skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Home price to income ratio in japan is like double the USA so that certainly doesn't look like an advantage. And that's with them having the huge advantage of declining population. Their population is lower than it was in 1995! US Population increased 25% since then.

If they did evade anything, they pretty much have housing on easy-mode by default because of demographics alone. Obviously places like that exist in the US, look at St. Louis. Or some of the rust belt. But nobody is going to think those places figured out something clever.
This looks similar to what I'm working on for InventAI (https://inventai.xyz). It's all about improving prompt engineering.
Better link: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/afrinic_failure_warni...

(The current URL is basically blogspam for this URL, which is much more informative. dang: I recommend changing the link to this one.)
Kafka Architecture Visualized
The Weapons That Win World Wars
Planet Nine is Pluto.

You see how the entire conversation was reframed from demoting Pluto?

Babylonians knew about the 'tenth' planet, everyone and their mom knew about it. And there's a lot more in the ancient histories to learn about it.

So 'scientists' decided Pluto was no longer a planet, then the 'tenth' planet now becomes the 'ninth' planet, and we get articles like this.
In police state, activist does not defund police, police defund you!
One thing I do think ChatGPT has been good for is reducing the "learning overhead" of making use of a lot of different APIs - this makes extensibility, scriptability, end-user programming etc. more attractive, although other problems like maintenance costs are still there. Automating the injection of arbitrary outside customizations into third-party systems not designed for it seems like a hard problem with or without LLMs, but I guess it's worth someone giving it a shot and seeing how far they get.
I would argue that the existing state wasn't "genuine historical education": I made it all the way through high school without ever being taught the state I was educated in had outright banned Black residents in its constitution.
IKEA sell a Tradfri bulb (304.413.80 in Europe) which has a 2200K colour temperature and 250 lumens output, which I've been using as a bedside lamp for the past year. At the brightest setting it is more than enough to read a book (usually we use it at around 50%), and it dims enough that we use it as a night light for kids.

The new EU light labelling requires a spectrum to be posted online. This bulb still has a blue peak, but it is mainly red:

https://eprel.ec.europa.eu/screen/product/lightsources/84738...

The bulb dims well without flickering, but my only complaint is it doesn't dim that much. This seems to be the case with all ZigBee bulbs I've tried. A Philips Warmglow with a separate dimmer can be dimmer smoothly from off. Does anyone know why ZigBee bulbs don't do the same?
Somewhat likewise I set my Hue lights to red or a dark orange at night; this seems to work well, at least for me.
Sure but the case in question brought to SCOTUS was QI alone. They can’t rule on whatever they want, only the cases they get appealed.
On yt there is a black and white interview with an engineer on the topic of geometry set in the 60s about one hour long.
One Medical is the best value in health services today. I wish this was the default service model for US at scale.
Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub
Intel may be the only way to save the Mac Pro
Vikings famously defended the Roman Emperor in Byzantium, known as the Varangian Guard. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangian_Guard

Edit: Oh, the article actually mentions the same. I find it endlessly fascinating how interconnected the ancient worlds really were.
Several GTHA school boards have already announced closures:

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/school-bus-cancellations-in-effec...
Even in CA the legislature has done nothing to eliminate QI. That suggests it’s hardly opposed by the left.
There are two groups of officers described by the parent post: ones who try to fight crime, and "the worst cops". They aren't the same group.

The challenge is how to protect the first group and not the second. Would you want to be a cop if every shitbag you arrest is going to sue you for some frivolous crap? You will lose some of those cases even if you are a saint of a police officer.
Luciferases are proteins that catalyze light emitting reactions. Fireflies are the most well known example, but they occur in a wide variety of forms across the tree of life.

They’re also spectacularly useful in biological research. A common use is to engineer a luciferase into a genome so that it is expressed in conjunction with a particular protein that you’re interested in. Then by measuring light emitted by the luciferase, you get an indirect measure of the level of the target protein.

The problem is that only a few luciferases are available to researchers, and they can be finicky in mammalian cells. This research seeks to expand the variety of luciferases by designing them from scratch a variety of computational tools including deep learning as a key component. They show that one of their novel, artificial luciferases is just as efficient as a natural one, but binds more to its target and less to other molecules.

Pretty wild application of machine learning to design really complex protein structures. Its a small step towards truly synthetic biology, i.e. proteins designed to do new, useful reactions.
Computer vision still needs a lot of help on recognizing surfaces and depths.

Spam filters can't catch all of it, although it's evident (looking at you Google).

Game agents still don't "understand" their environments, and game levels must be cafefully designed to avoid them getting stuck or doing unrealistic movements.

And the list goes on.

Everybody is preparing for the end of jobs by GPT but the reality is that AI is pretty dumb still.
many QI critics seem to be libertarians.
I used poste years ago and I enjoyed it. It doesn't magically fix DKIM/all that other crap but it was nice having something run perfectly "out of the box" from all the daemon perspectives.
Radar data at 7:40pm shows flurries over the East Bay and Santa Cruz hills.
For once, I would be better off in Vancouver rather than SF.
Every now and then someone posts a photograph of the milkyway galaxy with all its colors and glories during a new moon. It's really frustrating to see most of the top comments calling out that it only looks so pretty because of exposure.

In reality if you manage to get to one of the few places left on earth that are truly dark sky places and you catch it during a new moon, the spectacular lights are really not that far off

Unfortunately the vast majority of internet denizens today have never truly experienced a dark sky during a new moon. An experience that just 200 years ago almost every human has had
I've lived in the USA and I believe you. I just find it unbelievably depressing that the "best country on earth" can't find a way to stop their own children getting shot by other children in government run schools. As far as I know, the USA is the only country in the world with this problem.

Climate change might be exactly the right metaphor. Despite widespread public support for action, the australian federal government is still doing very little about the problem. Its not a good look.
Flashlights? Reflectors? We don't need streetlights illuminating empty roads all night.
> so why would that not qualify as a general price increase?

Because, unless there is a corresponding increase in the supply of money, the money spent on the oil isn't available to spend on other things. So those other things will experience a decline in prices, due to the inevitable Law of Supply & Demand.
Sure so why doesn’t any state do something about it? If there’s actually popular dislike for QI it should be easy enough.
Qualified immunity doesn't do anything about criminal liability.
1. Yes, that's something i recognized explicitly above.

2. Sure, but that provided enough foundation for other ideas like epoll/kqueue to spread between OSes. It happened because everyone saw the strange non-posix thing (i think at Sun?) and made a similar system. Even though they aren't directly api compatible they were conceptually close enough, people ended up building nice layers on them (libuv, mio, etc). Maybe that would be enough.

Perhaps even, the right answer to several of the points raised is in fact io_uring like apis spreading to other OSes too, so that a reasonable cross platform abstraction layer can be built. Perhaps it's something different.

Perhaps is creating a new standard or a new posix version or addendum or whatever.

All of this aside, I'm not here to champion the specifics. I'm pointing out that it's a reasonable discussion to have, there's no need to be upset at someone for pointing it out.
Rittenhouse wasn't an agent of the state, so no aspect of QI applies to him.
"the multiplayer game engine"

Yet I can't find any mention of multilayer in the documentation. The github mentions it offers synchronization of data, but what about things like rollback, interpolation, exterpolation, VoIP, messaging, P2P, load balancing, autoscaling, measuring latency, persistence, etc that are needed for multilayer games?
Help my sister out by filling out a quick survey
My opinion is: Give her anonymous social media (& general internet safety tips), i.e. reddit or maybe some special-interest discords. Sounds like interacting with strangers on the internet is a lot better than your friends. Help her decide what to subscribe to based on her interests. I was about that age when I started posting on anonymous boards, and I wrote terrible group fanfictions, talked about how great the Lord of the Rings soundtracks were, predicted what would happen in my favorite webcomics were, etc. Communities like this still exist, they're just in different places now.
What attack _would_ be able to get past all the existing mitigations (XOM, random relinking + ASLR, msyscall) and be able to find a single existing syscall instruction but not a particular libc function entrypoint instead?

I could kind of see the value of this if the above mitigations didn't exist, but as far as I'm aware, they're already pervasive on OpenBSD.
I think the temperature is describing, in a way, the dominant wavelength (think the peak of a normal-ish curve on the EM spectrum). A lightbulb that appears less blue will inevitably be emitting less blue. But that’s not to say it isn’t emitting across a broad swath of the spectrum and you’re still getting the wavelengths that are being argued as problematic to sleep. You’d need more data or tools to determine just how much of the “offending” wavelengths are making it into your peepers.

Anyways, hopefully a real expert chimes in. :)
On chip to me, is integrated. but with multi core. shared facilities on the die are a bit of a bottleneck sometimes (I don't do this for a living, thats how I understand it)

So the whole 'hyperthreading is cool, 2x the CPU' thing: it turns out that as long as your e.g. integer only, true. If you invoke FP, not true: they stall.

L1 cache in some instances is now big enough some people's code never leaves it.

Nobody who lives above a compiler should ever have to worry about this. I live above scripts. I don't really worry about this. I just hark back to when I ran these boxes, on raised floors, remembering how .. distasteful adjunct computing equipment was. It was completely asynchronous, required it's own resets, interfered with cabling, had effects on the bus (unibus!) you didn't entirely understand, they made life "harder" for operations.

Did they speed things up? Sure!
No you have to also buy an airlink for particulates.

https://www.davisinstruments.com/pages/airlink
It's replicated all over America, because the zoning policies adopted in the 70s-90s have proven disastrous, but Seattle is absolutely responsible for its part in failing to build enough housing to keep up with growth.
I'm not even color blind and the color legend is horribly unreadable. I wish they had used numbers instead.
crosses fingers for Woodstock

The guys in Waterloo are saying it’s especially nasty. I have a feeling we’ll all be home tomorrow.
Lessons from 35 Years of Newsletter Publishing (2022)
I would add axiomatic set theory and discrete mathematics to his list.
> How did you guys repurpose meaning in your career?

what does this mean?

how do you go from coder-chasing-money/power/respect/glory to coder-chasing-some-kind-of-life-meaning-or-purpose?
Engines that reached escape velocity often did so by having usable artist tools and [...] no, that's pretty much the defining factor. Artists used them.
Seeing people in the age of 2 commercial engines (and only one you can reliably ship with...) attempt to challenge architectures the incumbents instilled, knowing the challenge of getting games made with a new engine, gives my cynicism a run for its' money.
Meanwhile high of 61 predicted for NJ.

Ain’t weather chaos fun?
Ah, that's a good callout. Thanks. He's twice recently dinged QI, the first time in a policing case. I still think you wouldn't want this court hearing a QI case, but there's two potential crossover votes, not one.
It's notable that Elektrobit seems to work on getting Rust on QNX:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/106673
Street lights can also aggravate the problem of safety. Unfortunately most cities seem to believe that more lumens = more safety. But often times this creates more stark dark spots and makes it harder for our eyes to adjust to them

What would really improve safety the most is having more, warmer, weaker lights. One city in the UK ended up taking down their streetlights after some attacks and replacing them with christmas lights strewn across some city trees.

Not only did it look nicer, end up costing less, and was less damaging to the local ecosystem, but it also likely made the area much safer
They're not property.
This was really interesting up to the point where he didn't use the typewriter's keyboard.

I've looked at typewriters a few times and wondered if the keyboard could be adapted to send its codes to a computer. I was hoping this post would describe how to do that.

Anyhow an interesting project.
There is always a time lag between the introduction of a cool new technology, and the discovery of its negative effects on human health.

DDT was invented in the 1940's, and it wasn't until twenty years later that people discovered its negative effects through bioaccumulation. Teflon was invented in the 1930's, and it again took decades to discover its negative effects on human health, apparently under high heat. Cigarettes: decades until we knew scientifically they were bad.

Just a couple days ago there was a thread on HN about low sperm counts, with a lot of hemming and hawing about whether or not the effect is real. Here we have a claim that LED affects sleep cycles and melatonin production. We know testosterone production is related to sleep quality. Are these two related? We also have observed early puberty in girls. It went up during the Covid pandemic, when screentime increased for all school age kids in America. Is there a link between early puberty, LED screens on computers, and dropping sperm counts and testosterone levels?

We don't know scientifically. Expect to find out in two decades, when its too late for you to do anything about it!
It's funny how ideas come back in some ~30 year cycles. The energy efficiency of optical computing has been discussed quite extensively, e.g. David Miller at Stanford wrote a science paper laying out the fundamental problems with optical nonlinearities for computing, i.e. phonon are bosons and therefore don't like to interact, or optical nonlinearities are very inefficient compared to electronic ones. So in that sense FWM is not efficient.

Now for some specific operations optical signal processing might still make sense, for example if you can take advantage of the bandwidth and inherent parallism.
Crime is at half the rate it was back in the 80s, but it kinda seems like wealthy folks hate seeing poverty more than they hated actual crimes.
How specifically do you see it contributing to dissemination of information and knowledge?

I see aircraft's role as significant, but more in transporting passengers and (limited) cargo. There is aircraft-based surveillance. And use in warfare as artillery-on-steroids.
search and replace! Seriously, it's way easier than the node.js monstrosity I was maintaining
Maybe the non latte neighbourhoods need streetlights. But we could get rid of them in the latte neighbourhoods.
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The problem is that extremely powerful lights, as many cities are tending to more and more, can actually create more blind spots and makes it harder for our eyes to adjust to those dark spots. If cities adopted more, weaker, warmer lights we'd likely see much less damage to the ecosystem AND increased safety
Then we have a different definition of understanding. A good half of these debates come down to definitions at this point.

To me, ChatGPT clearly displays degrees of understanding. Often when I ask it to do things like make a certain modification to a piece of code, I'll ask it "why did you choose to do it like that?" and it gives a coherent explanation. That it correctly did what I asked and that it's explanation of why it did that way comport with one another implies understanding in my view. How could it not? What else would that imply? And if I ask a human to do the same thing and get the same result you'd have no problem with saying "well it's able to do that because it understands, and if it didn't understand then it would have zero capability of doing that". So, what's with the double standard?
It's definitely a _possible_ thing, but it's not very common (as I stated before).

It's even right there in the statute that there are degrees of curfew, required supervision, house arrest, etc based on the likelihood of the accused interfering with the investigation or absconding (which, once again, is rare). There are also cases where someone is deemed likely to commit another violent offense, but this is VERY rare.

The point is that in such civilized countries, the legal system does everything it can to not interfere with someone's life, even when they are accused of a serious crime like murder. Most accused rarely see more than a few hours behind bars before trial, if that.
OK, would somebody please explain why this keeps getting down-voted? I mean, I don't care about the karma, I just don't get it. The parent poster expressed an interest in Flash, and this is one of the various efforts to implement an open source analog of the Player component of Flash. Lightspark being one of the others. So how is mentioning this a problem??
Most people don’t.
To counterbalance your review, I looked at the QM II notes and they seemed okay.
You'll notice that Québec is not on the map when they compare potential savings because we've had government subsidized daycare for over 25 years. The results have been increased participation of mothers in the workforce and increased GDP[1].

The same article explains that the ROI is about 47%, meaning that for every 100$ spent, the federal and provincial governments get 147$ back in increased productivity.

1. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/557405/garderie-subvent...
You're very very young, you're not gonna die before you find a partner.
It doesn't matter how good police oversight is if the training sucks. No department is gonna fire all their officers. See: Tyre Nichols officers, that police department lowered hiring standards to make even prior felonies wavierable a year or two prior to that incident (because no one wants to be a cop due to the bad pr).

Social services have gigantic waste, bureaucratic rule problems and for many social services jobs the real training is outside of the governments purview (degrees). So the issues with personnel quality aren't as easily correctible by better training like for police (though it still plays a part).
Meanwhile, it was 80 degrees in Atlanta today. It's funny how the weather can be so different in regions that really aren't all that far apart.
QBism, the Perimeter of Quantum Bayesianism
Looks like Emtel does some of the work and maybe calls more of the shots now.

The pandemic plus going all virtual may have contributed to a loss of interest in internet governance most people take for-granted and/or don't understand.
> so obviously wrong that the terabytes of existing POSIX-compatible code is broken, or limited, or something?

You could say the same thing about the terabytes of existing Javascript code, and most people will agree that Javascript has more than its share of "obviously wrong".
St. Scholastica Day Riots at Oxford, 10 February 1335:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Scholastica_Day_riot>

Town-gown frictions date to the earliest European universities:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_gown>
A Norfolk Southern Policy Lets Officials Order Crews to Ignore Safety Alerts
I'm not a sports guy. Thought you meant "Matt Berry" at first.
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Not sure I'd qualify my comment as 'championing'. I refer only to his podcast episodes where he discusses topics that one would reasonably expect a professor of neurobiology and opthalmology to have an expert opinion on. It would seem ill-advised to accept as fact his opinions on things like fitness supplements, psychology, or anything else outside his wheelhouse, and while he may be producing content on that now, it seems largely irrelevant to me here.
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state, e.g. assuming that there is single flow of operations, and nothing gets swapped out (logically). This breaks with co-operative scheduling systems - e.g. task thread while waiting on I/O (for example) gets reused for some other task, hence they get to see the same thread_local, and somewhere someone assumed "thread_local" == "task_local" of sorts (but not).
My favorite description of a bad project was "dogshit fractal"- at every level of detail it was dogshit. Functions, file layout, architecture, build system, even the business case.
Feeling sick of seeing Raspberry Pi based project nowadays. Use to love to read about such projects until last year.
Tips create both performance incentives and price flexibility. In Europe, where tips are not customary, attitude from service workers is much worse than US. On the other hand, it's nice for someone of modest means to treat themselves to a restaurant or hotel at a lower price. Those are pro-consumer considerations, but service workers are also consumers of many other things.
Heading to my girlfriend's house, not looking forward to shoveling my car out tomorrow
I've done some work with graph neural nets as well as text NNs.

I think we've repeatably seen that models which replace an end-to-end system with a single model work amazingly well when there is sufficient data to train the whole system.

But there are often practical reasons why a non-end-to-end system are easier to build as an intermediate step.
The reflexive rejection of any inmate gender differences can do just as much harm as good. For instance, if girls are innately predisposed to fall into harmful social media habits and feminism rejects and denounces any acknowledgement of it does that help girls? Or does it hurt them?

For instance, a greater tendency among girls to express aggression through social violence rather than physical violence is universal across all cultures. Few would say this is not an inmate difference, and it has obvious roots in sexual dimorphism. This is significant with respect to social media because you can't punch someone through a screen, but it amplifies the ability to carry out social violence. Group chats, and threads denouncing rivals are a very effective tool of social violence.

Failure to recognize this innate difference in how boys and girls express aggression could lead to platforms failing to recognize the importance of curtailing this behavior, leading to greater harm.