skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By training our CycleGAN model on street-view images of houses before and after extreme weather events (e.g. floods, forest fires, etc.)

Will it also show my home from the cold north in a longer and warmer summer, full of flowers and hummingbirds?

Or are "consequences" always negative, whatever the direction (cold/hot) of the climate change?
Uh, pretty sure the OP is not envisioning enslaving someone. And the compensation for the au pair includes a place to live and (not sure about this) food.
You're absolutely right, but the same general analysis applies. The example is contrived, but I want to show the principle (perhaps static variants would have made for a better example; oh, well).
The salient point is that it's uneconomical primarily as a result of purposeful regulatory obstructionism. It costs a lot because opponents want it to cost a lot.

Moreover, that is a temporary issue. You have a lot of money from oil and coal lobbying against anything that could replace them, but you don't have to reprocess the spent fuel this year, or next year, or ten years from now. You can do it thirty years from now when the coal lobby is dead and gone because nobody burns coal anymore by then. And storing it for that long is much easier than needing somewhere to put it for thousands of years.
You do realize its not a smart move, right? Costs have gone up insanely because we have too many people. Don't pretend it will make things affordable because new developments aren't.

And if you forget we have a power shortage, water shortage, and our streets are already overburdened?

Common sense and critical thinking are something most people in California lack. Cause and effect are a wonderful thing to learn, too bad most people don't understand it
This project isn't economically viable in the first place. Unless engineering and real estate costs drop by an order of magnitude, there's not enough visitor travel or transit density or cost differential where this makes sense as planned. It was doomed from the start.
I don't have a problem with people entering into somewhat codependent domestic relationships, that can be great if it's your thing and you find the right person. I just wish it wasn't held up as the social norm that everyone should aspire to. I don't think it's the right thing for the large majority of people.
Probably find them living in tiny capsules and/or shipping containers down by the docks or maybe on top of that superfund site that rich people are starting to get weary about living on/near.
I don't think you can discount that a concerted effort to create viral content will spread much farther than arbitrary wall posts by individuals. There are statistical methods Facebook could use to figure out how much of an impact that they had and I have not seen any such analysis yet.
> You can be rich, but live paycheck to paycheck. Even be superbly in debt. Lots of upper middle class lives this way.

Are they actually upper middle class (by definition) if they have a low net worth?
The caviates here are a finite time horizon, whether or not you ever plan on selling your house and whether or not you care about what sort of inheritance you want to leave. If person #1 and #2 both live in their houses until they die and don't have anybody they want to leave their money to then it depends on how many years there are between #2 pays off his loan and when he dies (since from your perspective all your loans are cancelled when you die)
They are unreasonable concerns because they're not in any way grounded in reality.

I can also argue that we don't need vaccinations, we just all have to go live in our own self-sustaining personal space stations in orbit, and I'd be right. You don't need disease prevention without a transmission vector. Seems like anti-vaccination can be reasonable and scientific, who knew?

Similarly, the practical effects of the public policy nuclear skeptics campaign for amount to support for energy sources that are way more harmful than nuclear power could ever be.

Nuclear power is only "prohibitively expensive" because CO^2 emitting energy sources somehow get a pass on the cost of scrubbing all that carbon from the atmosphere, and if we're going to talk about "inherently dangerous" I'd like to point you to the N=1 experiment we're currently running on the Earth with global warming. Similarly, I guess "toxic waste" doesn't count if you just disperse it in the atmosphere instead of putting it in barrels and store it at a nuclear power plant.

The anti-nuclear movement is not just in favor of having "more renewables" as you argue in another reply. First of all, that movement has been a major influence in public policy since the early late 70s to early 80s, way before renewables were a viable alternative for grid power.

Secondly, there's a lot of things which we'll still need something like nuclear energy for even if we assume a renewable grid, e.g. merchant ships which are a major worldwide source of carbon emissions. It's not viable to power those sorts of things on solar, wind or battery power.

I think you'll find that even "neo-anti-nuclear" folks (if we can call them that) don't generally hold the nuanced view that they'd rather have solar or wind powering their home, but that they're also fine with nuclear merchant shipping and fishing vessels.
Right, but I'm not referencing the mortgage, I'm referencing the "other expenses" line item that the person I was responding to seemingly though could be accounted for with the expenses of having a home.

But someone else pointed out that the figure reflects other things anyway.
Yeah I like the strong warning of needing a certification then the "OR just say it's for resale" part.

In my case it was in a different (European) country. I think they may be slightly more strict there.
That’s exactly what people did ~60 years ago. Bought some farmland way outside San Francisco, built houses and a community. No because a few billionaire execs want to keep their companies close to their houses, we are going to tear it all down? By all means, densify downtown San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose. But I don’t understand the perverse desire to add density to far suburbs.
Seconding asciident' comment here, I can count at least 3 different things that had a positive effect on me, and 0 negative ones, in the last week.

I do agree that you probably don't need this junk.
No. It still is intended to charge overnight. Apple store sells other sleep tracking products at this time.
And the only solution is to suffer even more.

We have to turn down air conditioners, then
We have to stop buying air conditioners
We have to stop buying new cars
we have to stop buying new phones
new tvs
new computers
We have to learn how to fix things
We have to learn how to grow things
We have to learn how to kill and eat things

We have to wind the clock back and go backwards in our lifestyles to a time when we didn't have cheap oil. We'll ride horses again. Take trains again.

That's what the future looks like -- the past.
Something similar to how Crystal approaches it could perhaps work, giving a whole bunch of different small examples (including compilation errors) with corresponding entrances to documentation.
That's very true. But remember what former House Speaker Tip O'Neil said--all politics is local. It's a great way to learn and practice. Scalability? Well, I think that went out the window with President Trump (respectfully, not saying anything political) showed you don't need any previous electoral experience to win the Presidency.
I'm sorry, but everything that you said in relation to Tesla there is wrong. My Nissan with ProPilot can also control the throttle, brake, and steering, but that doesn't make me a mere passenger any more than cruise control does.

It routinely false positives on frontal collisions and occasionally does things that would be dangerous if I weren't driving.

The driver in a Tesla is not a mere passenger, regardless of whether or not they have enabled autopilot. The initial warnings on enabling autopilot as well as the attention nags on the steering wheel all make this perfectly clear to the driver.
Consumers don't have tricorders to scan two tomatoes and compare their relative nutrition. Meanwhile, they are extremely sensitive to price and appearance differences in their groceries.

It's a bad situation for everybody. But, selecting for nutrition over appearance would go almost completely unnoticed by anyone except for how it made the accountants and shareholders sad.

I can dream about a marketing campaign focused on nutritional value. But, in the end, I expect consumers would brush it off as BS and buy up all the cheap, pretty, non-local, out-of-season produce anyway :/
is this a real paper? Its got to be a joke, right? a parody? Its literally a request to develop images to be used for propaganda purposes.

from the paper:

> , we aim to help the general population progress towards greater and more visible
public support for climate change migitation steps on a national level, facilitating governmental
interventions and helping make the required rapid changes to a global sustainable economy.

how is this any different than what the Russians did in 2016 with their fake news memes? Its propaganda for a political purpose.

and for those who will say that climate change is going to end the world, yeah, no shit, but that doesn't mean we should develop propaganda technology that could be used for some other political purpose.

like, what if Trump used the tech developed to change people's opinions about muslims?
When people think "political power at the highest levels" we rarely think about public works projects but that's a mistake. Public works shape our lives, and require flows of truly titanic amounts of capital to build and maintain.

I'm halfway through Robert Caro's fantastic biography of Robert Moses, who had an iron grip on New York public works for nearly half a century. It's eye-opening just how much power and influence arises from being able to control these types of projects. Yet this authority flies under the radar because it's all soft power with little public accountability. Politicians vie in the public arena over relatively insubstantial things while the real significant decisions for the future of the state take place in never-attended hearings far from press scrutiny. Activists (admirably) fight tooth and nail for every inch of progress on the issue du jour but vote ambivalently on massive multibillion-dollar bond issues.
There are web hosts offer Raspberry PIs, but they tend to be more expensive than VMs. I'm guessing colocation costs are dominant.
Not to mention that Europeans have no idea how much they are actually being pillaged of in order to maintain the immensely inefficient systems, or just how corrupt they are because they are political cesspools between industry and government, where the politicians are largely held hostage by industry and unions and therefor squander the funds they pillage through taxes. It's not their own money after all, what do they care.

It's actually rather sad how Europeans are so fleeced and have no idea because it's so obscured and obfuscated through so many different shell games, essentially. One indication of just how messed up it is, are the immensely lower salaries in Europe for the same jobs in the USA, while also being bilked and essentially turned into slaves through taxes that take up about 50% of income for the average European. And even after they were bilked of thousands ever year in taxes on lower salaries, they STILL have to pay rather high prices for that wonderful "public transportation" ... unless of course you are a "refugee", then the government is quick to hand out the pillaged taxes they stole from their citizens in order to provide free transportation to foreign nationals.
There are lots of examples of networks being trained online, I see it all the time in robotic control.
Hm, how do you get to them? Apart from bribing an interviewer at Google I can't see how you could get the list of rejections?
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Chinese and Japanese companies were filling to partially fund HSR in the US since it would open markets for their trainsets, but they all backed out because the US imposed "buy American" requirements that would make it impossible for them to use their trains.
> Unless it does something smart like trying to compensate for the latency on the client end

This is actually already done in many AAA titles. The idea is to basically always be showing a prediction of what will have happened in ~70 ms, and update your state model accordingly. Given a datacenter to run the games on and all of the announcements about being able to take a snapshot of the state, this doesn't sound super far-fetched.
As I understand it, examples of "zero cost abstractions" would be std::string or std::map<X,Y> in C++. Reimplementing those in plain C is not a great idea, because the result will be very bug-prone, and will not be (significantly) faster.

The problem with these "zero cost abstractions" is that we're measuring the wrong cost.

The key to efficiency is optimizing what is done, not optimizing each little line of code. std::string is a terrible idea with regards to efficiency. If it works for you chances are you should use Python instead. For anything complex, std::string is slow and has a huge memory footprint (each string has its own buffer, separately allocated from the heap). It also leads to a heavy increase in compilation times. Anecdotally, it can even be painful to depend on it when the standard library is upgraded. If you have anything beyond a few megabytes worth of text data, std::string is about the worst possible technical solution.
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I have seen a lot of luxury apartments springing up but, not actual homes people can buy. That is a problem.
Making $10k/yr allows you to do very little.

Make $50k/yr allows you to do more, but still not a lot.

Making $100k/yr opens some doors you didn't have access to before.

Making $200k/yr puts you in pretty good comfort overall, but doesn't enable you to go get that supercar/yacht/private jet you wanted

Making $300k/yr-$500k/yr probably puts you in $1m home, $200k supercar territory depending on how badly you want to stretch it.

I think when you look at it as "income + wealth unlock levels", it makes more sense.

I can't really go on lavish vacations, but nobody making $30k/yr is going to feel bad for me.

I can't go reasonably buy $20k jewelry, but somebody making $500k/yr probably could.

Then you get to yacht / private jet level of wealth that I know very little about. :P
I don't think multiple-home-ownership is the driver of the housing crisis. In my neighborhood in San Francisco, most homes are either owner-occupied or being rented out by the owner that owns one other house. So are you suggesting that the problem is solved in my neighborhood?
My first job after moving out paid weekly, my second job paid monthly, my subsequent jobs have all paid twice monthly.

I learned a LOT about managing spending in that first year or two. Changing when you are paid changes everything when you are paycheck to paycheck, UNLESS you comfortably have a month of savings in the bank. (For anyone in this situation, I learned to first pay your bills, put some money in savings, THEN buy your food and gas and stuff you can technically do without or have the option to choose cheaper alternatives. You can always remove money from savings, but never do it for something that you don't need to survive.)
Yes, but a lot of these experiences for tourists are offered in a way that conceals the 'performance' aspect in such a way that people feel they are having a wildlife experience.
The Acela is only that slow because the rail infrastructure can't support the maximum speed of the train's rolling stock. The purchase of the rolling stock was supposed to spur the redevelopment of the tracks, but that never happened.
In areas where people are hungry, hitting a deer and being forced to leave it to rot on the side of the road is a real tragedy.

One deer is enough meat for a whole family for many months.
I just spent three months hiring in NYC, and now that I think about it, I haven't seen a single person mention they were considering counteroffers from Facebook. For context, Facebook and Google are the two largest tech companies with a significant NYC presence. It's telling that a substantial portion of our candidates admitted to considering competing offers from Google, but literally no one was considering Facebook.

> Usually half of the close is done for recruiters with the brand Facebook has

I'm also finding that company brand plays a huge role in closing candidates. Our company's brand is generally pretty strong, and I've found one of the things candidates respond to most is the story we tell about our company's past, present, and future. Facebook's story has become "we were founded by a jerk who didn't care about privacy, our not caring about privacy has had massive consequences for American and global society, and our promises to improve our approach to privacy in the future have proven to be disingenuous smokescreens."

It's no wonder the substantial portion of people who care about their employer's ethics are turned off.
even though Boston traffic is mostly as bad as it's ever been

Boston traffic is not even close to being as bad as it was during the mid-to-late '90s. Back in those days, Medford to Dorchester would a 60-to-90 minute odyssey between 6am to 10am and 3pm too 7pm. Yeah, there is stop-and-go traffic at peak hours, but back in the day, it was often faster to take 128 to travel between the northern and southern burbs, right now it's just normal rush hour traffic.
"pre diabetic" is a clinical designation. You can be or not be it, and know it, with blood tests.
How about you actually read C16. It passed.

Exactly zero people have been prosecuted for misgendering. Zero. Nada. Null. This was literally FUD of a conservative incoherent old rambling idiot.

I am getting really fucking tired of people that are not affected by any of this except their irrational fear a trans person is going to sue them for accidentally not inherently getting their pronouns right.

The same irrational fear that makes you think you can't explain this to Eugen.

As for your last point... joinmastodon has zero obligation to platform you. Relays and other instances have zero obligation to platform you. To pretend no moderation is "neutrality" is asinine.

Regards, someone who would actually be affected by C16, if I lived in Canada.
> Crossing the California Coast Ranges is very challenging!

You realize that there is already an aqueduct under Pacheco Pass that was built in the 1950's right?

Oh right you don't.
I think it isn't the technical part of Stadia that will determine its success, but its business model. Without the pricing information, not much can be said about it. I'm a little surprised that Google hasn't been more up-front about how much it's going to cost.

PS Now accounts for about half of all game subscription service revenue, so half of 273 million (quarterly).

Doing the math, that leaves you with somewhere in the realm of 2.38 million active subscribers (273 million *.52 / $60).

The PS4 installed base is about 86 million consoles. That means only about 2 or 3 percent are active PS Now subscribers.

Source: https://www.gamespot.com/forums/system-wars-314159282/ps-now...

If Stadia comes out with a massive Steam or PS Store type of catalog where you can access any game, I think it'll be a runaway success.

If it's just PS Now (along with a similarly small catalog) without the need to spend as much on hardware, I don't see it being anything more than a ~2-5 million user subscription service.

It's a nice pile of revenue, but it's not "overtake the rest of the market as the preferred way to play games" type of numbers.
After the opioid crisis, no, that's not too cynical.
This is an example of ridiculous government overreach. Should fit right in for California.
Absolutely. I'm sure that traffic would be even worse without it having been done. Certainly getting to the airport is more straightforward than it used to be. But the green spaces are such a huge improvement over traversing the dirty underbelly of the elevated road to get between parts of the city.

(Now if they could only tear down City Hall and do something useful with the space.)
> interest-only mortgage

Why would anybody ever do this?
20-30ms seems high?

At least in the UK a typical home broadband latency is 6 to 9ms in my experience.
How is that even remotely the same? If anything that proves my point. Despite massive setbacks that were 100% out of their control the company building that pipeline still got it built in time and under budget...
More background on these here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_Energy_Certificate_(...

A short summary:

1) A producer gets a REC for putting 1 MWh into the grid from renewable generation. This energy mixes in with all the other energy on the grid, it doesn't go anywhere in particular.

2) The producer sells this REC on the market.

3) The consumer who buys the REC is considered to have purchased renewable energy, either to meet renewable energy requirements or just for their own personal reasons because it's a good thing to do.

In 29 states, DC, and PR, they have "Renewable Portfolio Standards" which require electric suppliers to have a certain amount of renewable energy in their production portfolio. They can own this production capacity and make the RECs themselves, or they could burn natural gas and buy a bunch of RECs from a third party, or even a bunch of people with solar panels on their roofs.

Beyond those 29 states, people also buy them just to say "We run on clean energy." A friend of mine has an electric car and buys renewable energy to go with it. Did the actual electrons in his car come from a wind turbine? No, but he's helping make wind power more economically viable through the renewable energy credits.
The reason why facebook is no longer interesting as a hire- is - that they are already there. They are the microsoft of social communication. If you want to push new ideas in social media, you open a company and the company gets bought by facebook, if succesfull.
Those that float around in that sort of mothership, are usually bureaucrats and legacy maintainers, plus a health dose of suits, who dont care what sort of buisness they actually are in, as long as the numbers grow.
Why in the world would one want to go there?
It's been watching humans and adapting
Hey it's anything goes on arXiv, good or bad.
Facebook busts Israel-based campaign to disrupt elections
Yes, this is a portrait of lifestyle inflation. Their income almost perfectly matches their outflows, that’s not struggle here, that’s lifestyle inflation. If they made $1MM I’d imagine their outflows would be right around $950.
I'm not convinced they have the core competencies required to pull it off. It seemed like they had the hype and market positioning to pull it off the first time around, but just expected 3rd party hardware vendors to do the work and make SteamBox a thing via the magic of the free market. I think it might have worked if they put together an excellent 1st party product and gave it a real marketing push.
Who blocked this? I am a California voter and I do not recall having any say over this blockage.
I grew up in NH. They have a different approach:
https://www.fosters.com/news/20181006/roadkill-for-dinner-pr...
Not much room for "servant's quarters", when your multi-million-dollar condo is like 1200 sq. ft.