skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of harm, not addiction. Which should be not news to most I hope? Ethanol is really bad for you, unless you only use a little & externally

I bet we are not hearing the stories about all the healthy and functional heroin users mostly because it's illegal and socially unacceptable. It means public only knows about cases when poor people abuse it too much. Rich guy? You bet public never knows if he does it occasionally or did it a lot then went to rehab and recovered.

Yes, you can also get terminally addicted to ethanol and ruin your life. I've seen people like that. The biggest difference is perhaps that these people don't just destroy their body, ethanol abusers also tend to hurt or murder other people when they are high on the substance.
There is a difference between building a building that is actually providing housing to a local area and this bullshit where you buy property and just let it sit empty as an investment vehicle. The latter is actively harmful and essentially freeloading off the growth/work of the local community and the former is beneficial.
More generally: There are first-order differential equations that don't have unique solution for a given initial condition.

This is just one example of non-uniqueness condition in ordinary differential equations. Picard–Lindelöf theorem tells when there are unique solutios
I find the genealogy tree on Wikipedia to be a little easier to read than roguebasin: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rogue-like_influen...

If you squint hard enough it looks just like the one for the history of Linux development: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
No evidence to support the cutting-down, but I can personally confirm that FLIR doesn't see through foliage. Each pixel takes the temperature of the nearest surface, which is a leaf, instead of whatever's behind it.

In war footage sometimes you see FLIR imagers being used to find tanks hidden under brush and stuff, but this is because the tank has been there long enough for its engine residual warmth to heat up the cover material. And sometimes you can track a moving target through _very thin_ brush because there are gaps between the leaves, in this case it's like visually tracking someone wearing a bright color -- as soon as the cover is thick enough to not have gaps anymore, you lose them.

So, I can't prove a chain of reasoning, but I can say that part of it at least fits with physical reality.
See https://archive.is/vBQGa
But the tax should be weighted. The higher the crime rate, the lower the tax rate.

So now the city has to do something about crime, littering, defecation, intoxication, looting, etc. otherwise they get no money.

But that won't happen ever because the voting criteria in SF is "donkey people good, elephant people bad". The donkey people have no incentive to be competent because they take their vote for granted.
a lot of retailers have their own lists of demands.

walmart has had plenty of walmart-specific model numbers.

it typically leads to more confusion over what a customer is buying. the model number proliferation and the typical act of using the short form names leaves it feeling closer to gambling.
Employers Requiring Full-Time Office Attendance Hire at a Slower Pace
https://archive.is/2YmZE
Buy what? If rent were illegal, there would be far less housing because most people cannot (or will not) save enough capital to create or buy their own.
In other words, you need an external tool (paper) which GPT doesn’t have.
Brown the colour of bear - no (Grizzlies and Black bears can be brown/black/tan/blonde)[0][1]. Brown the (surprisingly poorly named) species (Ursus arctos) - yes[2].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_bear
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_black_bear
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear
Apple Set to Launch iPhone 15 Series Come September 13th
To put it bluntly, they are redoing SOM, CORBA, COM and .NET component model, and calling it a novelty.
> Doing such things, and 1000 others, some of them vastly more important than others.

That doesn't make any sense why would we make sacrifices that are not important.
Show HN: Visualizing the Impossible – How to Simulate Electrons
There's a lot of minor points in that post, but it seems like both authors largely agree on the meaning, but are using different language. From Dr. Davies' post:

>To remain Newtonian and preserve determinism, we can exclude the singular point by constraining the higher orders to zero whenever the net force is zero. We lose time symmetry for this special case if we do this. If we wish to keep that, then we have to accept that Newtonian mechanics is incomplete and consider higher order differentials.

And from Dr. Norton's article:

>The solutions (3) are fully in accord with Newtonian mechanics in that they satisfy Newton's requirement that the net applied force equals mass x acceleration at all times.

>An important feature of Newtonian mechanics is that it is time reversible, or at least that the dynamics of gravitational systems invoked here are time reversible.

Dr. Davies is saying that there's three options: a) relaxing time-reversal symmetry (at singularities) from Newtonian mechanics, by interpreting Newton's First Law to apply to higher derivatives; b) considering Newtonian mechanics to be incomplete, and make (unspecified) choices about what trajectories of higher-order derivatives are acceptable; or c) accept non-determinism.

Dr. Norton is defining "Newtonian mechanics" as necessarily having time-reversal symmetry, which prevents the first solution. He is also defining it as specifying acceleration only (which I think is quite reasonable), preventing the second solution. Therefore he's concluded the third solution: This mathematical stating of Newtonian mechanics is non-deterministic.
> it has no external goals

Where do you believe humans get their "external goals" from?

> It doesn't matter what you "plug it in to", it will just do what you tell it.

Here's a ChatGPT-4 transcript where I told the LLM it's controlling a human harness: https://chat.openai.com/share/7dbe7fc8-f31c-437b-925b-46e512...

Other than my initial instructions (which all humans receive from other humans!), where did it "do what I told it"? I didn't tell it to open the mailbox.
No even gaming I was constantly bombarded with driver crash and quitting the unsaved game
For anyone interested, here is the link to the ICCF charity that I found on the Vim website.

https://iccf-holland.org/
Latrogenesis
I too am concerned with the bear problem in America. They flout our laws and they’re always illegally crossing our borders! We need stronger politicians who would construct a wall to keep the bears out.
Right, but react solves the problem as well with similar amount of effort, but everyone is already on react. So switching is cost with little perceived benefits
Ahah, I agree, most of them do not taste good. I guess the point is to get a reasonable amount of protein in a few bites and not necessarily to eat something tasty.

When you say the taste is not listed, do you mean the "flavor", that is usually some chemical additive, or do you mean a subjective rating of how they taste?
But the special thing about that steelbox is that it's literally an EMPTY bluray box. The text says: "Although there are no physical discs included ..."
i don't think a disinterest in cycling for 45 minutes in the rain each way says anything negative about me. i have a bike and use it when it makes sense. that doesn't make sense
> engaging in obviously reckless behavior

or is it the bears fault for choosing to violate, and all personal responsibility is victim blaming

(I know people that operate like this, there has to be some kind of middle ground philosophy that makes more sense for reality)
I certainly can't come up with a better explanation.

I'm having some red wine now. I'm not having any crack now. Clearly alcohol does more damage to me.
There are other options that are better than a simple rental such as a lease option or a land contract sale. The renter /purchaser ends up owning the property and the seller/landlord can get rid of his property at a decent price in a falling market.
I hope everyone reads this and listens.

I’ll always long for the days of simple websites but I know they are gone and that’s fine.

The least we could do, however, is preserve some modicum of standards and usability.

I’ll throw in ability to open images/media as standalone files to this list.
Hoosat Create Documentation
You missed my point. It’s not a thing in a continuous universe. And again, there is no proof whatsoever that ours is not, and we don’t need to invoke any spacetime quantisation to explain any of the current established theories. I am not saying that the universe is not discrete (I just don’t know), but if it’s discrete character we’re this trivial to observe, it would have been settled for a long time.
I think the problem with Star Wars isn't the objective morality, but rather the simplistic morality. Stories with objective morality can still present complex moral situations, dilemmas in which the answer isn't clear cut despite morality being objective. It's been many years since I've read it, but IIRC I think Ender's Game is a good example of this. The author at least believes in objective morality (from what I understand) but the situation presented to Ender is morally complex.
I built a similar system for one of my old insurance clients. Every 3 months we would send an updated list of what we wanted the insurance company to cover. This batching worked great because changes came in daily and without it we would have to amend the policy for each individual change. We tracked the date the client requested a change (posting date in the article) alongside an effective date (the date we would base cost calculations off of).

Often the client would forget to report changes to us, so the reporting delay worked in our favor. For example, we would find out out on Friday that a client needed coverage starting the previous Monday. We would make sure there were no known losses and backdate coverage in our database. The insurance carriers would receive the report in a few months and be none the wiser. Carriers will backdate coverage like this, but it can be messy with the paperwork. Tracking posting dates, effective dates, and reporting dates really cut down on the complexity of managing the day-to-day insurance needs of my client.
Humans: cause global climate change

Animals: react to changing climate

Humans: look at how these animals have wrecked my planet, we must intervene to stop them

—

also Earth can’t undergo terraforming or antiterraforming. It will always be fully earth-like (terra-formed).
>We've seen mod chips in game consoles go from obscure to everyone-knows-someone-to-install-them

To them being no longer relevant as security of consoles increased.

>Piracy is unstoppable

L1 DRM is very expensive to break. As the industry's security gets better and better that price will continue to increase. People who can break L1 DRM will not find it worth it to dump a lot of content or share it with a lot of people because they don't want their key to be blacklisted.
> nevermind the basic accessibility requirements that are often missing like alt text on images

It's easier than ever to make websites accessible and a lot of these new tools enable this. Like throwing linter errors when alt text is not set on images.

A lot of the things described in this article are issues with a lack of skill or maliciousness from the developer or whoever hired them. That copy paste thing? I almost always notice it on the websites of legacy book publishers. I think you can pretty easily guess their motivations.

I dislike react for other reasons but the majority of developers having shallow knowledge of how the web works is not one of them. That's just nature, the most common thing always ends up going to the lowest common denominator. Chocolate: hersheys or nestle, coffee: nespresso pods, food: mcdonalds, programming: javascript...
I know a lot of people who have recovered from alcohol addiction and are living fairly normal lives.

ALL the people I’ve known that were trying to stop heroin are dead now. A big part of it is fentanyl but they were known to relapse more frequently and harder.

I don’t know anybody who works in recovery who would agree with this statement.
> You have two entirely reasonable and important principles that are butting up against each other

How exactly is being allowed to record someone else in public without their consent an "important principle"? Especially if the non-consenting person is the subject of the recording?
I was thinking white roofs plus solar panels. But indeed the biggest impact would be if roads were white instead of black. With the unsavory effect of blindness sadly.
It seems to be ok as long as the dam is constructed in a way that mimics what beavers would do, and better yet, is something beavers can take over.

https://www.science.org/content/article/beaver-dams-without-...
In the lk99 subreddit, a higher res video was posted https://www.douyin.com/video/7263715495256378659
There are pc cases made to be carried around—you could diy it.
Much simpler: They'll make WEI-verification mandatory for all government sites. And then banking. And then anyone doing commerce.
Ah, like a canopy of some sort at roof level. I have been places where pedestrian areas are covered in that style and it is pretty effective, the cost is probably the big question. I suppose we'll see that experiment first in wealthier urban shopping areas where it's easier to fund. There are all the issues with managing such structures, especially if they have vegetation on them, but if heat waves keep getting worse it seems inevitable that collectively we'll keep trying different approaches until something sticks.
exactly, no one is forcing landlords to own units they can't fill
What do you mean by "learn"?

The network has learned human patterns of language, knowledge and information processing. If you want to update that, you can re-train it on a regular basis, and re-play its sensory/action history to "restore" its state.

If you mean "learn from experience", (1) a lot of that is pointless because it's already learned from the experiences of millions of humans through their writing and (2) LLMs can "learn" when you explain consequences.
I would imagine a big advantage for the production team is being able to screen it and pause on any single frame and have it be perfect - consumer codecs all seem to use keyframes, which certainly save a lot of space, but if you start on a non-keyframe you either get no output or pixel puke until the next one.
The crazy thing about the rampant inaccessibility is that it’s clearly illegal and discriminatory and nobody cares. Any success stories about convincing product managers to stop it?
I would fail that test, you'd end up with a pretty good coffee and a still broken toilet, yet I consider myself generally intelligent on most days.
I see it much more simply.

It makes you feel a sense of wonder through magical abilities, places and creatures - it's fantasy.

It talks about advanced civilizations with unknown/impossible technology - it's sci-fi.

That's the distinction bookstores make, IMHO.
> For the landloard to make money your rent is higher than what it takes to 'own' the land, usually in the form of a mortgage.

The landlord can make money by investing capital and then getting a return equivalent to the interest you'd pay to the bank to borrow that amount of money.

> Otherwise its almost always a second (or third) plot that is outrightly owned by the landlord, which means they dont need it and itd be better for you to just be able to buy it.

But you can buy it. You just go to the owner and buy it from them.

What are you supposed to do if you can't afford that right now?
Our little town has been burying power lines for years (because of snow load) and it’s been very nice for the trees.

Unfortunately some dumb bug ate all the old trees so many of the roads are nude now, but they’re slowing building them back up with a tree nursery.

But it takes 20+ years.
Is there any place on this earth where “public housing” was anything but an unmitigated disaster that was used simply to corral “the have nots” away from “the haves”?

Whatever the solution is, it’s damn sure is not public housing.
You don't need proportional representation to get away from FPTP. Approval voting and score voting look especially good and they wouldn't require a change to the constitution.
The way I see it is we only want to use TF for setting up "base infrastructure". This is things like our VPC networks, cloud routers, firewall rules, and finally our Kubernetes clusters.

We still allow devs to use TF, but it's only for using cloud services they depend on, like say a SQL DB or something.

I think you and I are 100% on the same page, but I think the word state (in the way you are using it) is causing a bit of confusion at least for me. A terraform stack will always have state, that's the point. In addition to the current "tfstate" there is a set of parameters that must be used with w/e modules in order to arrive at the tfstate. That's the state that causes problems, not the tfstate so much at least in my experience, as these often are _not_ version controlled.

This is why it's critical to only allow terraform to be applied using automation. I mean don't make it a company policy, make it IAM policy so it's literally not possible.
I think I may have said this before but:

> Warp: a terminal emulator whose killer feature is allowing you to edit your command as if you were in vscode/sublime

I exhort anyone interested in this feature to enable vi mode for your shell; zsh, bash, and ksh all support it. Readline also supports it, which will let you use it in CLIs like REPLs and psql. It is glorious.
It's hard to focus on this, even though I agree 100% with the whole list, when you're developing on react.
Note: if at all possible, don’t implement these yourself! You’ll very probably do it wrong for at least some users. For example, ctrl-click for new tab is platform specific: on macOS it should be cmd-click, and ctrl-click should open a context menu. Most if not all are or can be user-configurable, which might not be detected by JS. But the default behaviors will do the right thing unless you override them.
To be more accessible and because they don't have to.
Ham Radio Enthusiasts Battle High-Frequency Traders for the Airwaves
https://archive.is/otzoG
So you'd either work it out and check that it was right. Or you'd tell the person asking that you didn't know. You wouldn't just make a plausible answer and confidently state it. If you did that frequently, people would stop listening to you.
People moving back to cities from the suburbs are figuring out all over again why their ancestors left.
I live in a national forest. My road bisects a portion of it. My backyard is 20,000 acres of untouched forest. Across the street is another 10,000 or so acres of the same. We have bears. They even show up on my property (200ish acres). Bears are very respectful generally and are not a problem.

There are problem animals. Possums, raccoons, foxes, and other small mammals are a real nuisance since the bottom has fallen out on the fur trade. They kill turkeys and other vulnerable creatures because there are no checks on them. We have run off the wolves, coyotes, and other predators, leaving these smaller animals as the apex. So lets talk about that, sure, but bears are not a problem.
Do you think places with privatized, for profit, electricity have less blackouts than places with non profit or municipal power?
This is the first time we use amazon affiliate links. I didn't know we had to disclose it. Reading the Amazon Associate Appropriate Conduct it seems you're right and we definitely have to. I'm going to add it as soon as I touch the html again. Thank you!
> It's like saying a computer system is simply a turing machine executing simplistic instructions from a tape roll when such instructions can form things like games and 3D simulations of entire open worlds.

That's a bad analogy, none of those things are emergent behavior.

We can debate whether what an llm does is "emergent" - it's basically a definition thing though and isn't very interesting.

In reality, what's most surprising is that so much of what we say is explainable as next token prediction. It's not the other way around - we're showing how predictable we are, rather than how smart the AI is. But it's clear to me that it's in the outlying cases where the differences are. AI doesn't extrapolate outside it's training data, and even if it gets (100-\alpha)% of it's output right, there is always some alpha that's not in the training data and differentiates pattern matching or fancy key-value lookup (which is how we know AI works) from whatever intelligence is.
Hypothetically they could but it appears we are making them less safe for pedestrians and cyclists -

From 2020

> an estimated 38,800 [fatal accidents] that occurred on American streets last year. Pedestrians and cyclists accounted for 8,800 of those fatalities — 23% of the total, up from 6,300 in 2010, when they comprised just 17%. During that period, fatalities for automobile occupants fell

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-08-12/why-are-c...
Apologies for the confusion. I hope the ambiguity didn’t detract too much from your enjoyment.

Maybe I could sneak an <abbr> in there for SLOC like I did for CSP.
OK, but there is still an unstated proposition, that housing is (or should be) public infrastructure. That was not even stated, and if it were stated, there would be very wide disagreement with it.

This style of posting - assuming but not stating a controversial position, but stating as given what follows from it - is real bad news. First, it's essentially a dishonest way of communicating. They state as truth something that is very far from accepted, in the attempt to get people to accept something that they don't, without having to go through the hard work of actually persuading them on the real point of disagreement.

But even if no dishonesty is intended - they think the controversial point is not controversial at all, but rather something that everyone accepts - it's still bad news, because it hides the actual point of disagreement that needs discussed. It results in a "conversation" that is both sides hurling sound bytes at each other, but never actually talking about where the disagreement is. That's not a good conversation, even in general, but it's a terrible conversation for HN.
Rest in peace, Bram.
This is the inevitable consequence of centralized curation and discovery—pressure points that neo-fascist states can use to suppress dissent. Now extend this to apps.

This is why the freedom to do what you want on your own devices, without gatekeeping, is so important. At least for podcasts there's likely workarounds, though only a small minority will use them.
From what I've seen there's 2 approaches to hybrid, both under the same name but completely different. 1) as it sounds like yours is, the office is there to use whenever you like, but you don't have to. 2) Work from home X days a week/month

1) Is perfect for me. Though I would admittedly spend 90% of my time working from home, I'd never complain about having the option. 2) is pretty much as bad as WFO for me, in some ways slightly worse (no consistent routine, no consistent work environment, carting my laptop back and forth), in some ways slightly better, but overall pretty much the same.
Next-gen AMD RDNA 4 GPUs reportedly won't compete with Nvidia at the high end
Rural/city is more of a feeling than a numbers game. I put the dividing line somewhere around “where do the people who live there work” and if the answer is “the nearby big city” it is a suburb or exurb.

Still can be quite nice, of course.
This. Housing was left up to the invisible hand of the market and the market has fallen on its face at the task of providing housing for all.
He (June) dropped out to

Become a poet. Now he's

Won a Fields Medal.
> *Making CUDA Applications Run if you port them to HIP SDK