skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SF's violent crime rate is low compared to most other cities. There's a fair bit of property crime (theft, burglary, etc) though, and drug usage, and that perhaps makes people feel unsafe.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francis...

The thing is you go to google news, you search Houston violence, which is significantly more dangerous, perhaps the most dangerous big city in the country in terms of violent crime per capita per the above article, and you don't get articles on how terribly violent it is. Houston of course is in a conservative state, SF is a liberal lgbtq+ friendly city where former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is from, so it's fun to act like the city is horrible. The city is not horrible, though the poverty of folks here is making things worse. We aren't building enough housing, wages aren't increasing at the rate that rent is, so we get homeless people, because that's how not being able to afford rent works.

Obviously I don't want there to be any violent crime anywhere, including here in San Francisco. Still it seems far more likely this store is closing for economic reasons unrelated to worker safety. I bet the investor call they do when they release earnings will actually provide a better look at things.

Incidentally we have a pretty good idea of the factors that affect violent crime rates and what to do about it, which is mostly investment in places and people.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/want-to-reduce-violence-i...
In order to see customize options, we have to be logged in. I don’t see why that is necessary.

I scanned the QR code and it was uniqr.us#. Nothing to see here.

All it did was take my picture and make it the background of a we code.
Great approach. Wish there would be more vendors like that. This way we wouldn't even need to talk about SSO-Tax, availability of SCIM/SAML etc.
Hospitals have been required to post price lists for several years.

https://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency
What is a CRDT?
Artificial Intelligence Discovers Secret Equation for ‘Weighing’ Galaxy Clusters
If I quit and gave two weeks notice (and expected to be paid for that time), I would absolutely expect to be working for those two weeks doing the whole handoff thing which is why notice is often the custom. Past that, I'd expect vacation to be either paid out where those are the rules or taken after "last day of work" (which has some benefits for the employee).

In this case, you probably weren't actually required so if you really wanted to take the full vacation, you should probably be have been "I won't be here on Monday."
> AI seems to progress in bursts

Historically yes. Today, no way. It's a sprint and it's not slowing down.
> The amount paid is nowhere close to that, sometimes nothing is paid. The final price is always negotiated vastly lower.

Wow, look at the Stockholm Syndrome on this guy!

As if that's an acceptable normal process for anyone to be subjected to...
i think they are looking to have something spare for investing in retirement
I've lived in Singapore. If you carry more than 15 grams of heroin or 500g of cannabis in the country you are going to be executed. Weirdly enough, there's not a lot of career criminals or people making a living in crime in the country. IIRC 97% of women say they feel safe walking through Singapore at night.

Before you dismiss waging war on drugs have you considered waging it seriously?
The dictionary says it means "a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made."

So it is both "Look" and "function". Claiming looks aren't part of it is incorrect.
Well yes, and worse, after opening it on a desktop browser, it still looks pretty average, and the way the background brightens as you scroll down is very distracting.
Most were. Still, their staff do. But the point you're appearing to make normalizes injustice if they didn't happen to take an oath. What does this have to do with anything?
Dang. I don't have a lot of financial reasons to prefer living in Canada, but that's definitely one (for now at least).

That's rough though, lucky you didn't get sick. It's not a choice I'd like to make.
Oracle and Microsoft will send you a million dollar bill if you tried that with their products. You would be surprised by who rats out a company for a reward
I don’t think it’s only helpful to the algorithm. It’s also helpful for me as a subscriber.

If I want to watch episodes of Breaking Bad, I don’t want you to randomly throw in episodes or M*A*S*H (even though both are good).
Is it really asshole-ness?

YC/Reddit/SE being good/bad/worse for self-promotion seems to be 100% in line with the intended use of these sites.
Doesn't matter. Nothing has changed.
Anyone else rather hunt through source code to find the king easter egg than to actually click only kings and nothing in between?
There kind of was a brief period, maybe 4 years? 2014 - 2018 or so when mid-market was looking up. Twitter was there. Square, and Uber.

Businesses were moving in, buildings were getting renovated.

Then it turned the wrong direction again, and now we have what we have.
25 years!
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3424805/
I do this with Ubuntu. Snap is annoying yes. And I don’t like some of the changes, at least how they are implementing them (ie: systemd, netplan) during upgrades etc. but it’s serviceable.

I only use windows to play games. But frankly, my personal laptop is used mostly for that, if at all. I have a work laptop provided to me for work stuff.

I still tend to use Ubuntu for the occasional freelance, research or teaching work I do though.

I’m not an evangelist on OS. I’ve used centos, fedora, Debian, mint, elementaryos and even for a time was swapping out DEs for window manager things like awesomeWM.

But at this stage in the game I’m too lazy to tinker with making the OS work. And Ubuntu tends to do well with mixed hardware such as having iris xe and nvidia chips on a single board. So I went with that.
> When the system does need a human pilot to do something, it usually just needs the human to expertly execute a particular sequence of maneuvers. Mostly things go right. Mostly the humans do what they are asked to do, when they are asked to do it. But it should come as no surprise that when things do go wrong, it is quite often the humans and not the machines that are at fault.

Actually that’s dead wrong, it is the system that is at fault here, rarely or never the human. Otherwise I thought this was a really good read.
I don't think we should pretend that google doesn't have the power to crush spam today if it wanted to. They have chosen to let scrappers have top spots in their search results and their reputation is dying as a result.
Agreed while this is excessive, many hospitals do this to cover the uninsured who don't pay their bills. Hospitals have to care for such patients due to EMTALA. Consequently many non-academic hospitals are under huge financial stress (https://www.kqed.org/science/1981588/half-of-california-hosp...) and go after anyone that can pay to the point of bankrupting them. The US medical system is simply dysfunctional.
I hate how once you mention guns, peoples brains shut off and turn into "must virtue signal my ideology mode", that prevents them from either reading or comprehending the full post.

There is a world where normal ordinary people with a job and a place to live get guns, while people who are homeless/mentally ill/ on drugs dont.
> people don't realize it's really rude to basically tell someone that their life's work is boring and they hated it when they were 16

They generally do, but when you drop something like "I'm a research chemist" on them, they freeze up. In most jobs, there's a certain commonality of experiences. Oh, tell me about your craziest customer stories, or the worst meeting you ever flew across the country for, or whatever. When you have a job that doesn't fall into an "office work" category... that isn't going to work out. Since most people aren't great or even good conversationalists, they're going to fire off a lame joke and hope it's not a total disaster.

I'm an anesthesiologist. If I never hear another family member say "you're going to need a really big hammer to knock him/her out", I'll join the church of whatever god made that happen. In purely social situations, though, I know it's a conversation-killer, because most doctors don't know much about what I do, let alone laymen. So I have a small repertoire of ways to redirect the conversation back to "let's get to know each other a bit" topics. I think anyone in an unusual (but not, on its face, fascinating) job does.
I'll add another to the anecdata. We saw this issue with RabbitMQ. We replaced it with SQS at the time but we're currently rebuilding it all on SELECT FOR UPDATE.

Our problem was that when a consumer hung on a poison pilled message, the prefetched messages would not be released. We fixed the hanging, but hit a similar issue, and then we fixed that, etc.

We moved to SQS for other reasons (the primary being that we sometimes saturated a single erlang process per rabbit queue), but moving to the SQS visibility timeout model has in general been easier to reason about and has been a better operations experience.

However, we've found that all the jobs are in postgres anyway, and being able to index into our job queue and remove jobs is really useful. We started storing job metadata (including "don't process this job") in postgres and checking it at the start of all our queue workers and we've decided that our lives would be simpler if it was all in postgres.

It's still an experiment on our part, but we've seen a lot of strong stories around it and think it's worth trying out.
I thought the same thing. As ugly as all those "WinForms"-esque 90s applications were, they presented dense amounts of information in a usable way, provided you had time to learn the application.
Had meant few hundred... :-)
Use the TV Tropes database, generate a storyline [0] and characters [1] and then let the AI loose.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/storygen.php
[1] https://en.shindanmaker.com/744084
The magic is really in how absurdly high-dimensional those vectors are. The dimensionality of the latent space in current breed of LLMs is, IIRC, on the order of hundred thousand dimensions.

Now, even if all the model does is 1) turn your prompt into high-dimensional vectors, 2) run an adjacency search to find the vectors in the latent space nearest to your vector, and 3) translate those vectors back to tokens, it's more than enough for it to work with concepts. Again, we're talking 1000 to 100 000 dimensional vectors here. Any kind of semantic similarity between words you can think of (tree - green - grass, tree - tall - skyscraper, tree - data structure, tree - files, etc.) can fit in there - the relevant words (tokens) will be close together along some dimensions. So, if you pick a vector somewhere in the latent space, and look around (in hundred thousand dimensions) for its nearest neighbors, the group of points you'd be looking at is, IMHO, a concept in its raw form.
Agreed, but not only stupid, she has some kind of sociopathic disorder which is what's causing all this chaos. And the pretty disgraceful idea to bring lives into the world that would depend on her to try and get herself out of it. I can't help but see her having children as yet another calculated, cynical and nutty move on her part.
> "Isn't this food great?" "Yeah, it's delicious"!

To me, that is not small talk. It's nothing: it's filler sounds made to break silence.

Small talk would be: "what did you think of the food? I've never had potatoes cooked that way before."

Give the other person something to go on, at least.
Even smaller nit-pick: what you’re describing would seem to be more “small screen size” rather than “mobile”
Does anyone have advice on how to protect yourself from bills like this?

My insurance is fighting me on a $450 test (that I could have gotten done with an Amazon kit for $80).
> Having a pistol come out of the holster ready-to-fire is always going to be advantageous to having to remember to manipulate the safety lever,

Just like not wearing seatbelts is safer, since you get thrown clear of the wreck?

Officers get in waaaay more physical altercations than quick-draw duels at the OK Corral. Lack of safety switches is only more advantageous to the subjects they inevitably end up grappling with, who have one less step to deal with in removing the officer's service weapon and using it against them.
maybe wait for gcodeGPT?
We're quite literally to the point where something like a 20-strike law, which sounds like parody, would actually be quite useful.
Using a DB as an event queue opens up many options not easily possible with traditional queues. You can dedupe your events by upserting. You can easily implement dynamic priority adjustment to adjust processing order. Dedupe and priority adjustment feels like an operational superpower.
A lot of people here will say "never", and they'll drag the rest of us to hell on the way to creating their "heaven".
Looks excellent. I'll even give it a pass for using C (bonus points for Lua). Thanks!

I want to take David Given's Master Class!
I got charged $5000 for a 30-minute preventative echocardiogram (basically an ultrasound) that insurance was supposed to pay 100%.

20 emails later it's now at debt collectors, and I've contested the debt twice.

I'm ready to appear in court if I have to. I'm ready to pay $8K in lawyer fees to get rid of this $5K bill because it's wrong. I just don't want this to impact my credit score because it's not my debt.

I hate you, Stanford Healthcare.
TIL Vacaville is considered Bay Area... that's a pretty far drive from SF.
It's slow AF on multiple machines my side too so he is not alone.

>learn to use your machine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I didn't miss them - I don't have fond memories of them as either a user or a developer. But you're right, they were there. Which is interesting: Java Applets were available from close to day one right along side JavaScript, and yet...

There are two use cases for the web. There is the document web and the application web. Both are equally valid. It is absolutely an application platform, as evidence by the fact people use it to deliver applications. An ever increasing percentage of desktop software is moving to the browser, to the point where many users only need a web browser. I'd argue the only reason mobile hasn't followed suite is the non-market forces behind the app store model.

It is one of the best application platforms for both users and developers. I can write my software exactly one time and it will run on every platform, instead of separate applications for Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, etc. etc.

I can assume my users have a web browser - because they do. For interpreted languages (and VMs) I either have to walk my users through setting up the interpreter or bundle it into the distributable.

Compared to everything else I've worked with, the web as an application delivery platform is great. I write my code, send someone a link, and they are running my app.
We're not nihilists so we treat them anyway against their will.

"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?"
Lots of EVs can support V2H/V2G already - VW ID4, Ford F150 Lightning, Nissan Leaf, etc.

2023 is a big year as companies like Enphase will roll out bidirectional charging support for solar installations [1]. Got a powerwall? How about an additional 5 from your Leaf (or 10 from your Lighting)? Pretty exciting.

[1] https://enphase.com/ev-chargers/bidirectional
I hate that specific issue.

Do not ask me if I want to tap a contactless card or insert my card. I'll do one or the other and then you'll know what I want.

I call this dropdown-driven-design. "Our UI builder tool had this option, so we have to use it".
Multiplayer didn't seem to work - nothing synced, buttons didn't work, and I couldn't even flip cards (Firefox).

Single-player seems fine though.
Hard agree. I've worked with specialised user researchers before and holy shit they're good. I've never ever once thought doing research was a waste of time. It's so worth the money.

It's just really easy to get trapped in your own biases - often the bias of "This isn't that complicated, I understand it so the customer can too", and the "I know what they want" one. So in the face of 'we need to deliver fast', a lot of people won't take the time to invest in it.

If anyones interested in research methods, highly reccomend this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Methods-Design-Innovative-E...
What I don't understand is how your comment connects to the comment you were replying to.
>I hardly think them on the cusp of emitting fine translations of great poems or novels.

Have you seen what ChatGPT is capable of with “in the style of”? It’s definitely beyond menu translation.
Universities aren't learning institutions anymore, they are businesses. They are not run by academics, but by managers who in the face of criticism spew "hooray statements" about mental-health frameworks instead of improving conditions. They no longer have students, but customers.

And customers, if they don't get what they paid for, complain.
>> Scientists getting things wrong isn't some gotcha that proves science is broken, it shows that science is working.

See this is the attitude that causes people to give up in disgust:

If scientists make correct predictions, that's science working!

If scientists make wrong predictions, that's also science working!

Literally no matter what they do or what happens, they cannot lose.

>> People don't like uncertainty

People are fine with scientific understanding being uncertain. They are not fine with being told by scientists that The Science is so certain it's undisputable, that the only people who disagree are paid to do so, that the world should undergo massive changes on the back of this 100% certain science and then when their predictions are all invalidated it's "hey, being wrong is all just part of the process, if you don't understand that you don't understand science!".

If scientists make a confident prediction and then turn out to have been woefully misjudging their own competence, it is correct and right that their reputations are trashed and they should get defunded. But that doesn't happen. Instead we get the Believe Science brigade who insist that all those bad predictions never happened, if they did happen it wasn't a problem and anyone saying otherwise needs to be suppressed.

And BTW both quotes come with literally an entire article of context, and Hansen wrote a whole article for the Guardian in which he makes the same predictions about Arctic ice. So please don't try to claim he never said these things. He's on record as doing so, many times in many contexts.
All the better for consumers who want EVs.
Yeah I moved to SF in 2009 and away in 2022. It got a LOT worse in the last few years, especially the area you talk about.

In the early to mid 2010s I used to spend quite a bit of time in the TL. There were restaurants and bars there you'd want to go to. Now, you don't even really want to drive through. It's so bad...
Apparently that is what you choose to believe.
People visit the site because they want more info if the summary isn't enough. No way to do that with chatGPT. This limitation probably means search engines are safe for now
No expert, but here's what I found, because I was curious too.

Ice in water doesn't change the waters height. If you put an ice cube in a cup, the water will be the same height after the ice has melted [1], since the "excess" is lifted out of the water. For some numbers, in 2020, it looks like total sea ice peaked at 18,785 km3, with the oceans volume being 130,000,000, so 0.014% [2].

The thermal expansion of water, as liquid form, is going to be much more important [3].

Related, every time I try to look into climate numbers, I get the sense that there's a gap between grade school explanations and research papers. There's not much between. Asking ChatGPT just reinforces this view. It treats me like a kid, or wraps unsolicited disclaimers/summaries around everything.

1. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110645/why-does-...

2. https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2020/ArtMID/...

3 https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/506759/how-much-...
But your durability goes down the drain on power loss or similar. Files are _really_ complicated to get durable.
It's one thing "faking it until you make it" where consumer trinkets and timewasterish websites are concerned, it's a whole other matter where people's health and lives are at risk. That isn't an arena for faking it.
So healthcare costs like 500-1k per month for the good stuff. And you still might have to pay through the nose for a £75 vaccine?

Or is this a case of bad insurance?

That the US can spy on the entire world but can't get its own people basic healthcare is shocking.
There is some indication that how emotional you are during an experience will 1) color your recollection, and 2) affect how readily you remember a thing.

It would be interesting to augment this particular simulation with those additional constraints. A memory/concept graph could also be an interesting addition (like a DB? Maybe just text and kw searches?).
Most Americans don't realize how bad they have it. They've grown accustomed to being punched and slapped around and so won't rebel. They'll keep giving all of what little and shrinking of what they have to legitimized criminals.
You literally said Twitter is less of an echo chamber and that makes me upset. I enjoy seeing a wide spectrum of ideas.
He's not a kid using his parents money. He's using his own and his personal name/reputation to secure money.
He's not hurting an ant. He fired people and let them go find other jobs which seems pretty fair instead of for example reducing their pay drastically and forcing them to quit, or paying them minimum wage and profit sharing. Which still would have been pretty fair IMO.
Not every ceo or company owners needs to be operating a charity like the previous Twitter CEO was.
I should have also been a little more specific with the "the math doesn't prove or disprove it" as in, "the math as it currently stands does not prove or disprove it." Which is true of a lot of theories in physics. There is a possibility and the math and experimentation isn't there yet to decide if the theory is correct or not. Not that the math will never come, but the equations are not there today.

To answer the question, within reasonable limits, yes. If it is a thought experiment to provoke looking at a problem a different way, it could be useful. While Fred Hoyle's steady state theory didn't hold much water, using it as a basis to analyze certain problems, he was able to held figure out Nucleosynthesis. The problem is knowing the reasonable limits. Like, don't let it consume your entire life's work and use it as a means to analyze a problem from a different angle.

In context of Roger Penrose, it may be illuminating. Right now, I imagine most are trying to solve the problem starting at the big bang and working backwards. Penrose is essentially trying to pick some arbitrary potential solution and asking, "if this is true, what else must be true" and seeing if he can work his way forward to the Big Bang or not.
What's the back-end? Do you generate those HTML responses via a normal template engine, or is there some sort of deeper integration with HTMX on the backend?
It’s closer to

Seller Assumes Liability for Injury†

†Seller Assumes No Liability for Injury
The insurance paid out 58,000, the couple paid out 3000-something. So even if the initial 200k was a 'mistake', the actual billed service is insane for a $600 shot (2x). The entire bill should have been much less than their out of pocket.

So there is more to the story.