skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure the market will figure out which car washes live. But what about the ones that don't and the people who subsequently lose their jobs

There's a lot going on in your statement to dig through.

The article specifically says these car washes barely add jobs.. but let's ignore that.

When a business opens and starts to hire people, there is no guarantee it will exist long term. When a person applies for a job, they need to do some due diligence researching the business to see if it sounds like something that will be around as long as they want to have a job.

Are you proposing we shouldn't allow "risky" business to start and hire people because there is no certainty they will be around in 1-5 years? Of course that doesn't make any sense.

If a business fails, people will lose their jobs, but that is not a reason to prevent business from starting. In fact, if we did prevent them, those jobs would have never existed!
Early digital lines were purely circuit switched and didn’t add any jitter (unlike modern VoIP based “lines”), so there shouldn’t have been any problems running analog or digital fax over these.

V.34 was mostly a speed improvement, as far as I remember, no?
Twitter tweet data in itself is both highly idiosyncratic and short by design, which alone is not conductive towards training a LLM.
It’s just … given something like 30k warheads (I know not same as rockets) but taking 2 or 3 for testing (and notably, taking, checking, scrubbing down, repairing … improving?) and then saying that represents the whole fleet, and leaving in the field for years between expensive retrofitting cycles on decade timescales

I mean maybe the USA was a on it’s A game for fifty plus years … us in the UK well …

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68355395
I wonder which is more wasteful: parking decks for dealerships or washing hundreds of cars every month.
You shouldn't need escapes for separator characters precisely because they are not designed for data. Their entire purpose is to separate hierarchical data.

If it turns out that escaping is needed, it will still be far rarer than escaping commas and newlines.
Medical experiments carried out on conscientious objectors during WWII
In general? Mostly ignorance. From cephalopods? I guess it's the seals
The Radcliffe wave is oscillating through the plane of the galaxy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radcliffe_wave

And a recent paper on its oscillation - https://www.sci.news/astronomy/oscillating-radcliffe-wave-12...
Tech industry saw 46,000 layoffs in the first two months of 2024
With vacations so expensive we bring the kids to car washes as rides, they love it!
I couldn't imagine ever paying a subscription to a car wash! I barely even pay for Spotify, how often do you go? And how often would you go if you weren't paying a subscription?
Idaho needs doctors: But many don't want to come
I would suggest not using wikipedia as a source especially one full of insufficient arguments as that one.

> Only two accepted facts of a historical Jesus
Main article: Historical Jesus
Part of the ancient Madaba Map showing two possible baptism locations
Bronzino's depiction of the Crucifixion with three nails, no ropes, and a hypopodium standing support, c. 1545

> There is no scholarly consensus concerning most elements of Jesus's life as described in the Christian and non-Christian sources, and the only two events of this historical Jesus subject to "almost universal assent" are that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and was crucified by order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate (who officiated 26–36 AD).[14][4][5][6][7][note 5]
The criterion of embarrassment has been used to argue for the historicity of the baptism of Jesus, shown here in The Baptism of Christ by Juan Fernández Navarrete.

> Based on the criterion of embarrassment, scholars argue that the early Christian Church would not have invented the painful death of their leader.[15] The criterion of embarrassment is also used to argue in favor of the historicity of the baptism of Jesus,[16][17][18] given that John baptised for the remission of sins, although Jesus was viewed as without sin and this positioned John above Jesus

Neither is even a kind of good argument. In place of actual evidence we are making impossible to disprove psychological arguments to the motivation of believers.

There is no contemporary as in at the time evidence of Jesus or reason to believe that the parties that wrote down accounts long after his death were actually recordings of first person accounts.

If the bible can make up exodus and fabricate Noah I have no reason to believe fabricating Jesus is beyond the pale. Here is what I think a better write up looks like it is admittedly biased

https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/did-jesus-exist/

Another reasonable challenge to the use of something like the Bible is that normally when a work contains thousands of clear fabrications and myths it tends to diminish its worth as a source.

For instance if I wrote a biography of wizzwizz4 and in the course of my writings claimed you were a godlike being from pluto who came to earth in the middle ages it would not only be dubious it would cast doubt on myself as a credible source. Even true things I wrote which were not corroborated elsewhere would be reasonably deemed dubious.
Maybe that’s the real reason there are lots of new car washes?
US manufacturing output is at an all time high. It just requires less employees to produce due to automation.
I used to joke that once the ice caps melt and fiddle with the earth’s angular momentum, I’ll have enough hours in the day to get everything done. Better WLB these days. And also ice caps melting is less funny than when I said it.
Labor costs arr too high for this to exist anymore.
Divorcing is too expensive
How does it actually compare to non-LLM decompilers IDA, Binja, etc? I only see comparisons with other LLMs.
I really hate sounding like a broken record but this is just another instance of how low property taxes and the absence of land value taxes massively benefits low-value businesses.

The real business of car washes is real estate, it's profitable enough to get 3-4x leverage with a low interest loan.

TBH I think real estate used to have high information asymmetry between local residents and large investors; low property taxes and generous loan terms under this primarily benefited small businesses, individuals, etc. I think the internet and increased observability into far away projects erased this (a ring camera costs a billion dollar PE firm and
Single home owner the same); now the same policies we have had are allowing easy arbitrage between low cost fed/PE cash and predictable "dumb" business categories; car wash, self storage, etc.

I take pride in the fact I haven't been to a car wash in probably 3 years and have likely gone myself less than 10 times total. Rain and the occasional wet rag is good enough for a depreciating asset.
This is a nitpick' but I wish the phrase "business logic" should go away. Are we not just testing logic? It makes all software sound like a tax preparation program.
Does someone know the real story? How can a company be fined for disrupting an existing business?
This looks like a artificial scarcity means of creating value. Vicuna wool is not particularly finer than alpaca wool, but the rarity of the former means a cost increase in the exclusive luxury market, so the owner can say, "it's vicuna" at social gatherings. It's probably no more difficult to raise alpacas and vicunas then Cladoir sheep, the latter being a fine-wooled local Irish breed.

So if you start paying the Andean villagers a lot of money for vicuna wool, all their neighbors will start raising vicunas, because who doesn't want to get rich raising sheep in the mountains? Then the market would be flooded and nobody would pay top dollar for not-so-exclusive vicuna anymore (the villagers probably know all this, but don't have access to direct-to-consumer marketing for more competitive pricing - get them a Starlink Terminal and ah, err, Tiktok account?

Fashion is a funny business, more about social science than economics. Incidentally wool demand might be rising due to microplastic concerns over synthetic fleece clothing.
It's ridiculous - you provide bad quality service with high fees and scammy operators, another competitor enters the market and takes your market share, then you sue them and win for beating you? Imagine that in any other scenario.

Not to mention, every trip in NSW has a $1.32 fee to help compensate taxi drivers.

Taxi operators should have tried competing on merits like price and cracking down on dodgy drivers instead of suing. The last time I got a taxi it was $80 for a 10km trip that's $32 on Uber. If they weren't so terrible then Uber would have never had an in on the market in the first place.
This I remember now. So that still hasn’t been sorted out? Pity.
While acknowledging the reality of those externalities, it's also fair to point out that empowering politicians to attempt to override the market and deliberately police the negative outcomes of those externalities in favor of supposed social goods (the determination of which is, in itself, problematic) has never, ever worked in the history of humanity -- though it has been tried over and over in disparate societies around the world.

In practice, the politicians supposed to be looking out for the externality damage instead merely redirect outcomes to benefit themselves and their friends.
The result is invariably worse than whatever damage is wrought by the open and free market.

This is not a failure or shortcoming of any one particular attempt to corral the market towards social good; it is an inevitable and expected broken-by-design outcome of attempting to do so.
Why can’t it be amended? My region has pretty shitty clay soil but I’m able to mix in compost, mulch, and other amendments and grow all sorts of tropical fruits and other plants that shouldn’t grow here. Am I missing some reason why the farmers have to rely on topsoil?
Posting youtube links without explanation next to blatantly false claims is not useful.

Text can be at least quickly scanned through.
> and egressing out of AWS at $0.09/GB

There's a lot of seeders on the torrent that are actually AWS ips too, all with similar configurations which makes me believe that it's probably xAI running them

> on a VPN

That's unnecessary, you don't need a VPN?
A top-of-the-line Mac Studio Ultra maxes out at 192GB currently. This is also a MoE model, so only a fraction of parameters have to be in RAM.
Livestream of Australian Court: Epic Games vs. Google, Epic Games vs. Apple
This is the livestream from the Australian Federal Court of four consolidated antitrust cases: Epic vs. Apple, Epic vs. Google, and class actions vs. Apple and Google. The trial started today and is expected to last ~16 weeks.
Yes but they still degrade relatively quickly when managed correctly so a burst of pollutants whenever it rains is better than a constant low level exposure from people washing their cars all the time.

Regions where it rains frequently like the PNW have rain gardens, vegetated swales, catch basins/filters, and other mitigation strategies all over the place whereas e.g. California might just have them throughout the drainage system like at the end of the LA river.
You’re looking for what’s called upscaling, like with Stable Diffusion: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-x4-upsca...
Very cool to see more people getting things running in the web. I am still using BoxedWine on my site at the moment but I could see one day moving to Retrowin32. 64-bit apps would be the holy grail though.
We did something similar and the boss was quite upset. He said it disturbed sales demos and cost time and money. Which was surprising since he was otherwise a very chill boss who enjoyed all manner of fun and skunk works at the office.
It's just so absurdly naive to think that the market acts this cleanly and quickly, it's probably the worst "brain worm" that economics has given us.

Maybe it helps to consider the idea that the government (which already has considerable influence, positive and negative to markets) is part of how preferences are expressed.
A simple observation that cannot be refuted because it's an already accomplished fact that I have no problem soldering with 305 (or anything else really) is not a strong opinion.

All anyone can say is that maybe I'm lying or maybe don't know what a good job looks like and so don't know I'm actually having problems. Or maybe I only ever tried within a narrow sliver of ideal situations and conditions.
We will all just have to grant each other some basics like that or else there's no point in conversing at all.

But it's farcical me to say "I use it all the time and it's fine." and respond "You're wrong."

Really? I didn't just do the thing I just watched my hands do right in front of my face? This project in my hands is not actually soldered? And doesn't actually work? Am I in an Elon Musk simulation or something?

My physics are not different from your physics. My sac305 is not different from your sac305. My 300-350 degrees c is not different from your 300-350 degrees c.

Such basic implacables are not a "strong opinion"

But, it's true that, having examined the basic facts and tried things myself, I have now arrived at a conclusion that is a rather strong opinion that the crybabying is nothing more than that. 63/37 is a little easier and that's all there is to that.
I call this dark pattern “nag forever”
It is a great sign that you should immediately and permanently stop doing business with a company.
nothing to lose => your dead => cant take risks
Uber settled, they didn't lose the suit. An Uber spokesperson even went as far as admitting there were "legacy issues" that they wanted to put behind them.

> "Since 2018, Uber has made significant contributions into various state-level taxi compensation schemes, and with today's proposed settlement, we put these legacy issues firmly in our past," an Uber spokesperson said in an emailed response.
This existed in CA too, haven't seen $30 prices - oil+wash+hand dry... but those prices ended around 2005ish.
Impending KOS (2014)
There are a bunch of great upscaler models although they tend to hallucinate a bit, I personally use magic-image-refiner:

https://replicate.com/collections/super-resolution
I wonder if this is related to the shift in media consumption habits more than anything.

Empirically from my experiences, I’ve shifted from watching “official” content (e.g., TV shows, movies, etc) to watching a lot more YouTube content. I still watch traditional content, but I also watch a boatload more YouTube than I did 5 or even 10 years ago. There’s just so much out there on YouTube you can pretty much always watch something for a certain topic.

Since there’s no need to pirate YouTube content, there’s less need/desire to use BitTorrent in the first place.
I haven't explored the current SOTA recently, but super-resolution has been pretty good for a lot of tasks for few years at least. Probably just start with hugging-face [0] and try a few out, especially diffusion-based models.

[0] https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/api/pipelines/stable_d...
tl;dr: Marriage rate went from 7-8 per 1000 before the pandemic to 5.1 per 1000. But in 2022 rebounded to 6.2. Headline insinuates something different.

tl;dr2: Divorce rate was 4 per 1000 in 2000. By 2022 dropped to 2.4 per 1,000.

Out of my butt theory. People put off marriage during the pandemic. And the social isolation de-primed the relationship pump. Divorce is on a long term downward trend. Probably because married men are more attuned to the new relationship normal.
Sure.

Facebook isn't one of those, though.
NIST NVD hasn't enriched CVEs for over a month
https://archive.ph/TPlJ4

https://web.archive.org/web/20240316032943/https://www.newyo...
From your response it looks like you don't know what comparative advantage is.

Comparative advantage does not mean that humans are better than AI at something. "Comparative advantage" != "Absolute Advantage"

Comparative advantages don't usually disappear just because one party gets better and better.
The real problem is that spending wins votes, austerity does not.
I would dispute that pretty heavily. They're not, and obviously have never, claimed copyright over the DLL you made or whatever, nor the entire concept of linking to Windows APIs (as an example).

Mostly because that's, like the GPL, currently a way to get laughed out of court.
> A while back I realised there must be at least two: me, and the first person who talked or wrote about it such that I could encounter the meme.

Perhaps you invented the meme, but have since forgotten.
Target sets a limit on self-checkout items
When you see a solution here of higher property taxes, is it focused on the raw land value or on the value of "improvements?"

I've never been a fan of taxing the value of raw land, mainly because it creates incentives for destroying natural land and extracting as much value as possible from the space. Taxing structures based on the expected economic value can make sense, though even then if its a business there are more direct ways to tax the business's realized revenue or profits.
They probably mean the quest 3 which has RGB cams unlike the prior quests 1 and 2. I also disagree it would have been artificially muddled to discourage usage. If that were the case they'd not have presented it so proudly. It's just the kind of cam setup that $500 buys (in fact it probably is a bit subsidised)
I feel like the ecosystem is very, very close to ready for what I would consider to be a really nice medium-to-long-term queryable log storage system. In my mind, it works like this:

1. Logs get processed (by a tool like vector) and stored to a sink that consists of widely-understood files in an object store. Parquet format would be a decent start. (Yscope has what sounds like a nifty compression scheme that could layer in here.)

2. Those logs objects are (transactionally!) enrolled into a metadata store so things can find them. Delta Lake or Iceberg seem credible. Sure, these tools are meant for Really Big Data, but I see so reason they couldn’t work at any scale. And because the transaction layer exists as a standalone entity, one could run multiple log processing pipelines all committing into the same store.

3. High-performance and friendly tools can read them. Think Clickhouse, DuckDB, Spark, etc. Maybe everything starts to support this as a source for queries.

4. If you want to switch tools, no problem — the formats are standard. You can even run more than one at once.

Has anyone actually put the pieces together to make something like this work?
Much more reliable than beats and vendor specific forwarders (chronicle forwarder and fdr) in our experience. Vrl is also pretty useful at "preparsing" massive logs e.g. aws cloudtrail and imperva abp
You're right on the QML ; I'll admit I didn't look super hard, I was under the impression QML eventually compiled down but maybe there's some interpreter-type event loop implementation that results in a slower than expected UI.

Based on this Stackover flow post I guess it CAN be compiled but that depends on the version, open-source, commercial, etc:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9448296/is-qml-translate...

JMP.chat exists but honestly that's kind of a crutch or work around if your primary cell phone can't make or receive calls on its own without ANOTHER broker or provider.

One thing I did like about Sailfish OS and to a lesser extent Ubuntu is that it's mostly "standard" Linux under the hood so you can do things like run dnsmasq or something like that and tweak it as needed.

But in this day and age I think the bare minimum for a cell phone is calling, texting (SMS), possibly MMS and GPS/maps that don't need a network or Internet connection. I'm hoping PostmarketOS, Sailfish, Ubuntu Touch, open-source-smart-phone will get there but I'm not holding my breath.
The ones that don't get torn down and replaced with something else. no big deal so long as you allow people to try things and fail.

The irrational market isn't a problem for politicians it is for investors: people with money, let them learn their lesson. As for the jobs lost, at least the rich investors paid them while the wash was running, they will move on. The jobs are not high skill so no real loss when they are gone.
> why should a politician need to step in to regulate, rather than letting the market decide?

If we taxed land, then sure, we'd get efficient use of land. But we (mostly) don't, so here we are, surrounded by car washes and parking lots.
In my specific region of the US, you're more likely to see something between a small 'automated' facility where your car is pulled along a sort of 'assembly line'[0][1] or a somewhat larger 'DIY' car wash where you might have to do your own start stopping or are practically given a squeegee cleaner, some colo(u)red water that may or may not have cleaner, a mounted pedistal shop vac of some sort, and a race against the clock based on how many quarters you put in.

Or, sometimes a combination of the two.

The setups for the DIY shops are usually fairly cheap IMO (Just looking at what's going on at them and the BOM) and the main thing outside of market saturation is having a good ingress/egress setup (If one sucks to get in and out of, folks won't come back.)

That's not to say that there aren't hand car washes as well, however I only tend to see those where I grew up (not too far from here, mind you,) or when it is some sort of school/church/etc fundraiser.

The weird thing you can run into in some cases, even at the automated shops though, is either weird 'implied consent' about extras by folks on one end or another of the line, or in the case of any of them, 'memberships' that are priced to where you'd really be following that 'one wash a week' rule to get your money's worth.

[0] - Often with a warning that they are not responsible for damage to vehicles older than X years and/or with more than Y miles

[1] - These can be surprisingly small, to the point some gas stations have one on the side and a purchase gives a 5/10c discount per gallon. Which, to the general point of 'pennies on the dollar' they made money on long term.
If you truly believe people are p-zombies you may be a psychopath.
And the author specifies Z85 only for 4 byte chunks of data - not all data comes in 32 bit chunks. If the authors want Z85 to be widely used, specifying padding would be helpful.

Anyway, it all seems a bit https://xkcd.com/927/
I wish there was some more docs on what it does in addition to modern minifiers such as csso and lightningcss, both of which do refactor css when they deem safe.
Yea it's a bunch of different products, "textile division produces high quality textiles from cashmere, vicuña wool, linen, and merino wool;"

I don't know the exact numbers for this sweater. But it takes a alpaca 4 years to produce enough cashmere for one sweater. 200,000 / 4 = 50k sweaters at 20% profit margin on 9k a pop that's 90 million in profit a year assuming they sell everyone at full price. More realistic could be 2/3 to 1/4 of that, though I'm just guessing here. Now split it across X companies and it’s going to be a small market.

Edit: Looks like other companies are using this kind of wool, just not from that particular location. https://www.alpacacollections.com/belen-vicuna-sweater.html
Well, you have to ask yourself what is PI really? You've been taught it is a number with infinite decimal places, however, practically speaking when you use PI you actually round. Practically speaking this doesn't matter because it's not actually possible to have a shape with infinite points in reality so you only need to approximate to whatever fidelity suits you.

How is this? This is because PI is not actually a number. It's a procedure that generates digits for approximating things about circles.

This is the same with sqrt(2). The sqrt procedure emits digits just as the procedure to find all real numbers does.

You can't "reach" PI for the same reason that a natural number can't reach "f(x) => x + 1". That is, natural numbers aren't procedures or functions.