skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't agree more. I would add reproducibility to the list of important things, above everything else you mentioned. I looked into Vanna after seeing it on here because generating SQL code by only embedding the schema and business logic seems like a nice, quick middle ground that doesn't require embedding an entire database. However, 88% accuracy in generating the correct query isn't good enough for deployment at the organization-level. "Give me sales for the last quarter as of end of prior month" should return the same result for everyone, without exception.
Restarting your whole system is not necessary for the firefox flatpak though -- updates are installed in a parallel directory and applied the next time the user re-launches Firefox.
Clicking on the posted link seems to send the malwarebytes website server into a reload loop.
So why is there this massive ecosystem around not writing modules then? RedHat invented automation controller just so they didn't have to implement proper error handling with Ansible.
It makes sense when you want rapid adoption, as was the case with the Internet.
Qdrant is a async Rust project, so there will be lots of Arc. Rust safety guarantees doesn't really let share references across threads haphazardly.
This article is 3 years old, right before GPT-3's launch. So it doesn't have all the recent info. We're not using meta-learning much, the problem of using few examples to train a model has been solved by few-shot prompting, zero shot, or fine-tuning with a small dataset. The problem with meta-learning is that it tries to back-propagate through the inner loop (the model) to the outer loop (meta-model), and this is hard to do.

Since LLMs have such huge and diverse training sets, almost everything is in-distribution. LLMs are conditional probability distributions that can be steered with prompts in a much easier way, no need to use a meta-model.

If the problem is training on many related tasks and then making it easy to train a new one, then we better read this very recent paper and accompanying benchmark that sheds light on the inner workings of task compositionality for LLMs.

- A Theory for Emergence of Complex Skills in Language Models (theoretical part)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15936

- Skill Mix: a Flexible and Expandable Family of Evaluations for AI models (the benchmark)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17567

This benchmark might also solve the confidence crisis in LLM metrics. They show Mistral can handle up to 2 skills in combination, LLaMA can go to 3, and GPT-4 can compose 4-5. These skills are uniformly drawn from a set of 100 skills on 100 topics. It's so hard to find benchmarks that clearly differentiate 7B-models that pretend to have 70B-model skills.

Their argument is that combinations of skills are growing exponentially, so there is small chance of having a random combination covered in the training set, especially on not so large topics. So if models can solve these tasks, it means they actually demonstrate combinatorial generalization.

This is the main chart if you don't have the time to see the papers

https://i.imgur.com/6eDTf1u.png
Thats only solving the conflicts at a technical level. The hard problem to solve is what conflict-resolution means at a business level. The even harder problem to solve is auditing and coming up with an appropriate answer for _every single entity in the system_.

For most products, there isnt a one-size-fits-all answer to how to handle conflicts.
It's largely the same reasons Apple doesn't want alternative app stores on their phones
Median household income (https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-27...): $74580

Median house price, per article: $388,000.

Today's average 30 year fixed mortgage rate is 7%. Assuming a 10% down payment, 0.5% to private mortgage insurance, and the usual bits and bobs, that approximates a $2800/month payment, or $33600 per year, which is 45% of that median income.

That's not affordable, by anyone's definition.
OK great, thanks

And appreciate that any expectations for <1week delivery would ignore your JIT/ondemand style assembly
There is one rather large and serious problem with this statistic: it censors suppressed household formation. Because it is the tenure of households, there is no consideration for the households that aren't being formed, for example because an adult still lives with their parents. That person is counted under "homeowner" which is deeply misleading. The worse the housing crisis gets, the better this statistic looks.
I agree. And to make matters worse, the DSL on YAML has grown so large in features, it may as well be a programming language now.
Healthcare and education are prestige items around there? Did I get this correctly?
> entropy is the process that drives life

Depending on how you look at it, life is driven by the opposite of entropy. Schrödinger in his book, What is Life?, calls it "negative entropy" or even "free energy".

> In the 1944 book What is Life?, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who in 1933 had won the Nobel Prize in Physics, theorized that life – contrary to the general tendency dictated by the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated system tends to increase – decreases or keeps constant its entropy by feeding on negative entropy.

> The problem of organization in living systems increasing despite the second law is known as the Schrödinger paradox. This, Schrödinger argues, is what differentiates life from other forms of the organization of matter.

> Schrödinger asked the question: "How does the living organism avoid decay?" The obvious answer is: "By eating, drinking, breathing and (in the case of plants) assimilating." While energy from nutrients is necessary to sustain an organism's order, Schrödinger also presciently postulated the existence of other molecules equally necessary for creating the order observed in living organisms:

> "An organism's astonishing gift of concentrating a stream of order on itself and thus escaping the decay into atomic chaos – of drinking orderliness from a suitable environment – seems to be connected with the presence of the aperiodic solids..." We now know that this "aperiodic" crystal is DNA, and that its irregular arrangement is a form of information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_and_life#Negative_entr...
Exclusive franchise agreements have been void for decades now. The biggest barrier to entry is that it is extremely uneconomical to run cables as the third provider. There's also issues with pole access and what not, that don't help.
FYI you can often set the billing address info to whatever you want for a lot of purchases, there's no mechanism to validate it.
> We can't have this, because a huge fraction of household wealth is tied up in people's houses. If you stop protecting them as investment accounts, you nuke the retirement accounts of 100 million people.

So the question is if the wealthy can remain wealthy, or if the poor can get houses?

I'm sorry, but... as a Catholic the choice is obvious to me. Blessed are the poor, etc. etc. We should favor those who don't have wealth yet.

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There's other investments, and any such large-scale buildup of houses will take place over a long-enough time period that investors can reallocate wealth appropriately (reverse mortgages and then move the money to the stock market or something). Talk to a financial advisor if you need help moving wealth out of your house and dumping that onto someone else.

Meanwhile, there's no actual solution to the young couple who needs a house for their next baby to raise their family. Get them a damn house. Period.
> Median home price is $387,600 as of November '23, for a payment of $2716.

An actual mortgage payment would probably be closer to 3,000-3,200 after escrowed PMI, taxes, insurance, on a typical loan.
> points don't really mean anything but they also mean exactly how many days you're going to spend on them

Work in defense, can confirm. Add "increment planning" where we plan the sprints out 3 months. Also, voting on points? Naw, someone yell out a number and that's that.
Those numbers are probably the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quintiles of household income. ie, the middle 60%, so that’s a large swath but it seems reasonable to me.
Life is a great entropy accelerator.
> scraped from Trello

they'll argue it isn't a hack then, intentionally public endpoint
>What are some concerns that have been expressed about the Hawai‘i seaglider system?

>A preliminary survey of Hawai‘i residents showed they are concerned that seagliders will only be affordable to the affluent ...

So the fares might be too high.

[...]

>Others expressed their concern about how seagliders can potentially impact communities through an increase in visitors.

So the fares might be too low.
This is a welcome addition for Chromebooks, because now you can install latest Firefox (not ESR) in Crostini without using Flatpak.

Sadly Mozilla still doesn't offer `aarch64-linux` builds for Firefox in their official channels, so for those that have a ARM64 Chromebook will still need to use something else to get Firefox running (I use Nix, but it needs some complicated setup to work with hardware acceleration, for example, using nixGL).
Health care, automobile price, groceries, education .

we can buy a TV cheaper than ever but anything important has massive inflation
Meta-learning is also the most important tool for humans, because you know that in your life you'll always need to learn but you don't know what precisely you will need to learn
It's true, given enough time, we won't ask questions anymore. Every abstract concept and moral belief will be simply data. "Meaning" will stop making sense. There will only be science and those who do science.

Some poor fool might ask every once and a while "why are we doing this science anyway?" and they will be swiftly silenced.

We will of course force children away from their natural wonder, as nothing good could come from something like that. There are plenty of other things to fill the kids brain with anyway.

There will only be data. Meaninglessly complete and perfect data. A young would-be Kurt will come along and ask "is it possible this is really complete? all our data? how might we verify it?" He too, would need to be silenced.

One night your wife will sob "but why are you being like this?" But you know this is a silly thing to ask: you are just what your atoms are, we can measure them perfectly you know. What other "why" does she want?

Things like "value" and "human" and "well being" aren't important concepts anyway. If it can't be resolved down to data, lets just let the market and the state decide. It's not like we are going to be able to bring up some obsolete, non-falsifiable ideas in order to defend ourselves! It doesn't matter much anyway, its not science.

And when you die you will know that your whole life really meant nothing but at best a small donation to the science. Because what value could subjective experience really have outside of, you know, doing science. But you are still happy, you did Science. But don't ask why you are happy!

And the great drama of science vs. philosophy will have ended. There was always going to be a winner after all! It was totally a battle, not a dichotomy. And the battle is over.

\s
Use a better DE. KDE allows not scaling xwayland apps, and Hyprland does too. Just set Xft.dpi to let it scale the old fashioned way. Electron can be started with wayland but it's often buggy.
It's awesome to hear that. A big part of creating Framework was the urge to prevent a world where kids could no longer tinker with their parents' computers.
Also look at these graphs

https://www.statista.com/statistics/529371/floor-area-size-n...

The average new construction house size changes from 1500 square feet in
1975 to 2500 square feet in 2022.

So yes, some of the higher cost of housing is simply that buyers want more house. I know my personal house is nearly double the size of house I grew up with, despite only having 3 kids vs my parents 2.
Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear
Is there any editor in 2024 that can't replace tabs with spaces? Is it just Notepad?
You can always pick a median income.

What's sliding with the definition of "afford"? I thought there was broad agreement that housing should be no more than 30% of your gross income, give or take a couple percent based on who you ask.
Tricky I think but maybe.

You generally have a fixed wheel on a unicycle. That would make derailleur gears harder to implement as they'd normally work with a freehub of some kind.

Hub gears like a Sturmey-Archer generally need to zero torque going through them to change gear. Again that's hard to do when you're using the forward and backward pedalling to balance.
I think placeholder definitions are the way to go: one defines a concept that is acknowledged not to be the target and works with it.

So for the purposes of discussion, one may define consciousness(prime) as something less than true consciousness and attempt to work with that lesser definition. However, at all times, one must admit to working with a lesser definition that may never lead to knowledge that applies to the target definition.

We must also admit that consciousness as many understand it may not exist.
> But your point is accurate: everyone has a slightly different way. I'd argue irrespective of the exact variation, the Moka Pot outperforms most other mechanisms for making coffee (other than cafe espresso machine).

I'd expect it depends on your coffee preference. I haven't ventured into the home espresso side yet, but regularly use pretty much everything else: SCA-approved drip machine, AeroPress, cold brew, french press and pourover. Of those, my favourite results have been pourovers with light roasts (bean-dependent, of course) - isn't a Moka Pot going to give you notably different flavour profiles?
Two reliable effects predict runaway complexity for any initially simple life form in a non-trivial environment.

1) BOOT STRAPPING COMPLEXITY: Non-trivial static environment: Something simple is rarely the global efficiency optimum in a non-trivial environment. There is nothing trivial about chemistry and the myriad of terrains created by physics in the non-living world. So simple living things, in competition, quickly get more complex.

2) ACCELERATING COMPLEXITY: Dynamic environment: In a competitive ecosystem of continually diversifying life forms, the ecosystem gets more complex, so competing in the ecosystem both enables and requires more complexity.

The exponential increase in complexity produces qualitatively new modes of complexity leveraging beyond initial resources: such as specialization, food chains, parasitical strategies, mutual or cyclical symbioses, discarded products that become new resources, colonization of new environments and energy sources, flexible behaviors based on conditions, greater utilization of existing environments and resources, cooperation within multi-cell colonies, specialization and reproductive coordination within cell colonies (creatures), communication and coordination between similar and different life forms, tool use, tool creation, environment shaping, anticipation and planning, curiosity driven learning, aggregation and recombination of knowledge, resource trading systems, systems to promote positive sum interactions, and suppress negative sum interactions, engineering, invention, science, automation, etc.

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TLDR: Non-trivial environments provide initial opportunities for complexity to improve efficiency. Complexity feedback in ecosystems exponentially accelerates further complexity. Exponential growth of life's complexity on Earth shows no signs of relenting.

Qualitatively new forms of complexity keep appearing. Conscious intelligence, culture, technology and automation are more continuations than breaks from this trend.
I trust a lot of what he says, but not everything. He has an interest in the machines and his own career, not just in the coffee. Trust but verify.
I'm going to assume you didn't read the linked thread because right there are examples of both.
> We're going to have to have a cultural shift towards housing as shelter, not investment.

Good luck with that one. We’ve been dealing with this since the 70s when Prop 13 passed in California. The primary responses have been to vilify the homeless for their own plight and funnel billions into “affordable housing schemes” that are little more than graft engines for local politicians.
Education is for sure. Where do you live that it isn’t?
And things just get messier if you're working in any regulated industry.
>>We have to increase supply to meet demand.

You can also reduce demand by reducing immigration (legal and illegal).
> Now we're finally back to more historically normal and healthy interest rates, and it has broken the housing market.

1980s interest rates were higher than now. The 1980s middle class could afford homes.

A new 1987 townhome that cost $212k (in inf adj 2023 dollars) costs about $500k today - allowing for similar quality, features, market.

I think houses are unaffordable because they cost more than double what they did.
An Overview of the Future of AI in Copywriting
United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing
> China's nuclear investments are pulling up short compared to their renewable investments. They too are evidence renewables are beating nuclear.

Source for this claim?
Cyclists can't murder motorists with their bikes though, can they?
The problem is that people who could afford it, bought homes at a higher price. They will not sell it for less than they bought it for. Combined with high interest rates, total cost of ownership is a through the roof.

This wouldn’t have been a problem if this was an asset that everyone doesn’t need and the supply was more.
> recall that Chef is more imperative/procedural, whereas in Puppet you describe the desired end state

Chef's resources and resource collection and notifications scheme is entirely declarative. And after watching users beat their heads against Chef for a decade the thing that users really like is using declarative resources that other people wrote. The thing that they hate doing is trying to think declaratively themselves and write their own declarative resources or use the resource collection properly. People really want the glue code that they need to write to be imperative and simple.

The biggest issue that Chef had was the "two-pass parsing" design (build the entire resource collection, then execute the entire resource collection) along with the way that the resource collection and attributes were two enormous global variables which were mutable across the entire collection of recipe code which was being run, and then the design encouraged you to do that. And recipes were kind of a shit design since they weren't really like procedures or methods in a real programming language, but more like this gigantic concatenated 'main context' script. Local variables didn't bleed through so you got some isolation but attributes and the resource collection flowing through all of them as god-object global variables was horrible. Along with some people getting a bit too clever with Ruby and Chef internals.

I had dreams of freezing the entire node attribute tree after attribute file processing before executing resources to force the whole model into something more like a functional programming style of "here's all your immutable description of your data fed into your functional code of how to configure your system" but that would have been so much worse than Python 2.7-vs-3.0 and blown up the world.

Just looking at imperative-vs-declarative is way too simplistic of an analysis of what went wrong with Chef.
Libertarian beliefs that the state will use it's power of violence to enforce abusive contracts doesn't match reality.
Scaling-Up High-Dosage Tutoring Is Crucial to Students' Academic Success
> There are also examples without the big holes in, which would make knitting pretty much impossible.

Gloves for children?
>there's no mechanism to validate it.

Why would you spread falsehoods like that?

https://stripe.com/resources/more/what-is-address-verificati...
Note that the survey is about perception, not whether or not they actually can afford it.
Wooden chopsticks are fantastic for stirring! I have a double-walled stainless steel French Press and still use a chopstick for stirring.
"believe" is a funny word to use for a mathematical equation
I ran into this all the time when trying to listen while mowing my lawn and going into/out-of wifi range. Very frustrating UX.
You should be asking if it's a piece of legislation with a serious chance of surviving the inevitable litigation.
I was in the same situation and the solution is to just get a worse home than you want :(

I just purchased my first home because I could finally afford it after a few lucky cash windfalls. I spent the last 5 years in a 700 sq ft apartment.

What I learned: I would have been much better off buying a worse home 5 years ago that was at least better than the 700 sq ft apartment.

I don’t think saving up that down payment makes as much sense any more. I felt like I was chasing a target which was moving faster than I was.
I used masked emails for almost everything and thankfully haven’t run into any issues like this
I can't wait for all the devs who are deploying to Vercel to pull a surprised pikachu face when their designs start popping up through v0.
For Batch 11 (and all of the later current batches), we expect to fulfill them before the end of Q2.
Idk it makes sense for UX sometimes. Really it’s a case by case basis and I don’t think you should be adhering to any law for this.
I'm normally not a fan of HN's nitpicking but this site is hilariously difficult to read.

I just want to press the space bar to scroll. Is that so hard?!
There is a reasonably large and effective anti-porn lobby in the United States. See for example https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/08/conservative-christ...

Owing to the laws of the country, they rarely call for outright bans or describe themselves as evangelical religious organisations. Due to the first amendment, that won't fly. The modern tactic is instead to campaign against sex trafficking, revenge porn, child porn, and children having access to porn, aiming to create rules onerous enough that they knock out the regular porn industry at the same time.

This particular law may not turn out to be constitutional - but passing it, fighting over the matter and then getting it declared unconstitutional could be a vote winner. And there are other laws that could be constitutional that could replace it.

Is the anti-porn lobby large enough that politicians will benefit from supporting it? Difficult to say, but as we've seen on abortion issues, there's a surprisingly big religious lobby. I guess we'll find out next time Oklahoma state senator Dusty Deevers is up for re-election.
It's that for a team of a given size, we can only collectively produce so much. So as long as we're always picking tickets of a priority that stakeholders and we deem of the highest priority, then we're doing the right things.

This necessarily means that the backlog probably grows.
Then explain some "games" for the Game Boy Color where the quality was very subpar.
If it's possible for a virus to be embedded in a cartridge and infect the printer, or travel through the printer and infect other devices via the USB or network connection, that's a serious design flaw in the printer's firmware. It should never be attempting to execute information on the cartridge as code.

Moral of the story: Don't buy an HP printer, and if you have an HP printer, don't use it, buy a printer of another brand.
If it's for gambling, why isn't it mentioned anywhere? Why are there no mentions of games using these devices?
.deb packages, just like server side rendering, are the new hotness.
Right but changing your billing address/credit card number is still way much harder than creating a new gmail/outlook account.
Can confirm on Ohio being a very undesirable state to live in.
The thing about residential is that, you can't move the activity online. There is e-commerce, but there is no e-residential