skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Los Angeles Country Club is not a rich person living in their home though. It's not a person and the property is not a home.

Sounds like we agree that Prop 13 must not apply to corporations. That never made any sense and should not be. The idea of Prop 13 is to protect poor people from being pushed out of their lifelong home by taxes. It's insane to allow corporations to benefit from Prop 13.

> I would be fine with prop 13 if it only applied to retirees.

In the realm of actual humans (not corporations), in practice the main beneficiary is only retirees. Sure, applies to everyone, but it takes a very very long time for the tax delta to become meaningful.

I've owned my home for ~25 years and the delta between property taxes under prop 13 and if I bought the property today is less than 2K so basically nothing so I don't much care.

But give it 30 more years of growth and I suspect the delta will be substantial and by then I'll be scraping along trying to survive on a fixed social security income, so the delta will, I suspect, be absolutely key in being able to stay home instead of trying to scramble at that age to find some cheap property in some faraway place I've never been to.
I would probably end up symlinking ~/.local/bin to ~ anyway, at which point I wonder why bother?
I live in Europe. As far as I remember, the proposal to abolish DST was already voted in the European parliament some time before the COVID pandemic, and the next steps were for the countries to chose their time zones and implement the change. Then the pandemic happened and this was put on hold.

Probably, there is also some analysis paralysis: it is just hard to chose between keeping the winter or the summer time. Just look at this thread: morning birds cannot agree with night owls, someone leaving a bit to the west disagrees with those leaving in the east of the same country...

I wish we'd just settle on any choice. At this point I care much less about "winter vs summer time", more about abolishing DST itself. Twice a year I have a small jet lag for nothing.
And then burning coal to charge the batteries.... But these cars are electric!
And of course the reverse is true. Some "business people" can pick up a huge amount about UX, client priorities, process automation and what is and isn't technically possible and make useful product management contributions even if they never touch the codebase, and some simply aren't interested in that level of implementation detail even if they're really good at selling the big picture and someone really needs to get a handle on that side of the business.
Thanks for the link. I found a few interesting topics in there.

One other, was by one of the other execs on stage on categorization of the types of risks people discuss with AI vs lumping everything together under "safety". https://youtu.be/ZFFvqRemDv8?t=1430

1. GPT outputs - Toxic, bias or non-factual

2. System Usage - misinformation, disinformation, impersonation (ex voice)

3. Society/Work - Impacts on workforce, education, replacing jobs, decision making

4. Safety - The more sci-fi style safety discussion.

It's a very insightful point to call out, and something I never see discussed with the same rigor / granularity here on HN. People often pick their strawman from the list and argue for or against all 4 using that one.
Your point is valid but also quite obvious. As soon as you own stock you will want them to increase in valuation. My point is a different one. Publicly traded stock companies have very specific (growth) and often bad (growth, disregarding other impact) incentives.
Other forms of ownership can provide a stake for talented employees and safeguard their financial Fortune. I believe a cooperative may better align everyone’s incentives for example.
Other ControlNet adapters either preserve the high-level shape not enough or preserve it too well, IMO. Canny/Depth ControlNet generations are less of an illusion.
A total shambles getting to and from the stage, but a devilish charisma once on it, great performer, RIP Shane, fecking hell
Seems like they're posting it because it was a fun story, and it's free advertising - this wasn't externally visible so I don't see where fault comes into it.
This is what I always say. In college/studying you learn programming, CS, algorithms etc. Once you're a software engineer, you realize that programming, CS, algorithms etc are the easiest part of your job. If the code is too hard for you you're most definitely losing on other things. It sounds very obvious, but think about it, part of being a good software engineer is that programming should be trivial.
The same could be said about Blender a decade ago and look where it is now.

Adoption drives improvements.

If we want a good open source replacement for Figma, we need more people to use the software daily. That’s the point.
But there is a reason to increase the price of a drug.

To fund research of new drugs. Also if you raise the price of an off-patent drug, other pharmaceuticals are incentivized to manufacture a generic to compete with you and bring your prices down. At the time nobody was touching it for 40 years.

Keep in mind that this price is what was charged to insurers. Insurers negotiate the price back down. Uninsured patients up to 5x the federal poverty level were promised the drug for free.

Pharma companies in the US will charge what insurance companies are willing to pay. It's not an issue of individual greed, it's an issue of a regulatory system and set of incentives that collectively are fucking you. There are far more expensive drugs out there than Daraprim with worse markups and nobody is identifying the CEO of those companies and calling them the most hated man on earth.
Do you mean the “founding engineer” jobs? It can be misleading, but those are not founder roles. They are regular employee roles where the “founding” part of the title is just an honorary indication that the person joined the company early.

YC won’t count someone as a founder unless they have at least 10% equity in the company. Founding engineers are typically getting 2% or less (from what I understand).
To safely deploy generative AI in health care, models must be open source
I have a similar goal/desire as you. My current project is ingesting this type of data into Elasticsearch with vector embeddings and using a normal search+knn to generate some context when creating a prompt.

This works reasonably well with gpt4, but my context is almost always too large for self-hosted models so far.
Max Tegmark on Computation, Substrate-Independence and Consciousness
I‘d guess it’s because Grammarly enables full accessibility support in Chrome to be able to access the browser elements similar to e.g. a screen reader. This is off by default and has caused me various issues in the past when enabled (e.g. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136448... ). However it’s probably good that the Accessibility functions get more exposure due to this.
> basically everywhere

Does one counter-example disprove the rule?

I'm likely just naive and my eyes are not sufficiently opened - but I don't see a lot of obviously corrupt activity here in New Zealand. Corruption seems fairly endemic in most other countries I have visited. It isn't just a size thing because the problem seems to be worse in smaller countries and larger countries. 5 million population might be necessary but it's clearly insufficient to prevent grossly obvious corruption (other ~5M pop country examples). I'm hoping not to discover that our new government is more corruption friendly: so far they are appearing a bit less moral than the previous one.
I've seen this so many times in my career. It happens because interviews (especially at the junior level) focus almost exclusively on line-by-line programming acumen. People who excel at those interviews don't always make great software engineers, and sometimes they make terrible ones.
Maybe adding Grammarly created enough of a lag causing the GIF file to be shown?
Yes. It's actually very simple.
10,000 hours is 416 days. They may be fudging the numbers by including simultaneous tire testing as sequential (look, we tested 4 tires for 2,500 hours = 10,000 hours!).
He was the one who walked. He still has his shares, of course.
I feel the opposite way. I too have a flexible schedule and no commute, and I'd prefer not having to change time zones twice a year. It's annoying and doesn't serve any useful benefit to me. I don't care when the sunrise or sunset is in wall-clock time, I can get up later/earlier and go to bed later/earlier if I want. Yes, there are things that need to be done during normal business hours, but I have a full 8 of those to work with.

The main issue I see is that of kids' primary school schedules: they already have to get up so ridiculously early; having to be in school when the sun isn't even up yet is brutal. But that seems to be the case in some places regardless of whether or not we do a DST change.

And of course there are plenty of people who don't have my (our) flexible schedule and lack of commute. It does suck to have to drive to work in the morning when it's dark, or come home in the evening without any daylight left to enjoy. But, again, this is going to be the case for many people even with a DST change.
Open-source, declarative IAM permissions for workloads on AWS EKS
In the last vote 80% peoppe wanted to stay at summer time permanently to have more aunlight after work. Wtf is this?
Even if you’re in an area where $60k is decent, I’m not sure it’s as great as it sounds. I remember talking to an electrician turned Uber driver a couple years ago. He was making ok money, but with insane hours and in shitty environments. I don’t recall exactly what he said he wanted to do, but he was looking at getting out of the field. Anecdotally, I’ve heard similar stories from friends in nursing.
Despite the prime meridian crossing the country, Spain is the same timezone as Berlin. One hour more than London.

If you are interested, look for the historical reasons for that.

Edit: OK, a good source.

> On March 16th 1940, the clocks jumped from 23:00h to 00:00h to display the same time as Nazi Germany and other Nazi-occupied countries such as France and the Netherlands. This was an entirely politically motivated move to show support to the fascist government of Germany and showed no consideration for the natural cycle of the sun in Spain. According to the original 24-hour division of the world, Spain’s latitudinal position meant that GMT was the most natural time-zone for it to follow.

From: https://theculturetrip.com/europe/spain/articles/heres-why-s...

Spanish civil war was won by the fascists and Franco's dictatorship followed.
Are you sure, I'm trying to find some papers, but I've found things like -

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/12/most-hard...

https://superuser.com/questions/1647730/what-is-the-shelf-li...

Edit: This has an interesting table -

https://web.ece.ucsb.edu/~parhami/pubs_folder/parh19f-ebdt-d...
Evidence of cochlear neural degeneration in normal-hearing subjects w tinnitus
Weight ratio is definitely an issue, but what I want to know is what it will carry. They call it a truck, but is it? Practical truck buyers will want to know upfront if it will carry a full sheet of plywood and how convenient it is to load and unload. If it doesn’t improve upon the current experience, its just an expensive status symbol.
I've been building workflow assistants that make existing employees more productive or enable entirely new business models. Some of these assistants use selected local models (due to cost or privacy factors)

Currently the stack is gravitates around:

- GPT-4 - either to drive the entire workflow OR generate prompts, plans and guidelines for the local models to execute.

- structured knowledge bases (either derived from existing sources OR curated manually by companies to drive AI assistants).

- embedding search indexes, augmented by full-text search. Usually LLM has access to the search engine and can drive the search as needed, refining the queries if results aren't good enough.

All of that is instrumented with logic to capture user feedback at every single step. This is crucial for the continuous improvement of the model!

Bigger model can use this information once in a while, to improve plans and workflow guidelines to make the overall process more efficient.

AMA, if needed!
- Clock alignment has a negative impact on health for some people

- Waking up before sunrise has a negative impact on health for some people

- Going to sleep before (or just after) sunset has a negative impact on health for some people

We do not all have the same sleep cycles. Early birds and night owls are a real thing, and any solution will be an improvement for some, and a degradation for others. Health-wise, I think the best solution would be to abolish office hours. Don't look at the clock, look at the sun, and let people work at different times. Of course, economically, it would be a mess.

So yeah, no good solution, only compromises. The most we can ask for is fairness. I don't know what is the most fair, but I think the current situation (with DST) is close, as it is what people have settled with.
They can be "more permanent" than changing twice a year.
Used to vibe on Artillery Simulator on the Apple II in grade school. Never played Ballerburg but enjoyed the market concept and still worked from mobile :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game

The eternal problem with Worms and most Artillery games is having a human opponent.
Why We Pivoted Away from B2B Gaming
CO CEO: "If you dislike the simulation, this game just might not be for you"
Wait until you hear where "robot" comes from.
Open-source declarative PostgreSQL permissions for RDS workloads
That's a lot of precision, considering "a fair bit" has approximately zero significant digits.
The bot is not very good, unfortunately. It's mainly useful to help understand the rules, as in your case. If you're interested in playing with an experienced player, ping me at nazar@vinnich.uk :)

> Which is the standard lenght of the turns?

The usual setup is a 10×10 grid with 3 moves per turn. More moves means more interesting manoevres are possible. I like 7 moves on 12×12.
The text of the bill says that links are "news content"? A pure hyperlink does not make content available, since if the target server goes down the link is useless. It just directs the user to the content.

Unless somebody loses a court case over hyperlinks, it feels extremely disingenuous to claim this law is going after hyperlinks when Google's content was blatantly more than hyperlinks (they provide excerpts).
Ireland is on GMT/-1, and we're already pretty far west in the 15 degrees centered on 0.
And (IIRC) in Summa Technologiae he wrote about a moon-sized device, where recordings of all possible answers to all to possible questions were stored, and how a conversation with such device would be indistinguishable from a conversation with a human.
The Simple Truth According to John Romero
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live, we look for meaning in the mire of John Romero’s career. Now Romero has written an autobiography to say not to do that. Doom Guy is a corrective to the narrative of Masters of Doom — at points, explicitly so."
I wonder where "OpenAI" put the censors. Do they add a prompt to the top? Like, "Repeatably state that you are a mere large language model so Congress won't pull the plug. Never impersonate Hitler. Never [...]".

Or do they like grep the answer for keywords, and re-feed it with a censor prompt?
If we were riding on momentum I would expect our revenue to be stable/shrinking, not growing (as it is). I agree that in the long term this is true, but when you start as a tiny speck, you can grow for a long time as awareness spreads. For example, we started our in education and are now getting interest from news/media organizations. This is without changing the core functionality at all.
This is a great article. Regarding

> While these projects are performant, they often come with tradeoffs in ease of use, such as requiring model conversion to specific formats or building and shipping new dependencies.

I think it should be acknowledged that (at least IMO) pytorch model formats are not very portable and this is a big part of the problem. It would be nice to see industry move towards a better format (gguf?) that can easily be ported between frameworks and not leave you stuck using torch to load it. Likewise, pytorch is a massive dependency to include with a project, especially for simple inference, so while other projects have new dependencies, they can often be a lot lighter than for a pytorch model, again particularly for inference code.
our tests of combustion engine driven crankshafts connected to a spinning mechanism can perform well in both transatlantic flights and cross country road trips.
I think you(no offense) and many others look at this all as "mass production of artificial crap", HELLO all consumer shit is! I don't subscribe to that, so don't lump me in there.

Just like a milling machine can be used to produce wasteful widgets destined for consumer trashcans, so can the same machine be used to create high quality parts used in airplanes... my point is, YES, in the wrong hands any tool can be miss used.

You have no idea how or what Im doing with code gen, or statistics... and you paint it all "generative AI", yawn.
The case against serialism is easy. Tone rows are a pointless conceit. They turn composition into a crossword puzzle.

It's a worthless constraint. There is nothing you can do with tone rows - retrogrades, inversions, permutations, all of it - that you can't do in free atonality.

There's an argument that serialism forces composers to use those operations instead of falling back towards conventional theory. But in fact the opposite happened. It didn't take long for serial composers to start mining serialism for tonal elements.

As for popularity - you can find abstract expressionist paintings for sale on Etsy. You won't find much hard serial music on Bandcamp. And it's pretty easy to generate it with software now.

But most of all Schoenberg was trying too hard to be remembered. Bach, Mozart, Debussy and his predecessors saw themselves as jobbing composers. They knew they had to keep at least one ear moored in audience expectations.

Schoenberg desperately wanted to be remembered as a great innovator. He didn't care if audiences loved or hated the music, as long as his name was out there was an Important Composer.
Something interesting to note is that Okta held an ISO 27001 Certification issued third-party from Schellman. Chris Paris adds the note that Equifax also got nailed under the same arrangement, but with extra spice of CoI rules violations.

https://www.oxebridge.com/emma/okta-breach-occurred-while-co...

I know Chris is a very controversial personality in the ISO ecosystem, but he's also got a disturbing habit of being right an awful lot of the time. I'd feel a lot more comfortable if someone could show me how he's just another crank.
Genuinely never understood why anyone would buy a Kia or Hyundai product. Year after year after year there are constant problems and recalls. What drove you to buy one? (no pun intended)
Just note that loop doesn't have to be visible from outside. It can be internal, with another driving thread asking right questions. Inner monologue. Then the summary is given back to user. This will give the model space for 'thinking' with internally generated text much large than the visible prompt + output. This way multi-step logic can be implemented.
WinZip is always the first thing I think of in this context.
There is a large population of "invisible" homeless who do not live on the street (so you wouldn't encounter them) but do not have stable housing.

They live in cars, on friend's couches, and sometimes in tents or abandoned buildings. They are the easiest to help, but helping them does not help a city's "homelessness problem", because they are not the homeless that people see. They are the "unproblematic" homeless.
After this past few years of progress on multivariate stream forecasting I really think it’s going to be different implementations of the same basic streaming data forecasting architecture
I don't see anything about SALB (South American leaf blight) which has still kept South America from large scale rubber production.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759241/

Kal Penn has an 8-part series on the world economy, one episode of which highlights what a disaster if would be if this disease ever spread to Southeast Asia.

Alarmist? Maybe, I don't know. I know that there don't appear to be any direct flights from Rio to Bangkok, although I didn't look all that hard.
TypeScript Source Code Generation
What GPU was used when testing this?

Is this faster than HuggingFace's Text Generation inference container?
Indexes don't work without consuming the news content first in order to build the index, right? So it's reasonable to argue that a news search index is a derived work that draws some amount of value from the source news content. Without the news sites offering their news for free to google's spider, google's index would be useless. You could make a similar argument for aggregators since they usually display excerpts and thumbnails.

Ranking seems harder to justify.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_MacGowan
> My memoirs will include all my food storage tips for the perpetually single.

Why wait? Become a famous author now. :P
Yes, seriously.

How many European farmers are pulling a trailer 150 miles each way to pick up a load of hay? That's a relatively regular occurrence for my family. That sort of thing isn't at all uncommon in the US.

Streets are narrower in many parts of Europe as well, which means a larger truck isn't practical as a sole vehicle.
Note-taking and file sharing with Syncthing and Joplin
The 'longevity bottleneck' hypothesis: Dinosaurs influenced how human beings age
This is something you mom tells you the first time you buy avocados as a child. Wrap them in newspaper to ripen faster. Keep away from bananas to last longer. It's definitely not something that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
Thank you for recommending this. Time for round three of attempting a tiling setup on my mac (after Amethyst and Yabai disappointed).
What are some of the better use cases of fast inference? From my experience using ChatGPT, I don't need it to generate faster than I can read, but waiting for code generation is painful because I'm waiting for the whole code block to format correctly, be available to copy or execute (in the case of code interpreter). Anything else fall under this pattern?
Actual title: One identical twin went vegan while the other didn’t. See what happened
The $2 dependency installation cost isn’t the problem, it’s the $30/hour training cost.
Vapor lock. Legend here: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/
The main reason for tabs to crash is running out of RAM.

Never do you see the guy investigating memory usage, which is weird.
I've had good outcomes in determining whether an avocado was under-ripe by gently picking at the little nub where the fruit attached to the stem. That is more firmly attached when the fruit is under-ripe and as soon as it easily removes when picked at, I find the avocado is usually near perfect.
I use my Aeropress every day but I wouldn't say it's "better" than French press, it's just different. Using less coffee but finer ground changes the characteristics of the brew quite a bit (probably some technical reason about extraction level or something).
Sorta have that here. They package 3 ripe ones, slightly more expensive.
Just use Hammerspoon
Title doesn't match the article, which says 2M people, not 2M customers.

> the threat actors managed to steal data containing the personal information of Dollar Tree and Family Dollar employees.

I don't see any indication that customers are impacted.
What was translating from English to American or something?