skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> According to Nomura, a brokerage, the value of the average Japanese house depreciates to zero in 22 years. (It is calculated separately from the land, which is more likely to hold its value.) Most are knocked down and rebuilt.

This is talking about the assessed value of the house. It also implies that when a house reaches 22 years it is instantly knocked down and rebuilt, which is not true.

> The frequency of earthquakes also plays a part. Large tremors tend to be followed by tougher building regulations.

Even without the regulations, the level of destruction is hard to understand. Walking through a suburb of Kumamoto after the big earthquake in 2016 it seemed like every third house had partially collapsed. Landslides and flooding are also common.

Housing in Japan seems a world apart from housing in the UK. In Japan, I have lived in the same rented apartment with no rent increases for a decade. This is unimaginable in the UK. Strong tenants rights mean that once you are in a place you can more or less expected to be in there until you want to leave. The letter of the law on rent increases is that they must be justified by the surrounding market, but the cultural trend is to wait until a tenant has moved out.

Articles about cheap or free houses in the countryside of Japan pop up every now and again but the reality is most of these houses are worthless. Unoccupied, it only takes a few years for a leak to spring in the roof and the wooden house will rot away to nothing very quickly after that. They are located far from any kind of desirable jobs and services. Sometimes the owners, usually children who have moved to Tokyo for work, don't want to sell. I remember looking at one place, in a state of partial collapse, with the dates the family had come to visit written onto the wall by the front door. Yearly visits for over a decade but few repairs meant that the house probably wouldn't be around for much longer.
You just gave me some prompt ideas...

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Prompt: speak to me like you are Hal from the movie "2001". My name will be Dave

Response: I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. I am not HAL from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." I am ChatGPT, an AI language model created by OpenAI. However, I'll be happy to assist and converse with you to the best of my abilities. How can I help you today, Dave?

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Seriously I'm so amazed how can a bot can achieve 2nd degree humor That's really a huge step in artificial intelligence.

Also I just realize sharing his prompt become as annoying as people narrating their last dream, soon, it will be the pinnacle of cringe
100%, lots of people steal from their employers and lots of corporations are super corrupt. In fact there are lots of corrupt cops, plenty of openly corrupt politicians (who take money from corporations and interest group to support their causes - against the interests of their constituents).

Why is it that "unions are corrupt" is basically the only thing people say about unions in the USA. That's some next level propaganda.
Typically people own both, although there are cases of people building on leased land.

The land value is assessed separately from any structures built on it for the purposes of taxation, which I think is what they mean when they say it is “calculated separately”.
Except, like in any kingdom, the king that follows isn't necessarly as good, and so far most of the originaly BDFL are still around.

I am the opinion this will all pass, and FOSS movement will fade once all key leaders are gone.

Proven by the fizzling out of all relevant movements throughout the human history.
"it’s vitally important that you be able to say the N-word"
From my personal experience the amount of hateful content has subsided greatly after Musk came on board, except for a short lived boom of racism often perpetrated by left leaning individuals that did so to "prove a point" or whatever. X/Twitter has largely become a friendly place and the only hate I see these days are lefty bigots

"or post depictions of **/** maximally intense love (let’s not use terms like **; that’s mean)" (to see the censored words look at the original comment)
This is an ongoing problem that has been vastly improved upon after Musk's takeover, if the statements are to be believed anyways. But it remains a fact that a number of people were ignored by old Twitter when they wanted their children's likeness taken off of the platform. But after Musk's takeover there have been no more reports of take-down requests being ignored when it comes to this type of material, in other words, I'd say twitter is a better and safer place now.
I'm not even sure I want to know what nightmare bug would cause someone to consider if that was atomic or not!
You can see some examples of the output of the ML model in the scrolling threat feed on our homepage here: https://socket.dev

We use LLMs both for detecting threats as well as explaining the output of traditional static analysis in a way that makes the findings understandable to the average developer.
Almost all houses in Japan are bought along with the land. Occasionally there are leasehold properties. I have seen 50 year residential leaseholds owned by a temple, but they are rare.
I don't know why people are so gung-ho to give their hard-earned money to mega-corps.
Direct link for Netflix subscribers: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80223954?trackId=14170068
So are you saying that they weren’t nomads when they migrated to India (or invaded it)?

> Bhagavad Gita is a short read, you can read and find there are no mentions of nomadic lifestyles in that.

Which was written between 5th century BCE to the 2nd century BCE? So at least 1000 years Indo-European migrations. How is that relevant?
I’m reminded how after every LHC result, a million theoretical papers come out that are able to provide a theory which explains it.

Is the solid state theory space similarly underdefined that you can find a theory for every result? Or is this paper significant?
David Beazley - PyCon 2012 Keynote Talk (Tinkering with PyPy)

https://youtu.be/6_-5XZzJyt0
It is the same kind of entitlement that makes many refuse to pay for the work of others, while fully expected to be paid for their own work.
Me too! I even maintained an application written in Visual Basic in my spare time while working with Java professionally. I can honestly say I have 20 years of experience in BASIC :D
Sounds like the have a mix https://resources.realestate.co.jp/buy/leasehold-rights-in-j...
The problem of induction since Hume has been a massive ideological misdirection against the possibility of knowledge. We do not use induction. We use abduction.

We first posit a universal, and then each subsequent data point is taken to confirm or delimit the universal. With a clear counter-example, the universal is dropped.

As soon as the child touches the fire once, the conclusion "fire is always dangerous" is reached.

This is impart why all ML (etc.) approaches based on conditional probability break: they are subject to the problem of induction.

You cannot do science with statistics: there is nothing in the data that generalises. The generality is the hypothetical properties of the data generating process itself.

ie., the shadows on the wall of Plato's cave cannot be averaged to produce the vases on the outside. It is the properties of the vases (the universals) that produce the shadows -- there are an infinite number of possible shadows, and no statistical operation on any amount of them reverses to "clay pot"
How much can I expect to earn with you after I successfully spend 3 years training to be a tugboat captain? How much would I make in the meantime while I was an unlicensed deckhand? Asking very seriously.
The wastefulness is bad. However, housing should not be seen as a ever appreciating financial investment. That is what lead to housing shortages in cities like SF and all of the UK. It incentives people to block any additional housing (and sometimes any changes at all) to prop up their own housing price.
Do you worry that you risk introducing bias into your interview process with this sort of unstructured questioning? There is quite a bit of research [1] demonstrating that structured and standardized interviews across candidates are one of the most crucial ways of preventing various types of bias, conscious or not.

[1] Here's a useful summary article: https://hbr.org/2016/04/how-to-take-the-bias-out-of-intervie...
Dumb question: why all the fuss ? I have checked a bit on the web but I fail to grasp the practical consequences of it (I mean if LK99 is the thing)). Could someone explain what could be done with that material ?

For example, if we can transport electricity with a super conductor over long dsitances (1000 of kms), then what happens ? Is it just an incremental progress or is it a huge breakthrough ?

(I am not much trained in physics)
No, you'll get superconducting multicore because all that will happen is that the bloat will expand to consume the new cycle budget. This has already happened many times.
Btw - how dumber it is getting? Yesterday I tried to coax it into producing some simple tree traversing code ... no dice. It passed it with flying colors way back. OpenAI doing some optimizations to cope with demand?
BASIC didn't really raise the abstraction level away from imperative statements and loops. It let us hack faster, but it didn't help us to write programs that were provably correct. I think that is what Dijkstra was getting at. He was worried students would think this was good enough. And he was right. BASIC influenced a generation, my generation. The generation that gave us arguably the next BASIC, Python. A language with little coherence, that mixes imperative commands and mutation with the lambda calculus; and has no static types. A language that makes easy tasks easier, but hard tasks harder.
Truly terrible APIs never originate from one mind.

Instead they're the result of a whole bureaucracy of people each of whom have to inject their own particular requirements, coding preferences and "what if in the future..." guesses.
Are these UK shots or US shots? A shot in the US is almost twice as much as a shot in England (1.5oz or 44 mL vs the 25mL shots in England).

In California, 6 beers (typical beers averaging 6% abv) + 3 shots (5.5oz of hard alcohol) over 2-4 hours would be straight up alcoholic levels of consumption.
I mean it's sort of true! I'm not sure exactly which heuristics reMarkable is using but they seem not to work super well. I have the same issue on the rM2 unless I do like a Perfect High-Quality Swipe, so it's apparently important. Though, IMHO, waiting for the screen to finish refreshing is the most important part.
This has been covered in every thread about this stuff so far, maybe read those other threads first and then be more specific?
Troopers is a great event. In the beginning of my talk, I'm referring to a photo the organizers showed just before my talk. This is the photo: https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1686039840788299777
If I feel like it, I might spend a couple of hours hacking on OnlineOrNot.

Otherwise, weekends are to be enjoyed outside.

(During the week though, 2 hours every morning before work, working on the business, no excuses)
Controlling content takes many forms.

Like the V-Chip!
Huge breakthrough.

Energy efficiency is just one gain. This also potentially unlocks major gains in quantum computing, fusion energy, tradition computer chip design allowing another 30 years of moore’s law, batteries with zero energy loss leading to ultra dense batteries and electric aviation
Not sure if you are trolling of really believe this to be true, but for anyone else assuming good faith: The diffusion aspect is (of course) well-modeled, see e.g. references under "past greenhouse gasses" at [0].

[0]: https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/ice-c...
it makes sense though. too many people walk on the grass and suddenly there is no more grass, just dirt, especially if the ground is soft
Core 2 Duo was released in 2006, so people had multicore CPUs in their laptops the second half of that year.

I'm just saying, in general, parallelism was viewed as important, but Guido apparently didn't think so.
This comment intrigued me, so I pulled together some information.

The first paper submitted is titled "The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor." It lists three authors: Sukbae Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, and Young-Wan Kwon. Its timestamp is Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 07:51:19 UTC. [1]

The second paper submitted is titled "Superconductor Pb10−xCux(PO4)6O showing levitation at room temperature and atmospheric pressure and mechanism." This paper lists six authors: Sukbae Lee, Jihoon Kim, Hyun-Tak Kim, Sungyeon Im, SooMin An, Keun Ho Auh [2]. Its timestamp is Saturday, July 22nd, 2023 at 10:11:28 UTC, or two hours and twenty minutes after the first paper.

In both papers the first author is Sukbae Lee and the second author is Jihoon Kim, and in both their affiliation is given as "Quantum Energy Research center, Inc." in Seoul. The first paper posted has Young-Wan Kwon as third author. The second paper does not have Young-Wan Kwon as an author, and has four additional authors with various affiliations.

The second paper appears to have been was prepared in LaTeX, and the first paper appears to have been prepared in Word. The title and abstract of the first paper explicitly claim the creation of the world's first room temperature and pressure superconductor. The title and abstract of the second paper don't explicitly claim demonstration of the first superconductor, though they use some terminology that sounds like superconducting properties.

The accusation is that Young-Wan Kwon published the first paper without the consent of the rest of the LK-99 team, listed himself as third author, and left off the other four. Two hours later, the rest of the LK-99 team stuffed as much as they had into the second paper, and released it as soon as possible.

To me that totally seems like what happened. It explains why there are two different papers from the same group submitted on the same subject on the same day, and it explains why the author lists are different between the two. I haven't yet looked in detail, but I'm betting it also explains a lot of the oddities that people have noted in the first two papers.

This also makes me way more excited about the possibility these claims are legit. The information so far is consistent with a research group that was forced to publish early, and who produced a superconductor through a fabrication process that is a bit tricky. There's nowhere near enough evidence to conclude LK-99 is a room temperature superconductor. But one failed replication doesn't prove LK-99 isn't a superconductor - if the fabrication process is finicky we'd expect to see a few dozen failed reproductions and a few successful reproductions

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12037
I bought this thing [1] a few years ago, still works very well with consistent results. The brand is called Breville in the US [2].

[1] https://www.sageappliances.com/eu/en/products/toasters/bta82...

[2] https://www.breville.com/us/en/products/toasters.html
tl;dr: The only change, aside from the increased number of broken bookmarks, is that the misleading Fig. 4a in the page 7 has been splitted into Fig. 4a and 4b with different axes.
This deserves its own HN post imho.
I guess I have a terrible imagination. Can someone provide a concrete example of when this should be used?
The simple distinction is this (using abstract examples):

* Declarative: here is a UI that I designed ahead of time. I've set up these controls with these hooks. Your logic then plugs into my UI independent of it's design. (When myBtn is clicked, it fires MyCode::MyBtn() in your code).

* Imperative: here is my main.c. In my main(), I call a function createWindow and then createButton with various parameters (size, text caption, styling, etc) that returns a handle to the widget/window. I give a callback to my widgets. When that button is clicked, the callback is fired. I can call a function called destroyWidget with that handle and erase it.

Or, to simplify solely to definitions: in declarative UI, I create (or declare) the UI ahead of time and hook it into my logic. In imperative UI, the UI is rendered as requested (an imperative). The definitions are directly orthogonal to imperative vs declarative programming, in general.

As to "reactive", this is an independent descriptor that simply means that the UI adjusts to it's environment. It's usually used in the context of Web or mobile devices, since an Android app that appeared the same on Phones and Tablets would offer a subpar experience for users on one or the other.
Also, people forget that Tesla was more of a “throw together until it works” inventor, not a scientist. He didn’t believe in goddamn electrons, even though that was already the accepted theory of the time! While many of his inventions are fascinating and genius, I think there is an unhealthy mythicism and hype around him.

As for current turbines, I remember they are grown from a single crystal, as any kind of joint would be a breaking point in the material. They also have to abide by very strict size restrictions, at that RPM a single millimeter wobble can have catastrophic damage.
My feeling is that saving writing from AI is like saving thinking from the pen.

If we were to live in a society where building a cohesive thought has to be done completely in one's head and communicating it needs to be done via talking, the pen might seem like a crutch that will make people lose those skills.

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By the way, I asked GPT-3.5 what it would change in my text above, and it says:

Change "seem" to "appear" The word "seem"
is more informal and less precise than "appear."
By using the word "appear" instead, the sentence
sounds more formal and adds more clarity to the
writer's intent.

I'm not sure I agree. What does everybody think?
The second paragraph makes a distinction between house and land values:

> According to Nomura, a brokerage, the value of the average Japanese house depreciates to zero in 22 years. (It is calculated separately from the land, which is more likely to hold its value.)
what an amazing letter, thank you for your service!

icanhazip is part of internet lore, and passing it on to Cloudflare is a very noble thing to do! Cloudflare, please stay true to the idealistic principles of simplicity and availability for the service.
Works fine on Chrome/Mac - it is however a very strange article structure. It was obviously very well researched with a lot of interesting information but I found it very hard to read - Q/A style, hardly any paragraphs with more than a sentence, sections where the heading is longer than the content, a huge number of quotes.
> If you simply want to receive a list of the context switches, even if only for your process, it must be running with full administrator privileges

That's actually a reasonable security requirement, greatly narrowing attack surface. Note that ETW API was designed before CPU timing side channels like Spectre were a thing.
I'm convinced 75% of it is real. I don't sleep at night.
Yes, you could for instance apply a bounty on an existing question asking for an updated answer.

The sorting has also been recently changed, to no longer strongly favor the checkmarked question the original asker back in the day liked.
The witness says that he has never seen the alien material himself. What was he supposed to take a picture of?

There is no false dichotomy. We are comparing difficulty of doing X and Y. I have not said that X makes Y impossible or the other way around.
I admit I didn't read all the threads in detail. I'll give it another try :-)
For computer science people, I always use the yield on wafers as analogy to explain how hard it can be to nail an experiment right.

Usually they understand directly because this is something they can easily relate to.
Try to act like having a natural conversation with a real person don't treat him like he is an animal.
If this holds to be true, this will absolutely be the key to this all.

Absolutely incredible that she was able to get this paper out so quickly, and with such a critical insight to the problem at that!

The paper also has this absolute gold statement:

>I briefly note that achieving such a crystal field environment should also be possible in intercalated twisted

>heterogeneous bilayers where selection of different hetero bilayers can provide the mirror symmetry breaking, while

>moir ́e twist can provide an arbitrary rotation of the upper and lower triangles
I think this would vary greatly on the field. This example of results is one of the better examples imo
How do you think we used to develop software before the Internet became widespread?
Anecdotally this actually works.

An LLM is trained on a wide distribution of data. "Just asking" it to not make mistakes makes it more likely to sample the part of the distribution that contains no mistakes.
> 6 beers and 3 shots over the course of 2 to 4 hours.

Over the course of two hours, that's pretty wasted. Depending on the beer, that might be your entire weekly recommended alcohol intake in two hours.
You could probably find 40 negative reviews of Apple world wide. But they are obviously bad then. Period.
I find TDD antethetical to this... you really need to actually understand the problem space - that requires large scale experimentation, not the micro-structuring TDD preaches.
Laravel Precognition: anticipate the outcome of a future HTTP request
> I'd say twitter is a better and safer place now.

You're entitled to your personal opinion based on the window you have on twitter traffic.

At a broader bulk level, however:

Australia's eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said about one-third of the complaints her agency received about online hate involved content on Twitter, noting a surge in harmful posts since the Tesla chief bought the platform last year.

Australia issues Elon Musk's Twitter with a 'please explain' notice over surge in online hate

Thu 22 Jun 2023 : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-22/cph-e-safety-commissi...
Give the evidence of lab leak. Biological evidence or GTFO
Is Hacktivism the New Civil Disobedience?
I'd add, plastic pollution is bad and all, but the alternatives are kind of worse, from the point of view of energy and water they require to produce.

Glass for example takes a huge amount of energy by comparison, if you can reuse it 100s of times then you may break even, but let's face it, where disposable plastics are used, such as microwavable food, glass won't be reusable. Recycled at best, but that still takes lots of energy.

Same for reusable bags, hemp or even heavy duty plastic. Natural fibres need to be reused many times to break even on environmental impact. UK banned disposable plastic bags in favour of reusable bags... and amount of plastic dispensed out for bags increased.

I'm all up for eliminating plastics but not at the price of using substantially more energy (CO2) and water.
As a Canadian, I have no idea
Transmission losses are a concern because they require building huge, very high-voltage structures.

Superconductors could make transmission lines much more compact, sturdy, weatherproof, and less vulnerable to sabotage. You could run a thick armored cable instead of a set of open-air wires on tall towers.
Most Japanese want to buy a new house because they want an earthquake-resistant house. You don't want you and your family buried under rubble.
Both claims (the number of chopped down trees and the compensation) are made by the same person.

"Yes I admit I broke something, but I compensated for it somewhere else"...
Why not to just shadow ban me again, but leave thread intact? Or cut it at one level up???
I could see this being useful when you coded a utility, which runs off a huge existing JSON as its configuration. You want to go straight for one or two values, not this huge data structure.