skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His main point is that defunding the police without an alternative that has been proven to reduce crime does the opposite. It increases crime over time. What he outlines is true. I hear a lot about cutting the police but little to nothing about what will replace it as a proven way to reduce crime.

Also, all budgets need to increase just to keep up with inflation. So just because a budget is increased or it stays the same does not imply that it has not been cut. An increase of $39 mil. can only be properly evaluated if we know the size of the original budget and inflation.
DeepMind coming for DFT like they did for protein folding…
No, most of what you said is wrong. The history of ivermectin:

Merck began marketing ivermectin as a veterinary antiparasitic in 1981.[7] By 1986, ivermectin was registered for use in 46 countries and was administered massively to cattle, sheep and other animals.[82] By the late 1980s, ivermectin was the bestselling veterinary medicine in the world.[7] Following its blockbuster success as a veterinary antiparasitic, another Merck scientist, Mohamed Aziz, collaborated with the World Health Organization to test the safety and efficacy of ivermectin against onchocerciasis in humans.

Ivermectin is an animal drug that was then used in humans for severe cases of parasitic infestation (i.e., lice, scabies, etc.). It is absolutely not a drug intended for normal human use.
While in theory you might be correct, do we have any evidence that a human has ever contracted a prion disease from eating a wild animal? I eat wild game, and I'm concerned about CWD, but I don't think there is much cause for alarm yet.
Curtailed renewables might make this economical in the short term, but also provides the same benefit for competitive storage technologies (e.g. LiFePO4 batteries). You'd have to compare the LCOE for each over the lifetime of the installation, and I don't think thermal would stack up well.
>It's implausible that GTP-3 wrote that because it knew the actual amount of climbing involve in an Everest ascent and tosses it without comment in a way that would look wrong to most people who read it.

It sounds like you're suggesting that if it could get the number right, it would probably also be able to model people well enough to understand they would consider it a mistake.

I'm not highly confident of its ability to do the former, but it has zero information on what sort of person is interacting with it, correct? I don't see how it can possibly know.

Whereas, it must have the fact embedded in it.
That actually applies to any society or culture people live in.
> but my recollection of the original grievance was that there was a (funded?) Palantir employee on the Rust team at the same time that they decided to put out a message in support of racial justice. The former certainly doesn't help the message of the latter

That's a highly partisan opinion.
Did you read this? What is it evidence of?
What could go wrong? Nobody would ever make a mistake like that twice!

Right?
Out of interest I did a little test this afternoon.

Got a 128GB SanDisk USB flash drive. Used diskpart to clean the disk then created a single NTFS GPT partition. Extracted the current Windows 11 ISO they offer for download onto the drive using 7-Zip.

Tried to boot on a Surface Studio Laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon from 2019 and an Alienware M15 from this year. Failed on all three.

Just to be on safe side I used bootsect to ensure the USB is bootable but again failed to boot on all three.

I then used the MS Media Creation Tool which happily creates a FAT32 formatted USB drive. This naturally boots fine on all systems.

So while technically me saying FAT32 is needed for EFI is not correct the reality is FAT32 is what you can be [almost?] certain is supported on any system using EFI.

Not even on Microsoft's brand new flagship laptop or a brand new, high end gaming laptop from Dell appear to have NTFS support in their EFI.

I wish it were as simple as just extract the iso to an NTFS USB drive and boot.
First, thank you for moderating HackerNews, and keeping the discussions civil. I will do my best to avoid feeding flamewars in the future. I've been enjoying being a part of the community for over a decade in no small part thanks to your work in establishing and enforcing the guidelines you linked.

My goal with this comment - as at least one other commenter understood - was to introduce the concept of Marginal Propensity to Consume[1] in a simple way, and with a bit of humor.

One thing I have learned from many years of teaching and giving conference talks is that when a new concept is introduced to someone with a dry language, it will, in most likelihood, will be ignore, or immediately forgotten. This applies to college freshmen as well as tenured mathematics professors.

My goal was to get responses like[2].

Alas, in my attempt to write thought-provoking comments, I ended up writing simply provoking ones. Note taken.

I'm not writing this to disagree with you assessment of the thread, but to clarify the intent and put my account history in context.

Thank you again,
-r

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_propensity_to_consume

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29488150
Provide one of a kind pleasure to your readers. Everything else is basically cheating.
Sure, people are angry and primed to riot at a moments notice. All it takes is a short video uploaded to the Internet to set one off now. They have lost patience because they have lost trust. How did this happen? It wasn't overnight.
This relies on “scope stacks”, which are another piece that I didn’t really have a chance to discuss in either the blog post or Strange Loop talk. In brief, they allow you to “package up” context from one part of a file and “send it over” to another part of a (possibly different) file. We use that to model the (types of the) actual parameters passed into a function call or generic type instantiation, for instance. Scope stacks are essential for both of the more advanced examples I mention at the end of the post.
> But I think you’re also saying that police can’t change a local community, if it’s already filled with crime. If that’s the case and they don’t have a big impact… what’s the point?

The point is to preempt a power vacuum threatening social order, e.g. imagine if Japan didn’t have a police force.

> Plus, I’d say the “hysteria” is more about police turning gold into lead, so to speak, harming or killing people unnecessarily.

I don’t disagree, nor did I claim to. However, I’d be curious to know whether you’d prefer all police be replaced by robots and drones which perfectly upheld the law. For many, that’s an even scarier thought than imperfect, human policing.
I would presume this would be covered under warranty?
I used to use replit for this, but I much prefer my vscode setup so I’ve switched to using docker (e.g., running `haskell`). But I agree that hacking in a new language is a good use case of repl.it
Say a tank survives for XXX years before corrosion demands the entire thing needs to be scrapped. Wouldn't that still be an economically attractive option for storing surplus solar energy during the day? Or is the daily upkeep of the installation such that there are significant recurring costs that dwarf the initial capital investment?
Are those reasons not related to the number of guests? How is home safety “worse” than hotel?
When I saw the Twitter poll drama re/ Musk selling, the first thing that came to mind was Charlie Lee selling his Litecoin at the height of the 2017/2018 bull run, before it went down 90%. It also came with a PR stunt on Twitter about there being a conflict of interest, being the right thing to do, etc.

Musk's Twitter stunt had the same smell to it. How it will end remains to be seen.
They still assign a public IPv4 address to every EC2 instance by default and their IPv6 support is still a work-in-progress. So that's unlikely.
I wasn't making a rebuttal to the GP, just noting that the Russian government doesn't always go through the trouble of a show trial before conviction.

That point shouldn't be taken as me ignoring similar tactics by other world powers, I'm aware of those too. The US planned & tried some creative assassinations against Castro. Realpolitik is messy and cynical and hypocritical.
The question is learning what? If it's a back end thing, you can outsource front end. If it's about say, a game procedural generation, you can outsource art.

Personally I'd love to experiment more with AI prompts and have always been looking for someone to do the API and front end web stuff.
Help others. Connect. Become one.
This is the right way to look at the problem for nuclear.

But it doesn't help for gas turbines, coal, etc - it's even cheaper to just leave the gas/coal unburnt till needed.

And most renewables don't make heat to make steam to drive a turbine.
Worked with unions before - some are definitely better than others and some are really great at their jobs, efficient and good quality work. Some are REALLY bad - all the slow inefficient protectionist BS you hear about, they're definitely out there and it's not because they're more careful about quality.

I really don't know the ratio, but in my highly incomplete experience it was about 50/50..

This is purely conjecture, but the real problem to me SEEMS to be the union management. Unions are super useful sometimes, but like any concentration of power, they get corrupt over time.
> The new form is the epic, original, streaming TV mini-series

While there are some of those, and they might have been the height for a while, I think the new high form is the epic, original, streaming TV series, not particularly “mini” (i.e., half-/full-/multiple season series instead of smaller ones.)
>it took me less than a week to understand enough to be able to set up an IPv6 LAN.

Don't mean to brag but it took the 12 year old me less than an afternoon (armed with a CISCO book) to understand IPv4 syntax/routing/ARP/DHCP + whatever and roll it out to my 2 computers lan.

The difficulty curve jump from IPv4 to IPv6 is humongous (IPv6 + ancillaries took me 2 days to setup in my home, and that's with a decade of IT experience.)

The issue is there are just so many officially right ways to do the same thing. Even assigning 'static' addresses has 3 official methods. Yes I get why there are so many of them (flexibility!) but it's a lot of stuff to learn and put together.
Noted lol

Quick naive implementation idea:

1. Collect text of Wikipedia pages of famous poems

2. Parse the texts into a list in a format like, {prompt: [The Wikipedia summary section text for the poem], poem: [The poem itself]}

3. Map through the list to create strings, eg 'prompt: The poem Sunflowers and Daisies is about the fleeting nature of reality.\n poem: Roses are red, violets are blue, I want to pick sunflowers and daisies with you'

4. Join the list to create a bunch of examples to feed to GPT3

5. ??

6. Profit!

This API design is hereby released into the public domain.
I find it interesting that 2013, the year the CIA was allowed to secretly start spreading propaganda again, was about the same time the current state of vitriolic news media coverage (clearly meant to divide and turn people against each other) began at CNN. Also, CNN just so happens to have "ex" CIA agents like Anderson Cooper front and center at their news team (quotes around "ex" because he still works for the CIA obviously).

EDIT: Also worth noting this comment below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29498797 which also happened in 2013
I can't find a way to interpret your use of "narrative" that makes your argument work.
I think that's a question of whether you're thinking of “unavoidable” in the technical or social context. You could design a system where anyone can run their own root but would you want to operate a business in a world where your advertisements need to list which of the DNS roots you use and spend time paying to register with everything which becomes popular enough that spammers would consider registering your names? That seems even worse than the proliferation of top-level domains since there at least the name which people see is actually different than the one you advertise.
You’re right it needs context, but my point was that it needs to be analyzed far beyond what party controls the mayor’s office.

Also crime was already falling when each of them took office so I’m not sure I’d attribute the falling crime solely to their tactics or leadership.
“City leaders, after fighting for years to limit the proliferation of illegal short-term rentals, are poised to impose more stringent restrictions on the online platform.”

I am amazed that New Yorkers tolerate leaders that think they have the right to tell them what they can do with their property.
Oh, Perimetr. That was one of the Soviet Unions's better ideas.

The goal was that the Premier of the USSR was not allowed to have the authority to order a nuclear first strike. Only the Politburo could do that. This was post-Stalin, and the leadership didn't want one person to have too much power.

The USSR earlier had a dual-custody system - the military controlled the delivery systems, but the KGB controlled the warheads. They had to cooperate. Again, no single person could start a nuclear war. This is very Soviet. Padlocks that require two different keys are a popular USSR antique.

The Premier could activate Perimetr in a crisis. But that didn't do much. Only if Moscow were destroyed, for which there are sensors, and the system could not communicate with the underground bunkers of either the leadership or the General Staff, would the system activate. Several locations could stop the process.

Even if triggered by the destruction of Moscow and the silence of higher authority, Perimetr just released the codes that allowed regional commanders to use nuclear weapons at their discretion. It didn't launch an attack automatically, although some articles claim it did.

This is much more restrictive than the US system. The US president has the authority and the codes to launch a nuclear first strike. This was a very real concern in the last days of the Trump administration, enough that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Speaker of the House met to discuss what to do if attack orders were issued.
This space is near and dear to my heart, and I'm building a language around it: http://www.adama-lang.org/

I'm over-indexed on the language, but at the core is you are fundamentally building a data-base like thing with a logger.
Is per-capita crime going up as well?
Who needs RDS? You can host your own database instance. Who needs VPSes? Just run bare metal. Who needs S3? Host your own files.
Pleas change the title of the HN post to "Editorify - Increase trust by adding photo and video reviews" (if it's not too late). It's not mandatory to use this style, but it helps to understand that you are posting about this service.

I don't like that the demo is at the bottom. While I was reading the rest of the stuff I was wondering how it looks in a realistic example. I prefer the demo much earlier.

I don't understand about importing videos. Do some sites make an automated video for each client/business?
Looks cool. Thanks for mentioning it.
ARM64 VM on macOS with libvirt and QEMU
There are wide swathes of laws and benefits in our society that will never touch me personally - that doesn't invalidate them. Just because I don't need a wheelchair I don't begrudge the push for ramp accessibility - ditto for things like childcare which my parents benefited from but which I've got no intention of exercising. These benefits build a better and more equitable world and I'm fine with paying an almost inconceivably small personal expense to maintain them.

Not everything in life needs to revolve around an absolute maximization of personal gain.
Just open up the inspector on any major website like Facebook, Twitter, Github, etc. How complex is the UI you typically work with? Once you get to a certain level of complexity, it's literally not possible to not end up with the div soup.
Your license seems confusing. Could you kindly explain it?
What CA doesn't?
I can’t play multiplayer on PC anymore at all. The game desyncs at all times and it is unplayable. I submitted at ticket and received a reply that they have no solution for me at this time.
This is an excellent blogpost. thanks a lot for sharing.
Scientist bitten by mouse in Taipei lab before testing positive for Covid
I think you might be misunderstanding Carnot... The heat engine is reversible with 100% (theoretical) efficiency...
The logical next step would be turning images into smells.

People with a wikifeet entry, beware.
The repelling force of an account wall is oft underestimated.
Doesn't that negate most of the benefits of using Tailwind in the first place?
Agreed. I would bet my bottom dollar the next world war will be fought over basic resources instead of more advanced ones, (most likely water) and I absolutely guarantee that nuclear options will be on the table when potable water becomes a contested resource.
This early (and rough around the edges) design doc goes into more detail about scope stacks, and works through a couple of examples that rely on them: https://github.github.io/stack-graph-docs/
We need more Nickel than the known global reserves to make enough batteries to replace just transportation.

https://youtu.be/DU6gWZav2T8 (46 minutes into this video. Whole video is an eye opener)
Def interesting take!signed up to try it out :)
Can 500KHz bandwidth be worked out for RBTV? That could be fun to play with.
Can I stick that into ~/.ssh/config somehow so it is always a default, or should i just alias it?
I am not interested in your BS pull system. I do not beg for dollars. Very few people do what I do, and my skills are in high demand. Continuously and proactively compensate me, or I leave, and take my productivity and inventiveness to your competition. Fuck your annual salary review.
I used Emotion for a few years (CSS-in-JS). I was so in love with it that I never thought I'd change to something else. But Tailwind converted me. I can't go back either, it's too powerful.
I'll have to read the opinion, but regulations are just as much part of the law as statues. If taxpayers have to foot the bill, so be it.
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.md/ewUvw
> This is such a stupid argument, so out of the billions of android phone, it should never never happen? If you don't want hardware / software to fail never use it then. [...] Problem will always happen to some degree.

And this is an even dumber argument. Yes software can fail, but a critical piece of software like this should have as few failure modes as possible. This bug would have been preventable through proper design and testing. There is no good reason to allow any third party integrations to interfere or become involved with dialing an emergency number, and oh so many reasons to outright forbid it.

You wouldn't pass a bug in a pacemaker off as "oh, shit happens". So why would you take that stance on a bug may prevent people calling emergency services in a potential life or death situation? Are you even listening to yourself?

This is critical software and it needs to be tested. Tested properly. It's thinking like this that gives software engineering a poor reputation as a discipline and leads to incidents like the Therac-25.
Real cool! I can see where you get your leverage.
Do people talk about storing heat in houses in cold climate regions where there would be no efficiency losses? I always wondered if you could store solar panel energy in large cubes of firebricks that you could dissipate to heat your house. There seems to be some commercial systems (eg. by Steffes) but they are expensive, offer just an overnight amount of energy and seem to be usually used to smooth grid consumption. Why isn't there a version of this designed to store solar energy for longer periods in the winter when insolation is low?
rchive with full text of article: https://archive.md/4e50f
In a related video, there's a nice capture of a great moment, a 156km distance over-the-air digital amateur TV feed (at 27:40):

https://youtu.be/GqFLtLBgIo0
Worst Apache Log4j RCE Zero Day Dropped on Internet
Where rents are high supply is less than demand - as demand is reduced by people living away and by people cohabiting when they would rather not.

On the opposite situation where properties are empty, they are empty at any price, LVT won’t change the price. They currently can’t be rented out for $50 a month, so why would they be rentable with LVT

The only properties which will be flakey are those where the cost of renting it out (maintenance etc) is lower than the current asking price, but higher once you include LVT.

However as LVT will cost whether you’re renting out or not this will simply increase incentive to sell (if you can’t get enough to rent out), reducing the purchase price, and allowing people to live there.

Given that in cities where rents and land values are highest the number of empty properties is minimal, increasing the cost of owning an empty property won’t increase that number.
The only source for this is Radio Free Asia. Any other place references RFA.
I don’t know the Android UI for it, but on iOS there’s a very fast path to emergency call even when the phone is locked, and when done manually it identifies the call as being an emergency.

My opinion is that given that the phone knows you’re making an emergency call it should immediately kill all non system apps (including Builtin apps like the browser, messaging, etc being killed) to minimize chance of something like this happening, and to maximize battery life
IIRC Brave and Vivaldi stated they will keep Mv2 support. I wouldn't bet on other vendors though.
As someone else linked above, it is also very interesting that 2013, the year this happened, was the same year that the government repealed the propaganda ban, allowing the CIA to once again legally allowed to secretly spread propaganda via news media organizations https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-...
What do you mean by "harmonics"?
The 'referers' are in Consider Phlebas, a small group of humans among trillions who are able to reliably predict the future better than Minds. This would be one argument in Gurgeh's favour, but Banks later admitted how flimsy the idea was.
Thanks for proving my point, I'd perhaps rather watch the world melt than have your sneering ass running the show.

I kid, but it's a close call.
I definitely have hit a few pain-points but I share your view. JSON/YAML are too primitive (and YAML's treacherous magic behaviours are downright hazardous) but a general-purpose programming language gives a lot of room to make hard-to-understand or non-deterministic code.

I've gotten a ton of value out of Fabric (this is in no way a criticism of Jeff's great work) but I've seen multiple projects where people took at advantage of everything they could do in Python and made a deployment system which is as much of a project to maintain as the code it deployed. There are only so many teams disciplined enough to avoid that and I think the declarative approach avoids many of those pitfalls, critically dependent on providing a sufficiently rich set of abstractions.
Brave said they will keep the v2 capability in their Chromium fork "as long as it's possible" (paraphrasing, I can't find the exact tweet to quote).
"if they suspect you have weapons..." - they (bad guys) will move out into cities or jurisdictions where citizens are unable to protect themselves.

Armed citizens are not worth fooling with.
If you're at a large company, the only thing worse than dealing with processes is dealing with the chaos you have in the absence of processes with everyone running around doing their own thing. (Obviously there can be bad process as well.)
Absolute power and money corrupts. In this case looks like both. Yeah I stopped using Replit after this. Other alternatives

https://stackblitz.com/

https://glot.io/

https://codesandbox.io/