skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya, this could be a case of induced demand that we see in freeway building. Making more housing in a hot area where people want to live could conversely encourage more people to move to that hot area. Unless you just have slow growth like Japan/Tokyo, or some kind of residency restriction, I don’t see a way to cheaper prices just by adding in more supply. The increased density is still a win, just don’t expect it to make housing much cheaper.
OK, but he specifically mentioned “it means I have no Wayland”. So does Wayland work?
Btrfs does not have native encryption.

I use LUKS / dm-crypt on entire drive partitions. Did that with ZFS too, and by the time ZFS got this feature I was already planning my migration to btrfs.

I like encrypting with LUKS, because I can have a drive configured with mine and my wife's password. Either one of us can take that drive, plug it in, and Gnome will put a nice graphical prompt asking for a password, then decrypt the drive and mount the filesystem.

If I get hit by a bus, LUKS makes it much easier for my family to get access to important data without having to have that data sit around somewhere in plaintext.
Same here. It's helping me train my own ear and eyes to identify birds.
Protonmail holds your key encrypted on the server. The key could be encrypted+decrypted by pin or by password.
> The string “syncthing” with the folder ID concatenated make up the salt

Meaning its not fixed but every folder has its own salt
This needs to be shown. For example, asking for something that is clearly in the training data (like Paul Grahams cv) is certainly not a proper way to test context recall
I believe the Abseil library has formatting functions that's capable of parsing the format string at compile time.
No, startup times are still significantly higher which I don't really understand, there's no compilation or binary translation going on but still.

And recently, again, any game that bundles the EA app was a pain in the butt to get running, you had to switch back to very old proton versions and disable dxvk and other shenanigans for the EA installer to work. Once it installed properly you could switch everything back to default, but startup time is still abysmal.
Steam is the only platform that provides a Linux client, and Valve has provided massive support to Linux with the development of Proton, SteamOS and the Steam Deck.

I have bought a few games in GOG, but until the give us proper Linux support, I won't give them any money.
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As long as you consider cups of water and cups of milk be different objects (i.e. cups are not interchangeable, and you can't just throw out milk and fill it with water) it is a completely sensible statement.

For example, in Jewish religious families, there are often two sets of kitchen utensils - for meat products and for dairy/other products, since mixing those makes the food unfit for consumption by a religious person. In this situation, if you said "I have an empty meat pot" and somebody answered you "No, I need an empty milk pot, give me another one!" - it would make a total sense. Even though both pots are empty, they are not the same kind of pot for their users.

Similarly, if a string is a sequence of certain objects (characters, bytes, runes, graphemes, whatever you please) then empty sequence of such objects is not the same as an empty sequence of other objects - you could append a character to it, but you can't append a database connection to it, for example, and expect something sane to happen.

So yes, "empty cup of water" is exactly what it is, because in most programming languages, empty cups are not all alike. In some languages, there are sequence types that are agnostic towards their elements, and then an empty sequence of that kind wouldn't be a sequence of anything - it'd be just a separate entity. But strings rarely are implemented this way, for many practical reasons.
OK, so, what is the right way then?
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/drm_on_gog_list_of_singlep...

> Beat Hazard 2 - online DRM. The game can't be started at all without being online. It is fully DRM-ed!

> Fishing: North Atlantic - Scallops Expansion. - does not work without Galaxy. In other words: this DLC is COMPLETELY DRM-ED! (Update 08/2022: GOG said that it was fixed, but it's only partially. The DLC can be installed and played offline, but it still requires Galaxy running in the background to be recognized as installed.)

> King of Seas - Possibly a bug, but it isn't possible to save the game without Galaxy.

> Spellforce 3 - Skirmishes against the AI require an online connection.

> Tempest - crashes when started without Galaxy since the last update. Possibly a bug, but so far GOG's only solution is 'Use Galaxy'.

> Two Point Hospital - part of the single-player content is gated through online connectivity. I.e. one has to register online and be online to unlock. Plus: core gameplay mechanics (staff handling, diagnostics) are bugged in offline mode.

> Northgard - solo mode required Galaxy. But according to GOG and the devs, that was a bug and as of 02.04.2021 the solo mode is DRM-free again. ... However, it was still not possible to select opponents for skirmishes in offline mode. You need to be online to select an opponent for offline skirmish mode. But as of 05.06.2022 solo mode now doesn't require Galaxy to select opponents anymore. Northgard is finally DRM-free again.

> Absolver - Boss re-matches are locked behind an online requirement. Boss loot too. As well as some techniques that can be used in offline play but can only be learned online. Absolver also installs the invasive EAC anti-cheat software even for single player and won't start without it.

> A list of multiplayer games with DRM will get very, very long.

> just assume that all multiplayer games, that aren't on the 'DRM-free multiplayer list', are DRM-ed.
A cheap and nice self hosted alternative way to have an "always on" sync endpoint is with a raspberry pi 4 with SSD (don't try this with an SD card).

My current setup is running a wireguard server, syncthing and DuckDNS on the pi. I also port forward the wireguard port from my ISP's router.

With this, my devices are always connected to the VPN, and sync always works (and is fast!) like everything is on a LAN.
> OpenAI before ChatGPT (or even now) isn't even in the same ballpark with Google, MS etc as far as regulatory oversight goes.

That doesn’t matter for regulators.
Mixed feelings about the longevity of this. It feels like it wants to be an open source alternative to WolframAlpha, but without the UX of "just typing a question". One has to navigate and search for functions that do the thing they want done.

Wanna convert a string to the nato phonetic alphabet? Sure, that function is there... You gotta search for it first though. Does it accept lowercase inputs? No, not at the time of writing this comment... But you know, someone might fix that. No problem.

It sounds like a project that would be dead on arrival if it were launched by and for any other community. If wiki maintainers like this? Then great!

I do see value if people could integrate functions within wikipedia article. Maybe it makes sense for certain articles to include some dynamic widgets in them. Unsure I'd like that but it may work.
Should be the response to this tweet:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/regarding-our-recent-a-lab-ar...
1) The activities of the US gov't have precisely nothing to do with the probability that a device from China has some backdoor or surveillance function. When someone raises this concern, the response "the USA has a history of surveiling its citizens" is not a rebuttal, it's irrelevant. Thus a whataboutism.

2) Your burden of proof might be different from mine, but one needs to be pretty naive to think that the CCP doesn't surveil western citizens. I doubt their intelligence apparatus is that bad at their job. In fact, I have plenty of reason to believe it's pretty great at it.

[0] https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-chinese-communist-party-us...

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/27/china-ccp-spying-us-pol...
Also I believe they create an id on device for the media and can identify (known) images are going back and forth. Don't know why they couldn't use this for targeting even though "the data is encrypted"
Good video from the system here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l29C1UuL7bo

The give-and-take relationship between this technology and video games is ... something.
The only feature that requires Galaxy to operate is registering Galaxy achievements.

Galaxy is adding almost zero value for players. And we keep getting games that won't run unless it's running. (Or -- forgive me if I overspoke -- games that will run but won't let you save the game.)

The cost-benefit balance is very clearly far into the negatives. Why would you want another platform to implement something similar?
Partitioned consensus and its impact on Spanner's latency (2018)
My understanding is that courts haven't even tested if terms of service are enforceable, never mind sudden updates to them.
Have a look at https://docs.toit.io/tutorials (using Toit).

I wrote lots of easy to follow tutorials there.

It depends a lot on the sensors you have. That said, even without any (or few) sensor(s) you can still have fun with network related applications like a Telegram bot.
No. It’s not only bound to specific companies.
Any narrowing of scope would be temporary.
Me and my team have been working on building an IDE plugin to add the powers of a traditional debugger to your apps running in production - without the overheads and redeployments associated with a traditional debugger.

People use it to analyze arbitrary variables during runtime to understand what is happening in their code. We charge $0 for it.

You can get started here: https://docs.ctrlb.ai/getting-started-in-2-minutes
When we switched to WFH during Covid I bought a bean expresso machine as a Nespresso pods really did not do it for me - saved a fuckton of money - now I just need to get an icemaker for making iced coffee in summer.

It has been a decade since we had a TV in our household - it just laptops, tablets, phones and a PS5 for my gamer kid - so it's just Spotify/Youtube for them plus TikTok for downtime.

I rarely watch movies - think Spiderman No Way Home was the last one.
So.. Ignoring em effects it really behaves a liquid from another dimension
In many circles in the US, it is the way to communicate. You just end up left out of “fun” group chats where people want to use iMessage features and then end up left out of actual events because people forgot to invite in the greenie group.
Let's run through YC's list: https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs

Most of these are bloody expensive - carbon removal, cell therapy, medical devices, longevity, transportation and housing, education, etc, etc.

Government 2.0 is just well, really difficult.

Which of these are cheap? AI? Biohacking? Supporting creators?

The last one is fairly doable, but there's probably people tackling it, including the people who host the sites these creators are on. It's also arguably the least important one on there.

AI and biohacking have a huge skill barrier. But both of these are very well funded because of that moat. Most of us can do some AI wrapper, but the high funding means that it moves fast enough that most of these wrappers are being replaced by official OpenAI stuff.

So you're left with the problems that are too difficult and expensive to tackle. Some people, like Gates and Musk try to take them, but there's only so many such individuals. There's a lot to say about billionaires funding these projects, but I'll leave that to someone else.
Yeah it sucks, but I care the least about it tbh.
> specific paragraphs of GDPR

GDPR doesn't target American tech companies, that's the DMA. Essentially, the framing is there are companies that are "gatekeepers" and then everyone else. The criteria for gatekeepers are theoretically objective, but they were written with a specific set of companies in mind. As a consequence, the designated companies except TikTok just so happen to be based in the US. Further, the rules were written such that EU firms like Spotify are not eligible.

Also, Vodafone somehow is not considered a gatekeeper in any relevant digital market.

Anyway, no judgement. We are in a time of rising protectionism. This may be good for Europe. But the DMA clearly targeted a set of West Coast US companies and it's doing what it was intended to do.

I do wish they would modify GDPR to only apply to people e.g. physically in Europe or similar. It really does make the Web worse for billions of people who are not EU nationals and derive absolutely no benefits from the banners.

While they're regulating browsers and plugs, could they make browser makers ship EU versions of their browsers that show the popups, while the rest of us save tons of clicks? EU nationals could install EU versions of their favorite browsers and the rest of us would just use the stock versions.
*RISC-V and the RX 580 isn't the latest AMD gpu
It sounds as some kind of anti-Sapir-Whorf hypothesis - that we can express things entirely without using any language at all. I am very curious how it turns out - while I think Wikidata is taking it as far as it practically possible, and Abstract Wikipedia takes it way further - I'd be very curious to know how it turns out. Sometimes people just need to do things that look crazy to see what happens.
We're looking at Yew and Dioxus but kind of deciding to not decide yet. Frontend carries a lot of alternatives and generally brings in heavy discussions
I’m not sure how this would work practically in the US. A huge constituency of people has most of their finances centered around their home as minimally a value store and maximally a growth investment. Having homes go down in price or even just leveling off would create a whole other host of challenges for a society that’s been organized so completely for so long around home values going up.
Thanks!
We much prefer to have had Rails' activerecord, but activerecord has hundreds of person-years (maybe thousands?). So what we found was the best for the current lifespan of Rust and its ORM ecosystem
And it has full data dumps and query service (https://query.wikidata.org/) so if you wanted to use it in any LLM project or as side service, there's absolutely no problem with that.
The law was written to be objective, but it was written with a set of companies in mind.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38553635

No judgement, this may be good for Europe in the long term.
I made a choice to make birdwatching an interest I immerse myself with while there. Basically meaning, I prefer to watch birds through binocculars, in the moment, and keep them in memory, more than capturing the moment for later. I am not against the idea of photographing birds as such, I just realized that in most cases, they will remain small even with very expensive lenses, and the effort to capture really great birding images is going to be significant.
Public-access models are useless by design?
Game theoretically speaking:

Anything that can give user a meaningful economical competitive edge is deemed as unethical to be served via (OAI) endpoint.

Impactful research is too valuable to be released as arxiv paper.

So the community incentive is to release massive amounts of barely useful toys (papers and hf models) for resume padding purposes.
Milk-V Pioneer – native RISC-V computer
It is not yet known what the limit actually is. Theoretically, a very hot mass of atoms that doesn't interact with its surrounding environment could still be in a superposition and display quantum effects - though it's very hard to perform such an experiment. Decoherence happens because of interactions with the environment, it doesn't happen for an isolated system as far as the theory goes. In fact, proponents of MWI believe that the whole universe, which is an isolated system, is itself a quantum system.
Wikidata is already modeled in RDF: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibase/Indexing/RDF_Dump_Fo...
That's why we at Tuta do not send any information with the push on Apple and have built our own push notification for Android (we'd never use Google Push): https://tuta.com/blog/posts/open-source-email-fdroid
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38552789, which has a somewhat more informative article.

(Sorry robmor! this was a good submission too; we just want to avoid split threads where possible. Eventually we're going to a karma-sharing system where submitters of related articles can share the 'credit' for contributing a story.)
And you suppose lutris adds random bloat to make things launch much slower than they actually would, because they decided that's what people would expect from a game launcher? Like, what exactly would that be? Mind you, this is explicitly about game startup time, not lutris itself.

I started out doing what you suggest here, but it's a ducking pain in the butt after a while, every couple months there is a new version of X, then Y is deprecated and you should switch to Z... I do this kind of crap as my day job already, no need to keep going in the evening when I just want to have some fun with friends.
To add to that, there was an interesting article in the FT, showing that the UK is essentially a poor country with some very rich elites. If you look at the standard of living for say a "median income family" it is considerably lower than many countries on the continent. And perhaps, the rich too are running out of steam and being outpaces by their peers on the continent.

Basically, inequality in action...
I think his point was that using this qualifier gives more credence to the "nothing to hide" folks. The more people get used to saying it in defense, the easier it becomes to use as an attack.
Investors that buy houses just rent them out again, so the houses are not removed from the supply of housing, just moved from the homeowner's market to the rental market. There is nothing wrong with this - renters need a place to live too! The problem is the lack of overall housing, not the balance between homes to rent and buy.

The fact that it's profitable to buy homes and rent them out means that renters are currently overpaying relative to buyers, and shifting properties over to the rental market will help correct this inequality. If you advocate against this then you are arguing that renters should be screwed over the subsidize homebuyers.

If you want to screw over wall street you should build more homes to flood supply and tank the value of their investment. Of course many of the people who complain about Wall Street buying up homes are also NIMBYs who adamantly block all new housing because they are supply-and-demand deniers or vacancy truthers.
The final stage beeing the Opt player kill & Bann. Compute a all knowing AI and hold it's behavior against that of players, then cull the closest percentage.
If by businesses you mean 'companies exploiting user's private data against their wishes', you are correct.
why am i not able to cause a meltdown
Related: https://messengernews.fb.com/2023/12/06/launching-default-en... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38551993, but we merged that thread hither).
As an EU citizen I hate it (cookie popups). I think the stupid regulation achieved nothing and essentially "broke the Internet" by normalising popups that obscure content while anyone that tracks can do so using alternatives.

Sadly the EU is being led by a clique of unelected beaurocrats (commisars - like in the USSR) and the most democratic of institutions - the EU parliament as well as national parliaments have very little influence on what is being proposed and bulldozed in. For example, let's say in a given country literaly everyone is opposed to ACTA and the country has the balls to veto it (despite the beaurocrat's usual tricks of rolling in together things everyone wants and needs with absolute crap like ACTA). The same idea is brought back again 2 years later (ACTA v2). It is vetoed again, it is brought back again 2 years later and this time bypasses the veto by being "voluntary". "Countries that don't want it don't need to implement" - great on paper. Until you realise most people in the EU oppose it, including in the countries that implement it and by the fact of implementing it in the majority they make it a de-facto standard which increases the cost of doing business affected in the countries that now have differing regulations.

Same thing is being done with the "EU constitution". No one, other than it's rulers, wants the EU to be a country. The idea got shot down immediately in a popular vote. So they are essentially implementing it anyway bit by bit by stretching the law and outright breaking it (especially against countries that vote in parties that are not in the EPP club).

I'm a big fan of the idea of EU as it was before the treaty of Nice. It was a group of countries with similar values creating an open market and agreeing to make decisions affecting it together. Sadly the institutions that were created to oversee that structure have the priorities of their own (increasing their own power) and using both the method mentioned above and simply doing things "extra legally" (as lawyers say) they do whatever they want and if the extremely corrupt "court" tied to them decides it's OK there is no way to question it. These bastards say they are "strenghtening the EU". They are destroying it. Anti EU sentiment is increasing especially amongst younger voters in many countries and guess who will be very happy when it all goes tits up? One guy called Putin who has been financing a lot of the corruption we see (through countries like Qatar etc).
Legislative proposals like this in an election year work to put candidates on record and fish for contributions.

It seems unworkable. The $50M threshold for hedge funds is easily circumvented by breaking up funds, and the "on any day" language makes bulk transfers tricky. "Single-family" includes 1-4 units, so all those savers who prefer real estate to the stock market could have their buyers dry up.

(No comment on the actual economic or fairness benefit.)

However, what could work this year and be even more useful would be to strip out everything except reporting requirements. The government has really no idea what's happening in the housing market or why, and no evidence that could quantify the degree of market control or indicate illegal collusion. This could be combined with anti-money-laundering reporting requirements designed to disclose real estate being used to launder dirty money, with appropriate requirements to disclose the beneficial owners, and detect the effective but unregistered sale of property by selling the owning entity. There's really no policy objection because property already must be registered, and there are no real business confidentiality concerns from the government having this information. If/since the reporting would be limited to real estate, it wouldn't raise the substantial lobbying hackles of all the other businesses relying on shell corporations, and might even garner the support of the big hedge funds seeking to scare off competition.
Thanks - although that one was posted earlier, the OP here seems to have the more informative article, so I guess we'll merge those comments hither.
It holds true mathematically speaking. You can make (mathematical) sets of everything but there's only one empty set.

It's a bit like that with pointers in C: a char* is not a int* but null pointers are convertible to any pointer type.
They continue to set an incredibly high bar from story to engineering with every major release. It’s full of talent pushing the state of the art. Dead, utterly disgraced doesn’t describe the company. Stories about employees feeling exploited is more of a successful, topical company thing than a Rockstar thing.