skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, there are some - maybe one or two - alternate implementations of Mastodon server brewing out there. Not of a generic ActivePub server, but specifically a server with an intention to be fully compatible with Mastodon.

So in the future, there may be more, hopefully more efficient choices.
And in some countries these kind of benefits are taxed as income. And limited in amount that can be provided. But that requires sensible legistlation.
How we created an interactive art installation at Wunderdog that runs in the browser
How do you determine that this is the same bill? Like they can rename it and rewrite it. And can put it into huge omnibus bill like inflation reduction act.
Looks like a replay of their pathetic attempt to compete with SpaceX in launch business with their Ariane 6 which has become hopelessly outdated and overpriced long before it flew for the first time, and now they are stuck with it because they have no choice, but they are back to square one: a rocket that can only exist to waste taxpayer money.
> Only if one believes that the lack of a home or a house is the root cause of the individuals problem.

Homelessness may not be the root cause, but it effectively prevents one from having a normal life.

One is unable to help oneself if they spend all of their time, money and effort staying warm, fed and safe.

> A drug addict provided with a house as a home will turn that house into a cesspit in very short time. The drug addict does not clean, does not take out the trash, does not repair. The drug addict will invite other drug addicts to the house, essentially turning it into what is called a drug house. The house can no longer be lived in, and it stops being a home.

If you do this you get evicted from normal housing.

Which is why the supported "housing first" initiative apartment blocks come with rules, social workers, etc. Typically they tolerate substance abuse but have restrictions on number of visitors, visiting hours, etc.

> Helping SF drug addicts is a noble cause and should be done - but not by giving them a free house. They need help with their drug addiction first and foremost. Having somewhere to shelter while they get that help is a necessary part of the solution but it is the solution.

It's is extremely difficult to try to get out of substance abuse or mental illness issues when living rough.

This is exactly why the paradigm of giving housing first exists. Previous attempts at helping the homeless with substance abuse and mental health were fruitless. All the money and effort put into that had very poor results. Give the keys to a normal apartment to an addict and they'll be doing drugs instead of paying rent and back on the streets in a few months.

Housing first, addressing problems second was found to be much more effective. This was researched extensively. About 80% of people given supported housing get out of homelessness [0]. That's a massive difference to earlier "shelter only" model of social support for the homeless.

[0] https://www.hdl.fi/blog/asunto-ensin-tavoitteena-pysyva-asum...
Except ford is losing a ton of money on EVs. I think yesterday a report came out their margins are -44% on EVs.

While they might be selling some EVs, they’re pretty far from what Tesla is doing as a business.
I think everyone would be better off surveying the AI classics before diving head first into ML. It's the nuclear option for problem solving; and sometimes you can get away with simpler approaches that are easier to implement, reason about and debug.
I think we also celebrate with cake if someone have a pull request from someone else that get approved?
They said that they will change the licence for the final version IIRC.
https://wordsmith.org/anagram/ is nice for finding multi-word anagrams, and it has a hall of fame link also.
And it’s 13 letters long
Except, of course, The Beatles never broke up. You can download Everyday Chemistry and listen for yourself.

http://thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com/
Just wanna share that I found your comment a lot of fun to read, even if I had already pieced the story together from other comments. Thanks!
> If that wasn't true we'd all be using Microsoft phones (or heck, IBM PCs AND phones).

Once an IBM Office Manager was offering me a job and explained

"IBM is a marketing organization."

So, the focus was not really on computers or phones but on the central, crucial, bet your business data processing of the larger and largest companies -- banking, insurance, manufacturing, ..., and marketing to them.

So, the focus of IBM was really on their target customers. So, if some target customers needed something, then IBM would design, build, and deliver it.

That may still be their focus.
> Spacex didn’t get money handed to them (unlike the corn and oil industries). It got orders to complete certain tasks that NASA thought it might do better than itself. Boeing and many others got these types of orders too.

According to the WTO, those are overgenerous and the same as subsidies (check Airbus' cases against Boeing for illegal subsidies).

> It explains nothing about why spacex succeeded

Indeed, just money (even government money) is not sufficient. Never said it was, only that it is a flat out lie to say only private funding can innovate and that SpaceX/Tesla did it all on their own and Musk is a self-made man/billionaire.
Also "Xenoparasite Exasperation" - would have made a great title for a 1960s/70s Sci-Fi B movie...
My observation is that Amazon is going to have challenges as they don’t have products that they can push their AI offerings.

Now they could do work on Amazon.com to improve search and finding what their customer wants.

Their most recent video on this topic, shows that they don’t have a solution now and it’s unclear to me how they will project a solution to the mass market as they don’t have consumer/business facing software to integrate it into as Microsoft does.

While we are at it, Apple has nothing, perhaps they might leverage something from either Google or an open.ai competitor that has a solution.

The continued destruction by Apple of the initial promise of Siri has been a major failure under Tim Cook’s leadership.

I wonder why they appear unable to fix this.
Learnings from 1 month of running an AI podcast
Every day of the past month, a script has been generating a podcast that recaps the top Hacker News posts of the previous day. The content is modified using LLMs and the audio synthesized using TTS. The response from the HN community has been amazing, so we wanted to share some insights.

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Listen to this post: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2170103/12788630
If it's for work or for building something useful, the book is a waste of time. If it's for your personal interest, you can read and learn anything you want.

Personally I avoid books like this one (similar to how I avoid very esoteric languages) because I want to spend my time on things are interesting and useful instead of only interesting.
A few points...

1. You're saying we'll not be able to distinguish between human and bot content in a few months. If that's true, then what stops someone from signing up for $1 with their ID and having a bot write all their content? I could easily have a bot write hourly messages, self-promotions and content about my business. The only thing you can guarantee is someone is paying a fee. That's it.

2. You said you want to use images for identification. What happens when you cannot distinguish a real person from an AI person, which seems to already exist (https://twitter.com/mileszim/status/1613965684937224192)? You said in another comment the person needs to be in their photo with the ID. I Photoshopped one in for you (https://i.imgur.com/42ip7Ih.jpg) and now we have one fake AI generated human with a Washington driver's license. Yes, the photo on the license doesn't match and the hand is an unrealistic position, but I could fix that with 15 minutes of editing and then reuse the hands to overlay on other fake accounts.

3. It seems likely that bot content becomes higher quality than human content. Let's be honest here, human written content is full of ulterior motives, deceit, manipulation, marketing, scams, etc. Wouldn't I be better off having a debate with a bot that is more reasonable, more eloquent, and more knowledgeable? Is having a 2AM argument with a human on a social network a valuable experience I should be paying for? It's one side yelling at the other and it never goes anywhere productive. You could be going the wrong direction here. What about a social network that's 80% content written by friendly, happy, AI bots that you provide? They build a positive atmosphere and strong foundation for the 20% of humans to stand on. They push the conversation in a better direction, they bring in more facts, they compliment people and make them feel better about themselves and their appearance. Why can't we use bots to our advantage? Surround people with happy bots, and maybe they, themselves will be more likely to write thoughtful, respectful messages.
OT, but not much, a very nice movie, a bit strange but interesting is The Man Without a Past by Aki Kaurismäki, that "touches" a similar theme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Past

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Kaurism%C3%A4ki
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The wordsmith link in my other comment tells me that one is a triple on that theme:

astronomers = moon starers = no more stars
Ulaa: New privacy centric browser from Zoho
>I'd wager you don't want fighter jet or missile guidance software to be open source.

If I can't exercise my 2nd amendment right to open source cruise missiles, am I really free? (fnord)
True but the remaining of the comment is still valid: Microsoft had time in advance to prepare.

But just "internet" doesn't mean a lot. Prescient would have been predicting search, ads and social media. We now are in a similar position maybe, with some tech that looks cool, trying to build geocities with AI
I know these numbers and they are brought up often, but nearly 100% of our terrain is fundamentally habitable - but some of it is purposefully claimed for nature - and filled to the brim with essential infrastructure. I don't think you can just take the vast, empty and rough mountainous and wild terrains of Finland and declare them realistically habitable.
With modern and trendy music, should we listen to old and classical music. Should we forget the history? I think not. My favourite genres are Jazz and classical.

Sorry if you don't get the metaphor, but it's like so.
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Show HN: Pointless v1.5.0 – endless drawing canvas
Credit goes to Elon for picking an extremely competent COO in Gwynne Shotwell to handle the actual running of the operation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwynne_Shotwell
It's an infinite loop. Build more housing to suck in more jobs and people. Then you need even more housing since people from now-depleted surroundings come in. Rinse and repeat.

It's not capitalism or statism. It's lack of safeguards to prevent concentrating too many people and economy into too tiny pieces of land.
This seems serious, and a very nice introduction/primer on how databases work under the hood, thanks for sharing!

One minor nitpick after glancing quickly at the code: there's pointer arithmetic with 'void *' pointers [1], which is a GCC extension and not portable [2]. It should be rewritten using the proper casts, in my opinion.

[1]: https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/parts/part8.html#access...

[2]:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3523145/pointer-arithmet...
Yeah, I also thought of Eternal September [1] in 1993, when I saw the claim to prescience.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Perhaps we are converging on a compromise. I'm completely OK housing them, as long as they are housed physically separately from the others.
Ask HN: How do you muster up the energy to study/do stuff after work?
I'm lucky to be fully WFH but after 9h of work (including 1h lunch break) I have zero energy to do anything. How do you force yourself to do stuff after work that isn't binging on Youtube or Procrastination?
You can use shellac-finished wooden plates and bowls. Biodegradable, natural, doesn’t break, lightweight, carbon-neutral material.
Any source for not being liable for income taxes at the time of receiving stocks? That seems like a very obvious gap (which is not present in many EU countries at least, here we are definitely liable for income tax when RSUs vest).

I thought the reason for delaying selling of stocks is to avoid capital gains tax, not income tax.

I did a quick google, and most sources seem to support that taxes are due at RSU vesting time, e.g.

> With RSUs, you are taxed when the shares are delivered, which is almost always at vesting. Your taxable income is the market value of the shares at vesting.

https://www.schwab.com/public/eac/resources/articles/rsu_fac...

Why would this be different for the salaries of rich people? Isn't it more that they usually get large amounts of stocks at low prices if they stick with the company for a long time?
Noted abolitionist William Wilberforce would like a word.
This is one of the better articles (of this type of content) that I've read in a while.

Pushing implicit logic towards types, keeping non-determinism/impurities at the edges of your program by asserting around edges is a massive win.

The only language that encourage this type of programming (as in it's idiomatic across the ecosystem) whilst still keeping compile times down is OCaml.
Microsoft wanted to control it all with Blackbird and ActivePlatform.

Their greed ended up with them losing out (thankfully).
But I don't want Mastodon. I want Web Annotations built in to the browser, including the ability to share them with other browser users using [insert distribution and authentication mechanisms].

Like, I read Ars Technica. I have friends who read Ars Technica. Why can't we leave annotations for each other on Ars Technica without Ars Technica having any control over or knowledge of what we say? Why can't we do that to Facebook and Twitter and reddit and Hacker News and Mastodon and Medium? Sidechannels for everything. End-to-end encryption eventually. Self-hosted, you bet. All the most important features of social, with none of the advertising opportunity.
End to end tests by definition are more loosely coupled.

They are better as executable documentation - mapping to actual user flows and able to generate docs (videos, screenshots, etc.).

They're slower, but it's easy enough to parallelize and cache.

Unit tests will often just mirror the behavior of the code. This is not useful.
Interesting hypothesis…
Facebook’s favorite move.

Remember Beacon? They killed it after the public outcry, and brought it back later quietly anyway.

They also did a bunch of surveillance, apologized when caught, then continued doing it.

Many governments seem to do it too — they retry later with the same bill and then they pass it when the public is distracted.
Wow, even using "Russians under the bed" to attack FOSS now.
Google's SR running on our xiaomi spy devices in my house consistently gets things way wrong.
Pretty much any SR I have ever used on any device seems incredibly bad.
Obviously these devices don't use whisper etc, but even so, these are sold to consumers and 50% of the time they don't get the prompt correctly.

We have "smart bulbs" that are connected to this spy network, which means that if I want to turn off a light, if I don't want to be shat on my by my partner I can't just turn off the switch, but rather stand pointlessly trying to turn off/on the lights by yelling at a fucking box in my lounge. I hate this so much more than you could ever begin to imagine.
And somehow, all these "success" stories has not yet been enough for him to open his eyes. People will buy any shit and then convince themselves that they have "success" stories.

Lets not even breach the topic of the fact that I have been using computer vision for years to do cool shit, but no, lets buy shit xiaomi cameras that have no API to interface with, so the absolute best case scenario for me knowing what's on the camera, is opening their piece of shit app and waiting 10-30 seconds for them to figure out how to connect over our network using their own fucking API.

Since I'm on this tangent now, I would love to pay special mention to their PIECE OF SHIT KETTLE Which is supposed to be a smart kettle, but the one fucking thing you would want to be able to do remotely is not supported. Oh, you wanted to boil your kettle from your desk? Well Fuck you!
I have a similar struggle and find you are largely limited to learning piecemeal. I have found the best learning resources are the technical docs, specifications, proposals and source code of major language projects and VMs. Research languages and associated research papers. Conference talks by compiler authors (Rust has some good ones).
The externalities for wind and solar is the reserve energy that currently consumer expects governments (in EU) to supply and pay for. It is the most expensive form of externalities in the grid, it is one of the dirtiest, and since the government is paying for it it is also the most subsidized.

This socialization of costs is sadly mostly unknown to the consumer. Governments could try moving the costs closer to the consumer by putting the costs onto the power company, forcing them to either cut off consumer when demand exceed supply or build enough storage to cover periods of suboptimal weather conditions.
Property and property rights are defined by the society. It's not a natural law or something. If society agrees that property works in a "use it or lose it" manner, so it is.
bboygravity's proposition was that Finland doesn't have long-term homeless people because the harsh winter kills them off.

This is clearly not so, because the source I gave shows long-term homeless people in Finland, who survived winter using "tent villages and huts".

That over a quarter of them were immigrants [1] does not change the fact that they existed, or that almost 75% were not immigrants [2].

> Street homelessness was not common before the housing first doctrine, there were shelters.

Yes, it's a good point that there are many types of homelessness, and living rough/on the streets is only one. But I think that distinction is directed more towards bboygravity?

The link I gave earlier, to https://www.themandarin.com.au/205500-finland-ends-homelessn... , mentions issues going back to the 1980s, which is well before Finland joined the EU:

] Since the 1980s, Finnish governments had been trying to reduce homelessness with the building of short-term shelters. However, long-term homeless people were still left out. There were too few emergency shelters and many affected people did not manage to get out of homelessness: they couldn’t find jobs without a housing address. And without any job, they couldn’t find a flat. It was a vicious circle. Furthermore, they had problems applying for social benefits. All in all, homeless people found themselves trapped.

An emergency shelter like you mention is not a housing address needed for finding a job, thus making it harder to get out of homelessness.

[1] "In 2013 there were almost 2 000 homeless immigrants in Finland. In 2013 the group was more than 25 percent of the total homelessness population." - https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/153258/YMra...

[2] "The shortage of small rental dwellings and very high rents in the metropolitan area,
especially in Helsinki, create and sustain youth homelessness.223 Two kinds of groups
can be found within youth homelessness: young people who are homeless due to
their low level of income and overpriced rental housing, and young people who, in
addition to housing, need support services.", same source
What does the word "Mojo" has to do with fire to begin with? Is this some new output of meme culture? Do kids today consider the ability to create mojo using stones as the first step towards human civilisation?
yes, so economies of scale
I think you're confusing homeless with rough sleeping. Rough sleeping is sleeping outside, while homeless can include couch surfing (staying with friends for a few days at a time) or sleeping in shelters. Shelters provide beds but no privacy/no security from other residents and no space to build up possessions.

In the article, Toronto provides shelters and Finland provides homes.
Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) as you have described here is pretty common in voice recognition.[1] I don't have any inside scoop but I'd be very surprised if there isn't any RLHF going on in these applications.

edit to add: The whisper paper mentions using RLHF as a possible path to improve accuracy[2]

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10462-022-10224-2 gives many examples

[2] https://cdn.openai.com/papers/whisper.pdf
The EU bureaucracy is a catastrophy for European innovation. The more EU there has been, the crappiest the ability to create wealth/innovate has become. Europhiles like to boast about Airbus or Ariane as "European projects" but they are not, they are inter-states collaboration, and were create when EU commission didn't exist with its vast bureaucracy and it's never ending forms to fill. Can you name one Brussels backed project that went somewhere?
article 25 of the declaration of human rights talks about right to shelter and food
Ask HN: Is someone know, how to measure body parts size with a device?
Do you any recommendation ways of how to measure a body part size with a device in order to send reproduce a plastic parts of the body parts sized ?
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> The existence of such datasets follows from the line of thinking in Data Doesn't Do What You Think, and they are rapidly becoming the standard way to do training outside Google.

links to http://www.internalgooglesitescrubbedbyus.com/

Haha. Who writes this blog?
Nuclear subs and carriers operate in salt water all the time. It's "just" chemistry
It takes more effort to make internal code FOSS (i.e. upstreaming changes, protecting internal parts, etc.) - and often very few other people use it or contribute back anyway.

I think it'd make more sense as part of a unified effort - like all EU countries agreeing to provide one digital ID service. But that itself is a much bigger issue due to differing levels of digital services, bureaucracy, etc.

I still support it though, and donate to FSF Europe every year with my company donation.
Not about the article itself, but the "Share to Mastodon" link uses a protocol I'm not familiar with, and it doesn't work in my browser. Is there a certain extension or server configuration expected of me?