skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.is/2XYk2
Cost to whom? The genes? Sure. But as an individual, I'm willing to pay that cost (decreased diversity among living individuals; society supporting a non-reproductive member etc).

We are not slaves to biological statistical optimization. Haven't been for what? half a million years.
You must have some filter on. There are literally thousands of HN posts in the last few years about housing and crime and hundreds of which devolved into the dystopian hellhole memes endemic in the HN ideosphere.

The quickest path to karma at HN is to post anything about BA housing.
Most managers I've worked with haven't been shy about saying this. It's usually followed by "...but try asking <x>" or "Let me find out and get back to you".

To be honest, if anyone, in any role, never says "I don't know", I begin to question their abilities.
Everyone is a victim of this stuff, not just the upper class. Poor people getting to work having their car windows smashed multiple times is a serious issue. But the constant drumbeat of property crime, dirtiness, and leud acts in public it gets downplayed because the murder rate is less than it was during some prior horrible time in the city's history and people feel some need to defend their own city (and the particular sort of politics it's famous for).
A more disruptive and differentiated business model for AWS will be to offer their LLMs or open source LLMs as a Managed Service like RDS.
You still need a topic though.

It's one thing to advise people what to avoid, and a completely different thing to give ideas what they could talk about to break the ice instead.

Otherwise it's like: "So, do you like coffee?" "No." "Ah. ... [tumbleweed] ... so, what do you do for a living?"
It's a quote from the article. You might have missed it.

https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made...

It's an expression of appreciation for the author's saracastic humor, reporting on the thinness of evidence for anti-SF commentary, a major theme of the OP article.
> SF is not unsafe in any measurable way.

Well, no. SF is not unsafe in any measured way. You can easily observe from this thread, anecdotally, the police routinely ignore people shouting threats and other crimes. It's entirely possible that if we actually measured all of those, and counted them as the crimes that they are, that SF would look remarkably worse.
> sure does seem like people feel uncomfortable talking about how many tech execs end up poisoned by heroin from a prostitute

Source?
> Y'all colonized the poorest parts of the city and gave the poorest folks nowhere to go

I think part of this is not realizing that a lot of the locals (the previous colonizers) are part of the problem. I can guarantee that the colonizers would love for more housing to be built in SF because they don't want to pay $2m for a 2bd townhouse either.

A huge portion of the SF "colonizer" demographic can't even fucking vote. They're all on visas.
But Irvine has The Spectrum (is it still open?) and... The Spectrum! A real cultural nexus.
Are these systems essentially fully automated poststructuralist deconstruction?
Australia has had a ‘baby bonus’ for about 20 years now. It’s something like $2000 now, and is intended to subsidise the costs of child rearing, and bolster the country’s fertility rate.

It received some criticism when a small number of parents were reported to have bought flat screen TVs, but that was just a politicised attack on welfare recipients, who obviously don’t deserve our hard earned tax dollars, and should continue suffering in abject destitution.
I dislike the term "hallucinations" because I feel it also anthropomorphizes the process too much. Unfortunately, "random garbage output" is too many words, but that's closer to what I meant everywhere I used that word.

> Larger ones (e.g. GPT-4) can even spot their own hallucinations.

I've not yet been convinced that this is actually what is happening from the examples I've seen. It all looks to me like more "random garbage output" that "feels correct" but isn't provably correct. Most examples I've seen so far look too much like "Stochastic Crow Mode" [1]. It is prompts and questions that are doing much more work on the humans reading them (and our interests in anthropomorphizing them or mythologizing them) than the LLMs answering them.

[1] https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/110182336553459017
Nah lol. I tried.
Plenty of people would take a steady non-exciting maintenance job, especially if it paid remotely close to what Google pays. Many would even prefer it to a more exciting job.

There are thousands of companies that manage to maintain much more boring apps with salaries much lower than Google's.
Are you saying NPR is corrupt and depraved for leaving Twitter? That seems like a very odd take.

I find NPR news to be the most balanced news radio out there.
Company well known to be unethical with a long history of unethical behavior behaves unethically. The only people surprised, briefly, are the Uber employees who work hard to quickly forget this to justify continuing to work for Uber.
> That’d surprise me, where does he say that? (Even if he doesn’t it’s important to iron out though, so thanks for being critical!) The ~18us sound reasonable from my own experiments, and that’s with flush to file (using wal mode).

I was looking at the benchmark results at 13:27, but now I see there's another set of benchmark results shown at 29:13. He doesn't link to a repo for that second one, but in-memory vs persistent doesn't matter as much when measuring reads if the results are cached in memory.

> I agree unix sockets would be better for same host setup, but still, the more representative number for "typical use" would be networked, no?

If we're going by what's "representative", then a benchmark isn't useful, because Postgres and SQLite have dissimilar use cases. If you want to compare their performance, it only makes sense to eliminate confounding variables, of which the TCP/IP stack is significant.
I don’t live in SF, but I live nearby and take my kids there for outings pretty frequently. The news reports and anecdotes have made me a little wary of these outings, but our actual experiences never have. I don’t doubt that others have very different, equally valid experiences of the city, and I do hate to see the abject misery that’s on full display in some neighborhoods. But I’ve never felt unsafe there in the 30+ years I’ve been exploring the city, including while walking at night with little kids.
There are plenty of so-called shithole countries where I'd rather live than SF.
There are phones targeted at construction and emergency workers that manage waterproofing and removable batteries, they just have the opposite form and aesthetic of the iPhone.
You're implying that engineers have a say in product decisions. They often don't. A lot of what we are told to build comes from upper management unfortunately.

I wouldn't blame eng interviewing practices on this particular issue.
Again, I agree murders are important to discuss, but it is not a good idea to talk about smash and grabs like they are murders.
Oh, I was definitely apprehensive of imminent harm.

More details: Fairly normal-looking dude walked up next to me and kept pace for a couple minutes, threatening me and calling me "faggot" (which seemed odd, since I was walking with my girlfriend at the time). I didn't see an actual gun so I figured that the safest course of action was to simply ignore him until he presented more of a threat or walked away. I guess I bored him so he walked away.

The calm took some willpower.
If it serves of consolation, I always found that people who are not enamorated of power and have questionings about their leadership roles make the best leaders.

And man, have you ever considered coding again as a side gig? maybe start your own business on the side?
On a coarse-grained level the 9 main different mechanisms that make up "aging" have been known for at least a decade now[0].

Each of those areas has different and often vast variations of sub-mechanisms that need to be tackled and worked around, to ultimately "reverse"/stop aging. Some are being more concretely researched than others (.

The impact of tackling some of those areas are also smaller than some of the others, and to my knowledge there is no clear picture yet which of those are "low hanging fruits" (or if there are any), where solving e.g. 3 of them will increase average lifespan by 20 years. It could also be the case that it's mostly a long tail were each if them makes up for minor lifespan increases.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836174/
I don't think there's anything political about saying "those people were wrong, I wonder if they'll change their views when presented with evidence that they were wrong". I also wonder if the people that jumped to conclusions will examine why they did that, but that's not a political statement.
Manning was released from jail in early 2017 after her sentence was commuted by President Obama.
There is some relief in learning that a homeless person didn't commit this crime. However, the overall crime situation in SF, and other parts of the Bay, is still crazy... and I think that is the genesis of the 2600+ comment thread on the crime and homeless situation. SF crime IS A PROBLEM that is not being adequately addressed. So much so that folks assumed Bob was probably killed by a crazy drug addict or something. While wrong in this case, it was a reasonable first guess. And the conversation and flood of comment on the topic of crime flooded in from there.
I think it is important to note that police do not only protect adult residents.
My understanding is that there are big differences. Manning was an Army Private First Class, that is, enlisted military, who had specifically signed agreements to not disclose classified information.

It's not exactly the same thing, but similar things happen in private industry. If an employee of a company posted a trade secret the employee had agreed to keep secret, that's legally actionable, while others sharing it without any agreement with the company generally can't be sued.

That said, IANAL. If you need legal advise, I'm not it :-).
I prefer this one, personally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhekF0ZF1Pk
So much new legislation to write, so many budgets to allocate. Party hard!
Pretty sure "the right thing" == "the thing that makes them the most money" is just known as "business" these days.
This is the street-smart way of handling this type of danger. Growing up in a dangerous neighborhood in Jakarta, I've used similar tactics many times.
And government provides wheat and rice to those people at less than a dollar a month. India is pretty much a socialist country.
The US government doesn't hand out tax payers money without stipulations attached.
I had a very similar experience and at the end of the day I switched back to vi(m) (and specialized IDEs) mostly because I didn't have the time to constantly evolve my emacs environment to solve the tasks at hand efficiently. I can see the appeal of emacs though if you really have the time and energy to deep dive and make it your own environment.

To this day, I still swap ctrl/capslock - that is so useful that it should just be a standard.
> I walk around SoMa and it's a common occurence to walk past someone (loudly) muttering to themselves that they're going to kill or attack someone.

I'm not saying that they all have a tic disorder or OCD, but utterances such as this can be linked to them. Tourette's is not all people saying sexually explicit things, sexually explicit utterances are only about 10% of Tourette's cases.
Nobody actually knows who the person in question is yet, right? Besides (allegedly) the source from these articles. So where does this confidence come from?
IIUC, Assange is charged with hacking as opposed to leaking.

The fact that he's charged with hacking (merits aside) as opposed to leaking is proof that non-military citizens are indeed not breaking the law.
What'll they come for next, FFmpeg?
Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leak...

Main reporter tweeted:

> (Found him through his Steam profile, will write a step-by-step on the process at some point)

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1646545031493308421
> I can walk through the most dangerous part of Chicago tonight and I will almost certainly survive.

Go walk through O Block / West Garfield tonight and report back.
Whats the big deal here? Aren’t all btc transaction public record??
That's interesting about Chicago, that's one city where I imagined the murders would've had more of an effect.

It seems impossible that people don't even have to lock their bikes in a lot of Asian cities coming from the states.
Likely going to go away for a long while
I wonder how the government will find out who is eligible to the allowance and who is not.
State of the Cloud 2023
> have a rating system for their customers and will go after users with low ratings

Low ratings and racism or violence are categorically different. A single substantiated allegation (e.g. backed up with video) should result in a ban. It does in America.

Also, the article claims they do not go after users with low ratings.
Roboflow Annotate is now powered by the Segment Anything model
i have been using it for some time. Great, but it has a tendency to give short answers and don't use the full context available. even if you set the max response size to 20k.
An Alabama Kidnapping That’s Stranger Than Fiction
You completely misrepresented what they would prosecute, literally from the article you linked to:

> marijuana misdemeanors, including selling more than three ounces; not paying public transportation fare; trespassing except a fourth degree stalking charge, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration in certain cases, and prostitution

Literally nothing you insinuated. Please stop peddling lazy lies and ideas.
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I'm in doubt if is ethical journalism reveal the name and LinkedIn profile of an alleged killer, sounds like doxing to me.
Okay, but after saying things like that — the onus is on him to prove he didn't mean it, or that he's sincerely sorry.

I don't want to live in a world where people who say racist taunts are given the benefit of the doubt by default.
Yep DMCA exists for a reason. But YouTube doesn't want to loose out on Ad revenue by paywalling free content like Netflix does with paid content. The content itself apart from Trailers is mostly intended for public viewing regardless of whether YouTube has chosen to monetize it with Ads or whatever
Which other stabbings are you referring to?
Interesting paper, thanks for posting. The results for Python are not surprising.

Unfortunately there are no summary results, so I calculated them myself; the geomean of the factor "language x / C" for the time averages are:

- 1.2 for Go,

- 1.4 for Rust and

- 401.7 for Python.

According to Table 5 there are only C results, no C++ results. It's unfortunate that the authors put C and C++ on par, since the results are likely not the same and C++ is still rarely used on microcontroller embedded systems. I also do not find a clear statement in the paper whether the benchmarks were only run on one or distributed on both cores.

Also the conclusion is somewhat peculiar; it is to be expected that a single language might perform better or worse than another when just comparing single microbenchmarks; on its own, this says nothing at all. Only by comparing a set of suitable benchmarks that cover the all relevant challenges for a compiler and/or runtime system can one make a reasonably reliable statement about the performance difference.

But the authors' point seems to have been to show that Go and Rust (presumably Rust in particular) are suitable substitutes for C in terms of performance, but the data does not support this conclusion. That's probably why they left out the overall results, because they show that Rust is 40% slower than C, and surprisingly even slower than Go.
Shhh... don't mention that program. Do you want them to take that one down too?
FWIW, he mass blocks people who have _never_ interacted with him on twitter. If you happen to like a tweet from an account that he doesn't like, you're blocked!

I get that people need to protect their feeds for their mental health, but I'd expect a public figure to have thicker skin and not default to hitting the scorched-earth-mega-auto-block button so often.
> So, if US law permits or requests in some way interception of communications, or that operators have to report certain activities, then your right to secrecy is done.

Yep. FISA Section 702 allows that but supposedly only if you're not in the US and not an US citizen. Will an American get caught up the in the net? Maybe? Oh and it doesn't require a warrant. It's set to expire the end of this year but they've been known to renew it. https://www.eff.org/702-spying
The violent crime rate hasn't changed much. The total number of incidents[1] and population[2] have both decreased around 10% since 2019.

Do you have evidence to the contrary? You can't just claim everything is fine and discard all evidence you disagree with.

[1] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rat...

[2] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycaliforn...
It's certainly filler, but it's usually meant to mean "I'm taking your question seriously, but I don't know the answer at this moment".
Huh, my experience is the other way around. The "killer" of vim is the control scheme, and evil mode ports that over very faithfully to emacs. Then you get the best of both worlds. Why would you use vim other than in very barebones environments where you cannot access your own config?

(I also don't see how tramp is an issue -- it opens up workflows I wouldn't even have access to without it!)
Come on. You see it, right? It's bait.
> The printers of today are awful landfill fodder compared to the Okidata's of the 90's. Pure simplicity and speed vs FULL COMPUTERS, with scanning, faxing, and every other imaginable feature crammed in with zero hope of doing anything other than replacing the toner.

The first Laserwriter in 1985 had more processing power than the Macintosh it was sold to accompany.

Printers have been full computers for a long time now. As we expect them to do more and more, the computers in them get more and more complex.
"America, and many other western nations, face long-term harm unless they can come up with a solution.

'Declining birth rates will put America in a position where there are 'more older people and fewer workers,' Dr Kearney explains.

This will stress on public programs like social security and Medicare, where a younger workforce funds care for the elderly."

Well as a 30 something American, I don't really expect us to make sure our elderly are cared for. I expect that we'll let nature and the elements take care of the 'problem' after gutting of social programs. Excluding of course families with the money to afford to take care of their grandparents/parents.
The person you are replying to is asking why you're harvesting heights and weights of users. As if you have some nefarious plan for the information.
It’s pretty incredible to me that the whole community on the last thread was fixated on the fact that it must’ve been the homeless/drug addicts. What kind of place is it where you immediately dismiss premeditated murder, or even throw it up as 50-50?
> Give people money to go and eat a meal with strangers.

Given the subject line of this discussion includes the word "South Korea", I suggest you ask Mr Google about mukbang.
Good on them. Don't do business with entities that disrespect you and treat you poorly. Money is the one signal nobody ignores for long.
I used it as a student so I could watch lecture videos while in an area with poor network connectivity. It was my tuition funding the creation of these videos.
A nice (better?) alternative:

https://github.com/revanced
This project is very impressive! I do hope Supabase decides to support https://github.com/supabase-community/supabase-py , and not just leave it to the community. I would definitely consider becoming a paid customer, assuming Python was supported well/natively. If I am incorrect about Python support, please do let me know.
People are different. I grew up with clunky and noisy IBM keyboards. Really love the low key travel.
I assume gang related violence kinda skews the concept of the victims and perpetrators knowing each other.
The Internet has made it virtually impossible for people to say "I just don't know yet." Everyone feels like if they don't immediately come to a conclusion they're like left out or something.

I saw this most extremely during COVID, and I usually hate "both side-ing" things, but I did see this pretty extremely on both sides. "MASKS DON'T WORK!!", "YES THEY DO!!", "IT WAS A LAB LEAK!!", "IT WAS ANIMALS FROM THE WET MARKET!!", "KIDS ARE FINE!!", "KIDS ARE AT SERIOUS RISK!!". It's like at some point I just wanted to scream "Maybe we just don't know yet."
>The leader of a small online gaming chat group where a trove of classified U.S. intelligence documents leaked over the last few months is a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The New York Times.

>The national guardsman, whose name is Jack Teixeira, oversaw a private online group named Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leak...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35557583
That is really well done. The only thing that gives it away (to my ears at least) is it's missing the trademark stutter/repeating words.

(Not hating on Rogan, just listen to any real clip and you'll see what I mean, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvswhogSiY0)

EDIT: I listened longer and the AI actually is throwing in some "uhh"s and pauses. They don't sound completely naturally but it's still really impressive
> model makers continue to expect to build their wealth on others' IP with no consequences.

Is this not what record labels do?
Mods sometimes put "[redacted]" in a comment when we're taking out personally identifiable information, such as doxing or when a user asks us to edit out their name or email address after the fact.

In this case the GP contained a link to the suspect's linkedin page.

Edit: after thinking about it, I think we probably don't need to redact. If it were a random person caught up in the story it would be different, but once a person has been arrested for a crime they arguably become a public figure, even though innocent-until-proven-guilty is fortunately a thing.

It's a borderline case and I'm not sure, but anyway have restored the original comment for now.

Edit 2: plus the same link appears in the article itself.
> Our goal with Dioxus is to eat Electron, React Native, Flutter, Phoenix, Gatsby, and NextJS with one stack.

What of Phoenix are you looking to tackle?
I enjoyed the Factorio one.
I never would have guessed computers writing code would come before generating convincing voices.
I think this price might be part Apple tax. I just went on the browser and it's £11.99 but it's £15.99 through the iOS Youtube App so it's actually better value than IE if bought online.
>Y'all colonized the poorest parts of the city and gave the poorest folks nowhere to go, and you still complain when they dare to pop up where you are. I hope all that authenticity and exposed brick in your offices and apartments are worth it.

I'm curious who you think you're referring to when you make a statement like this. (Hint: You're probably wrong).
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