skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The result for citizens in the US is disastrous. It mirrors the decline of the Roman Empire, which spent extravagantly on its legions, and the only growth came from conquering other peoples, looting them, and taxing them. This threat could not be sustained forever, and so the gold and silver coins were reduced in precious metal content, and the treasury (like the USA, which just prints money like a never-ending waterfall) created debased coins, resulting in inflation.

Just as the US doesn't invest in infrastructure the way other countries do or have an efficient nationalized healthcare system.

Why? We burn trillions on military and weapons. The military-industrial complex must be fed, and it is always hungry.

Think about retirement, healthcare costs, and the greedflation by corporations, as well as the government taxing your Social Security. It is intentional cruelty."
I had a very low volume bicycle manufacturing business some time back and relied exclusively on RAL for color choices. Coincidentally I was in graphic design at the same time and used Photoshop color management for publications.

Now I make my monitors and phone screens dark because I'm tired of staring into lights.
> Too bad 1:1 display isn't common.

Do any exist at all that are being sold right now?
This is why groups like https://new.yimbyaction.org/ and https://welcomingneighbors.us/ exist. Find (or start!) a local group.

It's extremely meaningful work, because you see homes built that you helped advocate for, that now provide someone with a place to live.

And since it's local politics, it's much easier to make a difference than on some hot-button national issue.
With pessimists like this guy the human race would never evolve. I'm fully with Sam on this one.
CenturyLink/Lumen has been using G.fast for most new FTTH deployments since 2016. They still install fiber to the outside of the house though, it's mostly about avoiding needing the installer to mess with wiring in the walls of existing houses, and being able to reverse power the outside node, instead of needing an outlet outside.
How much is insurance for a shack not built to code?
Three of the most amazing sculptures you will ever see, all produced in 1753 AD ±1 year, and all in one small chapel in Naples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappella_Sansevero
"Make Email Easier" grabs me. "Free Your Inbox" doesn't. What's all this "Freedoms" razzmatazz? I hear that term a lot but usually from a certain corner of the political spectrum that I treat with extreme skepticism.
the interesting comparison nowadays would be against mojo:

https://www.modular.com/max/mojo
> I find GDPR a great thing. I have yet to find a fellow developer here that disagrees.

Besides compliance costs, operational complexity, impact on small businesses, inconsistent implementation across EU Member States, and extraterritorial reach and global compliance challenges...

IMO a lot of the text in the law is extremely vague and subjective, while simultaneously sounding very longwinded and authoritative.

> Consent should be given by a clear affirmative act establishing a freely given, specific, informed and
unambiguous indication of the data subject's agreement to the processing of personal data

Notice it says “should”, not shall. Does this mean consent is technically optional? What is their definition of informed, affirmative, or agreement?

Requiring companies to remove individual records from backups also quickly proves to be a practical impossibility.

And it’s ironic to me that the law requires you to have even more centralized control over personal data from start to finish than they have now. To me this is a bit alarming from a security AND privacy perspective.

> The requirement to notify regulators of data breaches

Here’s a scary thought… what if they just stopped acknowledging breaches in the first place and claim they weren’t aware of it? What if they actually were unaware because the system was designed that way? There’s no law against being oblivious to breaches.

Other undefined terms such as “undue delay,” “likelihood of (high) risk to rights and freedoms” and “disproportionate effort” will require further clarity by the courts or regulators, or time for specific market practices to develop.

They don’t even define what a website is. Does that require HTTP be used to qualify? Or HTML? What about FTP or other protocols?

Also, it forces even non-EU platforms with zero domestic presence to risk being blocked due to not complying with rules that don’t even apply to them. Seems like net neutrality is fundamentally incompatible with GDPR in some ways. What if the US blocked EU sites for not being free enough?
This was already a problem when I moved to Atlanta in 2017. And the six years before that in the smaller town I was living in. The only time I got a raise above my rent increase is when I switched jobs.

It didn't feel like a supply crunch either. Plenty of apartments for rent in both places, but still rent everywhere increased in lockstep in both cities. Made the whole thing seem very arbitrary and cruel.
People act like this stuff is magic. When Biden came into office he pushed the build back better plan(luckily Manchin did not vote the largest portion of the bill) - 6.25 trillion even though Trump had already pushed a huge stimulus package during covid(which I think was too big also). Massive increase in cash supply led to skyrocketing inflation. Its why houses, cars everything is like 40-60% more expensive since 2019. I mean you can't get away with sending hundreds of millions of people thousands of dollars for free and expect things to just keep on going as if nothing ever happened.
SpongeBob brazenly violates 3D space rules (I mean, they also have fire underwater...). The writers and artists both draw heavy inspiration from Looney Tunes, where such rules are broken because it's funny to break them.
No problem.

The tool loads a directory of xml files; each file is rendered as a tab in the translation GUI. The framework exports the strings from each SWF form as a separate xml file into a directory that matches the native locale’s identifier (eg en-US) and gives it a friendly name based off the form’s title/caption and/or file name. So the end result is a naturally user-friendly approach to translation instead of having all the apps strings dumped together into one PO file as is the norm, and translators can reference the app they are translating’s UI as they methodically translate a component at a time.
I've been in places of the country like that, and it's even odds if houses from > 50 years ago are falling over due to poor framing, etc.

Having said that, we built a house in California, where the NIMBYs have weaponized code enforcement, and we could have built the same house (to higher quality and lower environmental impact) for about half the price and in half the time if it weren't for the planning commission.

The time mattered a lot, since that meant we paid rent + mortgage interest for an extra year.

To add insult to injury, the building inspectors missed all sorts of obvious problems, and the planning commission approved plans with gaping issues. I don't think they found anything that improved the house itself, but they definitely repeatedly rejected permit applications, and failed inspections for nonsense reasons.

So, in true Monty Python style, we'd have been better off financially if we'd built a house or two that fell over, sank into the swamp, etc.
Jan Leike, recently resigned head of alignment: "Safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products"

https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498184671605209
The US created ISIS in Afghanistan via their proxy war with Russia. Reap what you sow.
It is nearly impossible to make a man understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.
This is a terrifying alarm bell for humanity. Will we actually do anything about it or continue to drive faster and faster with our blindfold firmly on?
Why not just self-insure with the money saved in construction? The max damages are $40K + hauling the old one to the dump.
What blows my mind is the dumb stuff apple fans get excited over. I draw on an ipad every day. I select tools every couple minutes. I'm never going to be looking at a drop shadow thats under the pen.

It's just not that interesting.
There are so many factors that drive this.

I own, I have plenty of space, I would happily take on a roommate. But the tenancy laws make my life hell if that person turns into an asshole.

I have not seen any stats on housing distribution. Are there more houses with 1-2 residents where there would have been 2 or more in the past?
The "corporate interests" thing is a bogeyman. They're a symptom of the problem, rather than a cause, as is explained here:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/2/21-going-after-co...

If you go to local hearings and listen in on city council meetings, you start seeing a pattern of people who "got theirs" trying to stop homes from being built:

https://bendyimby.com/2024/04/16/the-hearing-and-the-housing...
Birthrate seems to have little correlation with income. The Scandinavian countries have made hard pushes to incentivize having children and they still wont. More likely that people just dont want kids.
For Elon Musk, Free Speech Is a Catchphrase, Not a Principle
> CPU, Apple M3 Max, 1 thread: 3.5 minutes

> CPU, Apple M3 Max, 16 threads: 10.26 seconds

Surprised to see a more than linear speedup in CPU threads. What’s going on here?
I don’t know how I—or the UN—can make this more clearer, there are no false numbers. There is the number for confirmed and fully identified victims, which stood at 24,686 at the time of writing, and then there is the number of confirmed dead but not yet fully identified, which stands at above 10,000.

It takes time to identify dead bodies, especially in an active warzone where it is not unheard of that whole families are dead, and double so when large powerful munitions are used. And as the health care system collapses, it gets harder and harder to identify quickly, so you can expect the latter number to grow.
"If you could even just get Gmail, Outlook, Zoho, and Yahoo"

Well, that's where you hit the blocker I'm talking about. They're only on board if there's some sort of benefit they can get from closing the standard.

I didn't think of this when I wrote my post first, but we've basically been down this road in something close enough to be relevent: Instant messaging. Such interop as was supported has been the result of the open source community laboriously fighting against the commercial interests... and, ultimately, losing comprehensively. Nobody is interested in a standardized instant messaging system.
Why not?

We could even think of both as collections of 3d structures showing all valid structures possible for a board of size n by n. There are some differences, every single 3d Conway structure has a unique top layer, while Go does not. But that seems like an overall minor difference. There are many more Go shapes than Conway shapes given the same N, but both are already so numerous that I'm not sure that is a difference worth stopping the comparison.
Caring Isn't Enough
kudos that the tool doesn't require you to only move videos TO Mux but instead is platform-agnostic, really legit
You are right, its a GE design. Boiling Water Reactor doesn't say that much, the soviet RBMK (big reactor with tubes) also are of boiling water type. This ORF story https://noev1.orf.at/stories/504751 (in german) claims that the type in Zwentendorf is identical to those in Fukushima (I). Maybe it's not exactly the same type but the designs seem to be very close relatives.
The "reverse spiral rule" is a myth and that website should be shut down. It only adds confusion for the already confused.

C type syntax has a simple guiding principle, there is no type syntax and "declaration follows usage" i.e. normal expression syntax. A few ugly additions that don't cleanly fit in this model were made later for practical reasons, but they don't change the basic idea, which is that there is so little to C type syntax that you can barely see it (which may also be why it's so easy to read once you've grokked it).
Keybase always performed crypto on-device using their open source client written in Go. What not-your-keys not-your-crypto setup are you referring to?
This sort of thinking really brushes aside a lot of building disasters that definitely didn’t just affect the wealthy.

The Iroquois Theater Fire…The Chicago Fire…the list goes on and on.
> The usual defense by advertisers is that their clients do not want their businesses to be associated with adult material

That's the biggest joke in the world, the largest diffusers of explicit content are by far the advertisers which they use to sell anything, from cars to shampoo

The advertising industry is the very last industry which can claim a moral high ground on anything.
and also open sourcing it
Ineligible for loans and uninsurable. Can't get certificate of occupancy, doesn't matter because not required for legal residence.
Now go meta and include in your prompt that you will sometimes disagree with the LLM but you want the LLM to prioritize correctness over agreement, and that you want the LLM to disagree with you when corrected if it believes it is correct.
> Property that is used by the public should be owned by the public.

Not sure why that follows, or how it would avoid the tragedy of the commons, or why we should act as if that’s already the case.

That all aside, how would you feel about people reclaiming public space, parks and public transportation, by blasting loud music in there?
Very cool idea - but unless I'm missing something, this seems very slow.

I just wrote a simple loop in C++ to sum up 0 to 2^30. With a single thread without any optimizations it runs in 1.7s on my laptop -- matching Bend's performance on an RTX 4090! With -O3 it vectorizes the loop to run in less than 80ms.

#include <iostream>

int main() {
int sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < 1024*1024*1024; i++) {
sum += i;
}
std::cout << sum << "\n";
return 0;
}
This isn't being done "in the name of" stopping disinformation.

It's being done "in the name of" not prejudicing a future jury.
I played with manual typewriters and mechanical calculators, back then electronic versions were virtually unheard of.

But I was already intrigued by electronics and figured it would take over in the future. Vacuum tubes were still the only option almost universally. Didn't touch them as a preschooler, high voltage and all that.

With the typewriter, the possibilities were endless, but for the calculator there was only so much you could do to make the right numbers show up in the little squares.

Which led directly to number theory, something that can be learned without being taught.

> There are minimum standards that toddlers do not reach.

I guess there's a grain of truth there, never did get much further ;)
> The next generation isn't being born, because their would-be parents are saying "I cannot afford to give my children as good or better of a life than I had".

I'd say it's more like they're saying "I cannot afford to raise a kid given the high cost of housing and childcare" period.

> 1) Get the older generation - the Baby Boomers - to work longer and rely on their stock-based savings less.

A couple problems with that: 1) As BBers close to retirement (and able to retire) tend to be in higher level positions delaying retirement blocks advancement for younger people. 2) it's not always their choice when to retire - if you're laid off in your 60s you're unlikely to be able to find another job that was paying anywhere near as well as the one you had. A lot BBers are finding they don't have a lot of choice about when they're going to retire.

> Import labor through immigration

This is the way. Being able to attract immigrants in a demographic environment where your population is aging is a big plus for an economy. Unfortunately large parts of the electorate don't appreciate this.
Buy low, sell high.

There are cheap houses all over this country, and the 'flip' world we're in now means that a lot of houses have a lot of stuff already done.

Buy. Work remote. Sit on it a year or two. Move up.
> mostly piloted from the UK

This is ignoring the Eastern front, which was, many times over, the largest, most intense theater of the war.
I can corroborate. I grew up somewhere where we heard cougars regularly (for those of you who don't know, they scream at night - it's a distinctive, spooky sound), and spent a lot of time in the woods. My ambition was to spot one, but though I found scat and paw prints and deer I was pretty sure they'd killed I never saw one in the flesh.

A neighbor found one dead, one time. (Dead from illness; I never heard of one being hit by a car - I think they're too smart for that.) A few other people I know were luckier, and had sightings, all of them too brief to photograph.

I'm skeptical about British big cats, but think it's plausible that (if they exist) they could remain all-but-invisible, and agree that corroboration would be likeliest by spoor or DNA, not by sight.

Edit to add: My totally amateur guess is that they wouldn't be cougars, because they scream, and I've never seen anyone reporting hearing that in the UK; and they're not likely to be leopards, because they hang out in trees, and are relatively easy to spot when they do. I'd say jaguars, which do neither, and occasionally come in a black variant. I'm still skeptical, but that it is remotely plausible - magnitudes more plausible than Bigfoot! - makes it an intriguing story.
So... doing honest work, then dishonestly avoiding taxes?
Perhaps Ironically, (or perhaps just tellingly), there was a very large overlap between the 4chan and DeviantArt user base back when I worked there.
What is considered to be a high interest rate? Looking at this[1] chart, it looks like rates right now are close to average for the past 50 years or so.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US
You're not alone. I can testimony it's happening in Italy too, at least in larger cities (Rome, Milan, Bologna, etc)

It's even worse here cause salaries are not rising at all

It's been like the perfect storm: high inflation, high interest rates, people cannot afford a mortgage anymore (or banks are not lwnding them money) and rents have become the only option available, reaching record highs. To add insult to injury energy prices are among the highest in the whole EU and you can imagine how grim the situation really is. Except for owners of multiple homes/apartments of course.
Ah, then I will just assume those reddit and online posts talking about it were either spouting outdated info or were just confused. I would’ve tried it myself, but my last Windows machine was given away last year (voluntarily by me, nothing tragic happened), and I currently have no access to one.

Because if it is as you say (which I am much more inclined to believe than random reddit comments from a few years ago tbh), then yeah, it feels pretty much like parity to the macOS experience with this, minor differences aside (that aren’t really even worth mentioning as points in favor of one OS or the other).
> Rents jumped 30.4% nationwide between 2019 and 2023

I don't understand how this isn't a major national emergency. The fact that your average voter cares more about, say, immigration, than this problem is absolutely ludicrous
Prince of Persia – how jumping animation was made
When talking about grid storage, "capacity" refers to power, not to energy, because grid assets are almost universally identified primarily by their power. Changing this tradition for storage assets would be far more confusing than the correct terminology which is used in the article.

There's an entire industry, with highly trained professionals, advanced curriculums, etc. etc. etc. that run the grid. It's old technology, but it is still technology. They have chosen to measure battery storage assets primarily by the power capacity, because that's the most important metric for how grids are actually run in practice.

Every single time that outsiders are introduced to the grid, there's always some comments that assume that the grid people or the journalists somehow got the usage of MW and GW wrong, but it's actually how it's used in practice by the real engineers who run these things. I have had many many discussions on HN and other forums going over this, but I have not yet found the language to concisely convince people of this fact (and my comment is mostly addressed to other readers of the forum, not to you directly).
Mac OS, especially in the olden pre-OSX days, was at least consistent here. Files autosave invisibly and frequently, to give the impression that the file in memory and the file on disk are the same thing. So long as the rules are simple and predictable, they can be learned.

But now the different disciplines are mixed. Does it use save as, or duplicate? Does it sync with external changes on the disk, or keep your work open in memory? With apps being so cross-platform these days, they rarely respect the interface guidelines of second class citizen platforms.
Well, that’s actually the what the article talks about: it’s the theoretical best worst-case, and it rarely/never maps to reality partly because of that.
More Dallas which was historically the biggest Texas tech hub. And still is, still bigger than Austin
Philosophically, why should it be the case that aggregations of statistical calculations (one way of viewing the matrix multiplications of ANNs) can approximate intelligence? I think it's because our ability to know reality is inherently statistical.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting macro scale, i.e. not quantum, reality itself is probabilistic, only that our ability to interpret perception of it and model it is statistical. That is, an observation or a sensor doesn't actually tell you the state of the world; it is a measurement from which you infer things.

Viewed through this standpoint, maybe the Game of Life and other discrete, fully-knowable toy problem worlds aren't as applicable to the problem of general intelligence as we imagine. A way to put this into practice could be to introduce a level of error in both the hand-tuned and learned networks' ability to accurately measure the input states of the Life tableau (and/or introduce some randomness in the application of the Life rules on the simulation), and see whether the superiority of the hand-tuned network persists or if the learned network is more robust in the face of uncertain inputs or fallible rule-applications.
Isn't it the case that you can only prove that a program halts if it can be reduced/transformed to a computational model (e.g., a model that is effectively calculable) that is less powerful than a Turing machine?

Had they framed their research as "how can we design models that are limited enough that we can guarantee their safety" (rather than how can we design a powerful extrinsic inspector to supervise), that would have made total sense to me. But if you can do that, many of the motivations for superalignment don't exist. Put another way, implicit in the superalignment game is the idea that models that require superalignment are going to be at least as powerful as what's on the horizon, not some reduceable subset thereof.