skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SF feels like it is in a similar place to NYC in the 80s. Not perfectly analogous but rampant crime and quality of life issues will eventually force in some hard changes in political landscape which will in time correct the problem. SF geographically is gorgeous and has many advantages. I believe long term it will turn around but what that timeline will be is unclear. Still if I had a bunch of cash sitting around once the real estate there hits bottom it would be tempting.
FYI: This is a 2017 result:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-63688-7_...

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"This result is the product of a long term collaboration between the Cryptology Group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) - the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands - and the Google Research Security, Privacy and Anti-abuse Group. Two years ago Marc Stevens and Elie Bursztein, who leads the Google's anti-abuse research team, began collaborating on making Marc's cryptanalytic attacks against SHA-1 practical by leveraging Google expertise and infrastructure. Since then many CWI researchers and Googlers have helped make this project possible, including Pierre Karpman who worked on the cryptanalysis and prototype GPU implementation, and from Google Ange Albertini who developed the PDF attack, Yarik Markov who took care of the distributed GPU code, Alex Petit-Bianco implemented the collision detector to protect Google users, Luca Invernizzi who created the online file checker, and Clement Blaisse who oversaw the reliability of the computations."

https://www.cwi.nl/en/groups/cryptology/
TL;DR; It has to work blazingly fast on all kinds of GPUs, which are not nearly as homogeneous as you might expect. The complex setup is the "lowest common denominator" of that ecosystem.

GPUs are stupendously good at ridiculously wide parallel processing, yet you still need to sequence these operations. Modern Graphics API setups like Vulkan and WebGPU are the currently best known way to write such systems. Shaders express the parallel algorithms, and the pipelines binds and synchronizes them together.

It's just legitimately the best way, as far as we know, to get the most bang out of your buck for that hardware while remaining vendor-agnostic. Anyways, a higher-level abstraction can always be built on top that provides you with the UX you desire, and we will see a bunch of them for WebGPU soon enough.
I agree, but it’s always a question of money. With the cost of transformation it’s possible the value of building will be zero or even negative.
In this case the owner of the building default and the building stay there and decay until the city take on the burden of demolition or transformation with dwindling tax revenue...
Start to look like Detroit scenario.

It doesn’t look that bad form the outside, I wonder what would it take to collapse like this.
Anything goes in war eh? Sad, you should reconsider your humanity before it’s too late
Films will be revised based on modern sensitivity as long as that means sweet cash for the industry.

Let's make sure that, at a bare minimum, the original films are always accessible in one way or another and never hidden/censored.
For anyone else curious:

B1

Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.

Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken.

Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest.

Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

A2:

Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).

Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.

Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.
Gotta give the cops their billions unfortunately. No room in the budget for frivolous luxuries like "things that make citizens lives better". Heck, they're even going to hobble our libraries to feed the cop beast.
You're intentionally making other positions look ridiculous, I think. Why not put them back in athens? The entity with the strongest claim to continuity with ancient athens is modern athens. It's not an absurd proposition.

Using the simple framework of sale of goods for ancient artifacts of deep cultural and historical significance, is, quite literally, colonizer shit. I imagine you would have a very difficult time establishing broad consensus about what "rightful ownership" and "legitimate sale" mean or if they are even possible for objects of this kind. Acting like that's a settled moral and legal framework that we're scandalously disagreeing with is twisted.
Worth mentioning that Syncthing doesn't have a cloud part, while DB does. That said, I've been running it since the very beginning, even before it became public/known, and it had never failed me so far.
Wider bands, lower latency, less congestion, the promise of switching off legacy in the future (with SA)
Violent crime is a useful metric because it’s generally reported and followed. Property crime is what’s more likely to languish, leading to underreporting.

So ppl who study crime incidence use violent crime as the like-to-like bellwether.
I saw many torrents with 0 seeders. Someone will be seeding only if the interest in that content is great. Rare content won't get any seeders. Old movies don't tempt many people.

I liked DC++ approach on file sharing more. If someone in the network has the file, you can get it, no matter how rare. It can be an obscure film made in 1930 or an mp3 only few people know or care about.
This whole thread is full of takes like this - “how awful they have the wrong morals and erase things I agree with or don’t erase things I disagree with”.

It’s all power games. Trying to pretend your morals are correct is hypocritical.
I think this article is missing the biggest thing that makes gravity different: it arises from and affects everything with energy, which includes everything that we know exists.

See this graph of the known standard model interactions: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Elementa...

Gravity isn’t shown because every type of particle in that graph interacts with every other type of particle via gravity (i.e., the stress-energy tensor).

A lot of people may not realize that a perfectly mirrored box containing photons would have “weight”. Similarly, a spinning top weighs more than the same top that isn’t spinning, a compressed spring weighs more than the same spring in an uncompressed state, and the earth+moon system weighs less as a unit than if you pulled them apart and added together their individual weights.

In fact, most of the “weight” of an atom isn’t due to rest mass at all but rather the kinetic energy of the motion of its constituent particles.

For electron/positron collisions, it isn’t so much “annihilation” as it is a change of form. After the collision, total momentum, angular momentum, and energy all remain the same. Even though there are no longer two particles that have the property called “rest mass”, the effect on the gravitational field remains exactly the same the moment before and after the collision.
No notifications aside from Signal, some Matrix channels of my OSS project and my work Teams.

All the rest including WhatsApp has notifications disabled. Phone is on DnD most of the time.

I occasionally check HN Frontpage,a local news website and a few selected subreddits and that's about it.
The problem is fluctuations of the load on the tower and random signal outages which can happen at any time. Also in my experience LTE links sometimes drops when working for long periods on it, meaning I need to reconnect VPN and do other annoying actions.

And that's not even starting on the problem of coverage. Especially in the apartment blocks with a lot of rebar in the walls. And 5G higher frequencies have even worse coverage that 4G. If I have a problem with Wifi inside my home I simply buy repeaters or wire a new AP with a cable. WIth cell network I can't do this.

We are a long way from using cell network as a primary one (if alternative is available of course).
> TFA you didn't read.

yes, you are right. for shame :(
Shoot, really? I didn't see it - guess I have to play again!
Workaround I've been using for a while: You can install both the "regular" WhatsApp and the "Business" version, those are separate apps in the App Stores. This way you can set up your personal number on the regular WhatsApp and your work number on WhatsApp for Business.
I was exactly where you are for a majority of my life, my brother passed away when I was 14 and it didn't lead me anywhere good, only further from God. I was saved when I was 19 by accepting those steps outlined in faith, and praying that prayer. I didn't intellectually accept them as you suggest, I didn't say "that makes sense to me", I just simply took it on faith, and prayed that prayer to Jesus, asking to be saved.

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." - Proverbs 3:5-6

By praying that prayer earnestly in your heart you commit your soul to Jesus, it's just like the thief next to Jesus on the cross:

"And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." - Luke 23:42-43 KJV

And I know it's hard to recognize your sin, and believe in the penalty for sin, without first believing in Jesus. Maybe I shouldn't put them into steps, because it's something that happens all at once. By accepting Jesus you accept the truth of God's word in the Bible, because Jesus is "the word made flesh".

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." - John 1:1

I can tell from your paragraph that you are not incapable of believing, so I will pray earnestly for your salvation.
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what-about-ism doesn't persuade me at all, just because cars are dangerous and obnoxious doesn't justify the poor behaviors and culture around bicycles in the city.

An "e-bike" that is going 25mph and running red lights without anyone doing any pedaling at all is a motorcycle end of story and they should be banned or require a license.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events, GitHub notifications, Stack Overflow and HN.
> 2nd phase up to 125th probably takes another 10 years and $20B if we are lucky

You asked for our confidence “in the MTA expanding service in [our] lifetime[s].” Ten years is within our lifetimes.
Love this. Bought a couple of books similar to "Midnight's Children' - author should definitely think about adding affiliate links!
which db was that?
Another moon that stubbornly proves to be an actual moon, and not an ancient alien space station.
My point is you are not buying a gift card. You are buying a hotel room stay during the next year.
How about long movies at home?
That’s where the article ends. Will a conventional lender finance the debt? Will a cash buyer speculate against your premise?
> re-editing of Roald Dahl’s work ... “Nobody should ever attempt to take the chocolate out of Willy Wonka! Ever!”

Remember, Roald Dahl edited the Oompa Loompas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Fact...

I'm all for preserving original, unedited works. But, we need to remember that art is malleable and serves many purposes.
Could you explain that “two tables” issue again? I’m trying to think of a way that DB constraints (I’m using Postgres, fwiw) couldn’t handle denormalization, but imo there’s a constraint for everything. Force a 1:1 relationship, or add a check constraint so you literally cannot denormalize.
As a Chicago-based cyclist who finds all of the behaviors you describe incredibly frustrating and often infuriating, two things to consider:

1) The cyclists that tend to get noticed are the cyclists who behave like assholes.

2) Cars often don’t see us, usually because the driver just isn’t paying attention, and this leads to aggressively defensive behavior in traffic. Basically, if you don’t notice me, there’s a much higher chance that I’ll die, so I’ll do things to get noticed.

For me, that means wearing visible gear, positioning myself strategically at intersections, etc.

For the cyclists you describe, it means doing stupidly dangerous stuff.

The behavior should not be excused, but the solution isn’t as simple as more fines. The problem is a product of the poor bicycle infrastructure in most places and the ever-increasing hostility between drivers and “problem” cyclists.

Obvious disclaimer that I realize the specific factors of NYC vs. Chicago make my cycling experience only partially relevant, but as someone who has spent quite a bit of time chatting with various cycling communities, the problems mostly transcend geography, with degrees of seriousness depending on how well a particular city handles bike traffic.
Likely a problem with your memory. Why do you always have to look at the console to find where your volume knob is? If you can touch-type on a keyboard, you should be able to remember where the buttons are.
Which is funny, because coleslaw itself is borrowed from Dutch (koolsla).
Gravity isn’t a force, it’s a curvature of space time
On an even more fundamentally ridiculous level too. The people being (Alanis Morissette) "ironic" here have absolutely no choice in the matter of literally being born.

For those unfamiliar it's this comic that was simplified to the final panel [0]. It's a great send up of a whole arm of bad faith debate tactics that tries to invalidate any criticism of topic X because the person benefits from it.

[0] https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/259/257/342...
Who are you gonna believe? "scientific consensus" or your own lying eyes?
Not only expensive, the coverage is spotty too. Driving cross country, even along major highways often results in many dead spots.
> I don't see how wealth is lost when it is just being redistributed. The workers didn't disappeared, they are just living elsewhere, bringing business opportunities and improving across many different places.

If I'm recalling the theory of it correctly, the whole reason Business Clusters exist (and form) is because there is, essentially, value in being together. Or at least, there's economic value in reducing the logistics required to move goods from one part of the value chain to another. For this reason I don't suspect we'll see the dispersal of manufacturing business clusters.

A huge part of my digging was trying to understand whether this applied to Silicon Valley or not. I decided that it did, but not because of the software, instead it was because of the VC + Startup relationship. VC's want to meet the people they're giving millions of dollars to and startup founders want to meet the people they're giving control (or massive influence) of their company to. It remains to be seen whether Zoom satisfies this need or not.

> Perhaps it will be healthier for the economy as a whole than having only a handful of cities as beacons of investment.

It might. Technology has changed dramatically since we last had material distribution into the suburb and rural areas of the nation. Maybe that will overcome the benefits of centralization.
For me it’s:

-HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”)

-Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff

-gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day

-discord once or twice a day to catch up with friends (this replaced old WhatsApp and Facebook messenger groups going back many years and there was a switch maybe 5 years when everyone stopped commenting on stuff publicly and moved to private rooms)

-I used to use reader and Feedly to bring everything into RSS but don’t have a replacement for it but have a lazy longing to recreate and test out different things. So I’m missing out on specific blogs and might check them every few weeks. I think this is a gap but things do come through to HN.
Sounds like excess operating overhead with rideshare companies should be eliminated first.
People say this, and I want to believe that - but the costs of training these models are prohibitively high. I've seen different estimates for training GPT4, but it is certainly higher than $100M. Training a model analogous to GPT4 from scratch will probably cost billions. Actors such as national governments and big tech are attracted to censorship like a cat to a laser pointer; they'd never allow themselves to tickle public sensibilities with an uncensored AI.

Also, there is no doubt that soon countries will start introducing regulation of AI models that would put legal constraints on the type of text they can generate.
does the headline “Waste Disposal Services Efficient Again This Year” make you want to read the newspaper? does it make you feel you need to know more information about a threat to you?

perhaps you’re very experienced in working on public projects, but if you aren’t, your experience is likely reading the news or talking to people who’ve read the news. even ignoring the fact that most major news outlets are owned by right-wing corporatists who benefit from this kind of ideology, reporting on the myriad successful public projects that exist just isn’t attention-grabbing profitable news
Unfair Advantage with P2P Streaming
Some? Wouldn't they all be visa free?

Yeah, that page is for non-EU-ians, because if you're from the EU, due to freedom of movement, you can live and work in any other EU country, and you don't even need to apply for a "permanent resident permit".
What is the state of the art for running models locally in terms of context size?
I am on the fence as to whether I agree with you, but I'll embellish a certain aspect: these folks keep citing how the number of DNS lookups (what pihole reports/blocks) is extraordinary, exceeding all other vendors they use, which says pretty much nothing about the nature of the payload other than that Dropbox likely has very granular client uptime data. The client could cache the DNS response instead of doing so many lookups, and some amount of rage would disappear.
actually I posted here on YNews last year about San Diego-based company that was creating "fence" zones for emergency response with a geo-web site to coordinate them. Second an anecdote where a California Highway Patrol fire response officer was shown abruptly and dismissively telling the mayor of a small town that the restrictions on access "could last a year."

That YNews post was met with multiple "so what" and "they make money" kinds of responses, without any apparent alarm at the technology creep.

Perhaps you have heard of a "ratchet" effect, where one law plus one technology plus later, one more law, creates a non-reversible and serious change to the social contract for law enforcement?
Lead developer of AccessKit here. I know it won't be a panacea, particularly for the non-screen-reader-related problems you point out. And about the performance problem, there's probably no getting away from the despised "enable accessibility" button. But if these types of applications are going to exist despite our wishes to the contrary, then I have to do what I can to make them accessible. It could be the difference between someone being able to do a job, complete a course, or whatever, and not. I have to do what I can to improve the accessibility of the world as it is, not the world as we wish it was.
I have strongly mixed feelings about this because:

1. I completely agree with you, art is changed as people change, and just because something is historic doesn't necessarily make it good or meaningful today (although nor does it make it meaningless).

2. Modern copyright law completely undermines point 1. If "we" are not allowed to change a thing because the right to change it is in the hands of a very small privileged group, then I wholeheartedly think the thing should be left the fuck alone.

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Basically - Want to rewrite that novel to use modern wording and sentiments? Go right ahead, but now that original work must be considered public domain.

Otherwise... fuck right off.
WebGPU is a low-level interface close to the hardware. If you don't care about having control over those details, it's not the right API to use. You'd have better luck with either a high-level wrapper or something else like WebGL.
screenshot the page, and then you can use the iOS text extraction to select a substring :) (serious!)
SNES doom was a total labor of love by Randy Linden, the story behind it is very interesting: https://www.shacknews.com/article/117004/super-doom-how-id-s... He created it without even getting the rights to do so first and id was so impressed they had to publish it. It's arguably an even bigger programming achievement than regular Doom as the SNES has no business doing anything remotely close to Doom. A lot of the work to make it run on the SNES (simplifying some levels and such) went on to almost all the other console ports too. Yeah it wasn't the best Doom experience, but it was still pretty amazing for what was basically a souped up 6502 processor on the SNES.
Yes, but no. It's similar, but different. A major source of emissions for both is building the plants, which is roughly 1/3 of for nuclear. But Nuclear additionally has the fuel-production as another major source, which makes roughly 2/3 of its emissions. This overall leads to far higher emissions. Though, they both are small compared to the like of coal, gas or burning stuff.
>Nearly everything that's wrong with the current economy and welfare of your average man in the US can be traced in some way to the stock market

Just the basic fact that an economy that is good for workers, where they are more in demand and make more money, is bad for their retirement because the stock market goes down, is really all you need to know to understand why the stock market is a plague.
Rolling backwards slightly, here's a good one for "Internet on your phone" I remember from about the year 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkvNW3do-9g

I did my dissertation project in WAP. This ad grossly oversold the concept of "Internet on your phone" (which properly kicked off in a way that the 'regular person' would embrace the UK around 2007, I think).

The 'future' is always mis-sold.
You can already go on zillow and see 3d walk through by jumping from one spherical panorama to another. They even make 3d models out of it.
that's not what qualified immunity is. qualified immunity means government officials can violate your rights by doing obviously illegal things as long as no government official has previously been convicted for doing the exact same thing.
All good points, especially the one vs many membership to viewers ratio. You're probably right (at least I hope so) that someone will have run the numbers. I guess we will see.
You've played DOOM?
Good to know that's there. The MIT collection of Shakespeare finally went offline. It had been my go-to for starting material for decades. (I perform Shakespeare plays, which I edit according to my goals, and need a source of plain text to start from.)

This edition, conveniently, has been lightly edited to regularize the spelling. When I did Two Noble Kinsmen, I had to start from an edition that was directly from the original printed text, and the first step was to make it legible.

Despite bearing the title page of the First Folio, this isn't drawn from there. It's got plays (including 2NK) that weren't in the Folio until the third edition.