skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because its almost impossible to compete?

Explain the number of American unicorns and the (almost) complete lack of European unicorns then? Somehow American companies and startups find ways to compete and be relevant, and it just does not happen in Europe.

If you could snap your fingers and force Apple and Google to implement this today, these new markets (app stores and browsers for iOS) would be 99% filled by American companies.
Also it should be used as tool to increase densification. Just increase if property is not sufficiently dense, maybe to some 20%. At that point people are free to choose either to allow redevelopment to happen or support local community.
The two situations are completely different.

The websockets library has not had anything malicious added to it. Only the lead dev says he won’t help certain users.
Land value taxes are even better. Property taxes provide a disincentive to making the land more productive. A land value tax would incentivize residential landowners to build more units which provides more supply and would lower rents.
Your point is valid, but I think those examples are fixable. Permacookies could be fixed as simply as "Would you like to allow {EvilApp} to access data from {EvilPartnerApp}?", as there aren't a lot of reasons that apps should be passing data between each other without user consent (or the share sheet).

The second example has already been fixed with the microphone indicator from 1-2 versions back, where a light shows up in the corner whenever the microphone has been activated (and swiping down tells you what app activated it). A notification could be added if an app tried to activate the microphone when it wasn't in the foreground (but I don't think the OS lets you do that anyway?)
Paper photos might survive for decades. CDs not so much.
> You already have that choice today: I can buy into the walled-garden, or go to Android and side-load to my heart's content.

So if Google decided to force this policy onto Android phones, you would support the EU introducing this legislation to bring back the option of side-loading?

Or would you want the legislation to only apply to Android phones, and not Apple devices?
Still Go. I mean there's no central repository in the way there's one for npm, and yes you can point it to any git repo as the source for your dependencies, but the reality is most are on GitHub. So your central repository is GitHub.
We Need to Talk About Zero Motorcycles... (in-App purchases)
You can't use humans to manually refine a dataset on the scale of GPT-3 or DALL-E

Clip was trained on 400,000,000 images, GPT is roughly 180B tokens, at 1-2 tokens per word, that's 120,000,000,000 words.
> This means that investors will buy up even more

Not necessarily. Right now, 70+% of house sales are to owners who will live in them. If they're (mostly) gone, house prices will collapse, and some existing investors will get spooked and start selling, driving prices further into the ground. Many investors will vow to never buy another house, and others will stay away.
> Those of us who can't afford property will shed no tears.

You seem to believe the fallacy that not being able to afford a home is other homeowners fault, and not due to poor government planning (likely by the same politicians you willingly vote for.)
> I don't know anyone who has ever complained about their bose or sony bluetooth noise canceling headphones.

My Sony XM4 cans often give me trouble with bluetooth. Once in a while, there is no sound from the device. The device says "connected", the phone app says it's connected, the computer says it's connected. The way to fix it is to plugin the 3.5mm jack, and take it off. The device powers off. The next time it is powered on, it works properly. Lots of other people have had this trouble too. I did not discover this "fix" myself, but was written online somewhere.
Start here

https://www.insidescience.org/news/how-much-damage-do-heavy-...
The problem is that the settings UI only allows typing a hostname, not a full URL.

The Settings app is heavily customized by Android vendors and can't be updated on all devices in lockstep with the DnsResolver module. Hopefully it will be fixed starting from Android 13.
It was there before? As noted by a handful of 3rd party sites. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like anyone reproduced the release notes, or at least Google has yet to index them.
https://patchmypc.com/patch-my-pc-catalog-update-07-06-22
The project has just started. I made the proof of concept, and now I am building the full project. There's tons of work left to do. We are building a small community around this and any help is appreciated, be it programming, testing or just ideas/discussion. If you're interested to join in, just come by and say hi in the discord. Everything is, and will stay, open source (BSD-2-Clause).
As someone interested in becoming part of this "problem", does anyone know if there's been movement on the tax structure challenges for non-EU nationals https://rebase.co/portugal refers to? I'm basically waiting for that to clear up before forking over cash to get things moving.
They can run both Chrome and Safari?
I lead an oncall rotation. It's important to stay on top of the pages/alerts, or else the rotation will rot and enter a death spiral where you don't get any sleep.

Every page (particularly the nighttime ones) are root-caused by the team every week. Each page gets one of four things:

1. Fix the code to handle the situation.

2. Tune the alert to increase the signal - resulting in a more actionable page.

3. Re-route to a more appropriate team.

4. Remove the alert if it doesn't help us keep the systems running.

So many pages were "informational" that we couldn't action and didn't indicate a problem that needed to be dealt with. Many others were bugs that people knew about but hadn't worked on because they didn't know it was waking us up! :)

Now, we get our sleep and people are asking to join the rotation!

Paying people to take the pager does not help when the rot sets in, but it does help encourage people to pick up extra shifts.
Closing down QA would be a more risky endeavour, but maybe some smart manager could even sell it as a gain. Fail fast right?
How do you remove bias as long as humans are in the loop? Aren't they just swapping one bias for their own?
Yeah, but if you have shipping01...03 instead of quirky-noun, ugly-color, and random-animal, then everybody will just know what's broken straight away and you won't have a job

Besides, half of the fun is in figuring out who (or what!) deployed the mystery service, as well as the secrets that lie within (and are not in the password manager for some reason, Carrrl)
I was supposed to be making a video game, but got a bit sidetracked when DALL·E came out and made this website on the side: http://dailywrong.com/ (yes I should get SSL).

It's like The Onion, but all the articles are made with GPT-3 and DALL·E. I start with an interesting DALL·E image, then describe it to GPT-3 and ask it for an Onion-like article on the topic. The results are surprisingly good.
Given that you get more points the higher ranked opponents you beat, the best way to get to 2900 might be to coach other players so they get higher scores, before beating them.
> There are few pages, preferably the median should be 0 per week.

In interviews, always ask them:

1. How often is someone on call (typical was one week every 6-8 weeks).

2. While on call, how often do you get paged after hours?

3. What do you do to reduce the number of pages?

I suspect I've been rejected for merely asking the second and third question, but that's good!
Has anyone else had problems with the 'Generate Variations' functions lately?
Tried it out first 3 days ago, and it says 'Something went wrong. Please try again later, or contact support@openai.com if this is an ongoing problem.' everytime since then.
Is it me or are the comments all complete spam? The top three all say the same thing, roughly, "well built / good build quality / impressed with build, etc".
Is this an issue of code stability or do these libraries have leaky abstractions that cause issues with models trained on previous version, because the library implementation changed and since ML has low explainability, it's hard to tell how the change impacts the model performance? eg. making a library run faster or use a slightly different parameter internally causes some floating point imprecision that cascades into wildly different results?
I've been finding Tripetto to be a delightful replacement for Typeform and its ilk.
While I played the Portal games way back when, I can’t recall anything about the naming scheme. What are some example names from this scheme?
I prefer wired because, for some reason, car audio via Bluetooth has adaptive volume, i.e. I start coasting in the car and the music becomes almost inaudible. I speed up and it returns to normal.
yeah. dalle is "so bad it's good".

it's great for post-post-ironic memes, but I don't see it being useful for anything else
You mean supplying. Imagine running a food IG that didn’t even need to make the food.
Welcome to SaaS.
> You can do that with a bus

Right, at which point it's a cramped, bumpier trolley. It no longer has the main advantage that buses offer, which is being able to alternate their routes based on traffic or blockages.

You can make bigger buses, but they still need to conform to a different set of safety and size standards. Trolleys can make better use of standard lane space (and frequently fit better into standard lanes in older cities, since they can articulate for turns much better).

Laying track does not have to be expensive. Small-to-mid-sized cities in Europe do it cheaply and sustainably; many of the US's cities have streets that are already graded for streetcars and could be replanted without full surveys. I won't claim that it's uniformly cheaper than running a bus network, but that's not the sole factor in our civic construction process -- we also consider quality of life, performance, and appeal.
Yep, there are some videos of people using it to open the charging ports. I found the wireless "commands" (or whatever the correct terminology for it is) on github a while back before I received mine, but haven't gotten around to testing it out on local teslas here
I recall reading that the US military has fully automated pharmacies (giant vending machine) operating in certain situations.
Almost all property people buy and sell is productively used, and separating the value of land and improvements is practically impossible.

Edit: As a weird example, subtracting what it would cost to build my California house from its current market value gives a value for the lot far lower than the actual market price of an empty lot in this location. This isn't just due to the depreciation of the construction (2012) but to market inefficiencies. It's actually the norm in our town. Only developers with economies of scale can really afford to build here, modulo a few wealthy families who are building their dream home without concern for ROI.
Not only that, but you can also upload an image (that doesn't depict a real person) and generate variations of it without providing a prompt.
> Thats not the argument though.

Yeah sure, fair enough. I agree that manufacturing isn't key; a small group of hobbyist managed to make the Pine64 phone, which is not "world class" but certainly not bad either, and if some hobbyists can do it then a "real" business can certainly do it (and in fact, many have).

> There is no app so pervasive on either platform that makes owning an Android or iPhone such a requirement that automatically disqualifies any competitor.

I don't know about that; the lack of things like WhatsApp can be a huge downside for your social life. This is not true for everyone of course, depending on where you are in your life, your location, and what kind of friends you have (if any), but it is true for many people. I moved to a different country a few months ago and making friends without WhatsApp is doing it on hard mode.

If I compare this with using FreeBSD and Linux back in the early 2000s when Microsoft was omni-dominant, it's actually much worse. Proprietary formats like .doc and drivers were annoying, but can be reverse-engineered and the only thing really stopping anyone from building something that works for them was just a time investment. Now, it's pretty much impossible because much useful functionality requires access to severs and networked protocols.
Roads break down over time primarily as a function of vehicle weight. Most road taxes (especially gas taxes) are poor proxies for vehicle weight taxes. It's probably time to reconsider vehicle weight taxes.
Quite. Bus schedulers are very well informed on traffic patterns and account for this.
Some days when things are faster then usual this means they will ask drivers to stop for a bit in order to avoid running early.
That page has not been updated, that version 1.5.00.17656 is listed alright here:

https://github.com/ItzLevvie/MicrosoftTeams-msinternal/blob/...

as "latest production build of Microsoft Teams"
I would expect continuuity to be a relatively simple feature to retrain for and implement.
Honestly, it is probably just that expensive to run. You can’t expect someone to hand you free compute of significant value and directly charging for it is a lot better than other things they could do.
Researchers present anti-reflective coating that blocks waves of many types
> The issue is that when people use iMessage and see a blue bubble, they also know something about how the encryption keys are handled & who does the handling, etc.

Realistically, the average person doesn't even know what an encryption key is and the average tech enthusiast doesn't know anything beyond "Apple handles everything".

> So presumably the blue bubbles have to go. This means that when chatting in Messages now, one will not be able to know whether it's Apple alone protecting the privacy of the conversation

Why can't iMessage to iMessage be blue bubbles with iMessage to anything else being green bubbles? Do you think the average iPhone user understands that green bubbles mean insecure rather than thinking they're "Android bubbles"?

Why are so many people convinced that consumer choice and security are mutually exclusive?
and what was the licensing for the training data that you used?
But the absolute home value shouldn't affect property taxes. It should only be the relative home value. The county takes the entire budget, and divides it by the total of all the home values in the county to determine the basis for assessing taxes.

The problem comes when a given home goes up in value more then their neighbors, or when one neighborhood increases more than other ones.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

> Property taxes discourage construction, maintenance, and repair because taxes increase with improvements. LVT is not based on how land is used.

From https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/8/if-the-land-tax...

> The problem is that the land tax component of a traditional property tax is too small to deter land speculation. Although property taxes vary from place to place, they are typically between 1% and 2% of the property's total value paid annually. If inflation is low, then for longtime property owners, this amounts to roughly the same cost as if they paid a one-time sales tax on the property of between 10% and 20%. Thus, the property tax applied to building values inflates their price by between 10% and 20%. And the property tax applied to land value allows 80% to 90% of publicly-created land value to accrue as a windfall to landowners. Thus, typical land taxes are too weak to discourage land speculation.

Etc. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=economist+land+use+vs+property+tax...
> "Starting today, users get full usage rights to commercialize the images they create with DALL·E, including the right to reprint, sell, and merchandise. This includes images they generated during the research preview."

>> And I just used it to create cover art for a book published in Amazon :)

Man... what a missed opportunity for Altman... he could have had a really good cryptocurrency/token with a healthy ecosystem and a creative based community if he didn't push this Worldcoin biometric harvesting BS had he just waited for this to release and coupled it with access to GPT.

This is the kind of thing that Web3 (a joke) was pushing for all along: revolutionary tech that the everyday person can understand with it's own token based ecosystem for access with full creative rights from the prompts.

I wonder if he stepped down from Open AI and put it in a figurehead as CEO could this still work?

> Why is using a token better than using money, in this case?

It would be better for OpenAI if it can monetize not just its subscription based model via a token to pay for overhead and for further R/D but also for it's ability to issue tokens it can freely exchange for utility on it's platform for exclusive access outside of it's capped $15 model and allow for pay as you go models for those who don't have access to it like myself as it's limited to 1 million users.

I don't want an account, and I think that type of gatekeeping wasn't cool during the gmail days either and I had early access back then too, but I'd still personally buy $100s of dollars worth of prompts right now since I think it is fascinating use of NLP and I'm just one of many missed opportunities and represent a lost userbase who just want access for specific projects. By doing this they can still retain the caps of useage on their platform and expand and contract them as they see fit without excluding others.

This in turn could justify the continual investment from the VC World into these projects (under the guise of web3) and allow them to scale into viable businesses and further expand the use of AI/ML into other creative spaces, which as a person studying AI and ML and a background in BTC, is what we all wanted to see instead of these aimless bubbles in things like Solana or yield farming via fake DeFi projects like Calesius that we've seen.

It would legitimize the use of a token for use of an ecosystem model outside of BTC, which to be honest doesn't really exist and has still a tarnished view with all these failed projects, while gaining reception amongst a greater audience since it's captivated so many since it's release.
StereoKit started around 3 years ago, when the first pieces of OpenXR started coming out! OpenXR's native experience really showed just how good XR development _could_ be, and so we built StereoKit around that :)

And then yeah, if you're building apps, and not making a game engine, there's a lot of things you decide differently about the architecture! Like StereoKit's asset pipeline works at runtime, with user-space formats like GLTF. You can load up StereoKit's built-in file picker, and bring in an image or 3D model with 3 or 4 lines of code! Or grab it from a REST API, whatever.
>You aren’t making an apples to apples comparison though, your assertion is that it costs the system $18 for you to take a trip, but you’re only looking at the fare charges by Uber/Lyft.

The $18 is operating cost and doesn't include capital costs. Lyft is EBIDTA profitable and Uber likely is on rides too. Their fares are enough to cover the operating cost of the system. Comparison is as apples to apples as it can be.

>Pre pandemic it looks like bus/rail cost Marta around $4.50 per trip.

Even still. To use a practical example, my kid's day care is 4 miles away. I would need 2 buses to get there by MARTA so $9 if we assume pre-pandemic costs. Lyft will take me there for between $8.93 and $14.17 with various options on shared + wait time. For a solo car for a pick up in 4 minutes it's $11.01.

Lyft will take me 9 minutes to get there while MARTA will take 46 minutes if I time everything perfectly. More realistically it's an hour which is barely faster than walking the 4 miles.
$15 for 115 attempts to get usable images.
Or, looking at it another way, it will not cause Apple's loyal customers to switch to a competitor, but it might attract potential new customers.
That's funny. The parent's NASA link uses the high relative velocities as "direct evidence for dark matter and supports the view that dark matter particles interact with each other only very weakly or not at all, apart from the pull of gravity." The lack of friction seems obvious with this view of limited interaction between dark matter particles.
Seems like that’s more the BMW solution (ref. heated seats subscription)
My favorite C programming book was Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden, mainly for the method of reading any C declaration and for teaching me the difference between libc calls vs syscalls. There's also a book called Modern C by Jens Gustedt from 2020 that I have and is more beginner friendly.

The way I learned C is I printed out the Beej's guide client/server code and walked around staring at it until it made sense. (That and compiling/running it and looking up functions in the man pages.)
". . . I’m convinced a lot of depression/anxiety stems from thinking too much . . ."

Sertraline (Zoloft) is used to treat both depression and/or OCD. The dosages overlap too (OCD usually is a higher dosage I believe). It is also used to treat anxiety.

I suspect there is a causal chain that goes like: compulsively thinking > anxiety > depression/suicide. I'm not sure how preventing reuptake of serotonin prevents compulsive thinking, but I suspect the mechanism is closer to preventing the thinking aspect and the other feelings are further down the causal chain.

I am not an expert and I have only read a couple papers due to someone in my life taking Sertraline and having it reduce their OCD. (I thought it was only for depression based on my lay opinion)

If anyone has read anything interesting about the thinking aspect, please share links!
i thought pretty much everything on the pico was on the same chip including the flash rom (which is 2MB)?
More customers is exactly why food prices will go up. This isn't really much of a debate in the realm of developmental economics. Income goes up, demand goes up, and production doesn't keep up at the same rate. The result is higher prices.

Cell-based meat currently only solves the ethical dilemma of meat. It's economies of scale are not strong. You need a lot of energy (GHG heavy), refined inputs, and no one talks about the ironic use of FBS.

As a matter of fact, since you bring up long term, cell based falls short of regenerative animal ag in terms of cost of and GHG mitigation over 100 year span.
> Startups can have a more or less differentiated value proposition from their competitors. For example, a company that sells iPhone cases is not very differentiated. One that sells iPhone cases with a built-in earbud holder is more differentiated.

I mean this makes sense, although I worry this is much too broad of a definition to glean data off of, especially when looking in hindsight when it's not as obvious how "differentiated" the company was when they first pitched compared to the rest of the market
>separating the value of land and improvements is practically impossible.

is routinely done in countries in which variants of land value tax are implemented.
All those bones in fish are pretty bad UX, compared to some of the competition.
and document anything and everything and write amazing runbooks
IMO the ethical thing to do for Apple would have been to completely replace the product with one that doesn't have the design flaw. Or at the very least take those machines back and offer say 60% of its RSP price in credit towards a new Apple laptop.