skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI Search That Understands the Way Your Customer's Think
That is the shape of housing market corrections. Housing prices are sticky because of a range of financial and emotional reasons. Because of this prices hardly ever crash outright. What happens instead are periods of price stagnation while inflation does the work of reducing real prices. And a real collapse of prices indicates neither wages nor financial devices could support the market any longer.

Affordable is a different issue. Housing assets exhibit strong depreciation under normal circumstances and extreme depreciation under any kind of stress. Affordable houses are used houses in a way similar to how used cars are fundamentally more affordable than cheap new cars.
> However, by itself, it seems like this capability wouldn't be very useful, commercially for example.

Quite the opposite, it's the holy grail of all AI.

Consider various work that isn't (and can't) be done by computers/robots/etc right now.

The intelligence constraint is universally, a required amount of problem solving. Even the "low skill" labour requires it.

And to perform such problem solving, you need advanced logic and reasoning capabilities, which is the same thing as novel mathematics, just applied to a different end.
> People have always been very clear that docker is not a security boundary, at least not with its default configuration.

I’ve also used it since the beginning and that’s some mighty strong revisionism.

Docker was compared to VMs — with a tiny asterisk of fine print that it’s not actually configured to employ security features it’s built with.
The solution is to make the property-as-an-investment a less lucrative perspective by occasionally sabotaging the property value of (but not the ability to safely live in) houses that are not being used to house people.

A few high profile jury nullifications would probably be sufficient, but we gotta be the rational economic agents that the theories think we are and work together on this.
Unfortunately I'm already seeing a lot of this at the consulting gigs I do. When I review in-house code that's clearly written using an LLM and ask the developer behind it questions, they can't even rationalize basic ideas about what's going on. LLM goes brr, it looks about right if you don't test any edge cases, and into the commit it goes. I suspect this phenomenon is way more widely spread than currently believed. Personally I don't worry about developers' job security prospects, being able to grok why a complex piece of software doesn't work has become more valuable in this context, not less.
Can you re-run your tests with `node --jitless` flag please? It should be a fair comparison.
Fundamentally, it seems inevitable to me that AIs will outperform humans at programming eventually. Humans are terrible at tasks that involve sitting still for long periods of time manipulating abstract symbols. They are not adapted to auch tasks at all. Our "general reasoning ability" enables us to do surprisingly much but it can only go so far when complexity of systems gets out of hand.

However, I think we'll be fine on this front. Smart and able people will find something to do and the really scary consequences of automation-caused job loss are only seen in regions that are disproportionately affected, such as a production plant closing that employs half of an entire town. Programmers are quite wealthy by comparison, which gives them time and opportunities to adapt, and also usually live in big cities, which offer enough different jobs.

What's really scaring me is the recent papers showing AI has theory-of-mind and persuasion capabilities on par with or even surpassing humans. One would think that's the one thing we're actually evolutionarily adapted for...
> This basically can’t happen with things like DMA and GDPR

I'm sorry but this is just wishful thinking. It might be what the spirit of the DMA & GDPR want but definitely not the reality thanks to inadequate or outright non-existent enforcement.

There are businesses out there whose entire business model and revenue stream are based on violating the GDPR. Not some kind of internal conspiracy or rogue employee, but the entire company is doing it in the open and the result of its doings (targeted ads or spam) are visible out there in the open for all to see.

Facebook, credit bureaus, data brokers, "consent management platforms", etc. All these companies' business models are big, obvious breaches of the GDPR. Yet, they are... still alive and kicking?

There is no chance that a concealed GDPR breach (whether intentional or accidental) will get addressed when the biggest intentional breaches are still allowed to continue out there in the open.

I suspect something very similar is going to happen with the DMA - Apple is already acting in bad faith but have yet to see any consequences.
Thank you for sharing this demo. Amazing stuff! Inspired me to start working on improvements to the development environment of my team.
Microsoft and Google are not tiny little companies. They have their own operating systems and the resources to make a good tablet.

Microsoft has just announced a tablet running full blown Windows running Qualcomm chips that from all indications is competitive with what Apple makes.

The latest Qualcomm ARM chips were designed by a bunch of ex-Apple folks.

But every hybrid solution sucks in one way or the other. I would much rather work on my MacBook Air M3 with a 2TB SSD and 24GB RAM with a 20+ hour battery life than an iPad Air/Pro with a keyboard and mouse attachment that hypothetically runs MacOS.

What problem are you trying to solve by not having both a MacBook and an iPad?

Cost? Give me a fully decked out MacBook Air + a cheap $349 low end iPad any day over an iPad Pro. Just the specs of the MacBook Air makes it better. As a bonus I can use my iPad as a second monitor.

The M4 in the iPad may be just as capable as an M4 in a future Mac. But the MacBook Air has better battery life and the iPad still makes trade offs between portability and power like less RAM (RAM takes battery), OS optimizations, sustained performance tradeoffs, etc.

Portability? The iPad is so light you don’t even feel it in a backpack. I literally traveled with both the entire year last year.

Short version: my wife and I took one way trips last year across the country visiting over a dozen cities while I worked remotely…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966
Evolution of Monolithic Systems
More wild speculation: an expansion point in the previous universe, centred perfectly on a quark-antiquark pair.
The article suffers from skipping between layers of abstraction in an attempt to make a point, and in the end in doing so fails to make the initial point.

In the first "Myth" section, that "nobody understands this quantum stuff", the example is used of the transistor. It's true that we have no way of making a classical model of a transistor, and our understanding of how transistors work relies on quantum mechanics.

But we did not invent transistors from quantum physics -- we created transistors long before we had an explanation of how they worked, and we have continued to improve and iterate by making advances in material sciences and experimentation, not by applying first principles. Things like blue LEDs were invented by tinkering rather than by solving Lagrangians.

The final section was of particular interest to me; Gil Kalai's work on quantum error correction is very interesting to me and I am in the camp that believes that quantum computing is not possible in any useful sense; in particular a quantum computer will not be capable of being significantly more powerful than a classical computer, in the quantum supremacy sense.

Here the author reverts to a simplistic argument that "of course" quantum computers are possible, because we can model a quantum computer in a traditional computer. But this sidesteps the main claims, which are whether it is possible to scale error correction to the point where a useful result can be achieved.

Even in the domain of NISQ, which is roughly the equivalent of running fluid dynamics simulation in a bathtub, we have yet to produce results showing that we can scale significantly better than a quantum computer.
> We got self-styled prophets writing whole books about their personal philosophies and slapping general-purpose-sounding names on them like “Clean Code.” It reminds me of the dudes who ran around the Middle East 2,000 years ago claiming they personally could introduce you to G-d.

Top-tier comedy. When I was in university, not too long ago, all the CS professors were huge fanboys of uncle bob. Lot's of lectures started with a reference to his books, making it seem like a mandatory part of the curriculum.
Marginally higher and higher property taxes for non primary residences would deal with that.
An LLM is just summarizing bad information.

In other words, there is no real *intelligence* involved at all.

*Intelligence* has yet to be accurately defined --- and there is no reason to believe it is a statistical function.
At this point I adamantly refuse to call it AI one single more time, because it is not, it's LLM's, it's generative models, it's pretrained transformers. AI as a term belies an intelligence in the product in your average person (and many tech people it seems) that is simply not. Fucking. There. LLMs do not understand, at all, what they are saying. They are simply generating words one at a time to minimize "error," whatever that means in the context of the model.
Depends what you mean. All the subsidized housing available is operated under the housing first model with no sobriety requirement. Is there sufficient housing on offer? Clearly not. But SF expanded subsidized housing inventory substantially during the pandemic and has more such inventory than basically any other west coast city.

For political reasons having to do with the NPIC, the city does not invest much in shelter beds. So it’s a $750k-$1m apartment or bust.
I don't get why this is supposed to be a big thing, I thought it was commonly known. This doesn't mean that people can get root from inside a docker container, just that anyone who is allowed to create and start docker containers on a machine can also get root on that machine.
That's simply not possible. Human understanding is still unreliable, even for geniuses.
To me, the best thing to come out of the Big Data era was Spark Streaming. That tool provides a nice architecture for processing a stream of data in near real-time, from multiple data sources no less, that we didn't have before.

Spark in general was a great tool to get out of the Big Data era.
> GPS coordinates

*Coordinates, or lat/long

Other navigation systems are available, including other GNSS!

> 51.014903961182846,5.814442712946816

I'm not sure localisation to the level of the atomic lattice is entirely relevant in this use case.
Often overlooked middle-ground that vastly simplifies your revocation logic: Just have a single field "not-issued-before" timestamp assigned to each user account. Instead of revoking a single token, you have a "log out from all devices" logic - i.e. you revoke all tokens at once based on their "iat" claim (issued at). No need for revocation lists alltogether, you just make sure any tokens "iat" is never before the "not-issued-before" associated with the user. Sure, this is not as perfect UX as being able to revoke individual tokens, but token revocation in generall is something only a fraction of your uses is ever going to need.
"These mini-pyramids scatter 73% of the light that hits them, which gives the material that frosted look. But despite that, it’s surprisingly more transparent to light than regular glass – 95% transmittance compared to the usual 91% of most glass. The team says that makes for a more comfortable lighting not just for people, but plants as well."

Clearly, because they're qualifying its frosting effect - it's frosted, which inhibits the passage of vision, but counterintuitively, it does not stop the transmittance of light, so it doesn't darken a room.
The "about" box doesn't show on mobile. On desktop it says this:

The Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), for civilian use, or Android Tactical Assault Kit (also ATAK) for military use - is a suite of software that provides geospatial information and allows user collaboration over geography.

ATAK was originally developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and is now maintained by the TAK Product Center (TPC).

There's more information on the About page (accessible via the navigation bar on desktop, or the menu on mobile): https://www.civtak.org/atak-about/
They said Sharm al-Sheikh was in Sinai.
3% vacancy tax producing $115M in revenue indicates roughly $3.8B in empty housing stock. Average condo prices in the CoV are roughly $2.1M, and so we can conclude there is likely around, or a little less than, 2000 empty condos hit by this tax.

That's not 1/3 of Vancouver's condo supply. Not by a long shot.
I was at a Cavs playoff game and they had these as well. I would guess they will become more popular. I've seen at some games, I think a Browns regular season game, you had to download an app and then give them access to your flashlight which I was not interested in. So this is a nice alternative to create the desired atmosphere without gaining access to users phones
Oh yeah, Infrared Radiation right to your audience eyes

Wondering why I have to double check to not get my retinas fried in the lab, but it's safe in a concert
Thousands of six figure engineers are directed by Wall Street to develop systems to help prevent people from putting down their devices.

The kids never had a chance.
Is the FTC unbiased enough for you?[0]. This is a real problem. Many landlords use the same software to determine how much to charge, this software is intended to maximize rent by fixing the price.

[0]: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fix...
I've seen plenty of these essays, and colleagues bashing LLMs online, making fun on mistakes the AI makes, sharing articles about energy usage, etc.

I use it to help me write code in languages never used before, to manage infrastructure, to summarize manuals, to explain me stuff, and what not. The savings of time and the productivity boost are huge and converts into real income and better understanding of various concepts.

Are the LLM perfect - of course no. Human programmers aren't perfect too, yet they hire them and pay them huge salaries. AI will change a lot of the business and writing essays and making fun on it online won't stop it at all.
Agreed on the first part, but for LLMs not having correlated capabilities, I think we've seen they do. As the GPTs progress, mainly by model size, their scores across a battery of tests goes up, eg OpenAI's paper for ChatGPT 4, showing a leap in performance across a couple dozen tests.

Also found this, a Mensa test for across the top dozen frontier models.

https://www.maximumtruth.org/p/ais-ranked-by-iq-ai-passes-10...

That does seem to me to be demonstrating a global type of reasoning or generalization.

Also see the author's note that at least with Claude, they seem to be releasing about every 20 IQ points.
Funny, people used systems like JWT in the late 1990s. Back then you couldn’t really trust the session mechanism in your language because inevitably these had bugs and would toss your cookies for “no reason at all”.

I was inspired by https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/ circa 2001 to develop a complete user management framework based on that kind of cookie which had the advantage over other systems that the “authentication module” it took to get authentication working in a new language was maybe 40-100 lines of code. Software like PHPNuke that combined second or third rate implementations of apps all in the same codebase was the dominant paradigm then, the idea that you could pick “best of breed” applications no matter what language you were using was radical and different.

I used the framework for 10+ projects, some of which got 350,000+ active users. As an open source project it was a complete wash. Nobody got interested in user management frameworks (as opposed to writing your own buggy, insecure and hard-to-use auth system in a hurry) until around 2011 or so when frameworks based on external services all of a sudden popped up like mushrooms. Seemed like the feature I was missing was “needs to depend on an external service that will get shut down with the vendor gets acquired”
Miami is something else. I had an officer threaten to deport me because I answered his question "do you have alcohol with you?" with "no, but I have some in my check-in luggage", which was apparently a great show of disrespect. The actual dictatorships and enemy countries I've been to had friendlier welcomes. Baffling.
Querying a database for a session id isn’t elaborate work. It’s also trivial because as TFA mentioned, literally every major web framework ecosystem with has a solution for this.

God, how hard is SELECT * WHERE …, seriously.

You need to share a session across websites? Wow! Connect to the database holding the sessions.

Boring.
You're right about what it does, but the original article also often calls this material "transparent", e.g.:

> This design integrates several functionalities, including light diffusing, self-cleaning, and radiative cooling, while maintaining a high level of transparency [emphasis mine].
Of course, the industry has a long history of automating and abstracting tasks. Usually there's plenty more work to be done but it does tend to mean that a lot of low-level tasks get devalued over time and, if your value is mostly a willingness to roll up your sleeves and do a lot of low-value grunt work, well...

Needs also change. Someone somewhere is probably still hiring x86 assembly language programmers for embedded work but they're probably not the highest-paid jobs and you'd likely better be especially expert. And some skills and knowledge just don't matter much any more--at least if they haven't been transferred to newer domains where they can still be applied.Probably, no one want to hire the world's leading consultant on some specific obsolete proprietary architecture.
I'll bite, does "the likes" include tankies?
If cash wasn't a thing, I'd be all in on creating a system that lets you transfer your memories and brainpower into another body or a robot.

I'll let you laugh at this like others, but I'm serious.
It means that any normie can get a perfectly working GNU/Linux laptop from a random shopping mall and everything works out of the box without any constraints.
This reminds me, we should have a class action lawsuit against Debian and Debian-family organizations for incorrectly using the word:

Stable

Stable: "firmly fixed"

Stable when you use debian-family: "Bug ridden, outdated, but hey, at least the bugs are consistent!"

Now I understand if you are hosting a server, or doing some linux OS dev, Canonical picking Debian as their fork distribution makes sense. Its wayyy easier to copypaste something that rarely changes.

However, I see people recommending Debian-family for desktop in 2024 and its only causing people to go back to Windows. I don't think its malicious, I think its just people repeating Canonicals 2006 marketing.
FreeBSD 14.1-RC1 Includes the Sway Compositor
Lina Khan still wasting her time on big tech (to prove out her paper) while other industries like this, glasses etc slip out from under her
Given that _AuthN_ and _AuthZ_ are in common technical use, I would expect something handling _Auth_ to work on both _AuthN_ and _AuthZ_.
This article is from 2017.

Rootless docker is still not the default choice somehow.

Podman however has been working rootlessly for a few years now, and does not suffer from many of the docker shortcomings.
Yeah, this works very well. A nice "log me out of everywhere, including this device" link is often all you need on the settings page.

It also makes e2e testing very easy since you should be logged out after pushing that button.
It is interesting but I wonder how much it will cost to manufacture?
China's military shows off rifle-toting robot dogs
This is definitely an odd take, given the 150+ saplings I pull from my meager backyard every spring. I'm still killing off the root system of some Elm trees that were destroyed in 2021 during the big freeze here in Texas. If I didn't keep that in check I'd have dozens of elms at this point.
Yes, the right word would have been that it's a translucent material, not a transparent one. The paper makes this confusion as well, though they do sometimes call it "translucent" too.
Ah, yes. You’re right. I see now that I bookmarked that page many years ago and then totally forgot about it!
One less click and scroll?
> The only problem I have is that I can never remember which one maps to HTTP status codes 401 and 403. But that’s just a personal quirk.

It's probably because the name of the codes is actually wrong. 401 is called "unauthorized" but actually means "unathenticated" in every situation I've seen it used. 403 is called "forbidden" which is fine, but is synonymous with "unauthorized" in this case.
You have to be pretty big before "store the session information in Redis" doesn't work anymore.
This is a cromulent approach, though it would be far more effective to have the LLM generate computer-algebra-system instructions.

The problem is that it's not particularly useful: As the problem complexity increases, the user will need to be increasingly specific in the prompt, rapidly approaching being fully exact. There's simply no point to it if your prompt has to (basically) spell out the entire program.

And at that point, the user might as well use the backing system directly, and we should just write a convenient input DSL for that.
This still doesn't make sense because why would only homes on the low-end appreciate? If anything homes on the high-end should be appreciating faster because the people who live in them can afford to do more improvements.
Those "health sharing ministries" are a complete scam. They take your money and provide you nothing. Sort of like church and the donation plate, only they purport to provide a genuine service in the health care field.
Grep.app – Search across a half million Git repos
I'd read and relax and take care of myself more
T-Mobile buying US Cellular; says rural coverage will improve
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The issue is it takes significant pressure over time for any real effect to occur here.

Think San Francisco or New York in the 70’s type of ‘urban decay’. [https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/18/welcome-to-fe...

A one-off broken window, or never cutting your grass isn’t going to do anything.

Realistically? High central bank rates for awhile does the same thing.

1974 had a fed rate of 10.74%, 1975 5.82%, etc. [https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-c...]
>join a group of squatters

Lol, it really is true that "civilization" is three meals away from being kaput.
I don’t see it as impossible for an AI model to exist that does the same.

The important step is creating an AI model with enough cognition to recognize it needs to do the same before spouting nonsense.
My God, I can practically taste the salt emanating from this post.