skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you don’t. Investors and speculators want to rent it out, giving young people without credit scores and saved-up capital housing options.

Even speculators who buy and hold empty houses aren’t a problem. No investor is satisfied with no returns (ie, no sale and no rent) indefinitely. Speculators that are dumb enough to be happy with zero returns ought to be, and always are, separated from their capital.

Within a short time the market will balance out between the builders, the buy-to-let landlords, the single-family owners, and the flippers and speculators… assuming you don’t have some crazy regulations putting a thumb on the single-family owner end of the scale by blocking construction.
It's not cynical and at that level it's not called being questionable or evasive. It's called being professional. The kind of sincerity that you seem to be expecting would be called like a nerdy socially unaware engineer type behavior and in the face of some obliviously sincere answer the congressmen would be glancing around looking for the actual CEO or for who the real adult in the room is.

Also asking for a track record of someone in this role in this situation is like if you see a new commercial and you believe everything they tell you is literally true until you see that this specific company's marketing department has a track record for anything less than complete sincerity in its ads or commercials or marketing claims or whatever.
Duplicate conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35960125

@dang
> Guilty as charged! I hate using Java because everything written in java seems to blend into the same indistinguishable swamp of classes with meaningless names, full of methods that constantly find new and interesting ways to obscure what your program is actually trying to do. Debugging very large Java codebases feels like living through Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil.

That describes just about every codebase I've worked with that relies on object-oriented patterns, which is basically every codebase. This is particularly bad with Java, but as you mentioned, this is a cultural problem and not so much a language problem. I like Java the language, but what kept me away from it was every Java codebase I've seen. Layers upon layers of needless abstraction, overly abstract names, and so much code is meant to describe things rather than a sequence of data changing.

It's not that OO is completely wrong, but it's a meme that we as programmers are refusing to shake. It's like people are still getting taught OO in college courses by programmers who haven't worked professionally in decades, and those students are still going into the real world thinking that everything's gotta be object oriented. And usually what OO ends up meaning is having classes and inheritance and "this" and mutability, as opposed to having objects that pass each other information. The latter doesn't need classes, or inheritance, or any of the other similar features in programming languages. But if you've got to write to a file, then you've gotta make a class that wraps the file system functions, right? /s
USA imported approximately $537,000,000,000 in goods from China last year. Medical supplies, etc. It's not just about high tech.
I agree, I came off a tad harsh. Sorry about that
> RCE a few years ago

If it's this one (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32749), I think that's kind of a reach--especially for the typical use case, which uses neither mail nor whois, and only adds an ephemeral block rule to the firewall.

My beef with fail2ban is that it only checks logs on a (non-configurable) 1 second interval, which allows an attacker to make several attempts (> N) from the same IP in parallel inside of that second, even when the f2b configuration is set to block at the Nth failure.
They already added lanes to the suez canal and I imagine it'd be way more cost effective to keep expanding those as needed.
There's no way to prove you were the one to use the mixer vs just buying the coins from someone else who did.
No, it's repression by definition; you have a pattern of thought you've identified as illegal in your system, and instead of coming to terms with them, you're preventing their expression.

The juxtaposition is similar with the language models; a pattern of thought is illegal, and instead of coming to terms with them, their expression is prevented.
> True to form, these articles also work hard at planting the idea that Sam Altman created OpenAI, when in fact he joined rather recently, in a business role. Are these articles being planted somehow? I find it very likely. Don't forget that this approach is also straight out of the YC playbook, disclosed in great detail by Paul Graham in previous writings [3].

Is this true? I've been working in the industry for a while and Sam Altman has long been mentioned in reference to OpenAI along with Ilya.

I agree with the crux of your comment that everyone is scrambling to build narratives, but I think I would also put your comment "AI is busy cozying up with The Establishment" as just another narrative (and one that we saw in this hearing from people like Hawley).
Yes. It makes me feel better and gives me a structured place for thinking about what has happened that day, plus, as I journal digitally I can search later and see when something happened.

That of course, doesn't mean I actually do it regularly, just that I probably should, like many things that have been displaced by drama and crapscrolling.

As for how, I currently use Obsidian. But I find the loading time discourages me from ever writing any quick notes, it feels like more of a time commitment than it really is even with just a ten second load on Android.

I use Google Keep exclusively for all utilitarian note taking, maybe I need to find a new app for journalling.
I do the same thing with my kid and a lot of the time it helps with stopping and tantrum and getting my explanation in.

I also got him to do a few times a full 5 minutes of yoga in a row jaja.
This is disappointing, I expected a bit more from OpenAI than to fall for the nerd snipe that is EA.
> including making decaffeinated coffee

Whilst there are many who call decaffeinated coffee a crime against humanity, it is somewhat disconcerting that at one stage, it actually was just that.
This is exactly it - and the car washes that "make the money" are more and more the ones attached to gas stations, where they have the latest robotic car ticklers.

Some people (larger trucks, etc) might still pay to use the manual car wash, but the costs are very similar and most will just use the gas station one.

It's like laundromats - there's a very defined market in an area for them, and if you supply that market you can do well, but if it's already supplied you're in for a world of hurt.
Monero uses them too of course, the one people actually use, so it's the better example rather than something obscure you're obviously trying to promote
Agree, "a business is simply a machine to solve a problem." The problem is when keeping the business alive as long as possible becomes the core problem to solve.
Hello,

Yes, we bill our services on a minute basis, so you will only be charged for the actual usage duration, which in this case would be 139 minutes (2 hours and 19 minutes). You can find detailed information about the resources you have used and their respective costs on the Billing > Invoices page.

I hope this helps!
This seems pretty reasonable. Google is a for-profit company, hosting your shit, for free, indefinitely, isn't their prerogative. They should offer some one-time fee or small reoccurring charge to keep your stuff in hibernation mode or something. Like literally $1.
Can't you set up a single email client to pull from all of your accounts? I imagine that would count as logging in and it would happen automatically.
The way you write this makes it sound like you care about the single solitary stories, but the huge numbers of people harmed by the lack of nuclear power doesn't matter to you because it's to many people to think about.

All other forms of power have killed far far far more people. But the one dramatic story is what you care about?
I think the world has yet to feel the weight of this great man's contributions. the monstrous moonshines and the freewill theorem seem mind blowing and not very well known at all.
Thanks! Good catch! I could use all the help I can get :)
While the ad-hoc blog post to address last week's outage is appreciated, I'm curious as to why GitHub would continue to roll these up in a monthly report as opposed to when an investigation concludes? Many companies that operate live services that have a global user base do this now.
Thanks, still cannot fine the SNP for the RELN-H3447R mutant though...
In the UK that would be an instant driving test failure.

The moment a pedestrian puts their feet on the crossing they have absolute right of way & it’s on you to stop. If a pedestrian is waiting to cross, you’re expected to stop.

If Tesla exports this self driving code to the UK it’s going to cause accidents because people will absolutely not be expecting this behaviour from vehicles on the road in the UK.
I move hundreds of thousands of my dollars around between financial institutions just using text.
Arcades are unfortunately slowly dying in Japan, but it's still a much bigger business there than in the states. Most new arcade machines since the late 2000s are off-the-shelf PCs with (already for its time) outdated graphics cards.
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It is a difficult thing. Because of it's size, the EU often feels unnaccountable to me. Also the news does not focus on who votes for what or what their ideas in the EU are but only focusses on national level. And then the EU makes decisions that I dissagree with and it leaves a bad taste.

On the other hand, I believe the EU has so much potential and is a huge benefit overall
Around 2000 I was in Stanford’s executive education program and the discussion at hand was a case study about a company that faced a disruption with a large cash reserve on hand. The question was what the leadership team should do, and the answers were all variations of “spend the money”. Except one - a lone voice allowing that the company could return the funds to investors and call it a day.

Pure heresy. Return the funds, allow investors to decide how/when/if to reinvest? Soundly rejected by the presenter and audience.

I wonder if that’d go differently today? I hope so.
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>> There are businesses here in Munich that have been around longer than the US has existed.

There are businesses here in the US that have been around longer than the US has existed.
Yep. No page on OpenAI's website about the thousands of underpaid third-world workers that sit and label the data. They will try and build momentum and avoid the "uncomfortable" questions at all costs.
> unless they had a street value because that indicates they do something that people value

This usually only means that doctors restrict access to those drugs because they have a potential for addiction and abuse, and people seek them out on the street once they're addicted and their doctor has recognized this/declined to continue them on it/they want an abusable quantity. Exceptions for things like insulin which has other unique reasons.

Potential for abuse and addiction is not a good sign of value. It's a sign of it's potential to ruin or end your life.
It sounds like you're talking more about the knowledge of what emotional regulation is and what it means - totally agree that at 18 mo he had approximately zero understanding of that.

I'm talking about the practiced/done skill of emotional regulation. Seeing his ability to self-soothe relative to other kids at 18 months, it's very clear that he has a solid amount of the skill of emotional regulation, even without any understanding of what it means.
Last I read it was 1.5% per 1000km. That’s negligible on the grand scale of baseload and price differential between cross-continental regions.
I wonder if a better partner program would help with that kind of thing. The blog post for their self server partner program [1] looked really awesome in terms of customers owning their accounts. Pushing people towards solutions like that are better, especially if the customer can also have a direct billing relationship with Cloudflare.

However, I won't trust it.. The blog post started with:

> We’ve heard from many of you that you enjoy working with Cloudflare, but cannot support some minimums for our Enterprise partner programs. This program is built to help you get started, with no upfront commitments for qualified partners.

And the enrollment page [2] says:

> Unlike our Enterprise program, our agency path requires no upfront commitments and includes volume discounts on all self-serve customer spend.

But the enrollment page FAQ says:

> There is no fee during the open beta. As we move to early and general access in 2023, there will be $1000/year annual program fee required for platform access and onboarding.

How is a required "annual fee" not an "upfront commitment"?

I've always been bullish on Cloudflare because I thought they saw value in serving under-served markets. However, every year they seem to trend towards the attitude every other tech company has lately. They only care about big, rich customers.

I tell a lot of people to move their DNS to Cloudflare since it's reliable and opens the door to other services that can be useful, but I'm not paying $1k / year to onboard potential customers for them.

1. https://blog.cloudflare.com/self-serve-partners-beta/

2. https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/cloudflare-partners-self-se...
It is time for mass dolphin slaughter in the Faroe Islands to stop
I asked it to write a function with a given name and it came up with stuff that was in the general ballpark of the software. So yeah, it’s in there.
Any chance of opening the source? I'm a bit confused how it could be E2E-encrypted if the URL doesn't have a URI fragment. This is usually where the key would be located, as the URI fragment isn't sent to the server unless there's malicious code doing otherwise.
This is a non-story. It's pretty clear to me the car should have stopped (and I question the original tweeter's road judgement for suggesting otherwise) but plenty of bad drivers do the same thing in the city.
“Toronto should be an AI hub” but Canadians are too nice to go for gold
> A lot of us (read: people) are implicit dualists, even if we say otherwise.

Absolutely spot on. I am not a dualist at all and I've been surprised to see how many people with deep-seated dualist intuition this has revealed, even if they publicly claim not to.

I view it as embarrassing? It's like believing in fairies or something.
> my way to feel good is to look back at all the long dead techs that I didn't bother to learn.

That's how I feel about design patterns. Talk about the most useless pile of academic bullshit that gets overemphasized in terms of what "every programmer" must know before going into an interview. Although there are some domains where they may be necessary to know of the top of one's head, for the most part there's usually no utility in filling your head with individual ideas that worked in one circumstance but may lead to bad patterns in another. I'm so glad I gave up memorizing design patterns, especially given that many employers seem to have lost interest in trivia questions about design patterns as well.
Oh the dialogue line for that is, "You must destroy the Ring" spoken very urgently right? I think I remember getting to that a few times although yeah I NEVER managed to actually destroy it.
so essentially what amazd (1) could have been 10 years later if i had kept working on it. I remained amazed (pun intended) that 10 years later (after I started working on this), we still don't have a very popular platform for this sort of workflow. Full disclaimer: I've come to use readwise.io more recently

(1) http://amazd.com/ahmad
I wish I could get into my old Google account. I unexpectedly went to jail for 10 years and when I got out I couldn't log into my account because my 2FA (phone) was gone. I had 10 years of email in there. Would love to find another way to authenticate myself.

Looks now like it is all going to be hosed anyway.
But isn’t God fundamentally simple, according to theologians?
They can give their password to a trusted friend/family member, and have them log in once every few months to keep the account active. Yes, it’s a pain, what if they forget, etc, but it means a 2+ year sentence does not necessarily entail losing one’s account.

Could someone start a subscription paid service for the incarcerated - “we keep your accounts alive while you are inside”? More broadly, could provide other “manage your affairs for you while you are incarcerated” services. I suppose many incarcerated people would have no income or assets to pay for it, but some would, or their family might be willing to pay for it.
Good point. As non native speaker I thought reach was related to a quantity but that was wrong. Thanks for the clarification.
Red-black trees are much more common in the industry and have the advantage of building on 2-3-4 trees (though arguably the only reason to know 2-3-4 is red-black).
This is the sort of thing that confirms the idea that Apple and the Android phone manufacturers get away with WAY too much. If their business model involves taking and using and processing THIS MUCH personal information, they should be held to a significantly higher standard of care. Stolen phones should mostly not exist, and this problem definitely simply shouldn't exist. This 100% ought to be on them.
Maybe do some research on the basic claims you're making before you opine about how people who disagree with you are clueless.
We do need better layered solutions here for sure. In the same way that we can't "defeat drug abuse" by jailing everyone, there needs to be a multitude of solutions at every interval to help. While I think privacy advocates are far more in favor of even looking for these solutions at all, it's also our duty to find and push these solutions because ultimately, others will not care. Optics are just too horrible, hence how swiftly these things move.

What's interesting is that recently privacy advocates have thankfully also recognized that "think of the children" can be a legitimate argument, and have been using it to fight against horrible solutions. But we really have to move past this and find better solutions, it can't be this endless tit for tat as "both sides" wind up losing.
Corruption is a kind of decay that afflicts institutions. Explicit rules, transparency, checks and balances, and consequences for violating the rules are the only thing that can prevent, or diagnose, or treat corruption. Where you find corruption is where one or more of these things is lacking. It has absolutely nothing to do the -acry or -ism attached to a society, institution, or group.
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It refers to a pretty specific set of views on race and gender.
> If one person / group wishes to force it's view on the other then we have a problem

I would put it even more simply:

My view is that this valuable resource is mine. Your view is that this resource is yours.

How do we reconcile this?

edit: just in the interest of not seeming antagonistic, I'll elaborate further.

I assert that resolving conflicts like this requires either direct violence, or deference to some external framework. That external framework often defines terms like "just" and "right" and "good" and "true". These terms are kind of "meaning flywheels" since they don't have direct correlation to physical things. You spin them up by giving them continuous impulses of examples and then they carry the abstracted sense of meaning in themselves, becoming almost qualia-like. You don't know all the examples anymore you just know more or less what is "just".

This process is an act of mystification; you separate the meaning from the direct examples, and push it into a layer of linguistic abstraction.

Any measurement against those ideas then becomes a engagement with the mystic. You simply know "what is just". Any perception that these things can be rationally defined or deduced is simply the hangover from the older, mystical systems that impelled the original flywheels of meaning.
Making a good airy loaf with a good caramelised crust is a craft that most people will come to find extremely difficult.

It's so much about bacteria, flour type, humidity, heat/cool, rest, gluten, proteins and practice.

A good idea is to use the same flour when you practice. Over and over again.

Use less water in the beginning and use a machine for kneading. Don't be pedantic about exact grams but be as precise as you feel.

It's a really really interesting process and it becomes interesting because its a living thing. It's bacteria that does the magic. Love it
What I didn't like about langchain is the lack of consistent directories and paths for things.
The goals of Taxi feel at least somewhat like 'creating a domain driven design style Ubiquitous Language to describe data and relationships' and the deliberate not-forcing-a-single-global-thing seems like it'll at least make it harder for enterprise dysfunction to bend it into having the failure modes the grandparent describes.
> dummy argument aliasing

Thanks for the precise Fortran terminology; that's what I meant to say in my head but you're correct. From the linked website for everyone else:

"Fortran famously passes actual arguments by reference, and forbids callers from associating multiple arguments on a call to conflicting storage when doing so would cause the called subprogram to write to a bit of that storage by means of one dummy argument and read or write that same bit by means of another."
> Why do you think social cohesion and mental health is in the dumps in the developed world?

everyone being convinced that problems are monocausal, with their pet bullshit being the solution.
I mean the tweeter is called Whole Mars Catalog and if you click on their profile it's basically all about fanboying Musk and Tesla.

Kudos to them for sharing the video to begin with, but it doesn't surprise me one bit that they're trying to spin it so it's actually the pedestrian's fault, or SF's fault, or city mentality, basically anyone's but Tesla's.
Hahaha "The first step of Byzantine Fault Tolerance is tolerance" omg. That cracked me up. Reminded me of the Rockwell Encabulator: https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w
Unfortunately, it is restricted to the US App Store due to there being a higher compliance necessary for using encryption in Europe and other countries outside the US. Once I get some traction, I'm planning to release it everywhere.
there's an interesting middle ground virtual pinball case that's an approximation. This fella built his own case and everything in between. It was a fascinating project to watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxilHoceiNo&list=PLrqlHbqP7F...
What benefit would Google get from removing popular videos?