skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article doesn't really explain what they mean by high-rise, except for saying "up to 12 stories" and showing an image of a typical five-over-one as an example of modern housing. If a six story building is a "typical" high-rise, then I'd argue that that's just the modern variation of the three to five story houses that make up a large portion of Germany's housing stock. They are generally nice to live in just based on being dense enough to attract shops, playgrounds, etc., while avoiding the issues of larger buildings.
Can anybody answer why the author wrote "indirect branches tend to show up in object oriented languages"?

Given that branches are, well, just branches in any language, what makes OO so special?

Also further down the author states "while FP registers have to be wider to handle vector execution"

Again I'm pretty certain FP registers are larger owing to the greater precision they have, not specifically because they're designed for vector ops... please somebody explain why my understanding is wrong?
Allegedly Imagen 2 is indeed better at producing hands: https://deepmind.google/technologies/imagen-2/

> Imagen 2’s dataset and model advances have delivered improvements in many of the areas that text-to-image tools often struggle with, including rendering realistic hands and human faces and keeping images free of distracting visual artifacts.
Weird, I've always thought the Thompson center was a beautiful building and one of the best downtown. Many people I know also think the same.
> by differentially property-taxing nonresident homeowners. That would lower property values + rents real quick.

Need to find the case study, but the precedent for this is rents go up. There are more barriers to housing than the price. Better strategy is taxing unoccupied housing.
I'm very confused now so I have no idea what to think. I need to take some time to read through everything, but in the mean time here are some relevant links I've seen:

https://lwn.net/Articles/925371/

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/23/135
llamafile is basically just llama.cpp except you don't have to build it yourself. That means you get all the knobs and dials with minimal effort. This is especially true if you download the "server" llamafile which is the fastest way to launch a tab with a local LLM in your browser. https://huggingface.co/jartine/llava-v1.5-7B-GGUF/tree/main llamafile is able to do command line chatbot too, but ollama provides a much nicer more polished experience for that.
That's a fascinating reference point for Germany because I remember moving to Berlin after living in SF and thinking it must be a paradise for people with families. I was in a standard apartment complex, maybe 4 or 5 stories, similar to what most people live in (the super high rises are all downtown in the commercial district) and there was a little park in our complex, another slightly larger one a block down, and an extremely large one a block and a half away. Never felt more safe in my life living there (Mitte neighborhood) and although there were some people rough sleeping in the park occasionally, it was clearly young people and those who chose to do it, not mentally ill like in many US cities. Much more accessible public transportation, good restaurants, friends with kids complained about having to sign up for preschool early but that was the major complaint I heard.
Agree, storybook has too many little issues and slows down smaller projects. I too feel it’s ideal for larger, slow moving projects.
Sorry, I didn't encounter that error. It worked on the first try for me. I have wished many times that the ML community didn't settle on Python for this reason...
Seems optional opt out is EU only…
Let's say you're not wrong! I've been in the music industry for a while and I know a lot of musicians and producers who wanna have a simple website to promote their music and social links. That's why link-in-bio services have become very popular between artists btw.

The goal of Noise is to help musicians build simple beautiful websites without too much effort (think link-in-bio service mashed with Squarespace) and I'm only using Spotify as a starting point for building the site.

I'm already working on important features to get out of the "Reskinning Spotify" phase into the next level phase. Features include connecting to a custom domain, analytics, connecting to tour platforms like bandsintown etc..

I honestly believe there is a huge market for this but time will only tell. Nevertheless, I can understand where you're coming from so thanks a lot for the feedback!
Thanks, this is helpful. I'm going to give AP a go.

Is it worth running self-hosted or better to just sign up at https://mas.to?

> the worst parts of Twitter before Elon took over

Do you mean primarily self promotion and aggrandizement?
> Is lowering property values a favorable outcome?

It's probably untenable alongside local democracy. Instead, zero real appreciation seems like a reasonable target.
They replaced the sugar with aspartame due to UK sugar tax and what made IrnBru is gone.

I miss Dr Pepper too, with aspartame or that other chemic it's just not the same.
Have you tried using a FAANG product with a Crimean IP address?
If they change anything it's no longer vanilla. Anything at all. No matter how insignificant.
Sadly, I think the assumption people are having families might be where the mark is missed - look at the global fertility rates.
Yes. It turns out one thing being bad does not make a completely different thing good.

(You'd think this was obvious, but I've been on the Internet a while and it sure isn't.)
Yeah, I was also quite shocked about the comment on crime. I've lived in a few cities in the US, Berlin, Tallinn, Shanghai, and for short stints in London, Nairobi, Yerevan, and Doula, and Berlin felt safest (although Tallinn was very close behind).
Yes, people flooded in and then firmly shut the door behind them.
Are the speedup numbers an Apple-Apple comparison or what's the baseline? A little unclear. Also, what makes linear algebra faster with Apple accelerate? Article could be a litte clearer.
I don't know, but it sounds like the Odyssey. Both were relatively close in time - 1972...sorry, about your uncle. Sounds like he was on the early adopter curve like my Dad. We were dirt poor, and yet my Dad somehow pulled this off (probably hit the triple at Aqueduct!).
Interesting results since Gemini scored "better" than GPT4 but Gemini is more like a 3.5 equilivalent model. The ultra one being released later is like gpt4.
That’s good to know, thanks for clarifying.

I am not from EU, so I was mostly going off the comment in this thread that was lamenting how “terrible” employment in the US due to employees being easily fireable for watching porn on employer-provided equipment. What you said makes it sound way more reasonable.
>Given that branches are, well, just branches in any language, what makes OO so special?

I suppose the assumption is that you get lots of virtual functions.
All innovation is composition plus random generation.

That’s a fairly bold claim. What supporting data do you have to justify it?
It is difficult, but the program (theoretically, since the program isn't at that stage yet) has checkpoints to address failure to actually deliver.

This stage was to focus on if the bid accepted based off of the short-form proposal was progressing and likely to deliver as described by reviewing additional information provided in the long-form application. That is going to be easier for tech with an established delivery history.
No, I'm telling you why it is you agree to copyright, as you seem unaware. Or rather, why a moral version of you would. If you choose to act immorally, fine. But at that point, you're acquiescing to my claim that piracy is immoral.
What the fuck?! How is this not opt-in?!
You have to remember that Santa Cruz is very near the Bay Area and in California. A lot more than 60,000 people want to live there many have been forced out by costs.

What you’re saying really amounts to saying you want to stop immigration into your town. While I can understand the sentiment, the problem is that people feel this way in so many places that it is creating a crisis of housing affordability.
Places change and grow. It's interesting that my kids have found places that speak to them (not the SF Bay Area) and they are growing with their towns as well. One wonders if your nieces and nephews will have the same situation.

There are clearly young families moving in around me, and the real estate market is brisk with houses changing hands quickly, but we've also added about 1500 higher density homes in the area which have afforded even more opportunities for where to live for these folks moving here. Certainly some of them prefer not doing maintenance etc which comes with home ownership.

Looking back at the city's decision to increase high density housing it has been a solid improvement.
A Switch Micro would be pretty cool.
Fine, you could limit the tax to buildings identified as single and multi-family homes? Most of those 60% are not living in rental apartments.

What it would do is reduce the property value of existing real estate supply (by making expected cash flow from renting far less profitable), effectively forcing nonresident owners to sell their buildings to would-be renters, who would now be able to afford a mortgage on their homes.

My thesis, fwiw, is that there's actually a sufficient supply of housing, it's just cornered with artificially inflated prices by people who treat housing as an investment vehicle rather than, well, housing.
Santa Cruz is certainly an outlier, but we're definitely seeing it all over the country.

I'm in a small town in southeast AK. Most of the buildable land has already been claimed. Tourism is growing faster than local people can support the industry, so there's all kinds of pressures: housing for summer employees, an increased temptation to do short term rentals to tourists instead of long term rentals to locals, and people buying second and third homes that they don't use most of the year.

Many of us watch our young people leave to go find their place in the world, and then find they can't move back even if they wanted to. The ones who do are paid really well, or have their housing largely subsidized by being given property their family bought a long time ago, or some similar assistance that isn't generally available to everyone.

For the past several years, multiple schools in our town have been unable to fill empty teaching positions because the people who are hired spend all spring and half the summer looking for housing, and simply can't find it. They bail and go somewhere that's willing to hire them and has some kind of housing available.

It's really a mess.
The most violent cities in America tend to vote red [1]. There isn't a simple partisan lens to the problem. (Though extremism is a common thread.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Norway will allow seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic region
Do you want another AI Winter?

Large Language Models have essentially solved language as a problem.

Because garbage like this overselling the tech is how you get another one.
This has happened where I grew up. All the coastal California towns have priced out the majority of people who grew up there.
Fact Checking ChatGPT with other LLMs – one AI was most confidently incorrect
access denied (from slovakia, lol)
> I might qualify this to say that poverty without spirituality causes fatherlessness.

That’s a bold statement.
Of course, if they hadn't dragged it out so long, they could have already had a bunch of nice-looking six-story condo buildings that would have met the state requirements for quite a while.
The plumber reference is probably a scope for small home jobs such as snaking a clogged toilet, replacing a garbage disposal, replacing a toilet, installing a bidet, etc. Small plumbing jobs may look simple but require attention to detail and I'm sure an AI tool can help with that as opposed to reading fine print on the toilet instructions.
You give money to get goods. What is wrong about that?
You are not cynical, it is the general trend, and you wish it weren't true.
If you can't explain it concisely and clearly, then do you understand it?
Does this approach work for you often?
> what is “protest for genocide”?

Calls for "the river to the sea" and "globalize the intifada". They are allowed.
Building high rises is the easiest path forward. Just need to control a block to put up a high rise and that does a lot. Alternatively it would be bull-dozing and developing existing natural scenery farther away with more infrastructure needs and traffic. If you wanted to instead make changes across a massive amount of existing housing to make them all a couple stories taller that would take a long time to work with all the land owners- would have been a good thing to start 10 years ago.
I find this argument is utterly destroyed by the fact that the message is a complaint about the 'other side' telling her to modify behavior to spend less money. Yet her behaviors include some really egregious spending. How could I separate the two?

Admittedly, I didn't have to know she made such an egregiously bad decision with her money to know she's wrong. I judged that immediately upon starting the essay because it's yet another angry rant against trivial financial advice that makes no difference and that no one forces you to take. The defensive and personal tone lets me know.

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

Happens every few months/years, people get up in arms about the Suze Orman meme advice to stop buying $5 coffee. If you're this angry about advice you're under no obligation to take, I know you're getting drunk and spending hundreds of dollars buy Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs or have some expensive substance addiction (e.g., cigarettes or weed) you could cut but choose not to. The anger is just so personal it's impossible that it's not coming from self-hatred.
Fwiw, I agree with you. most people are way more capable than they think they are., and modern society encourages people to be single-minded and sedentary.
Usually in my experience a startup requires some business acumen to succeed. The two common paths are

1: learn the business skills as you go. Difficult, but we see successful examples of this (perhaps outlier; selection bias). The biggest difficulty is balancing your time between competing needs, but you must have that skill if you wish to be any kind of founder.

2: find a businessy person to partner with as co-founder. Risks, but this is the path YC tends to recommend. Good comments about this made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38477057 - so much is relevant even though it is from the other side (business guy looking for techo).

The software builder path you envision is typically strewn with failures - possibly just because failing is the default for a startup. I have seen plenty of very capable engineer-types try to succeed using your plan: I think the most common reason for failure is building something that nobody wants to buy.

IMHO good engineering is making choosing great compromises. Business decisions are also about compromises. Spend your time wisely, and most importantly avoid wasting time on stuff that isn't key.

I wish you the best of luck, and good skills.
Damn, I've used msm drops and a few other homeopathic eye drops.

I'll throw this out into the ether... maybe someone else has experienced it.

Because I wore contacts too small in diameter the whites of my eyes now have extremely prominent red veins. There is no cure for this condition except a very expensive and barbaric procedure from a Beverly hills doctor. It's an extremely risky procedure that can cause all kinds of problems to the eye.

I'm quite surprised there isn't a cure for this, many people have these veins.

Anyway, I've tried every drop, supplement, and odd thing you can try to try and look like a person that isn't high or drunk 24/7.

You would be surprised how something so small can affect a persons confidence. If you have semi white eyes thank the Lord above and be careful wearing contacts.

Also if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.
If there are 5 houses in an area, populated by 1 family each for a total of 5 families, and those families have 1 child each (50% below population replacement rate), then with no new houses, there is no way for any of those children to have a house of their own until their parents die. But when their parents die, they get to have a home of their own.

At 2 children, the population replacement rate, only one child can have a house of their own after their parents die, if no new houses are constructed.
> Logged into Dropbox to see (EU based). Setting wasn't there.

FWIW, just checked mine (EU-based "pro" account), and the setting is there but was OFF. i have never specifically engaged any features regarding AI in dropbox.

i do recall seeing a popup in the web interface sometime in the past month about having AI summarize file content and i closed the popup without tapping anything which remotely appeared to be a consent button.
As a Santa Cruz homeowner who has lived in other dense and sparse places, I love this. I can't wait for this to happen and wish I could do more to make it happen more quickly.

With the introduction of the rail trail, Santa Cruz has the potential to become one of the most livable places in the United States

I think San Francisco is an easy lesson in the politics of building - You get to choose density or destitution, and you don't get to opt out.

I lived in SF for 10 years and Boston for 5. SF is a worse place for the time, and Boston has only gotten better. I'm a firm believer that development is the reason.
The Long Shadow of Checks
The original plan was to build out UCSC a lot more. I think the regents lost their motivation after building colleges 9 and 10 and also I think if they built more student housing, they'd have to build more parking lots (so many students have cars) and the traffic in the city would increase tremendously.
I've tried and it's genuinely bad, with obvious artifacts. I'm surprised it got released
It's funny we are talking about this since yesterday i went to a new doctor and they used my prescription history that they already have access to im guessing in the same software they used to prescribe to ask me about the medications i am taking instead of taking my word for it on the form i filled out.
Show HN: A pure C89 implementation of Go channels, with blocking selects
To be fair, defense is an existential risk for the US and its allies. NATO can’t really afford to not have a reasonably up-to-date combat jet. They also need to continually feed money into the military industrial complex so that suppliers don’t go under/downsize too much/etc.

Not disagreeing with your sentiment, just think that certain fields like defense, healthcare, etc have slightly different priority lists.
That wasn't my comment, but I happened to have the source already open: https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1734374558105293081?s=20
> if they built more student housing, they'd have to build more parking lots

There is another solution to this!
Kinda scratching my head at the purpose of the prompt understanding examples they show off. From previous papers I've seen in the space, shouldn't they be trying various compositional things like "A blue cube next to a red sphere" and variations thereof?

Instead they use

>The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

And show off the result being a photograph of a robin, cool. SDXL[0] can do the exact same thing given the same prompt, in fact even SD1.5 would be able to easily[1].

[0]https://i.imgur.com/rsgtYbf.png

[1]https://i.imgur.com/1rcQpcQ.png
I’m afraid the article as well as your benchmarks can be misleading because there are a lot of different whisper implementations out there.

For ex ctranslate optimized whisper “implements a custom runtime that applies many performance optimization techniques such as weights quantization, layers fusion, batch reordering…”

Intuitively, I would agree with your conclusion about Apple’s M-Series being impressive for what they do but not generally competitive with Nvidia in ML.

Objectively however, I don’t see concluding much with what’s on offer here. Once you start changing libraries, kernels, transformer code, etc you end up with an apples to oranges comparison.
I think this strategy would also tax unoccupied housing. Because if it's unoccupied, you're a de facto nonresident.

The broader idea is to tax absentee landlords and pied a terres, in favor of the people who actually live in the city. Moral justification of the tax is that if you want to profit off a community's residents while not living amongst them, you have to pay differentially higher taxes for the right (which would presumably benefit the civic life of those residents).
I wish the availability of those treatments would trickle down regular hospitals in non-US countries as well. I keep reading about all this amazing work being done, and yet my local hospitals in Estonia most likely haven't heard of them, or can't afford to implement it.
You do see but you're choosing to make an argument for the sake of "sticking it to MegaCorp" or something similar.

Every single person who had these 100+ TB plans knew it was unsustainable. When you have that much data you know how much it costs for hard drives to store that much data.

If the article had actually stated the amount the guy paid per month (what,$20-$60?) everyone would know that he should've known this was coming.
Looks like it got hugged to death in some way.
You've not defined "business skills" with this question so the answer is just as hazy. I mean, yes, you need business skills, but how much, and how good you need to be at them is the real question. You need to open a bank account. You need to pay taxes. You need to set a price for your product. Those are business skills that you have to be able to complete when building a startup, but if you can write code, you can do those things. There are additional business skills needed, but whether you learn to do them, and do them, or hire someone else to do them is up to you. The best thing about being a business owner is getting to pay someone else to do the stuff you don't want to do.
The comment said "continue to extract..". Try again.
fwiw "How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in Python" was explicitly about CPython.

fwiw PyPy doesn't seem to have been released in "the late 1990s".
Is there really no form of public expression you can think of other than commercial advertising?
The amount everyones quoting is the full fat amount over the life of the contract.

You have to show you can do most of it yourself i.e raise the money.

After a %age deployment the FCC checks if you've met the deployment timeline and checks your speeds then starts paying you and keeps testing as you deploy according to the timeline.

You don't get a dime upfront.
Yeah, the more I look into this the more dire this looks for Newag.
You don't tell your friend to get a job. You tell your friend they sound like a miserable fuck and some of their problems are of their own making.
Russia's tax database and backups destroyed
You don't even need a GPU anymore unless you care about realtime. A decent CPU can generate a 512x512 image in 2 seconds.

https://github.com/rupeshs/fastsdcpu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2zSxBHkNE0
Santa Cruz may be very "near" the Bay Area geographically but it's not practically. Even if you worked in San Jose you're talking 1.5 hours of commute in good weather (I did that for years). The other closest city is Monterey which is further and is of course not what anyone might call an economic hub.

Most of the people living in Santa Cruz owning homes are not commuting to the Bay to work. They made their money in tech and have retired to the beach.
Elon Musk Is Planning a New University in Austin