skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact of the matter is that specifically in the US, cops hate homeless people.

Cops are violent and empowered and from my own subjective experience absolutely will take anything as an excuse to destroy anything belonging to homeless people, from amenities to personal belongings. I dont see anything even remotely fishy about the idea of cops actively destroying social amenities. Regardless of any problems that may be more or less likely in a homeless population that doesnt change the fact that cops are a tool of anti-social conservative politics and actively try to prevent social programs from working or being implemented.
720p is HD in broadcasting terms.
No computer (device), but definitely a computer (person who computes) the location of the plane and destination in a formula that relies on the correct date for accurate long distance navigation.
There are and have been plenty of uncaring, reckless and rebellious people in aviation. Part of a just culture is, in fact, efficiently identifying and weeding out such elements as well as building systems that are resilient enough to contain their impact.

But of course, it's easier to wring our hands over not having the perfect culture to implement what was itself the culture-builder than to actually put in the decades of work required.

As an aside, I think a lot of readers would be better served by setting aside their existing notions of what "blameless" means and looking into what it _actually_ means for the industry in question.
License

MPL 2.0 is an interesting license choice, for an operating system.

EDIT: why the downvotes?
That's not how it has to be, though. If we were to legally allow smaller companies to collectively bargain with suppliers to drive prices down, maybe that could work.

Or maybe not. But the point I'm making is that we don't have to solve the bad features of our economic system in ways that make things worse, just because that's how it's always been done.
The Delancey Street Foundation focuses on adjacent / overlapping problems - recovery from substance abuse, convicted criminals re-entering society, and the homeless situations that often come with those situations. They have been remarkably successful and financially self-sustaining. I lived next to their development in San Francisco for 5 years and regularly patronized their retail businesses. For the first year or so, I had no idea about the foundation behind the businesses (or that their members were the employees) until I read something posted on the wall at one of them.

http://delanceystreetfoundation.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delancey_Street_Foundation
Show HN: Tabby back end in 20 Python lines (self-hosted AI coding assistant)
Today I've made an anticomplex re-implementation of backend for Tabby - self-hosted AI coding assistant.
(seems fully functional, but some issues are expected)

motivation: I had to move the one I use to another server, but did not want to re-install the entire toolchain and all dependencies.

additionally I like simple stuff which I can understand
The DIY option should have been closer to $30 if they used a 20x20x1 filter (~$10), which fits perfectly on a box fan.

Also, I have yet to find an $100 air purifier that has a high enough CADR to filter a large living room.
Believe it or not I had actually read the article, somehow minus that single line :P.

I don't think this situation will last long though, there's going to be a way to update the models continuously, but even so, they might remain "better" at some technologies than others, what does that say about them, if anything?
:)

Stabilisers for some, but definitely not others.
Seems to be catching up fires. It's fun watching startups building tools that could turn another one upside down.
And the reserve requirements of banks were just lowered to help spur growth:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-will-cut-banks-res...
The PS3 also ran FreeBSD as its base OS
Why does paper yellow? (2011)
Last time I asked for a clubcard they said the only option was to use the app. According the website you can still order a card after registration though. Meh. They're really pushing the app these days.

I found one on the floor. I use that one now.
Correct.

I am staunch believer in the moral and societal good of free speech.

Anonymous speech is far more dubious.

Like, protests seem valuable. Protests while wearing robes and masks however...
Bluetooth isn't as finicky as it appears when you use non-Apple products. After the initial pairing process, I can connect any of my devices to any other device with a bluetooth radio, and all I need to do is occasionally tell one device what my intent was if it connects to the wrong thing (say, connecting to my car instead of my headphones. Or connecting to the wrong TV).

Some cheaper devices are more difficult (I have a super cheap bluetooth receiver for an old car where you need to turn on the BT on the phone before turning on the dongle) but nothing along the lines of "unpair, repair, unpair, repair".

The behavior of Apple devices interacting with non-Apple devices is an intentional design choice by Apple to NOT support seamless interoperability. That's very different from the underlying tech being inferior to Apple's proprietary solutions.
Server-side there is no difference between a different context per TCP connection for a HTTP1 server and a different context per HTTP2 stream within a HTTP2 server.

If anything the HTTP2 requires more state due to the nesting nature of the contexts.
I was under the impression the developer(s?) kept pretty thorough notes.

In any case, with the addition of the new graphics, I wouldn't be too surprised if some changes were made to make it a bit more accessible now that there's been so much more interest in it.
Why is randomness non-computable? In computer science, the theorem is that the set of all Deterministic Finite Automata is equivalent to the set of all Nondeterministic Finite Automata. It is a non-obvious theorem that is a one page proof taught in every junior level theory of computation course. This theorem is what lets deterministic and nondeterministic Turing machines to be used interchangeably in many subsequent proof sketches in these classes.
How would you know if you’ve never tried it?
It's even worse, it's devs (& some users) plainly dismissing fractional scaling as "imperfect" and claiming fullscreen downscaling as the only sensible option with very little justification other than "it's what Apple does".

I had multiple discussions here in HN with users who wouldn't believe that, given fractional scale ratios, _anything_ else than direct fractional rendering produces significant blurriness. (And note fractional rendering can also produce blurriness, e.g. through misalignment).
Optical One-Time Pad Decoding
I've always wanted somebody to calculate the inflation rate of the frequent flyer programs I've been a member of.
This project shows how to make a small view screen that uses light to perform the logical operations needed to decrypt the unbreakable One-Time-Pad cypher. The video presents a little history to provide context, then shows the details of how optical logic gates can be made to do decryption.
Yes it's true that the system is difficult to navigate, but that's a problem that only the lucky few have. The vast majority of people who would like to emigrate to the US aren't qualified anyway, so for them it's much simpler. But as the article explains, over 30 million people want to come to the US in one year and that's just not realistic so there isn't really a solution to this. The population of the US is less than 400 million. Can you imagine 30 million more per year?

They could fix things to make it more streamlined for the 1 million or so who are qualified to get a green card, or even increase the quotas, or even easier, guarantee that unused quotas carry over. But then it will remain true that the vast majority of people who want to come, can't. This is a function of America's success.

For this to change, i.e. where most people who want to come here can, it would take nothing less than the US losing it's status as the best country in the world for opportunity.
>If I'm following my intuitions about the math in the right direction

you are, except our theoretical familiarity with math and the antecedent nature of life can easily lead us to intuitions that mature to fallacies quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

>e.g. by matching at the very beginning and very end?)

Thankfully those smarter than us have solved this problem too - the "hashing" algorithm is so fundamentally lossy (but not too lossy to fall into the pidgen-hole paradox) 1-way, that it is mathematically impossible to have any knowledge of the end of the hash before you get it.

You can "brute-force" it backwards, sure (for some old hashes obviously) - give me a string that's MD5 starts with "Jerry" and ends with "loves math", and I will congratulate you on your waste of computational resources.
Cars are only a small part of the total energy pie, and EVs are a lot more efficient: even with 100% charging the cheap power window won't go away. It won't be as cheap, but most uses of cars are flexible enough to charge during the low price window whenever that happens to be, and the window is large enough to keep the prices down.
Pushing the string! Can't win against demographics, young folks can't find jobs [1] and China got old fast [2]. 30% of GDP is domestic real estate that is about to fall off a cliff [3].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/25/china-youth-unemployment-wil...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_China

[3] https://www.axios.com/2023/10/11/chart-chinas-real-estate-st...
I get what you are saying - but there are also elements of truth in the examples you cite. Yes, much of OKW were synchophants, but there were plenty of competent generals and opportunities that were missed because of meddling. The Tiger had major technical challenges (as did much of German armor) but it had elements of superiority over US armor. That Heinkel was certainly interesting - like so many German weapons programs, they had fascinating ideas, but they were short on resources to make them functional. And on and on - so you aren't "wrong" but I think to say all of these things are propaganda written by the losers is also not really the whole story either...
>They get paid massive bonuses based on numbers their stores hit.

Isn't that ... good?

The demographic in every region or neighborhood is different and has different tastes, incomes and budgets, so it's your job as store manager to identify the needs of that demographic, and order merchandise and organize it on shelves, run sales, etc. in order to move as much of it as possible to maximize sales and profits. Sort of like targeted advertising but IRL and less privacy invasive.

Paying based on this seems like the only way to incentivize this performance.
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Sodium azide is crazy stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_azide

N- = N+ = N-
Na+

> This colorless salt is the gas-forming component in some car airbag systems. It is used for the preparation of other azide compounds. It is an ionic substance, is highly soluble in water, and is very acutely poisonous.

> Sodium azide can be fatally toxic, and even minute amounts can cause symptoms. The toxicity of this compound is comparable to that of soluble alkali cyanides, although no toxicity has been reported from spent airbags.

(and since people are going to wonder)

> While sodium azide is still used in evacuation slides on modern aircraft, newer-generation automotive air bags contain less sensitive explosives such as nitroguanidine or guanidine nitrate.

It's got a few big numbers on the fire diamond (3s and 4s are things I would rather not be in the same room with for any length of time).

And some related compounds:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
Ah, yes. The dream of company towns is alive and well for Amazon. Wish we could get some strict regulatory standards to block Amazon from obliterating cities and towns like that of Walmart. One was enough.
> Do low SES children not understand that money is a reward?

Maybe they understand that the money will be soon taken away by the adults.

Either literally taken away, or simply the next time the kids need something, they will be told "now that you have money, you can buy it for yourself" (effectively taxing the income at ~ 100% rate).
In my previous flat I did hit that issue, after lubricating it the issues disappeared but the last few weeks before that I had to both jiggle the key and turn it quite forcefully to get it to work (and getting the key in the keyway was its own challenge), on bad days 5s was actually lowballing it, I really feared I would be stuck outside once or twice.
It's blatantly and obviously clear, and the article addresses this: Amazon will give their own brand of cleaning robot preferential treatment in Amazon product searches.
What do you have against my 113 month old?
IBM of course ;)
Definitely, we can use a government issued id, or we can create our own. Social graphs i call em. Zero knowledge proofs have so many ground breaking applications. I have made a comment in the past, relevant to how could a social graph be build, without the need of any government [1]. We can create effectively one million new governments to compete with existing ones.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36421679
SNAP eligibility is based on household net income. A father of 2, with an unemployed spouse, and medical bills could be earning vastly more than someone single and debt-free, while still qualifying for SNAP when the latter does not.

It's silly to put the oneness onto their employers when circumstances can vary so wildly.
You're not entirely wrong, and thanks for pointing this out, but polling is also frequently used to mean "busy-wait loops" - you can look for it if you doubt me. I didn't really want to get into that conversation.

The other thing that polling implies is that there will not always be data present when you poll (think of a UART driver), and you might block as long as there is, and you may or may not be polling at a deterministic rate. Sampling unambiguously implies that a sample is always present and handled. It does not preclude any use of interrupts - you can sample with a timer interrupt or handle a sample with an A/D interrupt.

Many embedded programmers of a certain age have a nearly fixed mental model of a microcontroller as a sort of headless VIC-20 and a certain horror at sampling techniques that derives from enduring crummy polling peripheral drivers/handlers from the early days of personal computing.
> The great thing about gguf is that it will cross to system RAM if there isn't enough VRAM.

No… that’s not such a great thing. Helpful in a pinch, but if you’re not running at least 70% of your layers on the GPU, then you barely get any benefit from the GPU in my experience. The vast gulf in performance between the CPU and GPU means that the GPU is just spinning its wheels waiting on the CPU. Running half of a model on the GPU is not useful.

> Then again, one could have grabbed 2x 3090s for the price of a 4090 and ended up with 48gb of VRAM in exchange for a very tolerable performance hit.

I agree with this, if someone has a desktop that can fit two GPUs.
To be clear about it, the "paperweight problem" is very important to us as well. It's worth remembering that the MPL doesn't care if a copy is posted openly on GitHub or not, and (I am not a lawyer!) we have obligations to our customers under it regardless if non-customers can browse the code.
But it doesn't have macOS. And that's where we started at: macOS is popular, because it's a great graphical UNIX.
Not quite the same thing, but https://qntm.org/causal is related.
I'm curious about what you think about the vast majority of the country being far from nuclear. It makes up the majority of what WILL BE our power demand if all vehicles are EV, just as it currently makes up the majority of our gasoline use. The timing of how, when and for which modes of transport we should be rolling out EVs is critical, otherwise we are simply INCREASING our carbon footprint, all the while also endangering wildlife with batteries. CO2 is not the only enemy of the environment. Good intentions can be as well.
Japan had close relationship with differnt European countries, before USA was having any official contact. So for historical settings, these countries are maybe more familiar.

For worlds timed to circa 1000 - 500 years, US was pretty different from Europe.

Also remember close ties between Japan and Germany during certain war.
CNN has quotes to the contrary. Most of their Chinese assets are owned by Hengda Real Estate Group, which is legally independent.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/business/evergrande-ordered-t...
Either SnapChat grasses on its users or their encryption has been cracked. So which is it SnapChat?
Everything I've tried to get running, worked quite smoothly.
Although I only tried LLMs via llama-cpp and stable diffusion via ComfyUI.
I don't see any reason why other AI stuff wouldn't work as long as it supports rocm.

Also I only tried it on linux, AFAIK windows is a lot more difficult to get running, if it works at all...

With llama-cpp, I successfully tried various LLMs(e.g. LLAMA 13B, Mixtral etc) with very solid performance. Even for models that don't fit in VRAM completely, performance can be surprisingly solid, as long as you compile with AVX extensions. (and your CPU supports those)

Stable Diffusion via ComfyUI also works very well. However, be aware of VRAM limitations with the larger SDXL variants, especially when running a heavy desktop environment.

Regarding setup guides/links, there isn't a good centralized resource sadly, so some tinkering is needed. Unlike some of those CUDA 1-click solutions, ROCm requires more manual setup, especially for the models only unofficially supported.

Here are a couple of links that might be helpful:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/18ourt4/my_setu...

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/ww436j/how...

https://rentry.org/eq3hg

In general the r/localllama & r/StableDiffusion subreddits are good places to search for info.
I just checked. my local ABC and FOX are 720p, but NBC and CBS are 1080i

Idk why, but this hasn't really seemed bad to me. Maybe my TV has been upscaling and that's why I don't notice?

Reading around it's unclear if they broadcast above 720p anywhere, even over cable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company . Maybe the cable companies upscale?

Whatever the case may be, I'd rather have 720p for free than have to pay.
Your humidity might be too high, 40-50% is recommended for those with allergies.
My opinion is that getting lower salary for some equity has to be accounted against the fact that equity can go to $0 - yes you might be on ride for unicorn - but most likely not.

Worker cooperative structure sounds like a different thing that I usually read about which is people accepting lower compensation for some equity, which is usually bait and switch to get young talents work for less but for "some future unknown riches".

Getting equity has to be done with enough due diligence and by people who understand the downsides. People who can do due diligence and understand the downsides will most likely rather get their money in the bank unless it is really good deal to get equity.
Contagion will be non-zero. World economy may not fall apart over this, but there will be some sympathy bubble bursting I think.
> I might be the only one here in favor of this

Not even close. I am with you
Hollandophiles will always tell you the best bicycle is made out of cast iron, you don't want to be like those awful wielrennen.
> Why do you care what data Amazon has about my living space? If you don't like it don't by a Roomba.

How many people have bought Roombas without knowing they would be sold to Amazon in the future? A quick search came up with 40 million units sold so far. Will Amazon offer a full refund to every person who doesn't want their data with Amazon? Or will they offer the option to completely stay off of Amazons systems, keeping the existing Roomba systems running?

If not, do you expect people to somehow accurately predict the future when making purchasing decisions?
Evaluating the Medical Knowledge of Open LLMs
As the sibling hinted at, Gisin's statement is quite sloppy and – at the very least – confuses "definite" "information"¹ (a given real number) with "uncertain" "information" (entropy), at least if you follow the definition of entropy by the book: The probability distribution for an observable that takes on (exactly) the value of a given real number with probability 1 has entropy 0.

That being said, Gisin's approach is still interesting and his results can still be valid. But he starts with the assumption that real (irrational) numbers are unphysical, i.e. that – in a sense – our observable from above can actually only take on certain (rational) values, and then he derives certain predictions from that.

¹) Putting "information" in quotation marks here because no one really knows what it is.
Walmart has basically always been superior to its competitors at logistics. It has been one of their key competitive advantages for many decades. They have been a data monster heavily focused on logistics for most of their existence (I've been reading about their various logistics advantages for 30 years now).

Even if doing a thing is good for a competitor, that obviously doesn't mean that competitor will do said logical thing. Companies fail all the time because they're incompetent in one form or another (or many forms).
These articles have been popping up ever since the cheap air quality sensors started showing up that everyone and their dog hooks up to their raspberry pi like it's some grand revelation. I wonder if the measurements also have a logarithmic quality making the change in absolute values after turning on a filter appear more impressive.
Sure, but that's like saying being punched in the face is better than being punched in the nuts.
People can post all kinds of illegal things online and no one is suggesting that content should be approved before it can be visible on the Internet. It doesn't have to be strictly enforced to act as a deterrent. How effective of a deterrent it would be has yet to be seen.
That video is about the second gen ZX, the one from the late 80s and early 90s. But yeah, they're not the easiest cars to work on.

However, some of that is mitigated by advancements in fabrication technology in the last twenty years.
Continue doesn’t support tab completion like Copilot yet.

A pull/merge request is being worked on: https://github.com/continuedev/continue/pull/758
> Carbon fiber frames dampen road vibrations a lot better than aluminum and are noticeably less “harsh” to ride.

This opinion piece argues that steel, not aluminum, is the alternative. Slightly wider tires makes differences between frame materials subtle[1]. Wider tires are more comfortable and certainly not dramatically slower[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcRzp6xwuzE

[2] https://www.renehersecycles.com/why-wider-tires-are-not-slow... (written by a wide tire salesman)
I agree, but the challenge is defining when a company is big enough to be a problem. Intuitively, Amazon, Google, and MS are all too big for their acquisitions to be considered anything other than anti-consumer. But if you want to regulate it, how do you draw the line? What metrics, what limits, etc.
Those are symptoms, not causes. A lot of the value of land in California is proximity to good services and high ROI as regards social and career. The red tape, permitting, and labor costs are market-derived cash extraction mechanisms. Your problem is rent-seekers, not government.
Yes that's why he's a paid editorial columnist.