital Research code for the 8080 with it.

- re porting: should be trivial to do! The only thing you need is a BIOS, with console I/O and sector read/write. Everything else is the same. You can even use the same binaries. But the documentation is trivial, so if you're interested file a github issue and I'll try to assist.

Also, I _really_ want some software for this thing, primarily programming languages. I do plan to port Microsoft's BASIC (now open source), but I need an assembler. If anyone knows any suitable 6502 assemblers from back in the day _which have actual licenses_ please let me know.
I'll leave you to decide on the veracity of the claim, but he is suggesting that Welch invented the "MBA way of doing things", something that eventually made its way into MBA programs thanks to Welch pioneering it. So him being a chemical engineer by training isn't at odds with what is being suggested. After all, you can't go to school to learn about what you created yourself.
Strong nostalgia whenever I see the BBC Elite opening screen!

These days we can re-live it easily in the browser: https://bbc.godbolt.org/?autoboot&disc=sth%3AAcornsoft%2FEli... Although I can also recommend "oolite": http://www.oolite.org/ which is an open source modernised elite with game play kept quite faithful to the original (I'm currently hooked on this and wasting more my life trying to get that "Elite" rating all over again)
With a hardware wallet where you store your seed phrase. You would never type this seed anywhere. You would store backups of this seed in something like a metal sheet that you can buy. You would be extremely careful of the numerous phishing attempts that you will encounter. Also with malicious smart contracts. And you would have a hot and cold wallet, to minimize risk.
I agree. It is the HN curse in that what is posted here is often while very interesting, too highfalutin for most peoples needs. But it is good to know about.

I do like web hosting services that make using CDNs etc. so simple that it is a nobrainer to use them and benefit.

When you have to work alot harder to get your thing done to use the “webscale” tech though, this is where you might be burning complexity tokens.

I never really see this happen at work though. Often at work it is erring on too conservative.
Also extremely important: try to figure out exactly what you are ingesting and how much. I can’t stress enough how important the dosage is when taking psychedelics - start low and work your way up to a dosage that you are comfortable with across a handful of sessions ideally.

Unfortunately for some substances it’s hard to determine exactly how much active material you’re getting (eg, LSD tabs, dried mushrooms), but again, start low.
Show HN: Outreach Project for Unclaimed Child Tax Credits
Hello fellow HN'rs. I'm trying to assemble some folks willing to assist me in a project that stems from this article: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/ex...

In brief, the expanded Child Tax Credit expired this year and will cast a lot of children in to poverty. It may get saved at the last minute at the end of the year, but it may not. In any event, the existing (reduced) CTC does not have anywhere near perfect redemption rates -- there are lots of unclaimed credits out there. Many of them are centralized in parts of the country where major media outlets are not the method by which most folks get their news. I want to assemble a resource of alternative outlets and community leaders in as many of the geographic areas as possible and then go about the job of advocacy. Phase 1 is assembling that resource, and thats where I turn to HN for assistance.

Thanks so much for your time and attention, and I hope to work with some of you on this!
Good post. Do you have any resources describing the 'new wave of client-first architectures' you mention? I'm struggling to understand how you can do client-side authorization securely.
It was simply not a priority then. An election is coming up, and winning it is the priority right now. That is why we suddenly have movement on Marijuana, and student loans. The timing is ridiculously suspect.
It’s interesting sometimes to see how far we’ve come, despite all the immediate doom and gloom. The mix of UK energy supplies from that 2003 article was reportedly:

Gas 38%
Coal 32%
Nuclear 23%
Oil 4%
Others 3%

Compare that to the use of renewables and the reduced dependency on fossil fuels today and at least we’ve taken some big steps in the right direction since then.

There isn’t much to like about the current situation, but it does mean the danger of relying on supplies of non-renewable fuels has been shown beyond any doubt. If we do experience one of the bad scenarios with rolling power cuts this winter, it must be near-certain that whoever forms the government for the rest of the 2020s will get elected on a very green platform. If important steps towards making us both more resilient and more environmentally friendly then get taken sooner, that’s one small victory at least.
Thank you. It did not come across in your blog post.

May your lawyer be cheap, vicious, despicable, and never-losing.
This comment caused me to spit-take.
Imagine the size of the opportunity here for green energy companies. Everybody whose ever wanted to pitch high efficiency building supplies or solar panels is finally going to get peoples attention. This could be huge over the next 10 years
If a company is looking for senior developers who are to serve as team leads and lead initiatives, why would they hire someone without previous experience in the technology? I’m sure you could eventually get up to speed. But the reason I haven’t had to do a coding interview in well over a decade of working at companies from your standard Corp dev jobs, to companies where they wanted a “tiger team” to lead green field initiatives, to a startup where the then new CTO was looking for someone to lead “cloud native projects” to my current job in the cloud consulting department at BigTech is because I knew the ecosystem well.

When I spoke to CxOs and directors, they wanted someone with a proven track record that could solve their problems. When I was being hired as a dev lead to lead junior C# developers he inherited, what would he look like hiring someone who knew Haskell?

How was i suppose to go from an empty git repo to a fully fleshed out MVP or later from an empty AWS account to infrastructure, CI/CD, to a fully fledged out MVP if I didn’t have prior experience?

If someone is looking to create a new iOS app. Who should they hire? Someone with iOS experience or someone with Erlang experience?
I've tried mapping out various execution paths, tracking what deps are used where, etc. It certainly helps in the context of a singular action or maybe even a set of interconnected actions, but beyond a certain complexity I just get lost.
Well stated. I was a little — OK, very — surprised to read the tone of this filing. You don’t get to pretend to terminate a binding acquisition on a pretext, destroy evidence and skip depositions and then act like you’re the aggrieved party. While I continue to think that the most likely outcome (by far) is that Musk complies with a he obligations that he agreed to in the merger agreement, and is thus unlikely to be further damaged by continuing to act like an asshole (as he has in this filing), I have to think that this is a mis-step, or at least doesn’t do him any favors.

Also, it’s going to take three weeks for the banks to fund the committed financing? That’s absurd. They should have been prepared for this as soon as the Twitter shareholders voted to approve the deal. Yet another indication that Musk really thought he could get out of closing this transaction, and his behavior since signing the agreement wasn’t ackshually fifth-dimensional business acumen to win a reduction in purchase price.
> But there are people with true photographic memories who faithfully remember exact details.

The traditional notion of photographic memory is being able to recall any and every aspect of a scene upon a single viewing. But in countless experiments where a researcher asks the subject about some obscure detail, nobody has ever been able to demonstrate this--i.e. they may have happened to spot a particular detail, but keep iterating the experiment and they regress to the mean.

To memorize something, a person has to focus their attention on the object such that they can draw associations--inside the scene, outside the scene, etc. Perhaps this can indeed be subconscious. "Conscious" and "subconscious" are such nebulous words, and people's experiences of them so varying, that disputing that it could be done subconsciously requires a degree of certitude I don't think anybody (scientist or otherwise) could rightly possess.

There are indeed people with ridiculously amazing memories, including astounding visual fidelity. But it's misleading to say that it's "photographic". These people aren't glancing at a scene, blinking their eyes, and committing the whole thing to memory like a camera. Rather, their brains seem to be adept at scanning and drawing an incredible number of associations between visual elements and objects within the scene, but never the entirety of a sufficiently complex scene unless given a commensurate amount of time. And in fact, it turns out that with sufficient effort and practice many if not most people can begin to exhibit such astounding feats of memory.

> I think it was the book Subliminal where the author discusses how these people often struggle to put those details into a larger contextual understanding. They get the details but miss the gist.

Perhaps you're referring to the fact that people who exhibit extraordinary episodic memory (i.e. like the stereotypical autistic savant who can remember what they ate on any prior date, though most aren't autistic, AFAIU) usually have normal or sometimes deficient semantic memory. Note that episodic memory isn't the same thing as visual memory. Visual memory can be both episodic and semantic--e.g. if you're a visual-spatial thinker.
If the WH's statement that this affects 6,500 people, that seems like an actual affective.
And for some that were designed to hit a specific target, it was discovered afterwards that they work by a completely different mechanism.
I think the question being asked was "If money were no object, what is the best cancer detection method?", as opposed to stating that money wasn't an object.

Very interesting comment, nonetheless.
Yes, it was my understanding that battery capacity was the major barrier. To bad it’s not easy to just safely hot swap batteries in flight, which would likely solve the problem.
Theyve also either sold off divisions or license their names to other companies. GE doesnt make appliances anymore, Haier makes the product and slaps a GE logo on it.
Stanford had a big power outage recently (this summer) that took out student accommodation, server rooms, etc... due to wild fires.
I didn't know this, and I am American thanks for the clarification.