skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, exactly.

The details need to be hashed out. I'm not convinced that 99 years is right, it's long enough to ignore and then pretend to be surprised when it comes up for renewal. Perhaps 35 years and no termination clauses, to make it easier to plan around? It would allow one house for having children and one house for retirement. The improvements mechanism would likewise need iteration.

I am interested to see how the various global experiments in these directions will pan out, though it looks like right now the market is betting that the 99 year leases will turn into perpetual ownership. That's unfortunate, because perpetual ownership is directly responsible for most of the largest perverse incentive problems in the real estate industry, not to mention ongoing gigantic deadweight loss.
Sometimes it’s a fun mind experiment:

YES, like tax brackets. Everyone should pay 30k$ per year to the government, no matter how rich or poor, for the services they get, and it would be the literal individual fair share.

The percentage-based taxes are already an unfair distribution of cost for the rich, and the progressive taxes amplify it even more. After all, who costs more at school, a Jeff Bezos, or an unruly one?
Nearly 2M Ukrainian refugees have been sent to Russia
I've been using this app to upscale the images to 4000x4000, and it works amazingly well (there is also a version for Android):

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/waifu2x/id1286485858

I paid extra to get the higher quality model using the in-app purchase option. It crushes the phone's battery life, but runs in only ~10 seconds on an iPhone 13 Pro for a single 1000x1000 input image.
This is the most disturbing “does not exist” yet. A food blog could write itself
I wonder if there's any way these sorts of regulations could be applied marginally.

Perhaps if we formalized legal code as code, we could apply automatic differentiation (just kidding... I think)

Continuous laws do seem more fair in general. But it seems more important (to me, at least) that this sort of fairness is applied to individuals. For companies... they aren't people, we don't need to worry about making their lives confusing or miserable. They have legal departments to sort this sort of stuff out, they'll respond rationally to incentives, it is just a business decision.
So do cars! But many folks of the same folks who now consider cars regressive also consider baby drawers and bottle feeding to be regressive.
Rather than complain about how VCs arent good investors, people should rail on the system that selects VCs. Which is mostly admittance to prestigious MBA programs/colleges. So please write a post about how those schools arent selecting for good investors, because these diatribes about a "flawed" industry are very surface level compared to the underpinning power structures in america
MidJourney gives ~unlimited generation for $30/month, and is nearly as good. Unlike DALL-E it doesn't deliberately nerf face generation. I've been having a blast.
Sounds kind of like scribblenauts. I would try the craziest things to see what it could come up with.
This is not great advice, but I try to make sure I only write software that I use. That way if something is painful to me, I know people that didn't write the code have no chance of being able to use it, so it has to change.

Certainly, in a software engineer's career, you'll often be asked to make things that are not directly useful to you. Force yourself to use them anyway, or you miss that valuable path of getting feedback -- "do I even like it?" If you made it and you don't like it, it's probably not good.

I think this, in general, does yield pretty good results. I think software engineers have much better work tools than other engineers (Emacs is a lot nicer than Solidworks), and that's because you use the tools you make to develop the tools you're making, and get a lot of experience in what it's like to be a user.
> Given the benefits/drawbacks, the best solution is to have options in the marketplace.

Android has those options. Please point me to this great privacy and security conscious competitor to Google Play Store.
Could an AGI be completely bored to live in our world?
It may be frustrated that we're so slow.
Everyone around it like the sloth from Zootopia.
Database of all cars. All penalties are assigned to the car and are to be paid on yearly inspection. If not paid, the car isn't allowed on the road.

If the owner of the car let someone else drive it then it's their issue to resolve.

We just need political will which isn't there. It's not a technical problem to solve.
Because physical goods are subject to differently priced logistics and local ingridients and remote work is not? Seriously, how can you even compare?
A couple didn't get it, a few chose things we might not have picked, but that was fine because sooner or later having 'dumb' out of date dependencies adds up to real problems.

It also took some reminders from the leads to add it in instead of letting it slip, but so far it's the least broken process I've gotten to use.
On the other hand: if you own property, you could take a loan out in order to turn your single family home into a rent-collecting multi-unit house. That’s what people did all the time before zoning laws, and it’s a reasonable way for a retiree to earn an income.

The problem is the zoning laws: we don’t allow people to let out part of their property, so they’re forced either to attempt to downsize into a non-existent market, or get evicted for not being able to afford their taxes.
Ah OK, this is helpful, thanks. The IPMI functionality is certain nice to have.
This is totally my personal bias, but I'm unsure that speculation has a positive value in the housing market, and I think governments should largely try to ensure that as many people as possible can afford homes, rather than ensuring that people can profit off the sales of their homes.

In the United States, people have long seen real estate as a path to wealth (unlike Japan, for example), so it's difficult to reason that people's primary homes shouldn't be their escape hatch into retirement (e.g. the dream of someone buying a house in 1980s Palo Alto and selling it in 2022).
Being offensive is only one way to be interesting.

There are others, like being clever, or being absurd, or being goofy, or being poignant, or being refreshing.

Of the good stuff, offensive humor is only a tiny slice.
Agreed! A useful comment would only be present to describe an edge case, a related business rule, a future change that might affect this code, virtually anything another engineer might need to be aware of, that is not the code they are looking at.
> I wouldn't call it a market failure, there's plenty of benefits to [walled garden]

Do you realise the irony of arguing for free market and a walled garden (not a free market)- simultaneously?

You can't have it both ways, pick your poison
Renters are overwhelmingly living in properties that have mortgages against them and commercial loans are always deductible. The deduction for mortgages on owner-occupied property serves to put prospective owners (including current renters) on a more equal footing when bidding against landlords for property.
Most ominous for Democrats is that the ratings among independents seem to be closer to that of Republicans, than that of Democrats. If you don't understand how people outside your part of the political spectrum think, it's going to be difficult to develop the right pitch to bring them onto your side of any issue.
> You can put letters in any order you want and make them say any damn lie.

You can run a web server by responding to every request by hand-typing the response, too. But you couldn't realistically run one-one-millionth the modern Web that way. You can't have global-scale e-commerce that way, et c. Some things that technically could work that way, can't actually—it's too slow, too expensive. This is very much one of those "quantity has a quality all its own" things. Increase the productivity of every astroturf-poster or propaganda-front-news-site manager a few hundred times and that's a big difference.

> I am as concerned as the next guy but throwing the towel already seems a bit premature?

Where'd you get throwing in the towel? I do think we're (especially the US) really unlikely to do what we need to in time, in part because measures that are probably necessary to defend against this are themselves risky and rather unappealing. But we might.
Again, this is already covered by the article:

> The sector’s trend towards containership gigantism has promoted a hub-and-spoke model of trade, whereby high-capacity mega-containerships transport goods over long distances from one hub to another54. From the destination hub, a host of smaller feeder ships transport the containers to their final destinations in smaller regional ports. Nearly all of these feeder ships traverse short routes that could be electrified, which would increase battery-electric containership adoption well beyond the potential suggested by intraregional trade figures. Figure 5 depicts the ten best-connected ports in the world, all of which are intraregional routes less than 5,000 km in length2. Moreover, feeder ships are older on average than their larger-capacity counterparts, and many are reaching the end of their useful service lives56. The 2020 IMO regulation limiting sulfur content will probably lead to the premature scrapping of these fuel-inefficient ships, creating an opportunity for battery-electric models to enter the fleet57.

> Although containerships, with their standardized cargo and volume dependency, are useful for understanding the technoeconomics of battery-electric shipping, they represent only 23% of total maritime shipping emissions58. Achieving larger emissions reductions will require electrifying additional ship types, including oil tankers, bulk carriers, general cargo ships and cruise liners. Of those, bulk carriers and oil tankers seem to have the largest emission footprint. Unlike containerships, some of these ship types are primarily constrained by weight rather than volume41. Energy density by weight is therefore the critical technical parameter for the batteries that would power these ships.
If I had to guess, I'd bet they have a supervised classifier trained to recognize bad content (violence, porn, etc) that they use to filter the generated images before passing them to the user, on top of the bad word lists.
Wait, why on earth is the article advising you to flee from a black bear? You literally cannot outrun a black bear- I've driven along side one that was running parallel to the road at around 30 miles an hour.

If there aren't cubs around, you yell, clap and raise your arms. It'll run in a heartbeat. If there are cubs around, you back away slowly- running will just make it chase you. If it follows, stop moving.
They don't. I live in Houston, it's the nation's 4th largest city (almost tied with Chicago for 3rd). We don't have brokers.
Gitlab's company handbook is absolutely amazing if you haven't read it: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/

Every company should be handbook-driven.
> suposideley

I was confused by this until I saw you were Swiss. Then I realized it was just a bit of involuntary yodeling.
GitLab doesn't charge based on the location of their customers.
Who Americans spend time with, by age
Oh, absolutely. I've even come around to thinking that's likely. But one can hope.

[EDIT] One thing I no longer think has any realistic future is the open, semi-anonymous Internet. We're either losing it because despots take over and definitely won't permit that threat to remain unfettered, or we're losing it (in perhaps a gentler-touch way) because we have to to prevent authoritarian take-over and vast civil strife. I don't think we're getting to keep that no matter what happens.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-par...

Had a good summary of land valuation problems
I moved away from for profit orgs to work for a social movement org a few years back.

Your best bet is to find orgs that you like, and reach out to them. Some may have a careers page, others won't. Mostly you can expect to get contracting gigs if you form a relationship with them. These places rarely have a tech team and usually outsource anything technical.

If you're accustomed to working in tech circles with well defined roles and working with people who know what it takes to build software, be warned that you won't find that at most other places outside of tech, especially if you're thinking about orgs that deal with addiction or mental health. Be prepared to explain concepts you took for granted (like sprints) to a lot of people.
He keeps doing it despite frequent complaints. Troll-marketing?
That's it? and mostly for pennies? Jesus no wonder so many companies just ignore it.
Facebook released over 100 pages of notes a few months ago detailing their training process for a model that is similar in size. Does anyone have a link? I can't seem to find it in my notes, googling links to posts that have been removed or are behind the facebook walled garden.

But I seem to remember they were running 1,000+ 32gb GPUs for 3 months to train it and keeping that infrastructure running day-to-day and tweaking parameters as training continued was the bulk of the 100 pages. It is beyond the reach of anybody but a really big company, at least in the area of very large models, and the large models are where all the recent results are. I wish I was more bullish on algorithm improvements meaning you can get better results on less hardware; there will definitely be some algorithm improvements, but I think we might really need more powerful hardware too. Or pooled resources. Something. These models are huge.
Along with public transportation there was a time when pools closed rather than integrate.

https://www.npr.org/2007/05/26/10407533/plunging-into-public...
Google Engineers Lift the Lid on Carbon – A Hopeful Successor to C++
Here's a crazy idea: 0% for primary residence, 50% for income properties (rentals, etc.). Will it kill renting? Heck no, not for property owners who live in one of their own units, at least. It might affect individuals and entities who hoard and exploit people, though.
Countries that pass laws making it 10x more difficult to develop software will not survive the next few decades.
That sounds awful. Imagine being forced to move every few years or giving people with money that much power over you. Seems crazy that this idea is so popular. I'm guessing the people who like this idea are very young and mobile. Imagine telling grandma she has to move and sell her house and have police show up at the door when she doesn't want to. It's basically the abuses of eminent domain except done privately.
They already pretty much are. Top recipe hits on Google seem to always be from like "Southern Mama Cooking Tips" or something generic like that, and you have to scroll past 8 paragraphs of context for why this person is writing a recipe and why they like it so much, totally not to hit all the SEO sweet spots, and the full life story of this "Southern Mama" that's totally not a guy in India or a robot scraping together blurbs of text from other website.
Not possible. Google owns the network and wins hands down for being able to advertise Chrome wherever and whenever they want, while Mozilla is forced to buy ads. Being better than Chrome is not enough anymore.
Generally informing the other party you are recording is enough consent if they stay on the line. Plenty of customer service lines do that with an automated voice: "This call may be recorded (for quality control purposes)". So their party has already been informed that the call will be recorded, and there's no expectation of privacy.
This is very interesting thanks!
I totally agree with that, I didn't like U2 back then but I know actively hate them since that episode.
State and local governments in the US cannot create money. They either tax it first or run a debt by selling bonds.
Is it just me, or is the get_temp function wrong? Indentation error on the return statement?
Aggregate "does not exist" website for anyone who's interested.

https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
Long-time writer here. Couple of thoughts.

Yes, conjuring up the right words can be a b*tch, and it's so tempting to step away from the keyboard in favor of something that's simpler or more lucrative. But the magnet that keeps pulling me back -- and making it easier -- is this sense that people out there genuinely need the story or lessons that I'm trying to convey.

Start with: Who's my audience? Then: What's my message? Then: Why do they need this? Get solid about all three of these, and a lot of good things happen. You'll press ahead with flawed but fixable first drafts. You'll come back and do the rewrite necessary to get it better. And when your confidence flags, you'll get revived by connecting with readers, friends, fans, etc. who want and need you to succeed.

Writing may seem like a solo sport. In a lot of ways it is. But the more you can conjure up a community that cares, the stronger you'll be.
Sometimes the renter pays, although sometimes the broker is hired and paid by the owner
Dreamtigers with DALL-E
dreamtigers
by jorge luis borges

a reading, with images created using openai dall-e sequencing and morphing in python with credit to András Jankovic's morphing library [https://github.com/jankovicsandras/autoimagemorph]. performance featuring borderlands granular synth (artist template: kingbritt), other desert cities delay by audio.damage, rymdigare reverb, and mixed in kymatica aum.
headphones recommended, awards eligible

(original text)
https://thefloatinglibrary.com/2008/09/02/dreamtigers/
Couldn't the phone provide an option to disable this on a per-device basis?
This seems pretty spammy for a top-10 slot on HN
And the Science gets done and you make a neat gun.
Thank you so much for this guide!

When I was a kid, socket programming felt like a huge thing to me, like unlocking the next level of programming. "Imagine if I could get 2 separate computers to talk to each other!" But it felt impenetrable, and used lots of weird and confusing C tricks.

Your guide demystified the whole subject and put it in plain language that teenage me could understand, and with it, I was able to build my first network-based "hello world". It was a magical feeling to see those messages delivered across the network. Thanks Beej!
So I got some bad news for you, dude. It sounds like you spent all this time not writing much, if at all. There's only one way to get better at a creative pursuit and that is to keep doing it. That means you're no closer to being good enough at writing to earn a living at it than you were when you started, never mind write anything "great".

On the other hand it also sounds like you spent a lot of time learning to sell shit, and selling your stuff is an important part of making "creative work" worthwhile. The dude who draws "The Oatmeal" is a terrible artist, for instance, but his SEO skills sure have made him a lot of money with his bad drawings. So you might be able to make money selling shitty writing. Nobody will probably ever say "there goes a great writer" when you're about to die, though.
EU requirement was to inform users on how the data collected about them will be used and give them a choice.

Cookie notices was the industry response, ignoring the spirit of the law and complying at a minimal rate
People with disabilities would be much happier if no one can drive in cities. Running a mobility scooter, a wheelchair or an electric wheelchair would be so much easier. Cars are especially bad for people with disabilities and not only because many of them can't drive at all.
I don't listen to any news or watch TV and I don't use social media. Now that I don't consume any of it, I don't feel any of the fear or anger that the media talks about. I can't remember when I was last at peace as much as I am now. If everyone else would unplug from the hate-tainment machines they'd probably calm down too.
If the price is low enough, you can have humans rank generated images (maybe using Mechanical Turk or a similar service), and from that ranking choose only the highest quality DALL-E generated images.
That's extremely interesting. When a plugin crashes, what happens to the rest of the signal chain?
To be fair there was also a significant chance he would think Rust was garbage and only assembly (or if you are lucky, C) are acceptable languages.
It’s a problem that is taboo.

And if the taboo suddenly blew up? I believe I’d actually blame it on culture, not race.

We can do amazing things with culture. Let’s try. But we can only tackle it if we can address the taboo problem.
I am struggling to picture this - there is no indication this Architect was the person's manager. The manager is the one who should be the one giving feedback based on observation and evidence and not just gut feel. Onboarding takes time - especially at bigcos the stack is so inhouse and complex no way even the most senior person (this person didtn seem so) takes atleast O(weeks) if not O(months). Even if the architect had some authority (and evidence) to provide feedback this just looks like a prison ritual of intimidation/hazing. How is this acceptable?

Also (and the OP could be hiding info) there doesnt seem to be any indication of this being a cultural issue - unless the OP did something so in-your-face illegal/offensive. Again the point is not to dissect what the OP did/did not do but really - what happened to welcoming and being kind to your colleagues?
This happens in California to. When you buy the state still decides the value of the land (else people would do under the table cash deals like they do with cars).

Usually the assessment and sale price are not far off.
The article said 1 of the QA workers' complaints is crunch. Crunch is mandatory overtime. And they want to change disciplinary processes. Many office workers have fancy chairs and so on to prevent injuries. And how are healthier snacks and drinks not relevant to office workers?
It allows a control to be wall mounted without having to run a wire from there to the bidet...
Just a note: I had faltering volume on my Jabra Elite earbuds and I found an unauthorized repair [0] that brought it back to life. It requires some delicate cleaning of build up in the vent hole.

[1] <https://crt.the-mori.com/2020-09-25-solve-jabra-elite-active...>
F-Droid, probably
The 2009 ePrivacy directive, also known as "Cookie law", speaks of "the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user".

GDPR is concerned with all personal data processing, cookie or not is even more irrelevant to it applying.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. The baby-in-a-drawer sounds like a win for the mother, the baby, and the care physicians.
What about land that already has buildings on it? The buyer can't just take the land without the building. So how do you take the building's value into account?
My favorite part of this video is how it accidentally shows the benefits of silly names: "Bingo knows everyone's name-o" is clever and easy to understand what it does. If this was called the "name service" no one would have any idea what it did from the service name alone. You have to learn what both services do regardless of descriptive or silly name, and Bingo is arguably easier to remember.
Cookie notices > having tracking cookies enabled by default with no easy way to turn them off
Biden stops short of declaring climate emergency, takes steps on wind power
Looks impressive but I can't escape the notion that surely some of the generated images will be very close to the some of the training images?

How am I to assess how original the generated results really are?
And it’s part of general taxation…

Roads are funded partly out of local taxes, and partly out of general taxes - there’s no hypothecation of ‘road tax’ paying for roads
How to remove your business from Google