skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These people are chronically unemployable for a reason. Until you fix the reason, you won't solve this problem.

That might make you feel better about not caring or doing anything to fix the problem, but you have the causation flipped around. Once you are homeless, employers will no longer employ you.

This is a problem with our economy and is a societal problem. You can keep your head in the sand, but that means you are not helping to solve it and are helping to perpetuate it by remaining ignorant of the cause.
the drama part was most likely refering to bcachefs
The funny thing about government funding is that it may be easier to secure capital for a Rust rewrite than for ongoing maintenance to add static lifetimes and other safety features to an existing C++ codebase.

Legislatures seem a lot more able to allocate large pots of money for major discrete projects than to guarantee an ongoing stream of revenue to a continuing project.
Going through some performance reviews as a manager, I always try to push back a bit against the bell curve. It kinda reminds me of the "stack ranking.". There are also some factors to be considered:

If you are in a hiring freeze or not promoting, most of the curve should shift right, assuming you are hiring great people. They will probably perform better quarter after quarter. Some might counter-argue that if everyone performs better, this should be the "new expectation," but I disagree: the market sets expectations.

If you have someone at a senior level with expectations of staff, for example, they won't be in the company for long. I hired many great engineers who later said they only looked for a new job because they were never promoted despite being overperformers.
I would feel better if this was derived from empirical data rather than just rhetoric. This seems super testable, no? There is probably a ton of data already in different industries with regards to productivity.

Even if human talent have a Pareto distribution (which is not clear), the people employed by a company are a selected sub-set of that population, which would likely have a different distribution depending on how they are selected and the task at hand.

I think that any of these simplified distributions are likely not generalizable across companies and industries (e.g. productivity of AWS or Google employees are likely not distributed like employees of MacDonalds or Wal*Mart because of the difference in hiring procedures and the nature of the tasks.)

Get hard data within the companies and industry you are in and then you can make some arguments. Otherwise, I feel it is too easy to just be talking up a sand castle that has no solid footing.
People have studied the Xeon Max! Spoiler - yes, it's limited to ~23GB/s per core. It can't achieve anywhere close to the theoretical bandwidth of the HBM even, with all cores active. It's a pretty bad design in my opinion.

https://www.ixpug.org/images/docs/ISC23/McCalpin_SPR_BW_limi...
I remember Fiddler fondly; usually one of the first pieces of software I'd install on a new machine.

Good read.

> ...it wouldn’t’ve been...
> ...I’d’ve liked to have...

Unrelated, but first time I think I've ever seen people concatenate like this.
always pushing to static HTML limits you to minimal backend interactivity
To my surprise it’s actually not easy to get a Mac mini, keyboard, mouse and a comparable screen for the price of an iMac.
The intro graphic shows someone building a website with the title: "Leveraging AI to solve the world's biggest problems"

At first glance this gives the impression that Reweb is some sort of LLM-aided "describe what you want it to build" tool

But (unless I misunderstood) it's mostly a WYSIWYG tool, albeit there does seem to be an "AI theme generation" component
Sounds like it would take animal intelligence (current AIs may be superhuman in many respects, but they are sub-animal in most!), coupled with mirror neurons. i.e. understand what hurts me, then extend that to others (presumably with a value multiplier for humans).
That's the plain M1. The Max can do a bit more. Same site since you favor it: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
Public ownership does not mean nobody owns it.
Completely disagree. You're right that a lot of homeless people have mental health or drug addictions, but that's often caused by not having housing.

People start out well-meaning and lose their homes for financial reasons, then get unwell from years on the streets. Block off the top of that pipeline by building more homes for people.

Studies have shown this to be true.
Would “doing all of the tasks they were asked to do” really be “exceptional”? What could be exceptional about that? I would think it would be “meets expectations” at most.
The "hallucinations" problem feels to me like an inherent feature. For LLMs to have interesting output the temperature needs to be higher then zero. The whole system is interesting because it is probabilistic. "Hallucinations" (hate the word btw) are to LLMs as melting is to ice. There will be no 'meltless' ice because the melting is what makes it cold and useful.
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Not only of TikTok itself, but also filter bubbles. Most people didn't even know about this guy until election night. Absolutely insane.
Scuba diving really? You’d think cruise ships and a large airport would be a lot more significant.
The lack of safety is perceived because it is there. There is no proof that anyone can write a C++ program larger than, say, 100k lines of code that doesn't have memory safety issues.
The recent API changes in Strava reminded me of how limited our access is to the data stored on their platform. As a dominant player in the fitness space, they could gradually lock features behind a subscription wall.

While this might raise privacy or safety concerns, could the AT Protocol be a suitable platform for storing GPX or FIT files?
You're trying to install airbags on a motorcycle, though. The design of the vehicle/language is incompatible with airbags/lifetimes. So if you want airbags... don't use C++.

(Yes, I know about airbag vests. Let's analogize those with external static checkers.)
The story lede of this article is buried in the final paragraphs:

Aside from the fact that California produces far more solar power than it can effectively use, solar projects "have cleared thousands of acres of pristine land in the Mojave Desert, where it has angered local residents worried about declining property values and environmentalists concerned about the loss of wildlife habitat."

As the final graph of the article notes, the people who live in the California desert regions are not deceived.

"We have this planet to save and they are throwing away power?" said Mark Carrington, a resident of Desert Center, a town east of Joshua Tree National Park, which has been nearly surrounded by solar projects.
Libera chat*
> Given that for many people owning their house is the only way to preserve some sort of inheritance for their children...

It shouldn't be, it sucks up valuable investment from productive business and (imo) condemned Canada to the economic malaise happening right now. The only way to beat inflation in a risk-adjusted manner should be to invest in some kind of productive business, and not land-squatting.
This article: "Wouldn't it be cool if when you measure employee performance, it turned out to fit a Pareto distribution better than a Gaussian?"

Would that be cool? We could posit the implications of all sorts of improbabilities. But I feel more strongly about how cool it would be that P = NP.

All this aside, being laid off sucks - being pushed out, even when you're a high performer, sucks even more. The truth is that "data science" does not help you process grief the way reading Dostoevsky does, so maybe getting an A in your liberal arts education is valuable even when you are working as a software developer.
I was reading this comment and I have no expertise in sql; would you like to explain why do exemples "look like junior-level bloat" to you ?
There's no such thing as a data structure that fits "all practical purposes" that is correct.

There's no wrong thing - this is the best representation we can make given the system of record for the person's name.

They are definitely mutable, context dependent, and effectively data you cannot make assumptions about because of all those things.

If you want to do more than that you need a highly constrained use case, and its going to fail for "all practical purposes".
Everything you wrote applies equally to western countries, and yet the results are different as we all well know. Whatever the reason is why trucks and other equipment stand around doing nothing, a reason clearly exists, and is clearly missing from your argument.

It may be that there is something going on in China that negates the exact reason that exists, and not in other countries, but you said nothing about that.

The fact is this construction site looks different than the way construction sites look usually. Your "trucks are expensive" argument explains nothing and provides no reason for this site to look different than others. Trucks are expensive everywhere, actually I think trucks are more expensive in the west than in China.
Micronutrient Inadequacies in the US Population
It says initial temperature, and I think you'd want to be at coals not roaring flames at that point so they probably don't add any more fuel during the bake. It probably finishes at more like a "normal" modern bread baking temperature which is still 450ºf or higher.

And we're talking about a six pound loaf apparently which is just massive. I'm a pretty experienced bread baker, have done it professionally albeit briefly. My baker's intuition is that this would work.
> Taking a public asset and reserving it for exclusive use by certain individuals is not right: Thats a fancy way of saying: parks are not campgrounds. These types of policies are plain wrong, and cities should know better by now.

Just want to respond to that specific point. You are right in the absolute but in practice "we" indirectly allow companies/civil groups to use public space for different purposes.
Some places are places for everyone to enjoy and having people privatize is a net loss for everyone like parks but a lot of public space is just unused space that nobody has ever stepped on because it's in a weird location or for some other reason and no one really cares to use it. I think it's reasonable to allow people temporarily (while it remains unused for the collective) in those spaces to remove a bit of the pressure of not having a home and having to constantly struggle for the bare minimum.
Non-joke answer for Europe is at least Latin, Greek or Cyrillic (български is already one of the official EU languages!). No reason to treat them differently, just don't allow for mixing them so you won't get homoglyphs. EURid (.eu-NIC) gets it mostly right I believe.
> The city is waiting for the provincial government to ramp up affordable housing construction. Nova Scotia has not built any new public housing units since 1995.
I wouldn't worry about a couple % of battery life through the course of the day. For me, it wouldn't be worth using a hobbled web browser.
A hit piece against Elon Musk in The Wall Street Journal ?
I think neuromorphic might even be a distraction right now.

The hyperparameters for a SNN that performs a specific task are extremely elusive. If you don't even know what kind of neuron model or fan out ratio might work, how the hell can you start burning these as constants into some hardware contraption?
Right, but what would be the security impact of that compared to just plain HTML? I guess it allows for some form of view counting or IP exfiltration, but other than that anything you can do with an external request you could do with an embedded data URI.
This assumes a 90% cap return rate before (which seems low) and a 100% return rate afterwards (not in Denmark myself but I can't be the only one to have returned zero of the new caps vs almost 100% before).

The whole thing smells like a made up issue concocted by some company wanting to sell their bottle cap solution.
I'm wondering if a language could optimize immutable data structures to use mutable, in place semantics instead of duplication or structural sharing when it is possible. When an immutable data structure only has one consumer (only has one descendant in the flow graph), then it can easily be turned into a mutable version. Generalizing, any linear subgraph in the program's flow graph could be made to use in place semantics on the same mutable variable.

The challenge I guess is figuring out how variables captures by lambdas should be dealt with.
Obviously Late Neolithic humans were just as obsessed with getting good oven spring as modern YouTube chefs are.
At least if one self-compiles Neovim (which I do), it's statically linked.
I've found exactly three places where I really want to have a mock available:

1) Databases and other persistent storage. Though in this case, the best mock for a database is generally another (smaller, easily snapshottable) database, not something like googlemock.

2) Network and other places where the hardware really matters. Sometimes, I really want to drop a particular message, to exercise some property of the sender. This is often possible to code around in greenfield projects, but in existing code it can be much simpler to just mock the network out.

3) Cases where I am calling out to some external black-box. Sometimes it's impractical to replicate the entire black-box in my test. This could be e.g. because it is a piece of specialized hardware, or it's non-deterministic in a way that I'd prefer my test not to be. I don't want to actually call out to an external black-box (hygiene), so some kind of a mock is more or less necessary.
That's neat and a similar idea. I think JSON probably ends up being too expressive (not just an array of identically-shaped shallow objects), too restrictive (too few useful primitives), and also too verbose of a format, but the idea of a wrapping command like that as a starting point is neat
Managing the canonical representation of your name in my system is one of the few things you are responsible for.

The number of times I have had people ask me to customize name rendering, capitalize things, trying to build phonetic maps, all of these things to avoid data entry or confusion and all they do is prove out that you can't have a general solution to human names, you can hit a big percentage in a cultural context, but there's always exceptions and edge cases to the problem we're solving which can be described as "please tell me your name when you call or whatever so I can pronounce it right"
Somebody probably wants more defense contracts
In the original paper they made replica ovens and measured how hot they got:

"The parameters on which the trials were based were drawn from the results of a long-standing experimental activity previously conducted13,14. Solid doughs made from stone-ground organic flour mixed with other ingredients were baked in replicas of HTs. These were placed in dome-shaped ovens, similar to those found in the settlements where these types of vessels were discovered, at an initial temperature of 420 °C for about two hours. In the former case, the resulting products resembled large bread loaves, while in the latter case, the presence of lipid ingredients made the products softer and more flavorsome, akin to a sort of ‘focaccia’ type bread (Fig. 3a) (SI Appendix, Fig. S1)."
What is BYD?
Perhaps, but due to the sampling of the distribution you would likely never know. If 95% of your samples fit in the top 3 bins, you can’t say much at all with certainty. Poisson, Gaussian, binomial, Boltzmann, gamma…
> I hadn't really considered the problem might just be people are too poor

I'm a little surprised by that- I thought that this was common knowledge? (But then again, there has been heavy propaganda against homeless people, and diverting attention that this has anything to do with an unfair economy, a la "homeless people are all crazy", "homeless people are all addicts", "homelessness is a choice")
That is not IMHO what he is trying to say, you don't shift the distribution, you measure if somebody passed a test. I the test is "passable" then one side of "distribution" is at least cut off. E.g. it's normal (and sometimes expected) that the whole class will pass without issues.
Anthropic principle is the most useless of all and it's used to avoid explanation instead of trying to find one.
Imagine Newton answering to why objects fall with "because if they did not we would be asking different questions"... what a great advance for humanity /s
Agree with you - although, rhetorically speaking, I have come across many instances which the author refers to "of low performers are 3x as common as high performers." This is unfortunate as I always think do your best, and as Tyler Cowen states - Average is Over. So agree it would have been way better to use empirical data to back up this claim especially.
In Denmark? I don't think they legally are allowed not to print my legal name.

Would be weird if our banks couldn't handle our own alphabet.
I worked at Disneyland in September 2001 and we received instructions at some point warning us the FBI considered us to be the 4th most likely location in the United States to be targeted and telling us to report unattended bags as possible bombs.

Left me wondering do they have any idea how many people every day set down a bag and forget about it at Disneyland? If we really cordoned and reported all of these, the Anaheim PD and local FBI would never again do anything else.
Another POV is that maybe the max memory bandwidth figure is too vague to guide people optimizing libraries. It would be nice if Apple Silicon was as fast as "400GB/s" sounds. Grounded closer to reality, the parts are 65W.
A lot of MCUs can boot from XIP QSPI/OSPI NAND. quite a feat of compatibility engineering - they made the NAND page size match QSPI transfer sizes commonly used to populate caches, so instead of bit level reads, the flash supports only cacheline level reads, which is usually what you need for XIP anyway.
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if your scale doesn't have the atomic values at the top end to differentiate the data it's not a normal, it's Pareto or Zipf or some other power law.
Google says: “California is the largest agricultural exporter in the United States”
Same problem here. Also on Seqouia
Attempting to make Ford disappear would be a political suicide.
Language either has a standard that defines what the language is (and isn't), or it has something similar to a standard (which makes the definition more vague). In either case, there will be some sort of a document accepted by the majority of the language users that states what is and isn't the language.

If the language's document states that the language has arbitrary precision operations, then the authors of the language are free to implement it however way they want, let it be monkeys with abacus, it's still part of the language.
Repurposed RFID tags allow for battery-free sensing and tracking
I actually do have a history of being stalked by women, e.g. my ex, a female, twice my age and "only" another female.

So... in my entire life I have been stalked by women only, 2 women in total (as far I can recall).

The whole thing is not limited to stalking anyways.
Really good. It’s faster to send a packet from NYC to London via starlink than fiber because the speed of light in air/vacuum is c and the speed of light in fiber is roughly 2/3 c.

Even just going straight up and back down to a ground station within the same cell adds minimal latency.

350 miles * 2 / speed of light = 4ms
Effectiveness of an employee measured by how much space he needs / occupies? If you send an employee to sit alone in a warehouse, you've increased his effectiveness by orders of magnitude by your logic.
How OpenAI stress-tests its large language models
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Very intuitive API. Thanks!
Untls: Reexposes a TCP over TLS port as a local TCP port
> And ways to fix that other than flooding the market with so much housing to force an overabundance. That's kind of wasteful, too.

Why? People need to move, and a certain amount of transiently vacant units is necessary for migration to not disrupt local prices too much.
First, thank you for working on this.

Second, a question. Computer Use and JSON mode are great for creating a quasi-API for legacy software which offers no integration possibilities. Can MCP better help with legacy software interactions, and if so, in what ways?
any plans to add context support ?
Eventually it returns to forest within a lifetime. In certain parts of the midwest you see fields of farmland and occasionally squares of trees in them. Chances are in the early 19th century all of what you saw was farmland and at one point not as much was actively farmed and certain fields no longer plowed. All the trees you find in that plot of what looks like the holdover of some carved up midwestern forest are actually all less than 100 years old and relatively recent growth.