skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's quite a lot on sites like fanfiction.net and (the newer) Archive of Our own (https://archiveofourown.org/), and RoyalRoad. I've read millions of words of web serials posted on these sites, and would happily buy a published version of them as well.

Other than that, a lot of self-published authors start by uploading their works onto the Kindle (Unlimited) platform, and then marketing via personal blogs, twitter, reddit, etc. These authors can often draw small but devoted audiences – enough to make a reasonable career out of it. Admittedly this is, as you said, an Amazon thing, rather than an independent innovation, but it still works for many.
Yes, to some extent. The rent is dictated by the market price, which could be a gain or loss for the owner.

But if every landlord's costs go up, then everyone's rent probably goes up, since the landlords are competing with each other.
Big company: Bad things will happen if you don't make regulations for this thing.

Tech-inept Congress-people: OK, what should the regulations be for this thing?
I would add Apache Guacamole[1] to Remote Access and Control section. Nice thing about Guacamole is that a web browser can be the client, so you don't need to install anything on the client side most of the time.

And it's a bit sad that BSDs don't get a mention in the OS section..

[1]: https://guacamole.apache.org
Or...

1. Download Popcorn Time.

2. Watch pirated content.
Just so people have a ready response for Schmidt's thoughtless statement:

1) I don't want potentially naked fotos or conversations of my family online. Do you?

2) Regulations and customs change over time. Something ok 10 years ago can be damning tomorrow.

3) How do you maintain privacy of medical and lawyer conversations when anything can be released without permission?

Ironically, I had the same conversation with a lawyer ("I have nothing to hide.") who had teenage daughters. It really didn't sink in until I gave him those examples.
"In 2013 the Utah Housing and Community Development Division reported that the cost of emergency room treatment and jail time averaged over $16,000 per year per homeless person, while the cost of providing a fully subsidized apartment was only $11,000."[0]

Obviously, the numbers will change with the area. The cost of an apartment in the Bay Area or LA would be much greater, for example. But the book makes a good case that it'd cost society less overall to just take care of people than to ignore rampant homelessness. I'm inclined to believe it.

Related, there's an eye-opening limited series podcast on homelessness called "According to Need" that I found very compelling.[1] The host lives in the Bay Area, so there was a lot focus [t]here. I strongly recommend checking it out to learn just how stacked the system can be against people trying to overcome homelessness. For example, did you crash on someone's couch in the last thirty days? Doesn't matter if you've got nowhere to crash tonight, you don't qualify for a bed.

[0] The End of Policing, by Alex S. Vitale first edition pg 97

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/need/
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Sure, if that’s an option. Where I live they shut down the bus route in front of my house during covid. There’s no plan to bring it back. The entire neighborhood was built around the idea of transit. Of course that’s priced in to rent and of course that didn’t go down.

The next nearest bus stop is a 15 min walk from here. Still easily doable but not as nice, especially in the dark wet months. Service is unreliable so a bus is between 5 and 60 minutes away, if it isn’t cancelled.

To get to the office I have to do a transfer downtown. That 5-45 minute ordeal involves standing in human waste (mostly urine) with a very real risk of being shot or robbed or just randomly assaulted verbally or physically.

Or I can pay a $1,000.00 premium to live near the office.

I don’t live way out in the suburbs either. I am within the city limits in a “transit first” neighborhood with great walkability. I held up my end of this deal.

The problem with making cars infeasible is that public transit is simply terrible here, and we have one of the best systems in the country.
Presumably the ripper has some form of contract with whichever entity they sourced the content from, and piracy undoubtedly violates that contract / ToS.
Interestnig. Valve doesn't honour that agreement anyway.

I bought a game a while back that turned out not to work on my system (very clearly), and Value rejected the (several) refund requests I created for it.

So it became a matter of "do I want to do a chargeback on this (and lose my entire Steam account), or not?". Decided to just put up with it, as it wasn't much money.

That being said, I rarely buy via Steam any more, and never full price.
I'd have liked see some pics(nudes)
Frustrating that we never hear about the costs of the status quo, of doing nothing and having the "solution" be that people sleep outside. Do folks think that's healthy? We pay for this in the incredible expense of highly trained (and paid!) EMT, fire and police.
Wharton?
I think it's important to note here that new technologies that have the potential for oppression can be used not only by authoritarian governments but by liberal-democratic ones as well (see: CIA programs, Snowden leaks, etc) and private companies.
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Market housing creates affordable housing by displacing demand. No matter what kind of housing you build, as long as it gets built now it will lower prices now.
This sound tempting, but again the trend is for less keys that force the use of layers. One of the main reason for me to build my own keyboard (https://imgur.com/a/By9YN2q) is this (pls, wish extra keys for major programming symbols. Amazing? YES!).
> Aaagh! Don't use "smart" TVs!

This response is the perfect example exactly what the OP was talking about.

Smart TVs are great. Click a button, see the show you want.
Only 256gb needed? Why not ramdisk?
Maybe AI Dungeon? That's the only one I could think of
Whoa that's interesting! Glad you're alright. Where was the pain?
> Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive who is now chair of the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, has warned that beating China in AI is imperative.

Ah yes, Eric "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" Schmidt. I'm sure he has my best interests at heart when he advocates for an AI arms race with China.
That's why you upload to arXiv the da you submit it - to prevent such blatant research theft.
I've heard that this could be a (lack of) tolerance issue. Potentially micro-dose it and work your way up to see if the gradual introduction helps?
Not bad going over it time to time.

https://www.amazon.com/Unfu-Yourself-Your-Head-into/dp/00628...
> Similarly, Peter Thiel once made a case that if Google ever paid a dividend it would be an admission that they are no longer a technology company and are instead a bet again innovation in search. [0]

Does that mean it makes this a bet against innovation in AI?
I hear this all the time "masks have proven to be incredibly effective"
Have they? Data didn't really bear that. And there are tons of studies that day, for the lay person, we don't know. Or they say n95 and surgical masks may be effective but cloth masks are an unknown.
Same team members.
The part that is new, or at least recently en vogue again, is how this behavior is seen as a positive. It is explicitly encouraged by current social dynamics. It is even encouraged to some extent in academic or "intellectual" circles.
This happened to a friend of mine recently. Some woman posted their conversation to an instagram story, saying all my friend wanted was sex and implying that people should stay away from him. It seemed like she thought she was doing something courageous, when in reality she's kind of a monster. The dude did nothing more than unfollow her on insta after she strongly hinted that there would be no possibility for romance after he invited her to hangout. Instead of just getting rejected for a pretty standard way to meet people, he gets shamed in front of potentially hundreds of people. So much for ostensibly sex friendly liberalism. Screenshots of DMs are hardly smoking gun evidence of anything if your audience is heavily inclined to pile on, nor does it matter because that's a shit way to communicate anyway and removes from someone any kind of recourse. I couldn't have done anything because she had a private account, but I couldn't have done anything to counter it anyway because it was just an outlet form of social media.

My point is that nobody did a bad thing until someone actually did a bad thing, and I think that's most people's gripe with 'cancellation'.
Unfortunately often very true.
Not what was said. A new building automatically makes the ten-year-old next door look shabby in comparison, and so on.

Still, we need to remove barriers that prevent middle-class housing from being built, such as parking minimums and other bureaucracy.
> The idea that any consequence of free speech is acceptable is easily countered: the consequence of you calling an insane person stupid is they kill you.

"[John] Solomon is hiding because he is a coward who enjoys belittling other people from behind a safe veil of invisibility. His is like many sites on the internet, who mock and insult while lacking any courage to own their own words. In public, these cowards would not dare to say the same things, because they know full well that someone just might come after them, knock their yapping blocks off, or in a worst case scenario, go to their house one night and kill them." --Jennifer Diane Reitz, on someone who gave her webcomic a bad review.
Not just cheap housing, but housing aids (as a student I used to get a few hundred bucks every month for my rent in France) and free health insurance
I’ve read this sentence 10x and laugh every time.

“…up to five trains that can move about a kilometer of half a mile through a loop of tunnel.”

Reads like the author is about 20 deciliters into their gallon of wine.
Most major news websites give reporters a byline, so why doesn't the BBC?
Is there any indication that his has changed? Did he apologize for his previous remarks or recant them in any way? If someone tells me they want to undermine my rights, I'm not in the habit of later giving them the benefit of the doubt because "attitudes can change".
Yea, 100% Agree. Fully supportive of all housing. I was specifically referring to SRO type housing or boarding houses which are currently illegal to build, but there is so much simple stuff to be done here anything helps.
Other states don’t have even remotely the number of homeless we do.
Hardware projects are so far from my norm, something like this is hard for me to imagine.

What kind of devices are involved in scuba tech like that?
> After decades of investment, oversight, and standards development, we are not closer to total situational awareness through a computerized brain than we were in the 1970s.

Hard to see how that could be true. In just about any field, computers today provide much better situational awareness than was possible in 1970.

The article makes the usual complaints about self driving cars:

> Despite $16 billion in investment from the heavy hitters of Silicon Valley, we are decades away from self-driving cars.

Yet cars are much more intelligent today than they were in the 1970s. And we are not decades away from self-driving cars - Waymo runs self driving cars today in very specific locations.

Wondering if this article is written by GTP-3.
While I do think it's a common desire for parents to want to move to places that are safer for their children, and there are many things that relate to this which can be different for different people / places - I do not think that that universally 'less diversity' is the goal.

It may be that in many parts of the country a move to less crime is a move to 'less diversity' - but I do not think that is the case for all cities / suburbs everywhere in America.

The above comment almost sounds like one is painting their parents as making racist choices, and that other parents are making racist decisions hiding under a guise of choosing to move for safety. I do not think many people in the US are making choices for racial issues.

Moves for better schools, less noise, less crime, more family activities, and other things are generally the priority from what I have seen.
This would be the case for 16 bit samples (which all of my files were, and most WAV files are nowadays), but for 8 bit samples, it would be correct to remove single zero bytes. Basically I just have to follow the spec more closely
There's quite a bit of irony in the number of HN commenters who are prepared to side with the OP instantly & without any apparent consideration as an innocent victim of... people online instantly & without apparent consideration siding with accusers.

His story didn't quite add up to me - no explanation, even speculative, of why several people in his life, who he thought he was friends with, might suddenly decide to attack him - so I found this interesting: https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/vcbrags-pasquale-mit...

I don't have a lot of sympathy for VCs who have access to actual capital but feel like an anonymous Twitter account making fun of them is "punching down", and it's not obvious that the non-OP people in this story are all behaving well, but we don't have to pick sides here, and it seems like there's plenty of reason to be cautious about fitting this into a narrative about online "mobs" "lynching" innocent victims.
And then accuse China of stealing their patents and business secrets
More luxery houses would lower prices for luxery housing, but not necessarily for affordable housing. I don't know how much those are competing markets
Canada’s rate of home ownership has never been higher. Data on foreign purchases puts it in the low single digits in cities like Vancouver.

It’s mostly Canadians driving up the cost of housing. I mean, how many foreigners are buying in Winnipeg where prices are way up?
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States have a unfavorable opinion of having another state's homeless population shipped to them. I'm aware that Nevada been sued several times by California cities for busing their homeless one-way to California.
$2663/mo untaxed is a decent chunk of change. But let’s assume that is the cost to temporary house someone that has no other option. My question is, why is there no standardized process in California to address someone who is unhoused?

I like to say make the solution like the Apple Store in the sense that for 99% of people, there is a possible researched path to recovery, housing, and employment.

For $32k, 64k, 96k — 3 years, can we build a process using our modern knowledge of social work, psychology, addiction, etc. to get an individual back on their feet, or at least in a holding pattern with less misery?
I wonder how many other conferences have this same collusion going on. I remember reading a similar story years ago for anthropology/sociology/pedagogy (cannot remember which)
That assumes there are market incentives to actually fill the housing that is built. What about when buildings of hundreds of luxury condos are built and they just sit empty, either owned by disinterested "investors" or unwilling to be sold for the market-directed price?

Someone who studied this in Toronto by overlaying nighttime photos to find units where the lights are literally never on: https://www.movesmartly.com/articles/condo-units-sitting-emp...
I see you've read that CityObservatory article from a few years back [0].

Unfortunately as the Tiktaalik mentioned, we have a housing shortage now. So the trickle-down economics of luxury housing won't work for at least a generation.

Also, all the actual luxury housing that ends up being built is bought by wealthy investors buying their third or fourth property. Just look at the housing market in London.

> Throughout all of American history, new housing has almost exclusively been relatively expensive housing.

Eichlers and Craftsman homes were targeted squarely at the middle class of their time. Now in the Bay Area, the price of a "middle class" home is probably skewed to something around $1,000/sqft, but I don't know if middle class wages can actually afford that.

[0] - https://cityobservatory.org/how-luxury-housing-becomes-affor...
Just a heads up for any friends of mine reading this comment, if you kill someone, I'm not gonna help cover it up. Probably even if you were justified — you'll still have to take your chances with the court system. Good luck tho!
It’s not judging a book by its cover.

It’s judging a company that designs a smartphone UX experience by their website’s UX experience.

My eyes. I hit back.
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Soo... we’re switching back to blade servers again?

The problem with this model is its no longer commodity hardware. You are kinda locked into their exosystem of specialized network and server equipment.

And it of course introduces some unique failure modes to mitigate too.

Not to say its not a cool idea, it’s just interesting to see how hardware trends oscillate between commodity and highly specialized proprietary designs.
I still think Apple Watches are a pretty neat idea.
As someone with autoimmune issues who rarely checks HN but is very interested in your work, do you have a newsletter I could sign up for or an email address I could reach out to to receive updates on your work?
How much of this comment is based on data and how much is you extrapolating from a single person you know?

This article seems to suggest that giving out access to housing is in fact effective:

https://www.vox.com/2014/5/30/5764096/homeless-shelter-housi...
I think you misunderstood the comment you're replying to. They're saying Andrew Lee is the one crapping on the channel owners by hijacking their channels.
This is the difference between "simple" and "easy", as Rich Hickey so eloquently put it. C--this part of it, at least--is easy. You can write code without having to think about the different integer types, thanks to the complex integer promotion rules. Rust and Go are simple: the semantics are clear and understandable, at the cost of requiring the programmer to think about this aspect of numeric types. As programmers, we often mistakenly think that simple decisions automatically lead to an easy interface for the user; sometimes they do, but not always.

(On balance, I personally think that not having the implicit conversions, as Rust and Go do, is generally the better decision, but I certainly acknowledge that C is easier in this regard.)
This x |> h |> g |> f syntax is Elixir (and F# perhaps? and surely other langs). In Haskell this is written

x & h & g & f

And in shell script, this is written

echo x | h | g | f

This operator is sometimes called the pipeline operator

Anyway, here is some ghci session exemplifying the usage of the & operator

$ ghci
λ import Data.Function((&))
λ a f g h x = x & h & g & f
λ b f g h x = (f . g . h) x
λ c = f g h x = f (g (h x))
λ a (+ 1) (* 2) (+ 3) 1
9
λ b (+ 1) (* 2) (+ 3) 1
9
λ c (+ 1) (* 2) (+ 3) 1
9

It's unfortunate that this is named & in Haskell and not |>. And what's worse, it's not in the prelude.
Yeah, hackernews seems much different. There are zero low effort meme posts on the first view pages. There's a variety of interesting content. The comments are thought provoking. The moderation is professional.

I notice now and then a few reddit style comments creeping in at the edges but I take my responsibility to downvote them seriously. (By reddit style comments I mean pointless joke, puns, "this", comment chain type stuff).
A picture of said cabinet, which is supposedly 4 feet wide, and all the cpu boards mounted vertically occupy a pretty wide swath of that. I think it's safe to assume it's more than 230 TTL chips.

https://rcsri.org/collection/vax-11-785/
Well, yes. Vimscript plugins will see better adoption. Lua matters for compute-heavy plugins.

> Ahh, yes, the Turing-equivalence fallacy: "technology A is theoretically capable of doing everything that B does, therefore they're equivalent".

Language design is not the full picture. init.lua is essentially a thinly-veiled init.vim with lua syntax. You will have to learn init.vim either way. It is extra work to do something in init.lua, and in using it you remove any chances of it ever working with an installation of vim (e.g. vim still has the best GUI options out there).
>“Well, that didn’t come to pass in 1984, but if we’re not careful that could come to pass in 2024.”

I refuse to participate in social media because the tech is already here, and at this rate it's only a matter of time before our government or big tech itself nefariously taps into the the massive data ocean that is being collected. It only takes a handful of seemingly innocuous data points to uniquely identify a person, and from location data alone one may infer a host of private identity markers - race, religion, political affiliation, sexual preference...especially with a bit of machine learning magic.

Combining this with the political polarization we are increasingly witnessing in the US pushes us onto the precipice of a techno-authoritarian, dystopian nightmare. Imagine how much worse the Soviet Union would have been if the government had access to the breadth and depth of personal information that is merely an access key away from our own government right now. After Snowden we know that even the NSA is vacuuming up enough a massive store of potentially dangerous data.

I don't know that there's any practical solution, as I doubt the average person will care enough until it's too late. Our current economy is built on data collection. Mitigation of this threat would effectively require reengineering of society.
Sadly, I cannot share your optimism.

As long as metrics like impact factor and citation count determine the trajectories of academic careers, plagiarism, collusion, and other forms of academic dishonesty will not go a way.

The fact of the matter is that most academics do not have time to dig into whether someone's work is intellectually dishonest. Being dishonest has a huge payoff as long as you don't cause a scandal.

Anyone who plans to stay in academia should understand that the metagame has changed over the last 50 years. Largely because human attention has not scaled with rate at which academics are exposed to and expected to assimilate new information. There is a larger payoff to exploiting the lack of attention than to earnestly carrying out some meaningful research program. At the very least, do both. By no means do only the latter.
I think the reasoning is that if you spend more money on healthcare you don’t necessarily get better outcomes, you’ll just spend more. Thus the US’ very high per person spend vs worse health outcomes. The issue isn’t that the US doesn’t spend enough, it’s that it spends on the wrong thing.

Similarly with homelessness, spending $2600/month for temporary tents isn’t improved by adding funds. Doubling the money and providing twice as much tent space won’t help homelessness as much as longer term housing that would cost less. Or changing zoning to allow more housing that would definitely cost less.

These are both important problems and need resources, but in some ways more funds are worse.