skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is and it isn't and the establishment dance with blind eyes about the discrepancies.

The root cause article here is about openly reporting commonly known things that upset Muslim|Christian puritan values ..

On July 23, 2021, an article appeared in the Tokyo-based English-language weekly Nikkei Asia Review, calling attention to the Singapore government's handling of so-called KTV lounges, alleging that decades of institutional failures in dealing with what the article called "organized crime cartels” were running what amounted to illegal brothels, which were responsible for the widespread spread of Covid-19 among the lounges’ patrons.

... As most Singaporeans know, the KTV lounges have been an embarrassment to strait-laced Singapore for decades, ... [1]

To be clear twenty years back I was taken for business meetings to a 20+ story tower that was lounges and clubs from the basement to to the top floor .. with a strong height from ground correlation to sophistication|sleeze levels.

Initially I met with individuals that owned fleets of ships and several skyscrapers (top floor, free top shelf everything) ultimately I socialised after hours with ships crew (ground floor, unsolicited lap dancing | hands on groin unless firmly pushed aside).

Officially this didn't exist, in practice it appeared to be open knowledgge.

[1] https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/singapore-kills-chicken-scare...
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> probably Singapore

lol why would Singapore block BBC? They love everything British.
I still hate the new Gnome
Singapore is modern but it's a full autocracy.
Yeah, but how fast is your modem?
It's superior in hygiene.
Neither bbc.com nor medium.com are blocked in Malaysia (source: I’m there presently), and I don’t recall either being blocked in Singapore or Indonesia. The sites blocked in Indonesia (e.g. Reddit) cannot be accessed by using an alternate DNS (e.g. Google’s) but are available via VPN.
YouTube will no longer take down false claims about U.S. elections
Intelligence and knowledge are two different things.
Ad Nauseum clicks ads before blocking them (with uBlock Origin), so it's possible for someone to block ads while providing visited sites with the clicks they need.

That aside, what one does with information they've been handed is up to them. When you're in a crowded room, do you feel its entitled to tune out all the noise to only hear the conversation you're interested in?
That's basically what every other distro does, seems like nix's architecture doesn't support this?
In all fairness, homeless on Haight (and GG Park to a lesser extent) is a pretty specific category of people and I’d not extrapolate any statistics just from them.
> Intelligent Brains Take Longer to Solve Difficult Problems

I find such summary ambiguous. Difficult for who? Isn't it very common that a difficult problem for me is a piece of cake for thee, like the PDE that Bezos couldn't solve for hours yet his classmate could solve in a matter of seconds?

In 1697 Jean Bernoulli challenged the mathematicians and scientists in Europe to solve the brachistochrone problem. Bernoulli was particularly proud of his solution after working on it for weeks. Yet Newton, who was 55 years old at that time and hadn't worked on science or math for years, worked out a brilliant solution overnight and submitted the solution anonymously. Reading the solution, Bernoulli famously said "I I recognize the lion by his paw". Not only did Newton solve the problem, he also invented the Calculus of Variations.
> How do you pay to enforce all of this? Do jails have adequate space?

Well if you cant enforce it and jails don’t have adequate space shouldn’t you put more resources to those things? Or do you not actually think it should be enforced nor should people be put in jail?
Kids of rich people are on average smarter, because intelligence is heritable.
The first Tomb Raider game really was that good. Just this morning I watched someone on YouTube walking through the levels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiToc0SYkds), and it was impressive how memorable they were. Even the ones that I didn't remember before watching, once I saw them on the screen I was like "oh yeah, that place!".
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And this is the dividing line on this issue of homeless, how people identify the problem and the motivation for the fix.

Some people want to fix homeless because of empathy while others want to fix it because of selfishness. Your comment reveals that you are in the latter group. You don't actually want to get homeless people into homes because you empathize with how horrible their lives must be without one. You just want to the minority of homeless people who are a nuisance to stop bothering you and people you actually do empathize with. All those other homeless people who aren't attacking the elderly or shitting on the street can keep on living the same invisible life of suffering because their suffering is not actually a problem in your eyes.
Not only have they been pretty good, they weren’t made by Ubisoft. Crystal Dynamics & Eidos Montréal did the last few, published by Square.
I think they meant sources about Brazil's agriculture getting decimated in 25 years.
These are real problems.

But I'm just going to say: I've lived in San Francisco. I currently live in Vancouver, not far from the epicentre of unhoused and addicted people.

Vancouver has many of the same problems and for the same reasons.

I have never, not once, feared for my safety around poor or addicted homeless people in Vancouver. Nor did I even feel like they hated me, specifically. I remember walking out of a doorway in Gastown where there was a woman smoking a crack pipe, and she was very apologetic and moved her stuff. It seemed oddly Canadian to me, even at the time.

In San Francisco I often felt sheer rage from unhoused people, or even just poor people. Acting out aggressively at the slightest provocation. Screaming for apparently no reason.

If you've lived your whole life in America it may be hard to imagine that these things aren't universal. But they aren't. If you think about it there really isn't any reason why being poor has to be the same as being dangerous.

I have no evidence as to exactly what the difference is. I think maybe Canadian policies are a little more generous and a little more available. Canadians were just as racist, but maybe American chattel slavery really went over the top in causing such social rifts. I don't really know.
Once in a while we send a bathyscaphe or two to the deep to explore the oceans bottom and the lifeforms there. The conditions there are unsuitable for us, and it takes a good deal of effort to make those expeditions. The strange lifeforms in the deep observe the occasional spherical objects that briefly enter their habitat and then mysteriosly disappear. If our science advances enough, we'll establish a research station there, and maybe even a colony if we find something valuable on the bottom.
But a homeless person can easily take a drug test.

The real analogy would be that you have to consent to the would-be savior to verify you are actually drowning. Im not sure anyone drowing would think “no thanks ill take my chances”.
Should have gone for Alphabet Soup instead.
> DNSSEC can prevent spoofing via MITM, which is something that lots of governments do, so I can see why they might not want everyone to adopt it.

Only if you're NOT using HTTPS, right? In which case your traffic is already trivially spoofable, so you're not really gaining anything else by using DNSSEC there.
Sure, but I guess my point was the use of the term the "intellectual crowd" (used, as above, unironically, without scare quotes, etc).

"Intellectual" is a fine word for an intelligent person who does the kind of thinking college professors do. Indeed, Wikipedia defines one as "a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection."

We similarly use the term "anti-intellectual" to refer to those in our society who choose not to engage in this kind of critical thinking.

I dislike turning it into an insult, so think we should use a different word to refer to such people.
You seem to have captured some truth. But isn’t it also true that the cushy life is possible because of the previous generations strivers? It was Glug that caught only the minimum amount of animal needed to survive that built the modern world, it was Sven that spent his spare time figuring out how to make tools.

Maybe life is cushy enough now that we can stop trying? But don’t you think that if we put I. Another hundred years of hard work, we will look back and think of the 2020 life as pretty brutal by comparison to 2120?
Reddit is notably blocked in Indonesia as part of their "clean internet" laws.
There are many unselfish people who don’t like to throw good money after bad, who think that the current solutions are so ineffective that even if the entire wealth of every billionaire went towards homelessness the needle would barely move.
Surprisingly no one talks about how much of that money is corruption and siphoned off. There is little awareness in US about how non-profits organizations can be used for corruption and money laundering.
The KTV scandal wasn't just about puritanical values.

It also had negative impacts on Vietnamese and Thai women in Singapore due to the stereotypes that women from Vietnam and Thailand are only there as sex workers.

This was also around the time that Singapore was seeing a severe backlash against immigration (eg. The anti-CECA protests, the KTV stuff, Opposition MPs stoking the xenophobic fires, etc)

> To be clear twenty years back I was taken for business meetings to a 20+ story tower that was lounges and clubs from the basement to to the top floor .. with a strong height from ground correlation to sophistication|sleeze levels.

Orchard Towers. It's open knowledge it's all brothels there. The SG govt legalized and heavily regulates prostitution and organized crime.
Yes, sorry to be obtuse.

The MegaSquirt measures as its most basic inputs Manifold Absolute Pressure (MAP) and engine speed (RPM) and uses a Volumetric Efficiency (VE) [1] in a lookup table to calculate the fuel injection pulse width in order to combust at a stoichiometric air:fuel ratio (14.7g air:1g fuel) or maybe a bit rich (<14.7:1). A VE <100% is implied by all engines under vacuum because their displacement is constant while the atmosphere in the manifold is at a reduced density. Also good add an inexpensive intake air temperature sensor to adjust air density.

An oxygen sensor in the exhaust stream will "switch" between a lean signal —approximately 0.1 volts—and rich signal—approximately 0.9 volts. This acts as feedback to the engine management to add a correction to the theoretical VE.

More advanced is a "wide band O2" or "lambda" sensor that measures the air/fuel ratio over, as the name implies, a range of air/fuel ratios rather than just a nearly binary output at stoichiometry.

Many engine management systems use a Mass Airflow Sensor (MAF) to directly measure the mass of air taken into to the engine through a single point in the intake air piping and don't need to know much about the details of the VE of the engine.

[1] https://x-engineer.org/calculate-volumetric-efficiency/
Thay's just the thing... As far as I know Linux is the only one which does make that promise. If user space programs break it's a bug in the kernel.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Other systems have the same "usually works but no promises" disposition which means they can't be relied upon. Things work fine until they don't. When breakage occurs they take no responsibility for them because they didn't promise anything to begin with.

Torvalds says today's Linux can run binaries from the 90s, that's how serious this guy is about ABIs. I've never seen other operating system developers claim anything of the sort. Not even Microsoft.
> Or we could just… choose to house people, regardless of their ability to pay?

That solves absolutely nothing. I refer you to the $17B we spent in CA on this problem.

The fundamental issues are mental health and addiction.

All you achieve is making the problem invisible so everyone can feel like they did something. When, in reality, the root causes are not addressed at all.

It is critical to understand that our laws DO NOT ALLOW US to force anyone to do anything. Meaning, if a mentally ill or addicted person says "I am not going anywhere" and "I refuse treatment" we CANNOT force them.

The root causes, for the most part, are mental illness and addition. We cannot be effective helping these people because --by law-- we cannot effectively arrest and force them to accept help of any kind.

In a lot of cases you have addicts who are 100% out of their mind and you are trying to reason with them to accept help. Good luck.

A member of my family and a couple of good friends are professionals deeply involved with the treatment side of this issue. What they tell me is exactly what I have conveyed here.

If we could force people into a solid 12 to 24 month program we could eliminate most of the problem in 5 to 10 years. We can't. Because we have laws that protect citizens from being detained and incarcerated unless they commit a crime. Mental health and addiction are not crimes.

In other words, that path is impossible.

How, then, do they propose this be solved?

Conceptually simple. Politically...well, our politicians are fucking incompetent morons.

You have to clamp down hard on the illicit drugs that are destroying so many lives. Shit like cocaine and heroin should not exist on our streets. Fentanyl-laced pills should not be able to pour through our border like candy (quite literally, google it). Etc.

For some unexplained reason we are willing to burn $17B in just one state of this country to pretend we are helping people and virtue-signal and, at the same time, we refuse to put real money and effort into real actions that would almost make this problem disappear.

Simple math: If none of the drugs a huge portion of these people take were to be available for, say, six months, most of them would gladly get detox help and come out of it a year later with a very different perspective in life. You have to stop the drugs. Things like safe injection spaces are horrible ideas. What you want is free detox centers and a complete clamp-down on drug availability. Then you get results.

I was just in Singapore. Before I could fly there I had to sign a document that had a warning in big, bold, all upper-case letters that read: The penalty for bringing illicit drugs into Singapore is death.

And there you go.
Even Scott Weiner mentioned in the interview with Ezra Klein in April that he would have not been able to live in SF if he hadn't gotten lucky and found a 500sqft place 15 years ago. You know something is off when your state senator can't even afford to live in his own district.
Except that's not happening.

Could my DNA be used to scan for racial anomalies in newborns? Yes. Is that actually happening? Hell no.

Doomsday screeching is not a productive activity, and privacy is not the issue here. It's how people are using their collected data.

Besides, caring about other people's treatment of privacy is, if you actually believe what you're saying, none of your business.
Sucks to be the neighbor who doesn't like it. That's the price of living in a free society putting up with annoying neighbors who may do things you don't like. But if it isn't actively hurting you they should be free to do it.

And no decreasing "property value" is not a harm, property value is an entirely imaginary number than anyone can make up and change for any reason it isn't real it is fake and it isn't actual real material harm it is theorized future harm that may be done to you at some point in the future.
But the judiciary also fails, and arguably fails worse, when they make people believe that the law is a game of Calvinball and there are no rules beyond "most sympathetic party wins".
They probably have countless submissions. The Unity Asset store took over 40 days to approve my recent submission. I can't imagine the OpenAI team was prepared for the volume.
> Billions going where, exactly? If the problems growing, and you are just sinking billions into it without making any measurable impact, where the fuck is the money going?

Towards more homelessness. They are subsidizing it. Literally paying people money to be homeless.
DNSSEC is literally a key escrow system for the North American TLDs. There's no conflict: the USG people who know what DNSSEC is want it bad.
> I refer you to the $17B we spent in CA on this problem.

The $17B on homelessness wasn't all on housing.

> The fundamental issues are mental health and addiction.

A lot of money is spent on those, too. By your own logic, the failure of that to correct the problem proves those are the wrong issue.
adolescent mice to be precise. the original article title (unlike what HN has) is:

"Adolescent neurostimulation of dopamine circuit reverses genetic deficits in frontal cortex function"
I don't know that I prefer Sveltekit over Nextjs yet, but Svelte vs React is quite nice.

But I might still use React for large projects with many components if it doesn't need animations/transitions, and the global/shared state is pretty lightweight
Can 3D-printed homes solve California’s housing crisis?
That doesnt seem wrong at all
Its not even close. She deserves every penny.
How does one master this?

I haven't taken a test in years, but the number of abstractions my mind would cycle through was a major disadvantage on timed tests.
This is a very nihilistic, hyper libertarian take on all of this.

This comes off as just a rant against the boogyman fed which prints money and creates inflation.
The United States grew (colonized, captured, appropriated - feel free to chose the verb that most agrees with your view - it doesn't matter too much) into relatively uninhabited land from a starting point with a relatively uniform culture and ideals. As areas got to a large enough population that they could become a state, they were added to the union.

South American is already mature. The countries there have different political situations and relationships. Trying to bring them into one federal republic is a non-starter -- it ain't gonna happen.

A better model would be the EU where you have mature countries removing trade barriers between them, allowing free immigration, and a single currency. This was anchored by a few large countries that had relatively low corruption, peaceful relations and strong economies.

South America... doesn't quite have a strong set of low corruption and strong economies. There are regular coups and a number of ongoing civil wars that would make trying even for a loose coalition of countries in South America difficult.
The nix store seems on the face of it like a perfect use case for something like IPFS
Can folks who have AWS credits to burn use them to cover egress costs?
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I can’t seem to get peoples time of the day. I’ve tried cold calling businesses and contacting sellers on Etsy. Any other approaches you recommend?

If I can get people to give me 30 minutes of peoples time, I think I’d be a lot more successful in getting merchants listed.
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When the realtor called to say that the previous offer had fallen through and wanted us to buy, he said a couple of times that the owner didn't have to have flood insurance.

We hadn't said anything about flood insurance. So it seemed like either the disclosure scared the other buyer or they found riskfactor.com or something like that.

Beautiful house, beautiful view. Also a quarter mile below a earthen dam 250 feet high and a few feet above a creek that was raging in 1996, several years before this house was built.
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I found this compelling but I'm still seeing how objective it is as we carry out this timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi_nFz1CJSI
Makes sense: the IQ tests train you to think quick but double check to be sure. To do well at them (unless genius) requires meta stuff like how much time to give to a question, how much to check the answer, and so on. Time is limited.
That’s what I’m thinking - imagine very tiny one room concrete houses on tiny little lots, maybe 10x10 on a 20x20 lot? No idea the numbers, but that’s bigger than a jail cell and they’re damn near indestructible.
Fallibility is not a valid reason to remove control from humans. A human should always have command over the vehicle, no matter what. You could argue that some humans shouldn't be driving cars at all and I'd agree.
Ugh. On behalf of the non insufferable Brazilians abroad, I apologize to HN. We are not all like this.
Nix supports mirroring. It's pretty easy to set up your own mirror.
Looks like it's been figured out. People are basically using it at a chat service now
Cosine! Haha I love that Jeff Bezos story.
But AWS S3 is decentralized - all objects are replicated across a region's availability zones. /s
Are any large companies using NixOS? I presume they'd be candidates for sponsorship
Never believe anything until it is officially denied.
This is a big deal. People have been wanting some way to simultaneously use multiple tailnets for a while (https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/183), which makes all the sense when you consider that the customer acquisition flow seems to be through individuals getting it for free and persuading their orgs to buy it.

While this is not the full "multiple tailnets at the same time" experience, this is totally good enough for me.

While it's relieving to see that it's finally here, I also wonder how it could have taken so long. How complex was it to implement? I totally understand that there's other work to do, but not doing this for so long likely cost real money.
So pilots are able to identify Bart Simpson balloons when they take the time to investigate something. That makes David Fravor and other pilots stories even more compelling when they were looking right at the object for minutes and what they saw wasn't explainable.
S3's costs are insane for this use case, can't imagine using it to for a Linux distribution's repositories.

edit: Oh man, there's potentially a $32k migration fee to pay for S3 egress, as well.
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