skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even disregarding zoning, construction companies have to compete for bidders, and the monopoly landlord may not have to compete with bidders.

What?

The premise is that there is a monopoly landlord but it's possible for others to create housing, e.g. the landlord owns all of the existing rental properties but anybody can buy an empty lot or single-family home and build a multi-unit building there instead.

Obviously if the monopoly landlord owns all of the land then you have a different problem, but that isn't even close to the case in any metro area in the US. (Though neither is anyone owning all of the rental properties for that matter.)

> Additionally, if insufficient housing is really a problem because more people and businesses are moving into the neighborhood, then the monopoly landlord isn't likely to have problems running out of money.

Won't they?

Suppose it costs $200,000 to build a new housing unit, but because of the existing monopoly they sell for $1,000,000, whether it's to the monopolist to sustain their monopoly or to someone else who would break it. To sustain the monopoly the monopolist has to remain the high bidder.

But now the construction company has a million dollars, and it still costs $200,000 to build a housing unit. So they build five new housing units, and now they have five million dollars. So they hire more guys and start training new apprentices because in the next round they're going to have 25 million dollars and build 125 new units which the landlord will still have to buy for a million dollars each.

It doesn't matter how much money the landlord has, the landlord is going to run out of money, because now the construction company has its own R&D division dedicated to construction automation it's only five more rounds before the landlord is paying the entire US GDP to the construction company.

> In other words: it is quite possible the new entrants or construction companies fold before the monopoly landlord does.

It costs them $200,000 to build something the monopoly landlord has to buy from them for a million dollars, or someone else will buy it from them for $999,999 which then happens again and again and destroys the monopoly.
the code works well on H100: https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1795554739633221804
We're probably all as smart as we need to be :)

I thought about getting a little bit deeper into the details, but decided to keep it brief. `godelski`s comment expands on the theme for anyone interested.

And all is well!
> Mass Effect was a game principally composed of components that everyone involved has built many times before, and where most of the difficult problems are already solved.

This is emphatically not the case. In its time, Mass Effect was considered very innovative -- one of the first "cinematic" game experiences, if not the first. (e.g., https://www.wired.com/2007/07/preview-mass-ef/ )

They did a lot of stuff with in-game cinematography and character face/voice acting that seemed extremely advanced at the time. Don't forget we were just a few years removed from 2D RPGs.

> A single feature of "being a person who walks into a ship, sits in a pilot seat, flies up into space, lands on a space station, gets out of ship and into the station, without clumsy transition screens in which you just magically become the ship" is a promise that many games (including EvE, Elite Dangerous) have promised and spent money trying to build for many years, and eventually given up on. Only Star Citizen has actually managed to deliver on this.

Okay, this is interesting.
Hot damn, I have to respect the author for shutting down any attempt to make him give in to the pressure.

All these serious enterprise people worried about their cows, but then they do install ‘cowsay’ on their systems xD
To start, terminal editors are limited to text rendering.

But native menus can have buttons, dropdowns, and input boxes.

Also, native menus are more readily explorable by users which teaches them what's possible. It places related functions near each other so the user can be aware of a function that's more applicable to their task at hand rather than the function they would have picked otherwise.

The native menus also include keyboard shortcut indicators and command pallet features which speed up a user's transition into a power user. You can see both here, the user types something in the search box at the top right, and then the relevant menu opens to reveal itself, related features, and keyboard shortcuts: https://images.macrumors.com/t/1nSQeW8SNfCYItiL2GsvvDYL1w0=/...
I spent 15 amazing years as a firefighter, but the cost of living along with other factors forced me to switch gears and become a software developer. I've learned a lot, but every day I miss the fire service more than anything.

Working on legal software as an underpaid, overworked, and abused (not joking) dev has been a real drag and it's taken a toll on me mentally and physically.

I've also realized that firefighting is my true calling. So I've been trying to turn things around; Working out, finding classes to re-up my certs, and giving myself a lot of mental space.

I'd love to go back, my local station is mostly volunteer so I'd never make much money. But maybe I can use my new tech skills to create tools that help firefighters help people as a little side gig.
>When a user visits your site with a modern browser in default configuration they'll get an error page along the lines of:

Neither desktop firefox nor chrome seem to do this by default, at least on my Mac (actually I think I'm wrong about Firefox on desktop as well, thanks to a guestbook signer!). Maybe it's a Firefox mobile thing, rather than a modernity thing?

>for the price of a free Let's Encrypt cert you can deliver much better UX

I'm going to get around to it, I promise haha.

Btw if anyone does visit the site, please do sign my guestbook: http://darigo.su/33chan (but be warned, a MITM might intercept and alter your comment!!)
Could this be a good case for a torrent?
Well, nothing you do on the server side will protect a client willing to use http: when an MITM is present: the client can still connect to the MITIM, give away its credentials, and your server won't know.

Still, I agree that this is a very good way to teach your users to not start with http:! And that this is what one should do.
I don't think this is that unpopular of an opinion; you only have to be burned a couple of times to earn this one
I'm asking if optimizing for clicks in search results rather than optimizing for quality of content and letting search engines attempt to determine what's worth surfacing was overall a good thing for users.
Mind your entropy.
Maybe the distortion in the physical disk has some type of signature, and it can be determined whether that distortion is fast or slow.

For ex, I would bet that 2x intended speed isn’t simply 2x every frequency in the FFT, when played through vinyl on a physical turntable.

Maybe some collection of distortion signals based on disk manufacturing and turntable manufacturing.
It is open source, here is the link: https://github.com/mendableai/firegraph

We use this awesome library to render the graphs: https://www.tremor.so/
Linux vs. Windows: Malware [video]
Is a seasonal psychiatrist a thing? Don't patients need support in spring?
At this point, most car brands with dealerships also have a selection of EVs. You can get things like extended bumper-to-bumper warranties also.
However the situation in Ukraine absolutely does not require it. They could simply choose to stop invading a sovereign nation.
>All I'm saying is that we should be a bit more humble about intelligence when we understand so little about it.

OK, as long as we're are being humble, how about we refrain from confidently proclaiming that there is a mouse level and a dog level that AI hasn't reached yet and that researchers will have to spend a long time getting past, so there's plenty of time before we have to worry about the possibility of AI's becoming dangerous or transformative to society?
Many dev shops have to use local clones of github repos, just because of availability / lag / latency problems.
I have literally never worked in a place with coworkers who understand VC tech well enough to understand what you're suggesting and who are diligent enough to actually do that. Getting that level of cognizance, over the entire seated body of a conference room, for the entire meeting, is unicorn territory IME.
you only think it's entitled and arrogant because you don't understand that protestors are protesting for people who don't have a voice, who's pleas fall on deaf ears like your own. your conception of protest is something an individual does to advance their own personal cause, so of course you only conceive of it as selfish - because you yourself do it for selfish reasons.

your selective memory of King and Parks is a disservice to their legacies. in "Letter from a Birmingham jail", MLK warns us about the kind of performative activism you espouse: https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-.... here's where you should pay attention:

> I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action'; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a 'more convenient season.'

> Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

- MLK
Please do use it in demoscene productions. We need more textmode demos.
Alignment is just one non-linear transformation away for any set of new basis vectors!
FWIW, similar macros in Common Lisp could be implemented using TAGBODY, which would not need tail-call elimination; tags have lexical scope and dynamic, so any functions defined within the tagbody can directly GO to any tag as long as the tagbody has not exited yet.

It should be unsurprising that CL has construct(s) that allow this, given that the specification does not guarantee tail-call elimination.
The concept of Consent is an anathema to the people in charge for these projects

https://soatok.blog/2024/02/27/the-tech-industry-doesnt-unde...
Yes, but its install base is still less than half of that of IPv4, and plenty of things that claim they support IPv6 don't do it properly. There are countries and industries where it is really entrenched, but in the majority of the networking world, IPv4 is the 100% guaranteed to work solution that all new applications and deployments first target, and IPv6 support is an after-thought at best.

Even Google, one of the champions of IPv6 adoption on the Internet, only started adding IPv6 support to GCP in the 2020s. In all public clouds, there are still numerous services that don't support it at all. And I can 100% guarantee that the next public cloud that anyone creates will start off with IPv4 support; maybe it will have IPv6 as well on day one, maybe not.
Oh gosh, I need help with this. It's not nearly that much, but damn I need this.
> impractical things like creative music and abstract art also make the world better

If you expand your definition of practical, it becomes quite practical!
Thank you for the suggestion, I have sent it around to some people like that to see their take! Waiting to hear more.
https://archive.is/qAklm
https://archive.is/LpDuJ
That was my first thought as well. Devs will do anything to avoid learning SQL.

You’re spending 20x the code and probably 1000x the time coming up with this nonsense, and for what – so you can say there isn’t any raw SQL in your code base? It’s as ridiculous as denouncing someone for occasionally dropping into Assembly for a specific purpose, or writing a bit of C to call from Python, etc.
Several centuries is not vastly different from thousands of years, it's still something we have to leave for a distant generation.
This is pretty cool, thanks for sharing it.

Is this the aforementioned comment about _why_ you aren't being specific about the implementation?

> Eventually I decided to see if I could find a novel, more user-friendly approach that doesn't require you to put a thousand-dollars phone on a fast moving spinning thingie, and that's how Grooved came to be.

If it isn't then I couldn't find it. I was very curious about that too (both how it worked, and then the incentive for secrecy--totally your prerogative but again curious given the veiled-to-me explanation) but didn't seem to find such a comment. Protecting novelty seems like the implied reason.
You have to mitm in order to evesdrop on an encrypted channel. If you do nothing but evesdrop, isn't it still mitm? You had to actively replace & spoof the two endpoints, but that is just a technicality required by the encryption, in the end you still only evesdropped, yet it was still called mitm.

So, mere evesdropping is mitm. So, how is evesdropping on unencrypted traffic or wifi traffic meaningfully different than evesdropping by decrypt & reencrypt?

I don't think the term mitm includes a requirement that you aren't talking to who you thought you were talking to, because generally you do still talk to who you thought you were, just not directly.

The traffic may be modified along the way rather than merely copied, or one or the other endpoint may be wholly faked rather than merely relayed, but they also may not be, the attacker may simply relay everything verbatim in both directions, IE pure evesdropping, and the attack would still be called mitm.

Then again, I guess a keylogger is evesdropping and not called mitm.
It appears that they instead publish a “RealFeel” temp, which is a type of heat index that accounts for humidity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AccuWeather#RealFeel_temperatu...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_index
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
Even at 19200 baud?
Why not just use the Paste and Match Style menu item or ⌥⇧⌘V?

- This app can make it the default behavior.
- That menu item is not available in all apps.
- The keyboard shortcut is hard to remember and type.
- In some apps, like Chrome, the keyboard shortcut is different.
- This app can exclude certain apps, preserve links, and also remove tracking parameters from URLs.
Right, I imagine most of the writers of the quotes reading THIS article and being like "ooooh you're SO close"
I might be lucky enough to have online banking work with sms and a pre-shared secret. My bank (also in the EU) didn't tell me I could do it automatically, they only mentioned it when I told them I lost my phone (it was true) and that I didn't know when I could buy a new one. Maybe it'll work with yours ?
I would only find that satisfying (from a snobbish and impractical perspective) if we were able to have the model decide: 1) what encoding should this section use? 2) how should I train this encoding?

A mixture of experts but for encodings is interesting, though!

Maybe there's a clean way to implement
If you're interested in a slightly more nuanced exploration of the history of this 'idea', you could check out Thomas Sowell's short essay on the subject: https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents...
Could you name the competing self driving systems (as in currently competing, with similar performance) that are available to the public, for private transport, that you have in mind?
Would you consider switching your interest to protein structure prediction? In particular, the current most advanced model is a closed-source, closed-weights system that was trained on a proprietary hardware. It is intentionally kept that way for now to enable deepmind to commercialize their product.

The goal here isn't to make the best performing model: it's ablation. How much can we remove from protein structure prediction (such as multiple sequence alignments and molecular dynamics, which were two improvements in AF3), while still having a generalized model that can predict novel folds.

Then focus on teaching the minimal necessary math and code to reproduce the results to the larger biological community. All I can say about AF3 is that it literally taught me that everything I learned about protein structure prediction in the last 30 years was misguided, or outright wrong.

Don't worry about drug discovery or any of the hard stuff. Just continue to show that all that's required to predict novel structures is the existing PDB.
https://rss.com/podcasts/braidcast/

Apparently the anniversary addition of Braid has even more commentary (15 hours).
You got something terribly wrong, U-238 is more stable than U-234, by a factor of a thousand or so.

You don't get to anything more stable in the U-238 decay chain until you reach Pb-206, which is stable.
Zen should be analyzed with Zen: if you found Buddha destroy it because it is not the real one.
FTX exec who turned on Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 7.5 years in prison
You act like Pegasus [0] and jailbreaking in general didn't exist until recently.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
Exactly, and what lazy lug of a windoze admin in 2000 wanted to rebuild NT4 domains to a whole new naming standard that actually complied with the choice to use "modern" DNS instead of Netbios? Those admins would have been at Microsoft's door with pitchforks and torches for making work for them, so instead they capitulated and relaxed the standard.
Maybe before saying you are going to align super human intelligence, you should first try to align merely human intelligence.
That tells me literally nothing. This is all machine generated boilerplate code. This isn't executive emails or documents. Since when are comments written by nameless workers an authoritative newsworthy leak on corporate policy? It probably tells us something about what sort of things workers at Google have researched, e.g. csam, scams, racism. If I grep for SEO then I see some database fields for their pagespeed service that mentions accessibility audits and progressive web apps. Looks pretty consistent with what Google has always said publicly. Where's the specific code that's generating all the shock and outrage?
They got away with doing whatever they wanted before: Facebook Manipulated 689,003 Users' Emotions For Science https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...
Putin is hit by sunk costs. He can't afford to "just withdraw".

The madness will continue as long as he's in power.
I mean sure, but if the backup generators weren't submerged from failure to plan for flooding, then the politicians wouldn't be in that situation. That's an engineering solution that isn't like earth shattering. Maybe it was a human bean counter that said it would cost too much (ha!) to do that for the generators. This isn't the same situation of planning to use school buses as an evacuation plan not realizing their parking lot is likely to be flooded. This is a nuclear reactor and there's meant to be some really smart people involved.
is it just me or is it hard to trust Business Insider at this point...? It seems to show its true colors over and over again as a crappy outlet just trying to survive on clicks in a post-Internet world that has made it pretty unprofitable to do actual deep journalism.
I would be very very surprised if this wouldn't be happening for the whole time.
> * I don't think there's anything new here*

The information about lying to the board about it is new, AFAIK.
Oh wow. I was expecting it to be the 70B one as base given those stats
This is fair. For what it's worth, Python is tending toward this and I think is introducing newer syntax at a faster rate with things such as structural pattern matching and typing, which I have had difficulty explaining to people who don't keep up with each new release.
I mean this is just quoting an interview from a podcast so it's pretty easy to verify.
It's completely legal to walk on the side of one of these two highways (US-15, a.k.a James Madison Highway) there's even an asphalt MUP for just such a purpose.
Thank you for the correction. Is it possible to use NSE in say Python or JavaScript?
If it had a default creation setting, it would be much easier to crack most user's passwords. There's still a motivation issue, but that's not a solid defense.
So it's wealth, and as wealth increases so does the opportunity for self actualization internally (fitness, etc.) and externally (relationships.)

Our entire society is structured around wealth/money being the single transferable / unit of exchange for time, freedom, self actualization, property, security, healthcare outcome stratification, etc.

So the whole damn thing is explicitly structured as money being the proxy unit for all the things we want and like. So it's obvious that most of the signal will be there.

The one thing that can never be removed from these equation is wealth.

Be wealthy and surround yourself with other wealthy people for X tranche of wealth.

Everything else is just obfuscation.

While there may be other factors and humans are a messy biological lot so "non normative" individuals certainly exist but there is only one BIG signal that never goes away.
Oh god this gets trotted out every time someone points out the evil that crypto facilitates. Give it a rest. It pales in comparison and there are many other solutions that your argument conveniently ignores.
Thank you for these links!

The phrase "5 roundabouts in a row" is nightmare fuel for sure, but the actual map makes it look a lot more reasonable :)
As many have noted there are two different scenarios.

In the lottery jackpot/UBI scenario where money is no concern at all I'd camp, fish, read books, and drink whisky.

In the need a job, but every job will pay my asking salary scenario, I'd make software like I do now, but probably for a smaller, less bureaucratic company.
Seems they are violating The Privacy Act of 1974
The Privacy Act of 1974 is a federal law that governs our collection and use of records we maintain on you in a system of records. A system of records is any grouping of information about an individual under the control of a Federal agency from which information is retrievable by personal identifiers, such as name, social security number, or other identifying number or symbol. Under the Privacy Act, Federal agencies may not disclose information without consent unless certain exceptions apply to the disclosure. The Privacy Act provides protections to individuals in three primary ways. It provides individuals with:

the right to request their records, subject to Privacy Act exemptions;

the right to request a change to their records that are not accurate, relevant, timely or complete;

and
the right to be protected against unwarranted invasion of their privacy resulting from the collection, maintenance, use, and disclosure of their personal information.
https://osc.gov/Pages/Privacy-Act.aspx

I say seems, because even though they aren't a federal agency, they should be held to the same standard at a minimum. It's our data, they don't own it, and they don't have a right to injure us for it.