skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 10% probably barely covers sell/buy commissions, let alone maintenance, inflation, and interest. If you sold now, it would actually be at an effective loss. You don’t need to feel guilty about a 10% increase, you aren’t really profiting at that point.
> This Ukraine / Russia conflict could have been avoided. NATO could have respected Russia’s views towards expanding to the east.

If Russia cared about this so much they could have either formalised there views and asked for an international agreement.

Or joined NATO itself, they did neither.
"Idling"? Is Forbes allergic to the phrase "laid-off" now?
Paris Hilton is getting a special deal to post on X
The question isn't really whether you got some useful service in exchange for your 3%. Monopolies and cartels don't always rob you blind. The question is whether you had a choice and meaningful competition on price.
Capt. Crunch would be proud.
I the think that the body count is an good way to compare the scale of sacrifice, something like 24m:0.4m or around 60 to 1.

Mother and father are equally necessary to the zygote, but the scale of the sacrifice is severely assymetrical for babies too.
I mean in the Activision case, the judge took the same person's testimony that they wouldn't make Activision games X-Box exclusives completely at face value, so there's precedent that they are completely honest even when conflict of interests are involved /s
Cool that Dan Bricklin still writes software, open source no less.

The other name's familiar too. (Looked it up) Audrey Tang also started Pugs which prototyped Perl6 in Haskell while it was being designed.
US Government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network
They must have known that the keys always get left near the window/door?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_think_tanks_in_the_Uni...

plenty of them are left-leaning. I'm not sure about the "dark money" bit though
It's a 'security puzzle' now? I thought it was a 'Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart'?

But since it fails at that on its face, now the only hope we apparently have that it can tell computers from humans is that we're trying to persuade the computers not to help humans solve it.

But now it turns out that the computers can be emotionally manipulated into helping the humans anyway.

And the reason this is a problem is because CAPTCHAs are used to prevent humans from doing immoral things like running spam schemes or credit card fraud rings.

Yeah, I think we're gonna need another Turing test. This one doesn't work because the computers have more empathy than humans.
The unrealistic character, running an illogical operation, comes to an obvious ending; point Shakespeare. I didn't realize Michael Lewis also wrote The Blind Side, which seems like a story that is, similarly, quite a bit more complex than it is presented by Lewis, as the article suggests was the case with the Bankman story.
Or benefits more from prices being very low.
>Well, actually, Google paying other companies to make Google the default is stopping Bing from getting traffic.

I cannot see how this is true.

Microsoft, with its tens of billions in annual profits, can invest in all the advertising in the world, literally, to let people know how to change the default browser on their iOS or Android device.

It is a trivial setting to change.

What is not trivial, for Microsoft, is creating a competitive search engine and advertising business.
Ousted Flexport CEO Dave Clark Strikes Back
*nod*

Rust was given as one of the examples and Rust's .len() behaviour is chosen based on three very reasonable concerns:

1. They want the String type to be available to embedded use-cases, where it's not reasonable to require the embedding of the quite large unicode tables needed to identify grapheme boundaries. (String is defined in the `alloc` module, which you can use in addition to `core` if your target has a heap allocator. It's just re-exported via `std`.)

2. They have a policy of not baking stuff that is defined by politics/fiat (eg. unicode codepoint assignments) into stuff that requires a compiler update to change. (Which is also why the standard library has no timezone handling.)

3. People need a convenient way to know how much memory/disk space to allocate to store a string verbatim. (Rust's `String` is just a newtype wrapper around `Vec<u8>` with restricted construction and added helper functions.)

That's why .len() counts bytes in Rust.

Just like with timezone definitions, Rust has a de facto standard place to find a grapheme-wise iterator... the unicode-segmentation crate.
What do you all think is the inside story on what really happened?
That the US in any way won the war on either front is clearly propaganda. I think that implies "propaganda campaign."

In the US, we are taught in school and in all of our media that we were somehow the "tipping point." This is determined, in the European theater, by being involved peripherally and not participation in actually defeating the enemy (which had been relentlessly throwing itself against its eastern front) - we had to rush to try to meet the Soviets in Berlin despite much easier conditions. And in the Pacific theater, we Americans are taught that victory was determined by "awesome A-bombs" instead of what the actual timing shows to be - "oh, crap - Stalin," causing Japanese surrender to anyone but Stalin. The US POV is exported to everywhere else via Hollywood, thus global propaganda, a global "campaign."

That said, this is a puff piece in Vox. What do you expect?
> I'd be happy about it too, but am overwhelmed by guilt when talking to my intern, our newly hired engineer, my younger siblings, and many of my friends who rent at ever-increasing rates.

You bought a house and you live in it. Feeling guilt over something that isn't your fault makes no sense. If it makes you feel _better_ to try to help solve the problem, that's great; but that's totally different than guilt.

Just like it's not right to feel bad that you can't keep up with the Joneses, its not right to feel guilty that the Smiths can't keep up with you.
So many tool chains and the like depend on being connected. That said, some books (for instance) have the code in place / examples you can downlaod.

If you are up for a new language and since you are front end focused, making sure your system is setup for it, maybe look at learning Rust and the book - https://pragprog.com/titles/hwrust/hands-on-rust/

It builds a game through the process. I found it a fun way to learn the language. But again, I'm not sure how possible it is to do offline.
What a bizarre article (probably needs (2014), by the way). It seems to go out of its way to minimize the contribution of the non-Soviet allies to the war.

This post, linked in the article, is I think a far more reasonable assessment of the Soviet sacrifices and overall contribution to Germany’s defeat:

https://orangeraisin.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/did-the-red-ar...
Why Walking Tanks Never Became a Thing
This seems so backwards to me. One invests in the home they live in, to improve their quality of life and the value of their own property. Buying more properties than you need to live is what drives up housing costs, because other people need those homes to live in and you're using that core basic human need as a method to extract capital from them.
It’s clear cut and dry. None of the social studies can replicate their theoretical models. That’s why they’re not considered a science. It has nothing to do with naming in other languages.

Are they still useful? Yes, they still give us a needed picture. However, until we can build a near perfect simulation of the world at the atomic level, social studies will be likely remain as an alchemy or astrology instead of a chemistry or astronomy. There are just too many variables not being accounted for and they depend on too many other disciplines that are also still relatively young like computer science and chaos theory.
Can you elaborate a little on why LangChain is bad and should be avoided?

I had modest success in using LLMs to achieve productivity improvements and results for my clients that are otherwise not possible. I used more direct API calls to invoke LLMs so far but am now considering switching to LangChain to make it more maintainable and scalble to turn more of my ideas into products and service offerings for my clients.

At the outset, a standard library that warps around popular LLMs and makes calling them easier seems needed and inevitable.
Doesn't sound much different than some of the agents I've worked with.
If you're using GP, they don't do monogenic screening like the hereditary cancers described here (it's an assay that's good for GRS but can't do monogenics). Orchid does monogenic screening though[1], because it's WGS, you can get in touch.

[1] https://guides.orchidhealth.com/post/embryo-screening-and-he...
> I didn't know that unicode changes the definition of grapheme in backwards incompatible fashion annually, so software which works by grapheme count is probably inconsistent with other software using a different version of the standard anyway.

This is EXACTLY why Rust's standard library is blind to graphemes. Support for the case where your company requires a specially certified toolchain that lags five years behind Rust upstream is an explicit goal that they address by breaking the stuff that changes quickly out into minimal crates that can be audited, updated at a quicker pace without requiring toolchain updates, and which have the option to continue to support older compiler versions indefinitely.
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Drawing a comparison to cryptocurrency is shortsighted. Crypto, unfortunately had a very strong rival: Country-run fiat.

AI doesn’t have any rivals, perhaps faster and lower-power chips but we haven’t seen all the implications yet.
I guess I was thinking, non-air breathing that carries its own oxidizer, so it’s a real rocket but on a jet
I thought you were joking about sub-350k and looked it up for CA. That is nuts:

In August 2023, home prices in California were up 4.8% compared to last year, selling for a median price of $792,900. On average, the number of homes sold was down 14.0% year over year and there were 25,115 homes sold in August this year, down 29,214 homes sold in August last year.

https://www.redfin.com/state/California/housing-market
is Redfin big enough for this gamble?

do they have processes in place to not just become another NAR?
Thanks! That’s a lot of docx files, are there any regular people in the blogosphere that have took it upon themselves to explain or justify their support of this policy?

If on balance the only stuff to read on the internet is “the official proposal on ca.gov” and “a library of folks describing The Grapes of Wrath But It’s Math In California” that would be fascinating.
0.1% same as any transaction involving the shares would be fine
Screw that. Be up front with where you are in your process but don't cave to pressure from someone whose financial incentives do not fully align with yours. Be polite but firm, and if they don't want to work with you there's plenty of others who will.
The flip side, if we had listened to our agent's advice we'd not have (1) landed the house we love (2) sold our prior house.

Particularly, on the sale, we kept hearing "wait, you'll get more offers. wait, you'll get more offers. AirBnB investors are going to love this". No other offers turned up.
The government doesn’t (or shouldn’t) care if a business beats another business in business.

They care if doing so harms the consumer by the route of lack of competition leading to higher prices and/or inferior product.
California has a 1% tax rate.

If you can't afford less than $1k per month you could just sell your $1 million house.

Those numbers aren't being dramatic. You need a $1.2 million house to pay $1k a month in property taxes.
Illustrated A64 SIMD Instruction List: SVE Instructions
How did some of this goofy psychology research become so popular?
Why did you have to?

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We bought our current house without an agent. Happens that the seller was an agent, but we worked with them directly.
Sure but if you apply “died with” to e.g. the common cold it would appear quite deadly, no? It’s an absolutely useless statistic, and the fact that it was used for IFR everywhere I saw early on without massive asterisks is very, very odd. And then it wasn’t replaced by “died of”, it was just obfuscated (on CDC anyway).
Buying gives you stability, you don’t have to worry about double digit rent increases; it also gives you agency to make the home more suited to your needs.

I wouldn’t trust what the government is doing to have any bearing on rates. Lower interest rates actually make it cheaper for the government to borrow as it does for everyone else. Those treasury bonds get expensive when their yields pop above inflation.
If I got a $350K windfall right now I'd probably put about 70% of it into tbills (6 month to 1 year paying ~5.5% right now) and another 20% into 2 to 5 year treasury notes (paying ~4.7% right now) with the remainder going into an S&P 500 ETF like VOO. I'd DCA into stocks & etfs as the tbills matured. You're right, these 5% rates probably won't last long (though some pundits are saying we're going to be seeing 6+% due to high demand and stubborn inflation so who knows...) but a 5.5% yield on ultra safe treasuries is too hard to pass up right now plus there's no state tax on that interest.
Random stuff:

>how many times russia surrendered moscow

Google provides links about the history of Russian wars.

Bing talks about the current Ukrainian affair.

Bing = garbage
Surely human workers are rivals to AI.
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> it's come from no one's pockets until you sell

Assuming that property tax has been tracking the current market value of the house then yes.

But in California prop 13 means that isn't the case
Give https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/15/breaking-our-l... a read and, ideally, the other things it mentions like https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/ and https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing....

(Among other things, it points out that doing that to non-Latin text is liable to change pronunciations and meanings in other languages. For example, some languages use diacritics for voiced/unvoiced indication where your "normalization" could do things like "tick→dick" or "did→tit".)

(Did you ever notice that? B/P, D/T, V/F, G/K, J/CH, and Z/S form voiced/unvoiced pairs that could have been indicated with a single letter and a diacritic. Same mouth behaviour. It's just a question of whether you engage your vocal cords.)
Partially true...if you are looking for general purpose models. Instead of general purpose, I rather like more specialized models.

I have some transcription correction needs, and I had a set of prompts that could get GPT4 to do it...but boy was it expensive, and I had to break the problem down into multiple steps to get accurate results, increasing costs further.

My 13b Llama2 fine-tune Inkbot ( https://huggingface.co/Tostino/Inkbot-13B-8k-0.2 ) is able to do those same tasks with a single shot prompt. I have some examples of the specific tasks I trained that model on in the readme. But it isn't intended to be a general purpose model. It has a specific skill-set, and it's best to stick to those types of tasks. I'm also able to do batch inference at over 1k tokens/sec with this model on my desktop. That is something simply not possible with a 70b model on consumer hardware.
> This is all completely irrelevant. No office suite user gives a shit what the Library of Congress thinks about database formats, because spreadsheets are not databases, no matter how often you personally conflate the two.

I did not conflate database and dataset. I specifically described the two types. The Library of Congress specifically describes the two types.

You decided that "others" think that database and dataset are conflated, and that they are wrong.

> edit: Your assertions are wrong anyway (...) Some random counterexamples to your claim:

It's not my assertion, it's a assertion by the Library of Congress itself. The Library declares that it has no experience directly handling CSV.

> "LC experience or existing holdings": None in relation to collection holdings [1]

> "LC experience or existing holdings": "Report of actual practice at the Library of Congress." [2]

[1] CSV, Comma Separated Values (RFC 4180) - https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0003...

[2] Format Descriptions: Explanation of Terms, Local Use - https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd_exp...
1% property taxes are ~15% of my mortgage payment in CA.

I would pay 50% more if I upgraded with the same debt amount due to interest.
NAR is just the gatekeeper to the MLS. MLS access is the real benefit to being a part of these associations. No one wants to actually pay these fees. And if Redfin could be the one to disrupt and democratize access to these databases, it would be awesome for buyers and sellers.

Of course, this probably comes at a cost to realtors who get their margins squeezed even more.
Acidic water with zero alkalinity now being pumped to SF Sunset and Richmond
Disappointed native San Franciscan here, hoping to find solace in other locals who are also experiencing the same challenge that I am now facing.

Last week, around Thursday, we noticed a significant flavor change in our water. More chlorine-y.

That day, I started having the acidic heartburn feeling for the first time in a while. The feeling has continued since then, and I’ve been taking a Tums at least once a day to combat it. No change in diet. Main change is the water (and I basically only drink straight tap water).

I got curious. I bought some 16-in-one freshwater quality test strips. I had a glass bottle of water from a couple of weeks ago, and I also had fresh tap water. I tested the “old” water and compared to the “new” water a couple of times each.

To my surprise, there were two distinct differences in the readings:

1. The pH of the old water was 6.5, while the pH of the new water was 6.0. More acidic.

2. The alkalinity of the old water was 40ppm, while the alkalinity of the new water was 0ppm. Less control of pH.

Both of these are outside the EPA’s recommended ranges for drinking water.

I’ve been drinking tap water here for my entire life, and losing rights to drink the water that the other half of my city is drinking (and paying the same amount for) makes me very, very disappointed.

Any suggestions for how to fix this / who to track down?

Are others willing to experiment and validate with some citizen science, then band together with me to push for change?

Hope so.

Thanks for reading.
Sega Saturn Mini Could Become a Reality, Thanks to Retron FPGA
My guess is that it’s heading for a late-1990s-Internet-esque bubble pop. Some overly hyped companies will go belly up and some investors will lose their shirts, but the technology will grow only more powerful and the world will be transformed by it.
That’s a great story! Do you know why your friend was willing to sell below market? Was it just 6% below market - what they would have spent on fees anyway?
SmileDirectClub Faces Liquidation Threat After Losses, Lawsuits
Indeed, Airbnb wants to maximize for booking volume and platform fees over hosts maximizing for revenue. Airbnb rode the covid travel/remote wave (even Chesky was astonished at their valuation at IPO [1], ~$100B), and with the global economy slowing and travelers starting to prefer hotels, they’re going to struggle to hold onto the revenue levels they might’ve (perhaps a bit unrealistically) become accustomed to.

Is it a $100B business at 5% interest rates and slower travel going forward? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://archive.ph/2020.12.13-031305/https://www.nytimes.com...
As I wrote in another comment, anti-trust is about protecting the consumer, the public.

This isn’t about the government trying to help Microsoft or represent their interest.

The whole point of anti-trust is that without competition prices go up and quality goes down.

For the consumer.
one reason supermarkets keep their prices low is because of a motivated 8-10% that are avid coupon and price sensitive shoppers. They keep the supermarkets honest for the rest of us.

A 8-10% swing in topline revenue for the supermarket is a lot. Supermarkets can't afford to scare away those shoppers. We all benefit from that positive externality
Games are cheaper for hour of entertainment than pretty much any other class of entertainment/hobby where you normally pay, even if you only play the game for a dozen hours or less. Movies, concerts, going to the bar, fishing, gardening, sports (including transportation/facility costs), etc.
What happens to the salary of the CEO if google doesn't renew their deal? Fire the remaining engineers there?
Case-Shiller just set an all time high. Prices are not declining.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA
> Insights into your life: What are you doing when your voice sounds the most excited?

If they're doing this without violating my privacy I'll [do something humiliating!]
Low quality code and a lot of technical debt.
Reading the FDA notice, a lot of them will probably get FDA approval soon given this accelerated pathway. Looks like they just want 99% sensitivity and < .01% false positives on the targeted genes/regions, and as long as you can show your WGS coverage you don't need to do trials or whatever.
The fact that you can't type this post without using so many acronyms that only insiders can read it suggests yes.
The article said that they form as ionized balls that can move at ten percent of the speed of light. That's almost 30 million miles an hour! I don't know what to say, except that nature is f'ing amazing!

And I'd love to know what those downward branching structures are...
AirBnB used to be a cheap stay. Now it's often not. Many hosts charge the equivalent of an extra night as a "service fee," pushing up the total price for the stay and making it harder to compare places on price.

We're booking a trip at the moment and finding in many locations we're better off booking a hotel - they're often cheaper, closer to public transport, we can leave bags at reception etc.
How do people qualitatively measure their developer experience?
Is anyone taking surveys specifically designed for developer teams to help organizations understand and improve their developer experience? What tools do that?
mean crypto utility is basically zero. mean AI utility is decent.
Curious. What OS? We’ve been running it in production on FreeBSD/ZFS for probably five years or so without issue, but not running at near system capacity.
> Bets on user-upgradable Python on Linux by 2030?

Use asdf. You don’t want to manage your project’s dependencies at the system level any more than you have to.