skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When asked to prove it, it spelled out the letters one by one, and still failed (ChatGPT asserted the answer is still 2, Claude “corrected” itself to 1). Only when forcing it to place a count beside each letter did it get it correct.

It’s not really about the specific question, that just highlights that it does not have the ability to comprehend and reason. It’s a prediction machine.

If it cannot decompose such a simple problem, then how can it possibly get complex programming problems that cannot be simply pattern matched to a solution correct? My experience with ChatGPT, Claude, and copilot writing code demonstrates this. It often generates code that on the surface level looks correct, but when tested it either fails outright or subtly fails.

Even things like CSS it gets wrong, producing output that on the surface seems to do what you asked but in fact doesn’t actually style it correctly at all.

Its lack of ability to understand, decompose, and reason is the problem. The fact that it’s so confident even when wrong is the problem. The fact that it cannot detect when it doesn’t know is the problem.

It generates text that has high probability of “looking” correct, not text that has a high probability of being correct. With simple questions like the one I posed, it’s obvious to us when it gets it wrong. With complex programming tasks, the solution is complex enough that it often takes significant effort to determine if it’s correct or wrong. There’s more room for it to “look” correct without “being” correct.

> But if you've never tried GitHub Copliot

I’ve used it for almost a year before I cancelled my subscription because it wasn’t adding much value. I found copilot chat a bit more useful, but ChatGPT was good enough for that. I still use ChatGPT when programming: as a tool to help with documentation (what’s the react function to do X, type questions), to rubber duck, to ask for pros and cons lists on ideas or approaches, and to get starting points. But never to write the code for me, at least not without the expectation of significant rewriting, unless it’s super trivial (but then I likely would have written it faster myself anyway).

Basically, I use it like this person does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41350207
> What would governments/policy makers actually be able to do with any of this data? Not to denigrate it as a step forward, but I'm having trouble seeing much practical impact at all.

You can look at how beneficial hurricane forecasting has been in saving lives, which has been increasing in accuracy for longer lead times. It's very useful to know something bad is likely going to happen somewhere so you can move resources and evacuate people.

> So 14 true positives and 8 false positives, which means the positive predictive value is not great, less than 65%.

This actually seems huge to me unless we already are hitting close to 65%. I'm not sure how this wouldn't be a big deal compared to what I understand the status quo to be (unpredictable).

Of course, if the forecasts are just a couple minutes out at best, then that's way less useful. But at the very least an emergency alert could be sent out so people can get to safety which could help.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Incr...

Part of it may be the cost, housing available, society expectations (having 3 kids is at the top of expectations). Career, starting later and perhaps too much (or too little) choice in the dating pool.
Cljfx is also worth a look!

https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx
>Trump is a threat to democracy, not to TLA's.

As if America is a democracy
NVIDIA named one of their chip platforms after her.

I mean, at the time that she was saying this, you couldnt fill a Trump Rally with as many people on the planet at the time knew the future of compute the way she did.
Well, also cities are fun for younger people. Anyone that I know who lives in a city can move out if they want to, but quality of life would drop dramatically.
This is the usual whining from the commercial real estate industry. They're angling for some kind of corporate welfare, saying the banking system will go bust if they don't get one. [1][2]

[1] https://hbr.org/2024/07/u-s-commercial-real-estate-is-headed...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/business/office-building-...
IME, same approach works flawlessly in Xfce too (and from what I hear GNOME and KDE).
There is some truth to the idea though. Imagine living in a big city and you want to have kids, having kids means you need extra living space/hospitals/schooling/cars etc. You can't just easily go buy a townhouse for cheap. Neighborhood crime also becomes a concern. So it means disrupting your life, socially, culturally, and work wise and moving to the suburbs or a small town.

I doubt this is just dense urbanization<>low rates, it's mostly just modern urbanization where everyone wants to live in the city but governments/NIMBYs refuse to build any housing parents or retail/services businesses supporting children can afford. So costs are artificially exorbitant. Which brings down the birth rates, so immigration is increased who also want to live in cities, and need housing and want kids...etc. So there is both artificial downward pressures on birth rates in (modern) cities and naturally via the general chaos of cities.
If you squint hard enough and believe there is no history before 1975, then sure, I guess.
Because you don’t want to share germs with other users of the browser? The logic makes no sense and I honestly can’t tell if you’re joking.
I am not sure I understand the plane-based GA model, but I imagine it's that in exterior algebra there is another product that's totally dual to the wedge product (people call it the "antiwedge product" or "regressive product"), and the plane-based and point-based models just swap the two symbols.
As someone who lives in an earthquake-prone area, I don't think those stats are high enough that they would lead officials to evacuate an area as a precaution. But it would be a useful indicator to encourage people to make sure they have their earthquake supplies topped up and ready to go.
Thousands of Wells Fargo employees would like to have a word with you about #1. “Illegal” is outweighed easily if there’s a bonus to be earned by doing something that everybody says you won’t be caught for doing. Plus, the company itself can’t be put in prison and the employees whose bad idea it was will probably get a slap on the wrist. And if it’s a big enough company, they won’t endanger it by truly hurting it with fines.
#2 is a pretty good point though.
Cities "exacerbate wealth inequality" because they have more high-paying jobs. That's a big part of why people pay more to live in them.
Spend the money to turn them into hotels and apartments
Ok, I know this isn’t the point of the article, but I can’t resist yelling at clouds.

Where did Bloomberg come up with this idea of an “East Loop” in Chicago? There’s no such thing as the East Loop. There’s West Loop (west of the loop), South Loop, and then you’ve got the actual Loop, which is the CBD. East Loop would be in the middle of Lake Michigan, and real estate prices have never been very high there.

There is the New Eastside, which surrounds Lakeshore East, but it’s part of the Loop.
I've been in Oakland, SF, Seattle and now am in some far (1h away) suburb (exurb?). I feel like the quality out here is good, but the stuff to do is smaller scale. Biking is safer and the city (Boston) is a short train (or drive) away. Similar sentiment from a friend in Antioch (CA).

But if I had to commute daily. Hell no.
Firstly, I want to offer my sincere apologies for how we mishandled this. You are absolutely right: we should have done a better job communicating how this change was rolling out.

For background (and for anyone else reading): what is being referenced here is that Reclaim is, by definition, a product that can straddle two or more Google or Microsoft accounts. It can do things like block out your work calendar when your personal calendar gets busy.

The issue is: some companies have come to us and told us they will no longer approve of Reclaim's access to their calendars unless we enforce certain restrictions, such as only allowing authentication to an account that contains their calendar data (ex: Reclaim!) via their SSO provider, and no other authentication is allowed.

It isn't quite accurate that they have "taken over" your account. In fact: if you disconnect their corporate Google/Microsoft account from your Reclaim account, you are free to use it how you want. For example, their regular calendar sharing allows you to connect to your work account via your personal Google calendar, you could do that and not avoid any disruption in service. But most companies don't permit more than "free/busy" level of sharing, which isn't quite enough for this workaround.

If you need help disconnecting your company's account from your Reclaim account, we can walk you through how to do that.

We are exploring more sophisticated (but much more expensive) solutions, such as allowing you to authenticate with your non-company credential but not show you any information that is associated with your company calendar (ex: data masked). But it's unclear if your employer (and similar) would accept this. It's also still a degraded experience for the end-user, so it's tough to say if this is ultimately better or worse than the current situation.

That all said: I am sorry we didn't roll out this change to you. I hope you will give us the benefit of the doubt and consider working with us on ways to meet your employer's requirements as well as yours. You are welcome to email me directly at patrick@reclaim.ai if you'd like to discuss this further.
Theres also papersway which is a paperwm plugin for sway which works quite nicely
Hey, you may have not intended it, but your response comes across with a bit of a condescending tone. Please help promote HN as a place for continued civil discourse.
> "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke

"If anything seems like magic you're not asking enough questions." -- Mario Romero Vega
Those concepts are from exterior algebra which GA is built on. You do not need GA (the geometric product, etc) for them.
All these sites go through an evolution where they start out having open APIs, attracting third party developers, then eating their lunch and closing the APIs. No one in this sub-thread is saying that's desirable. But also nothing you can do can stop them from using something other than JSON.
(Off-topic?) Not talking about the pheasant, but I once read that the Japanese used to eat cranes (presumably the same kind shown in JAL logo), and even offered them as delicacy to a group of Korean ambassadors, who were horrified, because cranes were considered a symbol of Confucian virtue in Korea and nobody ate them.
I like that it is pretty directly written up, and doesn't speculate as to why. Some of the choices they made appear to baffle the original author:

Looking at the circuit now, before anything else: I honestly have no idea why the SBU pins on the USB C port are connected at all. Chargers don't use them, and they definitely shouldn't be shorted to the CC pins via R2 and R4 like they are. They won't mess with the charging process, but they could hurt some other obscure devices if you tried to plug them into the RG35XX Plus.

And this one:

I'm honestly not really sure why the custom circuit is used when the AXP717 chip supports proper control of the USB port pins - my guess is that this requires the firmware to communicate with the AXP717 to do it, and that software development might not have been done by the time the PCBs were manufactured. It does mean that given firmware support, a small component change could fix the problems I'm about to describe though.
cant so easily fake web archive copies though
that's how i used to explain what a nonce was to explain what all the computers were doing to "mine" bitcoin. and then explain "they're instead trying to get a number that has a certain number of zeros in a specific place"
Order of magnitude is generally accepted as starting at 10x. Are you saying rents are 10-100x higher because of RealPage?
ML is a type of AI that deals with statistical predictions. So the answer is "yes".
As an experienced Clojure programmer, I found that code easy to read. It uses quite a few idioms that are specific to Clojure or at least Lisp.

Examples include cond, let [{:keys ...}], for being a list comprehension rather than a loop, #(%) function literals, and @ deref.
Before your second paragraph: I Googled about it and found this ProPublica story: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...

The exact quote:

> In one neighborhood in Seattle, ProPublica found, 70% of apartments were overseen by just 10 property managers, every single one of which used pricing software sold by RealPage.

To be clear, that is "one neighborhood" in Seattle. Your second paragraph makes it seem like all of Seattle. To be clear, in neighborhoods with lots of new high rise buildings, this pattern seems normal to me: About 10 companies (or less) do most of the property management.
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Almost as unreal as the matching dinosaur footprints on two different continents. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352656
Basically, I'm going to have to look at this during daylight hours to see what the paper actually says as opposed to the reporting of the paper.

(Which essentially means I'll take a look at it Thursday or Friday after going back to Days).
Yes, we need to draw a line and the question seems flawed. Sure, it makes you think, it is funny, but it contains an invalid assumption that the line's width is a single generation. If we assume that the question is about species, it takes thousands of generations for an offspring not to be able to reproduce with its ancestors.
Udacity pivoted from seeking to be a new way of giving university level education to the masses to job training.

I think the market spoke. There are still universities that also offer online degrees, but generally on their own platform, with live streaming - not in own-paced, pre-recorded MOOCs.
There's no mathematically natural choice. In physical settings, on the other hand, you almost always want the one induced by the metric.
>it would be 4-8x or so more expensive than solar/wind

Is that accounting for the renewable's inherent need for very expensive energy storage? Because otherwise you need to build that gas turbine to cover for when sun isn't shining.
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Cities are often cheaper to live in than suburban lifestyles, assuming you're gainfully employed and the city has a functioning real estate market. It sounds like there's a lot of office space just waiting to be converted into housing.
Since guns are the leading causes of death for children in the US, I don't think gun violence is correctly considered a non-issue. Comparing it to lightning is laughable.

Around 80 deaths per year, including adults and children, by lightning strikes.
Versus 120 deaths by guns PER DAY, including adults and children.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/pdfs/mm7250-H.pdf
https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd.html

Additionally, when most of ones accessible news sources are full to the brim with polarizing topics, this leaves with limited options. I'd venture a guess that most people would like to hear what is going on in the world around them, even if the news is as negative as it is.
Yeah, this is why I think browsers need to start bundling some foundational models for websites to use. It's too unscalable if many websites start trying to store a significantly sized model each.

Google has started addressing this. I hope it becomes part of web standards soon.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in

"Since these models aren't shared across websites, each site has to download them on page load. This is an impractical solution for developers and users"

The browser bundles might become quite large, but at least websites won't be.
Remote work and offshore work aren't inherently the same thing. If you're a company with offices in New York City and San Francisco and you hire someone in San Diego or Rochester, you're still dealing with the laws of the same states and federal government. Even someone in Massachusetts or Texas is probably not a big deal.

But if you want to hire someone in Poland or Korea, do you even know what their laws are? How much do lawyers cost there, and are they any good? Is the government adversarial, or could it become adversarial? Do they discriminate against foreign employers? Employees there are probably going to want to be paid in a different currency; are you interested in dealing with issues if the value of that currency changes? International banking rules? If the cheapest hires are in seven different countries, do you want to go through all this seven different times? The team you're managing now sees daylight in the part of the day when you're asleep, is that going to be any trouble? Are you ready to deal with reports being poorly written because their native language is different than yours?

The reasons companies are willing to pay more to avoid dealing with all of this have very little to do with whether you work in an office or in your house which is in the same jurisdiction and hemisphere as the office.
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Some important context here is that Tantacrul has a history of buying up music or audio related software (some of which is Open Source, e.g. Audacity) and trying to take it in New Directions™ in ways nobody wants or asked for.

For example, the entire Audacity Google Analytics debacle, and how he basically insulted the entire community when there was an outrage over GA being silently added.

MuseScore I'm less familiar with but I do recall people being upset about how some of that went down, too.
Thank you for pointing that out. Too late to edit, unfortunately. What response would you have given to the comment I replied to?
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Funny story, if you're using Rook Ceph and say "I'm going to try to update these parameters to see if it will let me (and trigger a re-encoding)" it absolutely will let you change them, but it does not trigger anything to re-encode.

It just uses --force and leaves you with a corrupt filesystem.

I suppose that's only really funny in a "you had to be there, and not be me" sense.
i mean if hr was just doing those things no one would complain. I get there's some nuance to the responsibilities of an HR department but interactions usually seem to be biased towards protect the company, not make peoples lives easier. So i think it takes a certain kind of person to actually be able to do that effectively.
Ziply was amazing. Fios was always great from Verizon to Frontier to Ziply.
Too much floor space far from windows in large-floor buildings. HVAC, electrical, and plumbing need a complete re-do.[1]
There are attempts to subdivide office floors into long, skinny apartments with a bit of outside window. Possible, but expensive.

[1] https://theconversation.com/empty-office-spaces-can-be-conve...
I disagree, in Japan we just had the "megaquake" warning for a week, maybe it was prudent but it was also very distracting, kind of worrying, and nothing happened in the end. On the other hand we have Typhoon warnings, which are actually much more predictable and quite useful.

My point, unless it's something like 90-95% accurate, I don't think it's useful at all. Mostly a distraction. When you live in a seismically active area, you just need to be prepared all the time.
> rent has gone up 300% in 10 years, or around 10% per year

From an outsider's view, this is a huge failure of local planners. That said, Orlando is a huge city with a population 2.5 million. I find it hard to believe that your statement applies to the entire city. Rents rising 10% per year (incredibly, really) is surely the sign of a hot/hip neighborhood where planning is way behind demand.

In most places (middle class and below), it is hard to raise rent faster than inflation because the renter's income is the primary limiting factor. If their income does not rise fast enough, they will move away. If the area is not "premium" (attracts upper middle class and above), eventually units will sit empty for a long time, and rents will fall.
People always say this, but in general most office buildings are exceedingly poor targets for this kind of reuse. Large floor plates, with windows only at the perimeters and a minimal amount of plumbing (usually at only 1-2 spots in the middle of each floor where the restrooms and pantries are). As much as people wish for this, people would hate living in apartments hastily carved from office towers.

Realistically the option is to find a price that attracts commercial use, or tear a lot of these down and build suitable homes in their place.

I’m actually not convinced though that there’s as much point in drastically expanding the amount of downtown housing stock, while simultaneously deprecating the idea of actually going to an office. While 20-somethings are excited about city nightlife, that’s probably the only demographic which really cares about living right downtown if they don’t have a job downtown.
You can watch a hurricane arrive though, it's much, much more predictable, and even then they change course quite often last minute.
One insurance provider and a bank in my country blocks Protonmail. Both uses Trend Micro as their firewall.

My bank was kind enough to whitelist my email. The insurance provider is still clueless.
"Geometric algebras" are Clifford algebras over the reals. Differential geometry is probably the field where you're most likely to see mathematicians discuss them, though they also come up in certain (closely related) areas of mathematical physics via spinors.
We are quite far away from being able to do this reliably with most ML approaches.
Unfortunately also one of the dirty dozen, and of course the pesticides and predominantly present on and in the skin.
Is it Walter season then?