skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This particular hypothesis is obviously a testable one: someone could simply follow the proposed steps from the hypothesis (e.g. finetune a model on their incident response data), and see if it works.

Are you saying that if someone finetunes a current SOTA LLM with incident response data and demonstrates that it doesn't work that you'll say that LLMs are infeasible for this application? That would invalidate the hypothesis: "X application can be done on current LLMs."

Such a test could never invalidate the the hypothesis: "X application can (eventually) be done on LLMs."

If it's the former hypothesis you were asserting, then yes I agree that it is testable, but I'm fairly confident you were asserting the latter.

Earlier I had asked you: "I think we're at an epistemic impasse here. At what point would/could you be convinced that LLMs are incapable or unsuited here?"

And you have yet to provide a response.
Until they raise their pricing too.

Currently we use a processor agnostic billing engine - sticky.io - but they were purchased by private equity and are doing private equity things. Raising prices, charging per transaction fees, etc. Plus, their software and api is downright terrible but it's what we decided on 12 years ago so here we are.

Vendor lock-in sucks. Open to payment stack suggestions.
It's funny how the main initial problems listed in the article don't exist in the EU.

When adding my cards (from different banks) to Google Pay, I had to authorise it via my bank's app (as all online payments, as per PSD2).

When my card expires, all subscriptions using it contact me to update it. Including Google Pay the wallet. If I don't, they stop working. I would assume the same would apply to lost/stolen cards.

So, US banking and most importantly, banking regulators, just need to follow the EU's lead. Banking here is around a decade ahead of the US.
Every single thread that's tangentially related to Russia has several new accounts, created minutes ago, posting for the first time using narratives that incidentally always line up with Russian interests, for some reason.

I almost never see fresh new accounts in other threads by comparison. It's very consistent.
Today marks the start of my robotics phd in a lab focused on trajectory optimization and optimal control. Coincidence I came across this? Nope. Go rust for robotics!
That'd be better as

(defvar foo-i 0)
(defun foo ()
(while-no-input
(while (< foo-i 10000)
(print (cl-incf foo-i))))
(when (< foo-i 10000)
(run-with-idle-timer 1 nil #'foo)))

Make a copy of all that, search-replacing "foo" with "bar". Run (progn (foo) (bar)). Both loops will complete eventually.

EDIT: OK, you explained what you call the normal way to do things. What kind of code is this that take >1 second in each repl? Out of curosity.
We really need a model that can integrate with the LSP though - so it never generates LSP invalid code.
You have the right to, and can’t be punished for it. But you can still be punished if they just say it's unrelated to it, whether through missed opportunities, increased workload, undesirable assignments, or even termination with flimsy justifications.

It’s the age-old: “No one is pointing a gun at their head. They’re doing it because they want to.” -Manager XYZ

I can see two ways to prevent it:

1. Ban employers from doing so with potential fees, except in cases where it's a stipulation on the contract. Although this would eventually lead to employers adding it to every contract. Not a fan of this approach.

2. You make them pay you weekend-rate overtime, this would still allow your superiors to contact you, but they would think twice. I would definitely support this, although it might not apply to all circumstances.

3. I honestly don't know, there's probably better solutions from smarter people.
in what sense? it was irrelevant even before that too.
This new-ish problem speaks to a major reason I personally prefer hybrid/on-site work cultures - there is usually a clear barrier between work/free-time, at least IME. When I'm not in the office there is very little expectation that I am working. I personally prefer this separation - when I worked a fully remote job it felt like I was being pinged at any given hour and expected to respond.

This law would never happen in the united states. 0%.
can we please.
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Tradwife?
https://archive.is/9wo6m
They do good translation work; their translations read naturally and are an improvement over the noticeably Victorian-sounding editions which preceded them. I'm sure that, by the year 2200, their translations will be superseded too. But they are great for our time, which is what matters.
My son just reached the phone threshold age of 13 - he wanted a dumb flip phone and not a smart phone

The dumb phone was $70

It has a replaceable battery replaceable Sim card. It’s totally waterproof has a two day battery, Internet, Bluetooth, GPS, limited unlocked android applications web access through minified android with t9 and arrow keys.

Most likely I’m going to switch to that type of phone too when I need a new one

I think people are starting to understand what they gave up by adopting the smart phone as an accessory brain extension controlled by ad companies
Housing prices are publicly available information, rents should be too.
if the technical issue is particularly novel, sure, but it probably isn't. for the majority of users who can't be bothered to read the manual and try provided troubleshooting steps, is a bot posting a copy and pasted answer really that different from a low-paid human doing the exact same? do you really need to have a human do that boring job to satisfy some weird need that it be a human doing that copy and paste?
Are you sure that’s what they meant? I’m completely on board with everything you describe (and liberating the market from the people monopolizing it for their own benefit). I’ve heard way too many people arguing that we should do away with supply/demand, as though it were a regulation we should repeal, and didn’t understand it as an inherent property of the system.
It doesn’t work like that. Your mistakes were unique to your experience and situation. You can’t extract them into abstract rules and make a book to give to people. They need to make their own mistakes. And they’ll find out that what was a mistake for you will work for them.

I wish you a lot of success in your publication though, may this be a good source of passive income and give you financial independence.
It's been less than 24 hours, over a weekend.
I'm lost. How did people being poorer (having more student debt) push prices higher?

Most of the people I'm thinking of don't have student debt for fun. They did it because their jobs either hard-required it (to get licensed), or soft-required it (to get hired). Think folks who are teachers, social workers, LPN nurses, therapists, healthcare admins, etc.

Education and Mental Health seem to be the worst cases for this -- it's expected that you have 4 to 7 years of expensive college education, and 1 to 3 years of internships/practice, and after all of that, you get to maybe make $40k. If you are lucky you can eventually work your way up to $60k-$75k/yr.
I think the issue is with RealPage, they all use it's algorithm for automatic pricing adjustment. It's not the hiring of a company, it's the collusion of the company to artificially inflate and manipulate pricing across multiple locations, under the auspice of "increasing rents and owners value".

You absolutely can "share cost" publicly, but colluding on pricing is where it get's questionable.

The platform itself by itself to analyze pricing isn't a problem, where I think the problem arises is when the contract for you to use the platform tie you and your properties pricing to the platforms suggestion. Thus making the platform the deciding factor.

It's dicey and will be an interesting read. Rentals are an interesting industry as is, many will sit 80% full rather than 100% because of platforms like this that can squeeze more out of them. I've rented from apartments that use this platform and it's wild. Every renewal was either same or cheaper rent for moving across the hall vs staying for a 20% increase in the same apartment. It's designed to squeeze and put pressure on you. Shady.
They're not lying in the interview so they can get a job and put in honest work.

They're lying so they can get into your company and give their government access to your systems when convenient in the future.

The paycheck is barely scratching the surface of why they want to get into your company.
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I think they could be, because I think you're looking for that 1/1000. Doing 1000 things and throwing away 999 is expensive. So sure, when you look at that 1/1000 you might say "oh the 1 isn't expensive". But you're also paying for the 999, and you have to in order to get that 1.
I always laugh at these offerings. Even 1gb symmetrical. Most people pay for this and then run it through the cheap Wifi router the ISP gives you that will max out at 100 mbit.
Not necessarily, but it should "change the calculus of launching an existing product in Europe", factoring in privacy laws. Either don't launch, or make sure that your product complies.
> If you're allowed to take the system down, it's really easy - just boot up a live image and change the permissions.

Having held a couple interviews like this, if you suggest taking the system down, I'll tell you that would work -- now tell me another way to do it.

It's still a plus that you suggested it, even if it isn't enough of an answer on its own.
I know three people who got therapy from Kaiser without a DSM diagnosis.

It's not easy, but the key is to tell them you require therapy for something. The tricky part is to walk the line somewhere between "I'm really OK" and "I'm approaching suicidal" ... there is a lot in that range and if you're near the former they won't approve it.

What you have to do is ask your PCP for a referral. You'll get a call from a therapist to screen you. You need to convince this person you need therapy.

If you need further help, my email is in my profile.
We're not talking about a bot copying and pasting an answer, we're talking about a bot shilling advertisements for someone.
I live in a town where all the officials express politically popular laments about the affordability of housing, but every time a developer wants to build apartments or tear down some old run-down post-war cookie-cutter houses for modern duplexs or tri-levels these same officials run them through a gauntlet of demands and then often as not end up denying the permits.

They say they want dense, walkable, core neighborhoods but when people actually try to build denser housing it's like pulling teeth.

There actually is some building happening but the demand is so far ahead of the supply that it's not nearly enough.
It would be kind of interesting if, based on an engineer accepting the suggestion, parity generated a new run book.

This would allow repeated issues to be well documented.

On iOS Firefox, when clicking “pricing” on the menu, it scrolls to the proper location, but does not close the menu. Closing the menu causes it to jump to the top of the page. Super annoying.
Great writeup -- I have a gist floating around somewhere with a similar workflow, but for bitbucket pipelines.

Good solve!
And promoting construction by making it legal to build housing. Probably the biggest, most direct action that could be taken.
Using AI to fight insurance claim denials
The subheading of the article is "Using AI to fight insurance claim denials", and her site is here: https://fighthealthinsurance.com/
The famous companies with a moat are Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon(AWS) since they're vertically integrated so no start-up stands a chance of competing or like Reddit and you hold a large userbase knowledge repository.

Food delivery companies, ride sharing companies, flight & boarding booking companies are all expendable. If one goes down, another one will spring up tomorrow.
You can rent your home with x% profit, but after x # of years the home sells to the renter.

I like it but that seems like a system VERY susceptible to abuse.
That's one way of saying "Europe is full of nations who provide unethical tax shelters for businesses (while criticizing any nation that doesn't provide their level of social programs), so they can regulate and fine and fill their coffers with money from businesses all over the world." But yeah, blame it on the companies that take advantage of the tax shelters EU nations choose to provide and the EU chooses to allow.
Frontier is one of the worst Telcos I've ever dealt with. A friend had their ADSL Service. Something went wrong the lines in her area. They gave her a 4 month ETA on the restoration of service. They tried to tell her she had to continue paying her bill while she had no service and once service was restored they would consider a partial credit.

They were content to just let their Copper network rot, and didn't start doing fiber until there was state and federal money to do it. meanwhile our local Telephone CO-OP went all in on fiber years ago and now offers 8gb Fiber to your door for about 175 a month.
This is great! You should consider fixing the Chromium bugs you run into! Chrome releases relatively quickly, so in 4-6 weeks you can have a bug fixed forever for all of your users on Chrome.

I used to work on Chrome and WebKit and I still have committer status. I've often wondered if there are people out there who would be willing to pay a contributor to get their bug fixed, but don't know who to contact. Feel free to email me :)
In other contexts there’s no problem with using proprietary data to set prices, so long as you don’t run afoul of insider trading regulations.

Landlords also don’t have monopoly pricing power, they’re making tradeoffs. They can’t list their unit for a million per month or else it would never sell. They can’t list it for a dollar because they would lose money and be flooded with applicants.

They’re trading between the highest price they can charge and the unit sitting vacant. AFAIK this is the value RealPage adds, it predicts what the optimal price would be.

If it were instead doing something like predicting the market price is X, but telling landlords to set it at 1.3X and stick to their guns while units sit vacant and that eventually renters would have to give in, then it would be a price fixing scheme.

Discovering the market price is not a price fixing scheme. Otherwise the NYSE is a price fixing scheme, far more than RealPage.
This comes with a wifi 7 router
I'm mostly objecting to the terminology.
I get PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR when trying to open the page
These PE firms specifically say in their SEC filings that the most credible threat to their business model is municipalities removing restrictive zoning regulation and allowing the natural rate of market-rate housing to be built (0, 1). You can foil their schemes and bankrupt them by electing officials who are pro-development.

[0]: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001687229/a154763..., "“We operate in markets with strong demand drivers, high barriers to entry, and high rent growth potential, primarily in the Western United States, Florida, and the Southeast United States.”

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1562401/000119312513..., "The continuing development of apartment buildings and condominium units in many of our target markets increases the supply of housing and exacerbates competition for tenants."
hmmm idk how I would feel about giving an llm cluster access from a security pov
Volkswagen was fined at least 1.875 billion Euros in the EU [1][2].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-fin...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/business/volkswagen-fined-on...
Does this lecture include her famous nanosecond/microsecond dioramas? The existing videos on it seem to be fairly low quality. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYqF6-h9Cvg
You do that by building enough houses to make housing unattractive to investment firms
DNS via cloudns for example is around 10ct per Zone per Month via there DDoD Protected package.

Email Infrastructure (for renewal etc.) can be acquired over different services like postmark.

Validation of contact data can be expensive too. However maybe something like nominatim could do the trick.

Another thing is infrastructure for Whois/RDAP.

Then you need standard things like Whois privacy (there is a document by icann for requirements).
All they have to do is offer the owner an adequate price.
I've had to simply cancel a credit card stolen this way, but using an Amazon Integration.

It was an "Amazon Credit Card" and both Chase and Amazon claimed the other was responsible for deauthorizing the card on Amazon, Every time Chase re-issued it they updated the connection with my ex's Amazon account, giving them access to the new card to continue abusing.

My only options were to cancel the card or file a police report.

It smelled like a situation where they had setup fully trusted automation to keep the two in sync, but didn't have a customer service path to stop that automation or insight into the other company's side of it.
Politics. Gaza must not exist at all because it is burning cash from other countries.
IBM Pulls R&D Units Out of China in Latest Withdrawal by U.S. Firm
I'm making a little mobile game for my son to learn Lua and make him have fun. The prototype is ready. Once I polish it, I will release it for free. https://zaerl.com/2024/08/26/i-created-a-game-for-my-son-par...
I would guess that 8-10k per year without the icann / tld fees, is a good starting point.
> which reduces property taxes if you live in your own home

My town is experimenting with allowing this exemption if anybody claims the address as their primary residence, whether it is the owner or not. The main purpose is to cut down on people keeping vacation homes, but it should also make things more expensive for flippers and speculators.

Small landlords are no better than big ones if they’re keeping properties empty.
Embrace the Quick Wins for Motivation
Love both i3wm and Sway WM. This is what computing should be.

Windows has surprisingly decent tiling functions out of the box, too, but you'd never realize it without some experimentation. Next time you're at a Windows box, try holding Win, maybe Shift as well, and mashing the arrow keys. A minute or two of experimentation might make your whole $DAYJOB workflow that much more enjoyable!
This suit is about rent fixing. They're welcome and encouraged to continue providing a nice UX for tenants, just not to facilitate collusion to fund it.
Why has the Internet of Things failed?
Those taxes just get added to the rent charged.
Astronomical Observatory Unearthed in Ancient Egypt
Biggest Battery Will Provide 85 Megawatts to New England Grid
I'm not sure I follow, here's an example `pipx run` script:

#!/usr/bin/env -S pipx run
# /// script
# dependencies = [
# "click==8.*",
# "Jinja2==3.*",
# "tomli==2.*",
# ]
# requires-python = ">=3.8"
# ///

And it does manage temporary environments.
> I'm lost. How did people being poorer (having more student debt) push prices higher?

Huh? Why would it make people poorer? If you take a $100,000 loan and then give the $100,000 to me, I'll be $100,000 richer. That is $100,000 more than I can spend on a house.

A college brings more indirection than you simply handing me $100,000, but the essence is the same. Were you under the impression that colleges burn the money?
Ask HN: What are good self-hosted mailing inboxes available?
I want to attach it to my custom domain and use it for receiving and sending emails
> I just keep it disabled, and live with the disadvantage of longer GPS start-up times.

The reality is that it is extremely painful to spend minutes locating satellites -- it is a battery drain and very difficult to deal with, almost in every case you need to use GPS (location, navigation etc). It is a dealbreaker for me personally and probably most of people.
My takeaway here is if you hire domain experts, then trust them when they say you are going to need something.
The U.S. needs this!
I vaguely recall experiencing this on my gaming pc (windows). Although with a diff character (W?)

Seems like a race condition, and exacerbated by whatever kb you are using. Are you using a Corsair or Razer kb by any chance? And is it wireless or wired?

I know you suspected it may be a kb issue but have you tried swapping kb to make sure? I junked my old corsair kb because I thought it was just stuck keys after too many “kb smash” events. Don’t recall it happening again after swapping to diff manufacturer (Wooten, wired).
How so? US administrations (both D an R) have been pushing EU states to spend at least 2% GDP on defense, and everyone understands that a significant fraction of it must be purchased from the US.
I really like Dokku. I recently wrote a plugin to automatically expose the apps I add on it on my local network as subdomains of the host via MDNS (https://github.com/calyhre/dokku-mdns), perfect for hobbyists
It doesn't just look at competitor prices, it accepts internal and private financial data for numerous property (managers). Then it instructs the most profitable rates for each of them as a whole.

This is just collusion/price fixing through an indepedent 3rd party, not competition.

Or, perhaps it is put better by a RealPage exec: "there is greater good in everybody succeeding versus essentially trying to compete against one another in a way that actually keeps the entire industry down"
Tiling wm’s are a niche within a niche (Linux on the desktop)… you can’t really expect much engineering resources to be devoted to them.
The second paragraph says Israel accused UNWRA employees of participating in the terrorist attacks.

I had to read past the fold to discover that it wasn't just empty accusations, it was investigated and confirmed by UNRWA internally:

> The agency has acted in response to Israel’s accusations. UNRWA this year has fired 13 employees, including nine whom an oversight body determined may have been involved in last year’s Hamas attack based on evidence provided by Israel.

Honestly that seems kind of important for potential donors to know? Good on UNWRA for investigating the issue and dealing with it, but it's also strange that this situation happened at all
Part of it in the current credit card system with high fees, banks can afford to eat a lot of fraud so they really don't care.

If margins were small, say 0.1% it would be necessary to defeat fraud by technical measures to a much higher degree than today.

With recurring payments being such a theme I think the system needs to change such that your credit card web site has a list of all your recurring payments and you ought to have one place to go to cancel subscriptions with a consistent interface.
I will be surprised if you can leverage all the bandwidth even with wifi 7. Performance will probably drop off a cliff once you move a little away from the point and in cities the interference from your neighbours will probably mean you actual speed is way lower than the theoretical speed.
New twist on synthesis technique promises sustainable manufacturing
It's a complex problem. Some landlords are great, keep nice homes, and take care of the property. Some homeowners are absolute slobs, and don't take care of their properties. But, in general, "landlord" quality is considered the lowest level of effort/materials for maintenance.

Once an area reaches a certain % of landlords (no idea the actual %, but it's low), it leads to a general decline of the neighborhood. These landlords are buying starter homes (apartments and houses) whether they are PE companies or individual landlords, driving up the cost of "cheap" housing.
I gotta hand it DataDog's sales team - it's the biggest combination of expensive and useless I've ever seen in my life, but they've somehow managed to convince the people with the checkbooks that they can't live without it.