skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm frequently astonished by the sheer force of some people's desire to be unhappy.

Viktor Frankl is an amazing example of someone taking an absolutely shit situation and applying some agency to it to make it better. My entire point is even he had good and bad luck, and chose not to focus on that, but on his zone of control, his agency.

If it is in fact your contention that Viktor Frankl - Viktor Frankl - was lucky, then there's really no point in any further discussion.
> it appears that GPT is killing StackOverflow really fast

There's nothing proving GPT caused the decrease?
What's wrong with trailer parks
i see. very helpful, tx
I am homeless and I am permanently disabled with bipolar disorder schizoaffective type.

I want to say first that housing first works. The stress of me being homeless is worse for my mental illness. And I applaud Austin for actually doing something.

Secondly, the biggest mistake they make is that they want to segregate low income people out of society. this is part of the problem. I don’t know if the solution to this, but I know it’s the problem. It makes us feel alienated and lesser. This is the most likely reason why these communities always seem to fail.

Also, putting these far outside of the city takes people away from resources like other people said. I’ll tell you when my depression is bad it’s much much harder for me to take a bus for 45 minutes than it is for me to walk for 10 minutes.

There is no fix for housing because the problem is not housing. It’s financial capitalism and individual greed. I lost my housing because I was kicked out of the studio. I was renting after my lease came up and they listed it as an Airbnb making twice as much then when I was living there. They did not have to do this, they chose to do it.
Not clear if this is sarcasm or not?
Which is exactly why I said you block the computation to stay at a low cache level. With SIMD loads and stores I don't think this matters quite as much as you suggest, even without blocking. It's pretty much only arithmetic that can saturate L1. I timed the BQN compiler on various files (some old version of itself, repeated). For 18K it runs at 21.4MB/s; for 1.7M, 16.5MB/s; for 17M, 12.0MB/s. So even when the source won't fit in L3 (mine's 8MB) the degradation is under a factor of 2 (and of course the compiler makes no consideration of cache, who writes a megabyte of BQN?).
I'm just saying, there's generally fast-food competition in burgers pretty much everywhere in the US.

The fact that a bunch of McD's franchises in Arizona are owned by the same person doesn't explain a lack of competition.
Accuracy and safety margins are two different things.

Suppose you have to spec the capacity of a line regardless of what temperature it is, because you're not going to measure it in realtime at all. You estimate the highest temperature will be 105 degrees F, calculate the capacity at that temperature, add e.g. a 20% safety margin, and call that the capacity of the line.

That means when it's 40 degrees F, you could be operating with a 200% safety margin, which is unnecessarily conservative and wasteful. Conversely, because you're not measuring the temperature at all, your high temperature estimate could be wrong and there could be a day that it's 115 degrees F, your safety margin is completely gone and the line burns out. Whereas if you were monitoring the temperature, you'd lower the capacity of the line that day to still have a 20% safety margin and not have problems.
Cities can't politically organize to build housing because the payoff is after any of the politicians being in office. It's too long term.

You'd think developers would be the most powerful lobby in terms of local politics. But the collective defense of housing value inflation is almost stronger than social security in terms of uniting boomers
This community isn't a ghetto. I've volunteered there. If you're ever in Austin you should go visit.
> So an alternative title is " ... is reducing safety margins by 50%".

Not necessarily. The _actual_ current limit depends on the climate conditions, and with static line rating the safety margin actually varies. So while dynamic line rating might reduce the safety margins when the conditions allow running more current, it can also increase the safety margin in case of a particularly hot summer.
It's a community and it works pretty well. Go check it out if you find yourself in Austin.
The screenshot section single-handedly breaks mobile UX due to overflow.
"Tiny homes reduce housing density and effectively necessitate car usage . . . "

Compared to what? Most of the USA, and ESPECIALLY Texas, is full of single-family homes at 4-7 per acre. Tiny homes can easily be 20-24 per acre. Zoning and banking prevents building tiny home communities. We are awash in suburbia and you claim tiny homes reduce housing density?!?
Right but that's not a single fastener. A single missing wheel bolt or lug nut is not a catastrophic problem. If all of them are loose or missing that can be a problem.
Better Comments, love it.

Live Preview is pretty great too.

And finally Todo+
/spoiler

It was though.
And that's without guac? What's the point.
The page is quite dated and probably predates it.
Similar opinion here. I'm for just about any kind of added housing, but it seems like it'd be a lot more land efficient to do something higher density.
We are free to pass a constitutional amendment that limits the age of the president or any other government position. Why act like there is some prohibiting this?
Per my optometrist's recommendation, I bought specific computer glasses, with the prescription changed to make my distance vision worse and lessen the work on my eyes to read a computer screen.

I would say this is the best thing I've bought in 10 years. And it's cheap, if you re-use old frames: under $100 for the lenses.

I assume basically everyone reading this spends at least 10 hours a day staring at a computer screen. You should all give this a try.
> slaves ... cruel ... ridiculous

Do you have any real-world basis for that? Have you heard unhoused people express that?

Reality is the other way: Research, and people with expertise that I read and talk to, say that what people need first is stable housing. When they have that, they can work on their other problems.

Imagine life is overwhelming for you, for whatever reason - so overwhelming that you haven't managed to hold a job, relationships, stay sober, etc. for many years. That's a pretty scary hole to find yourself in.

Then you lose your home. You have no shelter - you need to find some every day. You don't get sleep, you freeze, you overheat, you get drenched. You have no safety and no personal space. You already have problems in life, and now you have that burden.

Again, the research says so, but I also completely buy that without steady shelter, even healthy people will be under so much stress that they aren't going to straighten out their deep, long-term problems.
FYI the whole manuscript was bought a couple of years ago. There's a whole story there, but it's out there :)
> there's still absolute value in returning to office because it promotes a sense of community and networking.

Without data it is religion. Even sect. If you want to insist, provide data how "absolute value" increases productivity.

So far, I suffer productivity loss after RTO. I also spend less time working (after 3 hours of commute I have very hard time convincing myself that I want to do some overtime -- a normal situation when I am WfH).

I know people who prefer to work from office (e.g., because no children distraction). The action work here is prefer. They are good enough teammate of mine not to impose their preferences under disguise of culture and senses.
Are you worried that a medical device manufacturer will intentionally replace certified software with known uncertified software?

That would be shockingly stupid. There is exactly zero plausible deniability if they did that. That is “slam-dunk go directly to jail and get fined billions” stupid. There is exactly zero reason to worry about that at all at the device manufacturer level (component suppliers might lie which transitively affects the final product, but that should be handled when identifying the target of evaluation). If they want to be evil, there are plenty of ways that do not require them to put their evil in legally binding writing.

If you are concerned about a hack or accidental deployment, that is a real concern, but image integrity, secure boot, and secure update are really part of the certified process/product.
It would be a sad day for ballistics if you needed 3.7 GBs of data per day to guide a missile.
Yeah I hear that as a common argument but why is that my problem? Why should I be forced to commute just because a junior engineer can’t figure shit out?
Physics might seem easy to you now but flying was an impossible dream for most of history.

The other problems may become more amenable - one just can't know what will happen. Amazing things like CRISPR - an incredible tool that lets us edit genes - appear suddenly and change everything.

Sequencing a Genome once seemed a massive task and now it's no big deal - so perhaps some of these problems will end up like that.

We can also re-engineer ourselves and that might help a lot.
Not sure about other activitypub implementations, but mastodon is notoriously difficult to setup and maintain. A lightweight single user instance seems like a good idea to me
That’s not RTO
> I thought NACS _is_ Tesla's charger?

No, NACS is CCS with Tesla's plug on the end. All that's happened is that the plug has been standardized as CCS type 3 (aka J3400).

Some older Tesla's don't support CCS and need a CCS retrofit before they'll work with CCS chargers (including ones with Tesla's plug).
Sure, so, maybe we also shut off the tap while we try to clean up the mess?
What experience do you have with that? I've known plenty of Section 8 beneficiaries and none matched that description. Particularly the description of 'loser friends' is sickening - a stereotype of poverty. The people I know hold down multiple jobs while raising kids, or are elderly and can't work; all just like you and me.

I also know people who work for urban housing authorities that administer it, and I've never heard them describe that problem (most problems seem to be with landlords).

IIRC, Section 8 has requirements for conduct (that is, as a tenant), but I'm not sure.
> Open source is orthogonal to quality at that level.

"Quality" has many meanings. The article gives the example of Sandler, who was unable to read data from her pacemaker, because the correctly functioning, quality, high-assurance software was kept secret from her, and only the manufacturer could decipher it.

Regardless, quality is a red herring - the real issue is sovereignty over our own bodies. Which is impossible if we have devices with secret functionality embedded in us. We have a right to know how they work, the same as we have a right to know what medicine doctors administer to us.
El Topo is my all time favorite movie. Different strokes for different folks.

Would have loved to have seen a Jodorowsky rendition of Dune.
I found a Wikipedia article that mentions this very brand of machine (Protectograph):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkwriter#Machine

> A check writer, or ribbon writer, leaves a numerical or written value impression in the payment amount field of a check that is very difficult to alter. This is accomplished by the machine applying downward force on the check and leaving very small inked shreds in the paper.

> The first check protector was introduced in 1870. The best known check protectors in the early 1900s had the brand name Protectograph (the Todd Company, Rochester, NY). Other well known manufacturers in the industry were F & E Hedman and the Paymaster Company (both out of Chicago, IL).

> The person preparing a check positions the check in the check writer so its print-heads are centered over the field on the check where the amount of the check would otherwise be written out in words. Using a series of levers or buttons on the checkwriter's control panel, the operator enters the monetary amount of the check. This amount is then printed onto the check by the operator pulling a lever on the side of the unit (or by pressing a button on electric units). This brings the print-heads down upon a wide inked (usually multicolor) ribbon through which they print the selected amount on the check, with a prefix and suffix to prevent a fraudster from adding extra digits. Entering $6,762.64, for example, will produce text reading "TheSum6762dol's64cts".

> There is a series of (usually) horizontal indentations on a pressure bar brought up underneath the check during this process, which matches similar indentations on the print-heads. This embosses the numeric amount through the paper of the check form, strongly discouraging any attempt to alter or raise this amount.
As long as they don't actually secede from the Mainland, that's OK.

Otherwise the same thing will happen as when the South seceded from the Union back in 1861: war.
After ~4 years of doomscrolling, I finally uninstalled Twitter and Reddit from my phone (just minutes ago).

They were taking up 80% of my time, focus and energy while hardly adding 20% value on top of what I already know. Even if it weren't the case, delving into an activity would give infinitely more returns than reading yet another discussion on it.

I'm expecting to eliminate all infinite feeds from my daily routine by the end of this month. including HN.
> Of course, if having choice everybody would prefer living in walkable distance to downtown, this is why normally it is so expensive, and you can only make it affordable by making it a miserable experience.

Well, yes, you answered your own question right there.

The US has a massive shortage of housing in desireable areas. Because of that, as soon as an area is at least a little desireable, people will start moving there in droves, driving the prices up and pricing out any attempts to put cost-efficient housing there. You can see exactly the same pattern in small towns that suddenly become popular for one reason or another and go through massive increases in pricing.

The only really practical solutions here at this point would take state- or national-level action to override the decades of municipality-level bullshit that's kept enough housing from actually being built to meet demand.
I really miss n-gate, they would have richly savaged this post.
I would also recommend its often forgotten sequel, Children of Dune, which covers both books 2 and 3. Fans agree its a wonderful and faithful adaptation. James McAvoy as Leto II is just perfect.
> * Then devalue published papers. Don’t use them as the basis for rewards.*

What about the use of papers as metrics for advancing in academic careers?

Career advancement could be based on market forces (e.g., productive researcher on something valued, if they're not given a sweet enough deal by one university, another university can snap them up). But how do buyers in the market get the information about how valuable a given researcher is? (Word of mouth? CV summary without pubs list? Job talks? Interviews? Twitter?)
I'm working on doing exactly this myself, I'm working on some other stuff related to all this (since I'm also doing other LLM stuff), but nothing published yet. I'm looking at llama.cpp's GBNF grammar support to emulate/simulate some of the function calling needs and I'm planning on using or fine tuning a model like TinyLLama (I don't need the sarcasm abilities of better models) and I'm going to try getting this running on a small SBC for fun for it but I'm not there yet either.

This write up looks like it's someone actually having tackled a good bit of what I'm planning to try too, and I'm hoping to build out a bunch of the support for calling different home assistant services, like adding TODO items and calling scripts and automations and as many things as i can think of.
Celestia, KStars, Carte du Ciel...
Is there any way for weirdos like me to try it who don't have/want a Google account?
Fascinating work. I know that people did the same for Super Mario 64 [1]. It is still unbelievable to me that they can generate a bit-by-bit identical copy of the original ROM by simply running some old gcc on actual C source code files. IIRC the main insight was that Nintendo did not use any optimization flags which made it possible to create a 100% matching binary. I've never really looked into it, but I guess the did some try and error to figure out the exact gcc version that Nintendo used to make sure that they get 100% identical binary code?

[1] https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64
A lot of what you just said is false
I tried some of the examples on my phone but it ends up being basically microscopic because it's targetting a classic Mac resolution. I think it would help if it either did something intelligent with pixel doubling or some other scaling technique, or at least didn't disable the user's ability to zoom in when it's too small.
Like I said, I wasn't a good manager, so my opinion doesn't mean much, but no - I don't agree with you.

I've seen two strategies that seemed to work for teams. A) foster a healthy culture of people who want to do a good job and let their interactions increase the standards. B) Have a ton of process.

Option A flows top down and requires the people to interact. In-person friendly nudges to bring the new kid up to speed are effective and not taken as criticism. Nudging over email or chat, it's hard to convey that we're all on the same team, and I think it leads to resentment.

Option B is unpleasant and achieves maybe 10% efficiency, but progress keeps moving. People tend not to squabble because nobody cares enough to put the energy into it. I hated these environments.

There really is a difference between communicating in person vs online. For instance, you'll probably lock your heals in response to what I wrote in this post, whereas in-person we'd probably exchange some smiles and body language and we'd both know it's just a friendly conversation. :-)
> large numbers

Any "large" numbers you see are still decades behind the amount of construction needed to actually meet demand (https://www.fanniemae.com/research-and-insights/perspectives...).
I’m with him on other drivers.
But then are you allowed to have a written policy that says "only white people can be board members" or "only men can be board members", because they aren't employees? I'm honestly asking, I'm curious how this works!
> Now Available on NixOS!

As soon as you can do something like `desktopManager.cosmic.enable = true`(like you can for KDE and Gnome) I'm immediately switching to Cosmic!
Linux now contains the first useful thing built using Rust
AI model dubbed Spain's 'hottest woman'
The safety margins are still the same -- just using a lookup table based on temperature vs. assuming worst case.
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To do this in assembler you write raw syscalls to bind to open the TCP stream and then accept to handle incoming connections, possibly with fork or clone3 to spawn a process/thread to handle the new connection. None of that requires C programming. HTTP is "just" some text parsing on top of read/write calls to the file descriptor returned by accept. Web sockets are "just" some connection logic on top of HTTP.

A basic implementation of that is totally possible in assembly with no calls to c libraries. Would even be a great project for people to learn some systems programming. Keep in mind, all of these protocols (except maybe web sockets) were designed when programming in assembler was common. There's probably some HTTP implementation in the wild doing the same thing.

That said there's a lot of reasons you probably don't want to do that, HTTP can be subtle and you probably don't want to be doing raw clone3 calls to spawn threads, if you want to be doing thread or process per connection in the first place.
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He's not racist because I don't understand him. He's racist because he thinks black people are genetically uncivilised and his evidence for that is that poor black people looted after Katrina and sub-saharan Africans didn't develop writing and two story buildings.

Both of those appear to be roughly true, but the racist thing is that he's jumped to "must be because they're black", rather than the much more obvious explanations: it's poor people that loot, not black people; they just happen to coincide in America.

And there are a gazillion variables that are more likely to have affected the development of Africa than genetics. Geography, population density, isolation by the Sahara, luck.

Clearly very smart. Still racist.
Is it a single "family" home? Japan has tons of studio apartments of 200sqft or less. They're about the size of a college dorm room but usually have a bathroom/shower, kitchen sink, and a single burner stove.

To an American they're small. To a Japanese person who's used to them, they're normal. They're not "family" homes though. They're "single person" apartments.

Here's one

https://www.chintai.net/detail/bk-C0100888800000109404795300...

Maybe not everyone needs 800sqft+ per person?
This does strike me as an innate tension to all of this. I grew up in a really diverse neighborhood, and at this point, as a decently successful person, if I moved back into that neighborhood, folks at the orgs I used to volunteer with would probably decry me as gentrifying the area. I've seen this with my own family, who have lived in the neighborhood for decades, but because it's now a majority minority neighborhood, they're seen with skepticism, even by people who moved there recently and are often more well-off than them.

I'm unsure at this point if I'm supposed to want to live in a diverse area, or if doing so would mean I'm ruining the area and driving out the diversity. What is the amount I'm supposed to want to engage in another culture without imposing on an "authentic" space for that community or appropriating it. It's a really tight line to walk.

Is it reasonable to try to have a community of people who make 100k+, and people who think it's generally unhealthy for anyone to make that much money?
This is a timely debate in engineering. Historically, it would be customary do the most conservative reliability analysis possible, right up to the point of accounting for physically impossible parameter combinations, just to ensure enough margin to trade at some point in the future when things inevitably don’t go as planned.

Now, technology has advanced to the point where all the low hanging fruit are gone in terms of performance optimization, and we’re better able to determine how close to the “cliff” we are, with tighter uncertainty bounds, than ever before with probabilistic design methods. By this logic, we should be able to squeeze out margin that was never needed (or never there) in the first place.

No safety professional would trade away margin you say, but the engineer is often between a rock and a hard place when a few percent traded away in margin translates to multiple millions of dollars in cost reduction or profit. Is it unethical to remove margin if your Bayesian UQ calculations are saying you’re still safe, if not safer than you were under the other methodology?

This tension is going to keep on building as AI-enabled solutions start penetrating more and more into traditional engineering fields, with as-yet unknown consequences.
I think it was meant sarcastically