skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook but for different reasons than most. We called this swapping out the airplane parts mid-flight

A lot of effort goes into language design and tooling to enable continuous migration of code. Rather than re-writing entire repos, existing code is continuously upgraded through semi- & fully-automated code-mods. Every day thousands of patches are landed to upgrade APIs with new type safety, security restrictions, deprecations and other code maintenance.

Most other company repos I worked on had major re-writes outside of the mainline until one day there was a sudden and often troublesome switch-over to the new code.

Code is constantly changing, and unless you have a continuous process for landing and testing those changes, you are going to suffer when you try to apply the changes needed to address the accumulated tech-debt.
Maybe I only perceived it. Funnily enough it was your comment from someone discussing maintaining traveling while on 495 or 78.

My comment was that travelers not going to Manhattan should choose a route that avoids the tunnels.

I'm only now beginning to understand the point you are trying to make is that political outrage makes good policies tougher. I thought this sub-thread was regarding driving into Manhattan to get somewhere else is inconvenient and adding extra costs makes sense.
> Peer review, for instance, will become even more important in a gen-ai world. It must be beefed up accordingly, perhaps by paying reviewers for the time they sacrifice to scrutinise papers.

So the cost savings in writing will be offset by additional costs of reading. Playing good defense is harder than playing offense.

The only strong argument here is that you can't tell anyway. Like effective doping in sport.
Such a check would be possible if:

1. Apple received a copy of your source code to do source analysis

2. Apple actually supported running python code as an option for writing iOS apps and wrote source code analysis tools for python for reporting compliance issues

neither of these are true.
Presumably the part where the red team gets its funding, or by legally mandated remediations that the company may not feel are necessary.
Article: "The homeless residents said those penalties violated the Eighth Amendment of the US constitution because the city did not have any public shelters."
> we're set on expending resources

I don’t love this decision. But the endgame to homeless encampments in parks is parks being defunded and sold to developers.
I feel like the outcome of this is unilaterally bad.

Most homeless are elderly and mentally Ill. The solutions are institutionalization and retirement housing/pensions but no state did this after Reagan and instead made homelessness an issue to ignore.

Faced with the ability to legally incarcerate nearly 600,000 people, states likely won't hesitate to do just that without a second thought.

For a country that prides itself on freedom and liberty, having the largest prison population in the world is surely a damning indictment of the conviction.
Why no arms race in this theory though? If spam is sure to ratchet up to meet whatever defense craigslist has today in order to continue to be effective, they might as well do a better job today as it is to not make themselves stand out so explicitly so they can get a higher click through rate. Seems to me there is some underlying reason or incentive why the current arms race on the half of the spammers might be stalled. Maybe there are enough people who fall for these scams as low effort as they seem to day, but if that were the case then craigslist is being a bit unethical allowing this susceptible population to be routinely victimized to ensure the rest of us don't get fooled by tougher spam.
Hard to see what niche People magazine fills that is not already well covered in social media. It's not like they were doing hard hitting journalism or sending the reporters out to dangerous locations for scoops.
And saying "just build more houses" isn't going to solve it either.
>I'm not sure I see what the advantages of communicating this way would be.

Gravitational waves might be the best way to communicate between our world and the dark matter world/dark sector?

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

...or maybe there is a lower noise floor for gravitational wave comms?

>The amount of energy required per bit transmitted would be astounding.

Has someone calculated this out? Or is it more of a "well we need an exceedingly sensitive instrument to detect some of the most energetic events in the universe from half-a galaxy away" gut-feel? Any reason something like a phased-array for directional comms / beam forming wouldn't work with gravitational waves?
The court rules that it is not cruel or unusual to arrest and jail people for camping in public, right?
What do you tell the families who scrimped, saved, and generally busted ass to be able to afford their homes?
>This assumes the court can even hear cases in a reasonable amount of time.

If it's a bandwidth issue, reducing the number of extra-judicial bureaucrats and upping the number of judiciary is pretty straightforward. Seems like a pretty simple rebalancing issue.

>Now it's, better hope you don't lose an injunction and you get a judge capable of understanding the technical reasons

Why would experts (like those that were informing executive agencies on their payroll) not be called here?
A bus ticket to some declining town with lots of unused houses? San Francisco did this until 2017.[1]

"A 2019 article in The New York Times reported that many bus ticket recipients were missing, unreachable, in jail, or homeless within a month after leaving San Francisco, and one out of eight returned to the city within a year.[2]"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_homeless_relocation_pr...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/homeless-busing-seattl...
> The workaround for now is a compiler flag that excludes problematic code from iOS builds.

That sounds like the correct fix, in that it is least likely to get your developer account banned
Check out my comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392631#40392877. As I wrote, head over to https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/ , where you can have every version of that debate in an environment that's designed for it.

Here are some to start: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/search?q=assisted+suic...
I built a fancy Raspberry Pi setup with peristaltic pumps and capacitive soil moisture sensors. But it’s hard to beat a $5 terracotta cone called Blumat. [0]

[0] https://www.blumat.de/
> they're all pretty much useless on their own for anything besides ASCII art.

The asker completely ignores that asking questions about accent marks, like they themselves are doing in that very post, would be a lot more annoying without being able to write said accent marks.
The court ruling was about charging them money for being left to rot on the street, not leaving them in the street in the first place.
Even if that's true, if people are using the results of this as currency, shouldn't this be regulated? Isn't that what the SEC's express purpose is?
I would argue against government bureaucrats being experts.
>All optimizations inevitably end up just being funneled into larger and larger models.

Well of course if you're trying to beat the SOTA, bigger sizes allow for better models, but not everyone is trying to use or train the latest SOTA model, maybe llama-3 8b is perfect for what you need to do and having better optimizations to run it locally is gold.
In my case, it was the integration testing framework built for a large Python service.

This was ~10y ago, so my memory might not serve me well. A bit of context:

- proprietary service, written in Python, maaany KLOC,

- hundreds of engineers worked on it,

- before this framework, writing the integration tests was difficult -- you had a base framework, but the tests had no structure, everyone rolled out their own complicated way of wiring things -- very convoluted and flaky.

The new integration tests framework was build by a recently joined senior engineer. TBF, it's wrong to say that it's was a framework, if you think in the xUnit sense. This guy built a set of business components that you could connect & combine in a sound way to build your integration test. Doesn't sound like much, but it significantly simplified writing integration tests (it still had rough edges, but it was 10x improvement). It's rare to see the chaos being tamed in such elegant way.

What this guy did:

- built on top of the existing integration tests framework (didn't rollout something from zero),

- defined a clear semantic for the test components,

- built the initial set of the test components,

- held a strong ownership over the code -- through the code review he ensured that the new components follow semantics, and that each test component is covered by its own test (yep, tests for the test doubles, you don't see that very often).

Did it work well longterm? Unfortunately, no. He stayed relatively short (<2y). His framework deteriorated under the new ownership.

Travis, if you are reading this and you recognized yourself, thank you for your work!
I know you're not actually asking for answer but the US spends trillions of dollars a year supporting homeless and otherwise disadvantaged people. There are public programs that exist solely to provide these people the help they need. In most cities something like half the homeless refuse free shelter.
It's not about an energy apocalypse at all. It's about the cost versus benefit when the principal cost on large scale deployments is energy. AI stuff takes a lot of energy to run therefore costs a lot of money to run therefore requires revenue that matches the energy used.

Now the problem is that if someone puts a $10/month price on the AI functionality, they will stop paying for it because it doesn't really have a $10/month ROI.

Literally every AI thing I've seen people use has got an interest taper off way before the free trial even ends.

The constraining factor will prevent an energy apocalypse: It doesn't materially improve most people's lives at all.
What if just all municipalities forbid homeless encampments? The result of this will be a race to the bottom, as more and more municipalities ban homeless camps, the negative effects will concentrate on fewer and fewer municipalities, making the issue worse and worse. This will in turn drive them to forbid camps as well.
The Court didn't make it illegal for cities to provide services to the homeless. Some, many, (most?) simply find it easier to push homeless around between each other and off into the margins (outside of their municipal boundaries) instead of addressing the issue. The Court isn't a social services agency and rulings shouldn't be made on that basis. Cites, states, and even the federal government have the power to address homelessness. Using homeless camps as a perverse bottom tier safety net isn't a solution and is completely tangential to the legality of regulating their existence. I don't understand this notion that court rulings should be based on social policy instead of Constitutional law.

Once again, governments are not being limited in their ability to go out and provide services.
> The important thing to remember, though, is that there are economic limits involved in the total energy use for this kind of technology. With bitcoin mining, for instance, the total energy usage has jumped up and down over time, tracking pretty closely with the price of bitcoin. When bitcoin is less valuable, miners are less willing to spend a lot of electricity chasing lower potential profits. That's why alarmist headlines about bitcoin using all the world's energy by 2020 never came to pass (to say nothing of efficiency gains in mining hardware).

> A similar trend will likely guide the use of generative AI as a whole, with the energy invested in AI servers tracking the economic utility society as a whole sees from the technology.

This comparison is inappropriate. Cryptocurrency was and is mainly an object of speculation, not of intrinsic economic value. I'm contrast, AI has clearly a lot of economic value, and that value increases with time, since it gets better with time.

Moreover, the rate of improvement over the last few years have been staggering. Things that seemed far out of reach science fiction technology ten years ago are now unremarkable reality. So there are solid empirical grounds to expect that progress in the coming 10 years will be transformative as well. Nothing like that was or is the case for cryptocurrency.
What I found interesting is that storing almost-pure CO2 (which is what they are doing) looks pretty economical. They are a special case that allows to separate pure CO2 as a side-product of their process.

But standard combustion processes output air with a single-digit percent of CO2, and there seems to be no cheap way to change that or separate it from air.
There is a big factor out there that is 'masking a rise in incidence of CAT from accident stats'. It's Aerospace Engineers and the aviation engineering and safety community.
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Most CAT events (seen so far) are survivable by current aircraft designs, so you can have an increase in CAT without a spike in crashes and other accidents.
Unfortunately, I doubt I have anything useful to suggest. I've been a very happy use of Feedly for years, but I don't know how well they do with accessibility or how screen reader-friendly it might be. The best I can offer is a list of web-based readers that I used to test that my links could be read, but if you've been on the hunt for that long then I'd guess you've already looked into all of these, and I don't know how accessible any of them are, either. But just in case it's at all helpful:

- https://feedly.com
- https://www.inoreader.com
- https://www.newsblur.com
- Feedbro, a Firefox extension
- https://theoldreader.com (mentioned by you)
- elfeed (an Emacs package, so not web-based)
There aren't even nearly enough homeless shelters. That holds the same basically everywhere in the US with a significant homeless population, except for those specific locations with a right to shelter law, like NYC.
Bush going unilaterrally to war with Iraq (albeit with his lapdog Blair) really didn't do US foreign relations any favors either. It's not just Trump, it's a long-running theme. Trump just accelerated the trend.
I think the contemporary visual "fine" art scene is responsible for quite some damage in how people conceptualize art; "snobbery" is not an unfair description. It's difficult from the outset to distinguish smoke and mirrors from the real thing.

Industries with more tangible economical grounds (e.g. comics, animation, advertisement) are usually better sources of knowledge as a result.

> I wonder if flow is one of those rudimentary visual skills, because I never experienced it before someone told me about it.

Perhaps it'd be more accurate to say that it has never been experienced consciously: advertisement, movies, animated movies, all are designed with such ideas in mind.

Also, note that there can be "variants" on this idea of flow. For example, "unity in diversity" is a common composition principle, where you try find a balance between an excess of diversity (chaotic looking) and a lack of it (boring): this will encourage the creation of a few tied zones within a piece, and a "flow"/"eyes pathways" should naturally arise.

But even that principle of "unity in diversity" isn't always expressed in this way, sometimes it will arise from other notions (see the 5 principles of composition mentioned here [0]).

[0]: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45410/45410-h/45410-h.html#t...
Before this case went to the supreme court, if a city offered someone on the street access to a homeless shelter then they were allowed to force the person to move. It was only when the city did not have shelter space that they were no longer allowed to criminalize the person for existing on public property.

Now the city doesn't even have to offer bed space.
Have you seen the housing market in the past few years? Skyrocketing interest rates and construction levels not seen since before 2007, all which (to any economist who passed ECON 101 would say would lower housing costs) and homes are still 40% more expensive than they were in 2020.
I'd check for an uptick in prison related stocks and commodities, except they're buried under the post-debate slump. Maybe in a few days. Supreme Court decisions probably take a few days to filter out to the somewhat less news obsessive parts of society.
It's in the law already; for instance, for the Clean Air Act, see USC 42 section 7422 where the EPA is authorized to reclassify previously unregulated substances. That the court chose to ignore the plain reading and intent of Congress is baffling, unless one explains it as gross corruption.
Where did you get this idea? JSX doesn’t specify what markup it renders to, or even that it renders to any markup at all. The syntax most closely resembles XML (and therefore XHTML), in that it requires closing tags (which might be satisfied by self-closing with />). But this is an authoring constraint, it has no bearing at all on output.
Indeed. What's happened fairly recently is that the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society have realized this and concluded that they can define the future of the country by strengthening the judiciary rather than trying [the much harder task] of making congress functional. It's working great, and even though this started further back it only became blatantly obvious to outsiders what was happening with the Trump presidency.
The best solution to homelessness is to crash the housing market so thoroughly that the idea of residential homes as investments becomes anathema for 2 or 3 generations. Then you enact Georgist land policy and loosen zoning and Bob's your uncle.
Craigslist really nails practical and boring design. There have been countless small updates and improvements in functionality and appearance without falling victim to passing fads.

I do wish it was more streamlined to create a listing directly in the category you're currently viewing.
Even if that's true, why would we only price in the externalities of new energy?

If we have a coal plant and add one wind farm we still have one coal plant.
Many people misunderstand what this case was about.

> Homeless need shelter and help. It is inhumane that we let them rot on the streets.

The issue being argued was not that homeless should be able to camp where ever and whenever they want. This issue was that if you don't provide shelter then you cannot kick them out of public spaces.

If that was the law, then it would mean you need to build shelters if you don't want homeless in the streets.

What this new verdict means is:

- You can forcibly remove homeless people who have nowhere else to go

- Thus homelessness can be effectively illegal

- The only realistic solutions now are:

- Put the homeless in prisons

- Move them to cities and towns that don't have the resources to remove them.
The reasonable course of action is to pick one of the three rewrites that codify a proposed interpretation of the currently ambiguous rules.

What would be unreasonable is to give those 3 options to a judge and ask them to do a coin toss on which one is right, and then let it sit that way.

I may be radical in this, but I wish the judiciary could force the legislative branch to decide on what the law they wrote means.
That is true. However The Conservatives have a lot of satellite companies run by politicians. There are some fairly well known ones even though it's not obvious they are run by party members.
2016 was absolutely fascinating because, while it’s possible it was a double fakeout, it really looked like the first shoot in presidential politics in my lifetime. Insofar as there is a script, it sure does look like The Nameless One went off it. It was totally obvious the intent was for a Bush vs Clinton rematch.
Fraud saying this will make it easier to fraud. Checks out.
Pompeii fixed potholes with molten iron (2019)
Interesting you find Zurich to be more conservative than Munich since Munich itself is known to be the more conservative of well-known German cities. Anecdote wise I found the Swiss from Zurich more open and party-friendly (for lack of a better term) than Germans from Munich. Not sure whether to dish up the lack of nightclubs in Zurich to conservatism.
If your commute ran you by the exit of the holland tunnel instead you'd see pretty constant gridlock
It doesn't technically make being poor illegal. The sad truth is that plenty of people will living on the streets may now be breaking the law simply by having nowhere else to go, but that shit will roll up hill eventually. Courts and jails don't have the capacity to deal with charging everyone in that situation. Either cops will avoid arresting people for it or cities will eventually have to dramatically expand housing options for the homeless.

In the meantime, yeah this is terrible for anyone who is homeless. It could very well do a disservice describing eh ruling as making being poor illegal though. The ruling only covers homeless camps, there are still a ton of poor people who do still have a roof over their heads that aren't breaking the law by being poor.
Because the article is in context of new demand.
This does not change that in the least. What changes is that if e.g. the FDA is acting in a way that does not seem to fall within their legal mandate, then people have more freedom to take legal action to ensure they fall back to within that mandate. And I think this is extremely important. The United States it not a dictatorship. People should have the right to challenge organizations which seem to be going beyond (or even against) their legal mandate.

If Congress is unhappy with how this plays out, they're completely free to clarify any sections that get challenged.
>universal suffrage is a stupid idea without universal risk/ skin in the game

Can you clarify this statement? I don’t understand what you mean.
I don’t want to open another box, but how exactly do people distinguish between rational vs irrational behavior?

You might define it as quick system 1 vs thoughtful system 2 reaction.

But I’m pretty sure Einstein had thought this through and had good, rational reasons at that time to “resist” the idea of black holes.
I speak native English, fluent German and beginning Dutch. A few years ago I picked up a Yiddish primer. In my layman's eyes, Yiddish is indisputably a Germanic language. Learning it was like learning to read German backwards in Hebrew letters. I understand why Yiddish speakers would not want to believe Yiddish is Germanic. And yet...
Perhaps a better example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFsWmV6eyk
> I have very high confidence that a real and effectively-correct theory of quantum gravity will remove the singularities.

What gives you this confidence?
I 100% agree. A carbon tax is a purely capitalist thing to do, and by not having one you incentivize bad outcomes.
I was going to cite France as an exception, 'till you mentioned it.

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

Admittedly, far more an exception than an ideal to emulate.

The other "typical case" is countries liberated from military occupation...
They get to pay for other people's stuff. See how this works?
One city banned camping in public, it was challenged, SC said "yep, that's a fair law". After this decision other cities may also ban camping, while some cities may welcome public camping. The SC is leaving it to the lowest level of government to decide for themselves, upholding a democratic principle.
Ah, I see, that makes sense.

But even with congestion pricing, assuming a same-day round-trip with a non-NY EZ-Pass, the combined cost of (Holland or Lincoln Tunnel toll + congestion pricing toll) is still a bit less than the cost of (Goethals or Bayonne Bridge toll + Verrazzano Bridge toll)... because the Verrazzano charges in both directions. So even congestion pricing doesn't fix those incentives :/
Foreign policy is mostly up to the executive branch and is far removed from the decision-making process regarding whether or not the EPA can regulate a new type of deadly plastic.