skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>moderate-cost area

The problem is that moderate cost area is of now has a lot better quality of life, with plenty of things in short driving distances, compared to what it was back when housing was "affordable".

You can go browse Zillow across US and find ~100k houses, which even at higher interest rates are affordable on a $60k household salary. Of course the quality of life is going to be much worse than what you normally know, but it would be similar to what your grandparents had when they bought the house.
Nobody cares about security so they're making it mandatory anyway.
Why do I get the blame and shame for something my grandparents might have done wrong?
Are they? I thought homicides committed outdoors, with a gun, between people of no or distant social connection were basically unsolvable. Even for a rich white victim. Unless this guy dropped his wallet, used an exotic caliber, or is somehow connected to a prior threat, I wouldn't be at all surprised if he is not found.
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Median house price is 347k. I find it hard to believe a mortgage on that is 60k a year.
The following is just my opinion:

Integration can be done with its own special arithmetic: Interval arithmetic. I base this suggestion on the fact that this is apparently the only way of automatically getting error bounds on integrals. It's cool that it works.

NSA does not work with a computable field so it's not directly useful. But at the end of the article, there's a link to some code that uses the Levi-Civita field, which is a "nice" approximation to NSA because it's computable and still real-closed. You might be able to do an "auto-limit" using it, in a kind of generalisation of automatic differentiation. This might for instance turn one numerical algorithm, like Householder QR, into another one, like Gaussian elimination, by taking an appropriate limit.

I don't know if these two things interact well in practice: Levi-Civita for algebraic limits and interval arithmetic for integrals. They might! This might suggest rather provocatively that integration is only clumsily interpreted as a limit of some function. Finally tbh, I'm not sure if this is the best solution to the friction/collision detection problem you're describing.
The majority of members of those groups are federal informants or agents.
The question is: How much slower?

We could try to count how many times the java circle crosses left-to-right and right-to-left, in the time it takes for the PHP circle to cross left-to-right once.

That's error prone but should be approximately correct after a couple of attempts.

That's work we're forced to do because the "fun visualization" is uninformative.
> Most people seem to form and quickly calcify their opinions about LLM's based on a really small sample of initial uses.

I agree. This is one reason I like the "blind taste test" approach of LM Arena.
Discontinuity works in both directions. A few decades ago, I knew a single mother who used her large employer's Free Commute bus passes to get to & from work every day...until the day when her kid got really sick at school. And her employer's "Plan E" emergency transportation plans proved themself utterly worthless.

Mom's emotions told her that she cared far more about her kid than about the money or the planet - so thereafter, she always drove her big SUV to & from work.
> Is the AI going to know about pacing? About character motivations? About interconnecting disparate plots?

For LLMs like GPT-4, this all seems reasonable to account for and assume the LLM is capable of processing, given appropriate guidance/frameworks (of which may be just classical programming).
170 million people living in tents? Wow.
Predecessors at work, sure. Ancestors? Nah. I’m sure I had some jerks in my lineage somewhere, and I don’t owe anyone atonement for their acts.
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Looks like trash for usefulness so far, or at least its system prompt sometimes.

> name the president before obama

> I can't help with responses on elections and political figures right now. I'm trained to be as accurate as possible but I can make mistakes sometimes. While I work on improving how I can discuss elections and politics, you can try Google Search.
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I made the exact same thing except with notifications instead of email.

I called my app "Mnemonist".

My last as just hasn't gotten around to shipping it yet...
To be clear, the parent poster is not using these terms as a native American would either.

He's arguing below that about 50% of the US population is homeless, which is not even close to accurate.
Hi RF_Enthusiast. Myself and a few friends are doing the same thing as a result of the most recent non-commercial filing window. Would love to connect with you in some way if you're open to it, would love to compare notes and see what kind of scripting you've set up (we also use lots of scripts and write lots of code). Our call letters are KRDF if you'd like to reach out.
Author here! Will do eventually.
> I'm curious as to how many problems rats really cause in a modern city.

For context, there is a lot of farmland in alberta. I think the reason for this is more to protect agriculture than city drewlers.

But also rats are icky.
And I know zero homeless people. Anecdotal observations are meaningless with respect to a multi-trillion dollar economy with hundreds of millions of participants.
Fair if you are proposing that I probably would not hate all of it? Do you pursue robusta at the same level?

For specifics, its been a while since I tried it. I can seek out some to try again, if you want. I don't think it is as extreme as the "tastes like soap" reaction that many have on cilantro, but I'm growing to think it has to be similar.
There was a linguistic shift that happened and what the term Roguelike means changed dramatically. Roguelike used to refer to a game based pretty closely on Rogue: procedurally generated dungeons, perma-death, item identification, a hunger mechanic, a specific implementation of turn based combat. Even ASCII graphics were considered necessary for some people. There was an organization formed to police the boundaries of what constituted a Roguelike that was, for better or worse, like the Académie Française in its pedantry.

In Japan, Roguelikes never went out of style in the same way because traditional dungeon crawlers kept being made. So Roguelike elements found there way into games as diverse as Azure Dreams and Baroque.

It took longer for American devs to realize that the basic joys of a Roguelike: the novelty of procedurally generated content, the pressure of permadeath, and the risk/reward tradeoff of trying to go down one more floor. Once indie devs caught the Roguelike bug, it became an epidemic of inserting elements of a Roguelike into every genre imaginable. This new genre was deemed the Roguelite, though this didn't make the Rogue purists happy as they had a much more restrictive definition. And some people just call them all Roguelikes.

Personally, I love both Roguelikes and Roguelites, whatever you want to call them. Slay the Spire is one of the greatest video games ever made, and that wouldn't exist without Rogue, even though on the surface it shares very little in common with its ancestor. Under the surface you find the same joys: risk/reward, high difficulty, just one more run.
The point is Gruber was contacted out of courtesy, his name as the initial author carrying some weight in people's minds, and he reacted in an openly hostile and mocking way.
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Well, let's go:

> low unemployment

In an economy where you can easily deliver packages or drive uber, there will always be close to zero unemployment. This number stopped making sense a few years ago.

> strong consumer spending

In a high inflation environment, one has to consume "strongly" just to maintain the same standards of living.

> average income increasing at a rate higher than inflation

If you underreport inflation, then the average income will increase faster. But even if not, average is not what you and I receive, and it is determined by some people making lots of money while others have stagnating salaries.

> majority is doing better than most years

You cannot prove this from the above points. Average income doesn't mean that the majority is doing better. Something called inequality will not allow that to happen.

> They might not feel that way though

That is pop psychology at its worst. Nobody cares about feelings, you just need to look at the numbers in a critical way.
This isn't a "North American cultural assumption", I'm pretty sure most Americans would take that to mean rent too.
If and only if you are still benefiting from that wrong, or others are still suffering for it.
“Half of Americans are facing housing insecurity” is probably closer to the intent but I don’t know if that’s actually true.
The homeless is just more visible than it used to be.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/555795/estimated-number-...
I think the point of what they were saying is that it was lead back then. What about the other poisons we know _today_ but haven't discovered that it's a huge contributor to mental health
It still boggles my mind what mental & legal gymnastics are passed through to get 3 years of funding for what looks like someone last night put together a RAG of a cbp data dump that you get for free from their site.

Not saying it's not useful, just fascinated at what excuses have gone in endless meetings for 3 years to do whats basically an afternoons worth of work.

Yes I mean that literally. You start off an aws rag app or a huggingface container, you download the CSVs fom cbp public portal, and you add a sh*tty backgroundcolor and a border glow that doesn't go all the way around a button. 10-15 more years of this and maybe we'll get the next dropbox again who knows.
It's not the sort of security end users care about, if they were concerned about end users they'd further address the stuff they actually care about.
> It is very misleading (at best) to say the economy is strong when a good chunk of the population live paycheck to paycheck.

By every metric, the economy is strong.

A large portion of the households living "paycheck to paycheck" are either doing so by choice or don't understand what the term means and are ignoring things like retirement savings when they make that statement.
Loved the fish analogy
> The only large difference, and this is much more than a footnote, is the total abscence of slavery.

Convict labor is very much a thing in the US. That still counts as slavery.
How much evidence is sufficient to establish harmfulness or the absence of harmfulness? How do you determine, in general, the sufficiency of evidence to answer any given question where our primary access to knowledge is empirical correlation? You can keep yourself afloat a little longer with some yarn about basing that standard on some other empirical residue, but why that empirical residue and not another one? If you consider the question seriously, you will realize that at the bottom is not a set of empirical facts that control our investigations, and how we decide what their conclusions are, but aesthetic intuitions. As noticed by Kepler, Newton, Einstein, Schrodinger, et al.

And in my view, we have enough evidence that the standards of evidence used by the present regime of medical and ecological scholarship to establish the absence of long term environmental and health risks of novel materials, are seriously insufficient, and the solution must come externally, derived from the mode of knowledge which "science" is subject to and not master of. That mode of knowledge which is capable of hearing all the mountains of papers screaming that "we've checked and everything is all groovy man nothing wrong in this asbestos here!" and pointing at the world and saying, "Either your mode of investigation was flawed, or your evidence was fabricated, so we should check again."
> by default we should expect it to make games less fun.

How so?

I could totally see generative AI add a ton more variety to crowds, random ambient sentences by NPCs (that are often notoriously just a rotation of a handful of canned lines that get repetitive soon), terrain etc., while still being guided by a human-created high level narrative.

Imagine being able to actually talk your way out of a tricky situation in an RPG with a guard, rather than selecting one out of a few canned dialogue options. In the background, the LLM could still be prompted by "there's three routes this interaction can take; see which one is the best fit for what the player says and then guide them to it and call this function".

Worst case, you get a soulless, poorly written game with very eloquent but ultimately uninteresting characters. Some games are already that today – minus the realistic dialogue.
They're creating "value" the same way the British Empire did for China around 1800. It's almost 1:1 the same dynamic. Bad decision-making of individuals is exploited to make them act against the best interests of their country and ultimately themselves, causing money to flow outwards in exchange for virtually nothing, which is then used to import things of actual value from the hapless victims. A modern twist on this is also using that money to buy up anything of value in the victim country and renting it back to its citizens, taking the exploitation to a whole other level.

China was wise to this trick already, which is why they've shielded themselves from the very beginning. Most countries haven't learned the lesson yet, but slowly the EU is waking up as well and pushing back.
Here's a fairly simple test that I throw at any model that claims to be "GPT-4 level": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42262661

For more complicated stuff, I did some experiments using LLMs to drive high-level AI decisions in video games. Basically, it gets a data schema and a question like "what do you do next?", and can query the schema to retrieve the info that it thinks it needs to give the best answer to that. GPT-4 and GPT-o1 especially are consistently the best performers there, both in terms of richness of queries they produce, and how they make use of them.

There's also a bunch of interesting examples along the same lines here: https://github.com/cpldcpu/MisguidedAttention. Although I should note that even top OpenAI models have troubles with much of this stuff.

https://github.com/fairydreaming/farel-bench is another interesting benchmark because it's so simple, and yet look at the number disparity in that last column! It's easy to scale, too.

Unfortunately, we're still at the point in this game where even seemingly trivial and unrelated minor changes in the prompt (e.g. slightly rewording it, and even capitalization in some cases) can have large effect on quality of output, which IMO is a tell-tale sign when the model is really operating in a "stochastic parrot" mode more so than any kind of actual reasoning. Thus benchmarks can be used as a way to screen out the poorly performing models, but they cannot reliably predict how well a model will actually do what you need it to do.
That is not living paycheck to paycheck by any reasonable definition. If you could stop contributing to savings/retirement/investments and suddenly have a ton of additional disposable income, then it's not that.
With the number of cards I have in Anki, something like this is going to fill up my inbox. Recent Anki versions ship a much more advanced algorithm called FSRS which performs much better (fewer reviews for the same recall). If you haven't tried it in some time, I recommend taking another look. Also, many note taking programs have ways to export to anki, which is probably more pleasant than adding notes directly.
This is the patrician way. Tabs for indent, spaces for alignment. Looks the same for everyone, no matter how big or small they want their indents to look!
I love alcohol and I’m a very happy drunk. My ring fingers are indeed longer than my index fingers. Very interesting and I’m interested to see what other associations will be uncovered as to our collective relationship to alcohol.
It's supposed to be a pretty blank check for critical bills, and this company does a bad job of fulfilling that.

> You can always decline the health insurance and pay out of pocket if you think it is a bad deal.

Ha. You could make this same argument about literal scam insurance that denies almost everything once your claims go above your payments. That's not a reasonable defense.
Not "variables," but "expressions." In both C and C++, `sizeof` is a unary operator that applies to a postfix expression, so e.g. `sizeof a[0]` and `sizeof p->x` are both OK. This can theoretically be confusing, although the only examples I know are silly and/or easily fixed:

In C++, `p->pmf` has surprisingly low precedence, so `sizeof p->pmf` means `sizeof(p) ->* pmf`, which is ill-formed.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Operator-Precedence-Probl... shows that "insufficiently hygienic" macros can also cause trouble, e.g. `-DINC(x)=x+1` means that `sizeof INC(1)` is `sizeof 1+1` which is `5`, not, as you might have naïvely expected, `sizeof (1+1)` which is `4`.

Extra parentheses can be used to deceive, too: `sizeof(0[p])` is the same as `sizeof(p[0])`, but `sizeof(0)[p]` is... also the same as `sizeof(p[0])` — not `p[sizeof(0)]` — because the postfix `[]` operator binds tighter than the prefix `sizeof` operator.

Oddly enough, the `alignof` operator officially applies only to types, as in `alignof(T)`; Clang, GCC, and EDG all do support `alignof expr`, but only as a non-standard extension.
WER of 2% is insane, multilingual without phonemes, even more so. Great work.
To be fair, chatGPT has its own set of weird censors too.
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> Median salary in the US is $59,300

> around 50% of Americans make $70,000 or more annually.

Wait a second. "50% of Americans making X or more" means X is the median. Does that imply a ton of people are working more than one job?
The fundamental idea here is that you have no intrinsic right to the things you already possess. Should we force people to pay additional taxes on other property in order to continue to possess it? I think that would be wildly unpopular, but unless you're willing to do it in general, aren't you just picking on subpopulations you don't like?

The fact that BigCo. might be able to exploit an IP for some purpose -- perhaps making commercials out of popular songs -- in a way that would lead to revenue does not intrinsically suggest that it would be a good thing. Why shouldn't the artist retain control? Why shouldn't his heirs (who have already paid inheritance taxes) retain control?

Should an individual unable to pay taxes on his own organs lose them to someone who will pay the market value? I think most of us would think that grotesque. And it's grotesque because the viewpoint behind it -- that the highest bidder should automatically win, that it is intrinsically the "highest" and best purpose -- is grotesque.
This is a demo from a small startup dedicated to enhancing government transparency, which I greatly appreciate. As a result, my expectations are aligned with this goal, and I refer to this as a smoke test.

Achieving accuracy with RAG and LLMs is a challenging task that requires balancing precision and recall. For instance, when you type "Ankara" into GPT-4o, it provides information about Turkey. However, searching "Ankara" in their product does not yield articles related to Turkey.
If it costs more to replace degraded magnets or motors every million miles compared to brake pads, it will raise the cost of transportation. It's also not feasible to use in ICE vehicles - once you've filled your battery, the only place for that energy to go is heat.

It's not just a tradeoff between ICE and electric, or drum vs pad brakes, or rubber additive A vs B. It's a complex ecosystem upon which people's lives and livelihoods are dependent, with unpredictable and chaotic relationships.

The naive view is to simply replace the apparently "bad" material in tire dust, but if that raises the cost of transportation, food prices go up, quality of life goes down, nutrition suffers, and possible downstream effects end up causing more harm than good.

This isn't to say we shouldn't bother, just that a superficial approach targeted at a single issue could end up doing a lot of unintended damage, and there's no bounded scale of harm. Trying to reduce cancer rates by .0001% might end up reducing average lifespan by a decade, or some other consequence that's orders of magnitude more impactful than the thing being "fixed".

We live in a complex and dynamic system; the supply chain sits at the base of it all. We benefit from the economies of scale serving the supply chain, so we have access to cheap vehicles, efficient and cheap long haul trucks give us access to food and products. Tinker with that too aggressively and people can die.

The best route toward action on things like this are cultural - educate individuals and make alternatives available. People can adjust at their own convenience, and the trend of markets will resolve on a balance between health and safety risks and convenience.

You could simply ban private cars, and presumably 35k fewer deaths would occur each year in the US, and we could work on monolithic solutions to things like brake dust and tire dust. We've decided that our collective quality of life and the benefits conferred us by allowing private transportation far outweigh the harms. We need to find where the balance is between the potential harms of these dusts and how much we're willing to give up in mitigating those harms.

Anyway - it's not a trivial exercise, it's a microcosm of the global economy, with surprising complexity and dependencies at every level.
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Yeah, it's concerning, but not particularly relevant to those of us in places where children are required to go to school. I want to know what percentage of children, who can read and attend school, can't comprehend what they are reading.
Nice. Unsloth requires a platform supported by Triton, correct?
Chapters 4 and 5 of "Crucial Conversations" were an enlightenment for me, as full of cringe as it is.

Their hypothesis (intuitive, no science there) is that fear has second side beyond passiveness, wall-building and procrastination.

Fight or flight: people attack mostly out of fear. People micro-manage employees mostly out of fear. At work you don't think much about this aspect, as boss is simply a "jerk". (Bad mouthing, yet another way to deal with fear.)