skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like with a junior coder who, when asked about something they don't know, says whatever in hopes it's close enough to the real answer. If the conversation is over Slack and you don't have out-of-band information, like what facial expression they have, it's basically 100% equivalent to ChatGPT. Only, ChatGPT is actually better at lying, because there's no noticeable difference between the style of real vs. wrong responses, so you need to be a bit more careful.

In other words, follow-up questions and cross-referencing are a must. You can't take any of ChatGPT answers as true without verification. You also need to be really careful when asking questions, because if you give it too many assumptions, it's absolutely great at confirming your biases for you.

I find it to be a great "rubber duck" that can help you see and understand the relationships between facts that you might have missed otherwise. OTOH, it'll be many, many years before I'm comfortable asking it about things I'm not already mostly familiar with or can verify easily.
Reminds me there was a woman who made up wholly fictional histories, it was featured on HN not too long ago.
A quick google turns up this disassembly of the ROM:

https://gist.github.com/drhelius/6063288

You can see the comment of the last line is $00fe and the first line is $0000, so assuming the last instruction takes 2 bytes, that's 256 bytes.

Besides, it is a 16 bit machine, so it has 64K addressable space. Going above that requires bank switching. Here is the memory map:

https://gbdev.io/pandocs/Memory_Map.html

I see 32K cartridge ROM (at most), 8K work RAM (built in), 8K video RAM, and some memory mapped devices. At E000, almost 8K is actually wasted as an echo of another range.

As a kid, I once wrote a flame simulation in DOS. The resulting com file was about 100 bytes, so it was possible to write usable programs in <256 bytes. Presumably a very simple DOS text mode game might fit in 256 bytes
The book it is based on is important. It carefully reviews the evidence, from the viewpoint of a prosecutor.
Who is losing their deposits?
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How is any of that different to just paying out the money to shareholders, who can individually choose to champion said causes themselves? I don't see why the company should do so.

I suspect the biggest difference in how I see this compared to the feeling I get from you is that most things are positive-sum games in capitalism. One man's profits is another company's capital is another employee's wages. The profits of the company don't disappear, locked up in a bank never to be seen again. They get invested by the shareholder somewhere else, or spent on something, and so on. There's nothing inherently "greedy or evil" in this process.

This process can be very indirect (how does an investment in Apple today help? By providing the incentive for many of these companies to be built and made public in the first place, sharing their profits across many people), but it is there. Some explicit redistribution may be necessary, as in many countries with public healthcare or strong welfare systems, but having a stable core of a private market helps generate the overall resources to run everything.

Maybe there's a better system that can distribute the wealth more evenly - but the best examples we've seen thus far come from welfare-state western democracies, which all grew up on the same basis (and are all poorer on an average basis than America, who has a much weaker welfare base). These aren't necessarily related of course, America is stupendously rich in a lot of other ways, but it's food for thought.
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> If the houses are very affordable for their current owners (due to low rates locked in), what's the mechanism for them to default?

Here’s one scenario …

1. Forced to move or choose to move, but keep house and rent it out
2. Housing prices drop along with rents that do not cover mortgage
3. Owner tires of losing money, but cannot sell house because underwater on low interest rate mortgage
4. Default
At which point Q steps in to pass a verdict on us.
Same! I made myself years ago a little web app to fetch Wikipedia Current Events, the top n articles of the day (or the week) on HN, and a few subreddits and that's it. I also progressively stopped using Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Things are quieter now.

When it's not enough I switch to text browsing via rss and gopher/gemini.

Wikipedia Current Events is very important to make sure that I'm not cutting myself completely off from the world, and after years of using it it's good enough when complemented with the local news from the people around me.
I was only trying to expand on the article with an example, the article is quite good in evidencing the common reasons why.

In theory every single price is estimated analitically adding to market costs for materials and labor a percentage (usually between 13 and 17 %) and on this total another percentage for the profit of the contractor (usually 10 %)[1].

The quantities are calculated geometrically.

So in theory the estimation quantities by price should be exact or within a very small approximation to reality.

But in practice this sometimes (often) doesn't happen, the main reasons (cited in the article) are time passed since the estimation, optimism about ground/soil conditions, use of "wrong" price lists (and more generally inexperience of the estimator or Law/bureaucratic restrictions), optimism about weather, optimism about interferences with other infrastructures, change of building code, added features, actual mistakes in the project or in the contract, the list is long, but all the items in it tend to be "negative" ones implying more time and money needed for the construction.

Of course there are also many projects that are fine, properly estimated and that are built in time and within budget but essentially all the estimation, even if done in good faith and by experienced technicians, are predictions (and predictions about the future, the most difficult ones).

A better, more accurate process during designing and estimating (the 3 to 5% talked in the article) might help, but likely it would be not enough or reduce the incertainty by the same 3-5% that is spent for it.

To all the above you add what is a sort of the S.E.P. (someone else's problem) syndrome, the one(s) that make the project and the estimation, by the time the site is ready to start are already elsewhere, in another job or another project, it is not unlike what happens nowadays in many industries, a new CEO is chosen, he does some cuts on costs, changes something in the products, and after two years, by the time the effects of the changes become actually evident he leaves and someone else starts again.

[1] it depends on countries, but usually what are used are pre-made price lists that are a (supposed) average for a given work and are either outdated or do not apply to the specific work
You can look at Turkey, which has chosen to fight inflation by lowering interest rates. Turkey’s president is an autocrat who can make this kind of decision unilaterally and his economic beliefs run counter to the mainstream, so it makes for a fascinating experiment. He’s been lowering rates for two years, from 18% to 8.5%.

The results so far seem to support the economist orthodoxy: inflation in Turkey has ran up to 80% compared to a historical average of about 20% (which was roughly in line with the interest rate when Erdogan started his rate-decrease project.)
One of the larger crimes here in Denmark, is that debt for example for homes are tax deductible, so basically, it allows banks to make more profit, by letting the state cover some of the expense of taking out a loan.

There's an old song "if you have money, you can buy, if you don't you can leave", people need to sing this to their kids a bit more often.

We're an incredibly wealthy society, and yet, most people chose to live above their means.. Loaning money for cars and homes instead of simply buying cheaper ones.

The last house I bought, I paid in cash, because it cost less than the down payment for many of the homes other people in my income bracket typically buy.

The last car I bought cost less than the service-check for the tesla that some of the other people in my income bracket..

Living below ones means in Denmark is trivial, and yet, people feel they're too good to live within their means, it's a cultural problem.
another plus for sticking with windows 10. although not as intuitive, the old snipping tool, the screenshot only captures that area you selected.

i will let someone test the same technique on those cases but empirically i've had screenshots as little as a couple KB this way.
Yes and now look at indicators that aren't susceptible to manipulation by a government agency and are more favoured assets by the institutions who get the money first. That would be real estate in major markets, stock market price/earnings, luxury goods. Those increased by a substantially larger margin.
Fun fact: Next month David Letterman will only be 4 years younger than Hopper is in the video.

I wonder if WW2 felt more far away at that time, then the 80s feel today, even though both are 4 decades?
In the past when I've had to identify grids opencv worked well. Specifically the edge finding pretty reliably identified the grid. I wonder if it could work here? Maybe I provide a guide that the user can later edit?
HELOCS cannot be called, but they can be frozen, preventing further borrowing, or have their borrowing limits reduced.
> they subsidise fixed 30y mortgages, which you pretty much can't get anywhere else on the planet

https://www.rabobank.nl/particulieren/hypotheek/hypotheekren...

5.44% right now, still well below the US rates (~7%).
People didn't invent heart disease or brain damage or bleeding to death either, none of those are healthy.

The body might absorb all kinds of shit that isn't healthy, including carbon monoxide and pure americium, just like a computer holds onto malware and a lake holds onto PFAS.

Even most scientifically proven essential nutrients are poison if you have more than the optimal amount.

That's literally what getting fat is, the body holding onto things that have no benefit because of some chemical pathway left over from when we didn't have refrigerators and might need to walk for 4 days without food.

Evolution didn't give people a very effective "stop absorbing calories" function so why would we expect a "stop absorbing lead" function to be much better?

People didn't make it but people moved it where it could be taken in, and processed it into more active compounds.
There are bullshitters in the real world, but for the most part they tend to just say "I don't know" in a really convoluted way. They won't, for example, completely fabricate entire concepts and speak confidently and in detail about them.

For example, I asked ChatGPT about the meaning of a non-existing verb ("to spoink"). It originally said the word didn't exist, but when I said "are you sure? we talked about it before, it's something to do with trifle" it invented an entire episode of the IT Crowd (Season 3, Episode 3), talked at length about how that word appeared twice. It claimed that one character - Moss - created it as the sound a metal ball would make if it hit a hard surface, and also that it's what happens when you leave a trifle out uncovered in the open and it goes lumpy. It's creative, but it's nonsense.

Very few humans could pull this off convincingly or would even attempt it. They would say "no we didn't talk about the verb 'to spoink' that sounds like nonsense".
Who says that's the association? Citation please.
Switch "creators" with "musicians" and "AI" with "streaming" and I we feel like we went back to early 2000. Same arguments.

Adapting what Steve Albini said at the time: If you're an artist, negotiate your future "AI training rights" separately. Make sure they're in writing. Make sure attribution rights stay yours.
Yeah, going from 3->1 simply by taking down nodes won't work -- that's breaking quorum. If you really want to do this, you can explicitly override the configuration stored in Raft. Check out these directions:

https://rqlite.io/docs/clustering/general-guidelines/#recove...

While this talks about "dealing with failure" using the config file described above basically allows you to force the cluster into any configuration you want (including a single-node cluster).
Finally! People calling it what it is. Corruption.

And the domestic angle isn’t even the worst. Breton-Woods put America in a sort of custodianship which they have betrayed. Raising and lowering rates to promote your domestic economy without even considering the global impact is fucked up if you promised the world that your currency can serve as a trusted foundation.

World order is still fluctuating all as a result of these betrayals.
I'm not a fan of classical music's cultural self understanding myself - although I do like a lot of classical music. So I do understand where you're coming from.

However, we can't entirely divorce music from its context. If you only listen to music you like without ever asking what it is, who made it, and what they were trying to do with it, you're going to miss out on a lot of things you easily could have liked.

We shouldn't treat music as if it was just sound waves for producing feelings. I think music is communication, people trying to say things, things that maybe aren't so easy to fully say in words. And as with any communication, context matters, and language matters. Understanding non-verbal messages from hundreds of years ago is worth a little effort, I think.
Printing money causing inflation has got to be one of the simplest things in economics to understand. Increase supply of thing, thing becomes worth less. And what's your source on Monetarism being debunked, the people printing currency?

It's pretty strange how, when all the money was being printed, it wasn't that hard to find a plethora of economists warning that it would cause inflation (due to Monetarism principles) and then, now that inflation is rampant, that's not seen as evidence to the theory. Furthermore, change the interest rates to curb inflation is exactly in-line with that theory because higher interest rates cause people to take their inflated currency out of circulation and into savings.
It depends on the vaccine. Some vaccines use a "weakened" form of the pathogen to trigger immunity response without causing actual disease, but sometimes, especially in cases of weaker immune systems, this can cause actual disease. This is not the case with most modern vaccines as they use different methods (and certainly not of covid19 vaccines), and certainly not what antivaxxers usually talk about (if anything, covid19-antivaxxers for example were proponents of getting _real_ infection instead of vaccine).
Of course! Edge's bookmark management is pretty great.
How did it break for you? Seems to work fine on Firefox.
There’s interest rate risk, credit risk, and prepayment risk with the securities they buy.

On a Treasury or guaranteed bond, there is no credit risk.

On a Treasury there is no prepayment risk.

Therefore if you hedge out the interest rate risk, you’re essentially left with 0 risk.

0 risk = 0 or near 0 premium.

e.g. there’s no point in doing the trade if you hedge.
But if you go back later, the chains of commands from different terminals are interlaced right?
Whoa.

Who said I want kids or a yard? Your values don't necessarily reflect mine. Also SIX kids? You know the planet is unsustainably overpopulated right?
Not only the buttons but also a lot of parts which are electric when they really don't have to.

My brother, who has three kids, tried out a SUV which had an electric hatchback, where you have to trigger the trunk closing with a button. With a manual hatchback he could fill all the luggage in the trunk and just slam the door, without any problem. But now the electric hatchback would not close if the car felt there was a luggage in the way.

In the end they had to remove the luggage, close the trunk and fill the trunk from the side doors.
I'm not sure what that idiom means, sorry.
I don’t know which tweets the account was banned for, but the username “MarxFanAccount” is a red flag IMO

If there was a “NaziFanAccount” I’d expect it to be banned. And Nazi ideology killed far fewer people than Marxist ideology in the 20th century.
Obviously the employee being let go gets the biggest benefit - but those rights aren't free, is all i'm saying. It leads to more onerous interviews, a more stagnant and slow-moving economy, etc. eg. 6mo of guaranteed severance if the company lets you go just seems huge to me. Obviously degrees to the implementation, but still, I feel like it's a huge loss in flexibility to the company, and economy as a whole.

My presumption is that companies will generally be more reluctant to hire when severances are higher, and vice-versa. You're probably not really winning anything on average, with the inexperienced losing out the most in terms of just trying to get any job at all given the possible expense to most companies. Small companies even more so, given they'd be less able to absorb the cost of those benefits.

Anyway, can speculate all I want, I'm just saying there's no free lunch.
Probably immediately hugged to death by the HN crowd...
I’m not sure what you’re on about. Vulakn’s story is about translating DX12 calls to Vulkan. That’s how it works on Linux and Linux gaming is so amazing because of it. I see Vulkan as the replacement for OpenGL and am excited for its future.

MacOS is a joke for gaming. iOS though of course is all metal. If you wanna target that platform then that’s all you got. But translating or porting to other platforms DX12 on Windows Vulkan is the answer.
Yeah, I get your point. Poor programmers need to be kept on a leash, so off you go with dumbed-down languages.
Nuclear weapons really have not killed that many people. They’re big and scary, but not more dangerous than the stuff we spew in the atmosphere all the time and that keeps killing millions each year.

Even though the effect of leaded gasoline is small on any specific individual on average, the cumulated effect over ~a century is staggering.
Standardised physical controls are one of the best things car designers have ever done. When I did not own a car I rented them on a regular basis. It is amazing that you can just step into a car that you have never driven before, flip some familiar switches, turn some knobs and press some pedals and be on your way. Throwing all that away for some fancy touch screens is just a waste.
Tentative title for a new movie directed by Randall Wallace.
Interesting, but the core point remains true. The algorithm optimises for something which may not entirely coincide with the creators intentions.
The word police seem to have gone kinda quiet lately.

I wonder if they realised that banning a few words wasn't really helping their cause.
That argument runs afoul of the "rule of the shorter term" of the jurisdictions that start the copyright term from the publication instead of creation.
Did it "correct itself", or did someone at Google read Hacker News and adjusted the prompt?
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Right, this is just saying digital communication will be noisier and more alienating (and it already is noisy and alienating to the point where it's value is in rapid decline).
> 1. The government requires banks buy their debt and hold it as reserves because it's considered the safest investment.

What do you mean by this?

No one forced them to invest in bonds and not hedge against raising interest rates.
> None of this happens in a vacuum.

Doesn’t this hurt your case as well?

Every housing chart I’ve seen for metro areas shows a distinct boom/bust cycle in housing that is indicative of mean reversion to around 25-30% of payment to earnings ratio. Many metro areas in US are over 40% now.
There are still those that take a loan, they will need to pay the higher interest. As long as there is a balance there will not need to be money printed.
Not enforceable. All they can do is ban your ChatGPT account.
>> Of all the angles you could take, you go with the neo-cartesian dualist "a computer can't replicate the brain"

No, I said "computers aren't brains, and they don't do the things that brains do". I don't know if that's "neo-cartesian dualist", it's just how computers are, right now. Computers can do a physics simulation to "whatever precision"? Maybe, but for the time being that precision is very, very low.

>> How can you engage with AI, engage in conversation about AI, and also be rejecting the very premise that AI is possible?

Who ever said anything like that? But, for the record, time traval, stable wormholes, antimatter as fuel for interstellar travel... those are all things that are possible and we even have the maths to show it. Except they're possible, but not practical. And for AI, we don't even have the maths to show it's possible.

So, maybe in principle AI is possible, maybe it's not. For the time being, we don't know how to do it.

>> You have managed to completely miss what is actually happening. He's not "holding the bots hand" or "running it for it by hand". He's not doing any computation on behalf of the model. He is merely jerry-rigging a means for the bot prompt itself.

He has to do that because the model can't do any computation itself, because it's a model and not a computational device.

>> Its all trees maaaan.

I see, you're just taking the piss. You should have said up front :P
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It takes many years and higher rates relative to inflation. Based on precedent, we are going to be in this inflationary period for some time.
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Somehow you end up arguing for more Ukrainians and Russians to die.
Ultimately though nothing is free. The cost of those extra rights will come from somewhere else.

In Australia we have superannuation. The government is raising the mandatory super contribution soon from 9% to, idk, 12%. Some people act like that change is free, but that's obviously not the case if you think about it. All that'll happen is regular wages are reduced a little such that a person's total compensation is basically the same in the end.

I contend the same will be true of generous severance policies, especially those imposed on a global scale. Some of these things are worth fighting for, I'm not sure huge severance periods are one of those things, personally. At best something that scales with experience/time at a company (eg. half a month of severance per year of experience, or whatever value fits your conception of the idea), so those more attached to a particular position have more time to adjust if they are let go.
My understanding is that increasing the interest rate causes capital to be more likely to seek low-risk guaranteed returns. The effect of this is to disincentivize investments and economic activity in general, as capital is more likely to be "parked" in risk-free debt, rather than seeking other ways of reaching high yield.
The unintuitive aspect of it is how inflation could reach 2% when capital has a guaranteed, risk-free way of generating 5%+ yield. But I suppose that could be explained by examining the growing economic inequality of the past 30+ years.
No, it is the phones. Every generation all through the 20th century has had its existential crises and they've all been alright. Until now, where it's the phones.
Why not? "Spoink" is a perfectly cromulent word!