skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having more people without kids live in good school districts is probably why those schools are so nice. Perversely, filling them up with families whose kids would actually use the schools would have the opposite effect (this only applies to states where education is funded locally, in states that fund them state wide, not so much).
Not the person above, but I believe I've always been like this. I can vividly remember (but not see) imagery from dreams that I know I see while dreaming, and I think I'd remember if I used to do that in my waking state. I've also had one incidence of seeing things as an adult, during meditation, and never managed to again, so I do have a clear idea of what is possible to compare to.
From CNET today

> Today’s Mortgage Rates for Jan. 12, 2024: Rates Cool Off for Homeseekers

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/mortgages/todays-rates...

And yesterday

> Mortgage Rates for Jan. 11, 2024: Major Mortgage Rates Are Mixed Over the Last Week

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/mortgages/todays-rates...

And the day before

> Current Mortgage Interest Rates on Jan. 10, 2024: Rates Move Upward Over the Last Week

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/mortgages/todays-rates...

You get the idea.
The article seems to be attempting to cast doubt on that severity. Which I would normally discount, but it was from Nature. Do you think Nature is also just as biased? I thought they were supposed to be held to higher standard and would be just as harsh towards anybody doing this.
Forgotten Detroit
A just saw.. a dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38696325 ... But I cannot comment......
Precisely. There’s effectively no forcing mechanism which guarantees any factions work with each other. So I see Washington’s farewell address warning against factions less as a drop of quaint wisdom but more of a last ditch attempt to rectify a gaping hole in the constitution they had just written.

And keep in mind that the current constitution took effect in 1789, only 8 years after the Articles of Confederation went into effect. So there was far less of a feeling that the fundamentals of the Constitution we have now would last forever.
Domesticated cats are by far the biggest threats to birds worldwide.

You won't see anti-wind advocates talking about curfews or outright banning them though.
It may become another good reason to leave social mass-media and allow smaller or actual friends only communities to spring up.
Zigbee already filled it's space as a solid meshing network, and wifi took the "no hub" solution and worked well enough for most people.

The radios for both, especially with the esp8266 were very cheap before bluetooth was at all.

Then all the big players started working on defining Thread/Matter which was in many ways the successor to Zigbee (or is positioned to be).
Thank your for the explanation! The modulo was a big piece that I was missing.

I still need to spend some time understanding how the math guarantees unique combinations of values, but I did figure out how to generate the series now (in Ruby).

(0..4).map do |b|
(0..4).map do |a|
(0..4).map do |x|
(a * x + b) % 5
end.join(" ")
end.join("\n")
end.join("\n\n").then { puts _1 }

EDIT: To make this line up with the document, I actually had to offset a by the value of b. I'm still not totally sure why this is necessary.

(0..4).map do |b|
(0..4).map do |a|
(0..4).map do |x|
((a - b) * x + b) % 5
end.join(" ")
end.join("\n")
end.join("\n\n").then { puts _1 }
My Experiences Attending NeurIPS 2023
> Not to mention it’s absurd a conversation this long hasn’t pointed out the relativity of ethical judgments or event attempted to define what ethical even means.

I did, but GP dodged it by switching to ad hominem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38960797
I second this. My two other derived commands I use every day are “remind in 2 hours to do X” or “remind me Friday at 7 to take Y”. This and “timer X minutes”.

I would be very sad if these were to disappear or to stop working as well as it does now (I like that if I say “remind me tomorrow” when it’s right past midnight it asks for confirmation that I actually mean the same day since it’s “already tomorrow”)
Its not about saving money. Doing it like this means you just created a new private contractor environment to invest in.
so they should just let themselves be killed?
Vulnerable AMIs
The article has some logical flaws. The allegation is that wind turbines kill birds, not that they chase them away. There was no evidence at all that oil and gas drilling kills birds, only that their numbers are decreased in that area. Perhaps oil and gas drilling does kill birds; if so, the article's author should have explained how that happens. True, global warming might also kill birds, but none of the evidence in the article was about the effects of global warming.
The goal of this is to help provide vulnerable AMIs that people learning security skills can quickly and easily spin up in their own time without having to mess with VirtualBox or anything.
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Where/how do you find quality roommates, maybe multiple times? Most websites that do so seem empty/slow/only want female roommates (weirdos).
Most AAA games do not work on proton because the devs refuse to allow the anti cheat to run. Most anti cheat support Linux but the devs have to allow it.

Destiny, R6, cod, etc refuse to support Linux.
This is what makes me skeptical of ever buying a Volvo or other car with Google Assistant built in.
I think part of the problem is that LLMs seem to be quite effective at producing messages adhering to ulterior motives, catch attention, reinforce emotions etc.

The GPT-4 release documentation has some examples of this in its addendum. ChatGPT also seems to be good at writing advertisements. Without the strong guardrails, I wouldn't bet on one or two persons instructimg a GPT-4-scale model perfoming worse at manipulating debates than 10 or 100 humans without AI.
> The US tries to solve it by banning abortions

This is not why the US is, or more accurately some states in the US are, banning abortion. It is very much a moral thing for them: they want to punish sex before marriage, especially for young girls, or maybe they really do believe fetuses are sentient, but it definitely isn't about promoting population growth.

America has had a higher immigration rate than most of Europe for a couple of hundred years now.
Someone probably got a bonus for that. It probably wasn't the dev who implemented it tho
There are all kinds of externalities, including safety, which are ignored. US tax policy which allows write offs only for large vehicles which are more likely to cause deaths. Tire emissions. Congestion pricing -- common in Europe -- needs years or reviews and lawsuits. NHTSA doesn't require bicycle test devices.
That idea has a name, the "Dead Internet Theory"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24032117/microsoft-windows...
Beyond confusion matricies, with ML classification, there should also be deep discussion and consideration of the actual costs (consequences) of false positives, negatives to the end users and operators.
Likewise, it doesn’t hurt to take your own advice - an aspiring young man does not need to rush when he has offspring, and can plan to successfully have healthy children for most of his life even into his 50s. I ask questions to lead people into challenging their own assumptions.
It appears to be Commodore 8-bits focused. For example lot of folks even call the C64 "The Commodore".
Ask HN: How can I get out of tech?
Long story short, I'm a veteran and I receive treatment for PTSD. I've struggled for years. Treatment is helping but I feel that I am no longer "hacking it". I have an easy job right now, but I have no idea how long it will last. I'm barely doing anything. I'm interviewing at a new company but I can no longer cut it when I get to the tech screenings. I don't sleep much, maybe 4 hours a night if I'm lucky. I have decent chops but I've never been amazing at the interview game and I feel like this time around, my mind is so fuzzy and stupid. I really, really need to just slow down and do something simpler, but I have kids and a mortgage to pay and I don't know how I can afford to stop receiving the income I have.

I'm welcome to any thoughts / ideas / suggestions, but I'm especially looking for ways I can just slow down, change careers and quit tech altogether. I have a few irons in the fire, but nothing that I could get off the ground quickly and make a decent income. I'd really love to be a guitar teacher.
Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0
If wish we could merge this comment with the thread where people are defending Youtubes right to show ads. I am so glad there is technology available to choose what I want to read and see without being forced too much other content.
Terms and conditions? It's hard to tell when people are joking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhsyZ5V1pok
I would use function calling instead to return a boolean and throw away anything that isn't a bool.
The language is a term rewriting language. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/Evaluation.h... covers most of the evaluation process. The documentation for functions lists out the different forms they expect.

Lisp-style macros are actually difficult to write because of the infinite evaluation of the language. I was able to write a quasiquote package for myself to help with that that though.
I first learned of Zeal several months ago...and i really like it. But, i forget about havign zeal installed and available, that my reflex is to instinctively reach for duck duck go, or stack overflow, or somesuch search engine, etc. So, i just gotta build up the habit. :-)
I wrote this one a long while back with react and d3.js:
https://damiankao.github.io/life/
And who is going to pay this rent when population will drop?
For Python I believe Chroma [1] can be used embedded.

For Go I recently started building chromem-go, inspired by the Chroma interface: https://github.com/philippgille/chromem-go

It's neither advanced nor for scale yet, but the RAG demo works.

[1] https://github.com/chroma-core/chroma
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240112193755/https://www.amazo...
I will have conversations with myself, but it's clear thoughts also form without verbal translation.

Interestingly another distinction when it comes to inner life is whether people have a monologue or multiple voices. I only have a rather incessant monologue of myself narrating and practicing things to say or going over multiple sides of an argument in my own voice. It only ever stops when I sleep or meditate.
everything dies, or will reduction in co2 make us immortal??
not to mention that there is a huge bias in bibliography by design, because any predation study of type 'we didn't found any evidence of wild animals preyed by cats in our place' wouldn't be published.

If you base your search on bibliography you are pruning all the negative results. This is like removing all negative numbers before calculating an average value.

We need to remember also that "Local cats killed minus 1000 birds", would be a perfectly acceptable result [1] that is excluded from the search and the article.

[1] (= Cats save 1000 birds by killing egg-eating rats)
Praising Gaben as the patron saint of PC gaming started out as a meme, and actually became reality. Hard to name a single other individual more responsible for the golden age we're in.
The Manhattan project was started off by a letter from known pacifist Albert Einstein to Pres Roosevelt about his fears of the Nazi's developing an atomic weapon first.

I would say it was a good thing that did not happen.
Schools serve a particular geographic area. Geographic area predicts your economic class. Economic class predicts if you went to preschool, if you were read to, the quailty of nutrition you received, the probability that you had lead windows in your bedroom, if you live in a single parent household, etc.
I used to get a lot of good mileage out of firefox's ability to render sites out of zip files as in jar:file:///home/foo/site.zip!/index.html but they nuked that pretty recently :-(
we use the jupyter-server kernel gateway api at https://nux.ai would love to explore using marimo's API for code execution
I'm a big fan of Marimo (and of Akshay and Myles in particular); it's great to finally see a viable competitor to Jupyter as it can only mean good things for the ecosystem of scientific tooling as a whole.
Interesting. That perception underestimates how much researchers like doing research I think. The demand shortage and price paid is just function of how much society values research versus entertainment.
For the simple case, the option is there (Ubuntu and Fedora have their software centers and GUI control panels, SUSE has YAST), just most native users don't use them. For the complex case, it's not practical because that would mean overhauling the long tail of packages.
Matrix and Mastodon are federated but not decentralized. I don't understand why the are getting advertised all the time. Alternatives like Zeronet are truly decentralized and barely get any mention.
I didn’t miss any point because you’re the one who is creating false equivalencies between all US cities on the basis of unemployment rates.

That there are jobs doesn’t mean that there are jobs that align with everyone’s work experiences, familial ties, or various other obligations. If I get laid off in the bay as an ML engineer and have an elderly parent who lives there that I need to take care of, that there are jobs at Sherman Williams in Cleveland isn’t very useful to me. Similarly, if I’m mid-career and pursue work in LCOL area that cuts my pay in half relative to a larger city, that could derail my lifetime earnings and ability to retire.

Reality is more complicated than the simplistic narratives people use to victim blame or reinforce their just-world fantasies.
Wrong prices. Anyway, you'd get even lower graphics performance. The 8700G is 12 CUs, and those two models come with 8 and 4 CUs, making them even less compelling alternatives to a dedicated graphics card.
My son found work last year in a seaside town, I helped him in finding an apartment over summer timeframe. I looked online in the usual places and there was near zero apartment inventory which I though was odd. Then I pulled-up AirBnB and there were hundreds of listings, all unaffordable of course. He did eventually find something, but only a 6-month off-season rental unit. Next summer will be same issue.
The same people probably are not qualified to call her a quack either.
Boy, been quite a week for US weather (winter finally hitting) and it looks like the grid is going to get quite stressed early next week. ERCOT's current supply and demand forecast widget in particular[1] is looking pretty challenging for next week.

I run my own little twitter bot[2] covering ERCOT and it's been interesting to see how much demand has been served recently by renewables even during the winter. Such that ERCOT even hit a solar output record at the end of the year[3]. Interesting and challenging times.

[1]https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/supplyanddemand

[2]https://twitter.com/ERCOT_Status

[3]https://x.com/grid_status/status/1741876943161606417?s=20
It's not just homogeneity, they are also tiny. I didn't check all of them but I would guess Portugal is probably the biggest of those, with about 10 million people or 1/30 of the population of the US.
Routing 4G cellular data to a BSD network using bridge mode on the RUT-240
Here are all the other articles and their previous HN discussions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=righto.com+yamaha+dx7
https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vss
> within an hour of a bigger city, but small enough where the real estate is still reasonably priced

This is more rare than you would think, depending on your definitions of "bigger city" and "reasonably priced". It's definitely more rare than it used to be.

Part of that is the increase in housing prices, as detailed in this and other articles. But part of it is a contraction of what's "within an hour", due to crumbling public transit infrastructure.
That hypothesis is exactly what they are testing though, no? What happens when you take away that experience. So the best way to think about it is to wait and see.

I think I generally agree with your prediction, but I think it's because (less than 100% of) the physical changes simply don't taking place when put into a coma... I.E. the conscious process cascades more physical changes.
> For all those who talk about corruption and getting money out of politics I suggest reading Federalist 10 by Madison. Its a deep analysis of a need for a republican democracy. Any government that depends on human virtuousness will fail.

And yet in Federalist 55 virtue is needed to sustain self-government:

> Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be, that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another.

* https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed55.asp

> The only way to have a sustainable government is to have strong checks and balances and putting multiple factions with different interests against one another.

A particular faction can gain control over the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial in the US, and then they can collude unless individuals choose to follow the Constitution.

> Donald Trump urged two Michigan election officials not to certify Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the state following the 2020 presidential election, personally calling them in a pressure campaign reminiscent of his Georgia tactics, the Detroit News reported.

> In a Nov. 17, 2020, phone call, the then-president told two fellow Republicans on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to sign the state election's certification, saying they would look "terrible" and must "fight for our country," according to recordings of the call reviewed by the Michigan news outlet.

* https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pressured-michigan-of...

There are no "institutions" (to protect things), only people.
Alibaba Cloud shuts down Data Center in India
Alibaba Cloud Shuts Down its Data Center in Mumbai, India

Alibaba Cloud recently notified via internal messages or emails that it will shut down its data center in Mumbai, India due to updates needed for global infrastructure planning. The specific node will stop new purchases from 24:00 on March 31, 2024, and cease services after 24:00 on July 15. Affected users can contact Alibaba Cloud before January 31 to migrate their data to the Singapore data center (ap-southeast-1).
Its the Los Alamos all over again.

But this time the atomic bomb will be able to decide by itself whether to incinerate human race.
"Nemo judex in causa sua" - "No one should be judge in their own cause"

Technology has changed a lot since the Roman Empire, but human nature is still the same. We shouldn't ignore such old principles just because it is 2024.
third party sellers and "commingling" have all but ruined Amazon for me :/. even shipped and sold by Amazon can yield you fake products (worst performance, not as advertised, knock offs, unsafe, etc).

but I guess it generates too much money for Amazon to care :(
Isn't that true for all stores, though? If I'm buying something like that, I'll always search for reviews before deciding, whether or not Amazon is involved. Even if it's at a brick-and-mortar store.

The phrase "caveat emptor" was coined long before Amazon existed.
Teenagers being teenagers. Apple is Abercrombie.
> Entertainment has value.

It absolutely does! But I would argue that "nicer looking graphics" is not required for something to be entertaining.
I'm more inclined to believe management is dysfunctional more than it's actually functional. The real question is how dysfunctional is it?

I realize this is a cynical take, but management is largely about power and control than it is about furthering the business. RTO is a great example of this.

Here are some examples I've encountered over the years.

One manager used her directs as a dating pool.

Another one purposely hired a bad engineer because of stack ranking so they could protect the good engineers.
This layout has the distinct advantage you can rotate the screen with everything remaining the same (font hinting etc.)

Varying subpixel layouts are one of the major reasons I struggle to take the obsessions of "pixel perfect" designers seriously [1]. It is the kind of notion you can only advocate if you're ignorant of the reality of what is going on. Display aging and resulting color inaccuracies make this even more fun.

[1] Not helped by having worked on products where the designers quoted 25 years (not a typo) as the time required to support all the supposedly necessary profiles, and the resulting build size would have been too big and so we lost a multi million dollar opportunity. Of course anyone opposing this was simply an enemy of quality.

Edit to add: for those unfamiliar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType was a very sneaky way to take advantage of the fact that the subpixel layout dramatically alters the outlines the viewer sees.
In other words, there are nine states, however that statistic is nearly meaningless. CA and TX alone count for about a quarter of the nation's population; altogether probably a third of the population is domiciled in community property jurisdictions.

Also, the states of Tennessee and South Dakota have passed elective Community
Property Laws, so even your "less than 10" statistic is not unquestionably accurate.
> The worst thing for me is how the Amazon search algorithm seems to want to show you everything but the item you searched for.

Truer words have never been spoken.
Seeing combat footage of FPV suicide drones in the Ukrainian war and how effective they are it is sort of inevitable that AI would be used as a selling point for this.
Yeah for reddit and twitter randos who pop up to lambast you when you talk about a controversial topic, a self-hosted Mistral LLM would work great.
All of the top 3 cities are places with a low official population and a large working population - Eglin's official pop is 2.8k, but has 80k workers. It's the "most Reddit addicted" city because of an obvious statistical artifact.
Realistically, that $20 difference pays for the product being in a warehouse near you, rather than a warehouse 5000 miles away.
I don't believe I hear a voice, but some argue they do, up to and including hearing different voices, as well as hearing music with the correct instruments (I can "hear music", but it's always as if I'm singing or humming it).

For my part, my "inner voice" feels to me like my real voice, but I have the sensation of "almost vocalizing" it, but cutting it off before producing any sound - whether in or out of my head.

So I recognize it as "me", but can't say there is an actual sensation of hearing the sound.
It works well enough that Valve is selling a Linux console that's flying off the shelves.
I think they should have started with a more achievable goal to make it to 10 years, and then re-evaluate afterwards. Maybe 100 is achievable to some extent? 1000 seems like pure fantasy to me.
Thanks. I just wonder what the answer is, security-wise. I guess if you can find something self-sustaining where there isn’t a huge need to grow. That was behind my original question, a feeling that a need for profit growth drives these decisions for larger (public, or on their way there) companies. But I guess if a smaller company is not yet profitable, it’s also bearing some risk to get somewhere that it might not.