skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have personally experienced a period of extreme loneliness during my grad school in 2017, and had wished that there was a better way to platonically connect with like-minded people than what was offered at the time which primarily focused on dating (Tinder, Bumble, etc.).

I quit my job last year to finally work on this idea full-time because I thought this was the most meaningful work that I could do before other life responsibilities caught up on me. I am working with my wife and a friend from South Africa whom I met by talking to him on my platform!

We currently generate no revenue, as we believe we need to first build up the network effect to generate value for the users in order to earn the right to offer additional premium features for power users. We take privacy seriously, and do not plan to sell or share user data with anyone or use them to train an AI model.

The link I shared is for the web-version of Bubblic, where you can listen to all the messages left by our users. Please download the mobile app at https://bubblic.co to leave your voice messages!
he famously got quite annoyed by people asking him about metaphors or whatever.

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."

He very much did not want to talk about it and presumably intentionally avoided writing it.
You still understand my point, right? So many, many plants resemble other plants even today.

And re-reading the article, that claim seems just plain false. Some 'medicinal' properties are cited, which is no kind of evidence. No half-dozen descriptions are cited that I could find.

The capper is, after explaining how it couldn't be cultivated or transplanted despite repeated efforts, the OP claims it was found hundreds of miles away because, you guessed it, the Greeks transplanted and cultivated it there.

No, this is more a Greek tourism board ad, than science.
There's a couple of related forms of interaction, more common in close interpersonal relationships, that I'd term 'Executive Function Sabotage'. The first form is where one party routinely interrupts the other party any time they choose to do something. Whether it's requesting they work on something else, or just demanding their attention by talking to them repeatedly, the common factor is that it's reliably triggered by the second party initiating some kind of focused activity unrelated to the first party.

The second form is where one party requests that the other party perform a task, then inevitably finds fault with the outcome no matter how accurately or effectively the task is done.

Both of these can lead over time to a form of learned helplessness where any initiative is suppressed because any self-originated action is treated as wrong. Eventually the victim gives up and becomes incapable of any real volition.
Of course, Firefox users may just skip your sites because they don't work in FF...
If ending homelessness was profitable for Raytheon it would be cleared up overnight. The politicians with the power to solve this issue don’t give a shit.
Gives me the exact same behavior:

Firefox is already running, but is not responding.

Have you tried it?
A big one is drug/alcohol use.

One of the understandings behind "housing first" policies is that when you treat chronic homelessness as a public health problem, you need to attack the big symptoms first (being unhoused) before you can see the outcomes you want (being a productive member of society).

Housing isn't a reward, it's a basic human need. And it's the baseline for treating people - because you cannot treat people if you cannot find them.
Some strings:

Many/most shelters will not let you bring in a pet. If you've never had any hard times in your life and had a dog companion at the same time you might not understand, but for many people having that pet is the only thing sustaining their will to live day to day.

Many/most shelters will not let you sleep with your companion, even if you're married. The comfort of another human is an easy thing to get used to, and can be devastating to go without. Generally though if you're running a shelter and taking in people with MH issues or other challenges this one makes some sense, you are always at risk bringing of in folks who can't respect boundaries and will want to have inappropriate intimacy in the open (for instance).

All shelters have a strict limit on how many personal belongings you can bring in. If you have no house, but you do have a shopping cart full of possessions, what are you supposed to do with them?
I'd rather not have a single point of failure and some diversity in policy.
Doesn't "lots of land" works for the US too?
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Desensitization made a big difference for me. I had asthma linked to my allergic rhinitis and I was able to stop taking meds for asthma after (1) desensitization and (2) treating my heartburn which was complicating my asthma.

Turns out I can't take Omeprazole or any PPI for my heartburn because if I take that I don't get a wink of sleep all not. If I avoid NSAIDS completely I rarely need any other heartburn med. I was seeing a doc at the immediate care center the other day for pain in my foot and he asked me "What do you take for pain?" and I told him "Nothing" because NSAIDS cause dyspepsia and my primary care doc thinks Paracetamol (e.g. Acetaminophen, Tylenol) raises my liver enzymes and told me not to take it.

I once in a while take Fexofenadine for my allergies which is the only antihistamine I can tolerate these days. Years ago my allergist told me to use Cetirizine but I discovered that Cetirizine causes CNS effects on me because if I take it regularly and then miss a dose I get terrible "brain zaps" like people describe missing a dose of SSRIs.

My understanding is that immunotherapy is not that well standardized and if you go to different docs there may be differences in protocol that get different results.
Note that Finland isn’t doing that in this article. They probably do intervene on problems before they become chronic, but most of those housed in assistive housing require some supervision, are not cured of their addictions or mental illness, and are not expected to ever be independent or productive ever again.

However, by providing some housing and supervision to these people, they wind up saving money because on the streets they would be using way more social resources at a far higher cost.
In other forums, I’ve heard homeless complain they can’t bring their pets and would rather stay on the street than lose their best friend. From a public perspective, cleaning up and repairing pet damage seems an extra unnecessary cost that may hurt the next person that wants to live in the unit who may have allergies.

In seattle, I’ve seen people in low income housing units complain their neighbors use drugs like marijuana, which they are extremely sensitive to. If you’re trying to get sober, having a neighbor using drugs makes it that much harder.

Imho, most of these rules are normal “be nice to your neighbor”
This reads like an article from 2004. All the same propaganda. Hasn’t changed.

Smoking a J is not the same as smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes
That's a product problem, not an ML problem.

If I'm making a tool for doctors, I don't need to surface the exact scientific fact the LLM recalled from memory, I can design an interface that surfaces verbatim text from sources based on the LLM's understanding of the situation.

No serious product should be surfacing a ChatGPT style chat window to the user, it's a poor UX anyways with awful discoverability.
A little wind and light rain at the moment in northern San Diego county
Do you have actual evidence for that?

Because sure, if you've got Property Brothers on in the background while you do other stuff, that makes sense. You can go in and out.

But if you're watching Squid Game, or The Last of Us, or Yellowjackets, or even Wednesday -- you'd better be paying attention to every frame. Modern dramatic TV demands your full attention in a way that The Golden Girls didn't.

The idea that younger generations are binge-watching Yellowjackets while browsing TikTok doesn't make any sense.
Screenshot shows 44 pages, so definitely not a full length novel.
It's corporate window dressing. It doesn't address any real issue. At best it does nothing, at worst gives a corporation something to point to and say "look! we're doing something!"

I will, of course, go along with it precisely because of its inconsequentiality. It's not a hill anyone should be dying on.
The Shift key is the one underneath your left pinky. I see those apostrophes, so I know you know which key I'm talking about!
There is a different pressure on refactoring in 2023 than in the 1980s / early 1990s.

If you need to fit your application into 5kb of pascal code so it can be bundled with an OS, there’s going to be less code to refactor and probably less ability to not-refactor.

(Not saying refactoring isn’t important now - it’s just more of a choice now and would usually have different goals)
My apologies, I assumed your lawn was Open Course.
>That's a rather odd comparison to make. First of all, OP, like llama.cpp, doesn't use the GPU

When was the last time you looked at llama.cpp? It has supported GPU, GPU+CPU, and distributed inference using OpenMPI for awhile now. It also supports training, as well as negative prompting and grammars! The ease of getting llama.cpp running on just about anything has already started innovation.
They probably have bits of footage from British TV companies, who are fine licencing them to be shown abroad, but have either already sold an exclusive licence for UK broadcast or want to keep that option available to them.
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it depends on how much you do it, i guess. i'm pretty sure i've been overdoing water fasting. Over time, it's been getting harder and harder to concentrate and get anything done after about a day or so, it wasn't like that in the beginning at all. Pretty disappointing tbh, i could deal with any side effects easily, but not this one...
Start with this review article in 1989, allergy shots for hay fever are well studied and quiet effective.

https://sci-hub.se/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.10...

"Success rate is 20-50% or something like that"

Effectiveness of allergy shots is generally related to the maximum dose you work up to. Allergy shots are expensive, and I had to get them for years to make my dust allergy manageable. Question you should be asking is how much of the low efficacy rate is due to early termination of treatment.

"risk that the body develops other allergies for some reason."

More plausible mechanism is that people who get allergy shots also get more thorough allergy testing, and discover new allergies they already had. What mechanism would result in new allergy development from small, controlled subcutanous allergen exposure, that would not manifest from continual daily seasonable exposure?
You either have gatekeepers--publishers, agents--who bring some level of quality control or you throw all that out the window in service of democratizing access. Not that they would, but Amazon could absolutely only accept books from legit publishers but can you imagine the howls of protest here were they to do so?
> Ok, but nothing in your comment helps me change my mind about what you original point was, as that still looks like you asking "where do they get their inspiration? Autobiographical experience!" and me saying "being inspired by reality isn't any less copying than being inspired by existing canon".

The question is about royalties for writing. You seem to argue that writers don't deserve royalties because all writing is derivative, "a series of footnotes to Plato" as A. N. Whitehead put it. My argument is that good writing, indeed great writing, is not merely derivative, otherwise it wouldn't be interesting. Great writing is a rare talent, I might say divinely inspired if I believed in the divine, so I'll say genetically inspired instead. I think that writers need to be supported, protected, encouraged financially so that they can continue to exist and write great material for our benefit and enjoyment. The alternative is bleak: if writers are not supported via royalties, then the only financially viable "art" will inevitably be mass-produced, mass-marketed pablum. That's a depressing prospect.

Of course super-famous writers make a ton in royalties, but it's actually the other writers for whom royalties are crucial. In a lot of cases, royalties make the difference between survival and destitution.

> To me, Strata by Terry Pratchett is clearly derivative of Ringworld by Larry Niven. I'd say it's not just good, entertaining, interesting, but also that it's superior to the original… and yet, still derivative.

I haven't read Stata, but I thought Ringworld was overrated, so I'm inclined to believe that another work could be superior.

> That would be a biography not an autobiography.

I meant "faked" autobiographical writing. Writing in the autobiographical style. I'm sure you can ask OpenAI or whatever to write an autobiography. Hell, some actual "nonfiction" autobiographies are quite fake (and frequently ghostwritten).
That's a goal for many participants, yes.

In my case, I have a disability, I work part-time, and my parents support me too, and Section 8 still pays some rent because I'm not able to cover it all, even after that. And my situation has reached maximum improvement.

There's a Family Self-Sufficiency program which is great. They provide resources for education and employment and stuff, and they escrow some funds which are usually awarded when you "graduate" from the program. Graduation entails raising income so far that your benefits cease and you are officially self-sufficient. They've recounted many success stories over the years. Mostly younger folks who hit a rough patch, but then got through college for a degree and then a great full-time job. I'm in the program, but I don't expect to ever graduate or see my escrowed funds. The FSS program is actually run by HUD as a funnel for first-time homebuyers. They encourage you to use the escrow as a down payment on a house.

I will certainly say that as my income has increased and benefit decreased, that has undoubtedly freed up funds to help many other people, so I do my part by keeping income as high as humanly possible.

I don't know about corruption. They do want people in the program to stay that way, of course. It's mandatory to report income, so every time I report an increase, my benefit goes down, and certainly I could be assured that if I blew the lid off that, my benefit would go away, and I'd be done with the program. I haven't encountered anyone enticing me to lie or conceal anything. YMMV, of course, because these programs are all run at the municipal level, so corruption in some places isn't going to translate to corruption all over.
The programme almost certainly includes content from a UK broadcaster that was licensed on the basis that it would only be used outside the UK.
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Don’t expect much. They give “no strings attached” housing in SF and not only does it not help people get off drugs, it results in millions of dollars a year in expenses to pay for damages caused by the newly housed.

I have been on the streets and an an opioid addict in medication assisted treatment. I have yet to meet a single addict who returned to normalcy without taking some stock of the damage they’ve caused and making amends to change their life. People who are given unearned housing with no restrictions continue to live their life in a way that harms not only themselves, but those around them.

There’s a reason that the only countries where safe supply/legalization have worked (Portugal, Estonia, Switzerland, etc) continued to attack drug markets and sellers and set expectations around public assistance and behaviour from those receiving it. You cannot just give an addict a home and drugs and suddenly expect them to become upstanding, contributing members of society.

(I won’t even delve into how the current California/West Coast paradigm is exceptionally dehumanizing as it presumes these people are only able to do one thing - consume money and drugs.)
If you do anything requiring 24x7 compute on EC2 (tons of CPU cores and memory), it adds up real quick. What does your app do?
Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified?
It already works via USB if you activate the sharing option and
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> For us to have killed a species of bacteria, discover that it's an important species for our health and then be trying to recreate it, all in less than a century, is too fast even for us. I am seriously concerned that we'll end up killing ourselves before our scientific, social and cultural knowledge starts to compensate for what can only be described as recklessness with just about everything we touch.

I am not sure this is all that great example, considering that quite a few very deadly frequent diseases are neither deadly nor frequent anymore. Yes, we need to correct, but we the trade off was not all that bad, actually.
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There's reasons why homeless members of society have dogs. And well, it ain't pretty.

First, it's a deterrent to cops who fuck around. If they harass or arrest a homeless person with a dog, it's a whole lot more work that involves animal control.... So dogs are cop deterrent.

Secondly, it's defense in some of the homeless camps. Dogs will defend their human.
If your definition of sentience is entirely related to subjective experience (as opposed to anything more concrete such as eg. a reflexive self model) then, given how completely non-disprovable subjective experiences are, it seems irrelevant to any serious conversation.
Oh thank you!
I will have a look
Well, that might depend how you define success.

Android is by far the most commercially successful piece of software to come out of the Linux kernel (granted, pretty far detached at this point).

If that’s not pure enough for you, I have to think that Valve’s Arch-based SteamOS drives more revenue than Canonical’s support contracts.

Estimates point to around 3 million Steam Deck sales and then the software revenue on top of it, which should amount to at least 10x Canonical’s revenue.

Then you look at the elephants in the room with enterprise Linux: I have to think that RHEL pulls in more support contracts than Canonical, Amazon Linux similarly has a place as a default option for Linux in AWS, and you’ve also got Oracle in the mix in terms of not-Debian enterprise distributions with widespread adoption.
Finland is not "economy class". Taxes are rather high, the fees in the public health care system are high in European scale, too. But the standards are not. So you pay parts of your mandatory "economy class ticket", but you throw it away unused to get a more expensive one.

Your comparison does not work.
This is very nice work, thanks a lot for building this! Will give it a try today.

Since the server is not doing anything fancy, this can be setup with Tailscale for remote play.
People doubt this, and maybe the percentage is too high, or the time horizon too low. But it's coming without a doubt.

Remember the times about 15-20 years ago when people were dishing good money on DSLR. Professional photographers were complaining that amateurs come in and lower both the quality and the prices charged. Well, after everyone now has a camera in their pocket that rivals a professional DSLR from 20 years ago, everyone can make decent photos. Not Ansel-Adams-levels, but usable photos.

AI will be like iPhone cameras on steroids. A lot of people will be able to do a lot of things, not at professional level, but at passable level. Very soon live speech translation will be a thing on a smartphone. How many professional translators will still have a job?
Any more info? The book's not published yet, I see.
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How dare the Asahi folks not do a huge amount of free work to support you? Don't they know how important you are?!
Encryption is not what would make this device secure. Avoiding the cloud and treating it like a notebook is.
A lot of people lose their support network in prison (or lose it before going in) and are released to the streets. They just get an open bus ticket courtesy of the state, go where it’s possible to live as homeless, and that’s it. A lot of the bussing we hear about is simply these open bus tickets prisons (especially Texan prisons) give out to people with no one picking them up.
But it's not really an alternative, is it? It's near-beer.
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It’s both, however, developers have a disproportional amount of power to tip the balance.
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I'm not sure why y'all are calling it a novel; it at least purports to be nonfiction. (Is it a comment on the propensity of LLMs to hallucinate?)
Professional norms differ between countries. What might be unthinkable for a doctor in US might be meh for a professional in India.

For eg, a judge in India used ChatGPT for a bail hearing. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/this-indian-court-has-us...
I am unconvinced. Mammals
suck at edge cases unless they have the training. Machines can machine learn edge cases by the boatload every day, and learn faster than any mammal.

Also, most driving is not edge cases. Most driving is 40 - 70 in 5th or 6th gear on highways.

Finally, humans will always need to be in the loop with self-driving cars because humans are the passengers. Question is, what can we put in a self-driving car that will permit responsible human intervention?

Because lots of idiots think they are better drivers than they really are. A subset of them will think they ate better than the machine, and most of the time, they will be wrong.
> That mass movements coincide with a period of "betterment" is an interesting way to try to understand the civil rights and equal rights movements in the 50's and 60's.

These are specifically not what the author was talking about, since they had clearly defined goals that were achieved, as per:

> The True Believer advises against supporting organizations without clear, attainable objectives. The dockyard philosopher reminds us that we should be skeptical of mass movements without clearly defined goals.
What?

There are shelters all over the Bay Area that stipulate no drug use. They are complete with transitional housing and job placement programs. The same is true in other west coast cities.

I’ve been very close with formerly homeless people in SF, and they said the exact opposite: people choosing to be homeless move to SF because it’s the nicest place to do it in the U.S.
Wait, what? Isn’t this similar to saying “your honor, my neighbor does unethical things, so I do too”.

I don’t trust any big media these days, precisely because they lie, misrepresent, hide and blatantly engage in propaganda. I am not alone in not trusting the big media publications, a big chunk of population doesn’t trust either. This is not good for the society.

“If I don’t do this, someone else is gonna do it” or “someone is doing already, so what’s the big deal if I do it too?” is a very weak argument for doing bad things
I’m nearly out of outrage.

I wish I could leave Australia for a country that makes better political decisions.

It’s exhausting being constantly outraged by the bad political decisions.
Reasonable for the average computer geek. Not reasonable for a judge who wants to get things done and be on time for lunch.

It is shocking and disgusting how ignorant the legal profession is about any real kind of science and engineering.