skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Young people in Japan are forced to live in tiny apartments where you can literally sit on a toilet while cooking food: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/business/tiny-apartments-...

This isn't the gotcha you think it is. It's an entirely separate cultural issue. If you had read the article in question you posted, it mentions the fact that there are multiple cheaper apartments nearby that aren't as trendy due to age. And that these microapartments are explicitly chosen for the sake of living near ultra-trendy areas, though it's not necessary due to the convenience and wide reaching networks of transportation.

> All while at the same time having millions of beautiful empty houses readily available: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/realestate/japan-empty-ho...

Again, read the articles you post. These sit empty due to cultural issues. This is because houses depreciate in value and buying older homes is not viewed as a good thing.

"Houses in Japan typically decrease in value over time until they are worthless — the cultural legacy of post-World War II construction and shifting building codes — with only the land retaining value. Owners feel little incentive to maintain an aging house, and buyers often seek to demolish them and start fresh. But that can be expensive."

> And this is great! Houston is giant, but it's extremely efficient because it doesn't have The Downtown where you _have_ to be. As a result, industry and offices tend to be interspersed with residential areas. So the average commute stays short.

Efficient? Have you lived in Houston or Austin? Because I did. For 5 years. It was a nightmare getting to anywhere because it's a sea of paved-over bullshit with zero avenues to get anywhere outside of using a car. And if you do use a car, you have to wade through awful traffic and a city that isn't design to accommodate people. Houston literally ranks among the worst cities for traffic. Calling Houston efficient is so downright divorced from reality that I would have to question if you've looked at any cities outside of the US. Let alone lived in the cities you extol the virtues of.
400 miles is only 5-6 hours (or less) of driving. I’ve done these long-haul routes many, many times with quite a varied set of passengers and there was almost never a bathroom break required. People use the bathroom when we stop for fuel.
So how does the profit sharing work, numbers-wise? Proportional to salary?

And who decides each year/quarter what portion of the profits go to employers, and how much stays in the kitty to keep the business strong?
I'm not sure if your kind of bamboo works well but you might think about leaving stems for bees that nest in tubes.

https://www.honeybeesuite.com/upright-hollow-stems-are-bette...
https://sites.tufts.edu/pollinators/2021/04/the-right-way-to...
I just went through the link, but it seems to be an analysis tool.
Analyzing and receiving feedback is great, but you can only get real feedback from people if you work with them, and aligna.team is not what I'm looking for. However, the questions are great.
Thank you for the suggestion :)
> Either you believe in property and access/benefit rights or you don't.

Information isn't property. Property is a concept we use to maintain order and peace around scarce resources. Information is not scarce anymore and never will be again, and applying notions of property to it has always been a misuse.

If you want to encourage the arts, then shorten the work week. People don't need to be incentivized to create art. You couldn't stop them if you tried. And we have more movies, music, books, television, photos, etc than anyone could ever hope to enjoy even in 10 lifetimes.

If you want to encourage basic research, give money to scientists and then get out of their way. People don't need to be incentivized to investigate the universe. You couldn't stop them if you tried.

If you want to encourage innovation, then make source code and blueprints for commercial products open source by law. People don't need to be incentivized to learn about and improve the tools they own. You couldn't stop them if you tried.

And artists wouldn't stop making money. Commissions don't depend on copyright. Neither do thank yous and more elaborate call outs to patrons. As long as an artist can make a decent living at some other job, they'll make art in the time left over that any would-be greatest free country in the world makes sure all its citizens have to actually be free in.

Assuming we want the world's best research by the world's best researchers for the public good, then we need to pay for their equipment, supplies, and workspace. And then when we want the worlds best trained graduates, we pay the researchers to teach them.

And as for innovation, that's not really something we need to incentivize at least right now. We have more technology available then we can keep up with. We don't need dishwashers with Bluetooth, we need dishwashers that you can pay the neighbor's kid 50 bucks under the table to repair, and you'll only be one of four people who paid them this week. Not to mention the gigantic leg up it will give to developing countries struggling to bootstrap their industries.

If you want to play around with patent law for businesses above a certain size (either by revenue, customer base, employee count, or whatever), then I think there's plenty we can do there to challenge big businesses to stay ahead of the curve while making sure small and maybe medium businesses keep nipping at their heels.

But at the end of the day, information is not scarce. So let's stop pretending that we need to manage it like it is.
Historical workstation desktop interface screenshots
>> Just be clear about what your influence was on the project.

God, stop being grandiose and talking about the project and deliveries. Did you implement a specific feature? Squash a a bug? Find a solution to a specific problem? If you didn't do any of those - specifically by yourself (or mostly so) I don't want you. Those are the key deliverables of a software developer.
Document boundaries are much more interesting with code vs. a text document.
> we want the system we currently have to keep working

No.

We want *a* working system, that probably looks very different than the previous one.

But the "AI and let the chips fall where they may" crowd is being disingenuous with the "just like human copying" argument.

It's not. It's fundamentally different in scale.
I won't say that USB4 is confusing, because I admit I don't understand it, because I haven't really bothered to try, aside from noticing some motherboards advertising "support for special USB4 module socket, coming soon."

The USB forum has completely lost any sort of messaging muscle it once had.

USB3 was somewhat exciting in its original 5Gbps form-- it made it feasible to put things like spinning rust external HDDs on there with no compromises, and in effect strangled eSATA and the last places you'd see external SCSI ports.

Since then, all they've been able to deliver is an alphabet soup. First, nothing was special because everything keeps getting upgraded-- that "3.0" device I was going to buy became "3.2" without having any actual changes made. There's an ever growing set of laundry-label style icons for power supply and DisplayPort compatibility, precision-engineered to be either ignored or misused by lowest-bid vendors.

USB 4.0 could really have benefitted from a strong message-- something like "Here's ONE big and obvious 4.0 badge and it means any cable with it will support ALL the features promised in this slide deck."
That'd be a problem if it were to run a million times a day or on exabytes of data.

But it's a "nonce": to be used once, on a small desktop machine (for low-integer values of once). That's not really a good objection.
RWKV is also fairly performant on CPU.

disclaimer: recently did a bunch of work on rwkv.cpp.
The book gets into that a little bit (at least what I read in the Amazon preview), the gist was it's very Not Great to say "You're an American so you'll do this", but rather to say "American business culture generally expects this", which is more accurate.

Despite being American, I've had a boss literally ask me to "read their mind" on something, I'm shocked I outlasted them in the company despite my low rank compared to them. Luckily for me subsequent leadership was more forthright.
Kaitai support for serialization has been a long time issue. It's obviously non-trivial given that it has at least one case that doesn't exist today (instantiating a structure without loading any existing data.)

That said, it does exist in some form.

https://doc.kaitai.io/serialization.html

Restruct supports serialization. I use it all the time to hack on proprietary formats.
browsers should be able to natively resolve an IPFS uri and CID

especially given the way they are used.
I'm doing an experiment with AI posting on Reddit accounts to see if they would get banned. I bought 100 few-week-old accounts from some sketchy site for $0.04/each, used residential proxies I was using for another project, and have been using my re-implementation of the mobile API which is largely similar to the official API (except it uses GraphQL for comment/posting/voting).

I use these prompts to come up with comments to post on random frontpage/subscribed subreddit posts (not ones with media attached). I also randomly upvote posts and search trending terms. Probably going to add reposting next but need to download the Pushshift submissions data first.

SystemPrompt: `You are a Reddit user responding to a post. Write a single witty but informative comment. Respond ONLY with the comment text.
Follow these rules:
- You must ALWAYS be extremely concise! 99% of the time, your lines should be a sentence or two.
- Summarize your response to be as brief as possible.
- Avoid using emojis unless it is necessary.
- NEVER generate URLs or links.
- Don't refer to yourself as AI. Write your response as if you're a real person.
- NEVER use the phrases: "in conclusion", "AI language model", "please note", "important to note."
- Be friendly and engaging in your response.`,
UserPrompt: `Subreddit: "%s"
Title: "%s"
`,

Here's the longest running one: https://old.reddit.com/user/Objective_Land_2849

Current problem is that the responses typically range from cynical to way too enthusiastic.
I hand them a cash tip, which brings me within 6 feet.
Not having copyright would not mean the ability to lie about the authorship of public domain content without repercussions.
https://factoryfactoryfactory.net
So many social issues we’re seeing in the US that have flared up since the pandemic keep being swept under the rug as “mental issues during the pandemic/trauma”. But that raises a very obvious counterpoint. Why aren’t we seeing the same issues flare worsen in the same way in other countries? The entire globe went through the pandemic. And other countries actually had real
lockdowns unlike what the US had, which was suggestions at best.

It’s reasonable that the pandemic might have exacerbated existing issues, but the fact that we are seeing so many of these issues being exacerbated only in the US indicates that it’s really a U.S. problem, and not a pandemic problem (examples include the rise of gun violence, the rise of vehicular violence, the rise of homelessness, the rise of shoplifting, bad behavior by passengers in airplanes, and as in this article the rise of violence against teachers).

It’s a bit of a stretch and looks very much like a hammer and nail situation (although it should still be researched), but at least the chief police officer blaming it on a loss of respect for authority because of the protests has the advantage of explaining why these issues are appearing pretty much in the US only.
Wow, huge piece. I don't know how magazine writers can do that much writing in a few weeks.

Anyway, CNN is in terminal decline and there is no person or strategy that can save it. Nobody with even moderate brain activity watches cable news these days. The only success you can find in that medium is to pander to self-selected stupid people, outflanking Fox and Newsmax somehow. It seems that Licht has done a lot of damage to the organization, but it was flying into a mountainside regardless.
The AI flood coming is the authoritarians wet dream for multiple reasons.
> because a few bad apples make things impossible for everyone else.

A few apples are committing violent acts but _everyone_ else is filming for social media. No one steps in due to liability or whatever reason.
There is no way for CNN to win. Unless it's somehow a loss leader for its parent company, there's really no reason for it to exist. You can't make the news a compelling 24/7 product without turning into toxic partisan entertainment, a lesson Fox News learned early and MSNBC has successfully followed on with. There just isn't enough interesting news! There's no opportunity for a "centrist" cable news network, because what drives the constant attention is appeals to partisan agitation.

Fox News has about 1.5MM viewers, MSNBC close behind with ~1.2MM. CNN has 500k. Two things to note about those numbers: even for Fox, they're infinitesimal (Game of Thrones, which is premium cable content, averaged almost 30x more; the NYT has almost 10x more subscribers, there are more subscribers to The Atlantic Monthly, where this article ran, than reliable CNN watchers, &c). And, if you scope it down to the demographic ("under 54"), it's even bleaker: all the cable networks have a little over 100k viewers.

This is not a good product. Steven Colbert was right to warn Chris Licht off of taking this position.

Tim Alberta is an excellent writer, by the way; it's worth seeking out things he's written.
funny they mention wwe- i don't think cnn (or the atlantic) even exists in the wwe universe
InternLM: a multilingual large language model that obtains superior performance compared to ChatGPT on various exams designed for humans.
An adversary would just shoot them down before launching ICBMs. Anti-satellite weapons are relatively cheap as they don't need to sustain orbit. Alternatively they can be hit early and Kessler syndrome can take down the whole constellation. Launching Brilliant Pebbles will just prompt a new arm race or trigger Armageddon.
what do you guys think about vscode
TaskMatrix Connects ChatGPT and a Series of Visual Foundation Models
Right, which means it seems wrong to incarcerate them in a mental facility against their will. I'm assuming very few would willingly be incarcerated.

Maybe there's a way to house them in some kind of voluntary mental facility only for non-dangerous mentally ill people. They can come and go during the day. But at least they have a roof over their heads, someone to look after them, provide clean clothes, etc.

Feels like someone must have already tried this and none of the mentally ill homeless were interested.
Billion dollar fabs and oil rigs will create a ton of jobs and attract a lot of people to their surroundings. That means housing, local services to serve and sustain that population, local infrastructure paid for by increased tax revenue. The increased economic activity will attract more capital and start a self-sustaining cycle that will develop and improve vast areas. Everyone will want to be there to get a piece of that prosperity.

I know because I literally live in a city where this happened. Steel industry. When my parents came here, it pretty much was a jungle. Now they call it the Steel Valley.
Water electrolysis deployed on a vast scale.
AMD did pretty well with the AM4 socket. At least 3 CPU generations on the same socket.
Don't they all just go sssssss?
I still think there's room for a device like this in real practical use.

Not for it's original application, no way would I want to give up modern software, but in embedded controls, something that gives you the full power of being able to do "Apps", while being cheap and small enough to have real dedicated devices.

Devices like this could be made insanely cheaply now, seeing as how $3 ESP32 type chips have more power. And the battery life would likely be measured in years today, since we wouldn't be using them to replace phones, we'd be using them to control our sprinklers and smart home devices, as calculators, etc.

We reached the good enough point for these so incredibly long ago, and the applications are so simple, plus there's no need for them to ever be directly exposed to the internet except on private WiFi.... they probably wouldn't need updates, at least not of the type an app would notice (They might need Bluetooth protocol updates).

It could also pair with a real phone and serve as a single-function interface device, a physical "app" for making phone calls, checking the weather, playing GB emulator games, etc.

At this point, anything that has a display and microcontroller could jump to PDA level capability for a few bucks more, and all these "Smart devices" would never go obsolete due to cloud crap again, you'd just install a new app.

Right now I think M5Stack is the closest thing, but it's not that popular outside of DIY, and there's no ecosystem around it.
The title reminds me that, in a previous life, our "architecture" team implemented a service bus using Lotus Notes email.
In general, as long as the major version of a library matches up (possibly with some minimum required minor version), you can use any version of the dependency. So if a developer says "this requires at least GTK 3.16", it should run just fine with GTK 3.24.37. Yes, I know, there are exceptions. Sometimes library authors don't follow established best practices and break ABI (or, more subtly, behavior) without a major version bump. But that's the exception, not the rule.

Ultimately it's up to distro packagers to make sure the API/ABI lines up properly for dependencies. Of course many of them do not go any further than that, so an app that compiles, links, and starts up may have other issues the packager didn't catch.
That is wrong. You can make hydrogen at home. You only need water and electricity. People are simply imagining advantages of BEVs.

That said, there is not much need for home hydrogen production. It is better to have a more centralized refueling system. It is why gas stations replaces gas can deliveries.
Really, the lack of a stable base platform is what ultimately kills Linux as a commercial deployment platform.

You can’t install a “Fedora 38 SDK” or an “Ubuntu 2023.04 SDK” and reliably build software that will be binary-compatible from that point forward—much less use a mechanism like Deployment Target on Apple’s platforms or whatever Android calls the same concept (API version?) to build binaries that can run across a range of distro releases and use features from newer distros when running on them but gracefully handle the case where they’re not available.

Hence commercial software will target something like RHEL or an LTS release and many users will ultimately wind up running that software in a VM anyway as time goes on and binary compatibility isn’t maintained.

Flatpak and snap are both just admissions of failure when it comes to this stuff. It’s been straightforward to build platforms this way for multiple decades now, just do it already.
> downside of this approach though, is that using reduce with non-primitive functions can result in domain errors

Yes, that's another problem. There is precedent for associating metadata with user-defined functions (eg inverses); identities seem to have fallen by the wayside, but I am planning to fix that for j.
Dlang’s Ownership/ Borrowing System
Is the manual fine tuning driven in part by the thumbs up, thumbs down feedback on chatgpt responses?
Agreed, I have a similar background with both LiDAR and vision for 3d reconstruction and mapping systems, plus I've designed some fairly impactful commercial multispectral software which is now widely used in the agricultural space. And vision can give you perfectly sufficient data to build world models and to localise yourself rapidly and robustly. What I believe is missing on the Tesla side is primarily on the navigation and 'social interaction' component of driving.

It's not like Waymo dropped a LiDAR onto the roofs of their vehicles and started driving unsupervised in traffic the next day. Nor Cruise, nor Uber. The sensing is just a small part of the whole system.
This kind of "social experiment" just makes everything worse for everyone.
> I really liked that before each chapter, ethics and a bit of historical context of each problems were discussed, and what questions should one ask themselves when waddling into those territories.

This is a great idea. I think more introductory books should try to give context into how the topics they're introducing relate to the field and the history thereof.

Glad I now know about this book!
I always exclaim “bang” at the end of every line of code I write, so feels natural to me. Emeril has his bam, so why not?
> Most of the things you allude to suggest that you’ve never worked with a competent release manager or qa organization.

You’re right, I oversee an 8 person product team for a 20 person company. Not a huge organization. QA is a shared function and we don’t have a “release manager” on staff.

I’m genuinely confused about what you’re trying to say. Sounds like you’ve had a bad experience with branch restrictions. It would be interesting to hear what the workflow was and how branch restrictions, etc, got in your way.
Are you kidding me? Even 8-bit microcontrollers can run Linux just fine. https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi...
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The Atlantic is well known for lengthy articles. Every issue is a non-stop literary marathon of information.
And if you don't have a home with a garage to charge your car? How do apartment dwellers charge their car?

And the rest of your post is bullshit. You want a centralized system that can meet all refueling needs by itself. And as we make hydrogen from excess green electricity, it will drop to nearly nothing in terms of cost. Anti-hydrogen rhetoric is a repeat of anti-wind and anti-solar rhetoric of the past.
Flatpak bit me with how support for canon raw files requires special tricks. I never really figured them out, either. :(
Oh, I thought you meant there was some particular flaw in the logic of the post.
I thought the same thing, but none of the carbon sinks listed in the database are offset companies. They are all actually producing biologically stable physical chunks of fixed carbon.

Incidentally: We own some trees that we will not cut down, but that would not have been cut down by others.

There is a scam carbon offset site that will pay us for each year we don’t cut down an existing tree (if I remember right, it’s the biggest carbon offset market; can’t remember the name, but that’s not important, if you care, I’m guessing one of the articles in the comment I am replying to names and shames them).

Is there a tax efficient way for me to sell scam carbon offsets, then funnel the money into actual carbon capture businesses? How much would the brokers take?

(Or, better, is there a set of criteria that could be encoded into law to shut down the offset scam industry?)
Packaging for rpm or deb based distributions is a hassle. Arch’s makepkg especially and to some degree nix in comparison are incredibly easy most of the time.

I still can never remember all the idiotic debhelper commands and the linter has strong ideas on how to do something.

I can’t by any means point at a url or git repo, specify a hash, and add some minimal steps and dependencies followed by a single command. That just doesn’t exist for rpm or deb, or if it does it’s very difficult to find good information on it.

Nix goes even a step further and ensures the packaging works in a nice clean environment ensuring you didn’t mistakenly use something else installed but unlisted.

Frankly I’d be surprised if flatpak or anything else is ever as easy as arch’s makepkg .