skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Human embryos obtained in vitro are human beings and subjects with rights

I don't know that this is the right way to think about it. It is more complicated than that.

We should separate out the legal question from the biological question and the moral question.

Your statement is a legal claim, but is not backed up by how societies define or think about human personhood. Your birth certificate is a good example.

Whether or not the legal framework is morally correct or not is a different issue, but it is worth noting that conventionally, societies also think that human personhood starts at birth, as witnessed by gravestones on which we mark someone's life as starting at birth.

On the moral question, the Catholic Church has this to say about reproductive technology https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-digni...
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=361004...

“Real estate and rental and leasing” for my province. Construction is separate. It is at 18%+ here, so I just rolled it down to 10 for the country-wide average. Probably much higher than that. This is Canadian numbers though, as I mentioned, I’m not sure how it is down there.
I never understand that idea, that having a face to face rejection (or over Zoom) is better than an email.

How much less can you value an applicant's time? You already are a 'no' so set them free to spend time on finding a job elsewhere. Sure, if you want to offer a call to go over the details some people will take you up on it, but recognize this call is for the hiring manager to feel less bad about saying no, or so people won't badmouth the company for jilting them during hiring.

Either way, it is self-serving and the opposite thing any company should do if they want to treat applicants with actual respect.
> So my theory is that probability is an ill-defined, unfalsifiable concept

Probability isn’t a single concept, it is a family of related concepts - epistemic probability (as in subjective Bayesianism) is a different concept from frequentist probability - albeit obviously related in some ways. It is unsurprising that a term looks like an “ill-defined, unfalsifiable concept” if you are mushing together mutually incompatible definitions of it.

> Consider the statement p(X) = 0.5 (probability of event X is 0.5). What does this actually mean?

From a subjective Bayesian perspective, p(X) is a measure of how much confidence I - or any other specified person - have in the truth of a proposition, or my own judgement of the weight of evidence for or against it, or my judgement of the degree of my own knowledge of its truth or falsehood. And 0.5 means I have zero confidence either way, I have zero evidence either way (or else, the evidence on each side perfectly cancels each other out), I have a complete lack of knowledge as to whether the proposition is true.

> It it a proposition?

It is a proposition just in the same sense that “the Pope believes that God exists” is a proposition. Whether or not God actually exists, it seems very likely true that the Pope believes he does

> If so, is it falsifiable? And how?

And obviously that’s falsifiable, in the same sense that claims about my own beliefs are trivially falsifiable by me, using my introspection. And claims about other people’s beliefs are also falsifiable, if we ask them, and if assuming they are happy to answer, and we have no good reason to think they are being untruthful.
Maybe we need the IdP equivalent of CAA records. If I have a domain that doesn’t use a given IdP, I want everyone who might rely on that IdP to know that the IdP in question has no authority on that domain.
Oh it happens all the time. I've been in several lab meetings where the experiment was redesigned because the results came out "wrong." I.e. the (frequentist) statistics didn't match with the (implicit) prior.
Can it also compile rust ;)
And the MLS system is entirely voluntary and seemingly not updated timely, but it also doesn't include the secondary market, you know those pale skinny guys in the TV ads with dead eyes saying they'll buy any house no matter the condition. And there is a lot of secondary going on, probably more than the normal RE market.
Too many people are getting hung up on a philosophical discussion of whether this is the “correct” taxation approach or not.

All of that is a nonsense and a distraction. The tax system is completely arbitrary and made up. It doesn’t matter whether something fits a certain definition or not. The only thing that matters are what the benefits and what the costs of doing a certain thing is.

And it’s pretty obvious that there are almost no benefits and there are massive costs to this approach.
Optimizing the leftovers loop to

#pragma clang loop vectorize(enable)
#pragma clang loop interleave(enable)
for (; offset < length; offset += 4) {
const auto x = ((uint32_t\*)start)[offset / 4];
count += ((x & 0xFF) == 0x7F);
count += ((x & 0xFF00) == 0x7F00);
count += ((x & 0xFF0000) == 0x7F0000);
count += ((x & 0xFF000000) == 0x7F000000);
}

also gives some points. It'd probably be more if I could be bothered to break apart your assembly. :)
First and most importantly: you're imagining a sideloading method that is much less first-class than that the EU wants to impose.

Even aside from that, you can't compare the Play Store to Apple's because the Play Store is a thousand times less restrictive. There's a reason why people are constantly complaining about the App Store and (aside from Epic) never the Play Store. Apple has a lot of restrictions, and while some of them are there to extract more money most are there to protect their customers.
> LLC’s can be required to name the beneficial owner.

Actually, they all are now required to register who the beneficial owners are for every LLC - https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2015
Unfortunately no "write me multi-head self attention by hand" :(, so not good enough for 2024's DL interviews.
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be. This is all a farce and it needs to implode.
> I’m not a fan of anyone who has more than 2 homes. One primary and one vacation or rental. Why does anyone need more than that?

Idk, why does anyone need anything beyond sustenance? Outside resort towns, I’m sceptical this is anything but a bogeyman.
So far the audio section is a great intro to audio and digitization, and applies to any a-to-d process at some level. Looking forward tomplowing through the rest.

The problem with audio is it's realtime (isochronous), which means good audio processing requires a guarantee of sorts. To get that guarantee requires a path through the system that's clear, which can be difficult to construct.
Video game performers are on strike to be paid and protected accordingly
> there is a lot of secondary going on, probably more than the normal RE market

The primary real estate market is new builds. Everything else is secondary.
Author of the article here; I wasn't able to understand how to get that to work, and I talked about that in the post. This demo is doing that: https://jlongster.com/why-chromaticity-shape#block-31f373

The problem is "for each pixel inside the area". I could have done that, and then clipped the output by that shape. The problem is this doesn't answer why the shape is this way at all because you are using the shape itself to clip the output. It felt fake.

I do think this is what is most common though. I was trying to understand a more rigorous approach, and the one where you generate spectra and try to fill it is described here: https://clarkvision.com/articles/color-cie-chromaticity-and-...

That feels like a more rigorous approach, but clipping is probably "good enough" too
How can you combat bias in a team of humans if humans are susceptible to bias? How do you even know what neutral is if it's not a physically measurable quantity?
The problem with the ostrich argument is always that it works until it doesn't. Governments have talked about more international cooperation on tax reporting and collection forever. One of these days they're going to start including serious measures for these things as a routine part of trade deals or other big agreements. They have increasingly easy targets as so many online sales now go through a relatively small number of payment systems like Paypal and Stripe that are distributed enough that they could effectively be compelled to cooperate with any new reporting obligations. Then it's going to be a case of small businesses selling internationally commit an average of N offences per day somewhere in the world because it's impractical not to so if you're the unlucky one they decide to make an example out of then that's going to really spoil your day.

As someone who wants to do the right thing but would also like their business to actually do something useful and not spend 95% of its time doing admin work this is the kind of thing that stops me sleeping well at night. It's also why I've become something of an advocate of MoRs and a critic of basically all other traditional payment service providers. I fear the reckoning is a matter of when and not if and so passing the buck to an organisation that actually has a fighting chance of complying may be the only reasonable survival strategy. Of course then I lie awake worrying about the lack of competition in the MoR space - not helped by today's announcement in all honesty - and the dangers of being so heavily integrated with a specific third party service that can't easily be replaced and yet is critical to the sales process. What a time to be running a business in a world where this kind of international sales should be thriving.
Was nice when we had anti trust laws. This is gonna bite us all so hard as a society in the coming decades.
> Priors is just an explicit encoding of some of that knowledge.

A classic example is analyzing data on mind reading or ghost detection. Your experiment shows you that your ghost detector has detected a haunting with p < .001. What is the probability the house is haunted?
Cam16 (as opposed to cam16 ucs) is perception based. It calculates chroma, lightness, and hue, and is based on the munsell color system. Hellwig and Fairchild recently simplifed the model mathematically, improving it's chroma accuracy.( http://markfairchild.org/PDFs/PAP45.pdf) Another, simpler, model is CIELAB, which outputs paramters L, a, and b, where L is lightness, hypot(a,b) is chroma, and arctan2(b,a) is the hue.
How much of your binary executable is just ASCII text?
"Figma's growth team" - All I needed to know, ROFLMAO! (I've dealt with them and the people that use them, and this abusive interview process fits that. No thank you!)

[1] Penpot is a great open-source alternative for people who value freedom.

1. https://penpot.app/
Imagine treating your child like this. In public.
I’m sick of rent control being vilified. If you’re not going to build more then you definitely need it. I’ve had my rent go up as much as 20%, forcing me to move on more than one occasion. If Prop 13 keeps the grandma in their home, then why can’t I have rent control that lets me stay put and provide stability?

Landlords will do the absolute minimum for repairs anyway, rent control or not.
Yes and there are no third places where people can hangout locally. Out of all we know about humans up to 1950 is that we don't live full lives out in the burbs.
No? It's a meritocracy - evolution wouldn't spit out something that inefficient.
Prediction: Intel is stalling the recall until after the earnings report to avoid tanking the stock.

Glad I switched to using AMD. Although some RUMINT indicating quality assurance troubles in 9000 series though. They were supposed to push out new product by end of July. But delayed to mid August.
The headline should be corporations are in danger of criminalizing themselves out of existence.
I remember this too but with jpgs and zips, if I remember, jpgs go first as zips have the metadata at the end of the file (to the best of my knowledge, corrections welcome).
Some Machine Learning Notes
Just a compilation of machine learning notes I wrote some time ago! It's not fully completed, but includes a section on optimization & generalized linear models for now with tonnes of maths and focuses a lot on implementation and practicality.

Optimization: AdamW optimizers, weight initialization, learning rate range finding, bias init, gradient centralization, RAdam, Lookahead, Linear Reg & Least Squares, Cholesky, Ridge Reg

GLMs: IRLS, calculus stuff, statistical inference, diagnostics, high dimensional optimization, logistic regression
You can add extra periods, but not extra text/labels

Some people get around this by using the plus sign, but how some systems treat plus signs can be unpredictable.
Trivially easy refers to the physical act: show up with force. Not that it should be any more "trivially easy" to crack down on than, say, tax evasion - that is, you'd still have courts, etc. But don't act horrified at that. Eminent domain has been used many times in the US, it's not a novel concept. Foreclosure is also state-sanctioned and common.

But there are SIGNIFICANT interests who want to horde real property anonymously. "Fixing zoning" is not a solution to the problems that causes. The large-landlord/acquire-and-leave-vacant-waiting-for-appreciation interests are the very same interests that would BENEFIT from less zoning restrictions and the Manhattanization of more places, and corresponding increase in real property values per sqft of land. But the reason we don't make ownership of property more clear, or crack down on hording, is because those interests don't want us to.

"Simpler: a straight wealth tax that funds first time homebuyer incentives." - so we've got more inflation of property prices through financial incentives but actually let's not bother because guess who ALSO doesn't want a "straight wealth tax!" (And, of course, taxes aren't wildly worked around in this country anyway.)
This could be improved by changing the criterion: an actual human needs to be registered as living in that house and live there. LLCs, trusts, and other entities don’t count.

If people want to split their time, fine, let them have as many houses as they want, declare what fraction of their time is spent in each one, and get that fractional credit for each one.

Worried about a couple taking the credit for each person separately? Fine, make the credit only reduce a fixed amount of tax per person — that $200M fancy house doesn’t get all of the tax waived just because one human is in it.
The thing being omissed here is that there's a cost-basic step-up when you die.

So, if the value of the home increased by say 2x the taxes on it are 0 because the cost-basis on it isn't the price your parents bought it for; it's the price when they died and you got it.

This works out a lot better for stocks because when you created the company and gave yourself a million stock units for a total of $1 (not each) and those stocks appreciated to be $300 each that's a ton of capital gains. Except when you die and it's stepped up its not. -- https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stepupinbasis.asp
RMS was still doing that this century

https://lwn.net/Articles/262570/

I wonder if he still is today
Then just call it what it is, a dorm.
This isn't a distribution problem.

We don't have enough pie (houses).

We need more houses.

Not a campaign to distribute a massive shortage slightly more evenly.
Because it doesn't solve any actual problems. People owning more then 1 property simply aren't the primary issue.

People can politically fuck around with occupancy laws and all this other stuff, non of it solves the problem.

We know how to solve the problem, there is no mystery. Its simply a political problem to implement it.
> sick of rent control being vilified

Not vilifying it. Saying that tracking who is the legal owner and beneficiary of a property is tough.

Given the present market state, I wouldn’t be surprised if such a tax measure increased rents.
Maybe just return it. Microcode “fix” is more of a band aid
MONTHS??? Do even elite athletes making millions and millions subject themselves to such foolishness?
Nope, and I do what I can to avoid it. Searching anything online feels like the smouldering dumpster now has oxygen intakes.

Focusing instead on community-building, talking with people face to face, walking around outside without anything in my ears, borrowing and reading library books (as a proxy for receiving wisdom in person from peers and elders), and tending the few acres I live on, towards greater diversity, reciprocity, and resilience.

I still have several computers, and I still play videogames (mainly to keep in touch with distant childhood friends), but when I imagine life without those luxuries I am not sad.
I really like Spotify's approach. In previous years it was confusing as if you signed up under a social you didn't have a user/pass to login with; but now they just break out all login methods and let you link Google/Facebook or just set a standard email/pass.
It is concerning. On this particular model, it's available over plain HTTP, provides no auth settings, and provides an easy input for uploading new firmware.

https://jamesbvaughan.com/volume-controller-1/basic-web-inte...
> an actual human needs to be registered as living in that house and live there

Relatives. Again, these measures have been implemented across the world. Miraculously, nobody owns two homes.

In cities, where competition for land is fiercest, I would further fully expect the tax to be borne by tenants. Because nothing was fundamentally fixed about the supply-demand mismatch.
That complaint happened 10 years after they were founded and five years after they launched in the US. By that time, they were already a billion-dollar business.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/spotify-s-t...
The real, genuine answer is that the rich run the world and don't want that so they'll convince poor people it's actually bad for them. This works for any issue. It ensures that completely sound ideas get shot down. See "muh freedom", "it's bad for the economy", "communism", "taxing the rich hurts job growth", "this will just make rent go up" etc.
All we need is sloppy security software vendors to bring the world to a halt
Sweden has collective agreements where workplace conditions including pay are decided between the unions and the employers rather than the government interfering in the process. Yes even software devs are covered under this.

Why would they want to move people around the world, deal with the unions who will force them to raise the floor of the local salaries etc when they can just hire the best talent in the US?
Isn't yggdrasil[1] supposed to be the New Internet?

If not, why Tailscale specifically, and not Netbird, Nebula, Netmaker or some other competitor?

The article is indeed very well written, but gives the wrong vibes, like something's coming: acquisition, pivot, split, shutting down, etc. Also, "we're re just getting started", the famous last words.

Just to balance my healthy mistrust, I'd like to add that I'm a satisfied Tailscale user, mostly impressed with how little it requires of me to just work.

[1] https://yggdrasil-network.github.io
You have replied to the only remotely critical comment in this entire thread and it just asked a few reasonable questions. Did a lot get deleted?
For now, yes. I'd also like to make a standalone wireless physical volume knob and I may try to make an iPhone app for it. Ideally I'd be able to override the behavior of the volume buttons, similar to how Spotify is able to do that on iPhones when you're using Spotify Connect.
People want to come up with all kinds of reasons to poo poo this… but it really is what needs to be done to start improving things. In CA, owner occupied homes get a minuscule reduction in their property tax. Same mechanism can be used
If anyone wants to read the antithesis of Clean Code, check out "A philosophy of software design"
There aren’t multiple levels of middle management though. This position reports directly to a very senior manager and will be expected to grow an “tree” of managers and employees under them.
What's the reason that, with office occupancies down in so many places, there isn't a big push for conversion of commercial zoning to residential multi-family? Incentive programs to reward converting vacant spaces? Penalty taxes for holding vacant office space instead of selling it to someone who will figure out something to do with it?
Valuing a VC backed company like Vercel really is a bit of a crap shoot. Even major, publicly held companies aren't valued based on things like annual revenue, profits, or anything that shows up on a P&L.

Vercel is worth exactly what the last person paid for it. There's no real way to come up with another valuation until there's another liquidity event.

Another way to look at it, the last round of investors are valuing in-predictions for future value and have access to potentially private information and financials. From the outside it's not really possible to come up with a valuation to compare to there's, we'd be working with a totally different set of data.
You could also use these techniques as steering behaviors for a group of autonomous agents? Each agent is a point on the segment. It'd be like a team doing a dragon or lion dance.
Sorry, this is just how technology works. There is going to be a way that the vast majority of people want to communicate and if you don't want to use it, it's going to be a pain in the ass for you. This is always going to be the case, and nobody is under any obligation to accommodate you. If you didn't want to have a home phone in the 90s it would have been the same thing.
The vast vast vast majority of instruction pipelines are sparse. You can pack in non-dependent instructions essentially for free.
> I wouldn’t bat an eye buying a house in my partner or a parent’s name if it saved 3x property taxes.

That sounds like the policy had the desired effect. I.e home ownership is spread out across many people.

Those people cannot then own properties without being subject to those extra taxes. They'd be giving something up to help you, so would presumably benefiting somehow from your scheme.
These ISV's are really squeezing the juice out of their customers with those rates aren't they? Even Stripe's rates are horrible, but 500 basis points and 50c/tx is really something... but to be fair ISV's are by definition vertical integrators and have more feature offerings.
That is perfectly honest. If it were 10x that it would still be honest. Pay the price or don't use the service. Nobody owes you anything.
>> Most people aren't entrepreneurs and hate risk, so they pass regulation, and the market gets locked down so nothing new happens again

I think that the bigger issue is that the people who suffer when the risk goes bad and the people who benefit when the risk goes well usually aren't the same people.
Man, this really does seem like a replay of their FDIV mess (IIRC).

I was really hoping that Pat Gelsinger would restore some of Intel's respectability. This gives me doubt.
The more complicated laws are written to try and cover more edge conditions, the more loopholes they create.
Thats's a great site, thanks for the link! I'm chuffed to learn from it about IncSoc:

> The Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers (IncSoc) was founded in 1942 to represent the collective interests of the fashion industry in Britain, promote exports and develop standards of design.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-clothes-rationing-affecte...

Not to be confused with IngSoc, coined in 1949:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Ninetee...
There no problem with them, and they can often be useful. But there is a problem if all the code is only functions of one or two lines, or when people move things to functions when it just doesn't make much sense, "because it's Best Practice™".
If all of the wheels and engine fell off of your car, would you accept the manufacturer telling you that nobody made you buy it?

If rotten food was served to you, is that on you for ordering it?

Why would you think like this?