skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In thinking more about this, I'm starting to feel like developing solutions specifically for the most mentally ill/unstable individuals is important.

1) They're a danger to everyone including other homeless.

2) They have an outsize impact on people's frustration with and perception of homeless people. Walking down the street and worrying about being accosted by the guy yelling at himself is a powerfully bad experience. Walking by a couple guys in tents or sleeping bags may not be everyone's cup of tea but it's not going to emotionally scar anyone.

3) This segment is the hardest for us to confront on a human level, we want to believe in rehabilitation, that we can help, so the resources (shelters/homes) are designed for the most capable of homeless, kind of ignoring the elephant in the room.

4) Have there been mental health hospitals made specifically for the homeless? It seems that the most mentally ill of them basically need intensive care to even have a shot at some degree of rehabilitation.* Unlike a shelter with services this would be involuntary and they would not be able to leave until meeting some criteria. May be a little draconian but it beats constant interactions with police and going in and out of jail.

5) A lot of the "regular" homeless people I encounter don't really seem that interested in working their way towards a job and a house. They seem fairly content with their lifestyle. With the most viscerally troubling aspect of homelessness being mitigated, maybe we can push more toward normalization: sanction the tent city, provide some light services/development, give them a bit of dignity and the peace of mind of not being a criminal. Seems a lot cheaper and more effective than building shelters or houses and relocating etc. People would probably hang out/sleep in the street/sidewalk less, and those that do could be ushered to the acceptable area instead of the farcical "you can't be here...or anywhere, technically, but just move somewhere else for now."

Does this make any sense? Has stuff like this been tried?

* In general I think this is one of the big issues with homelessness - a lot of them need care more than anything else. As in someone literally holding their hand every day, preventing them from regressing to their habits, and (with infinite patience) constantly reassuring and rebuilding their psyche, until their brain is sufficiently rewired (a timespan measured in years). The problem is that the number of people that could use this kind of care is far greater the number of people that are willing/able to provide it, but developing programs around that could be an effective use of the funding.
If you are unable to supply enough surgeons for the surgeries people actually need, something has gone terribly wrong with your price signaling mechanism.

Perhaps this is a problem with the UK system.
The need to micromanage some people like this is also not unique to digital nomads, so I don't see how the time needed to navigate this issue from a management level is any different for a digital nomad vs anybody else? There are plenty of in-office workers who do the exact same thing, they just might be sitting at their desk all day waiting for something. In fact they might even give off an even greater illusion of doing something/being productive simply because you can visually see them, not because of actually doing anything.

I honestly think a lot of office workers/remove workers who aren't digital nomads do the exact same things being purported with respect to amount of time actually spent working. They just may not in a fancy location and because you can visually see them it brings false sense of productivity.

That said, I'm not saying that I nor many others sit on my thumbs and do nothing if I have no tasks assigned. In my thoughts that is part of the expectations being set/what my responsibilities are (i.e. setting expectations/it being know that my job role is not a task mule). I agree that this can be an issue, but I also think this issue is not unique to digital nomads.

This all still seems like a hiring and management issue to me more than a digital nomad issue. How I see it is that if somebody is needing to be micromanaged and you don't desire that, remote or not, give them a warning/communicate and if it continues, let them go.
The idea that strikes are intended to cost the company does not lend itself that workers can do anything that damages the company. Are workers allowed to blow up the trucks using TNT (as long as no one gets hurt)? Can they steal all the gasoline in the trucks and sell it on the secondary market? No.

Strikes are intended to lose the company money in a very specific way - by a lack of labor. They are not intended to lose the company money by intentional destruction of property (nor should they be intended to do that)
While I definitely agree that slippery slope is a real thing and not a fallacy, I'm not sure about it in this case.

From everything I've read, courts are mostly very practical minded and make the narrowest decision possible given the facts of the case.

Legal precedent has given rise to nutsy stuff like massive federal power expansion and the entire DEA being based off of the ICC in Wikard v. Filburn [1], that stands out as an exception to me.

Normally these things are pointed and decided based on narrow and concrete circumstances. It's generally bad headlines (like this one) that sensationalize them.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
But GPT 3.5 has Turbo but nobody claims it reduced accuracy even though it's much faster.

GPT 4 is now a lot faster and struggles much more. And in theory being faster should be an advantage to an extent, even if the model needs more prodding, as you gain a more seamless back and forth instead of waiting half a minute.

Some people say that people think it's nerfed because when it was slow we associated it with "thinking harder" but I doubt that's the case, and the way to measure that is by loss of ability, i.e. if it is stuck more often as a result of itself and not a bad prompt.
I recently used Libre Office Writer for developing professional-grade documentation. we had Word installed on our remote desktops, so I opened the document in Word just to compare how it looks like.

I was horribly formatted and the fonts looked off. Then I saved the file in Word and opened it in LO Writer again. Even more issues.
the publicity stunts continue
I tried to get GPT-4 to act as a compiler and it didnt go so well but it felt like it was mainly because it didnt believe it could. After much consternation it was willing to put together a hello world in x86 assembly.
If anything it's bad journalism to remove it.
Clever Hans or Neural Theory of Mind? Stress Testing Social Reasoning in LLMs
It's not really building anything. You would just download a few apps from flathub.org
> The fact that scaling continues to work has significant implications for the timelines of AGI development. The scaling hypothesis is the idea that we may have most of the pieces in place needed to build AGI and that most of the remaining work will be taking existing methods and scaling them up.

Is this a pretty consensual viewpoint? Or is it hype from OpenAI?
The very idea of non-whites as sub-humans to be exploited was almost universal in Europe. The genocide of indigenous people, human experiments, eugenics, the whole process of colonization, any number of massacres.

The Brits invented the modern concentration camp during the Boer War, see also the Opium Wars. The Philippines War, Banana Wars,

Nobody is a saint, it seems to be the story of 'civilization'.
I'm curious. What happens if you have another son?

Also, continuing similar tradition, I hope you've reserved mail addresses ending with 6,7 and so on for future generations.
There is no free market in housing, so, you're just wrong. Rules upon rules upon zoning.
I'm not sure how Christian couldn't have seen this coming. Corporations want control over their brand, image, and experience. How Reddit is accessed and viewed is 1:1 to the experience.

It's unfortunate, but when you hitch your wagon to a corporation's API, you are taking the risk that one day they wake up and say ok we're ready to control our narrative and turn off the API (or set exorbitant prices to access)

Writing was on the wall when facebook/instagram did this years ago.
Bread is and has always been a staple in Brazil. Quinoa is a fairly recent development over there, and is quite expensive. Definitely not adapted to Brazilian climates although it can be made to work. Wheat OTOH is very adapted and cheap.
Oh boy. Lack of energy.
I made an application to read the weather for a given zip code and to read the news from VOA, NPR, and SKY: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html

To customize it for your zip code, add your zip code to the end, like this: https://www.locserendipity.com/Start.html?q=90210

You can also make a shortcut for that personalized zip code link.

If you just want text weather, that is available too: https://locserendipity.com/SimpleWeather.html?q=90210

Most surprisingly, this is an entirely static page and has no dependencies. You could download the HTML file and it would still fetch the news feeds and weather! No tracking!
The three enumerated options in the ANSI C standard and no others, especially not invisibly modifying non-dead code during translation.

The compiler could behave in a documented manner with or without a warning; it could error out and stop translation; or it could do what you fracking told it to, consequences be damned.
An above average eye surgeon in the US with a few years of experience is the rough equivalent of a middle manager in terms of age and could be in terms of rarity.
I have a battery powered hotspot from my provider. Like a phone, it refuses to run off usb without a battery installed. But it yells at you and shuts down when plugged in for too long. I need to have it online all the time.

I "fixed" it by plugging the charger into an old school mechanical timer. Every six hours, it runs off the battery for 30 minutes. Has been working great for 2 years.
Ask HN: Are people who drive ruder all day due to lingering driving stress?
And if so, would car free zones result in less rudeness?
Where do you live?! I thought we had it bad with 15Mbps ADSL in rural Vermont. YouTube and Netflix are surprisingly tolerable as long as only one person is watching. How is it for you at 5?

Do you get cell service? We don't and that's actually the bigger hassle. Wi-Fi calling is kind of shit, and the coverage outside the house is appallingly unreliable. iMessage is frustratingly unreliable too. I'll be on Wi-Fi, but it won't have gotten synched up with Verizon and it'll refuse to send a message until it does.
Don’t be a tool. A heroin addict’s motivation to acquire heroin is infinitely greater than a heroin addict’s motivation for anything else in the world.
Lisp in Small Pieces

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol
This Burger King coupon is emergent from Maxwell's equations.
I worked with a Office layman who couldn't (and did not care to learn how to) open RAR files.

Yeah.
Exactly, one has nothing to do with the other. Or maybe people think that the Red Hat employees presently tasked with packaging LibreOffice also happened to be graphics stack specialists with the experience needed to bring HDR to Linux. That seems unlikely to me.
We don't even need ChatGPT to do the writing, "Open"AI is already doing that for us.
Yes, though cynically, I think the idea is that venture capitalists only open their wallets if they can see your robot in action. Prudent iteration doesn't attract money.
Yup. The first lie they told us. Definitely won’t be the last.
Bun v0.6.7
The rise and fall of Evidence-Based Medicine [pdf]
In the same paragraph, "Teamsters president Sean O’Brian said that the ruling will not impact the Teamsters’ striking efforts."

So, how much does this really affect anything?
Dying before your child reaches adulthood? Leaving a young family with diminished assets because your chronic medical conditions suck all the resources? Leaving your younger wife with the burden of raising a child in diapers while dealing with a husband in diapers? I imagine there are many more.
It is categorically not a problem created by the US. Cuba was a satrap of the USSR that never developed any local economic or agricultural capacity. This is despite receiving free oil, machinery, training and fertilizer from the USSR and later free oil from Venezuela. Cuba still has the lowest agricultural output in the Caribbean by miles, clearly this is a result of communist economic policies. One only needs to look to Deng’s agricultural reforms in 1980s China to see this.

The embargo is no excuse. Cuba’s largest trading partner is Spain and they could get any European good or equipment they wanted if they had anything worth exporting for foreign currency. Cuba receives nearly a billion dollars a year in remittances from Cubans in the US alone, yet they are unable to do anything to unlock the potential of that inflow because they’re hung up on broken stalinist policies.

I sent you several Spanish language articles on the topic published outside of the US, this isn’t a “corporate media” narrative. The Cuban government is just terrible. If you can’t read Spanish that isn’t my fault. I know tons of Cubans, including Cuban leftists, and I read Spanish. I’m pretty well informed here and not just buying a narrative.

Human Rights Watch calls the medical mission slavery. They don’t allow the doctors to communicate with family, take their passports, take their wages, often send them into conflict zones, threaten their families, and on and on.
The Industrial Challenges section of the paper addresses specific areas of flow disruption they focused on.

Some folks may never accept AI code completion / suggestions (like some prefer vim over modern IDEs) but at least people working on this stuff can describe points known to focus on.
Once when I was young I mentioned something about being smart. My dad asked, "what makes you think you are smart?" In my youthful arrogance I didn't have an answer, but the question stuck with me, especially in light of all the studies showing that praising kids for hard work increases performance, and praising them for intelligence suppresses it.

The fact is: one should avoid even having an opinion on ones own intelligence. It's a form of ego-driven navel-gazing, and can only hurt you. On the other hand, if you dedicate yourself to deep understanding, attentive listening, clear communication, and thinking things through in your work, you will develop a reputation that goes far beyond "smart".
Almost guaranteed this is it. It’s only a matter of time before Microsoft swallows OpenAI whole. And at that point there will be several competing products like Dynamics Copilot, etc. The lines are blurring, but I probably think the comment was fair and probably needs the right context: the research team within OpenAI will unlikely compete head to head with developers building apps on top of it, but why would it ever restrict itself to such a limitation? It doesn’t make any sense. That said, it means they will focus on their platform and have probably no line of sight to any apps they would build.
I think Bun (which has typescript embedded but written in zig) would be a great place to experiment.

I could see it adding some tensor types that drop into zig code that uses webgpu bindings. And add some operator overloading so you could just add t1 + t2 etc.
I know, I was just being hyperbolic.
Do any version of UniPress Emacs (that support the NeWS driver) or NeMacs survive?
That's why I always ask for a very simple programming task (same for each candidate), but somewhat vaguely specified, solvable in different ways. Just like on real job, lots of inputs are not needed, some are missing.

Experienced candidates give two solutions in seconds, juniors cannot figure out the task, and overqualified are visibly annoyed by being asked to come to a whiteboard.
I don't understand the need for a labyrinth. Why not simple particles in solution?
He definitely unleaded Streisand effect on the interview
Meanwhile in the real world, Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span of 40 years. Russia showed incredible growth after the revolution that surpassed the rest of the world:

* https://wid.world/document/soviets-oligarchs-inequality-prop...

* https://wid.world/document/appendix-soviets-oligarchs-inequa...

USSR provided free education to all citizens resulting in literacy rising from 33% to 99.9%:

* http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/PubEdUSSR.htm

* http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/archive/anglosov.htm

* http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000013/001300eo.pdf

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likbez

USSR doubled life expectancy in just 20 years. A newborn child in 1926-27 had a life expectancy of 44.4 years, up from 32.3 years thirty years before. In 1958-59 the life expectancy for newborns went up to 68.6 years. the Semashko system of the USSR increased lifespan by 50% in 20 years. By the 1960's, lifespans in the USSR were comparable to those in the USA:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Uni...

* https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5054/index1.html

Quality of nutrition improved after the Soviet revolution, and the last time USSR had a famine was in 1940s. CIA data suggests they ate just as much as Americans after WW2 peroid while having better nutrition:

* https://www.scribd.com/document/430076844/CIA-RDP84B00274R00...

* https://artir.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/compar1.png?w=640

USSR moved from 58.5-hour work weeks to 41.6 hour work weeks (-0.36 h/yr) between 1913 and 1960:

* https://books.google.com/books?id=x8JYjwEACAAJ

* https://b-ok.cc/book/2669908/77497f

USSR averaged 22 days of paid leave in 1986 while USA averaged 7.6 in 1996:

* https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/1994/94B09_66_englp2.p...

* https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs.t05.htm
> "Based on our research and replication studies, we conclude that contemporary LLMs demonstrate an enhanced yet limited degree of Theory of Mind abilities."
Linux is so weird with its approach to security. So many prevention tools and LSMs but it is the easiest platform for post exploitation. For one a lot of effort goes into stopping you from getting root but all if it revolves around the sysadmin not making one of many mistakes and even as root, instead of having a sane way of signing kernel modules by a trusted party (distro), they take great pains to make it hard to do bad stuff like preventing hooks and other things being used by LKMs.

Linux security is architected by really smart figures that are mentally stuck on ideologies and silver bullets, don't get me wrong, if setup right Linux is difficult for attackers but that rarely ever happens. There are too many "well if a threat actor can do that then you have bigger problems" type of oldschool legacy thinking.

What I really want in Linux is good defaults that treat users as infants playing with scisssors. Get over the whole "centralized anything is bad" b.s., and for distros to have good monitoring tools. Detection deserves more priority than prevention. Imagine having all the difficult to tune LKM rules, auditd,etc... play nice with each other and alert visually on the desktop and insist on you giving them your email or whatever so the distro managed alerting servers can alert you on stuff.

On windows even when I disable defender it secretly monitors stuff and re-enables some features when it sees weird things (and MS would even alert your people if you are an enterprise customer and it is a serious threat) and it can be one of the hardesr hurdles to overcome. To fully disable defender or AV, you have to exploit a vulnerable signed driver, on linux just rm -rf stuff and unload it as root because "if they have root, you have bigger problems"

Nothing against this tool, at least they seem to have detection (alerting?) in mind as well from what I skimmed.
You realize that log messages are shared between developers, users, administrators, professional and amateur, long term and newcomers?
It’s already out. It’s worse but faster at generating tokens.
So the polygon hat from a few weeks ago only worked as an aperiodic tile if you were allowed to tile it with a flipped version? I wasn't aware of that caveat at the time. I guess that sort of detail doesn't make it into the popular press.
ChatGPT Scrabble to Crossword Automation
It seems to me that people who play scrabble are automatically creating crossword puzzles. A chatgpt could take each word definition and recast it as a crossword question.

So ... finish a scrabble game, take a picture, run the app, generate a crossword. Profit!
This is what I don't get, if there was such an extreme shortage then the average visit to a family doctor should cost hundreds of dollars.
Do Google and Facebook really only match half of 401(k) contributions up to 7%?

I thought employers competing on benefits were moving towards dollar for dollar or better matching. This is especially important for high income earners who'd be maxing out, because the 401(k) contribution limit for 2023 is $22,500 for employee contributions but $66,000 for combined employee and employer contributions.
How Reddit became the enemy -- available (for now) on YouTube!
Wait till you find out the deficit that US currently has.
This whole comment needs a big "citation required". It's all anecdotes and speculation.

Tech displaces industries, yes, but in the history of tech there has never been a company that stopped needing software engineers.

If you ask your surgeon he'll tell you how many times he feels he's retrained in his 40 year career. It's not going to be 0.

And don't your two paragraphs contradict each other? Isn't the need to retrain every 5-10 years a big sign that software engineers are not going anywhere?

I would agree with everything you wrote if it was prescriptive rather than normative. I would like software engineers to work themselves out of a job. And I'd like technology to be stable so we can focus on something besides the tech aspect of a company. But that seems poles apart from the world we live in.
In my case, Zig was super-simple to pickup, I've been using rust for few years so I was already in the systems programming (as a hobby), and I also had to read some C/C++ during that time, that probably helped me too.

Other than that, I was and I am, mostly a frontend developer with ECMAScript and TypeScript experience. I think Zig is very close to both, because Zig has anytype, so you can do duck-typing like you do in JS, and it has programmable type system, just like TS. Not to mention that reflection is basically your daily bread in JS/TS.

TLDR: If you have some systems programming experience and you've done a bit of TS, I'd definitely recommend you to give Zig a try. One weekend should be enough. I did that literally single-handed, as I was recovering after wrist surgery.
Ask HN: Best “Reference” WebRTC Implementation?
Would anyone disagree that Chromium-based browsers might have the best WebRTC-reference implementation?

For years, I've been running Chromium-based browsers on a server as a WebRTC peer, not because it's more efficient to do so, but because of the flexibility.

I've recently started experimenting w/ doing full-duplex game streaming over the same medium, where all participants on the call can connect as players, and it supports haptic feedback, multiple local controllers, etc.

I know there are much more efficient ways of going about this, but I think my end goals are to make some sort of "reference" product that browser makers could use to make better browsers.
I think it’s more about how intelligence agencies can self fund.