skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some sense this sort of article confuses me. This is a different economy, with its own legislative framework and where the people speak a language that is not English. But the frame is that they are basically a clone of the US and a policy change in Japan is equivalent to the policy change that sounds the most similar in the US. And even in English speaking countries, the frame that interest rates are like a little knob that the central planning committee adjusts is suspect. How the rate is influenced is quite important too.

There is so much context required to interpret this, it really needs to be part of a "Japan Economy" wiki rather than a stand alone article.

But best of luck to Japan. Nobody ever asks for my opinion, but IMO it'd be sensible to let the markets set the interest rate. The evidence that markets are weak at setting interest rates is itself quite flimsy.
> I think it's imprudent for the average retail investor to take on and action Buffets advice in most contexts, except for his "just put your money in an index" advice.

Historically, Buffett bought undervalued companies, and sometimes ran them.
Generally dull and boring companies with a long, profitable history and low P/E ratios. Or that's what he says in his book. But look at what Berkshire Hathaway owns today.[1] 45% of their portfolio is AAPL. Nothing else is above 10%. The railroads and Acme Brick are gone from the portfolio.

[1] https://money.usnews.com/investing/stock-market-news/article...
Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines (1953)
Look for something better. The jobs like that can make you feel defeated but there is always something out there you can interview for. Then quit.

The fanciful suggestions about rewriting legacy apps in some fashionable new tool are fantasies. It never works other than for trivial apps
Your article actually admits they don't own that big a percentage of homes.

Invitation Homes operates in 16 cities, with the biggest concentration in Atlanta, where it owns 12,556 houses. (Though that’s not much compared with the 80,000 homes sold in Atlanta each year
We don't currently have this functionality, though if there's demand for non JS CAPTCHA products we'll definitely spec it out and build it.

If you want to request features/chat about any special requirements you have for a CAPTCHA, feel free to pop an email to dev@prosopo.io
Whats your point? That doesn't add or simplify anything. The point is that there is nothing weird in an article about japans economy is published from Hong Kong.
2010 Guatemala City Sinkhole
I definitely don't think it invalidates that claim! Aluminum cans afaik are still better in that the amount of plastic used is significantly less and you can recycle the outer shell.
That day is already here. Waymo's been providing robotaxi rides in San Francisco and Phoenix for a while, and soon, LA and Austin.
Ollama can serve as an endpoint.
> T Coronae Borealis is overhead in the evening in July.

Sort of depends on where your head is located.
We can probably offset the decline by starting to value human life and time humans can spend creatively. By not gatekeeping humans from education and not exploiting the young in the most braindead service jobs.
With over 40 million users, Healthify is India’s largest health platform, providing health tracking and AI-enhanced health coaching to help users become fit and reverse metabolic disease. Since introducing AI in its coaching and tracking components, Healthify has already helped users lose an aggregate of 25 million+ pounds and with OpenAI’s API, Healthify is greatly simplifying tracking and scaling up coaching.
https://www.healthifyme.com/us/
The issue with bigger LLM or even MMMs is that the bigger they are the more they are cramming and regurgitating the training data, and that opens up to lawsuits.

Making NNs generalize the way humans do it is still a hard problem.
Outside the Box: AI's Love Affair with 75 Year-Old NATO
RISC-V takes a different approach to branching, even compared to other RISC processors. There are no status registers AKA condition codes.
Software Hosting as a Service
I am planning a service like this, what do you think?
I tried. I remember it strikingly for the impression it left on me but no distinct keywords and way too many results

He didn't say the bit about this not being a community, that's what I inferred
To add on to the commentators below, Foreign Bureaus are increasingly shutting down and being replaced with freelancers [0]

A lot of the degradation in "MSM" appears to be due to the severe cost cutting occurring within News Organizations, leading to more sensationalism, less hard reporting, and way less editing and fact checking.

And this is happening in the UK (BBC layoffs, Guardian almost exclusively using freelancers), Canada (CBC layoffs, BCE layoffs), and much of Western Europe as well.

The era of Amanpour reporting in the middle of a warzone are long gone, and non-Western alternatives are government owned and share similar biases (eg. Al Jazeera and anything remotely related to Qatar's mortal archrivals Saudi or UAE, CGTN and China's world view, WION and Indian media's tendency to overexaggerate, etc).

[0] - https://www.american.edu/soc/news/with-foreign-bureaus-slash...
Utilizing GitHub Actions for Gathering Subdomain and Exploit Intelligence
Did you choose to get involved with Counter Strike after "looking for signals about which arenas are likely to reward you, to endure, and to scale"? Or did you get involved because you loved Counter Strike, and the fellow people who played it?

I'm guessing you dove in because of the latter, and happily did so without any long-term economic expectations whatsoever.
So would you expect this new property tax to be a federal tax, as opposed to most today that are used to fund local governments?
I agree that there are a lot of other things to learn but accessibility is a legal and moral imperative, not just a nice to have feature. I think “lazy” might not be the right word since many developers don’t even know that they’re cutting corners, so perhaps it’s better to use “negligence” and realize that our field culturally encourages it rather than just blaming individuals.
Welcome to CNN.
With Foreign Bureaus Slashed, Freelancers Are Filling the Void (2019)
The cheap/free activities can draw you into spending a lot of money too, if you have it. I bicycle every day, and I spend a lot of my otherwise unallocated money on bike stuff. Good hiking gear gets expensive too. But you can also get away without buying most of that stuff and still enjoy your time.
That’s a limitation created by apple, not alt server. Granted you are using one of your three to use alt store, but you can skip using alt store if you don’t want auto refresh by just using the server to install your IPAs.

But Altstore does run on Windows, Mac and Linux (I use a helper script to run it on my home server)

These are all work around to Apple imposed limitations, it’s by no means perfect, but until Apple change their mind (or are forced to change their mind) your alternatives are jailbreaking (which I don’t think there are any public jailbreaks of the latest hardware/OS) or swap to Android (which I’m considering doing) or pay Apple $100 a year for your own dev cert with less restrictions.
Desperately looking for solution how to enable basic function like sound using HDMI tv as monitor, I can see this issue is here for more than decade. (w11 - works like charm, I even remember some very old kubuntu release worked more than 10 years ago.) It is really unbelievable that 3 different distros, based on 22.04 core, Ubuntu, pop_os, lubuntu I checked has the same issue in 2024!!!
I don't see any way out other than going back to windows.
Your points are valid. Especially the ones on educating an interested user about what the project is good for and how to get started. Thank you for the feedback!
That's very helpful. Thank you! Did you orient her in some way or just log her in and say have fun!
https://japanoptimist.substack.com/p/go-for-it-ueda-sensei

Japan will not just end the world's last zero rate anchor, but will sooner rather than later begin to focus on containing rising inflation risks
Could someone provide a factual summary?
One of the really frustrating parts of that is that they’ll blame accessibility for the extra work rather than admitting that they signed up to duplicate built-in functionality and blew it. I had that recently with some form validation where it went through this “wow that was a lot of work!” cycle and it was like “an HTML 101 form would have taken 15 minutes”.
This is a really helpful, clear description of the benefits. Thanks so much.
Because every aquatic organism _loves_ carbonated water. /s
One of my friends attempted this repair and smashed his hand so badly that the doctor told him it might not be functional ever again. It did mostly recover, but still. NFW am I working on this and the tech can have my $300 once every 15 years.
>FWIW, I do have kids, and - to my regret - I did scan them before they were born. I wouldn't do it now, knowing what I do.

Why are you acting like you have scientific consensus behind what you're saying? There is literally zero proof of anything you're claiming.

>So am I fearmongering, or is this a valid concern?

You're fearmongering. That's it. Nothing else. It's the same kind of attitude that has led to such a self-important, 'I know better than doctors' attitude about vaccines.
Firstly, yes, people would complain if it was GA instead? I'm not even sure how serious this comment is.

Secondly, it's noteworthy because this is supposedly a "Simple, No BS" notepad. Tracking user activity doesn't fit into either of those categories for a ... notepad.
Not for long since H100 are now a previous much slower generation.
Can you link to your solution?
Is there a protocol that has LoRas ability to get through anything but with more bandwidth? Even at WiFi, or less, ranges it would be very useful.
that’s literally old news, it’s from ‘20 or ‘21 and just got noticed iirc
Berkshire still owns many boring companies. They are mostly wholly owned and so are not listed under 'stocks'.
> while Denisovans left at the same time into Asia ending up concentrated in Serbia.

You probably meant to write Siberia.
Nice, thanks, didn't know this one!
You can't. It would be like an architect attempting to give feedback to a junior electrician. You have to be able to assess someone's work output (i.e. code in this case) to know where they are and what they might need to get more experience doing.

If you don't have an engineering background or any senior engineers around, you don't have expertise to share or to even know if what they are building is being done properly. Properly means many different things and there can be many different solutions to the same problem that are all fine.

I would suggest your organization hire an EM and/or a Senior Engineer/team lead that can help guide solutions. Or if you're in a department of a larger company, see if there are mentors available from other departments.
Thanks so much, that was good, practical, wise, in-real-life experience.
Reviving PyMiniRacer: A Python <> JavaScript Bridge
That reminds me of the story of Sam Ballard, who ate a slug due to a dare and fell into a coma, woke up paralyzed, and later died.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eat...
> the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years, lifting its short-term rate to “around zero to 0.1%” from minus 0.1%, according to a statement posted on its website on Tuesday
You can force LLMs to generate valid json by using a context free grammar FWIW
OpenAI Says Sora Will Launch in 2024 and Nude Videos Aren't Off the Table
CHERI is great, but until it becomes a widespread product and not ARM Morello test board, or current RISC-V prototype, anything else in production is better than nothing.
you already posted it at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39703393
I respect the enormous power of these springs and leave them to the pros.
Came here to say this, happy to not be the first.

I've been doing intermittent, multi day water and dry fasts, as have millions of people over thousands of years and most report health benefits.

"Trust the Science" is over.
Only seven countries meet WHO air quality standard, research finds
Through the Psychedelic Looking Glass
Yes, no more offline mode shuffle and dealing with saves getting out of sync.
PHP is somewhat different, because there are many providers that can host it for you in a “serverless” fashion, and the deployment process is as easy as it can ever be: just drop the files on the server and call it a day.

As such it makes little sense to deploy a PHP app on a dedicated server where you're responsible for the PHP server. Or when it is, it's because that you have many of such apps, but then deploying them all side by side with their own Apache/Nginx is going to be very wasteful.
The CEO is mostly tweeting about how great his company is. Trashes Google. Gave me Trevor Milton vibes. The product is good though.
Show HN: AI Directories to Submit To
Titanfall is still EA's most innovative shooter ten years later
Adjusting Predicted Probabilities for Sampling
Memecoin trading at levels last seen before crypto bubble burst
For AI that's either a very fat SDXL model at it's max native resolution, or a quantized 34B parameter model, so it's on the low size. Compare that with the Blackwell AI "superchip" announced yesterday that appears to the programmer as single GPU with 30TB of RAM.
https://aidirectori.es/?via=chovy
Someone working a gig economy job is still very likely underemployed. Someone working a gig economy job full time is in fact employed by all possible metrics.

The grandparent comment being concerned about counting these people is unrealistic as you say nearly everyone would desire better employment.
Or, you know, the fact that the card is made for playing video games, not training AI models.
I'm surprised nobody mention Taiga - https://taiga.io/. It was a great contender when we compared it with Trello a couple of years ago and it's also a FreeSoftware - https://github.com/taigaio/taiga.
I was when I lived in MN. I had a subscription for unlimited car washes (I did the "medium" level). When I commuted in winter I would wash my car at least once a week, sometimes twice. Summer, maybe once every other week. It just took two washes to break even, 3 was coming out ahead. There were times when it was really dirty that I would go through twice back to back.

There was hardly a time there wasn't a short line to go through and many had the subscriptions, you can tell because the attendant just guides you into the track and there was an RFID tag on your windshield and if the attendant didn't have to take payment you knew they had the subscription.
The model is open weight, which is less useful than open source, but more useful than fully propriety (akin to the executable binaries you compare to)
It is only 2600 light years away. Our galaxy is a little under 100000 light years across, depending on how you measure. So it is a rare type of double star, and it is very close to Earth, the combination is what makes it special.
What is a fresher?
So many other things happened at the same too, so it's sometimes hard to untangle what is what.

For instance, say that C had namespaces, and a solid package system with a global repo of packages like Python, C# and Java have.

Then you'd be able to throw together things pretty easily.

Things easily cobbled together with Python often aren't attributable to Python the language per se, but rather Python, the language and its neat packages.
Ontario Teachers mints new unicorn in Indian fintech Perfios
Economic pressure is a pretty common term, I'm a little surprised you would be diving so deep into potential economic impacts of a new tax without knowing the term. Here's a good definition and explanation [1].

Price increases are possible here because it all depends on what is built on the currently vacant lots, or on lots that are cleared when the old buildings no longer make economic sense with the new tax. The example given early in this thread was a car wash versus a new biotech facility. A new, expensive biotech facility wouldn't help with affordable house at all but it would bring in more individuals with higher salaries. Prices could also go up if new construction further increases the city's density or population - more people means more demand and higher prices unless supply increases faster.

Economies of scale aren't a given simply because a new land tax would change building incentives. Economies are much to complex for that and can't be boiled down to a single lever or knob. Changing one thing can have a much different outcome than predicted.

I'm not sure why you would expect a land value tax to have a deflationary impact on housing. There's no direct link between a land value tax and an increase in affordable housing, meaning we can't assume there will be more affordable housing created. What we do know is that land owners now have a new tax to pay, and if you are renting out property on the land you will pass a large portion of the new tax onto them in the form of rent increases. This is literally a concept covered in the intro to economics course I took 15 years ago, if you aren't aware of how businesses handle new taxes I'd recommend you read up on it before pushing too strongly for a new tax.

[1] https://www.smartcapitalmind.com/what-is-economic-pressure.h...
Nope :) . I read it now. It's unrealistic. It will leak. Perhaps also he expected someone to read the 14 pages. Let's say it's a not very closed letter :) .
FWIW, I was super unhappy about work some years ago. I decided to start reading some books from college that were recommended by my professors. These were books that I didn’t value at the time. I read these, and then read the books cited in their bibliographies. Rinse and repeat.

Also, at the same time I heard an NPR program where a professor would write a book review of every book he read.

I combined these two things and started having a nice collection of short writing.

Slowly, over time, my crap thoughts were replaced by a host of other much better ideas, slowly steered by my new practice of writing.
Jensen must be rubbing his hands in his leather jacket
Try / Ripgrep in Y Minutes
Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already

Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already

Why do we need 100Mb/s internet? 10Mb/s works fine already

Why do we need 24 inch monitors? 19 inch works fine already

Why do we need 3.2GHz laptops? 2.4GHz works fine already

Why do we need better headphones? Stock wired earbuds work fine already

I could go on forever :)
A Chinese Gazetteer of Foreign Lands
Doesn't bother anyone to just copy/paste an existing software and build it in Open Source?
It’s in interesting question. I assume they’re using accelerators, and the alternative is a disk or memory hit. It still seems expensive to me.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rising-cost-llm-based-search-...
Can you elaborate? I have never heard anything crypto related with LoRa.
This also assumes that Amazon never gives up the ghost and finds ways to make sideloading books onto Kindle more difficult than it currently is.

I've always been surprised that they haven't cracked down on it, given the relative ease with which you can circumvent the necessity of the Kindle store for the majority of popular titles. Simply load up Calibre, pop almost any file type into your library, and away you go. We're really living in the Limewire age for e-book piracy, even if we don't realize it.

My guess is, someone has run the math and figured out that it's better to keep people on a Kindle device and occasionally spending a few dollars, in exchange for the slow death of physical media and legitimate alternatives. When those become less readily available, then perhaps you can begin to boil the frog.

You can be sure I won't buy a kindle if I can't sideload onto it. I buy at least 5/6 new hardcover books a year from local independent retailers to support authors I like. I wish more authors would allow an e-book copy to be distributed with hardcovers they sell. Do what vinyl did.
See ShellShock. Having memory safety vulnerabilities doesn't prevent other bugs. C and C++ projects still have logic errors, broken auth, XSS, SQL injection, and do dangerously dumb stuff, and that's on top of buffer overflows, user-after-frees, data races, and UB footguns.

Nobody promises that memory safety will fix all bugs, but it can prevent or significantly reduce a class of vulnerabilities, and reduce the total number of serious defects. And then time and effort saved on dealing with memory corruption bugs can be redirected towards dealing with all the other higher-level issues.

> Projects that use C the easy way have much better safety.

That's just another way of blaming programmers for not writing C without the bugs.

Every language can be perfectly safe if used correctly — even hand-written machine code. The problem is that it's easy to say "use C the easy way" (whatever that means), but actual real-world uses don't live up to such standard, and even the best programmers can make mistakes. Language safety is about making programs safer even when programmers write less-than-ideal code.
Tech workers reported feeling increasingly dissatisfied with their salaries
Well, the deposition is estimated as just a few nanometres thick so were talking about something like a grain sand crushed to a fine powder, and then a few grains of that...
If you're able to predict with high confidence how this effects the yen/usd rate, then you can make a huge amount of money on fx arbitrage.

We don't really know how this will play out, and people's guesses for how it will play out are to some degree already priced into the current rate.
It could be that they all respond to the same signal.

It’s also plausible that they are colluding to get better rates on employees.

Another explanation is that the behaviour of other CEOs is in itself a signal.
Is this indeed established ? Could you provide a link or three ?
It seems a small raise but yeah theoretically raising interest rates should strengthen the currency to USD, because with higher interest rates there is less reason to move the currency to USD. That's just the first order effect though.
-- Robert Jordan
The Mojo programming language has changed its version numbering. Release v24.1.1
When houses this are you enraged at the storage facility or the legislators and tax authorities?

There are so many loopholes and games that can be played with US taxes that I've gotten to the point where I can't blame anyone for trying. We need a much simpler tax code that can be easily understood and enforced IMO.

In other words, with taxes I ended up landing on "don't hate the player, hate the game"
The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss
Homes do the same. In both cases, though, if you don't want people to build something you need to exercise power, not freedom. Freedom of choice does not entitle you to others not doing something.
Oh, that’s unfortunate. The docs made it sound like support was coming soon.

I’ll have to investigate what the effects are of moving my projects off my personal account and into an organization. Long term that was always the plan but as a single-founder LLC I had no reason to use anything but my GH account I already paid for.
A pattern has been identified: A company that has sound procedures and doesn't follow them. Read https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa... and search for CMES and SAT.
Except some firms have made extraordinary profits by statistical analysis of Mr Market, eg Renaissance
Will be meaningless within 3 years. The tide is clear and 50% of all pixels created will be traveling through these models by then.

It’s obvious this tech will replace all vfx, lots of elements of a camera pipeline and eventually even video game rendering.

The labelling will become to common it will mean nothing.