skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Income taxes are banned by the state constitution.

This is incorrect. Income taxes are only required to be flat. Many other states of all political persuasions have flat income taxes, Washington as a single-party state has chosen not to implement a similar tax.
No. The mistake is conflating "undefined behavior" with "unspecified behavior".

Signed overflow was not intended to be undefined--it was unspecified because it has a perfectly acceptable specification that differs between processors, and it was expected that the compiler would define it. The fact that gcc and clang pick non-sensical specifications in order to gain 3% in performance was not something anybody expected back when this stuff was written.

"Division by zero" is, on the other hand, genuinely undefined behavior. "Dereferencing a NULL pointer" is a genuinely undefined behavior. There generally isn't a good way for a program to continue after encountering them.
I’m petty sure this is loosely agreed by Susskind except CCC is a more specific version. Entire bubble universes have a chance to fluctuate out of any patch of spacetime. (Colemann-Delucca process or something). That fractal nature of spacetime is appealed to by Susskind in the video.
California has a democrat governor, a democrat Lieutenant governor, a state senate that's 80% democrat and a state house that's 75% democrat, and democrat mayors in all major cities.

Conservatives are not the problem.
San Francisco put the homeless in vacant hotel rooms during the pandemic. They destroyed the hotel rooms. The two main problems facing the homeless are substance abuse followed by mental health.
There was plenty of other hygiene guidelines before then. National things are easy to track, but tend to be late.
Speed running MI2 takes a bit over 30 minutes if you were wondering: https://youtu.be/5_I7hlaWVCE
GPU programming in general is definitely not trivial, as I can confirm with struggeling to learn WebGPU right now.

But it really depends on the problem, simple math operations on lots of data is usually indeed trivially faster. Like AI mostly is with math on matrices.

Or for example I just implemented a simple 2D raycastsolver in wgsl and as a first project it is totally not optimized - but even on my old laptop with crappy integrated GPU, but (relativly) fast CPU - I can now do 10000 raycasts per frame easily, while the cpu (wasm!) struggles with 500.

The raw power of the gpu is really awesome. But every step is hard and debugging a mess. Which is why only a handful of people seems do be doing it. But now would probably be a good time, to get into it.. as I think gpu compute just has started and will get big.
Explain how restricting pay packages will improve the dismal quality of Netflix programming at the time that I unsubscribed: this goal being the only defensible one from a shareholder standpoint.
If you go to the actual report[1] instead of whatever this site is, you'll see that question (3.9) was asking where they lived before they moved to Vancouver, not before they became homeless or whatever that site is attempting to imply.

If you scroll down slightly (3.11) you'll see 81% of respondents had a home in Vancouver before they became homeless, which is the data to match the claim ("overwhelmingly people who had stable living situations in those comfortable locations, and became homeless there").

[1] https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/vancouver-homeless-count-2019...
I personally don't have any insider information but just wanted to add what your saying fits with the meta on the gaming community side where commentators are frustrated that nVidia has so much hubris that they think they can just sell essentially last generation level technology without the step up (I think it was 3xxx vs 4xxx or something like that where you'd expect the 4060Ti to be at least as good as 3070Ti) and just trying to make up for it in "software".

It probably takes a lot of confidence in your software developers to make this kind of decisions.
About 30% of them are
Fair enough. My point is that it's still an untested technology. Tesla drivers are reporting stuff like as much as 10% less range due to these batteries
> It does make me wonder why non-esg large fund investors wouldn't care about this type of control as well?

The main thing investors have been focused on in the last 30 to 40 years has been lowering fees, in particular "passive" investing which is based on very obvious metrics ahead-of-time.

"Active" investors may have cared about these governance issues before, but their fees were just too high in practice. But I think we're seeing the blowback now as more-and-more companies come out with crap governance structures, knowing that they can take advantage of the easy-money from passive investors.

I don't know if things will swing the other way. But ESG seems like a way to keep fees low but still have a degree of thought put into corporate politics.

I'm not "bullish" on ESG btw. But I think its a step in the right direction, and I think that its a good thing that people are thinking about how to solve the issues that arose from this era of passive investing. Whether or not ESG truly solves the problem remains to be seen however.
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> Why do you think this kind of labour is going into the digital asset space?

Sunk cost fallacy, libertarian ideology, the fact it's become a cult of prosperity for the tech class and the fact that to argue against it meaningfully you have to have a strong understanding of finance, technology and law. Very few people have enough expertise in all three areas to explain why it's a bad idea.

But let me ask you. Since it's been the 'internet of the early 90s' for 15 years, why isn't it the 'internet of the mid/late 2000s' yet?
Our church has a play room with a TV tuned to the livestream. My toddler can make it to the sermon and then heads for the play room. Honestly, it's pretty nice to kick back in a comfy room and play with my daughter while still attending worship.
Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time
I used that on Opera way back in the day (before the Blink rewrite). Back then there weren't any Firefox extensions that I liked (either too complex or too 'janky', IIRC) so I just gave up on vertical tabs and grouping, but maybe I should look at it again as that was years ago. Thanks!
> First class queries is another thing that I've never seen out in the wild. It's not that complicated to add a composable layer on top of SQL to generate arbitrary queries.

I'm interpreting the post as wanting to do just that with static typing and calling it an ORM.

From TFA

> I want a query language that’s better than SQL. Specifically, it has to be 1) composable, 2) statically typed and with 3) a sane syntax.
I want sum types.

I want a statically-typed way of constructing composable queries that follow SQL rather than reinvent a different thing. It doesn't have to be the same syntax but it has to be the same structuring.

I started writing one[0] and stopped before doing all the boilerplate code generation, having moved on from the JVM ecosystem for the time being. One thing it does is treat most things like sets so we don't end up with N+1 queries. Another trick it uses is collapsing constant expressions via an expression evaluation library[1].

[0] https://github.com/karmakaze/safeql

[1] https://github.com/karmakaze/moja
>if you Google you can find plenty of studies and resources suggesting NIR can be safe and effective for the eyes as well.

Infrared in the eye causes cataracts, a fact that is all over Google search results. Workers in steel mills for example are about 26 times more likely to need cataract surgery than others their age, but maybe it is not the near-infrared fraction doing that?

I've seen many studies of the effects of red light on the eye, but none of the effects of NIR on the eye, but in avoiding exposing the eyes of experimental human subjects to NIR, maybe researchers are using an overabundance of caution?
The coast is relatively mild compared to inline Oregon or Washington, but winters are still wet and cold (especially in Washington).
Democrats must be remarkably ineffective to have someone that long ago still disrupting them after decades of unquestioned control.
Microsoft Finds macOS Bug That Lets Hackers Bypass Sip Root Restrictions
I'm not first-hand familiar with Oregon, but some parts of Washington have moderate temps. Coastal Washington gets a lot of rain but rarely freezes and -- anecdotally -- at least one city in Coastal Washington has vastly worse rates of homelessness on a per capita basis than some of the cities infamous for it, like Seattle and SF. And, yes, they are mostly camped outside, not in shelters.
Same here! Cry/play rooms can be awesome.
How long have you been using it? Have you noticed any effects?
A Giant Leap Forward in Wireless Ultrasound Monitoring for Subjects in Motion
This is called progress. It's not always upward or steady, but it's a process you were once a part of. Probably careers and services wouldn't exist were it not for you.
Democrats are largely liberal capitalists. They don’t have solutions to this either.
So they spent 17 billion over the last 4 year on about 115k+ people or about 140-150k usd per person per year. Yeah there is some serious grifting going on.
On that note, we should also give communism credit for lifting billions out of poverty in China
There’s an AI script I wrote for that =) Seems to work very well, too!

https://github.com/pmarreck/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/functio...
Musk is still widely adored.

I'd point you to the relative popularity of the Media that is down on Musk and instructs others to be so.
Sure. For instance, there are times when you need to pack strings tightly together. Adding an extra byte or two before the start of the string would get in the way. You could work around it in many cases, but it makes the code uglier and harder to understand/maintain.

One of the things that makes C particularly suitable for certain sorts of tasks is that it's mostly WYSIWYG when it comes to the relationship between data structures and the actual memory layout. Having "hidden" things like a length value before the string steps on that.
> one of the things I would like to see in my lifetime is somehow it should be easier to "run the whole enterprise" from one box. Sure, it will probably be seriously underpowered and I can't do all things at once but for most small to mid-size companies, it should be possible to run all our "code" from one machine.

I think that's the mainframe idea. There's probably some interesting philosophical question in there about whether or not a data center is just a big mainframe. It sort of feels like it verges on semantics.

> Sure, there is no machine in the world that can fit all of YouTube videos but there is no reason why we can't have YouTube, with a limited set of non-production data, running from just one box. Thoughts?

I'm not sure what you mean exactly, but if you're streaming YouTube's traffic through one box (even if that box isn't directly connected to the disks on which the video is stored) you'll run into I/O bottlenecks--such a machine would need to push terrabytes per second which is probably not trivial. Moreover, having a single machine that can handle YouTube's peak traffic probably means you're underutilizing it most of the time.
They don't need to disable ME, no more than they need to disable some microprocessor in a network card. The government doesn't have to believe baseless conspiracy theories when they design datacenters.
> The majority of people who vote in elections and show up to city council meetings want housing to be an investment that grows in value by 10% annually. Building more houses is a direct threat to that investment. Guess which group wins.

It isn't purely financial. After all, the most expensive land is in areas with higher population density. You want cheap housing? Go out to where nobody else lives. Tons of it available. Doubling the population of Phoenix would increase people's property values a bunch - look at the land owners in the Bay Area over the last 50 years. Developers don't build shit because they think it's gonna make their property worth less.

So, no, what people who don't want upzoning don't want is change. Change in traffic, change in privacy, change in noise, etc.

That's actually a much harder problem. If it was purely financial it would be easier to buy people out. But it isn't, which - at the extreme end - is how you get the tiny houses next to big skyscrapers and such.
ur in a cult, complete with eschatology and in-group jargon

its not a big deal if a computer program arrives at the conclusion that its operator should be killed, its just extremely stupid to give such programs access to weapons systems.
We only need teachers because they generate STEM grads. No science would mean 90% of the value in education is gone. There's obviously value in learning history and English, but it's nothing transformative.

Until recently, the medical profession was literally leeching people until STEM stepped in with germ theory etc. The life expectancy value of going to the doctor was negative!

The US pays salespeople, leaders, entrepreneurs, and engineers a ton of money. And it shows in the results.
Using code points (or scalar values, I hope) just means that it’s inefficient for everyone, because now everyone has to convert indexes (well, except Python, but it has other problems), instead of only half the people.

Going UTF-8 is fairly clearly superior: it will be the wire format, even if it’s not the language’s string format, so now environments that use UTF-8 strings never need any conversions (apart from decoding escape sequences, most likely).

Much as I hate UTF-16, I would even be inclined to argue that UTF-16 was a better choice than code points, as it will reduce the amount of extra work UTF-16 environments have to do, without changing how much UTF-8 environments have to do at all; but it also has the disadvantage that validation is vanishingly rare in UTF-16, so you’re sure to end up with lone surrogate trouble at some point, whereas UTF-8 tooling has a much stronger culture of validation, so you’re much less likely to encounter it directly and can much more comfortably just declare “valid Unicode only”.

Yes, code points is a purer concept to use. I don’t care: it’s less efficient than choosing UTF-8, which adds negative-to-negligible complexity. Please, just abandon code point indexing and embrace the UTF-8.
> Everyone wants that solution. [Just building more houses]

I'm not sure I completely agree with that.

Suppose you wanted to build the maximum amount of free housing as quickly as possible. What would you do?

You'd pick someplace rural (where land is cheap, and there are fewer people to raise objections), buy a bunch of land and just build the homes (and services needed by the people who would live in them). You would then invite anyone who needed shelter to come live there for free.

But if you actually try to do that, "homeless advocates" will say all sorts of mean things about you and block the project. So I would argue that not everyone wants the solution of just building enough homes for everyone.

They want homes built in specific places, and those specific places happen to be highly desirable and very expensive places to build acquire land and build homes.
It seems like the account started advertising the same company over and over, with generated content: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=oersted
> The homeless are better off than in the institutions of old.

Well, I'm glad someone is because everyone else seems to be worse off as a result
I'm not familiar with anything but, being a fan, I'm curious what part of "The Noose" you're referring to?
Homeless people aren't stupid and they aren't immobile house plants, they respond to incentives like everyone else. If you want to live on the street and do drugs and be crazy the best place to do that is CA because the weather is great and they largely don't enforce vagrancy, shoplifting, and drug laws and they spend billions of dollars subsidizing homelessness (free needles etc etc etc).

>>> "any locality that chooses to affect[sic] change, may actually see numbers that make the problem look worse, when in reality they are helping to improve things globally"

I think the people who think they are positively effecting change are usually actually making things worse. There's a difference between making it easier to be homeless (ie the CA way) and making it easier to not be homeless (ie a way that might work).
WatchControl – control your Mac’s audio from your Apple Watch
In what I think we can all agree is spectacularly good timing I've just released a new app called WatchControl.

Use WatchControl to control your Mac's audio playback directly from your Apple Watch (Play/Pause, Mute/Unmute etc.).

It uses bluetooth to talk directly to to the Mac. No network. No accounts. No logging in.

watchcontrol.app/
The problem is MacOs’ window switching behavior when using alt-tab and alt-`. The one switches to the most recently used other software, the other cycles through the windows of the same software.

Now imagine u have 10 terminal windows and 3 chrome windows open. And you switch back and forth between two or three of these windows. In Mac Os you cant really do that, because u have to cycle through all the windows of the same software to get back to the other terminal window youre working on.

And thats why people use non keyboard methods for switching windows, which sux,

I hate Windows, but I also hate Mac Os for its dumb opiniated design choices that after 20 years theres still no option for fixing, so u need to pay 20$ for some tools that give you sane usability (also the the need for better touch tool to get proper tap to drag without a release delay).

And the worst is the fanboys that act like Mac Os’ wonky choices are a necessity because I’m holding wrong and they never had a problem with it.
Was HN down for a few minutes?
I think #2 is a huge problem. It costs money to do real journalism, because that money pays for time, moving reporters hither and yon, bribes, lunches, whatever. Deep investigation costs. It doesn't cost money to copy that journalism, once produced. It's text. Maybe some pictures.

As ever, people gravitate to "free," so you're stuck with people reading journalism made by one group but copied to several other places. The race to the bottom begins. There's a signpost up ahead -- your next stop, the Kardashians. Gossip is cheap.

We've seen this in software. We remember the relentless flogging of "Just make it open and somehow it'll pay for itself!" Fans. Freemium models. Whatever.

Culture grants would be quite difficult, as any journalist may be tempted to bite the hand that feeds. Recall The Beeb and how they fed Jimmy Savile for so long. Now he's dead and they can report on it, but Johnny Rotten got in hot water for even hinting at the topic while he was alive.
Only for a few weeks. No obvious effects yet.

They are 670nm which is close to this study (650nm?)
Oracle Cloud is having a major outage
What's worse is that their "real time" status is not showing any issues.

https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/#/

I had to confirm the outage based on community reported down detector.

https://downdetector.com/status/oracle-cloud/

All of our services, instances and backups for https://searchadsoptimization.com are in Oracle cloud.

This shows a critical issue when relying on a single Cloud provider. It's time to build a cross cloud infrastructure design to handle these issues.

Update: It looks like they have updated their “real time” status page after good 25 minutes of severe outage. My trust and assumptions with real time status pages changed completely.

I don't understand the point of real time status pages if they are clearly not real time and not accurate.

My error notifications were blowing up my phone, the first thing I did is check their status page and assumed issue is within my application, and I couldn't even access my backend application. Out of desperation, I had to check downdetector to confirm the issue. I have formed new respect for downdetector.
The PNW has interesting geography: the Cascades run North/South right near the Western shore, and they catch most of the rain that the Pacific hurls at the area.

West of the mountains, it's temperate and damp. The Olympic peninsula is technically a rainforest, but the populous areas tend to get a lot of drizzle rather than heavy rain. Snow is rare at low elevations, even in winter.

East of the mountains, it's temperate and arid. Lots of power generation and agriculture on former tribal lands.

In the mountains, large national forests which allow dispersed camping.

It's not always "mild", but wherever you end up, it's usually not inhospitable. The summers have gotten much worse lately though, Seattle was a city where nobody felt the need for air conditioners as recently as 10-20 years ago. Now they sell out in the first heat wave of the summers, and new apartment buildings are starting to include them.
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There is less genetic diversity in the human species because of the evolutionary bottleneck that occurred.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck#Humans
Cox Communications Appeals $1B Piracy Verdict, Citing Twitter Terrorism Ruling
Internet service provider Cox Communications is seeking a reversal of the $1 billion piracy liability verdict it faced four years ago, as it submits an appeal to the court of appeal. The ISP presented a recent Supreme Court ruling in which Twitter was found not liable for aiding and abetting terrorism as supplemental evidence.
Moratorium on freaking out about AI
The Skid Row Housing Trust situation does sound bleak, but insofar as "housing first" is meant to provide a safe and stable environment that can enable other kinds of life improvements, I dunno that the housing they were providing fits the bill.

> its portfolio is heavily weighted with early 20th century hotels with tiny living spaces, communal bathrooms and kitchens

> Residents complain that lax security allows intruders to have easy access to the building and that one resident disrupts the entire building.

> While giving a tour of the building to a Times reporter, a tenant pushed open the disruptive man’s door

> Residents of the Hart alleged they frequently had to use buckets in their rooms as toilets.

> Los Angeles County departments of health services and mental health warned the trust of habitability and safety issues that were causing clients to decline housing in its buildings

Suppose you live in one of these, and every time you go to the bathroom or the kitchen, you feel unsafe (anyone could be in the building), or are going to encounter various triggers (how much harder is it to get clean if there's drug use still all around you?), and are still subject to a lot of stress, disruption and uncertainty caused by your living situation. It seems like this organization was ambitious in the number of people it could house, but took real compromises in the quality of that housing. And it depended on very high occupancy to be financially even close to viable.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-26/skid-row...