skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

There are probably other things I should comment on first instead, but this usage of “IRL” made me laugh. I grew up with the initialism IRL while chatting online as a small kid so when I emailed a teacher where I accidentally wrote “IRL”, he quipped, “What? As opposed to us meeting ‘in fake life’?”

Now I feel jokingly vindicated against Mr. Teacher as this is the first time I read a government website use IRL. It would seem that algorithms and cyberspace aren’t part of real life to the government, even when it’s about housing price collusion, one of the realest real-life things I can imagine!
Ya, most rent control just rewards those that are there when it happens, if it applies to new renters, supply eventually seizes up.

I’m not sure what model parent thinks will work. Maybe rent control light where price increases are limited but the limit is highish? I can see that working out, limiting increases to 1.5-2X inflation might keep the market fluid and provide some stability to renters without locking new tenants out.
My bar is being able to execute a compiled binary produced with clang/gcc.
That movie is really great. If anyone likes ramen, you'll definitely enjoy it.
I imagine it's tricky to really prove. Airlines, for example, have been doing somewhat similar things for decades, but there's no simplistic path to showing collusion.
How has your experience with Helix been?
People don't appreciate the importance of defense spending on the emergence of Silicon Valley. It really helped grow a semiconductor company when you had a customer with deep pockets who would buy everything you could produce literally just down the street.
SEO - maybe, but IFAIK accessibility in Flutter web app shouldn't be an issue (I just saw this comment from someone on Flutter team: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24922849). They've been recently doing a great job in terms of performance (compiling app to WebAssembly) and size. I agree that Flutter web is not good for building websites, but for web apps, especially those "internal" apps used by a small group of users, it's a pretty decent solution.
Adding to that: once you’ve shown that keeping rates high while allowing greater vacancies works, no one is going to lower rates afterwards. So we are stuck with this higher rent environment.
But based on the post, this really seems to not be the case?

"Price deviations don’t immunize conspirators. Some things in life might require perfection, but price-fixing arrangements aren’t one of them. Just because a software recommends rather than determines a price doesn’t mean it’s legal. Setting initial starting prices or recommending initial starting prices can be illegal, even if conspirators deviate from recommended prices."

Would be better to see an argument from the FTC grounded in evidence and analysis, because I don't get what this is based on. Software recommends a price, sure, but so does any appraisal in any industry. For how long can I use an appraisal service before the FTC says I'm committing a crime? I just feel like the lines are not drawn very clearly with this argument.

Aside, if anyone from the FTC is here right now, for God's sake do not use "IRL" in official writing.
The issue is benchmarks for LLMs or models formats are tough to compare, as there are many factors at play. But beyond ooba's comparison, many other sources recommend GPTQ or AWQ for GPU inference as it gives better quality for the same quant level (AWQ apparently takes more VRAM though, but better quality). Given how many models are available I would take these tests with a grain of salts.
Planes change last minute all the time to deal with unexpected arrival delays. I don’t think they have any requirement to keep the same aircraft type.
> Corporate environments necessarily covers basically all of the economy

No, it only covers the corporate (ie taxable, market) economy, which does not encapsulate most material human interactions
I've wanted to write some retro computer games for awhile, but I really hate mucking with Assembly language. It would be cool to have something faster than BASIC but higher level than raw assembly.
> I vent my frustration to a few agents about the yearly rate increase insanity and they all shrug, give their non-empathetic "I understand" telephone script and blame it on the "system" calculating the prices and make some useless excuse about inflation.

Thing is, they're not wrong. The cost of accident coverage has gone up, actually way beyond inflation - assume you hit a Tesla and it sits around 9 months until Tesla can be arsed to get spare parts, your insurance will be billed for the damage itself as well as a loaner car for the counterparty. And damage repairs themselves have gotten more expensive as well: what used to be a simple bend that your everyday farmer neighbour could fix with the basic tools in his garage all while being drunk out of his mind isn't even possible with modern cars made from aluminium or carbon-fiber composite, not to mention all the tech like distance sensors that go into modern fenders which has to be replaced and carefully recalibrated.

On top of that come all the issues with regular inflation (e.g. labor cost, real estate rental for shops) and the aftereffects of the covid pandemic and its supply chain shocks (there's still a massive number of car carcasses that couldn't be completed and now get priority in parts delivery).

[1] https://www.carscoops.com/2023/11/tesla-owners-stuck-waiting...
> In effect a tap is 2 units (tap pause) dash is 5 units (tap, pause, pause, tap, pause) on it's own and every letter has a penalty of 2.

See my other post in this thread about tap for dit and taptap for dah. This shortens the time. A dash would be 3 units - tap tap pause, not 5.

> I would be shocked if most people could actually pull off Q most of the time

An experience Morse operator doesn't attempt to decode Morse. His brain is trained to shortcut it and the letters are formed automatically, just like a skilled piano player is not actually aware of his finger movements or the individual notes.

I suggest tapping with a pencil to compare rather than trying a mathematical approach. Try SOS for example. I don't see a tap taking the same time as a pause. You can do a double tap in the same time period as a tap-pause easily enough. The tap itself doesn't take time.
No. I want people to do good science and to stop doing bad science. Especially when it comes to climate change, we have a moral obligation to root out bad ideas and invalid methods.

I'm happy to have a conversation about the invalidity of the national GDP:emissions ratio method. That's the topic of this thread.
> When you run flet build <target_platform> command it ... Packages Python app using package command of serious_python package. -- https://flet.dev/docs/guides/python/packaging-app-for-distri...

It looks like Flet is for client-side code. It lets you write Flutter apps with Python instead of Dart.

> Simple Architecture - No more complex architecture with JavaScript frontend, REST API backend, database, cache, etc. With Flet you just write a monolith stateful app in Python only and get multi-user, realtime Single-Page Application (SPA). -- https://flet.dev

If I'm writing Python that runs on the mobile device, it must talk to a server to read & write data. Doesn't this still require an API backend, database, cache, etc?
As a non-landlord, it seems quite odd that landlords and property managers can’t “collude” on rent pricing.

If I were to have a rental property and a management company for it to be hands off, I’d probably want to defer rent setting to the people that understand that local rental market. Both parties have aligned incentives - they want to maximize rent. I guess the government just wants the low-information party to set the pricing? Are there any near-monopoly property management companies in any major metro in the US? Seems like they’re a dime a dozen with lots of competition — doesn’t seems very anti-trust-worthy to me, but what do I know?
Congress owns the definition via the Wilderness Act, which are tracts of land with no human presence or impact.

Perhaps that will give you context in this discussion.
Because this debt is largely meaningless - except as a political tool. All countries have debt to the point that it’s basically a big web.

What really matters is the trust in the financial system behind the debt. Do other countries believe that the US can take out more debt in good faith? If yes, then this is fine.

In individual terms, this is much like having a mortgage. It’s a massive number, much larger than your annual income that you’ll be making payments on for ages. You can still get more debt (credit cards, auto loans, HELOC) because it’s expected that you’ll have a certain amount of debt. Your debt only becomes a problem when you show that you can’t pay it.
If inflation+2% is an acceptable rent change, I don't understand how needing 12 months or more to increase rent is a problem. The only thing a shorter time period allows is a landlord to say "well, over this past 3 months we saw inflation change by +-0% but 0+2 is still 2%, so we're increase rent 2% in the next 3 months period".

And that doesn't seem like a good possibility.
I’m not sure I’m ready to trust an ml system that will control a fusion power plant. The potential of the the mistake making a ( bizarre, ml-like ) mistake seems very high to me.
1 percentage point but >30% increase!
A text snippet copied out of a published list of generic messages is not what I would usually consider "unique and heartfelt"
Here is video footage of plasma in a Safire reactor causing a tungsten rod to rapidly decay, or at least that's what looks like is happening, not "vaporizing" (in scientific terms)

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=7y46wMAHnsI
On point two, can’t you just use stopifnot(condition)? Then log it etc?
The only fix for high housing costs is to build more housing or make your area shitty (so people want to leave). The latter isn't popular so that leaves only one option.

You cannot legislate away costs for an in demand product. It can't be done. Put strict rent increase laws in place and all you do is make it so people sit in their apartment for years to lock in that low rent.
Ok, I've restored the URL you submitted (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/8ec28af8eaff5acd0d...).
You don't have to run the ethernet inside the walls. I used coaxial ties to run my ethernet cable along the surface of the wall and it works just fine.
Could you share how you set that up? Sounds effective.
Apple: Complying with the Digital Markets Act [pdf]
Does a steam deck count as a Linux desktop?
Shortcuts, presumably
> It's not clear the Earth can even do that anymore.

This is a good point, but the event wouldn't need to be more volcanic so much as that volcanism would need to ignite more carbon-containing materials - naively I would expect there to me more "fuel" in the Earth than there was 300m years ago.
> The Florida and Texas laws unnecessarily restrict the platforms' moderation decisions, which are first-party speech protected by the First Amendment, on the basis of the contents of third-party speech i.e. holding the platforms liable as the publisher for third-party speech i.e. violating Section 230.

They aren't incurring liability for hosting third party speech. Even if they left 100% of everything up they wouldn't be violating these laws. What the laws are trying to do is impose penalties for the first party act of censorship, whereas what you get from 230(c)(1) is protection for the first party act of not removing third party speech.

> There already is an available remedy for user's third-party speech which does not restrict platforms' first-party right to moderate: suing the users of the posts.

But there isn't a remedy for the third-party speaker whose posts are capriciously removed from a dominant platform, which is what the laws are trying to address.
How does one differentiate between "AI web crawlers" and "non-AI web crawlers".

What faith can be placed in User-Agent strings. The contents of this header have been faked since the birth of the www in the early 90s.

How does anyone know what someone will do with the data they have crawled. There are no transparency requirements, there are no legally-enforceable agreements. There are only IP addresses and User-Agent headers.

No one can look at a User-Agent header or an IP address and conclude, "I know what someone will do with the data I let them access because this header or address confirms it". Those accessing the data could use it for any purpose or transfer it to someone else to use for any purpose. Unless the website operator has a binding agreement with the organisation doing the crawling, any assumptions about future behaviour made on basis of a header or IP address offer no control whatsoever.

Perhaps an IP address could be used to conclude the HTTP requests are being sent by Company X, but the address does not indicate what Company X will do with the data it collects. Company X can do whatever it wants. It does not need to tell anyone what it is doing; it could make up a story about what it is doing that conveniently conceals facts.

These so-called "tech" companies that are training "AI" are secretive and non-transparent. Further, they will lie when it suits their interests. They do not ask for permission, they only ask for forgiveness. They are strategic and unfortunately deceptive in what they tell the public. "Trust" at own risk.

Although it may be useless as a means of controlling how crawling data is used, it still makes sense to me to put something in robots.txt to indicate there is no consent given for crawling for the purpose of training "AI". Better would be to publish some explicit notice to the public that no consent is given to use data from the website to train "AI".

Put the restrictions in a license. Let the so-called "tech" companies assent to that license. Then, when the evidence of unauthorised data use becomes availalble, enforce the license.
Haha yeah that’s often what happens, a useful slang expression becomes so widespread that eventually they accept it in formal context.

I joke that, given enough time, the “English future tense” they teach will be “to be gonna”.
Everything is up 20% since 2020; but lower-income wages are up more, FWIW.
Not everyone who has GBS develops MS and not everyone who gets COVID develops Long COVID so far as we know; HIV/AIDS is the odd one out of these analogies. I don't know to what exactness the comparisons in terms of percentages of people who develop the chronic syndromes, time to onset, severity of symptoms etc, would need to be in order for an analogy to have any utility to you, so I suppose we'll see in 20 years.
The sibling comment is right in that this is clearly not intended for first timers.

But your instincts are correct here. When you write out the objective function for ordinary least squares, it turns out to be a quadratic form. The choice of the word "quadratic" here is not a coincidence: it is the generalization of quadratic functions to matrices. That section covers the vector equivalent of minimizing quadratic functions.
I give a little chuckle whenever someone mentions Esperanto. It's the official language in the tv show Red Dwarf and Rimmer always struggles to use it. Its a bit of an ongoing joke.
Maybe price is a factor? If this thing cost $100 you'd see mass adoption.
Demand grows with population and GDP growth. Also, less developed countries become more developed and people demand more energy usage. So 2.4% could have been 5%, and that it was only 2.4% is how growth was curbed. This is probably mostly coming from Chinese, who have slowed the increases in their oil usage from an aggressive push into EVs.
Two other tidbits on this:

1. There's a difference between relevance and usefulness that cross-encoders cannot capture. Imagine a thread with a bunch of people complaining about an exception and each comment is another mention of the exception. Now imagine another thread with one mention of the exception at the top, and a bunch of people offering solutions. If you query for the exception, LLMs will find the second thread more useful, but cross encoders will find the first one more relevant.

2. LLMs/GenAI models don't output a single value. They can use the tokens they output to "reason" about the usefulness of a doc. Eg. Rerankers are like tiny LLMs that are only allowed to output "yes" or "no", but instead you can use an LLM to do chain-of-thought and finally decide at the end.
Considering intentional stratospheric dehydration for climate benefits
Fun to think about. Maybe they were bigger and stronger, which forced us to actually be more clever and start to use our smaller but still very capable brains to accomplish stuff. I don't know if there were actually interactions between the different species, but I sure wouldn't want to fight a neanderthal without a plan or some tools.
Unless I'm misreading, emissions still increased, only slower than they did last year. It's not dissimilar to inflation going down meaning that prices increase slower than they had previously. The difference here is that emission increases are given in absolute amounts vs. a rate.
Me neither, but that is because now I have F#, Scala, Haskell, Rust,... :)
The Safire type 2 reactor has been working for over seven years now. The documentary they already made is to document the process of creating the Safire type 3 reactor which can process liquid.

The results of the Safire type 3 reactor rendering radioactive material benign were done by a third party, which means independent, laboratory. They literally spell this out in terms that even a complete idiot can understand in the documentary you just pointed out. Hence why a very small part of their team spent some documenting what the science team did to make Safire type 3.
We know Microsoft experienced a full breach of Office 365/Microsoft 365 and Azure infrastructure by a nation state actor: https://www.imprivata.com/blog/strengthening-security-5-less...
Well I have some math background but that section is brisk and slow at the same time, as it were. Such as how it explains how to find inverses of 2x2 matrices.

This is older but is supposed to be good: https://www.deeplearningbook.org/
Note that my reply was about startups, and not about cowsay (which is not a startup).
12 months seems rather extreme range to me. So what would happen is that you rent a place, day after you move in you get notice that yes we are going to increase rent by maximum in a year. After all this is the most logical and effective time to do it. Now cost might not increase as much in year from that date, but landlord does not know. Come next year, they again also don't know, so again max allowed at time.

But instead, if you can notice rent increase let's say 1 month before year is full, they might look at what are current cost and think oh, I could do with lower increase.
Interest payments?
> what is fundamentally a public health problem

You see a public health problem, we see a crime problem.

Maybe to you, throwing them all in prison doesn't "work". But if there are fewer psychotic homeless and streets are cleaner, it works well enough for me :)
> prevented what amounts to the embezzlement

How does it amount to embezzlement? I understand the SEC reward is for whistleblowing, but how is it whistleblowing if the information want publicly available via filings?
"Rent control" can do any numbers of thing - it really depends on the specific policies.
The results of the Safire type 3 reactor were verified by a third party lab. It's amazing that you can just post out of your ass like that as if you have any idea what the hell you're talking about.
Are you referring to the approach of creating hypothetical questions for embedding along with the document. Or more along the lines of creating summaries of the documents during indexing and embedding those as well?

Either case, the reason we don't do LLM based transformations during indexing time is that we hope our tool can be used by teams with a lot of documents. It becomes prohibitively expensive to run these transformations at indexing time when the scale can be multiple millions of documents.
Weirdly, the FTC site seems offline:

NOTICE: The FTC website is currently unavailable. Thank you for your patience while
we work to restore service.
You probably want to give this a bit of time and repost it when the geometric cache flushes a little bit:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Liability is more about medical costs, no? If it were bounded to vehicle cost, I'd self-insure.
> I had the same problem. Which camera should I buy if I want to use this?

Their docs have a general "we don't provide specifics because $OEM can change the internals on a whim" disclaimer.
That is true. OEMs can/will change the internals out but leave the model number the same. You see this ALL THE TIME with the cheap SOHO routers.

However, those changes are _usually_ paired with a bump in version / revision on the product label.

In any case, a community sourced page of devices that were - at one point in time - known to contain a supported chip would be helpful. Even if the OEM had changed the internals, at least you'd know that the internals have changed and that scouring eBay for an older serial number of the same model might get you a supported one.

In any case, I opened up a few of the amcrest cameras I have lying around and found a poorly support ambrella SoC and another SoC that is not supported at all.

--

EDIT: after talking with a friend that does a lot of hardware reverse engineering:

```
Plug the chipset that's well supported into Ali Express and then just hope that sellers put it in the listing and that it's accurate.
You'll get lots of hits on bare boards / dev-kits where the SoC ID is the only unique thing about it but you might get a few "finished" devices that are listed as using the chip as well.
```

It's not perfect, but that might be _a_ way to find devices that should be supported.
It's not a coincidence that the ITER project will be about one career long.
Harm mitigation isn't about sanctioning anything, it's just about recognizing that sometimes prohibition doesn't work and not making things worse in those cases.

It's about not wrecking somebody's teeth by confiscating their pacifier while they're rolling. It's about not causing overdoses by limiting access to milligram scales (because trying to use a kitchen scale to measure a dose is dangerous). It's about creating an environment where people won't lie to you if you express concern about their habits.

Most drug problems are poor dopamine hygiene or mental health issues of some other kind. Let's focus on that instead of celebrating that somebody is "off the hard stuff" while the root cause remains and wrecks their life through a video game addiction.

If you're not seeing the harms caused by overbroad vilification of drugs in general it's because the people around you who are struggling with a substance problem are hiding it from you due to your attitude about such things. And if they're hiding from you, you can't help them.
I think families should have as much time as possible to handle the significant costs and disruptions associated with moving homes.
Certainly doesn't seem like first principles...
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was caused by concentration in the under writing market. You might find a lot of insurance companies at a thin retail layer on top of a very small wholesale layer.