skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://sfstandard.com/2024/12/31/homicides-down-san-francis...

> The 2024 downward trend was evident early in the year and was clearer by July, when police statistics showed a 39% drop in homicides from the first half of 2023, alongside significant declines in some violent and property crimes.

Wouldn’t it make sense that if homicides are down then so is violent crime? It would be strange if they didn’t track together for the most part.

It’s interesting the kind of alternative explanations that you start bringing out when the narrative you have doesn’t agree with the data.

Oh and look:

> Between 2022 and 2024, chronic homelessness increased by 11% with 2,989 people experiencing chronic homelessness in 2024. Thirty-five percent of the total homeless population is chronically homeless, a rate similar to 2022.

Weird how the homeless population stayed the same yet violent crime decreased. It’s almost like they’re not the ones that are behind the violence statistics.

https://www.sf.gov/reports--september-2024--2024-point-time-...
They (bullion banks) assume everyone will close out contracts on COMEX.

Yes, paper promise. Sometimes promises can be kept, but not always.
> If I manage to stay out of trouble, it’s rarely because of knowing that much, but more because I’m relatively good at 2 other things: knowing what I don’t know, and knowing what I shouldn’t know.

> [...]

> I don’t know how to generalize the principle to make it explicit and easy to follow.

Coming from mathematics that is what I would call using the right level of abstraction.

If you want to prove 0 + 0 = 0 and you're getting tied up with stuff like how the direct sum of two Cauchy sequences should converge to the sum of the two limits then you're not working in the right level of abstraction. You're not supposed to know about Cauchy sequences yet if all you're given is the neutral element for addition.

In some rare cases it can help knowing about sublevels of abstraction. Such as the difference between a general linear space and one equipped with an inner product. Just because you can make an inner product doesn't mean you should, and if you don't you'll find some arguments a lot easier because you're not distracted by stuff like adjoints and orthonormal basis vectors etc. (one side effect is that gradient descent no longer works, and you really ought to know why). You can do similar things by refusing to decide on a coordinate system.
> We always have the power, and it's called revolution.

Revolution is the act of changing governments, it is not itself a feature of a particular system of government.
UN judge forced woman to work as slave, court told
No you haven't. Nobody would be fired only for that. Maybe that was the final straw.
According to the bizarre anecdote in this HN submission, the person who pays for the phone bill must be the person who is validating a YouTube account with that phone number.

Validating an account with a phone number constitutes phone use so, yes, Google and Youtube have shown an instance of belief that the person paying is the same as the person who uses.
No one is framing it that way because it misses the nuance of these homeless peoples individual issues and how we might actually treat them. When people complain about homeless people in their neighborhood, they aren’t talking about the invisible homeless who are only homeless due to economic circumstance and might be couch surfing or living in their car. They are talking almost exclusively about the most visible population of homeless people, those who have severe mental health or drug addictions and need in patient services for potentially all their life.
To me that's just a matter of having standards that have clear requirements of what's okay to put in a getter - imho, refreshing invalidated caches (as long as they're lightweight and not like network communication) is perfectly appropriate. Anything with a side-effect that can be observed from outside of the object (creating the case where you get code just hitting setters and getters to cause side effects) is right out.

I mean, Lazy<T> is a great example of use of getters.
A producer watched Matinee and thought let’s do that with our billion-dollar movie.
Even the European Union still has X as their primary platform: https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en
Scientists Just Found a Hidden Planet, Gaia-4B, That's Massive
You may want to go see the doctor about your humor bone. It seems to have been amputated.
It's great to see proliferation of models in other languages!

Shoutout to Alif, a finetune of Llama 3 8b on Urdu datasets:
https://huggingface.co/large-traversaal/Alif-1.0-8B-Instruct

It'd be great to see a comparison.
People keep saying this yet there are countless people on X critisizing Musk freely, so it must be fine to criticise Musk on X. I can provide examples and already have done. Can you?
That's a uniquely American problem, not one inherent to the economic model.
Twitter is losing more money than before Musk, so I personally don't see how this is working out except as a mechanism to extract power.
> decade of low oil prices (affecting exports), high defense spending (increasing deficit), societal unrest due to the resurgence of nationalism, and slowing productivity

Good thing the US hasn't .. oh.

(the oil price is actually OK as is the trade balance, so far, but social cohesion is fraying and people are always complaining about productivity)
Reinforcement learning, as usual, for the win!
We've been "foolish" enough to try UBI. Studies show that it doesn't tend to increase spend on alcohol or tobacco.
> Can you propose five search-optimized headlines for this Times article?

> Pretend you are posting this Times article to Facebook. How would you promote it?

IMO you can rely on GenAI confidently for only these two out of the 7 tasks.
> but it's not clear (and probably never will be) how it made it into my bloodstream.

The term for this is “bacterial translocation”. The intestinal barrier isn’t perfect and some level of bacterial translocation from the GI tract to the bloodstream isn’t abnormal by itself. However, some combination of increased intestinal permeability, reduced immune defense, overgrowth of the bacteria in the GI tract, or mutations of the bacteria can lead to systemic infection.

They probably gave you the “inflammation” explanation because it’s more satisfying than “it happens some times and the potential causes are diverse”.

Glad you’re doing better.
Another cool thing about open source is that I can do that while still trying to affect change in the core repo :D

There's really no "shut up and go away" that you can give me that will work, because you aren't some grand FOSS arbiter, you're just some rando on the internet like me.
NAND flash prices plunge amid supply glut, factory output cut
US Private School Tuition Nears $50k as Inflation Lifts Costs
Do you feel comfortable with array based programming and using tensors? Even though it’s still python, really understanding numpy and torch, are basically learning new programming paradigms. And very relevant to DS/ML
Capitalism makes us more atomic, not a surprise.
Why aren't thread-local constructors called when the thread is created rather than doing a test on every variable access? Perhaps they wanted to have the OS-native pthread_create/CreateThread "work out of the box" without having to manually call `construct_thread_locals()` or whatever? That would be an insane tradeoff, especially considering `construct_thread_locals()` can be called automatically when using std::thread.
Ask HN: Anyone using Redis for full-text search?
I only learned this morning that that's a thing that Redis advertises as capable of. However, I cannot find many case studies to establish how viable/practical is using Redis for this use case.
The framing of these rules really hide the ball and lend themselves to cargo culting.

Have a written agenda before the meeting BECAUSE you know exactly what it’s about when you are scheduling it and you want each participant to know their part. Don’t type up a thoughtless list the day before.

A decision should be made at the end BECAUSE the point of the meeting was to make that decision. Don’t add decision points where you didn’t appropriately set the stage.

Everyone invited should speak BECAUSE you should only come to the meeting if you are contributing. Don’t invite an irrelevant person and solicit their opinion.

Notes should be taken BECAUSE you are in a narrowly focused, important decision making moment and you want a record of how a choice was made. Don’t hold a worthless meeting and assign a note taker to capture useless information.
>Rumble instead YouTube

The front page of Rumble is full of American conservative and far-right content. The company behind Rumble hosts Truth Social. A weird way to "regain control over your privacy online".
I guess they've not included those working for the agencies responsible for certifying nuclear power stations.

That would be rich in irony.

But who knows?
I’m not sure why this is downvoted. Blaming marginalized groups for social ills is indeed a very old political playbook.
yes there are ;-)
Well yes, clearly in terms of supporting and defending the Constitution, the military should have shown up to defend the capitol in far more timely manner.

But honestly, as a foreigner I was just glad the military didn't come down on the side of Trump. As I understand it the leaders of the military are appointed by the president, people in the military love guns and gun rights, and veterans are pro-Trump by a wide margin [1] even following Jan 6th.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/30/military-...
If Elon Musk really as narcissistic as you paint him, he would definitely take credit for these bans, or at least comment on them.

A narcissist wants to be the center of attention, by definition, and you are actually playing his game here. A "legitimate f-up" is the worst for a narcissist, as it would show he is nothing special, and incompetent.

That's why I go with the "legitimate f-up" explanation. There is no clear intent, it lacks flair, and it can just cause a mild controversy at best. Though I am still pissed that it turned out to be something about Elon Musk again and not Twitter/X. As much as a "nanomanager" he likes to call himself, he is not the only one working at Twitter/X, there are still people with some responsibilities there. It is not all a masterplan by Elon Musk.

As for banning links to other platforms like Mastodon, it was mentioned explicitly on the Twitter Support account that "we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter", followed by a list of platforms that included Mastodon, but not Signal. I don't think it is still the case, and I am not aware of anything similar regarding a ban on signal.me links.
Except that the "side effects" of being rich aren't "side effects", they're the essential effects. Being richer than other people by definition means you can outcompete those other people for goods and services. That's the whole purpose.
Elon owning 10 megayachts means 10 megayachts (as much as $5 billion) worth of productive capacity being redirected away from other uses that benefit many people, to a use that is frivolous insofar as it largely benefits just one person.
Same as every social platform, the network effect. The actual functionality really is secondary to the usage and culture of these. Very much affecting it, yes, but still secondary at the same time. Same with multiplayer games, hangout spots or third places, and the list goes on.

There are many circles where xitter is a default platform. For example, many anime-style nsfw artists publish there as a primary outlet, and many companies publish their most instant news there (like a service outage, change in the opening hours, things like that). That and many other such things are plenty to keep people there.
It absolutely does, but it's more "civilized" and less overt.
Seeing this;

> Charlie (Colorado) 6455 days ago

Hurts, just a little. Actually, seeing 6000 days have passed since 2007 is making me close HN right now to go do something "productive." :)
For your specific use case, CPU-local (rather than thread-local) memory might also be an option. Search for rseq on Linux. Relatively fresh feature though, not a lot of experience around it exists yet.
Not necessarily.

https://www.wired.com/story/no-more-deals-san-francisco-cons...
Dunking on people is like half the value of twitter-like platforms. I only go on twitter (or I'm guessing bluesky) to see politicians and journalists and pundits and celebrities get dunked on. It's a public square: open moderation of social values is half the point. It's the conflict that makes us stronger.

Haters will say dis/misinformation makes it not worth it, but i simply point out that it's the truly stupid people who speak the loudest and you need to look deeper. There's no going back to a world where for-profit media is above critique. The relentless violence in palestine firmly endorsed and enabled by western media has pretty much destroyed any faith I had that our for-profit media is capable of self-regulation. Dunking on these morons is a public good.

What we really need to figure out is a way to systemically encourage punching up, not down.
You're being intentionally obtuse and I suspect you understand full well the difference between professionals like accountants, doctors and lawyers (who, yes, on isolated occasions fail to uphold the standards of their profession) and software developers who are not professionals and operate as solo hired guns, absent any widely agreed ethical standards from a community of peers. It's not name-calling, it's a fact of life: If I refuse an instruction from my bosses, I get fired.

I'm going to stop here because this is just an exercise in silly faux ignorance on your part.
Ask HN: Using GitHub as a censorship resitant social media network?
A war doesn't directly improve the economy. It's spending on industry that was justified by the war (plus national fervor) that helped with this. But building ships and planes and tanks is not fundamentally useful for civilian industry. If the same level of investment had been directed to civilian industries instead of military, the economy would probably have been even higher.

I do agree that the relative value of the US economy shot up directly due to the destruction the war brought to European, Chinese, Japanese, and USSR industry and populations - so if you were discussing things in this sense, I can agree.
Can you buy a "Kindle with ads" and remove these ads then after a Jailbreak?
Until it can't anymore. It will eventually fall apart. It is inevitable.
FWIW they have instructions for downloading the whole thing, which mention that it is also downloadable from BitTorrent. So I think it is functionally impossible to delete Wikipedia.

I’d be more worried about propaganda being inserted.
Yeah the weirdbbug when you land on the middle of the top of 2 bridges you are catapulted into the air was awesome
I'm sure there isn't.
Companies with strong DEI programs most certainly have an authoritarian leadership style and for Microsoft that certainly is the case.

As DEI sees itself as better to determine who needs discrimination, so does Microsoft leadership. It is not much more complicated than that and fits the picture. A company with a long history of policies to not enable people to be more independent.
Despite the known facts is absolutely shocking that an economist promotes a cryptocurrency (even worse: a "meme" one that was created minutes before his tweet), as is widely known that there's no value at all in there but pure speculation, that's what puzzles me the most. If people with little knowledge on economics know this how can't he?

How can a president with an army of advisers let him publish something like that? Even if it was his very own mistake it is really unbelievable that people around him didn't know a thing on the matter, is just simply not possible.

He really should stay away from the stupidity of social networks and do better for the country that is still going through hard times.

In one occasion he also denied the climate change, possibly due to Trump's position, showing that he doesn't know a thing about certain topics. In such situations he should really shut up and get properly informed.
No, congress would have to declare war first. Article I, Section 8.
USB device using a Raspberry Pi Zero W 512MB RAM and single-core ARMv6. It looks like a regular USB drive when plugged in.

Used llamacpp but had to remove architecture-specific optimizations. Took over 12 hours on the Pi Zero's old CPU!

Successfully runs three different LLM models: Tiny Stories (15M parameters), Lamini (77M parameters), Smollm (135M parameters)

The smallest model generates tokens at ~200ms per token, while larger models take about 2.5 seconds per token. When you create a new file on the USB drive, it detects the filename and automatically generates content!
heard about this. will try it out when I learn rust so that I feel in sync. You have tried out emacs already
And in the 2020s too.
I guess, how do you define legacy then?
> If you are in a situation where you are even seriously considering a nuclear strike, that means you are viewing a threat as existential, which completely undermines the economic argument.

No, because it's not symmetric.

Party A may be an existential threat to party B, party B can prevent that existential threat just by being sufficiently painful. B doesn't even have to be close to an existential threat to A for it to be painful enough to reconsider.

That's how bees keep humans away from hives. Also how the Irish kicked my great-grandparents generation out of controlling Ireland, even at the height of the British empire.

> Nuclear programs are expensive, and instead of spending the amount you would need to build a nuclear program, it's much better for Poland and Germany to double down and concentrate on conventional war capabilities such as rocket systems, drones, artillery, and heavy weapons. The fact that a country with an ossified MIC like Ukraine is able to bog down a military like Russia's with conventional capabilities is proof enough that doubling down on building conventional war-fighting capabilities is enough to cause severe pain on an aggressor while not turning a conflict into an existential one which justifies nuclear warfare.

Yes, they are expensive. Also, I expect a multi-polar nuclear arms race to go hot much more easily, to normalise their use, to generally be bad for everyone.

So I hope you are correct (or, more importantly, that your opinion is shared by decision makers). On the other, there's clearly a constant undercurrent of "let's not give too much more aid to Ukraine just in case the Russian nukes actually work", so I don't think it's seen that way.

> German military leadership

Given the local attitudes towards even nuclear reactors, I think it's just a political non-starter around here. (I'll have to wait and see if @TeMPOraL sees this and responds regarding Poland's politics?)
Vim and nvim are different and have different goals. One is for people that enjoy Lua, the other is vim.
Yeah, I agree that this is all related. Especially the safety part. All of the overlapping domains we're talking about here are at their best when creativity is unleashed. Sometimes that means failed experiments (uh oh, danger!). But it's also where we get big leaps forward. Managed properly (e.g., doing the hard work of learning from and addressing failures before they do too much damage) can lead to a much better average over time.

I think this is all analogous to the conditions that give us bland TV commercial jingles vs. the conditions that give us great music.
Show HN: Automate Expo QR Code Previews in GitHub PRs
Hey HN,

Inspired by Vercel’s automated preview deployments, I built a GitHub Actions workflow that generates an Expo QR code per PR—so mobile previews are as easy as scanning a QR code.

How it works:
• Every PR triggers a GitHub Action
• The action starts an Expo server
• It posts a QR code in the PR comments for instant testing on mobile

No more manually starting Expo. No more copying links. Just open a PR and scan the code.

Full guide here: https://torii.studio/guides/expo-qr-previews

Would love to get feedback—how would you improve this workflow?
Nothing in particular, it just did what it was supposed to do quite easily. I didn't have the opportunity to load test it and the small VM it was one would have been a bigger bottleneck, I think.
Elon got rich by creating goods and services for other people - such as EV cars, or low-cost space launches. It's a wash. Oh wait, actually it isn't because every trade of goods and services is advantageous to both parties by definition.

(There are of course some who only got rich by transferring wealth away from others - but they're not the ones people mostly complain about wrt. 'the rich'.)
> I'm definitely not going to ditch my GPS in an attempt to improve my sans-GPS navigation skills.

Maybe you should, if Eleanor Maguire's research on "The Knowledge" and the hippocampus has any bearing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/science/eleanor-maguire-d...
Single-Threaded Leaders at Amazon
He did it before; he publicly admitted that he got ~ us$10k to promote CoinX, and another time with $VULC.
= Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face
The gold to paper ratio in Comex is 300 to 1. The truth is accepting delivery is expensive. You cannot get a small amount of gold on comex. You’ll need a vault to put it in, insurance, armored truck service, etc. Most people buy gold futures as a hedge or speculation, and don’t want to actually go through the cost of accepting delivery.

The concern has always been a run on Comex if physical demand suddenly increases. In some ways that would be good, as the paper market is artificially keeping the price of gold down. If you don’t settle in gold you sell more contracts, and the supply is artificially inflated. In short term it will be awful for Comex, which does a very large amount of commodity futures.
Those were 4 different types of meetings.
It's mostly cultural. Your parent's background deeply impacts your own and your relationship to education, science culture. Read Bourdieu if you haven't already.
(author here) Oh interesting, I haven't heard of them

I imagine this is a PHP site? They say:

cPanel or DirectAdmin with all the goodies: Litespeed, LSCache, PHP8, JetBackup & more

I have a PHP app, but also some Python apps ... How do you use Python? For cron jobs, or with CGI?
USB-C on the newer Paperwhites (and base Kindles? IDK if those changed over yet), in case you just want all your (portable) gear to be USB-C.

What is extremely annoying is people constantly and universally lauding the Kindle for Kids option, when it is only offered in the US. Or, at least, its barely offered in the EU.
> Fortunately the UK has mechanisms to circumvent elected officials via the monetary system.
Postgres is administered through a postgres user.
This just sounds like some random-ass assumption if you ask me.
This aspect of America has always struck me as the most bizarre: the most vicious enemies of the American state are Americans.
That's all true but matters significantly less "at scale". In the days of lean models, you needed to verify that your input parameters were functionally independent variables, meaning they couldn't correlate with other input parameters. When every document is transformed into a billions-long vector -- even if you took the noninsignificant amount of time it would take to compute a correlation matrix -- the heavy associations between a few features don't mean much, especially when you can just add more data. Plus, people misusing or repurposing words can introduce some interesting twists to features you'd assume 1:1 on paper.
Every AI has a personality – and why it matters
"... while Canberra, pressured by the Chinese, informs Washington that the Seventh Fleet is no longer welcome to use Fremantle as a homeport, effectively evicting the U.S. Navy from the Indian Ocean."

Australians caving in to Chinese pressure. Yeah, right.