skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any sane hotel manager knows that not all hotel clientele have the same level of risk, so you don’t just lower the price until every last room sells. Just one person can cause a disturbance that results in having to refund multiple other hotel guests. One factor of a nice hotel room is nice hotel guests that keep rooms nice and don’t cause issues.

Also, outside of money laundering or something, no hotel is operating on 6% occupancy.
Combustion/smoke products are the vast majority of the to-self harm in cannabis consumption, yes I do believe that. I don't know of data one way or another (remember, Schedule I for no good reason), but we do know that combustion products are harmful and that other combusted drugs are more harmful, so my intuition and experience suggests that most of the harm from combusted cannabis is the combustion. No one smokes placebo (probably not even possible), so there's no convenient baseline.

To your other points -- the chart is for "recreational drugs" which chocolate is obviously not generally considered to be. It's not regulated, which is inherently disqualifying for this purpose. That doesn't mean it isn't psychoactive (it absolutely is, albeit to a significantly lesser degree, inviting the question of where to draw the line and why).

> This is a drug that has negative effects on the user and on others around the user, and no, those effects are not just about smoking of the drug - taking a mind-altering substance in edible form still alters your mind.

This is your assertion, but that doesn't make it a fact.

Altering your mind is not, for example, necessarily a negative effect. Short term or long term.

> In terms of "harm to others" on that chart, your drug of choice rates worse than cocaine! That harm, by the way, is not about secondary smoke and does not magically go away when you eat the substance instead of inhaling it.

OK and what is the harm of cocaine use to others? Crime? Note that cocaine (distinct from crack) is not a popular street crime drug in the last 40 years, but clearly there are social and medical impacts from its use, and trafficking is concomitant with all sorts of badness. Most of this does not apply to cannabis, and anyway, there are obvious solutions to those issues.

I do struggle to imagine the "harm to others" in cannabis use. Perhaps you have some ideas?

I would love to see an honest accounting of harm from cannabis. And sugar. I'm not too worried about carrots. I suspect the to-self and to-others harm from sugar is higher than that from cannabis, although not on a serving-to-serving comparison. I would suggest greater moderation with cannabis than sugar, but that is also the natural use pattern, and anyway it is not my place or yours to make that decision for any other competent adult.

My central position here is that, in moderation, cannabis is innocuous and doesn't deserve the fearful restrictions placed upon it for (mostly) bad reasons by (sometimes very) bad people. The ongoing legalization efforts are appropriate and reasonable, just extremely overdue and unevenly distributed, for now.

And not-in-moderation, cannabis is still less harmful than a lot of other options. And they are options, don't imagine that "not good for you" is a sufficient reason to dissuade the general population from doing a thing. So advantaging the less-harmful option is proper policy.
I would think a key difference is once this was found out, Dan Rather was fired.

There will always be failures of integrity. Our expectation can't be infallible people, but rather the rigor of an organization to care about the failures.
What about during live interviews though? Not sure if I see the justification for DSA interviews there anymore
Should You Wash Bananas?
Both the city and private housing providers colluding to price fix housing costs can be wrong. The whataboutism is tiring.
What do you mean? If you hang them on the towel rack, they dry (mostly) and can be reused. They do get gross after a while (a week or two) but not daily.

Do you really wash your towels after each use? Why? How?
So, they launch a mass Evil Maid attack against DEF CON convention attendees?
This is innovative and kind of brilliant, I'm impressed!

- Binary message formatting for efficiency and data integrity (float to/from string is messy)

- Familiar printf()-style format strings that the compiler can check[*] gives type safety!

- No preprocessing and/or code generation from message templates or anything like that.

Really nice!

Edits: markdown and grammar.

[*]: This uses an extension I think to mark the argument as a format string
"Free" isn't exactly free. The casino would not be comping rooms if they weren't more than making up for it on gambling losses from those getting the offers.
Thank you for your suggestions. I agree that the choice of font and icons is significant. I will improve upon these elements. Additionally, I plan to integrate a data chart into the graphics to enhance the visual presentation.
It’s not just landlords.

I wrote this article about the wider phenomenon of memes and collusion in public markets:

https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=385
Depending on which end of the scale you are interested in, the NIST would be an interesting place to work.

How To Measure The Tiniest Forces In The Universe https://youtu.be/pXoZQsZP2PY and World's Heaviest Weight https://youtu.be/_k9egfWvb7Y - both from Veritasium.

From the expanded description on the heaviest weight:

> Before visiting NIST in Washington DC I had no idea machines like this existed. Surely there's an accurate way to measure forces without creating such a huge known force?! Nope. This appears to be the best way, with a stack of 20 x 50,000 lb masses creating a maximum force of 4.45 MN or 1,000,000 pounds of force. I also wouldn't have thought about all the corrections that need applying - for example buoyancy subtracts about 125 pounds from the weight of the stack. Plus the local gravitational field strength must be taken into account. And, the gravitational field varies below grade. All of this must be taken into account in order to limit uncertainty to just five parts per million (.0005%)
Nokia 1280 has the biggest letters in the contact list menu among any phones I have tried including for example Nokia 1110. All your requirements have been men and even one more - extreme durability not comparable with any brand new Chinese one. BL-5C is maybe the most popular battery for phones also used by some other radio devices just make sure your replaceable battery is not a crap. Monochrome display is an absolute king for those who needs simplicity.
>I don't think there is such a thing as truth

This is a self-defeating statement. It's false on its face. If there is no such thing as truth, then this statement can't be true because it would mean there is at least one truth.
PHP 8.4 at Least
We won't really know the answer until SCOTUS rules on it.
I'm not proposing anyone eat their children.

However, immigration does seem to be a factor driving supply.
The headline says that the books are "outlawed" and "banned" in Utah. Its clickbait. An accurate headline with say "Utah bans school libraries from having books by....".

The other headlines you quote specify where the ban applies (restaurants, religious services, schools). This headline does not and states it as though its a state wide prohibition.
I've never been given anything like a leetcode test during live interviews, so I didn't know that was a thing.

I'd take it as the interviewers being lazy and perhaps a sign that they think there's a technical solution to every human problem.
> Some packagers have policies that everything needs to be built from source, so they’d just delete and rebuild the prebuilt files anyway.

What packages are they referring?
I haven't looked too deeply into it but I came across https://github.com/ergo-services/ergo not too long ago and thought it could be pretty interesting to try using OTP in Golang

Packaging a Go service in Docker and dumping it into k8s is probably the easier/better understood path but also deploying Go services onto an Erlang node just sounds more fun
"kids" => your bubble?
Having read the article, it seems like an interesting experiment. With the current state of LLMs, this is extremely unlikely to produce useful research, but most of the limitations people have been commenting about are will progressively get better.

The authors' credibility is a bit hurt when the first "limitation" they mention is "our system doesn't do page layouts perfectly". Come on, guys.

What is weird to me is this:

> The AI Scientist occasionally makes critical errors when writing and evaluating results. For example, it struggles to compare the magnitude of two numbers, which is a known pathology with LLMs. To partially address this, we make sure all experimental results are reproducible, storing all files that are executed.

I'm not sure why you would run your evaluation step without giving your LLM access to function calling. It seems within reach to first have the LLM output a set of statements-to-be-verified (eg, "does X increase when Y increases?") and then use their code-generation/execution step to perform those comparisons.

And then the incomprehensible statement for me here is that they allow the model access to its own runtime environment so it can edit its own code?

The paper is 185 pages and only has one paragraph on safety. This screams "viral marketing piece" rather than "serious research".

And finally:

> The AI Scientist can produce papers that exceed the acceptance threshold at a top machine learning conference...

Oh wow, please tell more?

> ... as judged by our automated reviewer.

Ah. Nevermind
That is the joke. Go conflates simple with primitive, so you end-up building things like Computer Science has just emerged and it is the 50s with some syntax sugar, an decent concurrency to be fair.
Also capitalism provides plenty of capital to bid up house prices.

There wouldn't be many $1 million ranch houses if there wasn't a bank that would give you a mortgage on a $1 million ranch house.
Good info, thx, but states dont want to lose that 40%
The UK's Investigatory Powers Act allows the State to tell lies in court (2016)
Key things it lacks that protobuf offers:

- bindings to other languages: I'm seeing C/C++ and Python supported. I could, hypothetically, use anything with a C-native interface to wrap that C library and bind to other languages, but that's work I'll have to do. And that binding is going to be as easy-to-use as a wrapper around a C-native library.

- versioning (or some other way to deal with drift between serialization and deserialization). In practice, protocol buffers are often used to do both long-term storage serialization and short-term on-wire transmission. Both use cases always eventually involve two services that cannot be kept in lockstep sync on releases (either because you have to read older files or because you needed to release your backend before your frontend, do a rolling release, whatever).

This is simpler than protobuf, which is cool (and I'd recommend looking over its implementation to figure out how to write something like this), but if you put it into implementation in a non-toy distributed-system project it will not scale. It may have other applications though; I can definitely see it as the backbone for a simple videogame messaging protocol.

Still, no harm in writing a thing and putting it out there; I'm happy it exists even if I won't use it.
Something very close, but that's not what you would expect for something that markets itself as a C++ library IMHO. Especially in 2024, most people would hope (or assume) that "C++" means "C++ 11" at least.

Definitely doesn't count as _lying_, but still underwhelming.
One hundred percent. It is far, far easier to automate something by building it to be automated, than it is to make a general purpose automated system to use a tool.

My favorite thing to say about this is: We know how to make humans, we're good at it and its fun, why make it harder and less fun?
iPhone Assistive mode isn’t perfect, but worth looking at:

https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/assistive-access-iphon...
Any sane manager will know there's a too-low amount at which point you start to lose money on the room, because you had to pull in an extra housekeeper, a certain percentage of people pee on the bed or break a chair, sheets need laundry, fees to the corporate franchise, there's a $10 food credit for anyone with Gold status, etc.
It was Firebird. Thanks for correcting me.
Mhm doesn't seem to work. It's not recognizing the terragrunt.hcl
I prefer TCP for web traffic rather than UDP.
Ahhhh

huggingface_hub.utils._errors.HfHubHTTPError: 502 Server Error: Bad Gateway for url: https://huggingface.co/api/models/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-...

Error: DownloadError
To mention a usecase for this library: it is used as part of the software Parrot ships with their drones.
It's very Jacobin to pretend that the last-place mayoral candidate, a rich landlord, in San Francisco, the city with the worst housing crisis on the planet, has struck upon a useful and remarkable solution to bring down rents. The biggest problem in America today is that our socialists are the worst and stupidest socialists any country has ever suffered. We need better ones.
indefinitely means one-time grant which is invested, and the returns on investment pay the salary of a grad student or part of a professor's salary. So yeah, it's indefinite.

These profs still have to get funds to get grad students or lab space, and still have to teach to maintain certain benefits. In later years, the endowed chair is essentially a chair in the closet as their research and teaching activity tapers off before retirement.

My spouse was an education-institution major gift fundraiser, so she dealt with endowed professorships, eternal grad student fellowhips, recurring scholarships, and the like. Generally, you can attach as many or as little strings to the gift as you want, but for most things there's no way to enforce those strings after the gift is made and the financial engine starts producing.
> These folks must all do courses in epistemology to realize that all knowledge is built up of symbolic components and not spit out by a probabilistic machine.

Knowledge ends up as symbolic representation, but it ultimately comes from the environment. Science is search, searching the physical world or other search spaces, but always about an environment.

I think many people here almost forget that the training set of GPT was the hard work of billions of people over history, who researched and tested ideas in the real world and build up to our current level. Imitation can only take you so far. For new discoveries the environment is the ultimate teacher. It's not a symbolic processing thing, it's a search thing.

Everything is search - protein folding? search. DNA evolution? search. Memory? search. Even balancing while walking is search - where should I put my foot? Science - search. Optimizing models - search for best parameters to fit the data. Learning is data compression and search for optimal representations.

Symbolic representations are very important in search, they quantize our decisions and make it possible to choose in complex spaces. Symbolic representation can be copied, modified and transmitted, without it we would not get too far. Even DNA uses its own language of "symbols".

Symbols can encode both rules and data, and more importantly, can encode rules as data, so syntax becomes object of meta-syntax. It's how compilers, functional programming and ML models work - syntax creating syntax, rules creating rules. This dual aspect of "behavior and data" is important for getting to semantics and understanding.
> Presumably because the CEO is mates with the competing CEO's and they all decide not to undercut each other.

"Presumably" meaning what? Do you have some evidence or are you presuming it because it "feels right" as an explanation?
Looks interesting! I think cost of running resources would be more helpful
Supply is supply of sellers, in this case. A market works best with lots of sellers and lots of buyers.
>authoritative sources

The opposite is a problem too when authoritative sources on X topic start to talk about Y topic as if they still have the same knowledge and expertise and we should trust them. I see this more and more everywhere, here on HN too.
This is the best way to bust the landlord monopoly (if there is one).

Build more houses than we need. Suddenly those landlords have to compete for good tenants. And monopolistic cooperation will suddenly become impossible: when vacancies go up, and finance costs stay the same... the pressure will be on, and all it takes is a single landlord to cave and lower his rent to break the whole thing apart.

Before I moved to Canada, I lived in a country with surplus housing. Renting there was not only incredibly cheap, but very easy to arrange. You could play prospective landlords off each other to get better rent or have them do minor renovations. Legislation makes little to no difference in the face of market power.
Depends, not all C is C++, eg, there is no (yet) `restrict` keyword in C++ (even if lots of C++ compilers support __restrict__, it's not in the spec)
Going to the extreme of this though, I really really hate getting an autoconf project with no generated configure file. I don’t want to install the full autotools suite to do build!

On the other hand, keeping tarballs close to the git tree makes it easy to reuse git archive and related GitHub features, provided the repo properly includes some kind of versioning information in tree.
Well, North Korea doesn't have "post-truth". It has good (or bad) old propaganda and brainwashing, but "post-truth" for me implies a plurality of (increasingly polarized) opinions. So "post-truth" can only happen in democratic societies, and is actually used by non-democratic states (Russia, North Korea, China...) to destabilize them.
I Learned to Fly on a Mountain Bike: Wende Cragg Documents the Birth of MTB
> Sometimes it feels like the easiest way to make money with a new business today is to build something that helps another person make money.

Isn't this exactly what all B2B businesses do?
> they sign an agreement that they must use the software’s output

They don't. This is the key weakness of the case and the reason that dozens of large landlords have already exited the class actions. Not everything that ProPublica prints is true.
I think point of gp is that land is _not_ a commodity. It thus cannot be treated as capital, the way it is more traditionally understood. Supply/demand dynamics in a market does not make something capitalism.
The controversy is that we get 2 different numbers depending on which method (cosmic microwave background vs cosmic distance ladder) we use to calculate the present rate of expansion. These numbers used to have their error bars overlapping, so we assumed they would eventually converge to the true value. But as we get more data the opposite is happening: the numbers are diverging and their error bars are shrinking such that they no longer overlap.

This tells us that either our model of the universe is wrong (therefore the cosmic microwave background method is giving us an incorrect answer) or that something is wrong with how we're calculating the distances along the cosmic distance ladder. The latter was originally the assumption that should be proven true with more and better data from newer telescopes. This is now turning out not to be the case: our cosmic distance ladder calculations seem to have been very good, so it now seems more likely that our model of the universe is wrong.
People still do. On average the people that do are older, but it still happens.

Unfortunately there is no real way to do properly secure telephone payments, stuff like PCIPal just moves the payment information from the caller speaking it out and it being entered into whatever payment gateway the call agent is using to doing it automatically via DTMF but its all transmitted the same way.

You just need to hope the call centre you are phoning into is setup in a way that the agents can't exfiltrate that payment info (No phones, no paper, no access to anything they shouldnt have access to)
They do, but you, the reader, don't :)
The proposal of humanoid robots is to make a human in less than 25 years for less than a million dollars :P
I always thought the internet would get more sophisticated and secure as time went on and my days of SQL injection were limited to my teenage years but it seems as the internet becomes more accessible the number of armature developers putting insecure websites up in rising raidly.
Setting aside how hard it is to get good estimates of these things, aren't those independent stats?
oh okay, that's a shame. I'll put together a simple terragrunt and see what's going on
The Future Will Be Brief
Where does that come from that a fraction of computing history is dismissed as "not a real OS" ? Did "real" OS's exist for the IBM PC?
No, it's a desync by integer overflow, there's no overflowing buffer. Due to the incorrect length field, the db server starts parsing the next db protocol message from the middle of attacker-supplied data which gives the attacker control of db commands.

(A case could be made for calling it a buffer underflow maybe?)
How do you measure quality? And, can users game that quality?

I think that's the hardest thing on any recommendation or search system. It's really hard to do without using money as a neutral measure of value. And, without a good measure of quality - it's unclear that the system is optimizing the right metrics (without cannibalizing others).
I imagine these kind of schemes can be implemented as sort of on device eBPF filter (in layman terms CUDA, but for storage). It would allow deeper integration with system for example have hardware accelerated/integrated lvm (obviously speed would depend on use case, less win for thin volumes, more advantages for raid and so on). Or from other side have deeper integration with filesystems such as zfs, btrfs, bcachefs.
There are circumstances when it is appropriate or necessary, such as when indicating urgency or criticality or when emphasising authority when it is challenged in person.

But, I would argue, not in a mailing list.
I don't know if it handles this unexpected-revocation scenario, but as Apache has had support for automated Let's Encrypt for a while now (I finally upgraded last week, when I realized I was missing out on this feature), I'm surprised that nginx doesn't?
Thank you very much for writing all of this out!

My abstracted YAML representation worked pretty well for this initial PoC but I'm seeing places where this is just not going to fly for more complicated queries. I'd much rather string together more competent technologies to accomplish my goal rather than spending a year reinventing the wheel.

Along the lines of your comment ... trying these queries in a general language and in SQL brought me to the same conclusions you have here. One of the foundations of this is open source so if I write a recipe and contribute it, I want someone else to be able to take it and tinker with it or extend it but do that without having to deal with too much boilerplate.

I will take a look at Datalog. I know I've seen it before but don't know much about it. Thank you again!
Show HN: An open-source Uber Eats clone
Okay, will provide a delete account feature in the future
Of course. If you gamble today, particularly on the video slots, it all goes on your loyalty card so they know exactly what they can afford to give you in comps.

Comps or not I think the casino is going to look very differently at people who gamble vs people who don't. I mean, paying $140 or $180 for a room makes very little difference if somebody is losing $200 a day and, compared to other properties, the casino has an incentive to fill the hotel completely with gamblers.

(Myself I think about going to Las Vegas for a conference or event like CES but the casinos wouldn't like me because I won't gamble unless the odds are in my favor.)