skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've used AI to try out different composition/layout possibilities. Sometimes it comes up with an arrangement of objects I hadn't considered. Sometimes it uses colors in really interesting ways. Great jumping-off point for drafting.
thats a pretty bold assumption to lay down a hiring freeze.
Don't they both give you commercial rights now?

I have access to both and they're good for different things. DALL-E seems somewhat more likely to know what you mean. Midjourney seems better for making interesting fantasy and science fiction environments.

For comparison, I tried generating images of accordions. Midjourney doesn't really understand that an accordion has a bellows [1]. DALL-E manages to get the right shape much of the time, if you don't look too closely: [2], [3]. Neither of them knows the difference between piano and button accordions.

Neither of them can draw a piano keyboard accurately, but DALL-E is closer if you don't look too hard. (The black notes aren't in alternating groups of two and three.)

Neither of them understands text; text on a sign will be garbled. Google's Parti project can do this [4], but it's not available to the public.

I expect DALL-E will have many people sign up for occasional usage, because if you don't use it for a few months, the free credits will build up. But Midjourney's pricing seems better if you use it every day?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Accordion/comments/uuwrbj/midjourne...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Accordion/comments/vz9zxw/dalle_sor...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Accordion/comments/w0677q/accordion...

[4] https://parti.research.google/
Property taxes discourage existing inventory from being taken off the market in order to speculate via property holding, at the expense of also discouraging new building.

Land value tax discourages holding vacant or under-built property, at the expense of lowering the cost of the land. This means existing homeowners won’t be able to sell their old homes for as much as they could if fewer surrounding properties are developed (more modern, better built, larger, with more units), because their old home is closer to being worth the raw value of the land.

If you want to sell a $50,000 home for $500,000 because it sits on land that grew from being worth $10,000 to $450,000, then a LVT is terrible for you: you need to put in actual work improving your property rather than just sitting on a decrepit old building and selling it for a profit. The problem in the US is that the voters who mostly own their home can’t stomach their home value decreasing: that reduces their paper wealth as well as their ability to take out loans and second mortgages for things like college or car payments. So politically it’s a hard solution to push for (even if, on net, it would help the community be stronger).
I actually like the concept of a city income tax - you don't get to use all the resources for free just because you take a bus in from across a river.
Uber's a VC success story because the VCs managed to realize their profits before it can collapse when it went IPO.
I thought so at first, but then I realized it's a trick question. In fact, the biggest bird in the world is the cave swallow, P. f. pallida, with a wingspan of 4.2"-4.4".
> You hear there's this big vuln affecting Go programs.

This isn't relevant. What's relevant is if any of the specific programs I am responsible for have a vulnerability. If so, I need to update those specific programs. The notion of implementation language, shared library, dependency, these are all abstraction leaks. The atomic unit of responsibility, at the machine level, is program/service.
Sadely it is unlikely unconscious bad faith. It is the type of argumentor that would at the same time defend taxation, and control of movements, and think that it's absolutely necessary to keep education free or at least provide government grants.
It isn't laissez-faire arguments, they would have consistency and merits. It is filled with fallacies formed as souless echoes of the manipulators behind them.
Nothing else. All the comments I've read against the regulation are laughable, but let's see, the number comments will continue to grow some more. It's Popcorn and classical music on my side.
IMO the problem with bluetooth is applicable to many modern technologies:

- it can do a lot of things and in many scenarios there are decisions to make (which device to connect to? multiple? should I start playing something? what? should I stop the other thing? play over it?)

- instead of focusing on making it configurable, the designers focused on trying to guess what the average user wants (no users are average)

And then there's the seperate fact that it doesn't have any decent 2-way audio protocols STILL which makes me sad.
Very good points MegaButts. Crypto is VC funded too. Hence the crazy market caps because most of the VC owned supply is locked up.
Bad comparison. Here's the comparison you should have made to be in line with my comparison:

The people murdered with guns are murdered by people, not by the manufacturers of the guns.

Doesn't mean that gun manufacturers are nice people, but at least we wouldn't be making ridiculous statements and we could communicate what we actually mean accurately so that we can have a productive discussion.
I can see famous actors licensing their image, with multiple shadow actors doing their moves. Now you can make 50 movies per year instead of 5. You heard it here first...
Indeed. I block port 853 and various popular DoH servers and then rewrite any port 53 access to use my servers. So far it's working well. Frustrating that so many devices ignore DHCP (IPv4) and RADVD (IPv6) recommended name servers.
Correct, and this is something people often fail to understand about the free market. The market is making optimizations like the one you just suggested above (using smaller trucks over larger ones) constantly, innovating to reduce costs in thousands of ingenious little ways no single person could possibly come up with on their own. And those optimizations aren't just confined to first order effects, they cascade across the entire market. A small change to the cost of transportation by truck will, over time, result in the entire economy making millions of small adjustments to optimize for that cost.

But the market can't optimize for a cost it doesn't know about. If you're just funding road construction and maintenance with income taxes and people aren't paying those costs in proportion to usage, then there's zero reason for the market to do anything to try to reduce those costs.
Quadrupled My Investment Using AI Model
I created an investing app for the iOS App Store. There is a lot of features on the app but I am really proud of the direction AI that I created using Turicreate and Tensorflow.

When I first created this, I wanted to test how accurate the AI would be, so I back tested it using historical stock data. When I got the results, I was super skeptical because it seemed way too good to be true.

The AI provides a confidence percentage and when this is high, the AI predicts the directions stock will move with 90%+ accuracy.

I decided to invest $200 in short term options using the Predictions, and I am now up to $800 within a week.

It’s just a start, but I thought it was cool enough to share!
com.company.shopping.user.experience.shipping.intake

What's the problem? /s
Another thought:

Maybe liberal democracy is not the final outcome of human civilization. You like it and I like it (presumably we were both raised to believe this way) but perhaps it's not really true.

Just to question a base assumption here.

It seems to me, if all the things that are claimed to threaten liberal democracy actually do, liberal democracy might be much less robust and long lived then previously believed.
> 1) We use very few dependencies. We err on the side of writing our own function, library, or UI component rather than installing a new dependency, even if a "better" open-source version might theoretically be available.

This just means you likely have a lower quality version with the same problems but without the benefit of an ecosystem to find them.
> That seems like the point, though - the land tax makes it so that it is productive to add more density.

It will still force density eventually as the home's structure value depreciates (demo costs are the same no matter how much the home is worth). Any new structures will be pushed into higher value uses.

BUT let's say we instituted a blind land value tax tomorrow: many people would be forced out of their homes AND could not sell the home for what it was worth: a buyer would still have to either live in the house and pay the higher land value tax or tear down the structure and build something more profitable...the haircut they would otherwise have to take in either case would be reflected in just paying less for the house in the first place (assuming they've done their homework).

This could even happen after the land tax is implemented. That the land value rises above the point of its use but below the point of where the land could be re-developed into the higher value use case. Then....you are kind of stuck in a bad spot until your situation changes or you go bankrupt.

We actually already see this in the market: land with a tear down will cost less than land that is completely clear. The costs to develop are just less in the latter case. Also, people are forced by the construction market to settle for less valuable structures on high value land because there is just a shortage of material and talent to redevelop everything that we want redeveloped already.
I would argue that the UK is one of the worst countries in the world to base if you want to do software consulting for clients worldwide, due to some particularly awful taxation rules known as IR35[1]. If you have a consulting engagement caught by this, and your client is overseas, you need to pay tax as if you were employed on 95% of the proceeds - including the share that a UK employer would normally pay(!) - without getting any of the benefits of employment such as sick pay or accrued holiday. In addition, you cannot claim a host of normal business expenses such as travelling to visit clients.

In short - even though you may be bringing foreign money into the country that may otherwise have gone to a different tax jurisdiction, and you are not taking up a job that a local could take while also spending in the local economy - HMRC will choose to punish you aggressively by taxing you at a higher rate than if you were employed locally.

I would recommend Ireland (which doesn't have such legislation and is in the EU) or really anywhere but the UK.

I should mention the IR35 rules only apply if you are doing your consulting via a limited company rather than as an individual, but using a company is (in most places) the most tax effective route and there are many countries friendlier than the UK in this regards.

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/understanding-off-payroll-workin...
I think this is material info which needs to be noted:

> GT Sophy doesn’t get the same view of the game that human players do. Instead of reading pixels off a screen, the program takes in updates about the position of its car on the track and the positions of the cars around it. It also gets sent information about the virtual physical forces affecting its vehicle. In response, GT Sophy tells the car to turn or brake. This back-and-forth between GT Sophy and the game happens 10 times a second, which Wurman and his colleagues claim matches the reaction time of human players.

The AI is getting precise 3D position data and physics data not only about its car but competitors cars - from a 3D physics simulation. The human competitors only get a 2D visual view based on what a race car driver can see from the cockpit. Maybe I'm misunderstanding but it seems like the AI is simply deriving the optimal parameters encoded in the 3D physics simulation through iterative testing based on precise 3D physics data supplied directly from the simulation. The humans aren't getting the same data. The human drivers must visually estimate the physics vectors and precise 3D positions from a limited yet rapidly changing 2D rendering. This is quite different from what I initially assumed based on the headline and opening paragraphs of the article.

Given the same precise 3D and vector data in searchable form along with sufficient compute power, it seems plausible a team of human statisticians could work out more optimal driving parameters than top human drivers limited to 2D visuals in nine 24 hour work periods (which is what the AI required to train).
The secret to becoming rich: "get people to pay you to tell them the secret to becoming rich"
I think I may share confusion with the other poster. I don't understand the following step:

> Then white would win (and in particular not lose) by skipping the very first move and then playing blacks strategy

I understand the other comment, that there do exist setups in which colors can be effectively switched by e.g. 1. e3 e5 2. e4, but that requires cooperation on black's part. How does white "skip" the first move? Thanks in advance.

Edit: it may be that the statement "without Zugzwang" implicitly (or perhaps by definition) means you are allowed to skip moves? If so, that clarifies my confusion.
Precisely my thoughts, though I think this is more problematic than simple, nefarious malice.

Sometimes it is the case that no one behind the decisions is being malicious - e.g., perhaps just trying to accomplish a task at hand on a tight timeline.

As such, the default in today's society, where we are more or less 'on our own' on this issue, should be to assume that even while that vehicle over there is indeed about to plow into the crowd, there is often no one behind the wheel.

We should default to an even more suspicious approach.
I was there in 2000, and we all thought those tech companies were real businesses! Most of today’s tech companies don't really look all that much different.
there are two kinds of people in the world - those that think corporatuon are people, and those who haven't lost their mind.

I can't understand why would anyone apply narrative of systemic opression and social issues to corporations.
That doesn’t make sense? Just like universal pay doesn’t make sense unless there is a universal cost to everything.
> They underpay in general which is why their product is buggy

I understand the sentiment but I am not convinced that underpay is the cause of buggyness. They compete with a behemoth and it is quite a feat to stay in the game in spite of having a fraction of resources at their disposal compared to thier completion.
Somehow these articles are more readable than typical AI-generated search engine fodder... Is it because I'm entering the site with an expectation of nonsense?
The problem is that sustainability was never the goal to begin with. The goal was to generate enough hype around a product in order to go public or get acquired by someone else.

It's the rich people's version of "hodling". Just like crypto-holders that created lots of hype around various coins and whatnot, VCs just bought stakes in lots of different companies hoping that one of them would go to the moon.
As a CW2 in the army who is playing Major under unrealistic expectations leadership to me looks like trust and ownership. Let your people own their product and be unwavering in setting high expectations. Be firm. Don’t let whining and insecurity dictate your delivery.
Brown and black, though not grizzly. The moose are more dangerous.
There are benefits to shared services, the question is how to fund the services and if it should be voluntary.
So is the unsubstantiated FUD.
As far as Polish films, highly recommend 1982’s “Znachor” (1).

Quoting IMDB: “Abandoned by his wife and daughter, a famous surgeon starts drinking, hurts his head and loses his memory. His medical knowledge gradually resurfaces and he becomes a village healer …”

1: https://imdb.com/title/tt0084953/
I was wondering when it would become the norm to call it "ducktape". It has been 3 hours and nobody has corrected it. Last week I found a 3-pack of "ducktape" in the builders market.

I'm not making fun of you or trying to be funny - it is simply an observation that I find interesting.
> I think tech investors are unable to see their bias for just how awful most tech companies today are

I agree. Ecomm broke first in other markets, and I am seeing profitable ecomm companies still having to raise capital. Uber is one of the worst ones (they took a business that is very profitable, and lost absolutely staggering amounts of money, they probably need to cut 50% of the workforce to start with, and then keep doing 50% until the business finds a level) but there are many others that have no business model or route to profit...and these are the best of the best that managed to actually list.

The public ones have a route to survival, some will raise, a lot of expense will go away with the stock price collapsing (employees getting bailed in). But most private ones won't survive. Too many staff, too little cash generation, and too reliant on the kindness of strangers (who remembers a few years ago, IPOs were so unfashionable, very old money...lol).

It is probably worse than 2000, the sector is much larger, private markets are far larger, there is so much hot money in the hands of brainless investors, it is a recipe for disaster. It is also worth saying, there will be a reprieve for a few months, then a story will break about one of the largest companies filing for bankruptcy overnight, then the private marks will come in. The losses sustained already have been some of the largest in the history of capital markets, it is the first inning.
Fwiw - my general premise isn't that the "majority of VCs are not good investors." My point is that there's a serious disconnect in the markets right now, and that it is rooted more in fear than a lack of opportunity.

On the second point - you're right that the cash isn't literally sitting around, but VCs (generally) do not have to ask LPs for approval on a deal by deal basis. Capital calls can happen either as tranches or in response to a deal, and it is unusual for an LP to successfully refuse a capital call because of a specific deal.
During normal market conditions (as if there is such a thing in Manhattan), it's been my experience that broker apartments are cheaper than broker-less apartments. Of course, the converse is true if you only amortize the brokerage fees over a term less than 24 months.
Penguins are some of the slowest-evolving birds in the world
The difference between the name of an old Incan town and a modern time plant identification mistake is that maybe the plant is poisonous.

Made with gpt3
Similar technology has been around for a while and so far it's only generated a few laughs and some use in the film industry.

GPT-3 hasn't taken over social media.

Dall-e 2 hasn't put all graphical artists out of a job.
Nothing yet - but I'll be sure to write up something as we go!
Their pay was abysmally low last time I applied. The company seems cool but the salaries as a senior were honestly kind of silly in this market.
Privacy.com is my goto now to fix problems like this. Not private.com, that's VERY different. Made that mistake once.
If speculation is the problem, then making expected return from real estate investments less than expected return from risk-free or low risk investments should fix it.

Something like, if 10 or 20-year US Treasury bond pays more than you'd make being a landlord and you expect little to zero asset appreciation, then there is no incentive getting into real estate.

And it's possible to discourage house flipping by introducing some sort of friction. Like a high tax of some sort that is applied only if you sell sooner than X number of years (let's say 5)
Streetcars have made a comeback in many places around the world.

I don't know exactly what has led to this comeback, but one factor may be low-floor trams,[0] where the floor is just a few inches above the street level, which makes boarding much easier.

Trams tend to have smoother rides than buses. For short distances (a few kilometers), they're a pretty nice way to get around.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-floor_tram
This article doesn't take into account the negative migration that's been happening from Cook county for the past two decades. Less demand means lower prices.

Also the claim that Chicago even has high property taxes for housing isn't really true. See here: https://www.rosenfeldinjurylawyers.com/news/chicago-property... and here: https://www.lincolninst.edu/sites/default/files/pubfiles/50-...

Currently trapped renting in a high property tax area because the monthly tax bill would be as high as the mortgage payment. This rent trap is starting to feel real permanent because any raise in the property tax just gets passed through to the renter when they raise the rent each year.
It's too early to tell if it is a stalemate or if it is high tide.
Yes, this seems to be such a tiny domain. If you know Maxwell's equations, you know all you need to know about EMI, pcb layout, RF, and more. If you know how to do something other than 'Datasheet Engineering' -- you know how to plan for part substitutions.

I'm trying to make the point that EE is a Fixed Domain, where one only needs to know a very small number of things to be an 'expert' in said domain. This is not the case for CS, which is, basically, all of mathematics that can possibly be applied to computers.

EEs will be one of the first technical professions to be replaced by robots & AI when AI moves up to white collar professions. Mark. My. Words. ;-)
I have never, not once ever, wanted something to autoplay when a bluetooth device connected.
It makes sense relative to actual world leaders in tech that do not adjust pay based on location.
The association is required in every area I know of to save for exactly those contingencies. A new roof, barring a tree falls on the building, or a plane crashing into it should NOT trigger a special assessment.

Special assessments should be for things that are unpredictable - improper construction of something (with the construction firm being impossible to sue for whatever reason), unexpected settling of a foundation, a bad storm causes unexpected damage, etc.

Roofs have predictable lifespans and should be getting inspected regularly. Most of the time, you can glance at it from the street and tell if it will need replacement shortly - missing tiles/shingles/shakes, any peeling/curling, missing/faded 'grit' on asphalt shingles, rot in an eave, etc.

A unexpected and large roof bill is almost always a sign of negligent or incompetent maintenance and bad administration.

What causes these problems is the thinking that it isn't inevitable, and no one wanting to pay/set aside the extra $125/mo over the prior 20-50 years to be prepared when it happens. Which is often exactly the folks you are talking about who plan on leaving before it happens, and the associations which let it happen, even though it's negligent for the condo association managers and board.

Even easier if inflation lets them just not raise HOA fees ever, and the same thing happens.

ALWAYS check reserves before buying a condo. ALWAYS check bylaws. ALWAYS check projected lifespans and expected maintenance projects of the condo association. ALWAYS get your own inspections.

Here in CA they are required by law to disclose them, though they often make it a bit of an expensive hassle to get them if you aren't already an owner. Still better than getting stuck with a huge $100k+ special assessment.

The harder they make it, the more you should walk away from a place. It's rare someone will make it hard if it's all sunshine, rainbows, and good management.
CrowdSec: OSS to detect peers with malevolent behaviors and block them from acce