skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is "choice"?

Almost everyone living on the streets is there because of a series of choices which they made, usually over a long time frame. Perhaps at the time they were not entirely voluntary choices, or conscious choices, but cumulatively they have chosen a certain pathway that led them to losing their income, job, belongings, and housing. Even an abused wife who's been dumped out by her husband, well, she did choose that husband.

Obviously there is nobody who rises from a warm bed one morning, says "screw all this!" sells all they have and goes to rough it on the streets (except, perhaps, for Saint Francis of Assisi, but he found something productive to do.)

I spent a lot of time Downtown hanging out with minors, and one day my good friend who's a dad confided to me something surprising. He said "Most of these kids aren't homeless or runaways, you know. Most of them are from wealthy neighborhoods and have good parents, but they come out here just to mingle." So it was like Future Runaways of America out there. And make no mistake, the area has a huge effort of outreach to runaways and homeless minors.

Once someone winds up on the streets, more choices are offered. Those choices can either drive a person deeply into a hole from which they will never recover and never get off the streets, or they could just keep them going while they can stabilize and find needed services, and begin a process to get off the streets. Many people will pursue the former. Even if they pursue the latter course, they may not make it. And then you have people who realize, hey, this life is ok for me. I guess I don't mind it so much, and it's not worth trying to get housed. So they stay as-is for the rest of their lives.
This is what baffles me about the discussions on AI making the search based experience of the web worse. Worse? Have you searched for anything in the last 10 years? It’s just awful SEO garbage - at least the LLM SEO garbage might actually tell you how to pickle dog biscuits, while the human generated garbage just meticulously structures the text to imply they might tell you while they actually can’t because the don’t actually know.

But regardless of whether it’s LLM SEO or human SEO, a human decides to make fake pages about pickling dog biscuits because it was more important for them to make some money personally than for the search based internet to be anything but garbage. A human did that. The same humans that have been screwing everything up for everyone else for at least the last 10,000 years.

IMO I think this trend is just an acceleration and democratization of enshitification tools. But I think the future result is three fold:

1) dependence on automated algorithms to differentiate between garbage and quality is now demonstrably dead, while it just seemed dead before

2) open LLMs backed by information retrieval systems will be a much better tool for learning than a naked search engine

3) humans will need to curate lists of good material and depending and algorithms and automated information retrieval systems alone will be insufficient, and hence curated and editorialized directories will become the primary way of discovering human generated content of quality.

Looks like Yahoo was just 25 years too early!
The author is Dr. Miles Stones, Miles Stone! Milestone!!

As in, whoever made this (using Ai) considers it a milestone in someway.

I can't have been OpenAi out of the box as it doesn't have the data, but it'd be quite easy to load in all the news articles about the situation to a custom model and then have it generate the book.
oh there are many more options than laughter.
Few days ago Democracy Now! on YT had a first-person interview about corporations, taking advantage of difficult situation, trying to buy out land from people who owned the land for generations. Can't find now in which video it was.
I write very fast but that is seriously impressive. Wow. My record is a 25 page single spaced report in two marathon days. I also took the week off after that. The customer was in a hurry and we made it work but normally it goes quite a bit slower than that. When writing fiction I guess it is a bit easier, you are not going to be raked over the coals for some subtle contradiction. But still that is a massive output.
That is clearly dereliction of duty by the management team. Particularly by the manager of the lying salesdroids.
Most shelters also have a in and out time. It's not your home, or a place to stay during the day. It's a place to sleep then your out again in the AM. Seems like a huge restriction.
you probably meant Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+Shift+R
All assets depend on the governemt. You own land, that’s because the government allows it, you own a company, not if the government doesn’t let it exist.
The vultures are incredibly depressing.
I learned PostScript in 1988 by studying the Illustrator file format (which eventually became the basis of PDF). It seemed like something from the future given how unavailable high-resolution graphics were at the time. Without Pagemaker + PostScript Apple would have gone under much sooner, and never would have become what it is now. At the same time learning PostScript with reams of paper and basically no tools was a giant pain in the ass.
> If person A believes tasks like vacuuming need to occur weekly, and person B believes they need to occur bi-weekly then person B will either suffer an emotional tax for not having their expectations met or an EFT managing their preferred outcome with some form of nagging.

Oh dear. No two people have identical preferences across all household management tasks. Does that doom us to “emotional taxes” or “executive function theft”?

Of course not!! People who live together come to an agreement about the things that matter to them.

However this is easier said than done: It is not trivial to surface all these issues, and issues un-surfaced do indeed fall into the pathological dichotomy above.

To that end, (and in particular for working parents) I heartily recommend Fair Play by Eve Rodsky and the process it describes. It’s not easy to identify and mitigate all these deltas, and submitting to the books guidance mitigates the formidable cognitive load of the process.
I develop, test, and debug on browsers that my users are using, and that ain't Firefox.
Hah serves me right for trying to be clever; apologies. Incredible setup you've managed to set up there.
> “Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.”

I think the elephant missed here is the focus on what we have or do not have instead of a focus on what we can attain. Mass movements are created and accelerated by the thought that things can be achieved through them. Regardless of how much you currently have, a mass movement is appealing if it offers you hope to get things you otherwise couldn't. If you think violent revolution will bring you immortality, that's a "pretty good deal" and you might want to take it. It's no surprise that many religions heavily depend on this for controlling and gaining followers.

Being limited by your imagination, I think, is the driving force behind "your situation improves and then you revolt." Your situation improving can transition you from a hopeless "this is always how it will be (suffering)" to a "hey, things can change" mindset, which allows you to hope for and potentially even fight and die for a better future. It doesn't matter what you have, it matters what you can get.
I don't get all the hate for xaml. Its ergonomics are poor, sure, but are they that worse than HTML, of which it was based?

It was a huge improvement over forms and mvvm was revolutionary at the time.
> If you want to get people off the street, you need to provide a similar level of freedom in the housing you provide as what it replaces.

Having a home at all significantly restricts freedom. Let alone all the maintenance it requires. If it's an apartment is it too restrictive to their freedom? Should they be exempt from lease terms (no pets/no smoking/no drugs etc.)? Should they have a free housekeeper on top?

At which point is it acceptable to expect some level of responsibility from an adult receiving so much in entitlements? I'd argue that an excess of no-strings-attached programs makes homelessness more attractive than hard work to people who are on the edge.
Same here. The Dropbox link in the other comment was useful.

Makes you wonder if there’s a conspiracy to stop those of us in the UK watching it even though we know how awful it is at times.
> (2) People are severely disabled by mental illness or addiction, and simply can't manage a household by themselves. Or they never learned how and they fail dramatically. This may be the 20% contingent who are moving back in with friends/family.

> (3) People are naturally generous/irresponsible with belongings and income that they will spontaneously share the windfall with everyone they know. So your shelter for one man will end up being a flophouse for a rotating cast of shady types, and poor housekeeping skills definitely become operative here. Homes like this ultimately run into big trouble, like massive drug raids, fires, prostitution or something. Not fun.

Afaik, it is much easier to help these two groups when they do have access to safe and stable housing. Conversely, their issues get much worst when they are homeless.

As in, if you intend to help these people, giving them housing is pretty reasonable start.

> like massive drug raids, fires, prostitution or something

Prostitution is legal in Finland. Second, drug raids is what cops do, not what homeless do. The homeless may do the drug use part, I am just pointing out you picked the phenomenom that is done by somebody else.
Won't using Nvidia cards with Microsoft Olive also provide some boost in performance?
The Pentagon’s UFO Shop, the Hitchhiker Effect, and Models of Contagion [pdf]
> Why would anybody pay voluntarily to avoid "extremely good" service they are entitled too?

Maybe because expectations rise with the availability of other options? Why would one pay for a Porsche when they could drive a Prius?

I live in Germany. Our healthcare system struggles a lot (mostly by design, thanks to incompetent/hostile politicians). I'd still bet the average citizen in Germany has better availability for treatments than the average American.
Not GP, but I tried it out a few weeks ago. I experienced it working for about 15-20 minutes, then it stopped doing any I/O to the disks until I rebooted. After it happened a few times in one evening, I switched to something else.
Is that before or after Watson has put a bunch of doctors out of work?

My feeling is that the level of changes in 3 years will be more akin to introducing a new version of software with some new capabilities rather than something more radical.
24 full length novels is two per month. That's a lot.

But this book in question is a full length novel published in -1 days.
The reason is that now tools like ChatGPT allow workers to do more with less knowledge, as noted by the report.

I've seen people use ChatGPT in my team, this statement isn't really inline with my observations. Those using it are not really more productive than anyone else, if anything I've noted they became a bit frustrated and just back off usage? Anyone else?

I'm quite keen to use it more in my side projects, I just don't really see the time pay off to invest learning it yet so I've not bothered to upgrade from 3.5 to 4. I just dabble with 3.5 occasionally.

Also, this seems like a bit of a downgrade, 40%?
This argument is just “guns don’t kill people…” redux. Yes, humans control technologies, and thus we have to regulate our technologies.
The framing is fair unless you expect NVIDIA to ditch their ML based solution for a class of inferior implementations which in turn can run just about anywhere.

DLSS isn't "NVIDIA flavored FSR", it's a more advanced pipeline that requires significantly more architectural alignment. FSR 3 was going to be the closest thing to an equivalent and won't run everywhere FSR 2 does.
The black bar is a simple gesture of respect. The fact that we’ve been losing a lot of important tech people doesn’t diminish the tradition. If anything, it reinforces it.

I see absolutely no reason we should stop. Is it really an inconvenience to have a simple black bar at the top of the page to act as a reminder?
> how this might be useful

As always the goal in c++ is to put as much of the specification of your program in the type system and make sure that invalid state is unrepresentable (e.g. does not compile).

This allows to very easily (compared to how'd you do it today) add custom compile-time checks to some variable.
Japan has homeless people. Not to the same degree as USA but they exist.
Imagine this take on something like an enterprise SLA, that helps me reason about how at an individual level it feels nonsensical but at the parent level there are a bunch of upstream levers available to meet those SLAs.
I learned C in 1984 when it still primitive, played with Forth because it was cool, but used Pascal at work. Add to that the APL I briefly played with in graduate school. In those days the choice of languages was almost small enough to try all of them. Today it's impossible.
What is a PID controller in an espresso machine?
They have too high a tolerance. It can take a long time to convince them of what any observer can see. That they are doing a lot of busy or low quality work that simply amplifies the busy or low quality work in the future.

People who tolerate it create the Red Queen Problem that kills so many projects. It’s the people who don’t tolerate that shit that put a stop to it.
> Isn't it curious how teaching the ability to argue the opposing point of view (e.g. in what used to be called debate clubs) has been largely written out of the American educational curriculum, for example?

This is a huge problem, as well as the lack of critical thinking skills being taught in general.
The money, they have too much money and it is causing problems big time.
If the shelter becomes unsanitary it becomes a source of disease.
I think of it more like MS Access but a sane backend of sqlite and python. There are thousands and thousands of critical business processes cludged together in Excel and Access--datasette could be a much better choice for those use cases. Something both devs and business people can use.
If you have two kids and earn 55k from work, you pay marginal tax of 60%, as you have to pay a child tax on top of income and national insurance, plus another 9% or 15% on student loans (which are funded as an income tax)
> they take on risk when they order books ahead of those sales

I think this varies by country, but in the United States most books are "returnable", meaning that the publisher gives you full credit if you return them. In addition, publishers often don't require payment of the invoice for quite some time after the books have been received. There's little or no risk involved, other than the opportunity cost of not having the shelf space for something else.

That's for hardcovers. For paperbacks and periodicals, often the publisher only requires tearing off the front cover and returning that. The bookseller is supposed to destroy the rest of the publication, but unscrupulous ones often launder these so-called "stripped books" through third-party brokers.
I didn't forget, I'm just not interested in debating it.
I read about it in American Scientist IIRC, my as for my dad I don't know but he portrayed it more or less as common knowledge in the field.

I'll do some digging, check back in a day or two.
Ah, okay that is interesting.

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201541130

I don't think this "book" filled the pages with loren ipsum, but it is entirely possible that they fed all of the available news stories into a language model such that someone actually sat there page flipping through chapters of decorated text.

But ultimately I think there is a stark difference between someone who actually paid $7 for an ebook, and someone who downloaded something on Kindle Unlimited and flipped through it. I am curious how KU influences the best seller charts numerically, which I can't find a clarification of.
I'm not a fluent German speaker, so I don't know. But I expect not: in this context it is contrasted with "follower" rather than anything more historically evocative. The relationship between a "leader" and a "follower" generally connotes something voluntary and more-or-less mutually beneficial. I am surprised I'm having to spell this out!
You should clarify, most identity groups have an other/out group.
> They don't have the same guarantees as a real rolling release distro.

I can guarantee my distro will bring world peace, help you lose ten pounds and get 10% better gas mileage.

Unlike rolling release distros, Debian doesn't try to pretend that rolling releases are as reliable. It's exactly what it says on the tin. Both are probably equal in terms of reliability, but Debian is actually honest about what that reliability level is.
Is it a full-length novel, though?

It's apparently been removed, so I can't get a word count.
If done right, self check-out is awesome. When I shop at BJs I arrange everything in my cart with its barcode visible as I shop. Then I go use one of the “10 item or less” checkouts that had a handheld scanner and count my items, then scan them all. Their kiosk supports contactless payments, and I can get through with a full load of groceries way faster than the “trained” cashier this way. And I don’t have to let someone else touch my stuff or put it on a conveyor that everyone else’s stuff has ridden on. Contrast this with the local Publix where there are tons of workers flying around but you end up held hostage by “friendly” aka overly-conversational cashiers half the time, and all your groceries hit the conveyor, the cashier’s hands (which also handle money) and the bagger’s hands (which also touch every cart left in the parking lot). When I shop at there I feel like I need to sanitize my groceries when I get home.
I implore you to view the scientific literature with skepticism.

This is a phenomenal thread on the subject by a senior research fellow at Oxford:

https://twitter.com/briandavidearp/status/107916411478471475...
I think it makes more sense if you consider the Directive is about "universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and service", rather than "net neutrality" (which is a very ISP-oriented term).
You don't get "extremely good" (as the GP wrote) service at a 3 star hotel. Less than 1% of the population uses 5 star hotels. In Finland over 50% of the population use private health care (either directly or via their work contract).

Edit: As a commenter pointed out it's 50% that use private health care, too. Very few people would exclusively use private health care.
>parent commentators reduction in emissions has been useless

Useless? Of course not. Completely negligible? Absolutely, 100%. I'm no climate scientist but voting literally once for the party that believes in climate science probably has about a million x the effect of you not going on vacation.

>Be conscious about what we can do as individuals

All I'm contesting is that the most effective thing we can do is participate and organize in politics.

Not going on vacation and markedly decreasing your quality of life to reduce climate emissions by 1x10^-9999999 percent is naively negligible at best, a propagandized (by an oil company nonetheless) abdication of their larger responsibility to participate in politics causing the actual damage as science denying lunatics fill offices around the nation at worst.
Somebody quite recently said... "You are generalizing too much"

The relationship between slave and master is connotationally identical (to me, of course!) to the relationship between leader (Hitler) and follower (Nazis). Historicaly speaking those relationships had horrific social impact.

I am surprised I am having to spell this out.

I mean, we are talking about connotation here. Why are you trying to tell me how I should feel about words?
That's a question you'll have to answer yourself. Don't ask us to decide for you!
Have you ever actually studied hobo culture or anything? I mean there have been whole classes of people, let's include the Romani, Bedouins, and Travellers, who love itinerant lifestyles and are, for all intents and purposes, "homeless people" who find a means of supporting themselves that doesn't involve sticking around in one place. They are all, of course, universally reviled by capitalists and communists alike, but whatever.
Interesting. I do something similar with my task https://github.com/kardianos/task package, which is in tern loosely based off of another package from 10-15 years ago.
>if a significant proportion of homeless prefer homelessness to the help you're offering, perhaps the "help" isn't all that helpful.
If you want to get people off the street, you need to provide a similar level of freedom in the housing you provide as what it replaces.

Can you elaborate on the the specific rules you’re referring to? That might help guide the discussion.

Because at face value, there seems to be an issue where there isn’t an acknowledgment that with freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility looks an awful lot like rules that many people in these situations struggle to manage. It seems hard to argue for one without necessitating the other but maybe some specific examples could clarify your point.
Shouldn't hurt most programmers to look at problems from a different angle. Or at least allow their brains to re-wire into considering other programming styles.

But that holds for other paradigms too:

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html
It was the countries that put the state first that killed millions of people - the fascists in Germany and Italy, the communists in Russia and China, and so on. Who stood up to them?

It would be a much darker world without the one major country that is based on the idea that the government serves at the pleasure of the people, to protect the rights that they are naturally born with, and that the government has no other purpose than that.
So, consignment sales. That makes sense I guess and would obviate a part of the GPs reasoning, though there still is risk involved in that the stores would have to figure out how they allocate their other scarce resource: space.
A solution doesn't have to be perfect in order to be much better than the status quo ante.
How hard would it be to write a script that downloads books and "reads" them -- i.e. exercises the Kindle app (say on a desktop-alike) -- giving Amazon plausible excuse to say "n words read"?

Point being: if there's a way to game a system, people will game that system.
This is the coastal town

That they forgot to close down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0LeL9BUPtA
Finland is a very poor comparison to USA. It has a small, largely static population of virtually all white people with lots of cheap land. Of course homelessness isn't a problem.
Why would anyone pay for business/first class when the plane lands safely and at the same time for economy?

I pay for private insurance in one of the countries I mentioned to have choice of doctor and nicer hospital rooms and meant that my (non-urgent) knee reconstruction got done in 6 weeks instead of the 6 months I would have needed to wait for the same surgeon.
would you like to know the actual intent? because no, it is not an argument for regulation.

perhaps you would like to argue for it.
Makes absolutely zero difference whether Starlink exists or not. These companies are still subject to laws on the ground and if they don’t want to comply, they will simply be refused regulatory approval to operate.
Are you comfortable handing Google the power to dictate the future of the Internet?