skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not understanding the local rental market that's the problem. It's controlling enough of it that you can influence prices globally upwards outside of economic competition.

If 60% of a city's major property companies sign on with RealPage and *also* agree that they will not undercut the prices RealPage chooses (eliminating economic competition between the property companies), that's not just being a high information party, it's collusion.

The problem is that housing in major cities has a relatively fixed supply, so the colluding landlords know that even if a competitor undercuts them eventually they will simply fill their units and cease to be competition for new renters.
Her mysteries can't be solved without crucial information that is withheld until the end. Is this true?
While courts are usually slow, it feels as if they very much want to avoid this particular case.
There are two fundamental vulnerabilities here to my mind that I think are worth learning from:

1. Sanitize LLM output

2. Always outline to the user and make them confirm what actions a chat assistant is going to do before doing it, particularly if they are sensitive.

Edit: this is echoed in the article

"Despite this, there are ways people creating generative AI systems can defend against potential worms, including using traditional security approaches. “With a lot of these issues, this is something that proper secure application design and monitoring could address parts of,” says Adam Swanda, a threat researcher at AI enterprise security firm Robust Intelligence. “You typically don't want to be trusting LLM output anywhere in your application.”

Swanda also says that keeping humans in the loop—ensuring AI agents aren’t allowed to take actions without approval—is a crucial mitigation that can be put in place. “You don't want an LLM that is reading your email to be able to turn around and send an email. There should be a boundary there.” For Google and OpenAI, Swanda says that if a prompt is being repeated within its systems thousands of times, that will create a lot of “noise” and may be easy to detect."
Here is an explanation that includes raw video footage of a Safire type 2 chamber.
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=ZBInhPFFVog

Here is what was shared, including some raw video footage, of what happened when a small tungsten rod was exposed to plasma in a Safire type 2 chamber.
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=7y46wMAHnsI
quite easy to price derivatives with R. I have a degree in finmath from uchicago, where derivative pricing was taught using Matlab and R. But in the last semester we were told - oh yeah when you go out there into the real world and start working for the banks you can’t use civilized tools like R and Matlab. So you have to take this mandatory class on cpp. There once was a guy named stroustrup and this shit here is called a makefile…
after graduation i worked for BofA and yes, the quant world is completely C++. But there are small funds (few billion dollars) that do their own shit in R, Haskell, Q/kdb, others. Very doable in R.
Rent control has been repeatedly demonstrated to increase prices and lower the quality of the units under control. The solution to high housing prices is reducing zoning restrictions, not increasing government intervention.
Why "inflation+2%" rather than just inflation?
Do you believe it was designed and standardized as a reasonably implementable feature?
One option is to require multi-year lease options. Most commercial leases work that way. That creates a lot of stability and predictability for the family, just as it does for businesses.
It isn't surprising at all that this can me done; I figured that as soon as people started building LLM based agents that can read and send email we would see these. There is no solid barrier to having the agent see something in an email as a command; it can be limited with prompts and training but no one has found a bulletproof way to constrain the behavior.
Isn't the form factor a little odd, or is that just me? How would you even hold that?

Make something with a wide enough screen (say, 2.5" wide) and a height that maps to a common aspect ratio (maybe 4"?), let it have some bulk (like... 1" thick?) and suddenly you have a distinctive object that has enough space for all the electronics + a decent battery.
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> And yet ITER is the only serious attempt at fusion research for power generation.

I disagree, in two ways.

First, ITER is itself not a serious attempt at a fusion research program, although there is great pretense that it is. There is no plausible route from ITER to a practical reactor, even if it achieves every one of its goals.

Second, there are other attempts that are, IMO, much more promising. Helion and Zap are the two that come to mind.
>Entorhinal-based path integration selectively predicts midlife risk of Alzheimer's disease

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz...

Abstract

INTRODUCTION
Entorhinal cortex (EC) is the first cortical region to exhibit neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD), associated with EC grid cell dysfunction. Given the role of grid cells in path integration (PI)–based spatial behaviors, we predicted that PI impairment would represent the first behavioral change in adults at risk of AD.

METHODS
We compared immersive virtual reality (VR) PI ability to other cognitive domains in 100 asymptomatic midlife adults stratified by hereditary and physiological AD risk factors. In some participants, behavioral data were compared to 7T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of brain structure and function.

RESULTS
Midlife PI impairments predicted both hereditary and physiological AD risk, with no corresponding multi-risk impairment in episodic memory or other spatial behaviors. Impairments associated with altered functional MRI signal in the posterior-medial EC.

DISCUSSION
Altered PI may represent the transition point from at-risk state to disease manifestation in AD, prior to impairment in other cognitive domains.
Posted thrice already [0][1][2] (no comments, 12 points collectively)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39561118
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39566570
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570922
Wouldn’t it still be passing in front of something, or is it likely to be comparatively ‘stationary’ against a similarly stationary backdrop of stars and other objects?
It’s all just a bogus data. Over 10% drop in windows market share in few months, that recovered after few more months? How can anyone believe data like this?
Robert Griesemer worked on V8 and Ken Thompson invented C. V8 is obviously not a language, but it is a massive project to make it as obscenely fast as it is and used in as many places, which should give Griesemer some credibility. I personally don't like C, but everything is obvious in hindsight and it's used everywhere, so you gotta give some credit to Thompson as well.
YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...

"To arrive at a recommended rent, the software deploys an algorithm — a set of mathematical rules — to analyze a trove of data RealPage gathers from clients, including private information on what nearby competitors charge.

For tenants, the system upends the practice of negotiating with apartment building staff. RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise rents and make more money.

One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing."
Did you read my comment? It is literally about how "strict rent increase laws" are not the solution.
> it’s a frustrating side of free software projects that user experience isn’t taken seriously.

It's taken seriously by the users. The maintainers don't owe anyone to implement your ideas. If you have some issue about some software, you go and do the work. FOSS is not about delivering a software product to you, it's more about giving you freely the foundation that may be suitable or not for you. If it's not, you take it and do the extra work to get it more suitably aligned to your purpose. That may require some technical knowledge, but a bit of education is always helpful.

I don't think I've ever seen FOSS marketing. More often than not, I've stumbled into it or I found it when searching for a solution to a problem that I have. If you do not like the default, you're encouraged to fork it and make it your own. Don't try to enforce your preferences on everyone.
Hmmm. 4% is still single digits and very close to zero on the desktop if we round it down.

Still a long way to go.
There's a question by cpach further up on this page which is essentially asking this but also with some additional questions. Hopefully you find that thread useful!

TLDR: There's the cloud version and also there are a set of nice to have features more relevant for larger teams. Those features are not MIT.
> Perhaps Wikipedia should have allowed a kind of sub-Wikipedia: a sort of parallel wikipedia that deals in topics more akin to Urban Dictionary entries.

It's an interesting idea. I imagine a sort of "Official" and "Unofficial" modes. You could flip a switch and see the articles and edits that didn't pass muster.

That way, the ideas and info wouldn't be lost/censored, but wouldn't get to claim they're "formally accepted."
I've read positive comments about BaldPhone. It's aimed at elderly people, but I don't see reasons why it couldn't be used to make regular smartphones interfaces more usable for everyone.
https://baldphone.com/
It's in the sales rep's interest.
A good example of why this won’t work that’s 10x more extreme and has legal consequences… in theory…

Didn’t the FBI admit that it just bought U.S. citizen data instead of spying on them? Almost two years in a row?

This has been happening non-stop for over 20 years without any repercussions.

I don’t think robots.txt will make a difference. If your site is internet facing, nothing will prevent it from being crawled and scraped.

If anything, i can almost guarantee AI crawling will be tired to SEO if it’s not already.
I'd expect the cost of cars, which is has become tethered to 'monthly payment' instead of actual cost.
I’m sure car insurers pay out significantly more for vehicle damage than person damage. Most accidents don’t involve harm, but body shops are getting expensive. For WA:

> In 2019, there were 45,524 reported car accidents in Washington State. Although 32,106 resulted in no injuries, 325 were fatal and 973 resulted in serious injuries.

https://www.weierlaw.com/dealing-with-an-auto-accident-in-wa....
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This is a valid question????
Unitree's H1 humanoid breaks world speed record and tackles stairs
I already work 4 days a week. Friday essentially is such a slow day with no meetings that is virtually optional. Been this way in several companies in the US including at big tech companies that are not known for wlb. 25% cut sounds like a bad deal for me and good deal for employer as they’d get the same amount of work done as before.
Why do you think they will be EOLd? https://support.google.com/product-documentation/answer/1023...? Shows they are guaranteed to be updated for at least 5 years after release, so you have at least 2 more years, but hopefully longer. Only 1 nest product has stopped receiving updates so far and there are several that are 4 years past their guarantee date so precedent would indicate you still have a fairly long support window. This isn't the same as supporting a phone.
The cost is due to the increasing repair costs to other people vehicles, not mainly your own. You also don’t have to get collision and comprehensive coverage, or at least not with a low deductible. Then you’re really just paying for the damage you cause to others and in that case your vehicle cost doesn’t mean anything at all.

Also, not sure your state or credit score but if you’re not in CA you’ll need good credit to get good rates. The only way to change that is government regulation.

Also if you’re getting the same rates from different places, it sounds like you’re being quoted the same company not different companies. If you aren’t going directly to the actual insurance companies website, that’s what’s happening.
The things is - you can't actually know for sure - it is entirely possible to get covid and have nothing more than a sniffle or nothing at all - so I think what the OP you are responding to is saying is that just because someone thinks they never had covid, it might not be true.

I know people who never had symptoms, but tested because a household member had tested positive (with symptoms) and found out they were positive too - it happens.

In my opinion, that is the best case scenario - you got it, didn't know it and your body fought it off like a champ.
Your perspective boils down to “we’ve already tried to and failed.”

To which I would argue, in fact, we have not tried it, even barely

Actually trying would look more like the following:

The children who are currently mining for Mica for beauty products on behalf of LoReal would be stockholders outright of stock in LVM, as a result of their work, not literal slaves

You are suggesting that the process that we have used so far, which is individually determined capital redistribution via means that pick apart the donation through service fees, middleman functions, etc.

This is what you are suggesting is trying?

No. What I’m saying is that the people who hoard wealth and power will hoard more wealth and power up until socially that is no longer acceptable. we need to determine ways to distribute or rather, not steal in the first place, the value that labor is creating.
To allow some leeway for increase in property value and demand, in general lot of money looks that level of returns. Also inflation does not always full reflect the costs.

Also something like 2% above inflation does not lead to unreasonable increases. Until market rates are reached.
That’s only in the context of ‘x’ being unknown. They’re still referring to it as ‘planet nine’ in the article.
Wait. If landlords gather information about all other rents in the country, and then use that to set a price for their rents, that, cannot surely, be price fixing.

So is the problem the “RENTmaximizer” software and other services that basically gather price information ?

Because if perfect price information is available, and yet there is no competition in the market driving prices down, well, that’s rentier markets for you.

There must be an economics PhD or two in that
Your mail processing agent says it is going to send a mail, as requested by your boss, to a customer. You can see the text of the message it proposes to send. You can see your boss's email. But instead it is sent to a black hat with proprietary info extracted from your entire inbox steganographically encoded in whitespace.
I'm not sure the date of invention is relevant. The wheel is stone-age tech.

What matters is how we build Tokamak's has changed. A huge notable difference are the magnets used for example.
In Calgary, I can usually get 1 gallon (~4l) for about 6 dollars. However, if you get organic or anything, you easily go past 2$ / liter (CAD).
He says that now, but he tried to back out of the deal, so we know he at one point realized the buy wasn't a good move.
> feedback/monitoring

This makes me worried that they're going to add some "analytics" tracking scripts in there that come with those damned annoying cookie pop-ups.
The price to repair cars are also going up which is making the payout claims cutting into profit margins. So the solution is obvious
https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-...

They seem to defend against conspiracy theories and falsehoods. Why are you calling them a "gang"? What are the "dominating"? Why is this bad?
Yes Wikipedia is really bad for maths articles. They're all written by people who just learnt about the topic and are showing off their pedantically detailed knowledge of it.

I recommend Mathworld. Much much better.
My basis is continuous contract with let's say 3 or 6 month clause of termination under limited reasons. Like purchase or taking unit to use by family. Or something like large renovation...
> Who is honestly confused by this? Is it necessary for an AI image generation algo to spit out historically accurate images of Gettysburg when prejudiced misuse is the far more likely outcome of that accuracy?

If I wanted a black female Nazi officer, or a pregnant female pope, I would ask for it. I don't need my input query secretly rewritten for me.
Nope. All features of focus modes alone, I think.
Welcome to the same bin all those Second Amendment cases get tossed into.
Be careful with your money. I'm still not convinced this is real. Neither are others:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/comments/198y1xi/minimal...

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMinimalCompany/comments/1aoq90q/...

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/my-company-got-funded-mill...

and

https://old.reddit.com/r/eink/comments/1b35fuz/please_exerci...
Yes, the companies targeted here aren't property managers themselves, they sell software to property managers, and have ended up providing services to many ostensibly-competing managers and building owners in some metro areas, who collectively control enough of the rental market in those areas that they can "maximize rent" by moving the whole market up in concert rather than having any of the owners actually compete with one another.

From a ProPublica piece [1] about it, for example:

> In one neighborhood in Seattle, ProPublica found, 70% of apartments were overseen by just 10 property managers, every single one of which used pricing software sold by RealPage.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
I like the interface.

Nit: it redirected me to San Diego weather after a few seconds after I had already put in a different location. Maybe because I block the location request?
She includes references in the description, in case you need to personally double check the content.
FreeBSD's /bin/sh is based on ash, like NetBSD's, although I'm not sure how much they have in common these days. dash was forked from NetBSD's version of ash and then simplified considerably and fixed up to be fully (? or at least mostly) POSIX compliant. A while after that NetBSD's shell also had a bunch of POSIX fixes. I'm not sure how FreeBSD's shell is in terms of strict POSIX compliance.

In my opinion, bash has two things (at least vs NetBSD's shell, possibly a few more vs POSIX) that make the average shell script (that I write) much easier. The first is &> which makes it easy to redirect both stdout and stderr to a file for logging. The standard 2>&1 can work but needs to be placed correctly or it doesn't work. That place isn't always the obvious place like it is with &> and running bash seems much preferrable to me than figuring that one out.

The second is ${var@Q} which prints var quoted for the shell, which is nice to use all over the place to make sure any printed file names can be copied and pasted.

My sense is that targeting POSIX is usually done for maximum portability or for use on systems that don't have bash installed by default. However, bash is quite widely available even if not by default and very widely used so I wouldn't say it is unreasonable to look at bash as the de facto standard and POSIX and other shells as being used in more limited circumstances.
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I mean, yes, you're missing something, the first and foremost, Internet. :) Its sole purpose was to solve the information access problem in a decentralized way. That was the rationale behind the ARPANET project.

Then, DNS came, which is also a decentralized solution to the name resolution problem. BGP routing is also similarly decentralized. World Wide Web itself is decentralized. IRC is decentralized. These technologies predate almost everything you mentioned.

I agree with your sentiment that it's mostly a cycle. I just wanted to emphasize that decentralization had never been a novel idea. We've always had decentralization, it's not like a new revolutionary thing as it's presented. That's my point.
My wife is in a licensed field. She still has interviews.

Not the technical take home type, but she still spends 1+ days for every company she pursues. Total time is not much different than what I do per interview.
Now if these could operate in stand-alone mode... but both Wear OS and watchOS require a companion phone.
It's even worse than that: the so-called "center right" party was explicitly formed to emulate Olof Palme and the nordic social democracies (as the name implies). Only after the troika intervention did PPC pushed it to the neoliberal right.
I just flew 3 out of 4 legs of a trip on Southwest on Maxes. Happy to report everything went well.

Maybe that should be the headline on CNN.
One of the early Radeons were advertised with a real-time demo that plays Pipe Dream: https://youtu.be/uG1XkEnYyUc
Are there any wealth redistribution efforts that bother you? Like perhaps student debt forgiveness? Or welfare for single mothers?
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Sorry but you're just wrong. We'll see how "safe" these batteries are when they're 10 to 20 years old and still on the road, banged up, subjected to extreme conditions for years, etc.

What exactly is misinformation about insurance rates going parabolic? Or the fact that these fires are self-oxidizing and much hotter than others? Or that ferries in progressive countries don't want to carry them? Or the videos and testimony of an expert at a fire safety conference showing that poison gasses rapidly escape from batteries as they enter the well-known process of thermal runaway? Or a replacement battery for the Hyundai Ioniq costing $60k, more than the MSRP of a brand new one?

>The spreaders of misinformation will have you believe that ICE cars are easier to put out - maybe, but why didn’t the TWO fire extinguishers put out the diesel car before it burned down the car park at Luton? What about the car park at Liverpool?

Many people believe that the media is lying about Luton, and that it was a hybrid battery that caught fire. Regardless of that, isn't it a huge problem if any EV catching fire can cause inextinguishable, toxic fires to spread through a whole car park full of them? I don't know about Liverpool off the top of my head. There are so many terrible parking garage fires now. I never heard of it happening in my whole life until recently, and I'm sure it's because EVs make it dramatically more likely to happen and more damaging.

You ought to consider the incentives behind the media push to assure people that EVs are safe. A large number of politicians behind mandating these death traps would be very embarrassed if the truth was recognized. Instead of waiting for the technology to develop and mature naturally, if that is even possible, they want to force it on us against our will. So forgive me for not giving two shits what any fake stats say on the issue. It will take much more time to settle the question of safety than these jokers are suggesting.
It's general tool use that distinguishes humans.

It would be fun to confer survival advantage to those individual animals which exhibit tool-use - like, urban environments for trash pandas. The real Uplift mechanism (maybe was for us, too).
> Such software can allow landlords to collude on pricing by using an algorithm—something the law doesn’t allow IRL. When you replace once-independent pricing decisions with a shared algorithm, expect trouble.

Enjoyable to watch norms about language (IRL) change.
Not with LFP cells falling to $54/kWh.
So she must be the sacrifice?

Where are these arguments for the betterment of society when all the NIMBYs pop up?
While true, if supply and demand are allowed to meet through new construction you won't need rent stabilization laws.