skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The basic idea is that if you culture neurons on an electrode array (not that hard) you can pick some electrodes to be "inputs" and some to be "outputs" and then when you stimulate both ends the cells wire together more or less according to Hebb's rule[4] and can learn fairly complex nonlinear mappings.

This is fascinating, can you clarify it a bit? Do you 'stimulate', e.g. apply electrical potential to both the inputs and outputs to represent each instance of training data, without any physical distinction between input and output at that stage? And then if you apply the potential only the inputs, you can then read predictions on the outputs?
> The idea that "if only we could estimate accurately, we could execute grand strategic visions" is mostly bullshit.

10000x this. It’s complete bullshit.

And the bullshit is often used to shift blame to the dev team in order to cover up for a lack of management competence.

I started to think about how to describe the problem in business planning terms (ie, money) because I needed to come up with language that senior management and non-software CEOs could understand, for a series of meetings I recently attended. I realised that just saying “you can’t do it” is unsatisfying, and just leads to arguments.

“Yes you can have accurate estimates but it will >2x the project cost” seemed to resonate.

(And yes I think it’s much more than 2x too)
That ought to be enough for anybody.
The Debt-Limit Deal Suggests Debt Will Keep Growing, Fast
This is like a reverse Godwin. Nice!
Surely that’s a giant problem for teachers since their practices are now redundant.
I despise the discussions that come out of talking about myopia. Everyone completely guesses at how things work, and so many people chime talking about things they don't understand. Mitochondria specifically respond to red light. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2996814/
The Babylon Bee Talks with Elon Musk at Twitter Headquarters
> They've been getting piles of money from Ryzen for 5-6 years now

Hardware is very capital intensive. They've not been making much until much more recent. From 2012 through 2017, almost all years were a net loss. They hit $1B net profit only in 2020. I imagine quite a bit of that money went into keeping/accelerating the pace of Ryzen, and paying off debts. Only now do they have more breathing room for other endeavors. If they diverted a chunk of that change to AI, they probably would have a lower performing Ryzen right now.

So no, they did not have piles of money.
Years ago, I took a class on Homelessness and Public Policy. I've spent time homeless and read a lot, etc.

There is a lack of affordable housing in all US states.

It's extremely hard to live without a car in the US and cars are a huge expense, plus our car-centric culture means lack of a car is a barrier to employment, both practically and because people are reluctant to hire you.

Medical expenses can be a factor in the US. Universal health coverage could help.

There's no one cause and the oft cited "addiction and mental health" is largely prejudice. In a nutshell, you wind up homeless when you have too many problems and not enough resources to handle them and the US doesn't provide a robust social safety net.
I lost all interest in such reports, especially from the US media, after the US decided to create a Space Force military arm and weaponised space. Such kind of reports, supported by official sources, only started appearing after this decision was made and is clearly part of the constant propaganda to justify the need of a Space Force to public.
“Meet my brother. He’s adopted”
Um, like 3 weeks ago?
Some of these credentials could be of legitime users who have just mistyped the IP address.
So a lot of corporate-owned housing is only in that state transitionally. If a corporate developer builds a condo building or a suburban subdivision, they own all those homes because they built them, but their intent is to sell those homes and divest themselves from it entirely. When a bank forecloses on a home, they’re in the same situation.

What’s left when you account for all of that is apartment buildings. Individual people can own apartment buildings, but only if they’re significantly wealthy, and even then they’ll want to outsource the actual management of the building. Theoretically you can convert apartment buildings to condo buildings, but there are still a lot of people who want to rent rather than buy at any particular point in time so it might not make sense to do that.

Furthermore, I don’t think theres any corporate conspiracy to turn us all into renters in the first place.
Do they use gradient descent? Otherwise how do they train?
I can agree on one point: if I want 3D acceleration to Just Work on Linux and I'm muting my inner Stallman, the Nvidia binary drivers have always enabled thtat for me. But on the gaming side, I definitely get the feeling that a bit of Microsoft syndrome is starting to set in at Nvidia: we're by far the market leader, so you'll take what we give you. DLSS is constantly pumped in their marketing (and by reviewers, who are sometimes adjunct marketers) as a no-brainer upscaling solution that you don't need to ever turn off. But I've had two games (Death Stranding and Marvel's Midnight Suns) crash repeatedly and unpredictably with DLSS enabled, then run happily stable once DLSS was turned off. I only even became aware of the Marvel game because it was advertised in their Game Ready! driver update, but both the drivers and the game clearly weren't ready. In that particular case, it was also primed to devolve into a circular firing squad between Nvidia, Epic providing Unreal Engine, and the game developer as to who implemented what wrong... something I think we'll probably continue to see.

As far as overpricing goes, I think the pushback (and AMD's pricing advantage) will definitely come on VRAM. I was only able to get a 3080 10GB close to MSRP when the GPU shortage started to abate, and people are already reporting that it's maxing out that amount on Diablo 4 at 1440p ultrawide max settings. Yes, there's been inflation, Moore's Law isn't what it used to be, and it had been years since I had bought a discrete GPU, but that doesn't change the fact that I've paid a premium price and I'm not future-proof for 4K or ultrawide, either of the two popular monitor upgrade paths. The bulk of this can be attributed squarely to Nvidia's desire to maintain market segmentation and profit margins. If AMD really can close the yawning CUDA gap on the software side and start to force more commoditization in the GPU market, it can only be a good thing.
>this is a naive, academic view

Academic maybe, but that's a hell of a lot better than one person who thinks their personal anecdote is more powerful than scientific evidence.
Nah. AMD was already profitable in 2018. This is just big mismanagement.

Just having 30 extra good software engineers focusing on AI would have made such a massive difference, because it's so bad that there's a lot of low hanging fruit.

As someone who was pretty invested in AMD stock since 2018, it always made me pretty angry how bad they managed the AI side. Had they done it well, just from the current AI hype the stock would probably be worth 50 bucks more.
Why did you cut off the sentence? What I said had nothing to do with employment requirements but about the need for supportive services to enable unhoused persons to achieve the next steps in their path to stability.
> RISC-V benefits from a lack of obscurity in this sense since there is more visibility into the system design, resulting in more known and addressed vulnerabilities and hence a more robust system.
> The whole point of my original post was that all the circumstantial evidence points toward arson.

What evidence are you talking about?
Gotcha. Yeah don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot more to do to make it even better. And I think that’s more likely than Miri.
> But it's comparatively very inexpensive to host on wp.com with your own domain.

True, but I'm not interested in anything other than a self-hosting solution. Pricing doesn't enter into it.

I resolved my issue and lightened my workload (not to mention gained performance) by ceasing to use Wordpress. That's not to say I don't think people should use WP -- it's just not for me.
Would it be possible for third party apps to have an API key input prompt, and users get their own individual API from Reddit? (that users would then probably subscribe to, but it is easier for a user to decide that $20 per month is worth it vs. an app developer paying that for all their users).
> Because not all the air goes through the sides.

How does that prevent Covid from passing through the sides?

> Just because N95s are clearly better doesn't mean disposables are useless.

They are useless because they cannot possibly filter the virus out of the air that you breathe.

I like the way a member of President Biden's Covid advisory group put it.

If it can't prevent you from smelling cigarette smoke in the room, it cannot filter out Covid, since the smoke particles are on the same order of size.
The whole field of biological intelligence needs a ChatGPT moment. There's at least four or five different companies running around trying to do this with biological neurons, but unfortunately pong just isn't a spectacular demo.
I freed up one TiB of space
Don't forget the controversial but spectacular Christ (née Crystal) Cathedral in Orange County: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Cathedral_(Garden_Grove...

Which was a Televangelical showpiece until it was purchased and renovated by the Roman Catholic diocese. Everything old is new again!
We don't know it makes dangerous mistakes. Randos on the internet assert that. The data shows fairly convincing evidence is reduces wrecks.

Is it a new behavior and jarring when engaged? Certainly. Should we keep watching the data for problems? Certainly. Should folks report all problems so that they are tracked? Certainly.

Do most people actually have trouble driving safely? Despite their insistent view of how great they are at driving? ...
That will take 10^10^10^56 years.

There are about 10^50 atoms on earth, and about about 10^82 atoms in the observable universe. There aren't nearly enough atoms in the universe to store the number written out in full.

1/10: terrible delivery time.
2022Q4 real compensation revised downward to -4.7% from +0.7%
Calling features which are integral to all modern games and most of which also got adopted by other vendors 'gimmicks' is kind of ridiculous.
I agree in the short term it is a tool to enhance people and increases social mobility. The concern is after AGI the human assistance may become unnecessary
What you call "scummL" isn't even publicly described in any other way than by the kind of snippets like in this article. You can find some more in GDC slides, but that's pretty much it.
San Francisco objects to expansion of Waymo One
The linked article says it is "A guest post by Aaron Carr."
> ... need to login to another machine from a new machine that doesn't have the ssh-key.

> gateway/proxy/vpn entry to my network has all my ssh keys on it, and it becomes compromised because of some 0-day, the attacker now basically has access to... multiple entire networks

That's why you use SSH agent forwarding https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-gith..., so you never need to copy the private keys to other computers, and thus they can't be stolen from there.
Not to dunk on Apollo since it is excellent on iOS, but Boost on Android has all those things. It also has a tablet UI, moderator support, and a "gallery" masonry view that is a joy to use. Last I checked, Apollo has neither an iPad UI nor a masonry post view.

(I have also deleted Boost many times to control my usage.)
Yeah, that's fair. Staying in the past doesn't work forever.

There are scars in the implementation which suggest the HSA model was really difficult to implement on the hardware at the time.

It doesn't look like old hardware gets explicitly disabled, the code that runs them is still there. However writing new things that only work on newer hardware seems likely, as does prioritising testing on the current gen. So in practice the older stuff is likely to rot unless someone takes an interest in fixing it.
Most people in the health field don't know about a lot of it either. Unless they're a researcher, they just stick to the protocol on their Epic screen for the most part.
How many brain cells do you string together before the DishBrain gets some semblance of sentience? How many before it becomes conscious?

We don’t know, of course. Perhaps consciousness isn’t possible without a live body. Or perhaps it takes just a few hundred thousand neurons.

In the meantime, you run the risk of torturing a potentially conscious entity for…what gain exactly?
It looks like Flatpak will be the recommended way to get / install LibreOffice:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

In https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fe... it states:

"the engineers doing that work will contribute some fixes upstream to ensure LibreOffice works better as a Flatpak, which we expect to be the way that most people consume LibreOffice in the long term."

I would not be surprised if more desktop applications also go to Flatpak on future versions of RHEL. It lets them focus on more enterprise-y features and improve overall security.
Information Metabolism
Hand sanitizer is almost useless. It’s washing your hands that’s effective.
Besides what the other person said, given that California is in fact, the most populous state, 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...
That's very clearly not what the article is about.

And even on it's own - that's a practically negligible benefit compared to the considerable risks and costs imposed by the coming epidemic of AI-fostered cheating.
I use anonaddy [0] because it's open source and self-hostable [1]. I don't have to worry about the service going under or jumping the shark, since I can always just self-host it on my own hardware and import my config should that happen. Of course I'd much prefer to pay someone else to run it, especially in the case of mail servers where self-hosting is notoriously tedious.

[0] https://anonaddy.com/
[1] https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy
I stopped using narwhal because it doesn't have good "drafts" support. At the time, I was writing a lot of thoughtful, heavily revised comments and posts.
They do. The problem is drug addiction. If you give drug addicts free houses, eventually the word gets out, and then even more drug addicts move to your state. Eventually you find yourself like California - spending an immense amount of money of an immense number of drug addicts mixed in with a few people who are down on their luck.
> I'd just be very careful about which ones you allow.

I did my best to do that, but it still required far more maintenance than I was willing to put into it.

> Beyond that, code review!

Yeah, no, that would take even more of my resources!

Really, I'm not saying "WP sucks" or anything. It just required a lot more time and attention than it was worth to me, personally.
It’s a classic problem. It’s also why :visited was limited, why caches were partitioned, etc.
> I wondered a lot why California seems to be failing at the homeless problem.

My take on it (after living in SF for many years):

1. Many homeless people do have mental illnesses and/or drug addiction problems (for some, this is the result of their homelessness, for others it's in part the cause). California is very much against involuntarily putting people in psychiatric hospitals or drug treatment programs. This is largely due to backlash over abuses from decades ago, where people were put into horrible conditions in mental institutions.

2. I think a housing-first program would absolutely work, but it's politically infeasible. Most people would seemingly prefer to have homeless people all over the streets and sidewalks when the alternative is to give them free housing, because it's "not fair" to the people who've worked to pay for their own housing.

3. The option of busing/flying homeless people out of a high-cost city like SF and into a lower-cost region where their needs can be met is also politically fraught. There are (voluntary) programs that help homeless people travel to a place where they have family who can help them, though I don't think it's used as a solution as often as it could be. But the idea of forcibly moving homeless people to a random place or places where they have no connection or support network is considered inhumane and a violation of rights.

I think #2 would be more acceptable to people if #3 could be used more, since presumably people could be housed in a location where housing is much cheaper. As much as I'm not super comfortable with the idea of just forcibly moving people to a different location, I think it overall can be better for the people involved, if it's done well. But that's the trick: can we actually ensure that the people relocated elsewhere will have their needs met, and will end up in clean, well-maintained housing?

Beyond that, I think we need to get over our aversion toward requiring people to go into (and stay in) psychiatric care or drug rehab. This shouldn't be a requirement for receiving housing; it should happen concurrently with being housed, though a live-in rehab program is probably appropriate for many people, at least to start. But I think refusing treatment should just not be an option.

And as a public health issue, and just an issue of keeping our spaces a nice, clean, safe place for everyone to live, ultimately I think we should make homelessness illegal, as long as we can provide a good alternative for every single person in that situation.
Do you know how effective rehab is for people who don’t go voluntarily?

The unfortunate reality of drug addiction is that even for people who want out it’s very hard. For people who don’t, it’s quite a lot harder. If there was a magic pill that cured addiction I think we might make different policy choices, but given that there isn’t I don’t see how your plan can really work.
Journalists didn't have a college training program until about 50 years ago. This used to just be "journalism."
I don't agree. It is state intervention that causes consolidation and monopolies. A free market keeps monopolies in check.
No I'm not, read it again.

The first one has size 3, because there are 3 elements in the array. The second one has size 8 because an int64 is 8 bytes.
Infrastructure should be boring (2022)
> Wow we sure threw that one out the window with the covid 19 vaccine didn't we?

I don't consent to breathing in the virus particles of someone who increased their chances of getting infected, or increased the viral load they carried around, because they refused the vaccine. Ultimately you need some way to balance people's rights whenever they are conflicting. Your right to refuse the vaccine vs my right to not die due to your ignorance.
> There is a lack of affordable housing in all US states.

Is it a lack of affordable housing or is it a lack of wage growth compared to cost of living?

Personally, I've started to think it's the latter, because it explains why upper middle class non-millionaires are also getting pinched. They too often rely on income rather than capital gains.
i'm not an expert in inflationary events but i assume they would be outside of our 'light cone' anyway
> Housing prices are high where there are people.

Population density and price don't directly correlate. I'm sure you can think of some expensive low density areas.

Shipping people to lower cost of living locations can be a fix, especially if they have family nearby. It's very hard to afford some locations without a high pay job.
When wages go up, rents go up. For rents to go down you either have to have more housing or less people in a given area.
It seems awfully convenient that you get to dismiss all of the evidence that goes against what you'd like to believe with a simple wave of your hand.
There was a recent study that, like everything else with the homelessness problem, Housing First is most successful in places where housing is not ridiculously expensive to find, so the costs of implementation are low and housing units to place people in actually exist.

The exact same things that burden the private housing sector in the US (excessive land cost, overly restrictive zoning, neighbors suing and constantly throwing roadblocks) also restrict the public housing sector, since the public dollar goes less far, and the public sector has to comply with the exact same laws.
I’d also assume that ublockorigin will stop most of this in its tracks.
So, spend more money then?
Legal weed as you are not going to get arrested for possession friend, not where they buy it.
Unless we can control it the black holes at that time.
Sandisk industrial 16GB.

I was skeptical when I first tried them. I figured it would be too tempting a target for counterfeiters-- source the cheapest SDs available, screen the sandisk logo on them and sell on amazon for $12/each. Fingers crossed -- so far, so good.
The only electrical fire vector they needed to worry about 780 years ago was lightning storms.

I'm not proposing ugly or out of touch changes. Materials changes like titanium instead of lead are exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. Not all of the oak will be in publicly viewable areas.

I'm surprised and disappointed you don't keep forests around simply to benefit nature and humanity without needing a pretext of building construction.
> the connection will always succeed.

Not from my experience. If you have too many keys and certain ssh agents like gnome keyring don't pick up the key intelligently and will try a all the keys in some order often resulting in the server giving rejecting you due to too many failures.
In the 1950s, Lund Cathedral bought the quarries where the stone for it originally came 900 years ago, so they know they have a source of the right stone for renovations.
Well it's not false, in that it would be extremely cheap for someone to just go live in the mid west.

Or do you think buying bus tickets for people is some sort of impossible to do thing?
Governments where one group takes everything don't last very long. I feel like we're at the brink of a violent revolution as it is, we came close during the COVID lockdowns.

But democracy is usually a good alternative for extreme change. America seems to be locked in a two party system though, which may be insufficient.
Yup and many of the US tech “rulers” (for lack of a better phrase) don’t even live in the country anymore.

We (in the US) should all worry as they move to private islands/beaches/New Zealand.
If you're into making custom stuff that fits whatever connector/pinout/etc exists, then yeah you can make almost any of these SBCs work just fine, no debate there. My point being there's an infrastructure built around Raspberry Pis that as of yet is not nearly as robust for other SBCs.

Is it worth like, $150 for a scalped Pi4? Almost certainly not. But I'd hesitate to say they're just strictly better. They're just different, and have different limitations.
Perhaps it's somewhat pragmatic. Churches are built to last by the standards of the era, and they're funded by generational resources by people who want to make a legacy, but churches are still victims of disaster at the ordinary rate. Earthquakes seem to claim significant victims even to the present day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Cathedral_of_St._Mary

The Christian view of fire is, of course, multi-faceted, as the Holy Spirit is a force for renewal, rebirth and purification. No parishioner wants their home burned down, of course, but at the end of the day, those are simply buildings, and they're replaceable, and every demolition is an opportunity to remake something new and wonderful.
You can have both things going on.