skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm trying to understand San Francisco's response to this kind of situation.

Is it one of the following?

(a) The citizens and leaders have a clear plan in place, and they're waiting for it to bear fruit.

(b) The citizens and leaders don't have a plan in place, but they have some other reason to believe the problem will sort itself out.

(c) They're paralyzed, because nobody can identify a plan that seems effective and politically acceptable.

(d) They don't consider the problem so significant that major action is needed.

(e) (something else)

Caveat: I'm sure this account is accurate, but I've also heard counterpoints that only small regions of SF are like this. So as an outsider I don't really have a clear picture about the situation.
I'm a hardware engineer, so my point of view is biased a bit towards atoms and what they can do for me:

Cell data networks and Starlink are pretty awesome. Mostly-good connectivity just about anywhere is a huge advance. wifi is great.

The ubiquity of brushless motors, controllers, and (for some applications) batteries means that my fridge, HVAC, and power tools are loads better than they used to be.

More software-y:

Remote meeting software means I rarely go on business trips any more, which is nice because flying is way worse than it used to be.

Google Maps / Apple Maps / OSM have made it dramatically easier to get around, especially unfamiliar places.

After two or three decades of nonsense, I finally have a decent no-frills printer driver that works.
it's still incomplete
unity/gnome or mint have better window system
Wasn't the 4090 roughly twice the performance of a 3090 at a similar cost?
Ya, the IKEA near an art university in Beijing China used to have a problem with art students using it for nude photo shoots.
They don't need to. You only need 336 million of them.
> FreePascal is a compiler, C and C++ are languages

Thanks for this really helpful remark. FreePascal is a compiler and also a Pascal dialect (actually two, one with classes). All examples in the referenced document start with "{$mode objfpc}", i.e. the OO FreePascal dialect. The CLBG results are also from the FreePascal compiler, currently version 3.2.2 (compared with GCC 12.2). The question was whether the generated code is fast enough for the game engine.

And yes, there is even an LLVM backend for FreePascal, but it's not the official one, only supports a fraction of the platforms, and the generated code apparently is not really much faster.
What runtime capabilities? There shouldn’t be any?
> Another possibility for the period of relatively long peace is the modern equivalent of The Pax Romana.

“Another” than what? This was exactly what TFA was about.
If you have a lot of input-output relationships then some ML/XGBoost may take away that pain. Unless you are dealing with very explicit guidance on a billion IF-ELSE relationships…
Show HN: Typemagic – ChatGPT you can teach
Hey HN! I'm Karthik & have been working on Typemagic (https://typemagic.com): a ChatGPT client that saves your prompts, and applies them when needed based on your chat.

The Problem:
Since it came out, I've been using ChatGPT for various tasks, such as coding, generating database queries, reviewing my writing, and learning new things. Initially, I found myself constantly managing useful prompts in a Notion doc. I'd either paste a prompt from Notion to provide the right context or sift through my chat history to locate that context.

Some examples of snippets I frequently used include:
- A detailed summary of my Tech stack.
- Movie and book preferences (for suggestions).
- My database schema (so that it could write queries).
- Writing guidelines to follow when reviewing my writing.

This workflow was fine for 3 prompts, but sucked for 10. So I set out to build a better way.

Typemagic automatically searches for the best prompts in your library, applying them when needed based on your chat. Once you save a prompt, you (hopefully!) don't have to worry about applying it manually - Typemagic takes care of it. While there's definitely room for improvement, this approach has been more effective than manually searching and pasting the right prompts for me.

I'd greatly appreciate any feedback you have, especially critical feedback :).

The Journey:
This is the second iteration of the product. In the first version, you could create ChatGPT agents to chat with. But before asking what you wanted, you had to choose the right agent to chat with. Needing to make this decision every time you wanted to switch context was too much friction.

I realized my design approach was outdated. With AI, we have the opportunity to offload more decision making from users' minds onto AI. The right balance is one in which users act more as managers: approving / rejecting proposals, vs. actually, outright, deciding. As AI becomes more powerful, this balance will shift towards AI making more / most of the decisions.

With this insight, my friend Akash and I designed the current version that relies on Typemagic choosing the prompts during your chat while giving you visibility and control over the prompts applied.

Under the hood:
Currently, Typemagic uses embeddings (https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings) to find the best prompt matches by comparing your current chat embedding with the embeddings for all of your prompts to find the best matches.

Using Firebase, Firestore for auth and to store data. Deployed on Vercel (huge fan!).

What's Next?
I'm working on enhancing the experience with faster performance, better recommendations, and the ability to share and discover useful prompts.

I'd greatly, greatly appreciate your feedback. Thanks for reading this far.
Yes, this is thread is developing some weird capitalist inverse of marxist 'false consciousness' theory.

Someone comes to you and says, "my job is pointless and should not exist."

The conclusion is drawn, "Actually their job is vital and their self-report is deluded."
That is a description of flow-based programming, minus the generalization to "arbitrary packets of data in bounded buffers" - that is, your only data type is true/false and your only buffer size is 1, which lets you get some very clean syntax on it. It's a good invention!

FBP adapts the physical concept of unit record machines that operate over punchcard stacks, which predisposes it to thinking in terms of processing and transforming richer data like "characters in a string" or "records in an array", but it basically works for truth-signalling logic too - let truth packets wait in a buffer, and then when the node signals that the packets are able to move, that is the transition.

The emphasis does differ in that if we are thinking "FSM", the rest of the program and the data it handles have been abstracted, while if we are thinking "FBP" we're engaged with designing specific machines to connect together in terms of I/O, which is more helpful when you have a library of data operations to reuse.
I see a section with short vertical videos on Youtube that strongly resembles a certain Chinese mobile app. Could it be that those Chinese developers, not respecting intellectual property, are now working for Youtube?

Or maybe not respecting intellectual property when it is profitable is just a worldwide tradition?
i think the real reason is the enshittification of online spaces by seo and spams and bots and other things, and some reddit mods were somehow able to hold the line against it (wait am i defending a reddit mod i would never do it). i've heard that many people using google will just always restrict it to reddit domain. so yeah. it's also not a coincidence about the blackout. i think they are trying to cash in on this shift. not that i'm saying it's a good idea or that their plan is smart.
I would imagine that most modern wine is not necessarily the same type as the wine that would have been used as (presumably) table wine at the last supper.

Indeed it seems likely based on archaeological evidence that common wines drunk in the region and at the time contained additives for flavor! See https://www.vivino.com/wine-news/searching-for-the-wine-from...

Furthermore, how far should one take this silly adherence to imagined fact? If we discover that in Jerusalem they drank predominantly wine from some now extinct local varietal, does that make all masses since invalid?

I, like the poster you’re replying to, grew up Catholic, and this sort of slavish adherence to stuff some church person made up at some point in the past has always struck me as one of the more ridiculous parts of the religion.
„Hotel rates are up across the US, but not in San Francisco.

The city's politicians can blame remote work & Covid all they want - but the numbers don't lie.

San Francisco is uniquely in trouble - and it's due to policy decisions & poor leadership.“
https://twitter.com/michelletandler/status/16700691729764638...
I enjoy Launch Pad's detailed look at things, as well. But, I also like Kurzgesagt. There's something about the pacing and editing of PBS videos that I find hard to watch for long periods of time. No qualms about the content, it seems like they edit out all the pauses.
Definitely owned by different corporations (Mitsubishi, Toyota, their own big-pharma, etc.). And Japan has a bunch of small and larger payment providers that want in on his action.
And why would we legally protect dealerships? Are we doing the same for McDonalds franchisees? Who is protecting the corner Wendys from being undercut by a mothership restaurant?
Isn't the UK now poorer than Croatia?
We walked from the Ritz to the Opera House, and I can't tell you how many windows on cars were smashed. Maybe you've lived there so long you're blind to it.
Uh, ok? Are classes not judged by household income? Are you assuming every tech worker is married to another high income earner?

Someone having a perspective, which is based on data, that you disagree with does not qualify as misinformation. I lived in the aforementioned cities and am not in a relationship with someone who is a high income earner. I think it's fine to point out how problematic it is that whether it's 250, 300, or 400k being the bar for middle class is pretty far down the line of problematicness.
Infinigen: Procedural Generator of 3D Scenes
Raycast has some nice keyboard shortcuts for window layout.
They won't. They'll find some bullshit "security" justification to force 2FA with 30 minute oauth tokens or something else that will make using IMAP too annoying for most, and which'll be difficult to automate.
And nobody I know does that. Neither of our and data is particularly useful.
JSON was added to Ruby stdlib in ruby-2.0.0 (2013), and has been a default gem since ruby-2.3.0 (2015).

This is pretty close to "built in", I think.
Episcopalian here: we're more than ok with gluten-free wafers - not figuring out how to offer gluten-free wafers to someone whose health will be harmed by consuming even a small amount of gluten (anyone with celiac, for starters) is shoving them away from Jesus' (and not our) table. Given the last few years, a lot of people are, for good reasons, hesitant to sip out of a cup a bunch of other people just drank out of, no matter how carefully the person handling the chalice wipes it, and we're rational enough to understand that 19% alcohol Port really isn't killing anything, so wafers safe for everyone are necessary.

My parish deals with it the easy way: we just do gluten-free wafers for everyone, and our priest reminds us not to intinct (dip) the wafers if we'd rather not drink the wine, as intinction is far worse than sipping for sharing germs... hands are filthy.
police do not arrive in a lot of (USA) places, this is not new.

get-get-get get-get get-down
9-1-1 is a joke in your town

-- famous rapper
Westfield Mall lost business when Sony gave up on the Metreon and that was converted to a Target store in 2012. Target was just more useful, although rather bleak.
Westfield has a Bloomingdales, which was mostly used as a walk-through route between the parking garage on Mission and the rest of the mall. Bloomingdales was a traditional downtown department store, with fine china and such, stuff nobody goes downtown to buy any more. Certainly not since the pandemic. "Designer clothing, shoes, handbags, and more" says their web site.
Heh, the opening statement from a group of people who literally want to return the Gold Standard is a bit... suspicious.

Never mind the chapter heading, "Coming for your kids."
> Business has very strong "nothing matters once I have your money" policy.

Western business now has adopted "nothing matters once I got your personal data" policy though. It seems that "nothing matters" policy is not restricted to Asia.
Well, this kills my enthusiasm to actually play with it. That's bad enough I'm not sure it can even be used as anything but a glorified Markov chain.
And what would be your exact argument for that?
> In and of itself, a racial supremacist's beliefs might be something close to "My people are inherently superior and should rule over others."

Supremacism in this context means wanting your group to have control in a multiethnic state. It’s not intrinsically tied to questions of inherent superiority or global domination. So not that different from nationalism.
Someone said the TL is basically Hamsterdam.
I heard it from an amputee that when getting a checkup, the doctor inevitably panics about their low BMI.
what if you are asked to identify yourself such as for a speeding ticket or a Terry stop. I don't think it's clear cut.
Data-Driven Science and Engineering 2nd Edition [pdf]
I suppose that the packaging problem can be solved - up to a point - with stacking vertically as well as placing them next to the io die. Wonder how well that will scale, could we stack multiple chiplets high? What effect would that have on thermals?
> there are an infinite number of links on "the first page".

Advertisers won't buy it. They'll demand Google to measure "number of links on first load" instead.
Hyphenated compound words are treated as one word. The same is true for closed compound words (e.g. chairman is one word even though it's made by combining "chair" and "man").
1)Because no one would care

2) there are applications which can add this

3) Mission Control is their preferred way to handle windows
This appears every now and then on HN.

Window management in macOS is superficially similar but profoundly different from Windows or most Linux DEs. It's got a fixed menu bar which windows are independent from. That alone already changes a lot and has deep implications.

My advice is to learn how and why it's different instead of trying to make it behave as something it's not. Waiting for Apple to turn it into a chimera would be even worse, IMO.
> IKEA's layouts are labyrinthine, the perfect kind where "associates" cannot scan to see what's going on a whole floor with a glance.

You (intentionally?) missed the part where hobos get bounced out at the front door.

You've also pretty clearly not been in either of the Macy's buildings. [0] They, -too- (just like the other large department stores that have been operating in the area for decades) are so large that the employees on the floor cannot see what's going on across the entire floor with a glance.

[0] Well, they _used_ to have two. Since a year or two ago, they closed their menswear building and consolidated in a single building.
Agreed. Hydrogen is going to be nearly free in terms of production cost. It will just follow the curve of wind and solar.
I’m not sure either, but apparently some think reparations is the answer:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/14/san-francisc...
Would Valve care? They want those devices to run Steam, but any device running Windows or a generic enough Linux distro can do that, and promptly will, because people want access to the Steam library of games on whatever hardware they happen to have.
Announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEXR9EnAtm4

Code can be found at: https://github.com/dynamicslab/

More info / video links /etc (from 1e):

http://databookuw.com/
Here's a quote from another article:

> In that same period, Westfield Valley Fair in San Jose has seen a 66% increase in sales, the company said.
Maybe it's worth one more section near "Any Ideas On Why It Is True?", something like:

Are you beginning to doubt whether it's true?

Try to think of a counterexample.

Is there something that keeps getting in the way of a counterexample working? Can you prove that that always happens?
I’m really enjoying it ! How well do you think it reflects our current understanding of supernovae ?
>it replaces things like PulseAudio

More specifically, it's fully compatible with PulseAudio/JACK/ALSA and is capable of completely replacing them while still providing the benefits of what it's replacing. It's a complete joy to work with too, especially if you've ever experienced the nightmare that is getting your pro-audio JACK setup working nicely with pulse.
but what is wrong with Apple Pay?

I don't use Apple Pay but I suspect the same is wrong as with Google Pay --- it requires you to surrender your identity and financial info to a company that is monetizing your privacy for profit.

There are privacy laws that prevent your bank from selling your financial history and details to those who might want to target you.

These laws don't apply when Google, Apple and cohorts literally extort you to provide access to this info.

Ticketmaster now charges an extra fee if you don't store some event tickets in your Google Wallet --- where Google has full access to them. I suspect something similar is going on with Apple.
Pretty damning. Certainly seems retraction worthy.

Also somewhat upsetting that something so low quality actually is getting published. Seems entirely driven by hype and not intellectual rigor.
Instead, please comment in good faith.
Yes, we did
It is d): city leaders (major and some supervisors) claim that there is no problem at all.
Could be but look up how much a fully equipped van costs
Hydrogen tanks are physically smaller than li-ion batteries. There will come a time when we will use small tanks that fit underneath the passenger compartment. At which point an FCEV has no packaging disadvantage compared to BEVs.
Curious, could you share your prompt? I just tried asking GPT4 (paid) to create a list of German nouns with der/die/das and it managed to do it correctly.
Pipewire has made Linux the best audio stack in the world by some margin.
Back in the day, all shops were barricaded, goods in the back, flat counter and you ask item by item for packaged good. For meat = butcher, what do you want and weight. For vegetables you went to a green grocer, smokes - tobacconist, just like Sherlock Holmes.
The age of trust led to self service and then supermarkets.
Why did we go self serve? Efficiency, size and labor cost driven and thus was born the shoplifter underclass - as seen in the online news, this class has grown.
I think we will head back to the day, with automation replacing the staff. You only get your hands on the goods after you pay. Here in Toronto, all gas is prepaid my cash or approved card transaction.
I see the way it is going in the Costco food court. You choose at a terminal - coke and a sausage = pay with numbered receipt = cooking counter calls your number 749 and checks your number.
So a color video terminal with touch and you drill down by name and size = click - next, and carry on for all your packaged foods = pay and the robot packs your box. They could do the same with meats. greens as long as you had a closed loop to view the actual meat/veggies you were going to get and the price for that weight = click - next, pay and robot packs the actual package you selected.
Take your receipts and your carry bags/boxes or buy same and redeem what you have paid for.
I have seen a few places like this online in various places - I think they will come to prime time in many places.
There is a tradeoff - less impulse susceptibility - but also near zero theft. Same could be done online, as I do now with Loblaws and there is a delivery fee if I get delivery or I can go and get the selection. Since I live on an island, I choose delivery as even with preselected items the round trip uses 2+ hours and $5 ferry fee - it works. At Loblaws it is 100% human manually processed - payment is the only machine function. It is about 95+% OK, I get a wrong/missing/extra item every few weeks.
How bad does it need to get? Understanding the NHS Crisis
This is clear cut. There are situations where you are legally obligated to interact with the police, like providing your identification at a traffic stop. In any other situation, you should avoid interaction with the police.
The people who agree with the mods aren't being active on the site now (like me!)
190 million is the common estimate for 200 AD, the battle took place in 216 BC when the estimate was ~150 million.

And on a related note, our sources for the death toll in the Battle of Cannae is poor. The main source is Livy, writing from a biased point of view nearly 200 years after the battle.

The overall point that Rome came back from a tremendous loss in the Battle of Cannae is true, I wouldn't focus too hard on the numbers.
Happily for the State, no matter how many times you give this obvious advice, people will still blab away and incriminate themselves.

Ha. Even in a thread such as this peopled by highly educated types, you see comment after comment expressing some disbelief with this obvious advice.

This advice precedes the 5th am, incidentally. So long as you live in a system where the State has the burden of proof, it is NEVER beneficial to say ANYTHING to a cop.

But, like I said, many folks don’t understand this. So, lawyers and prisons and judges will always have a job.

I suppose it’s like a senior programmer advising a noob not to create a pointer object using ‘new()’ within a frequently called function… but, folks will do it anyway. Oh well.
They aren't spending most their budget on VR. What do you think the budget is for the rest of the company? Far as I can tell with a 10 second glance at their financials: 60B year operating expense vs 10B year in their VR spending?
I noticed that when I read the paper. I know it's hard to scale but I'd want to see competent TAs doing the grading. I also found the distribution of courses a bit odd. Some of it might be just individual samples but intro courses I'd expect to be pretty cookie cutter (for GPT) were fairly far down the list and things I'd expect to be really challenging had relatively good results.
I think it's appropriate to be extremely critical. The paper is basically useless. The thing that they actually measured is "can GPT-4, when given a 'question' with lots of additional information and many tries with small permutations to produce an 'answer', at some point produce an 'answer' that GPT-4 will then claim is a 5 out of 5 answer, on a dataset of extremely messy 'questions' and 'answers' from MIT coursework."

That's not an interesting thing to measure. The paper talks about it in terms that make it sound like it's a close proxy for whether GPT-4 "knows" how to do things in MIT coursework, by writing misleadingly about "fulfilling the graduation requirements" and having a "perfect solve rate." But in fact it's totally different. The result is that a bunch of people hear about this paper and get fooled into thinking that there is new interesting evidence about GPT-4's capabilities, unless they manage to read closely enough to see what actually happened.

It's not a matter of whether the results would get weaker if repeated, it's a matter of the results being totally disconnected from any useful real-world information about what GPT-4 can do, or how it can do it.
Right, well. In that case, I suppose we shouldn't do anything at all.

The issue isn't that something is "due to climate change". This is a false choice: "either it's due to climate change, or it's not". The extra energy in the atmosphere doesn't pick and choose where to apply itself. Every weather pattern is affected by climate change. Everything has its gain knob turned up a little more each year.
Because the alternatives are worse. It is that simple.
"What's the name of it?"

..."Lessons in humility"