skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've understood that the lines were already drawn a long time ago. The short-term rentals discussed here are limited to 31 days. Normal long-term rentals are intended for stays of 1+ years. Between those two, there are temporary rental contracts intended for stays measured in months. I've understood that those contracts must include the specific reason of stay, as a measure to prevent abuse.
Its also contextual maps for statistics. Spoon and fridge are always mentioned in kitchen context.

(Actor + wordsequence + location) * repetition_as_filter makes for a significant data point in language. Thus words are first uttered in context and a feedback is expected.

"pot" hits pot with spoon in kitchen.
> You didn't answer my question, just trolled it: what is the line between being a tourist apartment and/or a remote work apartment if you want to rent one for two weeks?

If you don't work and you just visit for leisure, you're a tourist. If you're planning to rent an apartment for short-term remote work, you'll need to be a resident, and you'll have a short-term contract where at least your resident number is put as well (and don't forget to pay taxes on the income you earn while in the country too).

So I guess leisure vs work is the line you're looking for is.
I don't know if it's actually safer, but I feel like programming your self driving car to regularly break the speed limit would be a hard sell from a regulatory perspective. It's different in "self-driving" cars with drivers who can choose the speed of the vehicle. In this case, Waymo is programming the car to independently pick a speed, and making that programming decide to break the law seems like it could be a problem.

Probably a better solution is more reasonable speed limits and more consistent enforcement of those limits, but now I'm just engaging in wishful thinking.
I think the deal was there was already a pretty high threshold for risk. I don't know the percentage exactly but the problem was the o-ring thing put it over the threshold which should triggered a a no-go.

For example, you could say "we'll tolerate a 30% chance of loss of life on this launch" but then an engineer comes up and says "an issue we found puts the risk of loss of life at 65%". That crosses the limit and procedure means no launch. What should not happen is "well, we're going anyway" which is what happened with Challenger.
I agree that an independent study would be very useful to get a better idea of what's actually happening.

That said, human drivers in the US are bad. We have the highest traffic crash rate among all developed countries by far. Pedestrian and cyclist crash rates have been increasing in the US, one of the only developed countries in the world that this is happening in. Much of the US remains opposed to automated traffic enforcement or speed governors of any kind. Privacy advocates use privacy as an excuse but given how much Americans care about their privacy in other aspects of their life, I'm doubtful. And anecdotally it's common for friends to talk about driving 10-15 mph over the speed limit, and we know speed is the leading predictor for severity of a crash. Most US drivers, especially of higher income classes, are probably well aware that they speed and break plenty of other traffic laws on a regular basis and don't want to reckon with that fact.
Oh man, that sounds rough. I salute you.

This probably wasn't an option back then with your toolchain, but it's so reassuring to know modern compilers / ASAN are amazing at catching this class of bugs today.
If we're suggesting shapes can I suggest one on the surface of pipe that wraps back around on itself? So I can run coolant through the middle.
Y’all are legit bad at ordering it appears. You’ll learn terse syntax to code but won’t accommodate the human order taker
Ah! You’d be glad to know that “we” know how to do this. Films are an area that a ton of people have poured time into.

Two that I know that’d fit the bill well are Zein (corn) and Chitosan (Crustaceans, Mushrooms, although now we can make it in bioreactors). There are extensive studies on them, and there are a bunch of folks who have invested time in building food packaging out of them (although, maybe not in the way you’re thinking).

As far as I can tell, these materials can be made suitable with enough engineering to meet the task at hand. They are more expensive than current solutions, and perhaps the engineering would need to be studied more closely for safety, but what you’re suggesting doesn’t seem entirely crazy.
I'd like to add that NIH spaghetti sometimes comes from customer relationships rather than from exuberant developers.

The important customer wants just one tiny convenience-feature that fits their use case and it sorta makes sense... Which somehow keeps scope-creeping over time into a cancerous unplanned product which is expensive to support.

With the benefit of hindsight, you realize it's something the customer should have bought directly for themselves from a completely separate and more-qualified vendor. However they either didn't realize what they wanted or they were able to trick you into building an over-specialized product for their use case--for much cheaper than if they had hired a contractor to customize another better offering.
OpenAI acquiring Rockset, what does it mean?
That's not the point being made, but further, even a starving man often eats.
> The problem with hotel rooms is that they’re more expensive,

Maybe they are more expensive than the displayed rate for an AirBnB, but by the time you add in the cleaning fees and other non-sense things it turns out to be more expensive. Also, when I'm in a hotel, I'm not asked to wash the sheets, wash the dishes, or any of that nonsense as well as paying the cleaning fees.
The first of those 12 is Emperador, a city of 692 people, so you have 692 people living very densely. Meanwhile, Paris, two ranks down, has more than 2 million people living at basically the same density. You'd need to account for that. The arbitrary nature of municipal and regional boundaries has always been the bane of comparisons of population density.

You could weigh the density by population (effectively giving you population²/area?! I'm not saying this is a good idea), and you'd get a top10 of Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Bucharest, Berlin, Athens, Milan, Brussels, Vienna, Naples, which despite the slightly bizarre metric seems a more sensible ranking (Emperador is at the bottom rank), and which, to be fair, also features two Spanish cities.

But again, it's kind of a pointless endeavor, because of the arbitrary nature of the boundaries chosen -- why Paris and not Paris metro? etc. I guess ideally you'd have a function density(person) giving you the population density of any given person and you'd want to look at the distribution of that function, specifically the average per country of that function.
It got worse now.

https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/travel/2023/10/09/fed-u...
Seconded -- this game was really excellent and stuck with me longer than the games that placed better than it in 2017.
It's plain as day once you actually visit Spainish towns and cities (try a motorcycle tour, you can hit a dozen or more a day, I've toured Spain several times) and compare it with the UK (I lived in the UK for 15 years).

German towns and cities feel a bit denser than the UK (I live in Switzerland and visit Germany every month).
The Science Centre is actually a collection of different buildings, I highly doubt that all these are structurally unsound now prompting the closure of the entire centre. It's highly convenient for this to happen now when the Premiere of the province has been advocating selling off the valuable land to his developer buddies.
I was going to post the same link to Andy Farnell's book, it's one of the finest resources for procedural audio that I've found. A bit later I will post some links to software synthesizers based on simulating specific physical processes.
I loathe "keep scrolling to animate pages". Just give me the information, and stop showing off.
> I miss putting in a disk, hearing the drive spin up, my computer coming to life and working away.

I still use optical media once in a while. I've got quite a collection of readers, stacked on a shelf in the garage. And a few discs with data on them and a stash of empty discs waiting to be burned.

If you miss it, just buy an external Blu-ray writer. 25 to, what, 100 GB per disk is not too bad for the really important stuff.

They're not mutually exclusive with other forms of backups.
Today's Wall Street Journal (Jun 20) has an article "Europe has a new Economic Engine: American Tourists", where this is written:

"While Germany’s economy is flatlining, Spain is Europe’s fastest-growing big economy. Nearly three-quarters of the country’s recent growth and one in four new jobs are linked to tourism."
First paragraph: “better at supporting new features.”

Further down, he talks about changing the structure of the software in order to support planned features, etc.

So putting it all together, “better” == more featureful at lower cost with reduced marginal pain (to the developers) of further expansion.

I’d say “better” should mean enabling users to achieve their goals with minimal friction for the user (i.e., program p is designed to allow users do task (or set of tasks) t faster/better/more efficiently/whatever). But of course I would say that, I’m a user of software, not a developer of it.

Consider the notion of a Mac-assed apps. They make life as a Mac user much nicer because they integrate so well with the environment and other native apps. But lo! L unto man was revealed his Lord and Savior Electron. Much nicer for developers than having to port programs across several different native environments. So native goes the way of the dinosaur (with some exceptions, of course). That’s a massively canned just-so story, of course, so don’t take it too seriously as actual analysis.

But the moral of the story is that, as a user, it’s endlessly fascinating to me, watching developers talk about development and how much their focus tends towards making their lives as developers easier, even at the cost of sacrificing users’ experiences and expectations as guiding principles.

Love him or hate him, but it’s one of the things that I appreciate Linus Torvalds for emphasizing occasionally: computers are tools people use in order to get things done (for whatever purposes, including recreation).

(That said: There is an irreducibly human element of play involved here for developers too. And even non-developers can be fascinated by computers in/for themselves, not just as sheer tools you’d ideally not even notice (in the Heideggerian sense of tools ready at hand versus present at hand). I’m one of those outsiders. No shame in it.)
Great article, always happy to see my home country featured abroad.

Just to nitpick, however:

> Got independence from the USSR in 1991 and had some power struggles until a Soviet guy took over in 1994 and then won a brutal civil war against a coalition of Islamic extremists and has been running the country ever since

Calling it Islamic extremists is a bit reductive. The coalition (United Tajik Opposition) was with the Islamic Renaissance Party, a couple of pro-democracy parties which were supported by the majority of the intelligentsia, and also included a party for Pamiri Autonomy. The most common thing among them is they were all united against the Communists.

Source: I am Tajik and was born around the Soviet Union collapsed. Also studied the history of the civil war
There was a time that SVG was going to replace flash, or something like that, but these days people just use the "simple" subset. I've seen multiple implementations for the vector graphics based on compute shaders, impressive stuff, can render the tiger svg with no problem. Parsing the bezier curves out of the xml is not that hard compared to all the work needed the have this work on the GPU. Most people also don't understand XML, I'm building a sort of compiler for it with full support for Namespaces, Schema, XLinks and all of that, boring stuff that needs to be done, I don't understand why this needs to be your problem though and even then those standard are not THAT hard. You will only understand XML if you need to use XML. Yes XML is verbose but also your mom is fat and you still love her don't you? Developers look at me weird when I start talking XML, like I am some sort of boomer that want to limit women's right to choice or something like that. Better not to mention it, or I'll have to listen to them explaining why JSON is just better for hours on end without ever considering the strange bizz requirements I labour under.
The worst part is that up and down are not really opposites. Down is up on the other side of the world.
Thank goodness. My big problem was it basically redefined what a ton of conventions actually meant.

I do appreciate the efforts of the authors, but I just don't think the proposed syntax would be a good long term change for Java.
this is probably more due to cronyism by the Ford government than anything. I highly doubt they just discovered this problem.
And how would they know? Oh right, hidden cameras. Nothing about airbnb is attractive to me any more.
As someone who recently took their nephews to the Science Centre, not visiting since high school roughly 25 years ago, it was pretty decrepit and rundown. Regardless of the politics surrounding all this, it’s in desperate need of a rejuvenating both in terms of infrastructure as well as exhibits.

PS not worth the admission, if you want to take the kids on an educational adventure go to Ripley's Aquarium.
But the model is _really good_ at other subjects, including very complicated ones, like the motorcycle.

By "certain training data" I don't mean porn. It's probably for the best that they did, but the aggressive removal of all copyrighted data, art and images of celebrities must have impacted the output quality compared to the older models that just used everything. This includes many pictures of people playing football, women lying in grass and other similar things. Most finetuning is basically about bringing that back.

If "HUMANS ARE WHAT PEOPLE OVERWHELMINGLY TRY TO DRAW", then you would expect the model to be better at it, no? Or at least have _some_ understanding of poses besides T.

It's not a conspiracy to wonder why the main thing that a lower size models fails on is humanoid poses, when things like objects, animals and architecture generally come out just fine. Are you saying an image like this is significantly easier to create than a man kicking a football?

https://imgur.com/gallery/sd3-test-8nQyBz2

Try the prompt yourself, it will keep producing perfectly fine images with only small mistakes. Further testing seems pointless though, since by now it's confirmed that the current model was a failed product that got rushed out for some reason.
> It's a short term authoritarian bandaid

That's unintelligible. With that logic, every law and regulation is authoritarian.

> all the while fostering resentment and opening up increasingly authoritarian measures in the future

Here's the resentment:

https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/travel/2023/10/09/fed-u...

And yes, the locals want more authoritarianism to keep away the overcrowding tourists, rich foreigners, and people who think like you. That's what the problem needs and what people like you understand.
This is exactly it here.

It’s been very common to see startups many of whom have never set foot in an enterprise push this idea that you can drop a LLM on top of company data and ask questions like it was ChatGPT. The reality is that most company data is a mess with little funding/will to fix it and so the results are unusable. So if OpenAI wants to be anything other more than a chatbot they will need to start to tackle this problem.

Amazing to watch their aspirations go from such lofty heights to being just another enterprise data infrastructure SaaS company.

And should be a clear sign that the AI hype train has run out of stream.
> Unfortunately the way things are set up means that you can only specify horizontal kerning when laying out horizontal text and vertical kerning for vertical text. If your script requires both, you are not going to have a good time.

The Ts operator (sets text rise, ie changes the baseline) could be useful here. Text selection in PDF readers may even treat text with different text rise as being on the same line.

> We could specify kerning manually with a custom translation matrix that translates the rendering location by the amount needed. There are two main downsides to this. First of all it would mean that instead of having a stream of glyphs to render, you'd need to define 9 floating point numbers (actually 6 due to reasons) between every pair of glyphs.

Or use Td... 2 numbers.
Similar to a country sitting on a large amount of natural resources like oil/gas. You don't have to bother about making your population productive.

Allowed all your productive jobs to be offshored? Mine the natural resource of tourists, as long as there was a golden age that left something interesting for them to visit.
Red and blue integers: there is red 1, red 2, ... 0, blue 1, blue 2, ... . Addition and subtraction as you expect. There is no ordering, also no multiplicative structure. There are 2 isomorphism into the additive structure of the integers. (Red and blue reals are defined similarly.)

I find this structure to model charge better. If not for else, at least it prevents you to ask silly questions about charge.
SYCL Implementation of Fully-Fused Multi-Layer Perceptrons for Intel GPUs
My personal example would be the old Turner Field in Atlanta.

Major sports team, but the area was a wasteland, because everything was developed around the 50,000 people flooding in for one afternoon. Parking lots, traffic flow, food stands.

The actual neighborhood was pretty dead.

Braves move up to a new stadium in Cobb county, some redevelopment, and now the old neighborhood is flourishing.

Saw the same as a (briefly) Florida resident.

I think it's difficult to establish "normal" development in an area subject to tourism tides, because many of the decisions are mutually exclusive.

Either {support tourism} or {support long term residential development}. And money intersects with politics, so eventually one set of interests win out.
The question being raised in this thread is if Spain has dense housing. And it does. It's clearly very dense.
Do smaller models hallucinate more?
>This technology doesn't replace humans calling, right?

I thought that was the problem: that people in certain neighborhoods didn't call to report shootings.
Soviets demanded Finland cede substantial territory and when they said no, the Soviets invaded and annexed a substantial part of Finland to this day.

You’re quoting a 2009 article. Everyone that doesn’t mindlessly watch RT already confirmed that it was South Ossetian separatists that started shelling other Georgians and that Russia has no business also invading Georgia over that. Russia air attacked areas around Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.
For what it’s worth, I don’t pay attention to my charging habits and my iPhone 14 Pro Max is at 92%
All of the blank lines can be deleted from that function without reducing the readability.
> For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:

> on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;

> on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.

This would not be considered an armed attack, and it's debatable whether satellites in orbit would be considered aircraft over the territories covered by the treaty.
Amazon retaliated after employee walkout over the return-to-office policyholders
Just the other day I came up with an idea of doing a flatbed scan of a circuit board and then using machine learning and a bit of text promoting to get to a schematic

I don't know how feasible it is. This would probably take low $millions or so of training, data collection and research to get not trash results.

I'd certainly love it for trying to diagnose circuits.

It's probably not really that possible even at higher end consumer grade 1200dpi.
I know nothing about rust but if you are struggling against the borrow checker because you want to implement something like linked lists or anything it doesn't want you the obvious solution is to allocate all your memory upfront and create your own allocator where you pass around indexes and thus bypass the borrow checker completely. I think this is what the author does? not really clear as he seemed to be constantly struggling with the language even after that.

I gotta say its not selling me on rust if bypassing the borrow checker with my own allocations still results in having to jump through so many hoops and struggle against the language.
Same here. As a SaaS provider to SMB, all the major auth vendors (Okta, Ping, WorkOS, etc.) are ludicrously overpriced and would require us to double our own pricing.

Except Entra ID for customers, which is fairly priced and has a magic “just works automatically for any M365 customer” feature. It is quite stupid and confusing in many other ways but at least it makes fiscal sense.
Aggressive law enforcement.
Who are you talking to? IBM?
Good for both everything and nothing at the same time.
> it sits uncomfortably between parody and not

Yeah that's a thought I've had too, and the vast majority of idle games are just putting a new theme on top of the same crappy formula. But the ones that try something new are usually pretty interesting.

I would highly recommend Melvor Idle's "Ancient Relics" mode, from the AoD expansion. It turns a relatively simple idle game into something that requires genuine planning and strategy, simply by gating skill cap increases behind clearing a new dungeon.
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I love Javalin for new projects!

But have too much code in Spring Boot to ever justify rewriting all of it.
What It's Like to Get Rich as an Nvidia Engineer
> Spain is suffering a multi-centralization process. Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Malaga are increasing their populations. The rest of the cities are losing inhabitants. Why? Because the job opportunities are not there.

The depopulation problem of MOUNTAINOUS regions of Europe, including Spain, has little to do with jobs being available elsewhere. The depopulation in those mountainous regions is due to those regions being undesirable for human habitation all the way, and the recent advent of technology and infrastructure making it possible for people to go to other places. These regions were inhabited only because people had to live there and the human society's infrastructure could not carry millions of people in a central location.
the engine failed 10 feet from the ground. Landing the plane in the middle of the strip he climbed out, swung the propellor by hand (there was no self-starter) and the engine immediately roared into life.

Early software developer?
Sales taxes are typically a geographic boundary and a product inclusion/exclusion list. The addition of “seller’s annual revenue” may not fit within existing legal definitions (I haven’t checked), and I expect that naming it a “corporate tax” serves various marketing purposes (both for the headline’s author, and for the proposal’s authors).
I just use the hell out of my phone battery and pay 50 bucks every 3 years to replace it.
https://archive.ph/I4hxp
And actually there isn't a state for illegal ASCII so it makes no sense to have a transition to/from it. And it still can never receive a 3 as input and use that transition.