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> Are you planning to continue using Matrix to underpin Beeper?

Yes, all of Beeper is built on top of Matrix.
I am sceptical about this and the article confirms my suspicion - this is a Federal law that is meant to override other State laws on online privacy that are stricter:

> The proposed agreement would create an unprecedented, single federal standard governing digital privacy in the United States and reflects a significant breakthrough after years of stalled negotiations between Republicans and Democrats. But it could also override some of the toughest state-based privacy laws in the nation, such as in California ... It would pre-empt more than a dozen state privacy laws already on the books in states such as California, Texas and Virginia.

Let's just wait and watch before celebrating.

We in India went through something similar hoping our central government would bring strong data protection and privacy laws but what we got was a law neutered by the "data is the new oil" indian corporate. The government also abused the process to carve out many exemptions for itself on how it could access and use the same data.

- Digital Personal Data Protection Law Raises Questions About Consistency With Right to Privacy Ruling - https://thewire.in/rights/digital-personal-data-protection-l...

- How India’s Data Protection Law Weakens Citizens’ Right to Information - https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/how-indias-data-protection-l...
100%. It's at least nice to see places realize that "supply and demand" are real for housing, but at the end of the day if you're in a tourist oriented area, you need tourist housing too. Build some more hotels, build a lot more housing for residents. Build SRO's, shrink lot sizes and fix condo liability laws for ownership opportunities, legalize small 4/6/8plexes everywhere. Remove parking minimums. There are a lot of levers to pull...
The same is true of every other boson, except arguably photons in the classical limit (e.g. you can put a multimeter on an antenna and detect them "non-probabalistically"). The Higgs detection is sound. A quick check of wikipedia says 5.9 sigma. Good enough for me, anyway.
Cope Cage Mk. II? At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if Russia's next tank is a convertible...
Enforcement really is the big issue here. When I lived in Edinburgh airbnbs were everywhere. You would see 8 lock boxes on a building with 12 flats. I hear they city council is trying to do something about it, but it doesn't really work.

Moving the enforcement onto the platform is better. It's easier to sue one large entity instead of thousands of rent seekers.
If you want to query across users, which you probably want for analytics, that is going to be a massive PITA.
Everything promoted by Yt is crap, I did few tens of orders, 100% of them was returned. What about merch - bloggers can successfully sell it without Yt's commission.
It only talks about the business perspective, sorry!
> According to Goodman, the Airbnb Effect is stronger in small communities, like mountain towns or beach towns, which tend to have limited housing stock, high home prices and little flexibility to adapt to fluctuations in housing availability.

Absolutely no option to build more houses under any circumstances, of course. Just a law of nature that there's no adaptability. Boneheaded.

If you assume the total housing stock is constant, then it makes sense to want to fight displacement by lowering demand
What an absurd headline. If the island somehow disappeared, they would soon find out that the "entire island" was not in fact backed up.
Our team uses loki and I have to say I think their collected helm charts are pretty easy to use - my problem is more that it seems to be quite slow to run on-prem. Very often my loki query times out and I have to do more work filtering down the log lines or selecting a narrower time range.

I'm kind of amazed the UI doesn't select small time ranges iteratively to build up the response, especially since I believe this is what the CLI does. Perhaps this is also part of their cloud offering provides and it is part of their marketing strategy. Not a good one because if we came down to the decision I would start by looking for something else from being p'ed off by Loki.

But I guess it still works pretty well considering it is free.
Huh, that is true in both the model cards of Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.0.

That feels like it runs counter to this statement from the Gemini 1.0 technical report[0]:

> Gemini models are trained to accommodate textual input interleaved with a wide variety of audio and visual inputs, such as natural images, charts, screenshots, PDFs, and videos, and they can produce text and image outputs

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.11805.pdf
Yeah, I see a few cargo bikes round my area (Bristol) too.

I'm not sure what the licensing requirements would be for e-rickshaws in the UK, though. I imagine you'd need registration, MOT and insurance for a non-pedal vehicle and that would make cargo bikes far more economical. If we had pedal e-rickshaws, they'd likely be limited to the same power as e-bikes and only for assist which would make them less popular and I can't see manufacturers being interested in making them.
You missed the key criterion, which is being able to see the logs from that process "as a text file", or the way I'd rephrase it "with the same ease of a text file."

Kibana is ok (definitely beats grep) when you want to look across a fleet and determine if a specific thing is happening. But when you have a specific symptom that happens on a particular instance, what you want to do is see logs in the order they happened, and Kibana isn't close. Querying and viewing logs are just slow and cumbersome relative to less/grep.
The FLoC (related to DNT) is absolutely Google leveraging their market position with Chrome to improve their advertising
Can you imagine the Mac without Chrome? The mainstream population would simply use Safari and a default Windows browser. The productivity of the Mac in particular would be downgraded to iPhone and iPad levels because everything we do nowadays is web based. Mail, Docs, storage, research, listening to Music, watching content.

Chrome's domination has been nothing but positive for the consumer because it's in Google's best interest to keep it as user-friendly as possible to keep its customer loyalty. When the browser is user-friendly, Google makes money. Let's compare it to Safari on iPhone and iPad where Apple is deliberately crippling it so the open web doesn't take a cent away from their App Store model.

If we didn't have Chrome, then what you'll get is a world where Apple cripples the open web and Microsoft on the other end only caring about their corporate-world interests. Google is the only company that is keeping the web open and consumer focused.
A 1064 parameter neural network interpolates 450x2 real numbers
It will shutter the NSA?

> regulating how companies can collect

Better luck next time.
an app to purchase a car while you wait in line at Starbucks
From 2005 to the end Yahoo’s role in the SV ecosystem seemed to be the people who would buy any company if the founder had the right connections, for instance the son of a private equity lord who licensed a worthless patent from Stanford that Yahoo paid $100+ for.

It is a magical way to turn “anybody” into a successful founder or VC if they’ve got the right connections and in fact you can create both ex-nihilo in one transaction.

If you read the newspapers you’d never find out that 70% of acquisitions achieve their goals. A lot of that is you hear more about the ones that fail and not the ones that succeed. The ones that fail give many people the impression that there is nothing rational at all about how acquisitions happen in corporate America.
Whats the price point? Trains have always had similar prices to flying. Nice thing about flying to SF is that i can fly in the morning and fly back out in the evening.
WordPress.com isn't self-hosted, it's the freemium cloud version comparable to Wix and Squarespace.

Automattic isn't making any money on the open-source version that can be hosted anywhere.
'holier than thou' implies that they are being judgemental of others. Kind of a harsh thing to pin on somebody with zero evidence.
Something I feel like you've left out that is important: It's a gesture of respect, ensuring that no one's passing goes unnoticed.

And more of a comment to the other replies; a relative being unable to be contacted currently doesn't mean they don't care. Them finding out later and knowing, despite everything, they got a dignified ending might give them some peace. These funerals are not being held for the people attending them but at the same time you can't have a funeral without someone attending them.
In California, money from traffic fines does not get paid back to law enforcement agencies. In fact, local city government has to pay for traffic enforcement, but gets no revenue from the fines because it all goes to the state.
That's a good point. I would think that a circular saw or track saw is more dangerous. You tend to be hunched over the blade in an awkward position. I use a table saw over a circular saw because, for me, it seems safer.
This feels like attacking a symptom, not the cause. Housing and real estate across the board have been bought up by private corporations -- including housing that they then turn around and Airbnb. This has plagued the housing market in general, and of course, Airbnb.

Airbnb itself is/was still great when you can find a private owner leasing out their extra/summer/whatever home.
...and they were already on fixing the 1.
There’s an argument to be made that it is abusive by simply existing. It’s a business that is built on network effects since it is a multi-sided auction (people offering ad space and people bidding to show ads in those spaces). There are massive barriers to entering the ad network space as a result, which lets incumbents get away with whatever they want. In my opinion, markets that are inherently not competitive, like ones reliant on network effects, need regulation and forced competition.

But more specifically, it is things like Google forcing site owners to enter anti-competitive agreements (see https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&do...). As part of the agreements Google required, site owners had to preserve the best ad space on pages for Google’s ads instead of ads from rival networks, they were not allowed to insert ads from rival ad networks on the pages that Google search results link to, and they had to get permission from Google before changing how rival ads were displayed on pages where both existed (allegedly).

Note that even if site owners found these clauses problematic, in a practical sense they have no choice but to just say “yes”. They need ad revenues to survive in today’s economic environment. And for them, the risk of not having ad revenue is existential while Google doesn’t have anything to lose by being aggressive. It’s an uneven situation where there isn’t really choice for anyone except Google.
If you have e.g. cosine distance as the final layer, if the label is 1 you reward the cosine distance being close to 1, if the label is 0 you reward the cosine distance being close to 0.

The finetuning here is specific to optimizing for retrieval, which may be different than just matching documents, which can be an advantage.

You may want to force the query and document finetunings to be the same, which makes a lot of sense, but the advantage in them differing can be that query strings are often rather short, and in a different sort of language structure than documents, so the differing query and document tunings can in some sense "normalize" queries and documents to be in the same space, when it works well.
FAA probing Boeing whistleblower's quality claims on 787, 777 jets
Deeming a product with only ~65% market share as an antitrust issue feels wrong and reductive of actual market monopolies. I like Khan and what the FTC has been up to lately, but the contemporary antitrust school of thought feels diluted and overreaching as applied to tech companies
Worth noting whenever you read about antitrust: is the writing coming from Europe or the US.

European law grounds antitrust in whether the marketplace is harmed. In that context, something could be an antitrust violation if it's hard to compete with, even if that circumstance is better for users.

US antitrust is grounded in consumer harm. One could, hypothetically, have an ecosystem where there is one browser and it's not an antitrust situation because the benefits to consumers outweigh drawbacks to competitors (for example, if users perhaps benefit more from an ecosystem with fewer browsers than more browsers, because the odds of any given website working on their browser are higher if web devs don't have to test against dozens of bespoke partially-compliant implementations). Microsoft ran afoul of antitrust because of the consumer harm demonstrated in bundling its browser (which, notably, was a bit of a bug-ridden mess at the time) into its OS (which made the whole experience worse). But nowadays? Everyone has bundled a browser into their OS.

(None of this is to say that the US or European model is better, just that it's always important to code-switch when comprehending arguments regarding antitrust coming from the two regions).
Because it violates my privacy, wastes my time, attention and communication bandwidth and advertisers money --- which in turn promotes price inflation that effects everyone.

Visit automobile dealership web sites and you'll have auto ads following you all over the internet for months --- long after you're already bought a car.

Who benefits from this?
See, it should be the reverse. The employees and locals should own homes and the visitors should be packed into hotels or other purpose build facilities.
The problem here does not lie in the establishment or ratification of a court to handle human rights affairs but in the equation of 'climate policy' with ´human rights'. Seen in this light many other issues can be portrayed as 'human rights', some of them far more directly than 'climate policy'. The right to self-defence is one such issue which could be taken up by an activist group to allow people to keep and bear arms for that purpose, something which is alien to most European countries but could be argued to become a necessity due to the inability of the justice system to provide an adequate level of protection from harm. Is there a human right of self-defence? If so what is to keep such a decision from being made even though the majority of political parties would never run on such a platform? Also, if such a decision were made would you see it in the same light as this one given that ____land democratically decided to put the ECHR in place?

I prefer to keep the courts out of the political discourse other than in cases where politicos violate the law of the land in which case I want them to deal with those cases swiftly and decisively. Especially in Europe where we do not elect our judges and prosecutors and as such have no means to reign in activists within the justice department (which do exist, see e.g. 'Hilda' and 'Ruben' in Sweden [1,2]) I want there to be a clear separation between the two.

[1] https://mrrs.se/ordf_blog/hilda-ruben-stridet-mot-grundlagen...

[2] https://www.advokatsamfundet.se/om-advokatsamfundet/tidigare...
I know all this things. Again: look at MLX.
I use a Mac daily without Chrome. Firefox and Safari work great (the latter works even better if you have an iPhone and iPad and use iCloud, yet another antitrust issue).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs
Part of it is that they are just way better at building a web browser that works really well and advances fast and fixes security issues fairly quickly. There's an open source variant (it's degoogled). Google loves this because they have a lot of tracking for their ad platform, but also it works really well. I know that Google also provides a lot of important services like noting dodgy websites and (too late sometimes) noticing dangerous extensions, all the way though, tracking most people all the time for serving them ads.

Tesla is a little bit of the same thing with their superchargers. Tesla has done the amazing thing of building them in lots of areas with enough superchargers that they are usable. But the thing that Tesla did that the entire rest of the dcfc industry can't do is just - fix them when they break. It's just stunning that more than a dozen companies can't do this this (EA is the one that really wasted billions, there are known reasons). Tesla is in line to be the predominant EV gas station for the future. Maybe they had some early mover strategy, but as someone who had both a Tesla and a ccs car, there's little comparison. Now that Tesla opened their sc to ccs cars (first with an adapter, later by incorporating that plug in the car directly if wanted), they are likely to control that market. This is incredibly powerful and will set them up to be really successful. Similar things with the Tesla vehicles having fantastic drive trains. Musk is ruining their reputation with his X related comments - but earlier he started ruining Tesla vehicles by removing turn signal stalks, removing drive train stalk, removing physical sensors (for things like curb and rain) and replacing them with poorly working "ai" things.

But to get to their predominant positions, I really think Tesla and Google got there by making better mouse traps, which of course also helped their other businesses incredibly.

This is way too long but I also wish there was a 100% capable de-googled chrome browser.
I use vscode. It didn't have line by line operations until recently. The sweet spot is working on hunks, not lines. For example hunk operations are quick and easy with short menus, while selecting some text then has the regular right click menu which is most of the height of my screen with 33 menu items, 3 of which are git operations. The selection is also character by character vs line by line.
ah, that would be way too much work for a one-off proxy switch for one site
Ten minute bike ride from Utrecht central seems pretty good to me. And yes, nice things cost money when there's a shortage. The trick is to keep building until there isn't a shortage. If bloom merwede had been available when we moved we might not have overbid on a rental and paid a year of rent up front to get a place in Hilversum (which is much less nice and more car focused) instead, thereby freeing up our home for someone else.
yep, with the caveat that you probably don't want to have the backend of whatever log system you use (not exactly sure how Loki does it) to have an index on something as high-cardinality as session id so that query could get slow.

But these log query systems can also optimize these queries for instance by by sampling, using distributed trace ids to ensure you get shown corresponding, allowing you to get only logs where at least one step in the trace errored, etc.
This is what I've been doing on my cluster:

https://github.com/nklmilojevic/home/blob/main/kubernetes/ap...

https://github.com/nklmilojevic/home/tree/main/kubernetes/ap...

Here you have Vector in aggregator + agent mode and several sources. VictoriaLogs also recently added Grafana datasource so it is fairly easy to set it up:

https://github.com/nklmilojevic/home/blob/main/kubernetes/ap...

I'm a big fan of VictoriaMetrics as well and we use it extensively in my company at high scale.
I'm not going to argue the point that housing supply is woefully inadequate - you're right about that.

But, at the same time, these city and town governments have an obligation to sustain a reasonable amount of housing for their residents.

AirBNB is of course not itself the issue (though one might argue that their aggressive anti-community lobbying is).

I believe that town administrators have a duty to severely curtail the presence of STR businesses like AirBNB in their towns as one of the several paths to maintaining a healthy community with adequate housing.
The current top comment is from a former mountain-town resident who says that most of the houses are kept empty outside of the peak season.
AFAIK position has nothing to do with nulls, a null is a 0 byte in the header and has no payload in the row: https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html#record_format
I think it would benefit from keyboard shortcuts to speed things up.
Ah, so not like movie or image encoding where we have perceptual scoring algorithms that evolve over time. Thanks!
I'm curious if they could have solved the crosswind stability issue with fences along the track to block the wind. Although fences cost money, and it would ruin the view.
It's also very visible in central Lisbon, even in a short period of time from the first time I visited friends there (around 2010) to now the whole centre has been hollowed out and mainly inhabited by tourists, or digital nomads/rich foreigners. You can see a clear divide where the AirBnBs end and the real city begins between the neighbourhoods of Alfama (touristic) - Penha França, when you look at buildings and notice new sets of double glazed windows all around you know those are STRs, then walk a few more blocks into Penha França's area and there are almost no new windows on buildings.

It's actually sad to see it transformed, I'm not against tourism at all because of course I'm a tourist as well but this kind of tourism just seems to hollow out entire neighbourhoods and instead of a lively and vibrant city life you just see tons of tourists looking at their maps at every corner, rolling luggage up and down onto these apartments.
Housing isn't built overnight, and land is not unlimited.
"Probabilistic evidence" != "no evidence".

> The error rate is very high.

Citation needed. More citation needed to show that it's high enough that it invalidates the evidence.
Great feedback for the authors.

Most people confuse the success of a company and their monopolistic behavior with their competency on what they do.

Regardless, the internet might benefit from Chrome being an independent company of its own.
you realize that plastic is oil, right? plastic reduction is oil reduction.
> How can I improve my ability to write data structure/algo code in python?

You don't need a book on Python, you need to practice solving data structures and algorithms problems.

Completely disagree with the recommendation to read Fluent Python, that book has nothing to do with your goals.

> understanding of what is "fast"

Do you mean in terms of performance? Depending on the problem fastest is usually to use libraries instead of native Python code. But that's not really relevant to DS&A interviews.
> Company officials said they hope this new overnight passenger rail service would give Californians and other travelers a more comfortable, convenient and Earth-friendly alternative to short-haul flights.

The renderings and anecdotal knowledge about that rail route make me think this is not going to be an electrically powered train. What fuel would it use?
Lol. Like here in Europe Bulgaria to Romania have trains.. everybody has trains. What's the big issue with putting a train in over there?
India's biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking
Baluchon Tiny Houses
> Dreamstar trains would be running on the track that make up the Coast Line railroad line between Los Angeles County and the San Francisco Bay area, which travels primarily along the California coast. That line is already in use by Amtrak‘s Pacific Surfliner and Coast Starlight, among others.

This isn’t the high speed train which is what I thought at first reading the headline. That’d require new tracks.

This is just an overnight Amtrack that’ll inevitably get delayed like Amtrack always is and you’ll wake up not in San Francisco but in the middle of the Gilroy garlic festival.
Stop downvoting this guy. It's a fair point.