skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They may have gotten into drugs or developed a mental issue in the first 12 months that they became homeless. These people are the "out of their minds" camp dwellers we think about when we think about the homeless. The biggest risk factor for being in this group is becoming homeless in the first place,

One of the things that took me along time to realize was simply not having a safe, quiet and stable place to sleep for an extended period time would drive virtually anyone into drugs, alcohol and mental illness.
The whole series is like a tease. I like book 4 a lot too because I started reading this series to read about alien monstrosities, etc. Then the next three books turn back into a political theatre and it only gets good again in book 8 when they start looking at different alien systems. The series should have been a lot less books, but it makes sense the writers themselves have said they have the whole story in mind, up to the last sentence, and they’re just adding in pacing. I think it’d be better to have a trilogy with the first two books, the second two and then the last trilogy (no need for books 4&5 since, as I said, I’m wanting to read about an ancient alien civilization.)
Really interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing.
In the 90s I implemented a PWM motor controller in asm, for a robot with enough power to accelerate hard on soft grass, outside. Robot was rather over engineered by a team mate who previously worked on automated farm machinery. Tested the microcontroller on the breadboard with an oscilloscope, all looked well: nice PWM shapes.

For the first integrated test on the robot, I high-centered it on some bricks so the wheels would turn freely, on the bench. Didn't want to deliver too much torque with wheels up, so asked for 1% PWM duty cycle. The robot leaped into the air, tearing off its umbilicals, hit the floor spinning and generally smashing shit up, including bits of me.

Debugging revealed that the output PWM duty cycle was inverted when commanded <2%, so my 1% command was 99% power. My breadboard tests had never gone below 3%, which I guessed was the minimum to overcome stiction on soft ground. Poor robot. The chunks out of my hands were the price I paid to learn to test important corner cases.
Can you elaborate about Adobe marketing cloud a bit?
This article takes the $2,600/tent at face value (maybe bc it’s click bait?) and never digs in: •what does it cost a jurisdiction to clean streets and parks of human feces when there are no portapotties?
•what does it cost charities to run a soup kitchen when people have no means to store or cook food?
•what cost the homeless when they are robbed and victimized?

All these costs -and much more- are external to the equation as presented.
Not physically but once I did a find & replace across a folder of PHP files but didn’t specify filetype, ended up replacing a few characters in a Flash .FLA that was part of the same project, corrupting it. Had to start nearly from scratch, I would say that hurt.
I can't be the only one thinking we've passed 1984 already?
When you give $50-100, please employ them to do a task.

Ie. "Here's $50. Go and buy me some ice cream. You can have another $50 when you bring it to me".

It discourages begging and encourages an entrepreneur mentality.
Some flight controllers have two levels of PID. One on rates, and the other on attitude angles. The higher level PID's command mixes into the lower level PID's input, perhaps along side some joystick inputs depending on the configured control mode.
The budget hasn’t changed, and it’s ending at book 6 we aren’t going to get to see Laconia in all its glory on screen.
Why wouldn't "social housing" get gentrified?
That blogpost you cited says that there is a 5% vacancy rate. That's well within the normal range. So I don't see how it supports your argument.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/musne8/dispro...
Radiation also -> cancer. Should we ban windows that allow sun light into our lives??
> I would never trust any kind of technology to keep medical or legal secrets

Paper too, is in a sense, technology.
It does at book 8
If it works to motivate folks to do it, I'm fine with it.

I'm a big fan of using carrots if at all possible.
They compete strongly. Rich people pay a lot for junky apartments due to the shortage.
> Dr Schmidt became an adviser to the Pentagon in 2016, while retaining a position as executive chairman of Alphabet, Google’s parent company.

> In the following years, Google started a contract with the Pentagon, allowing it to use some of its image recognition technologies as part of a military project.

Coincidence? I think not.

Brad Smith should focus on why the US is losing the R&D war. The reason is simple. It is increasingly difficult to do business in the United States. Hiring is more expensive and risky than it is in china. The dollar is being devalued. Brad Smith is an advocate for increased regulation, which is great for a company that can afford it(his company). It's called "Regulatory Capture".
Looks cool. Please add an RSS feed to your blog, oxide. So people can keep up. The rss logo is not a link (at least on mobile) and there is no auto discovery tag (that my reader can find).

Also your site badly crashes Brave iOS browser fwiw.
See the grandparent, which rightly asserts that reddit search is bad.
Why would you need to wait a generation? More like a couple of months. People who are moving to luxury housing live somewhere now, which is less new. When they move out of there, someone else can move in, etc. and on down the line freeing up multiple housing units one by one at ultimately different prices. It adds to the total housing stock in the city immediately.

And no, “all” the luxury housing is not being bought by investors. Even in places where this is a problem it is nowhere near “all”. Investors can also just buy existing housing. Once again, what you anti-housing folks are claiming as a problem of building new housing, is a problem that is going to happen anyway and will be even worse if we don’t build new housing.
Can I pave my dgi phantom 3 with this and make it fly?
It's worth noting some context:

- Conferences and participants have increased exponentially over the last few years.

- Students in AI/ML graduate programs have similarly increased.

- Huge numbers of companies are hiring AI/ML graduates.

- What constitutes a true advance AI/ML is difficult to determine. Deep learning is fairly ad-hoc method - a tweak to an existing method that allows you exceed soto (state of the art) is the simplest way to get attention. But that's not a method and so you're many others pushing similar tweaks also.

This environment in particular seems like it would exacerbate all the ordinary pressures to cheat found in the academic environment. It has something of the quality of the last blow-out of a bubble. And the thing is that even with deep learning being real, the dynamics seem fated to push things to the point that expectation are sufficiently far past reality that the whole collapses, for a bit.
The topic is mechanisms being abused. Can the compensating mechanism you're proposing also be abused?
Is there a telestrator in your living room that will cause you to go to jail if you mutter something negative about the government?
this is to regarding identification for grishka it was about proving if the law was applicable
It's tricky because these accusations resonate because they remind us of things that really happen. (and in fact, lies can be formulated for maximum impact when truthtelling is usually more nuanced)

Because powerful people have strong lawyers, the tools that the falsely accused can use to clear their name can be used, to more effect, by the guilty.

There are no easy solutions here. The past looked calm only because people often had no recourse unless a newspaper took up their cause.
Do we actually have a "housing" shortage, though? I know that supply of stereotypical single-family, detatched homes is massively outstripped by demand in many parts of the US and that's a problem. But is there actually a shortage of "housing" - places to live - including apartments, condos, duplexes, mobile homes, etc?

This is not a rhetorical question, by the way. I'm genuinely curious as I've never been to LA or spent significant time in parts of the US where this problem is at its worse. I live in the midwest and there are plenty of places I could buy or rent here if I needed - cheap and expensive - but I'm lucky enough to have a decent place now so I can be picky about the next one.
>There is an irreconcilable conflict between AI safety and AI openness. If you create a dangerous program, and you know it's dangerous, then it would be insane to release it.

>This was widely pointed out when OpenAI was announced. They would need to pick one or the other, and they've picked safety.

It is a bit strange that it just happened to correlate with huge amounts of money for everyone involved around the same time, if it was really just straightening out their philosophy around openness. It transitioned from non-profit to for-profit with a non-profit parent or something at the same time.
Roam is too hard to use，But I really like its connection ability
Deinstitutionalization was a mistake. While the advent of psychiatric drugs in the 60s reduced the need for these massive long term care facilities, there are still (and always will be) mentally ill people who require long term care. The community mental health facilities that were to replace asylums never materialized, and now a majority of these people now spend their life on the street. Some will argue that these facilities were inhumane, but I think it's far more inhumane to just kick severely mentally ill people out on the street with no support resources.
Great Electric Airplane Race
What does a "president of Microsoft" do? Is that better than an "executive vice president"?

It seems like it means "chief legal officer".

https://news.microsoft.com/exec/brad-smith/
It just takes one UV ray hit one strand of dna and lead to cancer.
What concrete data do you have to suggest that luxury homes aren't being occupied at significantly higher rates than general housing stock?
Nothing against nixpkgs, but if the user is curious about how things are done in BSD perhaps he should try xbps before nixpkgs. It was written by a former NetBSD committer who wrote some useful programs for NetBSD's userland. I am biased perhaps but I believe it is faster than any other Linux package manager. Always looking for something faster so I am welcome to being proven wrong on that.

https://github.com/void-linux/xbps
Super confusing article.

Title aside (which is silly since AI is a toolset for solving a variety of problems), it is just so poorly written that it's not until more than halfway through it that I think I see it's main points (that present day A.I. systems are too dependenct on 'clean' data, and some nebulous discussion of how AI contributes to decision making in organizations). And the main point wrt data quality is rather silly in itself, because plenty of research is done on learning techniques that take into account adversaries or bad data. And all the discussion wrt how AI should be used to improve decision making is just super vague and makes it seem like the author has little understanding of what AI is and how it is actually used.
Hey, you're one of today's lucky ten thousand. You're in for a real treat if you like hacking — there may have lived hackers greater than Danny Hillis, but probably no more than a few dozen, perhaps none alive today. And almost none of those had access to the means to realize their potential.

The story begins:

"There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while the bells of this buried Clock play a melody. Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the Clock has never played before. The Clock’s chimes have been programmed to not repeat themselves for 10,000 years. Most times the Clock rings when a visitor has wound it, but the Clock hoards energy from a different source and occasionally it will ring itself when no one is around to hear it. It’s anyone’s guess how many beautiful songs will never be heard over the Clock’s 10 millennial lifespan.

"The Clock is real. It is now being built inside a mountain in western Texas. ..."

https://longnow.org/clock/

https://rosettaproject.org/
No, I don’t think that’s reasonable. In the spirit of “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”, I don’t think adding more legal liability serves anyone. Moreover, it serves even less people who already have few resources to redress wrongs.

It’s not like this concept of “mob ruined my life” is some new concept, it’s something victims of abuse experience or withhold their stories to avoid, and have forever.

Remember when this claim was made about a now sitting SCOTUS justice? His life had been ruined? Not at all. But at least one of his accusers was so afraid for her life that she went into hiding. Imagine how much more dangerous it would be for her if she were legally penalized for “ruining his life”, which she didn’t do, but absolutely became a part of the anti-cancel-culture script. Imagine how that could be abused by someone in such a high place of power.

People who’ve been hurt by others don’t need to be legally scrutinized for saying so. If it’s in the court of public opinion, the truth comes out. We know this because the few cases where people lie are always repeated by people motivated to penalize truth telling.

I’m afraid to name people who’ve hurt me here, people no one on HN knows, because I fear retribution. Adding the possibility that I might be tangled up in years of legal battles I can’t afford simply for saying what happened is utterly terrifying to me. And that’s coming from a place of relative privilege where I don’t expect half the danger other accusers might expect.

No. There should not be legal penalties for describing abuse without legal proof.
It seems that some tech executives, having more money than any person could spend, often seek what they see as the next level of accomplishment, which is proximity to power and decisions over life and death. That shows up as this sort of militaristic nationalism along lines that conveniently happen to align with their claimed expertise. Of course neither of the executives interviewed in this article really knows that much about "AI", so the predictions in the article are not based on any kind of evidence, so much as they are political statements designed to create and maintain the conditions for making themselves seem essential to the defense industry.
This is very cool. It would be nice if it showed how long the path is, so you could play a mini game to try and find the longest path.
Eric Carle has died
Heh, you don't even need proper robotics.

Back in 2002, I was getting a package with a brand new Pocket PC (smartphone without the phone, running Windows). And I really wanted to know when it was delivered, but the UPS guy would regularly leave packages on the porch without ringing the bell or anything.

This was before you could get delivery alerts or anything like that. But I had a spare laptop with an integrated webcam (wow!), and I'd figured out how to make it run actions on motion detection.

My plan was to point the laptop at the door, and eject the CD drive when it detected motion. The tray of the drive would push a water bottle off the table. That would land on a seesaw, which would launch a deck of cards in a hard plastic case at the door and make a very loud noise.

It's unclear why I couldn't just play a really sound on the speakers instead. Anyway, I tested the program by standing in front of the laptop and waving my hand.

It worked perfectly! The CD tray ejected, and I watched as the water bottle slowly rolled off the table. It dropped onto the seesaw...... and instantly launched a hard plastic deck at my face and got me right between the eyes.

Never again have I been in so much pain and also so excited about my code working perfectly at the exact same time.
Thank you! I tried this out on my setup, but was disappointed when it didn’t work. I’m new to evil and I’m constantly impressed with how big the ecosystem is!
The journal already had documented evidence that the legitimate paper was submitted to the journal before the plagerism was submitted to ArXiv. I don't know why they would trust an ArXiv timestamp more than their own.
there is a possible reason, the gdpr applies to EU citizens, EU residents, and people within the EU, so it is reasonable they ask you to prove you are one of these categories.
As a member of Domain Buyers Anonymous (DBA), I speak for all fellow addicts when I say, you’re evil. Nonetheless, definitely adding this to my browser bookmarks, for whenever I need a hit, just to take the edge off.
This generally doesn't happen for two primary reasons.

First cities are not closed systems. Places like LA and the Bay Area have a built up demand that exceeds housing. The new housing would have to be added at an extremely high right to keep up with that demand otherwise the city just grows rather than becomes cheaper. When a city simply grows, the cheaper units never flow down to the bottom of the market as someone else will move in who lives outside the city and was previously priced out of the mid-tier housing. We see the same type of thing when designing transportation systems in a city. Adding in a new road can actually increase traffic as it ends up encouraging more people to drive who otherwise wouldn't have.

Also the housing market is not a singular market. The type of person who would live in a 3 bedroom luxury condo is not the same type of person who would live in an SRO hotel that shares a bathroom. Most people have a small window of what housing they consider acceptable and what budget they can afford. When a city gentrifies and knocks down SRO housing and replaces it with luxury condos (something that has happened a lot in both LA and the Bay Area over the last couple decades), the available units at the bottom of the market decreases in favor of the top of the market. That doesn't result in everyone in the city just moving up one rung on the housing ladder. Competition for the affordable units is now even higher because there are less of them available.
The book is about looting as a reaction to the breakdown of the rule of law.
Alexa, remind me not to order a telestrator.
I think DJI is pretty locked down. Probably you would want to build a new drone, OpenHD uses a Raspberry Pi and ExpressLRS uses STM32 (and a few other various chips) but you can get DIY kits that are relatively easy to set up on sites like https://www.getfpv.com for example.

Also check out INAV if you want to build a more DJI-style drone, this would be the Flight Control software: https://github.com/iNavFlight/inav

Other FC software include ArduPilot for more of a groundstation approach, while Betaflight, EmuFlight, and similar FC software are what FPV race, freestyle, and cinematic pilots prefer.
Yes, the beer brewing stuff, formulae, taps, kegs, casks, and bottles stuff is annoying. I have no idea what "keg only" is supposed to mean or why I see that phrase sometimes.
Phoenix is laid out on a grid, but you can hardly call the streets "tracks".
You missed some critical details in the story.
It shows the total length in the top right corner.
I’m not an expert on the topic, so just asking: Is it possible you had a minor seizure?
This is completely baseless.
A 25 y/o moving to SF isn't going to buy an apartment period.
It is, but paper cannot be compromised in large volumes by remote actors.
I want an OS with a web based UI. I've never seen a native kit as flexible or easy to use as any modern web engine.

What's your complaint?
> They don't whitewash anything, in fact they even keep the option open to re-assess their position should further details come to light.

Did I miss something? All I can gather from the announcement PDF is that “several individuals” have been disciplined to varying degrees, the least severe being just a warning letter. No names named, no other details. Most of the announcement was just reiterating they took the investigation seriously. Kind of hard to determine from the announcement what details have and have not been considered, and whether certain individuals have been punished too lightly, no?

The announcement does mention a confidential report has been submitted for further review. Did anything concrete ever come out?

(I suppose it would at least be relatively obvious after a while which individuals are subject to a 15-year ban.)
Big Tech representative says "look over there!" (China) while his industry unleashes 1984 domestically. Ridiculous, don't fall for it.
That's what people remember about 1984, but that actually only applied if you were middle class like Winston, since they didn't control his boss nor any of the proles.

So the actual message of the book was that living in England sucks, which as far as I can tell is still true.
This sounds like a story.
If it’s in APLCore it’s still running somewhere, you can be sure
Fixed! :p :) xx
Indeed. Apparently the iPhone 12 Pro (and I’d imagine their other phones as well) is very well calibrated: https://youtu.be/n_czpXW3yKE
First found out about The Well from mailer insert in a print copy of the Whole Earth Catalog I found at the library when I was a kid. I got a membership when I was able to afford it and have maintained it off and on since. Surprised to see it on the front page of HN tonight.
I used to have a black background and the gold hyperlinks made for a better match

Thanks for the heads up, though, will choose a new link color tomorrow
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1. The licensing situation is a mess. Most people copy/paste and they don't realize what the license is (CC BY-SA).

2. Why aren't answers always sorted by the number of votes by default?

3. The "community edits" where people sometimes decrease the quality of an answer just to get points.

4. Some answers don't age well but they are perpetuated by their large vote count.
I was going to say this was the invention of the internet forum, but the last time I did Stewart Brand told me it wasn't, and I guess he'd know.
I skimmed it and disagreed with it. Generally, if you can't win an argument based on logic, and then emotional appeals, then you can fall back on jurisdiction. You can attack the other person's credibility (you have no jurisdiction), proclaim that no resolution is possible, the world is too complex (we don't have jurisdiction), or as I now realize whataboutism means this is the right jurisdiction, but nothing you said matters because we're arguing the wrong topic. So yeah, whataboutism is the argument of last resort. Ergo, the one used by people who don't have a good argument.
"By no means do not only carry out meaningful research"? Happily, I cannot share your cynicism.

There are metrics and citations being taken, of our dishonest acts. They determine the trajectories of virtually everything relevant to our lives, and can have momentous impacts on the lives of others. I cannot judge any other man or woman, but I know I would be a coward, a fool, and a fraud to diversify any kind of portfolio of mine in this life, by consciously choosing to sprinkle in some exploitation or lies.