skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stuffing a genie back in the bottle is the appropriate saying. Instead of trying hard to keep the genie in the hands of a few megacorps for the safety of the children, perhaps the right way to deal with it is to let everyone figure out how to use the technology to create as many jobs as we can? John Henry did beat the steam engine in the end, but at a terrible cost and in no way did it undo the invention. But when I go to a construction site it’s full of highly paid experts with great benefits ensuring the stream engine properly digs the tunnel correctly. Instead of unskilled people slinging hammers in half slavery we have engineers digging twice as many tunnels that are ten times more complex crawling with well employed humans crawling the worksite.

I think worry isn’t the right response. I think the right response is awareness of the issues and broad collaborative innovation to democratize the tool for as many people as possible, and let us build twice as many things that are ten times more complex with the same people working.
With Breadth, I think you are moving past influence and flat out making it British.
Is this all part of the current "culture war" or why would you shoot yourself in the foot like this?
And plenty of people are convinced of god by an "image" on toast. The existence of very gullible people does not imply that ANYONE is always convincible by a sufficiently "magical super-intelligent" "AI". People bring up "oh but think of it like your mental superiority to ants" and well, go ahead and convince a colony of ants to nuke russia, I'll wait.

There are already millions of people that are stupidly easy to convince of anything, so why aren't these magical end of the world scenarios already happening? Where's the evil maniac convincing Kelly the soccer mom who is into MLMs to end the world? Where is the supervillain raising an army of a million gullible idiots to invade Canada and have their own kingdom?

AGI "Superintelligence" even as a concept is just completely unsupported. It's people looking at an extremely cropped graph and saying "Line goes up, must go up forever" and wouldn't you know it that group has massive overlap with those MLM people from before.
But maybe not for the amounts we talk about when it comes to charging. Thinking of it, I cannot remember whem I last saw someone pay cash at a gas station. Most pay by card.
They are prevalent in Vancouver, Canada but our electricity is a lot cheaper than Europe.
Why oh why doesn't everything use radiant by now?
I don't know about the US but in the UK you can sort out new insurance in a few minutes - though one of the questions is usually 'have you ever had an insurance policy canceled or refused' - answering yes to that can cause significant issues. Lying and getting found out later causes even more problems.
I was in LA during the northridge earthquake, insurance companies were putting in double time looking for ways to prevent having to pay for damages to homes. I remember driving down streets and seeing garages spray painted with "State farm refuses to pay on my claim". I'd be happy to pay into a system that isn't driven by pure profit.
Christopher Nolan on J. Robert Oppenheimer and His Contradictions
It is popular and engaging for social media to paradoxically tell you to stop using social media. (How would I hear about it without social media?)

Avoid emotional dumps, empathy traps, traumatizing stuff and info noise, and you'll be fine.
And now you have "seasons" on top of that grindfest that reset every three months.

Endlessly repeating one-armed bandit gameplay, throw battle passes on top and boom Bobby Kotick can show shareholders how successful the game is.

Why gaming sucks in '23
…it's the money.
He also covers a lot of 80s PC gaming. I find the periods I'm unfamiliar with as (or more) enjoyable than the periods I'm intimately familiar with.
Normally they'll do a forced placement rather than foreclose. You'll get a bad deal on the insurance but there will be insurance on the house (not necessarily on anything else, though!)
Do you use neuroimaging as one of your outcome measures? I'm curious as a neuroimaging scientist.

Also: Congrats on the funding!
Ok, so the issue isn't "aircraft controlled from ground vs aircraft controlled from the air", it's private property being spied on/inspected without consent or notice. That's illegal for a landlord, and should be illegal for insurance companies.

Moreover, their identification is (from the article) erroneous, and their risk claim is false (per the article the person is not in a fire zone). Failing to acknowledge those are erroneous and continuing to terminate the policy is BS, and I assume fraudulent: if the law allows an insurance company to do zero-notice termination of policy without a justification I'm sure that they would have done that instead, rather than providing any justification that could prove wrong.
So as I see it, it's possible to teach SOTA LLM with prompts to emulate a state machine part of the Turing machine. Am I right?
Jesus, I thought this was satire, but this guy is for real.

Not a lawyer, but in my understanding, the core property of a contract is that both sides are aware of it, in particular of their obligations in the contract. There must also be a defined moment the contract is concluded.

This is specifically not the case with ads: Ad-supported services are frequently advertised as "for free", not in the sense that ads are the "payment". Even if they were, they would be unlike any other business transaction as the service provider is free to change the "price" (i.e. amount of ads shown) at any time.

That's not even considering all the situations where you're subjected to ads without receiving any kind of service - or where something that you paid money for suddenly starts to show you ads too.

Felony contempt of business model indeed, as well as theft of assumed future profits!
They have to prove - at least in the court - that they own the property. So the documents are going to surface with the names of the owners.

Actually, I think the registrar of the property could be able to issue a request for documentation leading to the owners or beneficiaries. It's either a physical person - could be talked with - or an organization - which is registered somewhere, and can be similarly contacted.
> Bear in mind that if you lose your home insurance and don't sign a new policy, a lender can and usually will foreclose upon it.

But if this happens in sufficient numbers, then lenders will likely rethink that policy. No lender wants to foreclose, and particularly if there's no chance that they'll be able to sell the property for enough to cover the costs of foreclosing.
If the increase in value of the sellers' land is wholly due to Disney's development of its land nearby, the sellers would simply be benefiting from a positive externality created by Disney. Thus it would be Disney being shortchanged if it was unable to capture the value of that externality.

From an efficiency standpoint it is also preferable for the developer to capture the value, as naturally that increases incentives for development.
Save you a click:

> From 12 a.m. to 1 a.m. on July 17, Death Valley hit a record 120°F.

The advertisements to buy a new car are a nice touch.
The comment I'm responding to goes against several HN guidelines, but I'm hoping I can use the opportunity to turn it away from low-effort trolling into an opportunity for education and clarity.

The 2-party system in the US causes hundreds of distinct groups and ideologies to be lumped into either a D or R, regardless of any ideological cohesion to any particular label- left, right, liberal, conservative, authoritarian, libertarian, etc.

The state-level government in Texas is controlled by the Republican party, but specifically by a neoconservative, nationalist, social conservative-Christian cohort. The fiscal conservatives and libertarian small-government conservatives are essentially powerless, minority members of either the Democrat or Republican party, and individuals whose views match those labels will likely vote split-ticket in most elections rather than a straight-party voting pattern.

In essence, while the comment I'm responding to is alluding to a hypocrisy of beliefs, a better interpretation is that the "small government" conservatives don't really hold any power in the Texas state Republican establishment. To the extent that any of them vote R, they're mostly doing so in a "choose which of 2 bad choices seems least bad" context.
> Something I find interesting about visualizing things in my mind's eye: I can't get a grasp on where, exactly, I'm seeing them. I'm not seeing them in front of me, to my left or right, above or below, behind me, inside me... they just seem to exist off somewhere completely different.

Now consider what's going on under the covers when each individual contemplates "the (simulation of the) events of January 6" or various other culture war issues, without having any knowledge of the magic that's going on under the covers, a state of mind for which there seems to be no way out of, for most (including "standard" intellectuals).

To me, this is highly similar to cultural beliefs before and after the first enlightenment and rise of science, hopefully the second one gets here before we destroy ourselves with our delusions of understanding due to insufficient fundamentalist cognitive ideologies.
This seems an appropriate time to point out, we are not alone in our own minds.

Conventional debate refuses this inescapable truth. Affluent, educated, and well respected members of your most elite communities will vehemently deny the possibility.

In addition to mentally unstable persons at risk to others, thought control is on the rise and these are pyramid schemes of exploitation.

Those empowered by Thought control are driving unstable persons to rape and murderous extremes. The homeless unstable are the most dramatic when they go off, yet if you pay attention they are setting off all kinds of peoples. They are driving your conspiracy cultures (themselves the ultimate conspiracy.)

America is being driven insane within, by American Thought Control.

> “If you talk to God, you are praying,” Szasz declared. “If God talks to you, you are schizophrenic.”

Or the more difficult to explain truth, that we are not alone in our own minds.

It is your greatest crisis to deny the exogenous of thought control, as thought control takes the place of God in the minds of thought controlled Americans.
People who live in apartments instead of single-family detached housing often have to park on the street. "at home overnight" is not near a charger. Even if they have dedicated parking they often can't install a charger into their landlord's property.

For a lot of people, it's true that they won't need charging stations. But for urban areas those stations will be more necessary than in suburban or many rural areas.
We'd be having the same discussion if some other language emerged as the lingua franca. It's just easier to share knowledge if we're all speaking the same language regardless of that language or inherent grammatical bias. A globalized world will always coalesce around some primary language. It's not like english is necessarily special: it was just in the right place at the right time and generally works.

And there's nothing stopping you from using other languages. Go right ahead.
What I want to know is how a man with a drone is more cost-effective. In 2023, high resolution satellite imagery is basically a SaaS product.
I have a friend who told me he’s 6 months “media sober.” No social media, streaming services,
crossword puzzle apps, news, podcasts, porn, even no movie theatres. He says he feels less angry, still is told the more important things by friends, and has more energy to put into causes that matter to him.

I think there’s something to be said for a middle ground, but it’s in no company’s interest to provide it. They all want more engagement. Maybe we need some kind of non-profit media aggregator that gives you just the small drip you need and that’s it.
I expect the trend to continue and get worse. India is on the verge of having serious issue with its food supply. To keep its share of importation stable, given the current population growth, the country needs its production to grow by 20% (by weight) in the next 25 years. That’s basically a bit more than 1% a year. The potential is definitely there but as far as I know the growth has been slightly under target for the past few years. I fully expect imports to rise and exports to be banned more and more often for the foreseeable future. Famine is unlikely but definitely a risk.
Very like a binary blob. You have to execute it to use it and impossible for humans to reason about just by looking at it.

At least binary blobs can be disassembled.
That was a thing in Diablo 2 and that's when the IP peaked, this got lost with Diablo 3 and, i believe even more so with Diablo 4.. all the builds are all discovered and in front of you, there is no tinkering with incredible skill interaction possible like we used to do in Diablo 2

It's kinda similar to how Bethesda manages the Elder Scrolls IP, ~ a decade between titles and they casualize(? is it a word)/simplify mechanics that made them popular, they became a shadow of themselves, as a result their titles, while successful, doesn't give the same satisfaction, and I don't think it's due to nostalgia, there are specific design decisions that emphasis with my point, lvl-scaling and simplified damage/defense stats in D4 for example

The story and world building are both nailed, hence the commercial success, but the gameplay... what a let down.. exactly like Oblivion -> Skyrim transition

I don't think the game would have been a success if "Diablo" wasn't attached to the name, I'm pretty sure it sold less than Diablo 3

Hopefully they evolve the genre/IP with Diablo 5, perhaps focus as a single player game and explore new gameplay mechanics

This "game as a service" ruins this IP

Hopefully Bethesda don't fall into the same trap and actually move the IP forward, similar to how Fromsoftware evolved their Souls like genre

Dark Souls -> Elden Ring, that's what I expect from both Blizzard / Bethesda, they both play too safe and ends up becoming the shadow of their past..
Look up OLTP vs OLAP data stores to get an idea. There are a lot of common patterns for the specifics of implementing this. Usually you run a regularly scheduled job that dumps data representing some time period (e.g. daily jobs). There are some considerations for late arriving data, which is a classic DE interview question, but for the most part, big nightly dumps of the last day’s data/transactions/snapshots to date-partitioned columnar stores using an orchestration engine like Airflow is sufficient for 99% of use cases.
Why sqrt(n) and not log(n)?

And that complexity theory already exists. Typical whiteboard engineering uses transdichotomous models to gloss over some polylogarithmic factors (as do much of the literature), but more accurate models exist.

The difference isn't usually super relevant when comparing multiple solutions all using the same model of computation though since the extra terms don't tend to bump one complexity class above another when switching models, and if you cared about actual runtime characteristics you wouldn't be relying on log factors in such a crude tool anyway.
You won't see much more than tree tops in ours, but I agree with the basic concept.
I've always loved this series.

The problem, as I see it, is that the focus is always on tweaking the "endgame." I just find this to be silly. Once you get to the endgame it's pointless, and people basically blaze through the base game on purpose. And once you get there it really is no more than a slot machine that caters to people with serious gambling addictions. You run the same dungeons over and over again, sometimes thousands or even tens of thousands of times, all for an item with slightly different numbers. In Diablo 1 and 2 the item often doesn't even look different.

But I've always found the base game to be excellent. Fun, exciting, and a blast with 4 people.

I feel like, particularly with the new Diablo 4 they could make the leveling curve on the base game last MUCH, MUCH longer and it would actually be far more enjoyable for far more people. It would piss off the endgame crowd though, because all they want to do is get to max level as fast as possible so they can start farming.
The point is that putting a device in the sun will rapidly raise it's internal temperatures past its operating limits.

"on a day that was around 95-100F"
When you add solar heating that device is going to get hot and quickly. The internal temperatures of the SOC and battery will be out of range and the device will need to shut down to cool off.
Is that a reference to the Diablo Immortal announcement
Big Ben Word Game
I debated whether to be more specific and verbose in my earlier comment and brevity won at the expense of clarity. I meant large models that cost 6 or 7 digits to train likely won't be released if the donor company can't control how the models are used.

> I don’t see why, for-profit companies release permissively-licensed ooen-source code all the time

I agree with this - however, they tend to open-source non-core components - Google won't release search engine code, Amazon wont release scalable-virtualization-in-a-box, etc.

I'm confident that Facebook won't release a hypothetical Llama 5 in a manner that enables it to be used to improve ChatGPT 8 - the aim will be unchanged from today, byt the mechanism will shift from licensing to rate-limiting, authentication & IP-bans.
Could you elaborate? Tailwind CSS is MIT but it's still under a for-profit company.
Any similar solution for self-hosting focus, my own comprehensive data center infrastructure management + cloud? router/switches, load balancer, firewall, CGN, bare metal server, VM, Containers, Application and etc.
Regulatory capture is a risk but concluding "therefore we shouldn't regulate things" is an argument that doesn't work when there's a need to regulate dangerous things, except maybe with hard-core libertarians.

Like, should there be prescription drugs? If you say no, you should be able to get any drug without a prescription, that's pretty out there.

But the question is whether AI is that dangerous, and there's widespread disagreement on that.
EU is broadly moving to a cashless economy. There are certainly not going to be any new laws that mandate cash payment. The opposite is happening all the time, with more and more things becoming impossible to buy with cash.
Perfect information has nothing to do with fair

There's a difference between false information and no information.
Some personal context: I've been doing aerial photography as a side hustle for a couple of years now. There are several sites out there that offer one-off jobs for bid. While you usually don't know who your ultimate client is, I've done probably ~25 of those that were obviously for insurance purposes. All but two were commercial properties; those two were homes where the owner was also operating a business out of an outbuilding, so it's reasonable for me to believe that they were also for commercial insurers.

From the drone operator's side, the pay for this kind of work ranges from ~$50-150. Based on the research I've done into the companies posting jobs on these sites, they seem to be charging ~$200. I'm sure large customers with lots of jobs get a significant discount, too.

TL;DR: The ubiquity of drones these days has driven the cost of this sort of data collection way, way down.
Absolutely. I've already traded the 'stuff' for more _space_. That alone is a huge mental health booster.
> writing a full OS in Java

IMAO, Android kind of achieve that...kind of. They write lots of OS logics in Java (or Kotlin) but mixing lots of system services written in native code at the same time, interconnected by the famous (or infamous?) Bind IPC.
>Bear in mind that if you lose your home insurance and don't sign a new policy, a lender can and usually will foreclose upon it.

Are you sure this is correct? In this situation, lenders will usually do something called a force-placed insurance: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/102....
Pls do give feedback about the downvotes. I have yet to find a better source on the background of the whole conflict.
Yes, they have to pick one or the other. Until then I'm going to assume that the model licence doesn't apply since the first point would be invalid and the model could not be built in the first place.
I was only introduced to terraform a few months ago, but my own takeaway so far closely mirrors yours.

One thing that's sorely needed, especially for beginners, is something like a schema. Something that would provide editors with typical language features, but especially autocomplete. Maybe protobuf would work but I've also heard about some language called Cue that may be worth exploring as well.

I also feel that declarative is the wrong approach. Building infrastructure is inherently imperative and making the build process apparent in the code would go a long way towards readability. I'd love to be able to read through the terraform modules like I'm reading a story about how the system gets built.
> but to happen on a large scale we need more opportunities for people to create millions of dollars in value.

Wouldn’t you say that there has been a huge spike in opportunities over the past 50 years? I’m thinking of the explosion of computing and its impact on society.

Yet we’ve mostly seen the middle class shrink.

I’m skeptical the issue here is opportunities. I’m pretty sure the issue is a shift in the balance of power, moving it from labour to capital. One superyacht could have paid for a lot of middle class lives. Automating a farm is a great opportunity to make a couple engineers+ceos+investors rich, and dump a few hundred people onto the job market, diluting their and every other worker in their position’s power
The only system I own is a PS2, the greatest console of all time is still going strong in 2023
How? It's illegal for them to get kick backs from pharama companies
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depending on scale and architecture, either behavior can be better. it’s easier to shard when writes occur randomly over the overall space. it’s easier to coalesce when writes all happen in a given place (head or tail)
In what world is local food typically more emission heavy than imported food?
Caveat emptor is a pretty terrible way to run a society. I'd argue if you deliberately misrepresent something as basic as who you are in a transaction in order to deceive your counterparty, that should be fraud.
You can find a balance. Diablo 3 tried. You had a game that you could make significantly hard, and because respecs were essentially unlimited you could reroll your character for any particular fight that was too hard to try and find a new way to beat it. I enjoyed that part.