skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So I blocked a few people and wrote a quick post:

When I read the Mastodon thread, this jumped out at me as well. A couple of the guys who raised the point clarified that they fully agreed that the removal of “groping” was a good thing, but by that point, the author wouldn’t be able to see the clarification.

I’m really torn on this. I fully support people’s choices to set boundaries and block abusive behavior. At the same time, “I disagree with you so I’m going to insta-block you and not even give you a chance to clarify” seems at the heart of the brokenness of online discourse.

But having seen what some of the women in my life go through re: abusive behavior online, I also understand the hair trigger.

I don’t know what the right balance is, and it’s likely very personal and contextual, but I’ve personally started to only engage with conversations if I’m willing to deal with all of the likely categories of response (barring obvious abuse). Disagree=block seems to increase polarization and seems counterproductive in the long run. It also seems like a good way to reinforce my own blind spots, even if it turns out that I’m “right” some of the time.
Elon Musk lies so frequently, I don't believe this is true. I think he is just making up excuses for the news coverage.
The people that earn it. Cut taxes and put that money back in the people’s hands.
All of the original product discovery avenues were bought and paid for by advertisers - magazines, news columns, tv ads.

But in the past it was still useful. These days it’s still paid for by advertisers but now you’ve got dropshippers, scammers, cheap ali-baba goods, and almost no verification of quality or authenticity.

Is the problem exacerbated accepting advertising money? Can it be solved by only accepting consumer money? Consumer reports is one of those.
Vacuum is actually a horrible insulator, like in practice.
it was a mecca before this. 2014 was about 12-18 months into the tent encampment era (especially around the mission and Division) of homelessness though it was rapidly expanding in numbers and neighborhoods then and after that. Before that, 2012 and before, homelessness in the city tended to look more like people sleeping in doorways.
There's a lot more interesting things in Julia's post than relitigating this specific example.
Cloudflare does the same thing.
This is always true, though, for any value.
I am reminded of that bit in Lord Edgware Dies where Lady Edgware mishears something about "The Judgement of Paris" and starts confidently bleating about fashion, New York and London.
A number of sites don't allow you to reuse iterations of old passwords (not sure exactly, but perhaps can't have more then 4 repeating chars). So you can't simply append, you have to change the actual password a considerable amount.

Had a few websites like that, they were the bane of my existence until I got a password manager.
it is not the load bearing or responsibility. it's simply another way to approach the material. teaching someone forces you to organize your thoughts and also consider questions you may not have thought of yourself.

montessori uses this to let older kids teach younger ones. and many others take advantage of it too.

i wish this was more commonly known
We all work for someone else’s benefit.
"Western Nations"

You do realize the US doesn't have the public transport of massive cities in western Europe right?

Maybe think a bit and you'll realize that Americans have to drive more to get places.

Regardless, the crashes have nothing to do specifically with the way America has implemented anything.

"but that that public education had failed to prepare this person and apparently a whole community for higher education"

The comment was specifically about how the US has done it badly. Not everyone needs to be prepared for higher education. Countries like Germany that have "free" higher ed decide that certain kids will go intro trades early on. Are you going to flag Germany as not preparing a whole demographic of kids for "higher ed" ?
Why do you think langchainjs is bloatware?
And yet by your voting patterns, that’s exactly what you did.

Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
sorry yes -- propane. I guess natural gas is (mostly) methane? Bottle of compressed flammable gas.
At a certain point those "unchosen obligations" snowball into a gargantuan, suffocating problem for actual taxpayers.

It's not our responsibility to care for the homeless of the entire western US.
Or just take a scroll through the comments here today and also every week when this comes up on HN. The cruelty of the consensus here is astounding.
no. 8 bits isn't enough to cover SRGB without banding artifacts (without dithering).
legends like kafka didn't write to find an audience. they wrote what mattered to them and that happened to find an audience.
Recently got into reading Waugh, and really loved 'Handful of Ashes' - some of the interactions between the characters feel very modern somehow. Also his ability to write characters is amazing.

Anyway, enough of the terrible literary criticism. Far more important is this line from Waugh's wiki page:

> The twin blows were sufficient for him to consider suicide. He records that he went down to a nearby beach and, leaving a note with his clothes, walked out to sea. An attack by jellyfish changed his mind, and he returned quickly to the shore

I feel that 'He records that' is a polite way to say "this is obvious nonsense". I mean, sure it's possible that Waugh decided not to commit suicide due to jellyfish, but it certainly seems suspiciously like something that a character in his novels would do ...
That's exactly right!
crypto is an umbrella term for multiple types. There are some bad ones out there, but also good ones too. BTC, Eth

However, paypal can't be trusted so I would not use anything from them.
I still need to sit down and convert my personal Linux computer over to using JPEG XL for picture archival and figure out what tools need to change or be updated.

Using it on the web is one thing, but getting better compression for my family photos would also probably be a win, and I suspect it would be possible to build a pipeline for viewing/editing that would be fairly transparent.
I'm guessing that moving that (actually) $25bn "elsewhere" would actually increase the homelessness problem in California since that money funds a variety of social assistance programs for all manner of people, most of whom have a place to live!

You can see the spend here: https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4640
I assume that 1/10thou of an inch would disappear into the swelling of a wood product? How do you manage moisture and dimensional changes?
> Mayor London Breed threw her hands up in response. “We can’t force people to accept or stay in shelters and we’re unable to prevent people from setting up an encampment in an area that was just cleaned. This is the situation we are in,” she tweeted Wednesday.

> She’s right. San Francisco is under a federal injunction that bars officials from enforcing laws against camping or sleeping in public spaces as long as its homeless population exceeds available shelter beds. As we recently explained, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment creates a right to vagrancy.

NYC has a ban against encampments because they provide shelter to homeless. Even after southern states have sent 100,000 penniless migrants to NYC, they still are able to find beds for people.

If San Francisco politicians can't create enough shelters, it's on them. There are hotels, parking lots, rec centers, etc if you have to deal with the numbers in the interim before you get housing up.
The Never Ending Search for the Longest Word
> In April 1993, Don Calhoun made a miraculous full-court shot during a Chicago Bulls game to win $1 million.

Wrong. It was a three quarters court shot (behind the penalty line of the other half of the court).
Sure. Broadly this is the list. Many of these are my go-to's for all my products. Only the Project management, I had to keep trying new things. Most favorite for now is Trello.

Also, I use dokku for deployment, so it's very similar to heroku and uses heroku buildpacks.

Hetzner - Servers.

Helpscout - Customer helpdesk

Google - workspace Email

Github - Source code

Airbrake - Error monitoring

Posthog - Analytics

Shortcut - Project management

Canny - Feedback & Changelog announcement

Stoplight - API documentation

Slack - For app testing

UptimeRobot - Uptime monitoring

MRR - For subscription tracking

Mailgun - Transactional Emails

Reform - One time used for feedback collection

Calendly - Call bookings

Paddle - Payment platform
I think it's important to note a couple of things.

> The city of San Francisco released data last week showing that 55% of homeless individuals rejected shelter when offered it

I think it's very important to understand why people turn down the beds. There are several reasons-

* Shelters have very restricted hours, so if someone has a job that includes nights they likely can't use a shelter. A large number of homeless people are employed.

* To accept space at a shelter homeless people often have to abandon their belongings. If they have a tent, for example, these normally aren't allowed.

* Getting a bed for one night does not mean that they'll have one the second night. So throwing away their tent for one night in a bed just doesn't make sense.

* Shelters often don't allow pets, and a lot of homeless people have dogs.

> She’s right. San Francisco is under a federal injunction that bars officials from enforcing laws against camping or sleeping in public spaces as long as its homeless population exceeds available shelter beds.

There's a really, really important point here. If every homeless person accepted a bed, there still would be no where near enough to cover the homeless population. This is part of the reason people aren't willing to accept temporary shelter, as they know it's temporary (since there isn't enough for everyone the city basically rotates people around)

It's also really important to note that SF has, per capita (of population, not of homeless population), the lowest amount of shelter beds of any major city in the US. The bay area itself is even worse, as some cities don't have any shelter space at all. A huge part of this is because housing is so expensive, as is building.

This article tries to play it off as people just choosing to be homeless, but the reality is a lot more nuanced than that.
> For a real BG game, Obsidian is probably our best hope.

They had their chance and came out lacking.
Best comment so far! Everyone has been Jim at-least once before.

You are right, it will never replace good old Jim (or a backend dev). What it can do instead is to accelerate the devs. What if Jim created tickets to add a GitHub action to run linting on every PR, update and refactor existing code based on a new formatting rule, add more unit test cases? Basically utilize GitStart as a way to accelerate on tickets that may not be worth his time, but accelerate everyone else.

On a go to market comment, we are laser focused first to target frontend teams, particularly where as long as you have API docs (Swagger, GraphQL), and a staging environment (or we help create one) devs can go a long way without shared context.
Huh? Where exactly did he reveal his actual rules for deriving passwords? The table itself won't be of any use.
In Jupyter I just wrote

(1/3.0)*3.0-1.0==0.0

and got back the answer

True

no problem there.
That seems like a bad image for the stuff the OP is talking about - large print high detail stuff - since it's so small, but the AVIF "acceptable" still, even at low res, seems to be clearly throwing away detail compared to the JPEG "acceptable". Look at how the JPEG preserves some of the body seam in the second "l" in RedBull, for instance. So ok, it's a quarter the size, but they aren't showing me how big an AVIF with the same detail as the JPEG would be.

They're just showing that it can do a less-offensive job of erasing detail smoothly to take filesizes down to tiny levels than WebP or JPEG? But "tiniest size with least offense" is VERY different than "best size with greatest detail."
That is React Native isn’t it? A lot of people end up making custom components (using pure JS), but it’s completely possible to wrap native components and use them. The downside is someone needs to make the native component wrapper as React Native doesn’t really provide much in terms of that out of the box besides maybe a button component.

Expo has a new system that’s in beta that should make doing this much, much simpler (check out expo-modules).
Hopefully a few of them will realize it is easy and so start updating their own information as it changes. Everyone wins - their customers get up to date information and so come when they are open.
North Korean Hackers Targeted Russian Missile Developer
Do you think Bernie voters don't support their candidate? Even Bernie admitted and apologized for his campaign being focused on white males.
Many of them in government have probably been busy quietly putting it somewhere else for some time now.
I do think material science break throughs for carbon capture is the most sensical way to solve this. But huge space projects or chalk dust airlifts are cool too.
"Get the latest from Fast Company
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A popup blocks, as I continue past the gazillion ads to read about an article that complains about ads.
One of the problems is that homelessness is a flow problem, not a stock one. If there are X homeless people in a year, then next year something like 50% * X will be newly homeless. So you could house everybody currently homeless, but you’d be back to square one shortly.

Nevertheless, the current strategy does not seem particularly effective.
Fixing an oil leak is far, far cheaper than buying an EV. You should quit complaining and pay someone enough to fix you car properly!8-))
A safety net is unemployment insurance. What this is isn’t a safety net but rather a hammock.
Sorry about that! I should have checked before sharing that link.

It looks like Microsoft published the code on GitHub, so you might be able to deploy it via Azure. (I haven't tried it.)

https://github.com/Microsoft/ailab/blob/master/Sketch2Code/R...
That's cool. Fun fact: around that same time period, the first iron smelting we know of was done in Africa.
New PaperCut Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution
Show HN: LogicBlocks: Human-friendly statecharts for C# games and apps
I made a hierarchical state machine implementation (or statecharts, depending on how you view it) for C# that allows me to write my nested states using inheritance just like you would with the state pattern. It has an experimental source generator I have been working on that reads your code and produces the UML diagram so you can see what your code looks like based on its inputs, the state changes, and the outputs produced.

The source generator probably needs some major improvements to be truly robust, but I've already found it to be incredibly helpful for the game I'm making and some other projects. It's really nice to be able to quickly glance at a diagram as you're making changes to the code to verify if it's what you intended.

Hope you like it :))
I was going to post the same thing! But I'm glad I didn't because now I get to post on the remarkable coincidence that the price is almost exactly the same - $5000 in today's dollars. It's an interesting sum, from the perspective of say, American minimum wage (which is approx $30k/year). It's painful, but doable. It's probably the amount most ordinary lower-middle and middle-class people pay for a (used) car. I wonder how the USG came up with the figure, and if their thinking was the same as Egypt's?

This reminds me of a sitcom line from some years ago where a business exec comes in an offers (Drew Carrey maybe?) $10,461 or something like that and he asks "Why that amount?" and she says, "Oh, we spent $10M figuring out how much money poor people would think is a lot."
Look up pjax. You can have both, every page gets reloaded, but the user won't notice it.
I'm Ryan Worl, co-founder and CTO of WarpStream. We're super excited to announce our Developer Preview of our Kafka protocol compatible streaming system built directly on top of S3 with no stateful disks/nodes to run, no rebalancing data, no ZooKeeper, and 5-10x cheaper because of no cross-AZ bandwidth charges.

If you have any questions about WarpStream, my co-founder (richieartoul) and I will be here to answer them.
Or... you could just use a password manager. With a few high-value keywords (your email - it's universal password access for most of us!) kept out of it.

If you've need additional security (or the feeling thereof), keep it on an IronKey

If you think that's not enough because some government or criminal organization is after you - hire somebody who understands security deeply, don't take advice from the Internet :)

(Also, threat model: unless you have state-like resources, a state-like attacker will win every time if they want to win. They just don't care about most of us)
>As San Francisco progressives are learning, government can build more shelter, but that doesn’t mean the homeless will use them.

This is literally the opener to the article. The whole argument it is making is a complete mess.
What's the most parsimonious take.
1) at the inception of ubiquitous photography there was a path of equipment development that allowed for equal quality images of any skin tone, but those in charge spitefully decided they didn't want people with dark skin represented.
2) seeing detail in dark objects of any kind is more difficult (something we all know from using our eyes) and no one felt compelled to spend a lot of time wrestling with this very difficult problem when, at the end of the day, everyone has the general sense that, despite never having met him, they have a good idea of what Miles Davis looks like.
Agreed. It is the year of the linux desktop. I installed Pop OS and everything works great right out of the box. It's now good enough that I could install it on my mom's computer.
I don't really want base 2 literals and base 2 numbers, I want base 10.

The point is that when the literals don't match your numbers you get particularly strange problems that I think scare people away from computers. We just lose them.

The other problems with floating point math create much less cognitive dissonance than that does.
What's insane is that the injunction from a single judge will stand until at least April 2024 when the case is finally heard.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/federal-judge-refuses-to...
A great read, thanks so much!
Okay, you disagree with my wording. Where should the money go that will help?
Using this as a basis for urban planning and study is bizarre. Zermatt is basically a resort, yes there are full time residences but dominated by winter ski population, (and it's served by very good Swiss rail services). As it's in a valley, it's quite small and physically restricted. The fact they banned cars is really not that interesting as a study for other potential places.
The language is pretty descriptive of the phenomenon going on I thought but looks as though others disagree.
The things we've tried to fix the problem have only made it worse. You have to be honest and accept that given the choice, some small percentage of people prefer to live on the streets with zero responsibility.

Who is the one not giving back to the community, the billionaire VC who is funding hundreds of high-paying jobs, or the person who shits in the street and demands to be fed and provided with a host of other services at no cost to himself?
One of the only reasons why we know people were playing golf on The Old Course at St. Andrews 600 years ago is because the king of England at the time thought his archers were spending too much time golfing versus practicing archery, and put out a decree to ban the sport among the soldiers. I don’t think anyone truly knows how old the sport is or when it first started being played at St Andrews.
Google May Reconsider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome
So did you just agree with me?
> sometimes it makes a soft c sound where a hard one is expected (e.g. facade).

Just adding, in the case of Facade, is very similar to the french façade.

So I guess the ç cedille was lost in translation. French uses the ç to make the ça and ço syllables change from /k/ to /s/.
Did you consider that maybe huge majority of users don't actually use Google Maps as a paper map and don't particularly care for using it that way?
When my brother died suddenly, recovering his passwords was a nightmare. Especially for accounts he managed for his wife’s dental business. Fortunately his son and I were able to guess his main password and a few others. We also found that he was reusing a small set of passwords. We finally were able to get into all of the relevant accounts and then wrote everything down and gave it to his wife. Not a fun process. We should all think about what happens after our deaths and how other people will deal with our messes.
I started off hating this, but after watching the youtube video, I came around.

It is actually very well thought out for authoring on old machines, not just for rendering/reading.
This number is horribly bias and misleading. They are using the money that goes towards all homeless programs- including programs that keep people housed- but then dividing it by the number of shelter beds, despite the fact that the vast majority of the money is not spent on shelters.

It's like taking the entire school budget, dividing it by the number of first graders, and then saying that's how much we spend per student. It's stupid math that is only used to mislead.
How U.S. microchips are fueling Russia's military – despite sanctions
Yes it is terrible to be 'scammed by diarrhea of mental hipsterism' - isn't it just so _tiresome_ and simply _too much_.
Check out Woody Guthrie's song "Do Re Mi" for the 1940 version of this sentiment.

https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Do_Re_Mi.htm
Linux 6.6 Will Be Able to Handle Temperature Reporting When More Than 32 DIMMs
Even though lots of people are parents, being a good parent requires a huge amount of work before, during, and after their childhood. We should celebrate people who actively give their children a good household and life. Your life is going to be pretty turned upside by having children whether you invest your energy in them or not - might as well make something great out of it.
There also exists a few word lists online in the public domain.

For example, project gutenberg has Moby Word Lists by Grady Ward which is supposedly in the public domain (at least for the USA).

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3201

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3201/files/

Last time I looked into it, there were a few different options floating around for word lists.
You missed the most common reason:

* Drugs and alcohol are not allowed
They do support it directly. There has been a WebCrypto API with carrots hashing algorithms for years.
What makes SF unable to have enough shelter space? Why is their homeless population unusually large? Is it a spiral of consequences that feed each other?

https://www.sfhsa.org/services/financial-assistance/county-a....

Do cash payments help or hurt? Clearly, there are more than just federal policies at play. They have job and home placement programs, mental health and so forth. Are they understaffed or with limited opportunities, or does the cash payment act as a perverse incentive to keep people on the street?
The gmail reasoning is this:

Why is this message in spam?
It is similar to messages that were identified as spam in the past.
If this were true, SAT math scores for girls would be higher than boys. Math is the only portion of the test that can be scored objectively. The reality is, there are systemic biases in every component of education today that favor girls.