skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rarely eat an McDonald's, but had gone inside one a few month ago that had those kiosks. I found the experience to be horrendous. Using them was slow, confusing, and extremely frustrating. I decided to eat elsewhere.
Well typically 6% is split between the buyers agent and the sellers agent. And each agent has to kick up a percent to their broker. Most real estate agents I know working in the average market (I.e. not NYC or the Bay Area) are not clearing $100K.
Nobel disease: Why some of the greatest scientists eventually go crazy
And this gets back to point I’ve made here and elsewhere about talking past each other. Not everything has to be a web app but some things do and those things need (require) JS, end of story. Yes a blog frontend doesn’t need JS but we are talking about different things here I think.
It's worth noting that sales of this content were shut down in early 2020 and subscriptions were refunded then; this is just the shuttering of the hosting for a service that has not generated revenue in 3 years. The OP links to this article for context: https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/01/03/google-news-killing...

Now, there could be reasons other than cost/technical debt for them to shut this down - perhaps some kind of legal or reputational risk to continuing to host certain content. And perhaps it's the same risk that Amazon identified. But there could be simpler reasons as well.
https://archive.is/PnO58
OT, but did the author somehow not notice their AI-generated cow-robot cartoon has five legs? And some kind of ear-poop…thing…coming out the rear end?
Meta/Yann LeCun were generating the hype around Galactica that caused expectations to be different. You can't say things like 'Type a text and Galactica will generate a paper with relevant references, formulas, and everything'[1] and expect your LLM not to make you look foolish. It wasn't about pushing the model to the limit, it was about setting realistic expectations of what it could do.

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/11/23/bigshot-ch...
> Turns out, most of it is useless: For using most data, you need more information than just the api key.

I think you mean low effort attacks.

A determined attacker would attempt to gather more information, for example research the author of the post. Many of the authors give enough clues so that you can identify a person, even if comments are written using different handles.

Also some of these secrets go in pairs with something else that is enough to get a successful auth. For example, AWS secret usually goes in pair with everything you need to connect.
I would hate the high US property taxes. It’s like you never really own the property if you are being taxed on it continually. It must play havoc with retirement planning?
Increasingly, I'm able to empathise with people who use this psychobable language (hallucination, bullshit, etc.) to describe associative statistical models.

They just don't know how they work, really want to believe they work like a person, or have otherwise been duped by the boards of the ad-ai industrial complex whose spiel is whatever increases market valuation (google, fb, ms, openai, etc.).

I guess if you have absolutely no idea how these systems work there really isn't anything better than analogizing to people -- it is this 'failure of analogical reasoning' which ai/ad corps exploit in their desire to dupe ever more misinformed investors.

This realisation helps me, only, since I can now fathom better when i'm wasting my time talking to someone whose basis for understanding stats is human psychology -- the amount of discussion needed to undo that is possibly a lot.

Incidentally, all statistical systems of this kind (almost all ML, including NNs) work in the same way. They compress data into a smaller representation, and take a weighted average of pieces of that data relevant (by freq association) to the prediction.

There is no reasoning, no truth, no falsehood, no lies, no bullshit, no hallucination, no veridical perception, no interiority, no subjectivity, no capacity to represent the world.

There is something much more like a few pages of a book stuck together, with the second shinning through the first.
> everyone using ChatGPT knows that verification is part of the proccess

lol. lmao
Agreed. Pay cash! I bought an ATV and financed it and that was a mistake. I signed more documents than when I bought my house and I was only financing $6K! Took 1.5 hours despite arranging everything online before I arrived (or so I thought). The next year I bought one with cash, it took maybe 15 minutes.
Ok, well that bullshit generator has made me dramatically more productive.
The CO2 is going back into the atmosphere regardless, if the wood is not burned, it will decompose.
Kyutai – non-profit AI lab dedicated to open science with 300M euro of support
Kyutai, non-profit AI lab, is announced with 300M€ of support by Xavier Niel, Eric Schmidt, and Rodolphe Saadé, with a strong team from Meta, Google DeepMind, INRIA, and more, with experience in LLMs (Llama), Audio (MusicGen, AudioLM), and infra tooling (Candle).
Now compare that to the total productivity loss (using whatever marginal efficiency deflator you think is reasonable).

If you're trying to get shorter workdays, go for that.

If you're trying to get more open source labor, go for that.

Arguing that the best way to target the second is via the first seems tenuous at best.
What is "37'd conversational AI"?
The tax man gets his one way or another. Imagine the shock of an American living without sales tax when they go to Germany and everything has a 20% government markup...

In Germany, the net average tax rate on a worker is 37.4%, in America it is 24.8%. That's a dramatic difference in taxation!
Horribly bad idea to work in tech. Anyone can do this work. The market is flooded.

Encourage kids to pick up "blue collar" jobs where most others are scared of getting their hands dirty. Less competition for jobs and the pay is great. The work is also rewarding on its own.
Might be a different meaning of the term notary. In the US, you can become a notary public for $35 and an online course in many instances.
It's important to note that (in general) sellers pay the estate agents fee and buyers pay stamp duty. If you are both buying and selling then you'd pay both, but on different properties. However if you're moving to/from rentals, dead or moving abroad then you'd pay only one.

Also it's possible to cut out the estate agent if you really want to save money. There are a bunch of websites that for a minimal flat fee will let you DIY it, but be prepared to make your own for sale sign, photograph your own property, and show prospective buyers around.
Actually using fireplaces for heating has became more of a luxury than a need in Montevideo during the late years, as firewood costs have skyrocketed as well as air conditioning has quickly became by far the cheapest way of heating.
And wood is even worse in that regard
So what's the CO2 free alternative? AFAIK nobody is really opposing renewables. It's just the 100% RE dream that would require massive battery, grid and space (building many, many wind turbines)
It has been on here a couple of times: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=invisible-computers.c...
>> What if you didn't know enough to know the first answer was wrong?

Anyone who uses ChatGPT for a while will learn to take everything with a grain of salt.
Ah, ye olden 'capitalism, or dystopian despair!'

Strangely one of those things that culturally, we can't get past. It's a false dichotomy at best, and completely ignores the costs of implementing capitalism.
> The annoying part in this debate is people spending their lives on a project and demanding to be paid for it.
> Don’t do it! Who’s asking you to work on it?

I think the issue here is that we don't have a system where being an OSS contributor is a sustainable career path.

The value we get from OSS compared to the monetary compensation for that work is disproportionately small.

OSS generally doesn't depend on an army of people paid to make you buy shit you don't need or want.
I was going to agree with you, but in researching this, it does seem that GP is right. This is the source that I found: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/

As far as I can see, this is a resource funded by the EU, so not quite authoritative, but good enough IMO. They say:

> To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must: Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies. [...]

This sounds like what you're saying, but this verbiage is based on a classification of cookies further above where a distinction is made:

> Strictly necessary cookies — These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. [...]
>
> Preferences cookies — Also known as “functionality cookies,” these cookies allow a website to remember choices you have made in the past, like what language you prefer, what region you would like weather reports for [...]

So "strictly necessary" really only means "the site breaks without this", e.g. a session cookie set by a login page or the shopping cart example that the quoted article explicitly calls out, too. Presentational settings like display density, font size, dark/light mode and such seem to require consent.
Fair point about moisturizing :)
Not sure if your meme-quippery works. Non-drunk driving kills people too, and also helps people get to work on time.
I don't know how much value agents added over the past few years, navigating bidding wars, pocket listing access, etc. but I've never understood the justification for spending so much money on these fees.

The last time I sold a house was 2011, when the housing market was still down from the 2008/09 crash. I talked with multiple agents and never got a sense of them doing much to push the house other than listing it on MLS and coordinating showings. For the seller agent, they didn't even really want to be at the showings -- they'd just provide a lockbox and give the code to the buyer agent. So where is the value there? On a median home sale, the seller side agent/broker is netting $12,400. A lockbox and MLS listing are in the sub-$500 cost range, so where is the additional $12,000 in value?

I at least understand the incentive on the buyer side. A buyer can just ring up an agent and have them do their home search for them and coordinate everything. The buyer doesn't bear the cost at all, so why not utilize that convenience?

Anyway, after talking with a few agents in 2011, I had one recommended to me. He could get deals done quickly and was great to work with, so I was told. I met with him and he wanted to list the house at 8% below the price I thought the house was worth (no bidding wars back then so this was no good) and flat-out refused to reduce the total commission from 6% to 5%.

I said "good riddance" to the agents and did an MLS self-list for like $400. I set the buyer-side commission at 1.5%. I still got plenty of people looking at the house and sold it for the value I initially established it was worth. So I ended up saving over 10% from what the whiz-kid agent would have cost me in lost value and fees.

So back to my original point -- where is that seller value coming from? There isn't much legal stuff the agents help with. You need a purchase contract (boilerplate in most cases), some standard state/federal disclosure forms, and then the title agency handles everything else.
> JetStream and Speedometer

If a website uses enough JS for that to matter, it's a problem on all browsers
How did you ever get to the situation where two people want to buy and sell one of life’s fundamental commodities, and 3 people get to insert themselves into the middle to the cost of thousands of dollars?

America confuses me sometimes!
Unpayealled version: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/almost-no-one-pays-a-6...
i simply tried to look up the number of trucks volvo and freightliner SAY they delivered

As of February of this year Volvo say they've sold over 4300 electric trucks.
https://www.volvotrucks.se/sv-se/news/press-releases/2023/fe...

Others sites are claiming over 5000 by the end of 2023, but I can't find any numbers directly from Volvo
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36184315
Question is how many properties they are moving per week or a month on average over a year?
> So you are saying when I am able to configure postgres I can earn a $300K salary? Sorry but this is utter bullshit.

did you ever try to configure postgres cluster with failover, and also backup, recovery, monitoring?

Also, I said it is hardest part, but you still need to know your load balancer, security, monitoring, updates, app deployment and configuration stuff.

Yes, this is big chunk of knowledge which in my understanding you don't have, and the topic is that this all worry free replaceable by AppEngine+CloudSql for $100/m if your traffic/data are not very large.
An actual sensible shutdown would involve creating a folder in each user's Google Drive with the exports Google is making people do by hand. Google's approach would be poor behavior if Google was dying which they are not.
Not an expert, but - the echo-return delay (speed of light, out & back, for a more-distant target) will be longer than normal during such anomalies. Useful military radar needs all sorts of "filters" - to ignore spurious signals & stuff you don't care about & enemy jamming & the old microwave in the break room. So, bare minimum, the radar's filters would need to be designed with an awareness that (at times) it could spot real surface targets at much longer ranges than normally possible.
So if you just choose a region in the EEA during setup can you benefit from this without any negative effects regardless of where you actually are?
It's really interesting to me how the vibes have shifted against open source in recent years. I remember when open source came out, it seemed like an implicit critique of proprietary software as stuffy and corporate. But proprietary software has an advantage: The devs get paid.

If you want to get paid for your work, why are you choosing to give it away for free? I'm not judging, I'm genuinely curious. Are there any open source boosters left, and if so how would they make the case for open source at this point?

Maybe what's needed is a "for-profit open source" license, where the code is free for anyone to read, but it's illegal to use for commercial purposes without paying. I'm guessing this approach is already being explored?
If you try out the newer ARRI LED based solutions such as the new Skypanels, they've fixed that entirely. And even low-budget lights such as the newer Aputure ones produce an amazingly even spectrum (though their cheapest products have a bimodal distribution)
Can’t wait to buy a new JYFRIXRIFMEER sedan!
Well I have a history of missing the point for sure :-). So let me ask further, where should the string be stored if not in the read only section?

As far as I understood the post, the issue with your above code is that the std::source_location::location() isn't able to use the size (length) of the filename string at compile time (*). While with _FILE_, the size is known -- it's even in its type.

So if you want to play template or constexpr tricks, you probably can do what you have in mind using __FILE__. Just be aware that a (pointer,length) pair (like string_view) or a plain zero-terminated string pointer will have the size information available at runtime but not compile time.

So not saying that I didn't miss anything (I probably did), and not to mean any offense, but maybe you're also one of those >>50% of people that I mentioned? :D

(*) which, as you and I already agree, is probably not really an issue. It's more a "fun" game to play -- the kind of game that a lot of C++ people like to play, and then sell it as "optimal solution" or "zero-cost abstraction".
What is loop closing? (Google didn't help, my results were SLAM and DIY). It sounds like citogenesis which is the opposite of the rest of your comment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting
With regards to the concept of bullshit, see "On Bullshit" by Frankfurt:

> This is the crux of the distinction between [the bullshiter] and the liar. Both he and the liar represent themselves falsely as endeavoring to communicate the truth. The success of each depends upon deceiving us about that. But the fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him; what we are not to understand is that his intention is neither to report the truth nor co conceal it. This does not mean that his speech is anarchically impulsive, but that the motive guiding and controlling it is unconcerned with how the things about which he speaks truly are.

> It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction. A person who lies is thereby responding to the truth, and he is to that extent respectful of it. When an honest man speaks, he says only what he believes to be true; and for the liar, it is correspondingly indispensable that he considers his statements to be false. For the bullshitter, however, all these bets are off: he is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.

* https://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on...

* https://web.archive.org/web/20150701235021/https://www2.csud...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

* https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691122946/on...

Liar: knows the truth, and says something specifically other. Bullshitter: does not care about what is true or what is false; says whatever necessary to achieve specific goals.
> I'm the rare person who like to work from the office (some of the time).

It's not rare, that's just what shouty people on tech social media want you to think.
There are loads of examples of human-assisted algorithmic processes, or the inverse, algorithm-assisted human processes, most of which have better performance than either entity alone.

I've had trouble finding it, but years ago, I read the abstract of a study which looked at chess performance, pitting people who had access to some basic chess software against those who didn't. What they found is that the strongest predictor of success was whether a player could utilise the software effectively, rather than pure chess skill.

Another area where I don't think there are any published studies, but there's a lot of anecdotal evidence, is algorithmic trading, where successful firms almost always have human traders monitoring the algorithmic behaviour. This means that humans can spot when the algorithm is doing something a bit odd, or when conditions aren't conducive to the algorithm performing well, and they can tweak some parameters on the algorithm to get a better result, shut it down if it looks like it's lost the plot, etc. (And let's be honest, a lot of this oversight is probably a result of Knight Capital.)

My point here is: You're entirely right, LLMs are currently a tool for people with experience in the field they're working with. But that's still a pretty big step forward -- just like top quant hedge funds consistently outperform human-managed funds (see: Rentech), smart people who learn how to leverage these tools are going to outperform. The key is learning where they perform well, where they perform poorly, and how to validate their output.
The initial reporting after was that:

- Ukraine performed the initial radar detection
- Ukraine asked the US to confirm it was the Moskva (the US did)
- Ukraine attacked with their own targeting data

(Then news articles clammed up about the US confirmation, and the Pentagon put out some carefully worded statements that tried to establish distance)

Which sounds reasonable. Warships like the Moskva are strategic assets.

That lowers the bar for acceptable amount of help from the US before Russia escalates.
Your argument would be much more interesting without the first nonsensical statement.
NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
I remember wiring up cat5 gigabit about 20 years ago in an industrial workplace. My house of that age also has cat5 everywhere and it’s aged very well. 1gig is still the standard for wired with few but expensive 2.5g and very expensive 10g home and small business options.
> Yeah. Text based OT is pretty simple to implement, too. It’s about 200 lines of code, plus a simple network protocol.

Just for clarification, while OT for plain-text (linear model) might be simple to implement, OT for typical rich-text editors (like Google Docs) that need to rely on a tree-structured data model is a whole different story: https://ckeditor.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-creating-a-ri....
And the scary bit is that masses of people are ready to ingest that bullshit, praise it and some idolise it.

The real question is where did our education system fail since so many people lack critical thinking and how did the quality of services fall to a level where a bullshit generator sound like a plausible replacement of some workers.
I don't mean to be a google apologist, but the changes basically align with Apple's browser/content APIs that they introduced in like 2016. Web extensions are a massive privacy and security hole that users unwittingly opt themselves into. I mean, the articles explains how dangerous extensions are:

> Manifest V3, or Mv3 for short, is outright harmful to privacy efforts. It will restrict the capabilities of web extensions—especially those that are designed to monitor, modify, and compute alongside the conversation your browser has with the websites you visit.

Yes. Exactly! That's the point - it restricts the ability for extensions to monitor, snoop, and steal content from every website you browse.
I think the issue may be that the work you need to do to verify the correctness is pretty much the same as the work you need to do to get the answer yourself in the first place. So where's the gain?
Firstly, the fluctuations happen on a timescale (hours, not days) where price fluctuations don't really have a chance to influence behavior via the market (which is mostly dealt with the day before). In particular heavy industries which are the bulk consumers, can't typically change their production plans on the hour, while on the other hand a wind front might arrive one hour late or early, causing a huge deviation in the production plan, that must immediately be balanced.

And this leads to the second point: There needs to be enough of available balancing power to be able to handle even the worst such deviation to keep the balance, as otherwise a breakdown of the whole system can happen, which would take days to restore from (yea, you can do emergency operations like closing down industries or apartment areas to keep the system from breaking down, but that in itself can have huge economic consequences if nothing else).