skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah apparently that ended in 2005. Now it’s pegged to a basket of currencies like the British pound was.
This is incorrect.

There are only a few houses for this purpose in the Helsinki Area, and they are actually in quite nice locations and far from each other.

No-one in their right mind would live in these houses if they have an alternative, but the problems don't affect the wider area. Some restlessness in the immediate vicinity, but not that bad.
The extra money is needed to corrupt the people doing procurement…
Innovation is dead at Apple. (just like at Google or Microsoft).

They need more marketing to keep their existing base. The only issue is that minors shall be protected from advertising companies.
> If your pool of possible homeless is 5M and they gather in a city the size of 600k it is a hugely different situation than say San Francisco, which is 800k and draws from 330M possible homeless

I'm struggling to follow your logic here.

The 'possible homeless' would not be total population of a country - if it is, you've got more urgent problems.

I think in the USA the number's around 500,000, or about 0.2%, yeah?

There's more than one city in Finland, but even if there wasn't (but there really is!) there's definitely more than one big city in the USA, so I don't understand that extrapolation to 'all the homeless will move to San Fran'.

And even if they did, you've still got the considerable resources of the USA [0] that could be brought to bear on the problem. The fact that the problem is distributed quite widely, and definitely not exclusive to large urban centers[1] should make it easier.

[0] https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/category/military...

[1] https://www.security.org/resources/homeless-statistics/#regi...
Completely detached compensations of key positions compared to the normal workers makes "work ethic" something that is difficult to believe in. At least if you are not hopelessly naive.

Modesty was a value once, it isn't anymore. Why should work ethic remain? Good on those that stick to it and build something something of their own, but in a modern corporate world? That is about getting ahead instead of ethics. That latter probably has become a hindrance in some cases.
Is it? By their own admission they have ample evidence, needed to prove their time
But Paris absolutely has the housing issues described by GP.

More and more "middle-class" people are moving out of the city, especially those with children. Schools are starting to close classes for lack of pupils.

There is a lot of government-subsidized housing, but it's very tough to get any if you actually make some money. They mostly go to the poorest, of which there are many. Waiting lists are long (think multiple years).

Private sector housing is very expensive and landlords won't rent to you if you don't make three times the rent and have a long-term contract. 1000 € a month would get you a studio apartment, yet require you to make 3000 € a month. That's "a good salary".

Want to buy? Nah. With 3000 € a month, you better have a serious down payment (rich parents, I guess?), or banks won't lend you a cent.

You figured being freelance would net you a better income? Sure, but guess what? That's not "stable employment", so banks will laugh you out the door. You also won't qualify for the landlord insurance scheme if you resign to rent, so better know someone with a stable contract who'll cosign for you.
Seems pointless because he will have to pay nintendo when he gets that wealth. Draconian.
EVinci Microreactor
Well I became homeless when my landlord decided he needed to sell up and gave me notice to leave (much more than legally required, I should add). He eventually sold the house at auction for a sum 3 times smaller than I currently have sitting in a bank account.

This was over ten years ago and, obviously, house prices have increased a lot and I eventually got back on my feet but, the point is that you can find yourself in a situation that you're not mentally equipped to deal with at that moment in time regardless of all other external factors.
429 Too Many Requests - hackernews hug of death?
> Would AWS release all their source code to retain their largest customer, the US government?

Yes. Companies would comply with whatever requirement to have the US government as a customer.
The best would be a business that purchases his things for him.

E.g. he starts an LLC, profits stay in the company, company provides meals, vehicle, and phone+plan for the execs, plus travel expenses, and he gets a low salary from which I guess he still has to pay his rent.
And if that integer is used as a bit buffer... :).
I asked ChatGPT (GPT-4) about the idea of integrating GPT-JSON with CUE language (https://cuelang.org/) for potential improvements and the answers are quite impressive:

"Yes, integrating the CUE language with GPT-JSON can potentially lead to improvements in its capability. CUE, short for Configuration, Unification, and Environment, is an open-source data constraint language designed to simplify the definition, generation, and validation of data in structured formats, like JSON, YAML, and others.

Integrating CUE with GPT-JSON can bring several benefits:

1) Validation: By using CUE, you can define schemas for the input and output JSON, which helps in validating the data structure and ensuring it adheres to the expected format. This can help reduce errors and improve the quality of the interaction with the GPT model.

2) Simplification: CUE can help simplify the process of defining and generating JSON inputs and outputs for GPT-JSON. By providing a more concise and expressive syntax, CUE can make it easier to craft structured inputs and outputs, which can be especially helpful when working with complex data structures.

3) Interoperability: Integrating CUE can improve the interoperability between GPT-JSON and other systems or applications. With CUE's ability to work with multiple data formats (such as JSON, YAML, or HCL), it becomes easier to integrate GPT-JSON with various tools and platforms.

To integrate CUE with GPT-JSON, you would need to follow these general steps:

1) Define CUE schemas for the input and output JSON structures used by GPT-JSON.

2) Use the CUE language to validate and generate input JSON for GPT-JSON.

3) Process the output JSON generated by GPT-JSON using CUE to ensure it adheres to the defined schema and transform it as needed.

Integrating CUE with GPT-JSON can improve the overall robustness and ease of use of the library, making it more accessible and useful for a wider range of applications."
Thanks, I didn't know that. I'm not Finnish but have stayed in the Helsinki area a lot. There were certain area's in e.g. Tikkurila and Jakomaeki which were pretty bad, and Finnish people told me it was because many alcoholics lived there in state housing. So I supposed that state housing was concentrated in certain area's.
Also see part 2:

https://hackaday.com/2023/05/02/fet-fun-endeavors-together/#...
Zoho launches privacy-centered web browser, Ulaa
The privacy-centered browser is equipped with features that allow for privacy customisation, built-in user profile modes, and integrated productivity tools while keeping user data safe and private. Users can also sync browsing sessions between devices—either an entire browser window or a singular tab—allowing them to use multiple devices for the same browsing session seamlessly
Me too! My brain just won’t let me immerse.

It was when sonic went 3D that it all began for me.

Wait…he’s running away from me?
> Giving poor people money will not help the situation. How much money do you need to give to a family, that would want to have a picnic over the weekend, so that Bill Gates and Elon Musk and others, could not outbid them.

And that's why Bill Gates and Elon Musk bid on and win all ebay auctions ever? Whenever a house goes for sale, they snatch it up, too. Don't they? /s

Basically, the same forces that make the paragraph above untrue, would also be at work here.

> Which is the same situation as here. there is a public park (that is by definition there to be used by the public), that sells tickets, that should cover the upkeep. But since the demand is too high, it sometimes need to raffle them.

If demand is so high, then a poor person who wins a ticket in a raffle is better off selling the ticket in the secondary market (to Bill Gates perhaps) and enjoying the money.

Naturally, you can forbid poor people from reselling their ticket to prevent that. We all know they would only use the proceeds for booze, wouldn't they? /s
Also: public money, public data. One can dream....
Well, yes. Mostly because I only play first party Nintendo games, and buying them is like buying gold because they never depreciate in price, if not outright appreciate in value. Hell, even the Switch itself, which I bought at launch, costs WAY more now than what I paid back then! That is absolutely crazy.

The only thing I "pirate" are Pokemon games because I want to laugh at how unfinished they are, but I usually give up one hour in.
Indeed. Though that doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

You know how eg abolishing slavery or letting women vote was once politically unviable.
Megachiropterans are fruit bats. They are really stinking adorable, especially when compared to smaller insect-eating bats, and for that reason are sometimes called flying foxes. In short, they make good subjects for cinematographers.
Haha, who told you that, billionaires by any chance?
This is some serious bullshit. There are also pediatricians that refer to transgender clinic as early as 3. It is pure insanity, medical field fell victim to political ideologies. The article you posted conflates different things in one, explaining consent for physical contact is not the same as talking about sex to a 5 year old. And is there study that shows what the appropriate age for conversations on sexual health is? The main motivation mentioned is that kids are being exposed to it earlier by incident. But because it happens this way, does not make it right or proves that it is optimal.

> A child should be aware of their consent to being touched or handled — or their space being invaded — from age 5.

This seems too late. By the age of 3 kids can clearly know and communicate if they want to be hugged, kissed, tickled, etc. no reason to wait until 5 to respect their boundaries.

> sexual health education has traditionally been timed to coincide with puberty

I don’t have kids of that age yet, but from personal experience growing up, these talks to be had before changes happen. And it seems to be a common understanding.

It seems like an attempt to inject a pediatrician with a book on sex ed in aspect of kids health, where common sense would suffice.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6855897/
There is some very good advice in here for when you reach medium size. I found myself nodding along, saying of course, happy to see someone write all this up so well, good reference...

Until the fast turn around time item came around, and I knew exactly why my current work was bothering me. I gues sometimes you need to be whacked around the ears with a checklist of stuff you should know, before you realize something's off.
When someone finds an annoyance, often even anecdotal, that is no evidence of why "Mastodon (or the fediverse) won't work".

It's an annoyance, often anecdotal at most. Not the foundation of why a platform cannot ever "work".
Manager: “Why are you all sat around drinking coffee?”

Devs: “The server is down…”
Can we send all our homeless in America to Finland?
No, Finland isn't waging a ridiculous War on Drugs, doesn't have long ties between its three letter agencies and sponsoring drug lords in the more tropical neighbours, nor a broken and corrupted police, justiciary and political system.

The drug issue in the USA is not the problem. It is just a symptom of a more systemic and substantial disease.
Any solution not currently being employed couldn't work because the local issues are different in some nebulous way, and it would require careful study before making a hasty move, and there are all these special cases that are different, and it just couldn't work so we should give up because nothing will ever work even if it has worked elsewhere, and just club them all to death instead.
The fire emoji as file extension is odd, complicated, and unprofessional. That's my main take away. (I know .mojo is also supported but it seems you're pushing .[fire emoji] as default.)

An FAQ entry on how it's faster than C would be appreciated.
What's the social pressure? Healthy, well adjusted adults will not care if you are offended by their post history.

I've seen the opposite, where attaching your personal details to social media and creating a threat of real 'consequences' have lead to an extremely aggressive attitude of conformity that makes it impossible to actually discuss anything even slightly outside of group consensus. Which is something I have thankfully not encountered oh HN.
From the article:

"In the words of Brock Yates: “When Dan (Gurney) and I got to the Portofino, we agreed that the part of the Cannonball which we were proudest about was the fact that we had bothered no one—we hadn’t jeopardized the safety of anyone, including ourselves. We had driven very fast, but we had driven cleanly, efficiently, and safely.”"
Spain also has relatively few homeless, at least compared to some other European countries.
They have made it "de facto" legal to break in to an empty, unused home. If you squat a home, proceedings can take years to get you out of there. The only way to get an express eviction is if the owner reports it in the first 72 hours of people moving in. So no wonder you see bars on every single house window and alarms.
Personal experience: was using LangChain and its output parsers for getting structured data. It was having a very high error rates (probably prompt was becoming too long and confusing). But it is a just prompt + some parsing logic. Replaced it with straight asking openAI GPT for json that matches some Rust struct / Python data-class. The errors went down and got one extra dependency out from the project. Tried to use its self hosted embeddings but the implementation (strangely) seemed tied to something called Run-house.

Not to belittle the library, but most of it is a very thin wrapper classes that reek of premature abstraction, couple with hit-n-miss docs. At this point, given the hype, it is primarily optimized for cooking up demoes quickly. But not sure if the valuations or production use is justified.
As an aside: Hasbro recently sent armed pinkerton agents to threaten a youtuber who legally purchased MTG cards that werent supposed to be released, after hasbro sent them out to a shop by mistake..
Love the idea, but it seems right now very much tied to their platform.

If I can't install it and run it on my machine, including in prod, it's a hard sell.

But given the tone of their articles, they seem passionate about it, and genuine, so I want to believe Mojo will be released as a FOSS project in the future and they will make money with the service itself.
Founded by a Kiwi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab

[Edit not sure what it's got to do with Jacinda though..]
I wonder what the number is during vintage cube season. That’s the main reason I come back these days (never did manage to go infinite…)
Elon running a company running laps around the entire worlds space industry. Obscenely impressive.
Things Scammers Are Hoping You Google
If it's anything like the news reports I read years ago about various mobile games, I imagine the people you're talking about are low-paid employees of a grinding company, playing on heavily streamlined and partially automated stations provided by the employer. There likely isn't even 1:1 relationship between a person and a handle.
I wonder what the author would think nowadays. I've used voice transcription software recently, and it's incredibly accurate. For Anglosphere accents, at least.
I would’ve agreed with you if you had swapped marketers for product managers.

Marketers coming up with ideas and dictating those ideas to engineers is just wrong
> If all the money goes to the park, none is going to the poor people. Seems like you are advocating for a system where rich people get to go to public parks, and poor people get nothing.

I don't understand. It seems like you are suggesting mixing up your welfare system with your park system?

I suggest: have one system that gives poor people money. And have another different system to run the parks.

> Do you think an auction system for organs would be a better world than the existing systems?

Yes, vastly superior. Thanks for bringing this up.

See eg https://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/06/the_fungible_ki.htm... ro https://www.econtalk.org/tina-rosenberg-on-the-kidney-market... or https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2012/SheltonMcKenzi... or https://www.econlib.org/archives/2003/03/organ_transplan.htm...
Would google even care about integrating LLMs into search? They don’t even prune all the spam entries, presumably because they increase advertising revenue and analytics profit.
No. I don't see the need, at least not yet.

What's the business model if there is no advertisement and only 1$ subscription?
not trying to be facetious but are you really suggesting that "scammers" will kidnap ppl, and photograph them next to their ID (which they also conveniently have), just to sign up to a social network (where they have to pay a monthly fee)? and they'll do this by the thousands? wow.. what a world we live..
AES is symmetric. Asymmetric algorithms are those that have pairs of private and public keys, like RSA.
As luck would have it, I took pictures of last ever homeless abode in Helsinki 2005. It was destroyed soon after. It is totally functional all-year-round, with good sleeping bag and oil-lamp quite comfortable. https://photos.app.goo.gl/MqwRWdgkN0oynyTw1

I personally would not move from this abode to Helsinki Mäkelänkatu homeless shelter, full of creepy drugheads and violent drunks.
Maybe after the next round
no I'm not suggesting they'll kidnap people

heard of deepfakes and editing?
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You give poor people money, so they can make their own decisions on what they want to spend it on.

Instead of restricting them ad hoc to eg national park entries or whatever you think should be provided in-kind by raffles.
This is so dismissive. We have to admit and analyze the reasons for homelessness before we attempt a solution.

Sometimes, people who do everything right end up homeless due to illness, rising rents, death in the family, or any multitude of reasons. If we gave these people free housing and resources, they'd likely bounce back and be fine.

If we mix in folks who are drugged out beyond belief, who are violent, who have no desire to improve, it taints the entire project. Do you want to put a family of 4 trying to get by next door to some shirtless guy with a machete who constantly threatens to stab everyone? Why? Now all the neighbors complain, crime goes up, etc.

It's time to admit some people either aren't worth helping, or at least can't be helped in the way that others can.
This would add a lot of complexity into the C compiler and stdlib, and C would just end up as another C++. IMHO it is still important that a C compiler and stdlib can be written in reasonable time by an individual or small team.

And just one example (because it's one of my favourite topics where the C++ stdlib really failed):

std::string as a standard string type has so many (performance) problems that it is borderline useless. You can't simply use it anywhere without being very aware of the memory management implications (when and where does memory allocation and freeing happen - and std::string does its best to obscure such important details), and this isn't just an esoteric niche problem: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/EU...
San Francisco has quality of life issues but they are completely unrelated to the tech company founder being stabbed to death by a tech consultant over a personal issue.

> Nima Momeni, the man accused of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee, stabbed him three times with a kitchen knife on a dark San Francisco street after Momeni confronted Lee about Lee’s relationship with the suspect’s sister, city prosecutors alleged Friday.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/nima-momeni-arraig...
You gotta love that Tcl/Tk node based user interface in Max/FTS - something that is still alive today in Pd (Pure Data). Sure, it is clunky, probably not in line with any modern UX design rules. But, at the same time, it is kind of timeless, brutalistic and stylish in all its monochrome ugliness.
You can use simpler types. Instead of :

messages=[
GPTMessage(
role=GPTMessageRole.SYSTEM,
content=SYSTEM_PROMPT,
),
GPTMessage(
role=GPTMessageRole.USER,
content="Text: I love this product. It's the best thing ever!",
)
]

Try:

messages=(
("system", SYSTEM_PROMPT),
("user", "Text: I love this product. It's the best thing ever!")
)

Or:

messages=(
SystemMsg(SYSTEM_PROMPT),
UserMsg("Text: I love this product. It's the best thing ever!")
)

This is still Python, not Java.
> That's definitely something other countries can learn from.

Other countries with totally different problems and different reasons for homelessness will learn what from that exactly?
There are a ton of R packages in Nixpkgs already! To use them with R, you ask Nix to 'build' an R that has them available. This is the general pattern for all languages available in Nixpkgs, but the details vary between languages somewhat. You can find the guide for any/all of them in the Nixpkgs manual. Here is R's: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#r

I think not literally everything (especially if it has native extensions) is necessarily working, but everything in CRAN and Bioconductor is on there. Give your faves a try!

To explain this seemingly strange behavior a bit: because of Nix's commitment to isolating dependencies, when you install a language interpreter to some environment, it needs to behave the same way no matter what is installed in that environment— including packages from its own ecosystem. So instead, Nix has you be fully explicit ahead of time about what you want each language interpreter to pick up on, and those are the only in-ecosystem packages it'll ever be able to see.

This is super nice for per-project dependencies and for scripts that can bring along all their own dependencies, but it can seem a little weird when what you're used to and what you expect is just managing a single environment.
Practically speaking unless Meta are willing to remove WhatsApp from the appstore for UK IPs and lay off all 5,000 staff at Kings Cross on principle, do they have any leverage?
> They have made it "de facto" legal to break in to an empty, unused home. If you squat a home, proceedings can take years to get you out of there.

Same for France
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And what's that got to do with the price of fish?

It doesn't change the facts, most people will not get amazing rental deals, your advice is wrong and it doesn't matter how many alt accounts you use Matt.

You're very badly wrong.

The irony here is that your landlord gained $3,300 a month in property value while you lost the same amount on rent. So the 7 year homeowner is absolutely destroying the renter.

So this demonstrates perfectly how, over a longer term of 7 years, you are always better off buying.
Yes we provide SSO without a big SSO tax.
One benefit of publishing that this will diminish is cross examination and validation. Good luck living in your own bubble.