skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite find in the last few months is the youtube channel "esoterica" - here's his video on the origins of yaweh as a storm god https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdKst8zeh-U

He recommends books and primary sources for every episode and they vary from interesting more pubscience type stuff to incredibly expensive and deep academic sources out of print.

The gentleman who runs it is very obviously jewish in practice but only uses that to inform his historical context instead of override it, its very refreshing as someone who is an atheist.
Notes on Ray Casting (Interactive)
> The LLM code that they have reviewed has been, to their standards, subpar.

No. The accurate way to say this is:

“The code that they have reviewed that they know came from an LLM has been, to their standards, subpar.”
The pin code can be easily registered by one of ubiquitous security cameras.

Fingerprints can be lifted from photos where your hand is in frame. And no, you can't change fingerprints after they are compromised.
I disagree. In my area several insurers have pulled out because of "fire risk" in areas with very little fire risk. (In one case, we're talking about a coastal home, well outside of any 100-year sea-level rise risk, where peak temperatures in the summer are typically in the 65 F, things never dry out, and the house is 4 blocks from the fire station.)

The problem is that the state mandates they use certain maps to assess risk, so the insurance company can't really use their own data to produce maps with higher resolution. So they pull out entirely rather than selling me insurance at a fair value.

That is NOT "the market working as intended". That is state regulation creating a market inefficiency, making people and businesses less able to actually adapt to climate change.
I don’t follow. Of course the probabilities change depending on context. 1 bit per letter is an average, not an exact measure for each individual letter. There are cases where the next letter is virtually guaranteed, and the information content of that letter is much less than one bit. There are cases where it could easily be many different possibilities and that’s more than one bit. On average it’s about one bit.

> Also the fact that there are more than two letters also indicate more than one bit

This seems to deny the possibility of data compression, which I hope you’d reconsider, given that this message has probably been compressed and decompressed several times before it gets to you.

Anyway, it should be easy to see that the number of bits per symbol isn’t tied to the number of symbols when there’s knowledge about the structure of the data. Start with the case where there are 256 symbols. That implies eight bits per symbol. Now take this comment, encode it as ASCII, and run it through gzip. The result is less than 8 bits per symbol.

For a contrived example, consider a case where a language has three symbols, A, B, and C. In this language, A appears with a frequency of 999,999,998 per billion. B and C each appear with a frequency of one in a billion. Now, take some text from this language and apply a basic run-length encoding to it. You’ll end up with something like 32 bits per billion letters on average (around 30 bits to encode a typical run length of approximately 1 billion, and 2 bits to encode which letter is in the run), which is way less than one bit per letter.
Because it's copy and pasting Chad?

That's not the same as seeing a novel design and implementing it.

So much of this AI buzz is people just taking what they get and pretending it's exactly what they intended/envisoned, which they're just labeling whatever comes out

Try asking for an SVG of a cow jumping over a moon. Then tell me, honestly, it's anything like what you imagined in your head
Who has the authority to hold any referendum for the entire planet?

Dodging the core issue over and over again isn’t going to lead anywhere…
Unless large companies can intercept cash before it's paid to you and take some of it, they are only getting value from providing value.
The version we currently have open is only 2, but we are soon going to release a version that is more general ranking which can do 3 and more options. Hit me up and I can keep you updated when it is available!
One of my relatives has a single level house directly on a coastal waterway in Florida. Never had any problems since it was built in the 60s, then in 2 of the last 8 years the inside has gotten inundated with storm surge from a major hurricane, requiring a complete interior gutting. Their neighbors houses both got destroyed and now one is on stilts and the other is on a six foot mound.

He keeps repairing because he is a general contractor and the house has history to him.
The German stock market produced excellent gains in 1933-41. When the Nazi government closed the stock exchange after Stalingrad, the index was near its all-time high. (When the market finally reopened in 1948, German companies were valued some 80% lower.)

Even in large aggregates, investment decisions are ultimately made by people with their own biases. Markets are not infallible predictors of anything.
Let's say I end up on acccounts.totallygoogle.xyz. I press "login with passkey" and my password manager says "you have no passkeys for this site". I press "login with a password" and the password manager says "you have no saved passwords for this site". What exactly is the difference?
> If you do use asymmetric cryptography, always use Ed25519

What about secp256k1 / ES256K?
This has been my experience with most engineers.
Publically funded means "paid for out of taxes skimmed off value created by private citizens and private corporations". The value was extracted from people by taxes. It was reused into something useful for people by Apple.
>to prevent both mourners and cadavers from different social backgrounds from mixing

It's always fascinating reading about England's very complicated social class system. Other than the aristocracy being rich, does this still hold up today? Is there still inherent benefit from being a traditionally upper class family, even if they don't have generational wealth still?
climate firms you got to be kidding me.

BIG CLIMA IS OUT TO GET YA.
What's broken about them in pycharm? I've been using pycharm as my primary IDE for a while now and I haven't ever experienced major problems, this includes working on projects where other people were using VSC.
If you can see the future you can become the best VC ever. If you can't, you're no better than VCs.
They're not even a startup, the company is 10 years old.

The investment does make some sense from AMD perspective though. They need people to be able to access their GPUs, on a rental basis. They can't really throw enough money at AWS, GCP or Azure to make a difference, but Vultr is a trusted VPS provider, where AMD can buy a lot of influence for a realistic amount of money.

I do find it interesting that Vultr has such a low valuation, compared to other companies we've seen recently. It seems more reasonable, but they also have an actual business plan and have physical property. I don't know if they are profitable, because the media only focus on revenue, which is pointless if you don't put it into context.
Assuming they did this raise because they need the capital to throw more into their GPU business, this is not really a remarkable quote. One of the first things noted in the article is this is soon to be the largest part of their business. This is their first capital injection too. While its fueled by the growth in AI, the business itself is mundane, they rent GPU access. Growing that requires a lot of capital.
yeah this is a naming mistake a realized but thankfully in beta so can rework it

it used to be called authenticator! mixed it up unintentionally
>marks the 28th retraction for co-author Didier Raoult

I have no benchmark, but this number sounds rather high
You can't actually log in with passkeys using iCloud Keychain or 1Password when borrowing a friend's phone. Bitwarden has the same flaw, you need the software to help you do the negotiation in a way that can't be copy-pasted.

Garbage standard, terrible implementations everywhere, my favorite is when logging in with a passkey they still demand SMS 2FA.
trailers are cheap to deliver
The cool thing is that private insurers invest heavily in fossil fuel.

https://consumerwatchdog.org/insurance/top-10-us-insurance-c...
The schism was in 1053
Essentially and any all Windows apps that edit text.

MS Word and all of Office, and all of its rivals. IE, Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and all other browsers, GUI email clients including on Linux and all the BSDs, etc.

I have written about this, in case you're unfamiliar with CUA:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/rise_and_fall_of_cua/
Yeah, that's fair too. Admittedly my work puts me into contact with relatively litigious parties.

I think at my current premiums I would need to pay insurance for 100 or 1000 years to even get close to the sort of numbers that get thrown around for a day's worth of damages on some of these projects.

The likelihood is absolutely that nothing serious will go wrong, that if it did it wouldn't make it to the courts and furthermore that if it did it wouldn't be negligence of any kind, or was covered within the contract itself.

But the thought of having skipped out given the possible consequences; No thanks, value my sleep too much.
Part of the issue is state boundaries (at least in the US case).

If someone moves from Florida to Georgia, or California to Colorado, then the former state loses their tax base (even in FL: sales/corporate tax).

So it sets up a musical chairs scenario where the state in question has every incentive to keep the game going.

Which will ultimately mean (a) using state revenue to balance out insurance plans and/or (b) outright fraud and shifting the risk burden onto someone else (looking at you and Fannie/Freddie, Florida).
It's not Haskell, but you can write great functional programming code with Javascript. I think it is very ergonomic for FP. Remember that Javascript is the world's most misunderstood programming language =))
WSJ blocked my request to view the page after making me do a captia to see it, and then only the first paragraph is visible on the Wayback Machine. The modern web is a joy to use.
Thanks to the brave person who was willing to speak out in the face of retaliation.

People like this are heroic and are essential to keeping unscrupulous bureaucrats in check.

Hopefully he gets paid in court.
Loosely related, there are frameworks for recreating native UI for mobile apps written in JS, e.g: https://framework7.io/

> free and open source framework to develop mobile, desktop or web apps with native look and feel
What state are you in? This is quite common in many parts of the country..
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/cloud-ai-startup-vultr-raises-3...
Well that was wild. An industry wide recruiting blacklist sounds terrible.

Key takeaways here are probably "Vinfast doesn't have much in house engineering" and "don't buy one right now".
Some of the examples look a lot like tailwind. Was this inspired by the that or is tailwind actually attempting to implement some of these concepts? Anyway, I'm using tailwind more and more and I am liking that.

Not hard coding colors, margins, etc. is definitely a nice thing. And being able to reuse definitions for those across multiple projects, software stacks, frameworks, design tools, etc. would be nice as well. Does something like that exist at all? Because the last thing companies should be doing is building a lot of internal crap to support this probably.
"I would love to know what government will lower your property tax if your house value falls ?"

Plano, TX.
hmm, what's the problem?

Here is the WIP mobile version: https://hika.fyi/?_is_mobile=true
> Actually, Duolingo as a technology isn't necessarily that bad either, it's just Duolingo-the-company with its business incentives that limit its potential.

Clearly that’s not the case when multi-year streakers don’t have a clue what to do.

They followed the instructions of streaking and didn’t get anywhere. The ones I have seen anyway (YouTube).

> And of course not everything that requires effort is necessarily a good way to learn, but I don't think there's any way to learn that's also effortless.

No one said effortless. You can’t bolster your side by making up that someone marked a place on the complete opposite extreme of the spectrum.

> E.g. the least-effort way to play a video game in a foreign language is to figure out how to operate the interface through trial-and-error (or watching someone else play) and then rely on spatial memory to press the right buttons without having to read the labels. And people who watch foreign-language movies or shows typically do so with subtitles that free them from having to learn anything, so they might just pick up the names of characters and maybe a few common expressions.

I don’t know why you are setting up this armchair theory. I said what has worked for people. Not in theory. IN REALITY. People who have immersed enough time into English indirectly by playing video games, watching Netflix and whatnot. And also seeing no real correlation with their practical, day-to-day abilities and their formal studies of English that they have to go through in school.

You can see this every time someone goes from relatively passive learning through single-player video games to participating in voice chat in multi-player video games and discussing things in English online. Do you think they stop themselves half-way through this process and grind grammar/whatever other English books in order to work up to talking to people in real life?

> The comprehensible input approach requires a lot of effort upfront to make the input comprehensible in the first place (even if it's toddler-level content, that still means it targets people with a vocabulary of several thousand words) and then you still need to push yourself a bit to actually learn something, rather than mentally skipping over the parts you didn't understand.

What it requires is a lot of time and exposure. Where your “actually learn” weasel phrase fits in is unclear since all that seems required is sufficient interest in the associated topics (not the language per se).
tweet reference by another poster makes it seem like they've been around since '96 in some form
The other hand, while very sad, is an investment mistake of each individual. 'How could I have known' is same as complaining certain stocks lost its value unexpectedly and retirement savings are now halved. In fact, most of these places were not OK decades ago but folks love cheap real estate and who gives a fuck about some doomsaying science, the cheaper the better, what could go wrong right?

Either insurances mark given county incorrectly, and some competition will eventually catch up or they marked it correctly. Now just because somebody invested in bad property (or property became bad), why should some private company bear this mistake outside contract? I don't see a reason, I wouldn't do it neither.

Real estate, often massive, ain't some Geneva convention-enforced basic human right, just an investment. Maybe good old 'if its too good to be true maybe it isn't' mantra is valid also here? Be smart folks, not greedy.

Also if the home on photos is really the one article is about, I don't see any meaningful bushfire protection. That would be at least 30 meter clear cut perimeter with just rocks between forest and house - no dry grass, pine needles etc. I see forest literally ending next to house itself, thus actual 0 protection. Yeah in a frequent fire country that house is a disaster waiting to happen soon.
all of the data in there will be exposed via an API and also directly queryable since it's in your infra

but the idea here is openauth does not handle things like user storage - it just gives you callbacks to store the data in whatever database you're using

precisely because of what you're talking about - eventually you need access to it
First rule of blowing the whistle: never disclose your identity if you can avoid it, even to authorities. There’s no upside to that and authorities are incompetent at preserving anonymity if it’s even legal for them to do so. (Exception: you’re filing a whistleblower report to the SEC, there’s sweet anonymous $$$ for you then.)
Cool. In the meantime Google Assistant still fails to reliably call my contacts via voice command.
And trying to use Google's AI offering as a paying customer of Google apps for work is a giant shitshow. So much so that I'm finally contemplating of dropping the Google ecosystem all together.
I've started testing with vultr some because they offer affordable fractional GPUs. I think I had something running for about $60/month with a 'real' GPU. 1/24th a GPU, IIRC, but... better than nothing. DO and linode offer GPU service, but the minimal cost just to get something up is significantly more.
> and not shut down after 2–3 years after pivoting three times.

An important part of running a business is taking a risk.

Furthermore, plenty of businesses fail for reasons that have little to do with the economic value / needed functionality of the product. In some cases, it takes a similar company with subtle differences (or even timing) to really understand why one business failed and a different succeeded.

(One very bad example could be the difference between Sega and Nintendo in the 1980s and 1990s. Compare the NES to the Master System, the SNES to the genisis, and the Game Boy to the Game Gear.)

(Another example can come from comparing Tesla to the dozens of other electric car startups.)
This isn't because of climate change. It's because of bad laws combined with the housing chickens coming home to roost.

On the legislation front, a series of court cases and legislation combined with weak oversight meant that something like 70% of the nation's roof insurance claims were in Florida. There was clear fraud in many cases. Because of this legislation was introduced that made it difficult for any homeowner to file a legitimate claim. Combine this with under-capitalization by insurers and weak oversight and it's just a mess.

But the big one is housing. It's too expensive. And this is another inevitable consequence. It used to be that housing depreciated. That no longer seems to be the case. The replacement value is only going up. This is the foreseeable outcome of years of government policy designed to increase home values.

Ultimately we need to stop treating housing as an investment, as your retirement nest egg. All this does is steal from the next generation. That's it. Withholding shelter (ie housing) either by limiting supply through regulation and legislation or simply by pricing people out is state violence.

Housing prices need to come down. Hoarding housing needs to be massively disincentivized. We need to stop giving massive tax breaks to homeowners. None of this is popular but without major reform we're headed down a bad road.

Canada is heading towards crisis at the moment and many of its problems can be tied directly back to soaring house prices.

The consequences of high house prices are everywhere too. More expensive commercial real estate means businesses need to recoup that cost through higher prices.
Larian boss Swen Vincke calls out pretty much the entire videogame industry
It is very common for a home owner to have their home value decrease.
Tampermonkey now supports iOS Safari. Chrome on Android still supports nothing
>House becomes a cheap commodity,

Houses can't become a "cheap commodity" unless there are revolutionary new construction methods and/or alternative materials. E.g. something like cheap 3D printing of structural walls, ubiquitous robots, pre-fab modular rooms and roofs, etc and cheaper material alternatives to wood, concrete, tile, asphalt shingles.

Without a technological leap, traditional construction techniques will always have the baseline costs of paying expensive humans to rebuild the property. The labor costs of carpenters, plumbers, electricians, HVAC installers, roofers is ~50% or more of a house construction budget.

This means houses will always be "expensive" in relation to the average Starbuck's barista paycheck because of Baumol's "Cost Disease":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

Put another way, we've known for several hundred years in math that the derivative of x^2 is 2x. Disseminating that knowledge should be cheap. And yet the cost(salaries) of calculus teachers and math professors (and the associated textbooks) keep going up instead of down. That's the "cost disease" similar with building houses.

That's why a bunch of insurers abandoning the market doesn't won't change the economics enough for houses to become cheap commodities. Houses prices may adjust with lower sales prices but it still won't drop to "cheap commodities" level pricing. e.g. Florida condos' prices drastically fall because the Surfside collapse triggers law requiring millions in maintenance and rising hurricane insurance rates ... Starbucks baristas still can't afford those discounted condos.

However, to your point about "market forces" creating a new equilibrium in prices... you can buy houses in Detroit for $1 but that does come with other issues:

https://old.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1ja3lm/e...

https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-catch-to-buying-the-1-homes...
Echoes of Rage: Our new age of violence looks a lot like the Gilded Age
And the amount of fine-tuning done on ios for the various gestures is quite astounding. Re-creating them using browser APIs isn't really entire possible.
There is massive burnout in the industry, was massive over hiring, etc. and folks are trying to keep numbers going up and to the right somehow even when the economy is not helping.

AI gives them a smokescreen, gives them fear/uncertainty they can use as leverage over their workforce, and sometimes can help efficiency (but usually not, if you factor in any element of quality - which usually they can get away with ignoring at first).
>know, for a near certainty, that I'm never going to use.

That's what most people say right up until they make a claim.
It doesn't support any linking at present: https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/blob/stable/docs/MANUAL.md#...
Interesting that this should come up for me on HN today. I just started rereading Drive by Daniel H. Pink last night.

It covers older research that goes over these phenomena and how introducing extrinsic reward can actually hamper internal motivation.

As someone with ADHD who struggled with doing the job I was paid to do but would “waste time” on the business’s problems I found more interesting (usually automating paper processes or writing code to make tools to use to do my actual job), this book revealed exactly why that’s the case and how I mismatch many of the work environments I find myself in.
OK. When talking about language I find it's always good to be explicit about what level you're talking about, especially when you're using terms as overloaded as "information". I'm not really sure how to connect this finding to semantics.
Agreed! I use it and it's a breath of fresh air, I have to use Jupyter because of colleagues but I really prefer python scripts, and this let's me kind of run a Jupyter notebook as if it were a script, even with cli flags
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