skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment captures exactly what I find concerning around the common line of thinking about AI.

How is a value judgement or moral that _I_ hold different than the list output by ChatGPT here?
Taking on debt can lower your cost of capital. In a vacuum raising debt increases the value of a company too. Its just corporate finance theory
I’m annoyed to find forced Canadian content on any of my services or channels. It’s ridiculous and unnecessary.

Canadians are disproportionately represented in Hollywood and on TV. Our cities are constantly used for filming. We are a significant contributor to North American content.

Geography has gifted us one of the best neighbours for commerce and media, among things. One of the prices of that is that our culture is often drowned out or absorbed by American productions.

The solution isn’t to force a pitched field. The solution is to do the insufferable thing of making sure everyone knows which actors are Canadian. ;)

But if they’re going to play House Hippo or Heritage Minutes before each Netflix video, I might just be okay with that. Though, “Don’t You Put it in Your Mouth” might be a weird lead-in to porn videos.
> I’ve yet to see anywhere on earth that’s both dense and cheap which I believe more or less proves the point. If building more houses really made things cheaper it would be trivial to prove: cities, which are denser, would be cheaper than the nearby suburbs. Across virtually every region this is not true, when adjusted for square footage.

After a certain point, density probably increases unit costs, which would mean the densest housing can't be the cheapest.

I'm reminded of an all-hands meeting years ago, where employees were asking for parking improvements in very office building large building (surrounded by very large parking lots). They wanted a parking garage, and the management said flat out that wasn't going to happen because it would cost 10x+ more per parking space.
Had a woodpecker in the hood a few years ago that liked to bang on metal lightpoles, to no ill effect. The apparent spouse would usually come shoo them off the pole after awhile, unproductive as such work is. Made quite a noise though.
I opened a few trending topics in different tabs. One said to log in. Logged in only to be told I was already logged in. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The titles is a reduced version of the following quote.

> Since the State now agrees that the only witness to allege that Mr. Glossip was involved in this crime cannot be believed, it is unconscionable for the court to attempt to force the State to move forward with his execution.
I don't think there is any problem with loving science and research.

Deciding to sacrifice your nights, weekends, and financial life to work on science and research is okay. But it's also enormously selfish. Other people who spend time doing "what they love" -- ski bums, for example -- at least recognize their selfishness as such.

Being selfish can be okay. But it's probably not great to be selfish and try to build a life-long partnership. Especially if you don't realize you are being selfish.

I won't tell anyone not to ski bum or not to do a PhD. But I will gut check people when they get confused about the difference between selfish and selfless dedication to a craft. An academic career -- the type where you spend nights and weekends without at least contributing a modicum of financial comfort to those around you -- is selfish.

At the end of the day, most grant-funded projects are born useless. There isn't as much of a difference between ski bumming and PhDing as professors like to pretend.
Serverless everywhere yields apps with massive latency & loading times and if timeouts aren’t well tuned (read: set unreasonably high) you often get dropped connections on api calls. I am currently migrating an app off vercel to raw compute (EC2) and the difference is night and day.
nuclear did need help to kill itself. I dont know about usa but in europe many political parties were funded to destroy nuclear. trading it for coal and russian gas. nuclear is the best energy we have today . nothing ever come close to it. renewables are a fad heavily backed by people that are making money out of it. You cant power a full sized country with it. it fluctuates too much. in terms of what you need to build and renew solar panels or wind turbines it has a deep environmental impact. it is actually as renewable as nuclear… look at germany relying on fossil fuels and killing the environment to fit your green agenda. living proof of a clown state backed up by corrupt politicians
> Building more reduces prices below what they would have been if that building didn't happen.

seems like moving the goal posts. it's only expensive to begin with due to the density and subsequent amenities enabled by such.

why is for example Manhattan more expensive than Brooklyn? it's more dense, should be cheaper accordingly to the density makes cheaper logic.

people keep moving the goal posts, but anyone can go on Redfin and figure this out themselves. look at the median rent, find the median wage, find the median sq footage. calculate the adjusted wage by sq/ft. it's not higher in dense areas.
More plates more dates got his labs done and then went on a diet that was high in eggs and noticed within a month that his cholesterol jumped significantly. I believe it is genetic
It's a fairly clear case of natural selection.
My daughter swears by the Zoom Mercurials, both the turf and grass versions. She says they're the most comfortable soccer boots she's ever worn and she feels like she can run faster in them - so yeah, it's a psychological thing, not an ankle protection thing.
Everything causes induced demand. Expansion of bike lanes and public transit also causes induced demand for these, but at least in the end you end up with more efficient transport. The increased efficiency/throughput gives you a better chance of outpacing demand growth.

With housing you also have a better chance of outpacing demand growth if you build densely enough. Even that's never enough to meet all the demand, at least you end up housing more people in a desirable area than you'd otherwise if the density was kept artificially low.

I realise it's a personal preference and in the US culture dense cities have a poor reputation, but dense cities can offer walkability and public transport infrastructure that wouldn't be economical otherwise. In many places around the world this is valued as a goal in itself.
> I can procedurally generate levels all day long in a video game, but for me, they're never going to be as compelling or interesting as a lower-resolution and low quality textured game from the '90s or '00s where every single tree and rock is placed with intent.

The popularity of Minecraft and other procedural games would imply that there is still a large number of people who value exploring the unknown generated content, even if it means it's not curated.

Yes the quality won't be as good, but you do get quantity instead. And the quality will improve.
Yes, this is right.

Nostr will be more like Mastodon was before Elon ... a smallish place for enthusiasts of decentralization, albeit following a different protocol than Mastodon, of course.

Bluesky is already the new Twitter, you can tell. The cool kids all want to be on Bluesky. In effect, the very low rate drip of invites approach they are following, coupled with a virtual megaton of almost entirely gushing, breathless positive stories from the tech press are generating a high pent-up demand and a sense of virality even while it has a tiny userbase. The people running it are very clever, and are clearly doing everything they can to become the alternative for disgruntled Twitter users that Mastodon, Nostr and others are not (and arguably never were trying to be ... Bluesky is, by contrast, trying like heck to be exactly that).

Does this mean Twitter dies? No, I don't think so. What I think it means, though, is that, like the MSM, we will have likely two microblogging platforms that are broken into socio-ideological camps, like we have with most of the other media. It's new for social media, of course (not that there haven't been wing platforms before, but they have been small), but not new for media in general or the internet in general. And one could say that it's actually somewhat surprising that it took so long for this kind of split to happen in social media as well, but it kind of "feels right" that it's happening, given the very divergent ways that people have reacted to Twitter over the past year. It seems "right" that there should be separate services for people based on the kind of ideology and views they prefer, since this is how pretty much everyone rolls in every other aspect of the media already anyway.
Germany is federation of 16 or so states
They should reduce importing cheap plastic shit from polluting countries.
> But, the thing is, I'm not "guessing" you don't know it well enough. I'm inferring it clearly from how you described it in the text. Because it reminds me exactly of how I used to think about it too, before I invested the time and learned to love it. Perhaps you think you know it well enough, but the way you talk about it suggests you don't really. Unless of course you intentionally chose very contrived examples to push a point, but it didn't seem to me that that's what you were trying to do.

Wow, so you have this incredible ability to telepathically read other people's minds and you don't use it to solve murders? It's incredible that you, and you alone have the ability to know what's truly going on in someone's brain simply by reading a paragraph on the internet.
Humans are going to be taken out of the loop at some point if for no other reason than being too slow.
QRD?
Nice features here in Hamburg:

Subscription tickets for Hamburg which cost more than 49€ are now automatically reduced to 49€ and are changed to a Deutschlandticket.

Employer subsidized Deutschlandtickets can be reduced upto 50% for the employee.

Kids from low-income families get the Deutschlandticket for free.

Students can upgrade their public transport ticket for monthly 18 Euros...

School children pay 19 Euros monthly for the Deutschlandticket.

:-)
> A similarly blunt application of your position is that everyone punished by the state deserves it.

No, it doesn't. My position is that you have to address each on a case-by-case basis and there is no blanket way to say "ah X people are mad, therefore it was Good/Bad".
> Text inputs have no affordances

>It has all the affordances.

these are two different ways of saying the same thing
In London, aren't you pushed towards using a contactless credit or debit card?

(They expire at 4am, though the point remains.)
Whether you want to call it an "empty set" or "the set of all possible sets" isn't really relevant to the authors point that an empty box has discoverability problems.
Not an expert, but skimming through the act, there's this blurb:

> ensures that any broadcasting undertaking that cannot make maximum or predominant use of Canadian creative and other human resources in the creation, production and presentation of programming contributes to those Canadian resources in an equitable manner;

So... presumably the CRTC will develop some program to allow streaming sites to pay their way out.
But what if I don't know what I want?

A graphical UI can provide much more and much more intuitive guidance than a chat input ever will. And I say that as a big fan of Unix and the shell.
Among other things, uBlock Origin blocks resources that the developers and filter list maintainers consider privacy risks, of which "pixels" are a subset.
Sounds about right. Short hikes, I do in trail runners. Medium hikes, I do in approach shoes. I only wear boots if I’m backpacking (and that’s mostly habit) or working with trail tools (Macleod, ax, etc)
> then why are the places with the most units the most expensive?

Because the most people want to live there and population is growing?

There are plenty of high density old towns all over Italy that are dirt cheap because nobody wants to live there anymore. You can buy a whole house for $10 in a town built for such high population densities that streets are a meter wide.
Have you heard of the FCD Railbus? An experiment by the New Haven Railroad in the 1950's to do just that...

In the end, it was more cost-effective for the New Haven to just go bankrupt
As an American I am increasingly jealous of European countries and their public transport (among other things cough health care cough gun control).

It feels like the only way we will ever get there as a country is one state at a time, and even then you see projects like California's high-speed rail that's massively over-budget and overdue. At least the blue states seem to _get_ it, meanwhile those who live in red or purple states will just be left behind as always because of how intensely politics has carved a divide between people and led to so many unfounded lies being propagated to their citizens.

All that to say, good on Germany. Now U.S., get your shit together.
indeed! which is my point. density does not make it cheaper.
In case you haven’t seen the recent Tom Scott video about a bus that rides the rails in Japan: https://youtu.be/Kn56bMZ9OE8
Yeah, not as much in the Bay Area these days, but the Clipper card is a huge improvement over the previous system. And I imagie by the time I eventually run down my Clipper balance I'll be fine with my phone.
The UK has since simplified that into one ticket, possibly also a receipt of you ask for it.

Prior to this, the ticket and seat reservation were seperate bit of paper.
Lacks the exciting, untruthful, "impossible" key clickbait word, something is amiss...
We know very close to nothing about them, so the answer to most such questions is "maybe".
Alternatively, we can draw a more fitting parallel to Robert Oppenheimer, who, upon recognizing the devastating potential of his creation, dedicated himself to halting the spread of nuclear weapons worldwide.
I don't get how those help saying what value open source software does or does not give. With the original two there are clearly two ways to view free (beer, as in you do not pay for the software, and speech as in that you get certain rights with it).

You are talking about the quality of the software, and I don't think that is correlated to either the versions of free described above. I have paid for software that has been buginfested and that has been completely unfit for its purpose.

Is any of what you said related to free/libre software?
Ah, missed that somehow, thanks.

It doesn't capture the main point of my comment though, which is most of the time, the young turks are also wrong :)
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35778743
> Nobody pays more for "density".

You do, actually, pay more for "density". Moving things closer together, incurs extra costs (Even ignoring all other factors). Building codes have to be stricter (for equivalent safety levels), when buildings are closer together. Walls and insulation need more expensive materials (for equivalent sound dampening levels), when buildings are closer together. Insurance rates get higher (for equivalent coverage), when units are closer together. Labor costs are higher and labor time needed is higher (for equivalent results), and so on.

A few costs go down (less length of pipe material, or less length of wire, etc). But those minor material costs are usually far out-shadowed by the increases in labor to accomplish them (it costs less money to replace all shared water pipe in my 20 house suburban street, than it costs to replace all shared water pipe in a NYC mid-level with 20 units, even though the literal length of pipe material might be cheaper). It costs more to remodel a bathroom in Manhattan than in (say) Louisville, KY., even for identical bathrooms with identical fixtures and identical sqft.

Denser usually means more complexity or more labour, both things that cost extra money.

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Density advocates generally acknowledge this, density fundamentally costs more. Their argument usually rests on cities having hyper-overvalued properties -- the argument is that the extra cost of density is cheaper than the extra cost of land, and that's how they manage to make density look like a cost savings. Which kind-of works in major cities downtowns, but doesn't really pencil out elsewhere.
I supplied one example of what was a steady drumbeat through many comments, many of which provided meaningful facts and analysis. Yes, of course, internet people say whatever. But you can probably sense when the reliability goes up and down, and I sensed this info seemed good enough to mention. Have a look, maybe.
Actually, I'm not narrowly fixated at all.

I do not believe that any part of any current or future LLM (i.e. using the same fundamental architecture) is capable of reasoning, or in fact, capable of anything other than, essentially, doing a really, really, really good job of generating the next word in a response.

I am all about emergent properties of neural networks, but I absolutely do not believe that LLMs have them, specifically because of the way they are designed.

However, as to the specifics, people who seem to believe otherwise claim that they can reason, and so that's merely one specific angle of attack: to show that they cannot reason, and that in fact, everything they do is implicitly contained in their training set.

As I've already said, what they can do is enormously powerful and in many (most?) ways entirely unexpected, so I still regard the advent of LLMs as extremely significant, both from a practical but also a scientific point of view. I think it may force a revision in the most basic aspects of understanding human speech behavior, for example.

Nevertheless, I do not believe that anybody is served by believing that these systems can do things that they cannot. I do not understand why the seemingly magic results of these systems is leading so many into a denial of what they actually do.
Jobs was certainly an inspirational entrepreneur and CEO but he always talked out of both sides of his mouth. He'd mug for the cameras and say all of that lofty stuff about creativity, bicycles for the mind, etc., and then go back to the office for a knock-down, drag-out fight with Woz about whether the Apple ][ should come with expansion slots or a padlock.

In business terms, Heathkit isn't something that he would have respected as anything but an unscalable niche hobby. Sucks that he would've been right about that.
I don't recall much "collaboration with one's community", at least not in urban Soviet landscape - perhaps things were different in the villages (but if they were,
I don't think the Soviets could claim credit for that). The society that they ended up building was actually very cutthroat in many ways once you got past the guaranteed basics that everyone had, precisely because anything above that was that much harder to get.

Thing is, you fundamentally can't enforce good socialization. You can enforce socialization in general, but the more it is forced, the less likely it is to actually be good. A good society is the one that gives opportunities for people to socialize if and when they want it, and accepts that some people really just don't and that's fine too.
> > If YouTube's algorithm is deciding what to show me, then I (as the user) am asking for YouTube's opinion. So I think that there is a coherent argument that YouTube's recommendation algorithm is expressing an opinion, and is therefore YouTube's content.

> To me it seems like a platform could easily skirt this by having users opt in to recommendations (and maybe even choose a sorting criteria option) at signup.

How does opting in make any difference, for this particular point?
No senior discounts? How are older people viewed in Germany?
Dense housing also doesn’t make it more expensive either.
The airport is located in Schönefeld, a municipality in Brandenburg, just outside of Berlin, which is also a state.

S-Bahn ring, usually called ring for short, refers to a prominent circular route around the city center of Berlin.
International agreements are hardly tried and tested. The Nonproliferation Treaty has been somewhat effective with nuclear weapons largely because refining operations are hard to hide, and even with that several additional countries have acquired such weapons. Agreements on chemical and biological weapons are largely moot because it turns out that such weapons aren't even very effective compared to kinetic alternatives. The ban on land mines was never ratified by the countries that do most fighting, and such mines are being heavily used by both sides in Ukraine. The Washington Naval Treaty was a total failure. The ban on space weapons is breaking down right now.

It is impossible to have an effective international agreement on autonomous weapons. No military power would ever agree to let a third party inspect their weapon source code in a verifiable way. It's too easy to hide the real code, and we would never trust potential adversaries not to cheat.

Fully autonomous weapons have already been deployed for decades. The Mark 60 CAPTOR mine could sit and wait for weeks until it detected a probable target matching a programmed signature, then launch a homing torpedo at it. After the initial deployment there is no human in the loop.
For a fun sidetrack, the purpose of wizardry in the Young Wizards book series is to slow down entropy and keep the universe going as long as possible.
I haven’t been to SF for nearly two decades so many things must have changed since Sun, Cisco and Intel were the big ones - but is it really as bad as this?
But do those need to be basically the only sorts?
That is a fairly simplified view which is very convenient for particular Western political interests but I don’t see it as a reflection of reality.

The Chinese have “capitalism” with significant public investment in infrastructure and education. Bullet trains can take you everywhere on the cheap. Few foreign companies have been successful due in some part to protectionism (but also failed business models). Their markets are highly regulated, preventing mergers and IPOs of large companies. Ant Group for example. Jack Ma was severely punished for even suggesting that bank regulators ease up. They also have strict data regulations.

On the other hand, workers’ rights are a lot more curtailed. A lot of tech works 996, and unionization is pretty rare. Getting 2 days off per week isn’t the norm like in the US. And forget about OSHA. So in that sense they are almost hyper-capitalist.

The point is, I don’t think it fits cleanly into the ideologies that many would like to apply to them.
If going gets tough, there are many ways to avoid default.

(1) discharge petition - bill from committee to a vote.

(2) Fourteenth Amendment Constitution prevents willful default until SCOTUS says otherwise. Just keep issuing debt.

(3) High coupon and low principal. 10-year bond with $1 in principal and annual $100 coupon will increase debt ceiling almost 1000X.

(4) high denominations coin minting
Can smart contracts support the Web?
What if I told you that most Web3 apps are centralized and rely on proprietary clouds like AWS? In this article, we explore the underlying technical challenges and a path forward toward fully decentralized Web.
Well I do prefer not getting murdered:

https://www.thirdway.org/report/the-two-decade-red-state-mur...
I will say that GPT-4 is miles ahead of 3.5 The best use for it is to provide a sample of code, then ask why an issue is occurring within those few hundred lines OR ask how to add / start new functionality from that sample.

I will agree that it's by no means Star Trek level, but it is about the most fascinating piece of technology I've seen in my lifetime.

And yes, that sounds silly! But therein lies my reason for writing this post.
This looks nice! Especially with the analysis log sharing and built-in support chat.