skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are all the lofty examples from countries that are hostile to refugees/immigrants like Scandinavian countries.

Would love to hear examples of great public welfare/healthcare programs from countries that accepts 6 million refugees / year like USA. In my head these are two opposing goals but curious to know if there are counterexamples.
I think wives believe their husbands can read their mind, and they get annoyed when that doesn't happen :)

But yah, this is exactly what I mean - without some cue, neither humans, nor machines, can tell when you switch conversation.
Judging by how many problems ID.4 owners are having these days, I'd watch all these excitable reviews with a bit more caution.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/7/23589260/vw-id4-recall-bat...

https://www.vwidtalk.com/threads/wait-time-is-now-a-year-for...
I got hired here for my very first job as a software engineer last year and I'm still working at the company. I'm going a year plus now and it's been awesome.
According to the BLS, the previously published data for Q4 2022 showed real nonfarm wages rising +0.7% annualized (wages growing faster than inflation), but this has now been revised to -4.7% annualized (wages shrinking vs inflation). In fact, the revised figures show that wages decreased by 0.7% even in nominal terms, whereas they previously estimated that wages had been growing 4.9%.

Revised figures for 2023 Q1 show that nonfarm real hourly compensation decreased -1.7%, whereas the previously published figures showed -0.3%.
AI is more than just the underlying math. The software ecosystem is very important, which is what NVIDIA's lead is built on. AMD has a very hard time providing an "it just works" type experience in the way that NVIDIA offers these days.

Machine learning engineers (or most people writing GPU code) do not typically have the time, knowledge or interest to diagnose driver issues and beg AMD engineers to address them in a reasonable time frame.
Read this article and I think you'll understand the issue better:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/san-francisco-sros...

Just giving the homeless a moldy and bug infested tiny room without any additional help isn't going to help much. It's "housing first", not "housing only".

I don't think you understand addiction and rehab, frankly. Getting people to stop using drugs is quite easy, just keep them away from it for a while. You can send anyone to prison or rehab, and they'll stop using drugs for a while.

The hard part is getting people from restarting to use drugs once you let them free, and you can't even hope to do that successfully unless they are motivated themselves, which they won't be if they live on the street.
I aced lin algebra because I realized early the potential and ran home after every lecture and worked on a 3d engine incorporating most concepts.
If it really is mostly housing costs, do you understand how easy of a problem that is to solve?

Just buy all the homeless people bus tickets to somewhere cheap in the middle of nowhere and pay the cheap rent for them there.

Problem solved. And easily solvable using the existing over inflated costs we pay now.

We, of course, don't do that, because it isn't going to solve the problem.
Do I need to go find dashcams? We know it makes dangerous mistakes. Come on.
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I just watched that video in the article of his last lecture and it was indeed fun!
Gil needs to be remembered as one of the key people that helped AI developments behind the scenes by having students master linear algebra! I hope you enjoy your retirement in health and peace!
No, you're over-generalizing what I'm saying (a.k.a. straw man fallacy).

If you're commercializing e.g. goodies that use the exact same character designed by some artist, so that anybody can tell you it's the same, AND if the traits of this character are actually original (not just so that anybody would come up with it independently), AND if the people buying your goodies are all thinking about the original character in the first place, AND if the original author is alive, then I'd absolutely agree that royalties need to be paid.

That's just an example. To tell you that in specific cases it's obvious that royalties are required.

But in the general case, no. Because, else, anything just is a derived work. Just think about it.
There is a way around this dilemma that solves everyone’s problems. People who go around smashing windows etc. are arrested and thrown in jail. If they repeatedly offend, they receive longer and longer sentences, perhaps at some state penitentiary in a more cost effective location. If they are addicted to drugs, they are enrolled in mandatory treatment programs while in prison. This person is hence housed and separated from civil society, with much less incentive to cheat the system.

This even solves the other problem that you haven’t brought up: the person who sleeps on the street smashing windows all day is likely to wreck the free apartment you end up giving them, too.
I don't understand this explanation of Hawkins radiation:

> A particle and its anti-particle are created very briefly from the quantum field, after which they immediately annihilate. But sometimes a particle falls into the black hole, and then the other particle can escape

Is it not equally likely that an anti particle falls into the black hole than a normal particle? Why is there evaporation?
Okay, so why is it?
Interesting point. I could agree with this analogy if different countries had "bought IBM" at different times and thus made the same mistake. But what has happened here is that many countries have bought IBM together at the same time.
Moving itself is expensive. If you're living paycheck to paycheck, you don't have the time or money to even travel to another location to look for better housing and a better job, let alone the time or money required to actually effect a move.

Consider that for many people in this situation, missing a few days of work to look for a new place to live might mean getting fired. Even if they don't get fired, the lost wages for missing those days of work could put them behind on their bills or make it difficult to buy food.

And even if they are able to spend time to find a new place to live without putting their finances in jeopardy, remember that they also have to find a new job in the new location, and doing that without further financial hardship could be difficult.

There are also other considerations: someone barely able to afford living in SF or NYC might not have a car, and walk or take transit to work and to do errands. Living in a lower-cost area might mean needing a car to do things like buy groceries or get to work. If you already can't save money, how are you going to afford a car before you move to the new area?

Many of us here can afford to take weeks or months off to take a break between jobs. Sometimes it's hard to understand that many people can barely take sick days without risking financial ruin.
Democracy denied with citizens united. everyone is paid for now and you are not allowed to find out by who.
Why isn’t moving out of the most expensive city in the world an option?

I believe the biggest factor is mental illness. The addiction and homelessness are the symptoms/results. (Obviously not in every case)

We’re at record low unemployment. If you’re able and willing to work you can 100% make enough money to pay rent somewhere…it just might not be in SF.

Idk why people feel that everyone should be entitled to live in any specific location.

Also, FWIW the US homelessness rate is below 0.2% among the lowest in the world.
Yeah the low drama homeless people that would be easiest to help don't make the headlines. They're quietly struggling, working some minimum wage job while living in a camper somewhere.

And yet the high drama people that make the headlines are used as an argument to not build affordable homes at all.

The hard to house with an array of overlapping severe challenges will always be hard to house, but we can't let that small minority be any sort of barrier to helping the broader amount of people that are easier to help that are nonetheless struggling to find anywhere they can afford to live.
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Why would you imagine that free housing would be something to envy over regular rentals? Minimal housing, possibly surrounded by other at-risk people working through serious issues seems like not something to envy.
That's exactly what alt-tab is when used without holding.
Here are John McCarthy's own answers to this question, from 1980, about 20 years after he invented Lisp:

The Survival of LISP
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/lisp20th/node2.html

He describes 15 innovations -- it is impressive that these were
all innovations when he invented Lisp. He adds,
"Of course, the above doesn't mention features that LISP has in common with most programming languages".
Supreme Court sides with Slack, putting direct listings in jeopardy
It's not really that bad?

If you're operating at large scale you should have enough control over your own infrastructure to distribute load to multiple providers. Then if one of them is down, spin up more instances on another one.

If you're operating at small scale, store your backups on another provider, and periodically test that you can quickly restore them to that provider.

This isn't just about redundancy. Doing this is necessary to keep you from getting locked in.
I also bought these and I used them twice and then have forgotten all about them until right now. I'll have to put a reminder to start using them again, it's only 3 minutes once a week.
Yes, it's how the pros do it. After a bunch of cars with the same mods you can tune in the base map pretty much withing 20% error. Copy that map to a car with the same mods. Then it's just a pull on the dyno and refine the fuel maps, rinse and repeat until all cells are stoic or rich but not too rich at WOT. That's a very simple explanation. But there's also things like timing, VVLT, Boost controllers, torque maps, and clutch friction points for DCT's that can all be adjusted.
When someone's carelessness and disregard becomes a danger to others, yes. The mindset that TB isn't transmissible or a significant threat, when carrying it, yes that person is a threat to others. Continue dismissing, but it's a foolish take.
Opendoor's Business Is Broken
They probably don't pay living wages. Its easy to be cheap when you don't pay living wages.
why should any society cater to able-bodied people who physically live in it while refusing to contribute anything toward it?

100 years ago this question would've sounded ridiculous, yet here we are today.
Consciousness is the only thing that cannot be an illusion.

Consciousness isn't the illusion, it's the audience for the illusion. What's an illusion if it isn't fooling anyone?
Oh I see, so it's kind of a hobbyist scene. I guess you could look at the past tense mentioning of NFTs as in relation to the general impact that was hyped, which was promised to be far greater and more widespread than "there's some collectors who are into it".

It's also interesting that a centralized marketplace and (I presume user-friendly and less secure) wallets for non-crypto folks is a no-no in other parts of cryptoland.
Yes, and because something was overhyped once, everything after that must be as well. That's how logic works.
UBI won't answer the problem of RENT. The rent will always rise to pickup the new headroom until there is no longer headroom. All the profit will go to the rent seekers who leave nothing for anyone to get ahead.
Maybe they can do more than play pong. Is "the host" something more than machinery, a vehicle, to a big clump of brain cells? Is there a soul? Or is it all an illusion

I've tried cow brain twice and it was delicious.
It was but it became more mask resistant over time. Putting on masks in Jan 2020 could have made a huge difference instead of waiting until mid year to say mask, and then say mask with an n95.

Obviously, there's a preparedness issue which is probably the base root of that issue, but early enthusiastic masking instead of trying to send all the construction workers home probably would have gone a lot farther.
There is already an incentive to build densely and provide more housing, developers already want to do this because they make more money by doing so. They are literally not allowed to build anything other than single family homes though, the local homeowners actually control what is allowed to be built.

That is to say: the people who have an incentive to keep housing supply low are the ones deciding what is allowed to be constructed in their town.

If I go buy a piece of land in Cupertino and I want to build an apartment complex, I have to go apply for permits and get approval from the city of Cupertino zoning board. The people on that board are all people who live in Cupertino that own single family homes, they have a strong incentive to deny my application if I am building my apartment complex anywhere near their neighborhood.
Basically every single city in California has zoning laws that prohibit you from building anything other than suburban single family homes in most of the town.

You can fix the housing crisis by passing a law that limits the power of the zoning board to deny permits for these types of housing.

Take a look at the Cupertino zoning map: https://map.gridics.com/us/ca/cupertino#11.93/37.31591/-122....
if you click layers -> planning -> zoning you can see an overlay of the zoning for the whole city. The light beige color is "single family" zoned, meaning that nobody is allowed to build anything other than low-density homes. Notice how _most_ of the city is designated "single family". This is the cause of the entire problem. Nobody is allowed to build anything more dense than the single family homes that are already there.

Not-so-coincidentally, Cupertino is one of the most expensive places to live in the US.
Look at Houston, TX. They have no zoning laws (it's not perfect they still have deed restrictions which sometimes act similarly to zoning laws), and it is a massive city. The median house price is ~340k, something that most normal people can afford. There is a clear correlation between reduced zoning restrictions and lower housing costs.
Interesting. If I understand correctly, they need a electrode that's in physical contact with the sea water.

I'm not sure I understand it entirely, but there's a video on the Tech Ingredients channel that explains magnetohydrodynamic pumps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS3GQk9ETRU
It's a quine!!

https://github.com/mame/green-square-quine
They're impotent little weasels who couldn't hit a target the size of a barn, so the risk is minimal.
I think Intel is still pushing opencl on GPUs. Maybe with other layers on top. Sycl or oneapi or similar. AMD mostly shares one implementation between hip and opencl so the base plumbing should work about as well on either, though I can believe the user experience is challenging.

I wrote some code that compiles as opencl and found it an intensely annoying experience. There's some C++ extension model to it now which might help but it was still missing function pointers last time I looked. My lasting impression was that I didn't want to write opencl code again.
I guess that poses a serious problem for those who still claim that wages are driving inflation.
Yep, but I think that little bit of functionality alone is enough to be given its own separate shortcut that doesn't summon UI or switch to some other window if accidentally held a bit too long.
Utah has been doing a housing first program for about 20 years. It has definitely helped a lot of people, but it hasn't really solved the problem either.

(I'm not saying the strategy is flawed - maybe it is, maybe Utah is doing it wrong, maybe you need housing first plus a bunch of other things - who knows).

https://www.cato.org/blog/evidence-calls-housing-first-homel...
There is observably an abundance of cheap shelter. It’s just not where people want to live.

Something like ~97% of people live on ~3% of the land.
>25% died (overdose on drugs), and 21% returned to the streets.

How many of those 25% would've died on the street? Do you have any numbers to put that into context?

A 54% reduction in homeless on the streets sounds like a great start to me, though, as do people dying in a room instead of on a sidewalk.
It's going to the administrators of the homeless industrial complex. It's the same problem we're seeing with colleges where the number of administrators has dramatically grown year over year.

Managerial bloat. The more money we give, the more they grow.
BST is part of BetterTouchTool, which is invaluable on its own.
How would you have breathed in my virus particles when I'm a remote employee 1,000 miles away from you?
TIL what a luddite is: apparently they started in 1811 and were named after Ned Ludd, a textile worker in England. So what was the characteristic called in 1810?
yep.

Absolutely there's plenty of addiction problems, toxic drug problems and mental illness problems in my city, but the numbers don't lie and we have lost thousands on thousands of the most affordable rental housing stock over the last few decades even as population grew.

If we had actually gained affordable housing stock as population increased, or at least kept pace, we would be in a different situation. No doubt we would still have issues of a small amount of people having issues with mental illness, but we would be dramatically more capable of helping them than we are now with the incredibly scarce level of apartments we have now.
If done right, with right transparency, disclosures, yes SaaS it is.

When building Wide Angle Analytics, we spent a lot of time on getting the legal, compliance, and transparency right. We were mocked by the "move fast, break stuff” crowd.

When we were looking for vendors and SaaS partners, we stumbled upon some very dodgy “businesses”.

No address? Nope.
No director name? Nope.
Dodgy jurisdiction? Nope.
Parroting privacy and data, or poor or outright invalid security statements? Nope.

Do your due diligence.
The amount doesn’t, it’s the culture of the city government and protection of the service providers that actually receive the money.
> "that's a practically negligible benefit compared to the considerable risks and costs imposed by the coming epidemic of AI-fostered cheating."

I disagree. Personalized training is so much better, that you wouldn't have to spend so much time doing school or homework or whatever. Imagine a different way of teaching. Say that every student is personally trained and never has to do schoolwork outside of their school. When they are in school they are personally working with an AI tutor and not cheating. Like maybe imagine some kiosk-like thing but friendlier. The students wouldn't be allowed to use phones while working with it.
Does one not solve the other though? If it does, that seems to make them mutually exclusive.

My personal conspiracy theory, and I admit it's a conspiracy theory, is that corporate land owners are the ones centering popular conversation and data around affordable housing rather than wage growth. It opens doors for rental assistance, a multitude of rental-based density expansions, and other programs that put more money in their pockets rather than expanding the money income-based people make and keep via ownership.
User-respecting OS running in the firmware can be really useful. It must be FLOSS though. Example: https://puri.sm/posts/pureboots-powerful-recovery-console/.
We need to go deeper: "I don't consent to being exposed to crazy ideas that bloom in the minds of some people."
The Greater Boston Food Bank CEO cleared a $500K salary this year, for a job that's largely remote because the area is too dangerous for the non-profit white collar workers. Do you think she wants "food insecurity" to be solved?

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/427...