skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The integration you are doing between the LLM and a workflow engine is cool. Are you using something like Temporal or just a database plus a cron job?
This neat demo is a year old now, it was first released in July 2023.

Source code and prompt here: https://github.com/Calvin-LL/CalcGPT.io/blob/main/netlify/fu...

const prompt = `1+1=2\n5-2=3\n2*4=8\n9/3=3\n10/3=3.33333333333\n${math}=`;
let response: Response;
try {
const openAI = new OpenAI();
response = await openAI.completions
.create({
model: "babbage-002",
temperature,
top_p: topP,
stop: "\n",
prompt,
stream: true,
})
.asResponse();
} catch (error) {
return new Response("api error", {
status: 500,
});
}
return new Response(response.body, {
headers: {
"content-type": "text/event-stream",
},
});

It's using the old babbage-002 model with a completion (not chat) prompt, which is more readable like this:

1+1=2
5-2=3
2*4=8
9/3=3
10/3=3.33333333333
${math}=
Very interesting read. I didn’t go in with great expectations but my take away was that I should spend significantly more time creating guiderails and working collaboratively with the LLM to get the correct results.
I think it's the US beloved default of non-regulation. While it can have its positives, it also creates monstrosity such as the FDA.

I'd personally rather go to the store and assume that most (if not all) the products available are proven to be safe rather than one which can sell anything that no one has yet proven to be unsafe.
I interpreted the idea as making people who must live in rent (but would like otherwise) able to buy. Of course there is need to rent, fir vacacions, or while moving temporally
To be fair, I didn't hand-check the answer it gave (and I didn't retype the whole prompt exactly here) - but here's what it gave me [4o model]:

... (lots of calculations)

Final Comparison

Variance of 20d6: 58.33458.334
Variance of 1d20+1d12+53: 45.166745.1667

The variance of 1d20+1d12+53 is closer to 58.334 than previous combinations and represents a reasonable approximation for both mean and variance.

[Edit: Just checked it in google sheets, this looks right to me]
I always find it ironic how Denmark is proud of Vikings and protects borders at the same time. There’re axes on border guards’ uniforms. Also, the traffic lights have a viking with an axe instead of a regular figure. Yet Vikings were universally hated back in the day for not respecting borders.
As an Austrian I'm very disappointed by this overall development. I grew up in a much more unified European Union and the degradation of Schengen is a very visible sign that something is happening to the union and what's happening is bad news. We have been a leading actor in the destruction of Schengen sadly for internal stupid political reasons.
I don't think 6-8-year-olds would cause a lot of mayhem. But parents need to go to work and kids aren't trusted to supervise themselves at that age (analogous to kindergarten before it). For teenagers the mayhem thing is also doubtful because school usually ends around 1-2 pm, while parents only finish working around 5 pm, so there's plenty of time to roam in the afternoon (at least outside present day America where parents drive kids around until late teenage years - which really is rather the exception in the broader context of school tradition).
Could you imagine reading a math proof that used Python syntax rather than mathematical?

e.g. nested iterators/loops instead of ∀x,y ∈ ℝxℝ etc.

For a startup "using the language you know" is good advice. To be at the top of a specialist field, there are better ones.
For me I’d like to self host this on my own domain so that I’m not sending sensitive work to a third party.

‘Franz pay this invoice with my CC ending in 1234’
For a lot of cases, word2vec/glove still work plenty well. It also runs much faster and lighter when doing development -- the FSE library [1] does 0.5M sentences/sec on CPU, whereas the fastest sentence_transformers [2] do something like 20k sentences/sec on a V100 (!!).

For the drawbacks:

Word embeddings are only good at similarity search style queries - stuff like paraphrasing.

Negation they'll necessarily struggle with. Since word embeddings are generally summed or averaged into a sentence embedding, a negation won't shift the sentence vector space around the way it would in a LM embedding.

Also things like homonyms are issues, but this is massively overblown as a reason to use LM embeddings (at least for latin/germanic languages).

Most people use LM embeddings because they've been told it's the best thing by other people rather than benchmarking accuracy and performance for their usecase.

1. https://github.com/oborchers/Fast_Sentence_Embeddings

2. https://www.sbert.net/docs/sentence_transformer/pretrained_m...
Tech companies can't find good employees, and it's their own fault
Theobromines found in a single piece of chocolate can kill a dog.
Animal models have limited ability to predict what will happen in humans.
Not taking in as many calories helps weight loss.
Most businesses aren’t working in tech.

I’m not wildly opinionated here, I should clarify. I’d love a more Linux-y world. I’m just saying that a lot of small-medium towns, and small-medium businesses are really just getting by with what they know. And really, Windows can be fine. Usually, however, you get people who don’t understand tech, who can barely use a Windows PC, nevermind Linux, and don’t really have the budget to rebuild their entire tech ecosystem or the knowledge to inform that decision. It sucks, but it’s how it is.

Also, Open Office blows chunks. Business users use Windows. M365 is easy to get going, email is relatively hands-off, deliverability is abstracted. Also, a LOT of business software is Windows exclusive. And that also blows chunks.

I would LOVE a more open source, security minded, bespoke world! It’s just not the way it is right now.
>not with the farce that exists today where "asylum" is used is a get-out-of-jail free card

The problem with the current asylum system is basically anyone can come in and say: "look, Russia, US, UK, France and coalition blew up my middle eastern country, so now countries like Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Austria who had nothing to do with it, need to give me asylum to me and my whole family, simple" which makes the system very easy to be gamed as the ECHR forces you to accept anyone who crosses your border and claims asylum with a well rehearsed sob story.

So, is there any surprise of the growth of right wind in Europe? The bigger issue is that voting right wing won't solve this since they legally can't, it's not under their control but the ECHR, so we just keep moving right while suffering the same immigration issues making it a double whammy.

The solution is to reform the ECHR membership and give sovereignty over asylum policies to the member country instead of an foreign org people can't vote for.

Especially now, when Russia and Belarus are weaponizing illegal migration by giving them visa free travel for money to Russia and Belarus so they can then storm the borders with Finland, Norway and Poland. Recently a Polish soldier working the border with Belarus got stabbed on duty by a migrant trying to force the border[1]. This is obviously unacceptable and should mean proper military response against illegal border crossings.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/polish-soldier-dies-aft...
"Not respecting borders" is an odd way to summarize indiscriminate killing of unarmed people, burning houses and crops, robbery, raping and forcing people into slavery including sex slavery.
> We don’t show passports when entering Germany

A FlixBus coming from Denmark is likely to be checked in Flensburg.
> And yet, since we moved to Denmark 3 years ago, every time we've returned to Denmark through Padborg, we've been met by border control

Sorry, but that's just business as usual. Document checks on trains have continued to be a thing despite Schengen since its inception, and are even common on commuter lines. I don't have any hard numbers on their effectiveness, but it's not unusual to see people being detained as a result (which is risky for the detaining agency, as mistakes are quite costly), so I guess there is a net positive there?

Note that, from a passenger PoV, these checks usually consist of "vaguely waving your ID card at the officers passing by" (i.e. less effort than having your ticket checked, which involves interaction with an RFID scanner...), which makes this ominous think-piece even less convincing.
"represents data by measurement of a continuous physical variable"

Did you read the article? The cigarette lighter represents data (pops out) based on measurement of a continuous variable (temperature)
We crossed Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, and Hungary and were checked when entering Austria and Germany. However this was just but a small inconvenience- we waited over three hours to enter Hungary from non-Schengen country on almost 40 degrees Celsius in a car. Compared to that, Schengen (still) is a godsend.
I understand the appeal of a product like Obsidian. but... I want something robust, performant, trusted, open-source, and as close to my tasks/priorities as possible.

So I use something cross-platform, open-source, tested internationally every day for bugs and security, battle-hardened in production around the world, and used by leaders in the software industry.

I use git.
Not every country works the same, coming from a place with low home ownership (40%, mostly in countryside).

Some ideas of what can be different:
- lower flexibility (non liquid and concentrated investment)

- many people will end up with majority of their savings in real estate instead of more productive part of the economy (companies, etc.)

- might discourage people from seeking opportunities elsewhere if there's a high cost of selling/buying houses

- in cities institutional owners (here a lot of buildings are owned by pension funds) can take a better care of multi family buildings (compared to a fragmented ownership where some owners might block even value preserving investment), it's also easier to mandate policies (e.g. better isolation, etc) for those institutional owners
There are very serious checks, what are you talking about?
1. Many are not certain how Chinese voters impact CCP environmental policy

2. Look at per capita

3. Moving manufacturing of American goods to China can still be considered American caused emmissions, tho your stats are likely counting it as Chinese

4. The article is about the great salt lake in USA. CO2 as a global problem won't progress when everyone tries to blame everyone else

5. China is improving their efficiency. Look at electric conversion rates & cars' mpg. Americans complain about gas prices while having some of the lowest prices while driving some of the least efficient cars

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Comparison-of-Fuel-Econo...
There are many situations where renting is advantageous to owning.
They're not saying that "construction of public housing or financial support for private investors engaged in social housing development" is not beneficial.

They're saying that the "null hypothesis" of "mainstream chicago-school economics" would be:

1. The above laws would be beneficial to construction of low-income housing
2. rent control would be detrimental to construction of low-income housing

When some of the laws did both at once, it is hard to disentangle the effects, and the study is calling out that the confounding variable of the aforecited amendments to rent control laws is not well controlled for, calling into question the overall conclusions.
Hungry people are cranky, and cranky people are less fair to others, are both only common sense.
Michael Pollan: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

The SAD (standard American diet) is both a modern marvel of how to feed people cheaply at scale, but its downsides are significant in terms of negative health outcomes: metabolic syndrome, obesity, diabetes and the list goes on.
The Ordnance Survey route, map, and landmarks https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/guides/the-ridgeway/
Additives and supplements grew into the loophole between food processing and drugs. Those lobbies grew as the US developed a political movement against regulation.

A lot of people make a lot of money selling ground up bark and food flavoring.
They have another great positive effect: they are not sugar. Sugar in excess is one of the most harmful things you can consume.
I'll gladly pay my share and hope I'll never be part of that 1%.
I mean, everyone was doing it once in a while back then. But Vikings were probably one of the worst offenders.
Seconded. Make it 20 years.
Personally, I think you illustrate well my main issue with the EU, which is that I have to live in the same political entity as the bloody racists in the north and the east.

Still seem worth it overall nevertheless especially considering I already have to live with our local grown racists here anyway.
I use Working Copy on my iphone to push / pull from my git repo

Same on laptop

Obsidian vault is just the directory where the git repo is
https://minecraft.wiki/ replaced the fandom wiki some time ago.
Due to an incarcerated family member, I had to deal with privately run prison telecom software, which was as awful and exploitative as you would expect, I could see where someone might feel guilty for working in this area. Evil business model.

But one of the worst things about the software was all the bugs. Silent failures so we couldn't tell what was happening, if it was a software problem or if our loved one was being prevented from communicating with us. The messaging and video call system failed us at some crucial moments and created a lot of emotional stress.

In fact I think this is part of the awful business model -- cut costs even if it hurts people.

Bad software can really make the lives of incarcerated people much worse. So if you were able to do a decent job on that software, whether it was prison telecom or internal tools for a prison contractor, you may have still had a more positive impact than you think, despite the broader business model being totally evil.
Where is evidence for very serious checks?
I would be very interested in a broader study of a human population. It is my understanding that sugar alcohols have been popular in Japan far longer than in the USA and EU, and Japan is the longest living population to my knowledge.

I do not doubt that there is some connection, but might the risks be elevated with some other aspect of diet, habits, and so on? What would explain the discrepancy between populations?
Checking IDs is the standard model in the US along the border states in the south (don't know about the north).

My earliest border police checkpoint was in '87, south east of Phoenix on the way to LA. My buddies from Las Cruces always use to remind us to carry your ids, but then they used to do the beer runs across the border as it was cheaper.

Who here think embedded ID chip is not coming - you know, to save labor costs
The aesthetic lives on, even some of the rhetoric.

Cyberpunk as a genre died a rare very final death, the stories came true, the futures they warned of became fact.
> We’ve already experienced almost two centuries of global warming, and nothing bad has happened.

The Overton window has shifted. They've finally figured out how to read a graph.
Modern semiconductors are also expensive. Designing a new iPhone and bringing it to market takes a long time. Fabbing the semiconductors is a resource-intensive process. Even more mundane stuff is expensive. There's a team of highly skilled professionals who just deal with the waterproofing gaskets. A lithography machine is expensive to own and operate.

----

Essentially the same arguments apply to semiconductors as medicine yet I can buy an iPhone for <$2k and still give Apple an extremely generous margin on it. That wonderdrug might cost thousands more despite having a fraction of the people involved in its design/manufacturing, most being paid far less. Scale is part of it, but things like insulin or epinephrine are being produced by the ton with simple processes and still cost hundreds of dollars a year for people. It's not certification either, as other countries don't have the same issues or pay the same high prices.
Because many people's largest investment in life is their home, in countries like the US and Canada where this issue is prevalent.

More supply can reduce the value of that asset, so people fight it, especially if they have financially planned for that asset to appreciate over time
I think more often it’s about translation. From image to classification ex. with no hope of mapping back.
>There is no control when you drive out of the country (possibly with stolen goods), and there is no round-the-clock passport control at all border crossings.

The modern EU economy can't function if you were to thoroughly check every single vehicle transiting a border. The costs to the economy would far outpace whatever some Eastern Europe Rroma thieves can steal from someone's back yard, nor do I wish to be checked every single time I cross a border just because I might have a stolen bike in my trunk. Imagine how US's economy would be if they had border checks between states.

Also, EU border checks when they are in place, are mostly restricted to the major roads, but small country roads at borders have no checks, so the truly bad people wishing to cause harm have so many ways of crossing the porous EU border undetected, while the innocent Average Joe has to be stuck in border checks for hours.

So the hole EU border checks thing is just a security theater anyway, causing economic harm and frustration just to look tough for the right wing voters but brining no actual security benefit, except for catching the really really dumb criminals.
Hi, I currently use Supabase when I need auth for a new application. Of all the features Supabase offers, auth coming coupled with a Postgres db is my favorite.

I like the UI components and RBAC, but could you help me with when I should consider Stack over something like Supabase?

Good luck with everything!
This is entirely true and at the same time the competing wanna-be imperial powers have shown themselves to be even worse.
The WSJ recently had a story about how America is running out of generic drugmakers: [0]

[0] https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/america-is-running-out-of-...
> So you get the first order effect you wanted "rent stays low in the area"

It's not even clear that you get that. The conclusion only states that rent stays low for the dwellings subject to rent control, not for the area.
I suppose it never occurred to you that many people actively avoid owning a residence, preferring to rent even when they could easily afford to buy a residence with cash? In your world these people don't exist yet inexplicably I know several. Landlords are providing a service that many people literally want to pay for.
> If it's that simple, do you have a theory for why it's not the go-to solution that gets implemented?

Most of the voting population are homeowners who have a vested financial interest in the cost of housing always going up.

So anything that makes housing cheaper is politically difficult.
> Now there's villages which provide pre-made shelter

You can make a shelter in less than a minute, so eh.

> you can just trade and build up villager slaves to make all the resources for you

Just?? They don't have that much variety and it's a lot of work, more work than collecting most resources on your own.

> you can get a bed

Beds, from beta 1.3? You're really pining for a specific couple months there.
> Defeating the king and sacking his capital wasn't enough to pacify the land

So, decentralization, in a way. Nice.-
Not a problem, just gerrymander the computers running the simulations.
> Passengers going through without document checks is a minor element of Schengen

In a pure economic efficiency sense you might very well be right. But the "illusion" that borders without border control used to give shouldn't be completely disregarded either. Pre 2015 (and Corona) when you could just roam around without ever showing ID just felt very different. It didn't feel like I was moving between distinct and sovereign countries, but more like moving between states in the U.S: "Oh now we crossed in to Texas cowboy noises".

Especially if you live in a border region (e.g Malmö-Copenhagen) and commute across the border, you really feel the difference and might even consider stop doing that because of hassle and increases in travel time.

During corona the closed Finish/Swedish border in Happaranda/Torneå just felt surreal, most warlike experience I've ever had. These cities are essentially one, and all of a sudden families, friends, businesses and their employees were split with fences and armed people stopping them.
Generative AI enhances individual creativity, decreases collective novelty
One issue is widespread opposition to new construction.

So in order for politicians to help one segment of society (renters) they risk upsetting another segment (communities who oppose new construction).

But right now there are two cities where an increase in supply has soften rents - Oakland and Toronto.
It would be better to separate chronic care expenses from acute care expenses. A lot of people have periods in their life where they need expensive acute care, but it's not chronic.
It actually makes very little sense to “highlight” that in the context above.

It would perhaps have been interesting to point out that that region of Sweden is called Roslagen today, and has been since those times.
"Only" 16% is still pretty amazing, and practically speaking enough to make you rich enough to never have to work with only a $10 (1920s money) investment.

More interesting is what are the lessons for investing today. What companies sell highly addictive products? (cough, Meta)
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370: Benchmarks Validate Zen 5's Efficiency and Performance
I don't think this is correct. I think colanderman's answer is the right one, which is that when we're descending, we generally spell out the pitches with flats. If this were ascending, then we could have I-#I-II. But as I noted, in jazz this particular descending pattern is fairly common.
I'm on a similar deal for my Psoriasis medication, Cosentyx.

The Insurance company is billed some ungodly amount, and my copay is small or $0.

There has to be some financial shenanigans going on: someone is marking up the price, and writing it off to some reasonable level for some benefit. It's not sustainable to the insurer or the insured to be paying these kinds of prices for what amounts to a 'forever' medication.

The stress of maintaining the discount programs, induces quite a bit of anxiety.
There is a "relatively simple"[0] solution to this issue of deepfakes. Anyone publishing content, particularly if there is incentive for manipulation, can get a Keyoxide[1] or other similar doip setup. Then they also sign and provider a hash of any content they publish with the associated key.

There's a bit of challenge for binary content since those can't be compressed or optimized without breaking the hash, and many hosting platforms will make such changes. For that we need to advance perceptual hashing algos to the point where they only - and always - break on semantic differences.

[0] Caveat being getting the solution to be seamless enough for the not-so-tech-inclined to have little problem using it. And for the general public to get into the habit of verifying content.

[1] https://keyoxide.org/
> current strategy to limit overall warming is reaching net zero in 2050

It appears to me that the "current strategy" is to increase carbon emissions ad infinitum until we can no longer find hydrocarbon deposits in the Earth or we can no longer harvest them because economic/life systems on Earth have collapsed too much to support civilization. Your idea is certainly smarter, but I haven't seen any evidence that it will actually be implemented.
You might very well have a point there.-