skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> #2 its hard to imagine someone being more comfortable on the street that in a housing provided by the gov

First off, the following is all anecdotal based on some articles I read a few years back now so take it with a grain of salt.

New York had a program to house the homeless in hotels after running the numbers and concluding it would be cheaper to do so in the long run compared to the medical expenses and so on incurred.

As part of that, I believe somewhere between 5 - 10% of people would persistently return to the streets despite having shelter provided.

Most homeless are people in a dark period of their lives and get back on their feet with some aid to break the bootstrapping problem.

A small portion however are considered to always end up there despite any help for whatever reason whether it's mental illness, drug use and so on.

Of course, I'm not citing any links and I'm probably misremembering so I'd encourage you to do some more searching if you're interested.

It seems like the NYC Hotel program was disestablished recently too.
Why would you use an HDD as a boot drive in this day and age anyway? SSDs are cheap (around €10 for the cheapest 128GB drives where I live [1]).

[1] https://tweakers.net/solid-state-drives/vergelijken/#filter:...
> It's primarily the uneducated who fall for nonsense arguments

I'd be careful with this line of thinking. Cults can often grab well educated individuals. Heck, I've had cult members proposition me on HN.

Cults don't generally grab members by appealing to knowledge. They do it by being friendly, providing community, filling needs. The people sucked into cults generally get there because of loneliness, trama, or high stress. It can be super rewarding when that nice neighbor you know invites you to a social activity sponsored by their church, after all, what's the harm?

Cults love the "love bomb" and it's effective.

Don't underestimate them. I was born into a high demand religion and I'm pretty familiar with the techniques used to get new members.

The defense against a cult is recognizing how they operate. Most cults do the same thing. They don't start you with the weird beliefs, they start you with "we just love having parties together. We're not like other churches, we're fun!"
I don’t know if they’ve changed how they forecast, or things are more unpredictable, or not updated as often as they seem, but “chance of rain today” forecasts have been wildly inaccurate for me - often going from 0% all day to “rain starts in 20 minutes”.
This has been said for a long time, but it's too simplistic. For instance, pretty much all the things that fall under the term "woke" is shared by the left on both sides of the Atlantic.

Democrats are more pro-corporatist than the European left typically, though. But even that has been diluting since the fall of communism.
I moved to Linux last year (my T430s was unbearable with Windows, but turns out still great with Linux). Briefly tried some Arch distros (which felt like a time black hole I don't care for) and Ubuntu before settling for Debian. Partly because it seems like a pretty "pure"/minimalistic OS, because I figured it's a good OS for servers too so might as well get familiar with it and because I wanted to run i3 so wanted to avoid the "bloat" from Ubuntu (which I now realize is negligeable).

While it's been serving me well, it still feels quirky and a lot of hardware stuff just didn't work out of the box so I've accumulated a fair few hacks and I dread having to butt my head against those again when this laptop inevitably craps out. Sometimes it's just finding the package you need but I also had to do a lot googling and changing speficic lines from specific config files for a bunch of things. Namely my volume buttons, mute button, Bluetooth, Bluetooth devices, recorder, brightness buttons and others I forget. My volume buttons still don't work if it's through a Bluetooth device but I'm just putting up with it cause I couldn't find an answer fast enough and on a new connect I have to explicitly go in pavucontrol (or whichever it was, "firefox no sound bluetooth debian" is seared in my search history). I never managed to get the Steam for Linux thing working and when I try again it seems to clash with the remnants of some old attempt.

Maybe I just don't have enough experience and it would be the same on any Debian or Linux distro but AFAIK Ubuntu does much better at handling drivers out of the box.

I like the simplicity of it at face value but I'm not sure why I wouldn't go with Ubuntu next time to avoid the hassles or if I'm not being stubborn by not going for Windows with WSL (assuming I don't buy another old horse). Worst is I still need to run a Windows VM in it when I'm compiling something to .exe or some specific Windows only software.
I don't find this at all convincing. The terms in question here don't need to evoke connotation, they are labels in a technical system. It is very straight-forward to re-label things. Documentation can easily cover the change.
That seems like an extremely unlikely scenario for the legal department of an ISP in 2023.
I remembered Twitter users were supposed to vote on all big changes, and learned that CSAM was up on Twitter for days and viewed 3M times, and the poster was unbanned.

The rest i already knew (the 'pedo guy' comment in particular was the trigger that broke the illusions I had about Musk, and my tendancy to forgive his overpromising).
Oh, and I forgot they took full control over media and have greatly restricted speech.
I see. I'm surprised to hear that this makes such a difference in Poland. In Germany your taxes in this case will be exactly the same.
€20 is not expensive to translate a book. Google translate is of such low quality that it is not suitable for any real world use like yours.

Can you let the user herself pay the translation cost when loading her favorite book into your software?
Why not get the package added to backports and then instructing users to update? This happens with tons of other similar packages.
None of which crashed on the moon. Fact is that USA of the late 60s and early 70s was hugely better at this than Russia is today, and probably better than China and India -- although the latter two are making good and steady progress.

And who knows, perhaps the USA couldn't do it either in 2023.
These analysis are highly knowledgable while being consistently wrong. It's like a self meme factory. If you only analyse one side you are bound to end up in a corner where your analysis doesn't pan out against reality. It's all wishful thinking.
Seattle rain is often more of a never ends heavy fog/ light drizzle.

I kind of like it, but I get that others don’t.
> Sure, but that involves having enough spare disks

So long as we are pointing out things: this presumes that the user doesn't have enough space to make the copies on their own disks? If one has a 3GB dataset and 9GB of free space, one can easily zfs send/recv that dataset and destroy the old copy.

> This way, while the initial expansion is not ideal, it works.

Yep.

> If you really need the space gains from a wider distribution, you can do this expansion and then do the make a new copy, then replace old copy with a new copy dance... although that's counter productive if you have snapshots.

That's why you do a zfs send/recv, instead of a copy. ZFS will copy your snapshots for you!
Huh that does sound bizarre. What is your software?
I think the questionable assumption is that people have some sort of fixed, intrinsic capacity for decision-making that is somehow distinct from other stable personality traits.
Are you saying that they withhold information of all the landers that did crash on the moon? This seems like about a similar claim that they never landed people on the moon.
It is more like that is a sort of drilling mud (bentonite possibly additioned with baryte ):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentonite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drilling_mud

Bentonite is also used in medicine (dermatology).
> The mentally handicapped used to receive treatment

I think you meant to say “used to be locked up”
The eye-opener here is that it's not "the way things are", it's other people doing that to you
And I don't find it convincing that you don't find it convincing.

All terms evoke connotation. That's how and why language works. Which is why I proposed the social experiment for you.

Go ahead and replace the word "red" with the word "scarlet" in your day-to-day vocabulary and see if communication with other humans breaks down.

Update the documentation as necessary.
Quite a similar line of thinking to the Unabomber’s “feelings of inferiority” analysis of “leftism”.
I definitely want to echo wkat4242’s answers:

- Most of your concerns are already taken care of by healthcare, notably psychiatry that is free and well funded (people who work there would disagree, but everyone who needs to see a doctor will), social services (same), unemployment and professional training programs.

- It’s below freezing most of the year. There cannot be any rough sleeping: either you are inside, or people pick up your frozen body in the morning. If you end up too drunk to go home (which happens alarmingly often: substance abuse is a huge problem, more than anywhere else) hospitals have drunk tanks and Police officers or ambulances will be more than happy to drive you there before you hurt yourself or others. They are not uncomfortable, just… “easy to clean” and in an odd pink colour. You get coffee in the morning.

What that program actually did was admit that shelters were not working and replaced them with individual flats. Finns’ staunch individualism probably explain that more than anything. (It also explains the substance abuse… anyway.)

- I’m not sure that how rural Finland is super relevant, but it is true: the country was going through rural exodus (what happened in the UK in early 19th century) _this decade_; it doesn’t really mean there’s a village life that disappeared (people don’t talk to their neighbours) but it has contributed to a big real estate boom. Outside of two streets in downtown Helsinki, there isn’t a building that wasn’t built recently—as in, with internet. Therefore, having slats for homeless people is actually a small fraction of the new homes.

The second key thing about Finns (after their lack of social appetite) is their passion for design. Key people in the country: famous people, CEOs, etc. are designers, the way famous people in France, Germany, China, Japan and Korea are engineers and lawyers in the UK and US.

> your shelter for one man will end up being a flophouse for a rotating cast of shady types, and poor housekeeping skills definitely become operative here

That’s the thing: all flats are well designed and minimalistic. There isn’t much you can damage. This might change as the real estate portfolio ages, but it’s not a major concern now–not compared to having to step over a frozen body in the morning.

The 20% is because, even if the program is summarised as “give them a home”, they are not signing title documents on day 1. They likely need help, so while they are de facto occupants with full rights to develop their sense of belonging, on paper they still have a status that roughly translates to ‘homeless’ and formally, they rent for a minimal amount and hardly any eviction clauses.
Let's be real here, some people can't even do 10% let alone 90%. And than some people are severely mentally ill or addicted, not "slightly".

I don't think GP is saying they're not doing a good job, but that "ending homelessness" sounds like a euphemism.
Solution: add whitenoise generation as a base function to the app. Direct related searches to the in-app function

Bonus: this will also offload your servers significantly, specially as pure noise is hard to compress.
Do you mean to say you were in a cult for 15 years and found a way out? Can you share which cult, and how you escaped?
They haven't completed the uplift from simple agrarian to fully industrial farming. There's a way to go yet.
That isn’t quite what Dunning-Kruger is about. People with less competence tend to overestimate their abilities more than people with higher competence. For example, a person with ability 3 out of 10 might say their skill is a 5 whilst a person with ability 9 out of 10 might say their skill is a 10.

Where was the overestimation of one’s abilities in the comment made by Crzy?

The alleged fact that people trained to resist propaganda are more susceptible to it is only an instance of Dunning-Kruger if said people overestimate their abilities in this area greater than people with a higher ability to resist propaganda. That wasn’t established.

From webmd.com https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/dunning-kruger-effect-wh... :

To observe this phenomenon, Dunning and Kruger gave students tests of grammar, logical reasoning, and humor. The psychologists found that those who scored in the bottom 25% tended to overestimate their ability and test score. Most predicted their scores to be above the 60th percentile.

On the other hand, those who overperformed -- those in the top 25% of the students -- also incorrectly assessed their final result. Most of these students estimated their scores to be in the 70th- to 75th-percentile range. But most actually scored above the 87th percentile. While this is also not a realistic self-assessment, the researchers found that this group was competent enough to understand how they got a higher score, unlike the low performers. In other words, the gap between perceived and actual performance is smaller.
Once in a lifetime? This says that the last time California had a hurricane was 84 years ago. Current US life expectancy is under 80 years. Seems like it is on track for a "shocking once in a lifetime" event.
I dunno, I can see it both ways. The front-loaded email style or eschewing social media certainly make life easier for others. But on the other hand, many of his examples of Monastic deep workers (Einstein, Darwin) absolutely relied on those around them to function. I think mentioning the book in this context is valid; the book has very little to say about the consequences of deep work behaviours on others, and that might be a failing.
I've recently noticed a new market which Debian is dominating: "official" Docker container images. If you "docker run golang" or "docker run ruby" or "docker run python" (or many of the images tagged as docker official images) then you're running Debian.
Being a nomad is not the same as being homeless. Go to downtown SF and I guarantee you zero of those people have chosen to live on the streets.
Offsec portal breaks when refusing cookies
I'm a student at offensive security. Have been for the last half year and frankly the courses are pretty good. As a security minded person I always refuse cookies on every website, offsec included. Since july 2023 it seems that refusing cookies on the portal to the study material, you will be presented with a beautiful white screen and are unable to login. This has bee going on since at least the 23rd of july 2023, the day I complained to offsec customer service and their privacy officer. 30 days later, no response and still unable to access the website. Does anybody else have the same issue? I have this from multiple internet connections and multiple computers.
Debian unstable and testing are rolling releases.
> The modern world would barely operate without PDF.

Maybe. But maybe people would have simply adopted other standards, like djvu.
Because OG wants to know whether converting or not for space saving reasons. The question hasn't been set-up like "should I keep all my 264 Videos or delete them for space saving?"
The title should be:

"Why a random, totally unbiased Youtube channel from China's main rival country thinks China's economy is collapsing"
A coder that can't draw, becomes a creative when s/he uses tools for drawing. I don't think the argument is in this, it's that the tools embody the collective creativity of all the world's previous-gen artists.
httm has been at 9XX GitHub stars for what seemed like forever! Time to get over that 1k hump.

As a Rust project, it's something of a duty to hype and self-promote, and to troll C++, of course. So let it be known: If you're not using httm, you're not using modern ZFS. Or -- httm is the cppfront of ZFS utilities? Or -- httm is the 'auto' keyword for filesystems, but less confusing (to me)?

I'll work on it.
Most UK seaside towns lost out to cheap flights to Spain. There's very little reason anyone visit Blackpool over Málaga. For the price of a depressing hotel in Blackpool you can get a modern resort in Spain with warm seas and reliably sunny hot weather every day.

There are a few seaside towns that managed to hold on, such as Brighton. They're mostly in the South where the climate and sea temperature is a touch more bearable and you can feasibly go there on a day trip from London.

Arguably, what's happened to seaside towns in the UK is really just a more aggressive version of what's happened to all smaller towns in the UK. The UK economy has become more centralised, particularly in London but also in other major cities. Towns have little to offer the modern British economy, as the engines that kept their economies ticking over moved to China and India.

Basically, they are victims of globalisation, both in terms of easy travel and also free trade.

[Un]fortunately, the UK government keeps them just afloat by pumping tax money into them via welfare, pensions and healthcare spending. Which arguably prevents them from completely failing, but possibly reinventing themselves to be more useful and relevant to the modern economy.
A natural language calculator powered by a local LLM and Node.js
Almost any request can be framed as abuse in this manner. "Some stranger asked me to stand still on the street the whole day, he abused my agreeableness".

Imo it is not abuse if there isn't any threat and you simply can say no. If you keep saying yes to everything you coworkers ask from you, what do you expect is going to happen? It is your own responsibility to not be a doormat, that is abusing yourself.
The more critical part is "from go" - deus ex machina is considered bad because it's a narrative rupture. In a story of wars openly involving divine beings, there's no such discontinuity. It is also usually associated with stories that wrap up a bit too tidily, and that's also not the case in LotR.

Gandalf dies 2/6 of the way through the story and comes back 3/6 of the way through. His death may be the climax of the first two books, but his return is merely a plot beat and many of the remaining problems have yet to even be revealed, let alone solved.
I found their lack of artistic vision and overall grumpiness encouraging.

Even the Beatles struggled.
I have a rare disorder called hyperacusis from a noise trauma, which causes pain from everyday sounds. While I'm thankfully not sensitive to these kinds of sounds, most are and it's quite dangerous to us.

This disease is repetitive stress injury, in that every time you experience pain it lasts for weeks or years even and your sound tolerance goes down. So it is imperative that we never have accidents like those that cars like these can produce.

It can get so bad that you can't tolerate even simple things like the sound of sheets. The other patient in my city is confined to a closet 24/7 with earplugs and earmuffs because his tolerance is so low. He continues to worsen because sounds like these penetrate buildings well.

It is nearly unstudied so there's little hope of getting out of this hole. The least society can do for us is protect us from these assholes so we can hide in closets in peace.
Yes the problem is recertification. This is why GA also still uses engines developed in the 50s with associated tech.
History of Money in Ancient Times by Alexander Del Mar (1885)
#3 is in fact a massive problem and the reason 90% of shelters shut down. Most of the homeless people I have ever spoken to avoid government welfare centers and homeless shelters purely because they attract the type of people who take advantage of the genuinely vulnerable people who are looking for help. They say that they feel much safer out on the street and that their stuff is much less likely to be stolen than in a shelter.
I have known more than one person who has been involved in setting up a charity and shelter for the homeless with the best of intentions, only for it to close a year later due to violence and drug reelated crime.
Do you build each interface with different tools (e.g. Swift, Java, and React), or one of the unifying tools (Flutter, React Native, etc)?
Those same engineers will still be there in the microservices world. You can argue that the damage they can do is reduced, but I don’t think that’s always true.
I have nothing against welfare, I ate as a kid because of food stamps, but he has a point. Personal ambition and goals aside, wouldn’t the goal be to support you until you’re able to fully support yourself, so that those funds can be used to help another person in need so they can get to a better place in life as well?
Provided with shelter? Check.

There's only so much you can do, no brain debugger+hot patcher invented yet.
Bingo. The corporate buyers of FSA plans are not the consumers. Misaligned incentives.
Just like everything else in 2023, sense of humor also should be developed with rust only.
Wealth for the lower classes was created by technology trickling down.

>> Second, “experts” appear to be mistrusted more and more. Economists are no exception.

Economists never get anything right. If they would they'd be rich from trading securities.
Well, considering how many unmanned probes are crashing into the Moon now, it's very hard for me to believe that the US could land so many manned missions to the Moon.

And not one of them crash-landed. All that in the 1960's.
> positing a coherent ideological message in his story is a bit of a stretch. Also, Tolkien's wasn't one to focus much on real world social and political issues.

Maybe this is why I love LoTR so much. It’s just a story!
Turn off silence/vibrate only mode on your phone. I leave mine in vibrate mode 99% of the time, so I expect this to happen occasionally.
A Concept and Template Metaprogramming Approach to Session Types in C++
Do I understand your advice/recommendation correctly?:

frontend <--> UI API, only has what frontend needs <--> backend service with its own API

In that case: What design do you suggest for the backend's actual API?
No, the only hope is not the internet, that’s techno-utopianism. Also, we see little correlation with access to internet and common sense-abilities.

Also, I run in circles where PhDs are still wearing cloth masks at the beach because of Covid (very old priors).

Education has little to do with it, it’s mostly resistance to fear.
What an incredibly disrespectful article. The details surrounding his death, and the nature of the event, and not at all in the public’s interest, and likely serve to cause more anguish to the family and friends. Even the title is written inappropriately.

In Australia at least, the journalistic standard [1] states that reports should avoid sensationalising suicide, and should not report on the methods. It’s also expected for support details to be added at the end of the story (this addendum is often the only indication that the persons’ death was the result of suicide).

https://www.presscouncil.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S...
There's always a flag to override that, usually the compiler will warn you on how to fix it.
That’s a significant factor but cost of living is also big. I live in DC and my son’s daycare mentioned this was their hardest problem: the job starts early and the lack of affordable housing meant many of their workers had to have cars, which cost a lot, too.
I'm thinking that mass movements existed long before either of those technologies.