skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More input implying more output is a poor model, because there is rule of law in the middle.

input -> rule of law -> output is a more correct model. Maybe RuleOfLaw(Taxes) -> [Output distribution] is better.

When rule of law is weak, the powerful arbitrarily exercise their power to shift the output to them. When rule of law is strong the output is used for the public benefit.

So the efficiency of taxes depends greatly on the integrity of the legal system and therefore integrity of the legal system must come before the expectation of the usefulness of taxes.

When the legal system has no integrity, money siphoned from taxes to private interests increases the power of those private interests which further hurts the legal systems integrity. So more (general population) taxes in the context of weak rule of law is damaging to society.

If you want to increase rule of law (reduce arbitrary exercises of power), then the less powerful must become more powerful (unions), the more powerful must become less powerful (tax the rich or ask the french), or the institutions of society itself must ensure that there are consequences for arbitrary exercises of power (the people in power choose to exercise it responsibly), or a culture that respects rule of law must pervade (only possible through education).
It's the "I'm gonna give you a social welfare check to fuck off" approach.

Let's not pretend society really wants to hug these people or employers want to hire them.
> literal strings are ASCIIZ.

If only. In C, it’s a (95+5)-item character set that happens to be a subset of ascii. See https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/charset:

“The basic literal character set consists of all characters of the basic character set, plus the following control characters”

That page also explicitly says:

The following characters are not in basic execution character set, but they are required to be encoded as a single byte in an ordinary character constant or ordinary string literal.

Code unit Character Glyph

U+0024 Dollar Sign $
U+0040 Commercial At @
U+0060 Grave Accent `”*

If I read that correctly, if you write a ‘$’ in a string literal before C23, there’s no guarantee that if gives you a byte with value 0x24.

Of course, C++ is different. Like C, it makes a distinction between the encoding of source files (nowadays called the “basic character set”) and the encoding that the compiler converts literals to (nowadays called the “basic literal character set”), but it seems to put even fewer restrictions on them (in my cursory reading)

Also (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/charset):

“Mapping from source file (other than a UTF-8 source file) (since C++23) characters to the basic character set (until C++23) translation character set (since C++23) during translation phase 1 is implementation-defined, so an implementation is required to document how the basic source characters are represented in source files.”*

If I understand that correctly, you can’t portably write an euro sign in C++ source files in C++ foe C++23

Also, chances are this changed in subtle ways between C and C++ versions.
This is my thought as well. Their devs who work on the graphics drivers are heavily underpaid in Canada. As an ex-AMD, I took AMD's offer for 20k less than another software company because I like low level stuff and have always been an AMD fan since the Athlon days. But when Amazon offered me double, I easily took Amazon's offer and left AMD after less than a year.

I think a lot of companies are overpaying their software people, but if there is any one that should pay their devs much more it would be AMD, because they are in a position to compete against Nvidia if their software integrated well with the AI training stuff.
It feels like the author is discussing the concept of Digital Twins, common in IoT, which use a similar approach to replicate the state of a complex system. I've never heard of "phase lock" used in this context (presumably, carried over from the notion of a PLL) but I think the analogy isn't particularly good, and the concept is already widely used in the IoT space under a different name.
Now do houses. Why is the first $500k of real estate appreciation untaxed?
I think by definition, most people get their information from "mainstream" media. It also seems like hindsight is being applied here. We have perfect information now, and it seems that you are claiming that this whole time _you_ had perfect information/sources from the beginning. How could you expect that people could reasonably believe this? You also seem to be implying that there was some sort of sinister motive to get people to do things like get vaccinated and wear masks. I do not think that is credible; I think it is more likely that uncertainty was high, and it was reasonable to work with a high degree of caution. This belief doesn't require sinister intent, but it does paint people who worked against the grain as being selfish; that seems to track.
Rather than going by hearsay I thought I'd just look up the Intel ME documentation. Unfortunately I can't seem to find much on the Intel site. Where would full documentation of this system be found, am I looking in the right place?
And some people become poor because they are addicts or have mental health issues and refuse treatment.
Don't you mean discharged?
This dude taught the Lin alg courses that went on MitX. Super good!
It's important to remember that not all dollars have equal value. If you're broke, $10 has significant value. If you're Bezos, it's effectively worthless. So when we decide how much to tax whom, we have to take this effect into consideration.
The new capital gains tax is paying for childcare programs and public education.
There is no known cure for adult nor childhood myopia. Axial elongation is permanent. It can only be slowed, and maybe stopped, but not reversed.
Over the years, Apple has implemented inadequate window management in MacOS in a number of ways, empowering the user by giving them the choice of which method to be frustrated by.

For example, the CMD+Tab task switcher seems natural, but it has an issue where you can select an app and it does absolutely nothing, which is both infuriating and incomprehensible. Is it ignoring me because the app is minimized? Did it send it to another desktop? I have no idea! It must be deterministic, but I'll be damned if I can figure it out. I am sure "real mac users" get it, and I'm happy for them, but poor benighted souls like me just wonder why their $2500 computer isn't doing what they're telling it to. And whatever that perfectly good reason is, there is an even more perfectly good reason to make it work the way users expect.

The Dock has the same issue with letting you click on an app, and then not bringing that app on screen, or telling me why it's ignoring my command. Both of the above patterns work better in Windows, and have worked better for decades, and Apple designers should be a little ashamed of that.

Mission Control is probably the most useful method, because it actually brings selected applications on screen (the minimum functionality you would expect). However, it does not support keyboard shortcuts for navigating and selecting an application! How is this possible? It feels like a couple story point ticket to me, yet it remains a problem after a decade. Maybe Apple stubbornly assumes everyone will use a touchpad for everything, despite them selling products without touchpads in them. For money.

The other problem with Mission Control is that it should not require your entire screen to switch apps. It feels too form-over-function to me.

I tried the newest entry, Stage Manager, for several months. It's like a cross between Mission Control and the Dock. It works well (that is, it does what it's supposed to), except it's missing the ability to change the size of the window thumbnails. It takes up quite a lot of the screen for the value it gives you. Not that being able to select a window and switch to it isn't valuable, just that that's how the Dock should already work, and Dock doesn't take up 10-15% of the screen.
Why the homeless move to CA

Good climate

Cities provide cash payments to them

Legal marijuana

Open air drug markets

Soft on crime prosecutors

Liberal population that wants to provide for them

Note: I make no judgement value on any of these items, just proposing reasons
You'd think that the regulations that were suspended were not invented in response to nothing.
It's such a horrible monopoly. Please try to purchase your glasses at non affiliated stores.
>manufacturers get to insert massive backdoors into the hardware

There is no proof that they are

>hardly anybody bats an eye.

Because only a certain niche of paranoid people are willing to believe that companies are trying to make their systems intentionally insecure so that you can be personally hacked.
Wasn't that supposed to be UV damage?
Kind of off topic, but has tiling managers for macOS improved in the last few years? I remember I tried one solution (I can’t remember the name now) which worked OK but it was a little buggy some times. Ever since I just use the standard window manager and try to manage with cmd + tab, cmd + `, and gestures to change spaces.
Highly recommend this channel for well-researched and entertaining mini-documentaries on adventure game speedrunning: https://www.youtube.com/@OneShortEye
mhb said:

And the actual numbers should include the opportunity cost (in lives saved or QALYs, if you like) of the increased price of vehicles with these systems. Could that money have been spent on smoke detectors or healthier food or ?

In response I said:

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Then mhb said:

What's your point?

Can you explain what my point was to mhb?

ChatGPT:

It seems like you're suggesting that the responsibility and scope of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is primarily focused on improving safety on the roads, specifically through regulations related to vehicles, rather than other broader public health initiatives like smoke detectors or promoting healthier food.

Your comment may imply that while considering the opportunity cost is a valid point for an overall public health or policy perspective, it may not be directly relevant to the mission and function of the NHTSA. The NHTSA's mandate is to ensure the safety of vehicles and roads, so they would prioritize improvements and regulations in that area, even if those funds might have a higher impact if spent elsewhere from a wider public health perspective.

In other words, the comment might suggest that each organization has its own scope and priorities, and while we can consider overall opportunity costs, we also need to consider the specific roles and responsibilities of different organizations. However, without more context, this is just one possible interpretation.
so does a MEMS if that's the definition were going with.
an edit mangled the comment, and it's too late to fix: "he was upset that I wasn't upset" goes one paragraph later
Definitely, the winter I visited Mountain View it was 2C (35F) and ground frost.
They sure do -- and they're your secret weapon.

By providing a much more solid understanding than online-only approaches, minus the incremental negative health effects of working at your laptop.

Let the cloud-native solution architects go their merry way, and develop their understanding of the world from blogspam and YT videos.

While you -- embrace your destiny, book yourself that weekend in your favorite cabin by a wooden lake -- and curl up with K&R.
If I could filter them out on Slack. It is a boon for the over-communicators.
I know the P14s also and would say it's very similar to the T14s; can you honestly hold that next to a MacBook Pro or Air and with a straight face say "the build quality is fantastic"? I really find that a stretch (imho they are not even in the same universe w/regards to build quality). Edit: to be fair, I also do not expect Framework to meet that level of build quality, even though I would love it if they (eventually) did.

I do concur that it would probably serve quite a few years, but it will most definitely be a flimsy affair.

The Framework is not a complete shot-in-the-dark, but it is definitely a benefit-of-the-doubt. I don't know (yet) what it will be like, but I'm looking forward to finding out.
You can melt rocks with any wavelength, it really depends on the power, cataracts included (assuming non ionizing wavelengths).

I work for hours in my VR headset, with eye tracking enabled...I should probably check up on what that power is.

edit: My point seems to have been missed. IR in the eyes will cause cataracts, but it requires extreme power. It's the heating from the extreme power causing the cataracts, not the wavelength of the photons. The wavelength of the photon just helps that power get absorbed in a way that it's not noticed by things like the retina. IR lasers are especially dangerous because you won't look away/blink, or know besides feeling the heat.
Well, if the status page says they are up do the SLAs really apply? (half kidding, this seems like an oracle thing to do)
Totally agree on that, securing a piece of the AI market will be a huge challenge. No one will buy AMD for AI when the software isn't compatible and no one will buy AMD for AI to get wonky software for the same price as NVIDIA.

Affordable cards with lots of memory and good software support is the only solution to maybe get into the market. Double the memory for some gaming cards (just like NVIDIA's 3060 12GB and the 4060 TI 16GB)

Additionally data center products with enormous vram amounts and very fast interconnects will be important

AMD can't even take orders that NVIDIA can't keep up with because they are producing on very similar nodes. NVIDIA can easily outspend AMD for TSMC production capacity
Were they smoking there in the moments immediately preceding the fire, and a dropped cigarette and maybe some sawdust or something somehow ignited a 35cm or whatever wide beam? And the smokers didn’t notice? But I think the answer is there weren’t any construction workers around in the time before the fire to be smoking anyway.

“Maybe it was an electrical thing or something” is far from conclusive evidence, and as OP was saying, completely incredible as a response to an event of this magnitude that attracted worldwide attention.

>pinpointing

I’m always surprised when I hear what fire forensics can figure out given the state of the evidence being worked with.

>any evidence pointing toward arson

The whole point of my original post was that all the circumstantial evidence points toward arson.
Nice try GPT.
"Mosaic is truly a high-quality application. But the price for beauty is more memory and disk space. Mosaic consumes over 1.3MB of disk space, and will use about 2MB of RAM while running."

I don't know about those fancy graphical browsers, who has those kinds of resources to just throw at some pretty pictures?
It's a pretty average Medium post submitted to HN by the person who wrote it. What do you expect? Most of what gets posted on Twitter or even HN is lacking in substance too.

Be the change you want to see in the world. What's your blog URL?
I think GP meant zero-copy communication with the GPU, eg. through `newBufferWithBytesNoCopy` [0], which is only possible with unified memory architectures, eg. integrated GPUs.

The mmap change was just about mapping the model files in memory instead of copying them, which has less overhead.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/metal/mtldevice/14...
What would you recommend reading instead?
Word is they're going to take down old.reddit as well.
That's okay. The great part about fresh meat is that they don't know anything, so they keep repeating the same errors as the previous persons when they first joined. In either case, Amazon hurts.
Yep - beat saber is a surprisingly good cardio workout, especially some of the tracks where you're having to squat lots.
Maybe start with stating what data it would take to outweigh the accents you may have overheard one time?
https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

This let’s you have complete control over tiling.
Heh, once again, my old optician John Rose in London is some years ahead of the curve, I’ll be darned. He’s had this red light therapy bed installed at his practice for a few years now.

https://johnroseeyecare.co.uk/services/wellbeing/light-thera...
Yeah I also bought a "photo red" 665nm 1W diode after that last thread, stared at it occasionally at low power and never noticed any difference. I guess it's one of those things you gotta do for several decades and unless you leave one eye as a control there's nothing to compare to anyway.
Windows has had similar functionality for ages in the form of System File Protection.

OpenBSD has probably the most cumbersome approach of using multiple partitions and mounting those with system files as read-only. As inflexible as that is (sizing many partitions correctly is an unnecessary nightmare) it's better than Snap which is bloated from the get go.
> The rebuilding is apparently going well, but this is hiding the fact that nobody seems to be doing any inquiry about why the fire wasn't stopped in time.

Is this a true statement? I remember reading an extremely detailed play-by-play in one of the major papers a couple years ago that did a pretty good analysis of why a confluence of factors led to the fire. I don't know what the status is of any governmental, official investigation, but I at least saw some thorough investigative reporting from news organizations.

I agree with the sibling comment that this feels a little like scapegoating. Like many disasters like this, it wasn't just one thing, but a confluence of lots of little innocuous things (e.g. new guy on the job, can't remember all the details but maybe there was a phone number change IIRC, etc.) that led to the fire. Not saying a thorough investigation isn't warranted, but pretending these types of things are completely preventable is also a mistake IMO.

Edit: This is from a US government website, and I can't see all the details but it looks like someone did do a root cause analysis, https://www.govevents.com/details/37273/risk-management-case... :

In the days following the fire, questions began to arise about what could have caused the fire and, also about the nature and extent of the fire detection and protection systems. It turns out Notre Dame had one of the most sophisticated and elaborate fire safety systems ever designed, befitting a landmark of its stature. A team of experts had spent more than six years and untold funds developing the fire protection plan. Yet, when the system was put to a real test, it failed in spectacular fashion. How this could have happened, and what lessons can be learned from this tragic event with be discussed in detail.
> at the cost of untold resources

Not going to argue the methodology but it seems like a starting point is $22,000-37000/QALY[0-1].

> instead of

This is a false dichotomy, guidelines all start with lifestyle modifications.

[0]https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...

[1]https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/23964...
Or will they have a monopoly on the therapeutic red light glasses that all kids will need? After all, the market could be even bigger than now because all parents would want to make sure their kids get their daily dose of red light.
> If you give housing to mentally unstable people, they are just going to trash the place.

This is underreported to a criminal degree.

Want to solve the homeless problem? Adopt one. Let one live in your home. You'll quickly come to find how even the most sympathetic cases ended up on the street in the first place.

We couldn't keep a roof over the head of a schizophrenic family member, and there are no grants or stipends available to renovate your own home to the security standards of a mental hospital. Unlike problematic foster children, there is no state agency that pretends to have your back in this endeavor. Meanwhile you're cohabitating with someone regularly insulting, screaming at, assaulting, battering, and occasionally molesting your family members, which does wonders for their mental health. Normally your entire family has to be incarcerated in state prison to share this sort of experience-- the mentally-ill adhere to the Rules of Society about as well as the criminal population. So in failing to solve one problem, you create five more.

Even more fun in California, since they become tenants of yours after something retarded like 14 days and the savvy ones will shake you down when you try to [unlawfully] evict them.

This isn't a problem we can currently solve. It's hard not to criminalize the mentally-ill when their behavior is indistinguishable from that of actual criminals. The only difference seems to be "they can't help it," which is the same argument that has been made to excuse criminal behavior itself. It's not an excuse to coddle either group.
One problem is the binary of "sober".

Opioid substitution therapy has a long track record of effectiveness, but when treating homeless addicts we all too often insist they go through withdrawal, to nobody's benefit. Not all homeless are addicts, but an individual suffering opioid addiction has very different behavior from someone who isn't, and that requires particular attention. Opioids have the worst relapse rate of all addictive drugs.

Stimulant withdrawal on the other hand is generally less severe, and acute stimulant intoxication is more likely to cause serious behavioral problems than with opioids (or methadone). Cocaine has a surprisingly low relapse rate, once sobriety is maintained for a few months.

Alcohol is a little more difficult, because it not only has a dangerous withdrawal syndrome but it also causes aggressive or impulsive behavior. Treating withdrawal is imperative; substitution is difficult, since other anxiolytics can produce the same impulse control problems. Access to alcohol is pervasive, as well, and we would like to avoid constant monitoring.

When we see only the possibilities of permissiveness or restriction and not active and detailed intervention, we are not playing with a full deck. As another commenter mentioned, simply allowing shelter residents to use drugs creates risks to other residents and staff. But we should be as accommodating as reasonably achievable.
"alternate religions" implies there are real religions. How does that work?
I mean, the elephant in the room is that we easily build enough housing for 115k people for much less than $17B if we simply allowed it to be built outside an existing city in the Central Valley. There's plenty of relatively cheap land to build mid-density housing and all the services the population would need (hospitals, substance abuse assistance, public safety, etc).

It would be like having two new cities the size of Merced.
The rewrite is markedly more responsive thankfully; but still not where it needs to be.
You'll want a somewhat decent GPU (doesn't need to be a 4090 by any stretch, iRacing is pretty good at running on most things).

When it comes to wheel and pedals you can go cheap and all in one, like the Logitech ones, or push the boat out a bit more like I did with Fanatec gear. Then there's crazy expensive stuff like Heusinkveld.
Or, let people build their own housing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/11/oakland-home...

Allocate some land for this, let people create their own community/ies. Isn't America supposed to be about freedom?
How Malicious extensions hide running arbitrary code