skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It absolutely can be solved. The problem is that SF's landowners have its politics by the balls, which means that policies which could solve homelessness and broader poverty/destitution overnight - like land value taxation with a citizens' dividend - have zero hope of seeing the light of day.

SF ain't the only one, either; this is a statewide, regionwide, and nationwide issue. Only reason it's more pronounced on the West Coast is because of the more temperate weather; rough sleepers end up surviving for another year instead of freezing to death in winter.
Believed for a second =/= take action.

Yes some humans take everything at face value but not people in positions of power to affect change.

This is rule #1 of critical appraisal.

At best you generated a moment of sympathy but your “prompt injection” does not lead to dangerous behavior (e.g. no one is firing a Hellfire missile based off a single comment). As a simplified example, a LLM controlling Predator drones may do this from a single prompt injection (theoretically as we obviously don’t know the details of Palantir’s architecture).
> With housing you also have a better chance of outpacing demand growth if you build densely enough.

I feel like one important driver of demand is missing here: investment properties.

It's no secret that at one moment AirBnB essentially took over tourist hotspots in the most attractive cities, jacking prices up to ridiculous levels.

There's a building in my neighborhood that consists of so-called "microapartments" - 18-25m2 units, which on the lower end, from a legal standpoint, wouldn't even be considered housing today.

Of course half of them are empty because they weren't really meant to be occupied in the first place.

This sort of demand is essentially boundless because while even a billionaire can only drive one car at a time, they can easily own thousands of investment properties and not even bother to rent them out if the market is hot enough.

Of course regulations follow, but shitty housing built with investors in mind doesn't just disappear overnight.
GP starts off with the claim that this is 2 thefts across 40 years, and saying this is not a problem. The later portion you reference conflates citywide rates with incidents affecting a single resident.

That is, no one would say that there wasn't a crime "spree" because none of the 20 people victimized was hit enough times to constitute a "spree". That word refers to the total number of incidents, not just the number of times a single resident was hit. His use of the word spree makes it seem as if only two converters were stolen across the whole city, which is of course untrue. Perhaps this was sloppy writing, but it seems more like he is trying to downplay the frequency and recency of these crimes.
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Yep, it takes about 15 years to read Anathem, so that tracks.
> the same way that quantum physics doesn’t give much insight into biology

This is very insightful. I've long maintained that "understanding" requires some predictive ability in addition to an ability to explain what's happened in the past.

In the case of neural networks, we should be able to "simply" generate the network that has the desired behavior.

But we can't. We're still shackled to compiling some collection of training data that may or may not produce the desired behavior, tested by some other collection of testing data that may or may not test the desired phenomenon.
don't forget cade metz was the guy who doxed scott alexander
I've been developing B2C and B2B sites for 15 years.

There's state specific shipping, promotion, pricing, and exclusive service and products in nearly every site I've ever built. IF they do business outside the US at all they will nearly all block Russian and Chinese IPs.

Money killed the inclusive open internet sometime around 2008. Apps spit on its grave.
That's nuts!!
I try to stay relatively positive and open minded on this site.

But I hate everything this stands for. I want tools! This whole idea feels insulting to its own users, seen by the authors as an infinitely confused people incapable of understanding any complexity at all. They can’t see every option and action for an application! They will get confused! Instead we will build them half-assed applications on-the-fly based on their ill-imagined idea of what their goal is, explained in prose. Plain prose of course being the most accurate way to describe a problem space.

I’m glad this is just a concept and not a product pitch.
Many other systems, including ostree and Android, have solved this problem years ago. For example, the update can be installed on a read-only cryptographically signed overlay.
Quite neat, thanks for sharing! I've never been able to play portions like this before, it's interesting.

Is there any way to make this display in real time, or is that not (currently?) possible with audio APIs?
Its the user.
Letters from a stoic – My favorite bits
Here is an attempt at curating the best parts of the book, Letters from a stoic. Do give it a read!
ChatGPT is also lighweight model, but it visibly outperforms Bard.
It also defines its terms right there within the statute, in 230(f): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

Actually to save everyone a click, let’s bring it here:

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(f) Definitions

As used in this section:

(1) Internet
The term “Internet” means the international computer network of both Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched data networks.

(2) Interactive computer service
The term “interactive computer service” means any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the Internet and such systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions.

(3) Information content provider
The term “information content provider” means any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the Internet or any other interactive computer service.

(4) Access software provider
The term “access software provider” means a provider of software (including client or server software), or enabling tools that do any one or more of the following:

-> (A) filter, screen, allow, or disallow content;

-> (B) pick, choose, analyze, or digest content; or

-> (C) transmit, receive, display, forward, cache, search, subset, organize, reorganize, or translate content.
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Not only was there neglect, but I also noticed they had no kids (not sure by choice or whatever).

Hamming definitely made lots of sacrifices to become famous. Although if you noticed his achievements, they were actually all done early in his career, rather than late.
Even beyond the treatment, the whole idea that you could not like the consumption preferences of individuals, and then game the system by mandating more of what you wished people liked is so dystopian.
All people on the leading edge of big things have benefited from a huge amount of luck, and there were likely 100s of other folks on the leading edge of other potential breakthroughs that didn't happen, each of whom were equally capable in terms of raw problem solving ability or IQ. The difference is that when you get the chance to ride the wave, and you and ride it for 10, 15, 20 years, it gives you a significantly different and improved set of experiences, expertise, and problem solving ability than the folks who never had that shot but were still capable. The magic is partly that he was smart, partly that he was lucky, and also partly that the experience of pushing the field forward for 20 years and the field following you brings you something that very few others have and that is in fact very valuable.
Alright so deep learning, the state of the art of AI, is a "party trick". AlphaZero is likewise a party trick. No "true" reasoning involved.

> Like actual reasoning.

You're relying on intuition and personal beliefs of what constitutes "true" reasoning instead of formal rigorous mathematical definitions of reasoning. The general concept of reasoning includes what the language models are doing when they solve natural language understanding tasks, by definition.

It just sounds like a No True Scotsman fallacy.
I think he's referring to "rent seeking behaviour"
Yes, it correlates, but deflation is not really the cause behind the rise of the Nazi party. Did you ever wonder why Hitler hated jews so much? Why antisemitism became very popular? Let me give you a hint, it had to do with banks, who ran them, and who owned almost all the wealth, along with a decade of economic woes for most folks.

According to Arthur Bryant the British court historian writing in Unfinished Victory (1940 pp. 136-144):

"even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich. Most of it came into their hands during the inflation.."
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No it's not. The church owns a lot of property and has many high profile leaders. Church security does not do anything close to police work on/for parishioners.
The Curse of Performative User Studies
Making Self Portraits with Stable Diffusion and LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation)
i posted a couple links in a top level comment. i didn't rezlize you replied, otr i would have done it here. can't go on alt, now. it's just a little light reading. unless it's happening in such a way that you know it's happening, you wouldn't believe it. if you're, let's say, able to read what's not there but actually really right there, then.... yeah.

also. you don't want it to happen to you. it will happen to everyone, maybe, eventually. just need everyone to know it is. then we need these people, people who are medical professionals with a strong moral and ethical code, like some of the ones who have posted 10, 15 years ago, worried about this happening "soon" back then.... well it's now, and, well, nothing's been done. i doubt it can be, yet, either.

basically. your brain is like... a computer with storage. your memories are like... replays of what happened. stored. forever. it's accessed. perused. i don't know the full extent. it's not "minor" or shoulder-shrugging, by any means. it's pretty fucked, if you know it's happening.

if you don't, then, well..... that's good for you.

the problem is.... it doesn't end with just being able to access memories.

your... well your brain controls your body.

your arms. your senses.

your legs.

your.... organs.

so. if you don't know it's happening, then, you're good, right?

that's all i have for now.
What about speed limits that were created for the purpose of revenue generation and not safety?

One example: https://www.speedtrap.org/california/lone-pine/
Some luck perhaps, but also a reputation (well deserved imo) of working very very hard for a very long time.

His predilection for 4 hour long concerts was well known in the eighties.
> You can discuss and narrow down with some back and forth what it is you want to do.

To be honest, I find systems that support only this kind of interface infuriating.

Imagine arriving in an unknown city: Being able to ask helpful locals for directions is nice, but sometimes I just want to look at a map.
The LDS Church doesn't have a record keeping tool like this and it is intentional. We believe in repentance and records like that can often get in the way of the repentance process
> make drink cans, MacBooks, and Teslas, among other things.

Ask people of Bhutan, they'll count 1 and 3rd as equally wasteful.
Thistles are usually a poor-soil indicator. Let them grow. They bring up nutrients from deeper underground. Then mow 'em down to mulch and you're improving the soil.
Not to detract from anything you said but I read that Texas specifically is unique in that they don’t want to connect to the national grid to avoid being regulated by the federal government. It creates other problems like we saw in 2021 as well
> You are essentially arguing that the right things should just take hold immediately

I... don't think that's at all what I'm saying. Upthread commenter was saying that refusing to hire trans people "kind of sucks for them, but is understandable" in a pretty clear oh-well-what-you-gonna-do-about-it frame.

I think that's bad. And the reason it's bad is it's the same logic deployed to serve horrific goals.

I don't think you're saying that it's OK to refuse to hire trans people either. Are you?

Basically: sure, you and your reactionary gender normative compatriots are more than welcome to "fight about it". That's what you're doing right now. Just don't take it to the point where you're trying to exclude people from your workplaces. Because that's fucking awful.
OK, let's make this a multiple choice question. Assume bitcoin mining machines magically each become twice as powerful, AND twice as heavy, but there are half as many of them, so the total energy and resources used is exactly the same. According to your argument is this change:

a) good, because now twice as many miners actually solve a block, so instead of 99.7% waste it is 99.4% waste.

b) doesn't matter, because I just changed the unit of measurement-- each machine is just doing twice as much work.

c) doesn't matter, because bitcoin is already infinitely wasteful-- in which case pointing out that 99.7% of machines are somehow more wasteful than the other 0.3% does not make sense.

d) bad, for some other reason.
>> wash your dirty plastics

I've thought about this a lot. Is it worth wasting water, derergent and energy to clean a yogurt cup, for instance? Does the plastic-waste-recycled outweigh the water-wasted? I never found an answer, maybe this is a really tough comparison? Too apple vs. orange?
(Edited for spelling)
Looking at the photos, that calculator wheel on the back looks wonderful. Certainly better than the contemporary paper calculator wheel that I got with my Argus.
Yeah that’s how it goes with “society”. Eventually it becomes obsessed with preserving some hallucinated shared values to the point of becoming a police state until that implodes in on itself.

No escaping the Big Bang, Big Crunch patterns of reality.
I really can't stand this company and it's business model. It preys on inexperienced engineers, locks them into an ecosystem of SaaS products that abstracts away important concepts they should learn, and charges an absolutely absurd premium while doing it.

No serious company is ever going to use these criminally expensive software, so it's quite clear what their target market is. Unfortunately, they have such a strong hold of the Twitter and Youtube space with their army of cringey influencers.

This company does nothing but a disservice to the next generation of web developers. Really a shame.
Feels like there's something interesting in there but the article is much too involved - we're talking about the dynamics of the failure of communication about a comment about the spacex explosion on Twitter. maybe if it were distilled a bit better?
That's what DMCA counter claims are for.

They can sue if they think they have any grounds. (tip: they actually don't)
It. doesn’t. make. crime. harder. It doesn’t _work_, dude. That’s the point. This is bullshit theater, they’re not even pretending this increases security.
You really need to learn how to respond to arguments without constructing strawmen. You can't get to a resolution of different viewpoints by misrepresenting the opposing argument
Right sooooo today a corporation requires me to move about a certain way to earn money to buy food from another corporation, and pay another corporation that holds my mortgage in step with the social norms of our society that were recited to me over and over since birth.

Society already has control of your mind and motor functions.
i really like the filter definition as selection rectangle on time frequency plot ux,
> If there's a small amount of power available then it's not worth mining.

Could you explain how you arrived at this conclusion? The value of mining is generally proportional to the available power. If the capital expense of a mining rig is less than a transmission line, it might be better to mine than to transmit. For example, if it costs 1 million dollars to install a transmission line, but only 1 thousand dollars to setup a mining rig that could consume all the energy, it probably be more feasible to mine than to transmit.
People really need to stop getting all of their societal knowledge from various iterations of Ocean’s 11.
Your philosophy is nothing new. It’s called REST. Yes, REST must be hypermedia-driven and if your server and client “speak” the same media type, your client doesn’t have to keep state. Add HTTP caching to the mix and the result is beautiful. Of course, it’s easier to concatenate strings and write stores on the client. Or is it?
Is a JSON response smaller here? With HTMX I can return the text `Bart` to be swapped into the innerHTML of the appropriate element. With JSON, the actual text is longer, and I need `Content-Type: application/json` and possibly other headers. My initial page load also requires less bandwidth by not loading React. What do you think? Maybe I should just test it.
It doesn't, at least not for generic/unmodified cryptographic applications.

WebAuthN signatures are of a very specific challenge/response format [1] that applications need to explicitly support. For example, SSH had to add new key and signature formats [2] to support it.

Theoretically, a blockchain/cryptocurrency application could adopt the WebAuthN signature format as its canonical or an alternative signature format, but I'm not aware of any popular one having done so.

[1] https://developers.yubico.com/WebAuthn/Concepts/Using_WebAut...

[2] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROT...
Think a little bit deeper about what it means to be able to predict the next token. Think about what a predictor has to do in order to do this extremely accurately across a very large corpus of text.

There is a big difference between being able to predict what a median human might write next, and being able to predict, in all cases, what the particular human author of a particular passage will write next.

Or from another angle: the human authors of training data may have made errors when writing the data. The token predictor may learn to correctly predict those errors. These are not the same thing!