skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you actually try and find proof of the 8GB fiasco, there's mostly one source that put together an artificial scenario where they pushed a bottom end card to 4k on newly launched console ports which then got optimized.

NVIDIA said as much, released a 16GB version, and lo-and-behold it's absolutely pointless, even performing worse than the 8GB at times: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060...

Most graphics cards are still under 8GB of VRAM, and raw numbers of memory storage mean nothing for performance in isolation.
Let's be real here, if only those were the majority of the homeless in the US, and other such places.

Instead, they are used as an excuse not to do anything for the homeless masses.
Your little snippet of wisdom here isn't as relevant as you think it is.
The smell of my first IBM ThinkPad was quite strong. Today that smell triggers good memories of playing old video games or building my first website. I still keep that laptop only to occasionally smell it.
“Smooth vscode setup for development”

I assume you’re using some sort of remote dev server?
> America has an unusually severe homelessness problem.

Maybe.

Over 580,000 Americans are experiencing homelessness. That is a rate of ~0.18%, if my calculations are correct (600k / 332m).

Contrast to Sweden (population 10m) which had an estimated 33,000 homeless people in 2020, yielding a rate of 0.33%. [1]

Contrast to Japan, which has an estimated effective homelessness rate of 0%.

So Sweden has a worse homelessness rate than the US but we all suck compared to Japan and Finland!

1. https://www.homelessworldcup.org/sweden#:~:text=Country%20st....
Education and indoctrination are often surprisingly difficult to distinguish. If one is 'educated' to have absolute faith in institutions (e.g. the New York Times / Wall Street Journal / Washington Post, the NIH, the CDC, the US State Department and Pentagon, cable news outlets, Ivy League academic councils, religious organizations, etc.), while also believing oneself to be 'well-educated' even though one has never learned how to apply skeptical analysis to the claims of these institutions, well, hasn't one merely been indoctrinated into a system of faith-based obedience to higher powers?

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?
please give me examples of programs that have exactly identical functions
(1) is a byproduct of being on the streets for a long time to begin with. people get comfortable in prison too, its just human adaptability. less people on the streets = less people "comfortable" on the streets.

(2) that is why the Finnish model requires free counseling.

(3) if every person has the same access to a council flat, why would you need to share? This seems to be a problem with the american style limited voucher system.
LLMs are, and will continue to be, used for applications where factual accuracy is important. The decisions that LLM outputs prompt will soon be having big impacts in people's actual lives, if they aren't already.

The appearance of credibility of the output makes this much worse, since inevitably decisions will be deferred to LLMs that they are not sufficiently accurate enough for.
it isn’t amusing.

the “book” claimed six people died. the death toll is over 100.

like the fifteen year old that was found holding their dog.

the comparison is in the link that you must not have finished reading.
The issue with old packages I run into is that I don’t live in a Debian Linux only bubble — I use Windows and macOS too, which makes major version discrepancies between platforms irritating and occasionally a problem (data format changes, feature differences, etc).

For desktop use, distros like Fedora strike a decent balance in my opinion, being much more up to date without sitting on the bleeding edge and usually updating without issue.
I understood your argument to be that the rich tend to find ways to pass on their taxes, which I might even agree with--maybe, so I was thinking that if taxes don't do it then what would. I agree with my sibling though: the tax code is where we've subsidized people for generations now because of our discomfort with giving benefits to Black Americans. I think it would be hard to convert all that into equivalent benefit programs, and I think that's why people on the right advocate so much for it, because the likely end result is that many of those programs are cut, and the rich still only pay capital gains.
This is a terribly sad phenomenon - I've noted it too in small-town-my-native-country. I've always understood it as closer to social murder [1] than shit life syndrome, though, but there is certainly considerable overlap.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder?wprov=sfla1
What do those communities look like for people whose "condition" is the worst? The ones who won't accept treatment but desperately need it, and are a danger to themselves and others.
In other words, Musk and Trump are both sociopaths.
Well, mega cities don't exist if the whole country is only 5 million. Still, urbanization has been strong since the 1960s and has not stopped. The rural areas are getting truly depopulated. The vast majority of Finns lives in and around cities where you don't know your neighbors.
Bluesky buckled following Twitter/X’s announcement about the end of blocks
What Is Narcissism? Researchers debate if grandiosity always masks vulnerability
Keep in mind the default and what most people stick to is a simple numeric passcode, which can easily be bruteforced because you can just iterate through all the numbers. If the replay protection doesn't work they will be able to get in, its just a matter of time. If everything is working as it should and you use a proper alphanumeric/symbol passcode, I think thats less feasible if not downright impossible.
And the htmx-ification trend continues. I guess this is sort of the counter movement now to all the API-First/Data-First/SPA-First evangelism of the last few decades.

I don't quite understand why though. Or rather, why those posts always seem to have an intense emotional dislike to anything data-driven.

What exactly is wrong with just using React? Or, heaven forbid, plain Javascript, which browsers have spent the last decades optimizing it make working with REST APIs and JSON as easy as possible.
I did not think of that solution!So easy and it didn't even pop up in my mind :-)
The thing is, I need access to the site since I have the pen-210 exam tomorrow and have to do some last minute studying.
Plus I'm posting it here to (hopefully) make the troubleshooting this issue for other students easier. When I found this issue a month ago, it took me some time to figure out why the page kept being blank.
> I think you're missing the point

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".

> Truly creative writers are capable of producing material that's good, entertaining, interesting, moving. That's a rare talent, and it's not derivative.

I think we must be using the word "derivative" differently.

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.

From what I've seen from ChatGPT-3.5, it… writes fiction like someone born in 1950 who was always disgusted by sex and violence and who now has mild Alzheimer's and gets confused what they're supposed to be writing about — that it's as good as it is, is of course miraculous, but even in this state it can be put in front of an editor and turned into something fun far faster than getting a really good human to do it nearly right the first time.

(Some people don't realise it's absolutely bad enough to need an editor, just search for reviews containing the string "As a large language model" for examples).

As an example of getting it right (IMO), the following link was mostly generated by AI, minimal editing by me for formatting, repeated prompting and plenty of cherry picking to make sure it kept to the fictional reality and didn't start veering into "this hypothetical creature" or "look what nonsense ye olde people used to believe in":

https://benwheatley.github.io/Fiction/Homo%20Capra/Homo_Capr...

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Less important, but

> I'm sure LLMs could cobble together autobiographical material from sources that sucks too.

That would be a biography not an autobiography. And AI writing in general will remain so until some AI gets a long term memory and also embodied… although it might be the long term memories are autobiographical "writing" created as we sleep from our waking memories.
If humans did it, the least they could do is attribute it to their real name rather than a pseudonym.

I'm fine with humans using AI to write books if the humans are willing to attach their human name to their work.

The absense of a human name credited to the work makes it appear as though the human doesn't want to take responsibility for the AI's work.
I may be reading it a bit defensively, but the article seems to be trivializing mass movements; "Oh it's just the middle class griping because they don't have a private jet."

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. When the classes are no longer merely struggling to put food on the table they can rise up and demand something better than separate but equal education. And the comfortable and educated middle class white population had nothing to lose by joining those causes.

At the same time if there is a growing frustration among the masses now I have no doubt it is being fueled by a wealth inequity that seems to shower all the accolades of life on a very select few. And not just private jets and private islands but exemption as well from the laws that govern the rest of us.

Unlike many of my progressive friends, I understand the root frustration of the MAGA crowd and see something there that we are all frustrated about — those of us on both (all) sides.

(As an aside, I discourage friends and family (and any who will listen) from having anything to do with any movement that embraces violence — whether on the "right" or "left". Because I believe any successful movement that relies on violence to succeed will then rule with violence. Not cool.)
Homeless = no permanent residence.

Homeless people can get shelter for night. Municipalities and the state have an obligation to provide a warm place to sleep, and every individual, regardless of their place of residence, has the right to have it.

But that's not a home. Most homeless stay at relatives or friends (60%). Some stay in institutions, like hospitals or shelters for victims of domestic violence. Then there are homeless dormitories, but they are so full of alcoholics and drug users that many people prefer to sleep outside in tent or something.

Most homelessness is just temporary, but there was still 1,133 long term homeless people in Finland December 2022.

If you are a person without problems managing your life, you get your home typically in few days or weeks.
Why do you think the SLS term is an inside joke? I actually appreciate the succinct directness of it tbh.
Mine was the second comment and you had not responded to the first comment when I made my post. As Crzy demonstrates it was not an obvious error. Anti-intellectualism is quite common in the U.S.
Even Been to This Free London Yew Maze?
"Miles Stones" -> Milestones
I’ve lived in Australia. The quality of care is so much lower that it’s hard to imagine. This is true across GP, specialist, and emergency visits.
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That's the experience of people who live in places with shitty free healthcare options and can afford top tier healtcare on demand.

Difference to the experience of millions who'd rather skip treatments for even basic stuff like dentals than bear the costs...
Exactly. (T, error) simply cannot be used in any real program. Like you say, if you try to use nil your program will crash, and error is asserted to be nil when there is no error, and you have to use that useless nil value in order to utilize T per the style guide, therefore your program will crash essentially all the time. It is impossible to write code that is valid if (T, error) is present.

It's not a question what is or isn't better. That's off-topic. It's just a question of how can we actually deal with the situation with the tools that Go gives us? MarhsalText no doubt contains the answers, but we aren't sure where to find it given the ambiguity. You went to all the trouble of looking it up to tell us about it, but now want to keep it a secret?
You seem to have forgotten the second half of your comment, where you pointed out why it’s not relevant.
One step forward, another backwards
>The American Revolution against British colonial rule was a 'populist mass movement' that the vast majority of American citizens would agree was a good thing.

A lot of citations needed. The American revolution was a revolt of the upper class of the colonies against the upper class of England. The average colonist didn't particularly care one way or the other as can be seen by post war migration over the boarder into Canada and vice versa.
Maybe but they aren't necessarily a bonding factor.
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There have been people capable of similar feats long before LLMs were developed.

Walter B. Gibson (who wrote many of the stories featuring The Shadow) boasted of cranking out up to 10,000 words per day.

He reportedly had typewriters in every room of his house, with a story in progress on each one.

In his peak year, he produced 1,680,000 words - roughly 24 full-length novels.

That was in the days of typewriters, snail mail, physical printing pressess, and truck distribution.

Putting something in the Kindle Store takes less than five minutes, and it's for sale world-wide within a day.

I'll bet Gibson could've churned out a quickie on the Maui fires within two days, if he'd had any way to get it on the market that fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_B._Gibson
If it’s completely down to Olive and DirectML then nvidia should be able to use them for similar performance improvements. If not, then AMD is still a defining factor. A quick search didn’t bring up anything definitive on the question though, so I guess we’ll have to wait for someone to try it out ( or someone with faster Google-fu than me)
My experience working on "medium sized" B2B apps in 10-20 people teams is that the cleanest way to design API-s is to have a regular REST API for the basic CRUD operations on the entities, and then have more specialized endpoints for specific pages, tables, dashboards etc. on top of that. Having specialized endpoints is kind of required, as the data often needs to be searchable, sortable, filterable and paginated, which would be pretty wasteful, or sometimes even impossible to do on the frontend. I find these kind of REST API-s pretty straight forward to design and implement for the most part, and as others pointed out, onboarding is extremely easy if the new developer on the team has worked in software dev at least for a year or two. This also makes it pretty easy and quick to transition to a fully public API if needed (although I have rarely seen this as a requirement).

Edit: fixed a typo.
https://archive.ph/HRrd8
I mean a more deatailed comparison, not just he full text of the book but gather up however many hundreds of articles have been published too; and then do a textual analysis to see just how much variance there can be.

if my use of the word "amusing" offends; i apologize; I am not a sensitive person in that way and frequently do that. Nothing about this tragedy is amusing.

The predicable banal venality of people's responses, on the other hand, is. If you can't laugh at people jumping to profit of tragedy like the author of this book, what can you do? Despair?
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People have been using pseudonyms and ghostwriters for centuries.

I think that ship has sailed.
you know dr stones won’t be doing that. taking credit for these works. this is purely for profit. not celebrity.

amazon could care. so could users of their products and services.

let’s see what happens.
Inevitably what ends up happening in these situations is that some product manager thinks, "wait, what if we had a 'gold' version that people payed for and that version also pushed whatever content we wanted at them?"
My favorite example of improv that made it to air is Space, The Infinite Frontier: Dr. Kent Wahler. Here https://youtu.be/gQDqRlMeJ4U?si=rRNKw2TZyyV3xcLR&t=177 is when Will Ferrel realizes he improvised too much and Jeff Goldblum is too confused, and steers back.
What about that large group of people whose problems are not solvable by your social systems and technology? The ones you can't fix, because humans aren't infinitely moldable.

What's your policy towards them?
>Shifting blame and absolving yourself

Reckless misrepresentation of my comment. I suggested that political action is what you should do, not spend your days worrying about how many plastic straws you used.

I'm suggesting all empirics point to the notion that tackling regulation of corporations would have a trillion x the effects of you not allowing yourself to go on vacation because planes = bad.

I am not suggesting any absolution of responsibility. I'm suggesting we look at the basic math behind carbon consumption and note the pretty clear picture painted by 100 companies producing 71% of emissions.

Voting/organizing for politicians that actually change the subsidies given to fossil fuel companies among a litany of other reductions is and always will be a billion x more productive than needlessly preventing yourself from having a nice vacation.
Sure but you can't ignore a 20% obesity rate all throughout Europe just because the US is worse.
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The sketchy history of institutionalizing people shouldn't stand in the way of genuine medical treatment. Yes, putting women into counseling for 'hysteria' was ridiculous, but so is thinking someone with schizophrenia living on the streets has made a lifestyle choice.

From the research I've seen the rate of severe, not mild, mental illness among the homeless population is estimated to be as high as one third. These are not people who are making choices in any sound state of mind, they actually need to be put in medical care, not because they're dangerous but for their own sake.
Ukraine's Zelenskiy asks Sweden for Gripen jets in first visit since invasion
https://archive.li/XI1Ea
> I wonder how they tackle a few problems such as I've observed around here:

None of these problems are the majority of homless people. There are always some where special care is needed, or for whom nothing works no matter what level of care.
That is a very astute observation. Bookstores curate based on what they expect to sell and they take on risk when they order books ahead of those sales. But that also is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophesy: you can not buy books they don't have for sale. And more than once I've bought a book that had been re-priced multiple times. We even had bookstores in NL that would carry leftover stock from other bookstores (notably: De Slegte, where I spent many hours sifting through the stacks looking for gems).
The actual restrictions of real world shelters - you must leave the place in the morning and can go back only in the evening. You can not lock your things, so you have to be constantly on guard. You cant come after certain hour, meaning making quite a lot of low paid jobs impossible to even get. Also, cramped unsanitary or otherwise unsafe conditions, frequently making a good place on street (tent or old building) actually better.

That is from top of head, when I last time looked into it.
https://artists.apple.com/support/1124-apple-music-insights-...

Apple pays the same rate to everyone and for all music, and for what it's worth it is well known that Apple pays much more than Spotify does to artists.

It is incredibly difficult to guess what related music people will like, and some people will like the selections, others won't. Apple recently added a "Discovery" station that tries to guess music you might like but don't listen to and I am a big fan of it, while many others absolutely hate it. Eh.
>It's hard for some to accept that yes, some people do need in-patient mental care and possibly for an extended period of time

Some people, yes, but an incredibly small minority. The vast majority of people with severe and enduring mental illness can be managed perfectly well in the community if you have adequate community-based mental healthcare provision. The choice between asylums and people fending for themselves on the streets is a false dichotomy.

>"prayer" or "social support" or whatever isn't a substitute for IV anti-psychotics

We have a wide range of long-acting injectable antipsychotics that can be administered on a fortnightly or monthly basis. You do not need to lock someone up indefinitely in order to administer an injection once every few weeks. Some people will inevitably need to be compelled into treatment, but that number is much smaller if a) you have a mental healthcare workforce who have the time and training to establish rapport and build trust with patients and b) you use early intervention to reach people before they are in crisis.
For the same reason some people wont be caught dead in a 3 star hotel, and would rather only stay on 5 star hotels.

Meanwhile, for millions who would otherwise stretch to afford the latter or skip it altogether, it works extremely well, as it does anytime you just want a bed for the night (the 95% of basic medical treatments), and not jakuzi and 3 restaurant choices.
Of my close friends from uni days, only one lives in london, and that’s by choice (her job was moved from london to somewhere in Surrey well before covid so she was “reverse commuting” several times a week.

The others live in a seaside town in devon, a Wiltshire village, a Shropshire village, and one lives in a small Derbyshire town.