skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities in the past have had many reasons to exists, almost all are essentially disappeared but some social aspects of them it's valuable for those who rule:

- if you live in a dense area, in a high rise building, you do not really own anything, oh sure you might own an apartment or more than one, but they are just parts of a bigger thing, tied to it. You are not a human in nature with other humans, you are a part of an artificial ecosystem crafted and ruled by some at the top of the pyramid and to live better or you fight them and win (highly unlikely, since you own next to nothing) or you slavishly serve them and climb the hierarchy. Even if you feel free in similar ways, even MORE free in a city where without owning you still can have so many things, there you are just a part of a complex gear system you do not own. In a home you are the king/queen of a small kingdom interacting to survive and flourish with other peers;

- if you live in a city you need services: traffic is a problem, so mass transport is needed, and that's a service, you can't produce food locally nor buy locally produced food, anything need to come from outside, witch are other services. When things goes well almost nobody care about the big and powerful decision allowing them to act freely, when thing goes bad almost all are in an emergency so have not much slack to discuss and decide. Not only humans are pushed to be sheep in a flock they are also bound by the artificial nature of the city as a single complex system/entity;

- peoples in cities are easy surveilled, blocked, handled like a flock. In a low density area surveilling a spread population is VERY expensive and hard, blocking them it's next to impossible, depriving them of anything similarly.

As a result it's possible to force people to the 2030 agenda state of things a small step at a time in a city: https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s... not outside.

That's the big issue with remote work:

- it have allowed many fleeing the cities and live better outside them;

- it told the value of owning a nice home more than being in a nice apartment in a high rise building, witch means owning anything on top of the ground vs owning just a portion of a building;

- it told that's perfectly possible live and work effectively like that.

Essentially remote work thought that cities are not needed anymore to live well. Unfortunately for some at the top of the social pyramid cities are deeply needed to rule, frame and profit from peoples life.

Since anything that works it's here to stay in a way or another I expect remote work survive, so cities decline to be kind of interment camps without apparent bars, like certain Siberian gulag of the past where mere nature was the bars but only few will been able to remain outside, perhaps with careful actions to deprive them enough to makes life outside too expensive for most.
250mb eh :). That deserves a bullet point
https://archive.ph/Nux4O
It doesn't, and all attempts at making models safer after pretraining make them less accurate and less able to assess their own accuracy.

Prior to RLHF GPT-4 was nearly perfect at guessing how accurate information was. After RLHF it was only a little better than random chance.

Interestingly its capabilities in other areas (drawing in TikZ, for example) got worse with alignment tuning.
This is a wildly common trope that I've never heard a patient say. May I ask what nation you're in?

Especially never one that's had their expected quality of life greatly improved by treating a disease they'd adapted their mind to live with.

You'd be absolutely shocked what red-flag symptoms people will ignore out of ignorance, or just to consider (or label) themselves "perfectly healthy".
There is an Arby's by me that already uses this. I have to say, it works really well.
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> I'm not clicking on it,

You should :)

> however what I am more interested in is how does the paper determine that mental inequality is influenced by exterior factors, instead of inherent gender differences causing exterior inequalities?

It's not looking at causality, just association, so it doesn't do what you're asking. What it does do is show that countries with more inequality have more brain differences between genders. You can make your own hypotheses about the causality, for instance, if it was inherit then why would the differences be less prevalent in countries with more equality? There is some discussion in the discussion part of the paper.
Nice write up.

> Today I get by on notebook computers only. I run ... ChromeOS.

I think ChromeOS is the diamond in the rough. Updates are a breeze, it Just Works and one can easily run Linux via a well-integrated virtual machine if they want.
> user expectation was never to update regularly. User expectation is a working application to continue function the same way until a change is required by the user.

It does worry me that this may not be true anymore. How many years of the “slowly boiling frog” are necessary, with people growing increasing dependent on software they can’t control running only on others’ computers, before they forget what having locally-controlled software was like? How about young people or those who came to computers late in life who have known nothing different?

I’m increasingly resigned to the fact that the industry will wipe away this past. Old man “yells at cloud”, indeed.
yes, I drew it 100% by hand :-)

Bill Atkinson's dithering algorithm is great, and I use it for photos when I put them on the blog, to keep them aesthetically in line with the rest of the site
That knowledge has been around for very many decades.
Sorry for not being clear. I meant, thus "flaw" is an intentional reduction of capability for safety concerns.

We can debate semantics, but it's as if cars were governed to 10mph and you said there weren't any cars capable of going faster than people can run. It's true enougn, but the limitation is artificial and not inherent.
It's a surprisingly unreliable service. It's been great for code management / reviews. But I can't imagine relying on it as the only option for deployments via CD. Imagine needing to deploy an important bug fix or a big project with a release date, but you can't because Github's having an outage.
Thank you. Who is really amazing is Simon Cozens, who wrote a set of articles on fonts/global script: https://simoncozens.github.io/fonts-and-layout/

The history of digital fonts added a great deal of complexity to font formats, and without him writing such a concise yet comprehensive guide, I would have been stuck for even longer.
I built one of these in like 2015 when he first released the plans for the original. I recently put a Lepton 3.5 in it. What an amazingly useful device it has been.
Not my precious meetings!
Maybe they actually succeed with that - dead people don't call customer support.
Not at all!

"Peacefully attending a public gathering in yellow shirts with printed slogans" is my perfect definition of a protest. You take a message with you, I can read it and decide whether I'm interested in joining your protest or just go on with my life.

My comment's parent called me authoritarian because I said that printing the message on my car would not be acceptable.
Yeah I don’t agree with never making the same mistake twice, especially for lower level employees. Deming in The New Economics points out that all processes in an organization have natural variation, so mistakes only have meaning if they go beyond that variation in their impact.

So if your code is so fragile that it requires manual testing of every feature before deploying, it’s very likely that a junior employee will forget that testing step more than once, because the system has set them up to fail. Deming would suggest never blaming individuals, and instead measuring the process’s variation and working to reduce it, in this case by reducing code fragility or finding ways to automate or enforce the manual testing.
Just like calling GitHub "unreliable garbage"...
A Business Card Universal Turing Machine (2019) [pdf]
Moat madness! Might as well be asking what's our strategy to sit on our laurels when we get there?

The winner will be the one who wanted winning enough to set sail without a destination, not the one who had dreams of hoarding the current year's tech interactions forever.
Maybe the fish should be the property of society and the location of the fish is the catchers right, with safe handling and responsible returns being their responsibility?
I understand some greek philosopher (Aristotle?) used to go down to market just to marvel at all the things he (in particular) had no wish to buy. If only he had lived to see the brave new world of retail-level Revenue Management!

(now all we need is to match up the demand side with the supply side: imagine a sort of Mechanical Turk that offers baskets of tasks a user can bid to accomplish in exchange for tchochkes/groceries shipped to them...)
Google WiFi had a local API for config and status etc. But it appeared to be single threaded and some API calls took 30s+, while all others queued up behind.

Nobody can build a nice app based on such an API. The official app tried - there were spinners on every part of the UI. Even simple things like 'give me a graph of network bandwidth' would have gaps in the graph where the single threaded service was bogged down with other requests.
Fair enough. I personal try to avoid feedback loops of forming opinions based on what I expect people to do based on my opinions. YMMV.
Google promised to delete sensitive data. It logged my abortion clinic visit
> That's how far the Overton window has shifted, when the 1st Amendement of the US Constitution is being branded as "extremist".

The US’ freedom of expression rights are so much stronger than any other state I’m aware of that calling them extreme is quite accurate. There’s nothing like the First Amendment in any other country.
That's a very old discussion haha. Wasn't this what Chomsky et al were talking about back in the days? I think the answer still is "we don't know".
Do bat houses require any kind of cleaning/maintenance?
After using a 3rd gen for 8 years, I just replaced my Nest 3rd gens with Ecobee Premiums. Used to be a proud Nest user, they even shaped my choice of a new home HVAC system to be something compatible. However, they (and their software) haven't changed since I bought them, they are stuck in 2015. Meanwhile Ecobee has been producing beautiful hardware and software that has not only caught up but surpassed the 5+ year headstart that Google/Nest squandered.

Also read Build and I'm sure Tony is just sad at seeing the opportunity lost as Nest becomes a shell of itself.
I think you need to consider the difference between a browser, and the web dev tools that come with a browser. Let me put it differently, lets assume chrome has 10 billion users. Out of all those, how many do you think actually even know the dev tools exist? 10 billion? 1 billion? 100 million? No. More like 1 million.

Please take some time to consider what I'm saying to you.
Not in the UK, but I once organized a protest. I talked to the police beforehand. Their questions were very interesting: "Where? When? How many people? Will you have signs? Will the signs be on poles? What will the poles be made out of, and how thick will they be?" They didn't care about the act of protest, or about the content of the protest. They cared about the potential for sign poles to be used as clubs - about the potential for it to turn violent.

I must say, I think that's legitimately a concern for the police.
> I feel lucky to have found a career in which I enjoy the minutia as well as the bigger picNT AUTHORITY\SYSTEMture, and it also happens to be able to create incredible real world value when applied to the right problems in the right ways.

Sometimes it's tiring. I have stumbled upon a bizarre problem where a Windows NTFS partition isn't accessible anymore because of an "access denied". Only NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM has access to it, and I did not manage to change the partition's ACL. True, digging deeper into Windows's ACL and filesystem should be interesting, but I find it a burden when things should work not just for yourself.
While I'm fine with exploring if there are better ways of doing collaborative work, just because an idea is old doesn't mean it's bad. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronological_snobbery
GitHub switches to Rust based Blackbird code search
Wow, 1TB of data per user. I hope they weren't on a restricted tariff or you may have also cost them a significant amount in overage fees! If you are going to prompt the user anyway, why not download AFTER they accept the install instead of before?
Maybe we should just make copyright non-transferable. As Sheeran says, songwriters know how few notes and chords are possible, it's always non-artists that are bringing these lawsuits.
Oh, good to know, great project. Do you think that lucky imaging is going to be more important in the future of amateur astrophotography?
That's precisely the example that Anders gave and the article quoted. And yes, that makes the issue very apparent (as well as Object.keys({}) having to return never[] by TypeScript's rules).
40 US gallons ~= 150l, seems (even a bit bigger to accommodate the different shape of the tub to fit in) perfectly within the realms of chest freezers, is getting a different freezer instead out of the question, i.e. to simply put the tub in the freezer?

If you do want to do it the way you suggest, probably better to run a closed loop as a heat exchanger in the tub to be cooled, rather than circulating that fluid directly. I'd have thought you'd also want the coil inside freezer to be submersed in something, even if just another tub of water (block of ice) to improve transfer, but that's just intuition/guesswork, not sure about that.
>any one with a compiler could write a Windows app or (in pre-notarization days) a macOS app, but distributing an Android or iPhone app requires paying for access to an app store.

This is the most telling quote in the article. Companies took over computing by locking down Cell Phones. Now this model seems to be in the process of moving into to M/S Windows 10/11. I do not use MAC/OS, but to get your application in the MAC store, do you need to pay a fee or give a cut if you sell it ? I suspect you do, or where else would Microsoft get their Ideas from.

In anycase, to me if you are not using Linux or a BSD, I think you are slowly being moved into a Walled Garden. I also noticed in Linux there is now a "GNOME Store" and a "KDE Store", so far, I think those still remain free for developers to get their work into.

But seems to me, Linux is very slowly becoming commercialized, who knows where Linux will be in 10 to 20 years. I am starting to think eventually the only place people in the future will have access tp Linux is via WSL. With Secure Boot becoming more accepted, I think that is a very big risk.
Well of course, there are some conveniences. But why are they giving you more stuff for free? Obviously to keep you inside their system.

And of course some subscription services are just that, you're paying for their ongoing work.

To be clear I'm not at all against companies updating their software, in fact they should make it all open so anyone can update it, or at least open up the hardware so anyone can make their own programs for it.

I think what you'll find with some of your free updates though, is that eventually they stop, when the product is no longer making money, or for example the demographic that is still using old devices is not one that is deemed profitable. And then you'll be all but forced to buy another device. One that has the same features that are now essential to the way you live your life.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/articles-reports/2023/03...

Yes, polling indicates the majority would like to live in a 15 minute city, however that poll does not mention restricting vehicles. And of course I agree with it personally, minus the roadblocks.

People are not opposed to the concept, they are opposed to the vehicle restrictions, and the latter is what's riling up conspiracy theorists.
Those estimates typically confuse the 10^100 upper bound on the number of atoms in the universe with 2^100. The 2^128 number of addresses in IPv6 is clearly more than the latter, but dwarfed by the former. There are roughly 10^40 or so atoms in the universe per IPv6 address; by mass that's approximately one address for each combined biomass of earth.

Earth mass divided by 2^64 is roughly 357 tons. There are roughly 2^33 humans on earth, so 2^64 is "only" a billion or two addresses per person; tha's far fewer addresses than the number of human cells out there.
+1 In fact there were many different schools of thought back there both within Athens and across city states. For me, learning about the vibrant debates between them was one of the most fun parts of studying Ancient Greece.
I think the hard part about DNS is not the public facing resolution of addresses, but rather how to understand it in enterprise environments.

A junior tasked with creating a DNS record in an enterprises servers will have to go through a wild ride to just get that record created and set in a correct manner. Even worse, if a service has to be reachable through an internal DNS entry and external DNS entry.

Not only is it stressful to find the IT deities to grant the junior their wish, it can be a monetary issue as well if the company needs to re-order public certs in case of mistakes.
It's a blessing, but it takes generations. The quality of the educational system reflects the quality of society, so it is not an easy task to undertake.
Thanks for the post. Is this repo now private?
I think your comment exposes more of the underlying point. Why are the courts letting these baseless claims through? If you become famous everyone suddenly comes out of the woodwork to make the argument that they want a piece of your pie. And as you get more popular, those claims just get more and more detailed and cover more absurd. That would be demoralizing to any artist, regardless of their popularity or success.
Definition of fascism from Merriam-Webster[0]:

> 1. a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

> 2. a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

The current Uk government has introduced laws to limit protest as described in this topic; it's also looking to limit the right to strike (ref. current health service pay disputes). Both are consistent with the definition above.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
Agreed. And even if the motor could take the load, the OP’s 25’ coil will be nowhere near enough. Think 4x that much in length and add fins/heat sink to increase thermal transfer.
In contrast why can we allow companies and governments to control access to smart phones and related services? Why should XXX technology be treated differently?

Asking this without necessarily taking sides pro nor contra.
I guess I should not put any meetings into Outlook either since I cannot see the code.
This is an annoyance that Linus from LTT constantly brings up. The voice assistants try to split the recognition and mapping to commands which results in lots of mistakes which should never happen. If you say "call XYZ", then the result would be so much better if the phone tried to first figure out if any of the existing contacts sounds like XYZ.

Limiting the options rather than making the system super generic would help in so many cases.
The march of globalization came with a suggestion that interconnected trade patterns would promote peace by eventually making war unprofitable overall. Are investors quickly realizing that was mere marketing and latching onto a different simile, data as a commodity?
Yeah, the 6/6a are supposed to be better here, that plus the tradein discount were why I ended up falling on the "buy" side of the line in the end.
Yeah, that's the problem - it'll turn off if you just stand still underneath it, giving great camouflage to criminals.
> While I agree that disrupting a ceremony now is in poor taste

Most people would consider coronating Jimmy Saville's BFF king to be in extremely poor taste. The protesters are the only respectable thing about this farce.
This is not really a discussion in good faith.

> the reason given for Scrum being bad is it features estimation

This seems like a strawman and not at all what I was picking up from further up the thread.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Study supports surveillance of low-risk prostate cancer instead of treatment
why was one situation for the benefit of the residents and the other for control of the residents? It seems you're putting your own spin on things here. Both were enacted by councils which are elected by the people.

There are increasing feelings of alienation from elected officials across the west, I imagine you somehow feel that whoever did this doesn't represent the people. Maybe thats what you should be adressing. It's not some election stealing or whatever, its just bubbles between political class and everyone else, we need good communication imo. Some way for elected officials to have to spend time in their communities
The legislation has been on the way for a while as a response to XR and others. It certainly aligns with royal interests, but I don't think you need to look any further than Braverman and the hang'em-and-flog'em electorate she appeals to for a source.
At current prices, it might be simpler/easier to send it up as a satellite. IIRC, it'd be less than $10k for a 2lb telescope.
I can't speak for Germany, but here in the Netherlands, I can get an appointment for same or next day if I call the doctor's office early enough.

Now, unless I really have something wrong with me, the treatment will probably be "take 2 paracetamol and come back in 2 weeks if you don't feel better", but that is a different problem from not getting an appointment at all.
His job isn't to solve the remote work problem...

He's talking about the remote work problem, and he's suggesting a solution to it...
A common response.

> According to the standard kvetch about his work, his prose is overly dense [1]

Neil Stephenson gets the same criticism a lot, but I still enjoy a lot of his work.

> [Pynchon] can write some truly poignant scenes of longing, love, and loss

Don't get too caught up in the details, and don't hope for endings.

https://pleasekillme.com/thomas-pynchon/
I'm almost finished with "My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World" which is largely set within the murky unreality of LambdaMOO. I'm not sure how exactly the timelines match up, but the book definitely contains an account of the wizards' withdrawal from being the final arbiters of punitive decision-making.

Recommended reading for sure, the exploration of tinygender/tinysex was especially interesting. Of course there's plenty of more technical dialog as well but I was surprised at how much philosophy there was, especially around sex/gender. Struck me as quite prescient, and very in tune with current events/issues.