skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> NIMBYs worry that the mere existence of nearby multifamily will decrease their home value. In rare and unsympathetic cases ... that may be true.

It's not rare. I've known multiple people, myself included, who have decided not to make an offer on a single family home because it neighbors a gross apartment building.

The vast majority of home buyers want single family homes. I don't know where HN obsession with vertical housing comes from, maybe because the majority are young and still live in apartments, but this isn't reflective of most home buyers

The only adults I know who will even consider purchasing a condo are single with no pets and no intention of having a family. Even among most childless couples, once they live in a single family home they would never go back.
Sounds like "Word Disassociation".

https://genius.com/Lemon-demon-word-disassociation-lyrics
I'm curious, do you consider Fly a "zero interest rate architecture abomination"? I guess multi-region, "edge" deployments are trendy, but I do think it's useful in some cases.
Yes. For limited situations it provides a simpler interface. Flox won't provide exactly the same feature set, but there are many situations where home-manager is too much.

You can consider the current `flox` environment to be similar to a declarative profile, conceptually positioned between home-manager and devShells.
This seems like confused causality. The ban bill was put forward and passed because TikTok asked their users to contact their representatives and share their opinion about the ban bill?
I’m with Vasco on this one. What’s wrong with enjoying your own company
So do you think the US should also be fine with foreign nations running bot farms spreading fake news / propaganda?
uh roommates?
I was hoping this would be about someone who was stuck in/addicted to Vi and wanted to use another editor.
Their comment is dead now [0] (which you can see if you enable showdead in your HN settings), but they are an antivaxxer, in my experience with these kinds of people, it's not really worth discussing anything of scientific importance with them.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39687674#39688646
I like the idea and have used other sites for similar, but you should really make it possible to view the prompt without having to copy paste into a text editor.
https://archive.is/YOkR0#selection-767.5-788.0
Please people stop posting that "study" or at least read it before you take any conclusions from it. Good god it's terrible science.

Like even if it's not obvious to you how using Instagram as a "reference" for hashtags is not a good baseline it still doesn't mean anything in terms of how the content is spread because how are you going to detect algorithmic boosting and suppression by counting user generated content? A million posts with #cheesetastesbad could get less actual views than ten posts with #pro-cheese. And this is before accounting for vastly different tagging culture between social networks and different users entirely.

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/the-truth-about-tiktok-has...

> Blunt comparisons of hashtags is severely flawed and misrepresentative of the activity on TikTok.

> It’s critical to understand that hashtags on the platform are created and added to videos by content creators, not TikTok. Millions of people in regions such as the Middle East and South East Asia account for a significant proportion of views on hashtags. Therefore, there’s more content with #freepalestine and #standwithpalestine and more overall views. It is easy to cherry pick hashtags to support a false narrative about the platform.

TikTok could be completely totally bold-faced evil and this study still wouldn't be good evidence of it.
Actually it might be the other way round. Chinese will not care if you critisize US govt in private messages, but US platform might actually report you to FBI.
I always think that fighting automated spam is a cat-and-mouse game, but I guess most spammers are still remaining unsophisticated and will still get defeated by simply using CSS to hide the a honeypot form field. Wow.

Is it just because CSS/JS consume too much CPU and they want their spamming to run as fast as possible and don't care if they get a bunch of false negatives?
The big upside here is memory: you get 64G, which means you can easily run 70B models at 4bits. You'd need 3x4090s for that. And because of how most inference engines work today, the performance of such setup will actually be slightly lower than 1x4090. You should be really comparing this to A6000, which has similar performance to 3090/4090 (depending on the gen) but with 48GB memory — A6000 is way more expensive.

In terms of numbers, jetson agx orin is closer to 3090:

- jetson agx orin 64gb has 275 TOPS

- 3090 has 285 TOPS

- 4090 has 1321 TOPS

Another big advantage is power: jetson is getting these 275 tops at 60W, vs. 350W for 3090.
Might want to read about cPTSD (I recommend the book with the same name by Pete Walker as an introduction) or childhood emotional neglect. It looks similar to ADHD and/or ASD but has very different causes and is highly treatable. I was diagnosed as both, but it wasn’t until I really started digging into my emotions and past that I started making progress.

To your parents, I would say even procrastination isn’t intentional it’s the symptom, not the cause.
I can tell you that the world I operate in will want something like what you are proposing (fixed rate + OnPrem) and the pricing is going to have a ceiling because building this in-house is a real and viable alternative. Our problem is not so much lack of talent but other product-roadmap priorities. What is the ceiling? I do not know, but can hazard a guess. 1/4th of the yearly cost of a good developer.
Because TikTok can be used as a weapon by China. Democracies have a weakness - enemies can influence the population and therefore the government. Russia does this quite effectively in my opinion (one example is Slovakia).
It's not even just how they promote/mute political topics. Watch Tik Tok videos in China and it's all young people helping the elderly, learning job skills, and doing other socially virtuous things. Watch Tik Tok videos outside of China and it's all videos of kids stealing cars, eating Tide pods, and pranking people in Home Depot.
"Did you try turning your computer off and then back on again?"
It's an information distribution platform with direct ties to the Chinese government lol.
ZZ and then afterwards `top` just to make sure you really quit
Here are the federal sentencing guidelines for murder:

https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2023-guidelines-manual/annot...

First degree murder is a base offense level 43. Here is the sentencing table:

https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2023-guidelines-manual/annot...

You can see way at the bottom of the table that offense level 43 is life in prison even with no criminal history.

Even second degree murder is a base offense level 38, which is 19.5-24.4 years with no criminal history, or up to 30 years to life with criminal history.
Nice. I have something similar at https://analyzer.transfix.ai which is a searchable index of many of the images + prompts that have been featured as part of the Midjourney community showcase.

Very under-documented at the moment, but it's been pretty neat explore what the community comes up with, learning prompting techniques and spotting trends (eg, a surge of Christmas images around October), for isolating the effects of specific parameters, and other narrow latent space exploration.

I was also thinking of opening it up for teams to collate their stuff into a single searchable data set (eg, all my prompts are at https://analyzer.transfix.ai/?db=josh ) but have moved away from doing anything with Midjourney because they are pretty hostile to anyone playing outside their sandbox.
That isn't very easy to realize though, not too long ago game designers thought that multiplayer was mostly about having other players as fun challenges to overcome. But people like having other people even if they never really interact, just having others there that you can show what you did to and talk about stuff is fun.

But point is, that realization isn't that simple, it took a long time for cooperative games to become common. In early days game consoles had cooperative split screen to let two players play at the same time, not because that was more fun, so it took a really long time for cooperative modes to become standard in online gaming because it wasn't at all obvious that people liked cooperative play.

MMORPGs were the main cooperative online games for a long time. Today we have dedicated short session cooperative games, those are still very popular.
I have found a new "how-to-quit-it" challenge for myself in the past weeks.

I use minicom to communicate with some devices via serial-over-USB - I also tend to suspend my machine while there is still an active connection. When I unsuspend my machine, often my serial connection changes address - and minicom complains that it can't communicate anymore. And here comes the challenge: `ctrl-a q` supposed to quit, but not in this state - it stays unresponsive to all combos I try. I literally smash all keys on my keyboard, and then `ctrl-a q` start working again for some reason.

Maybe `ctrl-smash-everything-78-times` is an easter egg... oh well, I guess I will figure it out one day.
What's the homeless person that can't afford it going to do with it?
If you were to add up all transistors fabricated worldwide, up until <year>, such that total roughly matches the # on this beast, what year would you arrive? Hell, throw in discrete transistors if you want.

How many early supercomputers / workstations etc would that include? How much progress did humanity make using all those early machines (or any transistorized device!) combined?
I would focus on nutrition and exercise:

- hire a chef or use meal service. I know of a few companies locally which deliver premade chicken, beef, etc in all different styles. This beats takeout!

- hire a personal trainer at a gym. You probably don't need to be too picky, just get started doing something! As you get more experience you can adjust.

Good luck!
A) china doesn't let American companies operate freely in China.

B) The united states doesn't _do_ state owned media in the United States. Even PBS and NPR are independent.
Western countries are too dependent of the US and it is politically easier to ban China. As a result, the best approach would be set equal restrictions for data collection and privacy, including clear rules how algorithms can behave (or maybe drop them totally), to combat promoting specific content or censoring specific content.
I actually used this exact method in the early 2000s to make "coloring books" for local businesses using their own photographs. They would give them out and use them for marketing.
> A major issue with housing is that it is a primary driver of wealth for many Americans.

This was a very unfortunate trap that many western governments fell into in the latter part of 20th century. It's not really about wealth per se. but forced saving for retirement (i.e. reducing government responsibility for elder care).
This framing is all backwards. Americans go to TikTok for content of their own free will. This law effectively prevents Americans from using an information service they prefer.

Unless, of course, you want to admit that social media applications, through some combination of peer pressure, advertising, propaganda, manipulation, and deception subvert the free will of some portion of their users. In which case naturally they ought to be regulated in order to protect your citizens. Except... then the regulation drafted reads as "only American companies are allowed to subvert the free will of Americans", which comes off as pretty sinister.
Haven't seen it, but they list the CVEs here, https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/cisa-us-and-internatio...
As it should be. I miss Windows 95 for stuff like this
The problem with your example, and the problem in real life, is that people are making decisions at too low of a level and property rights (never mind the needs of society) are being overridden. They end up voting on how something directly affects them, and place little to no consideration for the rights of others. They push the problem onto someone else, on people who have less of a voice in the democracy.

You're right about there being no simple solution. Even voting on higher level issues (like providing affordable housing) is perilous. Deciding upon something without specifics just opens up the floodgates for abuse. I've seen housing built on land unsuitable for construction. I've lived in a couple of neighbourhoods that narrowly escaped being razed for highways (to the point where parts were razed and some infrastructure was built).

Even long term urban planning, something specific enough for voting on and distant enough to avoid being personal, has proven to be less than successful.
Solving cyclic graphs without supervision
This is my current attempt to solve recursion in graphs without external supervision. It may seem bland to some, but it took me 8 years to come up with this solution.

Webpage: https://krei.se

I am currently trying this design to make a virtual body learn how to walk. Comments welcome!
yes every person’s feed is entirely different based on watch history.

that’s not what i’m talking about.

start a completely new profile and see what is recommended.
Inspired by OCaml, written previously in OCaml, currently written in F#.
My interest was definitely inspired by my time with F#.
>> Many mature channels have a group of regulars that have been part of the channel for years or decades. Many channels are a bit of a social club. Some channels have regulars that are insufferable.

> Please share some examples.

Not the commenter you asked but the author of the original post here. I don't know about insufferable regulars but some channels like #emacs, #commonlisp, #esolang, etc. on irc.libera.chat do feel like social clubs but in a good sense. The same set of regulars can be seen everyday and people recognise each other by their nicknames. Further, I have found these channels to be very welcoming and kind to new members. Sorry I do not have examples of more "mainstream" channels that are also like social clubs and welcoming to new members. As an Emacser and Lisper myself, these are the channels I come across. But I am sure that "mainstream" channels which are social clubs and nice to new people do exist. Perhaps someone else can share some examples on this thread.

Now about regulars, many mainstream channels like #python, #rust, ##math, etc. have more or less the same set of regular and active members who answer on-topic/technical questions frequently. They don't exactly feel like "social clubs" to me. On the other hand they feel like small, tightly-knit, Q&A forums to me.
The US constitution is for the people in the US. Chinese companies don't apply. If you want to grant freedom of speech protection under the US constitution for TikTok, then TikTok must be owned by US people.
So, I feel like we already have a mechanism as a country for working with a different country who is producing something that might be harmful to American business or politics, one that doesn't functionally impact our free speech principles. A tariff.

Just tax TikTok. Make Americans pay money to subscribe to it. Apply the same principle to any other social media entity based in another country. It's that easy.
I am not sure why the advice starts with "ctrl+q". In insert mode, "ctrl+q" followed by "ctrl+c" will cause the literal ctrl+c character to be inserted, and ":q!" after that won't have the desired effect. Similarly for search mode.

A better suggestion is probably to just hit Esc repeatedly to try to get back to normal mode, and exit via ZZ (save) or ZQ (don't save).
This is extremely concerning that perception of current affairs is fed to people using social media.
This one looks really good, I will give it a try later. Thanks for linking it!
> If TikTok is a national sovereignty issue for the US, should a lot of other countries similarly be banning US tech companies?

Not only should they, but they do.
A 'Perfect Monolith' Appears in Wales
The only universal truth is that no thruths are universal. And I think “suffering builds character” in this and its other forms is a perfect example. Yes, extreme suffering will cause long term problems. And yet at the same time, we’re all probably familiar with or know someone who experienced “the gifted student wall” where their natural talent was good enough to carry them to success, right up until the point it wasn’t and they suffered a major setback because they’d never built up the skills or resiliency to overcome that obstacle.

Like you said there is probably some sweet spot that we should try to hit. I suppose the hard part is there’s no good way to know how much suffering society should allow or encourage, and probably more importantly no good mechanism by which we can turn off suffering once you’ve “had enough”
I'm not much of a processor guy, so besides removing cruft, what does X86S do to set up Intel for competing with the likes of ARM in the future?
As a European that has been dealing with what US social media companies have been doing, I am enjoying how the US is loosing their absolute mind when an external company does the same they do to us.
Instead of feeling superior in a drive-by snark, explain to me why gaming for 3 hours after work while voice chatting with 3 friends is not a waste of time but if you do it on your own it is?
Or just run gogs.
Dawg, we both know the moment there is any share holder value to be found in the tech, the TOS changes real quick. Look at Open AI.
> This is actually an extremely serious national security issue.

Can anyone pleaese inform me as to how this is actually a national security issue?

Americans voluntarily install and consume TikTok content. The government can prohibit this software from government-owned devices, just like any employer could, but to disallow it from the public is bonkers.

If the app gets removed from app stores, what will prevent people from side-loading it to circumvent the ban? What happens to me personally if I set up a proxy so you can send and receive info from TikTok through my servers for some small monthly price? I can even publish an app.
But aren't they? If I'm not mistaken, in China TikTok tends to shows educational content to kids. Meanwhile, in the west we get girls in bikinis dancing to the latest horrible pop song, and/or political narratives that align with whatever the chinese governments wants or at least does not disapprove of. It's a fact, even down here in Brazil which is definitely not a world power you can see how the algo is biased.
Firemen are residents too. If a horrible fire happens in downtown and no residents die but two firefighters die and one ends up with permanent lung damage, and the city claims everyone is fine? You’re gonna have trouble.

I was implying in the top level that treating volunteers and emergency workers as non entities is going to cause long term damage to public safety. And I’m willing to double down on that.
This thing + Vtuber thing + chat bot that interacts with audience + text to speech == gaming influencer automation
Don't try to reduce a complex issue to a thought stopping cliche.

(I should obviously take my own advice and add something more substantial to this comment, but the idea that are multiple sides in an war, with different goals, tactics, and with different stakes, is so trivial and self-evident that I'm feeling very silly commenting on it)
>reality - most people in the US disagree with genocide

I'd like to see some sources for a majority of Americans even agreeing that it's a genocide in the first place.
>If they don't like it, they can move.

Can't you say the same for people trying to move in? There's plenty of places in the US that you can still get a house for under 200k.
I have some old wire photos in a particular set of movie memorabilia I've been constructing from press kits, pamphlets, film cells, foreign posters, slides, lobby cards, et al.
Cool. I am working on something similar for myself. Good luck!
US intelligence greatly benefits from the US tech companies, because they are required by law to provide the information if asked, and they can't even tell about this in certain situations.

As a result, it is more beneficial to ban specific applications and allow US companies collect as much data as possible.

Rules for thee but not for me.
> Facebook et al aren't banned, they just need to follow the law to be allowed

Yes, and by that logic, TikTok isn't banned, but rather foreign ownership of said app is.

Just "follow the law" and sell the rights.
> America is not a country where people want to live in an apartment long term if they have the resources to buy a proper home.

You are projecting your personal preferences on the American population. Some of the highest occupancy apartment buildings in my area are full of people who can afford to buy a house anywhere they want to yet clearly choose otherwise. Apartment living has significant advantages that don't disappear just because you ignore them. It is an explicit preference of several people I know.
Lawyers famously don't care about productivity because they are paid by the hour.
Children of Time is my favorite sci fi novel. The sequel isn't bad either, the 3rd one gets a little weird, but i thought the argument about "sentience" != "intelligence" was an interesting one. This is a prevailing theme in Blindsight by Peter Watts too, but I felt the technobabble really took away from the theme and distracted from story.
I suppose there are certain locations (Bay Area, for one) where the property values are high enough to include 5x the cost for framing and still net a nice profit, but a ‘typical’ developer maximizing their margins will almost inevitably stick build a 5-over-1 due to cost savings.
> Then China was right to ban Google, Facebook, and Reddit?

From a strictly pragmatic, real-politik point of view, yes.

From my personal point of view, it would be preferable if the US and China were on friendlier terms and were not military and economic adversaries, so that this wasn't a concern.

The US isn't going to care if a French or German or UK company owned a social media company here.
That whitepaper compares the counts of posts in a set of (arbitrarily chosen) hashtags to Instagram. All it proves is that the ratio of posts between these hashtags is different between TikTok and Instagram.

Their findings are unrelated to whether content is promoted or muted, they only look at post count. They don't even determine that it isn't Instagram that is biased (as they only compare the ratios), and these differences can pretty easily be attributed to different userbases.

They never explain how they chose hashtags that are compared, which could potentially be biased.

This isn't to say that TikTok isn't doing these things. This PDF just doesn't prove anything, and its claims are overstated.

See the discussion from this whitepaper was posted to HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38754653
"drive out current inhabitants" by offering one of them an entirely voluntary and mutually beneficial deal?

Or do you mean that existing owner should be required to get their neighbors' consent to do what they want with their own property?

Anyone selling their home would, all other things being equal, prefer to sell their home to an neighbor with which they have a relationship then to a random person. The neighbors should make an offer if they really care.
> And once validated, sell to the military?

Can't wait to see the leaked footage of war crimes showing robots murdering civilians and teabagging their corpses
> If they don't like it, they can move.

Why doesn't the same logic apply to people who don't like the high prices of housing in some areas? There's plenty of affordable housing in the country, but it doesn't all exist in the places people want to live.