skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Default for me was:
“What a beautiful day it is today, with bright sunshine and gentle breeze. Let's talk about the future of artificial intelligence.”

That said, I'm not going to be submitting a sample because [reasons]
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Hi, I'm Kwang. I am a software engineer with experience building fullstack applications. I am interested in creating readable and maintainable solutions. My most recent project is Telegraph, an open-source, serverless framework for integrating real-time notifications into existing applications. Check out the case study (https://telegraph-notify.github.io/) to learn more about it!
Without digging too deep into the nature of the statistics they use, I'm a little skeptical of this.

The transition to using the word "homeless" has resulted in transforming something we can't easily measure -- "drug addicted or mentally ill people being a public menace" -- into something that we can measure -- "people without a good living arrangement".

Sure, the latter is important in a lot of ways too. And there housing is a tolerable solution.

But the former is the actual problem that we care about. It's nearly impossible to measure. It's nearly impossible to fix. The horrors of involuntary commitment vs. the horrors of not having involuntary commitment vs. the horrors of using the criminal justice system vs. the horrors of not using the criminal justice system.

The fact is that we have no real model for treatment of severely mentally ill people. We have a number of effective drugs, but they rapidly become ineffective if not taken. Our ability to treat or "cure" people in these conditions is essentially non-existent.

The question I would ask of Finland before considering this data or analysis to be interesting is what is their state of involuntary indefinite commitment.
Woah, thanks for all the comments on this little calculator I built yesterday afternoon. I'll digest everything and see what improvements I can make!
Maybe SpaceX should partner with Activision-Blizzard to run Diablo 4 servers in space so Elon can get better latency for His Pit 140+ runs when flying in his private jet.
For example just add tax to shoot at the target, eventually salary owners get hurt while riches can get away with an army of lawyers and accountants.
I have witnessed:

* co-workers being extremely wary of offending them in any way

* superiors telling me to hire them

* corporate literature that focuses on promoting their interests

* corporate networks that grant them additional networking and social opportunities

I have worked at a hedge fund, market data company, American and Australian investment banks and a travel startup.

I have NEVER witnessed racism or sexism in the workplace. If I ever did, I would find it shocking and very weird.
OpenAI's bot crushed this seven-person company's web site 'like a DDoS attack'
All I can offer without going into the weeds is that it is not the shape of the paths, but mearly the relative length of two paths though spacetime that matters.

Proper time and proper acceleration is possibly a pathway in flat spacetime?

Learning that the order, timing, and sometimes causality of events is also relative tends to be a barrier, thus some of these didactic half truths are useful.

The "Einstein train paradox" is the classic intro to the relativity of simultaneity if you aren't familiar.

In the SR case, proper acceleration is possibly the better option.
That's the kind of service that deserves a tip.
With all due respect, why volunteer? I notice this with a lot of homeless people I chat with (there's a lot here in Boulder) - many of them volunteer their time at various charities while being homeless.

Wouldn't it be better devoting 100% of your spare time to getting back on your feet, and then volunteer, or donate?
Static type checking is a kind of formal verification of software - there are formal requirements (the program doesn't go "wrong" in a number of rigorously defined ways) that are automatically checked. And you can certainly do "design and development" together in type-safe languages.
The US Government is required to do this.
To update this excellent quote to 2025, change minutes to seconds and you just described TikTok.
Except you can’t say anyone is cisgender, so not that freely.
On second thought, i think i will simplify it to "Manage Profiles" then the description will be run, delete etc.
Hey, I created this and yes I want to include charts if you want to decelerate too so you don't go flying past. I knocked out this initial version yesterday afternoon and already planned to add this. Might see if I can do it today.
If you force owners to artificially reduce rent for a single class of properties (here: cheap flats made for the homeless) the rent for others go up a bit.

This has happened in several US cities.
I hope surviving shipwrecks and such counts as getting hard things done. "Safety and Survival at the Sea" has a lot of those. Chapters like Fire, Man in Water, Man on life raft, Man in a boat, and so on. Each chapter has many short episodes, just the hard facts, leaving the details to your imagination. I can quote one from memory: "North Atlantic, November. 12 people on a life raft. The raft kept capsizing, righted by walking on the inside of the canopy. 7 survived."
What does that matter when all your newcomers are not white? eventually you'll end up with the polar opposite. You should hire based on skill not race or any other thing you have no control over.
"In the sky" does not mean "free from regulation."

End users of terminal equipment are still subject to the regulations of the state in which they are located.

The ITU Radio Regulations (via national legislation) create obligations on satellite operators to ensure that they do not cause harmful interference to other states' services or to violate those states' sovereignty.
There’s a local pub by my old house that has a considerable collection of board games so we got to sample a lot that we or friends didn’t already own. It always amuses me when I figure out that a board or card game was obviously prototyped on a standard card deck. It didn’t happen a lot but it did happen a few times.

Four kinds of cards in 1-2 stacks? 10-13 cards of each kind? 2-4 special cards that are identical? Hmm, I wonder how this game was invented…

I do wish we would get back to games that were just played with a deck of cards though. More options for bored people at small gatherings.
Where did you get the training data?
Note the yaml formatted text string of their statement, very cs-forward (I assume newlines where stripped out by the web UI here.
> So why focus on countries specifically?

Because it is at the country level that people corporate on international problems. And in many countries it is the federal (or equivalent level) which has the money required to build out the kind of projects needed change those numbers (or the legal authority to mandate it).

Ahh. I misunderstood what you meant.
> while per-country isn't even meaningfully comparable with other per-country measurements.

I interpreted as “other per-country measurements” as (other measurements) not (same metric, different country).

I still think it’s not relevant. The changes and the target are still the same, i.e. stop burning shit.
18" of horse and human excrement covered with ice would probably make it a different experience to walk a mile.
Show HN: I built a tool that scrapes customers reviews to find pain points
Interesting, could you give me an example? LLMs definitely can "understand" what I am asking at times when a human couldn't. They have more data to 'find similarity' to what I might mean. But I do not think you are saying they answer questions a human couldn't?
I think that's a great counterpoint, but it is leading to the same issue. Its allowing a class of pilots to fly who know less and less, and are more reliant on the automation. With deadly results.

Separately the only reason tractors don't get the same treatment is because society doesn't care about rural men in the same way they don't care about soldiers. In comparison cars have been largely regulated for safety, because the people who die in car crashes come from a wider swath of society.
Perhaps the worry was that because the observed behavior up until now was that hash never returns -1, if it were possible possible to write a custom hash function that returns -1, that might break some unsuspecting code due to Hyrum's Law.
I think I just locked the pattern also a third time where it looks like pillars but I’m not sure if I saw it correctly.

When I first looked at this picture I saw the W pattern and then blinked and suddenly saw the intended pattern.

When you lock on the non-intended ones it feels somehow like a secret/forbidden path you shouldn’t go, like consuming drugs.
Is the specific reason not clear? You just said it. The variables are untyped.

Strong versus weak is not super solidly defined as referring only to values and not variables.
> Just the other day merely mentioning George Floyd's length criminal history and drug use

But like what's the reason to bring it up unless to imply that he deserved to be killed?
Naturally, this extends to custom types:

>>> class X:
... def __hash__(self): return -1
...
>>> hash(X())
-2
Wow I feel like I've never seen anyone talk about this. Doing it with fences can feel pretty magical, like the object is more "real" than other things.
How do you end homelessness, when some percent of homeless people will, if you give them a place to stay, smoke meth all day and make their apartment and nearby apartments health hazards?

Many drug addicts don't want to be addicted, and would try to go through treatment if provided. But some are inveterate, and don't want to quit. What do you do with them?
A Languages Visualization Experiment
What do they say about this at Gawker?
Annnd... who is behind it? Who runs it? ANY info on founders/funders?
What's your recommendation on how to rapidly learn TLA+? I spent some time staring at references and the UI a few months ago and came away very defeated. But I'd like to actually level up here.
Suffering from mental trauma does not mean that one cannot suffer from additional mental trauma.
Crowning yourself as an expert in a politically contentious field is very lucrative if you can make it stick.
Same here, but I always imagined that for it to work, I would need to have roughly equal vision in both eyes, which I don't. Everything is blurry with my left eye, and no glasses or lenses have ever helped. I attribute this as the reason.
I think there is a difference between diversity initiatives before 2020 and the DEI initiatives since 2020. As far as I can see, the latter is indeed is corporate puffery, where employees maybe join a half-hour seminar to talk about DEI every year, and perhaps there are new DEI groups for employees to discuss this. But the diversity hire initiative before 2020 was much more substantive that resulted in real meaningful changes to company demographics.
I bet -2 is way less common than -1 in a typical codebase, particularly a C one.
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Has anyone asked why so many companies seem to care so much about the appearance of DEI? And all at the same time? I know there’s cultural shifts towards that sort of thing, probably to fill the void left by religion, but does that explain why the world’s largest private equity firms push them so hard? Seems like something everyone just accepts without question, even though it’s completely out of character for people and entities who only exist to increase their own bottom line (not that there’s anything inherently wrong with that, it’s just so out of character to the point you’d think it would raise suspicion).
1) it sounds crazy because it's actual statistical malpractice. See the many other comments explaining how it's bullshit

2) the significantly backlash is interesting, primarily because it centers around the bullshit statistics that companies pat themselves with. The hiring process is so nebulous and unknowable to the potential hiree that no person can really know whether they were denied a job due to dei policies. Yet we simultaneously assume that all non white people hired are being _hired because_ DEI, which really just undervalues the nonwhite population, as if they truly deserved none of the jobs, wouldn't have gotten any without the help. This combined into the rage that certain people feel about what really appears to be a back pat circle around naming a git branch and changing security terminology.
> The thing people are dancing around is any concept of "rationing"

I don’t know who those people are. Also, another way to say rationing is “sharing”.
I don't know where the #4 is from, but I can point to https://kritisches-netzwerk.de/sites/default/files/homelessn... with a more complete breakdown:

Types of homelessness | Living Alone | Long-term homeless
----------------------+--------------+-------------------
Temporarily living | 2 773 | 522
with friends and | |
relatives | |
----------------------+--------------+-------------------
Outside, in | 721 | 186
stairwells, in | |
temporary | |
shelters, etc. | |
----------------------+--------------+-------------------
In dormitories | 489 | 195
or hostels | |
----------------------+--------------+-------------------
In institutions | 358 | 151
Its kind of wild that you are having issues with Starlink. Is it local geography or trees that are an issue?

I'm a little farther north on Vancouver Island and I see basically perfect connectivity with my latest generation dish. If I go look at the stats in the app it shows small losses of connectivity, but I've never noticed on a video call or anything.
It simply hasn’t been long enough. I wouldn’t necessarily bet that it will, but X has lost net users and Bluesky is gaining them so if trends continue (they might not) Bluesky will overtake X, but Twitter also wasn’t built in a year.
There is no "play it safe" in the US since workers can be easily fired. Best solution is to give every worker better job security.
This is How Many Startup Businesses Fail in the First Year (+Survival Tips)
> the "experimental" status was renamed "development

That doesn’t really change things now does it. It’s still a bunch of people sitting around saying “MMMM” loudly while eating half-raw cookies.
No, because a dart throw is not a uniform draw from set elements. Is a uniform draw of length which the inclusion of irrational numbers does not affect. You are 90% likely to throw something in the first 90% of the line. It doesn’t matter if we say we will round anything in [1,2) to 1. There’s a ten percent chance of falling in that range.

Not a 0% chance because there happens to be an uncountable infinity number of options in [9,10)
There's a video game of this called QuickSpot. Back in 2008, this was one of my favorite games for the Nintendo DS. It trains the ability to spot little differences quickly. Sadly, outside of winning a barely known video game, it's not a super useful skill.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickSpot
Starlink V1 was placed in low orbits because it was cheaper / constrained by F9 payloads (not only reason by imo primary).

Starlink V2 is 1000-2000km orbits with expected deployment of 12000 sats.
Not only the development of the key format, but the post itself could have been 3 lines (with the leading example):

38QARV0-1ET0G6Z-2CJD9VA-2ZZAR0X

1. Use UUIDv7 as the base ID to leverage timestamps
2. Encode the ID using Crockford Base32 for readability
3. Add artfully placed dashes for aesthetics

It seems to me like an exercise in persuasion like how Steve Jobs was sold on the idea of the NeXT logo by Paul Rand[0]. I myself prefer good ideas to be self-evident, but I tend to underestimate the value of salesmanship.

[0] https://modernspecies.com/blog/post/understanding-the-200k-l...
Honest Opinion after sitting through the Weidel/Musk talk: This will probably not boost the AfD in Germany at all.

If Weidel continues as the "Leader" of the AfD then the other parties have absolutely nothing to worry about. She is so far below Höcke/Kickl in terms of dangerous rhetoric and spin. Calling Hitler a communist and a socialist is a patently absurd way of distancing yourself from NS accusations and distances Weidel from AfD loyalist. It smells like Marine Le Pen 2.0
First part discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40835274 (113 comments)
I work at Grafana. Can you say more about what specifically you don’t recommend?
> The "political landscape" here is the desire to pay fealty to an incoming administration in hopes of currying favor.

Exactly as it was when DEI practices were introduced.
> these local ISPs are important actors of the local economy. If these companies shutdown because of international competition, it's money going to the US, and the local economy taking a hit

This is a pretty terrible justification for maintaining obsolete infrastructure.
AtomicRing; Fast MultiCast and Single Consumer Lock-Free Queues
I do intend to add this to the calculator
Green washing, security theatre, lip service, etc…

This is an old phenomenon that keeps reoccurring in many forms.
Yes, that's what I'd do: write a `wmain()` that converts UTF-16 arguments to UTF-8 then calls the real `main()` (which you'll have to rename).
> Interoperability with what?

For the backend?

Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Sentry, Azure Monitor, Splunk, Dynatrace, Honeycomb
Shouldn’t building dense housing in an area with a terrible housing shortage increase the tax base if anything?
At that point though you are using a sextant and a fancy calculator =P
I'm more worried because it's part of a big package of swinging to the right politically. The moderation rule about "You can only call someone mentally ill if they're also queer" seems particularly uhhh nuts, deranged, stupid even.
Why do most people have only one job? Wouldn't it be better to spend evenings at a second job and then have leisure when you retire?
That post is mostly factual observations, a reporting of lived experiences, if you will, not complaint.
Here in Australia they use the carefully crafted phrase: “the previous custodians of this land”.

As in… we are the custodians now.
It is the difference between picking a random point along a line and picking a random number from a set. A dart throw will not land in the range of [9,10) more often than [1,9) simply because we are considering irrationals in the former.

These are both uniform. But the outcome is different
If the article title had been "why does the hash function never return -1", you would agree it's not a random behavior and serves a very clear purpose. It just so happens that the original author didn't know that until they did all the digging (nice job by the way).
Prometheus is good, but let's be clear...you don't get tracing.
> Less junk? Weather satellites, climate monitoring satellites

These typically operate at higher orbits. From a strictly space junk perspective, that makes them more of a debris risk than even multiple Starlink fleets in LEO.
Seems like just aliasing `shutdown` to something with a confirmation on servers and not your local would suffice.
AFAIK launching into space isn't actually that expensive anymore for the volumes and masses we are discussing. I'm pretty sure they get into the numbers inn the linked podcast but honestly don't want to relisten to the entire thing to be able to quote exact numbers.
Agreed! Don't get me wrong, the statistical distribution modeling for human language is still SUPER helpful. And for things like legal/tax/coding, which has a lot to do with applying language patterns, this is a very big deal. But the ability to find the true 'sub structure' of content that it is trained on is not something they can do. It is like there is some lower substrate that it is 'missing'. That is a lot to ask for, but once we get there it will be the 'magic' that is promised, rather than amazing, super helpful, parlor tricks.
For the specific question of decompiling, as noted in the GP comment, you're already forced to decompile to a not-quite-C language because C's semantics just aren't conducive to accurately representing the hardware semantics. Not that Rust doesn't have its own foibles, but I suspect its core semantics are easier to map to than C's semantics without having to resort as much to a not-quite-Rust target.

It's definitely something I would like to see at least explored!
I keep forgetting that listed prices, at least in the US, can be before tax.

By contrast, in the EU prices are so transparent that whenever there is a sale (in person or online), the new price has to be accompanied with the lowest price from the last 30 days - so that the customer could check how big that sale really is.
Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well
Tracy Kidder, _Soul of a New Machine_

Henry SF Cooper, _The Evening Star_ (debugging OS race conditions on a Venus orbiter)

Pascal Zachary, _Showstopper_ (about David Cutler and Windows NT)

Richard Preston, _American Steel_ (building an early continuous casting steel mill in the midwest)
Redefining the Collaborative Economy with Browsers
What is there at this point that is going to stop FB from having the same advertising problems that Twitter has had?

You used to have major corporations advertising on Twitter but they bailed out when they realized that their ads were appearing amidst people posting insane bigoted screeds.

It would seem like there is now a severe risk of a revenue collapse at Facebook if advertising corporations behave the same way they did with Twitter.
There is a big difference between "full immersion" and "sort of full focus", even if the amount of hours difference isn't huge. Edit: Although the post mentions a difference of 3 days, that's not a small difference either.
Have you ever considered that it may be the other way around? That the horrors of living on the street (and "horrors" is an appropriate term here, you are fighting for survival every day; it is beyond the realm of comprehension of the housed) might be causing the mental illness and drug use, rather than the other way around?

If I want to get a homeless person off of drugs, it sure as crisps is not going to happen until they have a roof over their head. The core issue is the lack of affordable housing. That should be priority number 1.
I'll have to check out Emily the Criminal, because I'm convinced her best role was as Lenny in Legion.
Looks fun, but all the special effects seem like they'd be hard to remember. I wonder if there's a simpler variation that requires fewer rules to remember.
That hasn't been what I've seen from the contributors.

If anything I think the backends were kinda slow to adopt.
I previously assembled & managed a team of engineers at Microsoft.

Out of 10 employees on my team, I had:

- male and female (80/20 split)

- black, white, asian, latino

- engineers in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s

- east coast, west coast

- ivy league, college and high-school graduates

That level of diversity was very rare at Microsoft, and even rarer at other tech companies.

It took a *lot* of work; with less effort I would have had a more uniform distribution (male, white/asian, younger, west coast)
Some would say the numerical information is among the most important parts of an invoice.
Like Coup or The Crew
Companies care about attracting all segments of society because if they can expand their applicant pool they will pay less for labor. If I am the only person smart enough to recruit qualified graduates from HBCUs then I get to be more selective in hiring and I also get to offer less wages but still fill the position.