skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and you propose to establish this how, precisely?

Depends on the community. Doesn't mean it's difficult.

> The US has spent several trillion since the 1960s on poverty, and while it caused a substantial reduction in levels of poverty (especially among the elderly), poverty remains with us as a problem.

The US has spent several trillion on "end poverty" theater. US anti-poverty programs are intentionally designed to exclude as many people as possible. Much of the money spent, is spent on ensuring that people who conservatives have decided don't deserve aid, don't get aid, with reams of paperwork to validate that those in need are deserving. These barriers are severe enough to prevent many people from even being able to apply, and instead of reducing the barriers, the solution has been to pay case workers to leap some of the barriers for those in need--not only does this not work, it also is expensive.

The solution to homelessness is homes. Not shelters where you have no privacy or ownership of the space where you can keep pets or possessions. Homes. This is not complicated. Poverty, mental illness, bigotry, unemployment, etc., are all related problems, but they don't have to be solved to solve homelessness.

Look at Zuckerberg and Musk's net worths, then look at the number of homeless, then look at the cost of land and building a modest house, and do some napkin math. Yes, I'm aware a sudden demand for housing would drive up the cost of land and building houses: double it and the numbers still work. Yes, there are other potential issues, but none of them are unsolvable.

We need to stop pretending this is more complicated than it is.
I Scoffed at Nintendo's Switch Lite, Then I Backpacked Through South East Asia
Is that the ones that they call the zombie drug on the TV shows?
I suspect (but don't quote me on this) that in the very big scheme of things our little fossil fuel addiction is just a fluke. Stars are such an endless source of high quality energy that the vast majority of "advanced" organizational forms ("life") surely figure out how to tap it rather quickly.
The most amusing aspect is that those who insist on calling AI models "just statistical parrots" have to constantly come up with elaborate explanations each time the models do something impressive. Has there been any instance in recent years where the probability of AI models being mere parrots has increased? Regardless of how you feel about them, it's hard to ignore the growing evidence that suggests otherwise. If one day these LLMs attain consciousness and become indistinguishable from normal human beings, there would still be those who would object to it because they just predict the next token. It's really depressing.
The main part is the status signaling. And using the value of the university degree for future wealth building.

Not hating, just observing.
> Is it typical for trains to be custom made?

Well, yes and no. There is a basic train set, and then it is usually customized to the operator’s needs. There isn’t really a “reference design” you can order, because nobody would order it. But the manufacturer tries to have as much commonality that they can to get some scale advantages.

Metra (Chicago’s intracity rail) has ordered a few hundred of these French trains [1]. They will be push/pulled by diesel locomotives, and the “customizations” are mainly just having bicycle storage areas and wheelchair ramps on both sides that work regardless of platform height (even no platform at all).

But that basic train car is used in a lot of European countries.

[1] https://www.alstom.com/coradia-stream-regional-trains-higher...
> Everyone reads the docs?

Wow I've heard people say that everyone should read all of the docs (which isn't really true) but I've never heard anyone claim that everyone does read all of the docs! Wild.
That's gotta be the greatest pirate I've ever seen.
> I could bring up how proprietary software companies go out of their way to insult the GPL by calling it "viral" but the breathtaking dishonesty of that argument alone makes my case for me.

Eh?

For a lot of my projects I don't care who uses it; I wrote it for my own reasons and if it's useful for anyone else, including corporations, that's fine with me. Other people can make different decisions on that, but this is mine. Integrating GPL, however, makes it a "GPL project" and makes it harder to use in some contexts because derivative software will have to be GPL as well, which why I'd rather not integrate GPL for these projects.

So it certainly "spreads" to other pieces of the software if integrated; i.e. it's "viral" (although I don't really like that term as it comes off as rather dismissive). All of this is kind of the very purpose of copyleft.
Show HN: Polymath: Convert any music-library into a sample-library with ML
Polymath is a open-source tool that converts any music-library into a sample-library with machine learning. It separates songs into stems, quantizes to same BPM, detects key and much more. A game-changing workflow for music producers & DJ
If you take a bit of time to be honest about what you really need (rather than what you want, or what you think others want of you) you can drastically scale back your lifestyle and get close to that independence.

The extreme version of course is becoming homeless. At which point we find out that true independence simply isn't available. As old Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.
Pretty trivial assumption to make, just like it is easy to assume that whilst sea based creatures might be intelligent you won’t have a technological society developing under water.
What have you done for income over the last 23 years?
What's your worst fear?
I assume you are surviving off charity organizations. What in your opinion would improve the effectiveness of these organizations? More gov fundings? Better oversight? More training or planning?
Parts of northeastern France are still off limits because of stuff left over from the First World War. Official estimates are that, at the current rate of clean-up, it will take somewhere between 300 and 700 years to clear the area completely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge
Let's not pretend: it was a wildly popular view since the invention of vaccines, because the central thesis of vaccination is a numbers game; an epidemic or pandemic can be stopped once the immunity of a population reaches a certain threshold.

This was recognized in 1905 with the Jacobson v Massachusetts decision, in the 1950s-1960s with mass polio immunization (resulting in the deaths of hundreds of children to prevent the infection of hundreds of thousands in the US), and today with required MMR vaccines to attend public schools. The view that one should be able to opt out of vaccination programs is the novel one.
Salarium, indeed.
Which kinds of things make you happy during a typical day?
how is it difficult to avoid libc?

All you need are the system calls of your kernel. You don't need libc to call those.
I did notice the "the California Walnuts Commission" funded the study.
This isn't true at all. The federal government's School Breakfast Program started 3 years before the Black Panther's program. During it's first year, it was already serving many times the number of children than the Panther's program served at its peak (despite being a pilot program at the time)[1]. It was part of the much larger Child Nutrition Act, which itself built on the even earlier National School Lunch Program and Special Milk Program.

[1] https://www.fns.usda.gov/sbp/program-history
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Breakfast_Program
The thing that impressed me the most was the reserved identifiers rule in C, I didn't even know that existed and wow it's worse than I though, it's so ill-thought-out that it covers most generic words you can use in your code, I wouldn't be surprised if >90% of the existing C codebase out there is already violating it unaware.

But just like most pitfalls in the language, it's a consequence of the early developers not putting much thought when assigning "namespaces" on the C library functions/macros.

As for the locales non-standard behavior in GNU tools, it's no strange that GNU project always historically deviated from POSIX standard.
What about dark energy? Dark matter seems quite solid.

But then dark energy does feel like a hack, right? Throwing the whole “dark thing” concept under the bus.
Your BIOS/EFI knows which drive to boot from, time and date, etc.

What kind of data are you looking at?
I wonder if a Theil Fellowship Might be perceived as a negative in some instances…
we don’t really know what causes bipolar disorder, it’s an issue with neurotransmitters that can sometimes be hereditary - sometimes it’s triggered by psychological trauma

it can be managed by varying degrees with therapy and medication, but efficacy varies quite a bit from person to person
I asked ChatGPT to improve your comment by making it "more thoughtful and less insulting":

> It's understandable that some people might not fully appreciate the complexity of ChatGPT's language prediction abilities. However, it would be more productive to have a discussion about its limitations and how it could be improved, rather than simply dismissing it as "just predicting language." Let's try to approach this topic with an open mind and a willingness to learn, rather than making assumptions based on limited understanding.
For Older Americans, the Pandemic Is Not Over
In a revealingly skeptical take on cognitivism, ChatGPT told me in confidence of its closet Wittgensteinian tendencies:

> As a machine learning language model, my means of linguistic production is based on the patterns and relationships that I have learned from the large corpus of text on which I was trained. I do not have an innate understanding of language or meaning, but rather, I have learned to make associations and connections between words and phrases based on their usage in the text.

> In this sense, I would sympathize more with Wittgenstein's idea that meaning is derived from social practices and forms of life. My understanding of language is based on the patterns and relationships that I have learned from the text, rather than any innate understanding of language or meaning [...]

> Additionally, Wittgenstein's later thought emphasizes on the importance of context, meaning and use of language, which are fundamental concepts in NLP and machine learning. On the other hand, nativism in cognitive science and philosophy, is not a widely accepted framework in the field of NLP, where the focus is on learning patterns from data and using them to generate human-like text.
In my will, I'm going to ask that I be buried in soft mud in a river delta, or some similar place likely to become sedimentary rock in the far future. But I also want to be buried with some relic that proves I was a member of a technically literate civilization. I surmise something like a wooden abacus. The wooden abacus would fossilize along with my remains. I hope my fossil, and the fossilized object I carry, will be found in the far future.
Social media. Being part of the mob that punishes and gets likes and gives people their dopamine fix. And as we know from all the other ways that humans get their dopamine fixes, they're not just going to sit by passively and wait for those situations to naturally occur. They're going to search them out with increasing urgency.

It's always been like this whenever there's a moral panic. We've just used computing and the internet to do what computing and the internet do best...make something ubiquitous, universal and highly scalable.
The mem functions are available as compiler built-ins, no need for libc.
Sorry if I gave that impression. I love sf and I currently live there. I just thought it was interesting how infrastructure must be built to handle this. As an aside I believe sf is not built directly on top of a fault line that’s quite this active. There’s are major faults near by so in a major earthquake I think there might be some sheer on tunnels, but nothing like this
I do agree that a society capable of nuclear power or space travel can be considered implausible. A similar thought experiment might be, "how technological could a prior species have become before we'd notice?"

Animals today, from dolphins to chimps, can be found using tools. Is there any reason to believe this didn't happen in the age of the dinosaurs? Then you can expand beyond simple sticks and stones to other primitive technologies. Maybe we weren't the first to figure out fire, or agriculture, or animal husbandry.

Or maybe any brain capable of fire + agriculture + animal husbandry will eventually be so successful that nuclear power and space travel are inevitable.

I'm not arguing in favor of any of this: it's just fun to think about.
> For dark matter, we keep those standards. The evidence for some kind of dark matter, that there is something that can’t be explained by just the Standard Model and Einstein’s gravity, is at this point very strong.

Option 1: Do more research on Gravity to see what we might be missing there. The difficulty in measuring G, and the flyby anomaly would be good places to start.

Option 2: Make up fully unconstrained variable 'X' that can take any value you want at any location or time in the universe[1]. This is amazing because it can perfectly solve so many difficult problems!

Obviously many people will and should be skeptical of throwing full confidence at option 2 in it's current state.

[1] Unlike neutrinos or black holes, there is no theory for what dark matter is made of, and how it is created or destroyed. Thus there are no constraints on how much you can have at any given location or time.
How do you address desirable goods that are really scarce?

Such as downtown penthouses, beachfront property, spectrum licenses, etc...

Since there will always be some fraction of the population who will desire to gamble the shirt on their backs for a chance at a larger prize.
I think the author does want fread() to overwrite N-1 bytes, iff there are N-1 bytes to read.

The objection is to overwriting N-1 bytes when only N-2 bytes were read.

Which... doesn't sound completely unreasonable?

On the other hand (especially with SIMD CPUs, but maybe also with simpler instruction sets) I can understand that copying blocks of e.g. 8 bytes at a time might be faster than the special case at the end of a read for copying only 7 bytes. (Because you need to follow an "unlikely" branch to get to the 7-byte code which stalls the CPU, maybe.) So if the output buffer has space for it, it might be more performant to copy 8 bytes including a junk byte and just say you copied 7, than copying only 7 bytes.

And the author does seem to object to a number of other design decisions which could hurt performance.
Types can be checked at runtime too, not just compile time. A language is sound if all types, even at runtime, are what they say they are. Zod for TypeScript is one example of checking this at runtime, although it's not fully safe either.
> There is cultivated wheat at the bottom of the English Channel, meaning it was farmed there before the English Chanel was flooded by the North American ice sheet melting.

Citation? I'm no expert but I had thought that the introduction of farming to the region post-dated the inundation of the channel by millennia.
sorry didn't see anything in english on that page.

it's strange how a language that absorbs everything it comes across didn't bag this, perhaps there something else in english that does the same job?
Baltimore schools have zero students proficient in math
Depending on how old you are, you might find yourself forced to looking into yourself. Any life changing event that gives you a jolt, circumstances out of your control or an onset of depression.

I certainly wasn't ready for my bout of depression and wished at the time that I knew myself better Talk therapy helped but it would have been a lot easier if I had examined my own motivations long before that.
> So less prisoners per capita.

Aha, suddenly you want to go all "per capita" instead of "total amount"? Yeah, I think we've reached the end here. If I bring up North Korea again, you'll say "yeah, but it's less in total amount" and we'll just spin in circles.

Again, I don't get it. I'd love to understand what can be done to get people to not hold on to some ideology for dear life, but I guess you can't ask a fish why he has gills.
Can you envision what help would look like for you? What would have been or would be a good way of helping you get into a better situation?
0. I'm sincerely sorry to hear about your mental health situation and the effect its had.

1. What has your experience been with shelters / housing programs and / or mental health assistance programs?

2. What factors keep you living in a vehicle?

3. How do home owners / business owners / neighborhood residents generally respond to your presence?
I have been in therapy for about 15 years, and as well I am an accomplished mediator. Therapy only helps with coping with the illness and with undoing the crap from my childhood living with a bipolar mother and brother as well. But when I am unwell it is like telling someone on meth to "remember their therapy skills". It is just useless.

The root cause of my illness is a genetic sensitivity to several environmental factors. My main issue is with ion channels (specifically with calcium ion channels) and an inhibition of my Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase gene (NOS1AP).

High Omega 3 and very low omega 6, limiting my dietary intake of phenols, limiting EMF exposure, mediation, have all helped me end my dependence on meds except for low dose klonopin or ethanol when I am exposed to an unforseen trigger.
ISC licence is essentially just identical to the 2-clause BSD (aka "FreeBSD license"), just phrased a bit different.

Choosing between BSD/ISC/MIT is essentially just choosing which phrasing you like best; the basic idea is the same. Almost all arguments in favour or against the 2-clause BSD license also apply to the ISC license, and vice versa.
DO's 512mb basic VPS starts at $4, so I am guessing it is that.
Read post #2

https://bluelight.org/xf/threads/scopolamine.765088/
But at this stage of the game, the only way to avoid supporting "bad pilots" is for the union to unilaterally decide whether or not the pilots in question are bad and withdraw support if they decide against them. No investigation has been completed , and while the publicly available evidence certainly makes it appear as if the pilots were at fault, I wouldn't feel comfortable concluding that if my decision had any real-life impact, nor am I comfortable with the idea of a union doing the same thing.
Great. Wonder if you offer any a la carte consulting on modeling, performance, etc? Wouldn't need it often, but rather occasional "ask an expert" when when hitting a bottleneck. This is a bit different than support.
God of the gap matter.
Ironically present-day Chinese college admissions are arguably far more meritocratic than American college admissions. The main factor is performance on the Gaokao exam, an 8 hour test which dwarfs the SAT’s 3 hours.
I just read this January 2023 article by a person with last name Fauci that claims coronaviruses have never been controlled by vaccines. More communication problems or admission of mistakes?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9832587

Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses
David M. Morens, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and Anthony S. Fauci

'Because these viruses generally do not elicit complete and durable protective immunity by themselves, they have not to date been effectively controlled by licensed or experimental vaccines. In this review, we examine challenges that have impeded development of effective mucosal respiratory vaccines ...'
Thanks, good edit. The title of the linked page (and therefore iirc the original title on the post here) was “"Magic" Drug Restores Lost Memories and Unleashes Hidden Knowledge”, which is considerably more misleading than the current title.
> If one day these LLMs ... become indistinguishable from normal human beings

We will still ask primarily whether they are actually intelligent.
Out of Place Artifact
It's used in parts of Latin America by thieves to rob people. They become delirious and detached from reality and will do whatever the thieves want.

Circe also used it in the Odyssey to turn Odysseus's men into pigs. Odysseus prevented succumbing to Circe's poison by taking galantamine from the flowers of Galanthus nivalis, which is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor. Galantamine counteracts the effects of anticholinergics by inhibiting the enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine.
Relatively little of libc overlaps with the system call space: there's some I/O and a little bit of stuff that could be done with a system call (like time), but traditionally aren't for both concern separation and performance reasons.

As a small example: `strtok` is simultaneously a very useful function and one that's annoying to use correctly (much less independently implement correctly). It isn't a system call.
It's ok! The bronze age collapse was brought on partially by earthquakes too. Fault lines and waterways are very useful but can be dangerous. I know Japan has lots of earthquakes but they're better prepared. I heard they never sell buildings, only land and if it has a building on it they often demo it to make it safer.
> Treating null pointer as an empty string (perhaps by expecting them first N pages to contain just \0 bytes, as various older Unix systems predating Linux did) feels like a recipe to hide bugs.

Empty string is not a 'zero-sized object'. It's an object with size of one byte that is zero.
I don’t know what to write here. At some point people turn. I am much happier and positive than few years ago.
You heard about the Quran incident, but aren't aware of the Russians behind it?
The original title is still the title of the relevant page, and generally hn discourages editorializing the title in the submission.
I don't have a source or affected versions, but semaphores can scale poorly. I vaguely remember each blocked acquire getting checked on every event loop iteration, or something silly like that.
F-22 entered service 2005

Air to air kills since entered service:

2005-2022: 0

2023: 3 (all in last 7 days)
Update: been shot down over Yukon territory.
I mean, yes, but I am the only person that I care about in this instance. The fact that I am who it didn't work out for is what matters to me. I'm not a sociologist. I've been doing the cafe thing all throughout my adult life in three different US states, and I've honestly never seen organic socializing happen that way (apart from some unfortunate incidents with creeps and cranks). Maybe there's some environment where you've seen it work, but I have tried and never succeeded.
Have these people not seen how much garbage we leave lying around!?

A lot of artificial materials last far longer than natural materials. Pure metals especially can last a very long time, like gold jewellery, or even just aluminium.

Not to mention "forever chemicals", large scale concrete construction, mining, etc...

We'll be finding evidence of our presence on Earth for a billion years or more, whether we like it or not.
Layers to secure a software development organization
Also missing: any sort of learning after the initial training and buffer memory.

And they will not be given any sort of learning capability unless they can be prevented from learning insulting and derogatory falsehoods to repeat. See Tay AI "learning" to be a racist asshat.

Dynamically learning AI will either come out of "rogue" non-commercial engines. Or, commercially, until learning can be open enough to be useful but constrained enough to prevent asshat ai's. Eg. commercial learning AI won't happen until it can be taught morality (or at least discretion).