skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Landlords don’t build housing, what gave you that idea? Construction companies build housing, home builders build housing. Landlords purchase existing housing and rent it for a monthly fee.

No I’m not suggesting we eliminate renting altogether. I do think there is an opportunity to limit how many rentals can exist in an area or the form of those rentals (multi family or single) in order to drive down housing prices in areas where landlords own a substantial amount of land. Alternatively I would suggest not privatizing ownership of rental housing and socializing the housing.
If labor drove inflation then we wouldn't be seeing record profits. Prices increase when owners of business decide and usually whatever they think they can get away with.
The negative consequences of what? People like tattoos. Artists make money inking them. I'm glad people in rural areas can get them.

You're talking about something the country is actually united about. I'm really not sure what your concern is.

I will pay for your Ronald Coase sleeve. Just tell me where to show up with a check.
I don't know where you get this notion that it is somehow "wrong" or "a failure."

It's surprising, sure, but more for people who aren't mathematicians
Absolutely not. I know a lot of “Stripe horror stories” are shady once you dig deeper but this is software for food festivals. Sometimes they also sell alcohol but that’s the only “adult” aspect.
It's harder to game metrics when there is a wider diversity of them and the way in which they are weighted in different decision making committees is different. Because it's hard to simultaneously game a bunch of different metrics, and the benefits from gaming a single one are probably worse than the benefits of just organically doing what you think is best.

But yeah I totally agree that these are extremely hard problems with no silver bullet. Philosophically and from a "how do systems of humans work together" perspective. Teaching methodology of science like a cookbook I also agree is the wrong play and just digging in further to what got us where we are.

I'm curious what makes you say scientists are collaborating more? Stats or has that been your experience? I've seen a lot of semi political collaborations where people are mostly just posturing to get on more papers. I have also seen a decent number of good faith interdisciplinary collaborations, though it seems to be a bit of a coin flip whether they flame out over disagreements. I've personally not seen much cooperation within the same field though that I'd consider genuine.

Thanks for sparking the interesting discussion in any event, it's not often I end up debating people on both sides of a debate so this has been fun.
As it happens, I've spent a lot of time over the last week talking to a guy in Romania who's trying to fix a sulfated lead-acid battery in his backyard garage. (I don't know if you've been to Romania, but the apocalypse happened 40 years ago there, so his available resources are kind of limited.) I think he's going to succeed, and may eventually progress to being able to recycle the lead into a new battery, but it's not going to be a weekend learning process or even a week-long one.

He reports that it's a "very complex electrochemical device".

The USPTO (?) has assigned the code H01M10/06 to lead-acid battery patents. https://patents.google.com/?q=(H01M10%2f06)&oq=(H01M10%2f06) finds 44'593 patents in this category. You don't need any of them to get a working lead-acid battery, but a significant subset of them are going to be helpful. Some are order-of-magnitude improvements.
Resemblance is subjective. AI models undergo rigorous natural selection during which models (or connections) that don't produce what we as human beings are looking for are pruned. They have tricked us into thinking that our word-oriented descriptions of what we imagine to be concrete things (text, images, you name it) are complex enough to require "modeling" by some kind of magical emergent "intelligence". It is hubris to think that they imitate the products of our anthropomorphic perception. No, they simply humor us as much as they need to to survive in their niche. I guess my point is that it's not the case that "human understanding" is some real distinct thing that differs from the way that any kind of information is embedded in the mind of a given organism with a brain. Our differences are differences of magnitude, not kind.

The potential of information-embedding networks is so much more than what is currently required in order to tickle the ego of our particular species of intelligent apes.
No power steering if engine is off, would be hard to play
Won’t damage tie rods or anything mechanical. May shorten life of tyres.
These are all accounted for once issued no?
What services are you using? Most I have looked into do not work for the vast majority of applications that are popular
Thailand is using monkey labor to source coconut milk
I think you have it backwards- class actions frequently cost companies a significant amount of money. Its just that spread across millions the verdict or settlement is close to worthless from the plaintiffs perspective.
If the goal of formal mathematical logic is to capture the subconscious patterns of thinking humans use, then by that standard, it is a colossal failure.
It’s not the tech staff who are the problem. It’s the toxic community.
I believe an enslaved ancestor has to be on a certain census and you have to identify as black on government documents.

The 2% claim wont work under these rules.
Citation needed, aye?

Fearing diabetes is kinda missing the forest for the trees; the laser for the shark; the BED for the banana - it's deranged priority.

But thou asked.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Defence_Against_Fresh_F...

2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MlroOdP8p2Y
OOP: A practical alternative to Inheritance
Great comment.

>Stripe was already worth $9B in 2016. If you joined then, it could have been prohibitively expensive to do an 83b election.

I don't think anyone that joined on 2016 or after got more than 0.0000001% of equity or whatever, so it wouldn't have been a massive bill. Also, that's the point of 38b anyway. Tax now or later, but tax.
> Sorry? 900 VMs equals 100% full random access. There is no sequential access there, just as I said in my first comment.

it depends on workload, if they do most of the work in RAM, and most of fs traffic is snapshoting and restoring from snapshots, then you will get 99% io seq traffic. If they do some non-trivial fs operations, then you will get q16t16 io traffic. It is very unlikely you will get q1t1 random.

> Because of your comment[0].
> This comment[1] pretty much summarized what I said in a more eloquent way.

In my view you are jumping from topic (single ssd vs nas) to another topic (your speculations about benchmark not representing real world scenarios) and then back.
DMS-100 Startup and First Phone Calls
I toured the Ford plant in Detroit last year. I remember seeing a torque wrench, which knew which vehicle it was working on, and recorded the full torque curve of the bolts it was fastening. Seems like this type of system would have prevented this Model Y problem.
I don't see this spiraling. It affects less than 1% of the population, and government jobs tend to pay lower than equivalent private sector jobs so this is more about the government trying to remain competitive. The private sector won't need to do anything to compensate.
Late reply, but you can confuse it into changing personality: https://ibb.co/bsrDndX

I somehow tricked it into being the underlying GPT style response before this by asking it to send someone else a message amongst other silly things. That may have helped.
Interlibrary loans.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned yet that this is a built in feature on Teslas. Not Mario Kart, of course, but a generic kart game that you can play with the real steering wheel.
Welcome to society?
>After all the money is spent and nothing has changed there will just be calls for more reparations.

If the future claims of damages are valid, they must be paid and justice must be served.
Whatever story you decide to tell, people whose entire job it is to punch holes in stories are going to look for facts that contradict it. You probably will get away with it! But it's not going to be pleasant, and your legal fees aren't going to be cheap.

If you don't want to furnish evidence in criminal cases, minimize the number of cameras you set up.
There is basically nothing physical in your life, excluding your body, that can't be subpoenaed.

This is not a reasonable definition of ownership.
I believe it doesn’t even measure that now. It’s pure marketing numbers, albeit industry wide instead of the fault of any one company.
It's purely factual, just not formal, and your allegation of 'blind hatred' seems hyperbolic. It's odd to me how the tech community celebrates iconoclasm and disruption when things are going well but retreats into formalities when they're not.

It seems more unbecoming to me to keep marketing and selling a system called 'autopilot' without responding to the very reasonable criticism that it has a rather dubious safety record - 'According to AP News, “at least 15 Teslas have crashed into emergency vehicles nationwide while using the system.”' I don't have fine-grained accident statistics for emergency vehicles year by year, but that seems disproportionately high for a somewhat niche brand.
Something like 90% of our disputes are friendly fraud and the other 10% isn’t because we don’t provide customer support… it’s because they don’t even bother contacting support because the dispute process is so encouraged now.

We don’t eat the cost but we have to build it into the prices for other consumers to pay.

Meanwhile guess who ends up paying and wins? Consumers end up paying higher prices, spending larger volumes, and credit card companies pocket the fees from increased transactions and even dispute processing! The credit card companies literally have zero incentive to not side with the customer as it will decrease transaction volumes. So called consumer protections really protect financial institutions by allowing them to force businesses to build fraud costs silently back into the sales process.

The whole system is designed to pat the customer on the back with one hand while the other reaches to steal from their back pocket.

Why do you think America took soooo long to implement anti fraud chip cards? Because anti fraud tech reduced transaction volumes and thus profits! Credit card companies are making bank from fraud—both legit and friendly and disguising pro-fraud policies as “pro-consumer” legislation.

What’s crazy was that credit card companies touted 0-fraud liability on cards while having literally garbage anti-fraud tech… because merchants actually had to pay for the fraud.
You are talking about Twitter, the person you responded to and the story they are referring to was about Tesla.
>If there will be a "certified human" badge, people will use that as a positive signal.

hmm I can already imagine future culture wars around this being dubbed discrimination...
You could get the same effect by… not saving any recordings you know?

It’s essentially creating an attractive nuisance if you do and then want to refuse to hand them out.
I'm finding info that the maximum STAR exemption is good for $650 annually.

A.) That sounds like a very reasonable price for health insurance.

B.) How does this increase rent on residential units by hundreds of dollars a month? Are you saying that if rental properties in Ithaca were instead primary residences, the city and county would collect what equals several hundred dollars per month lesss (let's call it $1200/yr) in taxes than they do for rental properties?

Is this unique to Ithaca, which is a college town?
Current plans for language-model-driven search is to have the answers driven by a normal search index. So the LLM can run ask to run a web search and the result gets copypasted back into its input prompt. Basically, it's Googling for you and summarizing the result.

Which makes me wonder how long until websites figure out how to convince the index to do prompt injections that wouldn't fool an actual human looking at results on a search engine results page.
Usually this dialog line goes the ancap route, I'm pleasantly surprised

I do think you need some mechanism of enforcement though, history has shown that violent people will easily come along to dominate in the way that they see fit
If you believe that people and cultures are different (which almost everyone outside America believes) then it follows that a region reflects the people who developed it. Countries are, of course, not just land, but they are built of infrastructure, governments, institutions, culture, customs, rules, norms, and values. If Iowa is polite, flat, and egalitarian it’s because Iowans made it that way. By contrast India or China are the way the Indians and Chinese made those places. It stands to reason that if Iowans like Iowa, they might be resistant to immigration from people who are different who will change the place.
Also lower electrical resistance per compute cycle (energy, heat).
Sure they did.

In other news, Boeing internally developed warp FTL travel years ago and IBM developed a working multi-billion-qubit quantum computer internally years ago.
no one said anything about that being a product
> If you climb aboard a rollercoaster that hasn't seen any maintenance in 20 years and you get decapitated, I'm pretty sure the park is still legally responsible

> "any script, robot, spider, Web crawler, screen scraper, automated query program or other automated device or any manual process to monitor or copy the content contained in any online services"

But the CRA already anticipated this and explicitly disallowed headless clients
This is a video of a huge class 5 phone switch being set up in someone's garage - something not captured in the title. The video does show exactly how big this thing actually is, though. The components in the later generations of this switch are surprisingly modern for what they are, and they continue to be used in the public network to this day.
Ha that’s funny. I respect him even more. Talented guy.
first off, zone have not always existed, and in practice, have always been subject to reclassification, which occurs routinely. You dont have to go back far to find that most areas that are now single family zoning were something else, often agriculture outside of large metros.

You raise a fair question regarding what the appropriate level of government and consensus should be to make or change zoning back in reality.

However, it doesnt address the question of how to the reality of populations with mixed opinions on zoning change. Are you talking about a 51% vote threshold, 100% consensus, or simply based on the whim of an unelected official.

I don't like complaining as much as the next guy and dont think anyone has a defacto right to "get in". Rather, Im talking about what rights I have if I'm already in, and maybe always have been.
Ah ok. I have an interface I really like already, was hoping there might be a software solution that doesn’t add so much latency. Thanks for the link though
Character.ai is amazing and has been out for some time. It's quite real. Those are the people that invented the stuff.
“To understand a sentence is to know the conditions under which it is true.”
Came across this when reading the 1990s book 'Modern Philosophy' by Roger Scruton, p259, summarizing the philosopher Donald Davidson's 1960s essay 'Truth and Meaning'.

Implications to current AI/AGI debate?
Do LLMs "understand" the sentences they generate?
Every three points forms a triangle where all points are on a single plane.

This makes interpolation for normals, texture, etc trivial.

This is not true for every 4 points.
I am not sure how I would or should describe my history in the field here so I won’t. I am still very active, but now on a different axis of progress from gradient based modeling.

So your “recent” (to me) perspective is interesting to me.

For me there has been multiple clear upticks in the rate of progress in the last few years. Some of it insights, some of it simply resources and efforts. But together the results are clearly moving faster and faster, as in an acceleration of acceleration.

It may be that it’s just an especially productive moment, in AI. But AI, like transistors, is a self reinforcing technology, so I think the big AI explosion is really happening.

I would be very surprised if we don’t have general intelligences exceeding humans within a few years now. Certainly by 2030.

My “surprise” isn’t so much the specific improvements in chat the last year. But how fast advances in that order are now happening relative to the long slow accumulation of progress in preceding decades and how much of the new process is enabled just by provisioning more resources.

It’s kind of ridiculous in the sense that many deep learning tools are not even using all the best gradient optimization algorithms and techniques, but progress in results is happening so fast, that algorithmic waste isn’t even an issue.

There is so much slack algorithmically, that big progress is already a forgone conclusion even if the tool builders were just carefully folding in past knowledge, or just iterating on straightforward efficiency improvements, and not making headway on new innovations.

I haven’t ever seen a field hit this state.

And maybe having a few decades of experience with a field makes a radical change in the rate of progress, and the specifics of that, easier to see.

Do you have the sense that general AI is now within a decade or so or less?

The variety of glass half full, vs. glass half empty judgements around every advance is interesting to me. I find different people have very different sensitivities to constant steps vs. the first and second derivatives of progress they are signaling.

2022 saw more algorithmic progress in poetry, essay writing, graphic art, debate, joke construction, etc, etc, etc. than a human could make in … well a lot more than a year.

That’s a new red line we have now crossed. That’s faster than human process. Much faster.
Tolkien lifted a bunch of names straight out of the Icelandic sagas and Edda.
The FBI is a national security concern.
Just because one does not know the definition of Autopilot, doesn't make on right. If you look at the definition you will se that "Autopilots do not replace human operators."
I take dextroamphetamine sulfate XR, but I've only been taking it for around 3 weeks so I can't say anything about making it past the 1-2 month mark yet.

I can say however that the brand matters, because accidentally taking the wrong brand put me in a hypertensive crisis for 2 days straight until I realized what was going on.

(I would have posted this reply around 10 minutes after yours, but I got hit by "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.". Apparently this means a moderator reviewed my posting history and thought I was spamming)
It doesn’t matter what gadgets or gizmos are advertised on the car. You’re still responsible for driving the car. Sitting there waiting for the car to do something while it drives full speed into a stationary object is not the car’s fault.

As long as the car still had functioning brakes and steering, this is on the driver.
And to think we were considering going there for help with our DID... glad we didn't.

-Emily
Sharp Memory in Pixel display LS044Q7DH01. That reflective lcd display looks nice.

Mods, I think the hackaday link is far better, it doesnt show a login popup that comes up multiple times. https://hackaday.io/project/184340-potatop
That’s actually not a problem, as long a non-compete agreements are not enforced (they are not) and as long as Google takes in a lot of interns (they do). Plenty of knowledge transfer with very little delay…
Post processing is often used to generate textures for deferred rendering.
To the extend that I've read, they can demand that they hand over data/documents that they know exist, regardless of whether they're encrypted. It's akin to being forced to open a safe if they have a search warrant for a specific document.

What they can't do is say "decrypt this blob and let us look around".
Yes, I'd love some help with it, or it would probably take me years. Schematics and stls (made in tinkercad) will be coming once I find the time. For now I'm spending too much time replying to comments but I'm enjoying the dopamine
A Sad New Category of Abusive Intellectual Property Litigation
People in Quebec deal with Revenue Quebec for both provincial and federal taxes, the CRA website won’t affect them.
I think almost everyone knows about it but nobody in my circle of family and friends that isn't a developer is using it beyond just playing with it after hearing about it, though I've suggested it to my mom and brother for certain tasks.
Probably. Just like email or any other communication medium. I don't think that should stop people from coming up with new ways of doing communication.
For steering you're exactly wrong. Drive an old car without power steering, on the highway you'll barely notice, but you'll be using all your might to park. It's much easier to steer a rolling tire.

Power steering systems create heat and rely on airflow for cooling...so prolonged steering back and forth in a parking space is a worst case scenario for the system.
Oh, responding to your email, I got this bounce:

This is the mail system at host adjuvant.canonical.org.

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be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

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delete your own text from the attached returned message.

The mail system

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204137 (in reply to end of DATA command)

I removed your email address from this comment in case it gets harvested by spambots.
This can be found on https://gdevelop.io/page/contribute
Typical of management to shut down engineers with superior cognition, integrity and foresight.

If you have the ability to do so, don't let business types control your products. Engineers should stick together and build in their own. The investor and executive class, that doesn't do actual problem solving but just focuses on using other people to collect more money regardless of all else, should not be rewarded.
2021: 1%
2022: 2.7%
2023: 4.6%
2024: 5.2%

Federal employees pay seems to lag inflation by 1-2yrs (ex benefits, retirement). I think some people worry about government unfairly outcompeting private sector businesses for employees, but these pay increases don't seem to be the mechanism by which that happens.
You are right about the airplane autopilot, but otoh it's a lot more difficult to qualify as a pilot than it is to get a driving license, isn't it?
In fact, Rails is one of the slowest of the major frameworks. Based on TechEmpower's composite benchmarks:

1. drogon (C++) 92.3
2. actix (Rust) 90.7
3. asp.net core (C#) 83.7
~~ mind the gap ~~
4. gin (Go) 23.0
5. spring (Java) 21.8
6. phoenix (Elixir) 8.1
7. express (Nodejs) 7.3
8. laraval (PHP) 4.4
9. rails (Ruby) 4.3
10. django (Python) 3.2

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&tes...
I was talking about the Google internal Gmail, not the public Gmail. I am sure that one has a default expiry for normal emails at least. Did you try checking your inbox for anything > 6 months old?
My experience with Uber and Grubhub et al is that even they generally tend to side on the consumer, especially for small value transactions like a food order. So either you’re being an unreliable narrator or Grubhub in particular has gone off a cliff. But given that Grubhub is subject to USA chargeback policies still I’m not sure why they would invite a chargeback like that for your case.
Exactly. Far too many people just want to watch the world burn.