skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've written about this here before, but the social forces that incentivize parents to restrict autonomy is intense. I live in a massive California suburb, median in almost every way.

It's my perception that letting kiddo play outside, climbing trees, biking on the sidewalk in front of the house should be a low risk activity for a 2nd and 4th grader if done together. Not in the perception of neighbors. Every time I say yes to them asking to play in public, I'm taking a risk that someone will call the cops for the simple act of a child playing outside without a parent. How do I know? It's happened three times already.

There's a group of folks who see that as inherently dangerous and have no problem invoking the police to shut it down. They've also been approached by strangers asking where their parents are. They're obeying the laws, not being reckless or getting into trouble. They're minding their own business and because of that they are confronted for it.

It's these encounters that weigh on my mind when I'm deciding how to respond when they ask if they can play outside each day. Sometimes I say no, because I'm not prepared to deal with the possibility of that scenario occurring again.
> Declarative is generally even more limited than DSLs like Puppet and can't support complex logic.

Functional and logic languages would disagree.

For configuration, have a look at https://dhall-lang.org/
How so? Is it patronizing to say the Bears had the worst record in the NFL last season? The proof is in the pudding.

My experiences are just anecdotal evidence that supports the objective stats.

Respect is earned, and sometimes, when lots of people tell you you're wrong, it's useful to have the humility to consider they might be right.
E-scooter rental companies are in a contract with the city to allow the scooters to be parked on city property. Paris just ends the contracts. This isn't making anything illegal.
Windows is nearly unusable after edge and defender have their way with it
Imagination Is Overrated
Seaweed is an algae, not a plant, as an edible counter example.
One thing that also should be pointed out is the race gap in medical outcomes. When you look at the statistics Black Americans face a higher risk of stroke, heart attacks, cancer mortality, infant mortality, maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, pneumonia, etc. In almost every leading cause of mortality in the United States there is a significant gap between Native Americans and Black Americans and the rest of the population.

My sense is that there is a combination of culture and poverty that is causing this gap to occur. Poverty doesn't seem to be the sole cause IMO (although it's probably the biggest factor) because white people and asian people experience similar levels of poverty but asians live way longer.
Direct link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGCihgndng
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No one is saying that. This would be a good retort if anyone was proposing that the South actually lay in its own bed.

I have never heard any proposal from the patronizing coastal elites to cut off funding for Southern welfare states.
Orange was introduced for MY2023, but was not available when I bought it in 2022.
Let your imagination run wild...

Viruses sometimes hide their own execution on a desktop -- is it such a leap to imagine GPT-x managing to figure out a way to run code on Azure or AWS without incurring charges?
Sometimes what is being voted on is unclear. Names/monickers are often misleading. The description text of bills can seem contradictory to the advertising about them.

This is all before we get into gerrymandering and other patterns to shape voting outcomes.

It’s not always about apathy.
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You can't talk about this without talking about car culture. In many cases, there's simply nowhere for kids to actually go on their own without being driven there. This also leads to streets being designed 100% for car convenience to the point of making them unusuable, dangerous and/or hugely inconvenient to anyone else.

Another issue is the compltely overblown fear or crimes such as abduction. The #1 and #2 causes of child death in the US are firearms related and automobile related (respectively). Those are completely normalized.
It's suspicious though that generally the same people that want to ban books because they are "woke" want to ban AI because it is "woke", meanwhile teens commit suicide and get murdered and those same people do nothing.
They already had regulations that meant that they had to be parked in specific areas or fine the person who left it somewhere they shouldn't.

But that didn't stop someone uninvolved in renting one walking by, picking one up and moving it.

Nothing stopped people just riding along the paths at top speed hitting people or randomly darting into traffic. Soon as you entered any pedestrian square you had to be on the constant lookout for being smashed into by a scooter. Anything near the Louvre was particularly bad.
I'm surprised this shitty visualization made it here out of all places.

The colorbar is "clearly" picked to make things more dramatic: the "middle" isn't centered (red part is longer), each end has a sizable chunk that basically has the same dark color.

Also isn't the dominant factors simply poverty? One of course can go further and discuss why these regions are poorer (which IMO is history), but the direct cause of low life expectancy variation in the US is pretty clear to me to be poverty than secondary things like life choices and/or policies.

OTOH, the fact the US as a whole is significantly lower than many other developed countries is something more interesting.
https://archive.is/GnOjR
You didn’t answer the question which by definition is unclear.
This is the first mention I've seen of RO in a long long time and I totally agree. There were a lot of small stories that you could take but you never felt like you were just going from point to point in some big directed path. If you didn't like an area you could skip it and never feel like you lost much.

I've yet to find a game that got me anywhere near the same sense of freedom and sense of being part of the world instead of one of a bunch of people going through the predetermined Disney ride.

The original planetside had a similar feeling with a more shooter lens on it where you were always part of a changing world.
Exactly, I'll tell them I want restrictions on guns, more speed limit enforcement, universal healthcar....oh you were trying to be sarcastic
They did have parking zones.
These sorts of charts are meaningless without being broken down by race.

I did a quick search for "US Mortality Rate by Race" and I found CDC documents showing that African Americans have roughly 35% higher age-adjusted mortality than non-Hispanic Whites [0], and have on average 7 year shorter life expectancy at birth [1].

When people show maps where the American South has seemingly worse outcomes than the rest of the country, it's important to remember that the demographic makeup is totally different.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db456.pdf page 2
[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr71/nvsr71-01.pdf page 2
Good luck taking their money with them.
Paying additional fees to setup infrastructure is something many in rural areas are familiar with. Rural doesn't always mean poor.
Who won the Pulitzer Prize a year before this review.
Are you from 2010? What computer doesn’t have 4GB of ram? My phone has more than that
Australia, by accident got compulsory voting because no one was showing up. Turns out to be the best things since sliced bread.
> I think I'd have preferred to see something along the lines of unpleasant fines for leaving them anywhere other than a designated drop-off location, plus perhaps electronic governors limiting speed if that was an issue.

Maybe you missed this sentence in the article? "Paris’s regulatory scheme, which automatically limited the top speed of the scooters and required users to use dedicated parking areas or pay fines"
> But these systems need to grow a ton of new helper functionality and subsystems to hope to achieve that kind of performance. And, I'll venture that kind of thing is a lower bound on the abilitites of any being who would be able to savage the world with it's intellect. It will have to be able to link up so, so many disparate threads to do it. It boggles our minds, which are only squaring a measly 100T dimension every tick.

Agreed: LLM are just one of many necessary modules. But amazing nonetheless. The quadratic scaling problem needs an attentional-conceptual extractor layer with working memory. Hofstadter points out that this needs to be structured as a recursive “strange loop” (p 709 of GEB). Thalamo-cortico-thalamic circuitry is a strange loop and attentional self-control may happens by phase- or time-shifting activity of different circuits to achieve flexible “binding” for attention and compute.

I’m actually optimistic that this is not a heavy computational lift but a clever deep extension of recursive self-modulating algorithms across modules. The recursion is key. And the embodiment is also probably crucial to bootstrap self-consciousness. Watching infants bootstrap is an inspiration.
I'm not sure that's even possible. You'd likely need to register a Caymanian company to open the account.

It might be possible if you're a resident of UK or a different BOT? (British Overseas Territories).

If you'd like to ask around, generally the most flexible bank is Butterfield. I'd start there.
I use Wave also. For a small business, it works.
My CPA has learned to use it, and I'm sure I could teach a VA to input and categorize over time.
This is the real reason, they don't want people to coordinate anything, and they don't want employees spiting the company and leaving with valuable info.
As a former pascal, C, assembly programmer I learned perl, python, lua and finally type/javascript (when it became decent) and never looked back. It was cool, but not-worth-it-today kind of cool. When I think about cascade-freeing my pointers again or [de]serializing a struct for storage or ffi, I shudder. We digged the same ditches again and again and again.

I was pretty late into it (ca 2000) and can only imagine the pain of switching banks, mapping windows, dealing with segments and overlays, unloading things. When you hear about “cache invalidation and naming things”, don’t you ask yourself what the hell is “cache invalidation”? Lucky you.

There’s so much you can do today in just a few hours. But if you want that feeling, start with npm-remove-ing your bundler. That’s not the same, but the feeling will be the same.
Wealthy profit-maximizing executives in perfect control of an AI is far more scary to me than an autonomous AI is. At least with the AI in charge, there's hope that it might act in humanity's interests.
Yes, POSIX compatibility is the culprit for many of the issues we have with filesystems today.

The POSIX requirements were made in and for a different world.

For example they also completely break down for distributed network filesystems. (Or at least destroy your hope of performance.)
I think machine intelligence (which is the term I think to be more appropriate) can be a boon to humanity. I firmly believe this. It could be the beginning of a great relationship.

But the q is: is this machines domesticating man, or man domesticating the machine?

So I hope you agree that we need to set the boundaries for this relationship.
I'm wondering about the prevalence and frequency of water trains, if they've increased or decreased on a long term basis, how they're funded, and if they only operate during dry seasons.

Articles and discussions about climate refugees:

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/5/17/photos-waiting-f...

https://archive.is/IdkV2

https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-climate-crisis-migrat...
If Person A wants to do X, and Person B wants somebody to do X for them, they agree on a fee, then I call it a win-win situation.

Wannabe-capitalists call it "exploitation" and pretend they're badasses comparable to the truly horrible kinds of exploitations that happened 100+ years ago (or in some other parts of the world they never been to).
It's just simplified pseudoscope using the lecturer's own notation from her slides to make my point.

The following is the lecturer's full TeX form if that helps:

h(t) = \tanh \left(h(t-1) W_{\text{hh}}^T+x(t) W_{\text{hx}}^T\right)

However, I don't want our readers to get distracted by line noise; h(t) = h(t - 1) makes my point.
I was trying to distance myself from this situation, but this is just too painful to read. I am sincerely sorry that people have harassed you on my behalf, but I have no control over what some people say or do on an anonymous board based on publicly available information.

That doesn't mean that I am happy with the way our collaboration was handled. Why did you create a new converter when you knew there was already an existing pull request that addressed the same issue? Why did you modify the model format and break backwards compatibility when the current format was proven to work with mmap? Why did you change the magic string of the file format to include your initials, when there was an explicit version number field for this purpose? Why did you create a new pull request when you could have added your changes to mine? Why did you rush to merge the PR instead of taking your time to verify that everything worked properly, while listening to feedback from the other contributors and users? Why did you did you ignore concerns raised by other contributors in my PR? Why are you claiming that I was unable to make the WIN32 code work when the final version in your PR is virtually identical to mine, making me look incompetent?

Ultimately, it was my decision to move on, close my PR and allow yours to continue unchallenged, and I owned that decision every single time that I have commented about it, including in the PR linked in this post, where I recommended keeping your PR and working on fixing the issues being raised. I am sorry that some people have harassed you, but making me responsible about this is extremely unfair. There are plenty of reasons for people to feel disappointed about your behavior without me having to say anything about it.

I don't expect that anyone will believe me about this, after all I am just an "anonymous person". The truth is, I am extremely weary about posting this because I know how much damage you can do to me if you insist on this route to your followers. What is your theory, that because I am nobody I have nothing to lose? How are you not aware of the huge power imbalance between a "celebrity programmer" with thousands of followers and a nobody like me?

Anyway, all the information is publicly available on github for anyone who cares enough to verify it.

- slaren
You are right. That's what I do, I just build my blog from MarkDown to HTML via some simple shell scripts.
Hispanics live longer than white people, who live longer than black people (look at the Black Belt).

It's hard to simply blame economics when some very poor Hispanic regions outlive some wealthy black/white ones.

I'm not versed enough to know whether race itself plays any significant roles, or if it's more cultural, but it's certainly eye opening as a factor.
Developer Tool to Manage Flink
Hi, I am gptfufu. I am building a developer tool that helps host and manage Flink workloads on Kubernetes clusters. Any thoughts or suggestions for features? Thank you.
Lots of people will blame consumers for wanting to feel macho or whatever but I think probably a bit more institutional than that:

1. Obama-era CAFE fuel standard rules made required MPG go up over time for different classes of vehicle. Except if your vehicle had a larger footprint, it had more lenient standards. The simplest way to stay compliant was to make larger vehicles. I think if they wanted the actually-desired outcome they should have just raised the federal gasoline tax, which has not been raised since the 90's, but they probably assumed that was untenable so we are left with unintended consequences.

2. The IIHS produces crash test ratings that manufacturers tout here and does not score cars worse if they are more dangerous to pedestrians. Nor do they take into account the other car in the collision. So to get excellent ratings makes an arms race of bigger-ness. Automakers started adding a lot of weight to vehicles, and side/curtain airbags that made the A-pillar larger (Between door window and windshield). Even formerly small cars now feel huge. It's hard to buy a truly small truck anymore.
Ask HN: Signal with Backups?
Is there a version of signal where you can store your messages in the cloud (with password-based backup?) It would be nice not to lose everything if I lose my phone. It's fine if I need to remember a password or lose the backups forever.
> If I recall correctly and shuttling instructions around fast enough is the main bottleneck right now,

I don't think so? Aren't we still at the point in the cycle where moving data around is the bottleneck? Anyways, AIUI modern RISC does have tricks to make things more efficient if you really want, but it's not usually viewed as needed.

> why do people want to return to RISC?

What return? Nearly everything on the market is RISC; the one exception is x86, which is still RISC (ish) but with a CISC ISA stuck on top.
“The South ties its wagon to the wrong horse year in and year out. No one forces them to do that.”

. . .
It's the opposite, you want less layers of abstractions. At least you want your OS to give you less abstractions, so you can choose your own.

See 'exokernels' for that: their idea was that the OS should concentrate on safely multiplexing hardware, and leave abstracting to user-space libraries. Do one thing, and do it well; instead of serving multiple masters badly.
I went to Paris a couple years ago and it was a mess. There were like 4 or 5 different companies offering e-scooters, they were left everywhere, tourists were driving them in the middle of the road in high traffic areas, I saw 3 people on a single scooter, one guy riding 2 at once, areas along the Seine were restricted and scooters would start to slow down when you entered, instead of leaving people would just get off and drop the scooters, the ground was littered with them. It is not surprising they were banned with how they were rolled out. That said, I love e-scooters, they really add a degree of freedom and make getting around the last mile in cities much easier. And they are just fun. I hope there is space for them in city transport but letting people leave them wherever was always obviously a bad idea.
Your children's neighborhoods are dramatically safer than yours were, which were safer than their parents'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children...
> I get the impression that this problem happens a lot less frequently than social media and our personal echo chambers would have us believe.

It seems to make headlines whenever it happens not because it’s happening all the time, but because it’s such a weird thing to happen.

A lot of people can no longer tell the difference between headlines for rare events and headlines for things that happen all the time. If they see a headline, they just assume it’s extremely common.

Social media has also amplified the idea that men can’t take kids to a park without people assuming they’re child predators. Prior to having kids, I thought taking my kids to the park was going to be a high risk activity and that I’d have to defend myself against paranoid moms who couldn’t understand why a man was at the kids park. Reddit circulated this meme like it was gospel. Then I finally had kids, went to the park, and nothing of the sort has ever happened. My local parks are almost a 50/50 split of moms and dads and everyone has always been friendly.
Similar phenomenon with Russia: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/13/more-than-1500...

Expect housing to get even less affordable.
Don't underestimate kids.

https://www.fastcompany.com/2681011/ethiopian-kids-hacked-th...

“We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut.
No instruction, no human being.
I thought, the kids will play with the boxes!
Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box,
but found the on/off switch. He’d never seen an on/off
switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were
using 47 apps per child per day.
Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs
[in English] in the village. And within five months,
they had hacked Android.
Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had
disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a
camera, and they hacked Android.”
> it's because English is an easily-learned language

The only way you could possibly believe that is because you are a native speaker and didn’t have to learn it as a second language. English is notorious for being difficult to learn. Especially the abomination of our written language. Try learning Spanish to see what a truly easily-learned language looks like.
> The TikTok ban debate would have never been needed if there were basic parental awareness.

The TikTok issues have never been about the health or safety of children. If it was, it the discussion would involve other social media.

It has always been about the TikTok’s governance structure, which legally and functionally enables espionage and/or psyops against a significant portion of people who do may be involved in things that are of a US national security interest. For example, you don’t want your government personnel doing important things while carrying a device that sends important contextual data to organizations which have CCP oversight.
> But at least “yes, it can do that”

That's a good point. Hardware failures are far more costly on a Mac that on a windows machine. I'm so far removed from that being an issue (because I'm old) that it is a privilege I forget I have. Duly noted.

Cygwin/MSYS/Mingw are really sad reflections of their source material. Not to take a big crap on the millions of man hours the developers have put into them, but they are not drop in replacements which is what I need. And in multiple cases over the years, they always fail to reproduce what is expected. These tools end up requiring their own special care in scripting, which is what I need them to avoid.
The article explains that the result holds when controlling for race (and income, and education).

Yes, there are racial disparities in life expectancy.

Still, people of all races in the US are behind their European counterparts in life expectancy.
Gish looks really nice. I'm going to give it a try.

It seems like you've been using similar workflows to what I've been trying for coding with gpt?

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/easy-chat#created-by-chatgp...