skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on my ten years in the TL, and my roaming all over the district at all hours of the day and night, "checkpoints" is almost certainly the wrong word for what lettergram is describing.

Let me translate what lettergram mentions:

> ...whole city blocks that were barricaded...

The sidewalks on some blocks in the TL were occupied with tents, chairs containing people, people sitting on the sidewalks, the occasional cluster of "street markets" (aka: combination flea market and stolen-goods-market), and -sometimes- people grilling with charcoal grills.

> ...the gangs ran checkpoints.

This one requires a bit of explanation:

In the heart of the TL, some corners have drug and/or sex salesmen advertising their wares to passersby. Some streets will have clumps of salesmen, and some corners and section of sidewalk will be crowded, simply because a whole lot of folks in the neighborhood socialize outside... so they're hanging out on the sidewalks. (Why not hang out in parks? Because the cops will push them back into the TL so that they don't make tourists, techies, and other such milquetoast folks uncomfortable.)

Never, _ever_ have I run into anything remotely like a "checkpoint". Crowded sidewalks? Sure! Folks doing more than hawking wares at me as I pass by, unimpeded by anything other than folks that are on the sidewalk minding their own damn business? No way.

The crowds and dealers certainly can be intimidating (and were definitely so for me for my first few months in the neighborhood)... but once you figure out that they don't behave like they're portrayed in the movies... that they're disinterested in starting shit and are just out there hanging out and running a business, you treat them like any other salesman hawking his wares.

> we've ceded the Tenderloin to being a known unsafe part of the city

That's its reputation, sure. It is the site of the city's open-air drug and sex markets.

Based on my time in the neighborhood, I've come to the conclusion that the City acknowledges that these sorts of things _will_ be sold, and that it's better to have an arrangement with the sellers and other "market participants" that ensures that everyone works together to prevent the violence that can often happen when such markets are pushed deep underground.

Because these are open-air markets, if the City wished to, they could drive by every day, rolling up dealers, pimps, prostitutes, and customers. I see the patrol cars rolling by on a regular basis, and _everyone_ who has been in the area for more than a few weeks can spot the folks that would be rolled up. They don't... and -as far as I've seen- have no intention of doing so.
Richest also means per capita. Tons of people with a bit of money are not as rich as fewer people with lots of money.
>people with nothing in their lives...[are]...the ones “fraying apart society”

You misread. The ones who are letting society come apart are all of us who let ourselves be apathetic enough to be deceived by people who think a total lack of morality is the way to run society.

To the rest of your response, my post could be generalized to any social level. No need to whatabout wage gaps and inflation. Everything I said applies there too: lack of morality and lack of deterring punishment.
Is this like digital coupons?
I would take a 5-hour train from NYC to Chicago over flying, because of the extra comfort and because getting to/from the airport on either end is a hassle.

However, modern high-speed rail lines are capable of 350 km/h top speeds, and there are lines that average 300 km/h, with stops included (e.g., Beijing-Nanjing).
Deployment is easy.

Just go to https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted and pick some apps you like.

Then follow their deployment guide to deploy.

Of course, you should make some of these services public and invite people to use them. Once your services start crashing, you can learn how to optimize and scale.

Also, give it time and avoid being a "2 minute man". This whole "learn in 12 weeks" crap needs to stop. I've never seen a doctor or lawyer who wanted to become a practitioner in 3 months so why should hard stuff like devops or programming be any different?
Disclaimer: I don't have specific AI/ML expertise, but I've known the founder (Ben Goertzel) for close to 20 years now.

OpenCog never got huge amounts of money. Ben believes strongly in developing AGI (he actually coined the term). There are a few core researchers and developers that have worked with him for decades, also mission-focused. So I don't see development "fizzling out". There are also newer efforts such as SingularityNET.

Development seems alive and well, based on activity at https://groups.google.com/g/opencog, though it is mostly done by a single person these days (the author of the OP)

A general criticism about results may have some validity - When I added cross-platform capability to a part of the project back in 2016, I found an obscene amount of technical debt.

That said, I don't think your criticism is necessarily a good one to make. I'm not aware of any projects that have much in common with OpenCog or Ben's other work. The approach is very different, but again, I'm not an AI/ML expert and only understand this based on comments from others in the AGI community. My gut feeling here is that there's more to the story, or something otherwise doesn't add up, as you are attributing the project with a failure mode apparently shared by the majority of AI projects.

Can you name some examples of projects which are doing the right thing in regard to learning? I'd be genuinely interested in checking them out.

I'd also encourage posting your criticisms to the OpenCog mailing list and I'd expect someone there to address them in good faith. In any case, if you're enough of an expert to be able to make those sorts of criticisms correctly, there would certainly be value to be found in your complete argument.
>Understandable why so many people there want to abolish the state.

WTF does that mean?
On a related note, Chrome has removed its user stylesheet feature years ago. I've often asked myself why we then still need this "cascading" of style sheets. It seems to have degenerated into a feature for web developers who can't make up their minds, and pushing conflicting styles to every browser for late evaluation, negatively impacting energy consumption. Or maybe they want component-like behaviors from their third-party stuff they can then adapt and override, but at the same time the comfort of not having to do so when unnecessary? And they don't want preprocessing either; nope, it has all to be in the browser, with accessibility a fig leaf for this complexity. In other words, CSS was hijacked by web devs for their convenience, as can also be seen by the custom properties feature, the upcoming nesting feature, and so on.

Another way to say this is that we have web developers now when the original web was for web authors.
For apache I never heard about that. Instead the issue I heard about was that debian organises/manages apache quite differently, nothing about version drift.

> BSD

No thanks, I want my software to be stable too.
I definitely had Covid right before my symptoms. I’ve been burnt out but this is different somehow.
Here is an account that is taught at the college level at many schools in America:

https://tlio.org.uk/1637-pequot-massacre-%E2%80%8Bthe-real-s...
The global situation, for starters.
Even the best "real world" garbage collectors pause the program for order of magnitude a hundred milliseconds, no? I was recently reading some blog posts of the V8 JS engine team.

There is nothing to understand or not understand there, it's hard data.
The important difference is that in the article you linked, the actual act of not working/not being productive is a crime on its own.

While the parent comment describes a scenario where the person is punished for an actual crime, and they get (in addition to the default option of serving time in prison) an option to remediate it by getting housing assistance and being able to demonstrate they can hold a job.

While i can see the parallels you were trying to draw, that one crucial difference makes a fundamental difference.
I loved Visual Studio (and Visual C++ before it), but after firing it up again and seeing the same ridiculous defects 10 years later was pretty disheartening.

This is a pretty good rundown: https://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/05/visual-studio-is-it-...
Secular society has been so busy deconstructing the concept of God and religion, on the premise that it's useless if it's not provably true, to come up with an adequate replacement for the positive things God and religion provided. They seem either completely disinterested or completely incapable of the task.
Nice pun in that context
Multiplication outside of positive integers is not "repeated addition".

It took us thousands of years to properly define real numbers. High school students can live without a perfect explanation, or we can just teach limits before college since they are the fundamental concept if calculus.
Cloudflare's pricing for websockets is absurdly discouraging. Pretty soon webtransport/quic will come into its own and a $2 VPS will be able to serve 100,000's of concurrent lite upd 'websockets'

meanwhile CF is asking $200 for 10,000 barely active ws connections and deno is suggesting ws costs are not worth mentioning or measuring for now... Something's gotta give.
+1, I use somebody's Greasemonkey script to keyboard-navigate
the Gmail simple HTML view. Very handy.
I use then to automate annoying workflows for FE development. Sometimes you need to click through a series of things to get the UI into the state you need. A bookmarklet is a perfect solution.
June/July in KDE Itinerary
It's incredibly easy to learn the four guitar chords and a few plucking techniques to play some pop music, like 3 days for strumming chords and a month or two for something like Green Day's "Good Riddance."

Playing at Joni Mitchell's level with all of her alternate tunings is something that fewer than 0.01% of guitar players will ever achieve regardless of the hours invested.
Putting both under the same term is meaningless.

Reference counting and Garbage Collection have very clear difference: when the referenced objects are destroyed (not deallocated). In RC it happens when the count reaches zero. In GC it happens some time later. That difference is crucial for having or not having deterministic performance in your program.
You should read about North Korea's linux distro if you believe that they will be forced to create an open computing world.
Triple-junction solar cells with 39.5% efficiency via quantum well superlattices
Had to do many VS migrations and in the end, proper version control system hygiene has helped a lot. Moving the strict necessary code and metadata only (.sln, .csproj and so on) and letting the IDE rebuild the rest has been the easiest.
I think anything greater than two story is fine. 3-5 story buildings are the best for social density the world around.
Exactly this - once people are onboard, or at least interested, then they're ready to learn. Breaking the "it'll never work" dismissiveness is an important first step.
Separate outlets means running cable that you won't use most of the time, and having to remember which outlets go to which circuit.

A transfer switch allows you to isolate and switch between two power supplies so that your house circuits are only ever connected to one of them, and the two supplies are never in the same circuit[1]. They can be had for a few hundred depending on the load[2].

[1] this is a break-before-make switch. There exist make-before-break switches for when you need uninterrupted power supply, but they're not appropriate for this case as you'd be backfeeding into the grid which is dangerous and illegal.

[2] https://www.lowes.com/pl/Generator-transfer-switch-kits-Gene...
Serious question: Do you stop to read and think about what you are saying?

I don't have to. I was around when the "competition" consisted of companies like Lotus, Borland, Digital Research, and WordPerfect... to say nothing of IBM and Netscape.

All of which reinforce my point nicely. Microsoft succeeded because they sucked less than everybody else. Nothing more, nothing less.
Maybe it converged, just like other industries? Say, cars or planes have not fundamentally changed in decades. But would there be other designs that would make them so much better that it would be worth changing? That's not clear to me...
What evidence do you have for "People are fundamentally evil".
Personally I have found it useful to get new acquaintances to tell me their opinions on this one. A lot of the rest of their behaviour can then be inferred.
Nerds Are Trolling Tesla Owners by Wirelessly Opening Charging Ports
But via the same argument, you are also free to look at Riot Games products and say "No thanks, I'm not willing to submit".

I play some games like Valorant which use Ring 0 anti-cheat mechanisms, and to do this I have a Corsair i300 which I bought basically exclusively for FPS, flight simulators, and other games that I enjoy. I'm actually equally unhappy with corporate-provided Mobile Device Management and "Endpoint Protection" technologies being on personally-owned devices, but one clear solution is to just physically partition your devices by purpose and by what restrictions you're willing to tolerate on them. "But I can't do what I want with the hardware that I own" is a bit of a misnomer, you can, you just might not also have the right to participate in some communities (those that have 'entry requirements' which you no longer meet if you won't install their anti-cheat mechanisms).

Why tolerate Riot Games, why not "play games with a community that has accountability"? It's simple for me: in the extremely limited free time that I have for this activity, my objective is to click <PLAY> and quickly get into a game where my opponents are 'well balanced' (matched against my own abilities) and servers which are not infested with cheaters.

Without any question in my mind, cheaters utterly ruin online multiplayer games, Team Fortress 2 has been a haven of bots and cheats for several years and Valve is only recently starting to take steps to address.

I have exactly zero desire to spend time "locating communities with accountability". I want a matchmaking system provided by Riot Games which simply doesn't tolerate cheating, period. I'm willing to be in that community even with its 'entry requirements'. You may not be willing to submit to those entry requirements and that's okay. You should advocate that games support your desire to launch without anti-cheat protections, and restrict you to playing on 'Untrusted Servers' outside the first-party matchmaking community, where you will enjoy no anti-cheat protection, and you can gather freely with your own "communities with accountability".
There's no need for that. Turning off your main breaker in your panel will disconnect you from the grid and prevent backfeeding.
>> then you can pretty much get rid of them storing anything at all about you.

> But why would they want to

Well the overall premise is that if they don't need to, it will become harder to justify to your users. The second premise is that legislation can be put in place to forbid the ad hoc storage of PIIs.

Europe already has in place legislation to allow users to have read and removal access to their PIIs stored by third parties, it does not seem inconceivable that a logical next step would be to actually enforce that users have real ownership of their PIIs by forbidding providers to store them at all.

> Either a) service providers are good, and this system is pointless.

Not really. The issue with personal data is not just good/bad. There is a spectrum in between.

You can be the best intentioned provider and still get hacked. When you think about it, it actually makes no sense to trust any service provider with your data considering 99% of them are not going to be able to properly store and secure them. Why not have a system that is secure by default.

And then there's the whole gray zone of what happens if the company sells your data, exploits it internally, gets bought by another company, changes EULA, shares with her parent company, etc.

> Idk what y'all are smoking over there, but its clearly the good stuff.

Try to be more open about it and don't get dragged on by the anti crypto trend blindly.

Sure there are a bunch of ridiculous things out there, but there's also actually good ideas.
I walk <2 minutes to a grocery and home store.. I can carry my purchases from the store to my house, about as far away as a parked car. But this is ultra convenient, not all city living is that easy!
I think the interests would be much better aligned if the lawyers are required to accept the same “payment” as the consumers. Coffee and donuts? Sure, lawyers gets the equivalent of coffee and donuts as their share in the lawsuit.
> ClojureScript is just as leaky as Clojure

By leaky, I assume you are refering to the interop with the host platform. Overall, this seems like a benefit, simply for having access to many more libraries than would otherwise exist in Clojure(script).

> Clojure brings all the XML pain of Java dependencies

Do you mean pom.xml?

> better VM

The JVM seems extremely powerful with regards to performance and memory management, with 20+ years of backwards compatibility (mostly), and improvements still being made with GC and JIT.
There's a lot of literature trying to disentangle genetic and cultural background in epidemiology, especially with regard to indigenous peoples in the Americas. However, the general idea that the immune systems of indigenous Americans are somehow uniquely susceptible to disease was a popular idea in the 80s that is now regarded as unsupported by evidence. Most of the prominent advocates (like black) have walked back on it.
Anyone can fortunately only make the backfeed mistake once, as whatever generator they backfeed will no longer exist after the connection is made.
What’s the downside of energy storage?
Java's fundamental problems are well beyond reach of any syntactic sugar.
> ...I feel differently about army vets as a total population than civilian killers.

How about military combat vets who were involved in killing in unspecified circumstances in the civilian world?

> I haven't watched Rambo.

You should. It's a good movie. The later ones (and most especially the most recent one) are dumb action movies, but the original is pretty good.

> One is a group of people who will punch you for "looking at them funny". The other is every world heavyweight champion.

I would trust the first group to act less erratically than the second. It's well-documented fact that getting hit in the head as much as boxers (and pro football players) do fucks you up, and makes you violent and erratic.
Are you making the argument that we should be striving for a decrease in consumption? Because I can see no compelling argument that that should be so. In fact, we should be using way more energy. It should be green, but trying to tell people to use less is a guaranteed way for any kind of climate action to fail. Cheaper, cleaner, more abundant, is the only way we are going to move forward, people are just not going to sign up to a future we're we use less than our parents generation.
"Profit and loss"
If we could *force* all the walled gardens to have an open API again, like some of them had back in the day, that would solve soooo many issues.

Make all the data free to use for everyone, while ML techniques get even more accessible, and let people build products with that - where they also have to provide APIs for their enriched data.
Another RC advocate that misses the point about RC being a GC algorithm from CS point of view.

https://gchandbook.org/
But is the burden due to ever increasing age, or rather due to ratio of young to old?

I think I am asking that if the ratio caps out at 1:1 (or if I understood Hans Rosling, there will eventually be equal sized aged cohorts (same number of young, middle aged and old people), is that ratio sustainable? Can we actually have the 20-60 aged people support the 0-20 and 60-80 cohorts?

Sadly it seems we won't have to deal with immortality for a while yet!
This is a problem that has already been solved. Look into PWA
Russia didn't even maintain the tires on their supply trucks properly, leading to a lot of breakdowns from sun damage, and you think they have good maintenance on their tanks?.

They have undoubtably got working tanks, but I think the quality and maintenance of those tanks is what remains to be seen.
Not sure if they edited their comment (although it seems unlikely given that your comment was four hours later), but that sounds exactly like what they said they did. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but the idea that I need to upload a plaintext file to have it converted to another plaintext file so I can download it instead of just having a command to run locally seems almost surreal.
Like all of history and the cruelties of modern society in any country. Even toddlers have been shown to be selfish,racist and cruel towards other toddlers before they can even speak a word. If you can't find relevant research I would be glad to oblige tomorrow.
Escape Tutorial Purgatory
It can be both. It's not one side or the other. Elites are exploiting the problem for political points.
you don't see why? really? Please ask one of your poorer friends if they see why.
Kids today don’t understand why I call Java a posh language because of the Garbage Collector. At the time of C++, memory was scarce, and cumbersome to clean up. Well, now they don’t have to touch garbage, with posh languages, the GC does it… at the price of 2x RAM.

Then they invented NPM. And they don’t see a problem. Feels like we should reduce data centers by a factor of 7x if we removed NPM from Earth.
I’m a mathematician. Tau is bikeshedding. It’s far removed from being either interesting or useful. But it is a useful litmus test for whether a person’s options on math are worth listening to or not.
NixOS does not fit into this, but Nix the package manager could.

> Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell — they are built by functions that don’t have side-effects, and they never change after they have been built. Nix stores packages in the Nix store, usually the directory /nix/store, where each package has its own unique subdirectory such as

> /nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0kjfwrjmg1vfhh54ad73z-firefox-33.1/

> where b6gvzjyb2pg0… is a unique identifier for the package that captures all its dependencies (it’s a cryptographic hash of the package’s build dependency graph). This enables many powerful features.

https://nixos.org/guides/how-nix-works.html

Git LFS / Git Annex might be able to suit your needs, but they're essentially "just" Git with some modifications to make large files easy to work with.

One of the "powerful features" of Nix mentioned above is reproducible builds, which sounds like what you're looking for.
> The fact that there's a bunch of killers there...

Converting

"One man who went to jail for killing (or maybe merely being involved with the killing of... the article doesn't make it clear) two people during a robbery forty-two years ago and was released early after fifteen years behind bars due to demonstrated good behavior, and has -as far as _we_ know- never killed (or been involved in the killing of) anyone since."

into

"there's a bunch of killers [in the TL]"

is _definitely_ you getting your undergarments in a twist.
In my experience NeRF tends to work better for objects that photogrammetry struggles with, like transparent objects. By using marching cubes you can also export scenes as a mesh. instant-ngp (https://github.com/NVlabs/instant-ngp) has done an amazing job of making NeRF accessible, but you still need camera positions from other software such as COLMAP.