skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
absolutely true - once sat around in a meeting which the combined cost of the contractors in that meeting was ~$2500 per hour - we met for 90 minutes arguing about which of the customer departments would be responsible for paying the $50/month subscription fee for twilio services for the year.

We could have paid for 50 months of that service with the money we spent trying to figure out who would be responsible for the bill.
It is the same as with YT anti-adblock: all it does is move people away from Chrome.

Chrome had a good run, but it is time again to help family members and organisations to migrate to ... firefox and never look back. Google has lost its ways and i am sure that "don´t do evil" was just replaced by "do evil stuff in a sneaky way".
Is there mention of this recent lawsuit? Should have some impact. (No WSJ subscription)

Americans are taxed $60 billion in real-estate commissions, says attorney who just won a $1.8 billion mega-verdict against National Association of Realtors

https://fortune.com/2023/11/02/national-association-realtors...
Hrm. I don't know if I agree with this or not. Your last sentence is 100% spot on. But at the same time, I've used Emacs as a window manager before, and the reason I stopped was because of IO blocking the UI. I could not handle having a process bug out and having it freeze my entire window manager, and it happened frequently.

I don't want to dismiss the argument; maybe it's just that Emacs packages are bad at avoiding that behavior? But I'm not sure that async I/O primitives are enough for a text editor, even though I would generally agree with you.

On the subject of that last sentence:

> A lot of the I/O blocking UI problems could be alleviated by just moving to async I/O primitives without incurring the runtime and developer experience problems of a multi process architecture

This sounds like an advertisement for Javascript to me? This is one of the reasons I think why NodeJS became so popular when it was first introduced, literally because it was single-threaded with good async I/O primitives (or good enough, this was before Promises were in the language), and that led to huge performance improvements over other server implementations that prioritized workers.

So while I still don't like the kitchen sink approach, I'm still left feeling like a lot of the problems and solutions being proposed here are kind of things that would be addressed by using Deno in Emacs? At least, I'm seeing the appeal. Single-threaded memory pool to help make developer experience better and to improve performance, coupled with decent async I/O primitives -- that's Javascript, that's one of the things the language is sort of good at. You have workers for larger tasks, and that's definitely handy, but most of your programming is happening in a single-threaded event loop using promises.

If I looked at this sentence in isolation, I would think that you were arguing in favor of adding Deno.
I'm an American that has bought and sold 3 houses and never once paid the 6% commission. It seems lots of folks don't realize commissions are negotiable, and that discount brokers exist who charge much less for roughly the same end product. If you think the standard full service 6% is providing you adequate value, by all means pay it, but don't feel like you have to.
Java dropped the leading 1 with version 5 since Sun decided it would never go for a complete rewrite of the language. Imagine the chaos if Python did that and then pulled the 2 to 3 change on a run of the mill update from 213 to 214.
Thank you for the paper recommendation.
In American homes, cables are typically stapled to the wood frame construction, not run in conduit. You have to cut open the finished wall surface to change them.
The coldest winters of my life were growing up in Uruguay, where it rarely gets to 0 degrees in winter. And I say this having lived in London and currently living in Switzerland. That says a lot about the quality of insulation in Uruguay :(
Jan, can you explain briefly how the deduplicator checks if the new answer is significantly different? Is there code in the repository we can take a look at?
Yeah, honestly with how the big ISP have fucked around almost every single individual in the entire United States, it seems insane to have literally any sympathy for them when an agency makes rules to try and make things better for people. Why should we all just bend to the whims of random corporations, making billions on anticompetitive practices and exploiting us all for money. They can afford to make non profit maximizing decisions for once in their entire god-forsaken existence.
I think the most reasonable issue many people have is that, from a utility deployment perspective, inconsistent delivery of service is bad enough in of itself and should be fundamentally actionable without having to involve any discrimination laws.

Who cares why ISPs are failing to provide a basic service to a chunk of the population? The government should be in a position to force their hand based on the fact that it's happening at all.

And I can see both sides of the argument here. One one hand, yeah, it sucks to be doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. On the other hand, government agencies' capacity at putting pressure on private enterprise has been severely neutered, and if this is what it takes to get essential services delivered, then whatever, I'll take it.
Why is there a different standard between the model and a human?

From the perspective of the business, whether a model or human causes the error is immaterial.

> Any sane company in any sane industry would figure out why things are that bad, and fix it.

The function of a thing is its consequences. So we have to conclude that the reason the model had a 90% error rate was to have a 90% error rate. It's aligned with business incentives to be so.
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100%. This doesn’t get fixed otherwise. It’s predatory. It’s basically the storage unit model applied to housing.
If Uruguay can run on 100% renewable energy, the unstated implication is "The US could do it too, we just lack the political will". (As opposed to the idea that "Renewable energy is a genuinely hard problem that will take time, effort, and technological advances to solve.") The implication that "we just lack the political will" can feel like a criticism of anyone who's not maximally-environmentalist. I think that's why people are getting defensive about it.
Starlink is probably your best bet for now, which is ~100/~20 depending on your area. I believe you can also multi-home two (or more) Starlink services and get double (or triple etc.) that.
This. Though also worth noting: these agents are often working with the same small pool of other agents throughout their career. Their relationship with them is often more valuable than with any individual client, so it doesn't really pay for them to be adversarial on behalf of their client. Both agents are incentivized to keep a healthy working relationship and focus on closing the sale despite the commission percentage.
The kiddo complained about low ping for PS5 - tried PoE so eventually got a electrician to run a conduit from the router in my office through the outside the wall all around the house to the outside of her room.

We have a pitched roof but there are trusses, and I am not built like a hobbit if I need to replace the cable.
The FCC rule mentions several attributes, race being only one:

> The rules define “digital discrimination of access” as “Policies or practices, not justified by genuine issues of technical or economic feasibility, that (1) differentially impact consumers’ access to broadband internet access service based on their income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion or national origin, or (2) are intended to have such differential impact.” As the law requires, the FCC will consider arguments that legitimate business impediments preclude equal access to broadband service in particular communities.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-398477A1.txt

I doubt people would have the same reaction if they realized it was primarily about income and not race. But everyone loves to talk about race.
I work in a domain where performance is very important, and I'm surprised that such a simple heuristic can be so good.
I'm still not entirely clear that most people understand the problems that well. The way you would hear it on most forums, emacs blocks whenever you do anything that takes time. Nevermind compilation mode being a thing basically forever.

So, yes, you can block the UI thread. There have been ways to not do that basically forever. I welcome better ways to manage this, but there will always be some way to do code on the UI thread, such that it will always be possible to somewhat block things.

The alternative is to make all code preemptive, it seems. And that just begs for race conditions on the shared mutable state that is the editor.
With Digi in Spain 10G is €5 more than 1G - https://www.digimobil.es/fibra-optica/
There are so many OpenAI-powered tools that are doing this or similar things in the market right now. I just spoke with one this morning that is one of three others I've recently spoken with that take your data model and database schema/metadata information and use OpenAI's API to take natural language and write absolutely terrible SQL before running the code in your environment and returning the results.

Please, any VCs out there who see companies doing this, please stop giving them your money so they stop asking me for mine. It's not that the technology couldn't be impactful, but these shitty companies are not doing anything novel, the results are astoundingly amateurish, and the value just isn't there.

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Generative AI is fucking cool and there are some incredible tools out there doing amazing things when integrated into preexisting software solutions. But anything having to do with databases, SQL, analytics, etc are just not there yet. Save your money.
I don't even expect that. I just expect them to eventually get it right, and for less of my total time to be spent overall.
I think that technically the seller's agent is the one given that 6%, but then they split it with the buyer's agent 50/50.

The argument I've seen made is that the buyer's agent's motivation to lower the price comes from wanting their client to actually make the purchase. That said, I'd think that this is only motivating them to get down to the highest price that the buyer will accept paying, rather than the actual lowest price that's theoretically possible.
I get the feeling that FLOSS holds the niche that software patents were supposed to hold. To wit, it publicly discloses methods of the art to a practitioner in such a way that (s)he can fully implement it.

Software patents don't actually do this to a sufficient granularity (at least imao) , but get paid for; while floss does this to sufficient granularity that a compiler actually can implement it.

Basically we seem to have a collection of loose bits that variously ensures we have a public foundation for software development, and other loose bits that ensure people get paid for disclosing things.

The thing we don't have is one single cohesive system where people get paid to disclose the state of the art as a public foundation for software development.
Seriously, and you can accomplish something similar with a regular hanger and just a single nail. You hang the hanger on the nail flat against the wall, then the next hanger can be daisy chained on the exposed neck of the previous hanger and so on.
Most stuff is best done by agencies staffed by experts that are set up by Congress in the first place -- not by Congress full of non-experts micromanaging things.

Congressional lawmaking is for the big-picture, long-term stuff. Agencies are supposed to have the ability to set rules as needed and respond quickly. This is a feature, not a bug.

And if Congress starts to see a pattern of a particular agency going way too far in some direction, then it can pass a law to further clarify the scope/limits of that agency whenever it wants. Congress hasn't given up any of its power. If it's not doing that, it's because it doesn't want to.
> What are you on about? How is this adding _racism_?

It is mandating that race be a factor in decisions. Declining to build out faster service in a particular poor area would be either allowed or not allowed based on what race the people there happen to be.
> If you write a lot of code that parallelizes over data [and that parallelization can't happen by vectorizing your operations in a C extension module that releases the GIL, like numpy] you will hurt all the time because of the GIL.

I've added some text for clarity
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I very much doubt that focusing on race will help the more rural areas.
Correct. There’s only one party putting money on the table here. “The seller pays the commission” is real estate agent doublespeak.
I've been Chrome-less for several years and I am "Google-free" with regards to email, phone, services, etc.

However, going without any Youtube is difficult. There's a lot of interesting content out there. Do you use an alternative way to access it, or go without it entirely?
But their example uses GPT-3, a completely outdated model which was prone to hallucinations. But GPT-4 has got much better in that regard, so I wonder what the marginal benefit of Wikidata is for really huge LLMs such as the 4.
You are forgetting about the other coast. A 10 mile Radius will get you almost anywhere you want to go in a NE metro
> For a while it meant that userscripts didn't have any way to run. So Google introduced a new API for user scripting. But those extensions only run in "developer" mode

I didn't notice that in the announcement of the new API, but that actually seems pretty reasonable for userscripts? It also seems to match what the GP was asking for:

> Why not put in settings that allow the user to allow extensions outside the bounds of MV3
that's indeed the trend, i.e. put a small RTOS core along with a normal CPU for non-real-time tasks, in the past it's done on two boards: one is a MCU another is a typical CPU, now it's one one, very important for where RTOS is a must, e.g. robotics.

How the CPU and MCU communicate is a good question to tackle, typically chip vendors provide some solutions, I think OpenAMP is for this.
The cheapest/most efficient execution will win.

1-person microstartups will continue to grow and outpace bigger startups that move slower, spend too much and create bloated services

About defensibility, focus on building a big audience that pays for your services. There's no moat.
To be fair, San Diego seems like it was designed specifically to be hostile to non-car travel, especially around the valleys and passes between the hills.

Downtown/GasLamp are totally viable with just an e-bike (and probably over into Coronado), bus as soon as you have to leave that area, I'd agree, non-viable.

I haven't worked or lived in any other city quite that brutally bad for bikes though?
Eliminating the daily commute for those who have jobs where in person presence isn't essential beats all other forms of transportation. But activists, cities, and greenwash companies have all shown their true face, each for their own reasons of self-interest.
Generally models of fully renewable grids aim for about a 4x overprovisioning (based on peak demand), though of course since that's based on achieving the lowest cost way to provide energy, you could debate whether the phrase "overprovisioning" really applies.

Some have taken to calling it "superpower" (terrible name) because by overbuilding to meet the peak demand, you end up with masses of cheap energy at all non-peak times.

https://www.rethinkx.com/energy
There’s no correlation between lethality and psychoactive strength and you’re trying to make a point based on it.
You found it because LLMs are incredibly good search engines. But anything they give you that isn't a search result is bullshit.

So, they have those two modes of operation, and most of them are built in a way that won't let you know which mode they are working on. That can be useful depending on what you want to do, but it doesn't strike me as the most effective architecture for them.

(They are also reasonably good pattern fitters, what is kinda nice for code autocompletion on some languages. But they are way too inefficient here. Yet, nobody created any good high-efficiency autocomplete that merges searching and pattern fitting, so people use them.)
That sounds like a plausible sequence of moves. And the initial over-sharing of a "get US confirmation" step might serve some Ukrainian strategic goals, too...
But it’s ok US workers, outsourcing manufacturing is a “good idea”, so good that the other major economies are doing the opposite.
The older I get the more I wonder if this "most powerful force" is simply to intimidate other nations to using dollars, because if they don't, our currency will lose value and we will implode under our $33T in national debt.

I mean I want to believe as much as the next person that it's to "ensure stability in $REGION" or to "provide aid to starving children" or whatever spin you see from time to time.

I also think that human suffering is a zero-sum game. It's trite to keep repeating it, but in the US, we spend trillions on the military but refuse to pay for our citizens medical needs (or homeless, or other $HUMANITARIAN_THING). It's impossible to measure, but I suspect that the slow, steady burn of our own citizens from this inequality could easily rival the suffering and death from having a skirmish or small war in $DISTANT_REGION.
"Your vacation starts when you leave your house and ends when you’re back in your house."

This is an odd one. Seems trivial, what does it mean?
Seems to have been screwed over by the pandemic and the party’s handling of it…
Mask, Gloves and a Long Sleeved shirt and it's all good.

Some of the old insulation will make you itchy as hell and probably not something you want to breathe but otherwise yeah, it's just a chore its not difficult assuming you are able bodied (I'm UK so our houses (until recently) had heavy duty joists so you can just clamber around on them, if gonna me up a while take a board up and lay it over a few to kneel/lay on and that's about it.
I have to point out that Windows does in fact have "portable apps" that work the same way
Side note, but let's all take the time to appreciate that the FCC publishes plain-text versions alongside DOCX and PDF. I really appreciated the ability to get right to the text.
This company is moving so fast. I love how incompetent they make other elite tech companies look. I love the broken roll outs, unrefined UIs seeing massive product market fit.
just to clarify, i didn't write the article; yossi kreinin did

you seem to be saying that it's impossible to formulate a type system that handles units correctly in contexts like generic linear algebra algorithms

i think you are mistaken about that
You remember correctly. This was the most common form of Ethernet cable when I was first starting out roughly 3,000 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2
Are you sure about those patents? Those would be expiring in a few short years anyway, 10 GbE is more than 20 years old and 10GBASE-T will be soon, too. Though 10GBASE-T just doesn't feel like a super-sensible PHY to me.
From my puttering, image->tokens->image yields something that may or not vaguely resemble the original, but is never anywhere near identical.
it gets complicated when the project is intentionally marketed, and users deliberately attracted. i think at that point it ceases being purely source available and burdens the creator/marketer with support duties. unfortunately at the moment, most open source projects are actively marketed, including fringe and poorly thought out products.
Nukes are less directly damaging than people think, but the knock on effects are much worse.

If your goal is simply to destroy a country as a functioning power you don’t need to kill every single person. Nuke a handful of major ports and you massively harm the US economy without killing that many people. Add major cities and things get really bad at even a dozen nukes. Sure, we would nuke the fuck out of anyone that launched such an attack but that doesn’t allow us to ignore such attacks.
I own a few Alexa devices, and I like them more or less, but doesn't seem like they(amazon) have invested much in making them truly useful devices anymore - the first few times you could talk to them were cool - but after that novelty wore off, the products seem to have stagnated quite a bit - seems the market agrees.
MoCa was designed specifically to work over existing coax used for TV and behave with existing signals. The board of the consortium that designed it includes Comcast, Cox, and Verizon. It was basically a solution for "we're gonna need internet in our customer's homes but we already ran coax in them"
Discussed 5 days ago:

Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Damages

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38089356 (276 comments)

And from 5 years before (same lawsuit? Began in 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19431927 (336 comments)
Locks are generally very cheap if they're not contended. Of course it's all relative though!
It is customary, at least in some locales (US-AK), that the commission is split evenly between the agents.
flickering: all them use switching power supply, which if wrong ones or in wrong conditions, usualy die in few months. Not only because of heat, but also close-to-limits voltages and such. And because they put $0.15 capacitors ones instead of $0.25 ones.

And this is not only (cheap) home stuff, you can see this effect walking around in parks or streets, where a lamp is $100..

i have 7-8 long-fluorescent-substitues doing this at home, replaced capacitors in 2 of them, then replaced whole power supplies in 2 others.. then replaced the rest with whole new lamps as the price vs hassle/time-waste did not make sense..

Edit: but as sibling in thread says, if it soo repeatable, something is wrong in your electricity network at home. There is some source of disturbance, maybe even at neighbours. Long ago one bad laptop switching power supply was making an LCD display go crazy 4 rooms away.
I would amend this to piracy of media within a reasonable copyright term of say 10 or at most 20 years is theft.
I've always though that "Duncan Idaho" is the silliest name in all of science fiction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-HN_ICaCyM

As always, there is a numberphile video.
I don't understand how one can bear an OS where you need to start removing stuff before you can use it without suffering.
And if a single vampire tap comes loose, the entire network segment goes down. Don't miss that.
Almost no one has fixed rate mortgages except Americans, either. Our real-estate market has some unique features.
Yup, IIRC in terms of kJ/km cycling is ~4x more efficient than walking (on flat surface). I guess they must be talking about the energy used in production, etc.
R-universe now builds WASM binaries for all R packages
What you are talking about doesn't really have a good definition. If a windows app consists of 10 files of which 9 are used by other apps too, does that mean removing the only unique file to the app? Should it remove any configuration related to the app etc
And 10BaseT! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair)

Anybody else remember "vampire connections"?

[Ah, a minute late. FFP999 remembers them.]
It would be difficult to make a port that works as USB-C with ethernet as an alternate mode. In USB-C there are separate transmit and receive differential pairs, whereas in (gigabit and later) ethernet the pairs are bidirectional.
Not sure why this was downvoted. If I said something inaccurate or misunderstood Goedel's incompleteness theorem, then I'd like to know. It's something that's fascinated me for decades.