skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said Sam did. Sam’s just a made man.

Interested in this theory of middle class controlling the world. My personal yardstick is: “whose interests are most served by the system?”

For example, “middle class” doesn’t want wars, revolution, things shaking up. Which is why comrades hate them. Upper classes despise them and lower classes want to kill them. :) So seriously, is it the “middle class controlling the world” that has cash fire hoses gushing dollars “abroad” while “middle class” struggles to hold on to its shrinking perch?

Do enlighten me brother.
True, the fact we now also have LLM models at 2.7B parameters that are "actually coherent and useful for niche work" like PHI-2 on my Macbook Air running super fast at 25 t/s or 12 t/s for Mistral_0.2 as an _somewhat_ knowledgable assistant / coder - is crazy!

Coherent models required dozens of billions of parameters just a year ago and something like Mistral was closer to 70B and reserved for server farms or crazy setups.

Locallama on Reddit has outdated info in from just a few months ago.
What incentive is there for the employee to sign a non-compete today that has $0/year compensation for the non-compete duration?

However, another comment in this thread suggests that the law in question requires the compensation be the same as that of the job itself, which avoids this issue.
Unfortunately, "science" is never complete, "outcomes" still need to actually be measured, and making laws using shady "estimates" while ignoring all of the above is going to irritate people.

As I said, you are apparently comfortable ridiculing what you don't understand rather than trying to understand it. Apparently a few youtube videos are enough to understand everything there is about "rolling coal."

You decry groupthink, then you immediately engage in it, with pride, on hacker news. Well, I try once in a while, but my manners are apparently too anachronistic.
At most Ayn Rand aware, as I believe many are.

Joking about Rearden using his steel to back a train in and out of Dagny Taggart's tunnel against a ticker tape backing soundtrack does not a fan make.
For whatever reason GM also ended sale of their popular Chevy Bolt platform. It wasn't an amazing car and I'm sure suffered from its own faults as well, but at least from reading reports about the car nothing like what the Ultim-based vehicles are seeing now! Also it was cheaper than the Blazer, so I'm sure less profitable for GM but that made it popular to consumers. Not to mention it still qualified for an EV tax credit.

You'd think GM would have continued sale and guaranteed profit from the Bolt while they worked out the kinks of the next-generation.
> The atmosphere is way to aligned to be real.

I think it’s identical here on HN. Upvoting, downvoting, and using flagging to suppress contrary opinions is rampant and has a huge negative impact toward discussion. I think it’s just the topic du jour on HN is less escalated (usually opinions of tech choices) so it doesn’t seem as extreme.
I think it’s more telling to look at the opposite question, “what leverage would employees have to turn such a term down, assuming such practices were considered ‘industry standard’ and all employers of note made sure to include it?”

The answer in an environment with a ban on non-competes is “they’d either have legal recourse if someone tried to write them a contract with that term, or the term would be treated as non-enforceable and therefore harmless”.

In the current environment, broadly speaking, most employees wouldn’t have leverage to turn such a term down, and generally don’t.
Same in NYC.

Streeteasy has a data dashboard and is showing that % of rentals offering concessions is at an all time high (excluding the covid anomaly)
My instance (which currently has one user that is in one room because it's not actually used by anyone yet) is sitting at just over 200 MB for Synapse + the database. However, if you join public rooms from your account, your server memory usage will increase. I don't personally have real-world data available, but you should ideally have enough RAM to permit further growth (or a migration plan ready so you can switch to a new server).
Even more productive: ask yourself, is this really the best way to accomplish this? Why are we doing it this way? Is the standard solution bound by some constraint that was valid in its time but can now be discharged?

My canonical example for this is standard mathematical notation, which was invented before computers and optimized for quill pens and chalk boards. How much leverage could you get by discarding it and starting over with something a computer can more easily process, like, say, s-expressions?

Or... most programming languages use ascii for their standard syntax but nowadays we have unicode. How much leverage can you get by using more non-ascii characters, like, say, «balanced quotation marks»?
Is money authoritarian?
Right, and they are trying to attract games and gamers. “Macs are bad at gaming” shouldn’t be something they settle with.
The Blazer has been around in various forms since the 70s. It’s not exactly a new name for gm.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Blazer
I think the problem with the right wing politicians was that they were presenting their warped view of reality as fact?
Inertia is a powerful thing.
> It’s also acceptable, when listening to a seminar, to ask “dumb” but constructive questions to help clarify some basic issue in the talk.

I think this is one of the reasons I hit a wall in my study of mathematics forty-five years ago. In the master's program I was enrolled in, the students never asked questions during class. The teachers would probably have welcomed questions, but the culture among the graduate students was never to show ignorance by asking. The result was that I often got lost in the lectures, was unable to catch up by studying the material on my own outside of class, and never became a mathematician.
Interface is hard. Users are hard. Graphical is hard. Then you add three-way integration on top.

There is just so much potential close at hand but out of reach. E.g. Steam Controller.
What does it use by default?
Both of your links say that data came from Hamas:

"The Hamas-run health ministry is Gaza's official source for death numbers"
I think the fact that rents are still high is because of the general population crush in California, not just tech people.
Not necessarily - you can increase rents further on the people that remain because perhaps you suspect that they are less likely or unable to move.
"Freedom of speech for me, not for thee."

Those at both sides of the political horseshoe [1] want it this way, and do not believe the pendulum will swing out of their favor.

The best way to enshrine this in society is with new legislation to protect our means of communication (won't happen) or robust P2P social protocols (also probably won't happen).

Remember that the ACLU used to defend everyone. Even distasteful groups such as the KKK, neo-Nazis, Nation of Islam, NAMBLA, Westboro Baptist Church. And that's what it takes to defend free speech. Defending even the speech and the people you don't like.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
I mean, this kind of behavior obviously doesn't work in the face of a durable new balance between supply and demand (lower demand or higher supply). Like, can you wait out a three month period of market uncertainty? Sure! But if, say, people actually do significantly shift the balance of population away from the Bay Area, all those kind of games do is leave you worse off, and neither the financial nor the moral resources of landlords to try to outwait lower demand is infinite.
https://archive.ph/S9ZCK
This... doesn't seem to do anything special? Everyone already knew it was bad to "batch" ODEs by making them bigger, e.g. in "Neural Ordinary Differential Equations" (the paper that introduced neural ODEs):

> One can still batch together evaluations through the ODE solver by concatenating the states of each batch element together, creating a combined ODE with dimension D × K. In some cases, controlling error on all batch elements together might require evaluating the combined system K times more often than if each system was solved individually. However, in practice the number of evaluations did not increase substantially when using minibatches.

I don't understand why someone wrote a 30-page, obfuscated paper on just... parallelizing it the obvious way.
I feel like I’ve answered the issues you raised in this thread already.
From an IT security perspective this sounds detached from reality to me. If one kid can do this to your organization, someone isnt doing their job. Given economic competitors, hostile nation state actors and the possible stock market impacts, this isnt a matter of people having had better things to do. They had this to do and they didnt. The resulting extra cost is how you get your company to fix these things. Yes its hard, no it doesnt mean you get to ignore it because police will handle it.

Not a moral argument but a very practical one. If somebody like that manages to find a hole in your process big enough to exploit yet dumb enough to get caught you should feel really lucky that nothing worse happened (that you know of) with the hole you just got notified you had all along.
The one thing that has worked is bombing and overwhelming them into temporary ceasefire solder exchange.
There is a lot of learned value here, but I am left with a sense that it isn't worth enduring such a broad spectrum of hardships and indignities for the individual reward. The emotional reward; the sense that you are advancing Chinese society, would also be discomforting, in that I have no love for many of their policies.

One can live comfortably elsewhere without accepting constant compromises at a personal and professional level. I would bet also that, as in Japan, one is always foreign, gaijin, alien, at the end of thr day, and this fact will present as a hard cap on potential.

Maybe it's covered elsewhere in another article, but this is a lot to endure.
Record Millions Of US Adults Giving Up On Ever Finding Work (2022)
Actually there are tons of empty office buildings and residential units.

It’s the same situation as in New York.

Plenty of landlords can afford keeping their prices high hoping for the eventual bite. If they lower their prices further they do a bigger damage to their portfolio for years to come once you factor in rent control.
Interesting, thanks. I've always found the manufacturers' figures to be optimistic, but the real figures do seem to have improved over time. Perhaps not the case with trucks.
I would counter that many complex phenomena are best represented by graphs. There's a sort of elbow in the learning curve where you have a lot of tools but as your datasets grow in size the graphs become unmanageable and the signal:noise ratio goes way down. At this point you need to prune or chunk somehow, but it rapidly becomes more of an art than a science and reproducibility is elusive. Advanced techniques disseminate slowly and are not that intuitive, but there's still steady progress, eg deep learning models for sparsification while preserving structure.
A lot of people have been moving from California to other, more suburban, places. Especially North Carolina (my location), Texas, Florida, and others.

It ends up messing with the local housing market, as the Californians come in with a ton of money for housing (as housing is so expensive where they're from) and all the prices are super low in the new location. Since they have enough money to pay for it, prices go sky-high. Not good for locals (unless you want to sell your house).

You can buy 2 equal sized, equivalent location, equal desirability houses in North Carolina (or insert most other states) and California and end up paying double or triple in California.
The argument is there is a (narrow) use-case for them.

For example, let's say I'm Bob the baker and I own Bob's Bakery. I sell my bakery to Steve. If I were to then open "Bob's New Bakery" across the street I would have sold Steve a crappy barrel of goods. You can see this in a lot of small service-based business too. So you'll have a non-compete that says you can't open an X within Y miles or Z months.

It's a useful construct for some cases.
Hasn't the population declined? Seems like people are opting out.

The rent being higher feels more like collusion than actual demand.

And if you dig into the data you'll also notice that there's "asking rent" and "effective rent" (rent after concessions)
0 because there's no MPS support.

However, a Studio with an M1 Max 64GB is ~13x slower at generative AI with SD1.5 and SDXL than an RTX 4090 24GB at the same cost (~$1,800, refurb) right now.
A lot of commenters not reading the article. For clarity: rents in San Francisco HAVE decreased compared to 2019 in absolute dollar terms, this is despite rents in the state increasing overall, and the city of San Francisco has seen this in a more pronounced manner than the Bay Area overall.

This points to a localized impact that is not explained by broader trends in inflation, housing, etc.
As soon as a time refers to "a time in a specific location" you need to store the location or timezone and can't just rely on UTC. There's a bunch of ways to do that, but "store as UTC, convert to local time in UI" is very simplistic that doesn't always work.

For things like, say, HN posts or whatnot storing as UTC is usually the right answer, but even here there's some nuance; for example email Date: headers tend to include the TZ of the person who sent them, and if you just store all of that as UTC you lose that information.
As if the left wing politicians dont also present warped facts.
They are that Brian. I went to work for a BBS software company straight out of high school and can't recall ever hearing of COCONET outside of this beef with Jason.
Reminds me of the situation with AOL dialup, which I was surprised as heck to learn is a) still a thing and b) charges way more than I would have expected in areas where its otherwise not feasible to get high speed internet (easily). Could be similar to the situation here with people who can't leave/won't leave for personal or career reasons, and taking up the prices available.
You may have missed, for example, the year 2008.
Just this—if lots of people get laid off from high paying jobs and new hiring slows down, there’s not going to be enough money to support higher rents.
I’ve read part of his other book - “The Equation”. Good book and touches on the importance of “networks” in fields like art where you can’t measure quality. Should pick this one up.

[0](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39088545)
We already have options that are quantum resistant (just not as well tested as we would like). There will probably be a short intermediate period where qc can break like 128 bit rsa keys but not 4096 bit. The moment that happens everyone will switch to other algos very quickly.

Its not like its all that different from the situation with md5 or the current situation with sha1. The world survived. A few people got hacked... but that was very much the exception and mostly software migrated to new algos.

Personally i think quantum simulation is a much more interesting application than factoring.
Or Dolt.
This is a story about falling housing prices.
> the vast majority of Palestinians in the West Bank have been tolerating repeated attacks for decades now

I’m fairly certain it’s more an inability to respond in any effective way.
Read the article. Rents are well below their pre-2020 level.
But no matter the Siri shittiness (which I agree with) an LLM can only interact with the outside world – ie run commands – that exist and have a reasonable API surface, no?

Apple has had automation for ages with Automator, Shortcuts etc but nothing that actually integrates well with day to day flow. So.. setting a timer when my hands are wet already works ok, and that’s about what I need.

I honestly wonder what type of voice interactions people want with their phones. I can see transcribing/crafting chat messages I guess? But even so, it feels like it would mess up and use iMessage instead of WhatsApp, will it narrate my memes, open links and read “subscribe for only 4.99 to read this article”, cookie consents etc etc. if everything sucks how is narrating it gonna help?

Maybe I’m old but I still don’t see the major value-add of voice interfaces, despite massively improved tech and potential.
What generally happens when an international service refuses to comply with a court order in Brazil is a temporary blocking that must be enforced by ISPs. Often it is DNS blocking, trivial to circumvent. Sometimes IP-level blocking, often also easy (via VPNs).

This often works and rarely lasted more than a day. I don't think I was ever personally affected by one of those blockings when I was in the country.

I don't really remember any case where a large server failed to comply and remained blocked.

EDIT: There are things that were blocked and remained blocked forever, but they're often things like piracy, CSAM sites... which are things that often get blocked even in the USA. Sometimes this is a harsher block directly at the host of the website, either via court order when it's a Brazilian host, or because international laws were broken, or because the host simply complied.
I don't think that's obvious per Redfin, but I may be wrong?
The cheap ones on Craigslist are scams though
Reindeer can eat and sleep at the same time, a new study suggests
What's with the headline switcheroo?
Agreed. A very chill, relaxed book.

It’s in a similar box to Mushishi, which is a really laid back anime without any real antagonists. I’d recommend it to anyone who liked the Monk and Robot series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_which_is_not_forbid...

The burden of proof is on "why should a state ban noncompete clauses". As another commenter noted, the default should be to permit voluntary agreements between parties.

There are certainly good arguments for why states should ban them. But that is the position that requires an argument.
They used to sell the best developer’s machines. Before Docker, at least. Don’t developers need to train models? And if they are doing so on Linux or Windows, wouldn’t that make it easier for them to better or exclusively support the end product on the one they’re more used to?

You want to be the platform where the excitement is happening.
I built a prettifier for Google Forms: https://gg.leftium.com/pretty

Based on non-technical peoples' convention of using Google Forms to create sign-up pages (and even purely informational pages) like this: https://forms.gle/y2JF9RKipWcDWupP7

My prettifier supports markdown syntax, but Google Forms also supports WYSIWYG editing.

There's even a Google-sheets based router for building a simple site with navigation:

- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uFQ8W20dkHr01KB_zaoU...

- https://gg.leftium.com/

Open-source: https://github.com/Leftium/cloud9dancehall.com
The hostages themselves have said they were most afraid of being killed by the IDF's bombing campaign.
It’s happening nation wide. Seattle is down ~10% yoy. Overall housing costs have been coming down nationally, and the last inflation report actually had us in deflation month over month.
Selling Ads to Brazilian companies and paying streamers revenue-share is commerce.
The Chevy Bolt isn't dead. They're just taking a pause while they redesign it for the Ultium battery architecture. In the meantime, the Orion Assembly plant lines where the bolt was built are being used for electric light trucks.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44639082/chevrolet-bolt-e...
> ..under the hood it’s still mostly just doing joins on b-trees!

I could see the on-disk format needing to be simple and stable, but once the datas buffered who knows what structures and algorithms these proprietary engines are using? You would need to have done some reverse engineering or had hands-on details from the inside which presumably comes w/legal consequences for leaking them.
That's an argument that they make sense at the sale-of-a-company level, not an argument that they make sense for individual employees or contractors.
On Chains and Complex Systems
There needs to be a a new button on the various social media channels. One click and it fills a reply with:

"One can advocate for the Palestinian State and the rights of its people, seeking a peaceful and fair resolution to the conflict, without being aligned with Hamas.

Furthermore, employing a false dichotomy, where one is either labeled as a supporter of a cause or, or that of an extremist group, is counter-productive. It oversimplifies complex issues and stifles meaningful dialogue."
They want to build elaborate "subscription models" like some sort of web SaaS product.

"We do believe there are subscription revenue opportunities for us," Kummer said. GM Chief Executive Mary Barra is aiming for $20 billion to $25 billion in annual revenue from subscriptions by 2030."[0]

https://www.reuters.com/technology/gm-plans-phase-out-apple-...

I can't overstate how unappealing this sounds, and how little faith I have in these companies to build "software on wheels" that works well, isn't buggy, doesn't have to be updated all the time, doesn't get in the way of the 1 thing I want the car to do: drive me where I want to go without interference.. while providing something necessary and functional that justifies subscription payments. Why would anyone want to pay Chevy for presumably what they can already get on their phones etc instead of just buying a normal functional car without pointless bugs?
What I don't get with non-competes is they effectively keep the employee in obligation to the employer, without keeping the reverse.

At a minimum, they should have to have paid minimum full-time wage continuously up to the point they attempt to enforce it, for it to be enforceable (in addition to the requirements), and if they haven't when they try to enforce it then it should be treated as a breach of labor laws.
This paper is horribly written. It's like the authors are trying to sell me on them as researchers, instead of helping me understand their research (y'know, the entire reason journals got started??). An entire section for "stream batching" was just too much, and none of their ideas were innovative or unique. It was incredibly dense, simply because it's obfuscated, which makes me believe the authors themselves don't really understand what they're doing.

The results aren't even very good. They claim 60x speedup, but compared to what? HuggingFace's Diffusers Autopipeline... a company notorious for buggy code and inefficient pipelines. And that's for naively running the pipeline on every image. Give me a break.
More accurately: ONE of the companies building on the hyperloop paper is going out of business. Right in the article they mention another company that’s got 4 prototypes.

The hyperloop idea was Musk’s, but as far as I know, none of these companies are more “blessed” than the other. His paper was made “free” to the world.
Most probably landowners have cash in hand and don't need to lower the prices substantially even if half of the offices and houses stay empty
I think most Bayesians would claim that point null hypothesis tests are immoral or something like that, rather than propose to do them with a Bayesian model (thus avoiding measure zero problems)
For the curious: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/spaghetti

I had a chuckle when I read the plural “spaghetties”.
If I'm scared foreigners are taking my job ('Money'), and an authoritarian leader is saying they will fix that. Then yes, they are tied together.

A big part of the 'us-them' divide is 'I want to keep my money, screw those guys'.
The article continues to explain that Gaza health ministry casualty counts for past conflicts have been confirmed after the fact by third party international organizations, like the WHO.

The records they release include names, genders, ages and ID numbers of deceased people. If you claim the data is fake then you should be able to identify some made-up deaths in it.