skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Upon closer inspection, it's an exact reprint of from an article from "National Review" which is a famously conservative organization.

Conservative? It must be wrong then! Everybody knows that only liberal sources can have correct viewpoints!

> More to the point, there is no link to this study cited in the very first paragraph. As a Canadian I've never heard of this study so was interested to take a look. Googling a bit found the results and further discussion on why the National Review interpretation of it is pretty dishonest.

Here is the study:

https://researchco.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tables_MAiD...

The relevant question:

"At this point, only an adult with a grievous and irremediable medical condition can seek medical assistance in dying in Canada. Do you agree or disagree with allowing adults in Canada to seek medical assistance in
dying because of the following reasons?"

(a) Poverty
Agreeing 27% (Strongly agree 11% + Moderately agree 16%)

(b) Homelessness
Agreeing 28% (Strongly agree 11% + Moderately agree 17%)

>found the results and further discussion on why the National Review interpretation of it is pretty dishonest.

Dishomest "interpretation", eh? Let's focus on the shocking raw results then, with the number agreeing with those two cases being above 1%?

(Sure, one might expect a 1% of hardcore scum being OK with the poor getting assistance to off themselves to solve their poverty/homelessness in any society. Maybe 2%. But not even Thacher would expect an above 5% agreement on that).
Agreed.

Back when I was commuting on Caltrain (SFBay area train the runs mostly through SV), rather than doom-scrolling on my phone I tried hard to get into the habit of just mindlessly looking out the window, sometimes thinking about problems I had this day/week and how I would prevent/solve them using a tech solution.

Having a notepad and pen on my lap (electronic devices can be hard to avoid temptations) gave me the ability to jot things down. Sometimes solutions to unrelated problems can spark ideas for current ones.
It's gotten worse but then I live in the NYC area. NY is second (by far) to only California.
https://travel.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/technology/...

(Foreign tourists & travellers in India can now make payments using UPI)
How do you think grammar checking operates? How do you think LLMs work?
i bet homelessness arises from more reasons than a housing crisis, with drug addiction and mental illnesses examples.
Here’s something I don’t get:
why is it an “abuse” to run the name of someone applying for a top secret clearance through the databases?

It’s ok to run a school teacher in Bucharest, but if someone is applying to be an FBI agent - nope.

This isn’t the first time the FBI has “wrongly” run the names to prospective agents and clearance holders to through this db. They’ve promised not to do it again before.

But isn’t this the perfect use case for such a thing? When you apply for a security clearance, you waive certain privacy rights. That’s reasonable and part of the deal.
It gets cold at night :)
Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital
I disagree. The US could be importing a lot more ideas than it does.

When living in other countries than the US, it has always been notable to me how often conversations about almost anything involved considering how other countries did things.

But after drawing on the world for better ideas, you would expect better results.
And Turkey is definitely not a high trust country.

https://ourworldindata.org/trust
Very cool bro!
Maybe you need to let your LLM manage Alexa
The US political landscape does a great job of creating problems that then need an incredible amount of expenditure to address(not even to solve, just to plug holes). This can be seen in exponential rise of diabetes, the opioid crisis, and homelessness, just to name a few. No one wants to pay to prevent a problem from happening, but the system will gladly throw billions to “try to solve one”.
What’s their political allegiance? I can come up with a half dozen purposely screwed up or super shady recent FBI/DOJ investigations toward either political party.
The wads of toilet paper in the urinal is one i’ve seen most often as somehow deliberate that i just don’t understand (i’ve been to some terrible toilets at festivals, short of the feces on walls most are just not able to cope with volume). I’ve never caught anyone doing the urinal one but it just seems so malicious
Makes sense. Ordering take-out can be nice. But cooking for yourself is also pretty cheap and easy.

Restaurant prices are usually justified by considering things like atmosphere, service, the fact that you're given a place to eat and socialize away from home, and so on.
Oligarchy doesn’t have anything to do with capitalism. The Roman Senate for example was really an aristocracy rather than what we would consider business leaders as power often flowed from parent to child within powerful families. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Senate
"Anarcho-tyranny" describes this so perfectly. If a tiny minority of bad behaving people of people is making things worse for all of us, we could choose to help, punish, or sequester that minority, as appropriate. But instead, it's the majority that must suffer in accommodation.
I spent some time looking at Loglan, purchased some books and tapes, but never really made any progress with it. A Scientific American article got me interested, pre-internet days so finding a community to converse with was not easy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan
Sure is. I wonder how many people in MTA have actually spent some part of their life riding buses every day.

I'm a little on the fence here. Bus shelters are a mixed bag. They can be nice if they work against the wind, but on a cold afternoon they tend to feel even worse than sitting in the sunlight. Plus they're giant targets for vandalism and graffiti.

I agree 1000000% that every bus stop should be well-lit, however! And I think there should be a decent amount of room, too. Having a sign on a narrow sidewalk feels so dang dangerous when you're waiting for a bus.

One thing the article doesn't mention is the high amount of vandalism. I think the penalties for vandalizing public property are much lower than they should be. unlike, say, shoplifting some food from a store, there really isn't a good explanation for breaking a bus stop bench or a glass windshield on a bus shelter. But people are assholes and do it anyway! Then they vandalize the buses and trains too. Those things are expensive! And anti-grafitti/anti-vandalism materials make them a lot less comfortable to use.

Like, silly silly example, but if you ever take one of the retro streetcars in SF they have padded leather seats that are quite nice. Then you go hop on a newer muni train and they have hard plastic benches lol. With holes in the middle so that if someone spills something (or urinates lol) the liquid doesn't pool up on the seat. Hahaha I saw this on an AC transit bus once when I was a kid.. lol. It's actually the only time I've ever seen something like that.
It kind of does? I go back and forth on this - I do hate the trope of blaming everything on "capitalism", because doing so seems like a recipe for something much worse.

But the best good faith definition of capitalism that I can come up with is that it's a framework focusing on capital first and foremost. Contrast with focusing on free markets first and foremost. A lot of people hand wave away the distinction between those two and treat them as synonyms, but they can be strikingly different and even directly opposed.

For example, imaginary property. A focus on capital leads one to conclude that creating new types of capital out of whole cloth is a good thing. Whereas a focus on free markets sees imaginary property as a market intervention (whether justifiable or not).

Similarly, capitalism would seem to include regulatory capture and other purchased legislation as a form of business capital.
The shame of it is that a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of people really suck. The number of people involved is probably less than a thousand. (This is my totally uninformed speculation.)
Yes, and no. International grads in the US also want stability, and FAANG has proven to not offer that anymore. Many Stanford grads I know are targeting pharma-tech and health tech companies which still pay well, but have a way more stability at the cost of being boring as fuck.
I agree that `run()` is more readable than an IIFE if you remove all context and history from the analysis. But the IIFE is a well-known idiom to JavaScript programmers, so readers will not have to pay a cognitive "what is `run()` do?" penalty in order to understand the code.

New abstractions have a cost, and "clever" abstractions tend to confuse the average developer more than the benefit they provide.

If there's a problem with an IIFE (yes, they can be abused), the usual approach is to replace it with a named function definition. This works in their React example as well--rather than (necessarily) creating a new component as they suggest, the standard approach is to add a named rendering helper in the function closure that returns JSX.
The pharma-hospital-insurance complex. The same non-profit hospitals in which at least one person you're seen by will be out of your insurance network because it makes more money for the hospital. The same pharma companies which evergreen and lobby for drugs to be ruled unsafe once patent rights run out. The same AMA that limits the number of doctors and ensures they are paid more than any other country while patients wait months for availability. The same insurance companies which intentionally hide their deals with hospitals to obscure the true cost of Healthcare services.

It's not a shadowy cabal deciding to make medicine worse to profit more, the sociopathy is efficiently diffused between everyone involved, many of whom work their asses off in incredibly stressful environments for a tiny share of these profits, powerless to change anything about the system.

But for purposes of discussion, it's one industry and it's fucking broken. It is impossible to fix anything by changing only one piece of this.
Ask HN: How are billions of transistors controlled?
It is easier to imagine, how transistors in the orders of 10s/100s are controlled by design, when they are all individually soldered/wired. The outcomes are predictable/known.

But, is it the same with microchips with billions of transistors? They are not individually soldered, and I would assume a small percentage of them don't work. How do these work? Are they programmed to work probabilistically? It's unfathomable how complex these are, but how the output from them are so controlled.

I am not from this field, and I have not studied about them more than what I was taught in school in my teens. A google search didn't bring up any helpful results, possibly because I didn't type in the right combination of words. All explanations of these are at the individual component level, -> a single transistor, 1s and 0s, and so on.

How are machine code written for these? Do they track and control the values of individual transistors? And, how is then the assembly language written to translate this to machine code?
Houses per capita:
https://imgur.com/oS9d2kf from https://www.oecd.org/els/family/HM1-1-Housing-stock-and-cons...

Homeless per 10k:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_ho...

Notice that USA has more houses per capita than countries with homeless populations that are significantly smaller.

People can move between American states easily. If there's a state where living as a homeless person is easier - people without homes will move there. Which will cause the problem to grow there and decrease in the origin state. If you really wanted to only compare American states - at least split the states by "homeless produced" vs "homeless exported". Otherwise it's just propaganda. Also - why would you only compare American states? Seems very manipulative. Like you wanted to ignore the possible causes of the problem that are shared by all American states.
Amazingly, no. I thought we were going to have to, but our natural usage peaks at about 20 to 30kWh per day, and we can generate far more than that on a sunny day.

Thanks to the oversized PV array, we generate power even in cloudy conditions. The PV array is also split in half and oriented east+west so it catches more sun through the entire day instead of a midday peak.

For things like clothes washing, drying, and hot water heating, those are the heavy users but can be moved to times of good sunlight.

We only run out of power if we have 2 or more days of heavy rain in a row, which only happens a few times a year.
I think he is by default less interested in gigantic black box systems that he can't fit in his head, and that secondly he has read Gary Marcus thinkpiece and was persuaded by him, and thirdly I feel like there might be some kind of religion thing but I don't have direct evidence of that third one.

Here is what Knuth has said, related to why he isn't as curious as you might expect:

> "Gary Marcus's column in the April CACM brilliantly describes the terrifying consequences of these developments. [...] I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same. [...] The topic [LLMs] is timely, and important enough not to ignore completely, but it's emphatically not for me."
In my opinion it's just another symptom of the trend in tech circles for ever-increasing self-documentation. Thing is, it doesn't matter how hard you try to shove your life up its own ass, you're going to be just as dead as me at the end of it. And I'll have read more cool stuff.
>"America is a country based on denial of rights"

"America masquerades as a country based on Freedom, where a democracy gets to vote on politicians whose sole purpose is personal wealth-growth and/through the denial of others' rights ; to protect the former"
I completely agree, at the risk of being too simplistic, the FBI is a 'type' of necessary evil that our nation needs. However, we must learn from the missteps.
San Francisco is still an incredible city to live and work in if you're young and don't have a family (which is a huge part of the workforce). The homelessness problem is blown out of proportion in terms of everyday living (it's still ridiculous from a societal point of view, but still)
I, too, have spent a fair amount of time trying to teach it to be less obsequious.

I've been referring to the process, informally, as "de-ass-kissification".
It's not supposed to be fun. It's work, not a game. It's productive because it results in more accurate estimation of tasks, and a better understanding of the work entailed.

Are you against those things? "First tier" companies use planning poker as well, you know.

You seem to be oddly hostile to the concept without seeming to understand it at all.
I find GPT-4 to be very useful almost daily. I can often spot hallucinations quickly, and they are otherwise easy enough to verify. If I can get a single new perspective or piece of relevant information from an interaction with it, then that is very valuable.

It would be significantly more useful if it were more grounded in reality though… I agree with you there.
Out of curiosity, how do you handle things where the output shape is input dependent (as opposed to only dependent on input shapes)?
This is from `torch.sum(tensor, dim)` where dim might be nonconstant to `torch.nonzero(x)` and of course advanced indexing.
I know I'll only get downvoted by more californians, but can't resist the relevant southpark link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsrBlKpbBS8
Capitalism is ok, as long as it's regulated by democracy.

Oligarchy is the problem.
IIRC Loglan vocabulary had a large element of Mandarin Chinese, and so Lojban too ?

This seemed both uselessly idealistic and absurdly user-hostile. I would think that a conlang targeted at global appeal would be based on some combination of Romance languages and Germanic languages, perhaps an ur-version of each (like, Latin and Icelandic). Such a process might bring you a result where the vocabulary was as accessible as English while having immensely better-than-English spelling, grammar, morphology, etc.
> Not even title of article says anything even remotely suggesting it will go away.

As a matter of fact "64-Bit-Only" is in the title of the article. That sure sounds like they are dropping 32-bit support, does it not?

As the poster said, they are keeping 32-bit ring 3 support, contrary to the title of the article.
Line 5 and 6 seem to contradict each other. From 5 it looks like you want to more "gun licensing" and in line 6 you want not to "deny rights". Whereas gun licensing (any licensing, technically speaking) is the denial of right.
And any argument (of which there are many valid ones) for gun licensing is precisely what you're arguing against:
"Everyone gotta have The Gun License because think of the children" ... even if it deprives someone from the right to protect their life.
Those one-question surveys are often too simplistic, don't reflect people's real attitudes or behavior wrt trust.
Think You Can Land a Plane? We Put Average People to the Test
Of course I am familiar with PRISM. It did not have backdoor access to social media. And that was sort of my my point. If you have a reliable source to the contrary, I would be happy to see it.
Smil is effectively a degrowther because he doesn't believe renewables, EVs etc. will work well enough.

Quote:

> Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’

Which is at least logically consistent, but bad timing as most of his boosters are currently trying to pivot from "climate change isn't real" to "bloody hippies are holding back rapid rollout of renewables with their environmental regulations" and hoping no one notices the contradiction and their history of fossil fuel apologism.
Imagine asking a person to give a verbal response in 250 characters or less. They could do it, but it would be a lot of work. Even saying less than 50 words is hard.

If you actually have a hard cap, you’ll have to give feedback. If it’s just you don’t want an essay, it works great to say something like “a few sentences”. And as always, examples help a ton.
I wonder what the cost of building cheap housing for the homeless would be. To house the entire homeless population. The negative externality of having them on the streets is probably far costlier for everyone, and it's downright embarrassing that we can't do more to help.

As I understand it, these folks want privacy, storage, pets, quick commutes to loved ones, and/or drugs/alcohol.

I think it'd be easy to offer privacy and storage. Let them have locks on their doors (that staff can open). Put cameras in the hallways. I think these things could be done affordably, especially if housing was built on cheap land.

Dogs might be possible and might help some of them recover. There would need to be a system to keep violet animals and maltreatment down, and sanitation would be important. Apart from that, animals help calm the mind. That's probably cheap to do too.

You'd need to feed and clothe everyone, but it needn't be expensive.

Transportation is expensive and should be offered in a limited basis. Non-profits probably already have this cornered, and you could do it at scale even cheaper.

The substance abuse problem I haven't the slightest idea on. You ideally want to get them to stop abusing, and most taxpayers would gag at the thought of providing homeless with the drugs of their choice as an incentive to get off the streets. Not sure how you compel the addicted to leave. Forcing them to leave would be illegal in most municipalities, and it feels a little wrong unless we have quantifiable data that it helps their outcomes.

And then there's the fact that each individual will fall into a range of mental health states. Some may be permanently disabled and in need of institutional housing (which I don't think we do anymore?)

It's a tough problem. Every nation has to deal with this, but some are clearly doing better.

I'm not well educated on this topic, so maybe I have the incorrect assumptions.
Thanks for the reply. I got a few years of experience doing power systems in 1980, which came in handy when I did the CA PV system in 2003. (My embedded/web development skills also came in handy when designing/deploying the solar M&C subsystem, because no such products existed at the time.)

I'm somewhat skeptical that GPS synchronization is the real answer here. The problem is synchronizing the phase of the PV system to the grid so they can work together to power the load, allowing excess PV power to be sold back into the grid when not needed locally. To synchronize, one needs to control the phase of the PV system so it always slightly leads the phase of the grid. Determining the phase of the grid is the challenge. With two or more locally grid-tied PV systems, you cannot know the phase of the grid with much certainty because each PV's take on the grid phase is the aggregate of the actual grid phase and the phase of the other PV systems. Positive feedback and phase oscillation are likely.

Using GPS to synchronize with the grid assumes that the grid's phase is stable, but my observations over the past few years have revealed that today's grid has much less short-term stability than the grid of old. I'm assuming that the lower phase stability today is caused by the recent massive adoption of grid-tied PV arrays. So instead of using GPS time to guess the current grid phase, you really need to know what it is (locally). Aside from placing grid phase monitors on nearby houses, I don't know how to do this.
I think memories of a low-regulation/high-trust society are hard to reconcile with America's long struggle with racial integration.
Don't forget all the apps that do nothing!

Am amazing example I saw recently was a startup whose app supposedly helped you break your monthly rent payment into two smaller biweekly payments, except all it did was hold on to part of your midmonth paycheck until the end of the month so you couldn't spend it.

The best part is that was positioned as a way to help low-income people who suck at budgeting, but you had to pay $20/mo for the privilege of using it.
Ad is bad not because Ad is bad.

It's because of "companies who tried to use ad to spam" is bad. Not all, but most. Mostly to the point of scam tricks.

For a company to deliver their ad, needs some kind of verification though.
How do you produce something like this with just lexing?

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We already have an experiment called FastGPT:

https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt

Also we have a ton of AI features in Kagi, they are just not 'in your face' but we have an AI integration philosophy that we are sticking to:

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-ai-search
Thank you for your answers.

That sounds like a reasonable and balanced approach.
It’s complicated. Hospitals aren’t necessarily making big bucks.

They have insane expenses. There are lots investments that are recouped in the doctors office: paying for medical school, buying downtown real estate, decades of medical research, etc.

Nobody says “we have $50 million to invest, let’s build a hospital.” Although investors occasionally buy them.

I don’t think US hospitals are for profit in the sense they have shareholder demanding a return on investment.

Doctors who have the ability to make lots of cash usually break out on their own asap.

So there’s probably some profit seeking, but not a lot.

I know plenty of folks who work for non-profit hospitals, and it’s a total mess. But it it’s usually organization chaos, and not profit seeking.

But I’ve heard stories of venture capital firms buying and shutting down hospitals, but never building them.