skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Homeless people turn down shelters because shelters aren't homes, and are often legitimately worse than being outside.

I keep hearing that homeless avoid shelters because of how dangerous the people are there[1]. And that’s a legitimate point. But then people completely wipe that point from their memory when they say “Just move these people to apartments, there will be no problem.”

If other homeless are saying that many of these individuals are too dangerous to be around, we shouldn’t be surprised if people who live in apartments feel the same way.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166666265/why-some-homeless-c...
Similarly I found Arch particularly badly suited for multiboot systems where one might spend extended periods of time not booted into Arch. Too often I'd reboot into Arch and run updates which would break the install somehow.

Fedora has been a decent in-between in my experience. Packages are reasonably up to date and updates are frequent, but I've never had a few weeks of accumulated updates break things which is nice.
It sucks, but at least he got all the payouts. And unlike Google, the office was closed, so it's more understandable.
Boabs are baobabs. Baobabs are a genus, with most of the 8 known species native to Madagascar and mainland Africa. Boabs is the Australian nickname for baobabs, applied to the one native Australian baobab.
Just tried it. I spoke and it turned what I said into a letter, a TikTok script, a song, etc.

I can see how it'd be helpful for times when I know what I want to say but not how to say it.

Just ramble and it turns it into polished writing.
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I agree that's what Americans should agree on, but did you miss the part where certain very prominent Americans have been vocal about how inconvenient the Constitution is and that any provision of it which they disagree with should be 'terminated'? I'm afraid we're not all on the same page wrt the Constitution.
I don't think it was possible to measure them separately until we had good satellite data from the last two decades. If we're extending trends back to the beginning of the industrial revolution, they're going to be mixed.
"Property value" is strongly correlated with the quality of life. Blaming people for wanting better (or, at least, not worsening) life for themselves and family will not get you far. Even if the current ideology encouraged that, in the long term it's not going to survive as the people's nature is not going to change.
It’s in the near past. https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
Ask HN: What are some important trends in technology besides AIs?
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524572 (TLDR: Blockchains again)

Thought that I should ask the rest of HN too
How's that supposed to work, when the process dictates that onboarding begins on your start date? If only we could give -10 days notice.
In this article I go in depth into various bitmap vectorization methods for the purpose of making plotter art.
you have to check your screen's firmware for that
I absolutely love that Andreas Kling doesn't care about it being hard/impossible, and just dives straight in with pure optimism. It's absolutely wonderful to see the joy and positivity.
Maybe she'll post some kind of clarification video. I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt that she has an interesting idea that is not well communicated, rather than a bad idea. But until then I basically have no idea how she was trying to suggest that its possible that FTL could exist. I don't really get her logic.
I could certainly see them being trained/used as a front end for a database(file system, api calls).
That punishes your old employer, not the one who's in a position to pull the offer.

It's fine, as long as you never want to go back.
The domain thing is very, very, very normal.

From Mozilla's trademark policy:
If you want to include all or part of a Mozilla trademark in a domain name, you have to receive written permission from Mozilla. People naturally associate domain names with organizations whose names sound similar. Almost any use of a Mozilla trademark in a domain name is likely to confuse consumers, thus running afoul of the overarching requirement that any use of a Mozilla trademark be non-confusing. If you would like to build a Mozilla, Firefox Internet browser or Thunderbird e-mail client promotional site for your region, we encourage you to join an existing official localization project.

From Node Foundation's trademark policy:
You need permission to register or use a domain name that contains a Node.js mark in it. Please don’t
register a domain that looks or sounds similar to a Node.js or includes a misspelled Node.js mark as that
can confuse community users

From Debian's trademark policy:
You cannot use Debian trademarks in a domain name, with or without commercial intent.
Very well said. What would you say CF has been investing in instead?
More like: the accessibility is what will make it go around. The accessibility is what changes everything! Getting an easy to use interface (instructions) over python changes the accessibility from the denizens of this website to ~anyone with a computer

If you're interested, see this paper that argues that point: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06541

Essentially, being label efficient is more important than being compute efficient, because the biggest computing constraint we have is enough humans doing the labeling (and knowing how to work a jupyter notebook), not tensor smashing nvidia cards
I have stuck with cheap VPS servers for as long as I can remember. It takes 5 minutes to deploy a full stack node.js app, along with a database - and I've yet to exhaust the resources on my VPS, even with all my side projects (production grade and hobby stuff).

Have always found it weird how so many heroku-style hosting providers charge _per app_, things get costly, quickly, when you have lots of small apps like I do.

Just yesterday I realised I'll need a database to store job queues for https://chatbling.net - ChatGPT helped me figure out how to install it, have it persist to disk, ensure it starts up with the system etc. It's nice to not be fearful of unexpected charges hitting my card.

To anyone reading, even if it's just for learning, every now and then, skip the vercel/fly.io/netlify/planetscale/upstash/render/railway whatever cool hosting provider is out, and give a $5 VPS a try.
I would be onboard to try something like that, but how is this practically possible? you have to pose for 1-2 weeks like you're working both jobs, and then the 2 more weeks for the notice? how is that possible?
It would be nice to be able to run an LLM-driven spamassassin on a VPS for acceptable cost.
I think the real benefits will be for those with an ad-hoc task and no programming/scripting ability.

Sure, you and I know how to write a little script to sort a directory of documents into "schoolwork" and "other stuff".

But most people don't have that ability, so giving them that would really help accessibility.
> in which jurisdiction?

It'd be the country of employment, but that presents a huge enforcement problem for people like this. Navigating your own country's legal system is hard enough, but another country's?
Every single job I have had since my first have been working with people I worked with before. If you burn all your bridges every time you change jobs, you are going to have a bad time.
> we cannot wait until someone is objectively dangerous ... it leaves very little time to actually intervene before something bad happens

I mean that feels like it's dangerously treading close to "pre-crime". I feel like it doesn't take much to extend that logic to poor rural children whose mothers are raising them in urban gang-run areas. I mean I can see the germ of the idea, but it's ripe for abuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-crime
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It sure looks like it's about the money to me.
Thanks for sharing!

The distributed ML currently seems focused on model execution. I see another commenter's excitement about "Looking forward to NX transformations that take distributed training next level." -- which I agree, will be quite interesting.

Where / how do you see Nx being used effectively in distributed training? Is distributed training a reality for open-sourced models to compete against big tech models?
The most usual patterns I have seen r using interfaces instead of inheritances and tagged union, and that's pretty much about it
Feel free to stop using the internet then, since it is built on apache / nginx / python / java / javascript / php and many other open source technologies.
I think ubuntu has a good argument[1] that it can still be shipped as a separate kernel module and satisfy both licenses.

"The CDDL applies to all files under the CDDL, while the GPLv2 applies to derivative works. The CDDL cannot apply to the Linux kernel because zfs.ko is a self-contained file system module — the kernel itself is quite obviously not a derivative work of this new file system."

[1] https://ubuntu.com/blog/zfs-licensing-and-linux
I don't know these answers, that's why I'd like more people that were knowledgable to talk about the entire carbon cycle of wind turbines with actual numbers and sources.
i'm not saying that the company has no responsibility... any company (even one as massive as google) can do better than an email and "so bad so sad".

However, regardless of economic factors, the process of quitting your job, selling your house, and most of your belongings is inherently risky! In this case its VERY high risk VERY high reward (at least in my estimation).

This definitely disadvantages people needing to relocate for that dream job, but we can't eliminate the risk of such a massive decision.
Yes, essentially a CRUD wrapper for a specific domain of tech.
You can negotiate that clause away. An employer that wants at-will employment periods should pay US wages or at least contractor rates for those periods.
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Getting a completely custom legal document from a big company is not going to happen outside of extraordinary circumstances.

That said, the relocation packages I’ve seen have been effectively similar to this. Having the offer revoked for cause (e.g. you lied) might cancel it, but getting laid off wouldn’t. Obviously not true everywhere though.
Ease of use is huge, so is deployment. Even as a software engineer the overhead for a random classification is so much lower.
I have thought about this a great deal, so please consider my thoughtful response. Compassion is about everyone and everything. I am extremely compassionate and I live to reduce suffering for the greatest number of people, and animals. It is possible to err on the side of providing accommodation to a few, while causing grief for the many. This is a calculus that is hard to make, but it is necessary nonetheless.
What I think you're trying to say is that because we can't trace the behaviour of ChatGPT or whatever, because they are black boxes, we might as well assume they work like a brain because we don't really know they're not; and that makes no sense at all. If you don't understand how something works, you wait until you can understand how it works. You don't just start coming up with fanciful theories that have no basis in fact.

If you want to say that a machine works like a brain, then you should explain how it does that. If you can't do that, then there's no reason for anyone to believe it, and there's no obvious reason for you to assume it. So at least explain why you think that ChatGPT works like a brain, if that's what you really think.
Base load is not propaganda. Grid stability and reliability is absolutely mandatory. We can't move off of fossil fuels if that means rolling blackouts when renewable energy generation is low. There are a variety of potential solutions but it will take decades to deploy those at scale.
But there isn't any public market.
Or hours reduced to part-time, or salary cut. As long as they don't try to do this retroactively, or cut your wage below the state minimum, it's not illegal for employers to do that in the US. Fortunately for the rest of the world, the US laws are quite less favorable to employees than many other countries.

Just set your VPN to an EU zone country and google "unlawful termination" if you're from the US / set your VPN to US if from EU, and read for some eye-openers!
> there was little economical need for Google to have any layoffs

There is. These large tech companies were growing headcount at 20-30%/year, maybe even more at peak. And their revenue is now flat. If you are growing headcount 20% year and revenue isn't going up, what does that indicate?

The purpose of a company is to sell things that people want, not provide welfare for the well-educated (Google is one of the worst for this, they are still massively, massively, massively overstaffed but the dual share class has insulated them...they are basically a bureaucracy attached to a monopoly...btw, almost every monopoly I have seen in the wild ends up this way, execs always go native).
I don't see how a competent legal team would ever sign-off on that.
In Scandinavia, isn't it glacial rebound rather than tectonic?
You only need to control about 10% to 15% of the stock to force through the kinds of layoffs and money saving activity that is happening. You don't even have to own that much, just band together with similar minded shareholders to form a voting block.
I don't think it will help. Actual friends occasionally send me mail that says "test" from a random account. And spammers do too... There is no way to seperate them.
Interesting take. So far I agree with what you're saying. It has given me more insight into how memory management works than I'd had before. I think one of the things that bugs me about javascript is how difficult it is to track down memory leaks. A problem I've often faced when dealing with large codebases and other peoples code. The memory management in Rust via the borrow checker is a very elegant as a solution. It's also a pain but not as hard to deal with as people make out.
Adjectives just don't work in a rigid fashion like that. There isn't a mechanistic process by which you take an adjective and noun combination and apply the one and only rule for deriving the meaning of that combination. Life might be simpler if there were, but it doesn't exist. Formal languages work that way, but natural languages don't.

Instead, you take the two words you want to put together to mean whatever you want it to mean, and if the meaning is useful and people could figure it out, you're allowed to use it.

So, a fake X can be something that isn't really an X. Or it can be something that is really an X but fakeness is involved in some other way.

For example, if you meet someone in a bar and ask for their number, and then when you later call them, some totally different person answers, you've been given a fake phone number. The number itself isn't fake. It's a valid number that works fine for placing phone calls. The fakeness is in who the number belongs to.

A fake person isn't a being who isn't really a person. It's a person who exhibits fake behavior.

A fake voice isn't a sound that wasn't produced by a human vocal tract. It's a voice that is produced by a human vocal tract but it isn't their normal voice. The fakeness is that it intentionally sounds different from their normal voice.
Russia has enacted a law today that basically says that you can't leave the country from the moment they decide to draft/mobilize you. So good thing you already have your belongings sold. Time to jump on a plane to Tbilisi.
It's a safety and inclusion thing, not politics. There just isn't a place for firearms at a meetup.
>Not much of a problem if you have an accounting department next to legal department on the same floor of your corporate building.

It's demonstrative to read the official EU impact assessments for a lot of their recent legislation. For example, the impact assessment for the EU AI Act estimated prior-to-launch compliance costs for a small business with one AI product at €400,000. But when you look into the assessment in more detail, that estimate actually excludes legal costs (not joking here). It creates a very uneven playing field for small innovators.
Is Supabase targeted towards webdev "apps" or mobile "apps"? As a mobile dev I got excited to check out a Firebase + serverless alternative, but the docs seem very targeted towards webdevs and non-native apps.

I see there's a 1.0 Swift library that's available, would love if someone can chime in with their experience using that in an iOS app.
> write it in your contract and see what comes back

The issue is that in many countries, employees don’t actually have contracts. Lawyers will go to great lengths to ensure that offer letters are not structured as contracts. It’s important to keep the distinction in mind.
I hope Couchbase AND Larry reads this because that's messed up. I would never even consider a job there after hearing this.
defaulting to a "Home" feed that includes posts from people I've never heard of is a bad start

https://substack.com/notes
A bit different then witchcraft, in that it actually works.
The linked page has lots of bullish prose, but the data is pretty dismal:

https://a16zcrypto.com/stateofcrypto/

Lots of those charts are very much not up-and-to-the-right. There's almost nothing, if I was a crypto evangelist, that I'd be able to confidently point to as a sign that crypto is healthy and growing. On the contrary, there's lots of compelling signals that the opposite is true.

Most fundamental, no software platform can succeed without developers. They lost a quarter of their active developers in 2022. Interested developers have fallen in 2022. People deploying contacts have held steady at best. Academia has plateaued at best and is about to fall off at worst. Job search interest has plummeted. Mobile wallet users have crashed hard.

Is there any good news for crypto enthusiasts here?
Weird title. Their offer was rescinded 10 days before the start date. They didn't work at Google at all.
There's even a waterfall that reverses direction based on the tides!
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> That too should result in us investingating why they refuse that housing

We’re talking about people with severe mental illness. They are not able to reason effectively and rationally.
Larry/Sergey is firmly in control of Google. Even if you buy up all the available GOOGL shares you will be outvoted by them. The company is not owned by Wall Street. Employees and most investors have GOOG stock that has no voting rights.
I think I will call this - "Revere Censorship" and it's the way the likes of
George Orwell's "1984",
John Carpenter's "They Live",
Aldus Huxley's "A Brave New World",
along with the ideas pushed by the government (WEF) in Ayan Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
are slowly being brought to life.
Soon there will be a City of Ember to contend with, not to mentioned Enders Game...
As I keep saying, the future is written in the past.
Totally agree. If that's the goal then great. I'm an introvert myself and I completely relate.

But I do have a desire to produce great photos that meet my own standards of quality and including people is one of my personal standards.

If you've never tried such a thing, I recommend you try at least once to produce an album that includes a lot of photos interspersed with a good amount of people and portraits. Its definitely more uncomfortable to create such an album but personally, for me it enhances the album much more. Just a recommendation from one introvert to another.
No it's called the socratic method. You've ignored the meat of my question and now try to label it as bad faith I assume with that term.

I was asking about the scale of lithium mining if it were to replace nat. gas and coal for energy production. Not just EVs. Have you seen a study of the projected impact of that?
In 20 years, I wonder if we'll be disposing of more composite turbines or airframes.
If someone sold me support for a piece of open source software (like ISC and BIND) then I definitely would expect some level of liability if there's something wrong with it.

Otherwise why would I pay for support if I could just self-host? They can strictly define the parts they are willing to support, though.
Many if not most people are better at describing "what should be different" given a concrete thing than they are at describing "what should be" given a blank sheet. The idea is to build that fact into the work plan.
The web came for real estate brokers, and we still have real estate brokers. Why? I have no idea, but some people still want a traditional experience.
> That's not to say they failed and the president is a king, but the president is not entirely un-king-like either.

Since a king is literally all of the functions of government, there is really no way to argue that any part of a government isn't somewhat king like.

In the US, the Judiciary with lifetime appointments and review power was always viewed as the most king-like.
Transflective lcd

It is both transmissive and reflective. With back light, light goes through it. Without backlight, light is reflected off of
> we'll be settling for more, worse-quality content

which is hilarious because one of the main use cases I want to use LLMs for is "hey, call your web-fetch plugin, scan this page, summarize it".

topic -> LLM hydrates it -> user -> passes it to LLM, asking to condense it

kind of funny
The point of SF's progressive movement is to fight back against conservative policies with an example of what progressive politics can accomplish. It's not exactly working out now is it? SF itself is the city where all of the beautiful progressive ideas come together in harmony and make a heavenly place. It is absolutely incorrect in that assessment of itself. Spend 5 minutes at a city council meeting and you will see exactly what I mean. Same thing happens in Oakland. The city spends an awful lot of time commenting on what's going on in conservative areas and passing rules and laws that seemingly address those things but are really just talk. And then they continue to ignore the real problems of crime and homelessness. Oakland and SF love passing support statements for people having issues in other states, but can't get their own Police Departments to even show up to do their jobs. Priorities are entirely wrong.