skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That process is a judge and a court order, the ability to appeal such an order, and the due process surrounding and 90 days is a sane time frame to complete the task from refusal to treat to being picked up. It took longer than that just for them to send a cop out to pick her up after an arrest warrant was already issued after that due process had already run during which there were surely countless deputies cruising around or parked strategically to issue speeding tickets.

You are making excuses. There isn't any. Our government is just bad at a lot of what it does. Lazy and laggardly execution or processing of orders doesn't increase due process.
I've seen people wearing short-sleeve t-shirts on their motorcycles too. That doesn't make them motorcycle shirts.
Not sure about testing for benzene, but you can check the FDA's list of sanitizers that should not be used: https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-u....
I just want to know when someone is going to get around to make a single board photonic computer...
If you spend [big scary number] on a thing and it "doesn't work", absent some real analysis that just as much means you under spent as that you may have over spent.

It's like pointing at construction cranes in a rapidly growing city and saying, "look none of this new housing is working because rents keep going up!"

California and so many other regions have real unaddressed homelessness issues that have long, long been utterly ignored. It's more likely that we're insufficiently addressing the real scope of the issue.
This reads as a political ad, not a news story.

The ad is good at pulling heart strings and getting people riled up (see comments here) but does not do any actual reporting. How did California spend the money? Were there leaky buckets? How does California have 50% of the homeless and 12% of the population? Are people being bussed in, making this a federal problem? Who's responsible? Don't just tell me the governor, there's people Newsom appointed. Don't just get me riled up, tell me what's actually going on so that I can inform myself of how to fix this. Don't just say this is a problem and point a singular finger talking about large sums of money, break it down. Tell me why homeless decreased in SF and Orange but increased in LA, San Jose, Oakland, and San Diego[0]. Tell me why it skyrocketed since 2016, starting with Brown and then accelerated under Newsom[1]. Tell me what FL is doing to solve their issues that NY and CA aren't.

Do some investigation. Distill expert information to me. Be a news article, not a political ad.

[0] https://www.ppic.org/blog/homeless-populations-are-rising-ar...

[1] https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/homeles...
27 years from now it will be 2050. Will todays smartphones still feel "wonderful"? I highly doubt it.
All these detailed, complicated arguments. Why is homelessness not the same level of problem in the UK? Maybe think about that then consider why it's such an issue in the US.
There's a pervasive belief that homeless people in various comfortable climes are migrants from harsher locales, but when you do the research you apparently tend to find that they're overwhelmingly people who had stable living situations in those comfortable locations, and became homeless there: they aren't "imported". So the "warmest place in Canada" thing is unlikely to be meaningful, unless there's some reason a comfortable climate makes housing less stable.
>You are drowning. I throw $1000 at you. Are you saying I should have done more?

What if we apply your logic to your own scenario?

You are drowning. I will jump in and help you get to safety only after you have taken a blood and piss test. Are you saying I should have done more?
Ah, I see how it applies. It does make me wonder why non-esg large fund investors wouldn't care about this type of control as well?

I also think there's some inherent conflict in the S part of ESG investing. i.e. a truly socially responsible company would be returning most of its earning to the workers who actually did the work that earned that money, rather than funneling it to shareholders. Which makes those companies a bad investment, which means ESG funds that extended their S goals that far will fail and ESG funds that don't will get good returns for their investors and continue on - so by definition the S goal is limited.
And this folks is the AI-Effect in actions.

ChatGPT is AI. It is a human level general intelligence, no, and we're likely very lucky for that.

Humanity is going to have to accept that the words we used to define AI were far too imprecise and don't reflect how development of AI is actually occurring. If you want to argue the language of it, then demand we make new, testable, and scientific definitions for the capabilities of computer intelligence. Any less, and all we'll hear is the sound of scraping goal posts as they get moved further and further.
The Dept. of Homeless Services doesn't track this? It is done in NYC, and it was a major bone of contention that the high level of service was effectively magnetizing the city for homeless in other parts of the country to come here, or for cities even to bus them here. The law is a little vague on the matter, but the prevailing belief by the NYC administration is that anyone who can make it to the agency's doorstop and claim homelessness is entitled to emergency shelter up to 6 months, with no residency check (let alone U.S. citizenship), and there is no clear regulation preventing renewal. Even before the current foreign migrant crisis, about 10-15% of the shelter population came from outside NYC as their most recent stated prior address.
Airbnb Sues NYC over Rules Requiring Hosts to Register Homes
> In my example, the variables are assumed to be addressable, only the address of x was passed via the stack.

Yeah but I could add 3 billion to the pointer instead. Now what happens, if we're trying to define behavior?

> you can define the semantics of the language formally

If the semantics aren't a direct translation into CPU opcodes, then it's not machine code. And CPU opcodes can access all memory at all times including self-inspection so you can't change anything for optimization purposes without an additional framework on top.
If we're going to put the SF homeless problem on "neoliberal ideology", we should also give "neoliberal ideology" (e.g. free markets/trade/globalization) credit for lifting almost a billion people out of poverty in developing nations (mainly China, India) in the 00s.
That's been true for a decade and it was already obsolete the moment they wrote it.
wouldn't it be way easier to just put some water in the Salton sea? Even saltwater would work.
Bloated Disclosures: Can ChatGPT Help Investors Process Information?
> I was amazed when living in SF how many of the homeless are not locals. Not even Californians!

I visited the Bay Area a number of times and only met one person who was born locally. "Not even Americans!" in many cases.
You can get high on fentanyl ~$1 USD ... there is no stopping a sedative crisis at these prices. It's effectively a reverse Opium War consuming lives and our communities.

These two accounts have provided a gripping POV of this utter humanitarian crisis in SF:

https://twitter.com/bettersoma
https://twitter.com/war24182236
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Houston has gotten more people off the streets in the last decade than San Francisco or Los Angeles.
Exactly the same here. Stole my fathers Psion 3a and wrote a lottery number picker in OPL. IIRC, it even had pretty great syntax to easily draw the various default OS UI elements.

The ability to write the application and then run it on the same mobile device was such a rewarding feedback loop as a kid. There were some pretty good books on OPL in the 90s too.

The standard of the third party gaming ecosystem for the OS (EPOC) was shockingly good for the time as well really, there was an amazing golf game, also written in OPL. That Steve Litchfield name I remember a lot from the era, he was extremely active developing OPL software:

> https://stevelitchfield.com/fairway.htm
This is an example of anti-trust punishing semi-open systems.

No one has a problem with SaaS that people aren't allowed to install on their own clouds or on-premise at all, but if you do allow that then it's "unfair competition" if you charge higher licensing fees.

Ironically, google itself has this problem with android — the EU fined google four billion because of anti-competive practice related to android but is totally fine with the entirely closed iOS ecosystem.
California's homelessness problem is not caused by other states offloading their homeless to California.
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I'm not a doctor, but I believe the mechanism that causes spots isn't harmful. It's a form of exhaustion of the sensing cells and doesn't necessarily damage them.

Damage really only happens when you get photon burns, which I don't think is possible with closed eyelids and a conventional light-source.
The moral is that PSP FUD has nothing to do with AMD's lack of success in AI.
Real data is not fashionable anymore to report. Same in health care and education. Tell me where all the f...ing money goes and why it's going up all the time. Don't single out one bad player but provide a full breakdown. That's what journalists should be doing.
> Third world country of America

This is silly. You expect anyone to take you seriously?
>Because the system isn't confirming the answers.

Do we have any evidence that users confirm the answers? In general the conformation is in the end users following up and saying this works/doesn't work.

Now, this gets more problematic when 'bots' follow up and says it works, but that is going to be a massive problem in detecting that's the case unless they are doing it far more than a human could.
Detox doesn't really work if they don't want it.
The active intervention w/r to homelessness would be to actually house these people. Lots of these people are using drugs to cope with other problems, without dealing with the other issues what are the chances of detox actually being worthwhile?
Sadly, I agree. Across the board, I've suffered (way) more from coworkers' lack of basic emotional stability (or basic personal integrity) than deficits in experience or skills.

I'd take a rookie manager over an experienced (but ethically challenged or just plain jerkface) manager any day.
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool old school Socialist who once subcontracted for a "Christian Web Services" company, and yes, speaking from the example that I interacted with, it really was shysters all the way down. We ended up racking up a ton of hours because, well, the Venn diagram of "people who know what a scroll wheel does" and "people who insist on only using Christian Products" looks like a map of a very small solar system. That's probably different now - the Dark Enlightenment type kids are pretty savvy.

The guy who ran the joint was the most stereotypical Jewish guy I have ever met (he actually joked about this), and he insisted on only hiring outwardly-gay-appearing graphics people (which admittedly could just mean a slim good-looking guy with a lisp, which . .eh. . did result in some confusion).

I've never seen such scorn for a customer base outside of working in the Defense industry, where "scorn for the customer base" is more or less where profit comes from.

Having said all that, it was sort of a lot of fun, but it was also sort of soul-destroying. Making a living off of scorn does that, I guess.
> I also wonder, but it seems less likely, if the effect is related to defocusing of the eye, from intentionally not being in front of a screen for 3 minutes.

Unfortunately, the control group did nothing, instead of looking at something far away for 3 minutes, that is not red light.

Another interesting control group could have used light at the other end of the visible range.
And how do you prove it?
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You buy a ticket to a reclining seat. You have no obligation to act morally; it is legal to recline. End of story.
Air Force Official's Story of Killer AI Was a Hypothetical Situation
> When you think about how people use ChatGPT, one of the brilliant things they did was, when we first started using it, it typed slowly. It didn’t just sit there waiting until it had the whole sentence figured out. It typed a few words, then it typed a few more words, then it typed a few more words. There was no technical reason for that. That was a marketing decision because it made us imagine that there was a little man or woman inside the thing typing back to us. They intentionally created personification.

This is 100% wrong -- that happens because the LLM generates the text token by token in real time. The alternative would be a very long loading animation, running until 100% of the output is done, and that would probably turn most people off.
I definitely see less homeless people in places that go to -40 in the winter. Now I don't know why, maybe they still exist but are less visible. Perhaps the threat of homelessness is a lot scarier when it is cold outside. Maybe homeless people in those climates move. I don't know, but anecdotally it does seem like there are much fewer homeless people in cold places.
Reagan hasn't been governor of California or president of the US for a long time.
The PicoMite VGA project does something like this as well but has the added benefit of having a very full featured BASIC interpreter built in.

https://geoffg.net/picomitevga.html
I came here to share that the importance of using contemporaneous materials, if not methods, was highlighted for me when I worked on Bath cathedral and saw how the victorian 'improvements' of using iron rather than wood to fix the stonework caused much damage a century later; iron expands when it rusts and causes cracking.

Then I see linked in that article that Notre Dame was a very early example of using iron staples! I can only think that they were used away from water, unlike Bath, where the repairs were on the window fixings.
We have a forest in the center of France that was dedicated to producing ship masts. Surely some of those oak trees may have fit the bill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_of_Tron%C3%A7ais
I assumed CBC turned off the comments due to the constant amount of anti-indigenous racism
Not strictly relevant, but:

I've yet to see tools that handle zero-downtime-migrations well. The manual task of keeping two versions of the same query / model alive (version N and version N+1) is... well, how else would you handle it?

While tools that can generate the model or schema are nice, they never seem to account for this.

Is there some alternative approach I'm missing?
Awake despite an open skull: The complex surgery to save Ani’s five languages
this is very light on details. I would be thrilled to see an actual economic analysis showing that this is working, though.
After https://SwayWM.org I have told prospective employers that I'm gonna have to use a Linux system when working there and if not it's okay I can work somewhere else.

"But our security team can only support Mac and Windows" is a sad joke I hear too often.

A couple years ago I turned down an employment package offer that was too good to turn down and said I could be available as a contractor. A big part was I didn't wanna be forced to use a f**ing Mac. Taxes made more sense too so yeah.
> The purpose of Intel ME is to give foreign intelligence agencies wireless access to America's senators, executive teams, and critical infrastructure.

I agree, only that I think it’s reverse. It would seem that American companies like Intel and AMD can be far more easily controlled with both force and cash by American government, not by foreign governments.
I’m not sure what separation of concerns is served by not providing a method to show how many glyphs are in a given string.
Are they "incredibly proprietary" compared to the competition? Clearly they aren't. Nvidia offers blobs in both consumer and professional markets. Even going to the extent of gimping performance hardware through drivers on more than one occasion.

That said, I think AMD isn't really competing with Nvidia. Sure, their R&D budget is smallish but it feels like they're somewhat fine with the current status quo.
"Zoning and parking laws are ignored. Noise laws are ignored. Drug laws are ignored. There is zero effort to serve this population and get them out of the literal gutter. Pets are a massive problem. Children are living in the middle of this. "

How do you pay to enforce all of this?
Do jails have adequate space?
Are there enough judges, courtrooms, and public defender's to handle this efficiently?
Where should the children go?

"It's not working"

What are your suggestions for aiding people to be able to afford rent and sustaining themselves?
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-homeless-national-...

>In the City of Vancouver’s 2019 homeless count, based on those who responded, 16% (156 people) of the homeless reported they were from an area elsewhere in Metro Vancouver, while 31% (299 people) were from another area of BC, and 44% (435 people) from another area of Canada.

Where is the data backing up your claim?
"Company that periodically releases more powerful products expected to release more powerful product in the future." Wowee.

This is shit low-effort blogspam.
Vancouver isn't just the warmest place, it's also the most expensive. There definitely have been cases of other parts of the country paying for a bus ticket out to the coast, just like they did to homeless people in Vancouver, sending them to Victoria during the Winter Olympics.
That, and part of the problem seems to be that when people say "get them off the streets" the hidden statement is "but keep them in SF"

SF is a ridiculously expensive city that people from across the US consider (who have homes even) consider themselves priced out of.

It seems mind boggling that people think everyone deserves a home in SF itself, instead of relocation to, say, a new suburb constructed a couple hours away (where housing is cheaper!).

Constructing that suburb would create jobs. The infrastructure needed to maintain it would create jobs. And even if it remains a net cash drain, it'll still likely be cheaper than 17B a year while giving people actual homes with opportunities to work their way up and out
Pardon my ignorance, but how do you reasonably stop fires in attached wood homes from becoming a huge problem fast?
That's a useful answer to one of the questions the article did not answer. Now, do you have a reliable source?
It was a misnomer calling it 'dead internet theory', Thoughty2 correctly renames it 'dead internet prophecy'.
I also found during these kinds of sweeps large copy and pastes of code. It really lowered my opinion of those working on the same project.
If it's a federal failure why are the homeless highly concentrated in certain areas?
I agree as well, which is why I've used HyperSwitch for many years. It restore most of the goodness of the Windows focus switching experience with a defined keybinding.
>> You are drowning. I throw $1000 at you. Are you saying I should have done more?

> You are drowning. I will jump in and help you get to safety only after you have taken a blood and piss test. Are you saying I should have done more?

I think his point was that if someone's drowning, you throw them a life preserver or jump in and save them. You don't throw them $1000, because that's not the solution to the problem they're actually having. It's not like the water will spit them out if you pay it.

And if your problem is addiction, $1000 might just make your problem worse. That $1000 might as well be considered a pile of drugs or booze.

When I was growing up I was friends with a kid whose Dad actually worked trying to help homeless people in a very cold climate. IIRC, one time they had a program to give out subzero rated sleeping bags, but stopped once they realized they were just getting pawned.
> I remember having to choose what languages my OS installation was going to be able to display.

What changed?

Modern Windows still requires language packs, but you can apparently switch your primary language without a reinstall.

Adobe products still corrupt already-correct Arabic text unless you have the correct edition or add-on or something.

It was indeed annoying to transfer files at least until the Internet and flash drives were widely available, but that’s been more than 20 years.
> Col. Hamilton admits he "misspoke" in his presentation at the Royal Aeronautical Society FCAS Summit, and the "rogue AI drone simulation" was a hypothetical "thought experiment" from outside the military,
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Seems like just a simple supply issue. These complex zoning regulations have made it cost prohibitive for developers to make any margins unless they focus on high-end condo's or apartments. The zoning envelopes need to be re-worked so that builders aren't having to live on razor thin margins.
It's because there is a strong perception (at least in American culture) that g (or more specifically our best metric of it, IQ) should translate into accomplishment, productivity, or usefulness of some kind before you are allowed to brag about it. In my experience, most people report feeling a kind of disappointment or wastefulness when high-IQ people don't accomplish anything notable, so someone bragging about their IQ in a vacuum feels cringey.
The number of homeless people in California grew about 50% between 2014 and 2022. The state, which accounts for 12% of the U.S. population, has about half of the nation’s unsheltered homeless, an estimated 115,000 people

More stats: It has a quarter of all homeless and a high percentage of the chronically homeless who likely skew those stats pretty badly.

My opinion: This is a national issue and California is just the presenting problem. I think California is essentially our dumping ground for homeless people from across the nation and California can't solve it alone.

Edit: In case it needs to be said again, the primary root cause is a nationwide shortage of appropriate housing options.
All that is pretty reasonable, I appreciate your measured response.

So the fundamental disagreement is over how close we are to dangerous AI.

If you're right, we might delay useful AI by decades or centuries being overly cautious. Useful AI could either alleviate untold suffering, or it could cause untold suffering and inequality by misuse.

If I'm right, we could go extinct for lack of caution.

And given that we really don't have any way of knowing with any amount of certainty how close we are to AGI, you see why people are concerned, right? Calmly pondering feels like a serious underreaction. Vigorous, frequent, and open debate would be more appropriate. I'm not saying let's turn off all our computers for a decade.
To me the appeal is that they more closely model "the Real World". Perhaps like modular synths, they invite experimentation, learning (maybe a bit like a graphing program?).
There is a very very strong correlation between homelessness in a state and housing prices, far more than any other factor:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Qz9GvoPbnFwGrHHQB/visible-ho...
Ironically, in my opinion, this comment here is the meta-level crux of it all. No matter how much money they throw at it, no matter how badly it fails, the proponents will always just double down and say that if only they spend more money next year, this time it would fix it. A year later when now there's even more homelessness, it's not because their policies failed, of course it's because they didn't tax you hard enough, and if only they had X amount of money this time they'd fix it. It's a never ending cycle.