skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> California was ground zero for some of the more supposedly 'enlightened' approaches to the homelessness problem with both substantial, sustained funding

"More than 69,000 homeless residents live in Los Angeles County, for instance, but that county has just over 21,000 beds in shelters and temporary housing programs. It’s a similar story in Sacramento County, which counted nearly 9,300 unhoused residents in its last census, but has just over 3,000 shelter and temporary housing beds." (https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/05/california-homeless-h...)

I'm not sure what's 'enlightened' about not providing spaces for homeless people before you bulldoze over their tents and what few possessions they have.

He says "We’ve provided the funds." but clearly they were either inadequate or went into someone's pocket and not towards giving these people somewhere to go.
Restricting ownership may help but there are aren’t enough houses or apartments in the places people want to live.

Building more housing is the best answer. It lowers the price because there is more supply. There simply aren’t enough homes in the Bay Area, NYC and many other major cities.

If you could build many large apartments in the Bay Area you could fill it with people who’d rather live there compared to a tiny old overpriced house. Zoning and existing residents stop that from being built though.
The author need to name these channels, it doesn't match my experience watching YouTube.
As the person who created docker (well, before docker - see https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/atc10/tech/full_papers/... and compare to docker), I argued that it wasn't just good for containers, but could be used to improve VM management as well (i.e. a single VM per running image - seehttps://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa11/tech/full_papers...)

I then went onto built a system with kubernetes that enabled one to run "kubernetes pods" in independent VMs - https://github.com/apporbit/infranetes (as well as create hybrid "legacy" VM / "modern" container deployments all managed via kubernetes.)

- as a total aside (while I toot my own hort on the topic of papers I wrote or contributed to), note the reviewer of this paper that originally used the term Pod for a running container - https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi02/tech/full_papers... - explains where Kubernetes got the term from.

I'd argue that FreeBSD Jails / Solaris Zones (Solaris Zone/ZFS inspired my original work) really aren't any more secure than containers on linux, as they all suffer from the same fundamental problem of the entire kernel being part of one's "tcb", so any security advantage they have is simply due lack of bugs, not simply a better design.
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How much can you really get with $10 on Uber Eats? Would I have to put in my own money for it to be worth it?
Actually, close, it seems.-

Their TOS go as far as a refund (!).-

PS. Also, they seem to have a penchant for Uber Eats gift cards. Which, then turn out to have been canceled.-
Printf debugging is actually a very primitive case of predicate reasoning. Hopefully in the not too distant future instead of using prints to check our assumptions about the code we will instead statically check them as SMT solvable assertions.
What did he do worse in 2023? Recall that Calhoun was brought in only after the MAX crashes, ostensibly to clean up after multiple decades of short-termist mismanagement by his predecessors.
I mean how am I supposed to give it a 10k-50k page TRM? I would much rather read the TRM and understand things myself than have it spit out a questionable answer that I still have to double-check to make sure it hasn't hallucinated.
Unfortunately, the table with the actual data is not functional here and it's one of the more interesting parts of the article.
Very cool, and very relevant to my life -- I am currently writing a meta-analysis and finishing my literature search.

I gave it a version of my question, it asked me reasonable follow-ups, and we refined the search to:

> I want to find randomized controlled trials published by December 2023, investigating interventions to reduce consumption of meat and animal products with control groups receiving no treatment, measuring direct consumption (self-reported outcomes are acceptable), with at least 25 subjects in treatment and control groups (or at least 10 clusters for cluster-assigned studies), and with outcomes measured at least one day after treatment begins.

I just got the results back: https://www.undermind.ai/query_app/display_one_search/e5d964....

It certainly didn't find everything in my dataset, but:

* the first result is in the dataset.

* The second one is a study I excluded for something buried deep in the text.

* The third is in our dataset.

* The fourth is excluded for something the machine should have caught (32 subjects in total), but perhaps I needed to clarify 25 subjects in treatment and control each.

* The fifth result is a protocol for the study in result 3, so a more sophisticated search would have identified that these were related.

* The sixth study was entirely new to me, and though it didn't qualify because of the way the control group received some aspect of treatment, it's still something that my existing search processes missed, so right away I see real value.

So, overall, I am impressed, and I can easily imagine my lab paying for this. It would have to advance substantially before it was my only search method for a meta-analysis -- it seems to have missed a lot of the gray literature, particularly those studies published on animal advocacy websites -- but that's a much higher bar than I need for it to be part of my research toolkit.
Anyone can invest in public companies, how is it unattainable? I genuinely do not know what you or the article writer are referring to when you make this point.
> They've accidentally become that

There is no accident at all. The bankers decided that real estate should be the primary vehicle for new money to be created and released into circulation.

This means that the increase in total real estate monetary value will always be larger than the monetary value of total labour and trade productivity within a nation. It is a mathematical fact that won't change unless the monetary system changes.

In short: the landed gentry will always become richer while the non-landed will always become poorer, under this banking system. If you are both a real estate owner and a worker, then you should expect your main source of income to be the value increase in your real estate. If not already, then soon.

So no matter how much the people of a nation work and increase their productivity, they will always be short and increasingly indebted, because the monetary system works that way. This is why there has been a frenzied rush into real estate the past decades, because the odds are stacked against you getting ahead by working.
CO2 can be reused so it's not that expensive, and the caffeine that gets extracted is sold separately, so it's possible decaffeinated coffee could have more profit that caffeinated.

After all, we don't really make synthetic caffeine, we extract it from tea and coffee and add it to a lot of things.
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This is justifying tyranny using pie-in-the-sky thinking. God forbid someone have a little lake house their parents and grandparents built that they want to retire to while working elsewhere. Nope, The Party says you can't have that dacha, Comrade.

The proper answer is to accommodate the free choices made by others and regulate where they intersect with others, not paternalistically tell grown adults what they can and can't do.
Yea none of the interactive stuff appears to be functional :\
> the contemporary ones that used plain JavaScript are as valid now as when they were written.

True, but on the other hand, almost any JS code snippet written 20 years ago has better and more elegant alternatives today. APIs evolve all the time.
> The same way when does anything end? When you reach the level that is what you can feasibly resemble as "the end". So in this case, drug-free.

You seem to be unaware that you're cyclically defining "the end" to be "when it's over".

War generally ends when the other side capitulates, or when both sides run out of resources and come to a peace agreement. In war on drugs, there's no "other side", there's just an invisible black market that you can get more and more visible by introducing more and more survaillence.
Yet the facts at hand are the opposite of what you say. Reliable formalizer was the more difficult problem than solving formalized IMO problems, because they have not produced one.
I mean, Vagrant was basically docker before docker. People used it. But it turns out the overhead over booting a full VM + kernel adds latency which is undesirable for development workloads. The techniques used by firecracker could be used, but I suspect the overhead of allocating a namespace and loading a process will always be less than even restoring from a frozen VM, so I wouldn't hold my breath on it swinging back in VM's direction for developer workloads ever.
There are probably vacant homes all around places like the Rust belt — as a nation we have probably sufficient housing for at least group homes. We need national funding, to get people housed and rehabilitated. Jobs are a nice idea, but having many relatives on disability, when your life has gone that far off course it just may not be feasible — but everyone benefits from them not living on the streets.
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Claims that Homo Naledi buried dead could alter understanding of human evolution
Solves it in the same sense that it's a giant lockfile. It doesn't solve the other half where updates can horribly break your system and you run into transitive version clashes.
I read the book then sought out criticisms including some of the ones you linked. Did you read the book? I was actually surprised the criticisms were so weak and/or hadn't read the book. I finished thinking "wow cool ideas, but not sure which parts are fact or ideology" and then the criticisms from economists made it clear they're the ones peddling fairy tales
Precisely. For Macs Apple made a Pro Workflows team that looked at a bunch of specific tasks done by photographers, videographers, programmers etc and worked to make macs, ipad and iphones better for those specific things.

They need a team like that for Maps. Run someone through "I want to go to a bar tonight" on Google Maps, have them try it on Apple Maps, spec out what is needed to actually make it work, and repeat for a couple dozen use cases.

They really have been able to do this for a few areas within maps. If they broaden this out they'll be a serious contender for Google Maps. They already have them beat on privacy, speed, ios integration etc
He seems to really be eyeing 2028, the current race is/was too contentious for him (Newsom) to want to be in the thick of it... just my take.
> "Oh no, efficiency will be down and the execs' stock options might not be worth quite as much."

Translation: employees have to work with someone who is not pulling their weight (always unpleasant) and their own stock based compensation might not be worth quite as much (hurting the income of individual programmers) and the manager has to deal with the hassle of a termination process. So forgive me for having exactly zero sympathy with candidates trying to use AI slop to game the system.
But a random attachment would be much less safe than a random url!
> This is obviously not the case for a majority of companies and anecdotes don't help.

That isn't obvious at all. The US has the one of the highest pay gaps of any developed nation. Our largest companies with the richest executives have employees on food stamps. I'm not being cynical, I'm talking about reality, and I'm not going to shut up about it just so you can maintain your comfortable naivete on this issue.

> Everyone is for the highest pay possible until they run their own company and have to provide payroll.

If you can't pay your workers a living wage your business has failed in the only way I care about.
How quickly is quickly?

I literally yesterday bought my first bag of decaf and mixed them with my regular beans. I need to sleep more, and reducing caffeine intake is the low hanging fruit.

Decades of habits around buying and using normal beans are about to be replaced, and this comment is already helpful.
Did you read the book? what were your personal thoughts, more interested in that then random political creatures
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It helps that most bank accounts come with overdraft agreements and the bank can come after you for repayment with the full force of credit law behind them
Mine neither and they use a 6 numbers pincode!
This is ridiculous, in comparison my home wifi password is 60+ random chars long.
I'll put it another way - behavior like this is extremely rare in my experience. I'm just trying to explain if one encounters it why it's likely happening.
> To speak generally, that translation part is much easier than the proof part.

To you or me, sure. But I think the proof that it isn't for this AI system is that they didn't do it. Asking a modern LLM to "translate" something is a pretty solved problem, after all. That argues strongly that what was happening here is not a "translation" but something else, like a semantic distillation.

If you ask a AI (or person) to prove the halting problem, they can't. If you "translate" the question into a specific example that does halt, they can run it and find out.

I'm suspicious, basically.
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Families are also often separated in shelters. For example a mother might be told that she and her daughter can stay, but her sons must go somewhere else to a 'men's shelter'. Parents are naturally going to want to stay with their kids.
The shelters around me are Christian and refuse to house queer people. They also split up families and won't take people with pets. In effect, these are fake shelter beds being operated tax free and enriching the operators with tax money despite not following civil rights law.
It is not but i know two people who are named that. The jokes get old and it’s even worse when you have the stupid devices go off all the time when people use their names. One of them just switched to using their middle name because they got so sick of it.
I am not familiar with TypeScript. Is there something that you can achieve with union types that you can’t with sum types or type classes in Haskell?
The Illicit Flow of Technology to Russia Goes ThroughThis Hong Kong Address
People keeps forgetting that pretty much everything is C-based and only a few language ecosystems have abstracted it away enough. And even then, if you want to program in slightly esoteric environment, you have to confront that fact. Just understanding how C/C++ projects are used (libraries, header file, linking,...) can get you really far if you have to stray from the happy path.
Right. I'd like to hear your experience with running OpenZFS on nixOS. E.g. how long have you tried it and your update cadence and robustness etc.

I'm in my quest to find the "best supported" way to run ZFS on Linux and I've tried Ubuntu, Arch, RHEL, OpenSUSE. (I also tried FreeNAS (i.e. FreeBSD) in the past.)

Ubuntu has knowingly made a version of OpenZFS with (with their own patch causing) data corruption bug in the stable release. So since then I lost trust in them.

Arch Linux never officially supports it, and Arch's rolling release model with OpenZFS as kernel modules are not a good match for UX.

RHEL with kABI tracking kmod maintained by upstream seems to be a great, robust support combination, but later I found out that the kABI is not fully covered so it working relies on a bit of luck. AFAIK, it is still not completely resolved.

OpenSUSE with the "filesystem" project seems to be a semi-official support of seamless integration of OpenZFS with OpenSUSE. So far so good but I'm still evaluating.

In principle, nix and nixOS should be quite robust from its design (practically reproducible build). But I am not trusting nix that much yet and prefer something more battle tested. Coincidentally, I like the documentation of all the previous OSes I mentioned above (where Ubuntu falls a bit shorter among the crowd.) And from my limited experience, nix and friends are quite poorly documented.
https://archive.ph/2024.07.25-080545/https://www.nytimes.com...
Your scenario is an example of mismanagement; you were already in college, so those funds should have been moved to less-risky investments (bonds, money-market, or even a savings account).

For retirement, Fidelity and Vanguard offer "Target-date retirement" funds, which automatically rebalance to reduce risk as you age. This is a misnomer, though, as you could easily select one of those funds for college savings or whatnot.
> In the truck he tells me: "No one is fighting war this way - they are learning from us. This will be the future war."

Must feel horrible to be a laboratory for richer countries newest war tech.

Also, there's an incentive for richer powers outside of the conflict to extend the conflict, to allow for more "research". Unclear if this is actually the case, but it is present.
This is interesting. I'm wondering what compelled the author to use the division magic method for arguments instead of the more intuitive and commonly used approach to passing parameters.
I think they'd suggest something like: "single family homes cannot be rented, only bought or sold to individuals or families which must live there some minimum percentage of the time."

If zoning codes can make it effectively impossible to build anything but single family homes, we clearly have a legal framework for distinguishing single-family from multi-occupancy apartment buildings. Thus, apply this requirement to single-family homes (or at least homes in single-family zoned areas).

There are a lot of unintended consequences and edge cases to this though, clearly. For example, I live in a building that is "technically" an apartment building right in the middle of nothing but single family homes. You couldn't build an apartment building like this here, now. This is because it was originally a single family home but was converted into a duplex ~100 years ago (2 different electrical services) and has remained a duplex legally ever since. I purchased the land and home jointly with a family member so that each of our families could live in one half of the duplex, which is how we currently live. A home like ours could end up being classified in very different ways depending on the specifics of a law like we're discussing.

Regardless, I still want my home price to crater if it means everyone else I know can buy a home. I hope home prices go down massively and the residential speculative bubble in this country dies a violent death. The only reason we even bought this house was because buying a home cost so much money that we had to buy half a home to make it a possibility. Even if I'm upside down on this house, I'd still rather be stuck paying off the mortgage or going bankrupt than hold everyone else financially hostage. Housing is too important.
A good brief overview here from Tim Gowers (a Fields Medallist, who participated in the effort), explaining and contextualizing some of the main caveats: https://x.com/wtgowers/status/1816509803407040909
Although it isn't automatic, doesn't the Postgres CLUSTER command reorder the rows on disk? Or am I misunderstanding something?
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> countries are only for the people born to them

Who are countries for, if not the people, then? The "international community"? America, as the global hegemon[0]?

> easy way to deflect blame for your country's problems onto an already marginalized minority.

Ultimately, the blame for allowing minorities into a country is on the people of the country for letting it happen.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4q4tm7/every_country...
Robot dog trained to jam wireless devices during police raids
Can someone summarize this for us? even with the archive link I can't see the data
The way I've heard it is the people are nice, but the government is racist and reactionary as all get out. Apparently their electoral system has this weird setup that entrenches conservative old dudes who fight against change tooth and nail.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...

The triangular visualizations are kinda nifty.
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The Fake News police should shut down this sort of messaging
Israel tried to frustrate US lawsuit over Pegasus spyware, leak suggests
>It's the fact that you hand wave away Text rendering as "just showing text" while claiming you've made your own.

I didn't wave away "text rendering" at all. TextView as nothing to do with text rendering. Have you tried reading the code? Also, even if it did, that would not make it any better. Your claim that TextView is good code because it implements everything from text layout and rendering to text editing is actually much much worse that it simply doing what it really does, which you would know if you would just read and understand the code. Why you have not done so by now is puzzling. Think of it this way: if you were looking at the source code of a text editor, would you expect the whole program to consist of just two classes? That is always going to be bad code.

>Then claim that platform code is terrible because it...uses flags to determine what platform it's on and use the appropriate commands...

Windows has backward compatibility going multiple decades. It even used to ship with a DOS emulator to ensure you can run programs from 30 years ago on it. Linux too has never broken ABI compatibility (although the same cannot be said for user space). Yet you seem to think it is fine for Android to break its API every update. Have you developed for any other systems? I get the feeling that all you know is Android and its awful SDK so you feel you have to defend it.

>Yeah, when talking about components A-Z and the structure around them you don't typically need to point out that X will be included, but here we are.

No. There were two points I made in the post you responded to. One was a very specific point about TextView where I gave my arguments as why it is bad code and in which I pointed out that you never even read the code we were talking about. The other was a side point about deprecating APIs in Android. You decided to ignore the entire main points of my post and only respond to the side point.
Okay, but who has more domain knowledge when to deploy? A "security expert" that created the "security product" that operates with root privileges and full telemetry, or IT staff member that looked at said "security expert" value proposition and didn't have issue with it.

Honestly, this reads as a suggestion that even more blame ought to be shifted to the customer.
So if you acknowledge that pathological behaviors exist, what's the problem with regulating against those pathological behaviors? Given you seem to think most companies are small and well-behaved, it won't affect those companies.
Make a general point, get a general answer.

If the criteria for bug is "not intended", and that's solely judged by the company, then broken auth et al. suddenly become part of their product design.

If it quacks like a bug, it's a bug.
Neat! I love that H7 chip and its gargantuan inatruction manual... ...and you didn't even mention its 2nd core :)
I agree, I think those Lego sets are a great way to go
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So if they work less hours than others it's because they prioritize happiness (grandparent's post), and if they work more hours than others it's alsmo because they prioritize happiness (your post)?