skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not watching that clickbaity nonsense, but I will happily flip through the studies they cite as their sources, and doing so tells me several things.

For one, the city did not "ban housing investors," they banned some investors from purchasing a subset of homes, which is already weak, and only made weaker by the fact that the first study analyzes only a few months of market activity under that new restriction.

That being said, both studies do indeed conclude that a link cannot be established with certainty between the policy and house price reduction.

> Results from the difference in difference analysis show that the null hypothesis that the policy effect on home prices and days on the market is not significantly different from zero cannot be rejected. This means that it cannot be concluded that the buy-to-let restriction reduced housing prices or increased the days on the market.

However, this is one city, not in America notably where the problem is at it's worst, and they did not restrict lower income housing which is the most liable to be outbid on by private investors and rented, so I would hardly say these two studies by themselves utterly disprove anything in the way your dismissive comment implies they do. I don't think a partial restriction on a housing market in one metropolitan area out of the roughly ten-thousand currently on the planet is definitive proof.
Genetic cause of rare childhood immune disorders discovered
Minor point, but Blaise Pascal was centuries earlier than the 1850s.
Complete noob here, but wouldn't the phones weight (especially with how big phones are nowadays) have a significant impact on the RPM by slowing it down?
the moment i heard chatgpt can make resumes i knew no one was gonna bother with latex ever again.
companies are gonna have to adapt to this - literally everyone on the planet is getting bombarded with "use AI or perish" messaging, why would they not use llms to format/create/write resumes?
> I think ours has been executed poorly with not nearly as drastic curves in the road, and really bad painted lines due to layers and layers of other roadwork on top of it.

I find the line work on these more difficult to follow than usual roads. The dashed, monotone, criss-crossing lines are somewhat difficult for my eyes to follow. I feel confident I'm going to the right road, but much less confident that I'm in my own lane than normal.

I think these might be more visually obvious if the lines were different colors. I.e. northbound had red lines and southbound had blue lines (adjusted for color blindness and maybe overloaded meanings). I think my eyes could follow a set of differently colored dashed lines much better.
> Yes surely any time they gimp a product it's because nobody needs the feature they removed.

You're tilting at windmills here—nobody claims that nobody needs it. Just that it's an engineering trade off, of who needs it.

> Every single person at my large software company uses at least 2 displays + laptop, that's the standard setup.

That's pretty cool. The standard for my medium software company is... not that.

> It's just objectively better for productivity to be able to look at multiple things at once without having to cram them into a single monitor.

I agree with you there. I'm pretty happy with 2 screens—and getting an extra wide monitor for my second screen was also a step up in a lot of ways.
Video tutorial by Taylor Tries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIlQDhMKro

Numberphile: https://www.numberphile.com/videos/juggling-by-numbers

The Wikipedia section about the history is ... strange -- don't trust it.
Which people? Not everyone has the same opinion.
This, and certainly no one has warned about this type of policy being inflationary by default. Granted, it is just a part of the equation, but not a small one by any means.
Monopoly is about choice, not revenue. I don't care how little Comcast or Spectrum makes compared to Google or Facebook when I'm forced to use their terrible service because there are no other options available.
An acquaintance of mine lost his lease on house he was renting and temporarily moved his family out of state while looking for a new place here. As you can imagine, this turned into many months of them being gone.

He left his Chevy Bolt parked across the street from his former residence (or rather, across from the construction site that replaced it).

Eventually, the car got impounded and I got roped in to go bail it out and bring it to another friend of ours who had space to store it legally.

When I got the car, the battery was almost completely discharged. When dropped off the car I don't actually know how it was still moving. We plugged it in to a regual home wall outlet be cause that's all there was. The car computer said it would take SIXTY HOURS to charge to full.

That's two and a half DAYS.
Is fine-tuning LLMs still worth it in 2024?
Atmospheric loss is an interesting and not-entirely-understood subject [1].

But here's one aspect we do know that puts the scale in context. Any gas has a Boltzmann distribution of kinetic energies. You can calculate that a certain portion of that will have a kinetic energy high enough to escape gravity. This is called the Jeans escape energy [2].

For Earth this amounts to losing 60-100,000 tons of atmosphere every year, which is actually a complete non-issue.

I mention this because the idea of terraforming Mars is a popular sci-fi trope but really makes absolutely zero sense. Mars has lower gravity (and no magnetic field, although part this is fixable) so the atmospheric loss would be significantly higher if we wanted to produce 1 atmosphere of pressure at the surface.

So however we produced that atmosphere would have to be able to sustain a loss of 100,000+ tons of atmosphere every year as a rounding error. That's the scale of just one of the many problems in terraforming Mars. You also have to produce (or ship in) that atmosphere without boiling the planet. The scale combined with thermodynamics makes this a nontrivial problem.

And where is all this energy coming from? We return back to the Dyson Swarm.

[1]: https://sseh.uchicago.edu/doc/Catling2009.pdf

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape#Jeans_escap...
Open-Weight Models Are Competitive with ChatGPT Even in Low-Resource Settings
Is it a smear campaign when you did it to yourself?
I prefer chatbots in some contexts. I should, however, always know that I'm interacting with a chatbot and not a person and also be able to opt out of working with a chatbot.
Has the crypto market reacted to this?
This is a bit nonsensical. Using the same logic regarding logout/revocation you would also be opposed to using Kerberos, say. So let's discuss the whole logout/revocation case.

In a typical Windows/AD or Unix installation you might have Kerberos (definitely in the Windows/AD case, possibly in the Unix case) and a directory (definitely in both cases, though in the Unix case it might be purely local), and you use the authentication system (Kerberos, say) in such a way that it allows you to elide some directory lookups on Windows/AD or not at all on Unix. Either way you get a worst-case latency for revocation of the user's service ticket's lifetime (Windows) or whatever you do to stop locked user processes (Unix). Well, that's the theory, but in practice many SSHv2/whatever implementations do not force session end at ticket expiration. So Windows/AD uses group policy for revocation. On the Unix side... we don't really have a standard solution, but essentially one can build a daemon that periodically looks for and kills processes running as now-locked users.

(For SSHv2, if you build re-authentication into a KEX, like GSS-KEX does, then you can force re-authentication and session end when authentication expires. In practice on Unix systems it's not really possible to elide a directory, so this is not necessary.)

Now for HTTPS apps it's a different story. You can use cookie expiration and force re-authentication so that revocation latency is bearer token lifetime, then keep bearer token lifetimes short. If you don't control the token issuer then you can still impose a shorter cookie lifetime in your app and demand a fresh token when you force re-authentication.

In any case, one does not need a revoked token/ticket/whatever list!

But it is true that bearer tokens don't completely elide the need for a directory for things like SSH logins onto hosts. But they do for HTTPS apps.

So I think TFA is just wrong.
Altman is a billionaire. I'm sure he's got a good crisis management PR team to handle the pickle that he's found himself in. He'll survive.
Transforming Speech Technology with WhisperLive
Uhh does that mean cancer rates go up?
My grandfather had a stroke which affected his ability to breathe on his own. He was placed on life support for a little while. I was told he finally indicated he did not wish to remain on it (somehow, I wasn't there), and he was disconnected and allowed to pass. My point isn't that he was 'brain dead', but that higher order cognitive function can remain even after someone loses the ability to breathe on their own. I'd have no desire to cling to life in his condition, but I'd want to avoid any possibility of being around for the final harvesting operation.
Are they shutting down pro-palestine protests or pro-Hamas protests? Is that a distinction worth making?
I've had great experience with Redis and KV from Cloudflare. KV is great, scales nicely but doesn't allow you the same list of commands and data structures as Redis.
The Start of De-Dollarization: China's Gradual Move Away from the USD
Thanks for writing this up. That actually clears up a lot.

So first of all, the kinds of things you are talking about here are way beyond the scope of what I'm writing. This is a series about the scientific method, not about math per se, and the target audience is bright but non-technical high school-age kids. Math is relevant only insofar as it turns out to be extraordinarily useful for building scientific models.

Second, the topic of this post was not existence, it was truth. Existence is (mostly) a red herring. Yes, the thing you describe exists. It exists in the ontological category of mathematical objects, which is a sub-category of the ontological category of ideas. That's all I have to say about it. So yes, I could summarize Platonism vs Formalism vs Constructivism, but that is simply not what I'm writing about.

The reason I'm bringing up truth in math at all is to lay the foundation for a discussion of whether or not the quantum wave function describes something real. But that won't come until much, much later.

BTW, in case you're wondering, the answer is yes, the quantum wave function does describe something real. See:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzz...

https://blog.rongarret.info/2018/05/a-quantum-mechanics-puzz...
That's a horrible story, but pulling it out seems to indicate you didn't understand what the GP was trying to convey at all. The point was that to use a crime from twenty years ago for which a person was convicted and served time for as indicative of problems with the current project he's the head of seems to indicate they could not not find anything relevant to the project itself to criticize. Doubling down on the details of that crime doesn't change that or counter the claim at all.

If you want to make a claim that rehabilitation is impossible, or that he's not rehabilitated, then do so. If you want to state that it goes to the point being made in the article, that hiring felons with a violent history is common, then do so. I don't think the article is indefensible, but these additional details without context to make them relevant don't add much.
I’m just thinking that the name is an invitation for Big Entertainment (in particular, LucasFilm, owned by Disney) to sue for trademark infringement since they have a trademark on “droid” (I remember seeing billboards for Android phones sold under the name “droid” back around 2010ish that had footnotes acknowledging the trademark and the licensed use of the term).
Thank you! :)

when using lazy-unchecked translation with relatively small programs, setting up the Linker sometimes can take up the majority of the overall execution with ~50 host functions (which is a common average number). We are talking about microseconds, but microseconds come to play an importance at these scales. This is why for Wasmi we implemented the LinkerBuilder for a 120x speed-up. :)
Oh you.

These people have weightier issues like the ethics of the hypothetical technological future on their capacious minds, and mustn't be dragged down to your mucky little level of discussing the ethics of the very real business present.

Seriously: don't bother them with these little questions of the rights of actually enumerable humans to whom they have contractual responsibilities! They're busy thinking in great depth about how their product might affect the rights of all the humans they haven't yet sold it to.
Co-author of the paper here.

The “largest integer factored” metric is terrible for several reasons, which is well recognized by researchers and is why people rarely publish those sorts of claims any more. Without net-positive error correction, it’s basically a function of how low your error rate is and how many bits that allows you to compute on with low chance of error, but as soon as the error rate crosses the fault-tolerance threshold then suddenly your storage is limited only by how many qubits you can build. So you can’t use this metric (if people were even publishing it) to predict anything after fault tolerance is achieved.

On more meaningful metrics, there has been steady progress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwAt36Xe3UI
"Despite the best efforts of his words, his actions continued their relentless smear campaign."
Adding counter spin:
And you had the unquestioned backing of world leaders ala the wall watchers in The Three Body Problem.

What would you do if you didn’t have to worry about money, or opposition, and the sky itself wasn’t even the limit.
If you have documented proof this is happening, you should send this to a news organization.
Why? Do they mandate process or procedure policies that kill productive organizations, or what? I'm genuinely curious.
US Cellular has great coverage back home (Maine) but shoddy coverage where I live now (New York) and T-Mobile vice versa. I've been on Google Fi for the past ten years because it is the only option (at least when I last looked) that jumps seamlessly between the two, and at a reasonable enough price (for a guy who doesn't use much data). If this merger makes another carrier that has good service throughout the northeast, that could change the game for a lot of customers.

I'm not optimistic, though; the T-Mobile - Sprint merger was supposed to improve their service but ended up [0] jacking their prices.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40379028
Are we really tho? No one is shutting down protests, they are shutting down encampments that disturb others. They’d do the same for Trump supporters or pro-abortion activists if they just set up camp in the middle of a university.
OpenAI sounds like a wolf in sheep's clothing
I think those websites actually have only one partner, one of the tiny oligopoly of advertisement brokers. That partner (*cough*Google*cough*), in turn, bows to the fig leaf of user consent via those interminable dialogs. So the site owners' question should probably be "Why do we need to partner with this behemoth that shackles us to 1200 'partners?".
Whataboutism really has no place in the discussion but is a pretty common and documented Russian tactic to deflect any responsibility.
This is a neat idea. I don't know why it needs to be an app on a phone though. I guess you "know" a phone has a microphone and the setup is minimal and you have a api for everything? It being a phone app leads me to believe the 'no data collected' bit is temporary as all phone apps eventually gobble data to sell.

I have an Android so I can't try this out, as its in 'private beta' on Android currently.

Would love to see this as a open source project that I can install on Windows or Linux though.
I've actually been giving this a bit of thought. Not because I think I could/would want to replace my Macs with an iPad but because my old 11" iPad broke and I was debating whether to replace it. I also found myself on a month-long trip hauling around the old MacBook Pro I use for travel and it weighs a fair bit and I didn't use it that much.

I did have an 11" Chromebook but it's way out of support and there's nothing on the market that would be my ideal replacement.

So I'll probably end up with an iPad Air for travel going forward. It's fine for any writing or work along those lines I would do--don't really do any programming or heavy duty picture editing/cataloging on the road. The external keyboard on the current iPads actually let you use the combined system in your lap which was one of my past complaints.

So not a general replacement for me but I think it's probably a better compromise for me traveling than a laptop that otherwise duplicated functionality of the Apple Silicon MacBook Pro I'd be using when I wasn't traveling.
> The Internet is 99% controlled by a small set of corporations that most people haven’t heard of

I would love to know more if you have time to elaborate.
I actually used this pattern as well and I really like it. I store another property called `mark_idx`. When `cursor_idx` and `mark_idx` are the same then it's just a cursor. When they differ, the range between them is the selection.
So instead of

"project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice"

it should more accurately say

"project works to give *the world* more choice"
It doesn't meet the poster's needs, but Simplenote is still a thing for people who want text-only notes, Markdown, and easy access to plain text files.

It got acquired by Automattic a few years back.

https://simplenote.com/
> iPad is my Hobby Computer - photography, sketching, note-taking, etc. A very costly one but right now with its power and lack of App and a dumbed-down OS, it is at best a Hobby computer.

Except, of course, if sketching and note taking is your job or part of it. Or reading or annotating PDFs, and things like writing and proofreading, etc. There are many non-hobby things that can be done on an iPad.

Sure, it is a bit of a specialised tool, but you having no professional use for it does not make it “at best a Hobby computer”.
Andrej Karpathy was the head of AI at Tesla and was the primary developer of the AI/Machine Learning curriculum at Stanford. He is an unabashed user of C for the development of ML.
I've also heard that traffic is so chaotic around the Arc de Triomphe that insurers always assume 50-50 fault for accidents within it.
Sam Altman is the new Michael O. Church.

Except this time he’s smearing himself.
Yeah, public grants in the EU never work very well. However, some of the consortia members have already delivered good software.

Personally, I think someone should have bought Jolla and open-sourced Sailfish and their Android VM. Perhaps turn it into a foundation, like Signal.
It will never work, the physics is completely wrong.
The same AI summaries that told people to put glue on pizza? And got mass coverage for providing all sorts of incorrect info?
I find it hard to believe that the diverging diamond interchange from the link is less scary than a roundabout. Roundabouts are all the same, from the smallest (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.2258039,-3.7709757,219m/data...) to the large (https://www.google.com/maps/@40.488386,-3.65609,436m/data=!3...), unless the designer felt the need to "improve". Arrive, yield, turn right, drive until your exit, leave.

Are you afraid of the inner lanes? Drive exclusively on the outer one, nobody cares. Do you need to go slower because you are in doubt? No problem, take even a second turn around if you need to get extra-sure.

I need to go through 16 roundabouts everyday, and after the 1000th (2 months) you gain familiarity enough.

What is this bullshit? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madrid/@40.4965508,-3.6484... . That monstrosity, that you need to use carefully until you memorize it, is probably unique with all the mental toll that means. First time I used it, I made a bet on a lane and prayed that it went to where I wanted. A few kilometers south of that, you have this sane roundabout: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madrid/@40.4297331,-3.5975..., doing the same 4-way joining in a more transparent and forgiving way.
I hear what you are saying, but I have an issue with saying something to the effect of 'you are too poor to live in this state'. I can kinda accept it at the city level, but saying 'just move to another state' is a little much. And I am saying this as a person, who moved few thousand miles, because that was my best opportunity at the time.
TLDR; its the orca equivalent of the latest tiktok trend.
Every corporation has to deal with the laws of the country they are operating in.

Most European countries have significant restrictions on what is "free speech", Google will censor those as well to follow local laws.
At least in our city, another big thing that seems to be tied to cheap credit is the rise of house flipping. Fueled by cheap interest rates and low capital gains taxes, it's easy for a decently capitalized speculator to buy up older houses, do quick, cursory updates to the interior modeling, and then put them back on the market again at a significant markup.

This is a quadruple whammy for people who just want somewhere to live. It means people who only have budget for an older home need to be hasty with purchases so they can get ahead of the speculators. It directly reduces the supply of homes by extending the period in which they aren't occupied. It reduces the supply of more affordable housing by quickly converting it all into more expensive housing. And it robs people who might want to fix up their own home of the opportunity to choose their own decor.

It's not actually front running, but it still feels like a similar kind of problem.
Would you please? Because I cannot imagine how you would do it. I can imagine how you could show me two green things, just as I can imagine how you could show me two big things, but I cannot imagine how you could show me two greens but not two bigs. Please enlighten me.
I've had good experiences.

Sometimes they answer my question.

Other times they don't, and I have to wait in the support queue for a meatbag to answer.

Worth the risk of a wasted 25 seconds.
The point is that Github is not just a web-based graphical client for Git.
People like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Taylor Swift became billionaires by creating new products that people benefit from -- increasing consumer surplus. Discouraging such people would make us worse off.
This is in the arXiv section called “physics and society” which is specifically intended for high-quality popular physics book, among other things.
> ipv6 had been designed form the start to allow seemless transparent access to ipv4 from an ipv6

It does. It's called NAT64, and it works/breaks as well as regular NAT44.
This is super cool and I can see a ton of applications for this. You actually sparked my interest first not as a SaaS provider, but as a customer - quickly connecting two apps that don't have Zapier integrations (yet). Will definitely bookmark this for future SaaS projects.
But being open source means that one could fork AOSP. Also the Google proprietary stuff comes with the Play Services, not AOSP.

So AOSP is a lot better than the alternatives, I would say.

I have a different feeling about Chromium: it is open source, but through it Google gets to control the future of the Web. But Android is not a standard, it's "just" one OS, so changes made by Google in AOSP don't really impact, say, iOS.
"A second term for him might look a lot like a dictator being born."

I hear this a lot. His first term looked nothing like this.