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Valve is transitioning into a mini-Apple, ie a consumer hardware company with a cash cow marketplace.

HL: Alyx was more of a tech demo for Valve's work in VR R&D. I'd be curious what Valve ends up releasing in the next 5 years, given how heavily they've been hiring in the CV, Hardware, and Spatial Computing space for the past few years now.

Once Valve "solves" VR Gaming, I wouldn't be surprised that a HL3 would be released shortly.
>But, I don't think that was their thought process at all.

Intent, being squishy and debatable matters far less than the outcome.

I can say that I never intended X, but in the end, X still happened. That it happened unintentionally assuages exactly no injury from X having happened.
I've had some weird experiences related to my address although none were really a serious problem. My street name changed (probably when an interstate spur was put in about 40 years ago) and I still have issues now and then with geolocation.
Perhaps they talk when wheels of their Peloton bikes re-aligned.
I have a need for something like this. I want to convert hand written / drawn stuff to SVG. Not to a defined diagram schema though, just freeform SVG.

Any suggestions on alternative tools? For pricing reference, I would be incorporating this into my app, and users might convert 1 page a day. For what I would earn, your pricing model would be completely unusable.

I will have to build either a CV pipeline or use NNs, I imagine. Not sure which is the better approach for my task.
Set the price controls across the nation, and developers will redirect their money towards something other than residential real estate. It's frankly disappointing to see this faulty thinking on HN. Price controls fundamentally disrupt the feedback loop between supply and demand. If you limit the profit to be made on building housing, you're disincentivizing it from being built.

Imagine a county is in the middle of a famine, and the government in a few provinces set price controls on food. The famine worsens in those provinces. Is the problem helped by setting price controls nationwide?
> this explosion of creativity

But is it? It's fancier clip art, no?
My local credit union has gone from anti crypto to fully support; I was one of a dozen or so people who were able to provide legitimate datapoints to support bitcoin usages that weren't illegal.

So glad I was able to just walk in to the local HQ and have a sit-down with the person who ultimately authorized crypto exchange transactions. YMMV
This would be an unproductive use of time. It is very clear you are pro "no regulation" around housing (based on your thread comments, "just build more"), so a heated argument with the potential for the subthread to be detached by dang does none of us any good. I'm not here to change your belief system, and to attempt to do so would provide no meaningful impact to macro outcomes.
This is classic Survivorship Bias
United States Files Suit Against Georgia Institute of Tech and Georgia Tech
I would've had a lawyer on retainer within the first week and had them in touch with the legal department until I got my check. We've had similar weird issues with our home address and the mortgage company that suddenly got cleared up when we put our lawyer in touch with their lawyer and there turned out to be a very simple form and process for changing the address of the property.
CORS exists to keep us humble. The first time you think you understand it, your journey has only just begun.
Yeah I wasn't fond of the use of that word in the title but it was the title.
He does not make a very good case as to why we need to rewrite it completely and not simply update it. A lot of the principles still hold up to this day. Why make a completely new document if the basics still work. New does not necessarily mean better.

Honestly in this case I will take an old and tested constitution over a brand new one where we have to re-examine and find all the corner cases all over again.
It's extremely easy for a three-letter agency or similar to plant a new employee.

Corporate espionage may not be talked about very much, but it is still very fashionable. Even without state sponsored attackers.
I somewhat agree with you, but I think it's very important to distinguish between the two meanings, because different points on the continuum of correctness cause you to come to completely opposite conclusions about the nature of the universe. A bit of quantity leads to a totally different quality. In other words, truth and usefulness are continua, but they are two different and orthogonal continua, and going right on one may mean going left on the other.

My view of the universe is going to be totally different if Newtonian mechanics is the "truth", versus if something like quantum mechanics is the "truth." The former depicts a totally deterministic and knowable-in-principle clockwork universe, whereas the latter has randomness and ignorance that cannot be removed even in principle. Quantum mechanics may not be the whole truth, but it's certainly so different that it shows earlier approaches to be not just incomplete but totally incorrect about their fundamental assumptions, even if they can be used to make useful predictions. Quantum mechanics isn't just more useful, it's more true, whereas Newtonian mechanics might be more useful than some other theory, but actually less true in some sense.
Realpage is involved in a vicious loop, not a virtuous loop. Even in the Bay Area, corporate landlords jack up rent like 10% every year, whereas small landlords are happy to raise rent by 3%. That's the difference due to algorithmic collusion set and controlled by RealPage.
Yes they are, look at the derandomization program in computational complexity, or if you're slightly more forgiving with your definition of logic, then look at mixed strategies and Monte-Carlo algorithms.
As a contractor who makes a living off his tools daily your read-through is one of the reasons why I know so many people with permanent eye injuries from buying shitty hammers. Cheap tools are dangerous.
Congrats on the retiring!

Are you still doing the hats & bottles or did you retire from that too?
What's My Vote Worth?
The point is:

1. Cynically, for bureaucrats to be able to claim they're doing something about an issue the politicians care about, but which the bureaucrats think is a non-issue.
2. Less cynically, to take away plausible deniability for the torrenter about whether the thing is allowed or not.
Altair is superb. Have used it a lot and it has become my default visualization library. Works in VSCode and Jupyter Lab. The author has a great workshop video on youtube for people interested in altair. I especially like the ability to connect plots with each other so that things such as selecting a range in one plot changes the visualization in the connected plot.

One possible downside is that it embeds the entire chart data as json in the notebook itself, unless you are using server side data tooling, which is possible with additional data servers, although I have not used it, so cannot say how effective it is.

For simple plots its pretty easy to get started and you could do pretty sophisticated inter plot visualizations with it as you get better with it and understand its nuances.
The google logging library also defers formatting
This is super cool, love these sort of projects.

It's crazy what you can achieve with typescript types, what about inferring sql query results types from a raw sql query string: https://github.com/nikeee/sequelts
Thanks!

The big difference is that Google Colab runs in your web browser, whereas Moonglow lets you connect to compute in the VSCode/Cursor notebook interface. We've found a lot of people really like the code-completion in VSCode/Cursor and want to be able to access it while writing notebook code.

Colab only lets you connect to compute provided by Google. For instance, even Colab Pro doesn't offer H100s, whereas you can get that pretty easily on Runpod.
Some mailboxes at least used to have a common key. Alternately it's probably not that difficult to pick the lock.
> Lots of people want to blame rising prices on price fixing, when there really is growing demand without commensurate increases of supply. They want a silver bullet to bring down prices, without tackling the underlying problems.

Yup. The underlying problem is a single word: supply.

Build more supply, the prices come down. But of course, developers know that. They don't want the prices to come down, so they don't build supply.
Do LLMs Share a Common "imagination"?
I have always wondered if projects like this would be better off having a pay-as-you-go-model. One example:

- Minimum account balance to start: $10.
- $1/use
- Then top-off as you need
- no balance expiry (outside service going bust)
Aren't there two locks? One, a master keyed lock for post office employees to fill the boxes and the other is individually keyed for customer access. Perhaps the crooks obtained a master key by either bribing an employee, cloned one, or stole one.

Back in high school a friend was obsessed with the MTA subway and had a neighbor who was an MTA employee. He somehow convinced them to hand over their keys which had both the strait and S shaped ward keys to the subway cars and the pad locks in the stations. He duplicated the warded keys using nails and sheet metal and the padlock key using just a nail and a file. We both had sets of keys and could unlock anything we wanted. All it took was one irresponsible employee handing their keys to a 16 YO.
Yes, often a car that is stopped on the tracks then the driver panics when the gates start to come down.

Starting with cameras only at the crossings would prevent these with extremely low cost, and crossings are also the only places where the train must blow the horn.
The logical explanation: "observation" has nothing to do with conscious woo, it's just that in order to have a definite answer we build experiments so they collapse the wavefunction.

It's like asking someone on a date: maybe they were in a superposition before, but now they have to answer, and having answered ("been observed"), that answer is highly likely to stay constant in the short term.

(when you think about it from this point of view, it's classical physics that's counterintuitive: why should we expect that asking questions about one projection of state doesn't affect the answers we get from later asking about others, not even in the slightest?)

Does that make sense?
This gets into prisoner's dilemma though. If everyone but me is using the price fixing app, I have a strong incentive to undercut them, even by just a few dollars. So without a cartel-like enforcement mechanism, there is no reason it wouldn't just fall apart naturally in the long run.

In the complaint there was a mention of "compliance" which could get into that piece though.
where does the public housing come from? WA and CA can't seem to figure out how to build public housing. In WA, the best I've seen is the gov buying hotels and having the hotel sit empty for years [0].

If regulations make it impossible to build housing and public housing has the same regulations, who is paying that bill? The existing residents via sales and property taxes?

you can google construction costs in sf. how does regulations reduce any of those numbers?

[0] - https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/king-county-taxpayers-payin...
Right around 1990, and I don't think the "really, don't say 'retard'" thing took strong effect until early 2000's.

Our culture's imperfect, but there's a fair bit of evidence that it's a kinder, more courteous world-- especially for youth-- than 30 years ago. Taking some sharp edges off language may have helped with that.
What Has Your GPU Done for You Today?
And if the French had had their way, we’d use grads not degrees and latitude would instead be 100 grads per 10,000km, so each grad of latitude would be 100km.

That kind of sanity was, of course, unacceptable to the rest of the world.
I'm not sure I understand what politics have to do with this. Housing is essential. It's "politically charged" because of the lack of affordability. Part of that is due to lack of building and now, evidently, part of that is due to price-fixing.
RealPage works by collating private competition data from all of their clients, running models to determine the highest possible vacancy rate for an area that will lead to the highest possible market rate, then telling their clients to set at that price and never offer discounts or reductions.

In a fair market, landlords with vacancies would want to fill them — they have tons of fixed costs and they can't leave money on the table like that. If you had trouble filling, you'd look at the market and adjust downwards, or offer better amenities, or do whatever you wanted to attract customers. The tension between demand and supply leads to market equilibrium.

RealPage tells its clients that if they all work together to set their prices higher than market equilibrium, hold out for far longer than they normally would want or what a free market would lead to, then the simple inelasticity of housing demand — everyone needs a home! — means that customers will eventually have to give in to the higher price in order to live their lives, and landlords will rake in the profits over time.

They use the data and actions of their clients working in concert in order to manipulate a fair market into a deeply unfair one which does not properly adjust to market forces.
We do it for all of our quarterly planning so that's a sync with Jira as a datasource, multiple tables and pivot tables, etc. I'd say the whole thing is probably a few MB.

I don't know where you'd start to see a performance difference compared to Excel for Win32.
My theory is that DNS blocking is chosen deliberately. There are more effective means of blocking, but if the bypass is just 5min work, those who care will bypass it and those who don't care enough will get blocked.

It's just after people get accustom to having a censorship infrastructure in place, it slowly starts spreading like cancer and gaining momentum...
That’s what makes this sting: the buyers already did pay a price premium (and subscription) to motivate behavior consistent with their preferences.

And even after accepting that premium, the company is just choosing not to deliver on its end anymore. And to be clear, “its end” here is refraining from pushing ads: a twisted state of affairs where the default condition is the company doing the work to force you to see ads, and you’re paying the company not to abuse you.
The google logging library has deferred the formatting for years
Clojure was made with databases and concurrency in mind. We've used it at previous startups, projects, and find it a productive language.

Also the clojure community is amazing. The clojurians slack is one of the most helpful communities for solving hard problems. Stopa will be giving a talk at at the conj later this year [1]

[1] https://2024.clojure-conj.org/#/speakers
Huh! That's a surprise. Especially as OpenAI has no problem with it.
They were desperately concerned about women’s uteruses falling out and wanted them to avoid strenuous activities like reading fiction.
I always order my coffee in a mug at coffee shops, and I try to avoid shops that serve in plastic lined paper cups.

When I can't, I bring my own mug.
I agree that the underlying issue is a lack of supply. However, if a landlord is commanding a 30% profit margin on a non-luxury apartment then I think they are contributing to the problem (to be clear, I'm not insinuating anyone in this thread is doing this). I think the only objective way to tell if it's priced too high is by the profit margin, but of course even that can be inflated if e.g. a developer took a huge margin on it before selling it to a new owner.

As to what an "ethical and not terrible for society" profit margin would be is above my pay grade, but I would estimate 15%. It also probably depends on how easily you can make money on the stock market as well.
No. The Post Office is not a private company, it's a public limited company with the government as sole shareholder.

It was changed from a government department to a statutory corporation in 1969. It was then changed to a public limited company in 2000.

Furthermore:

- Post Office Ltd owns and runs Post Office Counters Ltd which runs the post office branches. This is the company that uses Horizon (since 1999)

- Royal Mail delivers mail to addresses, and owns the Postcode Address File. Royal Mail was separated from the Post Office and privatised in 2013. It has never used Horizon.

Horizon is an EFTPOS/accounting system, nothing to do with mail delivery. It was introduced to the Post Office in 1999 after Fujitsu/ICL were originally commissioned by government to build an accounting system for the Benefits Agency, and it was so awful and buggy the Benefits Agency rejected it, so the government asked them to retool it for the Post Office.
Totally in the same camp. How I see AI improvement- is that if you needed couple developers to launch something, now you can do it yourself. Meaning the cost of launch is lower and that I think should be appreciated not fighted against.

If developer is actually solving the problems, it's like giving a tractor to dig a hole in addition to shovel
What do you use to read your notes on a phone?
I went to Chase Bank to withdraw cash for a Facebook deal, and they refused because I didn’t have their app. The teller couldn’t verify my driver's license or passport, insisting the only way was through their app's 2FA. This is exactly why I stick with credit unions—where I can work with real humans who actually help.
> I think the better implication is that the vast majority of apartment owners don't bother paying for pricing software.

I don't think there's anything so far to indicate this or that; there's still a reasonable possibility that 80% of the market is controlled by large property management businesses.
All I'm asking you to do is list the specific laws or regulation you're referring to here when you write about the need to "protect renters". I don't know if we agree or disagree, because you haven't actually stated what your beliefs are.

I definitely support regulations around housing: housind needs to be safe (fire exits, sprinklers, etc.). Landlords can't engage in deceptive practices, like putting up ads for one unit and giving the tenant a different one. Units should be promptly repaired. Landlords shouldn't discriminate on the basis of protected class. I could go on.
I'm not advocating for running out and filling your shop with boutique tools by any stretch. Mid-market brands like Dewalt are perfectly serviceable without incurring all of the safety issues that harbor freight brands are notorious for.
You are right in that the establishment has failed in its duty of due skepticism for one bad actor to get this far, but wrong in that prosecuting one type of bad actor doesn't make a difference, because part of the establishments error has been a failure to deter bad actors with prominent examples of prosecution.
We're currently working on a Postgres adapter. If you have an existing app and would be interested in using Instant with it, please send us a note: founders@instantdb.com

The way the Postgres adapter would work: You give us your database url [1], and Instant handles the real-time sync. [2]

For roll-out, we'll test it ourselves first and then take on beta users.

[1] Encrypted at rest: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in...

[2] Here's a fun 'pg introspection' function: https://github.com/instantdb/instant/blob/main/server/src/in... . You can take sneak peak through codebase by searching 'byop'.
Tactical-Ops: Assault on Terror was very good. However, Urban Terror was good replacement, when it was alive.
The natural interest rate plus a bit.

If you can earn 25% percent in profits in the current environment then it is a clear indication of an inefficient market - a market that needs to be regulated in order to create efficiency (like in this case as with many other cases: remove monopolistic behavior).

While it is problematic if you can't derive profits from productive activities it is also problematic when entities derive unsustainable profits - also for the party deriving the profits.

If there is not a bit middle class to consume products, then there will not be be a market to supply products to.
Sure, TSLA is 1.39% of the ETF I invest in. On the one hand, that's a low percentage, but on the other hand because I've investing in an S&P ETF for so long, it's significantly more than I'd like for a company run by a CEO I don't trust!

Oh, and just to be clear, I'm not considering the case of TSLA going to 0. Arguably TSLA dropping by 10% isn't significant in the grand scheme of things as it regularly fluctuates by that much in a day anyway, but I'd still rather have less exposure to that than more.
Building a GPU CI Service for conda-forge
San Francisco has always been a crooked city.. fleecing newbies is sport.. they have jokes and murals and parties around it and always have.. in the American era.. source: personal testimony by someone born and raised there around 1900
Many pigments past and present a pretty toxic and always have been unsafe to handle. Of course it is also worse when old materials degrade and start shedding into the environment to be picked up or breathed in by people.

>presumably, there was a point when we stopped using these dyes

The discovery of toxicity and phasing out depends on the individual chemical, not really all at once.

In the past, it was often quite widely known how toxic these things were and they were used anyway.

Paris green was used as a rat poison, insecticide, and a pigment all at the same time, factory workers were often poisoned with it.

Today we are really paranoid about these kinds of things, sometimes maybe a little too much, but the comfort levels with known dangers in the past was surprisingly high.
I'm having the same issue due to changing my surname (male). So far I've mentioned that millions of women experience name changes during marriage... to deaf ears.

The good news for this is that my primary stock has gone up 80% (since this issue became apparent, just two years ago), and it has encouraged me to live more frugally. Eventually?

Unrelated: thanks for the awesome Klein Mug, Cliff!
> Loss Prevention

For "prevention," seems like a great way to lose customers ...
If you need a management vlan, make one.

Wireguard interfaces are _cheap and easy_ - there's no reason not to set up an interface for normal client traffic that sshd doesn't listen on, and an interface for just sshd with different ACLs and routing logic if you want.
Many listings for apartments are on on-site.com (which is "a RealPage company") and are publicly available...

So it could be argued it's not

"private prices" + "autoaccept" + "compliance"

But rather

"public prices" + "autoaccept" + "compliance"

Still problematic behavior (and probably add "private knowledge of inventory forecast" on top of that), but I'd argue price signaling of the available inventory isn't the main issue.
Yeah, they both are extracting juice from vegetables by rpms.
Machine learning experiment tracking and data versioning in VSCode
C++ Unwind Exception Metadata: A Hidden Reverse Engineering Bonanza
I think it heavily depends on what local district attorneys policies are. Police may not see a point in taking a risk by apprehending someone just for them to be released hours later anyway.

Not a huge fan of US police departments in general but this isn't necessarily all on them.
I think it mainly covers the rights of the people who own companies, which amounts to the same thing.
Of course not. OpenSSH comes with no warranty, read the license.

Historically, it's been pretty good though.

If you would consider a commercial alternative, consider how much you would need to pay to get an actionable warranty, and consider if you could find someone to do a warrantied audit of OpenSSH (or especially of OpenSSH in your environment) for that amount. It might be a better use of your money.