skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CopDB allows anyone to make an account and start submitting data. Currently only for data on cops in Utah, but that shouod change once there are more moderators.

Also theres blog associated with the project at https://copdb.org and docs at https://docs.copdb.org
The immigration office does not collect data about the time it takes to process a case. I am building the infrastructure needed to poll my users at a date in the future.
Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Wants US Tech to Take on China in Africa
EU Digital Markets Act: Litigation Against Apple
But autocomplete even for basic words? My wife is Chinese. I'll never forget when she was helping her family write some formal letter in Chinese in Microsoft Word and she simply could not input the numbers 1, 2, and 3 in Chinese because she forgot how. And I know this may be apples and oranges because this is keyboard input versus writing on paper but as a programmer who can type at a moderate pace since I was a kid (~120wpm) this was perplexing for me! And similar to the article, she's an Ivy league grad. Similarly, when she's communicating with her family via WeChat half the time she simply sends audio messages instead of text messages. I'm pretty surprised this method is so popular instead of some voice-to-text google assistant type system.
I assume for the lawyer it’d be treated like normal insider trading (ie contract settles, lawyer goes to prison). I’d be sceptical that a poll worker would have material inside information.
The Staggering Success of Vaccines
im working on something very similar.

https://www.5outapp.com/
> There are significant challenges ahead before this all becomes a reality but with the ever increasing drive to reduce the cost and ecological impact of space flight it is one that most definitely needs further careful analysis.

Am I the only one finding it ironic to think about reducing the cost and ecological impact of something we aren't doing yet and that we don't need to do at all? How can we beat "not doing it", which costs nothing and doesn't pollute?
Just deployed a little gimmicky website to evaluate anything on a left-wing/right-wing gauge: https://leftorrightwing.com/
Are you familiar with the Experimental Aircraft Association? EAA.org

They have had a handful of articles of people working on electric propulsion in their magazine. I would imagine you could reach out to some of those featured. I once contacted a person who was building a DIY HUD and he was very friendly and eager to talk about the project. Overall a very good community!
While a good idea, a lot more than zoning needs to be fixed.

Fire codes requiring two stairways have the unintended effect of making 4 bedroom apartments impossible to build and so in turn push anyone who wants just a little more space to single family houses. Those same fire codes have prevented a lot of deaths, and I've never seen a property study on if we can really get rid of them (everyone proposing it points to other countries without those code having lower fire deaths - but they are comparing overall rates including old buildings and lots of different construction styles - so I'm not sure if it something we can safely get rid of in the US context)

If we don't also build great mass transit traffic will get worse - sprawl is a solution to heavy traffic (not a great solution but it is one).

Most places in the US with high density are friendly to specific life styles. They have great bar scenes, theater, live music, arts (and others), but there are lots of other things they do poorly. Importantly the parts with high density are very unfriendly to families and so a lot of people who live in high density in their early 20s feel forced to move to the suburbs in their 30s as they settle down - better schools, parks and other things you want to do with a family become important (these are things that other countries do well in high density but not the US)
Isn't this in the spirit of LÖVE?

https://www.love2d.org/
I'm doing an experiment in wring a visual novel with assist of generative ai. So far it's lots of fun.
>If they don't work, they get deported back.

lol, nice joke, how many illegals has Germany for example deported? Deporting people in the EU is a huge hassle and the source countries often don't want to cooperate in taking back people. You'll have to murder someone to actually get the authorities in the EU go through the hassle of deporting you, but refusing to work shit jobs isn't enough to get you deported, just have your welfare access cut off.

Plus they can also claim asylum once they get here to escape their slave drivers and not get deported.

>especially in EU countries with more... lax standards than Germany

Germany already has lax standards on that regard. Many there are raking in huge profits by bringing in these vulnerable workers and having them work in terrible conditions.
OTOH, the pinyin-based typing systems on computers and phones has been a godsend to students of Chinese.

I started to learn Chinese in the 80s at my high school and then in the 90s in Taiwan and was laughably bad at writing. Literally, people would laugh at my characters not only because they looked terrible, but also because I was using the wrong stroke order.

Now, it is possible for me to get away with not knowing how to write characters or the stroke order. Using pinyin and recognizing the characters (or certain radicals) is enough to take me very far in social media, texting, etc.

For instance, for one of the phrases in the article ti2bi3wang4zi4 knowing the last character (zi, 字) and kind of remembering wang is enough to recognize the entire colloquialism when I type in the pinyin tibiwangzi: 提筆忘字

In Taiwan they have a TV game show featuring college students, basically like a crossword featuring 4-character colloquialisms and other phrases that have obscure characters. It's quite fun for the audience to watch, almost everyone is writing characters in the air in front of them as they try to remember the hard characters.
The last time I took the Amtrak in California was 4-5 years ago- the toilet was filled with and overflowing with feces and menstrual blood- the tables were covered in trash and of course just like in these photos the trains were cutting edge crumbling/dirty 1980's models.

I started throwing the trash in the bins and an Amtrak staffer came through and told me "You don't have to do that- that's someone else's job" Someone else was nowhere to be found though.

I took the Amtrak several times from southern to northern California and it was always just bearable.

The train experience in the USA is pathetic and depressing.

I have since moved to a "poor" country in Western Europe and the train experience here is MUCH MUCH better than Amtrak in the states as is most everything else.
It sounds like people really liked the emojis
On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, my point is that I don’t want to have to lookup the spec and figure it out and then write my own script to take one of these books and make an epub.

Or go through the process manually of printing 20 separate web pages and then merging them into one PDf and then figuring out how to create a table of contents at the beginning and a bibliography at the end with links that actually work.
I tend to consider food deserts just cheap/fast transportation or personal mobility deserts seeing as they tend to "lack" a whole bunch of other things in addition to food. They lack these things not because people can't get them, but because the cost in time or money of going whatever distance one needs to go to get them makes it not worth it. Food doesn't ship well or keep well in individual use volumes so it is particularly impacted.
Before the industrial revolution, even though money existed, "wealth" really meant "land" rather than "capital".

The industrial revolution didn't really change anything about land.

It's still a fundamental and underrated component of our economic system, arguably more important than capital. That's why Georgism is a thing Indeed, it's even contemporary to the industrial revolution.

The economics are too alien, we cannot imagine this kind of thing accurately on the basis of anything we have available with which to anchor our expectations.

I would refrain from making such wild prediction about the future. As I have pointed out, the industrial revolution didn't change the fundamental importance of land. Arguably, it's much more important, and even more relevant today given how our land use policy is disastrous for our species and climate.

So, yes. It is important to ask how consumers will pay for all these robots if they don't have any sort of income that would make using robots economical.
Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza (2014) [video]
Gravity is not a force
I don’t think they ever tried to “abolish family”. Where are you getting this stuff? It sounds like bad history lessons.

They did stuff like legalizing divorce, or collectivization of parenting.
Say it louder for the people in the back.

There's a million examples of tech utopianists walking head-first into ideas and even entire disciplines they previously dismissed as irrelevant or outdated.
Spoken English does by differing where the stress is placed in the word. That doesn’t make it into written English, however.
The entire visible universe. Not powerful enough.
As I mentioned -- it's not actually slow in absolute terms! The experience is lodged in my mind because it took so much more time than the reverse trip, and it was sweltering to be stuck on a train with inadequate air conditioning on a rather hot summer day.

There are of course many benefits to taking even the TER over driving the equivalent distance: you don't have to be laser-focused on driving (especially in a foreign country where you might not speak / read the language or necessarily know the rules of the road), you don't have variation in travel times due to traffic (which, by driving, you would only contribute to), reduced per-passenger emissions, and so forth.
In a crowded "AI space", I continue to work on txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows. It's not as popular as the big frameworks but I believe it's a better solution. Time will tell.
Do you have projects you care about outside of work?

If so, you'd have more time to dedicate to those projects.

If not, maybe you would be inspired to try a new project that you didn't have time for previously.

There's always work to be done. Some people could actually become organized, exercise, spend more time with their families, be better parents.

In the past when I've been unemployed I've spent the time to refine myself in new ways. If you've never had a sabbatical I suggest trying it if you have the opportunity.
Getting ready to release a big Halloween update for my survival-horror game for the Playdate, Plight of the Wizard[0]. I just added a spell that targets the closest enemy, which was a fun challenge to implement. Performance optimizations for the hardware have been getting tougher to nail down, so I’m spending a lot of time figuring out inefficiencies in my code to target a stable 30 fps. I’m having a lot of fun releasing updates that make the game more fun. But with more refinement comes the desire to add more content and improved art. I’m trying to take it one step at a time.

[0]: https://sotix.itch.io/plight-of-the-wizard
As far as I can tell e-graphs can’t handle all of the kinds of transforms that a compiler does, so they’re likely to be avoided by real compilers.
If it is easy to understand, then it is easy to extend.
>>>Doctors don't have significantly messier handwriting compared to similar populations

I'm skeptical of this claim. My family doctor had bad handwriting, and one time the hospital worker had to call him to ask if he ordered a x-ray or Ct scan.
> Of course people want this. It's absurd to suggest otherwise. Solve actual problems and stop giving contracts to people who abuse the public trust and effectively siphon tax money away from people who need it the most.

You’re making a lot of incorrect assumptions about how TfL works here. TfL don’t outsource their ticketing system, either its development or operation, it was built by TfL and it’s operated by TfL. There no private entity making a profit off this situation.

> The level of argumentation here is bizzare. We can't use IDs because of privacy but we will give them unique smart cards? We can't let them use IDs because those cost money for historical reasons but we will pay a third party for a single use smart card?

> The level of argumentation here is bizzare. We can't use IDs because of privacy but we will give them unique smart cards? We can't let them use IDs because those cost money for historical reasons but we will pay a third party for a single use smart card?

The TfL Photo Zip card for those eligible for free transit basically is a form of free photo ID in London. Just about every institution in London, and most of the UK will accept it as a form of photo ID. In London it basically is the “free papers” you think should be used to provide free transit, and you literally do just tap it on a reader and get free transit. But like all forms of ID it expires and needs to be renewed, unfortunately this incident at TfL is preventing those renewals from happening.

For the absolute avoidance of doubt here, TfL is for all intents and purposes an arm of the London regional government. TfL chairman is the mayor of London, any state funding it gets comes via the Greater London Authority. The state of TfL, and the services it provides to Londoners is a top tier political issue in every single mayoral election, because the London mayor is the single most powerful entity when it comes to the operation and direction of TfL as a whole.
Woops, I thought I’d post this comment and it never posted.
The countless hours of voluntary unpaid work by many people shows don’t act only for their own benefit
Our Strange New Way of Witnessing Natural Disasters
The reason there were 500 manufacturers in the first place was the enormous subsidies.

The Chinese government strategy is to fund a massive number of attempts and then suffer a huge number of failures and consistent end up with far too much production capacity leading to a large number of unprofitable companies.

It’s not a terrible strategy if you can dump vehicles elsewhere. It may or may not work if you can’t.

It’s not stupid but it’s probably a bad strategy.
Would you be so kind as to elaborate? I definitely see you’re onto something.

How does the real world works? What are the hard parts? What’s wrong with using other people’s software?
> I was talking about English in that paragraph:

The very next sentence you wrote was

> The same goes for Chinese.

So you were talking about both English and Chinese in that sentence.
http://tolvera.is

Tölvera is a Python library designed for composing together and interacting with basal agencies, inspired by fields such as artificial life (ALife) and self-organising systems. It provides creative coding-style APIs that allow users to combine and compose various built-in behaviours, such as flocking, slime mold growth, and swarming, and also author their own.

With built-in support for Open Sound Control (OSC) via iipyper and interactive machine learning (IML) via anguilla, Tölvera interfaces with and rapidly maps onto existing creative computing software and hardware, striving to be both an accessible and powerful tool for exploring diverse intelligence in artistic contexts.

Tölvera has been selected for Mozilla's first Builders Accelerator! Read the announcement:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/14-ai-projects-to-watch-...
Yes, it points to how hard & expensive any government attempt to backstop the traditional parental model of care actually is.

The earlier the intervention the better.. and consistency is also incredible important. But you can spend incredible amounts of money just to get a slightly worse outcome than what was going to happen on its own. As a wealthy society we must do something to help those in need, especially children who are in the situation of no fault of their own. But it's not clear our current methods work.

You can also generalize this problem to the healthcare industry as a whole. Costs go up much faster than the rest of the basket of goods & services citizens pay for, and they don't understand why.

The underlying reason is that - care doesn't scale. You are essentially (directly or indirectly) paying for someone's (doctor, nurse, etc) time. We have not gotten much better at making care more time efficient in the field, and in many cases it has gotten worse (more paperwork/electronic record entry time/etc). Everything else we buy is the product of using automation to replace labor, making labor more efficient, or making labor cheaper (offshoring / simplifying so less training is needed / etc).
Aw yes! I absolutely loved Google+ and was very sad it got shut down. Thanks for reminding me about that!
Depends on what you're trying to achieve.

For Systems of Innovation, well, the whole point is to demonstrate how new technologies may positively impact your application portfolio. The purpose is to achieve organizational experience with the technology. These technologies aren't picked willy-nilly - they're serious contenders for developing applications moving forward.

For Systems of Distinction, the point is the features being developed are unique in the market amongst your competitors and/or provide you a key competitive advantage in your market. Failure represents a high business risk. You'd favor existing, well-known architectures, but you may believe newer technologies could yield much better results. The typical strategy is to take the riskiest part of the implementation and develop it using the newer technology. If that goes well, then proceed with the newer technology. Otherwise stick with the tried-and-true.

For all other projects outside of the above, stick with your current technology stack. The strategy is to get as much delivered with the least amount of implementation risk and having the fewest operational surprises and business disruptions.

Bottom line - technological change needs to be carefully managed in an organization.
https://archive.ph/5dryj
Learning some more ATS2 while 3 isn’t yet released. Cool language with linear types (which go further than Rust’s affine types), refinement types, dependent types, proofs & dataviewtypes over C for zero-cost abstractions.
I don't have a direct answer for you, but I would checkout any AirVenture Oshkosh groups online. I know people build planes ahead of the event to fly in.
FSF is working on freedom in machine learning applications
Every business I've ever been at had a "strike team" of the 2x+ engineers (in the M sense) that didn't typically do maintenance work, they unfucked messes or rescued projects. It seemed pretty effective from my standpoint.
I don't have a link for it yet, but I am working on using an HCL-like syntax to write CI pipelines. Ideally it would function a lot like dagger but written a lot like terraform.

The main problems that I want to solve are the really slow feedback loop of complex GitHub Actions / GitLab CI, but without the limitation of having to run it within another CI provider.
> The food system is different from homecooked meals

This is a good point, and everything I've heard from parents says that it's parents, not children, who identify home-cooked meals with care. Children notoriously prefer prepackaged industrially processed food over whole foods prepared with care and love. In order to feel cared for, all children need is to trust that the person caring for them will make sure they get enough food when they need it. Food quality has nutritional consequences down the line, and at some point a child that is fed pancakes every day will gain the ability to look back and regret how they were raised, but it doesn't prevent a child from feeling cared for in the moment.
Seems more like a typical Chopin mazurka than a waltz
How would you write Finnish word "iiyöaie" so that Englishman can pronounce it?

ChatGPT said:

To help an English speaker pronounce iiyöaie with Finnish sounds, you could write it phonetically like this:

"ee-yuh-eye-eh"

Here's a breakdown for each part:

ii: "ee" like in see
yö: "yuh" (the Finnish "ö" is a bit tricky, but "yuh" is close)
aie: "eye-eh" (like the English words eye and eh)
This should get an English speaker fairly close to the correct pronunciation.
Having been in his lectures in the past, he is the kind of person who teach you to question what you are told/taught. You should know he basically does the same thing to the field of ML (as this does to HEP).

You know, when I first read this thread and the 3 posts involved, I find the original post Ben wrote arrogant and hard to swallow. But once I searched who he is, and recognized him, knowing his character I immediately “get his point”. While not an expert in the fields, I have both graduate level educations in HEP and ML. My point is that my conclusion is unlikely due to the lack of understanding of these fields, but more because of my understanding of who he is…

Admittedly, he should not assume people read it as he intended how people would perceive. It took a lot of contextualizations, including the expectation from the title he explained in the later posts, to really take his posts seriously.
The country contains multitudes.
Microsoft tells shareholders to reject call to invest corporate cash in Bitcoin
Very cool! +1 for hosting on Codeberg so we don’t have corporate lock-in.
Yep, but a room temperature, normal pressure, flexible cable and cheap is too optimistic. More than future technology is magic.
It was the same problem for JIT supply chains falling apart during COVID.

It's very hard to sell slack to management and so in "well run organizations" it ends up trending towards zero. And then everyone is surprised at the resulting catastrophes.
And my electric company/water company offer ability to pay single amount per month which is average of your 12 month bill.

So it’s clear people dislike that model as well.
Also e-skates and e-mountainboards!
It's misleading to claim that companies own their existence to governments, to imply some innate subservience of companies to governments, when companies can and have created governments whenever the need arises.
Making money virtuous (eBook) [pdf]
Wow, that's an incredible writeup.

Super surprised that shelling out was nearly as good any any other method.

Why is the average bytes smaller? Shouldn't it be the same size file? And if not, it's a different alorithm so not necessarily better?
> For example, it'd be useless for me to follow a news outlet that downplays the importance of democracy.

You seem to be pretty strident and inflexible in your thinking, so at least you recognize that you're unable to read anything that challenges your rigid precepts and offers an opportunity to expand your mind or engage in a real exchange of ideas.

And please spare me the predictable response, because it's clear that you don't care about democracy exactly, like so many others nowadays, it's an amorphous stand-in that allows you to thoughtlessly discard opposition.
Awesome that it's offline, too! Amazing work.
I quit my job and depleted savings earlier this year to work on helping others overcome addictive habits and behaviors https://neurtureapp.com

Addiction is rampant right now, from social media and phones to vaping and beyond. People need access to science/research-based resources, not just a “sober” counter, which doesn’t apply to many people and is rarely helpful to those it applies to.

Working with a behavioral scientist and a clinical psychologist on the UX and content of the app at the moment but any thoughts, feedback, connections, or help would be amazing.
Those ratios are heavily debated in Denmark for being absolutely terrible. Parents have been complaining for years that the ratio of especially children for 4 to 6 are awful (typically 7 children per adult).

They might be a improvement in other countries, but they are considered a move in the wrong direction here, because they are worse than previously.