skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These are uncivilised people (by definition), a lot of it is mental illness and the rest is refusal be a civilised human.

Spoken from a position of priviledge and perceived moral superiority. Where do you live, and how much do you earn? Have you ever considered what it would be like if you couldn't afford where you live, no matter how much you earn?

Cost of living has gone up but wages haven't. Minimum wage hasn't been adjusted in years, while rent & housing multiplied thanks to unfettered capitalism. I was lucky in that I managed to buy a house in 2017, but since then the prices have gone up and I would no longer be able to afford the house I live in were it to go on the market, despite my wage having gone up 50% or thereabouts.

It's a trite comment, but seriously, check your priviledge. A nontrivial percentage of the visitors of this website are homeless, couch surfing, live in a car, or pay more for a roof over their heads than they can actually afford.
Yeah I’m really looking forward to playing with this. Going to map caps lock to escape for vim. But the sky is the limit: with all the layer stuff.
If it's an explosive one, yeah.
In many cases it's exactly like the public things...
Looks super handy, thank you!
> The left's idea or "doing something about it" is making the problem worse not better. It would be better to do nothing than actively facilitate and incentivize homelessness and drug addiction with cash payments.

It at least keeps people alive. The problem is that the causes of homelessness are not addressed at all - there is nowhere near enough affordable housing stock.
Not directly from HN, but HN helped me get the job
> you're simply doing what the Vatican does

The Vatican and its followers tells everyone else to 'believe in' what they do; I am simply 'announcing my view' that I subscribe to materialism.

> does not require material existence, just computation

But there is material existence. There are bits representing the vertices, textures, etc. inside some storage device. The computation itself is represented in some material form, whether it be some add/sub/xor instruction and its binary representation in storage/memory, or written out on paper, or stored in our memories. There are frames transmitted as signals through the wires; there are photons emitted by the monitor. All material, physical representations of a video game.

For a better example... The imagery that one might perceive during a hallucination might not be real, but the hallucination itself is: it is electrical impulses through neurons which are producing said hallucination.

The abstract universe that you claim is matter and therefore reality cannot exist without material 'hardware'.
Yes. States aren’t powerless to implement mental health requirements and programmes though. It is a cop-out to suggest that states and cities don’t use the full breadth of their legislative powers because the federal government made a bad policy decision over 4 decades ago.
No sense talking to people who try to discuss in bad faith. If you accuse me of doing something I didn't do I lose all interest in continuing talking to you.
I've heard it called the homelessness industrial complex, that was from some City Journal article someone posted to HN some years back that introduced me to that publication. It was a shocking thing to contemplate but yah with that sum of money what exactly do we have to show for it?
That it was inevitable?
Doesn't need to be a Google version of Android. Since it's open source, there's plenty of non-Google forks, such as this one, focusing on privacy and security: https://grapheneos.org/
The idea of using AI to tailor a resume to a specific job spec is promising. Although there isn't direct research on generating resumes using language models, I found related studies in MirrorThink.ai that provide insights into this application. For example, [1] demonstrates the potential of using prompt-based learning for extracting information from resumes with only a few labeled examples. Another relevant study, [2], explores the tradeoff between removing gendered information and maintaining useful job-related information in the resume screening context.

These papers suggest that AI models could be employed to analyze your existing resume and the job specification, and then generate a tailored resume that highlights the most relevant skills and experiences. The main challenge lies in striking a balance between tailoring the resume and maintaining an accurate representation of your abilities.

[1] A Few-shot Approach to Resume Information Extraction via Prompts - 2022: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=A+Few+shot+Approach+to+Resum...

[2] Degendering Resumes for Fair Algorithmic Resume Screening - 2022: https://arxiv.org/search/?query=Degendering+Resumes+for+Fair...
> manipulate the conditions so that the intervention is unlikely to help

> [The study] would use all the best practices

You've go some major contradiction here, since when is such manipulation "the best practice"?
That introduction Haldane quote:

> You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

"A horse splashes". That's some mental imagery right there.
In fairness, all valuations were massively overinflated by zero-ish interest rates. Now rates have gone up by about 8x cutting 41% from speculative valuations is pretty good...
This is because my app is not signed, and Apple's developer account is a little expensive for me.You just need to click the Cancel button, then go to the Settings -> Privacy and Security page, click the Still Open button, and then click the Open button in the pop-up window. After that, there will be no more pop-up warnings when opening Pot.

If you cannot find the above options in Privacy & Security, or get error prompts such as broken files with Apple Silicon machines. Open Terminal.app and enter the following command (you may need to enter a password halfway through), then restart Pot:

sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/pot.app
Those stats are outdated and generally somewhat dubious—what was the methodology here? Nonetheless, it is clear CA generates a lot of homeless. The linked study from 2018 claimed 52,765 homeless in LA county, while the count by the same group performed in 2022 tallied 69,144. Either there's a been a massive influx of people on the streets or their methodology is improving. Perhaps both. Pretty wild to think about.
thing is - with this setup the spec is the code you iterate it as you would your implementation - it just makes sure that the its guaranteed to be correct.

What I’ve seen so often (and why I implemented this) was that the spec will be written, found insufficient, and the code updated, leaving the spec out of date.

Having to write the spec first allows you to actually iterate on it before implementing the code, with all the server / test client generators. So the frontend team can start working on its end before the backend even implements anything, as most of its test would be done against mocks / fake data generators.

Even better, since the spec is a source of truth for soo many things - validation, client test requests, server test responses, docs, as well as the paths / endpoints in both client and server implementation, it saves an enormous amount of time and communication energy to have it be implemented in one place.
I've seen street interviews on Youtube or maybe Twitter where they come up to tourists and ask them how they're enjoying their trip and catch any feedback. Sad replies.
Interesting, could you elaborate on why 4 years is the magic number?
No usenet feed ?
The author covers "unknown unknowns" explicity;

> It’s interesting to note: (...) the amount of work “outside” the project, aka unknown unknowns

If I understand correctly, most of those fall under the blue "Problems" category, aka. "the work outside the work" - though there may be some bleed-through to the green "Iteration" category, aka. "the work between the work", in which the author includes "debugging, refactoring, maintenance, tooling".

This is valid by my experience too; most of the schedule-breaking "unknown unknowns" fit into the "Problems" category.
Not bad. Got some possible roles in the first couple of pages (enough that I actually clocked on the links). The ones that missed were reasonable too, at least as good as searching for keywords on my local jobs site.

I'm Operations so not a huge number of roles on this site though. So it might have effectively been giving me everything with "SRE" or "devops" in it.
Very unfortunate that theres so little talk about this here, formal complaints can be filed here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/04/21/2023-08...
Where do you get the idea apartments.com is a source that can inform you about the market price of shared housing?

As a long-time participant in the bay area rental housing market, $1000 is enough to rent a bedroom in many homes, but how would such a listing get onto apartments.com?

If you’re paying more than $1000 to share a bedroom, you’re getting ripped off.
I can solve it in under a year.

These are either mentally I'll people or people who refuse to maintain the minimum amount of civility required by modern humanity.

They should either be forcefully institutionalised or forcefully removed with imprisonment for repeat offence.

Public streets are public property, this is no law that allows this sort of lunacy. Everywhere else these ... are atleast thrown away to some dark corner under a bridge or street.
I agree. From my research, Portugal’s drug assistance programmes for the homeless are quite effective.

For those in more of a poverty trap situation, Finland has done quite a good job finding the right set of policies for their country to bring levels down so far that most Americans would consider them to have “solved” homelessness.[1]

https://oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/13/finlands-zero-homeless-...
The Feds may not be “to blame”. But it’s hard to see how individual states can solve this problem.

Any program by any state that helps the homeless in a country where you legally cannot create state level borders (and with the homeless you can’t establish residency by definition) would immediately draw homeless people across the country, especially since the homeless strategy in many states is to pay for one way bus tickets to a different state, and quickly overwhelm and undermine what could otherwise have been a successful program.

Any successful program must be funded and implemented at the Federal level.
In python, `print("-".join(f"{ord(c):x}" for c in emoji))` will give `'1f926-1f3fc-200d-2642-fe0f'`.
That can be useful to request emojis, see
https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/blob/ad588c8fb4b028d7...
> How is giving people money unconditionally not treating them as “humans with potential and aspirations”?

If access to money is not their actual impediment then you may be making their situation worse.

> I’m not entirely sure what your point is. Are you saying that adding more rules and conditions and whatnot is better?

You are drowning. I throw $1000 at you. Are you saying I should have done more?

> argue for fewer rules

Judging by living in the middle of this policy. The number of homeless has increased and the number of open air drug markets, prostitution, and suicides have increased with them. There is a concerted _lack_ of enforcement of rules. The homeless purchase RVs from scrap yards, move them onto the sides of streets, and live in them.

Zoning and parking laws are ignored. Noise laws are ignored. Drug laws are ignored. There is zero effort to serve this population and get them out of the literal gutter. Pets are a massive problem. Children are living in the middle of this. And our response is just.. "here's $1000 and a legal carte blanche for anything short of murder."

It's not working.
More like...

- "when I was drug addicted you gave me cash"

- "when I was stealing to fund my addictions, you made shop lifting legal for stolen items amounting to $1000 or less"

- "when I was making violent threats, and assaulting members of the public you let me walk free"

- "when the police tried to intervene you said they were systematically racist against people of color and should be defunded"

- "when I had mental health issues, you closed down all the mental hospitals because you said they were oppressive institutions"

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Well, it's rather inaccessible/unappealing to the majority of people who use sites like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc, so that probably has something to do with it.

There's a pretty strong correlation between 'folks willing to use a site that looks like it's from the 80s without mobile app support' and 'folks with meaningful things to say', at least if you take the average front page content on other social media sites as a baseline.

Also because Dang does a really good job with the moderation, whereas most of these sites farm it out to the lowest bidder.
Also "open source" vs "Open Source" is a big difference
Id believe it because it isnt 1970 or something like that anymore, private comp sci should be ahead
"A tech billionaire has fought for a decade to block access to a public beach. Now California is suing."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/08/califor...
The majority of homeless people are homeless for economic reasons, like loss of income, cost of living increases, or lack of affordable housing, or changes in co-living situations caused by break-ups/divorce/abuse/loss of partner's income/etc.

Families are the fastest growing homeless demographic.
There are a lot of R users and it's a nice language you should try it sometimes.
I feel for the poor researcher that wrote "Until then, Heege’s work survives as a “vestige of medieval life lived vibrantly: the good times being as good as they ever have been, and probably ever will,” according to the study."

They so want to live in medival times bless them
Only if the text editor made some bad assumptions. You're forgetting about non-printable characters, such as the LTR mark. These are not part of grapheme clusters (or are their own grapheme cluster), but the cursor shouldn't probably stop at them.
Correction: “utf-16 code point” should read “UTF-16 code unit”.
Can also recommend Sideberry. Amazing addon!
That's not new tho. The 'romantic' idea of travelling to the us always comes with the ugly taste of open poorness, public drug consumptions and general inhumane behaviour to their homeless and sick.

It's not only SF or Cali that has this image at this point. It's kinda hard to overlook when this simply does not exist where you are from.
When this came up a couple week ago, I found examples of people using "medieval Arabic", "Medieval Africa", and even more specifically "Medieval Somalia". See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35984909 for links.

These are used in modern scholarly writing, like "The Medieval Archaeology of Somaliland" from 2002 at https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.566 and "China in medieval Indian imagination: “China”-inspired images in medieval South Asia" from 2021 at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591421000176 .

However, as others have commented, just because people do use them isn't enough to say if that's the primary form to refer to that period of time.
Moderators should be paying. They're doing the job for nothing but the fun of it, so they're getting something out of it. Makes sense that they pay to continue.
There's multiple issues and there's no easy fix, but here's some points from a laypersons' point of view.

Construction of new houses (up to modern standards) has not kept up with population growth. Population growth has been higher than birth rate due to migration; I wouldn't be surprised if in 10, 50, 100 years, historians will look back on this period and call it a mass migration event due to climate change, war, economic whatnots, etc.

The market / the economic powers that be overcorrected after the 2008 crash, causing interest rates to be really low for a long time. This caused both high end investors and relative laypeople to invest, amongst other things in housing. Some people were able to buy a second, third, whatever house and rent it out, and with private rent, the amount they can charge was pretty much unlimited. That removed houses from the market, and made it so people couldn't afford to buy a house or build up any kind of posessions - if you own a house, the building is yours to keep, and the mortgage payments pay off the loan, if you rent it, that money is just gone, you don't build up anything.

Minimum wage hasn't gone up, wages have not kept up, and employers have been getting away with tightening the thumbscrews on their staff for a long time now. With that in mind, minimum wage is a patch; if people are paid minimum wage, their employer would pay them less if they were legally allowed to.

Inflation. That won't get better, with energy crises, climate change causing crop failures, etc etc etc. Speaking of climate change, it will cause both water shortages (also due to overconsumption, e.g. through irrigation) and consequent mass migrations; people can't live where there's no water.

There's probably a lot more, but you get the idea. Shit sucks and there's no quick fix.
Bregman I am referring is Dutch, I am Danish. Two countries where you'd have to look really hard to find homeless people.

I think over-complication is the issue in the states, which in turn makes a lot of these grants go to heads thinking about the issues rather than the actual issues.

I also think it is important to attribute issues where they are due: Mental issues is not a housing problem, it is a health care issue. Not being able to manage money is not a housing problem, it is a primary school problem. Etc.

With all respect for your previous life, it does sound like you needed some quality health care more than a parental system that handed out food stamps (in fear that the money otherwise would have gone to drugs).
People move in the direction the money is flowing from. You can basically dictate what gets produced by directing money, so it's not just promoting.
Fortran did it:

A 2-dimensional array A will, in the object program, be stored sequentially in
the order Ai,i, A2,i Am l , A| i2 , A2f2 Am, 2> , Am,„. Thus
it is stored “columnwise”, with the first of its subscripts varying most
rapidly, and the last varying least rapidly. The same is true of 3-dimensional arrays.
1 -dimensional arrays are of course simply stored sequentially. All arrays are stored backwards in storage; i.e. the above sequence is in the order of decreasing absolute location.

https://ia800807.us.archive.org/0/items/history-of-fortran/I...
George Costanza got his job at the Yankees off HN too.
I loved my Psions.

I truly miss having a smaller form factor computer. If I could possibly an iPhone with an attached physical keyboard, I’m certain that I could do a huge amount of work that I presently do with my laptop. (I know I can get an external keyboard but there’s something far more useful and satisfying about a properly integrated device.)
Most devs don't care, so it depends on the compiler default. However some people who are eagering for optimization will turn on -march=native to get the best profile out of the current running processor family. This is where the troubles come in
Agreed.

And the resolution has been terrible. Politicians (and voters) pick a position. They act on it, or don't. But, nothing is ever planned executed at a scale where it is expected to solve or make a visible dent in the problem as a whole.

So maybe your "position" is "housing first." It's popular, backed by academia, and it goes ahead.

At this point, resource efficiency, overall scale of impact and such don't matter. The action is "housing first" or it's "community centred" or "drug-free," "Jesus saves" or whatever... and that's enough. Ideology>efficacy when you don't expect to get anywhere anyway.

These big, ideologically charged, "toxic" issues are such that no one expects to "solve" them. So, they act at the operational level spending whatever resources they have without real strategics. Strategy becomes replaced with abstractions.
Not to mention, you're still just learning. You don't get proficient in anything by doing it once. After you do something a few times (in relatively short succession - enough for the sequence of actions to stick around in your memory; compare: spaced repetition), only then you can have a good feel for how long it takes (and you have a baseline against which to compare your ideas to improve the process).
I've never had a Psion, but as I've become a dad, I've wished for devices for digital literacy that weren't tablets or phones. Something dumb with a dictionary, encyclopedia, calendar, an editor, and a few games, and physical keyboard is a great, safe introduction to the digital world.
Maybe it knows we start all the wars… lol
> AFAIK, this is the wrong explanation. The gesture is still in use today in Italy, and its meaning is different.

What does it mean in Italy today?
LinkedIn has a resume builder option now. Or you can just download your profile as a PDF.
Not really. My interests are in areas that a ChatGPT answer isn't really all that useful in, namely discoveries in the subject areas I'm interested in. When it comes to strats for video game speedruns or mod updates, these language models don't seem particularly useful.

What has stopped me using Google as much though is that sadly many of these communities seem to have picked Discord as their communication method of choice, and hence most of the useful information isn't publicly searchable at all.
I used to be a heavy user of my Psion Revo back in the 2000s. It had a highly usable full-featured office suite, and I truly used it as a laptop replacement at the time. I was able to touch-type my university course on it, and it could even fit a shirt front pocket. Honestly, the only thing that quickly made it obsolete was the lack of network connectivity (limited to infrared). It's still one of the computing devices for which I have the fondest memories.
No way, you and what dictator is getting this passed? No one would get this passed, even the most corrupt possible senate and lobbyists.
Challenge: a self-healing version of this where the program missing a character outputs the original program (with the character re-inserted).
Death panels are hard work and if you haven't noticed you're on one then you're shirking.

(Less snarkily, we're all making resource allocation decisions constantly and on the margin those are life or death decisions).

IMHO, on the margins you're allowed to use common sense. Also: your grandma / your grandpa, your resources applies.
Finally someone is filling the knowledge gap identified by https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/
This is very weird once you realize the concerns of real censors in the Soviet Union and USA were very similar - they usually cared about not depicting authority figures in a negative light as well as depicting criminals positively - as well as your typical prudish and puritanical concerns.

Splashes of colors and abstract geometrical shapes open to interpretation is about as far from political dissent and commentary as you can get.
Putting common sense aside. And pretend the height of jump thing is some super abstract and nuanced thing you didn’t spot.

Does this result simply mean you just can’t reject the null hypothesis (parachute makes no difference)? Rather than a proof of it?
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

The ICO has some good guidance. They’re your regulator in the U.K.
I had this happen to me once while driving. One moment, I was totally alert - the next, I was feet away from my car being impaled by the side rail of the highway.

What was so disconcerting is that while I had been operating on less sleep than I should have, I didn’t feel drowsy or tired before this happened. Thankfully I didn’t crash and was able to get a nap and continue my trip.