skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
most neural networks would draw even worse pictures given the same prompts
I think everyone is wrong. We still need something like facebook to keep track of people we meet, and friends. In the west, to my knowledge, facebook is still big, along with whatsapp and instagram, to keep track of friends.

Tiktok is more like youtube. It’s a content platform first. Maybe the new generation uses tiktok to keep in touch, or maybe they use something I haven’t heard of, but social networks are bigger than ever.

I think the future of social networks is still not clear though: VR? Wechat-like app? Something else?
Actually, cycling is forbidden in Venice proper.

I guess too many cyclists found themselves taking an unplanned swim in the canal.
It makes you wonder how many of them are out there.
> If the boundaries of a tolerant society are clearly defined

Our system of common law already does that. As I noted in response to another poster downthread, assault is already a crime, and shouting abuse at a particular person is assault if that person can reasonably believe that they are in danger of actual harm from the shouter. But that is not what the person who was arrested in the subject article was doing. He was not threatening, or even talking to, any particular person.

> people that might be in iminent danger, today, from groups like neo-nazis, racists or anti-lgbtq+

Whatever "imminent danger" exists is not from tweets. And conflating a tweet with the kind of "imminent danger" that actually harms people is exactly the kind of muddying of the "boundaries of a tolerant society" that makes the problem worse, not better.

> What about persecution?

The man who got arrested in the subject article was not persecuting anybody.

> Government individuals can and have abused power, but I think those are two different issues, one being the scope of government action and the second power misuse and mismanagement.

Expanding the scope of government power also expands the scope of possible misuse and mismanagement. So the two are connected.

> Isn't there a slight possibility they might have some form os substance to their claims?

Saying that you are offended by someone's tweet is one thing; of course you can and should say that. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm advocating for--combating offensive speech with more speech.

But calling the police because you are offended by someone's tweet is very different. Now you're not fighting speech with more speech; you're fighting speech with persecution. Which is exactly the sort of thing you claim to be against.

> we are not talking about isolated incidents but actions that can be taken by society as a whole.

Um, what? The tweet that got this man arrested was an isolated incident. He's not "society as a whole". He's just one person who tweeted something.

In fact, what "society as a whole" does, on your preferred model, is far more like persecution and "imminent danger" than what this man did. The guy tweets something you find offensive, so you bring down the massive power of the government on him? For a tweet? Where is your sense of proportion? Why can't you just say "that was offensive" and leave it at that, and save the massive power of the government for the cases where there is actual harm? Wasting all that power on a guy that just tweets something makes it harder to focus that power on the cases where people actually are harmed, which is where you say it needs to be used.
ChargeLab co-founder here!

Let me know if you have any questions about our vision for open EV charging infrastructure.
Has the source code been audited?
If it's just airbnb why not ban it. Hotels for tourists and homes for residents
There are definitely ideas that are not allowed here.
At least Tiktok doesn't force me to watch their stupid ads like YouTube does. I am too lazy to install adbockers on my mobile and tablet. But the force-watching of Youtube ads is one of the worst ideas in advertising.
Training billion-parameter GPTs with MosaicML
So if my wife moves to Boston to advance her career, we get taxed like crazy? By who? But if we get divorced, it's all good? Or will it be fraud for us to keep dating after the divorce?
>What you're really promoting is that unless someone is in your area to stay, you don't think they can/should build or be a part of a community

That's not what I said and I feel like you've take this personally.

You have an idealistic view of tech communities, but the reality is that most communities of western digital nomads or tech workers, like those in S-E Asia and other parts of the world, are more like gated communities or private amusement parks and less like communities in the traditional sense that benefit the local environment long term, like you usually see in smalls European cities. Even techies in the west don't create great living communities when in large numbers in the same place since what you usually get is booming housing prices, NIMBYISM, elitism, and a constant pressure to keep up with the Jonses.

I'm not gate keeping anyone, I'm just telling it like it is in reality.
People interpret nuance differently. As the audience size increases, contention about nuance interpretation increases to the point where that overwhelms the original conversation.
yes thanks, that is much more clear
Communities come in all shapes and sizes. Your definition of community is too narrow.

If you want to play "more community than thou", you're going to lose to the cohousing I spent my 20s in.
Ask HN: Is anyone using the Lenovo ThinkReality A3 glasses for coding?
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thinkrealitya3/?orgRef=https%253A%252F%252Fvr-expert.com%252F

Lenovo introduced these "enterprise focused" augmented reality glasses last year. They touted their support for up to 5 "virtual screens".

One of the primary things that keeps me tied to a desk all day (instead of being able to work pretty much anywhere that my laptop can connect to the internet) is that my external monitors provide a lot of value. I am curious to hear if anyone has tried coding (or other normal computer tasks) using them?
I hope people don’t downvote your comment.
I seriously contemplated suicide in the past multiple times, following an ocd diagnosis and a severe depression episode, and the one time I was closer to it I decided that I might as well try self medication with drugs. Better escaping reality with drugs than be dead, right?

Of course, it is a dangerous strategy and a recipe for addiction, but as you said, if you have nothing else to loose, it might be an option.

Fast forward 6 months, I don’t have any suicidal thoughts anymore, I got a job that I’m capable of keeping, and I recently started therapy since now I have a job to pay for it. I’m pretty cautious about my drug supplier, I’ve got two very close friends that monitor me to look for (physical) addiction red flags, and I try to be as safe as possible during consumption. Yes, I psychologically need drugs to function, but at least I function, and I’m not dead, and I consider that an achievement.

If anyone reading is contemplating the same solution, please do your own research and ALWAYS test your drugs.
P.s.: as a general rule, I suggest avoiding opioids.
There’s some of this on the East coast. But settlement patterns in the US reflect the era in which it was settled. No Roman roads. No Viking villages. No medieval Monasteries or Castles. No stately homes. The U.K. boomed in the Victorian era and is dominated by that kind of housing but the US did not boom until the post-war period so is dominated by car-centric housing.

I grew up in an English village that, apart from a handful of Tudor buildings, was entirely Victorian growth. I imagine that had that growth occurred in the 1950s then it would be a very different place. Indeed by the 1990s almost all the shops had closed and we were effectively a suburb of our local town.

Here in California they used to have main streets but they ripped them all out in the boom, replacing them with thoughtless concrete modernity. Then those all failed when malls were invented and if you’re lucky your city tore it out and you’ve got some fake 90s interpretation of corporate utopia as your downtown.
Even the USSR had homeless and it was both illegal and everyone was provided housing. Crappy housing but housing nonetheless.
Not only cat6 or cat7 wouldn't have worked at a length of 1000 feet (one would need repeaters, which can and did fail, see my initial post), but it wouldn't have saved much money. The bulk of the cost was in the labor to hand-dig a trench through rocky soil while avoiding multiple buried utilities. Also, cat6 and cat7 would have been slower at 1 Gbps (10 Gbps is impossible at 1000 feet with repeaters). My fiber cable has 12 strands of singlemode fiber and each can achieve 100 Gbps with the right SFP transceiver (1200 Gbps total). Of course I don't need that much bandwidth, but it's a plus to have this potential.

There is basically no reason whatsoever to stick with cat6 or cat7 at such lengths. Fiber beats copper in weight, speed, and reliability.

The whole project was worth it. This allowed me to install video intercoms at two gates, and many security cameras, which is what buyers want at such a property (it's a multi-million dollar estate, and I might want to sell it next year).

If the line were to be damaged somehow, I would need to call my contractors to splice and repair it. But I don't expect it to happen. In fact the line shouldn't need any maintenance over the next 20+ years. Heavy-duty conduit. Heavy-duty weather-proof enclosures for the patch panels. Etc. It's all the same stuff built by the same contractors who build fiber infra for ISPs.
As an owner of a vacation home and a large donor to homeless charities: this is completely divorced from the reality on the ground. It's a false dichotomy proposed as a way to block solving the problem of limited housing where it's acutely needed.

My ski house in Vermont does absolutely nothing for the homeless people in my neighborhood in New York. If you put someone in that ski house what would it do? Sure it would put a roof over their head, but there are no jobs, no soup kitchens, no homeless resources. They would need a car whereas in New York they can walk and use mass transit. The town in VT is already strapped supporting many in their community (I do charity there as well, and let me tell you it's more dire than much of the New York area).

The solution is to house them here in the New York area where they are (and in fact New York does a better than average job of this).

As for it being a misallocation, I own a $1M apartment in NYC and a $300K house in Vermont. If I just owned a $1.3M apartment in NYC my bills would be exactly the same, there would be 1 fewer "vacant house", and the homeless would still be unhoused. The real misallocation is how much I get paid as a software engineer relative to other professions of similar difficulty. I happen to spend my fun money on a ski house instead of a boat or a bunch of vacations, but there's no moral difference between a vacation home and other leisure spending. So really you are arguing that some people shouldn't have such a surplus when there are homeless people. Maybe that's true, but it's one of the most unpopular positions in American politics and if you are an ally of the homeless it's not a fruitful argument to make.
MOND needs some pretty crazy arguing to explain decoupling of gravity from baryonic matter distributions. And it also needs a varying length scale parameter to account for different galaxy types. Particle DM can explain all of these things at the same time without re-tuning the model every time.
You can sum up that last paragraph as "an amazing ignorance of history and hubris."
Yeah, that definitely stacks up against the literally thousands of doctors in the establishments I mentioned, and the dozens to hundreds of peer-reviewed papers on the subject. Hard pass.
Still better than Windows.
> But all the computer science jobs just seem so dull and pointless

There’s a difference in the work being dull and the work environment being dull. I’ve had some of the best working times of my life building simple apps with a small team.

> I enjoy web scraping a lot and have used it to solve a bunch of real world problems

Web scraping is an extremely dull topic for me, but I would readily work on it again if I needed to. Good chance I’d end up enjoying it, since no doubt there are new techniques and challenges to overcome since last time.

What I think you’re missing is how dynamic and interesting even those entry level positions can be, and how quickly you may move up in position and salary. It sounds as if you like working with people, technical writing, leadership, and coding. That’s a very robust starting point.
> Residential property rental and transactions related to residential property must be way less lucrative.

The problem is growing; why take a demand-side approach? Especially one so prone to making lawyers and government officials rich? You’re just trading like-for-like as demand grows over time.

FWIW, I’m in favor of nationalizing zoning laws as Japan has done to fix supply.
Is HN the digital equivalent of going to a bar looking for a fight?
the regular pickle module uses "cPickle" transparently. It should not be worth mentioning since Python 3.x.

The article is 8 years old, so it kind of misses this detail.
I've been thinking about diet for a lot longer than just a couple of years and in fact I have tried being a vegetarian. I also grew up in India, so I'm familiar with their diet.

You say you've been "veggie" for 10+ years without being an exercise nut, but "veggie" is unclear to me -- were you vegetarian or were you vegan?

There is obviously a massive difference between being vegetarian and being vegan because you can be a vegetarian and eat a 100% animal-based diet if you limit yourself to eggs and dairy, which I consider super-duper-nutritious animal-based foods.

I think almost anyone could eat a dozen eggs a day and thrive. Eggs are a super-food.
> There is no such thing as "to meet demand.

you’re talking about induced demand (i think that’s the term?), which is very real and makes the 4M figure in the article a bit misleading, but such demand isn’t likely to be infinite. consider an analogous endgame: i create a product which can dispense sushi for free. i give you a plate of 100 pounds of sushi, at no cost. you’re not going to eat it all, you’re not going to infinitely expand your demand to meet the available supply. supply really has met demand in this scenario.

i think a similar thing would apply to housing. even the very well-off don’t tend to purchase the maximal number of vacation homes they could afford. and i don’t think there’s any technology short of cloning that would cause a person to desire infinite residences: you can only be in on place at any given time…
We can't eat grass
In practice, it's the same as with Bitcoin: you have to get the correct, current software. It's just that the software will include a block hash from a few months back.

You might argue that Bitcoin is defined as the chain with the most hashpower, period. That would remove all subjectivity from Bitcoin, but it would mean that a 51% attacker could arbitrarily change the rules and steal people's funds. That's not how it actually works; a 51% attacker still has to follow the rules of the protocol for their blocks to be accepted by the non-mining nodes, and that means there's social consensus on the correct software to run the protocol.
So this will discourage demand for housing, which will lead to discouraging the developers to build new properties. So you will cause rise in housing prices, rent and cause housing shortage eventually.

Also, this doesn't seem to answer my question. How should expropriation be done exactly?
By the way I was under the impression that Ethereum will still have forks, and thus probabilistic finality
Instantiate a new object of the class with the JSON as arguments, is one way.

I’ve built a bunch of these systems, keeping your data separate solves a lot of future problems.
A very large percentage of people experiencing homelessness have severe issues with mental illness or substance abuse. How do you propose to deal with the damage caused to homes that will likely be common?

I'm hugely in favor of guaranteeing housing, but putting homeless people in random houses and apartments scattered across the country is unlikely to actually work. Do any other countries actually do this to solve homelessness?

We need emergency and temporary housing with heavy support for many homeless people, and then more standard housing for people once they're more stabilized.
You said "that diet and keto are associated with an increase in all-cause mortality" -- in fact, I believe the opposite to be the case. Check out The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz to learn more about nutrition science.
This. This is a full time job. Trying to get leads via LinkedIn? Twitter? Ain’t going to work - preaching to the choir. One needs to reach outside of their network. This is all about meeting people in real world and talking to them. Events, conferences, paid introductions.

Alternatively, one does contracting sourced through headhunters but that’s not really consulting.

It’s all about talking to people, building rapport, establishing trust. Often talks lead nowhere for months or years. Talk to people about their problems, suggest solutions, show your value, but don’t share how.

Next point, without people on standby, some engagements are unreachable because the client will not engage if: a) you have no perm employees, b) you are too small, as in, what if you go under 6 months down the line or some bigger client paying more comes around.

It can be rewarding but it’s a tough market to be in. Competition is huge and there’s always someone with prices lower than yours but positioned better than you at a given point in time.
The bottom 50% of income tax payer result in 3% of irs receipts. This is theater.
SmartNICs to make up 38% of network market by 2026
I feel like I’m watching you cosplay what I see 20 times a day on Reddit and why I’ve increasingly stopped browsing it.
I lived in India from 1976 - 1993. What reason do you have to doubt me???
These states are massive. The rural parts might have homes.

Meanwhile NYC is <5% which can barely manage to support people moving around within the city, never mind other people trying to move into the city.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/5/17/23108792/nyc-apartment-vac...
Okay, I read the speech.

He's not formulating the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect in that speech, he's referencing an existing idea he had some time before, and which he's not even the first person to observe.

And that idea is not about speculation per se, even though the article is. He's saying "as a way to understand why speculation is dangerous, consider this phenomenon I'll call Gell-Mann Amnesia" and then building from there. I don't think the meaning or validity of the Amnesia effect is related to that specific example about the tariffs.

I didn't need him to give more examples to understand the meaning of the observation: isn't the point that we've all experienced this when reading outsiders write about our own domains of expertise?

In general, I think the author of the original, linked article uses the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect correctly, and that the description given by Crichton in that speech more or less accords with what most people understand it to be.
This is awesome. I don't think i've bookmarked so many links in one go.
Proton (and SteamOS) are the bootstraps that will lift native Linux gaming ever higher.

Yes, I've metaphorically had my face stepped on over and over for this thought, but I do see some winds of change blowing.

Steam Deck is an inflection point.
Why would you do this to me I'm going to be in a rabbit hole trying to recreate this machine for the next two years. I've been in the hobby long enough that I only get excited about weird things like this keyboard that have historical significance.
Cool idea. I wish I could be notified when tomorrow's game is ready.
IANAP. AFAIK, Large massive bodies (MACHOS) have been ruled out by observation, and baryons would be detectable through EM.
Ask HN: Is the JWST likely to shed light on dark matter theories?
I thought this discussion was really interesting a couple days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32414870

The James Webb telescope wasn't mentioned much, so I was curious if anyone knows how the capabilities of this amazing telescope may impact the study and plausibility of dark matter.

Thanks!
I use Calibre primarily to...hmm, preserve my ownership of the books I have given money to Amazon for (if, for example, Amazon should decide to pull another 1984.) I certainly don't need Calibre to use my Kindle, but I'm glad I have it.
Thanks for this reply, and I mostly agree - I just wish that what we are talking about was the norm and not the weird niche exception.

Perhaps I need to go and think about how to support making that happen more rather than just complaining...
I'll stand by my statement. I'm not sure why I should give my etherium proceeds away to "charity". What's your rationale for that statement?

Maybe I should be more clear, without ANY application or use for ANY crypto besides pump and dump schemes, ALL crypto, IMO, is a scam. Crypto has been a thing for 10 years, longer if you count egold and liberty cash (or whatever that was called).

And to clarify again, my eth has been locked up in "staking" for what 2 years now without me being able to sell it. I'm looking forward to offloading it all and reap my gains, doesn't change how I feel about it.
It really depends on much more locked down the engine will become with ES6. Fallout 4 was notoriously hard to mod for and the modding community suffered for it.

Of course modding difficulty doesn't translate directly to how well Proton will run it, but I fear it will make it difficult for it to be optimized.
Capitalism is very inefficient overall so it's sort of obvious that there'd be waste in all segments however at the same time it leads to better human quality of life overall than other systems we've tried. Or in other words if you waste 25% of 100% more than you're still ahead by 50%.
How do you know they intended to sell them? Read the article, they were homeless.. i'd guess they were looking for something to stay warm in an uncomfortable Canadian winter?

I thought the "goal" of the bin was go put used clothing in the hands of those who need it?
I do eat liver, but I go in spurts - sometimes I'll go several months without eating any liver, other times I'll eat it daily for a week or two.
Only on HN could a comment thread devolve from "light observation on the nature of comedy" to "arguing about the nature of linearity in mathematical equations" in 6 comments.
People probably want a new home in a desirable location more than a one-house reduction in global CO2 emissions, so what you’re saying requires some amount of coercion. Who’s getting their house taken by the state to give to somebody else, and who’s paying to subsidize the rent?
We don't get it because it doesn't exist. SF is pretty close tbh but unfortunately it's fairly poorly run.
> I obviously haven't fully fleshed it out (I'm not writing an RFC here)

Whatever you don't state explicitly is assumed to be like the status quo. You've completely moved the goalposts with each reply.

> No, you can do [...]

Which a simple is_alloc doesn't help with because the allocator doesn't know if the kernel has actually mapped the memory to a physical page.

This requires help from the kernel, which wasn't stated anywhere, nor was this goal stated anywhere.

> You don't have to change the way in which the compiler works. You can likely do this with some macros.

You can't reflect over a struct in C with macros. You can maybe build something that works with some macro hacks that require you to declare each auto-cleaned field with a special macro.

This again is completely different from your previously stated idea that you just declare a struct with raw pointers and the compiler generates the appropriate free() calls.
Sounds like not much has changed for you since high school.