skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine if every homeless person in SF got over their drug habit or was cured of their mental illness or physical disability or what ever other issue they had that drove them to being homeless. Then they all got stable jobs that they were good at and happy with. What kind of jobs do you think they’d get?

Would they all become SWEs making $300k? Maybe they’d be lawyers, or marketing executives, or university presidents, or hospital administrators?

I doubt it.

The problem is that those people aren’t going to be able to get the kinds of jobs that would make it possible to even afford rent a place here.

And most homeless don’t have the kinds of issues I listed before. And many among the ones who do have those issue as a result of becoming homeless.

The city can throw any amount of money at trying to help the homeless, but it’s not going to make a difference if the minimum cost of living is above what they could ever earn.
>No, but they also wouldn't consent to having no option left to record their thoughts privately. Maybe the public should be polled about this tradeoff?

It is fine if this is your argument, but you don't have to wrap this argument in with the very legality of CP. You can acknowledge something is and should be a crime while also being against these type of automated dragnets to find people guilty of said crime.
Move your digital life to a system that you actually own.

Baseline, it means no cloud.
I wonder if the author have been to Disney World. Ever. Getting mosquito bites when you are high or drunk, count too right? One thing is , I went to Orlando once, and don't remember anything(including mosquito bites), and another is "Why a huge attraction park , in the middle of a swamp, in Florida, doesn't have any mosquitoes". What a joke.
It's also possible to 'hide' photos from the reel in the photos app. Many people are unaware of that feature so an attacker could hide as many photos they want in your iCloud.
They explained what they meant by it, sure, but it is also a typical example of saying something that is not true to get attention, and then backing off of it. Gets clicks and such.

A common example (also having to do with color) is "the color magenta doesn't exist." Yes it does, it is simply a non-spectral hue. "Magenta lasers don't exist" would be true, but less attention getting.
This really has been decades in the making, hasn’t it? Apple is only adding the latest piece of the puzzle. The seeds of everything you’ve described were planted years ago.

How did we get here? How did everything become so politicized and polarized? How did law enforcement become so militarized? How did we as a society become so terrified and distrustful of our neighbours?
It's not even that - My problem is that I depend on emacs for the first 50% of my workflow, not the last 50%. For example, I use key chords for every common operation - ;h ;j k; l; move between panes, xz invokes M-x, kj brings up the buffer list, z\ and z- split panes, etc. I barely go ten seconds without using one of occur, change-inner, a 500-element kill ring, consult-yank-pop, tramp, magit, etc. Emacs works so well for me not because it has crazy extensions, but because its extensibility goes so deep that you can bring the crazy extensions deep into the tightest loops in your interaction with the editor where you can gain the greatest benefits.
> Apple has over 1 billion devices. Assuming ten scans per device per day, you would reach one trillion scans in ~100 days.

People like to complain about the energy wasted mining cryptocurrencies - I wonder how this works out in terms of energy waste? How many people will be caught and arrested by this? Hundreds or thousands? Does it make economic sense for the rest of us to pay an electric tax in the name of scanning other people's phones for this? Can we claim it as a deductible against other taxes?
> How would they practically do this?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.indystar.com/amp/4354705
> Okay, I don't know the authors exact history here, but I seriously doubt that they've had anything that's even close to 10k hours of deliberate practice of programming. Why? Because programmers basically /never/ do any deliberate practice. We don't have anything that's even close to what a piano player does when they practice fingersetting, chord transition, scales, or the like. I'm not even sure what this would look like, but I suspect that it is fundamentally different. Most musical instruments have a physical or mechanical side to them that is completely disjoint from the "musical" part of it. For instance knowing how to play a cool solo a guitar (meaning knowing which notes to pick and how long to hold them for), and being able to have your left hand fingers in the right positions in the right times and your right hand picking the right strings has almost nothing to do with each other. The way it usually works (I'm an amateur player who hasn't played in years, so maybe some professionals can take over this analogy) is that you practice very slowly and ramp up quicker and quicker untill "magically" your muscle memory takes over and it all kind of just happens. The result is that you don't really pick each indivitual note anymore, you kinda just play that part (when practicing you've decomposed the whole piece into small parts), and each part is atomic to you. Starting in the middle of a part doesn't quite work.

Well, there is "learning new stuff(practices, tools, approaches) by applying it on a toy project" or "read the source code of $popular project", which I would classify as deliberate practice. But I agree, getting to 10k hours with only that is hard.

The feedback loop for noticing and weeding out behavioral errors is simply too long and even determining what led to a success/failure is too hard to be able to practice in a classic way.
> (I did wish I had more control at the wall; I only had on/off switches and would have liked to have a dimmer and a button to toggle different programs.)

For what it's worth this is possible now with their Smart Button
I would love to give all that up. But until change happens, I can't. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. I believe many would give that up if they could, especially younger people, but there's no option to give it up currently.
New L5 GPS should be able to help, at least in terms of not being thrown off by receiving reflections off of buildings (multipath). We'll see!
Zepto, the Thread won't let me respond directly to yoy, but I haven't touch led any of my comments since they first received a reply. I often touch my comments within a couple minutes of posting in order to correct typos or clarify my intentions, but don't do so without remark once they've become canonical in a thread.

Your replies to my threads are as they were written.
Show HN: Handwriting Synthesis with Machine Learning and Sciter.js [Demo]
I didn’t say those examples are exclusive. I simply said there exists non-attenuated content.
Doing your email locally on a device you control means you can do effective end to end encryption. Otherwise you end up having to trust that your webmail provider does not become interested in the content of your emails.
> Hyenas Hoarded Thousands of Human, Animal Bones in Saudi Arabian Lava Tube

I'll admit I thought, what's that one person? But it is at least 10

Parrot 13 - 25
T. rex probably ~200 bones
Human Adult - 206
Mouse - 255
Human baby - ~300
Dog - 319
Elephant - 326–351
Blue Whale - 356
Snake 300-400, 1800 python

If you ever what to see how hard knowledge-based systems are, try and do something simple like how many bones in X. It explodes into what is a bone, we don't know, what age, is the animal docked, new theory 'we found a unknown bone'
They'd likely argue to use natural keys instead. Use the data that matters to you, index it across more than one column.
Yep. In fact, depending on which classification scheme of the Indo-European languages you follow, it could be argued it's closer to Irish than it is to English (Italo-Celtic branching). But I was just agreeing that it did come from, essentially, a dialect of French.
They'd move out of SF, something they can't do now due to the availability of drugs, good weather, and sympathetic tourists with money to spare.
Hello HN — This is a desktop app that accepts typed text and synthesizes a handwritten version of it, using recurrent neural networks in real time. The network is implemented as a library (included in the Releases section), written in 100% Rust. The GUI is based on the free Sciter.JS library, which supports SVG and the fancy controls. All this is an unofficial port of https://calligrapher.ai

By clicking the download button at the top-left, the output can be saved as SVG.
Sorry for the delay. I don't get notifications. Not sure how people are so active on here with communication. Maybe you or someone could recommend a way?

Anyways:

> But what do you mean by 'across the board'?

By that I mean across all of the people driving in the US and their rate of incidence. For example, average miles driven, the amount of drivers and the rate of accidents. I think the most intriguing detail could be drawn from the rate of fatal accidents, since that's the most concerning, ignoring accidents that cause a casualty as I don't know the method for gathering that data off hand. One could glean a lot of info from that. Here's some rough numbers I gathered, and please forgive the naive approach to my data gathering to express a point:

Average miles driven/person[0]: 13,000
Average fatalities/year[1]: 37,000
Approximate number of licensed drivers[2]: 231,652,000

I don't have numbers for self-driving cars and the number of accidents, but regardless, would it perform the same with the same number of miles driven per car. Keep in mind that self-driving cars currently aren't navigating in all circumstances and will beep to make the human take control again. At least with Tesla.

[0] In 2019, there were almost 229 million licensed drivers in the United States. (Source: https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/)
[1] Over 37,000 Americans die in automobile crashes per year. More than 90 people die in accidents every day. (Source: https://www.thewanderingrv.com/car-accident-statistics/)
[2] https://hedgescompany.com/blog/2018/10/number-of-licensed-dr...
> all the skills and education will be gone which means you're restarting from zero.

Not at all. There will be books containing most human knowledge. It would be hard work for the rebooters to reacquire those skills but much, much easier than redeveloping them from scratch. Plus in many cases there will be artifacts around that can either be reused directly or as models.

> those trying to restart civilization will as well

Rebooting doesn't have to follow the same development path that we took to get here.

It would be very interesting and potentially important to try to find shorter, easier paths to modern technology. It's not obvious to me that such paths can't exist. If they do exist we can record them to guide future generations.

I'm only personally familiar with the (current) high end of technology, but for example once you get to the point where you're building microprocessors we know that you should build something simple like RISC-V which lets you skip generations of mistakes. If you actually build RISC-V then we can arrange to have a whole lot of archived software ready for you to use.
I think for things to work, we need to seriously cut down the fees for selling a house. The fees and laws are set up for someone who buys/sells once every few decades. So if you move frequently, there is no way you could be a owner without taking serious losses.
Seven Vaccinated People in Care Home Die of Colombian Covid Variant
Do you release products without testing them? That's the precautionary principle.
I have been a big Apple fan ever since my first computer. This is the first time I legitimately thought I need to start thinking about something else. It’s kind of sad.
Will the alarmist media coverage of Covid ever end? – The Post
You cant live in San Francisco then. Pack your bags and live somewhere you can afford. That may sound harsh but its reality. You're not entitled to live anywhere you want just like i cant live on billionaires row in manhattan.

edit: should have known this wouldnt be popular considering half of HN is trapped in cali absurd prices but refuse to leave. Too bad. Applies to you as well.
The incentives do not line up since condo owners who will be out before problems affect them will vote to kick the can down the road. Even if other buildings do not collapse, it is common to hear of excessive repair bills because of it being delayed until the last minute.

This happens with cities too, but the tax base is greater to spread the cost over and there is a higher likelihood of more qualified people working, rather than on individual condo boards.
You're able to enable microG on CalyxOS while disabling Google device registration and Firebase Cloud Messaging (the current push messaging service which has replaced the deprecated C2DM). The microG Services Core app behaves on CalyxOS exactly as it does on LineageOS for microG.
I think you are dismissing or not considering a major part of living in a walkable area - the cost of housing at any square footage. I know I did until quite recently.

I really want to live in a walkable city, and would be thrilled not to own a car and live in a smaller space. I'm a remote dev, and as my partner just finished graduate school and is starting their professional career I thought we'd have the perfect opportunity to live the dream and move somewhere where we could use walking/biking as our primary form of transportation.

Turns out, there's a very limited supply of walkable communities in the US and they have a significant premium. We gotta pay off graduate school loans and even with higher salaries, it would be years of additional repayments living in somewhere like Seattle or New York vs a suburb of Raleigh, NC. There are small and more out of the way walkable communities, but not really any with good job prospects. Maybe at some point in the future, but right now I honestly don't think I can afford it.
"On February 8, 2011, the NHTSA, in collaboration with NASA, released its findings into the investigation on the Toyota drive-by-wire throttle system. After a 10-month search, NASA and NHTSA scientists found no electronic defect in Toyota vehicles.

Driver error or pedal misapplication was found responsible for most of the incidents. The report ended stating, "Our conclusion is Toyota's problems were mechanical, not electrical." This included sticking accelerator pedals, and pedals caught under floor mats."
Poor thing. I hope she feels happier.
The cryptography is most likely done at a higher level than the perception comparison and is quite likely done to protect the CSAM hashes than your privacy.

My interpretation of this is that they still use some sort of a perception based matching algorithm they just encrypt the hashes and then use some “zero knowledge proof” when comparing the locally generated hashes against the list, the result of which would be just that X hashes marched but not which X.

This way there would be no way to reverse engineer the CSAM hash list or bypass the process by altering key regions of the image.
That does seem like an interesting variation in the way the bishop moves in chess board, is there a chess variant which uses this bishop movement scheme?
I think it was a joke, I actually thought it was pretty funny
Don't forget the gas stations that play video ads with audio blasting on the damn pump.
I like the part of this Tesla fan fic where the author says to, just build the tunnel the size of the car no bigger.

I guess bulldozers will be the preferred first responder vehicle then.
Fair warning for the uninitiated, Raised by Wolves gets dark. Ridley Scott directs. It's well done, but they definitely draw out raking you over the coals of human terribleness and force you contemplate some uncomfortable things. It's not a 'fun' show. I am going to keep watching.
That is incorrect.

In 2019, CO2 emissions accounted for about 80% of total U.S. anthropogenic GHG emissions (based on 100-year global warming potential). Fossil fuel combustion (burning) for energy accounted for 74% of total U.S. GHG emissions and for 92% of total U.S. anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/energy-and-the-environme...
Comments being for why or what is not really important imo, having strong feelings about this probably hurts more than it does good.
The goal is for someone else (or you) to understand what's going on at a point in the future, you include what is needed to achieve that goal. Whether that's what or why or something else doesn't really matter. Sometimes you don't know how much you have to include, but experience and asking colleagues will help you get a better idea.
Not just housing developments. Virtually all development tends to be mandated to provide large amounts of car parking.
Which is the whole point of designing cities so cars are not needed
If I find an exploit in Chrome and I send a patch to Google, it doesn't imply that single handed I can manage the security of a Chrome fork.
Could you clarify this, and give an example?
This is an intriguing idea of eval that gets limited kinds of expressions, whether from defunctionalization or for security reasons.
Show HN: Hnrss without the vanity (comments and points)
> 1. Bootstrap a smithy

I would recommend learning about what is involved in this step, before moving on to step 2.

https://acoup.blog/2020/09/18/collections-iron-how-did-they-...

This process is incredibly difficult, made moreso by the lack of easily accessible surface ore/coal. Also, keep in mind that when agricultural productivity is in the pits (Due to a lack of tooling, chemical feedstock, massive infrasturcture projects), and when you don't have the ability to make synthetic clothing (Which leads you to working with natural fibers, which is an incredibly labour-intensive process[1]), you aren't going to have the spare calories, or the hours in your day to 'just bootstrap a smithy'.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2021/03/05/collections-clothing-how-did-t...
The difference between Sweden and Romania is not between Swedish and Romanian software developers. It's between Swedish and Romanian janitors. The Swedish ones probably make 10x what the Romanian ones make. And most people in Romania are closer to the janitor salary wise, than to the software developer.
>A chaotic system is generally defined to mean on in which small changes to the inputs lead to large variations in the outputs.

A large variation, yes. A direct relationship between a small increase in input and a corresponding large increase in a specific output, no.
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Yes, though a lot of Americans don't see it that way. People I talk to think I must hate driving, because I think we should have effective options for walking, biking, and public transit.

I don't hate driving. I hate being forced to drive.
done.
thanks for the reminder!
"Stochastic terrorism" has been a popular term for a while[0], but it usually refers to the actions carried out by individuals, not government agents. Ironically, though, the word "terrorism" itself originally referred to the actions of a tyrannical government against its own citizens[1], so perhaps the definition has come full circle.

[0] https://www.dictionary.com/e/what-is-stochastic-terrorism/

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/history-of-the...
Smart homes are so stupid today
This is the biggest issue, IMO. As I understand it, with governments, particularly the US, wanting Apple to get data off an Apple device, they couldn't because forcing Apple to write software to do this would be coerced speech, which is forbidden by the US court's interpretation of 1st amendment of the US constitution. (Obviously, this doesn't address breaking into the device, which the US did in the San Bernadino shooter case, which is more akin to law enforcement breaking into a safe or house with a warrant.)

By implementing data harvesters, Apple's 1st amendment protections goes away, since the code is already written. What must be changed, by court order or what have you, is the configuration for what gets reported back. Again, IMO, it becomes much more like a "give us your files" subpoena, like Apple, Google, etc. get on a regular basis and must comply with. But IANAL.
A bug tracker is not the same as a work planner/tracker which is not the same as a ticketing system.

A good ticketing system feeds into and is used by bug trackers and work planner/trackers. It instantaneously opens tickets from a variety of sources. Every ticket has a state, which starts out as New, and eventually winds up as Resolved, Requestor Did Not Reply, or Could Not Replicate. In between, there are various states of work that translate into Ready for Work or Waiting for Response, different queues for different groups in the company (and the ability to move a ticket between queues), automatic resetting of tickets to Ready for Work whenever a response comes in from the requestor...

Then there are the necessary features: merge duplicates (and from then on, both ticket numbers are valid but indicate the same data); declare a parent (when the parent ticket reaches a final state, all children get the same final disposition); correct and document mistakes...

You'll notice that all of these things reinforce how the business thinks the requestors should be treated: as customers, as teammates, as people who would like to report a problem, ask a question, place an order, document some work... but above all else, be able to ask what is going on with their area of concern and be able to get a reasonable reply as soon as one is available.

If your ticketing system is not oriented to perform that basic task as a primary activity, it's terrible and I hope you can replace it with one that does without too much pain.
Remember that it only scans against a known database of already found content, and does not try to find new content.