skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my area, housing is in a terrible state. My house almost doubled in price every 5 years. I down graded into a town house that 10 years ago was $130,000 new, they are selling for $500,000 now. I was talking to someone that works for the city and they told me my current townhouse were originally 'low income housing'. No wonder we have such an explosion of homeless people.

We've had conservative and liberal governments here, our government has failed us, doesn't matter which direction you want to point and blame for our current unsustainable housing.
"Who built Thebes of the seven gates?

In the books you will read the names of kings.

Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?"
You can get a addon called 'SponsorBlock' that fixes in-video sponsored segments. It allows anybody to submit timestamps for sponsored segments, and tag them in various ways. Its on Chrome too I think.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
Localization and support for multiple character sets turns out to be an incredibly hard problem that remains unsolved.

Unicode is horrible mess to deal with and I hate it with a passion, but as terrible as it is, nobody has come up with a better solution. I think it's because there literally is no good solution to the problem.
The article said she was shaping it, which obviously means that she is actually involved.

I think the question is whether you can actually still do anything that would make it worse, seems like a tough challenge.
They won't need to revolt, they'll just stop participating in the rigged game which will bring the game to it's knees.
I've scanned the codebase and IMO the statement is mostly misleading. I think LangChain agents (which this is a thin wrapper around) do have some default compression/reranking behavior to help fit relevant context into the context window, but it's very, very, very far from actually infinite short-term memory.

I think the framing where the statement could be considered true is if you assume "memory = persistent storage", which is IMO not what most people will do.

Note: I'm not trying to imply the authors are being intentionally misleading.
No way I want Apple's obsessions to go into the infrastructure. Please no even as a thought.
> being tall isn’t recognized as an ADA-covered disability

There is no formal "whitelist" of "ADA-covered disabilities".

https://askjan.org/topics/Americans-with-Disabilities-Act-Am...

According to this, height is only not a factor if considered within the "normal" range. The fact that the distance between seats is slightly smaller than my femurs would seem to signify that the airline don't consider my height to be within the normal range, and I'm at the low-end of "really tall".

If we can agree that being above a certain height could be considered an impairment according to the ADA under certain circumstances, then consider that the ADA protects someone who has a "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities".

Besides the immediate physical discomfort, sitting in cramped spaces raises your risk of deep vein thrombosis while flying. Tall people are already more prone to DVT, and the spaces are even more cramped for us.
I'm not sure people outright have more money. I think a big part of it is that the average person has access to a lot of credit.

Generally the way I suspect it goes is

1. Draw from savings to buy essential goods.

2. Slowly load whatever you can't afford on your credit cards.

3. Get new credit cards before you start missing payments.

4. Load more on your cards.

5. Have nowhere else to go so start taking payday loans.

6. Run out of money.

Which is in stark contrast to pre-2000s recessions where access to credit was far more limited.

As it is currently, if you've had a credit card, it is incredibly easy to get more and you can get an incredibly large amount of accessible credit. The average american has around 30k USD in available credit (10k for 18-22 and 20k for 23-38 but 30k overall) with only around 5k or less of that utilized on average. That's a lot of money that companies can draw on before consumers pockets are truly empty.

https://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/what-is-the-av...
Why not just create a consumer google account for purposes like this?
Can someone summarize how it achieves "provable correctness"?
I cant stop thinking about how cool it will be to finally remove all these monitors and wires from my desk. Operating inside of a virtual space has an amazing appeal to me to de clutter desk and office space area. Scale screens bigger and smaller and not be confined to: tight windows, bringing in more physical screens, setting them all up, switching between work spaces with hotkeys. Even the virtual workspace on a single physical screen uses extra mental RAM capacity to always be remembering which space the tabs are and where. This evolution frees up my neck, my posture, minus the bit of weight on my head, I can be sitting or standing. This next development from this company I'm connected to seems to go to such a more natural way of thinking about and interacting with our computing space. Besides all the great human side of it's value added, this headset is tangible for me because it's connected to an ecosystem that I'm part of. If I were to get a Quest for example, now what? I'm connected to Facebook? Great... The price for Apple Vision is pretty high but damn it's a pretty amazing piece of technology, and blows most other major headsets out of the water, there's over 20 million pixels for each eye for God's sake. The amount of virtual real estate we're talking about is like walls of 4k screens all wired together throughout your house a hundred different HDMI/DVI/DisplayPort Adapters to GPUs, what a freakin nightmare that would be. Easily all costing well over $3.5k.
It seems to be randomly rolled out. I had that happen for a while. Make sure you check your settings to see if its in the enable experimental features list.
Bill to Stop Employees Confronting Shoplifters Passed by California Senate
And the thing you’re missing is that they are both incentivized but for different reasons. Corporations mostly just want your money. Governments seek power, or rather the officers of government seek power.

> That is, there isn't a way for one party to hold control over that operation and keep it hidden to such a degree as to not risk losing that power when different people get elected.

If different people get elected. You asked what people would use a surveillance fielded by the US government to do, and the answer is: take out the competition, or try to. I’m not judging whether it would be successful, that would come down to the actual facts and circumstances of such a surveillance program and the people behind it, but with such a surveillance program in place you have a much better shot than without one at holding power long enough to take out the competition. And while you’re at it, why not change the rules of the game? And then once you’ve changed the rules of the game, why not change the entire system in which the game is played?

America is not exceptional in a way that would make the American public immune to this, but we are very resistant, as you have alluded to, to the US government trying in part because there is enough of us that are by disposition so extremely skeptical of anything the government wants to do for good or for ill that yeah, it wouldn’t be an easy operation to clandestinely pull off. But if someone did, they would use it to take out the competition.
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Doctors Forced to Remove Patient's Brain Implant After the Maker Went Bust
If you wanted to split hairs this thin, you wouldn't use any project with at least one german citizen as contributor, since they can never truly yield all copyright on a work. You'll be fine. Anonymous contributions to free software (or even entire releases done anonymously, e.g. Bitcoin) are not actually uncommon.

As I said, very weird hangup to have, definitely not motivated by other reasons.
In that very definition, it is rape.

Look at any thread on any social media platform featuring bestiality, esp. regarding dogs or cats. The vast majority of people will explicitly use the word rape, and also call for all kinds of horrible punishments for the perpetrator.

I can think of no sensible, morally relevant difference between these instances and what happens to female animals through artificial insemination. "It doesnt hurt" isn't an excuse, because you can certainly think of bestiality that doesn't hurt the animal (or features physical pain to the same degree as artificial insemination).
I obviously feel the same way, but this is an extremely controversial topic apparently. The last time I posted this opinion, I got bombarded with angry 'I paid for the feature so I'm using it' replies.

Just set a mild recline to all seats and lock it in. Making them adjustable is just asking for conflict.
There's no reason you would be a criminal, if they're comfortable taking so much cash (you didn't specify how much, dealers may vary in how willing they are to accept very large cash purchases) they will doubtless be comfortable filling out the mandatory reporting.

The investigators are looking for patterns, and latchkey having one dead grandma and buying one car isn't a pattern. They can't see patterns if the data which would make up the pattern isn't recorded, so that why the data is collected.
Mexican Spanish didn't work at all. It asked me "Como te llamas" and I replied, "Me llamo Isaac", which got speech-recognized into some French sentence. I tried again saying "Si, me llamo Isaac" and it got recognized as some gibberish like "C. Mi anno E Sack" or something.
I am also working on an app for learning langues and I must say, you've built quite a lot in 6-7 months!

Gaining and retaining users is always a problem that startups face. With language learning apps, it's hard because the marketplace is already crowded and learners will stop when they've learned a sufficient amount or just give up.

Prioritizing marketing and promotion can be difficult because it's very easy to get sucked into a project improving the product or adding a new feature. I think you're probably in need of content that users will feel compelled to share on social media and other places. You've gotten your app on HN and ProductHunt, Good job.

Some feedback - I tried your app for Spanish. I am somewhere between A2 and B1 level. It was slow to send the recording then provide a response, the speed would make it impractical to use in a practice setting. I wanted to type in instead of speak because I knew it was going to take some time for it to process.

As a learner, I think that chat bots have a place but I much prefer to spend my time talking to a real person over an ai/chat bot. I'd rather it ask me what I wanted to talk about than having a really boring conversation (what's your name? what do you do? where are you from?, etc.)

What level would you say the majority of users that are using your app are?

Good luck with your app, it's a huge effort.
I'd settle for any amount of factual accuracy. One thing it is particularly bad at is units. Ask Bard to list countries that are about the same size as Alberta, Canada. It will give you countries that are 40% the size of Alberta because it mixes up miles and kilometers. And it makes unit errors like that all the time.
I'm with you as far as input goes, but I don't understand this at all:

>Also: People say that learners don't get as much chances to output as they would like. That isn't mostly true. And even farther from the truth is to say that outputting more would lead to better language acquisition.

Isn't the only way (for most people) to actually learn a language to speak it as much as possible?
> Correct me if I am wrong but we are only able to do science around the other stars in the Milky way (e.g. exoplanet observations)

Oh yeah and on top of that the way we detect planets around stars creates a extreme bias on dwarf stars since a positive detection needs a few transits before confirmation of a planet can be made. And since dwarf planets transit within days/weeks sun like stars take around a year so it would take 3 years of observation to find an Earth around a sun-like star. But I have heard science communicators imply that what we have detected so far is representative of what is out there which is absurd.

If FTL is impossible(which I doubt since it's only "impossible" in some capacity in Special Relativity. But Special Relativity does not describe our universe, General Relativity does and even that has limits),then not seeing Aliens is not a paradox at all considering radio waves only go out a few light years, and the distances are just too great. And if there are any Alien probes in our solar system sitting on IO or some moon we'd have no idea since we have only done flybys and never truly scanned the surfaces.
I'm looking for this but can't find it, how does this project compare to differential dataflow?

As a sibling commenter mentioned, it's built on timely dataflow (which is lower-level), but that already has differential dataflow[0] built on top of it by the same authors.

How do they differ?

(btw. I think dataflow is very cool as a computing model (not just timely dataflow), to the point of building OctoSQL[1] around it, so I'm really curious about the details here)

[0]: https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow

[1]: https://github.com/cube2222/octosql
There are whole towns in the United States that were built in a year during the baby boom. It is possible whether or not the government is willing to make it happen is a completely different issue.
Ableton Live has something that can convert audio to midi.

Then there are open source programs that can convert midi to sheet music.

I have tried the process, but you tend to get artifacts in the midi from Ableton.

You have to know a little bit about music theory to clean it up.
This is shorter for starters:

print(bin(0x443214c74254b635cf84653a56d7c675be77df)[2:])

May be possible to shave off a few bytes with f'..' strings, or see if there are any repeating patterns, I'm not the sort who enjoys "code golfing", but "use base-16 to represent a base-2 number more compactly" seems fairly obvious to me.
Farnham Street blogs as a pdf
Oh, and BTW: Plan-9, the OS utf-8 was specifically invented for did actually enforce utf-8 for filenames.
Warehouse (https://github.com/pypi/warehouse) uses the Apache 2.0 License, I wonder how easy it would be to set up a PaaS company to do this.
Everywhere you go in Metro Vancouver is ridiculous.
I just don’t want to manage switching accounts or profiles or whatever, plus I’m salty about it, plus people think it’s the runner-up so I’ll use ChatGPT for now.
Bit of a weird take. Are you experiencing a lot of problems with "fan edits" of books that are old enough to be in the public domain?
Well, there is the Go train for the GTA and some areas are still pretty cheap like Hamilton which is a little over $650k for a two bedroom. But I agree with the overall point that housing is too expensive in Canada.
I'm a graphics programmer and basically write Vulkan code full time. It's an amazing and excellent API with an absolutely crazy good documentation. I've done some DirectX and Metal work too, and while they are definitely less verbose, I find them much harder to use because I have to rely on my intuition and prior experience for how things interact with each other. With Vulkan, it's spelled out for me in the specification.

Yes, Vulkan comes with more boilerplate. But who cares? Vulkan was meant to write your engine in, not something you call directly from client game code. It works extremely well and Khronos deeply cares about Vulkan and continuously improves it. Part of the verbosity also comes from the fact that Vulkan scales from small embedded SoCs to big gaming GPUs and everything inbetween, so the API has to cover a lot of potential hardware quirks. Viewing Vulkan as a kinda low level HAL helps explain a lot of the verbosity.

Anyways, long story short, I absolutely love working with Vulkan and after having been Vulkan programmer since basically day 1 of its existence, you can take it from my cold dead hands.
It’s actually possible it’s all those reasons, with some contributing more than others
I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't useful for practical purposes. That is what the article is about. I just meant to point out that there are limits and disadvantages to work around. I'm expecting to make this useful they will have to have a team to constantly remap the earth, and send those updates to whoever needs the information.
I really don't understand your requirements.
I'm just not in charge of build and release. The improvements needed seem obvious to me.
ooof. Every option is unsavory regarding this discussion.
I would hope that at some point sub system, maintainers would be paid and they would manage the volunteers who are sending in the patches.
> He is the landlord.

He is only the rent-seeker my dude.

Now that one of the avenues for rent-seeking is declining, they cry that the peasantry should return to the office, may the passive income never die.
> There are ways he could have gotten himself smuggled out of Russia if that is what he truly wanted.

Wait what? Are you seriously asserting that if you place a random person in an airport in a random country that person is going to begin to have the knowledge needed to establish the right contacts (and pay them) to smuggle them out of the airport, much less the country?

This isn't a spy thriller, Snowden is a computer geek, not Jason Borne.
As a country we're still fewer than the population of a lot of global cites, but unfortunately for the environment, to survive we also need heat 10 months a year and air conditioning for the other 3, the distances between our major cities are further than most world capitals from one another, and our labour costs are relatively astronomical to everywhere else on earth. We have no new nuclear projects underway for energy needs, which will be interesting. Our country still runs mainly on resource wealth, making democracy pretty much unnecessary for a government to fund itself so long as it can use those resources to pay to secure it. The resource wealth means the government will spend most of its time managing economic Dutch Disease problems that will undermine actual organic economic growth.

I get that the strategy is to make it a technologically enabled new-world planned society and economy using stakeholder capitalism, (where the stakeholders appear to be represented mainly by the WEF, but whatever), and you essentially need to make sure people with obsolete values and ensconced interests don't stand in the way of it to be able to implement that - but I think this rapid population rise is a harbinger for harder times in the near term. In the long term we're all dead, so it's hard to be enthusiastic about it.
Come back wm4, mpv needs you
If you clarify the prompt a little (I used Write a python script that can produce this pattern:), GPT-4 gave me this:

To generate the given pattern, we need to identify the structure. After analyzing, it seems that the pattern follows a certain structure where the binary representation of each number from 1 to 15 is preceded by a certain number of zeroes. Here's a python script to generate such a pattern:

def generate_pattern():
pattern = ""
for i in range(1, 16):
# Convert i to binary and remove the "0b" prefix.
binary = bin(i)[2:]
# Number of zeroes to add before each binary.
zeroes = 5 - len(binary)
# Add binary to pattern with zeroes.
pattern += "0" \* zeroes + binary
return pattern

print(generate_pattern())

The script starts by iterating through numbers from 1 to 15. For each number, it converts the number to a binary string and removes the "0b" prefix that Python adds by default. It calculates the number of zeroes to add before the binary string to maintain a fixed width of 5 characters, and then adds the binary string to the pattern with the preceding zeroes. Finally, it returns the complete pattern.

Which outputs:
000010001000011001000010100110001110100001001010100101101100011010111001111

It's missing the first set of zero's, but matches otherwise.

So, I guess it's AGI then.
It says Ultra, but ray tracing is not supported so it is not really "ultra".
Add that people today on average consume 10x-100x more energy than strictly needed for survival, and energy consumption may only need to go up about 10x.

Now, if on top of the solar energy, we assuem that we will have fusion energy available within a few 100 years, energy available may easily grow way more than 100x of today's production.

Also, if efficiency continues to increase, for instance due to AI development, nanotech, biotech, etc, we may be able to build almost any amount of infrastructure given the atoms we have available in the Earth's crust. Including multi-story farms, feeding electric lighting to power photosynthesis.

In fact, I'm not aware of any hard limits anywhere near this side of 1 billion people. As far as I know, there are billions of billions of kg of most critical elements available on earth, or in the order of 1+ billion kg per person, even if we're 1 billion people. Our ability to organize these atoms into whatever combination we want (including human bodies) is primarily limited by energy.

And even with 1 billion people, it will take a while before we run out of hydrogen for fusion power.
This guy is missing something and a bit myopic. The Visions real vision is convenience. No more holding the phone to absorb content, everywhere entertainment, immersive experiences, everything always available. The device is no where near the ideal form of just a light weight glasses, or even contacts. Between here and the future it will get more and more portable.
Vision Pro -> Big chunky snowboard glasses

Vision -> Just regular ol glasses with all the tech miniaturised after a couple pro versions
> It shows us a time when entering a virtual world required a gizmo

"When"? You mean, the present, like how I'm reading this article?
Not only housing, but also health care. The system is far overcapacity in most urban areas. There's just not enough doctors, care homes, or hospital beds for the entire country. It was a major reason for me expatriating. The housing issue, and stagflation was also a major contributor, but I had to seriously ask myself if I felt safe getting old in Canada. And the answer was a resounding no.
You're being downvoted but I think this is good harsh feedback.

Open source, public domain products are better. Lots of engineers understand that and want to make those things. But the laws currently incentivize doing things the wrong way.

We can either change the laws, or go back to first principles and see if there might be open source business models that haven't been tried yet.
It doesn't take much to check the output of that and see it isn't off by a large amount.

As for the answer, look at it in groups of 5 bits.
> Well, if it internally uses a lookup table and doesn't do bounds checking, then it can fail this way, and that failure will propagate to the caller.

True, but I would say that wouldn't count as a reasonable implementation.
Not everyone could afford the higher fares, so the airline could not operate those flights profitably.
> There's no reason all the rest of your software needs to pay for Microsoft's mistake.

How is it a mistake when UTF was not even a thing when the NT kernel was developed?
Some cycles take a couple generations to pass. We can't just say "this too shall pass".