skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time travel back 3 decades… Couldn’t you have used the same fear-mongering excuse about the internet itself? It’s not a real argument.
> Edit: what is Agenda 2023? Google shows me links to places wehre I can buy a planner for 2023.

Typo, fixed.
They don’t value STEM education. They value they jobs and prestige STEM education can get them.

Remove the ability to get well paying engineering/medicine jobs from the equation and they’ll treat STEM education with the same disdain they have for commerce, or worse, humanities.

There is very little real appreciation of education. Only its byproducts, namely, jobs.
That's not the problem. Nutrition education programs have been tested in huge trials and have no effect on long term weight loss.
order by stored uuidv4 will get you the same rows the next time you run it. If you sample using where random() < 0.001 (or something like that) you'll get different rows each time.
I wonder if this coincides with the open letter talking about how AI is an existential threat to civilization...
I deleted the Twitter app a while ago, and if my only way to access Reddit is with their official app... I guess I'll be a little more productive this year.
> The rocket lost thrust

At my age I completely understand that issue
It's ironic and deeply shameful when whitepapers side-step the most fundamental aspect of the scientific method: reproducibility.
i was hoping there would be at least some stats/data in the article. Crime has been a problem in Sf. and other big cities for a long time. Nope,..no stats...just a long personal anecdote. But other data such as by Pinker shows crime has been in decline for decades after peaking in 1990. this includes all types of crime in many metro areas.
Original Fallout dev shares 90s game development stories
Not sure if OP edited his comment, but as of now it's written 2030, not 2023.
+1 Great time, we claimed "first" on three confluence points on the site. I find hilarious pictures of me on that site :-)
> Anyone who disagrees with me is from the flyovers

Well, at least the culture of San Francisco is still alive.
A bit of #1 helps with #2. You just need enough to nudge the cost/ benefit so crime isn't perceived to pay (or if it does pay, that it isn't perceived to be worth the risk).
> Do a little research. If you move in CA and you're over 55, you can now keep your property tax bill. Previously it was only certain counties that honored that; now it's all of them.

This is incorrect, there are still county restrictions. Counties must opt-in to the tax transfers, and the purchased home must be of equal or lesser value. 10 of California's 58 counties permit it, most do not because they don't want to miss on tax revenue.

> Again, do some research. Prop 13 passed in 1978, 45 years ago. The number of current homeowners who bought before then is vanishingly small. House prices were escalating before 13 passed, and the jumps in property taxes were in fact a prime reason why it passed.

This is not relevant at all. The point is that people's effective property tax goes down over time, regardless of whether they bought before or after prop 13 was passed. Someone who bought a house in 1990 is probably paying less than a third of the normal property tax.

> there are all kinds of reasons why there's too little building. Grandfathered house values are only one of them. Regulations and high costs are much more important.

Great, we should eliminate restrictive regulations and Prop 13!
It's also possible to be functionally bogus while doing everything 100% by the book. If you control things super well you can inadvertently make your result so narrow that it's basically meaningless, at least with the way the scientific system functions today. If people worked together in a more concrete way to build on prior results this effect might not be so bad.

One of my favorite examples is a mouse study that did not replicate between two genetically identical mouse populations raised in the same conditions run by the same lab. The difference was the supplier the two sets of mice originally came from, and the researchers were able to pin down the cause as differences in the gut microbiome between the two (and in fact one particular bacterial strain). That is an example of great research, but the vast majority of studies will never catch something like this before they publish because they will only use one mouse supplier as they keep things controlled while minimizing costs.

Because designed replication studies are fairly rare and people often do not officially publish when they find things that don't replicate in biology, we are approaching interpretation/downstream use of these highly controlled studies in an extremely inefficient way.

But that isn't really the fault of individual researchers. Technically they're applying the scientific method correctly to their niche problem. It's the definition of the problem coupled with how we combine results across groups that causes the inefficiencies. As problems of interest increase in complexity we can't define them on the scale of individual labs anymore, and for some reason we've addressed it by breaking them up into subproblems in this homogeneous way. Then we just assume that piecing together the little results will work great...

Anyways, I agree there is also straight up fraud and blatantly bad practices on the level of individual papers, it's definitely a continuum. Sometimes such bad results slip into the mainstream of science or even have a huge impact on subsequent funding directions like with the fabricated amyloid beta paper. But I do suspect that for the most part the blatantly bad work stays on the fringes, and the largest negative impact on scientific productivity actually comes from a level of abstraction up.
> This is happening at the same time where many cities are also trying more progressive, reform-based approaches to policing and charging criminals.

In case it needs to be said: the alternative to releasing people before their trial is indefinite detention (indefinite because the courts cannot guarantee that the trial begins immediately after arrest). A free society doesn't lock people up indefinitely without trial, even if all evidence points to them being a petty thief.

To a first approximation, people (especially indigent people) don't steal things for "kicks." Eliminate the cause of the stealing, and you eliminate the crime. Fail to eliminate the cause, and you the worst of both worlds: crime and indefinite detention.
Human body is built to be economical. If you don't use muscles regularly, they degenerate to the size sufficient for your normal load.

If you want to look athletic, the only way is to be athletic, that is, spend significant effort working your muscles, proving to your body that you actually have a use for them. For most people it means a gym, or a barbell at home, or some kind of athletic sports, several days a week.

If, on top of that, you don't want a belly (which is a normal way for the body to store some energy reserve near the center of gravity), you also need to limit your intake of carbs.
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I was born in San Francisco. There are some parts of the city-- downtown parts in particular-- that have demonstrably worse homeless problems then they used to for reasons people will disagree about. However, in the eighties the city was also unsafe in many places that are completely gentrified now. There are parts of the city where you would get robbed walking though that are now completely nice and safe, or you would maybe see a mentally ill homeless person as opposed to a crime inclined teen, perhaps armed. The idea that there was a time when the town did not have crime problems seems strange to me.
Right, but the newer generations that wouldn't be the subject of this under social programs will come under the predation and oppression of those who took on the path of violence if you don't offer them protection; you can't just picture this as poor people stealing luxury goods from tech bros, there's a reason why people who are subject to these things are often friendly to tough-on-crime policies.
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Easy Migration from Heroku to Control Plane
Many Rails apps are considering migrating away from Heroku. Control Plane provides more compute power at a much lower cost than Heroku especially given it not only auto-scales but also uses AI to only charge for CPU and memory used, NOT allocated. At HiChee.com, we lowered our computing costs by 2/3 while improving performance. The guidebook and cpl gem make this EASY.
I've seen instances where the password recovery workflow indicates the email address to which a reset request has been sent, or other mechanisms by which addresses may be revealed.

That's far less frequent now, and definitely not best practice.

However there may also be bugs and data breaches which reveal such information.
Fallout 1 and 2 were the best RPG experiences I've ever had. Incredible... I've been chasing that high for decades now.
There's a lot of people imagining this crime to be Jean Val Jean stealing a loaf of bread to eat. It isn't; much of the crime is committed via organized retail theft. A relatively small handful are disproportionately abusing the system.

The NYPD released some stats awhile back- one of the highest rates of recidivism for an individual in NYC was an offender with 101 arrests, 88 of which were since 2020. Another farther down the list was with 87 total arrests, 25 since 2020, 9 of which include a robbery charge.

Those are just the numbers for two individuals who happen to actually get caught. Most retail theft doesn't end in an arrest. So long as it is profitable to do, and easier than working a job, people will keep doing it. Building more "projects" isn't going to change that.
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can't they differentiate between api calls made by third party clients and AI training?

this looks more malicious than ignorance or inefficiency. they want to mimic twitter by building off of community then claiming "costs".

fuck reddit. No redditor wanted them to selfhost photos and videos, yet they replaced imgur with their own. Why?
No, the sampling does not work like that, that way lies madness (or poor results). The models oversample the most likely options and undersample rare options. Always picking the most likely option leads to bad outcomes, and literally sampling from the actual probability distribution of the next word also leads to bad outcomes, so you want something in the middle and for that tradeoff there's a configurable "temperature" parameter, or in some cases "top-p" parameter where sampling is done only from a few of the most likely options, and rare options have 0 chance to be selected.

Of course that parameter doesn't only influence the coherency of text (for which it is optimized) but also the facts it outputs; so it should not (and does not) always "pick the most likely family", but it would be biased towards common families (picking them even more commonly than they are) and biased against rare families (picking them even more rarely than they are).

But if you want it to generate a more varied population, that's not a problem, the temperature should be trivial to tweak.
After living in the Bay Area for a while, I realized there's a class of people who don't really interact with the city the same way "normal" people do. They drive from their private garage or gated community to a parking garage where they work. They rarely touch the sidewalks, and never ride BART or any public transportation.

They exist in this kind of fancy bubble that's separate from the harsh reality of city life.
This seems to offend you for some reason.

Apple's just doing age-old value selling, where you promote the benefits of a product rather than the features. See https://blog.hubspot.com/sales/value-based-selling
Sounds similar to Jenkins, rundeck, Ansible tower, awx etc
Aside from how SF stacks up in the "great cities" list, many people like myself have a lifelong attraction to the bay area for entirely geographical reasons. It's absolutely gorgeous. The land, the water, the mountains, everything about that region is physically incredible. And those aspects are rather immutable and special.
> The beatings shall continue until morale improves

Sure beatings don't improve morale, but since we're not talking about improving the morale of thieves, but rather about making theft a losing proposition, I think the point is not as invalid as you frame it. Unless your point is that there's no advantage in creating consequences for crime because you don't think negative consequences have a deterring effect, which is not something I agree with. Surely you have been put in time-out by your parents or gotten a toy taken away which illustrated this point for you.
C-level execs love their on-message HR.
Guix/GuixSD is great - it has some awesome ideas that still hasn't made it to Nix/NixOS - the only impractical part is number of packages in Guix is really small compared to Nix - and to do anything that is not hardliner FLOSS you have to really grok the entire thing and build everything yourself.

I checked rde almost two years ago - this video was mostly the only documentation back then. IIRC I think now it is even officially part of Guix?

Anyway, I really wish there existed a rewrite of Nix in a saner language, that embraced the new ideas, and still had the pragmatic approach of current nixpkgs.
A preemptive addendum to my previous reply:

Yes, LLM:s currently only deal with text information. But GPT-5 will supposedly be multimodal, so then it will also have visual and sound data to associate with many of the concepts it currently only knows as words. How many more modalities will we need to give it to be able to say that it understands something?

Also, GPT-4 indeed doesn't do any additional training in real-time. However, it is being trained on the interactions people have with it. Most likely, near future models will be able to train themselves continuously, so that's another step closer to how we function
WordPress's GPL license and third-party “GPL Plugins” distributors
Maybe we could spend more time figuring out what actually causes painful bladder syndrome and fix that instead of taking our cues for shiny new (headline grabbing) tech from science fiction as a higher priority than actual health.
That's really cool, and neat that he uses the activity light from the hard drive as input to generate sound.

I wonder how much slower processes would run if you generate sound on the computer itself from every hard drive write. I don't have deep enough knowledge about the OS to know where you would run your sound program without affecting performance (i.e., are there log files that could be read, so it is not directly interacting with the hard drive writes? would those still be timely enough to give a good indicator of what the computer is actually doing?)

If that could be solved, then you could have a sound for network activity, every time a kernel module loads, etc, so users don't need to have deep knowledge of the system to know when there is a problem- they just have to learn what sounds right. I think it would be really neat to have music made by the machine itself and love the idea of adding back that dimension of debugging.
A (good) Socratic tutor for mathematics is something I would pay for without hesitation.
Lots of people become obese on excellent food. It's far more common than obese people who become normal weight for a long period of time.

The food doesn't really seem to be the main issue (though it probably adds its own set of health complications). Newer research tends to suggest that the body is not saying "nourish me", it's saying "I need to be 120kg" (the lipostat model), and it doesn't seem food is what's affecting that. Various other substances are known to cause similar effects (hormones, lithium, possibly PFAS and other plastics), but it remains to be seen if any of them is present in high enough quantities to be the root cause.
Analog Discovery 3: Oscilloscope, Waveform Gen, Logic Analyzer and Power Supply
Philly is a literally a city of zombies that will stab you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl0fDm7HSQ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1Kf-1qd6Y
The title is really misleading. I was expecting a camera without lens, using a type of light sensitive array and reconstructing the focused image using AI
Their pricing is just absurd. Reddit's official app and webpage is garbage, and instead of working with amazing developers like Christian to add whatever functionality they need to increase their revenue, they're doubling down on bad decisions and alienating their users. Pure hubris... they've forgotten their own history and why the Digg exodus happened.

Seriously, _what_ are they gaining by eliminating access to third-party clients? If they want usage data, they already have all the API calls. If they want more ads, they can change the APIs to inject them.
Legal isn't my forte, and I'm not a lawyer either, but it seems like overreach to me.

Specifically, say the circumstance involves someone else paying his legal fees. They are going after him for collecting, so they are already done investigating, he has an account with the law firm, but the checks that pay that account may not necessarily be paid by him.

So they'll be going after whoever helped him as though they were him. Granted its a bit of a leap and I'm not read in on the details of this particular case but it seems like this is a end-run shortcut to get around providing notice, or quashing overreach towards whoever might choose to help someone who owes outstanding taxes (for whatever reason, i.e. family?).

They'll simply make a claim against the account that paid for him even if he has no interest in that account, and it can't be quashed because no notice, and no standing without notice. That's a pretty broad overreach.
Marketing ?
We bought our house 9 years ago. Current homebuyers on our street are paying 2 to 3 times what we are in taxes for similar homes. Add in our extremely low interest rate and we have no plans to sell the home even if we buy another.
In fairness, somebody has to pay for the actors and the grips and the foley artists, and I'm not particularly convinced that the pirate's stance of "I want it for 20 cents, in 4k, and DRM free and if I can't have that then torrrenting it is my moral right" is either right or sustainable.
I find this blog odd because I think people in SF are very aware of the property crime problem? But like...because there's a property crime problem no one is shocked that you experienced property crime?

I think part of this is that there is a parallel discourse about crime "in general" shooting up in SF which is not supported by any data. But the bay has long had unusually bad crime of this kind - which is to say car break ins, motorcycle and bike theft, etc. So if you complain "about crime" sometimes people think you're new and don't know about this long standing problem that seems hard to fix (which is obviously bad but also kind of old news) - or they think you're talking about this other supposed trend that the data doesn't really back up.
As in economics, this begs the question of "whose value."
You have given an approval to do anything with your laptop when you chose to install Windows.
Multi-touch digitiser acid test. Phone manufacturers take note!
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It's all about keeping reddit safe for dark patterns.

There is some good content on reddit still, if you look hard to find it, but one thing that makes it hard is that reddit blends ads into the content and I think also blends in non-sequitur content that further confuses the reader into looking at and clicking on the ads.

They just can't let reddit clients provide a good, never mind better, experience.
The day Apollo dies, the day I will stop using Reddit.
Like another commenter said, the timer is segregated from the harsh dryer environment.

But also, some slop in the timing accuracy is just fine. The user doesn't really know how long precisely the drier needs to run to dry their clothes. They just know that if they set this timer to 45 then the clothes come out dry.
My theory, based on nothing, is that up until recently food was scarce so when it was available we had to eat for survival. The more calorie dense something was the more likely we were to survive.

After millions of years of evolution we've only recently had an abundance of food in many places and our instincts to eat it all haven't evolved quite yet.

(To confirm again, this is just my personal theory and I know nothing about the space)

Anyways; personally I've found education to be very helpful. It does take some will power but that's the same for anything. Lots of people find drinking fun; why don't you wake up and drink in the morning? Relaxing, hanging with friends, and doing hobbies is more fun than work so why don't we all quit our jobs to pursue those things?

We know drinking can be destructive and is bad for us so, addicts aside, we know to drink with moderation.

We know we have bills to pay to survive so we know we can't quit our job.

With proper education people might realize their food choices are killing them and make healthier choices. Most people just simply don't know.

It won't work for everyone, but some people are alcoholics and some are unemployed, but having the proper education and tools would absolutely empower a lot of people to make better choices and live healthier lives.

People's diets are literally killing them and they don't know any better.
The everyday people weren't in positions of power.
The solution to this is reputation. The flaw is that we're using the reputation of for-profit journals rather than the research institutions.

You shouldn't have confidence in a paper because it was published in Nature, you should have confidence in it because it was published by Harvard or the University of California or Google Research, who puts the name of their institution on it and thereby stakes their reputation. For the preeminent researchers in a field, their own names may be enough for people in that field to trust the result.

You can still have a paper published by nobody, and if the results are interesting, researchers at known institutions can try to replicate it. Until then it's nothing. But if they do, the nobody gets cited and credited with being the first and takes a step to building their own reputation, and the known institution gets credited with knowing when to spend resources following up on something significant.
It is not at all accidental. Elon Musk has given cover for other social media sites to imitate many of his moves, such as Facebook introducing a subscription tier.
Live Tracing of Linux Kernel Code
This would be a fun game with some UX improvements. It's extremely frustrating when the reason I can't finish a puzzle is because my finger slipped off the line and not because I just don't know the solution. I stopped playing because of how frustrating that was.
https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2023/03/28/philadel...

Philly violent crime is down against last year but still ranks in recent highs
It's a lot easier to steal a scooter than a car, and yet harder to put the scooter into your apartment than a bike.

I live in San Jose, not San Francisco, but I really don't notice its any less pleasant to visit the city now compared to 2008 when I moved to California. And while things do get stolen in San Jose, it feels a lot less crimey than 1990s East Coast cities that I lived in back then (I left a bike on the VTA once, and did not get it back; I've had bikes I left in my front driveway unlocked for overnight and had them stolen). Beater bikes that are locked, for example, are mostly safe. And just don't buy a multi-thousand dollar bike in a culture with rampant inequality, it is impolite. It's like making out with your partner in front of someone that's just lost the love of their life.
Reddit has posted their own announcements now

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda... and

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13wshdp/api_update...