skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair ASP.NET Web API was just the natural progression of ASP.NET MVC which is based on Monorail more than anything else. You're making it sound like the community was set on ServiceStack and then MS reeled them back in, but the truth is not many people were using ServiceStack back then, they were using ASP.NET MVC which had things like JsonResult and whatnot that would get you a long way.

That said, ServiceStack has transitioned to payware a long, long time ago and I'm pretty sure that is what's caused its demise, not ASP.NET Web API. As a single anecdotal data point, it's definitely the reason I'm not using it.
If you purposefully threw away a phone that you knew had nudes on, I don't think you can complain that someone found them no.

I suppose the ultimate answer is not to leave pictures of your self nude if you don't want people finding them. I'm guessing most people wouldn't want just one random person having access to their nude photos.

I'm not sure how this example changes if you replace throwing away with selling on eBay, whereas if the BBC had sold the tapes on eBay, presumably we wouldn't be having this conversation, so the comparison is flawed.
> Whether they are for rent or for sale is largely immaterial.

this is flaty false
It would be nice if they said “I don’t know”.

Maybe you prompt them to say that when they have low confidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar

If we get serious about producing biochar, we could sequester many gigatons every year of atmospheric carbon in biochar for addition to the soil. There, it would remain stable for thousands of years and improve soil microbiology, increase soil moisture and plant growth, which in turn would provide more feedstock for additional biochar in addition to other valuable things like food.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
I brought a bar code scanner to scan my book collection (they are surprisingly cheap and works with just about anything since they just act like a USB keyboard for your computer, anyway) so I know how fast self-checkout should be.

I reality? Self-service sucks. The machines are super slow and having to scan and put away each item one at a time is even more annoying. Half the time you get some clerk to check up on you and so on.

So I don't use them. I can stand in line and just read on my phone instead. Plus as a bonus, when the clerk ends up undercharging me (pretty sure that happened last month) I don't have to worry about being accused of theft[0].

[0]: I once had a clerk scan a 12-pack of beer and announce the price and then ask me to pay. It was only when I pointed out that he had charged me the price of one beer that he realized his mistake. Autopilot is a thing that happens and it isn't worth the risk of a theft accusation.
Pro-tip: use `ChatGPT Classic` [0] from OpenAI to restore the quality you were used to before the update.

The 'all-tools' version of ChatGPT uses a staggeringly-long system prompt [1], which seems to result in significantly lower quality for me. Perhaps it should be called the 'master-of-none' version?

[0] https://chat.openai.com/g/g-YyyyMT9XH-chatgpt-classic

[1] https://github.com/spdustin/ChatGPT-AutoExpert/blob/main/_sy...
prepared to see all these companies "invent" these techniques. fwiw people believe OpenAI "invented" chatgpt, whereas the inventors of the transformer model individually worked at competing companies during the research (Google Brain) and presently founded competing companies now.
Lots of good criticisms of the traditional way of teaching in here. The only issue I would raise is his claim that Bessel functions should be dropped. In physics and engineering they come up all the time when the geometry is cylindrical.

I suppose he could argue that they could wait for a second course, perhaps.
Stores Rethink Self-Checkout
Yes. But it can be wrong, especially for key details. So instead, I asked here. My hope is to keep friction down and productivity up.
It seems like you must have misread or misunderstood what I said. I explicitly acknowledged multiple times that their RAM & storage prices are higher than market rates. You are still misusing the phrase ‘price gouging’ according to Wikipedia’s definition. There are other common phrases for charging higher than market rates, such as profiteering. That’s fine, you call it what you want, but FWIW the result is you are adding negative spin while accusing me of positive spin.
Is this hard coded? That seems insane (on Linux btw so can’t test)
Unity needs to lay off about 6500 people and replace the remaining 1000 employees with individuals worth about $500k/year. There is nothing comprehensible about employing 7500 people for a software program. How would they even understand the codebase with almost ten thousand developers making changes every day?
<< I'm curious if anyone else has more evidence of what's driving the global house price insanity.

Not real data, but like you, I have theory of sorts based on goals. And while affordable housing is a goal to some, even to sympathetic owners, some of the solutions hit their bottom lines when it comes to valuation, helocs and all that. In other words, the push to inflate prices higher is greater than the push to lower those.

Maybe it really is that simple.
GitHub also does something similar. Both Microsoft products. Very annoying. If I click log out, log me out, don't make me click the button again, staying logged in if I don't. Disaster.
Prop 13 is one factor that's driving the cost of housing up in California.

Vacant lots are taxed based on their purchase price, so there's no real reason to develop them when the land value keeps on rising while the taxes don't. Commercial zoned buildings aren't affected by prop 13, which leads to more revenue for the cities, hence them preferring commercial development to housing.

All that prop 13 does is favor people who bought real estate decades ago, at the detriment of everyone else.
Divorcing law from morality? Sure, what could go wrong?
Leaking gas, which in a first for me didn’t smell like rotten eggs. They kept blaming the new carpet or paint or whatever else.

and to add to the fun, carbine monoxide from 2 sources. Included alarm with house was faulty.

Plus we were all acting like zombies. Bad smell made us keep windows open most of the time. Otherwise would have died. As it was gas company freaked out at how bad it was
here is an example on how to generate synthetic data that you can adapt for your case https://dzlab.github.io/2023/09/22/palm-synthetic-data/
Prompt Engineering a Prompt Engineer
But how does that explain a fundamental undersupply of houses? That is, I've read from lots of different sources that the primary issue is more people needing houses than there is supply. I get how all the stuff you've mentioned pushes up the price of houses, but shouldn't that also spur a ton more home building?

I guess a better way to frame my question is "Why has new home building been far below the actual need?"
Diamond heat spreaders are available.[1] Diamond phone screens have been made. Diamond semiconductors are under development, but so far they don't work that well.[2]

[1] http://usapplieddiamond.com/products/heat-spreaders/

[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/this-diamond-transistor-is-still-r...
>I really wish textbooks with open licenses would take over and they could be reworked and improved year after year by different people

Could anyone explain to me how they think this might work in practice?

I am presently producing an undergrad textbook in quantum theory. I have two motivations: 1. IMO the "qubits first" (ie teach finite-dimensional QM before wave mechanics) approach to introducing the theory is superior (basically only Feynman did it of all the "classic" books) and 2. I'm involved in third world education and I want the book to be freely downloadable.

Now its a lot of work despite having taught the course multiple times and produced comprehensive lecture notes etc. Once its done I am sure I will not have the time to keep updating it, expanding on the problem sets and so on. A former student on the course is helping with the conversion and he will be a co-author, but like me he sees it as a service not at all about producing a product. So I think we're both very open to the idea of such "open license".

Given all that here are the kinds of questions that immediately arise:

- Mechanically how should one make the book available for such re-working? Put the source files on github? (Not something I've ever used, but I know roughly how it works).

- Via what mechanism does someone get to be credited for work they might do on better versions?

- Who decides what is the current "definitive" or "best" version? I will have a separate website for the book so I guess new versions can be announced there. But one way or the other I won't be involved forever.

- QM is fraught with crackpots, people who have whacky ideas on how to explain things and so on. Can they be prevented from "taking over", rewriting large chunks into (what I would view as) nonsense and so on? Note that presumably my name would still be associated with the new versions, so the issue is primarily not lending credence to stuff I fundamentally disagree with, not that they shouldn't be allowed to go do their thing.

- We will make a POD service available for purchasing hardcopies, the (expected to be small) royalties from which would be donated to third world physics/math education. Is there some license that can ensure any subsequent use of the material is also similarly non-profit?

I can see some (though not perfect) analogies with open-source software, so perhaps someone here has useful ideas about this kind of thing already...
Yeah, that's exactly the problem: everything is string interpolation, and no-one has figured out if it's even possible to do the equivalent to prepared statements or escaped strings.
Yes, I know. Setting the jumpers for the right bus speed for the multiplication was key. This was the time of the fine tuning and over clocking. Asus boards were the best for this job back then.

Some Pentium ran at 60, not 66.
The housing crisis is a function of homeowners being heavily economically incentivized to restrict supply of homes.

Do all the finger pointing you want. Nothing changes the fact that homes are a valuable investment because we constantly are tightening the housing market at the behest of homeowners who want a big ROI on the biggest purchase they will ever make.

It doesn't matter if it's a mega corporation, a tiny LLC, or your parents. Every one of them has a unified goal: Increase home prices.

Take [corporation] out of the picture and nothing will change. Small time investors will just snatch up those homes instead.

If you actually want to lower costs. If you understand your home grows in value at the expense of denying others affordable housing. There is only one fix:

Build.

More.

Housing.
And it works so much better than literally everything else we've ever tried for language processing that all of us, domain experts very much included, were caught completely by surprise.

What this all ultimately means? Too early to tell. But writing it off as a 'trick' isn't a helpful model to figure out why it's so shockingly effective in the first place.
> don't have strong communication skills hence cannot articulate

Basically this - even in a highly specialised field you would still find value in it if you're providing enough context and describing the problem properly.

People don't want to hear that they're poor communicators - it's much easier to blame the tech.
That's just false. What physicists (and engineers, etc) are doing is also math and it's way more useful and insightful.. and (imo) the world would be a better place if that's what everyone else was also learning in college. The idea that math is only about rigor isn't intrinsic; it's a historical accident that people seem to not realize is optional. It is also about understanding things and being able to wield concepts to accomplish goals or convey understanding to others.
https://arewemlsyet.com for the Matrix progress
> I don’t think it’s a power issue as it’s getting 5V1A from a power outlet directly to USB-C into the device.

It's not the total voltage/wattage the PSU can provide, but the voltage at the processor.

The ESP's varying current draw notoriously causes too much noise and a lot of boards don't have large enough decoupling capacitors so the voltage drops too much and it glitches out. Also a warning that USB PSU's can very MASSIVELY in quality (I'd suggest an apple one for testing if you have one handy).

I think you're right that the RISC-V processor is either better behaved and draws power more consistently, or the board has shorter traces to it's bypass capacitor or a larger bypass capacitor.
Saltburn and the bizarre life of Britain's stately homes
Much of what is called 'science' is not, in fact, 'science'.
I cannot seem to draw a right curly brace in a way that it recognizes it. It's almost as if the recognition was rotation-invariant because I sometimes get v or check as a false positive for }.
Why are you trying to handwave away the biggest part of compensation? Yes, losses happened, no this does not make the amount small. Not on an absolute scale and not compared to salary. Lol.
It's definitely a really imprecise usage.
> More humans die every year of cold than of heat

What makes you think that?
> and are pretty loose with the human suffering implications

Which is pretty on-point for Posner, who thought that a free market would solve the problem of racism and segregation.
>The minimum wage is "we would pay you less if we could, but we cannot."

That is what what the minimum wage is, but I'm not sure that's indicative of a flaw. We are all seeking the most value for our money. E.g. I need some repairs done to my roof. One company quoted me $1,800 and another $4,200. Considering I had a recommendation for the first company, I went with them. That is something we all do, and it isn't indicative of sociopathy. If the second company was offering more value (better matching roof shingles, a much shorter time to start, etc) then it might be worth more money. Otherwise, like fast food workers, they're generally interchangeable and by saving money I can choose to spend it on something else of value.
The blood diamond thing stopped a lot of people. I’d say it was the primary reason people pointed to when they passed on diamonds. Now almost all the diamonds you buy are expressed certified as conflict free.
Love hearing that. Let me know how it goes.
FTA > Additionally, BlackRock invests in multifamily properties, apartment complexes, and other residential real estate.

Many multi family units were once SFH. Ignoring this narrows the conversation to a scope that black rock prefers not in a way that is intellectually honest or necessary to critically evaluate the wants needs and desires of the actual market participants and how institutional ownership distorts the market.

Black rock considers it a given that their investments are mutually beneficial but this is not a safe assumption to make and should be evidenced with robust data. I expect the data to show that black rock is profiting off of the misery of their tenants but I’m open to alternatives and hope that I am wrong.

Also, is black rock a participant in the emerging rent price fixing scandal?
Transcribing on Fly GPU Machines
Apple Gets 36% of Google's Safari Search Revenue
> but what's the use case?

Designers/marketers who don't learn keyboard shortcuts, for whom the comparison is "drawing the shape with my mouth" (quick) vs. "going through upwards of a half dozen menus to pick the right shape, place it, then resize it" (slower). Even if the shape is available w/o going to any menus, drawing the entire thing with your mouth using a single cursor is going to be faster than placing and resizing a bunch of icons, switching to the arrow feature and adding the arrows in.
Just remember that the noun "ask" begins with a T.
Tom Scott's "Every mistake I've made since 2014" [video]
They are observations
One thing to note is that zoning has become tighter over time, as people work to institutionalize a fantasy of 'neighborhood character':

More land in New York was downzoned than upzoned over the course of the Bloomberg administration from 2001-2013, which was considered a developer-friendly administration: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/201...

40% of existing buildings in Manhattan are bulkier than current zoning regulations would allow: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...

This pattern is broadly similar everywhere, where there may be older, denser buildings in a neighborhood but new ones cannot be built because the screws have been tightened over time, parking requirements have become more strict, etc. The opposite should be happening, you should be allowing more capacity as the current capacity is used up to maintain supply.

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There is also the fact that in a lot of areas that stopped building housing in the US, they pretty much reached out as far as you could get from city center by driving as a reasonable commute, so building ever more single family homes became significantly less desirable or possible. Now you hear people with crazy commutes like Stockton to San Francisco, nearly a 90 minute drive at 133km, but that is not really going to work out for most people.
you can reason the same with ants

but ants are like a human who doesn't spend money, or like a bird, they are sustainable, no need to remove them

but no even need to be extreme/binary, 8 billion humans who live like a 3rd world country-side human and spend a little money is totally sustainable without any issue, because that's equivalent to less than a hundred million 1st world humans
Forcing the sale of property would be terrible for the poor
Emergent behavior is a thing.

You can ask GPT4 to take some text and compress it to reduce its token count in a way that GPT4 can still reconstruct the meaning behind the text.

At no point was GPT4 trained on this, but it somehow has a level of meta-cognition that allows it to accomplish this task.

You can tell GPT4 it is an expert in writing GPT4 prompts and then ask GPT4 to write prompts for itself. (Granted now that the latest model is updated to 2023 data, GPT4's training corpus now surely includes blog posts on how to write GPT4 prompts, but the previous cutoff didn't!)

And don't underestimate token prediction, a very large amount of human perception relies on predicting the next input. It is why a large number of optical illusions work, and why various "written word" visual tricks work, such as how people don't notice duplicate words in a sentence (Our brains have a prediction for what words come next and the brain will throw out a certain # of small tokens that don't fit that prediction before an error is raised!)

Heck your brain does massive tokenization, compression, and error correction on incoming speech!
lol crazy that that would be allowed at all. They should have shut that shit down under national security grounds if they couldn’t get the normal process to move fast enough
With a W680 motherboard, the Raptor Lake Refresh becomes significantly more expensive than 7950X.

The multi-threaded performance of 14900K is good only for mostly-integer workloads (e.g. for software compilation it works fine), and even then only with the price of a much higher power consumption, e.g. by consuming 50 W to 100 W extra at equal performance.

For floating-point workloads or for other workloads that can exploit the vector instructions, 7950X can be much faster than 14900K.
I remember my first Mac lacked a math coprocessor. It was the Motorola LC68040, and it came with Quadra 604. I seem to remember it making Excel slow at doing some calculations. My next Mac was a PowerPC, I don't remember any of those lacking math coprocessors.
for hardware, check out Behringer. They have made cheap clones of classic synths along with a couple of their own creations.
Interesting, I wonder if the same things exist in teaching programming? Well, yes!

Let me give you an example. Both Dart and Flutter borrow from Google's own lessons learned and innovations they did with the native Android OS and widget stack. In fact the testing stack of widgets, goldens, and re-using storyboarding as BDD come directly from the same practices on native Android.

In programming we have a legacy of borrowing from the language and frameworks that came before the current stack that is helpful to know about as everyone uses human knowledge and human language shortcuts to refer to past programming languages and frameworks.

The problem with this area of math is that you need a good basic grasp of geometry as that is how it was built and discovered, see this history chart to see why I state that from wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_calculus#/media/File...

Of course I always found it easier to think and solve things in geometrical terms and methods. It drove one of my Calculus professors crazy, that and sleeping in class and yet still passing class with an A, getting As on all the tests.
>The low maximum property tax rate and systematic failure to tax full value created by Prop 13 is a reason for the failure to build.

Only by indirect argument. IF homeowners were taxed more, they would be more sensitive to housing costs in general, and perhaps more inclined to expanding the housing stock.

Given that the government is funded, this would simply be a punitive tax incentive to motivate policy.

I don't particularly buy the lack of local government incentive. New development is already taxed at substantially higher rates relative to older stock due to prop 13. If expanding the tax base were a major driver of policy, then we would expect to be building already.
My mental model of LLMs presently is as a "language core". You wouldn't trust your own stream of consciousness and you have checks and balances in your brain that you use to reason. In the same manner I don't really trust an LLM to "reason" unless there's a software/prompt loop running somewhere that enforces reasoning.
Are you sure that the system isn't still running, but it has just disconnected from wifi and is failing to reconnect? I have a few status LED's flashing to show the main CPU is still running, and it often is, even when the device has fallen off the network.

I find that happens fairly frequently unfortunately, and haven't managed to track down the cause.
Brit Cruise (Creator of "Pixar in a Box") Interview [video]
One metric that is seldom mentioned for crypto algos is code complexity.

I really wish researchers would at least pay lip service to it.

TEA (an unfortunately somewhat weak symmetric cipher) was a very nice push in that direction.

TweetNaCl was another very nice push in that direction by djb

Why care about that metric you ask?

Well here are a couple of reasons:
- algo fits in head
- algo is short -> cryptanalysis likely easier
- algo is short -> less likely to have buggy implementation
- algo is short -> side-channel attacks likely easier to analyse
- algo fits in a 100 line c++ header -> can be incorporated into anything
- algo can be printed on a t-shirt, thereby skirting export control restrictions
- algo can easily be implemented on tiny micro-controllers

etc ...
Rfcgpt: The virtual assistant that has read the entire RFC series
While I agree with the main point of your argument, and it seems intuitive to me since population strata have historically shown to develop distinctive cultural identities:

> there may very well be shifting modes of low class distinction over the centuries too.

I believe your perspective is biased and even discriminatory because it generalizes rap or hip hop (I assume) music as inferior, associates soccer enthusiasts with drunkness, and links tattoos with crime.