skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really delusional to think you need to protect people from themselves. I don't get why HN puts therapy on such a pedistal.
It's not really surprising. NK is able to outsource their education to Chinese universities, and with a division that can yield $1.7B in revenue, it's not surprising they invest in this skillset, even if the country at large is destitute and backwards.
Right. Lenders and brokers want to exploit the customer for maximum profits. They do not want to respect customers, because they might make a little less money and it might take a bit more effort. The customer does not like that behavior, but an unregulated market rewards the worst actors so the customer cannot find what they would really want and is forced to settle. The FCC is supposed to protect the customer and regulate the market in this situation.
To expand on this, the expansion that has happened in courts and mainly in cases involving police is based on the legal idea of 'inbillat nödvärn', i.e. defending against an imagined threat, in contrast to an actual threat. If someone is holding a gun the threat is material, if they're gesticulating with a phone the threat would be 'inbillat', imagined.

This has freed police from murder in a case where a person with mental disabilities that posed no real threat was shot to death, https://www.thelocal.se/20191004/three-police-officers-clear....

I'd disagree that it's extrajudicially expanded, it's courts and prosecutors privileging police, probably because politicians have made it clear that they think Sweden needs many, many more police and currently very few and fewer suitable persons let themselves be recruited. The pay is bad, the job is not fun, a large portion of recruits join to serve a few years and then get a much nicer job. If they also risked getting jailed for panicking on the job even fewer would join the force.

As a side note, police commonly practice at the shooting ranges run by sports shooting clubs and considered a nuisance since they are sloppy and bad at hitting the target.
That is the theory behind "flex fuel" vehicles. In practice, the optimizations don't materialize in real world usage. This is likely because of safety factors built into the ECM preventing the engine from running enough timing advance to take advantage of the octane of a blended fuel.
I don't think it's that many people aspire to be a landlord. It's just that homeowners have put a large amount of their net worth into real estate and declaring open season on new building directly hurts them.

We can easily see this as millenials have gotten into owning homes themselves. People are quite good at tending to their own self interest.
ah, I expected that to be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZUPCB9533Y
From what I gather, this was training for a leasing sales agent. So this would be the reasons why that sales agent thinks this person that's trying to get the lease should get the lease for something other than the list price. Those reasons would then get sent to that agent's management team for approval. Which is good to have those reasons, like "we've been having trouble leasing that corner unit as people are often concerned about road noise, it has been vacant for over six months at current pricing."
They're taking the piss
Manufacturer-signed installer, Microsoft-signed DLLs or executables. Anything else is a virus.
Youtube ad revenue is a very small part of income made from creating Youtube videos. Most people who makes videos take up sponsorships which are way more lucrative.
Thank you for the appreciation, and the interesting links! I heard about the CIA story, and how they sought to quantify creativity as a person's 'ability'.
A network of illegal subletting.
Erlang is used for implementing the AMF functionality in the 5G Core.
> to buy things

Exactly. That's not renting, and co-op owners aren't landlords unless they turn around and rent the unit out.
So far nothing bad has happened to them; they got a lot of press coverage and only made loud fringe people upset.
How can you know the author's intentions? How is this type of analyzing of their thoughts not "thought policing" them?
Advertisers pay and it's reasonable from financial perspective for Google to turn a blind eye before any complaints.

Their main business is ads, not search.
> I hope they're not targeted haha

Most of my ads are targeted (tech-related based on stuff I've searched previously). I did not get any NSFW ads.
> next "Big New Thing"

The internet was transformational because it (1) decreased communication friction by orders of magnitude & (2) enabled digital business operations, powered by computation instead of people.

And specifically, these were both things that applied to every business on the planet.

A lot of job roles disappeared as a result of that, but it made business much more efficient and scalable. And allowed the remaining employees to be more highly compensated (same_revenue / fewer_employees = more salary space).

Looking around for similar future potentials, I see 3.

1: Applied AI integrates itself into businesses (specifically, in finance, operations, and analytics) enabling another increase in efficiency by an order of magnitude

2: Remote working (and specifically international) allows use of a wider range of talent, at competitive salaries, which permits businesses to hire specific skillsets they previously lacked access to (didn't exist or unaffordable)

3: Driverless over-the-road freight vehicles increase shipping efficiency by an order of magnitude
People have called things email killers several times. An intelligent approach would be to gradually rebuild parts on top of better foundations and push towards that.

The amount of deadlocks in adopting things like JMAP, IMAP NOTIFY, OAuth2 (+ Dynamic Client Registration) and so on and on is immense. Won't because others don't, too few do, we see no benefit yet etc. it's really hindering.
I'm not saying they are DOING anything or a "real" team. It could just be a queue that creates a delay. The objective is to increase the friction to the maximum degree when deviating from the algorithmic pricing.

Still, the impression given to the property's management team is that a person (possibly a customer service grunt) is doing some kind of "final review," manually clicking a box or even just making sure they don't drop below 80% acceptance.
> If 99% of Tor's volume is helping laundering international drug trade money, distributing CSAM, etc, should it be demonized as well?

Easy answer: Yes! Although I think it would be hard to call it demonizing when something is already 99% demons.
Actually no it's not available for commercial purposes or for anyone they do not approve.
> The problem is not that companies are able to increase prices and improve their margins. That's good!

That's going a bit too far. Under perfect competition there aren't any profit margins: everything sells at marginal cost. Real-world markets won't be like this, but they can get reasonably close. If there are large and increasing profit margins, that's a sign something has gone wrong.

Also, we need to be realistic about natural monopolies. Sometimes the competition we want isn't in the cards, and treating the symptoms really is the right answer. If that necessary-but-low-volume medication has sharply declining costs with increasing production, as many things do, there just aren't going to be enough suppliers to build a competitive market. Competition policy is great, but it can't do everything.
If you want a searchable term they’re called “compensation management.”
RealPage isn't in the property management business. They don't manage properties themselves, they make software for property managers to consume.
Show HN: An Automated Theorem Proving library inspired by a book by Harrison
I've been working on translating (and modifying) parts of John Harrison's automated theorem proving book from Ocaml into a Rust library.

Highlights so far are an implementation of DPLL with conflict-clause learning that lets us solve hard sudoku problems in less than a second (not competitive w/ SAT solvers like MiniSat, but not bad either), and a Herbrand style semi-decision procedure for first-order validity.

There's lots of room for more sophisticated methods and optimization. More to come soon.
Does moisturizing matter over the long term?
Have a look at criticism by Chinua Achebe and the latter rebuttals. It’s more complicated than you are making out.
You're in for a treat. Our magnetic field is currently doing some crazy stuff and moving quite fast.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Ma...
> Housing is not a right in the US

Price-fixing is not a right in the US. It's explicitly illegal.

We as citizens should be strongly opposed to anything that makes housing more expensive because it contributes to homelessness, which is much more expensive than just forcing landlords to actually compete with each other (you know, like the free market is supposed to).

The biggest threat to a competitive market isn't the government in the US. It's the accumulation of power by a small number of actors who control the majority of the supply side.
How about alignment/ability to answer prompt queries and chain of thought reasoning capabilities?

Without the fine tuning RLHF phase to make it like instructgpt I'm assuming it won't be as good as ChatGPT, is that right?

How hard would it be to fine tune the 65B model on commodity hardware?

Found answer here:

> Out-of-scope use cases LLaMA is a base, or foundational, model. As such, it should not be used on downstream applications without further risk evaluation and mitigation. In particular, our model has not been trained with human feedback, and can thus generate toxic or offensive content, incorrect information or generally unhelpful answers.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CA...
Thank goodness, now that the wokeist elites are on the run, perhaps we can finally have the original title of Agatha Cristie's classic restored

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None

(yes /s)
I am using chatgpt to help me learn how to program python with APIs, which I have never managed to get a knack of by myself. It does a good job cleaning up my code, fixing errors, and providing suggestions on alternative ways to do things e.g. using oauth2.

I also used it to help friends update their resume. ChatGPT is good at converting paragraphs to bullet points and vice versa. It's great at rewriting content to make it more concise, clear, and readable.
D2 0.2.1
Is this a sustainable alternative to VMWare's vSphere? I know Broadcom's acquisition of VMWare was troubling, so I might have to make the switch.
Easy: Close the ehole division or site and move it abroad. The lay offs will be more expensive so, sure.
https://archive.ph/KRUtS
I still don't understand why we're still doing bio fuels. We've known for decades that they are a disaster. Am I missing something, is there evidence to the contrary?

For now I can't see how we can just stop fossil fuels without starving half the world (as we need them for fertilizer production). Never mind cement, plastics and steel.
You can buy an inexpensive plasma cutter at harbor freight that is happy to generate as much plasma as you want (while cutting metal). It definitely isn’t doing any atomic fusion anywhere.

It’s also what arc welders weld with.

Plasma is ionized gas (hence conductive), the ‘fourth state of matter’ and while usually hot, it doesn’t necessary have to be.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)]
its called exercise
You have lots of things such as pensions, social security that have embedded growth obligations. Like a ponzi-scheme, everything is cool, so long as you grow the number of people paying in. Instead of reevaluating the economic foundations of these EGO schemes and ask if they are sustainable, it's easier to blame people not having children or countries that don't want open boarders, and call it a crisis.
Wrong paragraph, look at the one above it:

> Specifically, every morning, RealPage provides participating Lessors with recommended price levels. Lessors typically must communicate to a RealPage “Pricing Advisor” that they have “accept[ed]” or “confirm[ed] the “approved pricing” within a specified time frame. If Lessors wish to diverge from the “approved pricing” they must submit reasoning for doing so and await approval. RealPage encourages participating Lessors to have daily calls between the Lessors’ employees with pricing responsibility and the RealPage Pricing Advisor.

So every day an employee at the Lessor must tell a Pricing Advisor -- a flesh-and-blood RealPage employee -- that they accept the pricing provided by RealPage. Further, to reject the pricing, they must explain to the Pricing Advisor why they are rejecting the pricing in writing.

It IS confusing because it goes on to say in the following paragraph that said requests also require further approval from a manager at the Lessor.
Because corporations aren’t people, they’re machines that happen to be powered by human labor. There’s some wiggle room for individuals to make a difference, but ultimately the market will win in the long run.

Consider the CEO of Google growing a conscience (hypothetically ofc). If he decides to cut back on <evil things> for the good of society, then society will benefit, but Google shareholders will lose. The impact will be measurable in financial statements, and when the board meets to vote on a new CEO, they’ll replace him with someone who will do a better job of making those numbers go up (aka someone without that conscience). The system self-corrects in the long run!

The CEO has a legal obligation to protect the interests of share holders (“fiduciary duty”). So from that perspective, a CEO acting in the interests of society rather than shareholders is breaking the law, and could be personally liable.

The incentives in the system are not set up in such a way that corporations could be reasonably expected to “self police” in a way that benefits society at the expense of shareholders. Sure, in some cases it’s possible to have a win-win scenario, where everyone benefits, but those are extremely rare.

IMO this is a good system because it leads to the primary producers to perform at peak efficiency, but it doesn’t work unless it’s balanced by government regulation, which is something that the government has been miserably failing at for the past two decades (at least)
>The corn will be grown either way.

Citation needed
I've been tracking my flex-fuel usage - mostly E85 fillips - for a while now, tracking price and MPG. At least with the prices I've been getting, I typically get around 15% less MPG, but the price is between 10-15% cheaper. My 'cents per mile' price has generally remained the same over the last year or so I've been tracking (been tracking longer than a year, but have been using E85 more regularly in the last year).

Now... I've got a small car/engine. The MPG might be markedly worse on a bigger car. Don't know. But at least in my case, cents/mile is about the same.
And if I was asked, I would have guessed it would have been around 1000km.
> I’m sure that’s problematic and a team of people smarter than me could come up with a much better system

Agree, and disagree. Distortions of the market rarely go as planned, so trying a massive intervention is likely to have a whole bunch of negative side effects. And I don't believe smarter people are more likely to be successful with their own attempts.

Keep it simple. Build more. Drop the zoning restrictions, reimagine the purpose of urban growth boundaries. Supply and demand actually does work.
The FAIR group is top notch.
Go's take is to fetch from the code host, so there is no module registry at all. Curious if others find this reassuring in light of registry attacks?
> We all started off enthused about cryptocurrency and then the Wolf of Wall Street types co-opted it and ruined it for everyone pulling off the most sophisticated Ponzi schemes in history.

I mean, plenty of people were pointing out that trying to rewind finance to the era of privately-issued money without controls would lead to a recurrence of all the problems that that has historically produced and is the reason why that’s no longer a norm, while the entusiasts were just chanting “zero-trust” and “outside of government control”. We weren’t all enthused, or surprised with “the Wolf of Wall Street types”. (And I doubt very much the pioneers in the field were historically ignorant enough to not know exactly what they were creating.)
Thank you, Team Netflix!
That makes sense, never mind the MP3 player solution then.
Now sure how this in any way trumps Kleppmanns's authoritative work Designing Data-intensive Applications.
Then why are "Lessors" mentioned as the ones agreeing to RealPage's policies and not "Property Managers"? And why is the term used "Lessor's management team", and not "Lessor's property management team"?

I think you might be right, it just doesn't seem obvious to me.
> I don't understand why in some countries, like the US, police officers are so eager to resort to violence or killing

Police training has become heavily influenced by military tactics (take the case of Israeli training of American officers and "police exchanges"). This was not always the case. Now, I do not deny that such tactics can be useful in certain circumstances, but overemphasis on them can be a problem just as much as laxity.
Tbbq guvaxvat, ohg cebonoyl abg gur evtug erpbeqvat. Nabgure uvag: Cbqpnfg
>seeing that Meta is crushing Google... This is like MySpace teaching a lesson to Apple.

Huh? How so? I see Meta and Alphabet as very similar companies. Both rely on ads, extracting information from text, keeping users engaged on their platforms, furthering AI/machine learning, etcetera. Does MySpace have their own computing devices I'm unaware of?
Spain to Turkey seems like quite a distance in a synchronous grid. Is it delayed and warped if we compare the hums in two different locations?
If we took the entire core to the surface (without collapsing the Earth which is impossible) we would cover the Earth with iron and nickel to a depth of hundreds of km.
Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTmEfoPnQDo
This is a confusion between the gravitational force that the core feels from the layers above, and the pressure that the layers above push down onto the core.

That is, the core doesn't feel gravitational pull towards the outside, because it's balanced on that other side, but the outside is being pulling in towards the core, which pushes on the core.

It might be easier to simplify the mental image by picturing just a slice of the whole thing.
At the end of the day it sounds like you're trying to do what you think is right but are worried about becoming a pariah. These conversations can be hard because they're built upon core feelings about human behavior and what is "better" for us.

If the problem is that you want to have a thoughtful conversation about an issue but are worried about being labelled, first identify if being thoughtful or critical is the what the group wants or has the propensity to do. If you're lucky then you will be around people willing to have a discussion and can frame a lot of the conversation around you filling in your understanding (when in fact you're trying to get others to start thinking critically). Asking a lot of questions about the results of outcomes is also a great way to stop people from auto-piloting into popular opinions.
It's not that big a rhetorical jump, though, is it? There's already a lot of anti-landlord rhetoric in this discussion, and historically it heads that way every time.
German university life seen through American eyes, 1900-1901
That wasn't my intention (as the artist), and perhaps we're lacking a good discussion of what art is.

But I remember Scott McCloud defining it as 'everything that doesn't serve the preservance of the species'. So making people reflect about what they think what art is for them (and if it's by finding out that this isn't), would be.
Actually, there was GIF87a before (not to be confused with SN1987a).
I don't really think that's how software works. When software meshes with society, it greases the skids on existing power structures, with a few notable exceptions. So software is really good at enabling landlords to be more extractive, because landlords were already holding all the cards in the first place. You could write software that helps people, say, form a tenant's union, or lobby their legislators to create more protections, but it's the union or the government - other power structures - that are enhancing the power of tenants by directly opposing the power of this cartel.

There's literally nothing that software could do to enhance their market power. The most you could do is help them to communicate about who the worst actors are, to try and level out the information asymmetry. But everyone still needs housing and there's still only so many units - someone is going to end up a tenant of the extractive landlords, whether we all know they're extractive or not. It's not like tenants of slumlords don't understand that that is their situation, it's poverty keeping them there, not a lack of market data.
Tesla engineering HQ returning to California, Musk announces
of course it is fair to be paid, they should be paid regardless by YouTube though, not by me watching the ADS.

If I block the ads, YouTube should pay them nonetheless.

Because I chose to block the ADS, not the content creator.

But it's not my responsibility to watch the ADS or the sponsored content.

The content has been uploaded as "public & free" and I watch it for free.
Quote from a linked article in tfa The FBI has tumbled more Bitcoin than anyone else in human history. Pot meet kettle as they say on this side of the pond.
Thanks for the link.

As expected, the press distorted the study's conclusions to the point of actually lying:

"we find that the production of corn-based ethanol in the United States has failed to meet the policy’s own greenhouse gas emissions targets and negatively affected water quality, the area of land used for conservation, and other ecosystem processes"

It's one thing to "fail to meet" some emissions reductions and quite another to actually increase the emissions altogether.
> Criminal Underworld was its best value add. It should have been the selling point all along.

Hasn’t it been? I mean, aren’t the other stories largely just the things you say in polite company because “we are engaging in the business deliberately to enable and profit from the criminal underworld” has…potentially adverse social consequences.
That seems like a point of reference thing to me, presumably the iron core is denser than the molten layer around it, gravity is pulling that towards it, but it's all spinning, and there are other gravitational influences from the moon, the rest of the solar system, etc. which could cause some slight sloshing around, I'd bet.
"Because it's hard" is no answer.
"Non-lethal" weapons are actually lethal enough (they can kill) that their use is considered similar in outcome to bullets BUT they can also be completely ineffective against intoxicated and or somehow "shielded" targets (clothes, etc.). So it's really a dice shot. Given this, the logic is that if you're gonna need a gun because you fear for your life, better pull a real one. Otherwise, just keep you distance and wait for backup.
Thanks, that jingle will be in my head all day...!
Doesn’t matter, now they are openly colluding through a company. A competent government can create a RICO equivalent and penalize these animals, if it wanted to.
Oh yes ok.
I also don't buy that crisis events are == psychosis. Or maybe, my first approx would be that psychosis is a spiritual crisis event sans any organizing moral framework, and the lack of framework is what makes it disabling. But I'm in no way informed.