skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in Tokyo, it was basically:

1) Go to / be pointed the nearest train station, then ask random people for help close by if still can't see the number somewhere or parse the names. People all over are super willing to help even with a language barrier. They'll usually point you up a few streets, at landmarks, or general direction. I'd often end up having to ask like 4 people on the way lol

2) If you're meeting with friends, you meet at the train station then go from there.

I don't know how anyone got around there before mapping software.
This seems to assume that induced demand is a significant factor in housing ownership. Which could be true! Maybe we also need to look at housing speculation. If we build more homes and they’re all bought by housing speculators, the median persons home ownership won’t change.
There's no such stipulation. The stipulation is: don't challenge our power.
Related from earlier in the year:

'Better than real men': Young Chinese women turn to AI boyfriends

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39424765
That's because the people rejected the Disinformation Governance Board. Imagine if this board was active. None of these would have happened and we would have had a happy peaceful life with our benevolent government watching us over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Boar...
They mean something like the minmax algorithm used in game engines.
That theme song. It still rattles in my head.
As someone who just setup Gitea on a personal server, that will strictly be used by me and maybe a couple friend's or family members in the future, is there any down side to just continuing to use it?
If its fully self hosted on my server, no connection to any business work, and only used for personal stuff, should I care at all about their governance structure, possible changes to the license, etc? Seems like any kind of shady data sucking changes in an update would have a huge stink made about it.
"Banned books" that you can still just buy on Amazon or whatever other book retailer you like.

Let's save the term for books that are actually made impossible to obtain.
You are probably forgetting that LLMs are not a final "end-of-history" thing, but a stage that calls for improvement, completion etc.
Two minutes of ads!?

On desktop most ads YouTube gives me allow skipping after 5 seconds. Most of the ones that don't allowed skipping at 15 seconds or less. In back to back ads if the first cannot be skipped the second almost always can be skipped after 5 seconds.

Ads are longer on my Fire TV Stick but almost never is the total time that cannot be skipped more than 30 seconds.

Now I'm curious what other people are seeing? Is what I'm seeing closer to what most people see or is what you are experiencer closer to the YouTube norm?
Setting one launch flag on llama.cpp server hardly qualifies as going crazy with one's setup.
I suspect the purchasing of properties by commercial interests is probably by far the dominant factor here, with immigration having a minuscule effect in comparison.
A leopard 2 costs about 30 million euros, how much of that is spent on energy you think? It’s just ridiculous to claim that energy is the bottleneck here.
The alternative is housing cooperatives. Basically, a non-profit that owns the property(ies) and is democratically operated by the tenants. Tenants still sign contracts and pay rent, but there's no landlord. Some cooperatives, if they're large enough or have the funds, even have employees that do all the work that a landlord normally would.

I'd love to live in a world where all residential property is owner-occupied, owned by cooperatives, or maybe public housing. Just take the rent-seeking behavior and speculation out of the equation entirely.
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free will and agency are two very different terms. Free will is a philosophically charged term that is often incoherent or ill defined, agency is fairly straight forward, it's the capacity of any actor to realize their goals and act autonomously in their own interest. It's the ability to shape your surroundings rather than be shaped by them.

There's plenty of agency in a deterministic universe, a dictator with a nuke has a lot more of it than a slave in a cage. There's no need to be nicer to criminals on grounds that the universe is deterministic, which it is. (both in Newtonian physics and quantum mechanics). The nice guy is as deterministic as the criminal. None of them are "forced to do" anything by their brain state, there is no subject that is puppeteered around by your brain like some reverse dualism, you and I are our brains (and bodies). What matters is if you want criminals to have more agency, and if you don't, you punish them.
It's funny this article is technically correct but also totally wrong: if you can't run the application(web browser, game, office suite) you want on an OS, it maybe the 'Ideal' OS you're still going back to Windows..
What's a base shell?

I don't make the image.
That chart gives you the false impression that LA is a prime startup hub, it's in the top 5 after all. But for anybody who's spent time in that scene and can compare it first hand to the Bay, it's night and day. https://dealroom.co/guides/global
Not really. Only 4k content and anime seems to use HEVC/h265. Anything lower resolution has stuck to h264 for the time being.
It's not even only about surveillance. Microsoft also makes Github Copilot. Getting Recall onto developer machines gives them the opportunity to train their AI on how programmers actually program, rather than just using an LLM trained on code.

Eventually we'll have programmers with Recall activated by company policy on their PCs, actively training the AI models that will replace their labor.

That has to be part of the goal here. The full automation of software development. Think about how much money Microsoft would make if they did it, and how much they would save if they implemented it.

We need a new Luddite movement to protect the workers from all of this.
> Tesla's model lineup is now showing its age.

What do you mean by that? Model 3 and Model Y were updated this year.
Something which gets me about these Effect methods is that very similar things can be accomplished with generators. I assume this is all generators under the hood. I personally would rather just write that code because once you’re familiar with it, it’s really not that difficult to work with.

I agree that a wrapper around generators is nice if it suits the situation (like async/await), and abstracting them is useful at times, but I’m not sure I’d want to pull in an entire library for it.

One thing, the Effect.runPromise and similar methods which seem like overkill are probably providing quite a bit more utility and reliability than it appears. It might offer good cleanup guarantees as well.

I should add that this is the equivalent of a hot take. If I looked closer I’m sure I’d change my mind, but I’m old and crotchety like you.
The Australian GenCost report basically ruled out nuclear as a sensible option, with an extra big question mark on the much touted Small Modular Reactors.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-22/nuclear-power-double-...

> Building a large-scale nuclear power plant in Australia would cost at least $8.5 billion, take 15 years to deliver and produce electricity at roughly twice the cost of renewable sources, the country's leading scientific institution has found.

> In a report that has for the first time compared conventional nuclear power with other options in Australia, the CSIRO concluded the technology's costs were broadly similar to gas- and black coal-fired generation with carbon capture and storage.

> But the CSIRO's GenCost report noted that nuclear was still likely to be at least 50 per cent more expensive than large-scale wind and solar power backed by "firming" technologies such as batteries.

> And it warned that the true costs of utility-scale nuclear were likely to be far higher still, given the major risks of cost and time-frame blowouts for a technology that had never been built in Australia before.

> It said a nuclear power plant in Australia would be a "first of a kind" and, as such, "premiums of up to 100 per cent cannot be ruled out".
Regardless of the cause of climate change, on any time scale (even if it is a 100% natural cycle and human effects are zilch in the grand scheme), pollution is icky and hey, I'm walking^W living over here.
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I was born/raised in Seattle and I asked a startup vet why Seattle startup funding under performed so hard against the perception of Seattle being a tech hub.

His answer is because the rich Seattle techies got rich by being employee # 60,000 at MSFT / AMZ / FB / GOOG and aren't apart of the Seattle startup scene, and don't have any interest in investing into it.

What do you folks think?
or by corporate landlords and rented out. or by already wealthy howeowners leveraging their existing properties to borrow money to buy new properties, or or or or. Or by overwhelming immigration beyond the capacity of the host country, or or or.

There are a lot of social problems that cause building houses in and of itself to not be too effective.
Discussed here:

Will scaling work? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38781484 - Dec 2023 (283 comments)
I think you have that the wrong way round. They are the way they are as a result of play. Play is fundamental to their adult behaviour.
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https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copi...
I can’t imagine that DC is a better place to have a startup than Seattle
I'm honored to be included in this article--I wrote Lander (1990) originally for Windows 2.x.

When I applied for a job to work on Lotus Notes (back in 1989), I showed the interviewer (Tim Halvorsen) my Lander game. He said, "That's pretty cool--let's try running it on Windows 3."

At first, I thought, cool! I get to see Windows 3 (which had not yet been released). But then he said, "Windows 3 runs everything in protected mode, so if you have any out-of-bounds pointer access, it will crash instantly. Let's see how you did."

I was on pins and needles the entire time.

But fortunately, Lander didn't crash, and Tim was happy. I ended up getting the job, which forever changed my career.
I could see this implemented as a hypervisor that doesn't care what OS you're running.
Wireguard doesn’t do nat punching and is not mesh, it’s p2p only.

totally different use case.
Netlify CEO here.

We've had a few open source plan since the early days and it's not going anywhere.

https://www.netlify.com/legal/open-source-policy/
I'm not sure Pence did, Snopes says the story is being corroborated and I'm only seeing it on Arab websites. Haley, meanwhile, was having fun with it: https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/israel-hamas/2024....

Which is why your comparison doesn't make sense to me--Haley is obviously the spicy one in the comparison.
> I wonder why it’s still such a challenge to make something that feels as good as a first gen iPad from 2010.

Cars have a unique set of operating requirements. During the course of a year, my car could be -40F or 160F inside, depending on if it’s winter or summer. Electronics that operate reliably in that temp range are expensive.
I re-upped the previous thread so it would have more frontpage time.

The other issue is that we generally prefer a clear third-party article to an obfuscatory corporate press release.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
It's not that they're not powerful, it's everything else. Spreadsheets are great for quickly putting down some data and evolving your understanding as you go. Make a pivot table, filter it, make some charts, show it to someone, throw it away. Where they come unstuck is on long running more or less static important calculations that everyone uses. This is because 1) no version control, so you have copies upon copies being passed around. 2) inscrutable formulas that should be documented udfs. 3) data with no constraints like types, nullability, foreign key, so the data has no integrity. 4) insufficient tests. 5) insufficient error messages. 6) insufficient logging. Etc, etc.
There are ways around this in some cases: use emulation, modify the existing program to port it to the new system (if the source code is available), or write a new one. An ideal system will allow all three possibilities; although, which are possible also depends on the specific program that you want to run.
> Critics of carbon removal have long feared that it will offer polluters an easy way out, by giving them an excuse to continue their emissions.

A great illustration of the moral valence of the issue. If the problem were considered as an engineering problem, then of course it wouldn't be a problem that firms can continue to use carbon-rich manufacturing processes as long as the carbon is removed from the atmosphere shortly after it is produced.

But it's not treated as an engineering problem by activists, it's more akin to sin. There's no offsetting your blasphemy by doing good works. The act itself is unacceptable no matter the circumstance.
Errol Morris mini-documentary on the event: https://youtu.be/o8vdkTz0zqI?si=8_Be_zNPTOq9iZEF
I've actually played a lot of Citadels (which I think is great fun these days, although I'll admit I disliked it when I first played it many years ago). I'll have to give Mascarade a shot, it looks like it would be engaging in the same sort of way.
Increases in strength usually go hand-in-hand with increases in bodyweight. I did Starting Strength, and gained 10kg in a few weeks. Some of it was fat obviously, but mostly it was muscle. Even though I didn't perceive myself much different everyone else did notice. Also I had to buy new clothes.
Probably true in general. But there are always exceptions. Hard to imagine a tool better than Excel for slot game math calculations. Maybe it can be done?

Calculations for slot machine mechanics and payouts have been in Excel for a long time. There can be a LOT of complexity in these workbooks. Sometimes it’s tricky to debug - but what’s the alternative? Code is often hard to debug too.

Simulating results (Monte Carlo) is nice but having two sets of data for validation/checking against each other is nice.

I am not aware of any alternatives.
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Sorry but I have to ask: what makes you think this would be a good idea?
That’s because Boston is cold and we think Hawaiian shirts are dorky. Casual culture is alive and well, but different
>>>> Now the first chapter starts with a gun pointed at the hero's head. By the end, he is teetering on a cliff about to jump into a crocodile-infested river. Just when the tension reaches a peak, we're introduced to the character but we have reason to want to get to know him.

Amusingly, every New Yorker article is structured in this way, but with a twist: The character and not the action is actually the main subject matter.
Additionally, the possibility of consequences (including those created and enforced by human beings, formal or otherwise) are also factors in the "deterministic" action of an individual, so for the benefit of society (assuming there are outcomes that society can improve via expectations and consequences) then it makes perfect sense for there to be consequences.

Bottom line though, whether the system is deterministic or not doesn't affect our experience of it.
I remember living in Japan around 2001 and having to handle random addresses.

We had several atlas books of regions and neighborhoods. Looking up an address was an exercise in getting the right book for the neighborhood, then using an index which noted which block of the map that house number was in (eg 'c10' using a grid with numbers across the top and letters down the side).

Plotting a course from where you were to this location was also exciting and required patching together multiple maps.

Actually following that course in real life was another challenge altogether and really required visualizing what you saw on the map since, as noted, there aren't many street names.

I'm honestly surprised we were able to succeed at getting to places as often as we did.

I kind of miss that experience, just plugging an address into a phone and following directions is much less exciting.
“Search” here means trying a bunch of possibilities and seeing what works. Like how a sudoku solver or pathfinding algorithm does search, not how a search engine does.
Switching to black on white makes it easier (there's an option in the corner). In general, though, I like the thought and effort that went into it. The Verge does these sorts of one-time article layouts semi-frequently and I tend to appreciate how they augment the reading.
Yeah, Stockfish is probably evaluating many millions of positions when looking 40-ply ahead, even with the limited number of legal chess moves in a given position, and with an easy criteria for heavy early pruning (once a branch becomes losing, not much point continuing it). I can't imagine the cost of evaluating millions of LLM continuations, just to select the optimal one!

Where tree search might make more sense applied to LLMs is for more coarser grained reasoning where the branching isn't based on alternate word continuations but on alternate what-if lines of thought, but even then it seems costs could easily become prohibitive, both for generation and evaluation/pruning, and using such a biased approach seems as much to fly in the face of the bitter lesson as be suggested by it.
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As is common in physics, a subject can be extremely well studied, theories can be produced, models can be created that predict future behaviour incredibly precisely, but because we can’t poke it hard enough or with enough precision the exact underlying mechanism remains unconfirmed.
Ah, thanks, I missed that the previous discussion was re-upped.
Not true, because millions of people would migrate away
Intelligent people make mistakes, sure. But AI has the potential to mislead at greater scales. And I really don't like when people try to trivialize this issue. Not all incorrect AI answers are/will be "obviously absurd." Some may be incorrect at a more subtle level. It might be so subtle as to require domain expertise to correct. Are you telling me that this isn't going to happen?

People carry so much confidence about this technology. But just a few weeks ago, Google was telling me to drink urine to fix my kidney stones. And this was deemed to be mature enough to put into production? Oh, but what you're saying is that it will get the harder questions correct?
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Pro tip: Stop feeding the surveillance industrial complex. Buy your own GPU hardware as soon as you can afford it, and move to llama3 or a comparable model if your application can work with it. Also, do not ever install any desktop screen-capture app for AI analysis purposes.
I was thinking industrial espionage and secrets/technology not publicly available but I’d be surprised if the made a database of it and uploaded it to the cloud having though about it more clearly.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but in Microsoft's defense, those controls are aimed at companies working in regulated industries. They're meant to help those companies prove they they're meeting their legal and/or contractual compliance obligations.

For example, if your company works with healthcare information and is a HIPAA "covered entity", your customers will demand to see proof that you're using data loss prevention (DLP) software. Such software does things like:

- MITMing output email to make sure you're not sending a spreadsheet full of social security numbers.

- The same but for posts to web forms.

- The same but for instant messengers.

...etc. Netskope is a big player in that space. Go read up on what all their stuff can do sometime. As an individual, a donor to the EFF, and a vocal advocate for user privacy, those things make me shudder. As someone responsible for making sure our employees didn't accidentally upload PHI to Facebook from a work computer, I gritted my teeth and accepted that they're a necessary evil.

There's no reminder that "your work laptop belongs to your employer" quite like working in healthtech. I'm willing to cut Microsoft some slack for offering those products to customers.
From your own personal experiences, which cities/towns do you recommend?
I’m still convinced the Internet Computer has a real chance at being the replacement for AWS et al
Brigadiering is indeed loony and lame ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Vercel open source plan is also not going anywhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40684147
You aren't really using clutch surfaces to brake though, mostly you are relying on the friction and energy used to compress your intake air and blow it out the exhaust with either minimal or no combustion/fuel input, and if at speed air resistance. And everything else added up helps too like in friction in transmission and differentials and cam and crank bearings which are hopefully minimal, and also pumping coolant and oil and running the alternator, etc. In an automatic some will be lost lost in heating up fluid in the torque converter too.
Perhaps not the hyphenated form, but I'd had a chat with a friend a couple days ago where we meandered around some surface level philosophy and I paraphrased a section or two from Thus Spoke Zarathustra about the rabble ([1]), so I'm sure that's why it was front of mind. I only used it twice just to be clear that it was referring to the same thing, I didn't intend for any semantic satiation or emphasis through repetition. My apologies!

[1] http://www.literaturepage.com/read/thusspakezarathustra-107....
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My theory is this is cause by stress hormones.

You can get to sleep because you’re so damn exhausted, but you wake up as soon as you’re physically able because of the hormones.

The answer is exercise. Aerobic and weights. Three times a week minimum. And for a good amount of time.
> It’s quite the cultural statement that an LLM outperforms most men on how to be present for a conversation with their date.

Can you not symmetrically say that it's quite the cultural statement that porn outperforms most women on how to be attractive to men?

Women want deep emotional connection, which an LLM provides upfront at no cost (like sex or even risk of rape).

Men want sexual stimulation, which porn provides upfront at no cost (like dates and courting with tedious emotional support and social connection).

It's just short-circuiting to the reward function at no cost.
Yes absolutely and well put - a strong property of chess is that next states are fast and easy to enumerate, which makes search particularly easy and strong, while next states are much slower, harder to define, and more expensive to enumerate with an LLM
If the only thing you care about is maximizing startup outcomes, then the answer is always SF/Bay Area, but that doesn't factor in other things like cost of living, your personal enjoyment of the area, and so on.
Afaik Excel is still way faster than Google Sheets.
Discussions:

54 points, 1 day ago, 88 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40669866

35 points, 1 day ago, 61 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40670191
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxBg4sMusIg will turn you into a more proficient user of Excel.

However, make sure you know the limits of Excel...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54423988