skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't imply the opposite isn't true either. Spending on "fixing" the homelessness crisis in SF has ballooned as expected and a lot of nonprofits and agencies well positioned to take advantage have benefited from the unhoused bull market
Very good point! I do find it incredible that LLMs can do regression with just in-context learning. This is one of my favorite examples of a task that is mind-blowing to a researcher but a meh or huh to the public.

The main issue is there isn't enough evidence to say one way or another though, I think, which is a complaint of how tasks from modern large models are shared by OpenAI and Google.
Because people do irresponsible, selfish things, and in many cases fail to consider how their actions can negatively impact others.

Not saying that having more or fewer or no kids is going to have a negative impact. But if it was important for humanity to encourage more or fewer or no kids, I think it's pretty natural that there would be campaigns (funded by governments and NGOs alike) to push people in the direction that was supposed to be better.

That's pretty much the entire purpose of any kind of public policy. In theory, anyway.
The Wheel of Time MUD has been around since the '90s and I've been playing it on and off for the last couple decades.

https://wotmud.info/
> Was this always the case ( I would assume so), or did it come with the decriminalization changes?

I can bring a bit of context. I'm Portuguese, I know the history well.

The intervention was centered in the SNS (our national health service), and soft touch. No mandatory treatments, no punitive approach.

Fundamentally, we approached addicts. Safe consumption spaces, with free syringes, drug testing kits, and staffed with personnel who got to know the addicts personally.

This staff, slowly but effectively, pushed those who accepted treatment onto SNS programs. It turns out addicts want to get better, as a general trend in the medium term. Give it time, this technique works.

Decriminalization is a part of it. Essential to allow the rest of the program, but a small part of it, effort-wise.
Matters in the universe is a lot. Ditto the amount of energy. People may argue that unlimited growth is unsustainable, and I agree.

But what people don't realize is just...how much resources there is and how much just sits there being wasted by being radiated and hitting inert rocks and gases.

The problem is not resource availability(of which they are abundant and uselessly radiating out), or even engineering or economic challenges. It's political. If you take care of the politics, the world is your oyster, and you can have as many billions of people you want within physics and economic reasons.
It's unclear what you mean by memorization. However I can request images for which it's obvious that no clear precursor exists, so something original must be being created.

Here's a Volkswagen Beetle made from brains:

https://i.imgur.com/Mzd6UWh.png
I am not sure whether you are aware of how many recursively self-deprecating RFCs you have to read to be able to implement a DNS resolver.

(Hint: it's more than 20)

At this point it's time to take a step back and think about what problems DNS causes and how it would be possible to mitigate them. And not iterate on the literally first mistake on the internet which was meant to replace the /etc/hosts file.

Most security problems are caused by DNS in one way or the other. Heck, even HTTPS and HSTS is botched because of CAs being an inherent requirement only because DNS is unreliable in both terms of transport layer and handshake/discovery.

If DNS would be based on cryptographic identity, then we wouldn't even need CAs, and we wouldn't even need that giga zip file of universal trust in foreign organizations called ca-certificates.
This has been my major concern with the currently available LLMs.

You can know what the input is, you can know the output, you may even be aware what it's been trained on, but none of the output is ever cited. Unless you are already familiar with the topic, you cannot confidently distinguish between fact and what sounds reasonable and is accepted as fact.
When I see stuff like this I can't help but feel that the world is sick, and the disease is modernity. Unfortunately I suspect that modernity is terminal, and the best we can hope for is hospice.
In case my point there wasn't clear, it's common for people to adorn their property with their support for a campaign, such as lawn signs, bumper stickers, or pins. Such displays are rare at work, as most people have more tact than that, but I've still seen Obama, Hillary, and Bernie campaign logos. A Trump one or "Make America Great Again" one in these environments would be a faux pas to say the least.

If we really cared about "our workforce reflecting our customers", as the mantra goes, we'd want people that empathize with those points of view. Instead there appears to be nothing but active disdain for them in this industry.
However public toilets have multiple objectives. The more accessible they are, the less likely you are to smell or step in excrement, which also makes being in a city a nicer experience.
MUDs can be wonderful. They can be even better with a proper MUD client. A couple of the popular ones are TinTin++ (text) or Mudlet (gui).

https://tintin.mudhalla.net/

https://www.mudlet.org/
I’ve been following a similar issue in Swift (which is informed by some learnings from the Rust side of things). Here is a link to the latest language complexity resulting from this: https://forums.swift.org/t/sub-pitch-task-local-values-in-is...

There are a number of other proposals linked to this issue that can be referenced from that thread. I hope there is a next generation async model for future languages that is truly simple, because this all makes me think footguns are endemic to the current approach (which is broadly the same in Rust and Swift).
Interesting that another account posted this exact response slightly further up.

It's a non sequitur designed to degrade the conversation and it implies that having reservations about constant growth within the current paradigm is somehow akin to desiring large scale mass killing?

Bizarre and troubling.
I sincerely hope that in 50 years when the concern over population growth has been shown to be misguided, just as it has in the last 200 years since Malthus predicted the Earth could only support a few hundred million people, you won’t be sad and alone regretting a missed opportunity.
Right. Because it's exuberant margins. Starbucks and Delta both operate with their core businesses as adjacent to their financial business in accruing customer deposits now. Multiple corporations are now bundled loyalty programs - Amazon Prime, Uber One, Lyft Pink
No, I don't neglect that. These guardrails are guiding you towards something, but it is very optimistic to assume that they guide you towards the best solution. There is a lot of religion and faith involved here.

I care a lot for logical consistency and soundness, probably more than anyone else you know. But it is wrong to think that static type systems are the best way towards this. Logic is the best way towards this, and static type systems are just one way of implementing logic, and not the best one.

Especially in programming, what static type systems were really good at, was automating some correctness checks. I believe in a future where automation gets so good that static type systems become a hindrance, and where their benefit vanishes when weighed up against your freedom to express things as they really are.
Long, long ago when I did a bit of rocketry we simply worked on a basis of no launching if there was anything in the sky. We were behind mountains from any radars, almost nothing would have been visible and hobby rockets are almost devoid of metal anyway. I know the guys shooting the high power stuff need FAA clearances.
More geniuses

The problem here is with the distribution of future geniuses. More likely than not they will be born into a population with low education. The probability of nurturing this talent for the betterment of mankind will be low. In highly educated populations, the birth rate is normally low.
No one has to decide. It's as simple as not actively encouraging unsustainable growth and letting people choose.

No one is advocating forcing anything on anyone.
killall still works for me(?). It relaunches itself immediately. Why would I want to use this "new" more convoluted way?
Bought a Prison Laptop on eBay
Because a lot of the degrowth movement does want radical population decrease that we are never likely to see without such drastic measures. Those harmful ideas need to be countered before they become reality.
At least some governments have put in controls to stop end of year spending at least. Only part of the issue though. Centralization of common services has aided in this too.
Many of those who want to have more kids can’t afford it. Plain and simple. In conversations like this, people often skip over this reality which always surprises me. Instead, they seem to focus on winning the ideological battle of what the ideal world should be.
There may be a conflation of the founding fathers with the initial stock of pilgrims which is understandable given the ambiguity of the term ‘founded’.

I guess the pilgrims would be considered anti-social as they didn’t ’go along to get along’ but AFAIK powerful trade guilds dominated a large part of the economic private life and the people persecuted/excluded from them may not have had much choice in the matter.
>>that don't require more people.

More people does not necessarily mean more laborers. It also means more consumers. Without more consumers we humans would not be incentivized to mine so much. Without the need to mine so much engineers would not have invented more efficient ways to mine. So on and so forth...
I don't think the world was at all sure Russia was actually going to invade rather than intimidation tactics.
Certainly, it was just more of a general criticism toward such a view, as leading to long term degradation of the world. I totally get how humans would always protitize humanity first, but in the long term we have some issues such as overfishing, global warming, biodiversity loss etc. as a result. But the esiest would of course to not belive in thos issues, and have cool toys
I still use NetNewsWire.
Did you purposefully choose a link that doesn't actually include any working gallery links? Here, here's the actual wiki for betaarchive:

https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/

And here's a link to the first build with a fully functional start menu:

https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Ch...

That's b81...there were 400+ more to follow that (800+, if you include the follow up service packs). Pretty much every person who worked on Chicago that talks about the start button/taskbar says it's one of the first things that was finalized, which the builds obviously confirm.

The "iteration" that you refer to is simply taking the combined Presentation Manager and Program Manager code and reconfiguring it into the taskbar.

For someone so "aware" of software development, you seem to expect unreasonably long timelines (5+ years for GNOME3) and unreasonably short timelines (what? 4-8 builds? to completely reconfigure a major UI component and paradigm) when they're convenient to making your wholecloth narratives work.
Yes, I wrote that these models can mix learned patterns (which may be memorized).
Hahn deserves a Darwin Award for knowingly mishandling radioactive materials. He also put many neighbors at risk and probably shortened their lives. Dolt, not hero.
When we solve aging in the coming decades the replacement rate will move to be newr zero.
I’m 100% on board with this. Even if it’s just a see docs within the repo. I should be able to understand the intent of things without having to go read your website (should you’d remember to write one).

ASCII diagrams of components or your draw.io diagrams would go here. Knowing what you have is half the battle.
Not quite. For people outside of tech they can hear "AI" and think it must be right. And how great GPT is so it must be right. There are no other opinions.

Distilled down, classic search is many results; gpt is one result.
Youtube still has RSS feeds thankfully, although they did kill the subscription OPML export
The story of the one hundred trillion dollar bill is tragic but its existence today is simply hilarious.
Then Mojo also has more stars than C#. I guess GitHub stars don't mean much.
Tusculan Disputations (Cicero)
A Map Is Not a Blueprint: Why Fixing Nature Fails
Have you seen the novel rat trap from New Zealand? No poison. Uses bait and then de-brain's any rat that enters trap. Rat drops out, to be consumed by other critters. IIRC Each trap kills a few hundred before needing a new CO2 cartridge.

Last I read, it's been very effective.
> It's a question of economics, energy production, and negative externality.

And we're doing a pretty poor job at solving those problems today, for many people at the lower end of the wealth & income spectrum. What makes you think adding more people will magically fix those issues?

I don't think anyone is arguing that it's technically impossible to fix issues like this and have a much larger population, with everyone housed, clothed, fed, and even more than that, happy. But humans -- especially those with wealth and power -- are a selfish bunch, and we are pretty bad at sharing when the goal is to raise other people up.

I mean, we could ensure that not a single person on Earth went hungry. We could do that today, with our level of food production technology. But we don't, because we don't like the economics of it. We could swallow it and do it anyway, but we refuse to.

The continued comfort and wealth of the haves will always be a priority, at the expense of the have-nots. Eventual post-scarcity increasingly feels like a pipe dream to me.

> So, let say that you have a square kilometer area. If you add a floor of space, congratulation, you just doubled the amount of space in an area.

That's just another way to create inequity. Would suck to live on anything but the top level, without sunlight in your home. Sure, maybe it's possible to get sunlight to everyone's home, but let's not pretend that would actually happen, out of the generosity of every builder's heart.
The 2 most prominent proponents of this idea happen to have the resources (money) that will allow them to avoid most of the downsides a larger population would create. Great for them bad for me. There are plenty enough geniuses in existence today. They cannot be utilized because they live in shitty conditions created by the too large population we already have. As others have pointed out consideration of of negative effects are totally absent.

Will technology allow us to sustain larger populations - likely but at what cost.
Pretty fascinating to hear the counter-examples here.

Admittedly, I based this comment on my recent experience in Munich, and it definitely sounds like it wasn't as representative as I assumed.
but then it will either overfit or you need to train it on 20 times the amount of data ...
The issue is that it doesn't say what the letters of the acronym stand for. ADB? Maybe it means Acme Digitization Business.
Unfortunately all the ones I have in mind are too controversial and would only elicit a negative response. Or in the very least cause upset to some, which would only be counter productive haha! :)
It is a sincere and honest question. Misplaced concern about overpopulation has already caused world bank loans to be tied to population management quotas, which have been met through the creative means of forced sterilization of indigenous/minority women in Central America and South Asia. AKA literal genocide.

A political movement to “decrease the Earth’s population” is extremely bizarre and troubling, and deserves being called out for what it is.
You don't need a whiteboard to talk.
I can only speak for myself. I had moved from other RSS to rely on Googles' RSS and then stopped using RSS until last year. It used to be my main news source for many years.
I think the broadest definition of the role of government is to regulate. With that in mind, it would mean that the government (and its agencies) would be intentionally failing to regulate well so that there is a perceived continued need to regulate?

As asinine as that sentence sounds, it actually seems to be exactly the state we're in right now. We have tons of government and tons of regulation, and yet we still see corruption and criminality everywhere, and people begging for more regulation to undermine it.
Back then, ATC were a little more relaxed. “Was that a bird? I dunno. It just popped up and then disappeared. Strange” could have been what was said. Now, any blip is a phone call upstairs. Radar is a lot more accurate and ATC have the nerves. A balloon, a rocket, someone’s potato gun, anything that hits airspace on radar is going to be investigated, at minimum. More than likely, for small hobby rockets, you’ll get away with it or maybe talk to a local law enforcement officer but fly anything large enough, you’ll get a visit from the G men.
There are most certainly some papers out there which look into the issue.

The OP though, opened with a point on the rhetorics of the piece. As is usual, such conversations are tricky, evidence by this sub threads where we are discussing govt.

Rhetoric is a pretty interesting topic.
Right, but you implied that these were of low quality. Can you explain why you think the brain Beetle is "not great"?
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The docket isn't available yet. The URL of the docket should be https://www.regulations.gov/docket/NTIA%E2%80%932023%E2%80%9... once it comes out, however.

The NTIA website says "Link to the Request for Comment is below. This will be updated with a link to the Federal Register once formally published, along with the final due date, which will be 30 days after formal publication and any other changes made in the final published version."
Are there any MNVOs that utilize more than one mobile network operator? you know incase you wanted redundancy? i know TracFone used to...
Unrelated but you are a great writer!
"user agency lives in the very long tail of any software usage"
"agency drives the birth of tech but dies in the scoreboards"
"scale to species level adoption discover that the ethos of creation is lost in the swarm of consumption"

You remind me of the writing of Antonio Garcia Martinez in the book Chaos Monkeys.
Both of these occur to me as extremely focused problems with a clear demarcation of success. The DEA? Ehhhh... less so.
Billions have been lifted out of poverty in China and India alone. Africa is next.

The problem is not too many people. If anything, people who think there are too many people are a problem.
Such taxes to such an extent are relatively modern in US history. I think people like to think that the money is spent for good because it would hurt even more if it wasn’t but I think much of it is wasted and a lot of it is counter productive. But perhaps I’m bitter at having governments subsides my competitors making my industry really unfair.
What compilers can and cannot do [video]
Why not translate your code to pointfree style automatically? Using[0], you can go from

quad a b c = let d = b * b - 4 * a * c in ((-b + sqrt d) / 2 * a, (-b - sqrt d) / 2 * a)

to

ghci> import Control.Monad
ghci> quad = ap (ap . ((.) .) . ap (ap . (liftM2 (,) .) . flip (flip . ((*) .) . flip flip 2 . ((/) .) . (. sqrt) . (+) . negate)) (flip (flip . ((*) .) . flip flip 2 . ((/) .) . (. sqrt) . (-) . negate))) (flip ((.) . (-) . join (*)) . (*) . (4 *))
ghci> quad 1 3 (-4)
(1.0,-4.0)

[0] https://pointfree.io/
There’s also some cars such as the Toyota RAV4 that could have the car started via the CANbus connection. Thieves figured out you could take a headlight off and connect to the headlights CAN connection and start the car that way. Flipper could do that, I assume, but so could any microcontroller with a CAN add on board…

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/crook...
Why even stand up?
> Is that correct?

You forgot the bit where they also got fined for reducing the resolution. But otherwise, yeah, that seems accurate.

The phrase "heads I win, tails you lose" comes to mind.
Prison laptops are clear so the insides can be checked for threats, contraband, etc.

I wonder if they do the same with the source code.
Perhaps it's just meant to signal: Anyone can run this, hackers welcome!
I would think increasing immigration would actually achieve that better, at least when we're talking about immigration from places with worse access to education to places with better education.

Better-educated people (especially women) seem to tend to have fewer babies. (Note that I'm not making a value judgment here.)

And beyond that, to avoid demographic shocks, you probably do want to bring in new people from elsewhere to help care for the aging population that's now much larger than the young population, after the birth rate has been below replacement for long enough.

Granted this is a zero-sum game: countries that lose their young people will end up being worse off, while those that aggressively pursue new sources for immigration will benefit.
At a personal level, it doesn't matter how many more people exist on this planet. It's the quality of them that does.
The cynic in me thinks this is 100% working as intended if you view school (especially before university) as an industrial sssembly line to produce the obedient little workers of the future.

By making kids “accept” to be arbitrarily graded by an automated black box on seemingly virtuous but absurd criteria in practice, they’re being trained for what the future of work might become if coporations get their way and put AI everywhere they can. Or if they’re lucky they learn instead to cheat the system and/pr hack it but that’s a minority who will become misfits in their professional lives.

I hope you were able to cheer your kid up, regardless but this is a scary look into the near future.
Yet in the US they took it away and we thanked them for the honor. It seems to be coming back but not quite these days.
The cobra and rat examples are examples of perverse incentives and the charitable interpretation of the tendency for institutions to preserve the problems to which they are solutions is that the "obvious" answer, such as "pay people to bring us cobras," may involve perverse incentives which didn't occur to the person who was like "I want this gone. I have a simple and direct solution: I will pay people to make it go away."

I am usually speaking of homelessness when I talk about the Shirky Principle. Programs to "help the homeless" are often well meaning but require there to continue to be homeless people to keep doing their work. So tying help to their current status can actively help keep people stuck.

It can be quite hard to decide you want to "help the homeless" or "decide to do something about homelessness" and find some way to mentally get yourself out of that box. It took me a long time to get to where I wanted to be mentally on that issue.

Actually doing something effective about a problem sometimes means not doing anything that sounds like solving that specific problem is your real goal. And that's kind of a tough place to go mentally and emotionally for most people.