skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating site.

One question it suggests to me is: is he pretending to believe the things he says about the environmental laws, because he supports right-wing coups, or does he support right-wing coups because he genuinely believes the stuff he says about environmental laws. Or some complicated circular re-inforcement of both?

edit: on further inspection he clearly believes all the weird things he says

> Of course it's a nasty, smelly habit. Even the smokers themselves will say so. But passing laws that prohibit smoking is, in my opinion, just a method used by public officials to flex their muscles and get the public used to accepting more and more intrusive regulations. Just as with seat belt laws, it's not about public health and safety, it's about control.

Another tragic victim of the libertarian-to-fascist pipeline.
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Not sure how much of a downtrend, seems rather stable [1]. There are also 0 countries that implement Georgist policies and most of the countries in the world are directly neoliberal or neoliberal-bent, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia [2], and friends included.

Perhaps I am not correct, but what do you think will happen in a few years when we will have a 100 GB neural model able to drive any car in any environment, effectively obliterating 200+ million jobs worldwide? Fairly certain, if we keep the same policies and the same belief-system, homelessness will trend rather high.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/555795/estimated-number-...

[2] 2018, Abdullah Al-Beraidi, "The Trap of Neoliberalism for Gulf Cooperation Council Countries", https://online.ucpress.edu/caa/article-abstract/11/4/63/2579... PDF: https://caus.org.lb/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/The-Trap-of-N...
If only they'd spend it on trying to end homelessness instead.
It's kind of ridiculous that people still believe that they can get better at estimating work they've never done before.

The amount of hours lost by teams estimating work is insane.
It should be possible to boot both from "please, just use this config" instead of the probe cycle. That said, I "get" that many edge devices and components need blobs and resetting to a base state. I live in a world where SCSI settling time is a fact of life (in the rack) But it seems many chip based, FPGA based systems components also need this settling time. Seems a bit .. sad.

I truly don't see why kernel boot is so serialised sometimes. Yes, you want to be ABLE to. But you also want to not HAVE to.

My car boots pretty fast. I trust it. My phone should boot faster than it does.

I love that booting now includes "oh hai, this CPU has faults, lets patch around this in some ring-0 state before we quit into less awesome run levels and forget we did this" -its like the Dec System-10 UUO function: add these instructions we forgot about/miscoded/oops
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ChatGPT is also the fine tuning and prompting of the model. It’s a distinct set of weights from “raw” GPT-4/etc, it’s just not a foundational model.
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> https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/14/energy/russia-oil-exports...

>> The revenue is still down 43% from a year ago, the IEA said, as Russia is forced to sell its barrels to a more limited pool of customers who can negotiate greater discounts.

>> Still, sanctions have made a significant dent in Russia’s coffers. Last week, the government said declining energy revenues had contributed to a budget deficit of 2.4 trillion rubles ($29 billion) in the first three months of this year. Its overall income plunged nearly 21% compared with the same period in 2022, Reuters reported.

So is this article a lie or not? its your own source, you seem to want to very selectively quote it.
Thank you for the book recommendation. I dispense the snark. Open your mind to sound logical systems starting at axioms you might not have thought of beforehand. Or don't. I loose nothing either way.
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It's ambiguous because it's not clear what elements go into separate cells of the array.
Looks neat, is the code open to look at somewhere?
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I will never understand why we do not have this kind of device anymore. A small computer, running linux, proper keyboard, integrated LTE - it would be a messaging and writing dream.

Back in the days i developed custom software for the Revo, the SDK was a dream to work with as well.
Try Programmer Dvorak if you are too bothered with pressing Shift.
My point (which may not have been clear) was that when I explicitly told it that the versions of SQLite I'm using supports "returning," it still returned incorrect code. It did not use "returning", and repeatedly, even after being corrected, grabbed the row count instead of the column value.

I understand that it's a language model - my point was that in my experience, the depth of training data just isn't there for alternative implementations. It can do the things you ask one way, maybe two or three, but if you know how you actually want something done you're probably better off writing it yourself (for now).
The Era of the PDA was completely different and IMHO superior era to today's hyperconnected smartphones.

Yes, today's iPhones and Android devices do much much more, but the devices of older days were much more polished, to the point and streamlined.

iPhone is a great evolution of Palm hardware and design philosophy, but the gamification kills most applications, and oh, the notifications too. Glad that most of the useless notifications are turned off, so I can get some battery life and my attention back.
Interesting. Are there no easement laws in US? Here we have a law that means a landowner (in case of a public land a local council etc) can sue an owner of an adjacent plot to provide "an easement". An easement is essentially one or more of : right to pass on foot, or drive through, install services across his land (water/sewer pipe, electricity) etc. The court then decides if the claim is reasonable and if yes grants it while the landowner that has to provide the easement gets monetary compensation calculated in some standard way(taking into account neighboring sales to establish value etc).

On the surface it may seem this law infringes on private property rights(guaranteed by our constitution), but the spirit of it is to prevent infringement on enjoyment of one's property rights by being blocked by another landowner and there is no "precedents" in our legal system so each case is supposed to be decided on its merit and the judge's interpretation of the law alone.
Opera got sold and the people who used to work there now continue their work at Vivaldi. Love their browser: strong focus on keyboard users, fast, privacy oriented.

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> The CO2 concentrations around them probably causes insects to stay away.

Which insects would that be? I thought, if anything, CO2 attracts at least some insects (but, reading https://askentomologists.com/2020/08/25/email-question-are-f... only in combination with other stimuli)
I've decided most homeless social programs are a trap. By locating these programs in the centers of the highest cost of living cities, we can't reasonably expect them to succeed, assuming success is actually getting people housed and back on their feet. We need to encourage people to move some place they have a chance in hell of getting out of poverty.

Centering these programs in rich city centers is a failed policy and needs to be scrapped.
WTF-8 is bridging the gap here. I don't know of a UTF-32 equivalent, maybe it's impossible.
Well GPT 4 consistently defaults to returning 2 space indents, so clearly it has an opinion on the matter.
> Looking at it now, it seems to have an identity crisis now.

Opera was sold to a Chinese company in the mid-10s and introduced suspicious stuff like a built-in free VPN. It is basically ignored nowadays.

The original CEO started Vivaldi, which is an excellent browser in terms of features - tiling tabs [0] were a favourite of mine. Unfortunately it is closed-source and chatty [1], but I still like on devices where privacy is not a concern.

[0] https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/tabs/tab-tiling/

[1] https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/vivaldi
I’m not at all convinced they look carefully at health outcome and cost efficiency metrics before deciding where to point their private jets. Instead, I’ll bet (in part) they use high cost as a surrogate for quality. And the immediate availability of any test or consultation they desire.
Your resource link points to a missing page.

How much do the solution you build get transferred between clients? Or do you start from scratch every time you work for a client?
A high quality screen is much cheaper to design and build than a high quality keyboard, that's why.

Also half of the people buying these devices are buying for the show. This is why MacBooks are still called $2000 Facebook Machine sometimes.
You cannot really farm ("ranch"?) hippos because they are not suitable for domestication. You cannot keep them in herds (they fight each other) and you cannot safely handle them (they fight you). It's actually only a very small number of animals that are domesticable. That's why of the 1000s of species we mostly eat pigs, cows, sheep/goats, horses, and a few birds.
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Iltalehti removed 33 of its articles on the war in Ukraine
A good reminder about war news and fake news. Also media should be careful on who to trust.
Discussion for 'quine-relay': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33105706 (350 points | 7 months ago | 56 comments)
Sure, however that's actually decoding the string into Unicode scalar values, and then counting them whereas the length of the string is a direct property of the string reference (it's a fat pointer [address + length])

I don't remember, but I think the size hint is set on the Chars iterator, so it can see it has 17 bytes of data, it knows that can't encode more than 17 Unicode scalar values, nor can it encode fewer than five. But since we ask for an exact count that hint is unused, the actual decoding will take place.
Hello, thanks for pointing out that I missed this one. It looks like the methods exposed may be sufficient for implementing a sort. I also looked for vpalignr and vpshufb which seem to be missing, but I'm open to the possibility that I have missed these as well.
> It at least keeps people alive.

It may well keep people alive - in a way, but it's no solution if it creates a mass of people who are destroying themselves and the city community.

It's still death - just in slow motion.

> The problem is that the causes of homelessness are not addressed at all - there is nowhere near enough affordable housing stock.

Yes, and that's not going to change, so alternative solutions are required.
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Something I realized while skimming this thread, and moments before opening the article itself - I'm definitely underestimating things by factor of 2x, because I keep forgetting about the denominator - that my one work day isn't really 8 people-hours of project work!

In reality, it's closer to 3-4 people-hours on average, after I account for time consumed by team meetings, corporate paperwork, 1-on-1s, code reviews, lunch break, help requests from teammates, IT/devops doing maintenance on infrastructure, requests to opinionate on / get involved with some discussions about new projects or with new customers... - a lot of work that's mostly necessary, but isn't relevant to the particular thing I'm focusing on (or estimating).

So on top of the excellent framework from the article, I'm going to keep reminding myself that, for the purpose of estimation and project work, I'm working 3-hour days, not 8-hour days (and that's before we factor in any fuzzy human stuff like kids getting sick, becoming burned out, etc.).
In a way we don't disagree. I think citizens would be quite happy with a solution which makes the homeless invisible by sequestering them. Its probably also the best for the health of these people. But remember how we got here. Reagan shut down the asylums because they were expensive, messy and "inhumane". 20 years after reinstitutionalizing we will lament the cost of sedation and imprisonment.
It also lets amazon and contractors listen to you having sex, so not just the pictures.
How... does it work? What happens if you delete one of the characters in "eval"? What's the space in "e xit" about?
You're wrong about Macbooks. They're $2000 Reddit machines now.
I loved my 3a - which followed my Nokia communicator, which replaced my cassiopeia, none of which I actually really used lol... The 3a held the most promise with it's built in basic language... looking back I wish I had just enjoyed it more rather than being tied up in the illusion of the dot com boom. Thanks for the nostalgia!
Unless your real app generates pages that are indexable and optimized for search engines.
Brave currently offers groups, which can be minimized to achieve some of the effect you mention. But like you, I'm hoping they bring true nesting in the future!
Individual states cannot address most social issues, this is a known issue. This is why 101 issues like education and healthcare REQUIRE federal action.
Alternatively, it should have a wider field of view and if nothing is obviously very wrong let the driver move the wheel around without intervention.
Why? Is it illegal to discriminate based on place of birth?

It seems like it'd be politically palatable to allow places to run homeless programs that are only available to locals. There isn't a downside for anyone.
I'm surprised it has any value left.
That's what this program is doing - the mutated code with one character missing will output the original program.
Sure, but what am I to make of a coin that lands heads in China, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore (the latter of which has a higher GDP/person than the US)?

Maybe we should stop trying to fool ourselves into thinking that tails is a necessary evil and understand that it’s just an evil.
But what's the terminal velocity of a parachute backpack strapped to a mouse?
Awesome, thanks for clarifying. This makes a lot of sense to me.
Because it would be utterly useless for the 99.999% of the population.

And also because, like any dreams of that kind, it's better if it remains as such, you really do not want to see it shattered if anyone actually made such a device
I still have a Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D here. it's an awesome little machine, with a full keyboard.

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Wikipedia (keyboard closed): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus
On my street in the Mission there were mostly illegal immigrants living on the sidewalk in tents, they told me as much.
I completely agree. I’ve done quite a bit to get my phone experience to a useful level but it’s required a level of customization and careful use to create an experience that simply existed properly, out of the box, with the purposeful PDA operating systems of the 90s.
I grew up around poor people. I remember watching my cousin cry to my aunt for money to buy pens/pencils whilst my aunt knew she didn't have the money nor did her husband working 12 hours on a pineapple plantation.

I have another uncle who threw away 15 years of his life being a truck driver in the deserts of Saudi Arabia just so that his son and daughter could get a decent education. Meanwhile his wife (my aunt) raised two kids alone, whilst herding goats, chickens and managing a rubber planation.

Don't talk to me about privilege. These people are scum. Low lifes. Not only do they have access to handouts (especially in europe), they have access to an infinite amount of jobs.

How do you think tens of thousand of UNSKILLED people cross the border illegally with no money, work low skilled jobs and make enough money not only to sustain themselves but also to send money back.

You have no idea how privileged and uninformed you are. All these stories I told is because of communism. We are from one of the most blessed regions in the world, rivaling california and florida in beauty but communism ruined my state. Now everybody above 90 IQ is forced to be flee the country.

Everybody I know including myself are expats. Nobody wants to leave but they have no choice, there is no future here. So yeh I would have unfettered capitalism over your delusional childish theories of good vs bad.

Side Note: price increased are due to inflation caused by the expansion of the money supply. Guess what expands the money supply? Also in central banking system, this expansion is done through the banking system creating massive bubbles and extreme money concentrations.
My pet theory: we are in an ad bubble. Its really not as effective as Google/Facebook and such are telling their customers.

And I think generative AI is going to finally pop it.
From random evasive/tactical driving videos I've seen, you also need to be able to ram attackers, as well as the front wheel of a blocking car with your frame rail. This system would prevent you from using your car as a weapon in lawful self defense.
Because Android is a far more secure platform and Google is a far more trustworthy custodian of your data?

Or are you recommending that one opt out of a good portion of society by not using a smartphone? For most people that is not really a convenient option.
Well...

The logical (and operative) end of this thought process is "make them miserable and they'll leave."

Some/many politicians do implement these kinds of policies, but you'll rarely hear the quite part out loud.

Nasty problems breed dishonesty. Humane homeless policies increases homelessness, and the visibility of homelessness... especially if homeless migration is prevalent.

The inhumane homelessness reduction policy is "abuse homeless people, then some will go away" No one wants to admit the other side of whatever coin they like. C'est la politique.
There are three notions of length that make sense:

1. UTF-8 byte length

2. Code point count

3. Extended grapheme cluster count

#3 makes sense for users but it doesn’t make sense for programs which often need to work at the code point level.

I expect programming language string length to obey the law:

len(a ++ b) = len(a) + len(b)

For example, if I concatenate a two strings, one containing an “e” and one containing a combining acute accent, then I expect the length to be longer than a string containing a precomposed ‘é’ character. It’s in fact useful if strings that look the same but have different code points have different lengths, because it tells you that they’re not the same (and maybe you forgot to normalize something etc).

Code point length is the most useful for people who are actually writing string algorithms based upon Unicode.

UTF-8 length is useful for people who are treating strings as opaque byte sequences, but in that case they should be using a bytes/buffer object and not a string object, except in very low-level languages that don’t want to pay an encoding/decoding cost.

Extended grapheme cluster count is useful for people who are constructing certain kinds of user interfaces, where the number of characters is limited for a policy rather than memory or width reason.

i.e. when length limits are imposed by human policy, grapheme cluster count is the way to go. Length limits for memory reasons should rather be in UTF-8 bytes. If you need a limit for visual width reasons then you need to go measure the string in pixels, otherwise I’m going to put a U+FDFD in there and ruin your day.

UTF-16 length can GTFO.
You're right! I misread the diff command after mutation. Amazing!
That source quotes a study from LA county (not SF) in 2018, which discloses no methodology. So not a bullet-proof statistic by any means.
Code points are what you care about when you do any kind of text-based format encoding or decoding. Any of JSON, XML, HTML, YAML or whatever is defined by sequence of code points. There is no reason to complicate these with visual representation-specific concepts.

If you have to care about the visual representation of text then you probably need to be familiar with other concepts as well.
No not allowed in the sense of you’ll be sued. There’s a prior exception for using consumer GPUs to crypto mine in a data center.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-bans-consumer...
I don't think it's too cynical to say that business models (i.e. targetted advertising) of the Psions of today just don't fit with this kind of device. I never owned one but I remember ogling them and their high prices (to a 10 year old) in the Argos catalogue. Looking back on them now, the joy seems to be in how they strike what seems to be the perfect balance of dis/connectedness.