skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to have rather missed my point.

Plenty of those countries you can get automatic weapons. Several of them completely legally, including literal AK-47’s. Switzerland issues automatic weapons in some situations, for keeping at home.

Plenty of those countries have notable gun (or other) violence issues - though they often categorize it differently. Most of them don’t.

In Mexico mere possession of a semi-automatic gun is a 20 year felony. I forget the penalty for machine guns, but it’s higher. Does Mexico have it under control? Do you think those laws are helping or hurting the situation?

Machine guns are so heavily regulated in the US that only two times since 1934 have legal ones been used in crimes - the most
recent in ‘84 by a police officer using his department issued one.

Yet, it’s a common problem that criminals are using modified weapons (easy to do, especially with cheap kits ordered online or from China), and police are finding them more and more often during busts - everywhere. Not just in the US.

The US is about as far from the actual Wild West as you can get. Unless the FBI was running background checks on every purchase back in the 1880’s anyway. But it does get all the press.
Working as intended. SBF repeatedly violated his bail conditions, his situation is completely self-inflicted, and no one cares about his whining.
Finally! These H1Bs in India are living the 100% remote future that 99% of HN wants!
It is indeed similar.

It seems to take a highly reductionist pathway: reality/experience can be simulated -> simulation is computation -> computation is mathematics -> mathematical objects exist regardless of whether anybody has discovered them.

This implies that all conceivable universes (including the ones where a lot of really bad things happen on an eternal loop) are possessed of the exact same reality as ours.
I'm hearing about this for so long, yet never seen it anywhere. When financebros talk about micro-anything, they usually mean something like few hundred or thousand dollars. For me, micro means cents or even less.
Fantastic. Any working project brings value to the world.

What did you learn from doing this one?

What makes your framework different?
What about the people who aren't devs?
> what does "Let AI simplify articles, clarify terms, and help you do research" mean?

If you select a text from a paper and click on "Simplify" in a popup, it will try to tell you what it means. The "help you do research" is a more broad part thought huh

> Is it something revolutionary and amazingly useful like that

We (right now a team of two) plan to develop an AI-assisted peer review. What I mean is that we can use LLMs to check for some "bad things" in paper (like small sample size or some weird hypothesis etc) + analyze the comments and the users behind these comments.

> just deciding what to show you in a feed based on past history?

Surely not, but this is what we already have in the product right now
You're papering over explicit anti-semitism that's being celebrated by neo-Nazis who are gleefully quoting him and claiming him as one of their own and by doing so affirming that his statements are antisemitic. You can offer as many charitable excuses as you like, but from here that is not a good look at all, and my version of good guys doesn't include those who pick up neo-Nazi fan clubs gleefully quoting them and claiming by their words that they are members of the same ideological group.
Sure, but those are also like ~2% of homicides in the US, and not automatic. It's like literally 3x less than knives.

AR-15 is a Boogeyman/trap for gun discussions, because it's a rounding error when looking at the whole issue of violence in the US.
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> This is a problem created by multiple governments over various parties, and at this point I don't see an exit that isn't enormously painful.

Isn't Canada's housing problem caused by a supply crunch? Other than the Canadian government going into the real estate business and start building medium and high-density appartment blocks, what role does the Canadian government have in this mess?

Also, please note that this issue is plaguing basically the whole European housing market as well.
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In a way? Sure. I feel like ad blocking still remains largely in a more technical realm for most people.

Privacy from the ads has largely become a privilege that either those that can afford it or those with the knowledge and skills can achieve.

I use it myself, but I don't think it is the same as this. One is something you can turn on and off and one is something that once done it's done unless you go in and unblock every account.
I interpreted the 99% thing as referring to all software. If it's just Rust projects then sure, then again anyone who needs async has probably been avoiding a language that lacked async until recently.
I got kicked out of the house by my dad when I was 16. He let me keep my car thankfully. I lived in Florida and I would park at the beaches that had public bathrooms + showers just to get by.. Weird time of my life. No pub bathrooms anywhere else..
Australia to give cats a curfew because they are murdering so many other animals
It's not, though. Since 1970 home prices in the US have gone up 16x and the S&P 500 has gone up 44x. Adjusted for inflation, that's 2x for houses and 5.5x for stocks. And you don't have to sell your stock if you have to move (and take a 6% hit on RE agent commissions) or pay money to maintain it. You can borrow against it whenever you want with just the click of a button. Of course housing sounds like a great form of wealth when you compare it to the hilariously bad investment of a bag of diamonds in a safe.
DJI have likely got many more, more important projects on the go. They delivered it, stop complaining
You're wrong, most EU countries have a worse income-to-housing-price ratio than Canada/Aus/US/NZ.

https://www.numbeo.com/property-investment/rankings_by_count...
> a machine gun is defined in law as a firearm that fires more than one shot with "single function of the trigger"

so, double barrels are machine guns..
For example, if an account has been inactive for years and suddenly someone is trying to login, is consistently making an effort over a reasonably long period and is willing to prove their own identity in some official way (such that if it turned out they were lying they could be trivially identified and prosecuted), then they can reasonably allow access.

On the other hand, if an account is still actively logged into, it would be obvious that anyone else trying to get access should not be allowed to do so.
I interpreted the statement as descriptive, not normative.
I have some issues with this "HN is perfectly readable" statement, but I get your point, hopefully we'll find a way to fix this one :)
If you don't already, you should strongly consider improving the data on Open Street Map. Many apps use that data. I frequently use OsmAnd to find public bathrooms.
Federal government can easily solve immigration if they wanted to though. Does it make sense to bring in a million people each year? It's not gonna change though because people are profiting from it.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/alert-no-google-topics-in-viva...
My point was that "rent it out and print money" doesn't always work. I did it with a home I owned, but that was also a period of time where I was a) bouncing around the country renting the roof over my own head and b) waiting to sell after taking it in the shorts value-wise during the Great Recession. I was never underwater, but would have taken a huge capital loss for awhile if I'd sold.
Huh? But you can recombine them in infinite ways..
It obvious you don’t live in a typical uk house
Yes, sorry, it's clear in context that it's per person: https://thecmp.org/sales-and-service/m1-garand/
On that note: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/eieio.ht...
In many ways Canada feels like a feudal state to me. The provinces simply have too much power.
Not a tax expert, but I don’t think you can flip often using owner occupancy. You are limited to a single deduction every two years: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/capitalgainhomes...

1031 is probably closer to flip model, but not sure the implications of the rules.
I suspect some of this is why more recent DJI drones have an OS and screen on the controller, because that way they have a single set of hardware to target, and even if some future Android release breaks backwards compatibility they can simply choose not to update to it and the controller will still work.
> It's like most new technologies. In the beginning there are only a few instances that really stand out, and many with issues.

Except this isn't new. This is after throwing massive amounts of resources at it multiple decades after arrival.
An STL is just a mesh, a collection of joined up points. It's like exporting a JPEG of a word document, you can print it but editing is a huge pain. For instance STLs don't support curves, so they're approximated with lots of short lines.

Usually CAD interchange is either in STEP or the program's proprietary format.
People deserve the fruits of their own labor. They do not "deserve" to charge rent to others. And appreciation of real estate without productive labor to improve that particular parcel is collecting the work of others.
if you plug those numbers into an affordability calculator, you'll see that 18k/130k is very very very sane. I mean, I've paid that much in rent on less income.
I was laughing so hard at the first example of “Argue for and against kubernetes in haiku”.

I couldn’t even get through reading 15 of them before the tears of laughter rolled from my cheeks.

“Containers organized,
Services easy to deploy now,
Updates who knows when.”

Updates who knows when… hahahaha.

Honestly this is pretty cool to see how each responds to the same input prompt.
I've heard of that scam, and there are variants where you're not "undoing" a transaction but sending another one in some way. I think it needs to be made clear to customers that transactions are never final.
> I don't see "resisting using neural anything" as a good thing, just because they are popular

I read Aras' quip as more narrowly technical. OFC it's ambiguous and you'd have to ask the man himself.

The gist of NeRF is to obtain an NN representation of a 5D light field (3D position + 2D direction) from samples (photographs) of the real-world light field. Alarm bells ring already- 5 dimensions isn't that many! Considering NeRF has always used a low-rank spherical harmonic representation of the directional domain, it's even more like 3D-and-change. To reconstruct a function of such low dimensionality, why choose an NN?

Then at inference time, for each pixel, you have sample the NN repeatedly over the view ray. This part is exceedingly silly, as compact representations of light fields are a solved bread-and-butter problem in graphics.

Later on Plenoxels explicitly took the "Ne" out of "NeRF", giving far higher training and inference performance (also mentioned ITT). To be fair, and later still, Nvidia somewhat redeemed NNs here with Instant NeRF:
https://nvlabs.github.io/instant-ngp/assets/mueller2022insta...
...where the twist was to interpolate fancy input emeddings, which are run through a tiny NN. That tininess is important, as the need to fetch NN weights from VRAM would kick NNs right off the Pareto frontier.

Zooming out, NNs have only seen wide adoption in graphics engineering for reconstruction from sparse data (inc. denoising). Makes sense, as that's a high-dimensional problem. Still, beware that the NN solutions rarely blow handmade algorithms out of the water. I also think using tiny NNs for compression- closely related to reconstruction- has a future too. Beyond that, if NNs were to set the graphics world ablaze, it would've happened by now.

Lots of graphics engineering is just approximating functions, so it's natural NNs have some place here. However, our functions tend to be more understandable, tractable, malleable. It's not an application domain where it's virtually impossible to write an algorithmic solution by hand (let alone one that performs well), like natural language understanding.
I did something like this recently, and it turned out okay; going into it I already expected there would be multiple iterations before I was really happy with it.

My idea was to have the smallest actual desk surface possible for my needs, maximizing the number of screens/pixels in my field of view. I got the heaviest duty electric standing desk frame and built on top of that. The desk surface is about 16” deep, which allows me to have smaller monitors that extend below the surface of the desk (but still within view) mounted beneath my bigger monitors. I also set up rails (2x6) at two different heights to accommodate monitors at eye level and below, and at above eye level, so basically three rows of monitors. All of my monitors are on arms, which in retrospect was maybe not the right choice, since I don’t actually need them to move, and the arms make them wobble a bit when I bump the desk.

I have my work and personal laptops each on a monitor arm (with a laptop tray). Laptops on arms are actually the best thing ever, since I can use them sitting or standing without adjusting the desk height, and I can have a laptop positioned over my mousepad. Got one of those aluminum mstand things collecting dust.

If I had to start again, I would get a second standing desk frame just for my desk surface and laptop arms. I would cut out all the monitor arms and build a sort of parabolic-shaped frame on top of the heavy duty standing desk frame to hold my monitors infixed positions relative to each other. With two standing desk frames I could easily adjust my desk height vs monitor height.

I also have a drivers seat from a PT Cruiser mounted to a gas cylinder chair base. This is mostly great, but I think it would be better without wheels, or at least with stiffer wheels. If you go this route be on the lookout for car seats with built-in heat; not sure why all desk chairs don’t have this feature.

I guess I have a lot of thoughts on this lol.
If you need to pay for subscription to read about how subscription is ending, that's sort of amusing. Anyway, this article isn't paywalled and can be read without subscription.
the US and the UK only indeed as per the size you've kindly linked. the trailer was on Vimeo, though.

too bad, now I'm dead curious, lol.
It depends on what you mean by “traditional furnace” since there are many generations of technology in play here. The article talks about “boilers”, which are huge tanks full of fire and steam, usually in the basement of a large office or apartment building, made out of cast iron and attached to cast iron radiators in the living area. They don’t run on a thermostat and just pump out as much heat as possible. These are the type of systems you see in movies where they handcuff someone to the radiator.

They’re not at all what most people living in a typical single family dwelling would think of as a furnace, which may be a forced air or water-based baseboard radiator setup.

A heat pump can keep up with a traditional furnace type system just fine, but not a boiler system because the buildings with boilers are so old they don’t have much insulation at all.
Some bigger cities (such as Edmonton, 1M people) still have a somewhat sane real estate market. In Edmonton a single family detached home averages around 450k CAD, while average household income is over 120k.
I should have formulated my question differently: "How does the server side prevent computational resource exhaustion?", which includes the ability to preempt infinite loops. It matters and can be done, e.g. by using an instruction (and memory usage) counter and aborting/suspending after a certain number of instructions have been executed, or by using a timer as stated below.
> In the context of software I’ll unapologetically defend the subscription model. I’m not maintaining your software forever

So ... don't?

It's just one model for selling software. Another one is once-off purchases.

If you can find people to pay you a monthly fee for your application (whether phone, desktop or other), good on you! Someone else may decide to just charge that once-off fee, that you get over 12 months.

After all, even with a subscription model, you aren't going to maintain something forever unless a significant portion of your subscribers remain.

Even if someone is paying you to maintain something forever, be honest, how long will you take their $1.99/m? You need a large enough number of someone's to pay you monthly to maintain that software.

There's risks and trade-offs for both sales models. Charging a small monthly fee makes it easier to acquire users, but that ease means that someone else charging a small monthly fee is losing those users (and one day you'll be that someone else losing users too).

Charging a once-off fee means that you get your money upfront, you have no further costs for that product, and the customer gets no additional value over and above the value they got on day 1. The downside is that you'll make less money off a good product than with a subscription model.

> . Mobile platforms really forced the hands of developers here. Windows will happily run 30 year old software — you could actually “finish” software and move on to the next project. iOS and Android won’t run apps from 5 years ago. Their store policies constantly change and you have to frequently keep up with new agreements lest your store listing be removed. And of course your app will be downranked into oblivion on the store search if you’re not charging a fee — why would the App Store promote apps that don’t make money for the App Store owners, and why would they promote one-time payment apps over subscription apps?

It sounds to me like your biggest beef with once-off sales has to do with products that are mobile apps. Maybe you don't already know this, but mobile apps are the worst place to try to make money with creating software products. Mobile apps are complementary to some other product (your bank provides a free app, etc).

If you want to sell software, mobile apps are not the product with which to make money, because you can't count on being the lottery winner that manages to get 10% of whales on your app.
> You're simply having a reaction. Taking it seriously shouldn't be threatening.

Is this furthering the discussion in any form?
> The users of the roads -- drivers -- are the ones who should decide what the speed limits are.

Correct, and there's a way to do that: by contacting your local transportation department and/or representatives.

> The current system is a type of tyranny because the users are subject to rules without input nor representation.

I don't know where you live, but in the US we have these things called "elections" where you can vote for who you want and the policies that they implement, and after the election they'll usually even listen to their constituents if they're contact on large enough scales. There's no tyranny.

> If the majority of users say the speed limit is 80mph, then that is the just speed limit.

You're intentionally conflating terms. The "speed limit" by definition is something that the state sets - it cannot be set by drivers.

> Localities which decide -- for what ever reason -- that they know better have the seeds of tyranny inside them.

This is absolutely crazy. One of the primary functions of a democratic government is to determine and then implement consensus, such as how fast cars should travel on roads. The speed limits around my area literally reflect my preferences. Taking the public's desire and implementing it is the exact opposite of tyranny.

Maybe you should come to the US, where we actually have elections and you can email your governor if you don't like the speed limit - it sounds like you live in a non-democratic country. In the meantime, you've inspired me to contact my governor and ask them to step up speed limit enforcement.
That is just vanilla racism/xenophobia.

https://news.westernu.ca/2023/01/expert-insight-canadas-ban-....

Data that tracks foreign buyers and owners in Canada are scarce and patchy. The Canadian Housing Statistics Program shows that non-residents only own about two to six per cent of Canadian residential properties in 2020.

Edit: Those numbers are in line with the US. Why is the US real estate market not that crazy then?
It's a literary technique, and if you would have been familiar with Molly Whites writing you would likely have expected the twist to occur further down in the article - which it did.
IMO the cost of living US kind of averages out these days. House price gradient is pretty slim, and the large metros typically have less expensive services due to local competition/robust economies, vs the rural areas where medical care can be extremely pricey, food prices are outrageous, and no local competition to sustain more than one option for most staples.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk on location-based compensation is wage theft.
It definitely isn't the only offset mechanism. But it is the only reduction method, by definition. Reduction not in production rate obviously, but total levels.

We definitely should be funding research (because systems aren't good enough yet) into these systems because we're not acting fast enough and CCS has the advantage of acting on the lag effect. But this is no excuse to not also reduce emissions. They're coupled: we need less CCS the less we produce which is nice especially considering nuclear is a cheaper option than CCS at this point.
> I think that people can still have a shared reality as long as they understand that there is a disagreement. For example, Google could have done what many map makers do and explicitly indicate where borders are disputed.

But that's exactly what they do already, when allowed to.

Have a look at Jammu Kashmir. If you're not located in India or Pakistan, the disputed borders are shown as dotted lines rather than the normal solid lines for national borders. If you look at the details of any location in the region (e.g. the city of Jammu), it won't show any country.

Now, if you're in India, it'll not display any disputed borders and instead show the entire area being a part of India. But showing the dotted line isn't an option, showing these borders is required by the local laws. And you wouldn't want a multinational company to try to flout the laws of the countries they're operating in, would you?
My new hobby is running and maintaining a console build on my T43 which is basically a Pentium 3. I use it for hobby programming (vim + gcc) and I appreciate the machine slowing down when I make a mistake