skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
plenty of private landlords

Not compared to countries with an actual free rental market.

Having lived in both Norway and Sweden, the difference is stark. Moving to Oslo it took me a couple of phone calls and less than 10 days before I literally had the keys to a rental apartment in the part of Oslo I wanted to live in. Moving to Sweden it took months and I ended up with an 'illegal' second hand contract in a shitty part of Stockholm.
The paper [0] is pretty good for handling questions like those.

> doesn't KA representation require continuous univariate functions?

All multivariate continuous functions (on a bounded domain) can be represented as compositions of addition and univariate continuous functions. Much like an MLP, you can also approximate discontinuous functions well on most of the domain (learning a nearby continuous function instead).

> do B-splines actually cover the space of all continuous functions

Much like an MLP, you can hit your favorite accuracy bound with more control points.

> wouldn't... MLPs be better for the learnable activation functions

Perhaps. A B-spline is comparatively very fast to compute. Also, local training examples have global impacts on an MLP's weights. That's good and bad. One property you would expect while training a KAN in limited data regimes is that some control points are never updated, leading to poor generalization due to something like a phase shift as you cross over control points (I think the entropy-based regularizer they have in the paper probably solves that, but YMMV). The positive side of that coin is that you neatly side-step catastrophic forgetting.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19756
You're not wrong, however when it comes to NYC statistically it is the safest in the US. However this is mostly looking at murder/capita.

It does not account for the 1000s of illegal small assaults that happen daily. Anyone spending time in NYC will eventually run into this.

But then you get the one person who says "I've never been mugged" or "I've never been punched" or a journalist vists for a day and says it's all fine.

Meanwhile there is a lot of stockholm syndrome of what QoL people put up with on a day to day basis.
> The blind faith some people have in [regulation and government] despite all evidence always leaves me in awe.

The Western world and Asia is a pretty good evidence that government works. If you want the libertarian dream of no government, you can go to Somalia, or South Sudan, or Yemen, or whatever failed states you can think about.

> And most importantly: if you don't like what's on offer, you are allowed to get an alternative without going to jail.

Oh sure you won't go to jail, but the alternative doesn't exists so you can't get it either. Like the convenient safe storage we both wish it existed.

In totalitarian dictatorship, you can't build such a tool without getting murdered or jailed, in totalitarian Capitalism you can build it but it will eventually be blocked from reaching any significant room on the market because of big corps or if you raise money from VC in order to get the marketing you need, it will eventually be bought out by one of the big player who will close or enshitify it.

The good alternative is what's called democracy, where the sovereign people vote for things instead of leaving the power to the party or the market.
>kinda worked less during the pandemic (especially at the start).

I wouldn't say I specifically overworked for any one employer, but during lockdowns I was definitely spending way more time at a computer overall.
ive been thinking that down the line both of these would be moved to space
Sounds like they treat humans like animals. No wonder people want to unionize.
Carbon capture is not for what people think it is. It is for enhanced oil recovery.

Out of the 27 commercially operational CCS projects worldwide, 21 inject carbon dioxide into oil reservoirs to force out petroleum: https://www.landclimate.org/what-is-happening-with-carbon-ca...

While renewables capture an inexhaustible source of energy (Sun), fossil fuels rely on an inexhaustible source of money for them: subsidies. Fossil fuel companies can't survive without the hundreds of billions of subsidies every year[1]. They can capture more subsides for 'carbon capture', using the captured carbon to extract more oil.

Exxon bets carbon will be the new oil: https://www.semafor.com/article/07/21/2023/exxon-carbon-denb...

[1]Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reached $7 Trillion in 2022, an All-Time High: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022
I think those people also are more likely to have the work life balance to pursue hobbies where most people doing fast growing/early stage startups are off balance. I personally don’t care what I spend my time on at work, I’ve found even when I enjoy the work, it doesn’t increase my fulfillment in life over the long term. So I try to optimize the life part of the ratio as much as I can, at times at expense of the work side of the ratio.
Orangutan becomes first wild animal seen using medicinal plant to treat wound
Here's the problem with analogies

> you do see how that doesn't fix the problem

It literally does fix the problem.
Just adding some information, the article claims Tesla has 15k H100s, but they actually have 40k H100s and 85k by the end of the year. https://www.reddit.com/r/NVDA_Stock/comments/1cbwvnr/tesla_4...

As usual need to have a bit of doubt on the third party estimates.
Well yeah, loans aren’t income. Should people pay income tax when they receive a mortgage?
This is exactly the type of thing that LLMs are very good at generating and explaining for you. I've done this countless times to create and understand regex patterns.
That kind of money ... they could build their own fab?

Other than that, maybe R&D? Even if Apple were known as an R&D company (and they haven't been known for that since Jobs returned and among other things got rid of ATG), probably wouldn't even need that kind of cash to run.
Rigid flight needs exactly this, rigidity. But we do have inflatable flight: paragliders, first flight only a few years after the inflatoplane. Inflated only by the dynamic pressure from forward movement, but they make up what they lack in pressure differential with using more bracing wires (much more). But the inflatoplane relies on bracing wires as well, so the difference could be considered surprisingly small.
That’s pro level work volume. Congrats!
I'd suggest changing the name from SORT to NSORT, just for consistency and bug avoidance. :) But it's water under the bridge and one can patch this (or, really, any gripe about function names) by suitable package fu, at the cost of making your code less readable to others.
Looks great, but the video quality could be better. There's too much noise in the video. None the less great. would like to Share BTS?
> Nobody doubts that if police find contraband while executing an otherwise valid warrant, it would be entirely constitutional to prosecute based on that evidence.

The framers would doubt that on probably two counts.

4th) Seizing an item not listed in the warrant sounds like a general warrant with extra steps.

5th) As originally intended, you can't self incriminate yourself with your personal belongings. It lead to a whole host of issues with prosecuting people so the US judicial system has decided to ignoring it's intended meaning. This is also why Fruit of the Poisonous Tree is from the 1920s [1] (as opposed to say 1789 when the constitution was written) since that fruit used to be always inadmissible as opposed to now sometimes inadmissible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
I second the green woodworking comment. An axe (and wedges) are a good way to hand-split logs into boards. And easier than doing it with a saw in some cases. Hand tool woodworking really makes you appreciate the multitude of weird old tools you find in antique stores and how clever people were when using human power before power tools.
Recently I also saw somebody writing about IBM-ification of Google.
So is it the ultimate fate of Big tech?
Why is it legal to charge if they don't manually, but not of they do up front work to automate it? That would create an incentive to not automate, which would be a chilling effect.
It's an indication of harder times in the past, not in the future. Management has specific information about what the future holds that we as investors do not

Also Apple doesn't have a cash issue. Companies that need to think about liquidity are those on the verge of bankruptcy, which isn't the case here. There's sufficient cash (from the Balance Sheet but also from Operating Cash every year) to fund R&D at Apple. Heck, if you divide their annual R&D spend ($29B in 2023) by the cash sitting on their balance sheet ($148B in 2023), they have enough cash today[1] to fund 5+ years worth of R&D without selling a single additional iPhone during that time

Buying back stock when the price drops is just taking advantage of the current situation to return capital to investors "cheaply".

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[1] Technically today = September 30, 2023, when they reported their 2023 10-K, if we're being pedantic. Both cash and R&D figures from that 10-K available here:

Ctrl+F "$148.3 billion as of September 30" for the cash balance and "Research and development" (there are multiple matches) for the $29B in R&D
Tesla's Interns Reportedly Feeling the Wrath of Elon Musk
"wildly underfunded"? Do you really believe what you just wrote here?

What private industry surveillance is mandatory? FFS.
Do you mind sharing a link or game name? Despite all the advice out there picking up a game engine, I too am pursuing a goal of making a game from scratch using simple parts of C++ and SFML for now, but was also looking at SDL and Sokol. What was your experience? Are you a solo dev? Was it worth it?
> When you have an absolutely massive amount of cash

Apples cash pile (~70bn) is very diminished from their hoarding / tax dodging days when it was >200bn. This cash is of course offset by ~100bn in debt that they have, most of which was issued at around 2% and when rolled over in the coming years will be reissued at >5%.
Today this would most likely have the same drawbacks as the inflatable kayaks we see for sale. Saves on space (and money?) and could be good as an entry into a hobby but at any intermediate to advanced level there are better options to choose from. With the high barrier to entry to flying I think most pilots would opt for the most reliable option from the start.

I would not want to be caught in inclement weather in an inflatable anything.
There’s a 3rd option: what’s the cost of figuring out why we need these drugs in the first place?

But that’d require investing in research that likely isn’t profitable. Best to just keep investing in both fattening ourselves up and making drugs to counteract that.
I taught myself CLO 3D basics in about a week and then used it to design tango pants for myself, from an Oxford bags pattern from the 40's that I found online. I think this was around 2012 or so.

You can adjust the mannequin to your measurements and even load mocap data (which was very cumbersome at the time though) to see how the piece may behave when worn.

I had the pattern cut out from paper on a large format cutter plotter. Then I went to a tailor and told them: make it so -- all the details are up to you but stick to the pattern. Of course the pattern was missing stuff like belt pocket, coin pocket, lining etc.

They were a tad bewildered but the pants fit perfectly and I've been re-using this pattern now for over a decade.

For me it was an amazing experience and I'm still marveling (pun intended) at the fact that a zero-tailoring-knowledge layperson like I could do something like this with such software.
Out of all the tech giants TikTok fits into Apple's portfolio the least.
I've been playing with this and have a few of them in my cart:

Total € 183.545.103.533.410.025.472,00

They apparently don't do live stock availability checks :)
I quit smoking once.

It was before smart phones and apps were a thing.

The thing that worked for me was: I stopped putting cigarettes between my lips and then lighting them.
Also the extra burden on social security where all people would die at 65/70 due to smoking now die at 85/90.

I feel the anti-smoking crusade wasn't about health, it was about neurotic people using the government as a weapon to bludgeon people because they didn't like the smell of cigarette smoke. The government were happy to oblige because they liked all that settlement money and extra taxes.

DeSantis in Florida recently said he didn't want to decriminalize pot because he didn't like the smell. Funny.

We reap what we sow.
Apple doesn't really do big M&A and probably doesn't want to touch the issues that come with TikTok with a 10-foot pole
Ha I had to stop tracking my bike commutes because I was going way too hard for Strava times on them. It got to the point where it was sorta dangerous... Love the app for my fun rides tho!
Writing robust shell scripts ranges from hard to incredibly difficult. The number of footguns is insane
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I recently stumbled on a saying that resonated with me and is on this topic, “work with your mind, rest with your hands”
Mixed Reality Interface for Smart Homes
Why can't we just automate the terrible jobs out of existence? There's no good reason why we can't have a machine that cleans the toilet or takes your trash out to the street. Plus a self-driving machine that picks up your trash.
It's way too early to say Apple is turning into IBM because it did some stock buybacks...
If you're that focused on optimization you wouldn't be traversing JSON.

As an aside the js example above could be simplified to a reduce().
Building a new airframe AND a new engine from scratch? Only to, if successful with all that, bump into the same economics as the concord?

Wouldn't a business jet first be the smarter play?
7-10 days of siege doesn't sound like "without any resistance".

(I'd be willing to believe the mongols broke their word on a surrender parley, but it'd be very helpful to have non-persian sources corroborating that)
regulatory costs, legal fees, and smaller revenue projections than they've been enjoying over the past two or so decades perhaps.
> Arrays in C have length information. Pointers do not.

Sure, but they don't carry that length information when being returned from a function.
This is what uid and gid are used for in Linux respectively. There is only a concept of "user" and "group" when you add a Unix-like operating system in top such as GNU or Alpine.
It's management's job to return capital to shareholders, so this is really just another day in the office
Language detection in the presence of strong accents is, in my opinion, one of the most under-discussed biases in AI.

Traditional ASR systems struggle when English (or any language) is spoken with a heavy accent, often confusing it with another language. Whisper is also affected by this issue, as you noted.

The root of this problem lies in how language detection typically works. It relies on analyzing audio via MFCC (Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient), a method inspired by human auditory perception.

MFCC is a part of the "psychoacoustic" field, focusing on how we perceive sound. It emphasizes lower frequencies and uses techniques like normalized Fourier decomposition to convert audio into a frequency spectrum.

However, this approach has a limitation: it's based purely on acoustics. So, if you speak English with a strong accent, the system may not understand the content but instead judge based on your prosody (rhythm, stress, intonation).

With the team at Gladia, we've developed a hybrid approach that combines psycho-acoustic features with content understanding for dynamic language detection.

In simple terms, our system doesn't just listen to how you speak but also understands what you're saying. This dual approach allows for efficient code-switching and doesn't let strong accents fall through the cracks. The system is based on optimized Whisper, among other models.

In the end, we managed to solve 99% of edge cases involving strong accents, despite the initial Whisper bias there. We've also worked a lot on hallucinations as a separate problem, which resulted in our proprietary model called Whisper-Zero.

If you want to give it a try, there's a free tier available. I'm happy to bounce around ideas on this topic any time; it's super fascinating to me.
There’s nothing artificial or “boosting” about stock buybacks. The price goes up because the float decreases.

Sometimes companies will buy back their stock strategically because they believe it is undervalued - that’s a long term strategy.
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is this 'gardening leave' some british thing?
> No one gives away 20% of a company for advice. He gives them capital. Hopefully connections. And founders can take or leave the advice.

You could have just said: dumb founders want dumb money.

But... not all founders are dumb.
It is common to "buy" a company using shares. That's why it's called Mergers & Acquisitions.
Capabilities are often transient. Or in a capability based OS, capabilities are given to a process when it launches and the capabilities naturally go away when the program closes. "Who owns the capability" is the wrong way to think about it. But I'll lose this argument.

Because I suspect if you really want to, you really can think about all "permission systems" as identity systems, and shoehorn in users or something. This cognitive distortion is totally possible. My claim is that its a bad mental model. Its like if you mentally translate all programming ideas into assembler, or java or something, it would make it hard to properly understand and appreciate a lot of higher level programming ideas. Haskell's beauty doesn't make any sense if you mentally translate everything into java. There are programs you just can't write with this mindset, and you would be a terrible haskell programmer.

Its the same with capabilities. They're not user accounts. They're not identities. They can be transient or persisted. Fine grained or coarse grained. A capability can be a function argument - arguably the C FILE struct is a capability object. Or they can be a permission box. Its just, a bigger idea than identity.
I curse the inferior linter formatting and at the same time would not have it any other way because why? Some diva would come in and put up a MR reformatting half the code base to their preferred way, mixed in with the actual change they are making and I would have to hunt for the actual changes in the reformatting noise. And then we would spend half a day arguing about it like in the good old days. Fast forward six months and there would be 6 different code styles in the codebase and it would just be terrible.

:deep breaths:
This would likely mean Starlink dishes imported from the US would get confiscated at customs.
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> What my ideal would be is to have the master key on multiple HSMs (like multiple yubikeys) so they are safe but mobile.

That would be glorious. It would be great if it was standards-based, too, to prevent vendor lock-in.
> A far better argument is that the second amendment isn’t incorporated against the states, because incorporation is kind of fake news.

OK, I don’t think we’ll have any meaningful discourse here. Have a nice day.
If you're a property developer building an apartment building you have two choices, either sell the apartments or rent out the apartments. In an ideal free market economy the rental and sales prices for these apartments will be such that the profit from either will be the same and the supply of either type of apartment will be driven by the demand of that market.

However if you cap rental prices and don't cap sales prices, then it will never be more profitable to rent out an apartment compared to selling the same apartment, so property developers will only build apartments to sell rather than to rent. If you want new rental apartments and rent control you have to use some kind of additional carrot and/or stick to compel property developers to pick the less profitable option.
I haven’t seen the talk but I think about this comparison all the time. Knowing how to use hand tools makes you keenly aware of your material. I was recently surprised to learned exactly what “against the grain” meant while trying to plane hard maple. This awareness translates into a more nuanced understanding of power tools and has made me a much better power tool woodworker. Understanding programming tools all the way down to bare metal has the same effect. I teach a computer security course where we look at a number of classic control flow attacks (eg, stack smashing). Students are simply unable to explain the behavior I show them until they get all the way down to raw memory dumps of programs.

The only downside to seeing this connection is that you’re constantly tempted to use idioms from woodworking to explain programming problems, which just confuses most people.
Adopting is a multi-year, sometimes decade-long process where you have to fill out lots of paperwork before you're even considered. It's no wonder that it's not most people's choice. That stuff can really grind you down
Seems like the problem is that the leadership in the US is half fascist, half bumbling morons (in both parties), not so much whether or not central planning works or doesn't.
>a basic understanding of nutrition

There's a loooong history in the US of nutrition misinformation. A couple of examples:

- The food pyramid.
- Eating fat makes you fat, therefore sugary food being labeled as "fat free," implying healthy.
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Even if you have source code or IPA, it needs regular refresh of 7 days, which is too much inconvenient.