skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tell me what FL is doing to solve their issues ...

Wait, what?

Why do you believe that FL's homeless crisis isn't expanding an a huge scale? Because it absolutely is. Floridians with government jobs and money in the bank are becoming homeless for the first time.

ref: Lived next to a huge FL homeless community for 10 years. Ex is frequently homeless. Me and my 5 sons barely escaped homelessness ourselves in 2021 (with long established jobs and savings).
> "BEFORE VACCINES, BEFORE masks, before much at all was known about how the novel coronavirus spread and whether it lived on surfaces (remember wiping down grocery bags with Lysol?)"

There is a strong "what were they thinking" behind this because we found out very early on that this virus didn't spread on surfaces, by spring 2020. But the public health apparatus found that keeping people as fearful as possible (even for irrational reasons) was useful for getting them to follow their guidelines. Double bonus for highly visible, borderline superstitious rituals like hand sanitizer, which helped identify those who were compliant from the dissidents such as myself.

I live outside of Boulder, and long, long after this was known, the businesses were still engaging in surface sanitization theater. My daughter's swim school had employees walking around with large devices, spraying fluid on every chair in between classes. This was going on all the way into 2022. I asked the employees if they knew that covid didn't spread on surfaces and that what they were doing was useless. They knew, but did it anyway because the owner "wanted to show customers they took covid seriously".

As a person who was demonized by my colleagues for not wearing a mask OUTSIDE on a windswept hiking trail, I'm frankly triggered by comments like this where people pretend like the information and data showing how irrational and panicked the social reaction was didn't exist. It did, and the people who were the most irrational, panicked, and aggressive towards those attempting to be rational are the ones making excuses like this.

There needs to be a reckoning on this insanity and the public health authorities who deliberately chose a "stop covid at any cost" strategy. "At any cost" is correct. They completely refused to do any form of cost/benefit analysis for the absurd panic they produced. I, like many on HN, had relatives who refused to leave their homes, and were wiping down boxes from Amazon for months. These were relatively young people with no health issues. There's a reason why the average American overestimated their likelihood of being hospitalized from covid by 50x, and that's the combination of public health and the overly compliant, ideologically blinded media in the western world.
I wonder if just wearing glasses with a wratten 29 filter would work?

Maybe the hippies were onto something with those rose tinted glasses, lol.
They might just ask Intel to put a special flag in, like the one discovered back in 2017.

> One of the fields, called "reserve_hap", drew our attention because there was a comment next to it: "High Assurance Platform (HAP) enable".

> Googling did not take long. The second search result said that the name belongs to a trusted platform program linked to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)

https://web.archive.org/web/20170829010653/https://blog.ptse...
> Meanwhile, Canada’s media and telecom industry is concentrated in the hands of three wealthy families.

For the benefit of those unfamiliar with the Canadian media landscape, could you please name these families?
> > Migrations first, not schema first.

> ...

TFA says this in the context of ORMs. But in the context of not-ORMs I think migration-first == schema-first: just use `CREATE .. IF NOT EXISTS`, `ALTER ..`, etc. to set up the schema from the get-got, and you'll think about and cover migrations as you go. The problem with ORMs is that they hide the SQL bits and so if they don't get this right then you'll suffer.
>rich people effectively pay less tax than the middle class

That’s just not true. The top 1% of earners pay close to half of all income tax.
It explicitly excludes real estate.
I like this title. Mathematicians can already explore an idea with computer programs, and it seems like ML (tho maybe not gpt) could be used in this capacity. Sort of like fuzz testing in software development. Theorem proving might or might not be a fruitful path to pursue with ML.
Oh StackOverflow. I forgot it existed since ChatGPT was released.

Yeah.. surely a 2013 reply from a reputation farmer suggesting a dirty jQuery solution will be better, since it was made by a human. LOL
> learn to spend the money more effectively

That’s definitely an issue, but I would be happy with the government just spending less of it. Like less than is brought in as revenues. Excess can be rolled over with equivalent tax cuts or moved to an endowment or trust with an independent, non-partisan management structure that pays an annuity. Failure to stay under revenues would come directly out of public servant salaries, campaigns, benefits, and retirement programs.
If it was taxed as ordinary income, this tax would be illegal in Washington.There was a whole legal battle about whether or not this was an income tax or not. I suspect it might still end up with this tax being repealed.

I believe the given reason for a capital gains tax is to promote investment.

Edit: I was mistaken about income taxes being banned by the state constitution.
Not all or even most subconscious influence on decision making is bad. There is plenty we can’t yet quantify and fully understand.
There is no one cause. Anyone who says there is, is wrong.

CA has many problems. Houses are expensive, and that makes it impossible for poor people to buy a house. This is something that CA can fix over time, and those who are only homeless because they cannot afford a place to live are low hanging fruit. They only need to build a lot of housing (reforming zoning for example)

There are also people who are homeless because of some other problem. Mental issues, drug addiction, and other such things. they are harder to deal with - I'm not sure what can be done about it: I've seen a lot of proposals, but people proposing them tend to be overly optimistic about the ability of their ideas to work without downsides.

There are more issues as well, but those are the big ones, and you cannot treat them the same.
The Pomodoro Technique: What It Is and Tips to Focus
If for any reason Google goes bankrupt, debt holders will be serviced with the remains, shareholders will get 0.
Cobalt isn't used any more in mass-market, cheap EVs. Carmakers have begun to switch to lithium iron phosphate rather than lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides.
I think you are equating the fact that most elected officials in CA are Democratic to this being a political hit piece. With that logic, is anything negative about our largely Democrat body of officials off limits?
So let's say that just hypothetically, I train an image generating model with every available work drawn or designed by Akira Toriyama, then I use this model to make a Journey to the West comedy manga.

The government won't arrest me for that, but can private corporations still sue me for using their work to train the model?
Could be! I remember the house looked more blue and was centered on the box cover, but there could be more than one box art.
I'm hoping this finally makes this AI panic/hype wave jump the shark, but breath is not held.
> Suppose you believe the government is not good at spending your money. Let’s say half of every dollar is wasted. Why would you want rich people to be taxed more?

So they can spend half of it well?
It's not a binary.

SF gets described as 'housing first', but it certainly does not act like it. In SF, we actually have unspent funds from our 2018 "Prop C" ballot initiative which dedicated funding to specific categories, the largest of which was for permanent housing. I.e. there has been money available for 5 years for permanent housing, but the city is not willing to buy available units -- it will only consider developing new projects, which get stuck in planning hell, and have extremely high per-unit costs. The city is not willing to rent vacant market-rate units, even when large numbers are available, including in rent-stabilized buildings, where it could have long-term predictable rents. When rents dropped sharply during the pandemic, we did not put people into empty, cheap apartments. Instead, we payed $5k/month per tent in parking lot safe sleeping sites.

Mayor Breed is also trying to take funds which are set aside for permanent housing and use them for shelter beds and prevention services.

Funding exists to put more people into actual housing basically immediately, but the city instead pursues more shelter beds and ever larger contracts with Urban Alchemy.
It was just a casual bbq with very relaxed friends.

Being social and fitting in is a skill like any other. So many people in tech believe they don’t need to work this particular muscle and it shows

Can you talk about things with a stranger at length that aren’t in your core interests?

Can you make people interested in what you’re talking about even if they’re not exactly your kind of people?

Do you have confidence when you speak, at least enough to get your words across? Do you enjoy being around others in a purely social situation?

All these kinds of things are important. And personally I think they should be developed before one injects themselves into foreign places. For safety as much as the respect of those you travel to
That would be my guess too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/14/headway/houston-homeless-...

There are homeless and there are homeless; the vast majority of homeless are transiently homeless - "homeless for six weeks or fewer; 40 percent have a job".

It's the "chronic homelessness" that is hard to fight, and those have a large percentage of mental illness and drug abuse. Those have to be handled differently and delicately because anything that is heavy handed will likely catch up others in the net.
Simply giving the homeless, a lot of them addicted and with mental health original, a $4700/month home or the money directly does not help them.

Without being presumptive, it irks me to see internet experts barge it with their own theories and expertise, rather than the people who have studied and dedicated themselves for decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

>One common misconception surrounding Mitochondrial Eve is that since all women alive today descended in a direct unbroken female line from her, she must have been the only woman alive at the time.[45] However, nuclear DNA studies indicate that the effective population size of the ancient human never dropped below tens of thousands.[49] Other women living during Eve's time may have descendants alive today but not in a direct female line.[50]
That's true, but in this case, Washington State has no income tax. The capital gains rate here isn't an unfair rate that privileges the wealthy, it's an additional tax burden on the wealthy.
Back when Mizzou had their J-school's something-centennial celebration and a bunch of editors and such descended on the school for the celebration, they had a panel where people could ask them questions. I asked them, given that journalism's job is to be the journal of the community, why does the business model instead align on advertising?

The unanimous answer from the panel was that people wouldn't pay for journalism.

Now, you can take this one of two (or more) ways:

1. Journalism as widely practiced in the present environment isn't worth paying for, so of course people won't pay for it.

2. Even if journalism was "objectively" worth paying for (lemme hand wave that judgement for the sake of argument), maybe people still wouldn't value it to the extent they were willing to pay what it would cost to produce.

And we can drill into #2 even deeper: in practice, some kinds of reporting are already funded entirely by its audience. For example, Janes has made a business for decades of compiling open-source intelligence about military hardware. That's a kind of reporting, and provably one that some audience is willing to pay for.

Other kinds of reporting though may be valued differently. One of my professors won a Pulitzer prize for a story on AIDS in the Midwest. This is probably not something you can build an industry around reporting on, especially not in the way she went about it, but clearly some people felt it was worthwhile reporting.

So now we get back to the question of how we incentivize "good" reporting, which arguably the above two are examples of, but in different ways. One is basically industry reporting which seems like largely a solved problem from a financial feasibility perspective.

The other angle is less of a solved problem as far as I know, but I can see two paths to try with it: culture grants (common for certain kinds of projects in some Nordic countries - not as sure about the US) and crowdfunding. In either case, it will probably look substantially different from how we think of journalism today.
I don't think there is demand for 10x more content
On a positive note, HN is one of the very few sites left which is still simple enough to be used with older browsers. I am writing this comment in the text console (no X11) of a Raspberry Pi 3 with a braille display (no monitor connected) as the output device. Using lynx as a pretty reliable browser. It is the exception, I know, I am a freak by nature of my disability, but I am also proud to know this niche still exists and it is actually possible to do some interesting things online with very little resources.
Whether the wealthy "owe" taxes or not, I think it's important to consider that:

If it gets easier to grow wealth the more you have, that will create power disparity with time, which eventually leads to an oligarchic society.

If you owe the government 30% of your income, that's your problem, if you owe the government 30% of it's income, that's the governments problem...

That's hyperbole, but to demonstrate a point. What stops someone from concentrating enough money to, for example, buy a news media outlet and use it to promote people who would protect the decision made in citizens united and then further promote individuals that will make decisions that allow them to get even more power? Then they could degrade the institutions that empower people and society as a whole such as education. They could use their media empire to fight the idea of trust busting and breaking down of monopolies and cartels (the true cause of "greedflation"). They could hire the police to fight unions and dissidents.

How do you prevent the wealthy from getting too wealthy and using that wealth, and therefore power, to corrupt institutions to work on behalf of them rather than everyone?

We already know what the decay/absence of rule of law (restrictions on arbitrary exercises of power) in a capitalist society looks like: Russia.

If you don't want to be Russia, if you don't want to have to bend the knee to the most powerful thug, you have to tax the rich and invest it into programs for the poor, particularly education.
Wouldn't simultaneously spending less and taxing more equitably be better all around? Rather than having one side want to gut everything while cutting taxes even more and one side want to steal everything from anyone who makes more than $1M/yr and just turn around and give it all away, something a bit more middle ground might make more sense.
What does this mean? I tried adding .atom to the OP url and got a 404
I mean what did you expect from an article from the Murdoch owned rag of WSJ that is essentially Fox News with a little sheen on it.
As a younger dev I often dreamed of devs releasing the source code to ancient games so that I could learn from it, but now that I know how corporate works I've made my peace that it will happen rarely or never.

I bet that devs in a company like LucasArts these days need to wait for weeks on corporate to give permission to use a alternate email client, just imagine coming up with a proposal to abandon copyright claim on something. It just can't happen, you would have a very hard time even finding one single person inside the company who might actually have the authority and pull to greenlight it.
We use it in Palantir, that is a proprietary overlay on top of Spark.
It supports this feature reasonably fine.
That looks interesting, but does it work in Ventura? They only list Big Sur and Monterey on the website...
I'm not sure how you extrapolate from that sentence that the aforementioned devices were for leisure only. In any case, all those devices (desktops, laptops, 2-in-1/tablety-things) where used for all kinds of work/leisure/experimentation/music-production/graphics-work. Especially desktops were likely used in the same time periods as laptop devices.
If you're pulling in gains above 250k you're probably not middle class.
Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by 250kya
The discussion is about the quote in the article, not about what the previous commentator said.
Disallowed him is a neat framing for, he made a hard conscious choice.
The moral of the story is that Nvidia invested a lot more in low level software developers for their GPU solutions and AMD did not, and it shows.

"Open source" by itself is not a magic dust you can sprinkle on your projfcts that will make your software work well.
I have to assume through some form of leptogensis or similar that we could engineer our galaxies or maybe entire universe so that this feature is at least delayed much longer, if not avoided entirely
Isn't this sort of how specialized hardware kind of works?

At some point, hardware (necessarily?) evolves to become optimized to do one thing, and then you have to just treat the driver as an API to the hardware.

Even "simple" things like keyboards and mice are now small computers that run their own code, moreso more complex devices like sound cards and hard drives.

And since graphics card performance seems to be the bottleneck in a lot of computing, it has become super specialized and you just hand off a high-level chunk of data and it does magic in parallel with fast memory and spits it out the hdmi cable.
Would you care if we murdered all the homeless?
Real estate is exempt from the Washington capital gains tax.

Here's the list of exemptions:

• Real estate.

• Interests in a privately-held entity to the extent that the capital gain or loss from such sale or exchange is directly attributable to the real estate owned directly by such entity.

• Assets held in certain retirement accounts.

• Assets subject to condemnation, or sold or exchanged under imminent threat of condemnation.

• Certain livestock related to farming or ranching.

• Assets used in a trade or business to the extent those assets are depreciable under Title 26 U.S.C. Sec. 167(a)(1) of the internal revenue code or qualify for expensing under Title 26 U.S.C. Sec. 179 of the internal revenue code.

• Timber, timberlands, and dividends and distributions from real estate investment trusts derived from gains from the sale or exchange of timber or timberlands.
Commercial fishing privileges.

• Goodwill received from the sale of a franchised auto dealership.

See https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/other-taxes/capital-gains-tax
The majority of people on the internet want housing to be affordable.

The majority of people who vote in elections and show up to city council meetings want housing to be an investment that grows in value by 10% annually. Building more houses is a direct threat to that investment. Guess which group wins.

(Caveat: California's state legislature is slowly clamping down. Regions which aren't submitting realistic plans to meet their projected housing needs are getting their zoning privileges taken away, which will help. However, this is like trying to empty a swimming pool with a teaspoon when it comes to the supply and demand mismatch that exists today.)
Why should government provide this? It creates a perverse incentive as we observe in modern day SF
I think the concept of Immutable Operating Systems is quite nice, and it's nice to see Ubuntu exploring it. It seems like, in principal, a rather nice way to provide a stable system that is set apart from the needs of individual applications. More distros taking a stab at this is a great way to shake out what does and doesn't work well in practice.

However I, like many other folks, have not had the greatest experience with Snap as distribution method, and from a user experience perspective, feel that Flatpak is a better choice in this case, so I won't be entertaining this particular distro's attempts.
Yes it is. Money is a resource allocation mechanism. Suppose people were not taxed at all. Do you think there wouldn’t be roads?

Roads are a good example of how when you go to 0 to 1 it’s a great investment and thus good justification for taxes. At some point though there are diminishing returns.
Scott Alexander reviewed the book "San Fransicko" by Michael Shellenberger and as part of the review analyzed the top reasons for people to become homeless. [1]

Some takeaways from the review:
- Number one predictor for homelessness are the housing prices.
- 30% of the homeless in SF are from outside the city

[1] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-san-fransi...
ChatGPT can already do this. In fact, I think it's much better at this kind of summarization task than it is at novel text generation. You'd have to write some glue code to automate it via the API, though I'd be surprised if there aren't open source tools to do it already.

As a demo, try this prompt; you might have to trim some to stay under the token limit:

Summarize the major arguments and sentiment of the following Hacker News posts. Provide your answer in a brief, bullet-point format:

<paste text of HN comment thread here>
I'm sure he did. It's a terrible ending.
Homelessness isn't just caused by someone not having a home. There is a massive overlap of mental illness and substance abuse/addiction.

Just giving a homeless person a house will not solve the underlying problems that caused them to be homeless in the first place. There needs to be movement on multiple fronts - mental health, physical health, rehab, job training, personal finance, etc.

If the solution was easy, someone would have done it. The uncomfortable truth is when you have someone who is addicted to heroin or fentanyl or meth who isn't really participating in society like everyone else..sometimes there's not much you can do for them. Overcoming addiction is incredibly challenging even for people with means and support systems. Without those, sadly the numbers are abysmal.
For automatic testing of upgrades, auto-scaling, and back-up restoration.
I'm not sure you can make such a bold claim. If California is spending money on homelessness, then all things being equal, it will attract more homeless people than if it didn't spend money on homelessness. Some percentage of these homeless will come from other states. For any two states there is going to be migration of homeless between the 2, and the attractiveness of the state is very much effected by the amount of spending for homelessness. So California could very much be net importing homeless from many of the other states that choose not to spend on homelessness (thus offloading their homelessness problem).

I actually think this a fundamental problem with homelessness, any locality that chooses to affect change, may actually see numbers that make the problem look worse, when in reality they are helping to improve things globally. Worse, is it's all a collective action problem where each player can benefit by not spending on the problem. So there is constant pressure to do nothing with the problem. I wish I had solution to these kinds of problems, they're the type of thing that requires governments to tackle, but it quickly becomes political, and I'm not sure it gets any easier there either.