skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, instead of an algorithm that purely benefits landlords, you just want the opposite algorithm that purely benefits tenets?

In either case we're throwing the whole pricing part of the market away while still pretending we're engaged in capitalism. Unless you dedicate huge amount of resources to the problem you will likely harm more people than you help.

You could compete with the market through publicly owned housing that people of low income can apply for.

You could upset the market by vastly overhauling zoning laws to make them more open and less bureaucratic.

You could increase access to the market by introducing property tax brackets that are based on total property ownership in a county.

You could increase access to housing options by drastically improving high speed transport to new areas that are currently underdeveloped.

If people are being priced out of the market it's because not enough options exist, which in NYC and SFO is a real physical issue, but in most other places it seems like an entirely artificial issue.
Investigating the effect of crystallisation via a school citizen science program
Tons of people (like me) would love an EV minivan. But tons of people (like me) ain’t got the cash to pay extra for one, even with the subsidies.

The market delivers what is demanded that makes them the most moolah.
Where can I find these results published?
Burying dead prevents predators eating the body and getting a taste for your flesh...
WOW! Thanks! Power user of BASH for a long time and I did not know this.
Well you can, go to your local library and look at microfiche. It's how we used to do it. Primary research. If you're lucky they may have OCR or a tagging system. If not, reels of microfiche
That’s true, but external runs can be challenging to do in a way that doesn’t look bad (e.g. cable runners not matching paint well) and could have a negative impact on resale value later on.
I have one very practical question, having hit frustrations pushing data from our data warehouse into Salesforce (I see you have a Salesforce adapter).

When you push data into Salesforce, and Salesforce (API) returns error messages indicating some row in the target can't be modified because it is busy, is your tool able to detect which rows couldn't get loaded and retry those rows N times (hopefully with some exponential backoff delay or perhaps a fixed delay between retries), and then if those retries fail, report back up permanent failures of which rows/IDs didn't make it to Salesforce? (I haven't run across a tool that does this but this was my pain point.)
Why doesn't simpler control theory work here, like PID controllers?
Is it reasonable to expect Wikipedia to index all the things? A road that has never been written about. Openstreetmap is a seperate entity, and that makes perfect sense. So is Github. Do you need an article for every file in the Linux kernel too?
A more general write-up on the project via The Guardian [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/mar/02/doing-someth...
Seems entirely reasonable, considering that <img> is for images, whereas mp4 is for videos, no?
> But they don’t. Why not?

Because PWAs lack substantial capabilities that make them impossible to use for most app development. Which is what everyone has been saying.

Note that developers do move out of the Android store, there are a host of applications available on F-Droid that are not available through the Android app store even though discoverability on F-Droid is nonexistent. But those developers don't build PWAs, because PWAs are not a viable platform for building modern apps.

It has nothing to do with the 30% being worth it or not and everything to do with the fact that moving away from the app store on both Android and iOS is really only theoretically possible -- and PWAs in every practical sense can't actually be used to avoid the tax.

You bring up Candy Crush above as an example of an app that could be a PWA. It couldn't. PWAs lack reliable storage mechanisms, unless Candy Crush starts requiring online accounts it's not going to ship as a PWA. Meanwhile, the last "big" app that tried to go down the PWA route was Wordle, which was both difficult for users to install and was immediately swamped with fraudulent clones in the app store claiming to be the official apps, which neither Google nor Apple did anything to stop.

Once the NYT purchased Wordle, one of the first things they did was add an online account system -- in part to mitigate the common data losses that were present in the PWA. Wordle is the best possible candidate for a PWA, and the NYT is still struggling with it. I would not be surprised if at some point they don't turn it into a native app.

It's not that the payments are worth 30%. It's that going outside the app store (even when you're not collecting any payments at all) isn't viable. Which is what everyone has been saying all this time.

> Also if it is only Apple holding PWAs back

It's not. Apple is one party holding PWAs back.
This has felt a lot like the early days of the streaming wars to me, where business model took a back seat to user acquisition.

I've been deeply curious about about costs vs revenue with the "AI everywhere" push.

Local models seem like the way?
Not detailed enough. They di this with an ant-competitive OEM contract clause requiring OEM's to only ship systems whose bootloaders would boot to Windows by default.

The CEO of Be tried to testify in the MS antitrust action on the bootloader issue, but the prosecutors were not willing to alter the case to include it.

This breaks my heart as someone currently digging into the bootloader and embedded space. Truly wish 20 years ago this issue would have gotten the attention it deserved.
Least squares is quadratic.

Quadratic means square terms.
One person with domain knowledge of running things could be well worth it. How many times have you seen adding more people just make it a bigger, more unsustainable mess?

Granted 56 billion is a lot.
Isn't each server its own mod, in effect?
It may be easier than it looks, but talk to a few people about costs. Anyone who has done any wiring (elechicken or no) can do low voltage and leave the ends for you to terminate/deal with.

But permits might be needed in some areas.

Usually the trick is UP the wall into an attic or DOWN the wall into a basement, over, and up or down.

If necessary tricks like hiding thin cables behind molding or even shoved into the carpet edge can work.
Sending email? Drones in Ukraine are using computer vision and hit targets on its own as FPV with human in the loop becomes impossible due to jamming.
>Unconvincing. I've build road profile sequences (RPS) for F1 race tracks

Nice flex but your argument is unconvincing. Yes the track layout is well known and predictable, but you only get a few GOs with the F1 car on that track and there's a million ways your untested flight and computer vision tracking algos you set up in 3 days can backfire spectacularly, so why not stick to manual flight from a seasoned drone pilot who can handle all the edge cases?
Why is it Japan-made and not Japanese-made ?
Yes! S3 as source connector is in our roadmap. Should be out soon. By connecting to S3 as a source & using Athena, data models can be created & synced to various business apps. Files in Parquet format is supported through Athena.
Just curious, how does program analysis on real-world programs exactly circumvent the problems of the halting problem or Rice’s theorem? In the real world, do we only ever have statically analyze a special subset of all programs?
Perhaps it would make more sense to think of it as buying “up to $50k”;they’re certainly not paying out the whole amount every time.

If more expensive cars leads to more expensive claims on average, the price of insurance might reasonably go up even if the worst-case exposure is the same…
This would make a great work phone if they promise 3 years of security updates as well as major Android upgrades.

Otherwise this phone will be unusable in 6 months according to my company's BYOD security policy.
I am not sure they want to heavily stress that in their marketing materials: they still want people to subscribe to their service, right?

If all the applications are free software, it's obvious you can do that even if it means recompiling it (minus for iOS, sorry) — I believe it's ok if they have the option described somewhere deep in a FAQ or on-prem setup instructions.
Finally Year of the Linux Desktop?
This is off the wall wild. I generally defend a lot of Google's behaviors especially around the web & what I see as commitment to platform & standards. This just does so much to savage my feelings for the company. I didn't think my first post on the topic here was that out of line, that crazy, but I used stronger words & got flagged, and boy does this get at me in an awful way.

It feels like such a terrible indicator of the state of the world. The hackerly spirit is under attack once more in the War Against General Purpose Computing & here (as elsewhere with the Safety net effort) Google is one of the leading companies doing the dirtiest to the world, to anyone else's chances or ability to understand & affect change. They are emblematic Black Iron Prison keepers, and it so sad to see from a company that I believe often is so contributive & so helps us to advance & create robust standards.

I was excited for innovation & change to come to text messaging, to not need to have everyone figure out how else to text everyone else each time we want to interact. But if Google's going for a trifecta of shooting themselves, their users and RCS down like this, all with this one bullet, it's back to there being no sensible clear options.

And what's with the opening line carrying so much water for Google?

> Google is cracking down on rooted Android devices,

Cracking down? Excuse you? You crack down on offenders. People advancing how they use their devices beyond what's provided aren't a pest. The vanguard of human intent, our capacity to improve ourselves, ought be cherishes and celebrated, especially on a site with the word hacker in the title.
Many landlords are happy to offer longer-term leases. I signed a two-year lease once, and I think they would have offered a longer one if I'd asked.

I'd guess there's not a lot of demand for these as renters also want the flexibility to move.
While true on this particular topic I'm inclined to ignore it in a pure accelerationism sense. [not convinced on accelerationism as a whole]

If this works out everything experiences a sea change...including the environmental calculus.

So I'm quite wary of "it uses a lot of energy" arguments on this one. Other stuff like aluminium smelters use a lot of energy too but to me this one is philosophically different. Even at 50% odds or whatever...if this could change everything we have to go for it, even at env impact
The fact that you car is 'cheap', is not the driving force behind the cost - you may drive a $10K used car, but you can still crash into someone else's $120K car and also put the other driver in the hospital with 100's of thousands of dollars of medical expenses.

Once your car is paid off, you can usually drop the collision damage on your own car - but don't be surprised if you are still paying thru the nose.

Curious though: what state are you in, and how much are you paying?

As comparison, we own three cars (2015, 2013 and 2011), for three drivers (youngest is 21) and have pretty decent level of coverage, including coverage for damage to our cars even though they are paid off - and only pay ~$1600/year in total for all three cars/drivers in Mass, which to me seems pretty reasonable.
You're not paying to insure the car, you're paying to insure yourself against a crash where you land someone with a 5-million dollar hospital and lifelong disability bill.

The price of a car is trivial compared to the price of a person.
I'm enjoying the notion that the Bruen precedent could be used to restore the 1792 Militia Act. Burdening white men with finding a flintlock and knapsack in this day and age has me in stitches.
The dominant market position of someone who has last/mile cables to every household in an area is much stickier and more absolute than the dominant position of any social networking site.

Even if it’s hard to stop using e.g. Facebook, it’s easy to access 1000000 other sites too, and publish your own. That’s not the case with ISPs - for the most part you can have only one.
From the blog post: Algorithms that recommend prices to numerous competing landlords threaten to remove renters’ ability to vote with their feet and comparison-shop for the best apartment deal around.

From the brief: To participate in the service, landlords must share in “real-time” their “non-public,” “competitively sensitive” data, including actual rents paid, occupancy rates, and records of lease transactions. [Multifamily Compl. ¶¶ 227, 380.] RealPage then feeds “this data into a common algorithm.” [Student Compl. ¶ 5;] [Multifamily Compl. ¶ 380.] The common algorithm uses these common data for a single, common purpose: to generate “forward-looking, unit-specific pricing and supply recommendations” for all participating landlords. [Student Compl. ¶ 5.] To ensure that the landlords abide by these “recommendations,” RealPage puts significant “pressure” on them “to implement RealPage’s prices,” including by requiring clients to submit requests to deviate to the “corporate office” and tracking the “identity of the client’s staff that requested a deviation.” [Multifamily Compl. ¶¶ 17-20, 261-86.] As a result, landlords using RealPage adopt RealPage’s recommendations 80-90% of the time. [Id. ¶ 15.] The complaints allege that RealPage was clear about the purpose of its common pricing scheme: to increase prices above competitive levels through collaboration.

Doesn't sound like the natural ebb and flow of the market to me.
My eyes are saucers.
I see lots of people are just parroting insurance PR of “repair costs are up”. I’d love to see the data and see if it justifies the hikes in insurance costs
I’d also love to see the average repair cost by part, broken down by whether it’s the insurance company paying or an average Joe privately
I remember visiting AMD in Austin for a XenSummit in pre-smartphone and pre-Uber days and staying at a hotel that advertised itself as "just around the corner from AMD". About half an hour before my meeting there I asked the hotel staff for walking directions, and they said "it is only about 3 miles on the highway". I didn't have a car and got stubborn, so I walked, which was one of the craziest experiences of my life, as it involved running across freeway ramps busy with morning traffic and navigating by the randomly cached state of Google Maps on my laptop.
Yeah, or charge every night, or look for when you're in a hurry to get out the door, etc. Or buy, for that matter.

Probably what I'd rather have is a phone that has a low power low function mode, that I can configure what apps are available, and then a regular mode where everything is available. But to get to it, I need to convince a LLM equivalent of Seinfeld's soup nazi why I need it.
for me, it was clear that it meant the existence of AI was making things worse. not an autonomous agent.
The point of insurance is to make you whole, not to make you better off.

If it did, you'd have more incentives for insurance fraud.

(Also it's the other guy's insurance that pays for it, and if the insurance industry disappeared overnight, and you had to sue for damages directly, no judge would award you more than the damages you sustained. (For an honest accident.))
I think it's probably going to be norm to have interpreted language toolkits will be written in compiled languages. This is will reduce competition quite a bit. Esbuild, ruff .. list will go on.
But that is the point of memory safe languages. You can shift priority to non-memory safety issues.
The founder has commanded it
Yeah this was good, which then made it even more sad when each part got cast aside as having been the wrong solution in some way. I'm sad to think of all the effort that went into the project from others. It seemed like a team came in to support him at one point, but then he dropped off YouTube in favour of live streaming (at inappropriate times for many), only to return later, without the team.
Shamelessly greedy auto insurers like Progressive and Travelers are raking in record profits and enjoying sky-high stock prices, with Travelers even surpassing a $100 billion market cap, yet they still have the audacity to gouge policyholders with double-digit rate hikes up to 45%. If payouts truly exceeded premiums during the pandemic as these corporate behemoths claimed, how can they now be pocketing their fattest profits ever after the extreme hikes? The simultaneous jackpot profits and outrageous increases in what people pay expose the insurers' justifications as bald-faced lies. The industry giants are clearly bamboozling regulators and customers simply to boost their already-soaring income and profits at regular folks' expense. Their profiteering tactic: fabricated reasons to hike rates exorbitantly no matter what the economic reality [1].

This needs to stop. We need change.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/finance/insurance-companies-profits-stoc...
Indeed, you always need two channels, one secure to a trusted computing base and one for the rest, whenever you might be dealing with potentially malicious programs or data. This is true if window systems/UI as well. I first saw this discussed in the EROS trusted window system, and you can see similar things in Qubes.

Conflating data and commands/ instructions has a long history of security problems in von Neuman architectures.
Well.. if you agree to do something illegal in secret then this is "collusion."

Price fixing is a defined crime. So if your agreement is to fix prices between competitors in secret then you are "colluding."

The extension here is that if your agreement is to use similar pricing information sources, property availability lists, or algorithmic components, that this is a form of price fixing, and is thus also illegal, and so you "colluded" by forming this agreement.

The FTC's position is that the agreement itself is illegal. They additionally suggest that even if some of the competitors sometimes "cheat" on the agreement, that doesn't prevent the formation of the agreement itself from being a crime.

This all seems pretty straight forward. They committed a crime. There was no reason to form an agreement. Had they not done that, there would be no case, and no obvious intent. As it is, their intent was clear, to break the law at the public's expense.

This, by the way, is why we have ANSI and IEEE and ITU and all kinds of other "open" standards groups. If you don't do it in secret then much legal burden is immediately lifted from you.
Yes - you pull in two third party libraries that need two incompatible versions of a mutual dependency. That library (the common dependency) is not backwards compatible due to deprecated functions or whatnot. That dependency could also be Python itself.

This is an incredibly common occurrence, especially with ML systems which are not designed by people with an engineering mindset.
>The other species are gone because we eliminated or out competed them.

And homo cyberneticus will do it to us.
While that might be your opinion, that is not the guidance of the FAQ If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates. . 4 posts is not a small number, one of those posts was already correctly auto-flagged by the system as a dupe.

This post got around that by using a syndicated alternative source which clearly states it's verbatim a Wired article, which is against the guidelines[1]: Please submit the original source

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
there's a wealth of data locked up in these old newspapers and it's kind of a shame it's only being valued by these genealogy corporations. They're not really the best stewards of the data.
Ahh, this is the missing context!

The collusion is the agreement to adhere to the pricing set by a central pricing authority, not basing your prices off shared information or recommendations. This makes a lot of sense now.

Edit: Well maybe it wasn't missing, but I missed it in any case. Cheers.
This one is flying under the radar. You can read the DoJ press release re the deferred prosecution agreement here:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-...

That headline 2.5 billion includes Boeing paying airlines for 737 downtime, which they would have had to do anyway, and the victims had no say in the deal, they say improperly.
It will use the max version, but that version will likely have deprecated things that the other dependency relies on in its chosen version. Specifying that you must use an old version of a library is how a lot of Python maintainers resolve deprecations in their dependencies.
so shall we deduct that reasoning capabilities are very bad for Mistral?
I don't understand why people give any credence to this data.

May 2023, for example, screams unfiltered bots:

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/android/m...
I wonder if the spike in prices of used cars have also affected this. If average "book value" of car has gone up, then the write off cost has also gone up substantially. So cars might be same, but their value is now substantially higher, while still being under the 50k.
When does Apple even make this claim that this should be is better / worse at the task? I get the idea of testing this for the purpose of testing this outcome but when I’m using safari or a movie this doesn’t come up as much but if you use pass through it is apparent. This is an intentional engineering choice and keeps on getting reposted…
I was wondering this as well. I guess it's really a game system, but it is running Linux (a Debian derivative, right?) on PC hardware. Of course one of the problems of Linux is that there's really no singular OS - I'd be curious to see the top 5/10 distros.
I mean, it does accomplish the goal of prioritizing the welfare of existing residents over the welfare of future residents and non-residents.

Most societies do that sort of thing on the regular, but people pushing back against rent control rarely want open borders and welfare for non-citizens.
> Dunno why you think more prosperity leads to more children when it's almost always the other way around

Because capitalism incorporates more and more of their lives in the production of economic value. That isn't the same thing as prosperity. If economic value isn't distributed to the working classes, there's more work without prosperity.

Look at South Korea, where people work hard in order to cover basic essentials like housing. Maybe according to the WEF or Economist that's "prosperity" and a "higher standard of living", but it's an obvious scam to anyone who isn't thoroughly brainwashed by capitalism
I wonder if silhouette/pattern disruption will become the norm (via reflective tape or adversarial attack), or if using physical means will always be playing catchup to model updates.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=A%20tech%20billionaire%20is%20...