skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve never before seen a post hit #1 here after 30 minutes with zero comments. Is that normal?
Their hosted postgres was pitiful until very recently too.
> This is great news now that the industry phased out physical **audio** connection on phones in favor of wireless.

I recognize that there’s still wired audio connectors but you know full well that the experience is not great because the industry wanted to remove audio jacks.
I’d normally agree, except in America it’s very difficult for local governments to handle homelessness because they seem inherently incapable of learning from each other and building a corpus of best practices that they can share and adopt.

American local governments go out of their way to do everything as if they’re the only ones facing an issue, and I think solving that tendency in American governance is likely way harder than solving anything in the homelessness space.

Even outside of that there are very large downsides for local governments to handle such issues because any successful system would likely attract more people from other parts of the country which would put an even greater financial burden on local taxpayers. Considering cities are cutting services like libraries, etc. it’s a huge disincentive for any local government to enact an actual effective solution.
If detached single family homes are so popular, you wouldn’t need the government to prevent people from building what they want. Those rules were designed to ensure that certain neighborhoods were only for “the right kind of people”, not because Moses came down from the mountain with a single-family zoning plan.
I simply can’t read the text book, at least without context. Doing the problem sets over and over again works better for me. Practice is the key, it might make sense to unsuccessfully attempt the problems before ready the chapter, since you would have more context for readying.
From useless plastic waste to valuable oil
What does this have to do with the fact that now people have to switch on bluetooth for audio, instead of having a cable connection? And an attack requiring a physical cable connection is a little bit more visible, and less viable if I have my phone in my hand, than a wireless attack via bluetooth, don't you think?
I’m homeless and have schizoaffective bipolar disorder. I haven’t been able to see a regular psychiatrist or therapist since Covid started. A lot of my therapist were taken over by people suffering from dealing with the lockdowns. should they have really been the priority?

My homelessness exacerbates my mental illness, not only because of the stress of living out of a van but also the inability to have consistent healthcare being that I have to drive to warmer temperatures or cooler temperatures depending on the season.

And the treatments for psychiatric diseases are still stuck back about 50 years. I’ve had to run my own genetics and do my own research to find out what would help me. I mostly done it no help to any doctor or physician or psychiatrist.

Many people act like homeless people don’t want to get better, but I’m doing everything I can and no one is helping me absolutely no one. Psychiatrist who take Medicare have zero investigative initiative and psychiatric awards are for profit hotels for the mentally ill.

If anyone has a positive view of this country and the goodness of the people of this country, I want to dissuade you of that notion.

I am currently parking at Walmart in Palm Springs, California. The amount of wealth I see driving around me in vehicles alone could end homelessness in this country.
I tend to fine that people on the phone are clearly not given the tools they need to find what's going on and certainly not any power to actually fix a problem, it's always very frustrating
It's really about the non-losers who you may want to talk to that get swept up as collateral damage
I'm begging to feel like the only way that'll ever have a chance to happen is if the show Designated Survivor becomes reality. Obviously many of the trash will be replaced by more trash but perhaps not all of it.
That hardware was developed on computer is irrelevant.

A piece of hardware designed with a ruler and protractor is indistinguishable from one designed on a computer.

Re 2. If you 'invented' some trading cards based on HN members. That would be new in the sense that it's never been done before. But that doesn't make it patentable. We all have a sense that that's just an obvious iteration on a theme. But trading cards based on HN members, on a computer somehow becomes patentable.

You can make money from your invention. There's still copyright. If you want to take an algorithm and turn it into an actual product, provide an implementation then I'm not averse to patenting.

Currently we're in a situation where you could come up with the idea of listening to music 'on a computer' patent that very broad, basic thing. Without putting any work into an actual implementation.

That isn't an invention, it's just an idea.
I remember this having been my experience with teaching myself to code as a kid. All I remember is initial endless frustration from having to re-read tutorials and documentation and still not understanding anything. Then at some point I can't remember, everything clicked into place and I can't understand why I didn't understand it before. Once I had those basics down, I haven't had that kind of struggle.

I went through a similar phase with math, struggled with basic algebra for years, then at some point it all clicked into place and I unintentionally ended up skipping all high school algebra to get to early calculus.

It makes it really hard when helping other people through those early concepts (like pointers), because "keep working and at some point it'll just click for you" isn't very convincing.
Yes.

I am not a lawyer, but if I recall correctly there are three types of law : statute (what parliament legislates), common law (that which has built up over the centuries as "just the way we expect the law to work" and precedent ("this was unclear at one point but courts down the years have been convinced that what it means is x"). Appeals are usually on the basis that the court has misunderstood or misapplied the law and the outcome of these appeals form the precedents for future cases.
A Beautiful library of SVG logos
I can even see down to the skin pours of the elephants skin. Good thing about the mind is, I can do infinite zoom.
Ex-Amazon engineer pleads guilty to hacking crypto exchanges
Do you have an example of where these methods still produce good summaries? Eg if you adjust how re-computation of self-attention in autoregressive decoding / between token generations works to significantly decrease the amount of computation needed?
You have to be careful, because what you said is also the standard argument against action. You get people implying that if you can't help everyone you shouldn't help anyone, that more study is needed before doing anything, et cetera. No solution is perfect, but they are all better than nothing.

And all homeless have something in common: they are homeless. Yes, most of them have other problems in addition, but once they have housing they have one less problem and the other problem is likely to be easier to treat or handle once they have their housing situation sorted out.
There’s tons of empty malls that the government can buy right now and at least they could let people living in their cars park there. I mean they won’t even do that. They won’t even ban making it illegal to live in your car in this country.
Ooh, this is my Twitter account. Hello everyone! A few comments:

1) This is from 2022. At the time, Adobe's CPO Scott Belsky responded saying "we can do better". Perhaps Adobe have adjusted their UI since then, I haven't checked. [EDIT] - I've just learned that there is an ongoing FTC investigation: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1735565342565343417

2) I explain this example in a bit more detail in a talk I gave at a European Parliament IMCO public hearing, about a year ago. The part about Adobe starts at roughly 3m30s. https://vimeo.com/710684291

3) If you find this topic interesting, I run the website deceptive.design which catalogs examples like this, along with legal cases and laws. I've also written a book on this topic: https://www.deceptive.design/book
No, it’s not even close.

RCS is a totally different messaging protocol.

It’s pretty much to iMessage as iMessage is to SMS.
Funny, I had the same thought
You’re perfect is the enemy of all the good they’re doing.
Which is too bad because it was really the sweet spot for me.

Vue 3 bring my more complexity and not much more benefits.

IMO, alpine.js is the new Vue.

I will still use it over react if I'm building an SPA, but for small JS needs, it's not worth it.
are you saying that cost shouldn’t be a critique until the market as matured? Because of course a new product still being rolled out doesn’t have a good second hand market. It’s not reasonable to expect that.
These policies are antithetical to everything the current GOP stands for. Voting for them will not address your issues. Just about everything you’ve said is considered opinions of “the left”. So, pushing the Democratic Party more to the left seems like the logical choice.
Thanks for sharing this link! These are a lovely set of photographs.
SSH3: SSHv2 using HTTP/3 and QUIC
The issue with Chesterton's fence is something of a meta-problem in conversation and politics in general. It is the ultimate thought terminating cliche. If you accept it as given it allows you to build walls faster than you can investigate their removal, and by the time you have investigated it, they are building walls around your original position. It's an argument for inertia, fine in its basis, but over applied it becomes "Chesterton's big fucking infinite barrier", instead of a simple fence.
Every time I see moderate density housing built, it's luxury apartments (almost always 5 over 1) that have rents higher than my mortgage. I don't see how this is accounted for.
Where's the hitchhikers guide to moving back to relational data after our whiz bang dev made us event driven and left for a new opportunity?
Datalog is relational in the original sense of relational algebra.
There seems to be a fairly clear distinction between importing copyrighted material to make an index for the narrow purpose of directing people towards the copyrighted material at its original location in its original form, and importing copyrighted material to make an index which improves their own service's ability to generate unattributed derivative work. It's a bit muddier when it comes to things like image searches, but they're not exactly difficult to opt out of.

Google actually pays license fees to News Corp to excerpt their content in Google News following a legal challenge so it's not exactly conclusively established that search engines have global rights to do what they do anyway. But search engines are mostly beneficial to contact creators rather than mostly competitive with them.
Right, but can it enter keystrokes when the device is locked? As in use the device "behind" the lock screen?
Wow, I'd never seen that before. Really well done. As a father of a 17 year old this hits home in a powerful way. It lends credence to the notion that the idea of a 'self' is an illusion.
To be fair, the "you need to practice an instrument to be able to play music on it" hides a very complex process.

Some people "practice" by trying to play the same thing over and over, and it is equivalent to "hearing" vs "listening". Learning how to play an instrument (and also a particular piece of music) is a very complex process. Just like you need to learn the skills to "learn from a book", you need to learn the skills to "practice an instrument".
Yeah, but they wont get non-public data that way. I'd bet they did get access to a lot of non-public data just by asking and stating they do it for a non-profit mission.
If a feature is being proposed and mandatory, then the existence of one person who doesn't like it is significant.

But if it's already optional, and being removed entirely, then that persons's existence isn't that relevant; what's relevant is the people who DO like it and are losing something for them.
You're right, and this can be depreciated over it's useful life.

Not all r&d leads to something viable. So I'm guessing we'll see more of these capital assets being recorded as losses to reduce tax liability.
David Byrne Isn't Himself. Or Any Self
>“two wrongs don’t make a right.”

One wrong gets punished and the other - "we are exceptional" so we do as we please and do not fuck with us or else.
SwitchHead: Accelerating Transformers with Mixture-of-Experts Attention
Someone got around the upvote ring detection? I know there are lots of folks that claim to know how to get around it, but agreed it seems sketchy
Do we even have enough helium to support a huge fleet of airships?
It's apparently a feature of ancient Bluetooth
Most of the universe is primordial atoms that haven’t fused yet but if you were to take an iron atom, it probably would have been through only one star cycle.

A main sequence star at least ten times the size of the sun goes through several stages as it ages: hydrogen, helium, carbon, neon, oxygen, and finally silicon burning. The silicon burning stage produces abundant iron and the type II supernova that follows spreads it around.
As long as a bad actor is aware of the possibility of decoy passwords, they have no incentive to stop hitting you with that $5 wrench no matter what you say.
Rails Tabler Starter: Rails starter boilerplate to build and prototype quickly
> They Institute Medicare for all.

republicans?
They are there, just not mainstream. Democracy Now comes to mind
I’d rather suggest a third-party. Look what happened to Bernie Sanders when he tried to push it to the left. Both the Democrats and Republicans are beholden to corporate interest. I’m in no way going to vote for the Republican but I’m not going to vote for the Democrat either. If they want my vote, they have to earn my vote.
Volker Piepers is radical left wing. In his narrow minded world the left make no mistakes and capitalism is the worst thing ever happened to humanity.

If you consider him "one of Germany's best cabaret artist" you could not have better proven how right I am.
"quit or stfu", not being able to meaningfully bargain at place of employment or anywhere else, is not dignified. If you got better solution for this than unions, fine, just say.
There's a jarring in-IDE ad, which feels unusual for Apple
That's of course deplorable. But it just feels to me that if it happens so regularly, there must be some systemic causes and not just instances of invidual educators being bribed
This is called "case law" and is certainly in the English system considered to be "law".
Key person risk should be understandable as redundancy to just about any exec…at least I would hope so.
Not sure. Doesn't the iphone lock you out for a day if you enter your pin wrong too often? If that pin-entering can be done via bluetooth.... More a prank than an attack, but still quite annoying.
I have free Copilot due to my OSS work. This week I disabled it for C++ because it is chronically incapable to match brackets. I was wasting too much time fixing the messes.

I use it for TypeScript/React. But it’s just a more comprehensive code complete. Incremental.
> An "A" would be innovating above and beyond the framework they've been given.

>If they want to advance, they need to be an A - and *everyone needs to identify them as an A.*

So in order to advance, you need to be overqualified for your position, and popular with every member of the team.
> charging 3x the regular pricing for this is absurd

macOS virtualization is pricey by Apple's design. This is not just a GH problem
Funny, I had just started noticing that too - it’s probably time we start hitting the “spam” button for such emails :-/
Anyone, I don’t care if it’s Republicans or Democrats. Of course the Democrats are supposed to be the ones who would do this, but they don’t. Obama gave us a head fake of a public option that never happened. Instead what we got is force payments to private health insurance companies.
> affordable housing programs in large apartment towers have turned out to be hotbeds of societal ills, so nobody wants to build high-density affordable housing

The problem isn't with high-density affordable housing but with building housing that segregates people based on income level. High-density development is a good thing generally and makes a neighborhood more varied and vibrant in my view.

The problem comes from concentrating poverty into a single location. Instead, the United States should spread it out evenly with affordable housing throughout our cities and neighborhoods. The development patterns in the United States end up with two extremes: single family houses or large apartment blocks, with nothing in between (the missing middle problem). There is a lot of implicit segregation by income there, even at the single family housing level, since different housing developments tend to build roughly the same size house repeatedly in any given development. Rather than building neighborhoods where everyone has roughly the same income level, as the United States does now, it would be better to build neighborhoods that can accept people of all income levels. That way, the problems associated with poverty and similar issues are diluted throughout a city and never concentrated.
So you're suggesting that people commit fraud, and base their business around committing fraud? I don't see that being super scalable.
The concept sounds interesting, but the article doesn't do a great job of explaining how it works. How do I efficiently reconstruct the current state from the event stream? How would the event stream be modelled in the database?
We share the same planet, so we need to share the same environmental standards. The self-touted "world's oldest civilization" no less than the rest.
It isn't just a hypothetical. Landlords use companies like RealPage to collude on pricing and keep units vacant.
It's not about not finishing as much as it is about letting something in unfinished state.

You can finish what you are doing right now, and start something else to get a clear view of the next step. Or take something you want to fix, and put a breakpoint it it and plenty of print, to make it sure nothing works and the day after you know where to start.

It's all about breaking the inertia.

But if you want your win, you can have your win.
In my experience, this depends a lot more on the implementation than the CRDT algorithm. If you implement Causal Trees directly (as a tree with one node per char), it will be tolerably fast but use a lot of memory + storage. If you instead group chars into "runs" of sequentially-inserted chars and only store one Causal Tree node per run, it should be quite efficient.

Yjs (a widely used text CRDT) describes these sort of opts here: https://blog.kevinjahns.de/are-crdts-suitable-for-shared-edi...
For a different tree-based CRDT, I did a head-to-head comparison of implementations that use a node-per-char (Fugue Simple) vs runs (Fugue), with results in Section 5 of this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00583
>"After OpenAI spending endless amounts of money on that, am not surprised they don’t want others to steal their “cleaned” dataset."

And let's say I do not want them to clean up and then use my data for profit.
When I first heard this, it came up in an engineering discussion, where pulling out + replacing the thing was much lower cost than figuring out exactly what the person that implemented it was smoking.

Since the cost of removing + reinstalling a gate is also much lower than the cost of Chesterson's proposed historical wankery, I assumed I was getting an all clear to do my job.

I've also encountered this sort of wrong-think when trying to deal with planning commissions in the SF Bay Area.

Anyway, the Simple Sabotage Field Manual goes into more detail if you'd like to implement Chesterson's Fence. It worked well in WWII, so I guess they were on to something. Page 28, points 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 are all good generaly ways to put the article into practice. If you're in a management position, the next section, points 11-13 are also good approaches. However, the entire 36 page book is worth a careful read:

https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrateg...
Anyone else notice the mangled fingers in the AI generated image up top?
>hardware patents just cover algorithms that have steps involving arranging atoms.

Yes. Further steps have been done. Its the difference between copywriting the idea for a book, and copywriting an actual book.

>That the software equivalent is currently more likely to be granted isn't really an issue with the idea of patenting software

It's an issue with the current incarnation of software patents.

That's like saying IC cars aren't bad for the environment because we 'could' fuel them all with biofuels and have a carbon capture thing on the exhaust.

In the real world an IC car can rightfully be criticised for being bad for the environment.

>That's an issue with particular software patents, not one particular to patenting software.

Again, the issue doesn't have to be inherent to be valid.
Yes, it's all in my mind. I don't actively hallucinate. But I can put the image in my mind I to the real world. I still don't see it but I can "put it there" and trace the outline, add or remove elements and see how the imaginary object would interact with the real world.

For example, if I'm trying to see if a piece of furniture would fit, I can use this technique. I might still need a reference like a tape measure since I can't just see on a spec sheet that the bookcase is 2 meters tall and 1 meter wide and know it will fit but I do have a pretty good conception of physical space. I often set my table saw fence by eye and when checking it with a tape measure it's within 2-3mm.
> its luxury apartments (almost always 5 over 1) that have rents higher than my mortgage. I don't see how this is accounted for

It takes two years [1] to get a building permit, and the two-year borrowing rate for the U.S. Treasury is 4.44% [2]. That delay alone will cost a developer at least 10% more.

That permiting process, alone, raises housing costs by double digits [a].

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/housing-permits-san-f...

[2] https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...

[a] 1.0444 ^ (627/365) = 7.75%
To give the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was an intriguing title?

I didn't personally think that the style of the writing or the content itself was particularly good, but event sourcing has an almost narcotic appeal.

ES (nosql did too) has this wild ability to slip past scepticism. It feels right, I think because it milks some dopamine by feeling both simpler in a rewarding abstract sense and sufficiently (for Devs) complex in a day to day operations sense.
> Moreover, land cost outside of big cities is pretty much nothing. It's cheap to build new housing as needed.

This is far too sweeping a claim. It’s comically untrue unless you’re defining “outside” as multiple hours of driving, and “big cities” as anywhere over, say, 50k people.

It’s also obviously untrue once you learn that people leave their houses. Yes, you can build new housing cheaply in a rural area but for people to live there you also need stores, schools, jobs, etc. and that means things like roads. Now your cheap house involves buying a car for each resident, paying for a lot of gas and tires, paying for road construction and maintenance, and not having anything you’d prefer to be doing other than spending all of those extra hours driving (don’t forget the increased health care costs). Things like utilities, roads, snow plowing, etc. all cost most on average because that low density means more infrastructure but the costs are spread over fewer people.

You can save money that way but it’s nowhere near as much as portrayed.
Nonsense. Chesterton’s fence creates a clear criteria for eliminating fences and other accumulated junk