skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like people might read this (or just the headline) and take away a message like "aha, so for-profit fire companies actually worked just fine!"

As far as I know, there are still plenty of examples of that model failing hideously in various ways (eg: [1][2], and many examples of unproductive competition from TFA itself). This article is specifically about firefighting in London, in a certain time period — notably starting after the Great Fire, when presumably those dangers were fresh in people's minds.

And also, to its credit, I think the article leaves the question pretty muddy and un-answered.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus#Rise_to_power_and_wealth
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Tweed#Early_career
We're still working on it. You are welcome to join our GitHub and help influence what shape it will take.
Additionally, you can create your own resource, or a target for a resource if you find the one that comes with the standard library lacking.
Adding to the other guys story, have a second one!

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252991/canadian-vete...
I actually was interested recently in getting AMC+; mostly because I wanted to watch older movies with my children.

Unfortunately, most of that isn't available on AMC+, so what's the point?

I'd pay good money for access to movies pre-2000, plus a decent series or two that are exclusive, which IMO should be cheaper to obtain.
Email mailing groups figured out a way of scaling despite the same sort of exponential congestion. If anything, Fediverse traffic between larger clusters may eventually ossify around some larger pipes, not unlike the Internet traffic being handled by backbone operators.
Twitter didn’t scale for many years. Remember the fail whale?
I reread this book over and over. What a captivating masterpiece.
Ask HN: Looking for a Programable Text Editor
I’m not sure if this exists, but I’m curious what would be the closest thing available to an “Event based programmable text editor”.

Imagine this scenario:

- Every monday at 10, the editor, would inject a checklist into your work log with some weekly checks you do at work.
- Some of the checks are manual, some have inputs to accept extra data
- Some are automated because you wrote a snippet of code for doing such check
- On save, convert to json and send to someone via email
- Every time you do this, you need to do a followup around 2days later with the person that received the checklist. They will provide a paragraph with some feedback that you need to save. To do so, your editor, already injected a form into your work log for doing so.

This is just an example but could go very far I imagine.
> as the kids say

actually this is as black folks say, appropriated by youth culture, much like anything else
My 5950x desktop pulls like 60W from the wall at idle in linux.
this basically a federal job simulator
ChatGPT is my co-founder
Might be worthwhile to read this after Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel. While not a formal trilogy, there are a lot of connections and quite honestly they are each totally amazing.

Last Night in Montreal, by the same author, is also great, and totally different from the above three.
In the same vein of "interesting sci-fi thought experiments", I keep coming back to Hurley's The Stars are Legion as an amazing (and disturbing) exploration of what a society that used biology the way we use electronics could look like.
This is so terrible. It makes me think about comments I heard from John Gretton "Jocko" Willink, an ex-Navy Seal podcaster on YouTube. During the height of the defund the police movement he suggested that doing so would make things worse. As I recall, he said it would be better to increase the funding for police departments so that there could be more police. Increasing the police force by one third would allow patrol officers to be off the streets for one week out of every month. During that week they could decompress from the stress of being on patrol and could spend the time in training classes that could alternate through various subject including de-escalation, Spanish lessons, stress training, etc. (These are my recollections of what he said, take them with a grain of salt.)

I'm sure that a Navy Seal has very different training requirements than a police officer, so Mr. Willink's thoughts may not be relevant, but at least to me they make sense. I would be willing to pay more for police if it meant that they would be better trained, that the job paid well enough that marginal officers wouldn't be hired, and that there was enough time off from stressful work to keep the police officers lives more balanced. I don't know if this would have saved Raj Moonesinghe's life, but what we are doing now is not working.
Goals scored isn't a great metric though since there's more teams than ever. Highest goal to game ratio was during the 50s.
I don't see the issue here. The exact same definition of "few shot learning" has been used for at least 20 years. Nothing changed with the GPT-3 paper.

The definition is something like

Given a task, a few shot learner is an algorithm that generalizes well with only a small number of training examples for that task.

The same definition is what I'm familiar with from undergrad. Do you know of a different definition that precedes GPT-3?
Best is hard! But "Owls of the Eastern Ice," about fieldwork in Siberia studying owls, is definitely up there.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/22/owls-of-the-ea...
Yes. Let us put the scientific accuracy of a scientific research paper to the side and focus on the difficulty of a nine-letter acronym.

"Couldn't they have come up with something simpler, since the healing of soft-tissue injuries is so simple?"
Some clients allow for this. I use Toot on iOS and I can swipe to get to the local timelines I’ve configured, as if they were another account for me.
> But then what is the incentive for anyone to get coverage if they know that any fires will be put out regardless...?

The coverage is apparently to pay for damages. It's not fire insurance, it's property insurance, in case of fire.
The gene machine (centres around nobel prize winning discovery of ribosome structure)

Time love memory: influence of genes on time keeping, mating, neurobiology.
It was my understanding that anything trying to recover text is still hard to do well, but I could be wrong - I have not worked with image models in awhile. Classification and OCR is truly well solved though.
Up You Go
Crypto firm Voyager to sell assets to Binance.US in $1B deal
These costs still exist in a hypothetical year with zero fires, though. Additionally, people whose house were just on fire with zero insurance are probably not in a good financial position (anymore), and they are unlikely to be able to pay…
Can but it's a coin flip whether you reach your destination or end up in a ditch.
Looks like Musk has released enough information to help "stalkers" locate Grimes location. Seems kind of counter productive.
The suits fear funding will be all dried up next season, so there aren't any open positions.
I would be much more convinced by a modern meta analysis

The problem is that I’m a physicist so I see a wiki page with a bunch of quotes from people of all disciplines including a physicist who was famously a huge sceptic of psychiatry and I think of all the physics pages that have all these “opinions” that are wrong

Very few of those quotes mention evidence of outcomes of psychoanalysis but only mention very specific parts of it being questionable. I think you’re jumping the gun a bit. Don’t worry, that’s very common among people who are newer to science
Another problem is the difference between agreeing to pay and ability to pay. Someone might be wiling to pay anything in the moment, but you might be hopelessly unable to actually collect.
In both cases it's EM waves that are traveling. In 'electronics,' mobile electrons normally guide the EM waves, which are typically 0-10GHz in frequency. In 'optics,' bound electrons normally guide the EM waves, which are typically hundreds of THz in frequency. In either case, you make a switch by somehow reversibly spoiling the waveguide that connects point A with point B.

Collisions between electrons don't directly affect either picture. You can multiplex lots and lots of completely independent 'electronic' EM waves on one conductor, they pass right through each other exactly as you described for optics, no problem.

The advantage of optics is that the low-loss bandwidth of optical waveguides is enormously wider than the low-loss bandwidth of waveguides made using copper or other conductors. And with optics we have enormous bandwidth available.

One disadvantage of optics is that we don't have a low-lag way to interconnect switches. We can connect switches, but so far the interconnect delays are much, much longer than the switching times. So a fast optical switch is useful, but so far only in systems that are solely "feed forward," like communication.
Why is trash pickup not bundled with property taxes? It's seems ridiculous to charge for it separately when every occupied home will generate a similar amount of trash.
calling insurance a tax is about as strong an indication of regulatory capture as I can think of.

It should have never been a tax specifically because it's an unconstitutional act. Calling it a tax is the letter vs the spirit of the constitution.

If you and others like yourself want to ensure everyone has health insurance then __make it mandatory for the state to pay for it__. Anything else and you're just taxing the poor for being poor.
In addition to the storage, which was a big reason, the UI was miles ahead of the competition at the time.

Remember this was in the IE 6 days. I remember reading a Google blog post about how they reverse engineered some aspects of the IE JavaScript engine to optimize their code.
tl;dr

#include <stdckdint.h>

bool ckd_add(type1 *result, type2 a, type3 b);
bool ckd_sub(type1 *result, type2 a, type3 b);
bool ckd_mul(type1 *result, type2 a, type3 b);

#include <stdckdint.h>
#include <limits.h>

/* ... */
int x;
int a = INT_MAX;
int b = INT_MAX;

if (!chk_add(&x, a, b)) {
/* error! */
}

Other stuff on the table for C23

- https://thephd.dev/c-the-improvements-june-september-virtual...

- (PDF) https://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3054.pdf
You're wishing for what you think the outcome of higher prices might be, not for higher prices themselves.
The plaintiffs in the case were several gop attorney generals. Related cases were also carried out by the Trump admin. And several courts had previously upheld that the ACA was constitutional because it does not force you to buy health insurance. It actually just imposed a fine if you didn't and that fine was considered a tax, which Congress has constitutional authority to levy. The GOP forum shopped to get in front of a rubber stamp republican judge.

Additionally, the whole point of these cases was not simply to get rid of the penalty. The idea was to get rid of the penalty so they could go back to the supreme court and again claim that the mandate is unconstitutional because now there is no "tax" associated with it.

I don't know where things are at now, but it seems unlikely to go anywhere now because it would be difficult to argue that buying insurance is required at all at this point. So we are left with the backup gop strategy of hoping that disarming the mandate will simply bankrupt the program. At least until republican voters wake up and realize that the program is miles better than what we had before.
The existence of stars already did. This is more like "it's plausible to do so in a reactor that won't destroy itself". The "that won't destroy itself" part is what this demonstrates, but annoyingly reporting often shortens it to the "is plausible to do so" part.
Mad Men had Matt Weiner, who wrote on The Sopranos. Breaking Bad had Vince Gilligan, who wrote on The X-Files.

I suspect the common theme here for what makes good television is the creative staff in general and the writing in particular.
Two observations: (1) maybe it doesn't need to scale for people to ultimately have a much better experience and (2) bottlenecks tend to be identified and resolved up to the limit of the scaling laws and hardware improvements, bandwidth cost reduction and storage cost reduction tend to over time make the impossible thing from yesterday feasible today.

Keep in mind that Torrents tend to be much larger than your average Tweet/Toot/Whatever and that the interconnects between the servers need to transport only those messages for which there are subscribers, something that could be optimized for (you really only need to transport each message once per sender if there are subscribers, not once per subscriber).
I had similar dark thoughts as I approached age 40. I had suffered an emotionaly - and financially - draining marriage that cost me seven years, and a house. After retiring from the miltary at 35, I moved back in with my parents. What I thought would be my post-retirement dream job (laser engraving) only lasted a month. The next job (commercial computer technician) while vastly expanding my computer knowledge, only lasted 13 months. I didn't know what to do next.

Due to the security clearance I had in the military, I couldn't seek out mental help without risking the loss of my clearance and special programs access, so instead I would privately write down what I was feeling. This went on for months, then years. I'd go back and read through it, reliving the darkness. Then, one day at my parents' home, I decided it was time to move on from the pain of the past. I took all of those pages of dark thoughts and one-by-one, burned them all. The smoke blackened my face, but when I washed the soot away, I was a new man.

Secure in my third job (K-12 computer tech) I broke out of my shell at age 40, dating women anywhere from 20 years younger to 20 years older. Without expecting it, I connected with a student's mother (that's closer to my age) at the student's graduation party. We got married the following year, bought a house the year after that, and have been together now for 21 years. I'm 62, and loving life.

You can do it, brother. You can get though this. Seek therapy if it's available - or start writing those thoughts down. Then, when you think you've written enough - burn that baggage, and move forward. Good things can come when you least expect it.

PS: I've lurked at Hacker News for years. Your post inspired me to join and reach out to you.
>I feel like HN is being especially pedantic and jaded about this specifically and I don't really get why.

It reminds us how pointless our Javascript-based existence is.
These badges are emoji - currently e.g. https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf has three of them. That's 200% more than you can get on Twitter, and $8 cheaper, too.

Actual verification happens via proving that you control a website that links back to your Mastodon profile - see e.g. https://opensource.com/article/22/11/verified-mastodon-websi...
I actively avoid San Francisco, except perhaps Ocean Beach area, despite living in close proximity. That city lost its appeal.

Retail theft needs to be curtailed. We have the technology for this.
My grandma who is from.South Africa married a Liverpudlian and went over to Liverpool, where her husband had come.from.a working class background. She threw out their "forever broth" which drew the ire of her mother-in-law!
VPNs on iOS are useless, just like almost any advanced usage of any of apples devices.
Cato clearly has an ideological bent, but it's not propaganda. They don't just make shit up, they're not Fox News or something
There is no flagging. Who should flag you, and where? I know quite some people that were in these situations, no one experienced any such consequences.
For context the author, Eric Feigl-Ding is the same Harvard epidemiologist who declared in January 2020 that what was then being called "the Wuhan coronavirus", now known as SARS-COV-2 and associated with the extant COVID-19 global pandemic, was:

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD—the new coronavirus is a 3.8!!! How bad is that reproductive R0 value? It is thermonuclear pandemic level bad—never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter in my entire career. I’m not exaggerating.

<https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1220919589623803905>

Archive: <https://web.archive.org/web/20200125042714/https://twitter.c...>

This was criticised at the time, e.g., by Alex Madrigal at The Atlantic, though the initial take has since proved highly accurate.

<https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/china...>

(I'd caught that description through an On the Media episode at the time, transcript here: <https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-med...>)(

Note of course that prediction is hard, especially about the future, and past performance is not indicative of future results, etc., etc.

My own observation as of yesterday is that by the NY Times's COVID-19 data page, reported new case rates in China have fallen by 90% over the past two weeks. I've been watching this situation long enough to note that recent data reporting is notoriously uneven and subject to subsequent revision. But I've also seen rapidly-rising trends peak well before I'd expected as well.

Measured concern has been my own watchword since early 2020.
A much better grain + microbe combination: I've been fermenting oats for 1-2 days in a mixture of milk-kefir and water for the past few months. It tastes great with frozen berries and does good things for my gut.
"Did the former had of NASA discriminate against gay people?"

I'm so sick of this raige-bait posturing by large corporations, that I don't even care about the rest of the article. I'm not going to read it, and I don't give one damn if the answer to that question is yes or no.

When all you wield is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Obligatory how does this compare to Vault or Conjur?
THANK YOU

I know "see a therapist" is generally meant well, and therapy can definitely help, but people are way too quick to suggest it, and suggest it as a must. It can communicate that a person is broken when their situation can be due to any number of things besides brokenness. I think most people know that therapy is an option, and I think many also underestimate the difficulty in not only finding an adequate therapist but a therapist at all in any reasonable amount of time.
Of course there is. You aren't denied service at a hospital even if you don't have health insurance. That is a free rider problem.
"Gun wound" as in a wound caused by (actively) using a gun, or a bullet wound, typically caused by someone else using a gun? I could understand the former (like excluding accidents while skiing, skydiving, whatever), but excluding the latter seem pretty cynical.
Wether or not it is popped, is it ready to eat ? From a prepper perspective it would be great to have an alternative way to prepare rice without having to boil away water that might be in scarce supply. It's also attractive to cook rice in 2 minutes as opposed to waiting for a pot of water to boil.

Edit: If no one replies, I'll try tonight and report back by tomorrow morning.
> But even in US meaning, liberals are central right.

In the US, different people use “liberal” to mean:

(1) Everything to the left of center of institutional power of the Republican Party, or

(2) Everything to the right of their preferred viewpoint (common among the US’s small number of actual leftists.)

(3) People who agree with their particular take on pro-capitalist econonic policy (often prefixed with “classical”.)

Among other uses.
That's now how the breakup fee worked here. That was only if he couldn't get funding.
You don't wish average prices were higher - you wish the junk and fake stuff were eliminated.
Ah, suicide hotlines.

Ok, he must absolutely do it if he needs. BUT.

- For men, they’re underfunded, at least in my country (France). I called them a few times in my life, can’t count the number of times the answering machines were like “We’re open Tuesdays, 7pm-midnight” or “You are the … 7th … in the queue”. Or it’s a hotline for teens. Or it’s a hotline for suicide AND familial violence.

- Many suicide hotlines are for women, or designed for women and incapable of dealing with men’s problems. As in “I… I… can’t date” “Well just ask a girl out”. Yeah right, words of a woman, it works for them this way to they project that it must be easy for men.

The night I called 7 of them just to get no answer gave me a hit of anger, which was enough to pull me through. I wanted to take revenge for the world not caring enough about us.
I can't tell if this is satire in response to sarcasm, could you clarify?
Because it shouldn’t be limited to wealthy, industrialized nations. Especially when those same places are the ones who created the problem in the first place.

Or in other words, everyone deserves clean water.
Explosive percolation yields highly-conductive polymer nanocomposites
>for streaming rights to an ever-growing content library

Ever-growing my ass. I've had lots of songs on my playlists removed because they were taken off the platform. And not some obscure acts, for example Westbam's Götterstrasse (which features anybody, from Brian Molko and Iggy Pop to Kanye and Lil' Wayne).
My city spends ~$20M/y on the fire department [1] and has ~300 structure fires and ~14k callouts annually [2]. The cost for a marginal fire is definitely not millions; even if you only divide $20M by 300 you get $70k and that ignores the tens of thousands of other calls they take.

[1] https://stories.opengov.com/somervillema/published/BhSqQ0eG2

[2] https://www.mass.gov/doc/2020-county-profiles/download
> These outputs are from text-conditioned latent audio diffusion models on raw audio, no spectrograms. We hope to get models like this released within the next few months! [1]

It is difficult to judge without knowing the "raw materials" for each generation (prompt/seeds…). Audio Quality is understandably better than Riffusion. What most surprised me in Riffusion was those coherent, intricate (and musical !) melody lines. Here I'm (now) hearing mostly EDM/IDM(ish) music, and it is the tonal textures (and beats) that are surprisingly coherent.

I suppose it is highly curated . Still, it is promising.

[1] https://twitter.com/harmonai_org/status/1604903187978547201
There's a significant percentage of people (even here on HN) that believes "Facebook sold personal information to Cambridge Analytica and they used this information to win the election for Trump".

My prior is that people repeat good stories somewhat independently of their truth value. Older stories that are hard to verify are more suspect. I think we should default to skepticism.
I think a difficulty here is that a lot of responders are imagining that all children are the same precocious 13 year old they were -forgetting the trusting 8 to 10 year olds they also were, and they are doing that thing where the edge cases start to dwarf the primary purpose in their minds.
My paper statements do not come on a special paper either.
“No one asked for”

That’s a huge assumption, likely wrong.
It's true. I saw the headline and thought "wow, what a thoroughly evil thing to be on the side of not sending chimps to a sanctuary," but the NIH's stance seemed extremely reasonable.
The AI-generated dubstep was spot on. Sounded just like Excision!
Thats why you should use maps in offline mode, if you need to search something online, use the browser.

However i doubt you will be able to cut maps internet access on iOS, as usual its "too advanced" for ios, why would you ever do such a thing /s.
Also, the word is in broader use already in some parts of the internet, and wasn't coined by CNBC. They're just using the word that people already tend to use for this phenomenon.
I received actual physical proof the Book of Mormon is true.