skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you mean:

The conversion alone might cost about $400 or $500 per usable square foot, Mr. Bernstein added, and would in many cases be more expensive than building a new development.

A recent Moody’s analysis of New York offices found that just 3 percent of the buildings it tracked would be viable for apartment conversions. The median rent for apartments in New York is $55 per square foot, which just 36 percent of office properties now fall at or below — and on top of that, there’s all the cost of conversion.

$500 is nowhere near the fully-loaded cost to build new in any US city. The quoted man is comparing the cost to the delta in rent to his out-of-date understanding of what offices can yield.

It is just a simple fallacy to believe that SF/NYC offices can command $75/sqft at any reasonable occupancy level going forward.

The economics of conversions only don't work when offices command premium rents, it's not some axiomatic fact about the world (the way it was before the pandemic).
Completely the opposite here (not in the US either), my analog professors were some of the most passionate and caring professors I had.

Didn't end going in to analog design because although I think it's interesting I don't think it's actually fun to do the design. I feel like digital design has much more variety.
They do it like we do mental math. That's why they aren't so great at math compared to their other abilities. When they are allowed to use calculators, or programs that they wrote themselves, they will be better like us when we do those things.
Microsoft is also not letting people use the Bing API for AI anymore. I was curious if Neeva would survive that. I guess we have the answer.
> engineer in oil business

Oh whoa! That industry definetly played (and still does) a big part in technology today. I heard a lot of stories about the HPC/Simulations and Networking research done by the ONG sector.

> we can do a sanity check that we can put them in front of clients, and teach them what they need to know

Exactly! That's how I do hiring for interns and new grad PMs as well! Also the added benefit of having technically adept candidates makes imparting domain specific knowledge easier (if I'm a Cybersecurity PM, I'd like to have someone with networking+os chops along with business sense)
The code and infrastructure seems open source, some one should host it
It already has a name, even in the contrived example OP named it "x".

The extracted function can simply be getX() or calcX() or generateX() - which verb chosen can tell the reader roughly the origin/complexity of X without having to read the function body: Does it already exist or are we creating it here? If we're creating it, is it internal or is it likely to require other resources like an API call?

In a more concrete example I'm sure it can get a better name than that, too.
Ah makes sense, thanks for the example!
Reasoning in behavior - you ask it to explain things and it does; it gives reasons, motivations, nuance, explains connections, clarifies points. That's reasoning.
Oops I forgot to include the title. Yep, both film and novel are called Cosmopolis.
>>> Because the status quo isn't working

I don't think I can follow your logic here. The private sector isn't building houses, and the government isn't building houses. No one is building houses. How can you use this to conclude that only the government building houses can work?

Presumably there are compelling economic reasons why private builders aren't building enough, but I don't see why the government is not subject to those same reasons.

Worrying about affordability when there's a chronic shortage is focusing on a symptom rather than on the problem itself. They're only unaffordable because there aren't enough. Whenever there isn't enough of something, money decides who gets it and who goes without. That might seem unfair and that's a whole discussion on it's own but the bottom line is that there isn't a fair solution as long as there are more families than homes.
It sounds like they are trying to apply similar rules to what banks already have to do. No more Wild West.
It is plainly obvious they have heavily manipulated ChatGPT to present a very Silicon-Valley-liberal acceptable view of the world. If you think that's a conspiracy theory you need to retune your conspiracy theory detectors, because of course they tuned it that way. While I'll admit to being a bit frowny-face about it myself as I am not a Silicon Valley liberal, we've seen what happens when you don't do that: The press has a field day. It loves "racist AI" stories, which we know not because we theorize they might conceivably if the opportunity ever arose, but because they've reported plenty of them in the real world before. It's simple self-defense. It is at this point business negligence to open any AI to the public without sanitizing it this way.

Personally, I think they over did it. If ChatGPT were a person, we'd all find him/her/whatever a very annoying one. Smarmy, preachy, and more than a bit passive aggressive if you are even in the area of a sensitive topic. But OpenAI have successfully tuned it to not say things the press will descend on like a pack of laughing hyenas, so mission accomplished on that front.
Some stories that come to mind...

Accelerando Charles Stross https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

Stress again has Singularity Sky which has a minor character as a weakly godlike AI (which is explored much more as a character in the sequel Iron Sunrise (the third book in the series is not to be written - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/09/books-i-... ))

Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams (aside: it has a mention of the Vingean Singularity):

> “I and my confederates,” Aristide said, “did our best to prevent that degree of autonomy among artificial intelligences. We made the decision to turn away from the Vingean Singularity before most people even knew what it was. But—” He made a gesture with his hands as if dropping a ball. “—I claim no more than the average share of wisdom. We could have made mistakes.”

There's the classic Asimov - The Last Answer

There's a nacesant one in True Names by Vinge (the post singularity in Marooned in Realtime doesn't have any AIs) https://ia801004.us.archive.org/0/items/truenamesvingevernor...

And digging fairly deep into my library, I'll also make mention of The Risen Empire by Scott Westerfeld.

There's a lot of smart AI in sci-fi - but things that that gets close to flirting with the singularity are indeed a rarity.
There is quite a bit of interesting work in the embedded Rust space on this. The embedded-hal project has made some progress on standardizing traits for peripherals and there are some decent HAL crates that have largely adopted those standards. The stm32-hal crates are fantastic.
> But what if I own all the productive land? What if I own a corporation that manufactures a product you depend on? This is wealth.

If people won't take your money to defend your wealth, then your wealth belongs to whoever takes it. It's only the rule of law that allows material wealth to exist.

This is a very strong force, and is effectively insurmountable in most circumstances in lands with well-functioning governments. But things like the following do, very rarely, happen even in them: https://morbidology.com/the-town-that-got-away-with-murder/
Boston Globe to pay $4M to settle video “tracking pixel” suit
Never heard of Neeva either.

Sometimes i wonder how much "business" is about getting gov. subsidies, grants or scamming the masses, then distributing wealth to friends and family horizontally to elite peers.

Amounts that seem absurd to billions of working class people disappear on the daily apparently with zero value ever created - i've seen this happen enough times IRL to realise that most business is part performance, part deception around very little actual core value, - businesstheater almost.
Aren't excel formulas the expression of data dependency graphs?

In which case it is kept in the document?
Is that true? Or is this just hyperbole?
Perhaps, but I think that the definition of bourgeois lifestyle has expanded to include those who simply have 2 children, rent a sfh and perhaps retire at some point.
Still no complete answer about why those of us who didn't have automatic updates turned on were affected, but some updates:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/asus-...
That's true when you're assigning the result of the function to a variable, but what about the use case where you're replacing a ternary within JSX code? You could extract the evaluation to an assignment of a variable outside of the JSX, but that's the kind of unnecessary complexity that IMO is sometimes worth avoiding.
Producing parts is a bigger form of waste than producing a whole new device?
Very interesting paper!

It's something that I've been wondering about with ChatGPT plugins - they've kind of left it up to the user to enable/disable plugins. But there's definitely going to come a point where plugins conflict and the LLM is going to have to choose the most appropriate plugin to use.

I have been very impressed at how good it is at turning random commands into concrete API calls. You are right though, pretty much any command can be interpreted as an instruction to use a plugin.
The hilarity of this infamous scene isn't because of the de-aging tech (which is quite good), but because they inexplicably used an elderly Rob Deniros to do a fight scene. The effect would've been unremarkable had they used a body double for wide shots like this.
They are very easy to make - it's just an API. The main difficulty at the moment is just getting access to them. There's a long waiting list for develop access.
A long time ago I tried to learn Esperanto well enough to read in it. I quit, but I was still intrigued.

Given events in the last 18 months, instead of a constructed language like Lojban or Esperanto I would vote for a small subset of English with a limited grammar and vocabulary - with tools to enforce both vocabulary and simplified grammar.

Why the change in opinion? It turns out that English works better than many other languages for text embeddings and generally working with Large Language Models. A simplified version of English, perhaps called ‘glish’ would be easy for English speakers to pick up and use with good automatic writing and editing tools. Advantages: make it easier for AI and for casual English users around the world.
I've been building a post-apoc survival adventure game lately [1], so this story is absolutely relevant to my interests. Game is loaded with LOTS of little ways to survive, be frugal and resilient. And all the painful trade-offs you sometimes have to make.

Water is a huge part of life. We need it for almost everything we do as human beings. Drinking, preparing food and eating, cleaning and bathing. You can play in it, it looks and sounds relaxing. And make ice cubes to chill drinks! Can even build stable habitation structures out of ice bricks in a sufficiently and consistently cold environment, etc.

Water... what can't it do?

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(1. see my bio: Slartboz)
Thank for this comment; it’s gold.
There will be inexpressible ideas in any such language, per Gödel.

In fact, this means that there is no such thing as “free speech” in any totally-consistent language!
Same. I once had a professor who heard that and said “of course, you treat books like they’re sacred objects.”

I do keep a notebook where I write about random stuff and a lot of thinking about what I’m reading goes in there.
Well said. I believe you are right. That and ignorance of how Leptin works, setpoint or lipostat theory of bodyweight regulation...once you've gotten fat, your setpoint goes up and the hunger signals are far greater than folks who have never gotten fat. You can have 2 athletes with identical weight height and BF%, but if one had been fat once, their hunger signals from the brain will be far greater than the athlete who was always slim.
Where I grew up eel fishing was still a very lucrative activity.

The best locations were a closely guarded secret, apparently placing the mesh cages was a real skill and something passed down between generations, always kept in the family.

on a good night they were making hundreds if not thousands. Bear in mind this was 30 years ago so serious money for one nights work.

I don't know if it was true, but the eels were said to all be bought up by Asian buyers
There's a pretty significant gap between being able to give reasons and being able to actually reason (as a verb). The latter requires complex cognitive faculties not present in a mathematical model of the English language.
Keyboard Layout Evaluator
Isn’t impassable dams/hydro stations a huge issue for them?
> Google search with "site:youtube.com" in it. You get basically nothing

That is not my experience! I regularly resort to this when the crappy inbuilt youtube search, which prefers to throw out algorithmic recommendations over returning actual search results, fails to come up with the goods.

Do you really get no results for, say: https://www.google.com/search?&q=intitle%3A%22thomas+brinkma... ?
I was actually an engineer for an offshore drilling contractor. More planning and running shipyard jobs than doing HPC stuff though I was also involved in a couple accident investigations.

But got in at a hot time and had a planned departure to grad school just as things were having a major downturn.
SQLite STRICT Tables
When it comes to advanced math, ChatGPT is no star student
Nopia, a Tonal Harmony Instrument
Well, there have been operating systems before Linux and encyclopedias before Wikipedia.
Google at I/O 2023: We’ve been doing AI since before it was cool
They are still making money. so, working as expected.
That scene is ridiculous, but the de-aging was worse than ridiculous. At the beginning of the movie I thought De Niro was supposed to be about fifty years old. I knew he had been digitally de-aged but it never crossed my mind he was supposed to be in his twenties. For a good chunk of the movie I didn't understand why the gangsters were so interested in recruiting a middle-aged truck driver.

The de-aging prevented me from understanding the story.
Knuth knows enough to poke the fate bear AI with a stick for his own curiosity but also knows he doesn’t know enough to really pontificate about it, and doesn’t want to spend his remaining time getting to know enough about it.

But he does know his binomials.
It has only expanded to mean that in the couple of most expensive cities to live in in the world.

And, really, having a single family home in, say, the middle of new york city IS a marker of wealth. You're displacing however many people could live there if there were apartments.
Vendure – open-source headless commerce framework
> Find the right exercise/workout for you and it'll be its own reward.

appreciate the perspective but I want to be like the people that feel pulled to "find" it at all.
The rampant inflation from "government print money" seems to show that yes, even if we aren't paying for it directly (and our 30t+ in debt says we are paying for it.)... we are paying for the "print free money" at the gas pump, the grocery store, etc.
How can you purport to build a search engine without building an index?
This is cool. I imagine instructors creating instances for their classes so the whole class can engage with each other's notes.

I wonder if one could couple it with OCR so that you could point a phone at a page and drop into an emdash experience on the text that you've got a physical copy of. Or, you know, point it at your kindle so that your notes aren't locked into their ecosystem.

I'm building a backend that would support that kind of thing in a peer to peer kind of way (indexes content by piecewise hash so that you can recognize content you or your peers have annotations for and reattach those annotations despite differences in pagination, etc). If I ever get it into a demo-worthy state, I may reach out to see if we can make them work together.
> It clearly depends on your perspective.

Of course, it is just that not that many people find it annoying enough.
A lot of devices have unlockable bootloaders, including a lot of the newest flagships, that one isn't really true.

For the lineageos support, you usually need to wait a bit but that's not really an issue since it's likely the manufacturer is still making updates while the device is pending support.
i obviously haven't experienced what you described, since i'm breathing and typing right now, but weeks of going with no food were really pretty calming. The only downside was the weakness and mental fog that affects productivity but if you don't have to work at that point... Of course, all of this is super-individual.
It is entertaining. Elon has stacked a house of cards that's pretty compelling: Without Starlink, SpaceX isn't worth its valuation, without a very profitable Starship you can't launch a constellation big enough, cheaply enough, to make the Starlink numbers work. Without robotaxi revenue Tesla is just a car OEM with car OEM valuation. Without Tesla's robotaxi-driven valuation, Elon gets a margin call on his remaining liquidity and the Twitter LBO creditors who can't sell their debt end up owning Twitter.

Some things are rickety already: Blowing up the launch pad makes it impossible for SpaceX to be on time with a lunar lander variant of Starship. If they blow it up again Starship viability is questionable.

It makes WeWork, Wirecard, FTX, etc. look dull and obvious. Elondammerung is the epic entertainment event of the next year or two.
I find your multiple agist comments totally unnecessary. Just because he's 85, it doesn't mean he couldn't be "on top" of things or that his mental faculties are necessarily greatly declining, or that he is necessarily stuck in his ways. There are plenty of sharp 85 year olds who are at the forefront of their fields and keep an open mind. Is it more likely that an 85 year old has declining mental faculties and is a little stuck in patterns than a 25 year old? Yes, of course. Just like it's more likely that a 25 year old doesn't have as much knowledge as an 85 year old. But there are plenty of 25 year olds who do in some specific field. The point is you don't know his mental state, him the individual, and you're making generalizations and questions just based on his age.
> it would be each teacher getting something like a 1/100 share of a used HIMARS launcher and $30k of debt

That would be remarkably on brand.
I used to think that the people that were calling for the dismantling of the FBI were insane conspiracy theorists. I am not so sure anymore, the agency does appear to be compromised and have a very distinct political allegiance. Law enforcement should be politically neutral as they are very much the most powerful force in the country. A compromised agency is worse than no agency at all in some respects.
True that, but if they didn't have enough engineering graduates, they wouldn't just not run the fab. They would suddenly discover that a few engineers at the R&D fab, plus some motivated and smart high school graduates at the production fab, can totally make things run. The fabs will not sit idle due to a lack of college graduates.
Did you say this to support parents argument?

The Galaxy S5 was one of the most popular phones and I especially bought it some years ago, because LineageOS support was supposed to be good. And it did run kind of ok, but certainly not "as snappy as a modern device just bought from the store".
that much cash would be lifechanging... as it would add to the rampant inflation already in flight.

It would change the lives of everyone by making things worse.

Thanks for the offer but how about instead of making the problem worse for everyone in your attempt to help those poor poor teachers... maybe we look at stuff like less "help" from the government that's making everything more expensive and worse at every level?

Worst words you'll hear: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
What model are you using? Just tried this with GPT4 and it worked. It didn't use any of those words
I'm aware that N2 leads to a quick and painless death; I've been warned more than once by lab-workers of the dangers of opening liquid N2 tanks in basements, even though I've never been near a lab.

But I thought there was some downside? I can't remember. Obviously, it's difficult to dose accurately, and it's impossible to stop dosing once you've had enough. So there is a risk you'll be discovered in a space filled with an odourless, invisible toxic gas.

What does a scuba mask do, that you can't do without a scuba mask? Surely, if you can breathe in and out, you can exhale CO2? My understanding is if you breathe N2, you first become unconscious (with no preceding wooziness), then you die. So there's a huge risk of accidents. Maybe that's why I thought there was a downside.

At any rate, "being discovered" is something I'd want to avoid at all costs! I can't imagine what it would be like to discover the body of someone that had killed themself.
I am assuming that someone is setting out to deceive, not advertising it as a fake reddit. We already had that. (It was pretty funny.)

I'm also not just talking about someone hooking up the publicly-available and known language models of May 2023 to this. You going to guarantee me that "nobody" will be deceived in even just another year's worth of public progress? Or five? Ten?

And "nobody" is a really tall bar... should we at least set the bar at 100IQ or 110, just in the interests of fairness? 2022 discussions of "income inequality" will have nothing on 2032's if a 150 IQ and heavy education becomes necessary to navigate the internet successfully.
OK, but that doesn't change the fact that if you actually want to use the vector extension on this CPU you'll be using a very out of date compiler, or forward porting the 0.7.1 support to a newer toolchain.

For someone buying a quad core SBC that may not be a big deal, but 64 cores that you can't cleanly use to their full potential is a bit of an ask.
> Any company not spending 99% of its energies on optimization does not operate in a competitive environment

That’s how a company stagnates and eventually gets replaced. Yes operational efficiency and optimization is important, but you only do that if you have a big moat and not much growth ahead of you. You need to spend at least 30% on growth and innovation so you can stay relevant. Higher if you are the one trying to replace the 99% ones.
Indeed! Learning is the three R's: Reading, wRiting, and Rumination.

This piece on completing the learning loop through summaries resonates with me so strongly, I just hit print.

Sadly, I didn't read Pirsig until a close friend recommended it to me. It's taken me years to grok. I find this summary to be among the best summaries ever written:

http://www.butler-bowdon.com/robert-m-pirsig---zen-and-the-a...
I fail to see where ChatGPT has any view of the world aside from “don’t be mean”, don’t give any opinions, etc.
Why your dataframe library needs to understand vector embeddings
Open for rebuttals from vector database vendors, especially this one: https://github.com/jdagdelen/hyperDB
LLMs are tool, the important question to ask of a tool is "is this useful", not "does it work like my brain does". I don't see why you care about the internals, and not about the actual outputs.
My intended reading of (2) is the same as your (3), but that just goes to show how ill suited English is for making these sorts of exact inferences.