skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it is not. Raising rent is a correlated effect, not a causation. All cases of homelessness are highly individualized. They usually follow a pattern such as this:

1. The setup: Some sort of condition or pattern of life choices that isn't intrinsically harmful, but combined with other things, will become overwhelming once the bottom drops out. The lack of community and isolation from a support network are key indicators that a person is at risk.

2. An Event: divorce, disease, severe mental illness, tragedy, etc that causes their steady state to change significantly.

3. An Aftermath: Poor coping mechanisms such as hard drug usage, alcoholism, and other short sighted choices, combined with the inability to bounce back from things in step 1, lead to the bottom falling out. With no support network, the individual falls out of normal society and ends up on the street. Addictions can develop and the person becomes trapped.

^ These three things aren't mine, It's something a social worker pointed out to me.
Absolutely yes they would. I know someone in my extended family on the streets - his problem is addiction. Lot's of people are willing to offer a roof.

I know that's anecdata - but you asked about the extreme case.
I used my original AirPods Pro as hearing protection on a table saw. It's not a terribly loud saw and I use thin kerf blades, but it's quite comfortable. At age 36 I can still heard 16-17kHz tones (typically you hear up to 15k by 40), so it seems to be working well enough.

For my giant router I use muffs. The AirPods act funny around stuff that loud, and it stops feeling comfortable.
You start with sleeping in your car for "just a little while" until one day the car breaks or you can't renew tag/insurance.

Or your friends get burnt out with the unpaid roommate using resources idea.

Hop skip and jump away from "real" street homelessness.

Been there. Amazed sometimes I made it out because it breaks your brain, just the lack of sleep enough days in a row will make the best minds broken.
Heh - a former employer of mine used something similar to this to sync code between laptops and development VMs :) We had a script that made a temporary commit, and pushed to a git repository in the way you describe, then reverted that commit.
I think we are talking about two different subjects.

I was talking about ensuring enough water for urban users to live and you are talking about maintaining the great salt lake.

This seems to be the confusion.
How is it free? London in Victorian and worse in earlier times was a much less safe place than London now and a lot of the credit goes to having an organized police force that takes action to find and apprehend those who commit assault and battery. That police force cost money to create and costs money continuously to maintain.
> How is this not the easiest decision in the world?

Unfortunately wealthy established homeowners don't want more people to near to them so they vote against any and all change.

Welp!

This is why higher orders of government need to step in to "force" municipalities to enact some of these sorts of policy changes you describe. This gives the local municipalities cover to enact the good policies that the selfish rich would kill at the ballot box.
which i like, but "least stressful" for me would be avoiding busy intersections, or road construction, areas with lots of accidents, crime-ridden areas.

I frequently take more complicated back roads to avoid areas like the above.
I agree that Two Sigma, Jane Street, Renaissance, etc. are NOT Fintech. Fintech is a really large umbrella which seems to includes people like Paypal or Bloomberg and things like robotraders or companies that deal with some financial product. Hedge Funds / HFT / Algo traders can be really sophisticated with their technology, but I wouldn't call them "Fintech".
> This doesn't always work

The problem is with when it doesn't work: when it's the least convenient and the most irritating. For popular content it doesn't matter if you forget a precise word used there, you'll get to it soon enough. But for specific, niche content - which is the most valuable to me most of the time - even if you get all the keywords right you might not find what you're looking for on Google. The reasons range from the keywords being too generic to the site being no longer online and it's really frustrating when it happens.

OneTab and bookmarks are not an answer because they don't save the content. I tried Joplin + Web Clipper which does, but it works on a single-tab basis, and when I have 200 tabs open sending them all to Joplin manually takes ages... and then Joplin slows down to a crawl when you're done.
The Count of Monte Cristo. It's 45 hours long and I'm going through it right now. If you listened on 3x speed you can get through it in 16 hours, which is what I'm doing currently.
When you receive a letter from a bank that starts out with "Here at [Big Bank] we value your privacy," you can assume that the rest of the letter is a just a detailed account of all the ways that they plan to violate it.
"Hey, anything's art if you do it in a black sweater". - Mr. Wiggles

This said, according to the renown authorities on the matter, it's definitely about the process. :-)
Fourth membrane is discovered in the brain
Sure! Here's mine: https://www.justus.ws

I've had this one for a couple years now. I've had more polished-looking sites in the past, but this time I wanted to emphasize having fun with it and not being too precious - this allows me to update it without worrying about everything being perfect.

It's a static site built by Eleventy. I edit/build it locally, and then when I push up to Github it's rebuilt there by a Github action. Details here: https://www.justus.ws/how/

Edit: An interesting tidbit: my avatar in the upper-left corner blinks on a random timer thanks to a very simple bit of JS[0]. However, it exhibits a strange and unexpected behaviour: if you don't interact with the webpage for a while, my avatar "goes to sleep"; e.g. the eyes close until you interact with it again.

I love this, but I don't know why it happens! I get that the browser probably pauses scripts after a time, but why would it always end up with its eyes closed, especially when the eyes are only supposed to close for 150ms at a time?

[0]:

async function blinktimer() {
async function blink() {
var src = $(" .avatar ").attr('src');
console.log("BLINK!");
$(" .avatar ").attr('src','/images/dadi-avatar_blink.png');
await sleep(150);
$(" .avatar ").attr('src',src);
}
while (true) {
var delay = Math.floor((Math.random() * 11000) + 0);
await sleep(delay);
blink();
}
};

- https://www.justus.ws/js/scripts.js
>during the deadly insurrection

Which side was it who fired the deadly shots?
The Philippines has never been easy to grasp though. Even now the government maintains poor control of many of their thousands of islands. Colonization efforts there can be profitable but are also weak. To the extent the Philippines has been colonized they must generally satisfy themselves to control of major ports and trade routes and naval bases.
A really, really good coffee machine for home. Price: about $1k. You can spend more but the coffee doesn’t get better - you just get more automation.
California has strong local governments captured by NIMBYs which makes intra-jurisdictional projects hard and inter-jurisdictional ones nigh impossible.

As an example, the LA River is a giant concrete channel that rushes water into the Pacific. There is some support for restoring it into a more absorbent wetland state but it will take decades and doesn’t cover the whole river.

As a more farcical example, the recent storms have downed a tree across the Caltrain commuter rail line. They are slow on removing it because the jurisdiction the tree fell in consider it a historic tree despite the fact that it is eucalyptus, a species invasive to California.
> The subreddit name can be lost forever. I don't think its a good system of name management.

This is mistaken. Subreddits without active moderators get replaced with a landing page that instructs interested parties to put in an application to take over.
It was intentional though. The bison didn't disappear because of western disease, they were hunted out to break up the natives ability to resist, so they could be killed and corralled, and the land be granted to settlers.

Canada intentionally withheld food it owed to natives as part of treaty agreements, with the understanding that if a bunch of people starved to death, Canada wouldn't need to send as much food.

Similarly, disease was spread intentionally through small pox blankets, with the intention listed
Amazing reference!
I was renting until just a few years ago and I never had a lease longer than 12 months, and it was actually difficult to find one longer than that.

I'm not sure where you live, but in a lot of places, a landlord refusing to allow a lease to go month-to-month is illegal.
This is the least exciting news I’ve read in my life.
I replaced all our hangers over years with wooden ones and not getting wire hangers tangled up or small plastic hangers messing up the shoulders on my t-shirts is well worth the expense. My girlfriend doesn't care, the barbarian, she will throw in a plastic or wire hanger from the drycleaners and I go full-on Joan Crawford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOILKHmZBwc
> We get a break repl:

How? I ran the same function, brought up the debugger, if I try to type something emacs says the buffer is read-only. Was I supposed to push e first?
Yes to a first approximation this is a good heuristic!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93body_mass_ratio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalization_quotient
> Sorry, I thought the comment was associating politics with environment.

It absolutely is and they're lying through their teeth.
I don't get MacBooks. At the end of the day you're paying more for something that is easy to transport but less good at being a laptop.
> The focus is on the Urban water users because they are the ones that are facing the problem

they are facing _the repercussions_ of a problem largely caused by someone else.
Steam revenue share over $10,000,000 is decreased to 25%.

Also it very unlikely publisher get 30% for title like DF. More likely there is some recuperation if publisher invested into new version and then then 10-15%.

PS: I work in game development.
Ask HN: What expensive product was a complete waste of money?
MT-Propeller 11 blade propeller delivers 15% increase in static thrust
Heated Mattress Pad. It's like an electric blanket built into your bed, with dual temperature zones and an on/off timer.

As someone in a northern climate with a less-than-ideally insulated house its a life changer.
Electric Unicycle. For short trips and errands, it's a super fast and effective way to zip around my area. For more recreational trips, off-roading on local trails and ravines is super fun. It feels like snowboarding around the city, and has a learning curve of a few days (like skiing). Initially, I borrowed an old one from a friend and decided to stick with it by getting my own (a fairly good one). Next up was the various safety equipment. You could spend anywhere from $1500-4000 on the unit + safety gear depending on how fancy you want to go. Even a minimal base model that's a few years old would be totally fine.
before the change

CREATE TABLE the_table (was_char CHAR);

CREATE VIEW table_read_api AS SELECT was_char FROM the_table;

a client consumes data via:

select was_char from table_read_api;

after the change

alter table the_table modify was_char int;

alter table the_table rename column was_char to now_int;

CREATE VIEW table_read_api AS SELECT TO_CHAR(now_int) as was_char FROM the_table;

the client uses the same query

select was_char from table_read_api;

the type of the column has not changed

it is still a char

only "internal implementation" is changed
I bought my first robot vacuum and it's pretty great (eufy 11S for $110).

It is as dumb as these things come. It has no navigation other than IR on the front to not bump into things. It doesn't connect to wifi. I'm not concerned about it sharing data because it has no way to do so.

I turn it on once or twice a week as I'm about to leave for work. When I come home my floors are in decent shape. It saves me about an hour a week on sweeping.

Minimum wage here is $12/hour so even if that's what I made, it would pay for itself in less than ten weeks.
Just another upvote for these. They're great if you don't have room for a dumbbell rack, and (of course) they're lighter than the standard dumbbell set.
> The real protip, which feels weirdly inappropriate for HN, is shaving down there.

I've heard very much the opposite.

Or at least, shaving down there makes it amazing for a day or two, but then the hairs start growing back and it's stubbly at first, which makes it INSANELY itchy.
I'd disagree. I think it's a "Black Swan" esque problem. Software developers shouldn't use Github for their bread and butter, in the same way that I argue real businesses should pay for email and not use Gmail.

Sure, it might work fine forever, but when it doesn't, you're really screwed and you could have avoided that in a relatively simple way. Reminds me of seatbelts and fire extinguishers.
The partially blind leading the blind then?
What lands are de facto Canada but not de jure Canada's?
They have a roadmap [0] for DF that, assuming historical development velocity, will take another 5 odd years to complete. The big upcoming (ignoring the never ending yak shaving that tends to lead DF development) is the Myth and Magic update. Also, boats.

[0] http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html
I've found it super helpful. I've lost 30 lbs so far. I counting calories, but the drug makes it much easier because you're just less hungry. I didn't have any major side effects, but some people do. I plan to switch to Wegovy once it's available, though.
Having a UMIK-1 measurement microphone for use with REW (or similar) has been really great for my year. I'm building a recording studio at home, and having the quick ability to capture and measure data about my room over time has been fantastic. I've also used it to measure the volume of some things, and profile why a few of the rooms in my house were too echoey which led to remediation techniques.

https://www.minidsp.com/products/acoustic-measurement/umik-1

I also got a FLIR infrared camera, which was a little bit more than $200 - but there are cheaper models that would have done the trick just as well realistically. My home was built 140 years ago, and some ability to inspect heat-creating things through walls has been useful.

Another really useful one in this price range was a Logitech MX ERGO trackball. I like how it requires less space and solid surface than any mouse. I also like the angle it puts my hand at. Multiple device support is good.
I was talking about a button that sets the score for a single submission to zero and makes it stick. I know the numbers are fuzzed, but I don't think fuzzing will take something with a score of 1 and show it as 0.
Elon Musk says Twitter staff 'error' led to hiring Perkins Coie law firm
Looks like this change is more to protect against Insider threats, ie Amazon employees or their infrastructure is compromised, and to make it easier to comply with some security policies that require EAR.
> The “average” investor gets paid cash and not in stock.

Not if they're unemployed, which is more likely in down markets.
Yeah, I wanted an example from a real project not a one file demo. The high fork number and probably also its existence in thousands of other projects likely results in this behaviour if you have no surrounding context.

This is also easily solved by checking the box in Copilot that says not to produce any code matching public code.
Do you know the difference between the T5 and the T7? From what I can tell, the T7 has faster transfer speeds, but is noticeably cheaper online. What's up with that?
The Body Keeps the Score lists a variety of therapies, and trigger warning, contains details about traumas of people the author has interviewed. Good luck.
I use a more modest 3.5% real return estimate. I'd rather wind up accidentally rich than accidentally poor.
I'm not trying to be glib, but I wonder if people had a similar speculations in the past when photography was first invented. I could certainly see people thinking drawing and painting was doomed because photographs can produce an exact capture in a fraction of the time it would take for an artist to merely depict the likeness of the subject.
The non-visible homeless (people down on their luck, to an approximation) get mentally sorted into the vast category of "that's unfortunate but it doesn't affect me directly," which might influence people's votes or charitable donations, but doesn't arouse much passion for most of us.

By contrast, the visible homeless are a visceral inconvenience, even a danger, so people feel strongly about how that problem is addressed. As a smallish woman, I am on high alert in certain areas of San Francisco, Oakland, etc. I'm not all that likely to be accosted, but if I ever am, it will be a big deal, so navigating those places is nerve-wracking because my threat-detection is constantly dialed up.

I would compare it to, like, road planning versus traffic enforcement. The former has far-reaching, long-term impact (like housing policy) but the latter is what gets people heated, due to the immediate impact in their day-to-day lives.

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Full disclosure, reposting a comment from a similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33961731
Https://sonnet.io

(And potato.horse for meeting notes)
Out of curiosity, what machine was it and what justifies the price tag?
ADHD medication has helped me, but I wouldn't know if that's applicable to you. I think I had it before the trauma and I lost my handle on it, and meds helped me recover.
I didn't buy this, I inherited it from my dad, but now that I have one, if it broke I would immediately go replace it, and that's a nice DeWALT cordless drill combo, with two batteries and a charging station. In the past I have always had cheaper cordless drills, because spending $150+ on a cordless drill seemed kinda silly, but I use this thing all the time, everywhere, for all sorts of stuff.
NFL’s Plan to Reduce Injuries Involves More Machine Learning
The government is run by and for the benefit of the established land owners and they don't want housing, they want excess returns. Simple.
Yes, although I'm not sure they had the capacity to institutionalise eduction to that end.
I've been to practices belonging to single doctors where I've been asked to sign such waivers.
Dumb question: could we build a big pipeline from the Pacific Coast and just pump billions (trillions?) of gallons of ocean water to the Great Salt Lake?
Nominal Swedish stock market return 1879-2012: 10.9% arithmetic mean, 9.0% geometric mean.
Real return: 7.9%/6.1%.
And Sweden isn’t really the world’s dominant superpower.
https://www.riksbank.se/globalassets/media/forskning/monetar...
delivering pizzas for Uncle Enzos?
The average investor includes people who lose their jobs during downturns.
-\infty + 10000 = -\infty
This is great! Thanks for sharing. How much did this cost you?
I've been interested in the broad topic of programming language design/theory for a few years, after being inspired by the article "C is not a Low-Level Language" by David Chisnall. It really pushed me to consider designing for a future architecture. However, after seeing this thread yesterday, reading some papers and decks, and watching a few videos, I am going to add designing for a post-Von Neumann architecture to my explorations.

My theoretical and design work has been focused on concurrent modal languages (with nondeterminism as a basic side effect often), and I am going to be hopeful that I can find a useful common ground with the type of thoughts you've thrown up for me.
There was no problem with my Airpods pro gen 1, but I bought new gen 2 version just because I wanted to support Apple for making such a great product. I never leave the house without them. Got it on sale for thanksgiving holidays
There was a Soviet computer called Setun (Сетунь) which used ternary logic, though I can't find much in English about it (and my Russian is very poor).
What does this have to do with running a game at 4k resolution instead of a lower resolution needing a more powerful CPU?
I posted this separately, but look into a heated mattress pad too. Its life changing for cold climates. Direct heat into your covers makes it so much cozier.
The solution is not restrictions or force. Simply raise the price of the water. The rest will sort itself out.
Not $500, more like $50, but a vacuum canister for oil changes. Just sucks the oil out of the dipstick tube. Great for environment and my back. Best $50 spent this year.
> water rights that were negotiated over 100 years ago can't just be canceled because of a current need

They absolutely can, but the will is completely absent.
I don’t think we need to worry about steady state economics as long as we are on Earth. Ultimately the whole economy is a proxy for measuring the flows of transformations of useless material and energy in to useful ones. The sun shines every day. That makes crops, which drive labor. Labor writes software, profits go up. The true input is the hydrogen cloud around the sun.
Yeah I would not use them as hearing protection against industrial level noise.

In my experience, Jackhammers and rivet guns will absolutely blast through the foam and the ANC will not be fast enough (the noise also too sharp and high frequency).

Everything else works great but people reading this thread: wear proper hearing-protection!
Neurons definitely compute. The dendrites that aggregate signals to initiate an action potential are not just simple summations but complex arrangements of signal promoters and inhibitors. The complexity of a pyramidal neuron is equivalent to a 5-8 layer artificial NN.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-i...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732...
1zpresso K-Max manual coffee grinder.

Excellent build quality and grind for the money. A joy to use every morning and I expect it will last a long time. Their large range of models is confusing and takes some time to understand but with enough youtube reviews, you can decode it. Might be a bit over $200 in the US but I think I bought it at a discount to roughly be at $200 after currency conversion.

https://sigmacoffee.co.uk/products/1zpresso-k-max
Most of the issues with the Great Salt Lake are directly due to diverting water for agricultural, industrial, and residential use - in that order. See figure 5.

From the paper “ Agriculture dominates water use in the Great Salt Lake watershed (Fig. 5)25,26,69. Irrigation of alfalfa and other crops directly accounts for around three quarters of total consumptive water use…”

Agricultural diversions of stream water that would otherwise go to the Great Salt Lake account for 74% of the water used.

Industrial and mining,
18%, evaporation 8%, and cities and residential use 8%.

This isn’t like California.

[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366876763_Emergency...]
Target-date retirement funds automatically do.
You can buy very safe investments like treasury bonds. Of course they won't give you the 8% risk-free returns you're looking for, but that's the point, nothing will.
Not last year, as I haven't bought anything cheap but:
Rice cooker was nice unitasker. For making rice.
I could use electric pressure cooker, but rice cooker makes it simple enough and I can make almost small enough amount at one time. Or not too much waste.

Small handheld electric screwdriver from Lidl was reasonable purchase for cost. Not too much use, but was semi-useful during a move.
I've never seen the source, but was reminded of this excellent homage:
- https://youtu.be/BQXbbWVJ4sA?t=133