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>"The ruling that I, and most people, find to be damning is overturning Row. I don't give two shits about what you think of the actual issue. It doesn't matter if the previous ruling was wrong, the point of the courts ironically isn't to actually get it right but make a decision. After that the law has been interpreted and it's up to the legislature to say, "no I actually meant this." There is some room for exceptions on this but a split decision, split on party lines, and extremely tenuous reasoning, should be all the signal you need that you don't have the "this is fine because it's obviously wrong" to warrant an exception like this. "

You present many controversial philosophical opinions as facts, which many people disagree with. 'Stare decisis' is the term used to describe the notion that existing judgements should be given deference, even when they're clearly wrong. The degree to which courts defer to SD varies a great deal, with judges holding diverse views on the subject, and many judges using it more as an argument of convenience than a philosophy which they follow.

I will assume that by "Row" you mean "Roe v. Wade", and it is a very good counter-example to the statements which follow it. RvW was decided based on constitutional grounds, which means that even if a legislature thought it was wrong, there would be no way to 'clarify' the matter. Another problem is that lots of cases have split decisions, some on party lines. In addition to those, there have been many times when the judges have (almost) all been from the same party (the 1930s come to mind); should those cases get deference?
Do you think people are more likely to abuse drugs if they are on the streets, or if they are housed?
Most people in SF aren’t from California, let alone counting the unhoused population. America has freedom of movement, you just need a bus ticket, no hukou or residency permit needed.
I wouldn't worry about the rain forest since. Not only it's likely too wet and hot for the new wheat cultivars, but AFAIK deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is driven mostly by cattle-ranching and land speculation.
So some random hall was renamed and now everything is good. History is fixed and all damage is undone. Phew, good to know.
At the level of randoms with chainsaws, my first thought is to treat it as a drug production problem. Treat chainsaws like methamphetamine precursors.
The movie "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961) is the classic summary. It's a docu-drama, but reasonably accurate. All the big stars of the day, from Spencer Tracy to Judy Garland. William Shatner has a minor role.
> Fertilizers: The largest world food producer needs imported fertilizers. The irony: our main supplier is Russia. This basically prevents Brazil taking any side in the conflict and affects our (and our buyers) food prices as much as wheat.

No, it means you can’t take a position without paying a cost. A lot of countries used to depend on Russia for various things, and they have paid a price to change this.
I had a few Windows Phones too. The thing I loved was the lack of hamburger menu: UX standards put controls at the _bottom_ of the screen, or on a pane accessible via swipe. It was all within thumb range. You never had to awkwardly reach to the other end of the display or use your other hand.
There's a historic DNSSEC requirement from the USG, which is actually a big chunk of the reason anyone invested in DNSSEC in the early 201x's. But then it got rescinded, but then it stuck in some of the OMB documents, and it's become a weird political football (in the fleeting moments anybody thinks about it) so we're in a weird limbo where every once in awhile teams like Slack turn it on to close some FedGov business and fall off the entire Internet for a half day when DNSSEC eats them.
We don’t know where you’re based, so it’s difficult to respond to your precise argument.

But your argument sure sounds like we shouldn’t allow the permitting of SROs or boarding houses anymore, which is what parent is arguing for.

Forcing everyone to have a kitchenette and their own bathroom sounds like the sort of thing we want to “preserve everyone’s dignity”, but mostly it forces people on the edge out of housing altogether.

So I probably disagree with you that your current zoning is small enough.
I may have misunderstood your earlier comment as a claim that minimum size laws are beneficial and should be maintained.

If I understand correctly now, your argument is that minimum size laws are not currently a bottleneck for building denser apartments? If so that’s a valid point wrt what changes should be prioritized, but I think it’s fine to point out that minimum sizes also need to go.
Perhaps writing a book about hate (i.e.: how some people should be bred out of the population) that sets very hateful events in motion is a good criteria to establish when someone deserves criticism.
You provided no link to a methodology. But if it’s like other point in time surveys, it is only looking at people on the street or using services, and are well known for selection bias.
This idea that the "homeless problem in SF" is primarily a problem of "people being unable to afford homes in SF" is just laughable.

All you need to do is walk down almost any street in San Francisco and take a secondary glance at the homeless people you see, and its obvious that "can't afford a home" is just one of their many problems. Most of these people couldn't hold a job because they're addicted to really hardcore drugs (you might even get an opportunity to watch them smoke or inject some during this secondary glance), and often severely mentally ill. "Homeless" is to a great extent besides the point, this is a mental illness / drug addiction problem.

Even if you could find a solid place for $800/mo in SF, these people wouldn't be in it because the vast majority of them are unfit for employment. If that was really the issue then we could solve all this by just sending them to Omaha.
Scientists Successfully Transmit Space-Based Solar Power to Earth for First Time
Sure for private shares.

But what about public shares, which is what people are usually discussing?

Do publicly traded shares not have serial numbers or identification numbers or something to that effect?
Interesting, love it!

> on Turing they made the per-SM L1 cache coherent and on Ampere they made L2 cache significantly larger

Yeah Turing/Ampere are more than people give them credit for. They are quite a bit more powerful in compute in general iirc, the core is really Volta-descended iirc and not Pascal.

> so getting maximum throughput requires more actively designing for cache-friendly access patterns. The access pattern of radix sort will be very strided, so you get low cache utility for those longer distance swaps. If your problem fits into shared memory or even registers (for in-warp shuffles) then definitely, radix sort is super efficient!

Does dumping warp-sorted data into the buffer help? Eg can each warp or each block sort their output so what they're dumping in can be "galloped", like a partially-sorted mergesort or something? Finding those boundaries between output cells is (ironically) another prefix-scan lol.

Is it just that you need a different sort, or does sorting just not work that well now?

Are prefix-scans still good at all?

Interesting, anything in particular to read about it from Anandtech or Chips+Cheese or what? Or should I just read the whitepapers? (/sigh, reading primary sources, my only weakness)

(I really wish there was an Agner Fog for GPUs!)

> IIRC you can write a MOV instruction with the source operand in constant memory (rather than LDG.CONSTANT) which doesn’t put load on the load-store unit (LSU).

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What you describe is what happens in Canada.
Most homeless in Canada end up in Vancouver, because of weather and assistance offered. The other provinces, with the 6 months freezing winter, not as much assistance, and I think a bit of enforcement, causes the homeless to end up at Vancouver.
> and you're drinking koolaid if you think its still relevant for greenfield projects.

So I want to start a new GPU compute project today. Obviously this will primarily be deployed to AWS/Azure/etc, which means only high-end GPUs available are Nvidia. What do you recommend developing this application with?

The way I see it, you would have to be drinking koolaid to use anything besides CUDA.
As a professional furniture maker, I assure you that cutting mortises by hand is not high on anybody's list of cheap and quick things to do. At the furniture scale, we've had foot and spring powered mortiser since before we had electricity. For timber framing and similar scales, most of the waste has been bored out with manual boring machines and then the rest of the mortise is finished by hand.

Chopping is a pain in the ass, and people have been doing their best to avoid it for centuries. Hell, we're still inventing new ways to cut mortises: see the Festool Domino, which is recent enough to still be protected by patents.
I always assumed the internet was headed for a meta layer where browsers act to create a wiki like community on top of the content and users become a global out of band force that attach forums, edits, changes out of band. This would democratize any new site and content would be more valuable that user lockins.

With AI, this might be closer to possible. The trick is find reliable content to anchor to arbitrary configuration of pages.
Somebody put chatGPT in my Cheerios, now they can intelligently spell ooooo.
It's all a part of the same picture. Details and figures may vary a little based on which periods are used for reference, but the overall story remains the same. As of April, according to RU FinMin, income from oil&gas is down -52% YoY, expenditure up +26%, deficit at 30%. In a departure from the usual dry and humorless style of official press releases, they describe outlook as positive.

And even these figures are artificially pumped by factors like the previously mentioned "trade in local currencies". India pays for oil in rupees, which are piling up in Indian banks because there is no use for them. Russia has no comparable demand for Indian goods, can't exhange rupees for other currencies, can't pay to third countries in rupees, and is unwilling to invest that money in India. Oil flows to India, nothing comes back.

If this is how Russia "successfully skirts western sanctions", then may it continue for a long time.
I’m not the poster you replied to, but for starters, the problem is not that we don’t have enough money. The whole article is about how CA spent $17B and got so little for it.

So how is having even more state money via LVT going to do anything? We’re just funneling this money into whatever black hole it’s going into
No, they aren't happening. Everybody is sanitizing all of their user inputs in against all possible vectors and when administrators visit such user generated content and their cookies just happen to expire at that moment, they just enter their password into the dialog securely and go about their day. Their password does not grant any sort of elevated privilege to any systems.

Stop ruminating on such ridiculous fantasies and occupy your mind with something productive instead.
But it's still the same risk of normal everyday trading of shares.

So it does seem pretty far-fetched to me. If you followed that logic, the entire stock market would grind to a halt.
Am I the only one who use a separate profile in the browser and always open new links in private tabs?
How well has that worked with meth?

A better analogy with the drug war would be to copy a country that manages meth by managing addiction.

Offer better alternative and employment to the farmers and loggers. Obviously this isn’t easy.
Or maybe it's because forcibly moving people to the middle of nowhere isn't something most people would consider acceptable.
As the founder of Ayvri which made 3D virtual worlds/digital twins of outdoor sports events and other scenic flythroughs, I love seeing this.

Part of me loves it because I recall telling VCs about 5 years ago that we would be increasing the resolution of our 3D worlds, and making more engaging by using AI to enhance the 3D world we had already built.

I got laughed at, and told that I didn't know what I was talking about. This was pre-facebook getting into the metaverse, and I was labelling it "spatial media".

Even with customers and revenue, nobody wanted to have anything to do with us.

We sold the technology and our patents last year, as the team had moved onto bigger and better things, but I love seeing how well this future is progressing.
As an entrepreuner, i struggled to find freelancers, ChatGPT fixed that problem for me.. Addition to RegExps & ML i use to automate most of my work.

I think finding right people and managing them is pain in the ass
Elon Musk is accused of insider trading by investors in Dogecoin lawsuit
this is exactly how I feel! in school, the idea of pool/arena allocators wasn't touched upon at all—the options, as I was presented them, were either "manual memory management" (malloc/free/new/delete), "RAII" (smart pointers), or "garbage collection". I had not heard of the concept of "lifetimes", outside of scopes when using RAII, until later, and even then probably only after Rust made that be like it's whole thing.

nobody ever told me, check it out, it's not hard to make like the dumbest possible "bump allocator", where you allocate a hunk of memory and dole it out bit by bit as the application requests it, and then later you can just free the whole hunk at once… or even just move the bump pointer back to the start, and reuse it next frame/request/etc.! that's like 95+% of the reason why people reach for things like garbage collection to begin with, and it seems so obvious in hindsight!

actually, it was this top-shelf HN comment that really spelled it all out for me, and again, it all seems so obvious in hindsight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26443768&p=2#26451692
Why So Many People Are Moving to the U.K
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Probably the closest to a Pico in terms of being symmetrical would be the $9 Milk-V duo with two 1 GHz C906 cores (with vector units), and 64 MB RAM. It's obviously far more powerful than the Pico. And isn't available outside China yet.

Taking a step down to things that are actually available, the Sipeed M1s Dock and Pine64 Ox64 use the BL808 chip which has one 320 MHz 32 bit core, one 480 MHz 64 bit core (with vector processor), and a 3rd smaller 32 bit core that is intended to be dedicated to running the WIFI/BT. This chip also has 64 MB of on-chip RAM. The Ox64 is $6 or $8 depending on how big a flash chip (2 MB or 16 MB) it has. The M1s is a little more.

Going back to 2019, the Kendryte K210 chip has two 400 MHz 64 bit cores and 8 MB of RAM. There have been a ton of boards using it, especially from Sipeed but it's a bit more expensive than the newer chips.

There are tons of cheaper boards, but they tend to be single core and only a few KB to few hundred KB of RAM.
But it also seems likely that companies will decide to take advantage of the reduced liability (especially now it's confirmed and not just theorized) and investors will just price in the risk difference.
Do you have a writeup or video of the aim bot you made? Would love to see it!
Part of that "speedy" feeling, I often describe as the UI feeling almost slippery. Like everything on the glass just slipped across your fingers. The keyboard was amazing, and so quick.

I thought moving to a 120hz display would get that feeling back, but it still doesn't have the slippery feeling.
It's a perverse incentive. When people figure out the loophole, people who don't need the help will fill up all the allotted space, because who doesn't want free rent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Quote from anywhere in particular?
I'm amused that there are stories for both "self driving cars are impossible", and "there are too many Waymo self driving cars on the streets in my neighborhood".
> You know what would count as an adaptation? Large fractions of population becoming immiserated and either dying off or living in poverty at the margins.

> Mere survival is the wrong metric.

People don't have to live in cities. Knowledge work has brought many people to cities and the absence of it will reverse that trend. It is welfare that keeps impoverished people living in cities.
Show HN: ThinkTask – Unleash the Power of ChatGPT in Task Management
Amazing what you can accomplish by threatening someone’s livelihood in the middle of a pandemic. No coercion at all, right?
What is clear however is the evident power savings in implementing cultured neural networks vs digital ones for a given network capacity.
Yes, what possible moral problems could there be from using the one substance in the universe that we know produces sentience to build machines to play Pong?
Relevant part of a weirdly long (IMO) article: "...Kirkpatrick didn’t specify the types of sensors or where they will be located."
are you seriously calling Ron Gilbert a rookie
I bought a timeshare. And am happy about it
Our constitution requires due process before you can force anyone to do anything. You also can't ban people from public land, because it is public. Imagine if the government created a massive park and only allowed rich people to use it. That's technically the same thing, except you are the rich people (relatively).

It's tricky.
This was (wait for it) interesting, but every item in "The Index of the Interesting" could be generalized as "Counterintuitive" or "Surprising." Regardless of the details, they all involve subverting expectations, assumptions or conventional wisdom. They're what Merlin Mann would call (checks username) "Turns Out."

As someone who is interested in what makes something interesting, I think the author has only part of the puzzle—what I would call Contrast.

I think Pattern is also inherently interesting. Imagine a researcher releases one paper every year applying their theory to different domains. Even if the papers themselves are not that interesting, the pattern is. Humans love to find patterns. But patterns can become tiring (think of an endless checkerboard pattern). If the researcher suddenly stops after 20 years, that's interesting—because breaking a pattern is Contrast.

Another inherently interesting thing is Relation. The transition between the bone and the spaceship in 2001 is interesting partially because of Contrast but also because of Relation—they're both images of "tools." One reason why it's exciting when a theory from one discipline is applied to a different discipline is that it suggests new relations, new links. "Canadian Tuxedo" is mostly funny/interesting because of the association it creates, versus the contrast between formalwear and denim.

Finally, there are certain subjects which are interesting to most people, but this is far more variable. In order, people tend to be most interested in: themselves, people they know, humans like them, humans very unlike them, humans in general, certain animals, and some cool plants. We prefer a photo of our own child over a photo of a stranger's kitten, (and that photo of a stranger's kitten over a photo of lichen) for reasons that are baked into our DNA. And a theory about kittens is also going to be more inherently interesting than a theory about lichen to a lay person.
> Nevertheless, we still need imported wheat. Ukraine war and dollar variations literary affect our bread.

This would happen imports or not. So long as wheat exports are allowed, the local price will settle on the world price as the product is able to flow to the highest bidder. An event like the Ukraine war will impact someone and that will drive the world price up.
Fix the root of the problem, not the symptom. The name of the letter W is in itself too long and doesn't make sense anymore, anyway. The name of the letter, therefore, should be changed so when it's pronounced, it sounds similar to the names of many other letters (B, C, D, E, G, etc., and Z except in Commonwealth countries). Thus "www" when spoken would be pronounced "wee wee wee".
> I do not understand this, and how this is even practical. Ok so we should stop spend on shelters, mental health services and should focus on giving homes.

I didn't say we should stop spending on those things, I said that spending money on those things does not solve homelessness.

> We obviously do not have unlimited resources so the state buys x homes and comes up with a criteria of which homeless people get the free home.

Notably, in places where this has been tried, the effectiveness of giving people homes is such that it's cheaper to give them homes than to do what we're doing.

> What duration dow e provide the free home for? Who pays for maintainence of the home/appliances etc.

If your criticism is that I didn't draft a detailed legislation in a Hacker News post: that's the normal way that people write Hacker News posts. These are obviously not unanswerable questions as you are presenting them to be, but there would need to be some work to figure out what good answers are. Obviously.

> Now, if I am working hard and making minimum wage and struggling to make rent, would that not set wrong incentives to just set myself up to the criteria to get a free home?

Surely you could come up with a solution to this problem if you were trying to solve it instead of argue against helping homeless people.

A higher minimum wage, perhaps? Better aid for people in lower income brackets?

> What about the people who do not qualify, Wil they still be homeless?

Bro, your moral compass is broken. This isn't difficult--you're just making up absurd problems. If a person is homeless and they don't qualify, the qualifications are wrong. That's obvious, and the only reason it's not obvious to you is that your goals are about maintaining a fundamentally broken system rather than creating a society that actually cares for its citizens.

> If I get a free home, what's my incentive to work towards a life where I work harder to earn more to disqualify myself from free housing?

Given we demonstrably have billionaires "working" for money far beyond the ability to spend the money they make, I'm not sure why you suddenly think that greed stops at "I have a place to live" when it's convenient for your argument.

> How does that work in reality?

How does what we're doing work in reality? (It doesn't).
> Russian gas, which has caused widespread misery in Europe.

I agree with you cynicism about the free market, but the situation with Russian gas turned out way better than was feared. Party this was due to a mild winter but the forecasts were very grim for a while there.
Let's see, what can I find on youtube in a couple minutes of searching. In increasing order of wrongness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLRRBHNjCn4 There's a car that it's reasonable to worry about, but it was clearly braking and almost stopped by the time AEB kicked in, and AEB kept going as that car went to zero.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO6tJnM_HSs Adaptive cruise was already in control and working fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCk6yrN453c Absolutely nothing in front.

And whatever happened here probably counts: https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-auto...
I struggled with a very deficient linear algebra course from my local university in 2009-2010. Fortunately I discovered Gilbert Strang's book and OCW lectures, which gave me the motivation to continue. I still own that copy.
And logging, mostly to supply rich countries with some exotic timber.
I'd like a way to get rid of my RV without going through a dealer or a private sale. Perhaps CA can pay blue book value and hand these things out
But the inverse is also true, no? It only takes one billionaire to ruin countless lives.
Is it actually ironic? Weren’t the soviets well-known for show trials? That is, were they arguing for a legal process or a legitimising one? I don’t know the reason for the British preference but I do feel there are arguments for it, e.g. if such a tribunal was expected to have predetermined results, why associate your legitimate legal system with it.