skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wouldn't be surprised if hiring decisions and admissions are also guided or influenced by such new ideological policing.

They are. If this is what they do openly, just imagine how severe the tacit, unofficial discrimination is, that they don't (yet) dare write down as official policy:

Study: Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs - https://freebeacon.com/campus/study-diversity-statements-req...

The University’s New Loyalty Oath [..] Required ‘diversity and inclusion’ statements amount to a political litmus test for hiring. - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-universitys-new-loyalty-oat...

Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity [..] In one example, of a pool of 894 candidates was narrowed down to 214 based solely on how convincing their plans to spread diversity were. - https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...
Passport Photos, from 'Anything Goes' to Today's Mugshots
So instead of looking for the root cause of the problem (probably many factors, not just one), the government is doing what a stupid government is always doing: throw some money at the problem hoping it will be effective enough to win the next election. It is not solving any problem, just rolling it for later.

SK has a huge demographic problem; this one cannot be fixed later, when people are in their 40-es or even 50-es they cannot have babies anymore. Also giving money to 9 year old to socialize is weird, one would rather have them do team activities like sport or boy/girl/mixed scout, not give money - what financial culture does a 9-year old have?
When you have to add so many rules and regulations you know it's not going to work. You can't force human interaction, is something that naturally happens (through common interests, goals and ideologies, spending lot of time together, etc.) or it doesn't.
do you see all the racist replies..
I mean we all know the reality was that people who don’t like the very liberal politics of SF were reasoning backwards to get to the “liberal politics causes murder” confirmation they crave. I don’t think anyone even pretended that condemnation of the city was a new conclusion for them.
Looking at the Microsoft link, the big difference seems to be age and relevance.

1. Skype for Business - 18 years old. Upgrade path to Microsoft Teams

2. Windows Server Essentials - 26 years old. Unsure how relevant this is today with everything going cloud-based

3. Atom - Wasn't originally a Microsoft product and they maintained it despite there already being a better Microsoft alternative for longer than expected. Also 9 years old
4. Internet Explorer - 27 years old and a clear upgrade path was available

5. Forza Street - F2P racing game. Can't excuse this one

6. Microsoft Academic - No excuse, however the data had an open license and migrated elsewhere

7. Channel 9 - 17 years old

8. Silverlight - 16 years old and the web had evolved beyond it long ago

Microsoft has killed 13 products since 2021 and many of them had simply run their course. Comparatively, Google has killed 57 products in that same time frame. Most of them are under 10 years old, many of them under 5. Many of them had not run their course and almost all of them had no clear upgrade or migration path.
It’s the same in SF, where the most visible crimes by far are not murder, but smash and grabs and shoplifting.
In my part of the US, you'll find at least as many women doing these things as men. But perhaps there's a regional difference. Women in your area are certainly doing something. Maybe a little detective work is in order.
Maybe Doom Emacs can win me back, I ended up preferring the vim emulation mode in Emacs, evil, over nvim but my dotfiles bitrotted over the long years
No, the majority of health issues are personal. Evolution optimizes species not individuals, so while some kids need glasses most kids don’t.

Evolution’s response to massive physical trauma can be things like wariness of heights rather than a body that can fall arbitrarily distances.
Scott Manley did quite a good video explaining the mission and the space craft's journey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mEehdFt9Yw
Bangladesh and Florida are two of the most vulnerable areas. Not only is Florida likely to be inundated entirely by a three meter rise, it is mostly fairly porous sandstone so if you want to build walls around your cities, they are super expensive and deep. Also Florida seems to be trying to increase the root causes of their own demise, so it’s sort of different than watching innocent people struck by tragedy; it’s people getting hurt by their own actions. More drama.
The SF-is-a-hellhole narrative is compelling, but the report that Lee was not the victim of a random crime shouldn't have been surprising. The FBI says 40+% of murders are committed by a family member or acquaintance, and 10% by total strangers:

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
75 comments yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35537719
Trades aren't unpopular as the popular narrative says - there's barriers to entry that few people are talking about.
Who will you sell your services to when no 1 can afford it anymore?
Well then, that just makes it all the more extreme. It would be like getting a record high in the late fall.
> Evolution has had billions of years to do it, and for whatever reason the conclusion is that either it's not possible, or the cost is not worth it.

For a lot of history dying young was common due to forces that have nothing to do with our own biology. So maybe it's more that environmental conditions did not give any reason for evolution to select for longer life, or select against cells that age. Also it might be that there are trade offs about selecting against cells that age that may have been sucky in the past and not led to fast reproduction, but that those trade offs don't matter now.
8-12 inches of moving water can float most vehicles away.
Juice Postponed
Watching from outside, the whole "Tech Bros vs. Woke Hippies" framing is just nuts. It's at most a local politics dispute over control over the SF city government. And yet it's spilled over into all kinds of radicalized global thinking.
People like pg and Garry are out there on twitter acting like the nutjobs trying to deny their startup workers housing and teach their kids about colonialism as a history paradigm are the Greatest Threat To Free Speech Worldwide.

Is it time now to maybe take a deep breath and think about maybe calling a truce? The hippies can be rough to live with but really they aren't so bad. I know a bunch.
That so far hasn't been documented in humans. Also, being overweight is a life shortener itself, so the question is just which is riskier on-balance.
FYI It also asks PIN from time to time on the same device too. Just a small inconvenience.
The Chicago one gets me. I am not in SF often but we have taken 3-day weekend trips to Chicago since my children were 3. Multiple times walking around downtown, enjoying Navy Pier, even a couple of cases where we were walking to our hotel probably later than we should have after the fireworks.

Not once did we ever feel unsafe in the 10 years we have made trips out there. But read the news and you'll think it was a lawless warzone.
thanks for the suggestion. We're working on a full RN example here:

https://github.com/supabase-community/create-t3-turbo

Unfortunately we didn't quite finish it for the launch today, but it will be ready next week and we'll add it to the documentation.
SV isn't a place any more than Wall Street is.
IQ scores are pseudoscientific rubbish. They belong in the eugenicist dustbin, along with phrenology.
One and Done library to power idempotent API requests
To be fair, bad genes need a way of being permanently kicked out of the mating pool. Death is perfectly effective at doing so.
In general any big box store that sells devices containing lion/lipo batteries will also have a recycling point for them. I can't remember if there is an actual law governing that, but I assume it isn't out of the goodness of the corporations hearts.

Stores like Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, Wegmans, Target, etc all have boxes you can drop bare lithium battery cells into. Usually right at the front of the store tucked off to the side somewhere. They usually have bags provided at the box to put the cells into. I deal with a lot of lipo batteries & don't want to be responsible for a fire, so I usually electrical tape the +/- terminals before dropping off as well.
> People aren't reporting assaults? Sounds completely absurd.

One reason this explanation falls flat is that reported and recorded property crimes have risen more. If the city were exceptionally underreporting crimes compared to the past or other cities, you'd see those disappear from the statistics more than e.g. homicides; it's much easier to ignore a stolen phone than it is a dead body.
Because you're already hosted on AWS and it's "good enough (tm)." That's basically the argument for why you use anything on AWS. They're not best-in-class in most of their service offerings.
Interesting, these look generated to me, wonder if they trained some kind of ab picture LoRA and are just using it with random celebrity names. The tinder glowup thing must either train another LoRA or maybe a full a dreambooth model tune on you and then combines that with the ab LoRA to make fake ab shots haha. Not sure these are high enough quality to fake anyone’s tinder profile but they would be good for gag gifts.
They literally have video of the dude stabbing him
Meanwhile... the life expectancy in the United States is on the decline.
I don't have anything constructive to add except, well done! Total commitment to the bit, investment far in excess of anything reasonable, great execution, full of whimsy, and it's grounded in ancient tech. Hilarious and also deeply impressive, and you pulled it off with a young kid in the house.
> SF may have big issues but using someone’s murder to further your political beliefs is horrible.

What political beliefs are you referring to? The one about SF's crime wave sounds precisely on topic, for example.

Edit: those downvotes were very quick.
There are no falsehoods in my statements and I provided backing sources. You're a an apologist for fascists and no amount of hand wringing will change that.
I've lived in Florida over 30 years. Mostly in the South, but also for stints in central and northern. I've literally never heard of a "dry season." yay-it's-not-raining-every-single-day-and-the-grass-isn't-flooded-season sure.
nice deflection but you aren't exactly making the case that SF isn't a violent and lawless place.
There's an app for that!
Can I please have this feature, for academic + scientific work?

1) Find relevant articles on Google Scholar (or just arxiv FTS if Google Scholar doesn't have an API)

2) Go to arxiv and download the latex source

3) Excerpt the relevant section in latex and feed it to GPT4

This is a game-changing technique because with the latex source it can easily understand maths and algorithms as well as other details. Then you can interrogate it as if it were an enthusiastic junior PhD student and make progress on new ML techniques much more quickly. "Turn this into pytorch code" is very very good when it has latex source.

I would be happy even if I could just automate the "fuzzy find this block of text in this arxiv's latex and use it as part of my prompt"
A species needs to reproduce to evolve and stay competitive, and then at that point they only need to live long enough to reproduce. I presume the lifespan of a species is roughly optimized for that.
It could still have been a drug deal - some companies have a guy who is the "hookup."

The problem with the discourse was that everyone forgot that people basically never get randomly murdered. There's almost always a reason for a murder - number 1 is domestic disputes, number 2 is gang-related, and the list goes on, but almost nobody gets murdered randomly. Assaults and thefts are a different story, and SF's problem with those crimes got conflated with a murder (which is a rare crime in SF).
Frequentist vs Bayesian
Yeah, but then you remember that this is Florida.
This is very hard to do. How do you get CRISPR to every cell in the body without incidentally killing you?
don't put this on me, you're the one who linked reason.com non-ironically

be better
> pay them to make round assets

Those require NURBS, Non-uniform rational basis spline, and (almost) no one does NURBS assets, because it is most of the time it is a unnecessary pain to use and manipulate them directly.
I don’t think that’s necessarily a problem. Technically every time you update gcc your compiler might produce a different underlying program for your source code.

The bigger problem is that LLMs are slow and expensive. Even in the future after many improvements, it makes more sense to have an LLM write a program once ever, rather than write a program on every compile or every execution.
Asimov got there first. :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Statue_for_Father
Paternalism is a good thing. One of the things that makes human beings successful as a species is learning successful behaviors. Carnegie was doing those towns a favor by ensuring that they thought through the logistics of operating a library—in the process learning how to operate a public institution.

People rail against paternalism out of a misguided egalitarianism. You see this all the time in the context of the World Bank and IMF telling developing countries how to run their economies. You know what? That’s a good thing. Singapore became one of the wealthiest countries in the world by studiously copying the aspects of the British financial and legal system that worked. NGOs that just give money without helping countries learn how to use it effectively aren’t doing anyone any favors.
This could be an opportunity for people to evaluate the accuracy of their mental models.
It weren't for medical science I'd be dead multiple times over by now due to causes that someone with better genes would have survived.

> Evolution’s response to massive physical trauma can be things like wariness of heights rather than a body that can fall arbitrarily distances.

It can be either or both. Cats tend to survive falls very well, as do insects, but for different reasons.
It's empty virtue signaling if they retain some patent or otherwise contractually obligate their vendors to not share the technology.

Apple sells a lot of kit for a tech company, but it is a drop in the bucket of the broader economy... even a hundred million phones.

They "did their part" in a way that 99% of other companies won't be able to.
I'm sure people said in the 1980s that open-source free compilers and open-source free operating systems were also an insane endeavor. A little research turns up this claim:

> "In 1987, the Borland Turbo C compiler for MS-DOS was priced at $99, while the Microsoft C compiler for MS-DOS was priced at $495. On the other hand, the Sun Microsystems SPARCstation C compiler for the SPARC platform was priced at $7,500."

I also think this is an area where OpenAI / GPT code generation will have a huge impact. It should be possible, given open-source hardware specs, to build the appropriate drivers for any operating system (i.e. Linux) quite quickly with the assistance of these new tools.
Provide a link to an empirical source or you’re literally just making this up based on feels and shit you see on TV…
Ignore "Virgin" and "Chad" in the headline. That's a meme format playing on stereotypes. Can easily be "one person says" and "another person responds"
Stadia failed because gaming is already hilariously cheap. even at the AAA "price point", you pay 60 dollars for 80 hours.

No subscription can compete with just owning the games and the hardware.
Surgeons’ perspectives on AI to support clinical decision-making
Why start by labelling those entities you don't like, then changing the rules to allow for this label, and then slowly adding (or not) to other entities? It would be so easy to do it in a way that doesn't seem childish.
More greenwashing garbage from Apple, a company that has been building devices with notoriously and deliberately poor repairability for years, and more recently, has been taking a giant shit on first-sale doctrine by refusing to provide any way for the new *legal* owners of decommissioned corporate hardware to de-list said hardware from MDM (org. device management), leading to entire laptops becoming soft-bricked e-waste well before the end of their reasonable lifespan.
$16k/year is not that uncommon. After taxes and fees, it's really not that far off.
They mean "public access" in contrast to an alternate timeline where the best LLms are kept in-house and used in products by specific companies but not made available for developers to use in their own applications.
I don't really get the distinction. I do get your point but x% of a species needing glasses is a species level error. And our entire species was susceptible to things like smallpox before we had vaccines for that stuff.
I can't advocate Supabase enough. Their combo of openness and elegance in their platform leaves me (a developer/entrepreneur) feeling secure.

This is perhaps a future topic, but to me it extends out of SSO:

Paul (@kiwicopple), do you have an opinion on which enterprise-grade AuthZ provider works best with Supabase?

I suspect it's Cerbos or Casbin, but if you ever do it in house (and since you've nailed AuthN that makes great sense), my wishlist:

- It should be as simple as an API end point, .approve(auth.jwt(), Array<Role | Permission>). I.e. be available in Edge Functions, Postgres Functions, and anywhere else.

- Use a policy schema with the most industry support for easier acceptance/integration with the enterprise.

- Flesh out with enterprise-ready policy auditing tools, logging, etc. This is the real time saving for developers.

- I really recommend Tailscale's ideas for better RBAC in https://tailscale.com/blog/rbac-like-it-was-meant-to-be/
Many companies in the US are monopolies, aren't a ton of companies owned by the same 6 parent companies
And also, Titan is the well-known name of a line of powerful NVIDIA GPUs that are suitable for AI/machine learning work... So...
Got pushed by family for more and more education. Had to win a lawsuit to pay off my debt, 478k for a useless and utterly worthless mfa in "critical studies", taught myself to code however now having reached 50 I'm kicked out of the economy, homeless and penniless.
> They're still fighting...

They = RIAA.
Did she actually "spill" coffee on him, or did she "throw" coffee on him?

Those aren't the same. At all.

Edit: nothing in the linked Guardian article says that it was "lukewarm", either, as some are suggesting.

"Spilling" "lukewarm" coffee and "throwing" "hot" coffee are definitely not the same thing.
> One could argue that Carnegie's wealth was itself a failure of good governance

I'm not sure there's a specifically compelling argument here. The man brought the Bessemer process to the US and basically invented the idea of vertical integration. That all made steel cheap enough for the US to rapidly industrialize. It seems like a set of accomplishments worth financial reward.

> and that these rules he made about giving away that wealth are paternalistic.

The culture of the wealthy at the turn of the last century was such that they believed their good fortune obligated them to help society and the poor. This was part and parcel with the late 19th century and early 20th century progressive movement.

Moreover Carnegie actively worked against some pretty nasty things the federal government was doing. At the time when Woodrow Wilson was re-segregating the federal government and showing Birth of a Nation in the White House, Carnegie was funding the Tuskegee Institute. At the end of the Spanish-American war, Carnegie butted heads with president McKinley and tried to secure the independence of the Philippines and joined the American Anti-Imperialist League.

Regarding your claim of a "policy failure", to what end would the government of 1900 have used Carnegie's money had they seized it? It likely would have fueled the occupation of the Philippines, Wilson's racist and messianic madness, or some other horrific endeavor. Yet, Carnegie used it to fight imperialism, build libraries, and aid the poor.
Free for individual use? Sold.
The thing that's so weird about that confirmation bias is that some folks held these inconsistent views even within a single HN comment.

There was a comment that was on that initial thread where the commenter said that they heard from "very well placed sources in the US Intelligence community this is probably a hit", and the commenter still went on to blame San Francisco for being a "crime ridden shithole". I responded with this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35456746 , it was just bizarre to me.
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Highcharts Python Integration Release
SF looks worse if it was a deranged tech bro, there are a lot more of those there than homeless people. Harder to avoid.
Google has already lost the GPT race, so I assume Bard won’t make it past three years from now. Of course, I’d like to eat my words on this in 2026. But much more innovation in GPTs and LLMs is coming from GitHub randoms than Google.

I don’t think Google can innovate anymore. They did a lot of great work as a startup and when they were much smaller (<10k headcount). Now most of what they do fails.
Nothing is ever due to a singular person, it's never about "you and I", we're collectively fucking up. Individually you can own 500 cars and take the plane everyday and keep a clear conscience
"We're building a road"
So, you're encouraging employees to be reckless with the company cars?
> Does Samsung even make "garbage tier" phones?

Some of their lowest end models, between their incredibly weak hardware and huge load of preinstalled crapware (some of which runs in the background), are pretty terrible user experiences. I hesitate to use the term “garbage tier” because it’s needlessly acerbic but it wouldn’t be an inaccurate descriptor.
I dunno about that in this case. The "confidently incorrect" problem seems inherent to the underlying algorithm to me. If it were solved, I suspect that would be a paradigm shift of the sort that happens on the years scale at best.
Archive link without paywall: https://archive.ph/lUtl6
I'd love to give it another try, but not convinced it's a good fit for me. Love it conceptually though.

The stumbling block I usually come to is wondering how to utilize these data sets on my smartphone in an efficient and effective manner.
Your point about non-urban regions is interesting. Haven't thought about that. I wonder whether it will also be much harder to show a tool like this to people there though.
> Citing murder rates (and ignoring other crimes) is one of the preferred tactics of people who want to say that big cities have low crime rates.

People in this thread are specifically talking about violent crimes, not all crimes, which murder rate seems to be one of the good metrics to use, no?
I wouldn't protest any of those things (assuming the celebrities consent to it). You're right that such a thing holds zero interest to me, but I don't find the idea objectionable. Celebrities are essentially "virtual people" to begin with (that is, celebrities are playing a role in public appearance -- you aren't seeing their true selves).

But I find the idea of replacing actual friends with simulations to be inherently objectionable.
Our research reveals the 100 most dangerous cities in America with 25,000 or more people, based on the number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents.

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/blog/top100dangerous
I wish more reporting would have the level of context and data that this piece does, instead of lazily quoting experts with an agenda.
Assault and battery and armed robbery are also violent crimes that are significantly under-reported.

/s lived in NYC for almost 40 years.