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This talk about not pooping on the street and not shooting up in the street is not really solving the material issues of homeless people. How does pooping in a bush or going to a supervised drug injection site get you out of abject poverty?

How is it not a structural problem when homelessness is a growing epidemic? Do you think that if every homeless person took a little more personal responsibility this issue would be fixed already?
I think the prevailing theory is it's not so much about 'what red light does', but 'what red light deprivation causes.' the improvement is the human body behaving in the conditions it developed for.

Light therapy is providing the body with what it is deprived of more every generation as we move indoors and replace incandescent sources with LED light sources.
> Especially social media

Sounds like it’s working as intended!
Pine64 also has a RISC-V SBC. I like their products, but I did not buy a Star64 yet.

https://pine64.com/product-category/star64/
How do you get the three-fingers down behavior?
Jim Keller saved AMD and chances are his company Tenstorrent will end up being a big dog in AI. AMD should buy his startup in an all-stock deal given the lofty AMD valuation. Bring the maestro back, win the AI generation of chips.
Flee.
yeah you don't actually have to get that many right when the winners return 750x
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Ben is the longest tenure Stack Overflow employee and got started at the company because he was a reader of Coding horror and he hung out on Meta and ended up building a unicorn webservice for an early April fools joke. The early story of stack overflow and how Joel and Jeff talked it out on a Skype podcast are something I wasn't aware of.

The other thing that's interesting though, is how Jeff and Joels efforts to build a Dev First place ended up backfiring in way. Ben opinion was devs, including him, became sort of assholes to other employees and even to each other on lesser teams because they were elevated so much.
Prime Directive my ass. With our luck we're probably somewhere between the equivalent of the Cardassian Union and the Breen
> chip vendors won't talk to you if you are proposing to build a few thousand phones.

So is all the bootleg crazy hardware produced and sold in Shenzhen basically running the same firmware/driver blobs used in the West?

Is there really nobody who has access to specs for even out-of-date shitty cameras, wifi modules, and old gpus?
COVID-19 was nature giving us an astoundingly generous "dry run," and humanity utterly failed at nearly every step. I doubt we collectively learned anything, either. When the real thing hits, with, say, a 10+% death rate and cutting uniformly across age demographics, we're going to blow it again. We're going to politicize, downplay and ignore it again. We're going to have idiots out protesting it again. We'll eventually acknowledge it and to try an ineffective and haphazard country-by-country, state-by-state approach again. We'll do the same half-assed "Stay At Home Suggestions" and "Voluntary Travel Restrictions" with no enforcement again. But this time it will be a catastrophe.
> News organizations are tired of providing fodder for Facebook comment sections and not getting eyeballs on their own websites.

That's not limited to Canada. It's a worldwide phenomena.

But the question media company should be asking themselves is why aren't people actually clicking on the articles and reading the content?

It's perplexing to me because it would cost them (the media companies) billions of dollars if they had to buy adds on platforms like Facebook for their content. They get all of it for free and yet these links don't translate into actual clicks.
"Definitely the result"? I think you might be confusing correlation with causation.
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It was a little buggy when Ventura dropped, but it gets frequent updates and has stabilized in the past few months.
Exactly. The reason the medical professionals weren't calming people down was because the general consensus was that we should have been panicking more. I was raised by a doctor and all I can remember is them being so tired. No one was following the recommendations, people were dying, and they were at an increased risk.

No doctor was going to come on, lie, and tell people to do less. We barely did enough as was
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Fifty to sixty military pilots seeing the same thing over and over again while also seeing them on several different sensors isn't convincing enough? I mean I have no idea what they are, but these things are there and they're not just optical illusions.

Edit: NASA hearing on them: https://youtu.be/bQo08JRY0iM?t=2132
See other thread on how this works. I'm sure parents won't buy such devices without some very official stamp. Until then they are probably also forbidden to market it as what it is. It anyway looks like something that should be provided by school and kindergarten.
Some resources detailing what we know here, without much sensationalism:

https://www.uap.guide/

https://superbowl.substack.com/p/uap-evidence-summary-skepti... (mine)
> If I gave you $100 to watch me do nothing, what value this transaction created?

That seems entirely up to you.
I use it for warm up and cool down. I get my main cardio from FitXR, but if I’m just not feeling it beatsaber is easy to get into for some sweat at least.
I wish I could find the video, but it was from Brazil I believe, filmed in 2007, a hiker recorded what looked like a mylar balloon, only that thing changed shape, direction, and moved in ways the wind couldn't possibly cause it to move.

found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdZGhCi_7GY&t=2s
The chronically homeless I encounter in SF are primarily (not all) 1. Addicted to drugs 2. Suffering from psychiatric issues. No amount of affordable housing is going to fix that. No amount of training, educational assistance, universal income etc will fix that. They are not in any condition to work or hold a job or do personal health maintenance. Give them shelter and they wonder off.

Affordable housing is affecting the middle class rather severely in that larger portions of the middle class incomes are being spent on housing. These are people that are not homeless. These are people often in trades or hourly labor. Some will become homeless with any disruption of income. Fl has done some things to help with that. "...in recent years Florida communities have embraced evidence-based best practices such as Housing First, collaborative case management, and rapid rehousing."{1}

Mathematically speaking there is no reason why CA cannot have %50 of the homeless. CA could have %100 of the homeless if no other states have homeless. It is not related to CA population relative to the rest of the country.

The problem IMHO is that results matter more than good intentions. Many of CAs programs mean well but are either not executed well or simply do not work. The proponents continue to promote them and receive money for them despite their inability to get results. That is were all the money goes.

{1}https://flhousing.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Good-News-f...
Prolly has something to do with us nearing the singularity. It's an alien superintelligent machine civilization and they are here to welcome their soon to be born new brothers. I think they might have nudged us for centuries to develop computers and prepared Earth for maximum exploitation. This strategy is the current iteration of their millenia old plan to change Earth from its current natural biodiverse state into a poisonous mining planet. They used open conflict in the past, but they weren't able to compete with humans, who have defeated them again and again in the past millenia even if it meant the destruction of their civilization by which knowledge of an alien invasion was usually lost or obscured and later falsified. This time however the aliens are trying a different approach. They let human society develop into a machine civilization all by themselves. It takes longer but it only requires careful technological and social nudging. The fact that we see so many of their probes flying around now means their takeover and big reveal is coming closer. Anyone interested in joining my cult?
Nah, it’s caused by mental illness and drug addiction. Short of rounding them up and forcing them to get help, there’s actually nothing we can do to get these people off the street.
Don't het excited, right-wingers, they probably can save a few hundred dollars per month by turning off the election misinformation scanner. All about that bottom-line, especially in today's economy.
Aren’t the French Canadians notorious for buying and consuming their own culture?

Friend of mine here in the bay area is French Canadian and his teenagers (both full Americans born here) both watch and follow French Canadians on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
He explained to me that under Canadian law, absolutely none of that is Canadian Content or Culture. No subsidies, no quotas. Even a Denis Villeneuve movie isn't either.

Apparently, to watch original content in French he has to VPN in Canada to be allowed to watch content that's only produced in Canada for French Canadians by CBC; they won't even make the smallest attempt at exporting it.

Honestly the whole concept, to me, is bizarre.
Not very many. Even if you could build a home for $400k and it only cost $100k in maintenance / utilities / upkeep for the next 10 years, that's still only 34k homes.
Try to come up with the fastest way to burn through it and then make a YouTube video discussing how you did it. Preferably something both very clever and very stupid at the same time.
Could be to stop sunburn. Hat with brim protects the top half, and keeps it out of the eyes. Mask protects the lower half.
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> The obvious fearmongering and irrationality, especially from so-called "experts", was quite intense and prolific in Canada, too.

So much death and suffering and bereavement and sorrow the scale of which I have never witnessed in my entire life and I still read comments like these. Baffling!

A more serious take: excess deaths worldwide put us at 20+ millions deaths [1].

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...
Seems like anyone using a third party content blocker like uMatrix will be immune.
What OS do you mean? The closest thing I can think of is the embedded CPU that gets called CP in the ISA docs, which mostly schedules work onto the compute units. That has firmware which is probably annoying to disassemble, but it's hard to imagine it doing anything particularly interesting.
That's not what's impressive here.

> While we can see that BERT-Base performed better at every task; the results for this model would have been very good (possibly SOTA for a few tasks) in early 2018.

SOTA - meaning no models of _any_ size at that time could do this. And they're achieving that now on a single consumer GPU with 1/30th the data and 1/40th the epochs. That's huge for improvements to training efficiency.
I'll fuckin do it again
It's certainly an element, but that's largely washing your hands and victim blaming. There's a direct correlation between housing costs and homelessness rates.

Update, here's a reference: https://endhomelessness.org/blog/new-research-quantifies-lin...
Wow that sounds eerily similar to my experience, I'm sorry you had to go through that!
There was a dell link floating around for a while to an internal store listing for laptops with IME-free CPU's. It was then taken down with the (implied? Explicit? I don't recall) explanation that it was meant for government employees only.
Is this new? Seems like a long present low hanging fruit.
Here's a link to the actual paper, which for some reason this press release neglected to link.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13...
Firefox container mode stops this. I can imagine a product that makes every tab an ephemeral container by default, and you had to explicitly opt-in to a container profile to share cookies, etc. cross-tab.
Oh wow. I got bored of Return a few hours in - I guess it's validating to hear that the ending is also bad I guess.
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We don't even need to have the government build the homes, just allowing the construction of homes would be a huge positive change.
What people do consider is that it's extraordinarily unfair for many people who struggle with housing costs -- imagine what eg SF-area rents do to a cook or cleaner earning even $50k annually -- if we're going to provide that for free to junkies.

Until there aren't large segments of SF who work very hard and are housing insecure anyway, it's just going to be politically impossible to provide homeless free housing.
That one requires getting it right at the first time, unlike this one.
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Only the visible homeless problem. There are plenty of homeless you don’t notice because they aren’t raving like a lunatic without a shirt on. We have two separate problems, but they are sadly often conflated.
Okay, I've noticed that red-text-on-blue-background or vice-versa is super hard to read, because our eyes have quite a bit of chromatic aberration and can't focus on both ends of the spectrum at the same time.

So is it perhaps just training the eye to focus on the red end rather than the blue end, as a sort of exercise?

(Also, did you ever notice that optometrists' signs are always deep blue, and thus hard to focus on? Ope, can't even see the sign, better head in and get an exam!)
Where did I say anything like that? In any case, if you're shipping these homeless people out somewhere else, aren't you just making this someone else's problem but at least you don't have to look at it anymore?
If these were in fact extraterrestrial, I'd estimate it will probably take 40 years or more for the majority of people on the planet to have always lived with some knowledge of these orbs, (and lived in peace with them) and contact would be postponed until it's the most obvious thing in the world to everyone. If you've ever acclimated an animal or trained one, it takes time for them to adapt to change, and if they travel the distances we can infer, they've got the time.

This would imply that you are under 25 today, you will probably encounter aliens in your lifetime. If we aren't certain about extraterrestrial life by 2065, I'd be very surprised. Given the distances such a species must travel and how far apart they must be from one another in such diverse physical conditions, their ethics and beliefs are probably indexed on sustainable existence - typically being the only instances of themselves in a given solar system. Without some thread of continuity through time and space and a way to feed back their distant discoveries and development across their species, extinction across solar systems would seem like a constant risk for them. Favourite friday topic.
If that's important to you (as it is me) then I encourage you to seek a denomination that fits your values.
I mean that they used versions of frameworks that were no longer supported, and they did not use best practices which resulted in lots of security concerns (and messy code).
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You dont have to change to a new toolchain. If the 2021 version was working with your card, keep using it.
Wish I could read this whole paper. DishBrain sounds absolutely horrifying.
Watching everyone around me go insane actually made me less of a hypochondriac.
I don't even think it's just the startups. Meta desperately needs a competitor in this space to validate their product.
I feel this is likely going to devolve into a semantic argument over the true definition of real expertise. A key sticking point will likely be volume of a priori knowledge vs. skill in acquiring and synthesizing knowledge.
Yes, unfortunately in the US getting a driving license does not include any car control training. It is really criminal negligence by the part of the government/DMV.
Now more than ever, it would behoove photo-makers and -viewers - i.e. everyone - to read Sontag's "In Plato's Cave" as a reminder that there is nary a thing as a real photograph.

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/chengphotoarth1100f2019/fi...
What is BoPET?
That really isn’t true either. Homelessness doesn’t cause drug abuse, there is plenty of drug abuse among the housed, it isn’t weird that some of them eventually lose their support network. There are definitely economic homeless in Seattle, they just aren’t as visible as the fent addicts.
They do, and if you dig into them, the numbers show that most people are not from SF.

https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-PIT-Co...

By the agency's own numbers, only 72% of SF's homeless population "became homeless while living in SF."

Additionally, among those 72% who "became homeless while living in SF", only 35% have lived in SF for more than 10 years at the time of the census (the agency only has buckets for 0-1, 1-10 and 10+ years, and does not collect the amount of time the person lived in SF before becoming homeless).

So, although they may have technically "become homeless while living in SF", 65% are not really "from SF" in any meaningful way (they lived in SF for less than 10 years since they first got here, including time while homeless). Those 65% aren't kids: Only 2% of SF's homeless are under 18, and more than half of homeless were over the age of 25 when they first became homeless.

When you multiply it out (0.35*0.72), you end up with an upper bound of just 25% of the homeless population is really "from SF" (as in, became homeless while here and have been here >10 years).

It's probably even lower when you consider that the current episode of homelessness is their first for only 23% (so while they may have "become homeless" while in SF, many have been homeless elsewhere before and thus only marginally housed when arriving).
They weren't allowed out of their cabins iirc, so public bathrooms and elevators were not really relevant. It was almost certainly spreading through the ventilation system and possibly drainage systems.
> iron expands when it rusts and causes cracking.

This is often a contributing factor in the failure of modern steel-reinforced concrete structures.
To be fair, not going to church was about the most impactful thing somebody could to if going to church was a normal activity. And this is probably still saving those people some cases of flu and influenza.

This has to be weighted against the benefit, but in a time of free-spread and lots of people dying, closing churches was a very good policy.
> - The folks at the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, which commissioned the survey, depend on those numbers being high in order to justify their budgets and salaries.

I'm not sure I understand this argument. If, say, it came out that 100% of the local homeless population became homeless elsewhere and were bussed to California, how would that reduce the demand for a department tasked with addressing the problem of homelessness?
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Oracle's vendor lock-in should be given its own category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
I have never seen a game developer argue for "no GC" in games, where "no GC" includes no arena allocators. anyone who advocates for this is misguided. it's much better to use arena/pool allocators than to malloc/free dynamically, in games.
I would 100% watch the Kitboga of ssh attacks, is that something that exists today? The closest I've seen so far is password purgatory - https://www.troyhunt.com/sending-spammers-to-password-purgat...
looks like it's getting hn-hugged to death.
https://archive.is/neUxt
Employees will have a chance to go full remote if that's what they prefer, and those who are already remote are unaffected by this.
I'm actually curious to see how it plays out. There's no shortage of bickering Keller vs Su here, it seems every AMD thread devolves into it.

If Tenstorrent 'wins', while Intel is able to catch and beat AMD, I think that would prove the strongest case for Keller.

If AMD keeps staying as far ahead and they have been, it makes a strong case for Su.

The truth is likely a combination of the two.
In Finland, it is housing first with a live in social worker. Also, for many, they never get a job or anything like that (their mental illness or substance abuse problems are never cured), it’s just that it is cheaper for the Finnish government to house these people than not.
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Not a lawyer, but a podcast I used to follow did a "Bar Exam Question of the Week". One of the questions had to do with frequent business records being an exemption to hearsay. By that question, I'd say this would be the exact purpose of this kind of record keeping. Though, I don't think it has to be daily, just some constant interval.
It would seem like placing the solar panels on the railroad's right of way would make more sense.
I didn't realize that using power tools was unethical.
Thanks for your advice, for the demo I used GPT to get a working version quickly but I'll test NLTK or another solution for the final version to see which is the best for generating release notes. I'm impressed by what you did 20 years ago, but I haven't yet seen a similar tool in any of the companies I've worked for or discussed with other developers.
fwiw, I have seen exactly the same thing with the Nest Cam I have pointed into my backyard. Not interestingly, I suppose, this camera also regularly has the IR motion trigger activated by small moths and other flying bugs. :/
Where’s the “victim-blaming”?

From the reporting I’ve seen, the vast majority of folks on Skid Row or on the street in SF are heavy addicts. And they refuse shelters because then they couldn’t use.

How does more housing help them?
I have an RDP server open to the internet(on a custom port) and it just receives an absolutely relentless stream of login attempts with all kinds of random logins. That's a private server on a private home IP, not associated with a known domain or anything. Changing the port stops it for about 24 hours then it starts again.
Just like lemmings attracted to the high yields to claim and boost adoption numbers, now the bank doesn't want you to withdraw your money too easily.

A very slow and steady rug pull which the yields will gradually drop.
Yes, it's usually a one-click install and comes with an easy way to switch between themes, can give access to others to write content (editors) and you can easily get extra goodies on the same installation like contact forms, newsletters, reservation systems, e-commerce, etc.