skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to realize that saying "Homeless people make cities uninviting" does not mean people are against solving the problem of homelessness.

It is unquestionably, irrefutably, unarguably true that seeing homeless people everywhere in the city is indeed uninviting.

I agree, we should fix homelessness. But saying that "Homelessness should not be criticized" is unproductive. In fact, criticizing homelessness is how we can force the governments to improve the situation.
Yeah, so half of Android market which has about half of mobile market in US.
those still don't rise to the level of having an actual human

What if they did? Do you see where the big deal is now?
What does “actively promote” mean here? The article doesn’t seem to have evidence of this. It seems more like “we found a nonzero amount of holocaust denial content”.
And best of all, the final parsers are much shorter, easier to reason about, and are more directly analogous to their PEG equivalents...

I enjoyed the author's style, which made me feel as if I were following along with him on the journey of discovery. This quote, in particular, was delightful -- it revealed a scholar willing to let go of attachment to his preferred solution in exchange for something pragmatic which was "close enough". A lesson I take to heart.
Now with remote work there's no need to be in such an environment!

My memories from each visit is the smell of urine and people who need help using bullhorns to scream their thoughts. I thought to myself this is the charm of San Francisco (circa 2008) I use to hear about in song?
You can refuse to call it 'time', but there's something that adjusts in an extremely predictable way that matches the relativity equations. And that something is what people are talking about. The measurements are very definitely correlated; they skew as predicted to high precision.

Do you have any objection to the output of the equations matching reality, or do you just object to how we interpret the equations? Because the former is physics, and the latter is philosophy.
Well, yeah, I'm aware of the fact that I'm leveraging BEAM. What I rather meant was I haven't gotten creative with using the OTP ecosystem for my project just yet.

Sorry I should have framed it better.
Actually, I've kept an ancient statically compiled Mathematica (linux) binary from 2000 and it actually still runs. I had to make some symlinks since X11 font paths have changed. That's a full GUI app with a sophisticated internal kernel.

This should be generally true of any well-compiled static binary on linux from 20 years ago.
I hate to say it, but it looks like this has been the case for a while. Look at the history of gerrymandering.

What I see is something that could potentially change the basis of trust for elections in a positive way. It won't be perfect, it won't be without its flaws. But it could significantly reduce multiple forms of fraud, and enfranchise more citizens to vote.

Again, I've always viewed blockchain as a solution in search of a problem. And this might ... might ... be a problem potentially solvable by an appropriately designed/implemented system.
Uni does not have incompetent coworkers, unreasonable, conflicting or entirely missing requirements, scaling issues, vendors trying to screw you, procurement processes trying their best to prevent you from doing anything, faulty materials, etc.

MIT students have complained, after graduation, of finding companies that worked like soap operas.
Not sure what rulesets you're referring to. I understand the spam prevention techniques (DKIM, SPF) but those are all widely accessible open standards. Could you give an example of the barriers to entry that you mentioned?
I really like the Amazon Prime Video "X ray" feature that shows the actors, bios, etc, in the current scene. It's odd to me that other services like Netflix don't have something similar.
It only supports Basic Auth, so the client is expected to support some out of band auth to get a token?

I think the new OPDS JSON spec had some notes on OAuth, not sure if that resulted in anything.
You're reading it backwards. Its to support that kind of stuff, not discourage it. Reddit is pretty toxic.
What probably makes the most sense for a business that has N offices plus remote workers who can live pretty much anywhere they want and still do their work is to have N+1 pay scales.

These would be one pay scale at each office for the workers in that office, and one pay scale for all remote workers.

The pay scales for each office would take into account the cost of living in the area of that office.

The pay scale for remote workers would not take into account the cost of living of any particular employee's location.

This is because as far as the company is concerned, "remote" is one location. All that they need to do is pay enough so that they can fill all their remote openings.

That's already how they do things within cities. Cost of living varies considerable from neighborhood to neighborhood in most big cites but do you often see companies having different pay scales on a per neighborhood basis? When I worked at a company in Santa Monica, for instance, I don't think anyone doing the same job with the same experience as me would have gotten very far saying the company needs to pay them more than me because they lived in Beverly Hills and I lived in Pasadena.
I really wish I could leave the field altogether, but the alternatives are things I hate even more or incredibly steep paycuts.
It's pretty much par for the course for blockchain bullshit. They promise the world but aren't honest about the limitations of the tech. Yeah, you get data integrity assurance within the blockchain, but that says nothing about the accuracy of that data as it's coming in.
For non-techies?

"Once they have wiped out all competition, they can start charging you."
I own an MPC60 and IMO all the magic in it is with its workflow. To get one just for the sound should disappoint. However it's a nice bonus to be able to use its shitty pre amp as a distortion fx for my other gear.
It's still got pockets of extreme beauty where you can for the most part ignore the problems, there's also a strong contingent of "lifers" who would go down with the ship if a small comet was headed to destroy the city.

Also a lot of people hanging on to their property values as their entire nest egg.
My company went remote first for all product and support roles. The people I spoke to are not only leaving the Bay Area, but the state. People are now buying property in Colorado and other states that are less expensive thank California.
Python, all the Guido employers, Zope was big during the early 2000's.

TCL designed at Sun, pushed on the Web early days with application servers like AOL Server and Revit (or something similar have forgotten the name).

Perl was introduced in UNIX since the early days and was the tool to use when sed and awk scripts got too complicated.

Ruby was made famous thanks to Rails, and gets very little use outside Rails.

Lua, used as scripting language in a couple of game engines, made famous via World of Warcraft.
San Francisco (and the general bay area) is one of the shittiest places in the US I have ever lived.

Not because there is trash everywhere, the infrastructure is crumbling, the goverment is dysfunctional, the housing mafia won't let high rises rise and provide public transportation for higher density - all these things are true, but mainly because it stays shitty in this feedback loop - more talent leads to more companies settling here which leads to more talent which leads to even more companies settling here.

This feedback loop is the only reason SF bay area is surviving. Since for decades things haven't improved, it is not surprising why people are leaving. Once the feedback loop exits, it is a downward spiral from now on.
This needs to upvoted higher. My anecdotal experience living in SF near homeless shelters for years is that there is a stark contrast in the homeless population in SF compared to other major US cities. I don’t claim to know why, but my big take away is that there isn’t a one size fits all strategy to addressing homelessness as it varies from region to region.
I recently ordered a Pixel, on the mail slip they had converted my name to uppercase, last name read "DUBé"

Also got my address screwed up on account of living at a half address.. 1/2 some street #42
LEGO ist using it for SPIKE Prime and their related upcoming 51515 robotics set. There is even an inofficial firmware for their regular Powered UP electronics enabling MicroPython.
Having discussed horizontal drilling with friends in the business, it is NOT the same as fracking. Horizontal drilling is literally what it is named for. You can use it to, for example, lay down utility piping at specific depths without requiring an expensive and invasive excavation. It doesn’t involved hydraulic fracturing, a newer technique, most of the time. This article seems to mention fracking to leverage negative sentient against fracking to support the story morally. I’m disappointed because Vice used to be so much better than this in its earlier days.
I currently use it across multiple devices:

KOreader supports it on Kindle,Kobo,Linux,Android

Foliate (great EPUB reader) supports it on Linux

On Android - MoonReader and a few other apps. Ubooquity app for eg.

On iOS- I use KyBook, and I’ve been planning to work on something that integrates this into the Files app.

The mobileread wiki has some more, but the page has some spam: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/OPDS
If SF decided to show compassion and start spending the massive amounts of money needed to help the homeless via education or mental health facilities, every other municipality in the country will start shipping people in.

This isn’t a problem any city or state can address. It’s only solvable on a federal level, and that’s only because there is a military to enforce borders.
What you were dealing with is most likely a sysadmin that grew into a role of DBA. The DBAs I know are highly qualified and are actually making operations so much more smoother. They help with strategies of effective schema migrations, know the profiler in-depth, and actually detect optimization opportunities before the devs realize it.

My guess is that you were dealing with a person who may not actually enjoy their work and is optimizing to make their work as little as possible — but of course I may be way off course here. :)
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It doesn't matter if the GPT really "understands" anything. That's like pondering whether submarines can swim.

The fact is, it is more general-purpose, and generates text that is much more coherent than what we've had before. Decade or two ago even that level of apparent comprehension was science fiction.
I'd go one step further: Humans themselves don't understand anything, we are just good at constructing logical-sounding (plausible, testable) stories about things. These are mental models, and it's the only way we can make reasonable predictions to within error tolerances of our day-to-day experience, but they are flat-out lies and stories we tell ourselves not based on a high-fidelity understanding of anything.

Rumination, deep thinking, etc is simply actor-critic learning of these mental models for story-telling.
I’m aware that there is but heavily biased towards the diversity and depth of the natural beauty of the West Coast.
Unrelated story about Russian language.

The first letter of russian alphabet is А, the last one is Я. So it's natural to try to match russian words with '[А-Яа-я]+'. But this is a recipe for disaster, this regexp doesn't match words with 'Ё' in them like "Артём".

This is due to the fact that regexp ranges work on byte values. All letters of russian language have neatly ordered byte values, except for the Ё.
We could also use a distributed moderator on centralized platforms (in the browser at least, apps are harder) but there seems to be very little interest in doing this.
I totally agree it feels like there is a rise of a new morality. The only problem is it doesn't have the pressure valve of repentance and forgiveness like previous Judeo-Christian religions, so once a sin is committed the only choice is excommunication. Joyless is exactly the right term for this sort of social fabric.
Aviation and elevators both run on software written by professioanl programmers so I'm not sure that comic makes a good point.

The problem with voting is that it's a distributed systems problem that requires coordination between not just many computers but people that cannot be controlled by code. An elevator can operate as a self-contained system without coordination with other systems. That's why it can be reliable while websites and apps cannot.
doesn't php have this exact problem with their case-insensitive (hate that btw) function/method names and turkish localization? or did they actually fix it at some point?
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Eliza was a staple in every basic book and magazine ever published in the 80s and there were always copies in the computer labs, I’m sure I entered in this by hand at some point - https://everything2.com/title/ELIZA+source+code+in+BASIC

I knew a guy who wrote an irc bot called “Petunia“ that wasn’t even as sophisticated as Eliza - it would just make random statements and every time someone sent it a message it would be added to the list of statements. It would post everything sent and received on a web site - including a mountain of nsfw images received - would take some people 15-20 minutes to decide that Petunia was fake.
Digi started using it as the user facing API for the programmable version of there xbee radio modules and those are very popular.
There's a great talk from Chick-Fil-A about running kube clusters on bare metal [0]. I'm also going to be taking up a similar problem soon-ish and I'm also looking into Container Linux/derivations for doing a lot of the bare metal, updating, and rollbacks they talk about here. If anyone here has worked on this project, or similar, it would be awesome to get in touch!

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8edDcy3oeUo
I've seen the same. The misconception is that people are leaving because the housing is too expensive and its not worth it anymore. Almost everybody I know that moved out had no problem affording housing (high earners / home owners / rent controlled). People are leaving because quality of life has fallen dramatically and the only thing keeping people in SF was their offices.

About half of the tech people I know have moved out. Of those about half have left permanently, the other half are on the fence depending on long term WFH ability / if the city is able to get the quality of life issues under control / plus a lot of complaints about taxes.

-In my 6 unit building in Nob Hill (5 of which are owner occupied). 3 units including myself have moved out permanently. 1x to Austin. 1x to Palm Springs. 1x to East Bay.
-5 of my 6 best friends in rent controlled units have moved out. Mostly to other cities in California. In 10 years living in SF I've never seen people willingly give up rent controlled units like this.
-Other friends that were looking to move to SF that have cancelled those plans. In particular employees at large companies that were impacted by layoffs (Uber).
> human alignments of sex characteristics are non-binary though bimodal.

You either produce sperm, or ova - or neither (which if caused genetically is an abnormal variant).

“Producing the wrong gamete for one’s perceived gender doesn’t construct an additional sex, nor alter the definition of sex such that there are female sperm / male ova producers - this holds even if that perception has genetic as well as psycho-environmental causes” - in my opinion.

But .. we’re philosophical / political at this point .. which is the problem.
Good time to buy real estate.
UEFI Firmware Engineer here. Always happy to see the domain get a bit more mainstream exposure. The part of this article that stuck out to me was the off-hand comment about the number of people who could raise their hand that have experience with UEFI firmware. It is an incredibly small industry with some huge players. You go to firmware conferences sponsored by Intel, ARM, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, among others and it's the same few hundred people just switching companies.
Partially luck and maybe you never solved it with a DP solution. There are problems for which DP will give an answer but it isn’t a hard requirement for you to come up with it.

I’ve received quite a few DP problems in my time interviewing.

Then again, I feel like saying I’m unusual. I’ve received a lot of very difficult problems. Almost like the people are trying to set me up for failing. ;)
Same low standards as in the US
The new spec (2.0, not implemented by any client) is made by a committee that is also building a standard DRM implementation to go alongside it. (Search for Readium).

That was when I lost all interest in the new spec.
The OECD[1] has been covering the topic of the "informal" or "shadow" economy for some time. At one point the term "System D"[2] was circulated by various media outlets[3][4][5] on the back of a 2009 OECD paper (which I haven't been able to source yet).

As mentioned in the article, the informal economy was often regarded as a liability due the difficulties of collecting tax revenues, but policymakers have started realizing that a shadow economy can forge successful entrepreneurs (even though the process is often due to brutal necessity).

[1] https://www.oecd.org/about/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_D

[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/28/the-shadow-superpower/

[4] https://freakonomics.com/2011/11/01/the-black-market-is-the-...

[5] https://www.wired.com/2011/12/mf-neuwirth-qa/
Would be nice if they took at look at the OSX build... doesn't seem to contain most of the example assets for the tutorials. Plus some kind of installer script would be even better.
According to the article, at least Herman Hauser believes that ARM will likely do poorly under nVidias control. I think the idea is that nvidia is a particularly bad owner considering arm's buisness model (for a similar reason that having Nokia as the main Symbian participant was a bad idea), rather than that the UK would exert beneficial influence. Indeed, the suggestion is that the UK government invests as part of a group rather than takes a controlling interest.
In most democratic nations everybody can volunteer to be present at counting. This is in itself a control mechanism, as it would be highly unlikely that meaningful voting fraud would be carried out under the eyes of the observers from multiple parties without anyone making a ruckus.

This is an effective mechanism which apparently convinces enough people that the votes are legitimate.

With blockchain you would have to:
- have them understand blockchain algorithms
- have them understand computers (so they understand why blockchain might be safe here)
- have them understand networking technologies
- convince them all of that (and no more/less) is on the actual machines on voting day, for every vote

Have you ever tried explaining what an URL is to your parents? Or how passwords are stored? I am positively convinced that not an insignificant amount of the electorate would just say "there was some hack" when things didn't go their way. And they don't even need to show you proof, because you won't be able to proof the opposite because they won't understand it.

Ultimately to me the benefits of a blockchain system don't really show. It is far to complicated and has too many moving parts.
Fascinating! It can also be the other way around, where an actor miraculously interpreted an unactable script well. E.g. Joaquin Phoenix delivered "It vexes me. I am vexed." in Gladiator quite well.
As a native San Franciscan, I can only say, “bye Felicia!”

With all the techbros and bankers fleeing home to connecticut or wherever it is they’re from, we can rebuild our destroyed community.

Hopefully this will spread to San Mateo County and the Santa Clara valley.

Startup brats have turned oir vibrant, freaky, hippy, radical home into a bedroom community for the most boring rich people in the world.

Covid is a godsend.
Is it hype, or controversy then? :P Latest development in Nim is reference counting is planned to replace the GC https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6549. However this is done in a non-breaking way and their isn't much criticism, except the development effort and the countless bugs that were introduced. Hopefully this will lead to better multi threading which is a shortcoming of the language, thus opening new fields.
> they deemed it was the equivalent of a public space.

Then how Twitter is allowed to moderate who posts on "the equivalent of a public space"? By banning a user Twitter blocks the user from participating in such a public space.
“nine-cylinder Nakajima radial engine, was named Kamikaze, or Divine Wind. ”

Never knew there was another meaning for Kamikaze.
This distresses me a lot. Seems like a well-done cover-up specifically for Germany. Are there other instances where Google decides to ban news locally?
Have a donut!
I know about them; that would be the simplest and safest possible solution indeed, however they are on-off switches and also have a fixed (sometimes excessive) hysteresis which couldn't be ideal for some uses.
The VST integration is called Overbridge [0] and is available for all of the modern non-Model Elektron hardware.

I understand the appeal for display options but to me besides sound, the whole point of hardware (especially drum machines) is workflow which is kind of at odds with looking up and down at a screen or using a mouse to to control things. Drum machine muscle memory is an extremely powerful force but I guess it also depends on what kind of music you're making or how many tracks you're using.

I bought an Analog Rytm on the cheap a few months ago and have yet to plug it into a computer. Previously owned a Machinedrum UW and Monomachine nearly ten years ago which definitely helped with Elektron workflow familiarity. I've always found Elektrons to be easy to dive into but some of the other features definitely take some time to learn. Worth the time investment though.

[0] https://www.elektron.se/overbridge/
If curious see also

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17901451

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12157293

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8943268

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rvirding
Still warrants a comment to be sure no one concludes the built in is good enough.
You'd have to study the GPT architecture to answer that question. For example, there's a comment upthread describing how its arithmetic capacity may be artificially low due to the way it parses math problems. I've seen another analysis, I forget where, explaining that it's fundamentally incapable of certain kinds of complex reasoning because the sequence of transformations producing the output is static and non-rewindable.

While the article's extreme skepticism is unwarranted, most experts do seem to agree that GPT can't scale to general human-level intelligence.
On further thought, whether I disagree with someone calling me a “woman” depends on what they mean by that term.

If they’re using it in the traditional definition (someone with a uterus and XX chromosomes) then I would disagree, because they are factually wrong. If they’re using it in the more modern sense to describe some abstract “gender”, I wouldn’t disagree because I don’t really know what that means. In either case, it wouldn’t offend me.
If you are looking to run a lightweight OPDS server: check out elibsrv. The indexer is written in C, which writes to a SQLite database, which is then presented using a lightweight PHP script. And as a plus, it supports OPDS search, which most other implementations don’t (such as Ubooquity).
Oh yea, I agree the natural beauty is astounding. It's the extreme left wing, near Bolshevik culture and attitude that has destroyed it for me. I say this as a lifelong democrat.