skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure what you mean by allow. Rules and regulations preventing profits? Or outlawing financial instruments backed by mortgages? Owners have to prove all the money they’ve ever spent maintaining and improving the house w/ receipts and estimates in those costs after accounting for inflation, and only then selling it at a break even price? All apartment complexes operating at mandatory break even rates?

I can tell you this: if I added up all home improvements, maintenance, and property taxes I’ve paid over 20 years then I’d take a significant loss when selling at current inflated values. Maybe when you look at the total cost of ownership for typical family owned homes then in many cases it’s not actually investment, maybe more like a savings account. That’s the best I’d get out of my home and I bought cheap w/ prices, inflated as they are, roughly 150% higher than my sticker price 20 years ago. The financial model for developers is of course different but if you’re going to look at home ownership as an investment for the owner then you can’t do that going from the buying price to selling price, you have add in all the costs of ownership. (Disclaimer: my TCO loss on my home despite rising prices would be do in large part because of truly massive property taxes.)

I don’t see an easy way to outlaw the abilities for housing to be an investment. Even the it wouldn’t do anything at all to actually get people into housing, it would just make it more affordable for the lucky few who got to buy in at the reduced price.

We just need to build more housing and have laws/regulations/rules in place that stop the NIMBY nonsense. No reasonable development can be denied if the increase in housing supply is lagging behind local increased population growth. Incentives to developers to build more than that minimum. Tax incentives for developers to keep prices within confines bands of local median incomes, tax penalties— a luxury tax— against selling a certain amount above these limits.

And I don’t know, these may be really bad ideas too. But all I see disallowing investment accomplishing is to have housing inventory stagnate and make housing access partly a game of who you know to get an inside track— similar to how some affordable housing programs work right now. Around me, apartment complexes that are part of affordable housing programs have 2+ year waiting lists, some should be condemned and closed, but I’ve seen people pretty much walk into a recently opened space when they know someone who administers the program for that complex.
It is still not the truth. I am not saying you are obliged to say the truth if the is unsafe or if no one will listen. But lets not pretend this is actually honest communication. It is not.
A custom $1500 set of car seats for a small compact is unreasonable. Good luck fitting three normal car seats in any of the sedans in that first link. It’s difficult enough in a _full size truck_.
> If the value of a house appreciates in terms of purchasing power for some other good at a constant rate,

Houses don't appreciate, they just (often) depreciate less in absolute terms than the land they sit on appreciates.
Half life is 12 year. It also rise rapidly in the high troposphere (where the magic happen), so the methane we emit today will have an effect in 2-3 year, whereas the carbon we emit today will have an effect in roughly 20 year. Today's climate is caused by 2003 emissions.
Because I already have momentum from the earth, but a rocket will be disconnected from the earth for far longer than I would be jumping. The path of a rocket would start to curve away from the launch site due to no longer being connected from the earth for such a long time.
Journalists covering news stories about companies, don't tend to think much in the mode of "the person reading is a consumer, who may have been wronged by this company, and wants actionable information to better their own life."

Rather, journalists covering news stories about companies seem to write in one of two major modes:

1. Business journalism, i.e. "Hello investors, please use this to make decisions on which stocks to buy/sell today. And hello, competitors of this company; please take this as an object lesson."

2. Implicit "let's highlight yet another example of the lousy state of the world today" editorialization, pretending to be journalism. Where the suggested action is "get angry"; but the intended target of your anger isn't the company itself, but rather "society", in some ill-defined way.

Note that mode #2 does literally report on the company's failures, but does so while deflecting blame from the company itself; and so may actually be crafted by the company being reported on as a clever form of "spin" on what would otherwise be bad press if they left it up to the media to report.
At this point, I think people of a certain age would just be happy to have a parcel of land with a roof over their head to call their own as opposed to buying a house as some sort of long term investment whose value keeps accumulating (and whose tax value will continue to increase as a result)
I think it's the "from the Microsoft Store" part that's going wrong, and it just so happens the author noticed it on AMD-related store installed stuff.
No, the model doesn't need to be "absolutely spot on" for it to be correct about the correlation between industrial activity and sustained global temperature rises.

And that argument works better in reverse anyway: we're talking about a trend implying large parts of the planet becoming uninhabitable for present levels of human population within a relatively short time frame (which will also have an effect on economic activity!). If contrarians really have a good faith belief that this trend is caused by some other factor and will be self correcting, perhaps they could deign to specify their own testable assumptions and make their own model...
I answered an isomorphic argument downthread. Further: nobody is proposing building a landfill.
The housing protestors are not a mob that has descended on the city from elsewhere, but only represents a tiny fraction of the population, like the G8 protests. They are local property owners and they all vote in local elections. And then there are the other local property owners who aren't actively involved in the protests but would join them the second they saw their property values drop. Local officials are terrified of this because they can legitimately lose elections over it.
A severed corpus callosum - sometimes done to mitigate the effects of sever epilepsy (the seizure on one side of the brain can't travel to the other side).

Scientific American Frontiers : severed corpus callosum https://youtu.be/lfGwsAdS9Dc
Tbh, chatGPT caught the world by surprise. Especially the fact that it can do in-context learning so well is a big surprise even for experts in the field. You can see these from many interviews of experts in the fields for example https://www.therobotbrains.ai/copy-of-raluca-ada-popa. So no one really knows how close LLM to AGI. Most of ppl who has been working on AGI thinks that this is no where near. But again, if they are still processing what chatGPT is capable of, how would they know for sure.
Skyscrapers are very expensive to build. What would actually help is allowing ~10 story buildings everywhere in the five boroughs with a fast and simple permitting process.
Is it not a truck license required to drive a truck in the US? It seems unsafe that inexperienced drivers can drive around with «trucks» at park lots
You're mistaken - I have no problem with two people having different definitions for "NIMBY" (A. Objecting to something being built, reasonableness not being judged, and B. Objecting to something being built unreasonably; though certainly definition B is more common colloquially). But your post was a criticism of these people, and an implication that they are hypocrites for not considering themselves representative of "NIMBY tropes", which would be nonsensical unless you are using definition B (again, barring more details of the case).

I.e. you are implying "ugh, these people are NIMBYs and won't admit it", followed in later posts by implying, "there's nothing inherently bad about being NIMBY", which is tonally confusing.

The "rich vein" in this case is the clarification. What you're talking about in your original post is important and interesting. I oppose NIMBYism broadly speaking. I am not disagreeing with you on some semantics irrelevant to the main point of your post - I am commenting on the validity of one of its central points. Humanity tends to be one of the first things we throw out when we find ourselves on two "sides" of some societal disagreement (especially when our "opponents" are not very articulate, which pretty much everybody at a community meeting is not), and that's the relevant part I'm commenting on.
I dont think I claimed they should, the juxtaposition was the parent comment about corporations and tying that in the wider concept of law.

Corporations are legal constructions to limit liability not only of investors but of employees of the corporation, that is their function in law

Similarly the law has other legal constructions to exempt and limit liability for other positions inside that system

So it not that police are operating as corporations, the same legal construction that created corporations also created police forces.

The root of the problem for both is the same (more on that in a second)

>>it is a fundamental pillar of democracy

I disagree here kinda, a fundamental pillar of democracy is equality under the law, the root of the problem for both police, corporations, politicians, etc is the ability for the law to make some people "more equal" than others... i.e not equal at all.

This is done by making police officers exempt from some laws, some regulations, some liability even if the city is not... this is done by making individuals exempt from regulations even if the corporation is not...

So you are correct that police should not be operated like a corporation, but at the same we can look at the law and see where there are treated similarly and see why that is a problem.

I will refrain from my general negativity about democracy and just say that for what you call democracy to hold everyone must be treated equal under the law... and I do mean everyone, and I do mean equal. No exemptions, no special privileges. Most political ideologies have a problem with true equality
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if you don't want to give me free money you have a scarcity mindset
You are right andneo the platform as it stands now is suitable for building CRUD applications since what we currently offer is to setup you objects fields, user permissions and data APIs through configuration.

We plan to implement data streams and workflows with Lambda style functions that will cover even the most complex application demands in the near future.

Supabase is a nice service with a lot of functionality but requires that you know advanced features of postgres (rls policies etc ..) to properly setup your data security.

With supabase you are bound to what features can be developed on top of postgres which is a double edge sword in my opinion. in addition, we believe that our simple sql syntax over API is much more intuitive and easy to learn in contrast to postgrest syntax.
Aye, one of the thing I came to realize as I grew old enough to know people younger than me who were not teens or children, is that every generation overestimates how much they’re going to change the world and underestimates how many of their peers will change their views and become some version of the things they once opposed, just on different issues or contexts.

Boomers were once a very liberal generation.
Young people (late 20’s/early 30’s) own homes at the same rate as people did 40 years ago.

Source for this?
Well, the trivial solution is to organize. But not in the mostly low-impact "vote" way, but in the vote with your feet way. Move to a municipality that has the right idea, that builds high-density housing. Or get enough people together and move to somewhere and then vote.

Libertarians tried it. Of course that's just a very nice exercise in rediscovering democracy from first principles.
I asked “what country are you in?”, and the reply was “just remember that I won’t answer any factual questions”. That’s seems enough to identify any bot.

Of course, it doesn’t rule out humans pretending to be bots.

EDIT: Well I retract my observation! The second time I tried it, it was a bot and it was willing to lie to me and make up a factual answer.
I wouldn’t consider that a serious attempt, given that the president doesn’t have the ability to enact that by himself.
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It is a fascinating series of experiments.

For others interested, look up Roger Sperry's split-brain experiments[1], done at CalTech. He received the 1981 Nobel Prize for the work. I'm surprised the above article doesn't mention it.

We don't cut cut peoples' brains in half any more, so it was a unique moment in time when they had people available with this condition, and the results are quite illuminating.

Here's a video with some interviews with real patients: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCv4K5aStdU

And a here's a timestamp where one of the experiments is performed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCv4K5aStdU&t=101s

[1] http://scihi.org/roger-wolcott-sperry-split-brain/
Here is an example of some prompt engineering in order to build augmentations for factual question-and-answer as well as building web applications:

https://github.com/williamcotton/transynthetical-engine
You’re thinking about their processes from the point of view of how you, a unified being in complete control of its central nervous system, would handle things. But that is not what Amazon is.

They are operating at the extremes of scale and have to build systems that work even though there are adversarial actors at all levels (customers, sellers, employees). Literally no one has done what they are doing before. Not excusing it, but we don’t actually have a benchmark to compare to. Having better visibility into it than your typical consumer, I actually think they do a decent job. They need to be better, but I can assure you that they are constantly iterating and improving. I would encourage you to consider that this is realistically the best that any company could be at building the type of system that Amazon is building.
It’s a pure character assassination because you’d never write this about someone you weren’t already willing to write a hit piece about.
I believe this has to do with how the cities are designed in some sense. For most places in the US, you need to travel so many miles to get basic stuff including your groceries. This means people would have to prefer convenience more than shorter trips. SUV looks like a good option from that standpoint.
this is the biggest problem in unravelling the scam IMO. as people age they get more vested in the system. this makes them harder to want a fundamental change. The other think is basically lack of leverage for the little guy. so basically any fundamental change is likely going to push more power to the exploiter/powerful so I am quite vary of them despite the promise on face value.

btw I still support student loan reform at the age of 40+ but not in the hackey one-shot way current politicians are trying to get it done. same with many other things.
I really doubt you’ll see it unless there’s a serious degradation in life quality

It’s also hard to protest if you are scraping by, and a long commitment to protesting means you lose your job

Capitalism sadly wins far too often for me to think this is achievable
What you describe reminds me of arguments about whether "TERF" is a slur (and therefore objectionable) or just a straightforward description a specific political stance.
I've considered trying it several times, and each time failed to find any practical use case for my scenarios.
citation needed. specifically regarding gpt4 and not the other models, since that was your claim.

> That being said, you can run LLMs on-prem.

how is this relevant at all? it's just dodging the question, since the claim was about gpt4 32k tokens and not the crop of generic models that we have now availabe on prem (and which don't support 32k token anyway)
Wreckage from Australia's worst maritime disaster found after 80 years
no https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/charts/fig07.pdf ?
https://www.redfin.com/news/gen-z-millennial-homeownership-r...
In north america, housing has outpaced other costs because of a shift to near universal low-income families, then multi-generational families, plus capital flight from other countries (china etc). There's some other factors (population growth, move to cities) but there are less important.
That's cool and all. But what I really want:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2IJdfxWtPM
Makes no difference. Your claim was that Germany replaced nuclear with coal. Here are the hard numbers:

https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/38...

The bottom three are:

black coal in magenta

nuclear in gray

brown coal in brown

Nuclear shutdowns started in Germany in 2011. Check the numbers.

BTW with what did France replace its failing reactors last year?

https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-france-climate-an...
The old struggle between the Dreadnought and the Battlecruiser rears its ugly head again. It's amazing how such different things can run into the same human idioms.
I wonder if housing prices is a significant cause of the inflation we are seeing. Potentially, one important item that permeates throughout the economy can drive inflation up for all things. The one typical example is oil or energy costs. But it could also be housing. The owners and managers of businesses ultimately are directly effected by the cost of housing. The increase in the cost of housing, may lead to them asking for more of the revenue be converted to profit/compensation for them, hence leading to increases of the prices of the goods/services these companies sell.
Free will isn't the issue. 90% of us go to work because we need money, not because we love pur jobs. The deciding factor is voluntary participation. Even reluctant or disgruntled participation can be voluntary. Some people drag themselves to work cussing every morning, I wouldn't call them slaves, you have to apply the same standard across the board.
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I thought by "cortical" you were referring to the cerebral cortex.
I do this all the time. Out of a dozen laptops around here (Apple, Dell, Lenovo) none have broken over the years. I usually just outgrow them, or the batteries lose their ability to hold a charge.

Thinking about this, I realize that all of my laptops fall into four categories: (1) MacBooks ——these are made of metal and are quite rigid and strong, (2) large screened Dells, too heavy to pick up comfortably with one hand, (3) Lenovo Thinkpads that are thin but very lightweight, and (4) a couple of Chromebooks that sit permanently on a desk for web use only and don’t get picked up. In all of these cases, there is little danger that I will injure them by handling them as you’ve described.
How is 20 vs. 28 vs. 40 an order of magnitude change? This phrase is usually reserved for changes in base-10 order: e.g. 2 vs 20 vs 200 are order of magnitude changes.
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Because building construction standards change, the cost of continuous maintenance can exceed the cost of building something new, and people move around. Would you like to live in an expensive new house or is cheap old house?
Geology factors into this. There is a reason only downtown and midtown have skyscrapers.
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thats demonstrably not true. there are many studies indicating millennials & genZ are poorer than Boomers at their age.
Article is great, but is quite brief. Good resource with fair bit of detail & examples here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Underst...
For CAFE purposes SUVs and minivans are both considered “light trucks.”
I think it’s a lack of uniform culture that makes it difficult for movements to succeed in the US. Combine that with demagoguery and other fear tactics used by politicians and it slows progress to a halt.
It doesn't have to be new, but adding more housing generally requires you to build buildings, and when a building is built where there used to be no building, it is generally referred to as new construction and thus new (or newly added) housing.

You could evict a bunch of people from existing houses and then re-sell those within the constraints of affordable housing parameters, but I doubt that is a feasible method of significantly scaled up expansion the pool of available affordable housing.
Dude we all have robot calculators in our pockets - it’s the work of seconds to convert with zero thought on the user’s part:

“Hey Siri convert 190°F to Celsius.”

“190°F is 87.77 degrees Celsius.”

Boom. It is not very hard to convert.
30 year lease to who? Property rights and land ownership are the foundation this country is built on.

You control this through property tax.
Yes, but the problem is that meat consumes approximately 25 plant calories to produce 1 meat calorie. It's a reducing function, which means calorie for calorie meat produces 25 times as much greenhouse gas simply from the costs involved in plant production.

This isn't universally true - some meat is grown by grazing "free" plant calories. But it is true for grain fed cattle -- for most US industrial meat production.

The methane production issue is in addition to the plant/meat production inefficiencies.
This is where it would make sense to differentiate between land value and property value and go all Georgian on this. You should benefit from value you added by improving what's on the lot. However, we should limit or erase what someone gains from the land itself going up in value. That we aren't doing that, results in empty lots being a fine investment, even though it's a massive lost opportunity for society.
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Tell HN: 2^4 == 4^2, extended to rationals
Last week there was a discussion about 2^4 == 4^2 (my search-fu is letting me down - I can't find it again, or I'd link it). It proved that that is the only pair of integers with that relationship.

But what about rationals?

First, remember that (a^b)^c) == a^(bc).

Let a = (3/2)^2 and b = (3/2)^3. Then a^b == b^a. (a and b are rational, but a^b is not.)

More generally, for any natural number n, let a = ((n+1)/n)^n and b = ((n+1)/n)^(n+1). Then a^b == b^a.

Note that the first element of this series has a = 2 and b = 4. Also note that as n increases, the series converges to both a and b equal to e.

But when I said "for any natural number n", that was actually an unnecessary restriction. The math works for any n - it doesn't have to be an integer. We could, for instance, use n = 1/2. Then a = ((3/2)/(1/2))^(1/2) and b = ((3/2)/(1/2))^(3/2). a and b are no longer rational, but a^b still equals b^a.
Thats an interesting data, can you provide sources?
Fair, edited to include "as efficiently". I'm cutting through the noise to find some signals for how people are using these APIs.
Can developers not account for this and design as big as possible for their first plan, knowing they’ll have to scale it back? This reminds me of stories around adding hair to arms in graphic design so when you must make a change, you can remove the purposely sacrificial element incorporated into the original design.

Not a fan of the adversarial nature of these zoning mechanics, but when in Rome.

https://www.npr.org/2014/11/17/364760847/whats-with-all-of-t...