skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It won’t. But it sure will help a lot.

Housing First approaches have found much better outcomes for mental health treatment, and addiction treatment.

It’s so hard to address mental health issues with a population that’s homeless. Simple things like weekly visits with a therapist become much much more difficult. Keeping medication safe and secure is much more feasible when someone has stable housing.

You’re absolutely right that housing people won’t necessarily fix all their problems. But it makes those other problems much easier to address, and leads to better outcomes [1].

And it can drive down other costs (like healthcare costs specifically) to the point that it’s cheaper [2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2916946/

[2] https://www.bluecrossmafoundation.org/publication/preventive...
> I came across this article by V.I. Arnold

Interesting article! It argues that when mathematics became dissociated from both physics and geometry, it became this horrible abstract algebraic kabbala that's at once disgusting and pointless.

The article talks a lot about France; I think in France the problem is a problem of selection / elitism: how to rate lots of students in a reproducible way in order to keep only a few. This process doesn't leave much room to rêverie or the joy of learning. It's a disease that modern proponents of "le mérite" don't understand. ("Mérite" is hard to translate; maybe "self worth"; it's a vast debate in France).

More generally, the problem of teaching is that it tries to put results in the heads of students. Some results took years or centuries to discover, and it would be impractical or impossible to tell the story of that discovery. But our minds are story machines; stories are the only thing we understand and crave for. A list of facts is the most boring thing imaginable and the hardest to remember. Yet it's not clear if there's any other way, esp. because there are so many facts to learn, and so little time.

Yet that doesn't excuse everything. It should always be possible to connect theory to real world applications. Here's a little observation about geometry for example.

My kids are currently learning about the Pythagorean theorem, where in a square triangle, the length of the "hypotenuse" is the square root of the sum of the square of each opposite side. But what does "hypotenuse" mean?

In math books (as well as on every website that I could find, see https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=pythagorean+theorem) the square triangle is always shown with the square angle at the bottom, usually to the left, and the long side (the hypotenuse) is a slope going from north-west to south-east on the page.

It turns out, hypo-tenuse means "that which supports". Obviously if the square triangle sits on its square angle, the hypotenuse doesn't support anything. But if the hypotenuse is instead horizontal and the square angle at the top, then we begin to see the front of a temple.

The Pythagorean theorem helps solve a myriad of problems, but one of them is extremely practical: how to build a temple with a square top at the front. That's more interesting than a²+b²=c².
No.

I made a proposal above (though, you’ll also not that I said I thought my proposal was unlikely to be workable in practice).

But, if you review what I wrote, you’ll note I never proposed anything close to what you asked about.

My actual proposal would be this: we should invest heavily in a housing first approach to homelessness at both the federal and state level. We should invest in this as a priority, as if it will save lives because it will.

Along with that, we should invest in mental health and addiction treatment programs as a supplement.

We should tax the fuck out of the rich to do so in a revenue neutral way.
It's data about the US, where such units are the default.
Act is truly helpful and I appreciate its development but it has its caveats. For instance, I face problems with passing parameters to composite actions.
Text to speech isn't really a solved problem yet. Within the next few years, it will be possible to prompt "Sonic the Hedgehog saying: 'I'm sure that'll work, just like the last thousand plans you had, Eggman' with heavy sarcasm" and get a read that's indistinguishable from Roger Craig Smith's. But we're not quite there yet. The models for GLaDOS are very, very close, enough to allow YouTubers to create their own skits -- but getting an AI to sound like an AI is, for obvious reasons, a relative doddle.
I think it’s the US economy being more resilient. Here in Europe things started falling apart when the interest rate went up to 1.75%. The US seems fine with double that.

I think the over regulating of the labor market and Ponzi style pensions are the two major factors. But it is hard to understand how they can be so different. I’d love to read something on the subject if anybody has any recommendations.
Oops, sorry - yes, I meant the tax gap but the wealth gap was implied (in my opinion). Guess we really are going to need some form of bitcoins in the future.
So booking overcapacity is legal if you’re a hosting provider but not if you’re a tech worker?
I've built a CI platform [1] that does support running your CI builds without the server using an offline runner. I wrote about it here before: https://blog.djinn-ci.com/showcase/2022/08/06/running-your-c...

[1] - https://about.djinn-ci.com/
I found Dagger[1] and Earthly[2] which supposedly would solve the issue of debugging the CI locally. I haven't got time to try them out yet though.

[1]: https://dagger.io/

[2]: https://earthly.dev/
A quote by the founding father of modern electrical engineering, and the formulator of the current version of Maxwell's equations, Oliver Heaviside:

(Read the entire article. It's hilarious, and surprising that Nature decided to publish it.)

"Euclid is the worst. It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties, .... I hold the view that it is essentially an experimental science, like any other, and should be taught observationally, descriptively and experimentally."
- Oliver Heaviside, "The teaching of mathematics", Nature 62, pp 548-549, 1900. [1]

[1] https://ia600708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22...
If that’s really the goal there are a million better ways to spend your time and energy.
Friend here, help to hear any feedback or new ideas!
I perhaps used words in a confused combination. There are two connotations to stability here - 1. language and ecosystem standardization and 2. having a stable and predictable career. C++ has both a plenty (2. if you find your niche and then you are nigh irreplaceable, but not perhaps at FAANG rates).

Your knowledge never gets old, basically in C++.

The problem with C++ is that it is a horrible language in several ways. I guess the root cause is that it's basically a sugared C preprocessor with an infinite amount of special rules and special cases, that attempts to retain backward compatibility while adding new features. If my domain did not need it I would not write it. But it does, so I do.

My advice not to choose C++ because of career stability meant - "It's a bloody awful thing! Don't choose it if you have options unless you absolutely want to!"
I was on page 56 of my business strategy draft for ElonPhone's launch and you come in breaking the door and ruining my mood with this shit, man.
These tidbits always have to be taken in the context they've been said in.

Paul Graham is a venture capitalist in a hyper-connected society, where pretty much everyone can read and write.

When these ancient philosophers preferred oral exchanges over text based communication you've to realize that text wasn't quiet as easily produced and consumed in their society and what they were likely going for was a fluid exchange of ideas, which was pretty hard to do with written words in that age.
I've been reading through it and my impression is the same. My background is more in analysis/approximation theory, but I picked this up for bedtime reading and although it's a bit slow going/verbose for me, I think the writing is fantastic given the broad audience this book targets. It seems like a nice introduction for someone curious about abstract math despite some level of math trauma from earlier brushes with it
Allow me to extend in "why is the state of education so abstract and uninspiring?" witch have a simple answer: because people without culture are easier to master. The target of all education reforms in the west (and I suspect anywhere) was and still is the creation of big flocks of ancient Greek's « useful idiots » to be employed as slaves, without even being aware of their condition.

Just listen last Klaus Schwab speech at G20/Bali https://youtu.be/DQjXODh0TOg where he describe the near future he want:

- IoT, poetically named Industrie 4.0, to allow OEMs control from remote, witch means de facto owning hardware formally sold to someone who legally/theoretically own it now;

- Sharing Economy witch means re-sell continuously the very same object, as a service/leasing etc making peoples compete to access such scarce and needed resources;

- corporatocracy, prosaically named Stakeholder Capitalism or Corporate Governance, but practically meaning: Democracy must end, substituted by a dictatorship of those who own and know against all others.

Followed by it's interview at APEC 2022 https://youtu.be/NWHDgXhMkgs where he state that China "it's a role model for many countries" and "we should be very careful in imposing systems. But the 'Chinese model' is certainly a very attractive model for quite a number of countries".

You need Gustave Le Bon bipedal bovines to realize such vision. Pushing the old « you were not made to live like brute beasts, but to pursue virtue and knowledge » would be a disaster for such model... People must know just the very little they need to do some tasks, NOT the whole picture.
You make valid points - but I don't think the author of the post that I was replying to would be able to appreciate the nuance.

By bringing up the Karen White example, aren't you basically saying it would somehow be less appaling if it wasn't a trans person perpetrating the assault? Because I thought this sort of thing was abhorrent regardless of the salient details of a particular case?

Social media only makes it easier to focus on "which cage should we use for transgender people", and so much harder to ask ourselves "why are we putting people in cages". Or, as per the other example, "did Hunter Biden really lose his incriminating laptop?" vs "why are we letting ourselves be governed by people with familial ties to criminals?"

Social media and the polarizing meaningless debates that it enables serve the purpose of precluding people from focusing on the latter kind of question. (Which is already hard enough as it is, because it involves actual thinking.) If the public conversation is retreading ground that was already covered in the 1970s like you say, doesn't that mean that our society is regressing? Shouldn't be worrying first and foremost about that, since that's where we'd find the root cause of all the more specific issues?

How many people feel good for having the correct in-group opinions, while their contribution to e.g. the trans rights debate only goes as far as canceling JK Rowling, or, conversely, going to a Jordan Peterson talk? How many people have even heard of the actual examples you mention, as compared to the number of people who only know "uhh, so there's a debate on the Internet about some abstract hot button issue, and I'm required to pick a side in order to participate in society"?

A couple years from now the topics may be completely different, they'll just find another scapegoat or another thorny bioethical edge case, but the medium of debate will still be largely the same ol' Internet, and the AIs will only have become more effective at sowing discord.
He started with the idea that "a neutral Twitter means you upset the left and right equally". Then he started upsetting the left, and the right were like "you go, Elon!!!" and he forgot his plan immediately, because he wants to be liked.
>But as the cost of something falls, people consume more of it. That’s a law in economics. This is no different.

I don't know such a law, but it's simply false.
People have 2 finite budgets they can allocate to entertainment, time and money.
In many ways money is not the limiting factor anymore since people have Steam lists with hundreds of unplayed games and the abundance of Free2Play. The main factor it not to have a saleable product, it is to manage to get in in front of enough eyes, with all marketplaces already being saturated and ads being useless unless you have a very high budget.

I'm a bit worried that it will devaluate indie productions even further because of an over-abundance of AI generated content, further elevating industry production that can afford really competent artists that you can't even start to replace.
On my first day, I was told:'Payment will come later, shouldn't be hard right?
I've looked at a couple of services which look for patterns in reviews to flag fakes, but I think this only helps me if I'm prepared to buy from third-party sellers - which I'm not.

Fake reviews are paid for by sellers shifting tat that Amazon themselves will not sell (because someone in that bit of Amazon still cares about quality). If Amazon themselves wanted to add fake reviews they could easily do it in a way undetectable by Fakespot etc.

Fakespot in particular is a business with a business model, and that is (I think) all about ads and affiliate links. Just a guess, but probably VC-funded with a pressure to actually make a profit somehow. I am thus not their customer, and their incentives may not always align with mine so it's hard to trust them.
I wrote this for pen testing purposes, but it worked so well that I've used it to get around public WiFi limitations like the author of TFA:

https://github.com/nccgroup/ABPTTS

(Still need to port it to Python 3 someday)

I was very surprised at how finicky some TCP software is. SSH/SCP in particular was not at all tolerant of seemingly minor delays that every other client/server combination ignored. My gold standard for testing became "can you perform an arbitrary number of tunneling layers, where the layers alternate between SSH and the HTTP tunnel, and still behave as reliably as a direct connection?"
Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1962...
I wonder if we will bump into something that we are just not able to figure out.
Something beyond human comprehension.

I have a highly unpopular opinion that time might be that thing.

I also think that fully comprehending it and being able to influence it
is a universal key to how it all works™.
And if we did figure it out, we would cease to exist in a recursive manner
before we could do much damage.
This was trash. 6 daily prayers? really? hanbalites cant eat watermelon? mixing up saud with abdulazeez? (the big portrait)

Edit: for the record, i love reading the likes of these articles, even contrarian ones, but these egregious errors are scandalous and totally remove the credibility, totally. Shame because it as really interesting at times!
Everyone already knows what SMS are, there's nothing cryptic about it on the user side. Also SIM cards don't need a backup.
> But you haven't given a solution to the problem that costs less, only argued that in practice the problem has assumptions that are in practice not necessary.

Aiming for solutions to problems that do not exist is a thing among blockchain aficionados, but I'm not one. Yet, remark that I also addressed the concern that if you do not interact with anyone else than the source of your blockchain copy, PoW makes it largely unlikely, but not impossible, that they would have tempered with the copy they provided you. So even in this scenario you partly rely on broader interactions.

> I also don't understand the hangup over PoW and immutability.

This whole discussion was started by my answer to your claim that “It [PoW] is not a waste, but a sacrifice made to make the blockchain strongly immutable.”.

I don't think it is worth discussing this further.
That’s crazy. Here in the Netherlands you wouldn’t even hit 20€/hr.
Plenty of hispanics in Japan.

If you tried in earnest to go live in Japan and it didn't happen it's not because of racism. Yes there are some xenophobic tendencies, but they don't play into it. Money and "skills" on paper do.

If you don't tick the right boxes (e.g. graduated 4 years of university education, have demonstrable skills in a technical field, work experience, etc.) it's going to be difficult, of course. But that's the same anywhere.
>Woodpecker is community-run, and Codeberg is a non-profit running the biggest Gitea instance.

This is not the answer, really.

For example if anyone asks why should you use Firefox you can at least say Mozilla is trying to support an independent (as in "they have their own engine\stack") software that complies with modern standarts without addint it's own bullshit.

Not just because they are non profit or because of some of their views or whatever.

While closed sourced sofware owned for a profit entity has it's risks - so does the community-run software. Different risks but still risks. Endless number of forks is one of them.
Structural editing is one of the amazing things you get for free in Lisps, but I cannot imagine how it could be done without parentheses. I also don’t really find it more readable without them, but it might just come down to what you’re used to. Alas, this is a nice experiment nonetheless.
Sorry to hear that. I certainly don't think Rust is ideal for every use case. And it is definitely hard to learn. I think people get a bit too zealous promoting it, simply because it has solved a lot of painful problems that many of us have battled with for decades in C++/C land.
Did we read the same book? I find Mastering Nim a pretty excellent reference. (And you have to install the pixels library :-P)

The online documentation, certainly, could be better. I sometimes find standard library documentation lacking in examples, and compiler documentation is currently undergoing a massive refactoring effort on a couple of fronts. But the manual (https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/manual.html) isn't half bad.
Not really: https://archive.is/OFN8x#selection-569.0-569.12
This is fascinating... I've been working on an extremely similar protocol Interplanetary mind-map [0] for about 5 years. I'm surprise I've never seen Noosphere before.
It has the exact same topology, on top of IPFS and IPLD, and its also motivated as a tool for thought and aiming to enable transclusion among many other things.
The main difference I see is that I'm aiming for a full adaptive system of information, including computation, not only note-taking (I bet you guys have more thoughts).Trying to figure this out has let me to quite deep rabbit-hole around language and semantics [1].
I've actually have a proof of concept running as my website [2], you can navigate about 500 of my "thoughts". Everything in there are transclusions, and the user-interface are notes/memos themselves.
I think we should talk :)

[0] https://github.com/interplanetarymindmap/docs/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9TudZ_fC3o/
[2] https://xavivives.com/
Tbh, I think the biggest issue with kissasses and yes men most powerful narcissistic people tend to surround themselves with is that they'll isolate them in a bubble of their bad decisions.

This leads to companies 'backing the wrong horse' for too long and investing way too much resources and time into projects that are doomed to fail.

Imo this is what we've seen traditional US aerospace companies do for decades - the SLS is the most egregious example of this. In contrast Musk has walked back many times on ideas that turned out not to make sense - propulsive Dragon landing, numerous Starship redesigns etc.

In my opinion that ability has proven to be one of his greatest asset.
Wireless smart bandage provides new insights on healing chronic wounds
People are just having some fun.
We use a repo fork for CI workflow experiments. Once it's tested, we push the workflow changes to the main repo.
I kinda agree, it's weird to me how people make a big deal about the borrow checker as if it's an evil spirit gatekeeping your code.

And if you wanna go fast instead of writing maintainable code you surely can with stuff like unwrap(), clone(), Copy.

In a way I think most people expect to pick up Rust more easily because they have expertise in other languages and are surprised when Rust feels like learning to code again, basically turning some ingrained assumptions upside down.

It really is not the kind of language where you can glaze over the introduction chapter and churn a TODO app in the same afternoon in my opinion.
What's the correct level of division?
Reference and pointer types (annotated with `ref` and `ptr` respectively) are nillable. The compiler can provide null safety guarantees by annotating types with `not nil`: https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/manual_experimental.html#not-.... So then your example would look like the following, and fail to compile.

type
Foo = ref object
Bar = Foo not nil

var bar: Bar = nil # error: type mismatch
echo bar.a

Discussion about not nil by default is here: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/6638
Generally speaking: have one syntax/pipeline that works on GitHub, Gitlab, etc

I think the big problem would be the marketplace, you need to implement your own or make it compatible with the GitHub one
>When you’re mountaineering, sweat is really bad news

Both messages above already agreed that in these situations it make sense. Sounds to me that you are arguing while agreeing :)
This is Saudi Arabia

https://www.c-span.org/video/?188377-1/confessions-innocent-...
My trip to a global development conference
Yes, my brother, then 17 explained to me, then 10, the principles of calculus because he was so excited by it. He did it in pictures (little slices etc) and I got the basic idea, though I had no use for it. I just caught his enthusiasm.
The first three from the McCarthy papers remind me of FRED, a Lisp-like language that was built into the office suite Framework -- but used @func(a,b,c) Lotus-style notation for function calls.
I use the special "Note to Self" address in Signal messenger for this.
> We absolutely must re-examine our stewardship performance vis-à-vis the tacit acceptance of other major powers for this arrangement under sane leadership of US of A.

I would much prefer a unipolar world with a benevolent US in the driver’s seat. I think the war in Ukraine shows that that is where we are right now. The idea that authoritarian regimes with a disdain for human rights (like China and Russia) should be allowed anywhere near an equal say in the future of this world is scary to me.

I agree though that this requires more restraint on the use of force than the “neocons” showed. Hopefully US leadership has learnt its lesson over the past two decades: the fact that you have the power to utterly destroy a country does not mean that you have the power to build one.

(I’m Swedish BTW.)
As is this. https://www.memri.org/countries/saudi-arabia

But Saudi seems to be progressing. In one generation it’ll likely be a totally different story.
Signal also has a "note to self" feature but as this is a webpage it is undoubtedly superior to both.

No installation, instant access, have multiple users and keys per browser(profile).

Easily generate one off accounts.

This is a gloriously good idea.

So long as it works...
In law, yes. In practice, your destiny is between the lips of your “sponsor”. They can demand anything from you, like monthly payments, to keep sponsoring you. Basically, the foreigners have no power and the system extremely heavily favors Saudis over everyone else.
Emacs' magit is the best out there.
> It can be taught like other natural sciences starting with real life examples and building up. It is much more clearly written in the article.

How would you know if you're yet to learn the stuff?

Some math can be taught that way, not all.
Remember also that 1960's programming was not done on screens, let alone high-resolution screens.