skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the developments are all pitched at hyper wealthy individuals, whether retirement individuals with £500k to spunk on a 1-bed per my example or people from outside the region who are buying holiday homes at similarly inflated values. I don't think anyone locally would say "don't build", instead it's "please build for locals" (where "local" = normal locally employed person).

They really do say "don't build". Or rather, their actions (revealed preference) say "don't build", regardless of what comes out of their mouths. Housing developments that would be affordable to normal people get blocked all the time. There are too many people with veto power, and someone can almost always find an excuse to say "no".

So what does get built is biased towards the luxury end, by necessity. Developers have to make up in margin what they lose in volume. There's no way around this.

Think about it: if you make it illegal to build holiday homes, that doesn't get rid of the demand for holiday homes, does it? Those same wealthy people will be competing over a smaller stock of possible housing, i.e. the very same housing that local people want to live in. So the prices will still go up! What you're proposing cannot possibly work, unless you want to make it literally illegal for outsiders to move in.

When you artificially restrict supply, you get a shortage. It's not rocket science.
You are way overthinking this.

Witnesses reported blue light, so hollywood did blue light. It's a movie not a documentary.

Regardless we know from the witnesses in the room the criticality at least lasted long enough for Louis to need to use his hand to separate the cores, which is clearly not nanosecond scale, so I'm not sure what exactly you're expecting or criticizing here. The only difference I can find googling is that he apparently used one hand one screwdriver, not two.
Providing user UI flexibility is never a "problem".

Obviously there is a tradeoff - there is always a tradeoff in software.

Having just gone through a re-design, our team's tradeoff was how much time to spend tweaking media-queries/screen-size responsivity for the countless permutations of device-resolutions & dpis vs just picking a handful of density-levels.
All great points, too. These are all well documented in research spanning decades but yeah, not enough people are concerned about it.

Forests are as much our lifeline as the seas in my opinion. They’re a major factor in stabilizing climate — they quite literally make it rain, in more ways than one.

I’ve heard the biotic pump theory referred to as “rain hopping” quite often, recently. Is it still a theory, or very evidently real now? I know some hydrologists refer to it very plainly, but maybe it isn’t officially in the books as a known phenomenon. I seem to recall it was considered as a factor in the irreversible changes in the Amazon, but I’d need to review it. I might be assuming that.
Future space food could be made from astronaut breath
I do not recall Chomsky contesting the final statement. It does not strike me as contradictory, either.

To the best of my knowledge, Chomsky argued quite the opposite: If you are going to contend that language acquisition work the same in humans and "New AI", show that "New AI" is incapable of learning "impossible languages" just like humans are incapable of learning them.

The paper is not addressing that issue.
Wow, so would non-gov-signed certs be completely banned? Like if a website used Let's Encrypt, then would the government just ban people from accessing it? How would that even play out with VPNs? This seems so completely unenforceable, unless Spain decided to enact a China-style Great Firewall, and even then this would be an entirely different level.
Legislative deliberation, i.e. hashing out details, should be open [1]. At the bargaining phase, when you're working out high-level frameworks, the theory says closed doors win [2]. (Put another way, in a transparent bargaining environment, the winning move is to ignore your opponent and beat your drums to your base.)

> Eventually the "losers" of a compromise are going to learn about how their elected officials voted

The point is to let both sides table ideas without having to face the downside. To propose what if scenarios to the other side.

[1] https://preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-gateway/apsa/assets...

[2] https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/225/1/open-door8.pdf
This is certainly the direction most crdt libraries are headed. A fast, well tested rust implementation with native bindings to Python, go, c, java, etc. And a wasm bundle to run the same algorithm in the browser. Yjs (well, yrs), automerge and my own diamond types are all in rust and moving in this direction. Webassembly support amongst javascript bundlers has been getting a lot better lately. And having only one codebase to optimize and test cuts down immensely on work.
> They're laughing in mansions with brand new cars and sending their kids to Ivy League schools etc etc

C'mon. This is not Reddit.
https://archive.md/RUABX
What a bunch of strawmen. And stream of belittling with no backing evidence. If you were to put forth any, you'd need to pick actual policymakers who make the relevant policies, because "policymakers" can be found with every predilection if you want to find a quote.
I turn my IM app off when I need to focus. When we were all in one office, I would keep it off for days at a time.

The worst was when a manager insisted I have it on. He was literally 3 cubes away from me (and always present). Why does he need to IM with me?! He was in his 50's, and had spent most of his career without such tools.

Another solution I now use since we're no longer in the office: If you ping me, I'll initiate a voice call. Async with constant notifications is a productivity killer. With a call, there is a fixed end point to the interruption.
At least in Britain, a first class train ticket is generally considered fairly luxurious for longer trips -- mostly used by people travelling for business. Take a taxi to the station, the train to the required city, and another taxi to the destination.

Manchester to London tomorrow morning is £184 in standard class, £255 in first class. People/businesses who can afford that are choosing it because it's better than driving.

(Both tickets are significantly cheaper if booked in advance.)

I any case, there's voice service over almost the entire country. It's the fast data coverage that can be a little patchy on some more remote bits of railway lines.
Did you mean to respond to someone's comment who was making this claim? The article does not make this claim.
I'd have to think about this for a while but I'm not sure I see that as a distinction. if you have a skip conneciton, that's just another node in the graph you can have to execute topologically before your dependent node, and then pass the data. over the edge when the child node is ready to consume.

What you're describing with node-based message passing sounds much more like a petri net, or other agent-based discrete event modelling system. Which is another powerful mental paradigm, but challenging to reason about.
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Raising taxes is not a good idea when many businesses and individuals have already left CA due to high taxes and a high cost of living. That said that also seems to be the only solution to a neglected problem, which can no longer be ignored. Someone can prove me wrong, but there doesn't seem to any good choices left.
One point of outrage I've seen is about this Florida law passed last year that said schools need to have an online catalog of the books found within the school library, have a public notice period for comment for any book being added to the library, a 30 day grace period for after the book is introduced for a parent to make a formal complaint, a form to make a complaint about an existing book, and banned pornography ... why do so many people take offense with this very democratic process?
I guess I have to agree with the article. Ubuntu server is fine to run so far reliably and stable but the desktop has become an issue. I have no solution either. Personally, I enjoy xfce for it's simplicity. You are right, maybe Bookworm will be a good way to go.
Bindings are relatively easy to write, test and run. The hard part is usually just keeping them up to date with API changes.
Shades of pre-1968 AT&T. "Oh no, you can't connect that modem to our lines." In fact, prior to late 1956, AT&T even told people they couldn't mechanically attach a device to their phones.
There was a statistic years ago that couples who don't live together before marriage were more likely to stay together. The pretty obvious factor that gets missed is it's religious people for whom it's tougher to get out of a marriage (so I suppose it's stronger). I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing, choice causes all sorts of problems, even if it gives more agency. But the causality is wrong.
Yeah, I've already heard that you don't believe in succesion of power in Ukraine and that it enables everyone in the government to act at a whim of the moment as long as it serves the current agenda. Turns out that strategy doesn't work in real life.
It's upsetting that you only got 4 weeks. I'm happy WMF is not so shitty. I think it's more productive for everybody if the bar is raised, not lowered.
Thus solving the problem, forever!
Another similar project: https://mace.software/

Sadly, not open source (yet?).
What we need is to name the movements, name their proponents and debate them in public. Discussion, debate, referendum etc.

Instead we have a lot of ethereal players pushing policy that's affecting billions without any democratic process
To be clear I'm not as familiar with this for non-profits.

But generally yes, if much of your compensation is bonus based most executive contracts will have a mechanism for pro-rating or just paying out future bonuses.

This sounds a bit like it was something of a mutual parting of the ways so sometimes boards will payout other bonuses like Retention Bonuses (A bonus for staying at a position, frequently with another job offer at hand) even though the person is leaving. It could also just be a bonus triggered by the board choosing to part ways with her that was part of her executive contract. Proving a firing is "for cause" is frequently difficult so sometimes if there's a desire to replace a senior executive it's easier to just pay them off.
Andrew Millison has a great video about designing with slope. This includes a brief discussion about the steep slope found in the rice terraces of Southern China

https://youtu.be/McopD04XP3s
Of course, the experimental observations that lead to QFT need to be accounted for, but not any specific mathematical model of QM. If two models like GR and QM disagree, we’ve got to drop one of the two. In my opinion it’s easier to keep GR, because I’ve never heard of a way to make QM particles produce spacetime curvature. (Conversely there is an entire zoo of theories that extend GR down to particles.)

Fundamentally, GR predicts that even an individual electron curves spacetime, and not just at “interstellar” distances. The effect ought to be continuous all the way down to the particle’s “surface” for a want of a better term.

It’s a consistency principle. Theories don’t end at the edge of the experimental benchtop or the surface of a planet. Either everything everywhere follows a rule or nothing does. The experimenter themselves is QM and GR, as is every particle and every planet.

In this sense, there are several ways to “add” most of QM theory to any extension of GR such as Kaluza Klein theory.

Most of these are some variants of the many worlds interpretation (MWI). This can reproduce superposition and the various “spooky action at a distance” effects without anything spooky actually being needed. Locality can be preserved and the hidden variables are in parallel universes. The mathematical issues with hidden variables also vanish if you assume the experimenter is also a part of the quantum experiment and not just standing outside of it like some sort of God looking down at space time from above.

My pet variant of MWI is to do away with the discrete, tree-like “splits” and assume that the many worlds form a continuum. Essentially this means that there are multiple time dimensions, smoothly splitting the universe at every instant. Hence observations are not special in any way, and can’t even be clearly identified. It’s just stuff that “goes on”.

The really hard part for any TOE is not QM! The brutally difficult aspect is explaining the three particle generations.

Very few theories even begin to explain that…
Spoiler alert: They don't care about the criminals.
Ask HN: Those with success using GPT-4 for programming – what are you doing?
Personally, GPT-4 has wasted about as much of my time as it's saved with its constant hallucinations and lack of insight when writing NixOS derivations and a Rust web backend. I wouldn't let it near my delicate-hackish checkpointing work in C++.

What are you doing where it serves you well?
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v7 has a REST API. Much easier to use.

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/REST+API
School stuff, coloring & activity sheets, miscellaneous uses in craft projects. Way cheaper than an iPad per kid, and some of them (strongly) prefer paper activities to their digital equivalents. A printer's easily one of the most-useful devices in our house, mostly for kids, but also for crafts that we parents do.
I don't get the profundity. Computational directed acyclic graphs have been aa mainstay of computer science for decades.
You can have a realist political perspective and still understand that other nuclear-armed powers with massive, global economies and cutting edge militaries with force projection capabilities also have agency in world affairs.
It was intentional! :) After all, the title of the post we're commenting on is contrasting human behavior to bees.

No, I don't believe ants are actually acting with intelligent, social behavior in an attempt to win over their fellow ants. They're just little statistical robots searching for optimality.

That said, there have been times that I've been frustrated when I feel I am working harder than my peers and, in those moments, it's been easy for me to feel justified by looking at what's optimal for me rather than extrapolating to what's optimal for the greater good. I thought adding a little anthropomorphism to my descriptors would be a gentle way of helping others reflect on similar situations.
> former software engineer from Silicon Valley

I don't think I have encountered a website with tests before - https://buddhistuniversity.net/tests/
Their costs went up about 100%. The cumulative inflation over those 6 years was about 25%. The US averages 6% salary growth yearly, which over six years is about 42%, and would have been much higher in the tech industry. California averages a cost of living increase of about 8% annually, over six years that's 58%.

So if you adjust for the rising costs of doing anything in tech, their operating budget has increased by much less than would seem - only about 20%.

In those same six years, they've had to deal with a rise in misinformation campaigns, spam, infosec threats and recently ML models.

Call me crazy, but dealing with all of the extra complexity 2022 has over 2016 on a 20% budget increase is pretty great.
Podcasts Dedicated to Contrarian Ideas?
Are there any podcasts that are solely dedicated to discussing contrarian ideas? I'm aware that many prominent podcasters (Joe Rogan, Lex, Bari Weiss) feature guests with contrarian ideas...but are there any podcasts that are 100% focused on contrarianism?
Thank you for this resource. I am a software engineer and Buddhism-curious, but I've never taken the plunge into full on practice. I think I would like to though. Over many years of reading about Buddhism, contemplating the teachings and listening to various teachers, my conviction is growing.
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> Can you explain in detail how Grindr is an important part of Suzy's safe sex education

Not particularly, but it's a moot question. It's not part of her sex ed. It's on a book shelf. We don't ask why The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is an important part of Suzy's anything when we concur with it being available. Same here.

Turning the question around, what's the harm in Suzy going into a library, picking up this book and learning Grindr exists? (Again, in a hypothetical universe where this sequence of actions occurs without her knowing of it already.)

> Reminder that Suzy is 11 years old, not a teenager

"The average age of first exposure" to online porn is 12 [1]. Even if Suzy's parents practice perfect digital hygiene, unless they're raising her as a houseplant, she's going to be exposed to this at a younger age than we were. The choice is whether she gets exposed within a context of information, understanding and comfort, or if she's thrown into the fray in a state of ignorance.

[1] https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/education/2023-05-14/sex-inter...
Hmm, the situation is far more nuanced than you suggest. There are also downsides of outsourcing labour to developing markets, such as language barriers, time zones, cultural differences and more. I personally know several CTOs who have reverted to in-house teams after realising that the actual costs extend beyond just salaries.
You can’t really have the interactivity with a book. I do wish you could.
> But this is exactly why average is boring.

Honestly, I think it is the lens. Personally I find it absolutely amazing. It's this incredibly complex thing that we've been trying to describe for thousands of years but have completely failed to (we've gotten better of course). It's this thing that is right in front of that looks simple but because not many try to peak behind the curtain. Looking behind there is like trying to describe a Lovecraftian monster. But this is all in plain sight. That's pretty crazy imo. But hey, dig down the rabbit hole of any subject and you'll find this complex world. Most things are like collage. From far away their shape looks clear and precise but on close inspection you find that each tile itself is another beautiful piece. This is true even for seemingly simple things, and honestly I think that's even more beautiful. This complex and chaotic world is all around us but we take it for granted. Being boring comes down to a choice.

> If you ask the average person what it's like to be in the US Navy, ChatGPT could plausibly give a better response.

There's also a bias. Does a human know the instructions are a creative exercise? It is hard to measure because what you'd need to prompt a human with is "Supposing you were a conman trying to convince me you were in the Navy, how would you describe what it was like?" Because the average human response is going to default to not lying and fabricating things. You also need to remember that your interpretation is (assuming you aren't/weren't in the Navy) is as someone hearing a story rather than aligning that story to lived experiences. You'd need to compare the average human making up a story to GPT, not an average human's response.

> It's barely even capable of it, but has access to training data that the average person lacks.

I do agree that GPT is great as a pseudo and noisy library. I find that as a wonderful and very useful tool. I often forget specific words used to describe certain concepts. This is hard to google. GPT finds them pretty well or returns something close enough that I can do a quick iterative prompt and find the desired term. Much faster than when I used to do this by googling. But yeah, I think we both agree that GPT is by no means sentient and likely not intelligent (ill-defined and defined differently for different people). But we can find many things and different things interesting. My main point is I wanted to explain why I find intelligence so fascinating. Hell, it is a major part of why I got into ML research in the first place (Asimov probably helped a lot too).
ssh/web works fine for me for 10+yrs and many thousands of devices
That cuts two ways. If everything they said was on the record there would be no point in putting on a show since it will immediately turn out the show is all fake.

Imagine if politicians acted like normal people, negotiating things in nuance instead of being showmen.
I am pretty certain the issue is not the lack of ability of classification. It‘s just that a false positive might create really bad news, hence, it‘s better to avoid trying.
I suspect it's a bit like the security field. Some are useful and bring value. Some are hired so when something goes wrong there's a person to blame and a head to axe.
This doesn't seem productive
> I don't use any browser plugins for password managers, choosing instead either to copy/paste them by hand from my password manager

This is my practice, but I take it a step further. My passwords are stored in a non-networked password manager on my phone, not on any other machine. So when I need to use a password, I can't copy/paste. I have to type it in by hand.

I want maximal disconnect between my password manager and anything that uses passwords. And I never use SSO stuff, because I don't want anybody involved in authentication aside from me and the thing I'm authenticating to.
You’re awesome.
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Tell HN: If you cancel your ChatGPT subscription, you lose your chat history
IMO there's no reason to hide user history when they deactivate their subscription. Only ClosedAI would do such a thing.
Those who deliberately blur the line between "book banning" and "setting the curriculum in schools" are dishonest (at best). Clearly, everyone who believes in free speech believes that all adults should have access to any and all books, pamphlets and printed material, no matter how "obscene" or objectionable that material is. However, those who suggest that any and all printed material, no matter how "obscene" or objectionable, should be allowed in classrooms (let alone into the classrooms of young children) are extremists who should not be taken seriously. Even worse, the notion that parents should not have any input about what "obscene" or objectionable material their children are exposed to in public school is profoundly authoritarian.
A “json crdt” doesn’t edit a string containing json grammar. That’s a misleading idea. Instead, a json crdt stores a tree of values. Values can be lists / strings / numbers / maps / etc. Operations modify that tree of data - maybe by setting a key in an object (map). That set operation will be replicated to other peers. Or by inserting into a list, or editing a text document.

When conflicting writes happen to a key in a map, a good crdt will either transparently pick a “winner” (and the other write disappears) or when you read, you can read all conflicting values and your application can choose what to do.

The downside of all this is you can’t have database style transactions, so many application side data integrity constraints are hard or impossible to implement. Like, you can’t enforce a constraint that a list has < 10 values in it because the merging algorithm may merge two inserts and put the list over your limit.
My view on banning encryption in any way is always the same: it will disadvantage the innocent masses, and the criminals they purport to be targeting will simply continue to use it. The black hats will rejoice because now their victims are less secure by law. Good luck stopping them.
Wtf kind of company is Xfinity running? Spectrum offered to replace my internal wiring for free. I just didn't want some guy running around in my attic, so I did it myself.
Brain waves can tell us how much pain someone is in
"Gradually and then suddenly."
Uk is not a powerhouse for anything outside finance, thinking they can start up a cluster in whatever sector from the city + Oxbridge is delusional