skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of noise about supply, demand, investment cycles, AirBnB, but the elephant in the room is that USA housing is a casino and the banks are the "house", which always wins.

The banks only care that housing prices remain astronomical--the mechanics are not important--so that mortgages must be taken out.

And, as recent history shows, the mortgage casino is "too big to fail" because of the globally-systemic role of mortgage-backed securities.
First they came for the trade unionists...
When the bubble popped last time it took three years before the market hit bottom.
You are again trying to control the wrong thing - speed vs noise or carbon emissions. Price carbon and let details sort themselves out. Also by the same token, small elite will not generate a lot of carbon in the big picture.
You'll have many of these moments! One of the best and worst thing about computer science is how many layers of abstraction there are.

On one hand, they help you get things done. On the other, it can be _so_ hard to understand how things really work. Most programmers don't peel back too many layers, but that's okay.

If you're really interested, the Code book is fantastic in explaining how computers work: https://www.microsoftpressstore.com/store/code-the-hidden-la...
Not a question of price, so much as any plan with access to particular doctors/hospitals.
> My kid's messages have always been her business, not mine

This is such a hilariously bad take. No wonder kids are so screwed up with parents having an attitude like that.
It would save a lot of money on demolition though. The plumbing, cabinets, appliances, doors, ducting, and everything not fixed to the frame would get removed for free and it would be very easy to bulldoze after the house catches fire from people trying to stay warm inside without paying a utility bill.
Yes you can sell Concorde tickets at profit, probably, but you can make more profit selling premium cabin seats on an A350, even if you fix the maintenance costs.

Although I will say if you reengineered Concorde with 2020s tech, maybe it would close the gap.

Maybe instead of "inefficiency" the better argument is opportunity cost. Hardly anyone flies pax 747s anymore, and I wonder how long Emirates will keep its A380s going.
> Very strange that right after the arts are two titles that are highly romanticized. Back in the days I owned my own business and had a sizeable medical client base, I cannot tell you how many doctors had to buy a BMW because their other doctor friend has a BMW and you're not one of the "doctor club" unless you own one.

New York investment bankers and stockbrokers. I don't think any of us want to know all the American Psycho shit that goes down in those professions, but I do know of one anecdote (which I can't cite but may have gotten from Hackernews years ago): Apparently, the thing to do if you're in high finance in NYC is to live in a posh apartment in Manhattan. You could live in a (relatively, this is NYC) cheap apartment in Brooklyn or the Bronx and save a bit of money to put towards retirement or whatever -- but you will be looked down on by your peers and passed over for promotions. The higher-ups want to see you "hungry", as they think it makes you more loyal and driven.
Do you write personalized rejection mails to people who wrote cover letters for you?

If not, why not?
Large Libel Models: An AI Company's Disclaimer Doesn't Preclude Libel Liability
Yep. Why live in a house when you can charge someone $1200/nt to stay there and a $600 cleaning fee? (Basically every house that can sleep more than 6 people in the northeast)
> 1. Accept that professions come and go. 2. Expect jobs to disappear every decade or so and plan accordingly. 3. Look forward to an awesome new job after your current one is made obsolete. That goes for all of us.

What can we do? Hope to save enough to not go into more debt for a second degree?

Hope that second degree isn’t obsoleted either?

As AI becomes more advanced the minimum education and likely IQ required to even get a job that pays above minimum wage will increase.

What are we gonna do about the ever increasing N+1% of people who won’t be cost effective versus an AI?
University of Western Australia Study finds nasal spray could aid battle against COVID

Nasodine Nasal Spray is based on povidone-iodine, the same active ingredient found in Betadine throat gargle, and has been in development for almost a decade as a treatment for the common cold. Laboratory experiments showed a 15-second exposure to the nasal spray reduced infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 by 99.97 per cent, while a 60-second exposure completely eliminated viral infectivity.

A subsequent pilot study of six COVID-19 patients, who were shedding the virus from the nose, looked at whether the laboratory results translated to people.

The trial showed that a single Nasodine dose (four sprays per nostril) reduced viral shedding in five of the six subjects (83 per cent) at five minutes after the dose, with an overall 79 per cent reduction in viral shedding at one hour after the dose.

https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/Article/2022/February/Study-find...
Endless amount of things that need improving.
Good schools (still) matter for low-income kids
You know you can just tax fuel according to amount of carbon right?
Right, opiates work wonderfully effective but how do you stop the abuse and subsequent addition and deaths?
> There's a clear difference in kind

Is there? Is there to your 80 year old senator and their constituents that think the internet is a series of tubes. You know, the constituents that actually vote?

Does it matter how well you explain it anyway? Modern political language lacks definition by design. Do street interviews and ask Americans what socialism is. Then ask them what they'd call the government giving banks money. Then ask them how many times in the last 20 years the government has given banks money.

My argument is that we should just not let the governments pass these kinds of laws because it opens the door to using these laws to arbitrarily block whatever website they can vaguely hand wave as "social media" or whatever they pick.
Look at you go, requiring even more redefining of words.

I'd be embarrassed if I were you, but I don't think you have even the slightest capability to even pretend to be a human.

You are not enlightened.
The paper came out in 2009, then another breakthrough in 2010, but I don’t think it got to production until 2011 or so.
I'm not, but I wish it was known that I want to unify in the importance and right to privacy.
I don’t think the solution should be homes aka a scale out solution. It should be to go vertical for higher density. Apartments serve the most people and the barriers to entry are much lower than a mortgage.
> "As leaders, and parents, we have a responsibility to protect our young people."

So why don’t you educate them?
Every phone when people travel?

It really isn’t that hard. What makes you pull your hair out is dealing with 3rd party code that handles it incorrectly. Do everything internal in UTC or always attach a timezone to dates, your choice.

When you cross the boundary either ingesting naive dates or displaying them read the system time zone again and convert.

I mean it’s kinda annoying but “naive” times is the time equivalent of storing arrays without their length. I can’t fathom why we even allow it.
> I think you can already them in India

While it's been officially launched, hospitals simply aren't procuring them because there is approximately zero demand. As a result, you can't actually get them.
In its weird death spiral, if Docker Inc. were to be bought out by Microsoft, I shudder to think how much of the dev ecosystem would yet again depend on Microsoft's good graces to shoulder the burden of storage and data transfer costs for building products. They already do npm and Github (+ Github Container Registry) so they have some standing in being stewards in this space.

On the plus side, it would perhaps give enterprises more confidence about their build pipelines remaining dependent on Docker Hub, maybe even being more comfortable paying for it.

On the flip side, far too much of the dev ecosystem would depend on Microsoft, the famed supervillain of open communities. EDIT: With that sense in mind, I am indeed rooting for Docker Inc. to succeed.
Not meaningfully. Prices are up 60% in 2 years. No chance there is that level of correction when 99% of mortgages have rates cheaper than the current market rate.
You can already apply for jobs on Facebook. (J) already applies to Facebook.

edit: This is false as of 22 Feb, when Facebook Jobs was discontinued. I didn't realize.
I'm witnessing engineers on my team and myself saving a lot of time in development and in operations (scripting).

I have no doubt in my mind it is reducing the need for more engineers and has probably already contributed to a reduction of them and I think it's just getting started.
(J) applies to Facebook as well.

edit: This is false as of 22 Feb, when Facebook Jobs was discontinued. I didn't realize.
This is a talking point I hear a lot that has little basis in fact.

There are many active pharmaceutical ingredients that are natural products, modified natural products, or analogues of natural products. See Metformin and French Lilac.

In fact, a big part of what medicinal chemists do is designing “better” molecules. And some well capitalized pharma companies even come out and say their strategy is “best in class, not first in class”.
Maybe the government takes on tasks that private sector companies don't believe they can make work.
It occurs to me that this would be revealing to Google when I'm using my laptop. (I think they already know that for other reasons, but still...)
Posts like yours only serve to vindicate this new law(bill?) in Utah.
Yeah agree Obsidian is better for long form. You can change the enter key behaviour so on it's own it doesn't create a new block, but small blocks works better for my note taking style.
> It's like watching 17th-century Parliament winge about machine breakers.

It's really hard to avoid this because nearly everything about it the same each time.
Interest rates jumping from 1.2% to 4.5% had zero cooling effect on house prices in my area. Probably quite a few people are still on existing fixed mortgages.

Prices have jumped, as a double whammy.

It’s all about supply: there is very very little and it’s a desirable area.

Even if rates stay at around 4-5% in a few years when all of the low-rate fixed mortgages have ended, prices will have risen, and I would guess all that would happen is a slight abatement of rises, not a reduction.
> A creative director simply comes up with high level instructions (like the one above) THEN the ultra hard part is making that high level instruction a reality. That is HARD and as of now it looks like both skills are being replaced by AI.

This is the opposite of what I see in reality right now. The hard part is to make the artists do exactly what you want, down to the subtle but meaningful details. That happens because the high-level instructions don't have enough capacity to deliver the full meaning. This is the same with generative models: extremely hard to control with the "prompt engineering" gimmick, it's only fine when you are OK with random output. Besides, they are purely functional and lack feedback mechanisms the creative director usually employ with artists.

That's why people are trying to make techniques more complex - large animation houses experiment with training their own model architectures and software. This is the way 3D CGI was born - simple at first, and yes it got plenty of doomposting at first (we are getting replaced by computers!), until it was clear that the field becomes extremely technical and complex, so it even has dozens of specializations inside it.

All entertainment is ultimately based on novelty, as human brain is really good at distilling meaning from the ocean of information. If you start with little meaning (your example - "a cowboy with blue skin with a laser cannon riding a unicycle through the grand canyon with a dwarf chasing him"), people get bored - no matter how much randomized artsy-looking stuff you add around it.

If you think that AI can generate all meaning that is relevant to people, I don't buy it, as it doesn't have the same training material. It's trained on the result and is forced to reverse engineer what moves people; reverse engineering is a fundamentally more costly and opaque task.
Redis uses too much memory and supports only two NN algorithms FLAT (very slow) and HNSW if you start indexing millions of large vectors you will quickly understand the problem.

That being said, many of these DBs are overcomplicated for most use cases. Redis HNSW will work for many use cases.
Climate change skeptics think humans have little to do with climate change and so we are all doomed anyways (conservation won’t help, so YOLO). Definitely Mother Nature will correct it one way or another, and humans could be totally obsolete in a few centuries anyways. I’m not sure if I’m comfortable using this as justification to drive a canyonero.
You are arguing against the technically correct but practically silly answer when I am not making that argument (except for the very specific case of carbon emissions and what you are allowed to output carbon emissions for. CO2 emissions are not a life and death situation any time soon, they cause potential range of harm in the far future on some spectrum of probability with another spectrum of probability for completely mitigating the problem before it causes serious harm through technology and that makes up the bulk of the externality that needs to be priced).

Do we really have to rehash how and why markets work better in 2023? I mean, we spent the last century watching places that adopted freer markets succeed and places that went in the opposite direction failing, we saw communism fail a couple times, we watched communists that embraced markets turn themselves around (although they now look a lot more like facists, which is very concerning), etc. They likely work precisely because so much of humanity is hideously stupid, immoral, incapable, greedy, and useless and free markets allow those that aren't to supply the needs of the rest while building up capital, increasing influence and spreading capability throughout the system. On the other hand authoritarianism might have flashes of excellence but more often than not excellence has dumbass kids or friends that replace him or other factors change and the formerly excellent authoritarian doesn't pivot like the multitude of independent actors in a market can and then that flash is gone and we are back to stagnation for the society organized along authoritarian lines.

Your third paragraph's main flaw is that WE don't know very well in most instances exactly what one should and shouldn't do. YOU think you know that and YOU may be too hideously stupid, immoral, incapable, greedy and/or useless to know when YOU are wrong. With a market solution you can be all of those things and it's usually self regulating because you lose your ability to influence anything by blowing your resources on stupid, while people that get it right end up with more resources to bet on their predictions in the future.
Could you please add a pause button for the animations on your home page? They jump unexpectedly when you are reading the code snippet.
>Are current houses just more fragile and fell apart within 50 years?

Obsolescence gets overlooked but it is important. Not only are houses often poorly constructed, but many are simply no longer desirable. For example in my area, anything pre-1960 is likely very small, possibly without a garage, and may only have one bathroom. The modern homeowner wants something better. Houses in the 1970s were frankly, weird. They don't fit modern tastes at all. Many houses built in the 1990s are falling down already because they were so poorly built. So my point is, you have to take into account not only the top end inventory number, but also that lack of desirability is a real thing that drags down actual available inventory.
Modern homes have much better insulation and energy efficiency (like LED bulbs), etc. But I think it's also true that a lot of builders can get away with cutting corners, and the materials that go into homebuilding are also often of lesser quality (like wallboard from China that outgasses toxic sulfur fumes). Modern plumbing is mostly snap-fit plastic tubing rather than copper pipes. It's a LOT cheaper to install. Supposedly lasts as long or longer, but it's still shitty plastic.

Shitty wildcat builders throwing down entire subdivisions of deeply defective homes is a serious problem in the Phoenix area, I know that for a fact.
> HN appears to be totally banhammered under this since /the mods/ don’t post the news.

Does HN have more than 5 million user accounts?
I’m so sorry to hear that happened to you, that must have been awful.
And old homes are shit. Terrible plumbing. Terrible electrical. Terrible water. Terrible energy efficiency. Terrible seismic structural reinforcement.

Regulations exist to mitigate tragedies.
I'm a long-time Reflect user, the progress in the last 12 months alone has been enormous.

- The web app is super snappy, works well offline on long-haul flights, and notes are end-to-end encrypted.

- I backup my notes weekly on Monday mornings by downloading the raw JSON file and storing it in safe cloud storage.

- The UX is a pleasure to use, and each new feature is added thoughtfully and seems an obvious addition once implemented.
The big problem is that Apple just can't really work with Linux. They've tried offering server hardware in the past, but it's a raw deal for datacenters and users alike.

...but, if core size is your jam (for whatever reason), keep an eye on Nvidia's Grace CPU. It's their stab at a datacenter-scale ARM SOC, and it should be releasing before EOY. Then there's the Ampere offerings that already have acceleration for PyTorch, ONNX and Tensorflow, along with Graviton for general-purpose efficiency... there's a lot of low-profile ARM cores in the datacenter today.

A good start for Apple would be updating the rackmount Mac Pro with an 80 core Double Ultra chip, but even that feels fairly pedestrian next to the 144-core-complex Grace is teasing. I'm sure it sounds silly to the readers of this website, but I genuinely don't think Apple is up to the task of competing in the datacenter. Obviously so on the software side, but arguably not even on the hardware front either.
I've used it for the following concrete tasks:

- Github CI pipeline for running tests on a pet project. To the best of my knowledge it was 100% successful with no edits needed, but it was stupid simple.

- Starting place for Jest tests on the same pet project. It didn't give me 100% correct suggestions, but it greatly reduced the mental barrier of using a new technology and writing tests with mocks in an unfamiliar language (typescript)

- Determining how hot a mosfet will get under a certain voltage/amperage with no electrical understanding. I asked for many different mosfets and it got the data sheet numbers frequently incorrect. Super helpful going from 0 to figuring how what to look for on a data sheet and plugging those numbers into to formulas to determine how hot different mosfets would get. (context, this was for a 3d printer)

- Writing a Fresh Prince of Bel Air opening rap scene parody for a board game. I would give it the ideas, it would write the lyrics. Eventually I strung together a bunch of it's lyrics and asked it to make it better. It did by making stuff rhyme better. I had to shorten and change some lyrics to fit to the beat. Way easier than writing it from scratch.
I'm not an artist, and I don't mind the general direction the AI is going, but I feel for the people who are impacted like this. It must feel like shit to be replaced in such a way.
Look, I’ll take a risk here and speak my thoughts, assuming you genuinely want to learn more about Republicans in 2023.

It’s confusing because they aren’t unified. I was a Democrat until 2015, when it felt like both sides had lost their mind and I voted libertarian. It seemed like there was no place for free speech advocates in the Democrat party anymore.

Eventually, my wife and I decided to become officially Republican when we realized that the Libertarians were totally ineffective as a party (the libertarian convention is literally just an excuse to have orgies and do drugs) and couldn’t fight back against the progressive ideology that we see as harmful towards successful child rearing, as well as us retaining a principled moral stance for free speech against the primarily leftist ideologies that had become so pervasive in social media circles. We feel like Elon Musk purchasing Twitter was one of the most important positive events of 2022, and a huge win for free speech.

There’s a lot of weird transition going on in the Republican Party because of this new group of “former Democrat refugees” who tend to be libertarian and free speech supporters are trying to integrate with the old guard republicans. We roll our eyes at this kind of stuff, but figure “it’s better than the crazy stuff going on these days on the other side”. Republican is turning into a much wider tent.
Yep. Hate the game, not the player.
> Just learn from history.

We have learned from histories, and we know exactly how to prevent populist land reform. It simply requires convincing half the lower class to fight the other half.
Congrats, genuinely. In my mid 30s with what I thought was a lot of money saved and can’t afford a 2 bedroom apartment. Feels hopeless.
The whole thing is so unnatural to read I won’t be surprised.
Yet, giving a prompt has a much lower barrier than actually being an artist.
I wonder if the researchers ever took psychedelics. It sounds like they, and the author who wrote the article, have no first hand experience with creativity.
I’m on mobile. Seems cool though I’d love to see something more than words..
It's simple. Some executive gets a bonus soon if he saves the company money right now. Nobody gets a bonus for saving the company money over a 5-year period, and nobody gets punished for costing the company money over a long period either. The incentives are all about the next quarter.
Letting you do that will bring down the price of houses.
It’s up for me now
FAA site has a misconfigured DNS record
The whole point of all progress is democratization of the product/service through making the production process cheaper.
It frightens me but some are just devoid of the ability to be empathic, even if it's to be empathic against their future selves.

People really do argue themselves aggressively into points that exploit themselves without any benefit.