skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all the same in Germany, but even as a property owner, I see some justification for effectively legalizing squatting in unused buildings. It would create some incentive for property owners to invest and rent out buildings, or otherwise sell them cheaply. Ideally this would be formalized and matched with a proper framework, i.e. municipalities can easily buy unused properties at a nominal cost, property owners can "convert" squatters into renters (who actually own rent) by bringing the property up to a minimum standard (which in turn the squatter would have to accept or move out), etc.
> coprophagist

Now that's something...
> also cold in many places in the US ... so people die all the time there too.

The cold climate locations in the US does not have homeless during the winter, because they move away to warmer climates.

There's no warmer climate to be in for Finland.
It’s due to politics, there was a campaign tied with nationalistic sentiment that leveraged soccer fans for it.
Any time these are announced it's usually a year and a day after. Statute of limitations is a year for speeding in most of the us. They can be investigated, but not charged. These lads are not idiots. Check out apex: the secret road race across america (film) or 32 hours 7 min (film) to see the prep these guys get up to. Also, VINwiki on YouTube has some story's about it too.
I did Wikipedia article titles and found:

Atlantic casino resort spa / Carter assassination plot
You should still follow Jonty (the poster at that Mastodon instance) wherever your socials are, because he's awesome, and posts about awesome things. He's also the organiser of EMFCamp (https://www.emfcamp.org/), which is a nerd/hacker camping festival.
> even coming out of the gate pretty strong by dominating the browser market

They were out of the gate about as weak as could be, Windows didn't have a native tcp/ip stack for the longest time (remember Trumpet Winsock?) and they only dominated the browser market through grossly uncompetitive behavior after they had lost the initial 5 rounds of the battle.
Did you come across some other self-hosted ChatGPT clones that you can recommend?
My daughters played the shit out of Barbie Fashion Designer.

I suspect that one of them choose to study Game Design as a result of it.
But the issue here is that taxpayer's money is never sufficient. If not used on software projects it could always be used to speed up public infrastructure building, increase salaries in important public jobs like healthcare or teaching, or any one of a billion things that would be far less wasteful and still put that money back into the economy.
That the first step of resolving someone's homelessness is to provide them with a home (and then obviously don't stop there but provide additional support where needed). Who would have thought?
I think one of the things you learn on your way to C) is when it makes sense to roll your own. It is difficult, and maybe something that actually happens after c.

It seems to be very hard to make that call in time, and in the past I feel like every time we chose to implement something on our own, the existing solution would have been better in hindsight, and every time we said "ok, that existing solution looks fine" it turned out to be a dumpster fire a year down the line. But obviously the times where you made the right call just don't stick out that much because stuff "just worked", and also, in case you think you made the wrong decision, the alternative could've been ever worse. But still, I guess everybody knows that feeling? :-)
Aye, except the days of accurate headlines are a long long way behind us.

Makes me think that each HN submission should have two title fields: one for the exact title of the article or blog post or whatever, and one for an accurate consensus driven title!

Or if somehow content creators could be rewarded for accuracy in their headlines.
There is even a dwm-style extremely comprehensive tiling window manager called bug.n [1], which I downloaded it way back in windows 8 days. Made a lot of changes myself and plan to open source it as a fork. Its too good. And combined with the rest of my AHK scripts, my windows setup turns out to be even more customised than many Linux systems I use.

See my post of my windows setup fooling r/unixporn [2] for how it could look.

[1] https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/neqnmi/bspwm_not_...
> break down

If there exists a use of "«break down»" intended to mean "biodegrade", the term remains too close to "crumble".

You would not eat a bottle, but having tiny chunks of plastic around makes "you eat 5 grams of plastic - one credit card - per <period>" fully credible (i.e. you want it to stay big to stay out of the body - you want materials not to shed themselves around). Crumbling plastic just creates microplastic. Which is relevant, because some actors seem to have confused the goals - transforming vs pulverizing.

(See e.g. https://theconversation.com/were-all-ingesting-microplastics... ; https://theconversation.com/youre-eating-microplastics-in-wa... )
This kind of selfishness is not about yourself getting more, it's about others getting less. As harsh as it sounds, this is the center of many political ideas. This is what happens when you start from "we should do X", instead of "I want things to be Y, so let's find out how to best get there". Just think about the droves of people fighting to teach abstinence in schools, although studies have shown time and time again it leads to more abortions!
Ketamine may have its use as a treatment for ASD.
Show HN: Pokemon Fusion Generator with Images Created by AI
> juuuust barely above critical mass

Interesting. Everyone says that nuclear reactors are safe and material can't be used to build bomb, how are we ensuring that were always only tiny bit above CM... And this bit doesn't grow unexpectedly.

As laic, i see many failure modes, starting with simple accidents in handling of rods or bad storage
I'm listening. Please explain.
Carrie Fisher's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Unveiled on Star Wars Day
I agree with the same person but not with forbidding to reintroduce it after X years, society changes, situations change, but I think there should be at least 10-15 years between each presentation
> I've been saying the same things for weeks, right here and in the usual places. Basically - OpenAI will not be able to continue to commercialise chatGPT-3.5, they will have to move to GPT-4 because the open source alternatives will catch up. Their island of exclusivity is shrinking fast. In a few months nobody will want to pay for GPT-4 either when they can have private, cheap equivalents. So GPT-5 it is for OpenAI.

I wonder if this effect will be compounded by regulatory pressure that seems poised to slow down progress at the bleeding edge of LLMs.

Open source closing the gap at the bottom, and governments restricting further movement at the top...
Author here :)

> Their philosophy isn’t to understand truth or beauty either. It’s just to “use heuristics” to do what other successful people do.

I've found that studying others is a reliable way to discover truth and beauty. I also think investigating yourself produces good results. But maybe I'm overthinking haha

> picks and chooses behaviors and practices without understanding

I'm really really interested in how to pick behaviors and practices! Do you have any recommendations?
Pretty sure android is a larger uzwrbase than ios by far. You may be in a social technological bubble.
There’s really a lot to be said for an easily readable relatively terse language that compiles to a tiny binary executable with low memory usage and can be run as a service, profiled, etc.

We use it extensively in production. I really would only ever consider Rust as an alternative, it’s that good.
Renting is generally just about enough to maintain a mortgage. The premium if any can be though of as option value should you need to move in near ish future, or otherwise from appreciation.

A renter who rents the equivalent property and puts their savings into the stock market can generally expect the same or better risk adjusted returns though real estate generally alows you to take on more leverage than with equity bc of lower volatility and there are some tax advantages if you're in a high tax bracket bc interest can be deducted.
Hmmm... Maybe because I'm not a native speaker, but, well, I don't get it :-) Could you explain ?
As a UK citizen and resident I've been using an always on VPN on my personal laptop and mobile for 10 years.

The major UK ISPs already log all DNS queries and a hell of a lot of TCP data and make it all accessible to authorities.
Mozilla seems to be hellbent on squandering its resources, working on anything and everything except for their browser.

Moreover, the Fakespot acquisition and building a social platform (with an explicit political position) jeopardizes their position as a neutral browser vendor. Because a lot of people and resources in the organization would now be devoted towards content moderation, it would be easy for an extremist political group (which could either be left or right leaning) to force Mozilla to bake in censorship in their browser, by way of litigation or otherwise, as they already have the technology to do it elsewhere.
List of Bird Extinctions by Year
Depends how far you are willing to stretch your definition of "the same".

I think the opinion that all politicians are the same is:

1. Impractical, if the underlying assumptions were true: in a democracy you got the right to vote people out who misbehave. If you are blind to the differences between those people, you are effectively letting those who are a little bit worse than the others stay. And so the spiral moves downwards and you will at some point in your life wake up and ask how it came to this.

2. Purely Self-protective: taking part in politics and being involved and observant comes at an (emotional) cost. Pretending there is no difference is an easy way of not having to get involved while still having a thinly vailed excuse to continue complaining.

3. Untrue: Each body of government will always have a few crazy corrupt politicians and some that are extremely principled (and a mixture of those things in between). Our task is to punish those who are crazy corrupt by not voting for them, where we can, while we are still allowed to vote.

4. Popularistic: Many unpolitical people share that opinion, it is not an "unpopular" opinion, it is the opinion of that drunkard you meet at the pub. If you ask them to name you politicians that are currently in positions they can't name any. If you tell tell them the name of politician A who got fined for corruption and politician B who has a Life-Long track record of doing a thing they stood for in their twenties they can't tell you the difference

5. Self-Defeating: You don't have to inform yourself, because everything is "the same" anyways. This has the downside that all it needs to get your vote is to look or feel not the same, because whether they act different is something you obviously cannot tell. It is a bit like if you ask a person who thinks "all computers are the same" to buy one for you and they select one because it had "a nice color", except that this actually has a huge impact on people's lives and maybe even the survival of the human race.
Sponsors of this bill are Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut).

Graham has a track record of being pro-mass surveillance and generally being on the wrong side of every major issue.

Blumenthal has a track record of being anti-pornography on the internet.

Not hard to see why they're constantly trying to push this bill through.
iCloud e2e encryption was only introduced last year, and it's optional. Apple calls the feature "Advanced Data Protection".
Hmm so tutanota is subject to US law.
As a former die-hard KS fan, this recent People Magazine spotlight/feature/confessional pretty much helped me realize he's a master carny-barker.
This came up the last time this was discussed here. It didn't work well.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/431b163b2a2d532bfd0a3bdcc7...

See https://blog.plover.com/lang/anagram-scoring-3.html for more details.
Not the OP but they were referring to the whole site. So definitely not millions, but the number is probably higher than you think.

From the blog you linked, the number of interest is 18k. 12k are only those with HN referrer headers. In reality, many setup strips that header so you can't track it exactly right. The author did mention they averaged 50 views before.

A big part of it are reposts. From my own submissions, posting to HN resulted in tons of different origins. Public ones like reddit, twitter and private ones like newsletters, dashboard & chat messages. You'll also be surprised by the wide variety of clients people use to access HN.

They also used Google analytics to track the numbers. Most people in HN block it either through the browser or an extension [0]. In reality it's probably double the traffic.

Don't forget to account for scraping & crawling bots. That's another big source of traffic that the author didn't track.

[0] https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-adblockers-missin...
The Battle Plan for Combating IPTV Piracy in Europe Has Arrived
For the calculator tool I suggest instead to just generate Javascript as an output with temperature set to 0 (system prompt set to something along the lines of: "Generate native Javascript code only. Don't provide any explanations. Don't import any extraneous libraries") and then eval that Javascript code in a VM. Deno is a good candidate for this as it has good security settings with access to filesystem and network turned off by default. You can use something like deno-vm [1] to execute it separate from your running process too. Setting GPT-4 as model works even better. I have seen it perform better than Wolfram Alpha in many cases so I am wondering why OpenAI chose to integrate with Wolfram Alpha for this. GPT-4 was able to solve some really complex math problems I threw at it.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/deno-vm
Ummm, the author used awk for the first version in the 1990s.

> This was easy to do, even at the time, when the word list itself, at 2.5 megabytes, was a file of significant size. Perl and its cousins were not yet common; in those days I used Awk. But the task is not very different in any reasonable language:
We already have animal rights - because we said so and because it is agreed they feel pleasure and pain. Yet we still eat them and still not let them vote (or push the nuclear button). Although I completely fail to see why would we program (except for fun) the AI to feel pleasure and pain, let's say so for the argument. So, what kind of rights should it get?
When you say "plateaued" again, do you have example ? I follow speech recognition like an average engineer and I mostly encounter "success" stories. So I'm afraid that I see things with rosy glasses. Do you have some examples where it fails in a meaningful way (that is, it fails on apparently simple, or usual, scenarios).
I'm a Brit and have lived in the US for 10 years now. While the US has the more secular constitution, culturally and politically religion is far more influential in the US than the UK. Since the late 1970s the Republican Party began courting white evangelicals and it is now heavily associated with their beliefs. Republican Supreme Court Justices have opened the way for Republican controlled states to ban abortion and I expect we will see pregnant women die in these states as they are unable to access appropriate healthcare much as they did in Ireland until relatively recently.

The secular nature of the US constitution was designed to protect religious freedom while in the UK religion was subjugated to the interests of the state - the Church of England was setup so that the King could get a divorce after all!
Yes, you should. All you need is basic transportation; if you want more than that, then you should pay the insurance to replace it when it gets damaged or destroyed.

I'm not even sure you should get anything at all from the other driver.

Do you demand the Earth compensate you when your house gets damaged in a storm, or do you pay for the insurance policy that covers that?
also running laps around ev
“Cutting Edge Chipset” Scheduling
The company I work for makes a killing on applying a 1980s-era ML technique to a really tough modern business problem -- the resulting product is probably the best in the world at what it's doing.

Old techniques have several things going for them, with one of the more important ones for us being explainability. A random person off the street could hypothetically, with an hour or two of training, diagnose problems just by looking at the structure of the model. That's very helpful for adapting to market needs.

Generality is another big plus. Since the model encodes intuitive ideas there's a lot of room for using it in innovative ways.

Older techniques also tend to produce better results with less data, because big data wasn't as much of a thing back then.

Unless you have a crazy amount of resources, I think it's far better to be bleeding edge in as few things as possible. Solving a new business problem? Perhaps don't spend too much time on also solving all the childhood diseases of a new technology.
You just described your next hobby project?
Prejudice is defined as: preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience: prejudice against people from different backgrounds

• dislike, hostility, or unjust behaviour deriving from preconceived and unfounded opinions

Let me tell you that my opinions on people under 30 are 100% based on reason and actual experience. Some of it is even judgement on _me_ when I was under 30.

Don't take it personally, people just haven't gone through a certain amount of life before 30. It doesn't make them bad, or less deserving of respect. But let's be real, giving someone respect as a human being isn't the same thing as taking their opinions on say, how society should be run, as seriously as someone who's older.

This is of course generalising, as you're going to get a few 21 yearolds wiser than a few 51 yearolds, but that's how generalisations work; they're true in _general_. It's become common-place to see generalisations as an automatic bad thing, but bear in mind they serve a function, and are even how brains work.
Pixies keep switching off my morning alarm, says Google Pixel owner
how to greatly improve observability with just a small amount of effort
ChatGPT Makes a 3D Model: The Secret Ingredient? Much Patience
Thanks, will do! I'm always on the lookout for interesting people on Mastodon!
I think its perfectly fine that a private space company massively funded by billionaires and massive investment funds show the way before government space companies tread the path. Expecting govt funded organizations to innovate will only happen in times of nation-to-nation competition or in times of War. Usually, risky innovation is frowned upon and there is little understandings of mistakes. Learning from many failures - the SpaceX approach - is not tolerated for tax-payer funded companies.

And doing it in a decade or two is actually fine. Tech will stabilize by then and there will be more skilled people to hire. Why the rush ?
>>> Over time, I’ve come to view LR parsing as equivalent to static typing: occasionally annoyingly restrictive, but providing enough static guarantees to be worth the annoyance for important software.

That's also one of the points of using parser tools instead of hand coded descendant parsers. The rule validation is also done by the tool. A lot of pitfalls can be avoided.
The source you refer to is talking about municipal housing, which is just normal rental housing owned by municipalities. There is indeed a lot of those and it sure helps keeping the homelessness down together with social support.

There are areas with high concentrations of municipal housing built in 1970s and 1980s, and this is generally considered a mistake in urban planning as there are concentrations of low-income, low-education residents, which isn't a positive for the area.

But I reiterate: this is normal housing available to everyone. You gotta pay your rent and behave or you get evicted. The municipality is just the landlord here.

The supported housing for the homeless is just a few housing units (apartment blocks), and they aren't normal housing. Examples of this kind of housing is Sininauhasäätiö (org), Ruusulankatu (address) and Diakonissalaitos, Helsinginkatu.
Aside from text snippets and invoking some actions, I haven't really discovered what I can use AHK for.

Any more complex examples that doesn't work in python / c# that easily?
The US government half-assed it. They pulled the rug out from under a huge population, and then acted surprised when they fell over. It was clearly being abused, and needed to be better controlled, but in making it impossible to prescribe rather quickly, and to not provide any help to the addicted, the US government created this mess. Where are the massive social programs to get users off opiates, legal or illegal. Where's the bridge to getting better, a helping hand to get over the hump?

The rich can afford to take a couple months off in a resort in a tropical location, and then resume their now drug-free lives. The poor get no such luxury. They get fired, and then lose housing, and become homeless. Which doesn't lead to a good mental state, so they unsurprisingly turn to drugs even harder than before.

It was viscous and punitive to end the prescription of oxycontin that way, and it's resulted in problems that could largely have been avoided. But America hates the poor, so they must be punished for doing bad things.
Looks like this is from 2017-2019, incomplete, and hasn't been active much since then.

Unanswered issue about the likelihood of continuation:
https://github.com/cstack/db_tutorial/issues/94
> surely you can see enough of what you want with one of them to vote for them?

I can't - not with the major parties, anyway.

I can't support the present shower of incompetents and thieves.

I would normally vote Labour; but (a) the party is currently infested with agents of a foreign power; and (b) Starmer won the leadership on a set of pledges that he repudiated as soon as he won, and is still trying to destroy and bury his predecessor.

I can cast a vote for a candidate that doesn't have a snowflake's, such as Green or one of the socialist parties. My vote might suffice to save their deposit, I suppose. But I'm reluctant to cast a vote for someone I know nothing about.
This might be my favorite programming book of all time.

It's the book that got me hooked on Common Lisp (from Scheme) too. Focusing less on the elegance of the language definition and more on writing elegant programs.

(English isn't as elegantly defined as Lojban and but that didn't hold back Tolkien.)
Yes it's designed for handling lists of any config objects, whether that's resources, cron jobs (e.g. email jobs with parameters for sender, body, etc), in-app onboarding guides, blog posts (for use as a CMS), etc. And thanks, glad you like the site.
An idea to share lab materials led to a circular-economy movement in science
That sounds like an amazing sci-fi plot, and somehow doesn't seem so far off from the future. Only in Germany where I work I am sure this will be blocked by worker's regulations. But how long can they do that, if you have already synth workers from all around the world. We can start a recruiting agency for synths. The more I work with LLMs the more I am aware of the synthetic potential.
The province of British Columbia appears to have a massive open source presence: https://github.com/bcgov
They're more grouped by their main abstraction mode, not underlying hardware architecture.

In theory you can emulate anything on something that's Turing complete, can't you? It will just be harder or easier. May not be worth the trouble. But still possible.