skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
S&P 500 company P/E ratios range from something like 2 to 500+, not counting the NaNs. You're right that in the aggregate things aren't particularly crazy, and it's definitely not true that "most stock prices are pure imagination", but there are still a lot of pretty imaginary stock prices (hello, CrowdStrike)!
it's like choosing between money and a pat on the back
I use that, but it doesn't work in apps.

I see these ads in the New York Times app.
That's the problem with intelligence vs the other things we're doing with deep learning.

Vision models, image models, video models, audio models? Solved. We've understood the physics of optics and audio for over half a century. We've had ray tracers for forever. It's all well understood, and now we're teaching models to understand it.

Intelligence? We can't even describe our own.
Maybe. Open source iOS apps are very rare, let alone popular ones.
5 year survival for pancreatic cancer is 12%

https://pancan.org/news/five-year-pancreatic-cancer-survival...

We are seeing some cancer breakthroughs but we’ve got a lot of work remaining

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-69006713.amp
> i dont perceive it as efficient to force codebase contributors to relearn their ingrained language syntax

That's why it's important that the transformation be reversible and what the gofmt-like code formatters are for.
It only happened in the last month or so I think.
With 168 hours in a week, working 84 hours would be only half-time.
Sanity Checking Expected Output is one of the most vital skills a person can have. It really is. But knowing the general shape of the thing is different than any particular algorithm, don't you think?
There is no known limit to the scope of what LE can monitor, and there is no public record to access or analyze in the case of sealed documents. So it could, for all we know, be anyone and everyone.

Remember, way back when, AT&T just gave the NSA full access to their network.
> China can very easily compel anyone they need into the government

I have worked with people in Chinese tech companies and in Chinese tech ministries, and I don't think this statement is true, any more than in the US. In the US, there are talented techies who work for FAANG, startups, Palantir, NSA, etc etc. Similarly in China.
I'm not quite sure what your point is. Postgres doesn't store time zones. "The internally stored value is always in UTC" from the documentation is false. It's not stored in UTC or any other zone. "it is always converted from UTC to the current timezone zone" is also false. It is not stored in UTC.
It got the question correct in 3 trials, with 1 of the trials being the smaller model.

GPT4o

https://chatgpt.com/share/673578e7-e34c-8006-94e5-7e456aca6f...

GPT4o

https://chatgpt.com/share/67357941-0418-8006-a368-7fe8975fbd...

GPT4o-mini

https://chatgpt.com/share/673579b1-00e4-8006-95f1-6bc95b638d...
Once sellers stop paying their commission buyer's agents are pretty much going to disappear. As I buyer I have no need to pay tens of thousands of dollars to someone for the work I'm anyways doing myself on Redfin and Zillow.
Beautiful interface, but honestly, little information. I don't know what those projects do or the importance of them, besides ChoasMonkey. I had to dig a little to find out what Dispatch does.
If a king sends messenger to another king who also carries back the reply. Will that be a virtual meeting?
How many are there that we don’t even know they are targeting. That is what would keep me up at night
"Classic C++" and "Modern C++" refer to the language before and after C++11, respectively.

Some of the key differences are use of standard library and its containers, smart pointers, and other language features that look less like C. In this specific library, this refers to some of the techniques like bit manipulation, manual memory management and string parsing, and using things like enums to improve speed and reduce complexity.

An example of a more robust (but still "classic") library would be something like https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson.
Cold welding, despite the name, is not welding.
> new (base!) M4 at 3859 (single) and 14837 (multi)

I think that's the M4 in the base iMac (8 core), which is different (and less powerful!) than the M4 in the base Mac Mini (10 core).

The Beelink is 32Gb RAM + 1TB storage though.

Like I said: the base Mac Mini is tough to beat!
Every zone has a copy, and clients always read their local zone copy (via pooled memcached connections) first and fallback only once to another zone on miss. Key is staying in zone and memcached protocol plus super fast server latencies. It's been a little while since we measured, but memcached has a time to first byte of around 10us and then scales sublinearly with payload size [1]. Single zone latency is variable but generally between 150 and 250us roundtrip, cross AZ is terrible at up to a millisecond [2].

So you put 200us network with 30us response time and get about 250us average latency. Of course the P99 tail is closer to a millisecond and you have to do things like hedges to fight things like the hard coded eternity 200ms TCP packet retry timer ... But that's a whole other can of worms to talk about.

[1] https://github.com/Netflix-Skunkworks/service-capacity-model...

[2] https://jolynch.github.io/pdf/wlllb-apachecon-2022.pdf
I remember searching for a JSON library with minimal dependencies a while ago, and came across this:

https://rawgit.com/miloyip/nativejson-benchmark/master/sampl...

The variance in feature set, design and performance is huge across all of them. I ultimately landed on libjson, written in C: https://github.com/vincenthz/libjson

It does a lot for you, but it notably does not build a tree for you and does not try to interpret numbers, which I found perfect for adding to languages with C FFI that have their own collection and number types. It’s also great for partial parsing if you need to do any sort of streaming.

It looks like this one can’t currently do partial parsing, but it looks great if C++ maps/vectors are your target.
How long are your progress reports? Mine are a one sentence message like "Hey, we've got a fix for the user profile bug, but we can't deploy it for an hour minimum because we've found an edge case to do with where the account signed up from" and I'm not sure where the AI comes in.
The processor was never the problem with ARM, it's that there's never been a reasonably stable peripheral ecosystem around it. Vendors are mostly out there building overgrown microcontrollers instead of actual platforms. It's not like PC where you can discover 95% of hardware on any PC from the past ~20 years by enumerating PCI/USB/SATA. You're expected to obtain out-of-band knowledge about the physical mapping of the peripherals and somehow supply that to your bootloader/kernel.
99.99999% of DJs have been performing a premade mix since iPods have become popular. The knob twiddling DJs are hilarious. Ukraine, oddly, seems to be pumping out tons of attractive women dancing off beat behind setups that aren’t even powered on half the time on YouTube. I enjoy the mixes in the background while working and occasionally watch some footage for the laughs. Shake it if you’ve got it.
my assumption has been that the landlords noticed how much money the brokers were making and they figured why not bring it in-house and get a cut; i.e. the brokers are sharing the commissions with the landlords, and helping ensure there is no competition. My theory is if the landlords cannot make money doing this, they revert back to independent brokers. I don't have proof, but I'm pretty sure something like this is going on, and this law will do nothing. I think broker fees should be banned, and the rents should reflect the costs; if landlords want to hire broker/agents they can.
Really interesting that nlohmann isn't fully compliant. What cases are these?

It seems to me though that if you're encountering the edges of json where nlohmann or simple parsing doesn't work properly, a binary format might be better. And if you're trying to serialize so much data that speed actually becomes an issue, then again, binary format might be what you really want.

The killer feature of nlohmann are the the NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_INTRUSIVE or NLOHMANN_DEFINE_TYPE_NON_INTRUSIVE macros that handle all of the ??? -> json -> ??? steps for you. That alone make it my default go to unless the above reasons force me to go another direction.
What are the performance numbers? nlohmann/json is no speed demon.
That's because they are vertically-integrated and can overlap the different stages and have the board people give feedback to the SoC people, who can give feedback to the CPU core people.

With multiple vendor-customer relationships in the chain there is not only likely to be no overlap in stages, but even there may be 6, 12, 24 months of gap between the RTL for the core being available and someone even making a decision to make an SoC using those cores, and a similar gap from a chip being available to someone else deciding to buy it to design a motherboard around it.
Opioid overdose deaths drop for 12th straight month, now lowest since 2020
Barrel of oil is currently $70 which is 10 person-hours at minimum wage.

I guess you could get number like that if you are comparing the energy output. But that is a weird way to do it since we don't use people for energy.
jart is such a good programmer. a lot of people already know this but i just have to give props where it's due.
But it does improve life. If you can't see the massive improvements in efficiency, or the benefit of doing any paperwork in 5 minutes from the comfort of your own house instead of wasting half a day or more going to whatever physical office, I don't know what to tell you.
Do Large Language Models make accurate personalized recommendations?
> There was zero chance we'd have landed a house that year without her help,

These situations are created and maintained by real estate agents because they want to keep themselves useful.

There's no reason we can't get a push notification to our phone when a house matching our criteria gets listed locally. Open app, check it out, decide to move on it or pass.

The only reason real estate agents are helpful is because they've created their own system that they control.
Yep. Pretty much the dystopian governments go-to playbook for surveillance. Find a private entity that is providing a communication service they can't spy on, then pressure them to put in a backdoor with threats of jail, etc.

Former CEO of Qwest Communications Joe Nachio claims he fought the NSA's initial requests for these backdoors, and was rewarded with being taken to court for insider trading. Remember no one at the top of these companies got there without breaking some rules along the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
OpenAI did call it GPT-4 Vision / GPT-4V when it first came out as a preview last year - I wrote about it at the time: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Oct/14/multi-modal-prompt-inj...

They use that name on the system card here: https://openai.com/index/gpt-4v-system-card/

Looks like you were right about the article being a year old - here is the same article on the Internet archive dated 1st November 2023 https://web.archive.org/web/20231101161710/https://www.laker...
There's a big difference between using tools intended for general population and being skilled enough in offensive security to make a difference. It may incentivise some people to learn further, but I don't think the effect would be that large. It's kind of like everyone at Uni knowing about P2P a few years ago - but they knew nothing about protocol design.
Yes of course, I am not claiming otherwise.

My point was just about the scarcity of concentrated co2.
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It's as much of a source as (personal communication) is, and that's also a requirement if you just went and asked an expert.
To me it looks like having the timing for each step is enough (schema.org already supports that).

You can then _decide_ what to paralellize (maybe you want to take it slow, maybe you have another person to help you, etc).

To me, it sounds way simpler. Specially for those writing or annotating the recipes. You're thinking of the reader, but the writing is important too, it's the hidden cost of making super detailed models.
> Why did you build Konga Beat in C# and Unity and not language X and/or framework Y?

> Knowing what I know now, if I started this project today, I wouldn't use Unity.

Have you thought about what you might use instead?
> Stenography is just security by more obscurity

Security-by-obscurity is when security hinges on keeping your algorithm itself (as opposed to some key) hidden from the adversary.

I don't see how it has any connnection with what you're alluding to here.
Again, it is standard practice to cite things like (personal communication) or (Person, unpublished) to document where a fact is coming from, even if it cannot be retraced (which also comes up when publishing talks whose recordings or transcripts are not available).
> I wouldn't be shocked if one day some leaked memos or emails come to light that prove it was all about control and/or backdoor layoffs, despite their PR spin that it isn't (what competent company leader would openly admit this?)

Amazon is famous for a short email retention policy and laughably small storage space to make as much past communication disappear. They also do what all big tech companies do, hiding incriminating things behind privilege labels on communications.
Yes, you have to push the button to access it after, but it's always recording up to the length of it's buffer (which depends on how much RAM you have installed). From my very hazy, vague memory it was ~5 minutes.
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Platform_list#Supported_targets_...

So with FPC/Lazarus you have a full dev system if works as wiki suggests.
Does pedagogy have established and verified methodology that will result in a completely PHYSICALLY developed student, if only the student does the EXERCISE as prescribed? No, but we still see the value in physical activity to promote healthy development.

> many things we were forced to do in school were not helpful at all

I've never had to do push-ups since leaving school. It was a completely useless skill to spend time on. Gym class should have focused on lifting bags of groceries or other marketable skill.
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According to Chinese state media, Chinese state media is never wrong
Agree for commodity listings. A good buyer’s agent will create the supply you want. Mine did it by getting the property before it hit the MLS. Others will convince someone who wasn’t going list just yet to sell.
Eric Adams would like a word.
I mostly teach graduate students, and in my first lecture, one of the slides goes through several LLMs attempts at a fairly simple prompt to write a seminar introduction for me.

We grade them in terms of factually correct statements, "I suppose" statements (yes, I've worked on influenza, but that's not what I'm best known for), and outright falsehoods.

Thus far none of them have gotten it right - illustrating at least that students need the skills to fact check their output.

I also remind them that they have two major oral exams, and failing them is not embarrassing, it's catastrophic.
Tell HN: Ubuntu 24.04 force enables password auth, need to disable differently
Just installed Ubuntu 24.04 from the server image (https://ubuntu.com/download/server) and was just bitten by this.

Disabling password auth in `/etc/ssh/sshd_config` does nothing.

# To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here!
PasswordAuthentication no
^ This is a lie, setting it to "no" does nothing

You also need to delete /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/50-cloud-init.conf which contains a single line:

PasswordAuthentication yes

Other people complaining about the same thing:

[0] https://www.mikeberggren.com/deb-ssh-auth

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1516262/why-is-50-cloud-init-conf-created

[2] https://askubuntu.com/a/435620
That was probably true 5 years ago, but today a large chunk of readers are going to be driven away by the intrusive popups and auth walls.
The law didn’t pass or was quietly killed, presumably due to pressure by lobbyists representing rental agencies.
I think a lot of this comes down to AI. In a recent hiring round we experienced multiple candidates using AI tooling to assist them in the technical interviews (remote only company). I expect relationship hires to become more common over the next few years as even more open-discussion focused interview rounds like architecture become lower signal.

So with that in mind I'll see you all at ReInvent
I feel like this whole thing buries the lede a bit.

Yes, turns out running overlay/VPN type things disrupts traffic patterns. This is a non-story.

But we're talking about using wireguard on a local network, so the actual interesting question is: why does it cause the performance to plummet? Is it an implementation issue or something more fundamental?

I expect some performance impact. I don't expect a three orders of magnitude impact (which is what 355 KB/s imputes).
I would destroy that thing with sweat in the first 30 min.
Article spoiler: the issue is Tailscale. SMB and Windows are red herrings.
"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance."
The Science Perl Journal – first stand-alone Perl Periodical in over 23 Years
The Perl Community [1] is proud to announce the official release of the first stand-alone Perl periodical in over 23 years, the Science Perl Journal issue #1 [2]!

The Perl Community is a 501(c)(3) organization unaffiliated with any other registered Perl organizations; it is based in Austin, Texas. It is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl 5 through its committees, including AI Perl, Perl::Types, and the Science Perl Committees; and publications like the Science Perl Journal.

The journal is sponsored by the Science Perl Committee, and is currently accepting submissions for the upcoming Perl Community Conference [2] on Dec. 18th, Perl's 37th birthday.

Topics in issue #1 [3] include large language models, genetic sequencing, storm surge prediction, counterfeit pharmaceutical detection, and AI-based structuring of unstructured data.

References:

1. https://perlcommunity.org/science

2. https://science.perlcommunity.org/spj

3. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-science-perl-
journal-issue-1-marc-perry/1146395697

4. https://www.reddit.com/r/perlcommunity

5. https://www.facebook.com/groups/perlprogrammers
Code in jart's version is refreshingly clean and easy to read compared the nlohmann's version.

As an aside, I wonder: what are the ThomPike* set of macros actually doing in jart's implem ?

Also, a speed comparison of this vs the other one would be very welcome: conformance and simplicity are certainly important criteria when picking a JSON parser, but speed is rather crucial.
hands down the worst scrolling experience (on laptop + mouse wheel) ever, site actually worth visiting for that (mis-) feature alone
There is an obsession for rules, procedures and order when it comes to people's behavior, but not the physical order of the city itself. Zoning laws and construction regulations are extremely lax, and that results in chaotic cities.

For example, the city where I live is full of farms and orchards in the center of the city itself (totally open to the street because Japanese people don't like fences), and half the streets are unpaved. That is unthinkable in my home country.
you're complaining so this is a good place for my complaint. coming at this from another angle, I think "the unix way" is to write your recipe so it looks like a recipe written for a human; but be careful to be rigidly precise in following a uniform format and then command line tools/scripts can parse the recipe to create an ingredients list, double the recipe, etc.

to your point, add structure/features/"coding standards" as you need for automatic processing, but otherwise you have a perfectly written recipe to whatever standards you hold.

rather than unix, what I see up and down this page is Dave Cutler slicing and dicing of data to the point of incomprehensibility. You know how you guys all loved markdown so much that you've embraced it and are now adding so many features that make it as unreadable as html? don't do that again and again, learn not to do it.

(btw I have cooked extensively and at somewhat high levels of precision (tricky sauces, souffles etc)
The problem with these answers is that they are right but misleading in a way.

Glass is not a pure element so that temperature is the "production temperature" but as an amorphous material it ""melts"" in the way a plastic material ""melts"" and can be worked at temperature as low as 5-700c.

I feel like without a specification the answer is wrong by omission.

What "melts" means when you are not working with a pure element is pretty messy.

This came out in a discussion for a project with a friend too obsessed with GPT (we needed that second temperature and i was "this can't be right....it's too high")
It is not middle ground if it requires breaking the law...

"Not enough money? No one is stopping you from defrauding someone or robbing a bank"

Edit: I meant piracy
I’ve refused to rent in a place that required a brokers fee, and that meant most decent apartments were not available to me. I for one am glad this is finally coming to an end (after the first failed attempt).

Rental brokers are useless, and their fees often exceed 1 month rent (15% of annual rent, so $5k/mo apartment you’re paying first month $5k, deposit $5k, and $9k brokers fee).
All of the services you mention have large engineering/ops teams and similar monitoring systems in place. Their is absolutely an ROI on spending on reliability.
Yes, it's definitely important that lost hikers get what they need. Sometimes they get lost so much they end up in the wrong country!

I'm all for sending enough supplies to return them safely to where they belong.
I could probably copy it straight from my commits log if my team is amenable to bullet point format.
Yes, he does real renovations. But he notes to his wife that he's purchased X square feet of carpet at $Y per square foot, while accounting for it as XXX square feet at $YYY per foot. (Both figures much higher than the reality.)

The difference between $YYY and $Y is money that was claimed to change hands, but never did, and the difference between XXX and X is carpeting that Marty has recorded himself purchasing, but not actually purchased.

If he was buying the carpeting from a cartel-owned supplier, he'd just pay the inflated prices that he's so proud of booking without paying. Instead, he's buying real services from a real third party, and then booking fake expenses for unclear reasons.
He's just been brainwashed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz to do that, though...

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Nvidia 3T+
Amd 200B+
Intel 100B
He said his son was dead and he practically is.
Devicetree has been the bane of end-users since forever, yet I gather kernel developers and non-x86 system vendors still love it. OTOH, I get ACPI is hopelessly complex from an implementer's perspective, partly because of all the little vendor bugs and spec violations that end up encoded into the implementation to support real-world hardware. Is there a better future?
Nice! You should check out a free chrome plugin that I wrote for this called revision history. It’s organically grown to 140k users, so the problem obviously resonates (revisionhistory.com).
Is there an alternative app that shows the better numbers?
As if bureaucracy doesn't care because it's autonomous.
So ... can I run my own infrastructure that’s part of the Bluesky network? What rules does it have to play by? That’s what really matters.

The apps being open source is great of course, but the standards for openness are very high for (something aiming to be) internet-level infrastructure.

A single company having a lot of control would be a bit of a red flag in this context. The rug pull incentives are huge (that said I am a proponent of commercial interests in open ecosystems, provided they don’t get too much control).