skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> shelters are not homes
> Solution to homelessness is not mental health services
> Solution to homelessness is homes. Period. The fact is if we gave home to the homeless...

I do not understand this, and how this is even practical. Ok so we should stop spend on shelters, mental health services and should focus on giving homes.

How does that work in reality? Does the city/state buy property and give it to people without homes? We obviously do not have unlimited resources so the state buys x homes and comes up with a criteria of which homeless people get the free home. What duration dow e provide the free home for? Who pays for maintainence of the home/appliances etc. Now, if I am working hard and making minimum wage and struggling to make rent, would that not set wrong incentives to just set myself up to the criteria to get a free home? What about the people who do not qualify, Wil they still be homeless? If I get a free home, what's my incentive to work towards a life where I work harder to earn more to disqualify myself from free housing? Also where should these homes be? Should they all be in urban areas like SF or perhaps in smaller cities/towns where the homes are cheaper? Which neighborhoods should these homes be in?

I don't know what the solution to homelessness is, but this doesn't seem like a viable solution.
It's a fact that NSA solicits companies to add security weaknesses to their products. They'll "make an offer you can't refuse" by offering cash (in the form of a contract), and they'll use their influence with other "contractors" and government agencies to punish companies that don't participate.

This is not unique to NSA. Security agencies within other governments play the same games with supply chains.
> Due to the failure of the company Freenom, which has managed the .ga
TLD up until now, to provide the Internet community with a satisfactory
service, the Gabonese authorities decided to terminate the current
contract and bring the management of Gabon’s national TLD back in
house.
> Unlike when I use Windows, I just don't use command (alt) tab on Mac. I rely almost entirely on gestures on my trackpad (three fingers swipe up to see all my windows that are not minimized).

First, ⌘+Tab & Alt+Tab do different things; the latter is far superior in doing The Right Thing.

But me too, but I use the gestures because I lack Alt+Tab, not because they're better.

I do like the gesture feature, and I think, even if I had Alt+Tab, gestures would have its own place.

I also wish the catchment for resize wasn't a single pixel in macOS. In Linux, with the shortcuts, it's 1/8th the entire window. Resizing in Linux is the entire window, which is nice now that applications feel the need to invade the title bar. (I'm looking at you, browsers.)
You'd think, but yet one still sees one or two posts a week to SO or whatever forum asking how to enable password-based login to AWS EC2 instances. Often with screenshots showing '0.0.0.0/0' as the allowed incoming range.
Naming, folks.

Length = 5

Size: depends on the encoding

Width = 1
Hey, that's not fair to Humboldt!
When they say they turn up via multiple types of sensors simultaneously, thats what makes me second guess that theory. It’s still possible, it less likely. Unless there’s some physics involved that I don’t understand, or I misread the stories
Why do you think that people are being overpaid if you literally left a job you liked to make more money? Being underpaid is just being underpaid; just because the numbers are high at the big tech companies doesn't mean that those companies are overpaying. They're probably underpaying! The dollar just isn't worth what it used to be.

(Canada does chronically underpay its software engineers, though.)
From the C99 draft at https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf :

"A string is a contiguous sequence of characters terminated by and including the first null character. .. The length of a string is the number of bytes preceding the null character"

This means, for example, strlen() must always check for the location of the first null character - there's no advantage to checking the length.

How would this work?

void *x = malloc(8);

...
uint64_t i = 5216694956355289088; // Python: int.from_bytes(b'Hello!\0\0')
memcpy(x, &i, 8);
char *s = x;
puts(s);

Assuming I did it correctly, this should print "Hello!".

When the length get added to the start of the string?
i think they mean like this: https://github.com/yzdbg.atom - gives the rss feed of the original author's public github activity
Wonder if being gathered around a fire each night kept hunter/gatherer people from developing myopia?
Wasn't it widely regarded as a bad move?
Top US chemical firms to pay $1.2B to settle water contamination lawsuits
Having lived/spent time in a few places with varying homeless problems and approaches to homelessness, I find it fucking depressing every time I read about how badly - and inefficiently - the US handles it.

Probably because I see alarming parallels with my own country.

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?

Like looking at the supposed cost of building housing, it seems glaringly obvious that the taxpayers being fucked by someone. We also have this issue in Ireland, what with one hospital being billions over budget, years behind schedule, etc. never mind housing.

Zoning and planning issues can be dealt with trivially by the state almost anywhere, they just aren’t fucked doing so (we have this issue in Ireland).

There’s no easy fix for homelessness, shelters are at best putting a band aid on a severed limb. The only real solution is large scale construction of mixed use housing - some social, some affordable, some private. And that’s a whole clusterfuck that seems unachievable for political reasons globally, with the exception of some of the Nordic social democracies.
Even in pay as you go they have it much cheaper than in azure or gcp.
The Inclosures act had never been taken to court in relation to corner crossing before this case. Wyoming had a long history of corner crossing being illegal. That may have been contrary to the inclosures act, but as I said, we have a common law system. Until a judge says the current interpretation is wrong that's the law. So sure, corner crossing may have been "legal" since 1885, but only if you had the resources and knowledge to bring a case to federal court so you can get the wyoming corner crossing law overturned. Until that happened it was not legal.

I mean this is the same as countless supreme court decisions. Was gay marriage legal prior to Obergefell? No, obviously not. The ruling was based on a law that has been in existence since the civil war, but until the judges interpreted that law it did not matter.
The latter is most likely not going to be a thing. The observed thrust is probably due to subtle measurement error[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive
How do people not see the bloody similarities between the two kinds of cults at this point? One Word vs. another, both seeking to mark the Flesh. And they all want access to children. Isaac.
NIMBY's: Why are there so many homeless?
NIMBY's: No, don't build housing. It'll decrease my home value!

Can't have it both ways .
> super slow rendering times

If you enable caching, the website with load as fast as a static website on most devices and connections.
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AMD is trying to get people to pay $5000 for a workstation card too. The days of Radeon VII being $699 are long past.

Part of it is that as you shrink, the PHYs don't shrink much, so everyone is incentivized to minimize the number of memory channels and reduce the PCIe bus size/etc on lower tier products. And in turn, since GDDR6 tops out at 16 Gbit (=2 Gigabyte) per chip, that means a 4-PHY card tops out at 8GB, etc.

And while you can do clamshell... you want to be selling those cards to workstation users, not giving them away to gamers! It is the same problem NVIDIA faces, the fact that GDDR density has not increased leaves them with one single move (clamshell) and they've traditionally reserved that for workstation cards (and 3090) to increase margins.
It's in the name of efficiency. Instead of repeating the same conversation about, say, standards, you can just say 927 (which is 900, Yoda's age, plus 27 which is memorable because of the 27-club. Or also 3 squared = 9 and 3 cubed = 27), and everyone will know what you're talking about and you can skip that bit of conversation.
I just completed "instrumentation lab", a college physics class, where we built amplifier circuits (presumably for use with sensors in experiments, although we just used a signal generator). Seems like this would fit right in since the other portion of the class was oscilloscope training.
Mylar balloons qualify as "metallic orbs" and are capable of “very interesting apparent maneuvers” if the air currents are such, they weigh practically nothing vs. their surface area.

Judging from how many I pick out of bushes on my desert property, there's a whole lot of them floating around the atmosphere.

My assumption is they're responsible for at least some of these UAP reports...

We already have one well documented example of this:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1372976/ufo-sighting-pe...
Hey, that's not my idea of disappointment; I rather like it :)
Avoid looking at any kind of light, got it.
You didn't go into depth enough about why shelters are bad. They're not even a mild alleviation to living on the street, they're actually worse. There are homeless criminals who go to shelters just to steal from other homeless. Many homeless become addicted in shelters. We spent $17b making the lives of the homeless worse.
I hadn't noticed, thanks for pointing that out! There's some fascinating stuff buried in his blog.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Students give Gilbert Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36038635 - May 2023 (51 comments)

A thank you to Gilbert Strang, retiring after his 61-year long teaching career - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35981340 - May 2023 (1 comment)

Gilbert Strang's final lecture at MIT: May 15, 11:00am - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921538 - May 2023 (56 comments)

Gilbert Strang Teaches Linear Algebra - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382337 - Feb 2020 (91 comments)

Gilbert Strang's New Course on Linear Algebra+ for ML Now Online - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19939030 - May 2019 (23 comments)

Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19933274 - May 2019 (21 comments)

Strang's “Linear Algebra and Learning from Data” is printed and available - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18862719 - Jan 2019 (22 comments)

A conversation with Gilbert Strang [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18048316 - Sept 2018 (19 comments)

Too Much Calculus – Gilbert Strang (2001) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9189553 - March 2015 (134 comments)

Calculus by Gilbert Strang - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=343332 - Oct 2008 (3 comments)
These results sound great. I fear only that it will take a very long time before any of this becomes an approved treatment. They probably require more studies, and for that first money needs to be organized. And then the study itself needs to be organized. And finally conducted over several years. And then perhaps they require yet another, bigger study. By that time millions of kids around the world will be grown up to have myopia. Too late to be treated.
But I often see them used as an "apology blinker" (when they turn on the indicator after they've started to change lanes or turn).

Makes me laugh every time. I mean, at that point, why bother with the signal at all?
Mylar balloons would make a bunch of sense.

If the objects were much closer to the camera than the focus that would explain why they can appear to move so quickly.
Not enough jquery
The people with PermitRootPassword=no are also the ones that’ll have weak default password. It’s probably actually saving the attackers time that allowing root password login and bad password choice occur together. If everyone with randomized high-entropy root passwords actually allowed root password logins that bruteforcers would have to spend so much more time!
It's what plants crave...!
Of the major databases, only Oracle and PostgreSQL have array extensions and neither support FKs as array elements.

I'm curious how people think this feature should work? ON DELETE SET NULL, ON DELETE CASCADE, something else?
Possible -- depends on the rules of the specific challenge. Most of the time it's edits, deletes, or some combination. Sometimes the score depends on how many edits your code can withstand.
Did they kill corrective surgery?
A company that goes open source might get the icing for free, but they still have to bake the cake themselves.
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The strategy is called “housing first” and has been proven to work in Finland: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle...

The idea that homeless people need homes to be able to advance further seems to trigger some people — after all, most of us pay for our housing, so why should they get it for free?

What people don’t consider is that when “we”, the people with houses, don’t spend our dollars housing homeless people, we pay sooner or later in other ways whether we want to or not when society around us partly disintegrates and additional effects start stacking up: substance abuse, violent crime, healthcare costs etc.
Seems specious. Democratically elected representatives said it was to encourage the investment of capital as they wrote the laws, and then got reelected by the voters. You can say the representatives were lying and the voters didn't care / are dumb - but where's the evidence?

I think the simplest explanation for why representatives vote the way they do is the public statements they themselves make before and after their votes. If you want to make a more convoluted argument and assert a conspiracy, you should bring some evidence.
Sure, but to that note, we've been at "enough computer" for a vast array of tasks for a long, long time now.

Obviously, things that move boatloads of bits (mostly media) have well benefited from the vast amounts of RAM and incredible bandwidth of modern machines. And, of course, video games, which will always push limits.

But outside of that, word processing, data collecting, "printing checks from AP", those peaked a long time ago. And, of course, I appreciate how businesses collect vast amounts of data today (because they can, because storage is free), but core business functions, transaction processing, that's pretty well plateaued as well.
Bad news for those making foolish asset purchases at inflated prices and counting on an interest rate pivot.
That's a widely misunderstood statistic. The Point in Time survey asks homeless people about the location of their shelter when they last became homeless. For example, a homeless person from outside SF who spent a night in county jail or on a friend's couch in a Tenderloin SRO unit would count as "became homeless in San Francisco" for the purpose of the survey.
Maybe they’re from here. Maybe they’re stuck here. Maybe they’ve been guiding humanity since the murky dawn of our prehistory. Maybe we are their genetically engineered creation. Maybe they have a vested interest in us not making our beautiful blue marble uninhabitable. Maybe they are tending to this planet like a gardener would his garden, and for that reason they’d prefer us not to annihilate each other.
The coastal Pacific Northwest where most people live has mild weather all year, better than many parts of California. It rarely freezes in winter and rarely gets hot enough that you need an air conditioner in summer. Contrary to reputation, it has relatively few days of meaningful precipitation, especially in cities like Seattle that sit in a rain shadow.

If you are going to live unsheltered in the US, the cities in the PNW are definitely among the better locales to do so in terms of amenable weather.
Considering how easy it is to emulate Graphic Adventures thanks to ScummVM, I doubt releasing the source code would impact the sales in any shape or form. People that want to play for free already have the easiest life possible. I think it's one of those cases where emulating is as much convenient as grabbing a copy on Steam.

You rise a good point. After X years releasing the code of many things would benefit the public so much without hurting at all the owners, are there movements about this concept?
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Forgot tech debt, most of the projects I have worked on have been outright cancelled!
> have they tried shooting them down?

Yes, they have.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/13/politics/pentagon-memo-ca...

https://www.hamradioworld.org/post/the-us-airforce-may-have-...
Even if you disallow root login with a password, the user can still try to log in, and the attempt still gets logged

If you're asking why it would ever be worth it, there's always valuable stuff online with incompetent configuration. I don't know if shodan is still up, but I remember going on there in high school and getting access to random webcams (sometimes in peoples' homes)
I dont know why people should care that much about him tho. I love musk but mostly like i love conor mv gregor or any other entertainer. Not to save my life or the human race.
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Maybe Larry plugged in his solar-powered yacht backwards and took out the local grid.
Ecstatica rendered characters using ellipsoid primitives
I love a good redwood forest bath, so I generated this:
https://skybox.blockadelabs.com/d4a5d5f9050670414b99a76b6d68...
> There’s no easy fix for homelessness

True, but that's only because there's no easy way to add housing in modern society. Homelessness is caused primarily by a lack of homes.
or a dev server and you then you can deploy qa server or staging for load testing, integration testing if you have multiple sub systems. and testing for load balancing type issues.

I'm not arguing against more flexibility when your in small team /pre or early release MVP stage(s)

Also, you need a "Hot Fix" short circuit process as well. Although you need to watch it and make sure management is on board with the idea that a reliable road map is important and specific criteria for urgency or everything turns into a "hot fix".
Not to be that guy but I think this is a second derivative metric for growth. Acceleration is the second derivative. Position is owned, producing is velocity, and increase in production is acceleration. Jerk would be rate of acceleration growth, which is probably also positive.
> Don't expect it to be the people's van like the Microbus was, however. The closest comparable two-row model, the Buzz Style, sells for £63,715 (about $79,240) in the UK with tax included. This is for nostalgic drivers who want an eco-friendly revival of a classic ride, and well-heeled EV fans who want more capacity than the ID.4 crossover can provide.

What a wasted opportunity. The EV space really needs a "people's {vehicle}", but all we get are things aimed at the high income brackets. How do we expect EV's to take over???
And of course, Chris Lattner’s Modular AI https://www.modular.com/
That’s one of the two situations I speak of: when it happens in practice.

The other is… well, much the same really, but when it makes it into specs that others have to care about. The web platform demonstrates this clearly: just about everything is defined with strings being sequences of UTF-16 code units (though increasingly new stuff uses UTF-8), so then other things wanting to integrate have to decide how to handle that, if their view of strings is different: whether to be lossy (decode/encode using REPLACEMENT CHARACTER substitution on error), or inconvenient (use a different, non-native string type). Rust has certainly been afflicted by this in a number of cases and ways, generally favouring correctness.
maybe not everything out there moves according to ideas like "a destination"?

you're tacitly assuming that they ought to have an origin and a goal
The ("progressive") opinion that you express is ultimately de-humanizing. You take away all agency from people and treat them as mindless victims.

It's all the society's fault, awlays someone else do blame. People who poop on the street can't find any other place (perhaps, a bush?), people who throw needles on the street have no other place to take drugs (perhaps, the supervised drug injection site where they get the drugs?).

Empathy must come with responsibility and not with a patronizing de-humanizing pseudo-compassion. Which is, of course, just enablement under a different name.
No, I started with 1 BTC.
Money means nothing. Human time is what matters. Consider that back at their place of origin things did not get done. Economic impact means nothing. If I gave you $100 to watch me do nothing, what value this transaction created? There is virtually nothing to show for at the end but we created $100 of economic impact...
Yes, but sharing a characteristic with FUD is not enough to make something FUD. It's a realistic concern.

Someone else mentioned airbags. Airbags are great overall but increase danger for some people, and that's without obvious signs of anything being wrong.

With AEB we know it makes dangerous mistakes in significant amounts. So we very much should analyze different implementations under different kinds of weather, road, and driving style.
> If the problems growing, and you are just sinking billions into it without making any measurable impact, where the fuck is the money going?

A lot of these programs are hard to stop paying into once you start. Say you are a political leader and you try to solve homelessness by pouring $X per year into some new program. 5 years later it's clear the program is not effective. However, if you axe the program, good luck getting re-elected since you've now made it very easy for your opponent to lambaste you ("Hundreds of society's most vulnerable brace themselves as Governor X seeks to axe homeless program").
> They reiterated that their goal "isn't to kill 3rd party apps" -- in fact, they said they were "confused" by claims that they want to do that,

Honestly I am confused by their confusion. Are they receiving a different messaging internally, than that being sent out to end users and developers?
Perhaps it's optical phenomenon of aircraft many miles away, refracting through the atmosphere.