skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are there so many people living in the streets of the big cities?

Because the US is an extremely decadent society and people have a lot of free time to become addicted to drugs. In my home city of Portland, where we have a huge homeless problem, a solid portion of the homeless actually come from families with higher-than-median income, and are choosing to be homeless. I just recently went to a talk by a local homeless non-profit group and the social worker flat out said the majority of the people he interacts with do not want treatment. They exist on the street simply because the city tolerates it.

> Something failed in their lives.

Yes... indeed. The United States is too rich and this is a 'we have too much money' problem, and a 'too much freedom' problem. No one is willing to do what's necessary to force the homeless to live in a civilized, hygienic manner.

Look.. my family is from a third world country. Whenever we visit... we see true homelessness. True homelessness is when families are simply too poor to be able to afford housing and live in slums. This looks nothing like the homeless in Portland, who are all single men / occassional single women. These are mentally addled drug addicts, not simply 'normal' people down on their luck. Contrary to what the activists say, poverty itself does not cause people to behave this way. In my parent's home country, the poor homeless behaved normally, they just didn't have homes, and should one give them enough money, they would move into one. In Portland, no one wants to move into a home, which is why we have empty beds every single night.
Reddit is not public yet.

But in the push to become public the site becomes worse and worse.

First they created the "new" reddit, which is picture and ad driven. This might bring in stupid people, but kills usability and long term harms quality discussion.

Then they started to not so subtly push the new reddit: you need to go there to setup cookies, the site "accidently" turns it on like once per month, things dont work in old reddit (e.g. polls).

Now they killed i.reddit (aka .compact reddit) what kills the smooth phone experience. When I open reddit on phone now, like every page takes 5 seconds to load, then nags me to install their app, then is unreadable mess.

Since Im ranting: oh how much I miss the reddit toolbar (top comments on one part of the screen and website on other). I wish there was an addon that could emulate it - perhaps by opening two separate windows somehow and gluing them.
For 140 years time-wasting has afflicted football and there is still no solution
Yes, I've always needed substantial "alone time". But in none of my businesses (over the last 20 years -- yes, before reasonable videoconferencing) have I ever required my employees to come into the office except occasionally for important meetings. I have office space for those who do, but it's entirely up to their own preference.

That practice has never been an impediment to having a productive team environment.
Why on earth would you still do business with Wells Fargo? I mean big banks are scumbags, but Wells Fargo are PROVEN scumbags several times over.
Perhaps it's overly reductionist, but I think a lot of The Google's issues come down to their self-image. To this day they're stuck in the year 2006 when everybody and their grandma saw them as "cool", "innovative", "not Micro$oft", and "not evil." Most average joes don't believe those things anymore and just see The Google as the default thingamahoozie for looking up stuff on their phone. The Google believed they could grow rapidly and structure themselves with ordered-chaos because they were the chosen ones. Their road has yet to have become bumpy enough that they get knocked down a peg and forced to look at themselves in the mirror. Their hubris has allowed them to believe that they have no serious competition; just because your competition isn't actively competing now doesn't mean they won't be down the road when you're weak.

In regards to engineering, the quality of engineering is largely overrated and isn't even that well understood in the first place. Most systems are poorly engineered, and many engineering teams are inefficient, not because of the years of experience of the engineers or even so much their talent but because of bad management. Senior and lead engineers can massage a junior writing l33t code into only submitting PRs that are competently written. But if management gives engineering lip service while undermining their ability to write quality code, and the engineers who actually care end up leaving as a result, then all you're going to get is endless duct-taping and half-assed projects. Worse yet, you get almost nothing but makework projects that go nowhere because project manager #8,592 needs to look important to save their job.
Not the exact issue you were commenting on, but it struck me as a little weird to have a [1] and no link or footnote that goes with it

I think this is the op ed being referenced https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...
Pornhub, a few years ago, wasn't this strict. It was a hotbed for revenge porn. Because it's now cleaned up, because it had to, doesn't mean companies like Visa and Mastercard have to come back and work with it.
The average spending isn't much affected by private schools. Not like you seem to think. No billionaires are spending $10million/year on their kindergarteners.

Public spending per pupil is quite high, when federal and state funding are both considered. Public students aren't being underfunded. The money's just not buying what you think it buys. Is that difficult to believe?

> I have not said that,

I don't know how to parse your first comment other than that. I don't want to live in the same country as someone who would deny my children the education I would provide for them, so that they can be turned into imbeciles in public schools. This is a deeply important issue for me. I will never allow mine to go near a public school.

There is no balance to strike. Let those who wish to do so, go their own way.
Right, but the person I responded to spoke as if this was going to be a way to increase consumer choice. It's not.

Everyone will not get "the privacy/control tradeoff they want". They're going to get whatever the creator of the app decides. And sure, for TODO apps, you can choose from the 15 billion ones out there. But if you want ride-sharing, you have Lyft and Uber. If you want specific services, you will have to use their app.

And after the shit Epic pulled, I don't really think I want them in control of the payment processing portion.
Their products are targeted towards the younger demographics and those who buy their product do not mind that much.

This, however, is a completely different problem that has nothing to do with the products themselves, it's Nintendo's legal team showing absolutely no mercy towards their own content creators, which also includes teenagers, for very little gain... Which is a damn shame, because the work these content creators do is amazing. Instead of sending C&Ds and squandering that potential, Nintendo should work with these people.
If there's one thing HN loves more than celebrating someone's accomplishments, it's dunking on someone who faked their accomplishments.
Agreed. Been a huge fan of Wallet with the Apple Card.
I have been getting >4% for most of this year on high yield savings accounts and also 1 month CDs. They are all zero risk(FDIC insured) and money generated from them could pay for my portion(half) of the mortgage on my house(if I lost my job). I would look for bankrate and they list which accounts are paying the highest APR, if you have a brokerage like schwab etc you can look at 1-3 month or even longer term CD's which have rates close to 5%.
It's 'below market' only if you don't consider banks with branches part of the 'market'.
Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35464229

I could have sworn there was a submission with comments. I can't find it.

Maybe I'm misremembering that.

¯_ (ツ)_/¯

Edit: There's also a phenomenon known as lying. I've seen underprivileged people hurt by more "reliable, upstanding" sorts taking advantage of the other's lack of credibility.

Last, group think is a thing. Everyone agrees X is the truth, they all swear that's the truth.
They are, it's a Goldman Sachs account branded by Apple.

But the recent bank failures have shown that the US government did not even hesitate to cover depositors who put themselves at risk. Goodbye moral hazard.
You aren't missing anything. It's not a forum, it's just people from mainstream social media who have sought to leave mainstream social media for various reasons. There are some interesting tech people on some instances, but it's generally not worth wading through the hundreds of people attracted to the idea of a more hugbox Twitter.
The risk of big companies like Meta requiring users to sideload in order to use their service. To me the answer is obvious: don't use services provided by Meta. They can choose to race to the bottom all they want. I welcome the freedom to use my phone the way I want to.

If bad actors choose to misbehave don't blame the medium they're misbehaving on. This line of thinking is similar to negotiating with terrorists.
> I'm the opposite, as looking at android, where do we see this?

1) Android hasn't made things as hard for malware vendors as Apple has, and

2) Android's not as lucrative a market as iOS

Those together mean incentives are significantly different, so we might not see the same behavior on iOS as we have on Android, from companies that are upset about not being able to to distribute as-effective malware as they'd prefer. Like Facebook.
I assume there's little reason to visit that site after they removed 90% of their content
Well Google keeps putting out new products. And I hear you get promotions when you release a new product.

Good products come through refinement.

But every time you use most Google stuff, it feels like it’s still version 1. When compared to competitors’ products that they’ve been improving time after time, it just falls flat.
It's an alphabetic writing system where the letters largely correspond to sounds, in contrast to logographic writing system where the symbol corresponds to the entire word (like Chinese or Japan).

Yes, there are special rules and outliers that you need to learn in English, but it seems absurd to not classify it as phonetic because it's not purely phonetic. This is doubly so when discussing phonetic vs whole-word learning systems, as is the topic with "Sold a Story".
Did not expect to see Donald Fagen in the headline screenshot
The MSU Video Codecs Comparisons do this (see "Subjective Comparison Methodology"): https://www.compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/2021/subje...

As far as I know, human ABX testing is still the best way to measure the relative perceptual quality of different codecs.
Single digit percentage? CPUs are generally bug-free to several orders of magnitude greater than that.
The real problem is the insane policy of the U.S. to fund schools locally. That way, you will always have better schools in the richer areas and worse schools in the poorer areas.

In Ontario (Canada), schools are funded by the province. Schools doing worse can access addition funding and other resources. In 2020 teachers earned an average of $103,000/year including benefits. In Toronto, which has a high cost of living, the average was $108,000.

That's not to say that school quality doesn't vary, often by household income. Poorer people often have language issues (immigrants) and can't afford to pay for extra help for their kids, or don't have free time to work with them. The system is still stacked against them, but not nearly as badly.

The American "I got mine" method of school funding seems like the worst possible choice.
It says answers instantly but there’s no spinner or anything. Waited a minute and no reply.
Explainable Deep Learning – A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
What phonetic meaning does the letter "h" carry when writing English? Especially with words like "honest" and "while". If adding a single letter at the end of a word changes the pronunciation of everything before it, it's not unlike adding a single stroke to a radical that changes the pronunciation of the whole kanji.

In other words, if you need to read the whole word in order to know how to pronounce it (and there are plenty of English examples in the aforelinked video), then, by definition, you're not doing anything remotely phonetic.
You mean like the freedom of the press where in 2004, the NY Times spiked Risen and Lichtblau's story about NSA dragnet surveillance? This was in the fall of a Presidential election year, where GW Bush, a fairly unpopular president was running as a war president and ended up winning by a very small popular vote margin?

How will I tell? Even fewer democrats get elected, despite republicans running with terrible approval ratings?
I'd still call somewhere on the continent an 'N hour drive.' The 'drive' part indicates traveling by car the entire distance (I've never been on a eurotunnel trip where we bothered getting a cabin so we were sat in the car the entire time) and in any case it's pretty clear what you meant given the absence of pure land routes.
Deno vs. Node: No One Is Ready for the Move
> I worry that this ability to pirate like you can on Android will result in degradation in app quality in the App Store.

Is it possible for quality on the App Store to get any lower?

80% of App Store revenue comes from Pay to Win games (according to the Epic trial). Most of the other apps monetize through subscriptions for things like streaming services or don’t charge money at all.
>like what Epic did with Fortnite on Android?

Epic pulled Fortnite from Google Play Store in 2018 because they wanted to keep more of Google's 30% share and they were back in 18 months because most people aren't that determined to get an app outside of the official app store.

Any company pulling their apps from the App Store must have a pretty good reason to do so, because they're gonna be decimating their download numbers.
> 32-bit is enough forever, specially when you only have 1GB, but I'm staying on 32-bit on my 8GB RPi 4 too, because 4GB per process is enough when you also need the OS to have ample RAM.

I thought 32-bit limited the entire system to 4GB of memory (all processes + kernel), not just per process?
To be fair, English pronunciation is not as regular as Spanish. Spanish is a purely phonetic language, while English is phonetic but irregular.
> They should have tried to make a better desktop OS

Desktop OS's are not the long term future of computing, is it? But they were astute in acquiring Android. Meanwhile, Microsoft thought that a mobile OS is just a desktop OS squished onto a smaller screen.
> when they haven't pulled out of the Play Store or required sideloading on Android where that's already been possible all along?

Has Android restricted spying as much as iOS has? I seem to recall Facebook freaking out pretty hard about iOS policy changes around tracking and blaming that for some serious revenue shortfalls, a while back, and have no such recollection about Android, but maybe I just missed it.
I trust Google's incentives to have secure hardware as much as I trust them to have disrespectful software (privacy).
Up until ChatGPT, Bing was meaningless to me; Google Search served all my needs. I never had a reason to look over to Bing. The only contact I had with it was when something embedded their maps.

But now, with the AI integration, even when I tried it and left disappointed, Bing is starting to sound interesting.

Then there's how they are starting to integrate AI into their other products and putting a lot of good effort in visual design. Their products look modern and polished, while Google is "still the same old" with their Material Design.

I know they are the most capable engineers and that behind the scenes they are building the best quality soft- and hardware, but if they don't start to focus on the user again they will no longer be the titan they used to be.
Parents use these devices as pacifiers. And of those parents, best I can tell, are aware of what the children are consuming. At least with TV a given channel could (ideally) be trusted to provide kid-appropriate content. On top of that, the TV experience is shared (e.g., with siblings), and there was time away from TV. Now every trip to the supermarket or where even, the device as-baby-sitter is there. The child isn't observing their environment, they're head is always down. What are going to be the unintended consequences?
I think a real promise with these smaller models is in upgrading/replacing Siri/Alexa in mobile devices, especially when it's trained on your messages/habits/calendar/notes/shopping/music. A true virtual assistant you can say "I want to have a karaoke party, can you plan one for next Saturday?" and it creates a guest list, invites your friends it knows like karaoke (even the ones you forgot about!), puts it on your calendar, reminds your friends, sets up a delivery of the party supplies based on what it knows you have on-hand, handles rsvps, looks into pricing of having your place professionally cleaned, and creates a curated playlist. It might not be able to do all these things with its local capabilities, but it can know when to reach out to more powerful models to execute the more challenging tasks.
English does use a phonetic script. The letters represent phonemes and carry no semantic meaning on their own, as opposed to an ideographic or logographic script. That fact that one symbol can possibly represent multiple phonemes doesn't make it not a phonetic script.

There's no debate about it, unless you want to debate what makes a script "phonetic" in the first place.
To be fair they were open when that name was picked and it looks like they may be trying to transition to just 'ai.com'.
> Another thing I think help was that we put him to sleep with a radio station playing classical music since he was born, maybe even before that.

Trevor Noah talking about how he learnt German.

https://youtu.be/2PWSJH02krs?t=56

So I started learning. I learned in different ways, you know - to watch German movies, play German speeches on my iPod when I sleep. Your brain remembers things you don't even know. It's beautiful.
Fi is $40 a month for the more expensive plans, plus $10/gb until the plan hits 10gb, at which case it's free but they might throttle.

And the key thing is I just don't have to think about it. I can't forget to register a new account, I don't have to worry about esoteric sign up requirements for certain countries (ex: Brazil wants a CPF for fucking everything), and I can't get stuck without a connection and then not be able to setup the next step.
Same. I wish all laptops and all electronics gadgets are totally locked down and only cozintrollable by the manufacturer. Like Lenovo laptop, should only have apps from Lenovo store. I would also say we should have only one editor. I don't see point of many. Like you, i am filled with dread about multiple choices!

Edit: just thought of an idea. Maybe each ISP can provide a store and we can only install from those into our devices. After all, we trust ISP already
It happily made up citations for me. In a follow up, I asked it not too, and to please use only real papers. It apologized, said it would not do it again, then in the same reply made up another non-existent but plausible citation.

Checking the links is a good practice.

I feel like we just created an interesting novel problem in the world. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out.
> Sure ChatGPT can hallucinate

For the non-ML crowd out there, in the AI world:

to hallucinate <=> to lie
Is UFB a reputable bank? I've never heard of them, but that rate is hard to pass up.
Cultivate ecosystems, not products. Ecosystems persist, products are at the whim of…everything.

EDIT: @madeofpalk Better comment than mine, great links.
China has a 99.7% youth literacy rate - isn't that enough proof in regards to which method works best?
Basically what people who went against the “we won’t be able to tell what’s real and not” deepfake narrative even 5 years ago predicted. Ie a web of trust will still keep up paths of believable high quality content etc
There can only be two answers:

- ARM frame pointer handling is more compact (relative to the non-frame pointer code) than that on RISC-V.

- ARM code does less frame pointer handling.

The first might be true because ARM has the stmdb instruction which (https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0406/b/Applicatio...) stores multiple registers to consecutive memory locations using an address from a base register. The consecutive memory locations end just below this address, and the address of the first of those locations can optionally be written back to the base register.

So, code can save registers on the stack _and_ decrease the stack pointer in a single instruction.

The second might be true because, of the compilers/compiler settings used for those measurements the ARM one did more aggressive function inlining.
Adding GPT to Gmail
Making my social media life easier with Replix made me add GPT access to gmail. Telling GPT what is going on and asking to write a post/reply over and over again is a drag tbh. So built replix.ai to use AI everywhere with little to no prompting.
I happened to work in academic cog/neuro-sci research, and have ended up programming for a company that's doing some form of market research, but I haven't seen that data. Sure, advertising works, but how, and to what extent? There's a bunch of competing frameworks, each with their own research school, but it's more marketing than science. 20 to 30 dissimilar points on a 2D grid with a linear regression line, that's their evidence.

Marketeers are an easy target, though. They can't afford to ignore it, so they buy into some of those theories. And drop them just as easily. But they have to pretend it works.

If you've got good data on marketing effectiveness, I'd like to see it.
I love Lex Friedman interviews personally, he tend to just kinda let the person he interviews talk a lot and his follow up questions tend to lean towards exploring things the people he interviews are passionate about. I think the criticism is that he generally doesn't push back against those he interviews but I don't think that should be the default style for all interviewers necessarily.
Good thing even my mom learned to ignore that one a decade ago in windows.
yep, forgot to include the link
Because the thousands of lives were never entitled to how someone decides to spend their money in the first place, and if you believe otherwise then this literally applies to everyone and their income. Example: How can we justify going out for an ice cream, when that same money could be spent to vaccinate several people from malaria and save their lives? Why is it ok for middle class earners to spend money on frivolous things, but not for the wealthy? All that surplus money can save tens of thousands of lives!
I agree that this piece can be appreciated, but that’s about it.

In terms of making money or reaching fame anywhere near the level of the original artists, I think it (and all AI generated art) will come up extremely short because it’s essentially a forgery. To buy concert tickets, T-shirts, posters, etc. you need a story.
Yep, I completely agree. If anything, the worth of human generated art is only going to increase.

The only potential disruption I see is in music as pure entertainment. Just open up YouTube trending and you can quickly understand that the everyday listeners taste is... well, not really demanding. Top commercial artists already have an army of writers and producers milking the pop music structure, in this case we will probably see the explosion of even more uninteresting pop jingles.

However, as you said, authenticity and connection between the artist and the audience. There is a billion and one song writers singing and writing about heartbreak, few of them made it, for reasons not always related to the quality of the music itself.