skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This digs into historical trends in the Canadian housing market using data on home prices, household incomes, and mortgage rates to paint a picture of housing affordability across the country.

A few insights:

Across most cities in Canada, real estate prices peaked in Spring 2022, spurred on by a home buying spree during the pandemic. Since then, home prices have tumbled in most major cities in Canada.

The most severe home price declines have been in Hamilton and Toronto, with current home prices roughly 20% lower than the all-time high price.

On the other hand, home prices in Calgary / Regina / Saskatoon remain at or near the all-time high.

As of January 2023, the average home price in Canada has fallen by 15% (current price of $714,700 versus all-time high price of $841,400).

In spite of the recent declines in home prices in many cities across Canada, the housing market still remains unaffordable for most potential new homebuyers.

As of January 2023, a homebuyer who purchases the average home in Canada with a 20% downpayment at current mortgage rates would have a monthly mortgage payment of $3,611 per month ($43,332 per year). Compared to the median pre-tax household income of $89,709 in Canada, this means that the mortgage payment represents 48.3% of income.
And how does just one of your statements contradict my post??
How does it compare with e.g. cluster loader using hollow nodes?
https://archive.is/OCzuS
> account after people set up downvote bots on my account

What's the motivation behind such thing? Why bother setting up bots for downvoting accounts?

(FWIW I often get upvoted within seconds of posting)
> In the year one million and a half, humankind is enslaved by giraffe. Man must pay for all his misdeeds, while the treetops are stripped of their leaves, whoa whoa whoa.

I wonder if the Futurama writers were saying something about the silliness of trying to predict the future or if they were just having fun with the song and rhyme.
From the ChatGTP announcement: "ChatGTP is a sibling model to Instruct GPT"

The paper for that is linked from https://openai.com/research/instruction-following
They don't share the recipe though, ha!

I also enjoy the herbal/bitter liquors!
I think what's often labeled as "free speech/wokeness/cancel-culture" sort of issues would best be called a "freedom of association" issue. And I support freedom of association.

But either you have freedom of association or you don't.

Now, the problem from my libertarian-ish perspective, is that the government has meddled in freedom of association significantly. There's obvious types of examples (Bake the cake, bigot!) and far less obvious examples like the government enforced credit card cartel that gives a small number of financiers significant artificial power to shape the world.

I'm fine living with the consequences of a society with freedom of association, however that turns out, if only we had that. But I suspect that most people on the political left who currently champion ideas like "Actually, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom of consequences" don't actually want freedom of association. It seems like they like that there's a system where they have their cake and eat it too.

As far as Scott Adams comments, I have been busy lately and haven't had the chance to listen to the full podcast and his followup arguments, but I strongly suspect that few people have actually really analyzed his arguments and are just feigning moral outrage. Personally speaking, I'd say it's a big fucking problem for me too if 50% of black people can't agree with a statement like "It's Ok to Be White".
Ok, but that's southern California which became vulnerable a while ago. The post I was replying to suggested there were ten thousand in the Bay Area based on the recency of vulnerability.
Maybe this: https://thelongestchapter.com/2022/03/03/city-of-incurable-w...
The two statements are not related, except by the journalist trying to infer they are.
Yeah; just make a license which forbids any commercial and is GPL style viral and offer another commercial license so you can make money. Use the same features in both; no need to hold back as no-one using it can do so commercially unless they bought a license, which can be yearly etc etc.
> its cool and neutral

I cannot be more clear than this then and I hope it resolves your confusion: cool is debatable but these technologies are not neutral. They are bad, and engaging with them as if they are neutral is bad for you. That's the point I originally made and the one I'm still making.
the main advantage vs other webview-wrappers is that technically your native code is crossplatform to Android/Windows/MacOS
This is important for a few specific types of applications, for example, my app uses a custom network protocol and it would be nice if I coded it for only one platform while avoiding C++ linker hell in 4 different platforms
Keynesian beauty contest [1]. They don't pick the best assets. They pick the assets that they think most people are going to think are the best assets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
There is niche and then there is "no one has watched even a second of this in 10 years"

As much as I don't like Google or Youtube - expectation that they will just store whatever stupid stuff you post forever is unreasonable.

Like I posted some gaming highlights when I was teen and I don't think anyone, but I have ever watched them and I don't even have access to that account anymore. All of that stuff should be deleted.

Even now I occasionally have itch to make a video and I am the only one who watches them, but at least they are good enough for me that I return to watch them.
Piracy is a stretch unless it refers to violence on the ocean.
I recall the FSF being pretty adamant that a license restricting commercial use would be a non-free license by default.
You’ve needed to do that for years to get past HR.

No difference here, just automated scanning of keywords with still no actual understanding
ANSWER: Use StartPage:

https://www.startpage.com/
A former employee has discussed his experience at comixology when amazon made them migrate to amazon's backend in a series of tweets:
thread 1: https://twitter.com/CocktailsAndInk/status/16252333387419566...
thread 2: https://twitter.com/CocktailsAndInk/status/16256237606854369...
thread 3: https://twitter.com/CocktailsAndInk/status/16263421408076390...
This is not a valid application of the DMCA. URLs aren't covered by the DMCA unless they point to infringing content (Pluto TV has distribution rights) or circumvention technology.

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/linking-copyrighted-materia...
Thank you very much for that nice explanation! I'm almost torn between "what a stupid idiocy!" and "what a clever deception!"
I'm not too stringent with any concrete definitions here, but one of the things that came to mind when considering that possibility of a fresh look was Sonic Pi, which lets you code music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suH_goWVBeA

I'm fairly certain that it's quite different, when compared to decades if not centuries of past methods, all thanks to someone with a particular set of software development skills taking a new look at the already existing approaches and deciding to do something different.
They technically didn’t get rid of the non profit but instead formed a partially owned for profit subsidiary.

In theory non profits are subject to oversight by the state of incorporation’s attorney general. In practice it’s mostly a free for all.
From TFA:

> First and most importantly, ads were still being served via the stream; it was just happening via whatever third-party client the user was using. The main difference here is the app being used, and honestly, is that really such a bad thing?

From their perspective, they likely thought so. The amount of user tracking and spying data they can hoover up via an app., which is not available to them from someone using VLC (or another player) is huge, and it is very likely that a huge part of their monetization of Pluto TV streams comes from the tracking data they can hoover up via their app.

No app., no tracking data, no tracking data means lost profits from selling the same. So of course they try to abuse the DMCA as best they can to claw back those lost profits.
Show HN: Cross-Post to Twitter, Telegram and Discord
This is a coincidence! I just bought this book last week. It is slim but seems non-trivial. Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking is definitely needed if one is to understand this book.

My interest is to study the J language in an application setting but could only find this book in paper copy form. I am quite surprised as to why the AI/ML community has not discovered the J language since at first glance it seems it would be a good fit.
The ""evil"" version of Tom from Myspace.
I think people are missing an important nuance when it comes to this "AI passed X exam" series of stories.

Can you say a bookshelf or a search engine passes a bar exam because you can ask it any question and you can find an answer there? Does a natural language interface to said bookshelf/search engine make the difference?

Storing and retrieving facts is not enough to be a lawyer.

Examination systems are built with an assumption an already intelligent person is taking it and verifying that this already intelligent person also learned knowledge necessary to do their job.

So even if AI could technically pass the bar exam it does not mean it is good enough to be a lawyer. It is not a general intelligence that can solve a variety of problems, it was just trained to remember a library of fats that a lawyer may need to know but is not enough to make a lawyer from a non-sentient program.
I was half-expecting the acronym to be a pun by developers who are fan of dutch cartoonist Evert Kwok[0], but it seems completely unrelated.

[0] https://www.evertkwok.nl/
I quit infosec and I couldn't be happier
So you mean they match with me out of spite? :P

I think the more reasonable explanation is that they don’t read the profile text: they look at the picture for 20 ms and ask themselves “do I want to be entertained by this peasant or not?” I know it sounds cynical, but I’m trying to take it with a bit of black humor.
Holy tckin' cow!!! Is this real?

Captchas be damned now. Beating AI with AI. What a time to be alive.
Investors are frothing at the idea that they may finally eliminate the last vestiges of living wage and labor power represented by tech workers.
Yes but the critical difference is that AI couldn’t pass these tests if they weren’t trained on a very similar set of questions and answers.

Not every person takes a SAT prep class to improve their test score. There are lots of people who are truly above average in terms of intelligence and can score very high on the first try.
Google’s autocomplete for “ChatGPT” has “ChatGPT stock” in the drop down, which to me is a signal the trend reaches retail level investor demand.
I believe there is a way to accomplish this without seeking input from people on Reddit or message boards for new domains to contribute to.

There are lists on Github that curate libraries native to a particular programming language. For example, there is a list for Lua (https://github.com/LewisJEllis/awesome-lua) and another for Python (https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python). Explore these lists to identify areas that may require assistance. Some of these lists have not been updated for years, so it is worthwhile to conduct additional research on the domain before undertaking a project.

I have personally completed a project using this approach, although I did have some background knowledge in that domain.
I’m also having issues pulling images from ghcr.io
Welcome to streetsblog.

They have a clear anti-car agenda, they seem to be pro public transportation but even that's questionable

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/05/07/opinion-roll-back-cuo...
This is a trend for some time now

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23243646
Persevering*
> Or signing up for military...

This is the point. The military aims to recruit the vulnerable, because hardly anyone in their right mind would sign up to die.

Most contracts won't change your life. They're short-term contracts. Even a car loan is only 4-5 years. Also, the kind of car you drive usually doesn't affect your earnings potential, so going cheaper and buying a used car doesn't hurt you at all. Not to mention, other kinds of loans are not guaranteed by the government, so you can't even get them unless you're credit-worthy, whereas they'll hand out unlimited student loans to any kid.

It takes two sides to sign a contract. Everyone blames the kids, but nobody ever seems to blame those handing out the student loans to people who can't afford the loans. After all, this kind of predatory behavior played a big part in the subprime mortgage crisis.

A few contracts can change your life. A home mortgage, e.g., a 30 year loan. Student loans, which can be almost the equivalent of a home mortgage, in some cases even bigger than a mortgage. Or of course signing up for the military, which could end your life.

18 year olds rarely need to enter into home mortgages. They can rent. Again, renting vs. owning your home usually doesn't have an effect on your earnings potential. And of course 18 year olds rarely even qualify for home mortgages. But society has determined that college degrees are important, and if you don't get one, it can greatly reduce your lifetime earnings. So kids feel extreme pressure to enter into these mortgage-like contracts.
We still do it. Every kitchen waste goes to the chickens, everything that's compostable goes to a pile in the back of the garden. With two adults we have about three bags going in the recycling bin and one bag in the garbage bin per month. We still have a bit of progress to do by buying less packaged items.
I don't understand that bar chart. It shows something like 11bn in investments, and then there's an asterisk and it says "includes 10bn by Microsoft", raising the interesting question: Is the set of investors going nuts for ChatGPT really broad-based, or is it just a few institutional-level players who happen to be whales when it comes to tech investment?
> but its the Javascript that causes it to crawl

If it's updating a web view then it needs to go through javascript. The fastest rust wasm frameworks are not faster than javascript by any meaningful amount.
Like many social or networking platforms especially in startups, you get back what you make of it.

There is a such a spectrum of ideas and approaches that you're unlikely to get a better product out of confining people to any category or stage. Personally I think its a great platform if you put your VC hat on (you're contributing effort rather than capital). If you don't find a the right idea or person to work with then you'll likely learn a lot from seeing what everyone else is doing and how they are thinking (positive or otherwise).

All the big VCs do periodic posts but it takes a bit more work to find the truly novel ideas and projects. With YC co-founder matching, you start with a varied pool of people who have set out to be founders - its up to you what you do with that.
That's Jason Sazama a.k.a. TheLankyLefty27. He's good, he knows about UARS and flow limitation. His experience with bilevel/ASV modalities is very limited though.
I know that from the DaVinci Resolve forums and subreddit, everyone using AMD has all sorts of pain-in-the-arse problems that just don't happen with NVidia, even on Windows.
You can't. In the U.S., the assets of charity must be permanently dedicated to an exempt purpose.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...

OpenAI is still a nonprofit. Their Financials are public. A lot of folks use "profit" in a hand-wavey sense to describe something they don't like, like an organization sitting on cash or paying key employees more than they expect. The organization may not be doing what donors thought it would with their money, but that doesn't necessarily mean cash retained is profit.

Recent filings show the organization has substantially cut its compensation for key employees year after year. It's sitting on quite a bit of cash, but I think that is expected given the scope of their work.

That said, their Financials from 2019 look a little weird. They reported considerable negative expenses, including negative salaries (what did they do, a bunch of clawbacks?), and had no fundraising expenses.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...
As CEO of Acme Mousetraps Inc, does this mean I can pay OpenAI $1.2M/yr to develop a mousetrap-aware model that can augment (replace?) my R&D team?

Will I be able to ask this custom model to describe a new, novel (patentable) mousetrap that’s better and cheaper to build than anything ever before?

Or will I at least be able to pay OpenAI to ensure Bing suggests using Acme mousetraps (clearly the best) when they ask what mousetraps they should buy?
Every American president, but they're all cool and they all sport a mullet
Another one that looks even more compelling:

Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Language Models, https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00923

By building in chain of thought and multimodal learning, this 1B parameter model beats GPT-3.5's 170B parameter model.
I too like a clean desk. But a clean desk doesn't stay that for long. So all clean desk lovers like me tend to have a cluttered desk.

The clean desks you see in pictures are obviously staged, or maybe people are really able to do serious work without ever putting a pen, or a cable, or a phone, or a mug on, sooner or later.

It's like doing the dishes. One of the things I hate the most in life, because you clean stuff so you can dirty it later. A clean desk is one that nobody uses, while your favourite cup is always in the washer.
It's sufficiently untrue that the author or publisher should know that it is untrue and misleading. I conclude they did it on purpose for clicks. However, I am not a scientific sample.
I think we agree - most definitely.

I think we disagree on what can be done. I, personally, am trying to learn the “slow” way by “rtfm” ing, etc.

It’s just today’s era makes it so easy, when tired after work, to plop on a person with a nice voice talking about whatever is interesting.
I think it’s a weird narcissistic need to feel that they are the center of the conversation and so they are important. What is so interesting about Elon is that he was objectively quite important prior to Twitter... but that wasn't enough.

Whatever your target, whatever you achieve... it is not enough.
Fox News yes, Breitbart nope. They haven't been in the zeitgeist for years.

Its worth nothing that although there are no strict definitions of what counts as mainstream vs independent, the populist wings of both parties loosely group them in the same buckets.

A lifetime ago, I used to consider myself populist-left and since then there hasn't been much if any difference in what I consider as mainstream.
Apparently our sensitivity to bitterness decreases as we age. It explains kids' aversion to cruciferous vegetables and coffee, among others, although I think most of us grow to appreciate those things by our twenties at least.
Control of chiral orbital currents in a colossal magnetoresistance material
> Is a bicycle rider a pedestrian?

> Is someone waiting for a bus or uber a pedestrian?

> Is someone walking in a parking lot to thier car a pedestrian?

I'm quite sure they are are literally not, the article uses the term "pedestrian" in the title but then it uses "walkers" in the text, it looks quite clear that they are referring to people walking on public spaces as a means of travel.

pedestrian
/pɪˈdɛstrɪən/
noun: pedestrian; plural noun: pedestrians

a person walking rather than travelling in a vehicle.
Some pedestrians are self-righteous to the point of endangerment. Yes, vehicles are legally required to stop for you, but in the event you step out into the street without verifying cars are stopping, it's only you that will wind up injured or dead. All it takes is one driver that's not familiar with their surroundings and it's over. That's a lot of risk to take for entitlement.

Ask your mama why she never taught you to look both ways before crossing.
70% of pre-tax household income going towards mortgage payments in Toronto / Vancouver.

That is simply ludicrous —- those markets are looking at a future where blue collar and service workers will need to live outside the city boundaries and commute in to serve food, clean, etc.
It gets worse if you look at his replies. About 50% of them are just "cry-laugh emoji", but the interesting ones are who gets a "looking into it".
Weirdly enough they block cellular internet not leased lines or home connections. No wonder the internet was not spawned in India
"Non-profit" refers to the tax-exempt status. "Corporation" is an organizational structure. The designations do not have to overlap but sometimes do. [1] It isn't clear from the wiki page whether it was founded as a corporation or not. The content of the filings are the only way to tell.

[1] https://smallbusiness.chron.com/difference-between-nonprofit...
Both Daniel and Ikea are Swedish, so it's not beyond the realm of possibility that Daniel makes Ikea desks himself.
Thank you for posting this. I have the book Database System Concepts and I am yet to get to the point to relational algebra optimisation.

My SQL implementation I planned to do a hash join with the smaller table. It was very rudimentary. I don't have indexes though.
Both instances can communicate with the PostgreSQL database, even at the same time, and upgrades would just happen to one, so if / when there are issues, there'd still always be at least one working.

End users generally wouldn't have any involvement in choosing instances.

Since the instances themselves don't store your account data, you'd be able to post regardless of which instance it is.
Thank you! I had a bet on with myself that you would deliberately misinterpret the quote. I get to have ice-cream tonight!
"Being a pedestrian" is the default state of a human outdoors. What are you going to do to enforce a requirement someone fails to meet take away their going outside privileges?
> Apple was able to convince people it was worth considering arm

They did no such thing. They forced their ecosystem to switch to their proprietary ARM platform + extensions.

If you look at other ecosystems, a switch hasn't happened. Cloud providers are offering ARM, but on the desktop, x86 is still top dog.
In practice the debt just grows larger and larger and isn't paid off.
my interpretation was that they were just caching the last accessed key+value and checking query keys against that last accessed key in hopes to skip the hashing/indexing.
The timeline of people you actively follow isn’t the default any more. They push the machine learning driven feed as the default option and switch back to it when you restart the app.

With that in mind, Elons main option is to ask the algorithm for more impressions in the black box feed. That will get him into the feeds of non followers and show his tweets to followers when they eventually log in.

I experienced something similar on LinkedIn. I used to have a lot of followers and high engagement. At some point it changed such that the algorithm could bury you or promote you as it sees fit. At that point the only option is to write content that the algorithm promotes rather than content which your followers find interesting. Everyone worked this out and started writing their vulnerable virtue signalling stories for engagement, and the platform went downhill.