skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just went to Panda Express for lunch--yeah yeah, it's not fancy at all, but it's a step above McDonald's--and someone begged me for food.

Cue a bunch of online warriors on their high horses implying I'm a bad person for not prioritizing their need over my negative experience.

I'm still going to second-guess going out to eat a little bit, though. I want to create my own beautiful bubble, and that might be home.

Everyone on Earth should curate their own bubble--should live the life they want. This is not at all contradictory with efficient aid to help the unfortunate.
It’s a fairly intuitive thing to understand, the suburbs require significantly more infrastructure per capita. More roads, power lines, sewer/water lines, etc.

Just look at something as simple as trash pickup. In the burbs you have to travel a significantly greater distance per household.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39607630
Something like half a billion years of pretraining if you start counting from the first brain.
The funny thing is there's not really that much propaganda on TikTok, much less pro-CCP. Sure there's the potential, but it's really not even much of a thing IRL.
We need to stimulate demand for growing forests!
It's not censorship if it's controlled by personal preference. If I ignore a certain subreddit and subsequently don't see it on /r/popular anymore, that isn't censorship. Isn't this here the same?
> We can just ignore factors if they don't explain everything?

No, we just can't rely on them to explain everything! As you purport.

Only 33% of the homeless suffer from mental illness, and it certainly is not a strong predictor as to why rates are high in some cities but not others. That's the data.

> Affordability is a moot point for people in these categories

It matters to everyone, but even if we pretend it doesn't, that's 67% percent of the homeless.
Meta sues "brazenly disloyal" former exec over stolen confidential docs
Societies of Perpetual Movement
I was thinking the same, like the Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) Airlander 10.
Political journals of opinion, such as The Nation on the left and National Review on the right, are read primarily by people of the same political persuasion and ignored by others. The same thing will happen to scientific journals that take predictable political stances.
Hexapodia as the key insight

-- Twirlip of the Mists
Google's Gemini AI now refuses to answer election questions
That isn't super hard to code, many of the large studios has such tools already. The main thing this could test that other things couldn't is the UX, that the UI actually is easy enough to understand for the AI to be able to navigate it etc.

So if I could get reports like "+10% failed to understand how to chop their first tree" that would be good.
> Most of them do have other problems preventing them from getting any job, like severe mental health, substance abuse, or criminal records.

I just showed you elsewhere that this is wrong.
EU votes to ban riskiest forms of AI and impose restrictions on others
There's also a completed mass timber building on UW campus, on a grass field adjacent to the cherry groves that will be in bloom March 20th.
wow. It's probably a mistake to try to build your own engine. They are so complex and building on top of decades of engineering seems to be the right move. Tesla was barely able to do it and building an electric drivetrain is a lot simpler than a supersonic capable jet engine...
This is on "1536-dimensional vectors", which here means a single vector with 1536 elements, which is really small. In numpy, the way you get performance is to work with much larger blocks, so the Python's overhead is spread across much larger number of elements.

In other words, a loop like this is a huge red flag in any sort of numpy code that is supposed to be performant [0]:

"""Wrap a function to apply it row-wise to rows of two matrices."""

def wrapped(A, B):
for i in range(A.shape[0]):
baseline_func(A[i], B[i])

return wrapped

[0] https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD/blob/3e51bacb1b74a7e...
You still have freedom to read. You will still be able to access TikTok if they choose not to sell. This is not a firewall block on TikTok, it is a business restriction on operating within the US. It simply bars US companies from hosting TikTok services or distributing the TikTok app.
Third book is a bit weird, but I enjoyed the second book more than the first one. I don't want to spoil the book for anyone but new intelligent species were shocking and more interesting than spiders. Now I have have to check what Tchaikovsky will publish this year.
That's such a strange thing to say; no-one is suggesting that radiation gets a presumption of innocence. As far as I understand it, there's no generally agreed viewpoint on the expected effect size for exposure to low levels of radiation. In this case, there was discovered to be no statistically meaningful effect. This is now something that new that we know.
If they are using Eleven Labs, this is just the Stability setting. Turning it down will make it more realistic and closer to the training data. That is what causes the pauses and imperfections.

You can sign up and use their Voice Lab for free or maybe a few bucks and experiment with the slider for Stability and the other setting.

In my opinion, turning Stability down just a little bit to demo extremely realistic speech is a no-brainer. They could have turned it up and made it ultra-smooth, but that makes no sense. Why make your robot demo less realistic deliberately?
Subsidies are about relative costs. Tax collection is an interesting thing to look at in addition, but ultimately if we are to determine whether the suburbs are subsidized, it would require analyzing cost to deliver city services per capita.
Yes most pay-walled articles aren't unique. I searched for "Radia Windrunner" and got a bunch of stories.
Because GitHub is non-FOSS or owned by Microsoft or something? I use GitHub, and I don't really have any complaints...
Seeding steel frames brings destroyed coral reefs back to life
> RK3588-based SBC

Anyone know which SBCs use this chip?
That's Gemma-7Bx8

He goes on about the journey, the future, the collaboration that happens somewhere. Nothing about the current result, like is it any good or unexpectedly great at anything?

I suppose it was more of an exercise in readying the tools to make it possible and cheap to fine tune and it is now left up to the community to tune and push the benchmarks. I also wonder if it could benefit from today's latest paper drop (from meta) on dirt cheap MoE creation. https://huggingface.co/papers/2403.07816
Thank you for the update. I'll be watching this.
I think a lot of this psych science is bullshit - I’m generally skeptical of it given the problems in the replication crisis (and that a lot of modern psychotherapy seems to be making things worse for kids).
OpenAI Made AI Videos for Us. These Clips Are Good Enough to Freak Us Out.
My favorite was the chin diaper. Particularly because the state I live in (idaho) never really had strict masking requirements so it really never made any sense.
https://archive.ph/D1pdw
They are evolutionary selected against rationalizing.

Meme infections burning themselves out.
This is because the kids are pro-Palestine [1], and because of that, so is content on Tiktok. The massive killing and destruction of Gaza is visible and the kids don't like it.

And so, AIPAC is pissed that everyone can see the apartheid and the bombs dropping on families in Gaza. The US would rather control the media (like they did in the invasion of Iraq, and like they have now which led to the scandal in the nytimes).

[1] https://www.vox.com/culture/23997305/tiktok-palestine-israel...
You don't sit on the train for an hour. In properly designed large cities the metro beats the car by a huge time margin unless they made cars so expensive by policy that nobody has a car and there is no traffic at that city as a result.

Americans often think the shitty experience they have in their country applies universally. Ex: The bus & light rail is bad and slow, so therefore it will always be bad everywhere. Americans haven't lived or even travelled to places in europe and asia with functional transit systems and do not realize what they are missing.

Another common american assumption is: apartments are only for the poor, so they will always be made shitty with bad soundproofing when you can make them with good soundproofing as a standard and a good amount of square feet. Or metros are always dirty, dangerous and the gross homeless live there, while that is also a pure policy choice of america.

I grew up in north america, lived in places with good metros and good apartments, and then moved to America. America doesn't know how bad they have it.
One reason why I wonder if communications with extraterrestrials will ever be as simple as we hope.

We struggle to communicate with our own species and other creatures that are related to us.
Great point - flying a bomber plane over a country is protected speech.
There will be that one user who makes a gazillion queries just because they are unlimited.

Or the second tier should still be capped. But that looks wrong feo marketing point of view.
Markdown is usually used by developers. Almost all IDEs now have support for it. I wonder why one needs a separate MD editor.
When you own something that means you have the right to do pretty much whatever you want with it. That is the fundamental social contract with private property. If I want to buy a bunch of diamonds and smash them with a hammer then I can do that, regardless of whether you think it's a good idea.

Businesses fail for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes they get too aggressive with the capital structure and blow up. This is a feature, not a bug. While the experience may be painful for some stakeholders in the short term, over the long term this creative destruction unlocks latent value and increases economic growth.

And if old shareholders want to prevent new shareholders from having the ability to destroy the company then that's easily accomplished. Just establish separate share classes with different voting rights. Many companies already do this.
I agree, I've lived in such apartments and hated them. However, you will notice that such buildings are usually 50+ years old and barely maintained. The reason for this is the cost to create new ones is absurdly high due to planning restrictions at the city level. Any attempts to make modern and more livable structures are thwarted by local opposition.

Also, the lack of competition in the MFD housing market means that landlords can barely maintain them and people will not have other options. This is why it often costs $2k+/month to live in apartments that look like they may collapse at any moment.

However, if you can afford to live in a single family house I would say "Wonderful! Please do!"
How does devenv help with using an specific version of a package in an easier way than nix (with flakes)?
Does it have any kind of simpler syntax for overlays? Or you are referring to pinning a nixpkgs version?

I'm not really against tools that make it easier to use nix, I think devenv is a nice tool and I like that it doesn't hide nix, the same way I love home-manager and use it all the time.
Ask HN: Can digital sticky notes outdo paper ones in the Apple Vision Pro Era?
I came across a thought-provoking question on Quora: 'What is the modern-day equivalent of the sticky note?' This sparked my curiosity about the potential for digital sticky notes to supplant their physical counterparts, especially with advancements in technology like the Apple Vision Pro. What are your thoughts on this?
Not all of them. They can't drink, be a senator, or (in some states) rent a car.
Yes but it says nothing about cpu/ram and/or memory/storage/io optimized hardware, cost per hour, or anything like that. Does it scale to zero? Does it autoscale? Will it throttle with spikes in load?
You can engine brake with a lot of automatic vehicles as well, since they’ll still have semi-automatic modes. I drive a car with a CVT and I’m able to “down-shift” for engine braking by using fake gears at specific ratios.
OK, will do, but of course it's too late to edit this one now.
"Except we know it's a building issue. Housing starts are lower than they were in 2000 despite adding 50 million in population."

Check the timeline and distribution though. Housing starts dropped in 2008. Measure the population from that point. From 2008 on, you're looking at .5% population growth and it's dropping. Housing starts are still reasonable at about .5M-1M units.

The problem is distribution. Population growth in certain cities has outpaced building in those cities. However, there are other cities where the inverse is true.

"Vacancy is good - higher vacancy is related to lower prices. Vacancy rates are the lowest they've been in decades."

Vacancy is only going to lead to lower prices if those vacant units are on the market. That's not necessarily the case with the corporate owners.
How is "developing an algorithm" which selects content any different than editorial free speech? It selects content to show, and transmits that content to its users. Newspapers do this all the time, they pick the stories which get run.

Honestly curious of your take. The only difference that I see is that it can be done at scale, which doesn't necessarily mean it isn't free speech. They just have a bigger megaphone.
Evidently it's the same project, but your link was the "research & publish" phase of the project, while this announcements seems to be the "commercial" phase.

The same list of people who wrote the blog post(s) on your research/publish link are listed as co-founders[1] on the commercial site.

[1] https://www.dbos.dev/about
Alfred: AI driven CRM trained in seconds using Google Docs
'Jamming': How Electronic Warfare Is Reshaping Ukraine's Battlefields
The "foundation for technology like SIMA from Google" is more likely all of the other RL + games work that Deepmind did before and after that DOTA project.
Back End Development Simplified: Essential Tips for Beginners
SpaceX already is cheaper than NASA
But Tiktok "is". At least Tiktok USA is registered in the US as a US corporation and therefore gets the same protections under US laws. Therefore constitutional protections apply.

You could say the owners of Tiktok don't necessarily get the same protections, but that's a different case. And in this case it is more similar to the Chinese Exclusion Act, but for business purposes rather than immigrational purposes, basically stating that Chinese people aren't allowed to own businesses that operate in the US, and must divest.
Long live the Butlerian Jihad!
Logical Tensor Indexing for SPMD Programming
Cory Doctorow just wrote about this in December, when WB was removing content from the PlayStation Store: https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-jame...
I think you mean an empty unit tax.
a) What major population center does not have distorted (high) housing costs relative to income?

b) Does the answer to a) have slums?
I don't quite think it's that impressive. AIs in video games are specifically "nerfed" simply due to the fact they can make decisions much, much faster than humans. Open AI didn't do anything special in this case.

See @deep blue for more. Or, any strategy game made in the last 20 years with AI difficulty mods.
I'd be with you if there were any indication why TikTok specifically would be banned while other Chinese social media entities or those from other countries that might be deemed national security threats are not - apart from sheer popularity, which would likely be resolved by said tariff.

The US did not merely ban Huawei, it was part of a broader national security concern, where ZTE was also banned as part of the equation, and conceivably other major Chinese telecommunications firms with a strong enough foothold in the US would have been (or will be in the future) as well. Not to mention, use of TikTok is entirely an individual choice, a telephone network user does not choose (or have knowledge of) the origin of the devices their communications are transmitted through.
What's being censored here? The bill doesn't ban any speech at all - you can put any video tik tok allows on dozens of other video sharing platforms. This is a ban on certain foreign countries (er.. i mean "companies") doing some types of business in the US.
If the bug only exists in old versions that sounds like a great case for marking it "fixed"! (Or possibly a cousin like "moot because this subsystem was deleted".)
Well, this proves the forgejo fork was justified, now we have an open core version under the same brand as the main project.
I can't imagine who would genuinely ask this- and it's suspiciously plastered in every single thread on this topic. Think hard! In which way is Europe and the US's relationship different than China and the US's relationship?
The US government is accusing the CCP of using TikTok to manipulate democracy.

TikTok responded by attempting to manipulate democracy.

They did they very thing the government trying to ban them is scared of. Doesn't seem like a smart move to me, I guess we'll see how it plays outs
I believe it to be true and I'd like broad, heavy restriction of algorithmically targeted content but that would go against the interests of massive companies. Not gonna happen. I'll take the win in this instance though, where national security concerns and congress' desire to look like it's doing something align to make a small positive change.
Sheesh. Here I was thinking that Boeing's failures were "just" that they prioritize profits over good engineering practices and safety. But between the whistleblower's death and now this, things are looking more nefarious than I would have suspected.
Which we humans do all the time. Okay, like, so, hear me out, alright? See, what’s really going on, yeah, is…
Fair enough, thanks for the tit-for-that :). I keep emailing Biden telling him to nationalize the company and put me in charge, but so far no luck…
Do companies seriously expect loyalty from employees in 2024? This isn't the 1950s... if they want loyalty, get a dog (which, ironically, is how most companies treat their employees these days).
Yes, we've all had or heard horror stories of managers like you who flip out over open and closed ticket metrics. That doesn't make it good practice.
I'm sure their great people and they're entitled to their opinion, but this language looks like it wants full control of your entire tech stack. And if they one day decided to do some political activism and run malicious code that targets you or delete their codebase, you would be 100% at their mercy. It wouldn't be the first time it happened either, like with the npm libraries left-pad, faker.js, and node-ipc.
> You don't sit on the train for an hour. In properly designed large cities the metro beats the car by a huge time margin unless they made cars so expensive by policy that nobody has a car and there is no traffic at that city as a result.

You should meet some of my old coworkers in large cities in Asia... (you don't SIT on the train at all in rush hour!)

In a smaller city it can work great! But in a small NA city, everything is a 5-to-10-minute drive from everything and everyone's also happy about that. That's easy mode. But London, NY, Paris, Beijing, etc - those are the cases that are somewhat broken everywhere, affordability-wise and commute-wise.
Auto Caller
Are there any tools that anyone can recommend for auto calling and speaking with outreach customers? Looking for an ai that can handle this
The biggest hand calculation in a century (π Day 2024) [video]
I think you’ll find if you read what I wrote again that I didn’t say he had anything to do with it.

(I had in fact forgotten he made movies, not just consumed them voraciously)
That's what the article hints at. The chair was taken before the set refresh for Generations. There are, apparently, quite a lot of visual changes over the seasons:

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/enterpris...

But given that that second chair barely had time to absorb Picard's essence before they sailed that part of the ship into a planet, I would guess that its value is a fraction of that of the original one.
It's getting better now, but the OP could live in Seattle: [0]. Anywhere white on that map it was illegal through 2019 to build anything but a single-family home. Just an appalling waste of land.

[0]: https://i0.wp.com/publicola.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/S...
Most CS in practice is really software engineering
Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired
This is pure racism.
Alt+Tab (or at least Cmd+Tab) works very predictably though, doesn't it? Most-recently-used order.

My work habits generally involve switching back and forth between two applications. Sometimes three.

Cmd+Tab switching works well for that. More convenient than, e.g., Cmd+3 then Cmd+7 etc.

I also appreciate Firefox's Ctrl+Tab for tab switching, which works the same way.
Distributed Coroutines: a new primitive soon in every developer's toolkit
Can you elaborate on that filtering? I agree with you that the App Store is full of chaff, but I don't understand why there'd be a causal relationship between a highly centralized App Store and sleazy apps.
It wasn't quite as bad as the Postmodernism Generator[1], but yeah...

[1]: https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ (refresh to get a new article)
It's not a win for you then. It is a win for the 100 people who can move into that apartment building.

Are you really that important?
This was my initial reaction as well, but in these work environments record keeping is USUALLY extensive by design: parts, tools, even minor acts like tightening a screw or bolt is logged.

The fact that they can't reproduce _ANY_ records of this work, including who would've done the work, is suspicious.

Any HN'ers here have experience in these types of environments to either validate / refute?
In that case I downgrade my assessment of this threat from "minor IT threat" to "nonsensical word salad". The idea that the CCP has a network of Manchurian Candidates waiting to do their bidding is ridiculous.
That paper shows much more reasonable results: numpy was either similar performance to hand-code C (when the right operation was chosen), or about 3x slower when it was not. Nothing as crazy as the blog post describes.

Shows you really have to know how to use tools properly to get the performance you want.
US Health Regulators Open Probe in UnitedHealth Cyberattack
https://archive.today/gBgKW

> The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights opened the probe into the company’s compliance with health-privacy rules, according to a letter from the agency posted on its website on Wednesday.

> “Given the unprecedented magnitude of this cyberattack, and in the best interest of patients and health care providers, OCR is initiating an investigation into this incident,” the agency said.

Letter: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cyberattack-change-h...
The more powerful version search that Flox (and other dev env solutions built on Nix) have compared to the regular Nix search is super useful.

Glad that all these different companies are exploring more ways to use Nix and hopefully improvements can be shared throughout the ecosystem.
I'm... truly not sure that Rust offers a compelling alternative for most C# developers.

If you come from C/C++, the memory safety and (limited) concurrency quality-of-life improvements may be worth it.

But compared to (already memory-safe-unless-overridden) C#, the relative poverty of the Rust standard library and the exponential complexity-cum-compile-times are going to be a hard sell outside of environments that truly cannot live with the constraints of garbage collection (which since .NET going open source have been relaxed a lot already).
> If commercial real estate charged XX% cuts of all sales from a business, every business would crumble with enough time

FWIW, at least in the US, this is actually how a lot of commercial/retail real estate works. Every mall or shopping center you visit charges rent based on sales revenue.