skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the entire US has zero idea what to do with homeless and mentally ill people, other than "dispersing" them or locking them up. As a result, some (particulary Republican) regions give them one way bus tickets to other (particularly Democrat) regions or deport them outright in sometimes very public stunts - out of sight, out of mind and if it deters others all the better, seems to be the general consensus. Others go where the survival chances are the best on their own, which means somewhere sunny with low rain and snow.

The problem is, the very few regions where both conditions match end up overrun - even though no one can seriously expect these regions to solve the homeless problem of an entire continent-spanning country with 330-340M people.
I'm not sure if it can support all the libraries but yes it can be used to make desktop apps. Theres also Sciter.

https://sciter.com/
That would be awesome. Next step: run evil-mode on top of it.

We've come full circle.
I think it's the giganticness of the country and how that leads to a low degree of education for the average person (among other things, like safety nets). In a developing New World nation, you need individualism because that's how you settle a frontier, even if the individuals eventually become towns and states. The problem is that it's difficult to eventually coalesce that into a system that supports people the way Western European or Asian nations have. It takes loads of resources and hence loads of political will. If the Swiss single-handedly colonized North America, they wouldn't be able to replicate their system across the continent either. It takes a long time. Things are improving, though, I think! It's just a slow-moving process.
async/sync and sequential/parallel are orthogonal concerns. You can write sync code which does work in parallel (on different threads/cores) for something like a numerical algorithm that can be parallelized in some way. Deciding whether something is sync or async is about whether it needs to suspend (in practice, mostly whether it needs to do IO) which is much easier to understand up front. Sometimes it changes of course, in which case you have to do some refactoring. But in a decade of programming professionally in Scala and Rust (both of which have "colored" functions) I can count on one hand the number of times where I had to change something from sync to async and it took more than a few minutes of refactoring to do it.
If you have to be a pro to make a website that works....
Why do the good always die so young?
I wish them every bit of success but I'd worry about their OS if it was built under the same principles.
This isn't really an issue because everyone's M.2 is working fine. You have to construct absurd scenarios to cause problems. Use a case with bad airflow, a hot GPU, and a workload that is pushing the gpu and m.2 and cpu to their limits indefinitely, which isn't a real life thing.

and if it IS a real life thing because you have some special use case, you use a case with good airflow.
Monotype "1450" fonts are specially adapted to these recommendations.
The site advertises itself as free for all and unlimited usage. To suddenly return malicious responses to intentionally break these apps might very well be illegal in many countries, or maybe would make them liable for damages claims. These clients are not violating any TOS or doing anything not allowed, after all.
Causal association found between evening social media use and delayed sleep
Primarily, I'd use it to give my son the best life he can have after contracting Guillian-Barre syndrome from the covid vaccine. A nice house close to me, money for the things he wants and needs and all the medical care and physical therapy he needs.

Having your life destroyed for doing the right thing is devastating, especially at 25 years old. He was valiantly still able to somehow continue working his remote tech support job until he was laid off. With the current market, it's unlikely he'll find work any time soon and even less likely to find an employer that will tolerate occasional days where the intense nerve pain is too much to bear.
Hmm, that's

> "There are things I'll never understand."
"There are things I'll never understand."

for me. But

> (cond ("There are things I'll never understand." 'true))
true

works.

Seriously I'm glad to not understand everything, that would be quite worrying and/or boring.
real estate survives you

In California the real estate value survives you. Your children inherit your Prop 13 tax assessment which means your children inherit a tax bill that's a fraction of what it would otherwise be. That's a pretty strong incentive to drive values up and not sell.
Wealth concentration has only increased and everyone else just have less and less, at some point the situation will be dire enough that the only resource left for the majority will be violence, nothing makes a house affordable like burning it down and located in a neighborhood known for its need of firemen; landlords will say the attacks are a work of savages, but when you make it hard for people to barely survive in your civilization (aka City) it's is you and only you who are making your civilization less civilized.
my father was a centurian, you see. his name was naughtius maximus...
Cosmetic surgery-linked fungal outbreak
Does brain stimulation boost memory and focus? Mega study tries to settle debate
“They” has been a very common usage in a singular context for a very long time, certainly during the 3+ decades that I’ve been educated enough to even know what a pronouns is. This usage dates back the better part of a 1000 years to the 1300’s

Formulations like the following are common: “Bob saw someone shopping for the Dolphin emulator in the steam store on their computer. They couldn’t find it though because the litigious corporation Nintendo had sent a DMCA takedown notice.”
Apparently it's you who can't have a reasonable conversation.
My comment wasn't the one flagged.
"ML" = Meta Language
And its half doesn’t include the repetitive stress injuries ;)
> I think the real answer has to involve dispersing the homeless population in SF.

Does it? As the article points out, the homeless population is actually down since 2019. Homelessness is bad, and a hard problem to solve[1], but it's not The Reason Everything Is Wrong, because if it was (1) everything would have been wrong before, when we agree everything was great and (2) other places would be worse, and we all agree they aren't.

Really this article is just like all the others on this subject. It's completely innumerate. It takes crisis and calamity as a prior and writes about it, while having to nod repeatedly that the actual measurements don't hold up the hypothesis.

It's just shocking to me the extent to which this meme has permeated the tech community. Urban homelessness is just not a new phenomenon, it's not a changed phenomenon, and it's not even a new phenomenon to San Francisco!

[1] Largely because it's unsolvable inherently. We've always had a homeless population in our cities going back to the invention of the city. Some people won't/can't/don't-wanna live within the rules of typical society and view street living as acceptable vs. the alternatives. So to that population, attempts to assist them just have the marginal effect of making homelessness more desirable. And... that's just not something that public policy[2] is going to fix.

[2] Well, tolerable public policy. Some of our ancestors deployed asylums and other kinds of para-prisons to control this. But even that works only poorly.
Isn't it a bit ironic that you left the project because it had too few resources?
Too sensitive to discuss can also mean too embarrassing to discuss
SF Techie here. Lived and worked here, for many years.

Every day I literally step over bodies to get to work. Drugs are openly dealt and consumed. Mentally ill people roam the streets, screaming. People openly use the sidewalks as a toilet. Crime is rampant. And if anyone doubts it's that bad, I invite you to come and look for yourself.

Almost all of these people come from elsewhere in the country. They aren't "priced out" local citizens, they're junkies and mentally unwell who come here because they know they will get services and be tolerated.

By its own accounting, the city spends over $1b per year on homeless services, for supposedly < 10k "homeless". You do the per capita math. Notice anything strange there? $100k per homeless. Something is off - way off.

Meanwhile these people suffer. Even if they have city housing, they are on the streets anyway, because they need drugs, plus they are driven by their mental issues. It's horrific and uncivilized, and it's a creation of a culture that says "all they need is housing", and then enables them in their drug addiction and psychosis. That's go on for years and years, steadily getting worse. Every year more of them come to SF. And every year more of them die, and the city declines further.

The solution is obvious: mandatory treatment for drug addiction and mental illness. No more tolerance for crime and drugs. Enforce basic city codes.

But somehow, this is "inhumane" to the extreme left that runs SF. They'd rather keep the status quo, and let people suffer and die, while the city falls further into ruin.
Their wiki has always been a bit of a mess. The company Signalwire is largely the same crew as the original FreeSWITCH team.
I don't think you understand "hollywood" accounting.
Because of the manipulation of the numbers, the easiest things to do is watch what companies DO not what they say.
Hoping for an earthquake and “moving them
on” (presumably not to a home) are mentioned but other than that
nothing too nasty.
The solution to the NAT issues is simply to use IPv6 and not worry about NAT.
Any recomendable sip Clients for iPhones to Connect to such a system?
We should be teaching kids how to teach themselves how to use new programs - not rote memorization of the UI for the current versions of windows, adobe, etc….the last thing we need is generations of tech illiterates that are slaves to “industry standard” proprietary software
The numbers don't look right, they would imply human CO2 generation of over 100 million tons per day.
English is extremely stingy with pronouns in general; beyond singular vs plural they, there's also no proper plural you, no modern informal you (it was 'thou', but that's archaic), no exclusive vs inclusive we, and so on.
Write code and perhaps browse Hacker News
You mean because it was a religion designed to make people more governable?
Meteorologists face unprecedented harassment from conspiracy theorists
Back in highschool, my friends and I got kicked out of a buffet restaurant. Every movie I've ever seen a poster for suggests that it's "Only in Theatres", yet I've held many a DVD release in my hands.

There's something about reasonability and fair-use and use over time going on here, but I just can't put my finger on it.
That's what the "flag" button is for.
Not necessarily useful/suitable for use in ReactOS, but there are a few modified "recent" browsers that do work (mostly) on XP.

Mind you it's a mess of various browsers and versions and modified ones and patches to the modified ones, but if you are interested, here is a good entry point to the rabbit hole:

https://msfn.org/board/forum/201-browsers-working-on-older-n...
I've been waiting for GPT-4 API access for several weeks now. As soon as I get it I'll try something like this but who knows how long that will be.
Perhaps because nouns are usually capitalized in German.

Seriously tho, does it really matter that much? There are native English speakers who write worse than that.
This site is completely unusable on my phone's browser.
I've been watching the SerenityOS videos and especially the Ladybird videos show a decent chunk of spec. One man (okay, one man with a history in WebKit development) and a bunch of volunteers gave built up a browser that could almost be competitive if it existed back in the day. Of course the people working on the project are incredibly talented, but I'd argue that if one full time employee developing both an operating system and a browser can get this much done with a community, the problem isn't as hard as many people deem it to be.

There's a lot that can go wrong, but the spec describes much more than I remember reading back in the day. Layout algorithms and such are all spelled out. There's no arcane knowledge in finding out what the right size of an <img> is, there are rules that will tell you exactly what you want to know if you follow the spec.

Not everything has been documented as well as it should be, but the vagueness and complexity of the web stack devs often like to lament about really isn't that difficult. It's a lot of reading, and boring reading at that, but the problems all seem relatively straightforward to me.

Even quirks mode has been largely documented. A spec for things that don't follow the spec!

I know things were very hard back when Internet Explorer was still a major browser because there were no rules. These days, you can either find your answer in the spec, or the publicly available source code for your competition.

With the amount of features being crammed into database systems these days, I'm not sure what I would prefer to maintain. A modern RDBMS sure seems less complex than a browser, particularly because there's no user facing UI, but the problems with an RDBMS are a lot more about (inventing) complex algorithms than many of the modern browser challenges.
You misspelled better
And more specifically, perspective transforms.
There was an issue with France’s system too at Dover. It wouldn’t be tin foil hat territory to suggest a coordinated cyber attack.

I wonder who has snuck through the chaos. UK border control regularly fails when the systems up, god knows what about when they’re down
Yeah, it's amazing how many SIP providers don't support IPv6 still :/ Total solution, no more headaches.
> The only way I've been able to keep jsonip active is by incorporating Cloudflare. But they don't actually solve the problem. As a corporation, they treat ipv4 addresses like 3rd class citizens.

Don't get me wrong, you're doing the world a service with your service, but why should cloudflare have to handle your problem for free? If you want to resolve your problem, it sounds like it's in your hands - block traffic, or us something like cloudflare/waf. It's not fair that you have to eat the cost, but it's not fair that someone else does either.
I recall for many years running OSX on a PowerBook with 256MB RAM total, with no problems. That machine was in use until the switch to Intels. It was fine - indeed more responsive than most Windows machines laden with crapware that I encounter today with many times the resources.
Hi everyone,
Let me introduce you to Speakgram, where we want to enable people to talk their way to fluency.

We have all tried various language learning apps and tools, however, one aspect of language learning current services are really bad at is conversational practice. You might get a chat-like interface, but in the end, the conversation partner will only respond with a predefined "if the users say X I say Y".

With Speakgram that's completely different. In completely dynamic and unscripted conversation you can talk about pretty much anything you want. For example, you can try ordering food at a restaurant and even hold a philosophical discussion with Socrates. Additionally, you can analyze the grammar of your responses or use hints to help you out when you get stuck.

We want to change how languages are learned from a grammar-centric approach to a more natural, conversation-focused one.
I wonder if it would make sense to also build a modern equivalent of the UI/UX on the Linux kernel? It supports MIPS AFAIK.
What changes would you propose to the system, or do you think we don’t need it at all to help reward development (and in this case, collaboration with a quasi-competitor)?
It is deleted after 30 days, the same as their API
People who write Flutter, for one, including me to some extent.
This reminds me of a vim koan[0]:

> Master Pope once dreamt he was an Emacs user. When he awoke, he exclaimed:

> “I do not know if I am Tim Pope dreaming I am an Emacs user, or an Emacs user dreaming I am Tim Pope!”

---

0: https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vim-koans/
> Germany was not allowed to do nuclear after WW2.

How does that matter today?

> Germany has double the density of France which makes nuclear even harder to do.

Yes, same is true for any other source of energy.
>That led me to changing my major from Business Management to Information Systems.

This is why I tell young programmers I work with that it is a must for you to develop with a Linux Workstation instead of Windows (we get a choice of Win, MAC and RHEL). Being tied to Windows will eventually hurt your career. I also mentioned if not Linux, then a distant second choice you should be a MAC. For our development, MAC/Linux is pretty much the same, but Linux gives you more freedom.
So why other big cities in other continents have so few homeless compard to SF and LA?

We do have people with mental problems here in Spain, but most don't roam the streets and end up living under a bridge.

And I can assure you the Spanish institutions are not precisely brilliant dealing with problems.
Relevant SMBC (especially to the sibling comments, holy shit): https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2095
> ”Overall the AT(X) form factor, with extension cards slotting in at a 90° angle, just doesn't work all that well for efficient heat removal.”

To give an example of this, here’s a server from a huge cloud provider for a brand new AMD 7700 on an ATX board.

Those 90° angles make for horrible airflow.

https://twitter.com/PetrCZE01/status/1637122488025923585
Websites do the same thing as 15 years ago? Not true, websites can now exceed desktop apps. Was their figma 15 years ago?

20 times more complex - this comes with doing more. 15 years ago there was no CI/CD.

Write CSS - don’t have to given Sass, components, and bootstrap.

Performance is worse - look at v8 benchmarks, look at webgl and Wasm. The browser itself can run much faster today, and people are doing more with it.

JS barebones - just one package. https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib. - and the node ecosystem is a feature not a bug.

Look elsewhere - every other UI framework we’ve tried before has been worse in terms of compatibility, functionality, flexibility, and available prebuilt tooling.
> the uptake has been slow. Turns out, while cool to hear about, most people at the end of the day don't really care about what architecture they're running.

Price is a factor. €140 for the Lichee which "nearly catches up with standard ARM board performance like Raspberry Pi 4" (their own words from the AliBaba page) is hard to justify for most, especially since this also comes with less mature ecosystem support. The $90 Pine64 is cheaper but also slower than a RPI4 and Pine64 is a "by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts" type of deal, which means stuff like 30-day warranty (which is a fine, just not a good fit for many uses). There is no price for the Asus one yet, but it's a lot slower than a RPI and judging from their other boards I bet it's going to be a lot more expensive.
What's up with the squid's left leg? It looks a tad inappropriate.
> We were notified by Valve that Nintendo has issued a cease and desist citing the DMCA against Dolphin's Steam page, and have removed Dolphin from Steam until the matter is settled. We are currently investigating our options and will have a more in-depth response in the near future.

I hope that the "settled" here means until the Dolphin team's legal counsel sends a DMCA counter notice. Then Nintendo can sue or drop the issue. But if they sue, the Doplhin project can stay on Steam until a judge orders differently or until they lose the trial. That's how it's supposed to work. Valve should stay absolutely hands off and neutral on this! This is not piracy and emulators are important.
Indeed, this is one reason why Ian Hickson (who helped create the HTML5 spec) is advocating for moving towards an application platform based on WASM instead. He has some good comments on this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34612696
Maybe they bought an upgrade from someone who donated to the CONservatives?
Thanks for the reminder about obsidian. I just installed it and have found it useful to take some notes
and the latex plugin is lit.
500 is correct.

But nobody enjoys a 500 so I occasionally use 418 for extra unexpected situations.
Some pod in CrashLoopBackOff somewhere.

Nah, just kidding, but the fact that it's country-wide indicates it's probably a server issue.
Re: 1]

I just visited several cities in Europe. I did not see homeless people just strewn all over the place like one does in SF, in countries which are both equivalent and far poorer than the U.S., and in countries which statistically have significantly lower and higher homeless per capita than the U.S.

It’s almost like if the govt provides basic services that allow even the poorest then even the homeless will choose to live with some dignity.
I don't know about that, it seems like many have tried and humans beat all of them
>Political visionary or warmonger?

I suppose it's possible to be both at the same time.

Ever wonder how HK had so much influence and gravitas in the upper most circles of government?
Probably the Lazarus group.
Sounds like you’ve built a valuable service that large companies are using in production! Why not start charging for it?
Alternatives we have?

Regular good old html without or with minimal amount of javascript. Absurdly fast compared to todays site. Many orders of magnitude less power.

Faster to develop and better user experience too.

But I also think we should think about alternatives. Things like gemini are interesting but will have a hard time go mainstream. But I do believe we need something completely new because the user hostile nature of the web today is so devastatingly toxic that I see no hope for the future.
> the guys have way too few resources to ever be able to compete against Microsoft

Really? Are you absolutely sure, Sherlock? Did you know that the water is wet already or are you going to announce that in your next comment? ;)

The project has many other reasons-to-be and it would probably be very hard to find anyone seriously believing that "competing against Microsoft" is one of them.
I think it’s been posted on HN because it’s relevant to the way software development can be performed in ignorance of production environments - or can be done in a production-aware (more SRE focused) way.
I took it as a metaphor for other types of engineering. With software engineering we teach people how to walk a tree, schedule threads, do matrix transformations, etc. in school, then throw them into a job where the big problems are more like "How do we make the web page fast enough for the vendors in Mumbai without violating GDPR?"
You think driving prices up in SF would help?
It's worth noting that Asterisk will run on very low-end hardware: for the last 7 or so years, I've been running a small Asterisk box on a VIA C3 Mini-ITX system. System idle power is around 10W. The only reason I chose the VIA C3 system over something newer was that a) I already had it and b) it had a PCI slot (specifically PCI, not PCIe).

The PCI slot let me plug in a Digium TDM800P and add eight POTS lines, either FSX or FXO, for pretty cheap.
No one <anything> in the streets in Atlanta.

Because no one uses the streets in Atlanta outside a car.

Atlanta has 930 violent crimes per 100k vs SF’s 715 or so.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...

Atlanta is the ultimate out of sight out of mind city.
This could also explain how Finland went from famine-stricken illiterate backwater in the late 19th century to a sophisticated social-democratic market economy a hundred years later. Finns drink the most coffee per capita in the world — it was just a question of getting a steady coffee supply.