skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very large chunk of homeless people are either:

1. Employed but unable to afford the COL of the area.

2. Too mentally unwell to hold down a job, possibly due to a history of hard drug addiction.

I agree that some homeless people can be meaningfully helped through drug addiction treatment and/or employment programs, but it won't solve the whole problem.
That's not what I expected to see :)
Ok, given your prescience about the origin of COVID, how did that influence the actions you took to mitigate its effects?
Attention is just convolution in a Hopf algebra.
Yep. This is totally me.

It's as if my brain isn't wired to process "good news" or "triumph". The closest thing to that is rather final relief from some huge pain in the ass, and even that's fleeting. I think I could be told I just won a billion dollars, and I'd focus on whatever my next problem is in like 15 minutes.

And the things I do are usually not huge pains in the ass since I usually only do stuff when I enjoy the journey. The destination can be nice, but not just because I'm stoked about reaching it.
Interesting, I do my shopping out of the Bothell QFC so that's my frame of reference. It must be a more Seattle proper thing. I guess Bothell is also nominally a college town so maybe it's just students looking for cheap, bad beer. I admit I can't remember the configuration of the beer section of the U Village QFC back in the day, although I know they had a seperate entrance for harder alcohol.
That's the real solution to something like this - blanket the whole city so there's no reason to congregate near the library.

Or explicitly put up free wi-fi where you want the homeless to congregate.
Yeah I considered adding that "following the law" is quite the assumption. My understanding is that this form of wage theft, minimum violation, whatever, is pretty widespread.
I have a very surface level knowledge of all this stuff, but this is what I would think would happen as well. Seems like a fairly lossy process that might work for “point lookup” questions but not “range scans” like summarizing.
Would be able to tell that to someone ?

I know i wouldn't, i would just feel like shit. Because it is shity.

I'd rather have him keep doing silly video and dedicate 10% of his revenues to non-profit, period, no filming, totally anonymously.
Google long ago decided that "No results found" is never an acceptable response. Same with regular Google search. It will just choose arbitrary things to show you instead.

It's one of the things that has reduced the usefulness of these tools.
That's your perspective. That's when -your- behavior doesn't match your previous behavior.

What they are looking for in a different context is "Customer A reported unauthorized transactions, and so did Customers B through D. Each of these customers, prior to these reports, all had a transaction occur at XYZ gas station, so is there a skimming problem at that gas station?"
Meanwhile people say "But the homeless people will just use public wifi for porn!"

Like... okay, and what are you using your wifi for?

Regardless, removing this would just make them more stressed and irratic. There are worse things than legal porn on public wifi. If this tradeoff means 1% of them feel relaxed enough to actually do a job search afterward, and get motivated to get money for a more comfortable, more private place, then it's worth it.

But this is all a red-herring and not the real issue.

The lack of a panacea--a silver bullet solution to homelessness--does not mean all our resources are just a suboptimal waste. These incremental improvements are worthwhile when the cost tradeoff is so tiny (e.g. an internet modem with a properly configured firewall basically runs itself)
I've been very much hoping that Apollo and the rest just pivot to being amazing Lemmy/kbin clients, with multiple instances pre-configured to use. That would be the biggest coup of all. Which is exactly what I thought had happened when I saw a title of "Apollo Remastered".

'Oh, you're going to price us all out? You don't care about third party client users? That's fine, I guess you won't care if hundreds of thousands of users suddenly have a client for a different site installed when they go to open reddit.'
No, I think software companies work well with startup funding simply because of the strange effect that unit costs have on software profits.

The way computer (and especially internet) companies work is that once you have a working product, you can sell it a practically infinite number of times for practically zero marginal cost.

This means that the successful software/internet companies are INCREDIBLY profitable, since they can sell the same product millions of times.

Are startup investors good at predicting which company is going to be successful? Oh god no, they are awful at it. 90% of the companies they invest in fail completely.

It doesn't matter, though, because they only need one success to make all those failures worth it. The cost of investing in a failure is WAY lower than the cost for NOT investing in a success.

This means they don't really care that they can't evaluate which companies will be successful, they just cast a wide enough net to not miss the successes.
Well, Your Honor, Facebook the social media site is actually owned by Facebook Limited, an Irish company owned by a British trust with shareholders consisting of Meta Limited (Hong Kong) and Meta Limited (Seychelles). Believe it or not, Facebook actually loses money! The distantly related company of Meta Inc (owned by Meta Limited (Ireland)), does make some money from advertising, but it pays Facebook Limited a recurring subscription of $99 million per annum for a royalty-free, exclusive license to its newsfeed API.

So we're sorry, Your Honor, but New York courts have no jurisdiction here, and even if they did, the plaintiffs are wrong to assert that "Facebook" makes more than $100 million in annual revenue.
FWIW, it's not the surgeon, it's the hospital. Surgeons are paid a fee for each surgery that is a 90-day global fee: any postop appointments, any re-operations, any hospital visits within that 90 days get not a nickel.
The Whole Foods employee working the pick-up area told me.
No, rather in the category of endocrine functors.
This information slipped over 2 years ago (probably right at the beginning). Wiesendanger did a study and referenced that a lab worker was suspected as patient zero¹ as a hint.

¹:https://www.uni-hamburg.de/newsroom/presse/2021/pm8.html (German, sorry)
The problem is that we decriminalized drug use. We have a heavily funded homeless system now and it works great but there is one little itsy bitsy problem... drug users and mental health folk.

Rather than change the criminalization model, decriminalized drugs makes it more accessible than ever. Makes it so much harder to treat. What should happen is that we change our criminalization model to come health and safety first. Treat the crime almost as a juvenile offense, keep it as a different record non-impactful. The lack of broadening our criminalization system is the problem.

For those with mental health you obviously can not criminalize this. You would want to move toward a home where people live and manage together.

Standard and normal homeless would then get exactly what is needed. Treating every problem as if it was the same is how we wound up with so many people on the streets. Every problem needs a human solution and not a one fits all category.
There are very few shelters that take people who are actively using drugs. That's partially because drug use among the homeless is a proxy for antisocial behavior. It's definitely not a perfect metric, but it's the best that people providing care have to keep their operations running.
the problem with the current tech is that the solid part of knowledge isn't separate from the fluid parts. You need to fundamentally understand that human knowledge in many generations was purposely fixed, by books, scholars, etc.

Until that occurs, it's really just a miasma of bullshit.
r/worldpolitics gradually became overtaken by US politics since Reddit is so dominated by US users. This displeased international users, as r/politics was already US-centric politics, and so r/worldpolitics had been seen as a place to discuss rest of world politics.

The head mod did not agree, and after a couple of years of the sub being basically unmoderated and 90% US politics, and generating user complaints as a result, threw a tantrum and said anything goes, and posted a load of anime porn.

Since the subreddit named world politics was now full of anime porn, and a little inspired by the subreddit r/marijuanaenthusiasts (the subreddit about Botany, since r/trees was taken by the weed people), a bunch of users decided to create a subreddit called r/anime_titties for discussing non-US politics.
Considering the number of articles about productivity, overcoming procrastination, and finishing projects that have surfaced on Hacker News recently, it seems like June isn't going too well for many of us :D
Well... We're talking tech unicorns here. France ain't exactly know for it's tech companies. There's what, eight EU (not french, but entire EU) tech companies in the top 100 tech companies worldwide?

The biggest EU one is german (not french), it's SAP. At least two french ones are basically french militaro-industrial complex / fake-private actually state-owned ones, being "big" by virtue of sucking french taxpayers money.

I don't know what France's culture is (although I'm a native french speaker and typing this from France) but "producing tech unicorns" certainly ain't part of it.
Attention is a convex linear combination of values (meaning the coefficients sum to 1) where the coefficients are generated at runtime.

The values are given from the Value kernel; which is often just a linear map.

The strength is given from the dot product of the query and the keys. The queries and keys are given from the Query and Key kernels. Both of which are usually linear maps.

For each token, you have a key value query triplet (D,D,D). You take the query (D,1) and the matrix (N x D) of keys of all tokens, and do a Matrix vector product to get the scaling. You apply softmax to make it convex; and now you have a vector (N, 1). You do another matrix vector product with the Values mapping (N, D), which gives you the value for the current token (1,D).

Repeat N times, and that’s it.

If you would like to change which tokens each token considers, eg a token knows only of preceding tokens, you can do element wise product of the scaling vector with a mask vector which describes what you consider for current token ; and divide by their inner product. This will renormalise the valid coefficients and keep the rest 0; thus they are ignored when you combine all values together.

If you would like to increase the number of attention heads; which can give you finer control of the scaling process, you can split the key query and value vectors into segments, one segment for each head. Eg first 2 indices go to head 1, indices 3,4 go to head 2, etc etc. then you use those to do attention, repeating the process above for each head; and then combine the results to a single vector.

Idk if I confused query with keys, but this is the gist of it.

In practice the operations are much more optimised than what I described.
As someone who volunteers with the homeless a lot I mostly agree, but I will take the other side for a moment:

It's very hard to a voter base who feel financially squeezed that their taxes should be going to people who, usually, are not holding down a job. They're "doing everything right" and feel the government is robbing Peter to pay Paul as it were.

There are a lot of sophisticated answers we can give as to why the above line of reasoning is wrong (multiple analyses show that, basically, if you're unwilling to literally murder people for being homeless it's cheaper to help them) but it's a hard sell.
I wonder how many of the app devs were writing to their senators?
Still no responses on our case
I believe this one can be overridden by clicking the "Forgot Passcode?" button under screen time and going through an iCloud password reset instead of logging in, assuming that your iCloud email is logged in on your iPhone. I believe this can be solved by having a recovery key on the phone, but someone would have to check me on that one.
Failed state is when no underguards
Discord has one of the better APIs out there for social media, and is definitely free of charge.
The edits are what I don't like (and I suspect an author wouldn't like them even if he would have been willing to make those same edits if asked).

An addition of the "Warner-Bros header" that basically states "the people who made this did some things we wouldn't do today, but they weren't bad people y'know" is much less objectionable.

Especially when you consider it being done to seminal works that helped us begin to move past some racism such as Huck Finn, etc.
I think that's the limit you can sue for. IIRC from the RIAA days
I don't know what "abstract interpretation" is, can't help you with that. If you are interested in the real life implementation of theoretical PLT concepts, I'm not sure if this might help, but there is this page:
https://www.ponylang.io/blog/2017/05/an-early-history-of-pon...
where the designer of the Pony Language tells the history of how he did a Ph.D. on sound stuff and then went to design Pony. You can probably start hunting papers from this trail.
Personally, I'm nostalgic of the Wirthian languages, and started developing a PL/0 compiler with an LLVM backend, before some day, if hopefully I ever develop all the needed skills, put all the Wirthian languages in a cocktail shaker, add a dash of new PL concepts, and see how that tastes.
Angular Built-In Control Flow RFC – Inspired by Svelte
Its a lot more straightforward to use JSON programmatically than YAML.
> If you create an app that loads reddit content from its APIs for only you to use, these changes are going to have very little no effect on you.

This isn't correct. The API restrictions are per client id, so your app must be limited to you specifically. Having different accounts that share a client id is the whole purpose of Oauth. It's entirely orthogonal to commercial use. The changes affect everything from moderation bots to non-commercial clients to archival services and everything else.
Isn't Facebook API access what led directly to Cambridge Analytica?
This is a dumb overreaction. Before Reddit there was forums. Before forums there was mailing lists. Before mailing lists there was usenet. Before usenet there was dial up bbs. I missed a few.

Hopefully even if this passes it’ll just die in the courts. Instead lets let the free market sort the best thing out instead of pretending that Reddit is doing something impossibly valuable.
‘Heina’ Chen, the Secretive Executive Holding the Purse Strings at Binance
Perhaps not mitigate its effects, but instead refocus our efforts on accountability – both in the US and in China.
> corporatists

https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/corporatism.htm

So they're pro-union?

> The basic idea of corporatism is that the society and economy of a country should be organized into major interest groups (sometimes called corporations) and representatives of those interest groups settle any problems through negotiation and joint agreement. In contrast to a market economy which operates through competition a corporate economic works through collective bargaining.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36332373
Except that ex-Microsoft manager…
From the top comment of the article: “Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not today.” Apoorva Mandavilli, "science" reporter for the New York Times.
https://archive.is/tERyX
Don't those leases have stipulations that are like "upon eviction the whole lease becomes due"?
Comprised Of
How a Windows kernel bug led to network traffic mysteriously vanishing from the network stack.
Thanks. We find few-shot learning to be more effective overall. So we are generating additional examples from the provided example.
> there is also second mover advantage, where they just need to copy-cat the best part of nvidia's ML stack and dont waste time figuring out what works/what doesn't work.

Seems like patents would stop that.
Look, if you have a webpage, you're already providing it. If your webpage is of any use to anybody, someone is likely consuming it by scrapping. So if your dedicated API is harder and/or more expensive to provide and maintain than the degenerate API of your webpage's HTML, you're doing something wrong.

I'm not trying to win an argument. I'm trying to point to an obvious reference point for cost/effort behind an API that's handling the same data and interactions the webpage does.
All you do then is turn the entire country into an "attractor country" - faced with the 'homeless problem' of the rest of the world. Which is, ironically, one of the issues raised against open borders.
gdb uses BFD for object file access but has its own DWARF reader.
They are also already present in wild coronoviruses and the initial cluster don't support a lab leak theory, even if they were sloppily working on gain of function via that mechanism.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211107119

"Harrison and Sachs’s (1) claim that alignment of sarbecovirus Spike amino acid sequences illustrates“the unusual nature of the [SARS-CoV-2] FCS” is misleading. FCSs are common in coronaviruses, and present in representatives of four out of five betacoronavirus subgenuses (8). The highly variable nature of the S1/S2 junction is easily ascertained by inspecting a precise alignment of sarbecovirus Spikes (Fig. 1C)."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8689951/

"As more bat CoVs are sampled, it is possible that another SARSr-CoV will be discovered with an S1/S2 FCS insertion. FCSs have evolved naturally in other non-sarbecovirus families of betacoronaviruses (Wu and Zhao 2020). Therefore, an S1/S2 FCS emerging in a sarbecovirus is consistent with natural evolution. Even so, the knowledge that scientists had a workflow for identifying novel cleavage sites in diverse SARSr-CoVs and experimentally characterizing these cleavage sites in SARSr-CoVs—likely in a manner that makes the resulting recombinant SARSr-CoV practically indistinguishable from a rare SARSr-CoV with a naturally emerging FCS—makes it challenging to rule out an artificial origin of the SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 FCS"

It's saying they can arise naturally and it's hard to distinguish origin. Your claim is debatable on its own, and sar-covid-19 GoF resource origin is extremely debatable, even unlikely. At any rate, this article doesn't appear to add anything new to the discussion beyond mixing some anonymous sources with existing public information in a sensationalized way.

edit: let me add, I don't want you downvoted. It may be that this it came from gain of function research at WIV and that the Huanan market cluster was a result of this research. But as of right now, there are other better explanations. I await the Directorate of National Intelligence declassified information this article claims is coming. I do not see how this would have changed the global response to the pandemic.

edit 2: I can't reply to you, stainablesteel. HN thinks I'm posting too much. I am done after this, maybe they are right. I would reply to you with this, though:

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The furin cleavage site did not have to come from gain of function research. My "wall of text" explains that pretty clearly, even for a layman. That claim is what I said was debatable.

Whether or not it came from GoF research remains to be seen. This article didn't expose any new information, with the possible exception of the names of the WIV researchers.

I have a question for you: what do you think would change the lab origin theory were proven? What should have everyone have done differently during the pandemic? What should we do differently now? I genuinely want to understand your opinion.
Pretty sure reddit doesn't show content from all subs on the front page by default. And I am pretty sure rekt / gore thread would not be part of the default list.
It’s rather when the industry can keep fighting for 50 years to save pennies over lives, and faces no punishment for it.
Any response to your question is hypothetical at this point (disclaimer) so here's my hypothetical explanation of how conversation would have led to less deaths:

A lot of people believed the lab leak "consipracy theory", but Fauci and company were so adamant to contradict the "conspiracy theorists" that it practically destroyed those people's willingness to heed any of the CDC directives.

Of course I can only say anecdotally violating CDC guidelines results in more deaths, but that's the gist of my hypothetical.

See this article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/06/16/heres-w...
This doesn't get anyone off the street, it just nudges them away from this specific building. What's juvenile is people trying to displace the problem into just slightly different part of the same neighborhood and imagining that it's accomplished anything.
Utterly bizarre, yes. I think the psychological term for this is "social proof", and it applies to all sorts of weird things. For instance -- a person who is getting lots of flirty attention in public will tend to appear more attractive to others. Not because they are, but because seeing them get attention is social proof that they're worthy of attention.

Once I became an old fart, I started seeing these lines as a sign to move on. The question in my mind (at any age) was always "is the place worth waiting in line for?" But these days, I already know from years of experience that the answer is very likely "no".

Skipping the line has improved my nights out, though, because in looking for an alternative, I frequently find hidden gems and can enjoy them before the rest of the city discovers them.
+1 I tweeted exactly this same sentiment just yesterday:

> This Reddit / Stack Overflow API drama feels weird to me as a user. It's USER submitted data. R/SO didn't create it.

> So what ChatGPT scraped it? They're benefiting the same users who contributed the content on R/SO, and then some.

> It's not like ChatGPT is cloning them.

> It would be like if Printing Houses tried to block authors from publishing their content as an eBook or Audiobook.

> Users contributing to your ecosystem doesn't give you perpetual dominion over that content
The "good old days" is now: Electron makes it easy to make a UI as expressive as you want - responsive, with beautiful animations, with whatever UI elements you'd like - and you don't have to learn anything new - just HTML, CSS, & JS (which all web devs know enough of to get by).
> Nobody cares about opinions of some dipshit.

One individual, sure, but the opinions of millions of non-experts are valuable.

They form the majority of buyers so their aggregate opinions matter to marketers.

And they often trust the opinions of non-experts more.
Chattanooga to Open First Commercial Quantum Network in July
Homelessness is a threat to keep workers in line.
You're remembering incorrectly or your experience was narrow. At facebook, censoring discussion of a possible lab leak was literal written policy which wasn't changed until June of 2021: https://reason.com/2021/06/04/lab-leak-misinformation-media-...

And Twitter's files showed that the government (through multiple departments), members of Congress, and private companies were directly sending lists of hundreds of names of people to ban or deemphasize for talking about it.
Have you tried asking GPT-4? I got a pretty good explanation of attantion from it.

The 'key' and 'value' description in the attention mechanism probably doesn't make much sense to you because at best it's a strained metaphor, rather than an actual principle by which attention operates. If you take a look at the maths, you can interchange the role of 'keys' and 'values' and get something mathematically identical.