skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only criteria that should be a controlling factor for whether something is a "general purpose computer" or not, or rather, which amount of control end-users should have over it, is the device's raw computing power. Anything else is prone to abuse and is anti-consumer.
Unused buildings are not just automatically ideal for homeless shelters

The perfect is once again the enemy of the good. People always invoke the building code to talk about Why We Can't Do Anything despite an abundance of empty commercial real estate, but the alternative is people trying to survive in broken down cars and tents.

It's a slow motion catastrophe on the scale of a natural disaster, but every attempt to address it in concrete form (ie by policymakers) is stymied by either self-styled moralists whining that it's stealth communism, or dissemblers hiding behind bureaucratic nostrums. At best you get half-assed pilot projects like tiny houses in parking lots under bridges, which only serve a small number of people and are themselves grossly insufficient.
Tesla is miles behind in the autonomous vehicle bracket though so I woulnt take anything Elon does or would do as any kind of evidence of technological capability. The only enterprise of Elons that is succeeding is SpaceX notwithstanding Elons continual failed promises. They still make good rockets.
They bought the companies; that’s very literally not stealing.
Probably on purpose to show kids a bit what the real world is like.
This is almost too polite to be Stack Exchange satire.
Playing with words. Amazon has absolutely dominant power, as does Google. Boeing has a worldwide duopoly.

It's inconceivable that any forum dominantly by Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Meta/Facebook, Eli Lilly, Visa, Novo Nordisk, Walmart, ExxonMobil, JP Morgan Chase, Johnson and Johnson, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Saudi Basic Industries (SABIC) is ever going to propose anything to threaten that power.
Their long term thinking includes leveraging bullying over their iMessage lock-in to ensure market capture of children.

I believe there are leaked emails floating around which pretty much irrefutablly confirm this.
I'd be thrilled to see a blog post catering to DIY enthusiasts eager to delve into this and explore building this from the ground up.
> The alternative is dark for both Apple and Apple's users. There's no innovation in the iOS app ecosystem anymore, beyond thirty copycat ChatGPT apps

There's a multi-billion dollar revenue line item for App Store ads that Apple can't lose. Nobody on the Apple software side gives a rat's ass about innovation.
> Discounts for nothing would just be a giveaway.

Then charge people for it. Apple has an annual developer registration fee, they should cover their platform costs using that instead of an arbitrary surcharge. If you want us counting our blessings, Apple also generously "gives away" access to a browser and phone app that don't see the need for all-encompassing payment processing. Those aren't giveaways though, those are basic features that have existed since before the App Store was an app. Apple's insistence on conflating their value is a textbook case of bundling.

Apple can be justified in charging whatever they want for their App Store if comparable services have a chance to compete. Nobody is prevented from sticking with OEM defaults if they choose.
In a vacuum this shouldn't be an issue at all. We make stuff, we honor and benefit the creators, we share as needed and progress humanity as a whole. So I can understand the more optimistic approaches to AI as a tech revolution.

But in reality, everytime small entrepreneurs always thnk this will be the tech that let them usurp the big boys, and they end up selling out (not necessarily blaming them. I'd do it too). They have more resources, can scale up faster, produce more, and hire more people. It's a hopelessly risky gambit to think you can topple such advantage. And if you get an edge in, they just take it in for themselves and you're back at square one.

But you may not even get that far. They try to make use of this new commons and the Big Boys will litigate the gates back closed for them specifically. They got their value, made the next iteration, and then decided not to give back to the commons (a tragedy, if you will). They may even seem benevolent at first, but time goes on, priorities or leaders change, and the focus on market capture eclipses any public goodwill.

The same players as yester-decade are at the helm, so I don't know why anyone would want to trust them after giving decades of scrutiny as they gradually unmasked themselves. I don't necessarily fear the tech per se, I fear the same "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" playbook happening all over again, maybe in such a way to make the new gap insurmountable.
This used to be freshmeat.net, which rebranded to freecode.org and immediately died. It was an heirarchical directory of software, classified by category, user interface, UI toolkit, license, implementation language, operating system support... I often wonder what happened to that database. It would be a great thing to revive. "I want an ncurses text editor that runs on linux and has a permissive license" or "I want a QT-based email client that runs on Windows and is GPL" or "What Mac OS X software is using GTK these days", all extremely quick and easy to look up.

edit: http://freshcode.club/ is basically the freecode version of the site, revived. Unfortunately, one of the changes late in freshmeat's existence was a removal of the formal categorization heirarchy and a transition to arbitrary 'tagging', which led to almost-identical tags, confusingly conflicting tags, and generally made life slightly harder.
I can't find a firm answer to the question "Among the homeless, what fraction have opioid use disorder; a history that contains a legitimate medical visit connected to the prescription of opioids; and no history of substance abuse prior to that visit?"

We'd need a Danish style medical records system to answer queries like that, or you can study it with VA data.

Opioid use disorder is crazy common, nearly 5% of Americans (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/rates-nonmedical-prescriptio... but also 9% of the population uses cannabis (https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/deaths/index.html). It's unclear how many overdose deaths happen to homeless people every year generally, and you can conclude that since homelessness is rare, so too will be "homeless given overdose death." However, the flip side - overdose death as a fraction of all deaths given homeless - can be 17% in one study (https://drugfree.org/drug-and-alcohol-news/more-homeless-die...).

So overall, I think you're right. Opioid disorder is so much more common than homelessness generally, homelessness is not going to possibly explain opioid use disorder in the general case. Of course it can interfere with treatment. However, when so many people use cannabis, and I haven't even investigated alcohol, the right idea is that substance abuse is so prevalent in America, you'd need more serious interventions earlier on. The issue that can be acted by just medical professionals, which is the prescription of painkillers due to legitimate medical visits that lead to substance abuse, I think there is action on this but I'm not sure what it is.
If the argument is 1/3 vs 2/3, seems pretty clear where the ruling would fall if those are the two options.

> ...the government refused because they didn't care about competition or working with JetBlue.

I take it this is your opinion based on your perception?

However from the U.S.News link I posted above

"The judge, who had questioned whether further asset divestitures could make the deal work, said, "The courthouse doors remain open, should the defendant airlines decide to try again."

You can also read the actual ruling [1] which states:

> _"Throughout June 2022, JetBlue made a series of revised
offers to acquire Spirit, with increases in per-share price,
increases in the reverse termination fee, and commitments to
divestitures. Spirit continued to resist, citing continued
concerns about the anticompetitive nature of such an
acquisition. On June 6, 2022, Mr. Christie received an email
from Mr. Hayes with an attached new, revised offer for Spirit
Airlines. On June 27, 2022, JetBlue made a further amended
offer to purchase Spirit; the Spirit Board did not view this
amended offer as better and did not accept it. Instead, Spirit
issued another press release on June 28, 2022, reaffirming its
commitment to the transaction with Frontier and noting that the
“[l]atest offer from JetBlue does nothing to address our Board’s
serious concerns that a combination with [JetBlue] would not
receive regulatory approval.”_

So even the Spirit board did not prefer this acquisition, even with the divestitures, but acquiesced to expected shareholder concerns on value maximization

[1]https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24362262/jetblue.pdf
> Apple as the company of Steve Jobs, when it is clearly something very, very different today.

What? Tim Cook has done a great job of keeping up the Apple philosophy. What significantly has changed?
I, and a lot of other people, buy iPhones specifically because they are not Androids - it's hard to break them, install something horrible, etc. It's also why I recommend iPhones to older folk, like my mom, and from what I can tell, the need for me to help them out has decreased a ton since they stopped using Androids.

So why are you pushing for everything to have to be a general purpose computer? Why can't there be one phone maker that caters to those who don't want something like that? Why can't you just use Android, which is that? I just find it incredibly unfair that everything has to be the same for some odd reason for people who keep pushing for these things.
It'd be interesting to find solutions to tongue position detection that didn't require contact with a specific surface.

Maybe we send small electrical pulses out from a under tongue transducer & then wear sensors that like a touchscreen triangulate where the activation site is.

What if we could make a tooth a small low res camera & just watch?

What's here feels like a really small specific range here. It certainly has uses. I imagine more fast-task use if there were a sensor that detects more natural tongue gestures around the mouth.
So to that question it should answer similarly or even more nuanced way.
The "first mention" link for 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' just goes to a mention of Gödel the mathematician. Looks like some false positives there. Understandably tricky to filter when books have difficult names like that.
All of these problems are downstream of California cities refusing to build enough housing to meet demand.

The homeless population is not fixed, it's a continuous stream of people becoming homeless, and some finding housing or leaving the area or dying.

The inflow rate of people entering homelessness is a regional problem; once you're homeless it's hard to go very far. So regional areas in charge of determining housing levels (the Regional Housing Needs Allocation process) has been messed up for a long time. It's finally getting fixed by state level policy.

Until California decides to build enough housing in order to house a person on minimum wage, then we will continue to have this people. Its not every state that has this problem, only those with housing so much more expensive than wages.
Wikipedia: Spacecraft Cemetery
Maybe if you're an old head but kids these days say "bazinga'd"
No, it’s not the same. Yes, you can technically modify binaries, but it’s not at all the preferred way to modify the program.
"Anger is a gift"
> what my intent is.

so your intent is to have every professor exposed, but only if we start with the ones you don't like?
This is how many shopping malls work. They take a portion of revenue of the stores. Alternately they charge rent.

I guess Apple could charge app developers rent to be in the App Store and then not charge 30%.
I third Scratch.

It won't be 3D, but the reality of life is that sometimes you have to move incrementally--and that's a big part of programming :T
That boat has sailed. Everybody knows the score or has their head in the sand.
By that logic, we should have let Standard Oil or AT&T do as they pleased, since they too had loyal customers.
Teen sued Utah over social media law requiring curfew for minors
I did not say it would not work, nor that it couldnt be acceptable performance for a given task.

Just that its peak performance is lower than an end to end model, and that if youre going to encourage model kit-bashing be clear how you communicate it, so people dont make human centipede architectures and wonder why feces is what comes out the end.

I was a very polite enough "some guy on the internet". Thank you.
Sundar is not a psychopath. You're making a common error, ascribing humanity to Sundar. Sundar is a growth robot with no moral system. See Bryan Cantrill's description of Larry Ellison: "You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle."

The difference is that Sundar is a industrial scale trash compactor, not a lawnmower.
Do babies actually get anything out of this or its just fun pressing the buttons?
As with a number of other things of a similar nature, if societies want to boost birth rates they will ultimately have to subsidize it.

In the US we could increase the child tax credit, provide subsidized day care, reduce higher education costs, and build more housing.

Not sure how you’d go about it in China as their costs and structure is different.
I think you're focusing just on the "multiply by powers of 10" part that the author is largely considering the "red herring" compared to other advantages.

But even so... for dividing by 3, sure, the 12 inch -> 1 foot jump is neatly divisible. And obviously 3 feet -> 1 yard. But you don't get much help going smaller than an inch on any measuring tape or rule I've used. 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16... 3ish-mm inside of 10mm is no worse. Or dividing a cup into 3 equal amounts of ounces, or even a gallon into thirds. So I'm not sure there are many consistent, coherent features for all the random different scales for how things like liquids vs distances work. Heck, 10 feet, 100 feet, 1000 feet are all common enough things to hear, taking us back to powers of ten, because nobody bothers trying to stick with furlongs... (Which takes us exactly to the author's point about "just one unit" being a better way to do things, since at some points you do need to take your feet and your fractional amounts of miles and do some conversions that few people have quick practice at, vs "how many meters are in 1.25Km?")

I have a soft spot for Fahrenheit temperatures because they're more granular at human scale but most of the rest of the system is pretty junky and even the convenience of 1/2, 1/4, etc quickly gets lost when you're in the land of adding an 1/8th to a 1/16th and subtracting 3/4...
This discussion always drives my mind back to what it's like to be a "Corporate Citizen"
Like, when the free market has completely taken over: What is it actually going to be like. I think Apple is the closest to serving many of the "essential government functions" of my life: Health Records, Credit Card and currency (in Apple Cash), Identification Card/Drivers License... I don't see this trend going away as time moves on, either.

In this light, I see what Apple is doing to Epic as totally legit: It's like any other government taxing a business within it's borders. Apple needs to take a cut to make sure that the infrastructure for all these services it provides to us citizens is funded. I'd be happy with a 95% income tax on The 1%: why wouldn't I be happy with a 20-something% tax on Epic? Epic going to the Supreme Court is similar to them asking to not have to pay taxes in my 'Nation of Apple' and I'm not sure that I want that.

Of course, this is from a certain frame of thought, and may not actually be how I genuinely feel about this. More of a thought experiment.
Personally I appreciate progressive tax system for its... progressivity. Much much better than head tax. It's a necessary evil yes, but so is giving money for any other thing. If it can be fairer and even win-win it ought to be appreciated.
Depends on your lens. If you view it as "crime", sure. If you view it as "obtaining quality content", you can see why and where these users' priorities are. The web is already this riddled SEO optimized spam-Festa that makes it hard to find what you want or desire, now AI comes in and increases the spam tenfold.

AI for those people just make their jobs of seeking what's worth pirating that much harder. Especially for those that can now fire half their staff and put most of that remaining money into said SEO optimization for their spam.
Unless you can figure out AI that is available everywhere, all the time (even in the most remote jungle with no power), there will always be value in making humans smarter
I think the replacement of SROs by luxury apartments in downtown SF (mid Market neighborhood) was an under appreciated driver of homelessness there. This was housing of last report for many.
It's not a reach, but a basic fact of the tax base.

I stated that global competition is "one of the most important" justifications for monopoly.

You adding the phrase "primary purpose" and attaching it to "fund the military, and then answering your own statement with a rhetorical question, is barely worth responding to.

>then there's no issue with taxing them more or even nationalising them, is there?

If you are so sure of you're reasoning, then why the rhetorical framing?

I don't agree that you've made a rhetorical point, at all. There are figuratively a dozen reasons not to nationalize nor overtax them.

Perhaps the best of which, to start, is that I haven't seen presented logic that it makes sense.
Genuinely curious: why should Apple be forced to host apps that don't pay them while Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft continue to extract 30% of all sales on their consoles?
That’s my experience as well. The path all the homeless and couch surfers I’ve known was drug abuse and dependence leading to loss of job then eventual homelessness due to not paying rent, roommates getting fed up, or parents getting fed up. I know that some homeless are different and became homeless first and then became addicted to substances, but I have not known them.

As another poster, Sean, points out most homeless advocates are loath to admit to this for obvious reasons.
> Because prior to it existing it was more difficult to cancel subs than a hooky porn site.

One click cancel on PayPal has been available for years. Also, doing something as menial as canceling a subscription shouldn't add a 30% tax to every single transaction. Apple charges that because it can, not because it's the cost of doing business.
I believe a share of revenue is not uncommon in shopping mall leases. e.g.:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/clb-percentage-rent....
I think this is becoming increasingly less true. The primary media center in our home is an XBox Series X. We use it for games, movies, television, youtube, and music. It gets much more use playing videos and music than it does running games these days.
Invents fusion because it needs it, leaves us and the world behind because we’re boring.
For clarification, you might start by noting that recent anti-competitive rulings apply contextually to the US mobile app market.
Sid, the unstable build, is named for the child antagonist in Toy Story.
If that law were old enough, it'd probably cover most modern toasters.
> USA is a large closed economy. China is a large open economy. I’m simplifying, . . . .

Yes, "simplifying" to the point of getting it completely backwards.
A simple Emacs imitation for eshell: https://karthinks.com/software/jumping-directories-in-eshell
That's the basic argument that hackers make. Creativity shouldn't be a way to make a living, but a cool hobby for people who are already employed with comfortable salaries and their real estate paid off. Trying to sell your creativity is grifting. In fact, the novel writer should pay the hacker if the hacker pleases to read the novel, because the novel writer is using the hacker's valuable attention. Or at least I've heard around here that attention is very valuable.
US must beat China back to the moon, Congress tells NASA
Fellow europoor here. Hear, hear, brother.
And who played part in Windows Phone demise?

Epic? Which never released the Unreal Engine for Windows Phone and now cries the loudest about the status quo.

Or the 1000’s of developers who abandoned pre App Store distribution models in favor of Apple’s hardware, software and APIs, happily signed up to 30% revenue share with Apple that didn't change in 15 years? (other than go down to 15% for 90% of sellers who do under a million of annual revenue)
You’re stripping these people of way too much agency. As a formerly homeless heroin addict, I assure you that the vast majority of addicts and dual diagnosis individuals can get off the street. Estonia and Switzerland have accomplished this for fentanyl and heroin respectively, in addition to stimulant and alcohol abusers.

The issue is there’s a cohort who thinks that the solutions that enable safe streets require too much sacrifice of one’s individual liberty - even if said individual abuses their freedom to harm themself and others.
> not if you pay or even how much you pay.

Sure it is. I'm an app dev and I charge less on the web (via Stripe) than I do on the app stores. I actually have to charge 1 / (1 - 0.30) ≈ 43% more to get the same amount of sales on the app stores as I can do on the web. The 30% is an arbitrary tax that causes the consumer to suffer.
Has anyone tried doing a deep dive on their own data from FB?

Is it fairly accessible to crunch this?
If I can’t install any software I want on it it is not a general purpose computer. I’ve always compared phones more to consoles.

Phones and iOS tablets won’t be general purpose computers until I can easily side load and unlock root.
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Hey, thanks! I'll add it to my reading list
> So why are you pushing for everything to have to be a general purpose computer?

Not the parent commenter, but I suppose that the main problem is that there is a duopoly. So either they should be forced to make general-purpose computers (so they can be made to do what the user wants), or there should be more competition, so you can have your locked-down computer, and I can have my general purpose computer.
If you figure it out please let me know because I find the SIgN InTo GoOGLe popups one of the most frustrating things about the modern internet experience.

It's like if the same person followed you around all day asking for cash over and over and over and over. If I wanted to log in, I'd click the fucking login button.
Not as of now!
While 2FA is everywhere but whether it should be enabled by default or not is very subjective.

Not that long time ago there was a discussion about 23andMe data leak through user accounts that reused emails/passwords on some other compromised site. I was surprised how many people here argued that 23andMe should be responsible for this data breach because it's common knowledge that people reuse passwords all the time and yet 23ndMe didn't make 2FA mandatory until after the leak.

Personally I prefer to have a choice on whether 2FA should be enabled or not but I also understand companies that don't want to be blamed for something that is entirely user's fault so it's much easier for them to make 2FA mandatory, even though with phone apps it's not really 2FA since it's the same device.