skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cutting down of 1000 year oaks is sad. Perhaps we can have the perspective that these trees lived fulfilling lives and the younger trees deserve centuries?

And after all the Notre Dame is also a very historically significant building
Conflating homelessness with mental issues is as much a lack of real engagement on the issue as your critique of the OP.

Homelessness is primarily a function of housing costs, so I'd suggest the land value tax is a lot more relevant than you think.
The far left isn't much better, but the right just happens to be particularly crazy. I'm hardly picking sides. Your attack on "MSM" is picking sides though.
That second part is a seriously hard problem to deal with because we got rid of institutionalization except in some (very expensive and rare) situations. So we're effectively requiring the prison system to handle things, and only when it becomes too much of a big problem.

I suspect we need something like actual government-owned and managed slums - basically jails you can leave at any time. It would be much worse than "normal housing" but it has to be better than a tent under a bridge.
Bad news is that it is usually the more competent ones who have no problem finding new jobs quit first.
Building housing for someone who has addiction issues or other mental issues is not going to do much of anything.
An update on our approach to US election misinformation
Stopped at "For decades, the wealthiest Washingtonians have gotten out of paying what they truly owe in state and local taxes."

Taxes as punishment for having wealth.

Were laws broken? Doubt it, at least not at scale. Leave people with money alone!
YouTube has always been fine with conspiracy theories and obvious lies.

They tried to draw the line at actual violence. Turns out even that is controversial. They figure that this one has drifted out of active violence and so they can successfully profit off it.
AI Camera Imagines a Photo of What You Point It At
There are all kinds of weird stuff in the kernel, many of them will just die.
Quarantine only works if it is put in place fast enough. At the time, other countries were showing 10% mortality. If that gets into circulation, there is no stopping it. So quarantine fast, to stop it. Not, wait and see, 'hmmm, some people seem to just get a cough, lets let this baby roll and see what happens'.
However, you must be very careful around possible IR or UV sources as there will be no reflex to keep your eyes closed, look away or close your pupils! You will at most feel the warmth of the light source in the skin of your face, at which point it is likely too late.

If intentionally sticking your head in a strong light source, wear eye protection.
Why is there a tendency for scapegoating necessary in these situations? It seems like a western cultural carnal temptation for personal justice porn
Can someone please use this to improve the skyboxes in the KOTOR games? Please and thank you.
This reminds me of Wikipedia's Timeline of the Far Future (and they do mean far).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
What I would like to know is what the justification for capital gains being taxed at a considerably lower rate than other income is. Why treat it preferentially?
What does “suppressed in the public sphere” mean in this context?

Information about the law is very easy to find. If the topic interests you it may be worth your while to have a look.

The books are either banned or not.

Or there's a greyscale. Like you know, most things in life.

Again, do yourself a favor and look into the law and what it does. I could explain, but you need to at least do some of the work yourself here rather than just speculate into the air about the state of things in some far away country.

I'm not being snarky. It just seems weird to me that, having been given perfectly sufficient context to answer the question all by yourself ("2019 law") -- the only impulse you seem to have is to sit back and speculate.
Could it be Hugo's House of Horrors? Somehow I remember the name quite distinctly, although I couldn't play it much back then (did not know English at that age). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo%27s_House_of_Horrors
Exactly! One thing I do if I think a celebrity looks great but have a suspicion it's editing or some camera magic, I look up photos of them on Getty Images. Getty prohibits their news/event photos from being manipulated in any way. So you get to see every bit of dry skin, pimple, wrinkle, peach fuzz, and caked on makeup in excruciating detail.
Is this what counts for discourse nowadays? Vacuous, lazy, teenage stream-of-consciousness spewed out into a world already inundated by attention-grabs and staggering under the burden of too much information. What a bullshit directionless diatribe. What an infuriating 'hook' to remove all capital letters. What, the author is too cool to use them? Or is taking a principled stance against, what, the English language? Crikey, maybe I spend way too much time on the internet, but I wish more fucking people would ask "Does it improve upon the silence"? Idiotic.
that seems a lot more reasonable than taxation in California
I am creating Plex alternative in Golang
Then figure out what rules can and cannot work. I listened to a podcast were a vet's fucking service dog disallowed him from getting into rehab. A service dog!
>own OS with its own trusted code solution

AMD is working on moving to things like the open source form of AGESA. They plan to start deploying openSIL by 2026.
One English Family Took Photos of Shipwrecks for More Than a Century
Demographics of homeless populations is one of those things that is pretty hard to determine conclusively without some serious invasion of privacy and/or violation of rights.

Take in consideration that homeless folks are under no obligation to tell the truth when surveyed or questioned and are generally aware that "migration of homeless into certain areas" is a hot-button issue (these folks are homeless, not stupid)... and we have a recipe for the demographics of homeless populations in these 'desirable' areas being misreported and the percent of out-of-region homeless being under-reported as a rule.

Homeless folks definitely migrate to places that are more tolerant of homelessness and are all around "better" places to be homeless. SF, LA, Seattle, etc. are good places to be homeless. Boulder, CO is a good place to be homeless; they even put folks up in hotels in the winter for free when it is too cold outside.

Some people moved to these regions before being homeless, but they moved here for easy access to drugs and the overall drug climate (often not arrested or prosecuted for possession of hard drugs and pot is legal). This is sort of 'pre-homelessness'... their drug addiction was practically guaranteeing they would become homeless eventually.

BTW: Governments paying to bus their homeless people somewhere else so "it's not their problem" should be illegal unless tacitly agreement upon by the two regional/municipal governments. This practice is disgusting.
Yes of course. I was not talking society-scale but individual-scale.
> paying their share of taxes

We don't need more taxes, we need to spend less. If the government were on Charity Navigator it would have a negative rating. Nearly all of the tax revenue ends up wasted.
The OP didn't write about a UI and we don't know what their needs are, so for all we know they're writing a Python-based back-end API in REST or GraphQL which is being consumed by a mobile UI or a SPA UI in React or Vue.js or whatever, such that that back-end API doesn't have to provide a UI. If the existing Python back-end doesn't provide a UI then any proposed substitute--including one in SQL--shouldn't have to provide a UI either, just an API. In that case, there are some ready-made solutions already available:

- PostgREST (https://postgrest.org/): REST API for PostgreSQL

- PostGraphile (https://www.graphile.org/) GraphQL API for PostgreSQL

- pg_graphql (https://github.com/supabase/pg_graphql) GraphQL API for PostgreSQL

- Hasura (https://hasura.io/) GraphQL API for various databases

If you want to blend data from a web API and you're content with GraphQL, for some use-cases (not all, but some), there are options:

- Apollo Federation (https://www.apollographql.com/apollo-federation/)

- GraphQL Mesh (https://the-guild.dev/graphql/mesh)

- Hasura Remote Schema (https://hasura.io/blog/tagged/remote-schemas/)

If you want more control over the web API and you were going to fetch the data within your Python back-end and process it there, for some use-cases (not all, but some), there are options:

- pg_http (https://github.com/pramsey/pgsql-http)

Life is about trade-offs. Doing the work in SQL is not without its drawbacks, but it's also not without its benefits, and that's true for doing the work in a general-purpose language as well. Whatever the drawbacks of doing it in SQL, one of the benefits has got to be eliminating the impedance mismatch (for people who regard that mismatch as a problem, and the OP seems to be one such person). What I claim is that doing the work directly in the database shouldn't be ruled out in general (the specifics of a given use-case may rule it out in particular) any more than the other common patterns (API hand-written in Python, for instance) shouldn't be ruled out in general.
I don't think he can. As he says towards the end of the introduction: "One source of unease is that the fundamental distinctions are obscured, but not eliminated, in real programming languages."
He's made the ending he always wanted. The "secret of the monkey island" was supposed to be that it was all a park attraction all along and that was why there are so many anachronistic things in the game.
This is an often repeated and false claim.
I would like to hear about the outcomes of this workshop. Talia has some great ideas and research in this area.
Whether it's good and whether it's fair are different criteria. It would be incorrect to say low capital gains taxes are bad, but that's not what the previous commenter said. They said they're not fair and I cannot think of a legitimate defense to low capital gains taxes being fair. For example, it may or may not be good to steal all the money from the richest man in the world and give it to the poorest, but it's absolutely not fair.
They act like only billionaires ever make $250,000. Have you ever sold a house? So, just about everyone that sells their house will get hit with that tax. Ouch.
Certain areas are inherently easier to be homeless in, regardless of local programs.

Try sleeping outside for a year in Phoenix or in Minneapolis. Try getting resources in a sprawling suburb without access to a car. It seems clear that SF, with its dense, walkable layout, access to public transit, and year round moderate climate, would be vastly preferable to most areas of the US.
I think that one may also contain violence. [1] article needs verification

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism_and_violence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Anger
>People who tend to experience high levels of depression or anxiety may find it more difficult to accumulate knowledge or reason logically.

One of my self impressions is wrong I guess.
Houston is the fourth biggest city in the country. If it’s only in the top 25 for some bad metric, that’s great news.
Wasn't the Seattle allure 0% state taxation? Seems uncouth to backtrack on it. If we're discussing fairness it's worth contrasting how the tech industry in Seattle or its significance were prior to this.
It's the kind of silly moralizing language used by partisan hacks. You owe what the law says you owe and not a penny more (or less). Most people, regardless of socioeconomic status, pay what they owe, or at least what their CPA/H&R Block/TurboTax tells them they owe.
There's a "missing middle" that we cannot provide in our current society. Nobody can provide "flop houses" where drugs and alcohol use are ignored unless you're harming someone, so there's nothing between sleeping rough under the bridge and being sober in a shelter.

The liability alone would prevent any non-government agency from doing it, and even the government is scared.
> I think there're equally as many (if not more) causes for optimism ;)

List them.
Well it is an opinion piece. Clearly says so at the top.
I sympathize with your position, but in this case the two liner is significantly more readable. I had no problem digesting it. I then looked at the longer version and it was a much higher cognitive load to digest that. I have to look at multiple for loops to realize they're merely counting the words in a corpus. The shorter version lets me see it immediately.
In sprawling cities like Houston you can also just not see that area of town. In a dense place like SF, it's harder to avoid.
The word truly in "truly owe" is the clue that they're not talking about a legal obligation, but an ethical one. And it's an article about a law that was changed, so if what they truly owe changed from one year to the next the sentence wouldn't make any sense.
This argument makes no sense. Even if the government is not efficient with money we still want it to be funded because they provide services that make no sense for any one person to provide. In that context taxing high income more still makes sense, even if the efficiency is not high, more input still leads to more output.
He is a legend in linear algebra, and probably will be for a long time. His video lectures have proven invaluable, benefiting millions.
> If you believe the government is more effective than the people in spending your money you should want tax increased for everyone. If not you should want it lowered. Simple as that.

This is apples and oranges. I'm not going to go build roads or missile defense systems with my money (thought I might donate to science). There's no direct comparison between how "the people" spend their own money vs. what you can do with taxes, and it's definitely not "as simple as that"
That is semantic bullshit.

No it's not. It follows directly from the dictionary definition of what "censorship" means. Which unfortunately is widely misunderstood.

You think your moral superiority should allow you to exert violence whenever you want for you

They don't, and the conversation is starting to go way off the rails here.
I lost my hope when they adopted UEFI.
It excludes sales of primary homes.
ScholarAI Celebrates 6M Requests, and What's Next
Sure! Email is in my profile :)
I think GP is referring to a play written by somebody else.
https://archive.ph/pH8UK
>these folks would be much better off moving to another small-ish, lower-cost-of-living, but non-failing town in BC. Prince George, Vernon, Mission, etc.

That's an interesting idea, but the smaller BC towns also have their own homeless issues. I don't think their municipal gov would be open to the province providing relocation resources to these people.

Also East Hastings draws vulnerable in, and has an iron clad grasp on them. These people might not want to move due to friends/nearby support non-profit/substances.

Finally, some of them have drug addictions after they move to Vancouver. There should be resources to help them exit first.
> [...] this new Snap-based Ubuntu should [...]

Not interested.
> So sort of, but let's not look at the past too wistfully.

why?

> I also remember when moderately long text had to be split across files (even multiple floppies if you were writing a book).

2MB is 2 million bytes, The average book is something like 0.5

> I remember having to choose what languages my OS installation was going to be able to display.

This is a bad thing?

> Farther back I remember not having the spare cash for...

lol, irrelevant!

> Our current generation of PCs is probably within a factor of two of the minimum spec necessary for robust machine translation and natural language interfaces.

I have no idea what you just said. People for the most part read/write text and watch videos. This would work much better if we eliminated compute entirely.

> I enjoy using the old hardware but it really doesn't do most of the jobs we have now.

imho the way to look at old hardware is to look at only the good features we've lost. For example, I cant think of anything I want from a c64 except from sprite collision and having menu entries starting with function keys [F1] because that worked so insanely fast compared to a mouse. The rest was just coping with the state of the art.
This seems very reasonable!
"Seventy-one percent of those surveyed reported living in San Francisco, 24% in other California counties and 4% outside California.

Of those with a prior residence in the city, 17% said they had lived in San Francisco for less than one year, while 35% said they had been in the city for 10 or more years. The remaining 52% of those respondents said they lived in the city between one and 10 years before becoming homeless."

At least in san francisco it seems its people who lived in SF before becoming homeless that are in the majority.

https://sfstandard.com/public-health/san-francisco-homeless-...
In the link provided, the CUDA example only show the compute kernel itself and not the boilerplate required to run it. On the other hand, your OpenCL example only show the boilerplate.

This is the OpenCL kernel from the same repo, for a more fair comparison: https://github.com/rsnemmen/OpenCL-examples/blob/master/mand...

This is much more readable. OpenCL-C the language is fine: it's how you deploy the program on the cards that is complicated with opencl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology

If everything but what exists at the quantum level then CCC is a possibility.
The database is super nice. Try out ASN based restrictions as well, you can block suspicious data centers as well.

Let me know if you have suggestions or feedback about it. Also if you are found a neat trick please share it as well. Because it is a data product there are infinite ways to use it, so, documenting everything is very hard.
Thanks, I've added myself to the waitlist. Please let us know when this can be tried!
stellaathena is on here maybe they will say
So what is your opinion that you are trying to present here? That it's wrong because it isn't following the definition you expect income tax to fall under or schools don't have the ROI you would hope for? I just don't know why schools were even brought up.
> It says what it says in plain English.

But its overall meaning was not clear, and it context was not clear. English isn't machine code. "Loopholes work under tyrants" is a valid and meaningful English statement but it doesn't have any meaning to this conversation and if I said it as part of my argument you would not know how it contributed to my argument; it is effectively nonsense.

> People running around screaming that the sky is falling - and not talking about Nuclear as part (possibly the basis) of the solution - are spreading irrational fear and hysteria. There's no reason to talk about 'mass flooding' if we can solve the problem in a fairly straight forward manner.

That's a complete non-sequitur. But first, I apparently have to say that people can share one idea and not all their ideas. For example, we both probably believe that using the internet brings us value, since we're doing it. But we disagree on other things! So I wouldn't call us "the internet people." Similarly, there's no such thing as "climate change people." There are people who are concerned about climate change.

Now, the fact that many of them teamed up to kill nuclear is indeed a big problem. But, it is not reasonable to dismiss the dangers of climate change just because that happened. As you say: we're probably worse off due to nuclear disinvestment... making the dangers even greater. So we still need to seriously work hard to address climate change rapidly. Even if it's too late for nuclear, climate change is still a problem. I don't know what your actual position is - what change you'd want to see in the world. None?

Finally, I realize I'm probably wasting my time. When you talk about people "running around screaming that the sky is falling", that's a strawman, it's disingenuous, and it tells me you have no respect for a viewpoint opposing yours. Please take note that I'm not deploying hyperbole and metaphor to make your side sounds stupid, I'm just engaging your words and ideas.
DSLs are great if your problem and requirements are set in stone and never change forever. Unfortunately every project I've ever had in the real world has not been the case. Every time some DSL was used to specify the logic and behavior, it ended up being an albatross around the project neck that kept it from adapting to the new requirements. It would have always been better to just use a proper programming language in the first place.

I put the DSLs into two camps. The first one, the one that I'd say is okay to use, is like Google GCL or jsonnet. This is basically what's known as a "configuration language". It has a small amount of power to let you do a bit of text processing and abstraction, but not too much. If at any point you need more than those offer you, you don't want a DSL anymore. You just want a real programming language.
And guess who this will target and affect? Middle class and upper middle class, while the wealthy still end up paying $0 through tax loops. Tax the billionaires even 10% their due first would have more impact
Cool to see Radboud university on the front page. It was my alma mater for both my bachelor‘s and master‘s degrees.
> The parks should belong to families/the broader public, instead they’re dumping grounds for violent drug abusers and the mentally unwell.

It turns out that when you construct a society in which a "cost of living" is a normal concept, people without money are largely excluded from said society. You've excluded them from malls, shopping centers, museums, restaurants, streets, government buildings, and anywhere else you can. They can't get educated, they can't train themselves, they can't get access to healthcare, because we've all decided that those services are only available to those with money. Now they find themselves in the parks, because it's the only place they're allowed to legally exist. But I guess that's not enough, because you and the parent poster would prefer to "concentrate" them in desert "camps" as your "final solution" to homelessness. Really amazing to see the masks off here.
We get world class high definition entertainment 24/7 for $10/month. We all have access to entertainment that kings could not dream of 200 years ago. If the small set of people in the world who were able to make this happen get rich, is that really a bad thing?

Capitalism is imperfect, but it works pretty darn well -- even for the people who don't do any work.
Logical fallacies:

Hasty generalization: The title of the article, "California Spent $17 Billion on Homelessness. It’s Not Working," makes a general conclusion about the effectiveness of the spending based solely on the fact that the problem of homelessness still persists.

False cause: The article implies a false cause fallacy by suggesting that the fire at the Wood Street encampment was the primary cause that forced a decision to clear the camp, oversimplifying the issue by ignoring other factors.
False dilemma: The article presents a false dilemma by portraying the situation as a binary choice between offering limited shelter beds or allowing individuals to continue living in unsafe circumstances, neglecting potential alternative solutions.

Appeal to emotion: The article utilizes emotional language and personal stories to evoke sympathy and support for the individuals living in the Wood Street camp, appealing to the reader's emotions rather than presenting logical arguments.
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