skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both you and I had similar experiences.

My wife was hospitalized for unknown bacterial infection what the doctors assumed was caused by masks.

I contracted covid in February 2021, before my age group was eligible for vaccine. Like you I had recognized relatively early on that my level of physical fitness and nutrition likely made it low risk for me. Like you I had minimal symptoms except for a total loss of sense of smell. And also like you I encountered a completely irrational response when I would tell people months later I caught it. This included people who should have been educated enough to know better.

The really fun part was then having people pretend like the fact I had caught covid and recovered from it didn't translate into immunity. This despite the fact that only months earlier they had been asking people who had recover from covid to come in and donate plasma to help treat vulnerable patients. And also despite the fact that there had already been studies including millions of data points from Israel and Qatar that showed natural immunity to be robust.

Like most things with covid, the null hypothesis was inverted. Instead of assuming that like the vast majority of viruses, natural immunity was a thing, they inverted it to assuming that natural immunity was not a thing until proven otherwise.

Living in Boulder, one of my favorite things was noticing how the same exact people who refuse to eat genetically modified vegetables for produce of any kind elevated a genetic products efficacy above the organic immunity provided by the human body fighting off the actual virus.

No matter your position on natural immunity from covid, I think we can all agree that a person refusing to eat genetically modified produce having this opinion is irrational and inconsistent.

I think I eventually concluded that the vast majority of the public are mathematically and statistically illiterate, and therefore are incapable of understanding science despite claiming that they "follow the science". In case anyone thinks I'm only picking on one side, I also have a half-brother who is obese and in his fifties who refused to get the vaccine when he obviously should have. He ended up catching the virus and being bedridden for over a week at his house, and then hid this from the family until his wife told us.
Wow thanks everyone for the replies!

I hear you on homes but housing overall - apartments included should not be owned by corporations for investment purposes imho.

Rough stats I’ve seen are 25% of homes are now owned by institutional investors. And 44% of CA residents are renters. Having a quarter of the inventory taken off the market means the prices are going to go up.

Land is expensive. We can build more. We can also stop allowing those who have more than enough already continue to apply downward pressure.
How do you use those with the keyboard?
Am I the only person who was unaware that pixel was short for “picture element”?
YouTube constantly moderates and censors. For example they routinely remove video evidence of war crimes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65755517
I used to use Phoenix (mentioned elsewhere on this thread) to do a typeahead-style window finder. It would pop up a list of all windows and you could choose from them, but you could type to filter the list down. Very similar to rofi's window mode.
Nah. We've got an exhaust vent.
Nah. It'll be killed by running C++ on GPUs. No more gnarly bespoke language, just a header with intrinsics hiding in it. Doesn't need anything other than time and evolution to push it off the cliff.
Have a recommendation for a decent, cheap IR camera? I really want a FLIR, but can't justify the price.
Invoking the Right to Counsel: Conflicts of Speech, Status, and Recognition
Nah. I'm more pissed off that my tens of thousands of dollars per year in property taxes don't help a damn bit. I'm more than happy to have people have "free" housing when they need it. Unfortunately SF does not spend or govern responsibly or in the interest of its citizens.
> it seems obvious to me that what I said can be true while the majority of homeless in the state still originate from the state...

This is one of the scenarios for which percentages were invented for.
You're mashing together a lot under "gimmicks" there.

Texture compression: Useful for games, ongoing work, although I wish they would make cards with appropriate amounts of VRAM

Lighting tricks: Not sure what this is referencing

Improved antique video encoders: NVENC started out with only h.264, but now it supports h.265 and AV1, which aren't antique at all. Niche, but widely used in the streaming industry.

Motion smoothing: The hardware optical flow accelerators in newer cards are important for DLSS, which is a bit gimmicky but works mostly as advertised.

Bad proprietary vrr: No argument here, gsync sucked.

Ray tracing: All 3d games are going to be ray traced sooner or later. Getting a head start on it is a good move, and it's a big head start. The 4090 is ~100% faster than the 7900xtx.

CUDA: No one can seriously call CUDA a gimmick.

Machine learning features: Tensor cores are great.
That is not my understanding.
I get all those points, truly, but at the same time find it hard to belive that a dedicated person couldn't scrape together enough money for at least a plane ticket or bus ride out of town. They could prematurely contact a church in a destination city to see if the church had any charitable funds to spare them for temporary housing as they look to find work.

I think these days we forget that the gov was never meant to provide a social net. The mechanism for that is charity. It's much harder nowadays with disconnected communities, but reaching out for help often works.

I myself spent years with belongings only as burdensome as I could carry (at worst case) or pack into my sedan. It made moving from one place to another easy, and I could always rent a cheap hotel to live in since I wasn't burdened by possessions.
I’m not seeing the crown winning AMD strategy:

“AMD fails again: Radeon RX 7600 Review”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhoj2kfk-x0

“AMD is a Mess: Radeon RX 7600 GPU Review & Benchmarks”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxYfXe1DAA

“AMD Radeon RX 7600 review: Another water-treading midrange GPU for $269”
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/review-amds-269-rx-7...

“Equally Disappointing - $269 AMD Radeon RX 7600 Review”

https://youtu.be/1JFSwWanIPw
A lot of Americans would actually like free healthcare and UBI was actually had been around in America for 100's of years since the beginning, it's not new as an idea. China has a whole host of problems they too can't grow forever with ghost cities, etc but they like America have a political need to always be growing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_in_th....
I played with some of those PDAs as a kid, and honestly I never really got what they were used for. There was no Wi-Fi and internet connection via infrared was not really awesome. Using it while traveling abroad was extremely expensive.

You were able to sync the email from your desktop PC, answer them offline and send them on the next sync.

And you could do spreadsheets. But honestly, who really uses spreadsheets on their smartphone? (Which is a comparable user experience)

So the only thing left is calendar, contacts and notes. A paper planner was probably more useful back then.
In my own domain of storage servers and such, I've had success using arenas - per request, usually, but also per session etc. For things with longer lives, object pooling has worked well. Very rarely have I needed much beyond those two, and I suspect the same might be true in games though I've never worked in that space. When I've had to work on codebases that did a lot more "random" allocations I've usually ended up having to spend time migrating toward one or more often both of those approaches just to keep the bug load down and myself sane.

The really cool thing is that supporting custom allocators in a language and its libraries (e.g. Zig) makes both approaches easier, with less boilerplate. I see what's going on with the borrow checker in Rust and - as a long-time fan of static analysis - I understand that it might theoretically be better, but I find it hard to get very excited when I see that the implementation difficulty and cognitive load are so much higher than a simpler approach I've already seen work well.
Note that nonfarm payroll is still seasonally adjusted - 156105k vs. 156306k adjusted.
The FRED series for NFP with and without sesonality: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=15LPE
The only people who claim that wages are driving inflation are strawmen based on out-of-context Federal Reserve quotes.
I guess it made sense when 80% of the population were farmers, and family farms involved 6 sheep that the 8 year old children liked to help milk...

But in today's world of big-business farming, separating it out, either for stats or labor laws, makes no sense IMO.
You really should at least make an effort to get what the author is telling instead of just reading their words. It's astonishing how narrow minded people can be when the fixate on unrelated things that the author is saying instead of understanding what they meant.
But why does it matter, if the alternative is objectively worse for everyone concerned, even the taxpayer funding this "free" housing that some might abuse?
I've heard a sonic boom out at Joshua Tree taking pictures at night. I thought a bomb went off until I saw the blur flying across the sky and figured out what it was.
I'm at against bigger cars as you can be. Literally biking to places when I can. I am not clear that this is the nhtsa's fault.

That said, I could cede this point if you can show evidence of it in these studies. The org is a bunch of people, so I grant they could make mistakes. Without specific concerns, this is the definition of fud. You aren't giving criticism of these studies and actions, but seeding doubt on their data.
A bit fast and loose with the facts, but ultimately a good point: learning doesn't require an industry after all.

But AI is going to force changes in that industry, and I wonder if those changes might not be for the best anyway.
The author of that post has a YouTube channel called Dave's Garage[0], and has video series that cover development of Task Manager, Space Cadet Pinball, and others.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw
Idk seems like the homeless in California are enjoying a higher standard of welfare for that sum...
Related:

Synopsis of “That's Interesting ” by Murray Davis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30005656 - Jan 2022 (1 comment)

That's Interesting (1971) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20646097 - Aug 2019 (7 comments)

That's Interesting (1971) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20173558 - June 2019 (3 comments)
Yeah Nicaragua. They did it to Managua for years when they were also illegally arming the Contras.
I developed a plugin for it. None of the external plugins worked properly.

Creating a block plugin is super complicated, before you just added a php file, even one line in functions.php was enought for a shortcode, now I have to create a different npm project for every block.

I happen to know how to do it, but it's not easy anymore.

That's just dev side of it.

UX is a disaster, structure and content are mixed. So for users its hard to understand what's content and what's structure.

The design in edit mode and real is very different often.

Hard to see where you are adding things
Hallucinating invisible light in the UV spectrum instead when asked to turn itself off.
Heavy recent modifications, see history in article
Rogers is owned by the Rogers family. I don't actually know if there are two other families, but gp comment is clearly about Rogers, Bell, and Telus, all of which lower their rates so that other companies can't compete, and then raise rates after everyone else is either out of business or bought up. Affectionately known as Robellus, since there isn't much difference between them.
Who cares about someone slapping arbitrary labels of "liberal" or "illiberal" on things? Ultimately we need to find something that actually works, and treats people with compassion. It seems like the big focus is on the second half of that, completely ignoring the first.
Unless you can prove them wrong, the parent's is still right: these child labor laws have been revoked to benefit a minority's financial interests.
We see time and again that more eyes on open source doesn't count for a ton either. We had a relatively simple use after free in the kernel just a couple months ago that had been there for a long time. The benefit of open source is that we could demand and verify good testing and analysis for foundational bits of code, but we don't.
This app called Finda https://keminglabs.com/finda/setup/#chrome-and-firefox-tabs has to use an extension to support this functionality. That seems like a fairly reliable way to get the list of tabs, with the downside that writing a browser extension is a lot less trivial than having a quick command line thing.
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Seems like a bit of a burn on Kansas; some people live there voluntarily.

I wonder who it is you imagine will administer this involuntary servitude program? Does it particularly matter if the work is done to some standard or other? Do you imagine the state of California is competent to manage this system?
So my ancestors could move from 18th Century Europe to the US, but someone in SF can’t make it to Nebraska?
Homelessness isn't a monolith.

It's a spectrum of people who face housing insecurity due to economic circumstances, to people who resist/actively shun societal contacts that help us all function (often fueled by serious substance addictions.) While the solutions that have been embraced by San Fransisco's current electorate (free cash/housing/no rules) could make sense for the former, that doesn't mean it's a good solution for the latter. And unfortunately it's the latter side of the spectrum that exerts hugely outsized impact in terms of both resources spent and negative draw on the rest of society.

So yeah... more housing would be great, but affordability shouldn't be used as societal gaslighting to excuse the current mess we have in San Francisco. Until the city finds the resolve to enforce some minimum standards of accountability, the problem will only get worse, and the rest of us will just vote with our feet.
About 2.5 million people living close to the official poverty line left California for other states from 2005 through 2015, while 1.7 million people at that income level moved in from other states – for a net loss of 800,000.

https://www.ca-sba.org/california-exports-its-poor-to-texas-....
I think you are mistaken, though I do not know how. Scandinavian countries accept quite many immigrants. I.e Sweden in 2022: 3.6/1000, compared to US (2020!): 3/1000. Both sources from wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sweden and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_S...
It does predate Linux but it's more complicated. Think about Linux Journal at the time as more "Linux newsletter". "The Web" was initially on OpenStep and commercial Unixes like HP-UX, Irix and SunOS.

It was becoming dominant at that time amidst its siblings like gopher, uucp, archie, netnews, etc but still was pretty new.

Here's a hype video from DEC about the web in early 1994 for example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-1l6aBgX5UY

That browser is NCSA mosaic btw and I presume that's running Tru64. 1994 was still very much the era of educating people, even professionals, about the WWW
> LVT probably wouldn't be enough to fund the government at this point

The government could and should be pared down considerably if that's the case.

> and it's regressive

It's the literal opposite of regressive, especially when paired with UBI. The tax burden rests entirely on landowners, who already skew toward wealth; ownership of land value correlates strongly with net worth (and is indeed typically a major component of said net worth).

Meanwhile:

> VAT

That's just a fancy sales tax, with all the regression that entails. Bear in mind that the working class is spending a much greater proportion of its wealth on the very goods VAT taxes than the ownership class - which means VAT has in turn a disproportionate impact on the working class v. the ownership class.

With LVT, it's the other way around: the vast majority of people who actually work for a living either don't own any land value at all (and therefore ain't subject to LVT) or own sufficiently little land value for their tax burden to be less under LVT-as-single-tax than it would be under a system funded by income and sales taxes.
The Mylar balloon in the video is going faster than the jet. That seems incredible, no?
Added to the above. Thanks!
Are you fucking serious dude? lmao
Raycast, a drop in replacement for spotlight with support for plugins, also has support for searching windows by title. I rarely even use command tab anymore.

https://www.raycast.com/
All Rise: How Judges Rule America
If you're modding the game to speedrun it, are you still speedrunning the game?
Been using it for years and watching others’ machines for how tracked they are across the web is terrifying. Even things as basic as being on clothingshop.com and then seeing ads for said shop on someotherdomain.com, which I understand is totally normal, has become jarring for me. I recommend everyone installs it. Yes, you have to click more cookie banners, and I still say no, but mind less when I cave and say yes because what they’ll learn is so limited. My temporary containers have a persistent auto increment so after a few years it’s (semi-) interesting to see that I’m on my ~20,000th temporary container
Of course it contributes to the conversation:

1- it calls a spade a spade: we already have theories of how Capitalism works, and none of the other replies named it. Giving a name to the problem is the first step in fighting it.

2- it explicitly calls out: "it makes them money", which is also factual and not explicitly mentioned by the other comments. They mention a "perceived labor shortage", but it doesn't clarify the fact that fighting that gets more money in the pocket of some people

Of course, the grandparent comment should've been a bit clearer in how this makes people money. I think the answer is twofold:

1- it increases the reserve army of labor

2- the minimum wage is often lower for younger people (the excuse is that this is training for them)
Looks like Dunmore head (Kerry, Ireland) in the photo
https://www.flickr.com/photos/missus_magik/9982718923/
I own Revel Studio 2s hooked up to a NAD amp and a very nice balanced MQS streaming system where I mostly listed to Tidal Master tracks. I listen all night long, every night. I've been into high end audio since high school.

Describing it as surrounded by music and like the best seat at a live concert is very accurate. It's really quite something.

To note, high end equipment holds its value or appreciates. So in the end, it really doesn't cost much to own as long as you can afford the entry price. It's an interesting hobby.
I invest in low-cost index funds, but I'd be lying if I said I understood them.

I certainly don't really understand money market funds, and those are supposed to be the most reliable, safest investments out there.

Hell, I don't really understand how a car is made, and I invest my life in it every time I drive one.

I don't think that advice makes a lot of sense. People in modern society rely on the specialized expertise of others every day. A better way to phrase this is "don't invest in products you don't trust, and understand why you should or shouldn't trust a particular product."
Nope. If you can run a language model on Nvidia that lets you fire a load of people, and you can't run it on amdgpu, AMD aren't going to sell you any hardware. Even if it was cheaper.

Even when you can run on both, electricity costs can dominate capital. I remember reading something that amounted to xeons cost so much more to run than epyc chips that even if the xeon chips are given away free it's cheaper to buy the epyc ones, assuming they'll be running for more than some smallish number of months.
JPMorgan Chase Working to Reverse Double Payments on Zelle
Wow. that game is so difficult. I spent hours and hours on it in my youth and never got anywhere lol. I didn't know you could do it in 30 minutes though.

Of course speedrunners will know all the puzzles in advance. Which kinda defeats the purpose of such a game.
Lax law enforcement. When we used to have vagrancy laws homelessness had a way of working itself out.
I am Canadian and I agree with OP.
This is politics masquerading as facts.
Welcome to the world of "cracked RDP"! Various internet lowlives get a big list of bruteforced RDP IPs/credentials then sell them in bulk: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-85-000-h.... Sometimes the hacked machines are used to start attacks from.
Even supposing that is true, which seems very unlikely, it is clearly untrue of the SF homeless population in general and of the East Bay homeless population.
This demonstrates that the government will intervene in industries that have too much pricing power, right? Since the people demand help from their political representatives?
Particularly academics use the language the author used. It narrows who is severely affected by a lack of privacy to small groups. It's akin to the folks who say, "Privacy? I have nothing to hide!"

The reality is that as the fragile pillars of privacy that exist in most governments are eroded the impact radius grows exponentially. I'd really like them to be stressing that losing privacy is life or death for just about everyone.

I can't tell you what the author meant other than what they said, but I can tell you that there's an abundance of folks who believe privacy is a niche issue for small groups which is far from the truth.
Francis Ford Coppola Predicting The Future At 1979 Oscars (50 SEC video)
Lithium ion batteries don't use rare earth minerals (which are the lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium [1]). Nickel metal hydride batteries contain some light lanthanides, but these new battery factories are all for lithium ion batteries.

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-c...
From the paper, it looks like they apply a long random stimulus when it misses the ball, and a short predictable stimulus when it doesn't. The theory is that the neurons will try to organize in a way that avoids the random stimulus.
Artificial general intelligence? When it hits it will effect greatly social economic mobility.

However,

- AGI isn't here and won't be for a good while. There's little in LLM like chatgpt4 that resembles biological intelligence which is the only thing that unambiguously demonstrates general intelligence

- theoretically individuals can already migrate up through education. How/if people try and just how impactful it is highly depends on the individual's desire to improve. And I doubt there will be a sea change just because, in the first 2/3rds of AGI revolution, that everybody will leverage it.

- mental health will continue to impact negatively the ability of individuals to adapt