skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easier to go down a slope than go up it. It's a tragedy.

Most doctors, all disability organisations and charities, all hospices and elderly care organisations opposed this. A visit to the doctor should never even have the possibility of a conversation such as "have you considered dying? I can help". This was decided by people who are not old, not disabled, not vulnerable.

Additionally, we have a case now where the national health service will in one section prevent ill people considering suicide and help them out of it but will in another section help those who are considering suicide and encourage them into it! It fundamentally changes the nature of what a health service is.

The Samartians number is 116 123

The Samaritan's motto is "every life lost to suicide is a tragedy"
>Productivity in building construction has not improved much, according to data, even if tools have improved.

What data are you looking at? I worked in construction (to be fair, industrial and commercial sector) for over a decade. Productivity rates changed quite a bit during the decade I was an estimator. I will dig up my productivity books from when I first graduated and compare to the last one I purchased (a few years ago) when I get home.

>Even if tripling house size doesn’t literally triple costs, that is a straw man.

A straw man? Even if labor only accounted for 10% of the cost of building a house (it is much more), changes to labor productivity absolutely affect the cost to build. Productivity rates are different for a new build of 1000sqft and 2000sqft. Not sure how that's a straw man?

Also, just to clarify, I'm not really presenting an argument. I agree with the parent comment that these maps/analyses aren't able to capture all of the variables. They gave some variables to consider when looking at the article data. I'm giving some others.

>It certainly must account for some of the cost increase.

I said it's not a 1:1 relationship, not that size didn't account for costs at all.
I was born, raised, lived in dense cities. I've lived in semi-suburban life as well. Unless you're into some hobbies that requires such tools, you just never use it? And when you have to... you just use it? I live in an apartment building in a city, and once a month or so, during daytime, people use tools and it's no biggie.

To each their own though. I definitely grew to understand that if someone was raised in rural or suburban life, it would be extremely hard to adjust to hardcore city life, and vice versa. But I don't think we should be blocking build ups for one, if there's demand.
What if the system is build so the copy and the downloaded version is identical down to the byte?

So both is your copy.
Crown molding only it isn't common anymore because it isn't very desirable.

I wonder if we could do housing the Chinese way and just give people a concrete box to renovate (houses aren't sold new renovated in China, and you are expected to do your own re-renovation after you buy a house second hand), but that really hasn't helped housing prices over there very much.
It is. The US defines a firearm as "Any weapon... which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive" and definitions in other countries are similar. Both a pistol and a ship-mounted cannon are firearms.
ExeViewer: A Command Line Executable Viewer
CLIPSraylib: Clips with added User Defined Functions that wrap raylib
>it doesn't lend itself to reuse, but I don't blame it either: it's not really meant to do that.

Only if you keep writing more logic into build.gradle.kts.

Writing custom Gradle plugins has been the standard and recommended way to configure your projects for years now. Aside from a few footguns (lol extensions not being resolved at configuration time and needing providers everywhere), it allows you to mostly skip configuration steps.
The Samaritans. I remember a story about that in the bible, explains your conservative Christian views
You should use your CS master skills to read the first line of the "Compiler" article in Wikipedia [1]

> In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language).

And maybe also the second line. JVM bytecode is an object code as referenced there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler
>Crown molding only it isn't common anymore because it isn't very desirable.

Why it's not there doesn't really matter when we're talking about costs. If it's not there, you don't have to pay for it, end of story.
If you know you need something, then find it at a discount on Black Friday, you’re fine, especially where you’ve tracked the price and know it’s genuinely cheaper.

If you find things you don’t need, and otherwise wouldn’t buy, but are convinced by the fake scarcity and fake discounts, then you’re being scammed.
Apple chips share the same physical memory between the GPU and the CPU. Still, they don't have USM/UVM (Unified Shared Memory/Unified Virtual Memory), that is, the GPU and the CPU can't access the same data concurrently and easily. Programs must map/unmap pages to control which device accesses it, and that's a very expensive operation.
I lived in Hong Kong from 1981 to 1991.

* Overflowing with optimism and "can do"
* Equal protection under the law no matter the origin
* Max tax 15% for all
* Education and health benefits for all (accepting always flaws somewhere)
* Anti-corruption was effective (ICAC)
* Straightforward process to become a voting legal immigrant for non-Chinese
* Many people speaking English, various Chinese dialects, Tagalog and more
* Springboard to helping adjacent countries modernize
* Unparalleled Eastern and Western food and housing and sociability

I moved to San Francisco only because I was a techie and had a need to change the world. If there had been the Internet, I might still be there...
Doesn’t this make the case specifically for better government and regulations rather than more “competition”? Won’t all of that competition simply do the same thing vis a vis TFW?

Which by the way seems like a crazy program they got going on up there. It seems like the companies there are using them as scabs for non-unionized jobs.
I may well be completely wrong, I am not a social scientist or involved with the housing market; my sense of it is that building has been ever harder, while demand - more people with more money - has continued to rise.

Prices, accordingly, have risen.

I think what we see here is primarily a function of constrained supply.
Just reading the book The Idea Factory, it was incredible amount of innovation. Lasers, early satellites, transistors.

And it was all done, apparently, at least in the beginning, because they hired smart people and they let them do what they wanted.
Lately, I’ve found it more satisfying to discover a reason not to buy something than to actually go through with a purchase. Now if I get an amazing deal on something that I really need, that's also nice, but most of the time it's just more rewarding to avoid buying unnecessary crap.
Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
You’ll get some eye rolls from people when you bring that up for Sally.

But there are several names that used to be considered male but are now female, like Leslie and Marion. I don’t think I’ve ever met a man name Marion, but you still occasionally run into a Leslie.

It would be interesting to start using Leslie for this little logic puzzle and see how that affects people’s answers.
Many opponents to the bill have been very cagey about their reasons for opposing it, and eventually admit it's for nebulous "religious reasons".

Personally I'd like the right to die with dignity if I were unfortunate enough to find myself facing horrible, imminent, certain death.

I'm glad it passed and I hope it makes it into law.
You might also try https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile , which may have better CPU-only performance than ollama. It does require you to grab .gguf files yourself (unless you use one of their prebuilts in which case it comes with the binary!), but with that done it's really easy to use and has decent performance.

For reference, this is how I run it:

$ cat ~/.config/systemd/user/llamafile@.service
[Unit]
Description=llamafile with arbitrary model
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=%h/llms/
ExecStart=sh -c "%h/.local/bin/llamafile -m %h/llamafile-models/%i.gguf --server --host '::' --port 8081 --nobrowser --log-disable"

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

And then

systemctl --user start llamafile@whatevermodel

but you can just run that ExecStart command directly and it works.
There is an equation they use that might be biased toward improvements. In Seattle/King county at least they are gradually changing the equation to value land more and improvements less, so our property taxes have been going down each year even though our value is going up (since we are a narrow townhome on a small plot). This is to ultimately encourage more density and make it more expensive to hold unimproved land.
>"That said, the great problem in countries with tax funded social and health services is the government have a distinct interest in persuading certain people to jump"

Well, government may have a "distinct interest..." for reasons that are far away from being health related. I think that any hint of encouragement must be severely punished.
I don't want to die. However, I can imagine many scenarios that are worse than death. In many of them I am too incapacitated to arrange my own painless suicide. Allowing third parties to help in these circumstances, with appropriate controls to ensure this freedom isn't abused, seems to me the least bad option.
Time for the TSA to install more checkpoints.

I guess we really do need to microchip and track everyone to prevent this sort of thing.
Yeah dying sucks. Too many people have this delusion that their death will happen peacefully in their sleep. There is no guarantee whatsoever. Good chance it will be awful. If needed, I want to have the option for myself to get over with it swiftly.
Ai2 releases new language models competitive with Meta's Llama
> Want pricing to go down then we need to build more dense housing

You need mass transit and transport integration. House density can only move you so far (and it's not very far).
The about, https://kaleidoscope.hryjksn.com/about
In Canada we have two types of nonstandard tax accounts, an RRSP and a TFSA.

The RRSP is what I think is called a 401K in the USA: you put money in pre-tax and pay income tax when you liquidate/withdraw in the future.

The TFSA you put post-tax money into and pay no tax to withdraw, including CGT, though there is a maximum capacity.

I would imagine if this tax came to Canada, RRSPs and TFSAs would be exempt from it.

My brokerage lets me open RRSP, TFSA and a standard cash/chequing to buy securities, but CGT only applies to the cash account which I don’t use as I haven’t maxed out the others. If I was maxing out the others, I’d have enough slack to do the financial dance, at least in the governments eyes…
It's not for you; it's for people who are forced to work for an occupant. During WW2 the CIA actually published a manual for this specific purpose; it's declassified and available here:

https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
It's a charity.

Its name derives from the biblical Parable of the Good Samaritan, although the organisation itself is not religious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans_(charity)

Samaritans is a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress, struggling to cope or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, often through its telephone helpline.
The problem is, we can't come up with a solution where both parties are happy, because in the end, consumers choose one (getting information from news agencies) or the other (getting information from chatgpt). So, both are fighting for life.
I don't think "type unions" correspond neatly to sums. When I think of a type union in mypy, typescript, Julia, etc, those languages have Union[int, int] as equal to int.

But int + int is isomorphic to bool*int.

The unions you're talking about necessarily require a notion of subtyping, I believe.
Rapidity of Godwin's law notwithstanding, I'm not disputing the importance of equity in decision-making. But this matter is more complex than that: it's obvious that the internet doesn't tolerate censorship even if it is dressed as intellectual property. I prefer an open and democratic internet to one policied by childish legacy states, the presence of which serves only (and only sometimes) to drive content into open secrecy.

It seems particularly unfair to equate any questioning of the wisdom of copyright laws (even when applied in situations where we might not care for the defendant, as with this case) with fascism.
Fitting a C compiler on a PDP-11 was an impressive achievement, but as a language it was a poor foundation to build anything reliable, and we still live with the consequences.
Yup. That's why regular PWRs take care not to nitrogen to pressurize or flush the primary coolant loop after maintenance.
The major EVs by volume are Teslas, which are definitely tuned towards much sportier than a “regular” ICE vehicle.
We do, in a way, but it's not recognized as such. The "author" would be the mythical 10x developer that races to get feature tickets completed, the editors are the ones getting stuck with integrating a pile of stinking hotness into the existing codebase. That kind of setup can work fine if everyone is aware of the others' value, but usually non-technical managers only see the hotness.
When the zoning/permitting process limits the building of new houses, builders are going to build what gives them the biggest return: large, luxuriously finished houses.
The problem is with asking the kernel to perform dns lookups.
> That prompted MacAulay to order an internal investigation, which has now uncovered a total of four cases where veterans were allegedly offered MAID — all apparently by the same caseworker.

Rogue employees suggesting bad treatment doesn't seem too much a cause for concern so long as they're caught before it goes further.

After all, people like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman exist prior to this ruling.
> I believe ultimately we will head towards a situation where anyone can request it at any time for any reason.

Not a chance. This will always be gated by medical evaluation for suitability.

Suicidal ideation occurs transiently in many conditions or life circumstances. Giving these people tools to follow through with their impulses "at any time for any reason" would be disastrous.
The quote and viewpoint you are expressing is based in conservative Christianity regardless
Interop would force the language to keep certain core features, like nil pointers and zero values, that in Borgo are presumably considered anti-features.

You end up with the worst features as the common denominator and something you can never get rid of; the moment you call a Go library that can return nils, for example, you have to deal with those as nils (and run the risk of nil bugs) rather than the safer option type.

We've been there before. C++ chose to be largely compatible with C as it existed at the time, and that legacy casts a long shadow, even if it's no longer a strict superset. C++ still has C-style arrays, null-terminated strings, unsafe pointer arithmetic, implicit conversions, etc.

You could also argue that TypeScript's backwards compatibility with JS also adds a similar burden. It's had to provide a lot of mechanisms to allow untyped values to share the same universe as typed values.

Maybe the solution is to provide a kind of "unsafe" kind of block where you can interact safely with Go code but you're forced to deal with the discrepancies. For example, you can call a Go function that returns nil, but to pass the value out of the unsafe block, you have to convert it to an optional.
> Most explanations are along the lines of "Here is a simple explanation that you are guaranteed to understand: <proceeds to describe the procedure>" which lacks intuition on why this is useful

Double entry accounting is useful because it enables local reasoning. Let me explain why! If you've remembered those other explanations, you hopefully remember the fundamental equation of accounting:

assets - liabilities = shareholder equity

Well, you can also define this a bit more broadly as

assets + Δassets - liabilities - Δliabilities = equity

In other words, changes in assets or liabilities must also balance. I sometimes think of these as "income" and "expense," probably because GNUcash has accounts of that type. If you rearrange that expanded equation you get

(assets - liabilities) + (Δassets - Δliabilities) = equity

If the grouping on the left represents the state before a transaction, and the grouping on the right represents a single transaction, then we get a super useful auditing tool: as long as the book is balanced before any given transaction, the book will remain balanced after the transaction as long as the transaction itself is balanced. You can now reason about a narrow set of things instead of the whole book!

In practice what this means is if your system is losing cents on every transaction as OP article states, each transaction should be flagged as imbalanced. From there it should be super easy to see why, since you can examine a single transaction.

To achieve this you need all entries / actions to have a unique transaction ID to group by, and a notion of which accounts are liabilities and which are assets, etc. As OP article mentions, there's a ton of implementation nuance.
Most people today use term “free market” to include legal and police/military to keep the market free from abuses.

A lot can be debated (various forms of IP rights, etc). But in a “Wild West” situation, is it really a free market if your neighbor can just steal your goods if he has a gun and you don’t?

Going further, you could argue there’s as lot the state can do to facilitate trade (build infrastructure etc)
Nobody calls them “translators”, that’s so silly. It’s a compiler, or transpiler (still a compiler).

Avoid using appeals to authority when discussing, it doesn’t make you look good. Even more-so when your authority is relatively mundane and you’re totally incorrect.
The use of pneumatic nailers has substantially reduced the time required to frame a house.

Regarding labor costs and productivity, there is vastly more specialization in building a house now than there was in 1950. I suspect that in 1950 you only had a few types of skilled labor involved: carpenter, electrician, plumber, and maybe a flooring person (the flooring may have also been done by carpenter at that time). Now, there are additional specialties that need to be involved - roofer, concrete, HVAC, tile, countertop, appliance, etc.
I think we’re in agreement :)
very good write up. This was really informative!!!
Fair. But I made a comment somewhere else that, if their models become better than ours, they'll be incorporated into products. Then we're back to being depended on China for LLM model development as well, on top of manufacturing. Realistically that'll be banned because of National Security laws or something, but companies tend to choose the path of "best and cheapest" no matter what.
Depends if it's a liability or not. For many it's like a big savings account. The bigger the better. Inflation protected.
You can't trust the government not keep printing more and more money and diluting your after tax savings. But house prices are linked to physical structure. Government can't just print more houses out of thin air. So they appreciate against inflated paper currency which they do just print out of thin air sometimes.

Also, having owned older built Canadian houses, they're a constant maintenance. Many were not well designed and don't age well (wood construction). So for them to still appreciate tells you how much government has been busy printing. Where does all that money go? I sometimes wonder.

Indebted servitude to banks, a good chunk of a lifetime of work to pay off one of these mortgages.
And waging so government can take most of it in taxes.
I'm not sure if this is sustainable much longer without a revolt in Canada... at least younger Canadians may one day decide it's not a good system and turn the tables.
Average house price in Canada is like 700k now, average wage is like 54k.
Is there a tool I can only write in rust and not python?

Why do we throw around “low-level” like it meant anything besides “not JavaScript”… or is that actually the definition?
I fundamentally disagree. The problem isn't that there were no thumbnails, but that it took decades to implement them. The cause of that problem can't seriously have been that people weren't programming hard enough. I think lots of code was likely written in that time. If we assume, as you seem to, that the issue was not enough code being written, then GTK would need to increase its count of contributors by 120 times to ship that feature in the span of two months. Your implication here is that it takes thousands of people multiple months to program a file chooser with thumbnails. I think one person should be able to do it in that time, and that the problem was something other than writing code. What has changed about the project to guarantee that the next important feature won't take 20 years to implement?
It’s worked for many startups and court cases in the past. Copyright even has many explicit examples of the utility loophole look at say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive....
em400 – MERA 400 (Polish minicomputer) emulator
Seems like that would be fine for places where you have < 0.25GWt energy needs, and need a safe power source. Like remote installations/towns. Antarctic research stations, etc.
I would call this a transpiler, and it's definitely a kind of compiler. I typically use the word compiler to imply that I'm moving to a lower level representation, and a transpiler as one that does a horizonal translation.

There are expections to this general rule of thumb, Cross-compiling is a term used for a horizonal translation.

I also watched this video of a PhD project that compiles JavaScript from an input of Visual data and JavaScript. Which is probably one of the more interesting uses of compiler I've seen.

https://youtu.be/MQnVmEw6ISQ?si=NYCSuzi3IxG0md_k
As usual, religion is to blame for this high rate:

> In 2020, the total fertility rate among ultra-Orthodox women in Israel was 6.6, while the rate among Arab women was 3.0, and among secular women, it was 2.0 — still well above the OECD average — according to a report from the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-birth-rate-remains-hig...
The US in particular has many oversized cars. Fuel is cheap, the roads are wide and there is a general imperative to get a car bigger than others for safety and status. If this pollution could be used as a means to reduce sizes to something more proportionate to what they’re generally doing it will be a good thing.
I’m confused. Are you saying a suicide hotline is a distinctly conservative Christian thing? That’s sort of nonsensical.
I don’t think so. Weight is a rule of thumb for damage to the road. Aggressive acceleration is much more of an impact to wear.

All the people I know with EVs love the feeling of gunning it from a red light on when getting onto freeways. Yeah they don’t peel out, but that’s only because the control system stops them.
What would a non-conservative Christian viewpoint on this subject be?
Why Assisted Dying is only being pushed and promoted in White Christian countries?

It is not allowed in Muslim countries and is explicitly banned in Israel.

Orthodox Christian is not allowing MAID as well
I don’t think it is causative at all. The statement sounds like an AI hallucination. But this is testable. You do probably see some gentrification in the immediate area but you also have the negative externality of parking…