skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There are over 300,000 enrolled tribal members of the Cherokee Nation (per Wikipedia). There are ~0 Picts, as far as I know.

So what part of the US do we return to the Cherokee? The parts the US gave them when they forced them out of the South East? Or their original territory? My hometown was originally populated by a separate tribe. The Cherokee came later. How do we split the land between the Eastern and Western bands of Cherokee?

To a large extent, the borders of the various tribes that are still existent today are a result of their interactions with the European colonial powers. So the "political map" of the US in 1794, looks vastly different than it did in 1720. The current map is entirely arbitrary and unfairly benefits some groups over others. But picking any other historical map is also entirely arbitrary. There's no way to go back and pick the "correct" one.
1000% Agree. So many ROI calculations I've seen in the past ignore key-person risks from internal systems, hiring premiums needed to keep specialized knowledge, and also carve-away infra human costs into other departments. Once you carve out enough stuff from the ROI, you can sway the ROI calculation heavily.

The folks who are too senior arent sufficiently technical to understand. The folks who understand benefit from the key-person risk and premiums paid, and thus are disincentivized to challenge the ROI comparison.
Yes, thankfully there's a password on installing software as root

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1200/

Running code works fine without root, at least to copy your emails, saved logins, and browser sessions file and such
What's wrong with Apple developer tools?

Every now and then something annoying will happen, like the Simulator sucking all the resources for no apparent reason, Xcode crashing/declining to compile some SwiftUI View because the code is too complex and the download size of Xcode used to be gargantuan but all these are really annoyances and nothing catastrophic. Definitely not case of not paying attention to details, on the contrary - Xcode does lot's of small things to increase developer comfort, which IMHO is about paying attention to details.

What do you think it can happen if you let Xcode cloud access your online git repo and compile the project on their machines? What should I be worried about?
Fractional Fourier transform
I would like to thank you for the amazing products, especially Consul, Nomad, Vagrant, Vault and Terraform, which I started to promote in my company to improve their tech stack.

But at the same time I don't really like some of the features are guarded behind paywalls...like Vault/Consul namespaces or multimaster deployment...and the price for those useful features are nefariously hostile for startups like us.
Where will the immigrants live?

Or rather, unless you put them up in hotels and send them back when done, how do you account for providing them housing when housing is already constrained?
The End of Scarcity?
Thanks for the link to the Statutory Guidance, which provides some very helpful commentary, and I feel that points 12 and 13 are of some interest:

12. The judgment accepts an argument that moving data outside the computer system, in the form of a file that is transferred, provides an external (outside world) technical effect (see [73]-[74]). When coupled with the purpose and method of selecting the file’s contents, this fulfills the requirement for a technical effect which avoids the computer program exclusion (see [76]).

13. The judgment further holds that a trained hardware ANN is capable of being an external technical effect which prevents the computer program exclusion from applying (see [78]). The judgment holds there ought to be no difference between a hardware ANN and an emulated ANN in this respect.

If I am not mistaken (though there is a good chance I am), the judge could have made a narrow judgement in favor of the plaintiff on the basis of point 12 alone. Inventions that use a suitably-programmed computer in a process that produces an "external technical effect" are not prima facie ruled out (though they do have to satisfy a requirement of sufficiency of description, which, as the judge noted in his opening remarks, is not being ruled on here, together with (I think) non-obvious novelty and utility)

Point 13 may have much broader implications, as it asserts that any trained software ANN is, in itself, an "external technical effect", and presumably patentable if it satisfies other requirements such as sufficiency.

The first issue with this is, as you and others have pointed out, that the justification given for this claim (the possibility of a functionally-equivalent implementation in hardware) works equally well for any computer program - ANN programs are not different in this regard. If followed to its logical conclusion, this principle would seem to completely nullify the "program for a computer" exclusion.

A second point that might be made here is that the difference between a trained ANN (whether implemented in software or hardware), and itself in its untrained state, are data - specifically, the weights. This might imply that the intellectual property issue here is a matter of copyright, not invention.

Finally, and perhaps most broadly, if a trained ANN is, in itself, an "external technical effect", does that open the door to the patenting of ANN training methods? (Maybe they already are?)
For browser Chrome/Firefox - but on Windows. Given Safari in your list I think you're relying on the system (macOS in your case) to provide a dark style system dropdown so you can customize the font to be white but Windows/some other OS's provide a white themed system dropdown which will result in a customized font color only giving an all white dropdown, until an entry is highlighted in which case the background for that row turns to the selected color (blue in the case of Windows).

https://i.imgur.com/FWcCsNe.png
Scientists measure the distance to stars by their music
Nope:

> The number of homeless people in Finland has continuously decreased over the past three decades from over 16 000 in 1989 to around 4 000, or 0.08% of the population
Americans think they are free when they are actually prisoners of a mind worm.
Very sad, and evidently very hard to solve within existing societal constraints.

A few days ago there was a recent story shared on HN describing a perfect example of why it's become so difficult to solve this horrible problem:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38627492
So, if I read that right, about a 50% per passenger predicted drop. Which, for a small fleet of slow travel airships, wouldn't even budge the needle on air traffic emissions overall.
Micro-medical machines like "The Magic Schoolbus" are being developed but safety
"From plaque cleaning to drug delivery, nanoelectronics are rapidly developing, with major implications for medicine"
it's route for the settings menu, not sure it works in the browser :)
The Art of Conducting (2018)
And what do you propose as the alternative? How do you think people should connect their headphones, watches, fans, etc.
well nothing is "hypocritical" in the Ayn Randian world of "I have the marbles so now you pay me"
This is a fascinating question. I can visualize mathematically described shapes without any issue. But if you ask me to visualize anything real world, I get absolutely nothing.
https://oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/13/finlands-zero-homeless-...

Reading that article would be a start. They could also expand section 8 housing. They could also get rid of the countless nonprofits that siphon money away from the homeless. They could tie Social Security cola adjustments more towards housing and rental prices.

They Institute Medicare for all. They could ban the emptying of large amounts of houses by financial capital firms. Which they are already doing sort of. They could end Airbnb. They could ban making it illegal to sleep in a car or sleep on the street.

Or they can just really care.

I could go on, but again this is not a problem of not having the money, I mean we’re supporting two useless wars right now. This is a problem of people not caring or caring for the wrong things.
here's a list with all settings urls: https://github.com/FifiTheBulldog/ios-settings-urls/blob/mas...
While in general, 'metal' means all elements except for hydrogen and helium, in this specific case, 'metal' really means oxygen. They are using the measurement of the [O III] 4363 line to estimate a gas temperature which allows for a determination of oxygen abundance but this gives no information on the other elements. One thing to keep in mind is that the method they use, while considered the gold-standard, is known to be biased such that metallicity is guaranteed to always be underestimated. Regardless, these galaxies are still metal-poor but it's not clear how well they mimic those in the early Universe which is one of the primary motivations for studying such objects.
> We need to eliminate (most) zoning

>> when housing is already constrained?

By removing those constraints. OP accounted for this.
In fact, if you read the bible or the iliad, you'll notice writing has been weird for quite some time indeed.
>5:00 AM · Feb 5, 2022

Adobe have amended and expanded the subscription options since this was posted, listed the penalty-free "cancel by" period alongside each one, and included a tooltip with a more verbose reading.

They're still evil.
Yeah. The homeless in popular imagination that actually prefer living without a home are called #vanlife’rs.

The one sees in cities are not those at all. Where they have access to shelters or even housing and they prefer to live as homeless instead is overwhelmingly because the housing and shelters are substandard, moldy, they’re exposed to risks of abuse including sexual abuse, they may not be allowed to bring their pets in, they may have addictions that they will be asked to wean off cold turkey (both understandable from the housing/shelter point of view, but it’s also obvious why someone addicted to a substance would not be able to do this), etc.

In my interactions I was genuinely surprised by the really large percentage of homeless who preferred to live on the streets (even in the winter) over decent shelters without many of these risks, because of pets not being allowed. For many the companionship with the pets are quite literally keeping them sane, and there’s no way they’d give them up, and yet the vast majority of shelters have a no pet policy (again, understandable, but it still is a contributing problem).

Now, there are definitely a few homeless who have mental health issues. And unfortunately, for obvious reasons those are the ones most people are likely to encounter (the sane homeless people prefer to stay out of the way and would prefer avoiding people altogether because of the shame and the judgment they’d encounter to begin with). So most people’s (including mine until I started volunteering with organizations that worked directly with homeless people) estimation of homeless people is based on this tiny minority at one extreme. Which is unfortunate because it makes passing actual useful policy that will help the homeless and reduce homelessness and all the issues that come with it, very difficult to bring into force.
You can always reset by tapping the home button or swiping the most recent app away or so, so you can try various UI layouts until one works. Most Androids have a settings button in the notification area and then you can find the installed apps, search for the dialer, etc. Don't need to assume a certain homescreen location.
Why are they exempt? And who else is also exempt?
Ah, I'm not sure about 'public domain'. In this context, 'open-domain images' refers to any images, as opposed to curated domain images, such as human, fluid, cloud, etc., which other traditional image animation methods are specifically designed for.
In name only. They both corporate parties. This gentleman explains it well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/18jbd11/this_...
The last time I checked, it was not possible to re-encode a JXL image into a JPEG image. Is this now supported?
Complain HN: Spammers and Content Length
Something that I have found becoming a trend is that spammers (aka Mariott, etc.) make the length of their e-mail so long that the GMail App 'cuts' the content.

This is an issue because the "Unsubscribe" link is always in an additional step (e.g., you have to open another 'link' to view the full e-mail).

This is exasperated when you find that Mariott's unsubscribe link is not 'aware' of the 'subscriber' email forcing the user to input the e-mail.

With GMail's Unified Inbox, you may not have be aware which e-mail was subscribed after all and will have to re-look at the e-mail and go through the steps again.

This is definitely a dark spam method.
Presumably so you can't turn it off simply by uncommenting the line. The default is defined in some source file.
In January of 2007? The crisis hit a bit later, if you’re thinking about foreclosures. Housing prices were still up, and the housing market was tight. It may suggest that homeless is driven by real estate speculation. In other words hot economies cause homelessness to increase, not the converse.
Yes, you’re absolutely right — nobody has ever made any money in the stock market in the history of the stock market.

God, I wonder what kind of gotcha this was in your head.
> These kinds of laws are the human equivalent of recruiting every Amazon Ring to detect and report crimes.

Well, let’s step back and look at impact. If we used Ring cameras to have 100% enforcement of jaywalking laws, that’d be widely recognized as extreme because there’s no damage to everyone else. If we used the same cameras to have 100% enforcement of mugging, the reverse would be true because the only consequences are on people who everyone agrees deserve punishment. This seems to be in the latter camp: buildings whose owners have neglected them to the point that there are actual hazards to the residents. It isn’t some vague hypothetical future risk but a very clear question: the citizens of New York have decided that nobody should have to live in a building with rats or mold, should landlords be required to follow that law?

The other concern with Ring cameras is that they could be misused for other purposes. That’s real there but not applicable here because this isn’t general data collection and everything funnels through a city office with a neutral third-party. The government can only get data when someone is bothered enough to report it, and if a report is specious the city inspector is going to quickly realize this.
How long ago was this and have the machines changed over the years? Because this ice cream machine always broken seems like anew phenomenon compared to my tenure back around 97.

I was there for about a year IIRC, other than cleaning the machine "making ice cream" was dumping the premixed liquid into the top two compartments.
Scientists concerned over human impact on the Moon
.. and that has happened more times than we talk about
Interesting. I hope that means the web UI will continue to work if one chooses to enable cloud storage
It’s fairly rare that I see arguments against immigration on the grounds that immigrants are more competitive in the labor and housing markets. Interestingly I have seen it said by folks like David Frum and Paul Krugman who I’d call center-right and center-left respectively.

What tends to bubble up is hatred; calling them dirty and rapists and whatnot. The fear mongering about how migrant caravans are coming to overdose my children with fentanyl or whatever the panic de jour is isn’t helping the cause for me, though it does seem quite effective for many.

On the other end of the economic spectrum, it seems like builders only want to build high end luxury housing where the margins are fat. While I’m sure the ROI on that is nice from a financial standpoint, it doesn’t seem to add much to society for some rich dude to own another mansion that they might spend a month or two in per year. I don’t know if that sort of thing is a huge effect however. It does seem that as wealth inequality ever increases, so do our social problems.
That was the first thing that came to mind when I found out about GPT-4V. Now that ollama[1] supports these models as well, I'll probably add a second engine to it at some point.

[1] https://ollama.ai/
Tangential: Is anyone else getting burned out from having to transfer data between phones?

Let me explain. I’ve been rocking the same iPhone backup since 2010 and I never lost anything… but now if I lose my phone I will lose my eSIMs, as well as any non-passkey 2FA. What next?

Just recently I was unable to reinstall my eSIM for an hour and my headache was growing stronger as I imagined what all the services that (still) relied on SMS 2FA, all of which would not be activatable without it.

Switching to a new phone now requires me going through my long app list to determine which apps “probably” need to be reactivated on the new phone, while still having access to the old phone.

Back on topic: now I also have to worry about my location history being lost forever should I need to uninstall a buggy Google Maps (happens just about yearly)
Another name for Causal Trees is "RGA" (Replicated Growable Array). They are ~identical algorithms that were published concurrently. E.g., Automerge uses RGA (https://automerge.org/docs/documents/#lists).
I think GP is pointing out that someone that spends years building a large online gallery of their artwork, only for it to be smushed into a pool of vector mush, has the same reasoning to prevent openAI from using their work as openAI does to prevent competitors from using their artisanaly laundered dataset.

Doesn’t matter how much endless amounts of money they spend, they’re going to have to contend with the fact that the value they ship is derived from other’s work. It’s just diluted to the point of it becoming “data” rather than “artworks”.
It never actually has to be a lie. Making predictions years into the future is impossible if variables are changing. He can make a perfectly truthful estimate of when the product will be ready as of today’s information, and then the information changes.

It’s up to you as a consumer to either discredit the optimism or buy into it.
"Yes, we have one party here. But so does America. Except, with typical extravagance, they have two of them!"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/One-party_state
Release schedules are normal. That's how every deprecation scheme works: announce the change and follow through on date xyz. But I'm sure we'll see the light if only we think about it for a few minutes.
I don’t understand this word “deserve”. It’s not about who gets the blame when the coyotes show up at night and kill all your chickens. It’s about making sure you don’t tear down fences that are, unbeknownst to you, protecting your chickens.
Agon light ORIGINS [eZ80 computer]
Unfortunately we're not all multi-billionaires.
Not even dev. Some problem will come along and someone will bitch on twitter, guaranteed.
No, it's the right analogy for the point I was making. That analogy is there to point out that it is about more than just the prompt, and prompting a machine is covered in the rest of my comment.
> Trying to figure out the thing without any help, or very little help, at each step of the above. This sounds pointless, but it actually works really well

I found it to be very effective though time consuming. Even if you don't figure out the solution, when you read other solution later, everything just clicks.
I’m somewhat partial towards the centiday (roughly 15 minutes, 14m 24s to be precise).
> The economy is doing stellar for the upper classes which account for maybe 10 to 15% of the population.

Part of the problem is that the US isn’t one “the economy”, it’s localized, primarily due to housing markets. There is no way that the top 10% of income earners qualify as “upper class” in the US, because the majority are in high COL areas.

When you make $400k/pa, but pay $5k/mo in rent/housing, that’s a very different outcome than making $400k/pa and paying $1k/mo in rent/housing. Both of these situations exist in the US, but the former is much more common than the latter. Looking at income only without accounting for cost of living presents a skewed view of things. The person paying the higher cost of living in this situation is solidly middle class, if and only if they own that property, renters by definition aren’t middle class. The person paying the low cost of living almost certainly owns the property and is able to invest heavily, so is almost certainly upper class or a HENRY.

Earning $90k/pa puts you in the top 10% of income earners, and isn’t even six figures. The new middle class for non-Boomers starts in the top 3%. You only need to earn $300k/pa to be in the vaunted 1%, and in most high COL areas you’ll never be able to afford a house.

Looking at income percentiles without looking at cost of living is a really skewed viewpoint, and it ignores the huge wealth chasm between the top 0.1% and everyone else, even 1%ers struggle to make rent.
Everything comes down to motivation. When it's you and three other people, you can figure out a system. It's very easy to enforce the system because you all know each other. Not working well lets them down and lets them beat you down.

When it's you and a village, it's still relatively easy to enforce things because you have families and relationships. There's some inefficiency and some corruption from individuals but you can still try and monitor everything.

When it's you and a hundred million people, you could never even meet everyone let alone know them. So you need a thousand steps between. And every step and every system can have corruption and inefficiency. Unless you have some sort of central mandate like religion, it's very hard to motivate people because everyone is so separated. Even if you do, you still get corruption like in china.
There’s an interesting one of these brewing regarding a gold-laden shipwreck:

> A US salvage company argue they first found the wreck in 1981 and made a deal with the Colombia government so they could have half of the treasure when it was recovered.
But there have been other claims to the treasure including Spain and Bolivia's indigenous Qhara Qhara nation, which say the Spanish took the wealth from their people.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/67342273
fractional FT is the uncertainty principle then? you can know position locally, or momentum locally, or you can know them both blurrily with a rotated basis in between
Sure, because putting futex into the critical path of uncontended locks would be an efficiency disaster. All the major libraries and runtimes spin for a bit before resorting to futex.
I did a 3000km trip 4 times (twice each way) during the pandemic. Charging added 15 minutes to the trip. Everybody has to eat/sleep/bathroom, and that can happen at the same time as charging.
This article is not good. Event Sourcing and the Relational Model are orthogonal.

SQL:2011 added a lot of temporal features.

Datomic is based on Datalog which even though is not relational it's kind of the same, and has temporal support. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL:2011

[2] https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/2018-11-12-datomic-even...

(BTW 24 points at the top of HN and no comments? Hmm)
Obligatory xkcd 320 "28-hour day"

https://xkcd.com/320/

And xkcd 1061 "EST"

https://xkcd.com/1061/
Can someone here explain how an existing model like ChatGPT, that you only have API access to, can be used to train your own model and somehow copy aspects of it?

That's entirely non-intuitive to me how that would work. Like are they just asking it questions about every topic under the sun, and then creating training materials out of the answers? How would you even begin to assemble a list of prompts that would cover all of knowledge? And how could you ever distinguish useful outputs from nonsense hallucinations?

I feel like I'm missing some key details here that the article and its links don't explain at all.
Yep DPD definitely lead on the recieving end, I always fine the Americans, FedEx and ups to be by far the worst on that end.