skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ordering someone to return to their home is one thing. The question is more complicated when the person does not have a private residence. “Removing” someone from one spot doesn’t make them cease to exist- they have to then be put somewhere else.
Certainly local governments aren’t depositing them onto private property, so the only options are other public property (including jail).

I don’t follow why this practice being placed off limits for Constitutional reasons would cause local government to somehow lose its authority to govern. In our system, local governments can’t do plenty of things to their citizens, even in public spaces. Their ability to govern nevertheless remains intact.
An extremely similar take on this, that predates Black Mirror, was in some sci-fi media whose name, appropriately enough, currently escapes me. Their premise is that there was a species who evolved to develop a flawless memory. It's a subset of the Black Mirror episode (and this dubious idea) because there, at least, memory is a purely private thing.

Yet the end too was quite predictable and logical -- frequently destroying those of this species simply because your own life and mind ends up becoming more tempting and destructive than even the most enticing of drugs. One could simply lose themselves in your own memories. What need is there for the rest of your life when you can simply endlessly relive, in perfect clarity, the best moments of your life - ones that you, in many cases, will likely never surpass?
On its own, this is not definitive. This is how you generate the hypothesis for the next round of research that looks for the visual data and tries to follow it to see if it can be predictive or not.
I meant: legitimate use cases.

And I don’t buy into .zip being made part of automatic URL detection in tools, for all the illegitimate reasons it’ll be used for. Vendors of email clients, messengers and chat applications tend to stick to a core of well-known TLDs.
If IE had been a thing on iOS we might never have been free of it.
That's because the community in the end rejected it overwhelmingly, as anyone who reads the comments in this thread will understand. Admins did nothing, other than refrain from intervening.

Normally a post of this sort would never stay on HN's front page. In the end it spent 4 hours on the front page. That's because we suspended our usual quality control, as I explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100680.

dredmorbius's sibling comment already made the point, but I wanted to add more in the hope that no one ends up with the wrong idea.
The US government spent $6.1 TRILLION dollars in 2023. I don't think raising taxes is the solution to the government offering a more competitive wage.
Hah, didn't know that. I think the point stands though, plenty of areas where doing this would gain a net benefit in terms of national (and perhaps even local as you say) voter support.
There is the class that fails at reading and adhering to IKEA instructions, yeah.

But this is something that ask the non-obvious things will get explained to you if you walk into a MediaMarkt to where modern routers are and queue in line for the area's sales person to get to you and tell you what to buy, and how to get your hands on the relevant access credentials/how to get the new one to connect to the ISP.
You're forgetting that most installs of non-ISP-provided moderns for residential Internet are set up by the tech person of the household who quite possibly never heard of what a NAS is and why they may want one.
Often the only paper manual thing in the box is literally the quick start guide that a motivated person who has what could be called "common sense" on treatment of/interaction with computing equipment. You know, the person who knows to check the plugs because they don't consider themselves above it but do know that it's one of if not the first thing they are asked if they can support.
Yes, the GS scale is a problem. My point was that it’s not a problem because we’re trying to save money – if that were the case, someone would notice that raising the cap to allow a $300k civil service job is cheaper than allowing the same job to be performed by a $500k contractor who takes home less and is replaced more frequently.

Politics enters the picture because the pay cap is derived from the salaries for politicians rather than what expertise is valued at on the open market:

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-admi...
This would be a welcome change for folks running PG in k8s or with any external automated configuration management. Once you want to deploy Postgres databases via API to semi-trusted users you want to have configuration control outside of the database itself. We disabled this at bit.io via patches - would have been nice if upstream had this.
On the flipside, I recently had to make some changes to a ~1.5GB XML file, like in the middle of the file. I had a sudden flashback to the Atom editor, which developers considered a 1MB XML file as "large", and hence it totally chocked on a 100MB one I tried once, crashing out after eating 8+GB of RAM.

To my mild surprise, it opened in a few seconds, and while all the fancy checking stuff got disabled, basic syntax highlighting still worked so element tags were colorized. Finding and changing the offending element was not much different from normal. I checked memory usage, expecting it to be astronomical, but it was quite within reason (~3 GB IIRC).

I admit I did not expect it to go that well.
I also heard that sometimes you need to physically carry CDs to doctor's office. I suppose getting pictures of your MRI scans via Web is a good middle ground.

It just really irked me that people got CDs instead of being fully digital. The last time I used a CD (besides my PS4) was 10+ years ago. I don't even have a CD player anymore. I'm sure Gen Alpha will look at CDs the way I look at floppy disks.
Love the service worker idea. What other things could service workers do with maps?
I've been contemplating something along these lines for a bit:
Step one is to understand the tradeoff space.
Step two (which is sometimes much more difficult) is picking where in the tradeoff space makes sense for the business, but now and into the future.
For most places, it makes sense that there needs to be shelter spaces available in order to relocate a person.

But in reality, there are certain homeless meccas that are much more attractive to homeless people, where the local government cannot reasonably be expected to house all of the homeless people that are imported from elsewhere. In these cases, I am amenable to the idea that you can remove them from public places / and/or export them back out to remove obstructions to public life, but I acknowledge it's very difficult to determine where this idea is reasonable and prevent it from being abused by local governments that are not so disproportionately affected by this problem.
Airlines fill those seats by upgrading people with status or miles.
Also commercials.

How anybody puts up with that is beyond me.

Sometimes I go to YouTube or watch tv at a friend's house. Suddenly a smiling salesman is wagging his junk in my face. You people just accept this?
There also seem to be some bugs in this, just look at Hamburg, Germany...
Alternatively, there could be some public space where it is legal to be homeless. The area could be fitted with bathrooms and other services.

The issues are that cities may be concerned about liability in that space and where you could put that space without angering some residents.

Additionally, a lot of homeless people would probably rather have their own space so they would reject a city sanctioned location for homeless people.

Unfortunately, it seems like an unlikely solution.
That's exactly the issue being debated, or have have you not read the first paragraph?:

> the Supreme Court will decide whether it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment to fine, ticket, or jail someone for sleeping outside on public property if they have nowhere else to go.

The point being argued is "if you don't have adequate shelters, then you can't remove people from public spaces". If you do have shelters and these people have other options than, yes, you can force them from public spaces into community provided shelters.
I'm sorry to say such an adolescent thing here, but, "Duh?". For a delicate regime with many bordering enemies, and with an international nuclear policy in total shambles, it's the most sensible thing to do. By a country mile. If I was Grand Iranian Overlord, you can bet that every national effort would be, right now, to get a nuke as soon as humanly possible.

The Shia/Persian state is a sad little mound in the middle of a Sunni and - before Gaza, anyway - Sunni/Israeli block. I imagine the primary reason for the October attacks was to drive a wedge into that developing relationship, knowing Likud would react very Old-Testament-y.

People will make scary color coded maps with all the Iranian proxies, but proxies are just proxies, and some of those proxies - like in Syria - are as dangerous to Iranian policy as they might be to Iran's enemies. Ask America how relying on dangerous third parties went for it in South America - they might have established a firm anticommunist platform, but at the risk of destabilizing the whole continent.
What I mean by "Kant's framework" is basically these three theses:
1. There are internal perceptual manifolds, distinct from mind-independent space-time.
2. Space adn time are preconditions of experience as such, i.e. we cannot ever get rid of them in our description of the world. They're not reducible to causal relations between events.
3. This doesn't require assuming Newtonian absolute space (relativism).

And Kant furthermore asserts that:
4. In addition to (1), there is no mind-independent space-time, space and time as such are mind-dependent. This means that our descriptions of the world are necessarily, e.g. Euclidean.

I don't think (1), (2), (3) are at all controversial, although only (2) and its consequences are a contribution of Kant himself, but (4) is, I'm pretty sure, quite universally rejected nowadays.
There is no "but" here. Can you suggest a solution that hasn't been tried over and over again for the past 20 years (at least?) Your suggestions have resulted in more homelessness and worse conditions for the homeless.
@pimlottc, thank you for the question, and yes: this series is deeply to do with the LEGO part and set universe. The optimization model's function is "Find the maximum number of sets completable with a user’s part inventory" and the data involved in the search is : SETS, THEMES, PARTS, COLORS, MATERIALS, (PART)CATEGORIES, PART-RELATIONSHIPS, etc.

P.S. sorry to be so late to reply here folks! Martin Laskowski (the dude making the videos).
Where is the line? When is it homelessness, when loitering, when walking? This will be used to prevent demonstrations, remove other unwanted people or just punish some outgroup.
There is no perfect typeface. Atkinson is a very effective body typeface, but does suffer as a headline. So use something else. It's just a variant of Helvetica, Arial, and a bunch of others.
I do wish founderies would provide typeface variants with the principles of hyper legibility applied. A Times New Roman Hyperlegible could be really handy even though it was designed for the newspaper so it is good at being read at small sizes to pack more content in a column.
Inclusive design shouldn't be an afterthought. The principles of hyper legibility came from hard won lessons from interstate signage, transit signage, and flight deck control design.
If you design it in from the beginning inclusivity is free.
I have very conflicted feelings about this. Homelessness is an epidemic, and it can be easy to fall into and hard to escape from. I want to be a compassionate person.

On the other hand, the walking trails and parks in my community are dangerous and polluted as a result of all the homeless camps. There is a bike trail from that goes right from my subdivision to the local library, and my kids can’t use it because it’s physically blocked by a homeless camp. They’re noisy, and they leave broken glass and condoms all over the place.

What are our options as a society? My community offers all sorts of aid programs, but the campers mostly don’t seem to use them. Jailing the homeless seems immoral, unethical, and also impractical. How can we crack this nut?
What do you mean by transactional semantics?
That seems like the best compromise to me. Punishing people who truly have no other option rubs me the wrong way. But I'm fine with going after people who do have other options but choose to be a public nuisance, and at the same time such a policy incentivizes the local government actually making sure other options are available.
@bobajeff, you are right on.
The US govt can also do a lot better. The very agency they formed to counter cyber threats and alert against(CISA) itself got hacked because they failed to patch or remediate, and led to a serious leak of sensitive chemical industry information among others. Because they failed to follow their own security advisory. And they won't even put out a report detailing the hack like MS did.

> According to an early report on the breach, an anonymous source said that the compromised systems were the Infrastructure Protection (IP) Gateway, which houses critical information about the interdependency of U.S. infrastructure, and the Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT), which houses private sector chemical security plans.

> CSAT is an online portal that contains highly sensitive information that determines which facilities are considered high-risk under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS).

> CISA declined to confirm or deny which of their systems were taken offline.

https://securityintelligence.com/news/cisa-hackers-key-syste...

> In late February, CISA had already issued a warning that cyber threat actors are exploiting previously identified vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure gateways. Ivanti Connect Secure is a widely deployed SSL VPN, while Ivanti Policy Secure (IPS) is a network access control (NAC) solution.

> Now, CISA itself has fallen victim to a cyberattack involving Ivanti products.
Anyone know if there’s an audio equivalent of this software?
I would be curious if anybody feels that such a tool wouldn't be too much a danger as spyware. In particular from a Chinese developer.
> One of the bottlenecks may be access to eye-tracking technologies, which are expensive and require training to use and analyse. Until cheaper and easy-to-use eye trackers are available, using eye movements as a diagnostic tool for early-stage Alzheimer's is not possible outside the laboratory.

I wonder if something like the recent AR/VR headsets that do eye tracking would be good enough, or if they need something far better?
It is utterly ghoulish to try and convince people to hate other human beings simply because they're unfortunate.
Fundamental right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. If you're going to insist that every person must have a roof over their head, and there aren't enough roofs to go around, it doesn't take away that most fundamental right. A just government does not revoke a person's life nor liberty for failing to attain the unattainable.
Are there any large companies that don't operate like feature factories? It seems to be such a common issue and the natural result of the incentive structure.
That's not what I'm doing.
So can you be clear: you believe prison is a superior solution? Because that's the solution you are proposing. I just want you to say clearly that you believe homelessness is a crime and homeless populations should be housed in prisons. Btw this was also tried before in Industrial England, this is essentially what "debtors prisons" referenced in a Christmas Carol are.
Also the class that types “Google” into the browser’s search field (back when it was separate from the URL bar).
The NSA isn't actually supposed to be a massive Statsi-like bureaucracy, it's meant to crack codes used in wartime so that our troops know what the enemy will do next.
This looks great - will try it out tonight.

At first I thought you‘ve been using ImGUI as your interface looks similar.

Maybe that‘s a good starting point for your CPP career.
Video games saved my life (2018)
Humans working on farms with tractors are more productive than humans working with oxen to till land.

Accountants working with computers are more productive than accountants working with books and a hand-held calculator.

There will be a Pareto curve of distribution.

If we want to reduce the cost of things, we have to reduce the cost of inputs and make the markets transparent (while holding a base level of quality and safety).

This is why TVs and electronics become cheap while healthcare costs balloon out.
> but their recent failures have been pretty amateurish

> See also the CISA report about last years breach

The same CISA who just recently got hacked in an even more amateurish way?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107675

https://securityintelligence.com/news/cisa-hackers-key-syste...
Thank you Kyle! Dropping the third video today, appreciate your interest and all suggestions on how to make this thing better.
This is really neat! But if I can make a suggestion, a good and interesting explanation should use a strong analogy. A story wrapped around the explanation doesn’t do as much to help with understanding

Check out Code by Charles Petzold for what I personally consider the best example! The analogies build on each other in steps that never feel too complex in order.
That's one of the main benefits of Metal and it's made me think twice about it. I struggled quite a bit trying to debug my shaders. But Brendan Duncan's WebGPU Inspector caught my eye so I'll check that out for now.

Oh wow, your project looks really cool too! I'll check it out.

Interesting. I did not know that CDs did not need to get HIPAA compliance. I suppose web apps would certainly need that. I wonder what will happen once Gen Alpha starts needing to get MRI scans.
Observation: Pakistan is the only Muslim majority nation to own nuclear weapons. They currently own around 170 of them, (IMO they should absolutely dismantle them and join both the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) and the prohibition treaty). Iran is a member of the NPT has zero nuclear weapons, and have shown them selves to be cooperative in non-proliferation efforts (until the Iran nuclear deal was cancelled by Trump).

Israel has around the same number of nuclear weapons as Pakistan, is not a majority Muslim nation but is very antagonistic towards majority Muslim nation. Israel is not a member of the NPT, and has been extremely uncooperative in non-proliferation efforts. Israel has engaged in terrorist activities in the past, their government includes many religious fanatics (like Itamar Ben-Gvir), and are currently being accused of engaging in an ongoing genocide.

My observation is that you aren’t afraid of a terrorist nation run by religious fanatics getting a nuclear bomb, but rather of Muslim majority nation having them.
They don't lack the authority as far as I know.
> This had to be in on short notice (trys to move this to another release where squashed) b/c vested interests.

From the article:

> Even then, the discussion was not quite done; Momjian questioned merging this change so late in the PostgreSQL development cycle. ""My point is that we are designing the user API in the last weeks of the commitfest, which usually ends badly for us"". Fennema-Nio pointed out that the API was essentially unchanged from its initial, September form, and that months had been spent discussing alternatives. Haas said that such a small patch would not improve by being held up for another release cycle: ""I think it has to be right to get this done while we're all thinking about it and the issue is fresh in everybody's mind.""
Alice in Wonderland (1903) [video]
From Description: Alice in Wonderland is a 1903 British silent film directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow. It is the first movie adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Only one copy of the original film is known to exist and parts are now lost. Audio has been added for your viewing pleasure. This is really a gem, please enjoy
Are you away from home much? Do you have a spouse and/or kids?
> didn't have enough to say to pay all that for a big-ass server

Can you define "big-ass"? You'd be amazed what you can do on a $5/mo VPS.
So you can be clear: have any of your "superior" solutions made the problem better or worse?
it would be great if we can have intelligent tools for building neural networks in pytorch.
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> Jeez, touch some grass man

You’re eloquently beautiful when you take your own advice.

Hahahahaha! :)
>No, we were talking about (or at least I was talking about) how many people get value out of philosophy who don't practice it, at least as amateurs. Is philosophy like music or is it like yoga? I'm on team yoga.

Well, I've said that there are plenty of people who don't practice philosophy who enjoy books of philosophy taken seriously by philosophers. You responded that these people enjoy discussing philosophy, the implication being that these people are practicing philosophy. And I responded in turn that these people are no more practicing philosophers than people humming tunes are practicing musicians---so it's not clear what the relevant distinction between music and philosophy is supposed to be with respect to its enjoyability beyond practitioners of the discipline.

>It's not what was lost, it's what was gained. And what was gained is major breakthroughs in areas of science that allows science to answer questions that were traditionally the purview of philosophy. These include evolution, molecular biology, the theory of computation, quantum mechanics, and neuroscience.

How much of Plato's dialogues do you think were about these things? I don't deny that what used to be called natural philosophy is now just science, but it's rather extreme to say that the sciences have conquered everything philosophers were in the business of doing. And Plato isn't just some random exceptional example; I'm sure you're familiar with Whitehead's "footnotes to Plato" quote.

>I read "Against Method" a long time ago and it seemed like total nonsense to me at the time, one of the things that convinced me that philosophy as an area of intellectual inquiry was bankrupt.

Feyerabend is rather extreme, but I'm curious why you think it was totally nonsense.

>Yes, I think this is pretty self-evidently true.

And do you see the problem this poses for Popperian falsificationism? More generally, philosophy of science, beyond just Popper, is a good example of meaningful work done in philosophy.
The thing is that almost all homeless people have options.
GPL is one kind of open source, not all. That’s why I specified OSI.

For government work, I care about OSI, not if people can just see and not legally change, contribute, and redistribute.

I think government should fund global goods and want to be precise in my language. So when I say “open source” I specifically mean OSI-licensed stuff.
IME, paying up is HOW you level up.
> Why is it a surprise that employees who are essentially unfirable don't perform well?

This is a great example of that political dogma: notice that you’ve accepted as an article of faith the trope that government employees can’t be fired or disciplined or that this is not true of contractors, despite neither of those being true?

If your goal is successful projects, what you’re looking for is accountability and managerial discretion. The managers you think can’t direct civil servants directly aren’t magically more capable of selecting and overseeing contracts, either, and without technical staff they won’t have someone they can turn to for advice who doesn’t have a financial conflict of interest.
The Harlem housing projects.
I am confused and curious. Can you please elaborate on how streaming is related to pg storage?