skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people should live in their tents and be happy. got it.

Again, hyperbole. Plenty of countries have housing models that preclude private ownership. They're still fulfilling their obligation to shelter.

Most Americans do not face a lack of shelter, certainly not those considering purchasing a house. Housing cost is a serious issue in our cities. But it's not at the level of violating human rights, not by a long shot.
> Screwing over people that bought houses that they live in instead of fixing the root causes

The point of the proposal is that it is not an either or. In order to fix things you will have to also "screw over" people that have bought houses or people that currently can't buy houses. Long running problems are not quick and easy to fix and a fix will have collateral damage, not just "companies or rich folk".

Again: I am not taking a position on either side, but you are currently attacking a straw man.
You are very fortunate to never had the displeasure of having to interact with profoundly stupid people. Not ignorant, not uneducated, but genuinely stupid and slow people.

E.g., People for whom significant, immediate, unexpected mechanical feedback in operating something simple, like window blinds, wouldn't cause them to consider whether they might be doing something wrong, and instead continue operariting the blinds in the wrong direction until they snap and break, genuinely being unaware that they were doing it wrong.

People who are genuinely lacking the common sense you'd expect a human to have, not even with any cognitive disability or learning disorder of any kind - just genuinely stupid but otherwise ordinary people.
I agree, does not make much sense to design it like that.
The function could have another argument for listing methods or options.
Unfortunately, anecdote vs data
The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1k to adopt a wild horse
Did you miss the part where the cops weren't requiring it for white ran nightclubs?

That smells just a little bit like racism to me.
Maybe ask ChatGPT since you clearly can't Google it.

There's plenty of research on this topic [1] and it all agrees that an increase in the minimum wage is followed by an increase in costs of goods.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=effect+of+minimum+wage+incre...
Agree. Interviews taken into account side projects are biased towards:

- people who have free time to work on side projects (usually young people have more free time than people with families)

- people who don't mind sharing their code with others

- people who work on interesting side projects. If your side project is boring, that will probably bore your interviewers -> no offer

- people who work on side projects on regular basis. If I get to work on one side project every year, well, chances are I may have forgotten the hell I did on that project (depending when the interview takes place). If I work on side projects constantly, I have no trouble picking up a fresh one to talk about
Gsgen: Text-to-3D using Gaussian Splatting
"Those tools and techniques should cease to be arcane nice-to-haves for nerds: we must get more non-technical people onboard" is key here, I would say.

If those tools cease to require arcance incantations and work seamlessly like every other thing everyone else is already using, then I don't think it's unrealistic at all.
Everyone is arguing about typing vs writing in memorizing but the main advantage is developing fine motor control which impacts cognitive development.

https://journal.psych.ac.cn/adps/EN/10.3724/SP.J.1042.2015.0...
Do you seriously think they wouldn't pay for the additional staff directly out of pocket if they were allowed to? Seems like an obvious and easy win as far as business investments go.
> As is intentionally misunderstanding the fact that electricity out of coal produces CO2, while PV does not.

You're making a fallacy here, that it's either coal or PV. It's not. In tropical and subtropical places, solar make sense, else where you're better off with anything else that's not fossil. In fact, PV is not even a good substitute for coal, because coal plants can't be turned on and off easily twice a day (unlike gas turbines).

> people investing in PV, as opposed to me putting one on my roof, expect returns on said investment. These returns come from selling electricity. Of thos equation isn't working, people don't invest.

People investing in NFTs is a proof that NFTs make economical sense then? People invest because they believe, no matter if those believes are grounded or not, so using the existence of market as a proof of something working in completely self-referential believes confirmation.

> Funny as well, how people use the "market" as argument for anything working, only to turn around and totally ignore it if the market confirms something they don't want to believe.

Funny to see that people use the market as a justification for things working, when we have plenty of evidences of markets for things that made no economic sense (crypto, NFT, tulips, etc.).

> What I care about is HN turning into a olace where people ignore facts and realizy, just to confirm their points. We can do better around here, because if not, there is no point in sticking around here anymore.

Please be the change you want to see in the world then, and stop drinking cool-aid and using rhetorical fallacy instead of arguments…
>We go through life making a lot of guesses and utilizing a lot of prior probabilities. Work history is, in my experience, one of the stronger signals available to us.

Research continues to fail to support this. At what point is your experience a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Here one solution that could fix shortage and quality in police departments. I see a lot of college educated people that can't find jobs. Raise the requirement for being a cop to need 2 to 4 years of college and hire all the college people looking for work. That will also fix most of the corruption problems. I bet a lot of college graduates would kill for a pension right about now.
> The magic element is simply evolution.

I can't agree with that. Maybe our brains are not big enough, or complex enough yet to really understand what is going on with such complex systems.

Evolution may be the mechanism these complex systems exist, but it doesn't explain how they work.

Even the simplest artificial evolutionary algorithms have created integrated circuits with features we can not understand or explain.

And part of the reason is physical properties of materials, and quantum stuff. The evolutionary algorithm doesn't understand those things, just puts them in some working configuration by chance.

Anyway, my point is that we can't also use evolution as a catch-all explanation. Complex things are complex, and they require proper understanding, an engineering understanding, not just the handwaving arguments of philosophers.

About consciousness: hardest problem ever. I don't think we will be able to understand it, because we have it and it becomes a kind of strange loop.
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As the link contains a specific line number, I believe gp suggests to read comment blocks. I’m not very interested to dive into details atm, but at least the explanations seem to be on point.
Interesting question. I guess a related question would be ‘are human minds something like a really advanced ChatGPT, or are they something completely different?’

Sorry I don’t have an answer though.
If you suddenly die, would you want your family or heirs to access your data (photos, writings, communicatinos, projects, documents, whatever)?

If yes, how to achieve that without compromising the security of encryption of all your data?
So you're against someone who gets 100 acres, plants a house in the middle of it, & lives there simply because they want to, & they don't want to have to put up with the existence of neighbors? That's not parasitism — that's doing with one's property what one wishes to do. The economy is not the universe.
Something I am curious to see is the "share of housing inventory owned by each age group" over the years. For example, "25% of housing is owned by people over 75 years old, 50% 55-75, 25% under 55", etc. broken down for each year.

Basically, I suspect that today a larger share of homes are owned by the older generations, making it more and more difficult over time for young families to find houses to buy. A crude way to phrase this would be that the older generations are hoarding all the housing supply. The older generations are increasing in numbers and financial means, and the housing supply is not increasing fast enough to give the younger generations the same opportunities to buy.

The end result of this seems to be a massive wealth shift to the older generations, leaving the current younger generations less well-off than their parents were at the same age. This seems to be the opposite of what you want to see in a well functioning society.
Sectoral unions are a key to this kind of strength in labor. But the political landscape in the US, both in the form of laws already on the books and the "us vs them" mindset that polarizes workers along political lines, would make getting those kinds of unions together tough.
>> Average home price in America is over $400,000

People just starting out aren't usually aiming for the average home. There are lots of homes and condos that are half that price - depending on location.

>> which means a 20% down payment is $80,000.

If you are faced with this situation, an FHA loan requires 3.5% down and you can buy with a sub-600 credit score. FHA loans are designed for first-time buyers.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/mortgages/fha-loan
Is anyone still using mypy, and if so why? I have replaced it by pyright [0] for a while now, and not looking back. It’s been a faster, more powerful replacement with (in my case), zero downside.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/pyright
This isn't true if they are restricted stock units (RSUs) which are taxed as income yearly even if you do not sell
> You have to be mentally sick to ask people to code review their side projects.

Could you expand why? We allow people to substitute a tech interview round with side project showcase. Don't see why it doesn't make sense in your view.

> "Average developer tenure is two years, company is three years old." Got it. I don't think this statement says what you think it does.

So what does it say?
The tricky part is, everyone tends to forget the inconvenient things. Or just not research them. Even if it’s staring them in the face.

And denying that we could be bad (or have bad tendencies) that need to be resisted makes it more likely that we would, ultimately, be really bad.

But acknowledging we can be bad ‘hurts’. People want to feel good, and right, and justified. The more pain they are in, the more true it is. People don’t like pain. When it gets really bad, they look for scapegoats and seek comfort in delusion, anger, etc.

There is a balancing act in here somewhere. Frankly though, looking at history as best as I can - the wheel exists, and the analogy of the wheel is so apt because it does keep going in cycles. Pretending that knowing history will somehow insulate us from repeating it is a delusion.

It will all happen again.

The best we can hope for, is that we can make it less painful or evil when it does.
Yep it’s been very low since 2010, but looks like it’s been above 5% for possibly more than half the time since 1954, and there was a long stretch from around 1978-1991 where 6% was the minimum, and brief periods where it got to almost 20%. I feel for the poor people who bought houses with an 18% interest rate, I hope every single one refinanced quickly…

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
When Concurrency Matters: Behaviour-Oriented Concurrency
Regulatory capture is a danger there. But yea, the article says they suggested it at least as an interim solution.
> Investing in a strong safety net and high social mobility are a way to ensure that if generations from now branches of your family tree fall out of middle class they'll have a chance to climb back up again.

yes, and I pay six figures in tax every year so there is plenty enough from me in the community pot for you to achieve this

if you instead send the money to Ukraine, thats your choice
It's answered by the article..
>There is no point in using machines other than enriching their manufacturer and enabling fraud.

This is a shortsighted take. To be clear, "machines" can fall anywhere from direct-recording electronic (DRE) machines where people vote on touchscreens with no paper record, to optical-scan machines that process Scantron-style bubble-in paper ballots. The latter is a really good option because you get all the security and usability benefits of paper with the speed of machine counts. That's especially important in jurisdictions that do ranked-choice voting (like Alaska) or places with very long and complicated ballots (like California). If you don't trust the scanner, then a risk-limiting audit [1] will detect discrepancies between what the machine says and what the paper ballots say.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-limiting_audit
Sorry, I must missing something here, but how is he being a raging asshole? Looking through the linked code review, he's definitely very direct, and I can see how profanity is often uncomfortable to people who are used to formality, but he doesn't seem to attack anyone personally or focus on anything besides the technology?
Collective agreement is a floor. It is a contract which guarantees lower bounds on wages, vacation days, notice periods etc. There is nothing preventing a company from going beyond the collective agreement to provide additional benefits to their employees.

For instance, Sweden does not have a minimum wage. Instead we have collective agreements which stipulate these issues.
120 auto mechanics employed in the 9 Tesla service centers are affected.
To be fair grinding Leetcode to the point of proficiency takes longer than a week.

With that said I agree on your other point, putting in the work and sacrificing time, even months, will pay dividends long-term with a salary that allows someone to retire early.
Where's the overhead? Depending on your system the whole thing could be zero copy down to the DMA buffer. It's just a read/write protocol with a separate channel for commands.
So you want the 3rd party agency responsible for review to be paid for by the company that wants the review...
> I suspect foreigners still have to register in the US before suing in the US

Generally that wouldn't be needed since it's no US copyright law that is being violated but the country of the copyright holder. Being in violation you would not be tried in the US but in the copyright holders country.

There is this whole thing where in general Copyright is unenforceable but when it matters it is enforced, since nobody really cares if you as an individual infringed on my Copyright since to be fair there just isn't enough to be claimed in damages for it not to be a frivolous suit.

But when the amounts become significant enough it is quite serious.

https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2006/02/article_0006.h... for reference to an influential case on copyright law, there are other more modern cases as well
The homesteading hippie vagabond that lives inside me
Unfortunately this doesn't work because a _lot_ of will people legitimately will tell you they "have nothing to hide" and would tell you they'd let 3-letter agencies in the U.S. go through their phone with a fine-tooth comb (at least, until they're actually being faced with that reality and try to get out of it).

The only reason we currently have any message encryption is because a few tech companies have made the decision to protect as many as possible by releasing products which enable it (iOS, Whatsapp, and now texts via Google Messages). Not everyone who uses these products knows they're protected and not everyone will care if they were to turn off E2EE tomorrow.
> PoS is a sure way forward

No, PoS is a total failure. As it is not tied to reality the history of the ledger can be modified at will. There is no independent way of knowing which chain is the "real" one. There is no independent way of knowing which "validators" are valid. You can not leave the network and rejoin and be sure about the history without trusting some third party. This is the problem that PoW solved and PoS doesn't.
Disagree. I can be more or less certain that documentation authors or write-ups have knowledge about the topic im researching to a reasonable degree, because
1) they need accurate and efficient code that makes sense to establish a relationship with the reader and compete with other solutions
2) humans are bad at explaining things they dont know about opposed to executing or managing unknowns

ChatGPT? None of these. Its a giant probability calculator that wants my prompts and its own answers to foster itself. This also nurtures its inaccuracies and makes it easier to confidently lie. I hardly find any reasonable use for ChatGPT other than quick completion suggestions for at a maximum of 2-3 lines, because thats what its designed for.
I'm going to react to the OP through your post.

> The interview Dawkins had with the Indian metaphysician (I forgot the name) made me realize how blinded Dawkins is by his material-reductionist belief system. Dawkins appeared to have no idea what the man was talking about because his belief system could not compute the meaning of what the man was trying to explain to him.

I did not see that at all on the above fragment, maybe at the end a little. It was mostly two men having an interesting conversation albeit at different metaphysical levels and, especially Dawkins, trying to find a common ground.

The video is called "Satish Kumar schools Richard Dawkins" which is ridiculous and leading.
Telegram to have ad target by phone number in Russia?
Any Russian speaker can confirm? Not seen in any English mainstream media. Forbes.ru seems a Russia partner of Forbes, so it looks not as creditible but somewhat?
Identifying depression and its determinants: ChatGPT vs. primary care physicians
They are built on Chrome. Chromium is a shim, a pseudo-independent Chrome copy with some small changes, to pretend that there is no Chrome monopoly.
I agree with you 100%. I don't see how this is different from parents helping with college or your first car. Its their money, they can do what they want with it. Reading the comments here are scary, its almost like people want a gift/estate tax on down payment money gifted by family, in the name of "equity".
Agreed. I’m only familiar with Texas and Texas schools are funded with property tax with some redistribution to poorer districts.

I think a local income tax is the correct way to handle it theoretically but I don’t know any specific examples.
But that would be the same for both this proposed mseal() and my proposed seccomp solution.
Yeah, maybe in a couple of professor generations we'll get to some novel use of all this new tech
Python is quite rich in language features, C++ like, most people tend to think it is like BASIC, but it definitly isn't.
Why not? The ecosystem might as well be a language feature, and Python has one of the strongest for a lot of areas, not just ML.

Also, what is Python lacking that other languages have? It's expressive and fast to develop, and with type hints and linters, reasonably robust.

My main complaint is performance, but I'll take the speed to write most days.
Can you picture it as the passionate founder of the largest open source non-profit in existence telling a highly paid software engineer at the largest closed source tech conglomorate in the world that the self-serving code he's pushing into the repo you've been maintaining for 30 years is trash, because it is trash?

Because that's what you're seeing here.
Why do you summarily dismiss (and recommend that other people dismiss) the multiple viewpoints in the article suggesting that the law you’re mentioning was unfairly targeted at immigrant owned establishments? It’s absolutely part of the story. Is it really that hard to believe that a corrupt way of enforcing a law might intentionally be targeted at people who are less likely to feel empowered to fight it?
It's not 30 days typically, IME it's around a week or so, sometimes even just a few days. An off-site is typically also somewhere pleasurable.

It's also usually a huge, ridiculous cost to the company. A few companies ago they spent a million or so sending us 200 employees to an island. It would have been cool if it hadn't been immediately followed by layoffs citing cash burn being too high.
Just like self-driving cars, we’re likely to hear people say “AGI is just around the corner” for an unreasonable amount of time.
It seems like that's probably why they're offering it as a service for businesses where humans check the images rather than simply selling devices for $20 each or something like that?
As i understand this is current Motor industry agreement :

https://www.ifmetall.se/globalassets/avdelningar/forbundskon...

From : https://www.ifmetall.se/medlem/kollektivavtal/
From the article:

"Collective agreements are the basis of the Swedish labour market model. This means that the trade unions and the employers' organizations determine the rules of the game in the labour market, without interference from the state and politicians. In Sweden, approximately nine out of ten workers are covered by collective agreements.

The terms of the collective agreement include wages, form of employment, occupational pension, working hours, vacations, and periods of notice. Thus, the employers benefit from industry-specific, long-term, and stable ground rules. "
Ask HN: Why are there no serious competitors to YouTube's monopoly?
With what's going on on YT regarding ablockers, I wanted to look for alternatives, but, ..., there are ZERO serious competitors to YouTube, which is absurd and bizarre given that serving online videos is not too advanced a technology unless I'm missing something.

There used to be vimeo and a couple others, but none has survived. I don't like monopolies in general, and YT's war on adblockers is what we get in a monopoly.
New ChatGPT Image Feature Is Better Than Pro GeoGuessr Players [video]
The problem is that the new law would certainly have people involved in it to double check the false positives which could amount to millions of photos and messages being shared each year with LEOs.

Not to mention that they would use all this data to train the next generation of algorithms.
Well, there are a lot more of them than there used to be.
There is a bit of explanation here https://aras-p.info/blog/2023/09/05/Gaussian-Splatting-is-pr... (found via Google).
My cat sold my house once. OK, not exactly, but close.

We were planning on moving. My kids had "adopted" this outdoor cat, giving her food and (outdoor) shelter. We were moving in November, and I figured that cutting her off just as the weather turned would be rather hard on her. So I was trying to find a new home for her.

I ran into a neighbor that I had talked to maybe a total of five times. I asked him if he wanted a cat. He said, "No, but I want your house." He had wanted to buy our house when he moved into the neighborhood, but hadn't been able to afford it then.

So we did a private sale, without a realtor. That cat saved me about $20,000 in realtor fees, so I figured we could keep her.

So, yeah. You're not forced to use them. You can find a buyer (or seller) yourself. You can use Homie or something like it, at least in some places. I just normally don't have the time to do that kind of thing, so I normally use a realtor.
I saw the claim, I didn't see the evidence. The way the claim of racism was pulled way up front and the facts were buried deep makes me suspicious.
this is more or less how the mafia and the yakuza originated
It's not an individual blame, but sometimes innocent suffers the decisions of the leader. Like I am not sympathetic to Russia at all regarding sanctions even though I know not all Russians support Putin's plan.

And American's absolutely do suffer from their President's actions(although not that much).