skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is "And then Putin" supposed to mean? Perhaps you mean that Mr. Putin is implementing Gorbachev's goal of "turning Russia into another Sweden", which was blocked by Bush the Elder and the collective west's looting of Russia in the post-Soviet period?

My dad hates Mr. Putin because the television tells him Putin is a war criminal.

Other sources say Mr. Putin is the moderate who keeps the extremists in the Kremlin under control. That Russia fought in Ukraine with 9 fingers tied behind its back until it realized that there was no way to get the West to respect Russia's red line of Ukraine not being admitted into NATO. Someone on twitter said Russia's transition from 'preserve Ukraine's Soviet-era infrastructure' to 'destroy NATO's proxy army' was in September [0]. Russia didn't gave Ukraine's power grid the "shock and awe" treatment until November.

[0] https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/turning-point & various tweets - https://twitter.com/imetatronink

"[Putin] was a Lt. Col doing a mundane job in Dresden, Germany when the wall came down. He came back to St. Petersburg, Unemployed. He drove a taxi for a while. Got a job with Mayor Sochek's office, and anybody who dealt with him... said he was the most honest man he ever dealt with. ... He inherited a nation that had just undergone a decade of devastation, brought on by the west. But did he hate the west? No. He actually started his first years in office, trying to court the west, trying to come up with normalcy in economic relations. ... 2007 speech to the Munich security conference... The reality that the west is anti-Russia." Scott Riter, https://twitter.com/thatdayin1992/status/1583749384486891520 (emphasis added)

"Vladimir Putin is a Russian patriot, a moderate European-leaning leader who rescued Russia from the abyss. in Russia, he is not considered charismatic. He is supported because of Russia's economic and spiritual recovery. The Neocons hate Putin because they hate Russia." - https://twitter.com/DietHeartNews/status/1605275170138214425

Thought this video on Putin was interesting:
https://rumble.com/vxm7sv-president-2015-documentary.html

Just curious what you meant.
There are moose in Europe, I have seen several.
It's obviously a terrible thing if firms stop blocking people who might have some problem. It's going to be used in terrible ways. I hope that because lawyers are involved they'll manage to destroy this as a general thing companies can do.

This is kind of an ironic case because I've noticed that lawyers make themselves immune to non-compete clauses via state laws in most states. In California famously, regular employees are generally immune to N.C. In my state lawyers are not impacted by NC by law, but regular devs are subject to them, even sandwich makers have been blocked from changing jobs. There's been a big battle from devs to get rid of them, it hasn't yet passed the state legislature. My own leg rep said she didn't think there was a problem - of course she's a lawyer. The lawyer and business class wants to keep them.
You're collapsing "demand" into "they must not want it" instead of "the size of the demand doesn't match the minimal demand needed for the economics."

Grocery stores are very low-margin. They basically only work at scale. You need a lot of space, and a lot of customers. Those two factors combine to eliminate numerous areas where demand for the product otherwise exists. Not enough customers and/or not enough physical space available.

And constrained by either space, or customer count, you've got some hard choices to make.

Produce, fruit, fresh meat, etc are not high-profit items for grocery stores (They're often high-margin, but spoilage destroys net profit). You need a certain amount of turn-over to make the math work.

On top of turn-over, you need to be selling a lot of high-profit goods to make up for all the offsets in a grocery business. In low-income neighborhoods, how many customers will you have for deli products with high-markups? Or Prepared Foods? Hell, with EBT rules, a lot of high-margin goods can't even be bought by your core customer. You can't buy alcohol with EBT, for instance, and that's a huge chunk of profit for modern grocery stores.

And without all those healthy margin items, your labor costs need to be incredibly low.

What are you left with? Shelf-stable, low-quantity, bulk-purchased items in a densely packed store with the lowest possible labor costs.

And what is a Dollar Store?
Can't you see that people in this thread are posting ChatGPT responses...
Plus you need to clone your BDFL to keep the party going. Apple’s adaptation of Foundation had the right idea.
In a town of 1000 people, if 100 are homeless, and 25 are LGBTQ, that certainly does spell out that the town has a discrimination problem. However, that doesn't mean that homelessness is guaranteed if you're openly LGBTQ, nor does it mean that everyone who is homeless is LGBTQ. It just means that it's a big risk factor.

So while discrimination of protected classes is still likely the biggest factor in homelessness in the US, it's not the only thing, and thus it's demonstrably false that "Poverty is not about money. It's about all the myriad ways we say 'Fuck you' to 'the wrong kind of people.'". If you solved discrimination overnight, we'd still have homelessness.
I think there are some problems with assuming that ChatGPT-like AI will improve in quality, _especially_ if it gets good enough to popular and generally trusted.

Where will the next generation of AI training data come from, if the vast majority of information on the internet is generated by AI? Isn’t new data required? It feels like an internet filled with ‘incorrect’ spam generated by AIs is as much, maybe more, of a danger to future AI as it is to humans.

This is almost the same thing, but: it feels like ChatGPT is so good at e.g. programming questions because it’s been trained on millions of human discussions about programming. Even if you can weed out AI spam from future training sets, if people start relying on AI for e.g Stack Overflow like answers, and perhaps even reference information, and therefore stop writing or conversing online about new technologies, where will training data about new technologies come from? Primary reference material probably isn’t enough (just like it’s not really enough for most humans).
This won't work if he just hires a stooge. I don't think his ego will allow him to divorce himself from Twitter.
Yeah, I think that's also a sound choice if you know you'll need more customization and you have some familiarity/preference for an existing process management tool.
Prostitution and sex work should just be made legal, a business like any other. That would in turn protect businesses like this one, which is censored for its being wrongly perceived as some kind of sex work.
No, answers from ChatGPT are not helpful.
It does not actually assume that.

If the government believes no abuse takes place, then the abusive behaviour is intended. Of course you can gaslight voters that, actually the NSA should be spying on American citizens, but that still means the behaviour is intended.
> organizationally, google is a hot mess that can’t even figure out how to launch a product

Maybe, but for Google LLMs wouldn’t be a product, they’d be an algorithm behind the universal query box and conversational assistants, which are established products. Adding additional backing algorithms and changing output UI to prioritize their output isn’t something Google has a problem with, even if it arguably does with new product launches.
Does this work with dreambooth automatic webUI extension yet? 2.1 doesn't work
I really don’t understand your justification here. A consequence of Sturgeon† is that most public domain material was unpopular in its day, and only a small fraction of that is relevant to most people in 2022. Why does that imply copyright terms shouldn’t be shortened?

If anything, I argue the opposite: preservation, indexing, and curation are all possible and happening on an absolutely unimaginable scale thanks to today’s technology. You see zillions of page scans as a failure because they haven’t been perfectly curated—I view these zillions as an incredible success because now they can be curated. The single biggest retardant to a grand unified index of media is available human effort, but the next biggest is copyright that carves a decades‐wide chunk out of otherwise preservable works. Reducing copyright terms would not just make more works available to be copied; I believe it would stimulate interest in preservation and curation by easing access to works that are more relevant to average people of today.

† Sturgeon’s Law: “90% of everything is crap.”
I really like what this library does, but I'm troubled by the author's blatantly incorrect use of unsafePerformIO.

Correct functionality depends on specific use patterns, rather than allowing the type system to guarantee it. When the issues were reported, the author made several incorrect claims about the safety. When the claims were demonstrated to be incorrect, the author replied that you just shouldn't do the things that break it.

The whole thing left a pretty bitter taste in my mouth. The library can be used to do cool things, but it subverts the type system unnecessarily and blames the user when it goes wrong.
Amazon grew an awkward side project into AWS
That is one of the most arrogant and ignorant things that I have ever read.
Most likely, food deserts exist because we are transitioning away from an economy based on the idea of a nuclear family with a male breadwinner, female homemaker and 2.5 kids and all our benefits (medical, retirement), food culture etc. has all these baked in assumptions that mom is doing the grocery shopping and cooking for a family of four or more and that's no longer reality.

People don't have time to cook.

We haven't done enough to update our work arrangements to allow for someone to both work and eat well without mom having dinner waiting for dad when he gets home from work.

We haven't updated our food culture to allow for enough fresh, healthy options that don't take a lot of time.

Etc
MySQL is named after the founder’s daughter—My ( pronounced me by the way ). He sold it to Oracle and then, because it was Open Source, he forked it to create MariaDB. The name of his other daughter is Maria.
To me, no meat and cold showers is the collapse of civilization. Or at the very least, the start of it.
_WIN32 can trick people:

_WIN16 Defined for 16-bit environments
_WIN32 Defined for both 32-bit and 64-bit environments
_WIN64 Defined for 64-bit environments
I'm a millennial and have been a homeowner for seven years now. I had average, if not below average, credit when I bought the house and I had no downpayment (i.e. I wasn't coming in strapped).

It sounds like I'm an extreme edge case, but I really don't feel that way. I have several co-workers in the same age range who also own property. The details being recapped in this thread are very foreign to me, so I feel like this must be a geographic issue and not a generational issue.

My experience could just be unique, of course.
Land area requirements are commonly 5,000 sq feet in cities
Right but in these scenarios the similarities to a prior work are the cause of the problem they might face. It's stifling to the musician sure but not in a way that's preventing anything actually unheard before.
It wasn't an incompatible fork at first. It's now diverged a bit.
True, but many of them think they're richer than they are, and develop dependencies on things that max out all of their income and going into so much debt that they don't realize how little volatility they can actually handle.
It’s all over the place in US, and even Canada.

Private condos/houses are mostly still rent controlled in Ontario too.
No. The GPL says you must provide the source when asked. In the new situation they would just never distribute it.
No I'm comparing the right to liberty with the right to life. Both are about bodily autonomy. Euthanasia is the giving up of the right to life. I'm pointing out we don't tolerate any giving up of a right to liberty, period. You can be declared insane and have rights taken away... you cannot willingly say 'i'm giving up my right to be free.' By your reckoning that our rights extend so far as to also include abdicating them... we ought to tolerate giving one's freedom to someone else. If we want to ignore the monetary element, consider if you would be okay with someone signing over their labor to someone else in perpetuity as a charitable work. Would you allow such a thing? Why not? We're not talking about property now.
Oh man, this is great. I'm a nuclear engineer and an old but widely used program called MCNP relies on a constructive solid geometry approach (first intended for punch cards). I've been wishing for a way to go between a Python approach and MCNP for constructing geometry and this will make it very easy!
All beams will broaden and distort though. No matter the wavelength or pulsing, anything made by not-a-pulsar is likely to get garbled and shifted beyond comprehension. You can fix this with some really really big fancy lenses, maaaaaybe. But you'd have to know the distance of the point you're trying to image the laser onto first. Collimated light over those distances just isn't ever going to stay that way.
> Fruit / veg in general is pretty expensive when looked at from a cal/$ perspective — you pay for a lot of water there.

I agree with your post overall but would quibble with this point. Maximizing calories isn't a very good goal. Eating fewer calories but more fruits and vegetables would be an improvement for most people in the US, regardless of socioeconomic status.
As a landlord of single family homes, I have to look at the detailed credit history of potential tenants. Before I even get to that stage I let them know the income requirements, etc. so usually we are looking at the top 3 applicants out of the 30 that applied.

With almost no exception, the renters make horrible financial decisions that set them up to work until they die. The average credit report I see is about a 500 and it's filled with missed payments, loans sent to collections, etc. Then, right at the top, in the last two or three months will be new loans for expensive cars and jewelery. It's mindboggling and sad. Most of my tenants have a nicer car than me (I own a pretty vanilla $30k sedan).

The renters usually come just above the 3x income to rent ratio and they never fail to pay their rent. But I don't really ever forsee them owning a home if they continue to make luxury purchases that prevent them from saving. The loan industry really enables a life of debt.
Wireless EV Charging for Germany’s Autobahn
Can you create a new idea in a vacuum? We humans also seed our creative RNGs from the world around us and from sources like memories and real-time sensory input.
We _definitely_ wanted it. Badly. It was not a case of “not wanting it.” It was a case of:

- a lack of time

— a lack of resources (just two folks, no expendable income)

- a lack of cognitive energy, probably stress induced from managing the above two.

I think this is a particularly rich western country thing though, the method of being poor you describe works great when you have an extended family who can pool resources. But for a single mom and young child, you can’t smart your way out of it. It’s like trying to optimize a triple a game to run on twenty year old hardware —- just ain’t the cycles, have to reduce the workload.
Check my (insane) prompt, to take the ChatGPT gaming experience to a whole new level: https://showgpt.co/s/9bL24PlE
Pretty crazy because his engineering decision to lay off a huge chunk of engineering implying the Twitter engineering was easy and trivial was a huge part of him being an incompetent CEO.

He doesn't really know how to code nor architect any software systems, what makes him think he's qualified to lead the software side? It's insane.
Because maybe other people might read this:

Rails are good enough to keep Shopify standing for another year of holiday sales. It seems to do that since 2006, so this alone demonstrates that Rails can support you a long way in your multi-billion business.

And if you think: "yes, but Shopify has a big talented team," I feel the need to say back, "Well, when you are at Shopify business size, you will have it too. And Shopify used it when they were small too."

I am not saying Rails fits everything, but if your business fits Rails, that is a great framework to build with.
Should have left him to rot there first
Homelessness is mostly a housing issue.

But who ends up out in the cold in a world of plenty that distributes it such that "them that has, gets" has very much to do with who you are.

It's more complicated than that and it's probably not worth the effort to try to discuss it. Your goal is merely to shoot me down, not understand my point.
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Instead of us searching pages and pages in google looking for the info that we need, ChatGPT is definitely better to find precise info in case of coding. I hope they will always have a free tier.
Do any tech companies do something similar to this?
Don't live in a tech hub then. It's not worth it.

If you are not attending conferences, going to meetups and participating actively of the tech scene in a way that advances your career, you will be just wasting money in rent.
Laughs in DirectoryOPUS.
FWIW I did the potato diet in 2018 (Penn Jillette's book).

6'1.5" 250#.

Lost 17# in 2 weeks.
Lost 35# in 2 months.

Stayed off as long as I was eating vegan, high-potato diet.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to stick with it for other reasons and I've since regained the weight. I need to cook for people for whom it's not a reasonable diet and enjoy eating meat too much.

The conceptual model here intrigues me. I'm pondering maxing potatoes but also eating whatever else I want and see if it helps.

(My coworkers literally called it the martian diet. It was funny. I would come to meetings at work eating a baked potato like an apple.)
The problem with US housing policy is that it's not about housing
This sounds very smart, but essentially what you're saying is that there isn't enough demand to support a store that sells fresh produce.

Yes, the ability to profitably run a store is based off of margin and volume. Both of those are driven by demand.
> companies will buy their toxins elsewhere

This is where legislation needs to come in.
Honestly, a parking garage. I’ve done a LOT of small car repairs, installed exhausts, simple mods, etc for people in a random retail parking garage after hours. As long as you aren’t disassembling the motor and you’re not an asshole the security guard making $12/hr driving a hoopty in the exact same boat as you is not going to hassle you.

It’s a lot less fun than doing it in a proper shop with a lift and power tools, but given enough effort you can do nearly anything with jackstands, a trolley jack, and basic hand tools.
Ideally you'd want want one banana today and one tomorrow, especially if all you can afford is one banana per day.
GNU Common Lisp 2.6.13 is released
I assume most numbers stations have disappeared in part due to the proliferation of global internet access. But I've kinda wondered, how does that work? One of the benefits of numbers stations is that it was nearly impossible to determine who was listening to a shortwave radio station. Any internet resource someone visits would be traceable by the government. Even with SSL nearly everywhere it's not nearly as anonymous as numbers stations were. I'm assuming most clandestine users see the ease of access and greater diversity in how messages can be sent over the internet as far outweighing the limitations of shortwave?
Sure, your formula is not wrong. But its a bit like saying "it's easy to lose weight, eat less, eat better, exercise more." It might be simple, but it's not easy.

Going into the nuance of each step in your formula would result in a too-long post, but let's consider the first;

>> stay in school, pay attention, get good grades.

For various reasons this is easier to do for the rich, and harder for the poor.
Better nutrition.
Better home support if your parents were educated and have surplus time.
Better access to ancillaries (books, stationery etc.)
Less need for you to get a job to supplement family income.
No need for you to act as day care to younger siblings.
More reliable transport to and from school.
Better sleep patterns in warm, secure, environment.
Better infant nutrition resulting in well-developed current mental facilities.
Better access to heath care, meaning fewer lost school days.

And so on.

Your formula is not wrong. But it is not easy. And every part of it is greased with money. The best indicator of success is the environment you are born into.
Honestly? Yes, given the amount of trust reporters put into his statements.
A lot of great indie games wouldn't even have been finished when their copyright expired if it lasted only 5 years (Factorio, Minecraft, Terraria).

And Cave Story wouldn't have made any money. It was released for free in 2004 but few people knew about it at the time. It wasn't until 2010/2011 when it released on Nintendo and Steam (paid version) that it took off.
If I drive 1 trip per day, a 0.1% chance of death on each trip means I would only survive 3 years on average. And I take more than 1 trip per day. Most people live much more than 3 years, so the risk is certainly less than 0.1% per trip.

Let's calculate it. There were 42,915 traffic deaths in the US in 2021.[1]

Americans take 411 billion trips per year.[2]

That's 42915/411000000000 = 0.00001% chance of death per trip. So a driving trip is 10000x safer than being swatted.

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

[2] https://www.bts.gov/statistical-products/surveys/national-ho...
Sure, in the short term, changes can put individuals under water. But I am actually talking about how the market moves.

Let’s ignore investors (they matter, but that complicates the argument).

If you have 10 houses and 20 people want a house, then the 10th person sets the minimum price, and they bid a price on the house so that they can only just afford a mortgage. 10 people miss out on a house because they are unaffordable, however the minimum house price was set by the 10th buyer who can only just fucking afford their mortgage payments (mostly interest). So minimum house prices depend on the earnings of the marginal buyer that can just afford a house. That marginal buyer is usually somewhere near median wages, so there is a lot of demand just below that price point, and no house will go for much cheaper because for most people it is better to own a shitty house than to rent.

Over the long term, the interest rate is almost irrelevant, because house prices are caused by interest rates.

There are a lot of misconceptions about house pricing - it needs to be looked at as a system - not from an individual’s point of view.
> Spoiled meat tends to make people sick or dead

I'm not defending the sauces and spices hypothesis, but in times of scarcity (how most of our ancestors lived most of the time), starvation kills more people than spoiled food, and people ate a lot of spoiled food. Who knows how many it killed, but the survivors were the ones that ate it and made it.

Cheese, after all, is spoiled milk.
The phenomenon was happening before 'wokeness' there are articles from the early 70's talking about the problem - also, intercity america and rural america often have the exact same problems which just manifest in different ways.
https://archive.ph/Zmx8G
The data is successfully encrypted before it's sent (which you can verify with wireshark). What exactly are your concerns, given that the data isn't encrypted locally in the first place? And seriously with the question...what do you think is more likely, that the tiny team of 6 invested a ton of time reinventing the wheel with a custom in-house AES implementation, OR that they used any of the readily available and extremely well tested libraries? SMH