skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem with EV car fires is putting them out!

Once auto and home insurance companies figure out the risks involved, they'll raise auto and home insurance prices accordingly. We'll see:

- EV fire in a condo - destroys entire condo building. Requires 4 hours of fire department coverage.

- ICE fire in a condo - partially burns a single unit.
Put out in 20 minutes by fire department.
Very few will leave such a Rich legacy!
This article makes a number of statements which run counter to empirical research I've seen on this topic, and doesn't cite anything to support these claims. My understanding is that the majority of CA homeless are in fact from CA, and few people are "professional vagrants". Some Ezra Klein episode I listened to last week brought up a number of highly detailed surveys from which I'm drawing these conclusions.

I see lots of statements like "many homeless prefer to live on the streets where they can freely use drugs", particularly in right-leaning media, but IMO these are kind of strawmen that elide a lot of the significant elements of the situation. Drug addicts don't just "prefer" to stay where they can use drugs, it is for all intents and purposes a biological necessity. Shelters which will stop people from using ex. opiates are going to be non-starters unless they an offer viable paths out of addiction, or embrace a harm reduction approach which gets pilloried left and right in the US.

The overall framing that "social services incentivize homelessness" also seems to run up against the fact that the largest driver of homelessness is obviously the rising price of housing. Presumably if social services (which in this article seems synonymous with money spent on shelters) were the cause of SF's homelessness problem you would see people using the shelters they moved there for. But as the article points out this isn't the case; engagement with the expensive services is far below the desired levels. If people simply wanted to live somewhere they don't have to pay rent and can use drugs freely there are a number of extremely accommodating rural areas for this lifestyle. It seems more likely to me that SFs housing market pushed a large number of people into penury, and some of them are coping with their extreme deprivation by using drugs. Not that SF has somehow become a national destination for homeless (who exist everywhere in the country, and every city seems to think that they are somehow a magnet for them).

I am sympathetic to people who prefer not to have encampments in the public space, but I think we need to be clear-eyed about the causes and potential solutions. Simply "cracking down" with aggressively enforced urban camping bans hasn't worked in pretty much any city its been tried in (see Denver, where the cops have spent the better part of two years pushing the city's 4K homeless from block to block, with overall levels only increasing). Presumably it would be better to (a) stop the flow of people into homelessness with a stronger social safety net and a better housing supply and (b) increase the flow out of homelessness with better rehabilitation programs.
Gas? Yes. Electric? Eh, if you are smart enough to program a computer, you are smart enough to read and learn how to do electric properly.
In computer science, an invariant is a logical assertion that is always held to be true during a certain phase of execution of a computer program. For example, a loop invariant is a condition that is true at the beginning and the end of every iteration of a loop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant_(mathematics)#Invari...
I didnt say it is.

Just arguing against hate for all telemetry
Wow. Thanks for the response. That's pretty bad.
Well yeah - you'd need to write that native code wrapper, which kind of defeats some of the purpose of React Native (not having to write native code).
>KDE gets better every week.

As someone who has tried KDE off and on over the years since its version 2.0 release in SuSE Linux, and through various versions and distros since is there a fork that doesn't have twenty different configuration options in their own apps?

I was most happy with Ubuntu's Gnome 2.x desktop and am currently using Mate Desktop these days to try to hold on to what I consider the best desktop and what I always felt "home" at when using it. But it gets more and more inconsistent release after release due to intentional theme breakages. I'd love to be able to use KDE or Plasma instead and take advantage of the way that desktop leverages its shared libraries for performance if only I could get over the behavior of its shell and configuration.

Is there anything that I can run that re-organizes it into the traditional desktop that I prefer? A script? A combined theme?

I see all sorts of themes for Windows (why?) and themes for OSX (also why? especially without the skeuomorphic looks of the past?) but there seems to be very little that would take someone from Gnome 2.x\Mate to KDE. Am I just missing it? Is there any way off this burning platform?

I keep hearing how great KDE is and can perform but it makes my skin crawl when using it. Is there any way to change it that doesn't leave me lost at sea going between multiple applications with nested options?

Thanks in advance for any advice given.
Congrats! "The SQLite of Kafka" is an item from my side projects pile I'm happy to delete.

One reason I never built it is because it felt paradoxical that users might want a scaled down Kafka rather than using SQLite directly if the scale didn't matter. But you may find out that people enjoy the semantics of the Kafka protocol or are already using Kafka and have learned they don't have the scale they thought they did to warrant the complexity. Best of luck!
I disabled these mitigations on my i5-2500k a year ago and it felt like buying a new CPU. Sandy Bridge was hit hard.
1) your two points are at odds: some proportion of the homeless refuse shelter under any circumstances. What, then, is the point of wildly overprovisioning shelter beds, when ones are going unused today?

2) So, the idea is that until the government guarantees a free rental unit that accepts pets and provides a storage unit for all of a homeless person's stuff, it should be prevented from enforcing any laws about camping in public spaces and preventing the public from using those spaces?
I try not to; there's usually a good alternative.
> why should our salaries be kept artificially high?

Because why would anyone in the west invest in education if employers are going to look for talent overseas where it is relatively cheap? Take on that student debt only to find you'll have poor chance repaying it, because the available jobs won't provide for the living you were looking for.

This is essentially "dumping".
And surely doesnt come with any security baggage.
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Where does it say that? It sounds like the article carefully avoids making any definitive claim to that effect.

A completely redundant facade around a fully functional bridge isn't "incorporated into the bridge."

He and his "whole team" (of other artists, probably) were allowed to decorate the bridges that were going to be built anyway.
Related to this, here was an article in 2014 related to this:

https://missionlocal.org/2014/09/homeless-encampments-here-t...
Just train an AI on the news and publish a summary :)
>It almost makes me wonder if their yield is so bad that they need to make offers like this to keep new nodes attractive.

Apparently it was so bad that everyone except Apple jumped ship. Now Apple gets like 90% of the 3nm production output, so I guess TSMC won't risk offending them.
> In my ICE, its wasting tons of gas sitting there idling...

This was surprising to me, Tech Ingredients tested the fuel consumption of idling ICE vehicles and found them to be incredibly efficient while idling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNiapuA0yTQ

For example you'd waste more gas dropping your kid off at practice, driving home, and returning to pick them up then if you just sat idling in the parking lot waiting for an hour.

FWIW, I own 2 EVs and seeing people idling in their ICE vehicles still annoys me.
1 - the first rule of ML is to start without ML.

2 - do ML like the great engineer you are, not like the great ML expert you aren’t.
Just tried it now and I found the experience incredibly easy:

On desktop, right click on the map and choose "Add a missing place."
On mobile, long-press to drop a pin, then scroll down to "Add a missing place."

Does OSM require installing a parallel app store to add a park bench? Sounds like a UX-killer :/
> fear of repercussions is mostly gone.

Is it? Because AFAICT people censorship themselves online all the time for the fear of repercussion. It's like being on tape 27/7 where anyone that doesn't like you can watch your old tapes and loook for problems.
> people behind a firewall wouldn't be able to actually receive any audio/video streams from Jitsi.

That part isn't really correct? Most firewalls block incoming connections not outgoing ones so both parties agree on a port, hole punching happens and then there is a connection is formed.
https://www.removepaywall.com/
Especially if you own your home and things like vehicles.

(Reminder that the median income in the US is $44k a year). So lots and lots of people make that work...
How do you replace ZooKeeper?
I honestly don't believe that is anywhere near the common reason.

I know this is anecodotal (as is your comment), but I've spent a lot of time around the homeless population. I was "housed homeless" for a year, and my sister was homeless for several years due to mental illness.

The rate of drug use amongst the homeless does tend to be higher than the average population, and I don't think there's any denying that. However, it isn't nearly as universal as people seem to think. The average homeless person is homeless for less than two years, and it is normally due to financial reasons. Given programs that provide housing these people can normally come off the streets and live great lives. The simple fact that so many people manage to bounce back shows that what the average person things of homeless people isn't the actual reality.

The other thing, and this might sound obvious, is that the people who do drugs or drink simply take their stuff before they go to the shelters. These aren't people with hundreds of dollars to blow on their addictions. They often panhandle, eat, drug/do drugs, and then look for a place to crash. This also isn't the entire homeless population, just a smaller portion of it (that people use to justify not helping the larger portion, even though the whole population does need help).
Money doesn’t help in my experience
This is a forum, not a management system where I need to open dozens of listings and hundreds of different detail pages and make modifications there.

It also doesn't bother me much on here because HN is much faster than these systems - no wonder, since it's just a forum. But try updating the details of 50 employees, each separated into 5 subpages, when you need to wait 750ms to have each page load. And you need to load that page multiple times - first to get into the detail, then to put it into "edit" mode, then to save it - and then you can switch to a different subpage of the detail.
It’s funny you never see eloquent, well written articles about dishwashers who live in sweaty kitchens of dive Chinese restaurants, existing on the edge of society, jammed into studio apartments in the worst parts of town, just eking by.

You never read accounts of backbreaking laborers who dig ditches day in day out, or service sewer systems, covered in refuse. They sacrifice their bodies for their paycheck, and too live on the edge of society. We’re taught that laborers sacrificing their bodies in this manner is just par for the course.

The massage worker’s account almost seems white collar in comparison.
Well, not in San Francisco, and not anywhere in the surrounding area without driving house prices even higher.

(Now, building every homeless person a house might be more viable.)

Still doesn’t deal with the fact that much of that is nonshelter costs that would still be needs, even if they would move out of the homelessness budget.
People seem skeptical that it's actually been ruled out by that test. Regardless, that paper found diamagnetism on the level of pyrolytic graphite, which would be interesting in this material albeit not really evidence of superconductivity, but from what I've heard it is very easy to get anomalous reports of diamagnetism during zero field cooling if there is a high-temperature ferromagnetic transition, and you have to be extremely careful about your measurements and do lots of repeated tests to be sure. AFAIK, every other paper has either only seen very weak diamagnetism (expected given the compounds involved) or none at all.
Another great library that decidedly reveals transducer value:
https://github.com/cgrand/xforms
And what, exactly, is your plan for the animal after you forcible make the person give them up?
how does this work for VSTs with DRM? Or protected by iLok/etc?
Math for kids outside of the Calculus Sequence
Yeah, bottling useful amounts of natural gas requires very high pressures or cryogenic storage facilities which require much more expensive bottles. They're pretty rare to see used for something like a grill.

Meanwhile the phase change of propane from gas to liquid is a much lower pressure so its way easier to handle with far cheaper bottles.
Dunno why nobody has said anything like this, but I make some awesome bread (baguettes, mainly) and pizza.

What's great is not only that you get to eat the results, but whether it turns out well or badly, you get to repeat it all over again--and again, and again, and again.
Right, that’s what I mean. Why is enforcing it in either case ok under that reasoning? Clearly building a structure to house an additional person on private land would help keep people off the streets, even if it’s a shanty town. (Which is what we currently have except it’s on public land!)
My home server is still a Gen 8 HP Microserver with a Xeon E3-1230 V2 - so also Ivy Bridge. I wouldn’t mind something more modern and lower power but it seems any alternative with 4+ front drive bays would be quite a bit more expensive - and so it stays.
SillyCoValley
OnlineOrNot wouldn't exist without AWS's free tier.

I used Lambda + RDS knowing I had a year before it would cost me anything - luckily I found paying customers before that day came.

I was unwilling to risk having a side project sit there idle and cost me $30/mo or so. I imagine there are hundreds if not thousands of small businesses that started the same way.
On work-from-home businesses that are not open to the public: you can report these, and it seems that if you have a good track record of submitting corrections to Google Maps, your reports are handled fairly swiftly.
The browser versions work.
It's hard for me to comprehend the odds that a meteorite would hit the Sphinx on the nose.

I know that the probability is higher that a meteorite would hit something of great cultural significance, and that perhaps the broken nose led to some of that significance. But it still seems really, really unlikely.

Isn't it a lot more likely that something routine cause the damage, and that a story was made up afterward?
The Archive is more than a paywall bypasser.
I took the test three times and got wildly different results each time. First one said I'm from Florida, second one Kansas, third one Ohio. Weird.
Same. I'm replacing it next week though.

Uncertainty around Taiwan was the thing that finally pushed me to upgrade.
> By definition, the best spent homelessness budget would be the one that resulted in zero people in shelters right?

Well, no, otherwise “have no shelters” would be the cheapest optimal strategy.
> Some is aided by LLM technologies, but only with the highest level of skepticism, creative intent, and editing.

I just watched Adam Savage on YT giving advice to youtubers. He said if you get bored editing a segment, but think your audience will appreciate it, you're wrong and you should cut it out.

I think the same is true for AI. If you think your audience will appreciate some AI rambling, but you don't, you're probably mistaken.
Right, WebP was almost certainly a mistake in hindsight. Whatever advantages it had weren't worth a decade of ecosystem fragmentation. Isn't learning from mistakes and not repeating them a good thing?

I don't think AVIF is a good example of this though. All major browser makers were members of the consortium that created AVIF.
Interesting, especially in conjunction with an apparent global outage: https://www.forbes.com/sites/segunolakoyenikan/2023/08/07/sa...
Will the Kenyan government now have access to the biometric data collected by Worldcoin?
If you didn't have that attitude you could have learned that stuff in the last 6 months and then you wouldnt have to worry about it.

Also, "power user friendly" but hates CLI..... I see. You might have to hand in your power user card over that one

I am a diehard windows user but the OS's affinity for burying settings in nested, labyrinthine setting dialogs gets old super fast.
I’ve never understood the idea of RGB DIMMs. Can they be configured to show useful information about the stick (access, writes, parity errors, bus speed) or is it just for show?
The main reason is that shelters are more dangerous than streets.
SF should do the sweeps anyways. Who cares what this ridiculous judge thinks? What is she gonna do, send in the National Guard? That would be an improvement.

At a certain point the blathering of these judges is completely irrelevant and simply not worthy of respect or obedience.
I’ve just learned: you don’t. I thought this was limited to just GeForce experience, but it’s not.

You need to kill Nvidia telemetry services (one site has it listed as nmtvmon).

Another option would be to block traffic to Nvidia from leaving your network (pihole captures at least some Nvidia telemetry, not sure if it blocks all). I don’t have a list of urls or IPs to look out for.
Can regenerative braking be easily turned off on most EVs? That is the one feature that I absolutely do not want and has kept me away from looking at any EV so far.
To be pedantic It's impossible for "Linux" to have this as this exists way higher than the kernel or even the filesystem layer.

Linux mint has timeshift.

The now defunct Project Trident installer set up a zfs root with zfsbootmenu and an update script that automatically sets up a boot environment you can revert and boot from with the built in feature of zfsbootmenu.

Both let you achieve your goal. You can set up either system even if they aren't built in.
No. I have Teams installed, but if I click on a Teams link in the Teams app, it opens the meeting in the web browser. There was a decent stretch of time where it would go through a fail-loop in the browser before finally suggesting trying the meeting in the app instead, which wasn't actually possible because of the above. I'm really struggling to comprehend how messed up the development team can be to have a product as awful as that.
>100,000 penniless migrants to NYC, they still are able to find beds for people.

These are, by and large, economic migrants who really just want to work and are therefore a very different profile from the unsheltered on typical city streets - for whom mental illness and drug dependency are almost ubiquitous.
> Al it takes is a different better AI model that doesn’t require the type of computing capabilities Nvidia offers

That's a pretty reductive way of looking at things. Nvidia got to where they are today because they made the "different better AI model" by spending billions of dollars in AI research when other companies were fighting over scraps. They were the ones investing in a high-level GPGPU programming model when Apple and AMD were busy stabbing each other in the back over OpenCL. Just look at their list of papers and compare it to the contributions of your favorite FAANG member: https://research.nvidia.com/research-area/machine-learning-a...

Nvidia owns this market because Apple, AMD and Intel have a grudge match that is apparently more important than cross-platform harmony.
There is a difference between:

- What I meant to say.

- The actual words I used. (And the cultural context around those words, that I may or may not be aware of).

- The impact of the words I use.

Like others have said, if you care about the people who are hearing your words, and they say "hey, the words you used had a negative impact" than it makes a lot of sense and is really not hard to say "oh, I'm sorry, I'll change my words because I don't want to make you feel that way" and then move on.

Or you can spend all day debating the intention of your words and how you didn't mean it that way and completely ignore the actual impact, and leave people feeling like you don't care about their feelings.

In particular, in your personal relationships I highly encourage you focus on your impact rather than what you meant to say, especially when apologizing.
> * Much quieter: No sound, even when accelerating like a race car.

It's funny but people actually complain that EVs are noisy because without the droning white noise of ICE you end up hearing everything else going on.
Why would Worldcoin beta-test in Kenya vs SV if not in an attempt to fly under the radar of scrutiny – whether that's market scrutiny from the SEC/etc or privacy scrutiny under GDPR and other legislation well understood by SV lawyers.

Good on Kenya for holding Worldcoin to account. It'll be interesting to see what they do as they enter the "and find out" phase.
You're missing the point. The reason they don't give things up is because the shelter is temporary, but they results of using it aren't.

If you tell a homeless person you're going to shelter them for six months, the vast majority will take the shelter. If you tell them they have to move and you'll give them a bed for a night then many of them will see that as a shitty deal (which it is).

As for the legal stuff, you'll have to ask the supreme court as I wasn't the one arguing the case or making the law. That being said there are cities that have built out storage systems for homeless people. You don't even have to go that far for it, as Berkeley has been experimenting with this for awhile now. https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/08/27/city-makes-available...

That said, giving the homeless a place to stay is cheaper than leaving them on the street. The vast majority of people in these programs end up getting jobs and paying their own way in the future.
Well (tens) thousands doubles vs BigDecimals (think of marketing data) and any operations over them is a massive difference.

The premature optimization is beyond uncalled for. Learning to use floating point type is something that most developers should do. No need for weasel words, either (annoying, counterintuitive).