skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Give the "Indic scripts" section of https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/15/breaking-our-l... a read.

TL;DR: Unicode is complicated because some non-Latin writing systems are complicated and those non-Latin writing systems account for over a quarter of the world's population. (They're either majority or present in India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, etc.)
I feel like this is just going to lead to another design-by-committee overly complex standard that very few can actually implement, and the desire to reinvent instead of reuse existing standards with some additions is responsible for much of that. A lot of the features they mentioned like scalable compression / "region of interest" were also present in JPEG2000. IMHO "reduce, reuse, recycle" works well as a software design principle too.
I have yet to find LLMs useful beyond basic factoids (I have plans to deploy Llama 2 as an Alexa replacement), but the latest Stable Diffusion model (XL) has continued to impress me. It is clearly a game changer in the utility it provides to my interests. Admittedly, I'm having fun making high quality 8k wallpapers of abstract concepts and fictions places, but a truly honed creator could clearly work wonders with it.

Bitcoin is a solution in search of a much bigger set of problems than it can currently solve now. The ML Renaissance we've hit right now has clear, immediate utility to many. The moves made by the stock art heavyweights is proof enough of how disruptive it is.

Contrast this with how banks and financial institutions have responded to bitcoin. To my knowledge, there's yet to be a Bank of America Coin, a Wells Fargo blockchain solution, or non-fungible tokens offered by RBC. They clearly felt at least somewhat threatened, but not in any meaningful way.
This is just complete nonsense, "American" parents care about a lot of things clearly. Why are so many students enrolled in Kumon and whatever after-school prep is popular these days? Are kids just shuttling themselves to all sorts of activities just because they want to?

Sure some parents care about sports too. Maybe because their kid is athletically gifted. Not every kid needs to go into STEM. Why shouldn't they be able to enroll in a school that focuses on sports?
I still don't get how that would solve the issue of having no linux drivers.

Lets say I create a new GPU IP core, i give it to a third-party chip manifactorer to produce it, then that delivers it to a fourth-party to burn a privat key into the fuses, then a fifth party signs its firmware with that key, which contains checks that Windows is running in secure boot mode with Microsoft keys. And then it is sold to the end user via a distributor, which did't do any other work on it.

How would preventing a 'vertical' integration forbid that?

I would rather just regulate that users should be given the full specs and possibility to use their own keys, to allow them to run their own software on/with it without any feature gates to the hardware. This can be argued for as a right to repair or as giving devices a second life and thus reducing electronic waste.

Your rule would likely make the work of smaller companies and startups more difficult, if they have to hire a third-party to write the software. A solo dev might has to create two companies in order to create one product, that seems painful. I guess a lot of OSH projects would not be possible with that rule.
> Why would agents show a FSBO home for free?

I'm talking about BUYERS' agents refusing to show FSOB homes to the buyers they represent because sometimes they are on the sell side so they don't want to encourage FSOB. If they did represent the buyer in buying an FSOB house they'd still get the buy side commission...a short term gain that would piss off all the other agents in town.

In an FSBO there's by definition no seller's commission.
We booked a handful of airbnbs before covid, but since covid it's simply too expensive for what you get. We choose extended stay hotels instead (mini kitchen, pool, and always a receptionist during normal hours), though they are more difficult to find.
There's no selling agent in a FSBO (For Sale By Owner). But the buyers' agents often boycott these houses because of course sometimes they are on the sales side.
As far as I know, the story is true. If the input data just got better, you'd expect measurements above and below the real value.

IIRC, the experimental value went in one direction, from Millikan's to the currently accepted value.
This is painful to read. Too soon.
We had to because the sellers insisted on using an agent themselves, because their realtor convinced them they had to, and then that agent then insisted that we use a realtor too.

And that's before I bring up how everyone, from the titling company, to the attorney, to the inspector, also insisted we "needed" a realtor, with multiple potential vendors refusing to talk to me without one.

It felt, at the time, like a racket, with everyone in on the grift.
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I have been using DDG for a few years, and most of the time end up doing !g to go to Google and get good answers. Nothing specific comes to mind right now, but the pattern is like this:

me: Who's that guy with a big hat?

DDG: showing results for bug hat IN UNITED KINGDOM: 1) Daily Mail woman wearing ladybird hat absolutely destroys woke liberal you won't believe. 2) Best hair cuts for guys who wear hats - generic-seo-spamsite.com. 3) Who's who in the world of business 2023 update. 4) Don't be "that guy"! tips for dating.

me: !g

Google: He's Crocodile Dundee.

me: how the heck did you know that.

Google isn't always that good, but DDG is all too often that bad. It's bad in a very Bing-way with search results that kinda touch on the right words but are low relevance and high SEO/spam. (And adamant that whatever I'm searching for - cat pictures, cities in California, Caesar Salad recipes, prices of things in America, I must want the results from UNITED KINGDOM because that's where I am. Which, incidentally, is a frustration of Google maps: "I wonder whats in California? Google maps, let me see the world..." "THIS IS YOUR HOUSE, THIS IS A ZOOMED IN MAP OF WHERE YOU LIVE, I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE". "Calm down, I know what things look like round here, I live here. I wanted to look somewhere else, like, obviously?").
>Google being default on Chrome the leading browser?

This is why Microsoft won't win. Google obviously isn't going to not use their own search engine on their own browser, and that's totally fine. I'm not sure what Google can even do to reduce the market share of their search engine besides intentionally making it worse than Bing.
Google docs you say?

Haven't tried this myself, but this claims "distraction free writing" and "dark mode" for google docs.. lots of CSS with some JS sprinkled in...
https://gist.github.com/TwistedSnakes/6eeb1590bffc67adbe8e78...
AirBNB went way down hill... last two experiences were awful, and I had many great ones before when they had a little more free money it seems. Hotels are a better value now.
Yes.

The downrounds and devaulations for the ChatGPT wrappers are coming in [0] and realizing that most of these 'AI startups' are overhyped. Especially the 'Chat with PDF' web apps and basic AI copywriting apps using AI APIs.

To suggest otherwise is pretty naive, and the large AI providers (OpenAI, Google, etc) do compete against their own partners.

[0] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/jasper-an-early-gene...
Briefly worked in their It dept and was told it was 8% except on alcohol. Buyers who got great deals were bound to a max percent margin, even if it meant a ridiculous price.
Uptime monitoring services? I think most of those I tried (and I tried many in the past weeks).
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It’s been done. The secret is to reward participants and make it long term. Check out the General Social Survey conducted by NORC. It’s one of the longest running longitudinal surveys with multiple cohorts tracking the public’s changing views on a variety of issues combined with detailed demographic data.
I am merely pointing at the trivial connections to others. Hinting at the idea that any line in the sand between you and others that you will feel an identity with is a line you will draw. That others will draw it somewhere else should be no surprise.

Do I also think it is arbitrary? Yeah. But I am also ok not feeling shame at stupid crap my immediate family has done. I just have no surprise that others do.
We distinguish things by probing properties because obviously if something is different enough to be distinguished, it will show itself in results.

If you want to see if that piece of shiny looking yellow metal is really gold and not some counterfeit, then amongst other possible probes, you pour some hydrochloric acid on it and see how it reacts. If it's virtually unchanged then it's the real deal. If you perform all the possible gold probes on this metal and it passes all of them, if you still insist it isn't gold then you're just a crazy nut who's lost touch with reality. Your definition of "real gold" no longer holds any meaning.

Similarly we have probes for understanding different things (which are mind you biased to us). If something passes those tests, it understands. It's very simple.
a "caution: wet paint" sign would not be pass any understanding tests i know of so it does not understand.
I was so positive on Airbnb five years ago, crazy to think back on now as I avoid any Airbnb stay if I can.
My property near JTNP is surrounded by AirBnB VHRs. The place immediately next door regularly has guests, and from what I've seen they're often quite messy and outright abusive to the property. It doesn't surprise me one iota that prices are high / loaded with stiff cleaning costs. People suck, and people on vacation using other people's stuff suck even more.
I'm not convinced Apple will crack the spatial computing or VR market. I think they have a polished product, but it looks like something that will be gathering dust in a few months if I bought one, sitting right next to my Quest Pro. At least the Pro can run a few games. I strongly anticipate that, unless you have a MacBook, you won't see the full potential of Apple's offering.
This is the case for all generative "art." The people at the high end will still get paid well. The people who specialize in more utilitarian or low budget tasks in higher volume will take the biggest hit. Nobody who'd planned on hiring Morgan Freeman to do a voice over will be tempted to use AI Morgan Freeman instead.
Market is small. Apple doesn't really care, and have stated it for decades. People who just have a laptop can't really make big use of it. Many don't have mice, they have touchpads, and magic mice aren't great for games. Can't plug in standard USB controllers. And it costs double for significantly worse performance than what you'd be able to get on a PC, which again invalidates the uses. And no building machines, just pre-canned, at that point might as well get a PS5 or Xbox.

Its a bit of a perfect storm. If Apple officially wanted it, they'd make the hardware / software support whatever is needed. But they don't so it isn't even a chicken-egg problem. Why would you try to go after a tiny market where the hardware maker treats you as an afterthought at best.
I was thinking of people renting a spare room; but you are right, that’s not what Airbnb’s real business is today.
> Non-nullable reference types as default was a bad idea

Why?
> “invest early in this asset and sell it later 100x”

Literally VCs.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37744077.
This also gives you access to some of their AI tools, such as being able to summerize the results of your search using their quick answer feature.

This is something Google can't and won't do because they, and the people they depend on, would lose too much ad revenue. This is going to be a future problem as we transition to AI and AI assisted search for information retrieval.
Edit it again but this time get rid of my ex son in law.

Actually, if the software is really smart (and maybe supplied by Google) you could ask "remove all of my kids' spouses that will be divorced at some point in the future"
Dish dealt first-ever space-debris fine for misparking satellite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37744077
Yes. Give https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZBa3sqTrI a watch... especially the "Oh my God! We've been hacked!" part at 36:20.

TL;DR: They had a transient glitch in their network switch and, because Windows uses UTF-16 when sending remote event logs over the wire, whenever it dropped a single byte, it had the effect of swapping the endianness of the messages, resulting in scary Chinese text in the logs.

You could get the same effect by naively applying byte-wise processing to UTF-16 or UTF-32, or having an off-by-one error.

UTF-8 is self-synchronizing so one-byte errors like that only lose you one character, rather than corrupting the entire stream going forward.
> How can you in good conscience celebrate making a tremendous profits exploiting the fact that people cannot afford a basic need?

I'm completely missing your point.

If I buy property in a developing area because I think it's cool, and I live there for years and am part of the community and watch it grow around me, and years later decide to sell - I took an early risk, don't I deserve to recognize the rewards from that risk?

If it was a bad risk and the area went to hell, and I lost money - is that ok?

But making money isn't?

Should home builders not be allowed to make money because housing is a basic human need?

Should we not be allowed to build luxury homes that cost more because we could have built multiple cheaper ones with the same money?

What should the rules be, in your opinion?
Nothing says you have to, but boy howdy, would the realtors prefer you do.

We had negotiated ours down to 1.5%, which I thought was fair, but that was continent on the sellers realtor also accepting a 1.5% fee. The sellers realtor would not accept 1.5%, nor would the sellers reduce the price by 1.5%.

Since someone was going to get that 1.5%, I insisted the commissions be matched to be fair to our agent, and the sellers agreed to pay from their proceeds – after a somewhat heated back and forth.

It was dumb.
Not everyone lives the life you live. Consider Bitcoin use among Russian dissidents, Belarussian protestors, Venezuelan professors, Afghan women entrepreneurs, Nigerian feminists, and North Korean revolutionaries.

At present, Bitcoin may have no utility for you, but you are not the only use case.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/07/15/russian-activists...

https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/how-bitcoin-is-helpin...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/venezuela-...

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-financial-freedo...

https://qz.com/africa/1922466/how-bitcoin-powered-nigerias-e...

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/05/356_265701.h...
I put mine on Zillow after interviewing a realtor and it sold for $1,000 less than the maximum amount he realtor said I could expect. Since I didn't have to pay his commission I came out ahead by a lot.
> I was around in 2006. We didn’t have too many houses then

Yes, I was also around in 2006. That seems irrelevant as there is adequate data available regardless of when you were born.

> It’s just not the same market as homes.

No, it is, at least when people have to make hard choices. There is no law that says each family gets a SFH to themselves. Sure, they may want that, but when SFH becomes unobtainable people make those hard choices.

If you have more homes than you have willing and able buyers, you have too many homes. Family formation can be delayed(i.e. live with relatives longer) or families can choose multifamily. I don't recall a mass epidemic of homelessness after 2008 left homes empty, so it seems to me that we have enough places to live, even if those places are not the dwelling of their dreams. I understand there are statistics that say otherwise, and similar statistics were around in 2006 and proved to be wrong, so I have to question the recent statistics.

> That’s not going to repeat.

I didn't say that. We may see a 2008 style financial crash driven by commercial real estate, but I doubt even that will happen. What will likely happen is that the folks who think prices only go up will be surprised as the pool of buyers opts out of the SFH market while attrition slowly lowers prices. This process may even snowball in some markets as people "race for the exits" when they realize home prices are losing support.
What if Airbnb used their immense capital to build their own buildings to rent out? They could use economies of scale to keep the prices reasonable while also making sure that each room was up to a certain level of quality. They could call them "Hotels", hostels without the shite.
You could even argue it's not so much the models themselves (LLM or diffusion), but rather the fact that fine tuning is remarkably accessible. Research is hot on ways to quantize parameters, swap portions for low memory, and the like. It's amazing to watch and use them.
Airbnb is completely unusable for me now: I can't use my credit card because Airbnb wants to use Plaid for "verification" that requires my bank username and password (never going to happen), and the only other offered alternative, PayPal, just gets denied outright.

Does Airbnb truly get enough fraud that it's worth doing things this ridiculous?
> I'm pretty sure had mobile phones existed in the Mediterranean during the Achaemenid era...

Isn't that how the angels talked with the gods?
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My policy is first one round of complaint to close the feedback loop and return the burden of hunting down the opt-out that should have been an -in.

Then, yes, the next step is just to remove the app and leave an appropriate review. A demonstrably adversarial app has no place in my life.
I agree with your point in this thread. Teachers in Finland, for example, are highly respected (like doctors in the US). They're highly trained, highly paid, highly trusted, and they really do a great job.

I wish that were the case in the US -- but we'd be talking about overhauling an entire profession, not merely increasing wages. I do think increased wages would be a great idea, but I think it would take more than that to achieve what Finland has achieved.
This explains all the skinny elephants there are.
I don't think fractional ownership is a silicon valley creation? What makes you say that?

Similarly, how are real estate agents a guard on investing?

I'm not convinced they are bad, mind you. Curious on your angle, though.
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I'm sorry, I probably should have advertised that better.
So because housing is expensive, Americans are making even poorer choices by saving less for them? Make it make sense.
I don't know about you, but I would have to significantly upsize before the mortgage payments exceeded the standard deduction my wife and I receive as a couple. In my market, the mortgage deduction is effectively dead.
Cookie consent is only necessary if you're sharing it with others (eg. ad networks, Google Analytics, etc.) or using it for "non-essential" functions (again, stuff like analytics). Sites just don't want the general public to realize that.

As for the mouse cursors, I don't think they qualify as personal information under the GDPR, but IANAL.
This question reminds me of the computer scene from “Willy Wonka”.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tMZ2j9yK_NY

I’m imagining the computer guru presenting his plan to Congress: “my 100% infallible computer model says here’s what the tax law should be. Please overhaul society now and make sure you don’t let any of your prior opinions cloud your judgement now that the computer has told you what’s best.”

Computational models are models: they work best with systems we already basically understand the rules to or can at least approximate. Like weather or physics.

Economics is a social science. Economies are incredibly dynamic systems because they’re made of people. Every change to the system causes the participants to change their behavior. People are significantly more complicated than Game Of Life gliders. A model that can correctly simulate the economy requires strong AGI or magic, neither of which have been invented yet.
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that sounds illegal. if a platform has monopoly pricing power, especially on something like housing
I can't understand how anyone feels comfortable giving up that type of information.
It tasted bad.
Airbnb own service fee is often like a nights stay. For a freaking web service?!
Going back to your first comment, you said 'the train is leaving the station brother' - that 'brother' part kinda implies that you and them are on the train together.

With that in mind, could you confirm that you are an American citizen living in America and that, metaphorically speaking, you are indeed on that same 'train' together? And that you aren't, so to speak, standing outside fanning the flames of unrest with your smug comments?
I'm guessing it will start and run and just give an error that the key is missing. They can still drive it and get to wherever they need?
"Extended (Grapheme Cluster)".

The .graphemes() method in Rust's unicode-segmentation crate takes an is_extended boolean as an argument and, if you set it to false, you're iterating legacy grapheme clusters.