skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were down voted for everything except that.

Especially since the linked article says it is >50% per unit which supports my point.

So big investors are good for housing because they increase demand for housing driving up the price because they offer rentals?

You are pretending that the investors are providing the housing here while ignoring that they are taking away housing that would be available.

Investors building units provide housing. Investors buying housing and renting it out do not.
How many GWh of battery storage have California grid operators built recently?
The majority ~70% of wealthy people in the US are self made and didn’t get an inheritance. Also financial advisors, wealth managers, portfolio managers whatever you want to call them are a scam. They aren’t going to get you higher returns. What they will give you perhaps is more free time if you reach a point where you no longer want to manage your own financial affairs and are willing to accept lower returns to not think about finances.
I've done some fun side projects on the original Kinect and also on the second Kinect that was re-released as Kinect for Windows. I remember marveling how drop dead simple it was to get depth and video working together and thinking how this was the technology that would let people do what were university-level projects suddenly in the span of a weekend.

I wonder why I don't see interesting depth camera applications making the news the way I used to 10 years ago.
> If technology is so advanced and if solar panels are getting cheaper, why aren't we building new cities in the desert?

Why would we build cities in the desert? It's a lot easier to generate power in the desert and transport it to other places, than it is to supply cities in the desert with water, and increased energy costs due to having to run A/Cs 24-7-365.

If it's a question of land, there's plenty of land in places with water and better climate.
Like many others here have said, Valve has won a loyal customer. The impact proton has over linux as desktop is unmeasurable. They did open source right, and they will likely benefit massively from it.
Germany replaced its nuclear power plants with all kinds of things, predominantly renewables. The first NPP going offline under the "Atomausstieg" went offline in 2003.

https://www.energie.de/et/news-detailansicht/nsctrl/detail/N... has a chart showing the energy sources for electricity production in Germany (up to 2021).

During the period in which nuclear (Kernenergie) went down from ~160bn kWh (2003) to ~60bn kWh (2021), lignite (Braunkohle) went down from a bit over 150bn kWh to ~110bn kWh. Hard coal (Steinkohle) went down from ~140bn kWh to ~50bn kWh.

There has been an uptick in natural gas (Erdgas) from ~60bn kWh to ~90bn kWh, but most of it was covered by renewables (Erneuerbare), going from ~55bn kWh to ~240bn kWh.

So no, nuclear power wasn't replaced with coal.

There has been an increase in coal to replace natural gas in 2022 (not on this chart) when the gas market imploded following russia's full-scale invasion in Ukraine, but that was more of a temporary measure. With the LNG terminals going online, that will be sorted out soon enough, and measures to increase the build out of renewables to get rid of all fossils (_and_ nuclear) were planned even before 2022.

Germany just had the problem that after a coalition government including the Greens until 2005, the conservative-led coalitions for the next 16 years didn't dare to reopen the snake pit that is nuclear power (it was a conservative government that ended new build out of nuclear power plants in 1989, too) but at the same time hampered the renewables build out - apparently they have some weird infatuation with burning fossils.
That would require way more magic/sufficiently advanced technology than we can afford currently
Not to get entirely off topic here, but I heard a guest on the Dutch national radio this morning make a recommendation to all the Dutch folks coming back from vacation in France around this time, to prolong the vacation vibe by tuning in to the "français facile" radio station, with presumably a less waterfall-like experience of listening to the news in French, so that they now could finally understand what was being said.
Tier list of interesting YouTube channels
Lake Nyos Disaster - On 21 August 1986
Ok here you go.

Point one: instinct isn’t a reliable source of knowledge:

Here’s a link to a page that comments on instinct: https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/psychmethods4e/chapter/methods-of...

Another book you might be interested in, “Blink: The power of thinking without thinking”. Also here’s a link: https://jtnthebe.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Blink-The-Po...

Second point, you take issue with the “angel of mercy” or “angel of death” terminology but this is a type of criminal offender: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_mercy_(criminology)

Third point: for your instincts on female abusers and killers being a secret pandemic - I disagree. I don’t disagree that women commit crime, can and do abuse, and do indeed kill - but I don’t think it’s a secret pandemic, and gender differences between men and women who abuse, and/or kill do exist and there’s many possibly explanations for this. Including stereotypes, but that is not the only issue.

Here’s another book: “Social Problems” And a specific page, “Who commits crime”: https://open.lib.umn.edu/socialproblems/chapter/8-3-who-comm...
Although reading the whole book might be helpful, or studying some criminology, sociology, or psychology might be even more useful, if you’re heavily interested in this stuff.

And finally, at no point have I tried to cover for these people or justify the actions of people who kill or abuse other people. Me disagreeing with you is not the same as me supporting or defending killers or abusers. I accept your comment that I then followed up with saying I was fairly confident and then provided no evidence for my confidence, which was hypocritical of me and I apologise. My comment was more intended to point out that you made bold statements, based on your instinct and you didn’t actually present any information that gave your comment any credibility.
> Or, maybe, Munger figured out that what was viewed as obviously correct wasn't actually correct

Nah, looking at the floor plans, he was just optimizing for cost at the expense of user experience.

To rebut your anecdata with my own: My dorm rooms at college had large 5' x 4' windows that opened. The unlimited fresh air and view over the campus helped me keep my sanity while studying for a 4-year engineering degree. A windowless room would have driven me stark raving mad in the first year.
Very interesting topic, completely useless article content.

Come to think of it, that's the definition of clickbait.
Surely, Apple can sponsor contributions to make it work, as Valve does.
Open source allows other Open companies to train their models.
Open source also serves as a "defense strategy" for larger companies whose core business does not directly / indirectly depend on commercializing its open source project(s). They in turn serve more like hedges.

For example, Meta with PyTorch in context of the machine learning tooling space. PyTorch is probably strategically important for them as they do not have a cloud business. The other large competing deep learning framework is Tensorflow, designed and open sourced by Google but also owns a cloud business (GCP). They also have in-house AI accelerators like TPUs. Microsoft didn't really have a deep learning framework, but they have ONNX, and is now using ONNXRuntime as an on-ramp to their cloud business (Azure).

If Meta wants to continue doing ML, and all the other cloud players jacked up their prices, that's gonna hurt Meta's operating costs. So it's still "cheap" to have hedged against such a scenario. All these on top of upsides like developer marketing etc.
Then get your neighbors on board and petition your local utility to build. Point out they're not going to have to spend the millions of dollars it takes to fight the lawsuits from those trying to prevent you from building the nuclear power station. You have them covered!
GPT-5 Is Public
I tend to use the Bing version of ChatGPT and I was curious on what model it ran. To my surprise, it was GPT-5!

You can check it out at https://web.skype.com
My point is subtly different, I think. The point I’m trying to make is that if you’re “at rest” in space, all of your movement is through time. If you are “at rest” in time, all of your movement is through space.

As far as I understand it, having mass is basically a result of moving more slowly through space.
Rusts ABI may as well not exist however. Rust can co-exist with C. Everything else that depends on C's ABI won't be able to play nicely with Rust without significant work from one side or the other.
If so then there's no solution except most people dying, which is why we should at least try something better
I would also ask that sha hashes are posted somewhere. It annoys me to know end how difficult it can be to confirm you are using the real model.
The bar for what is "AI" keeps moving. For example plane autopilots would be "AI" in the 1980s, the ability for a machine to win at chess, go, and other games etc.
It's annoying, though, that certain sentence structures work or don't work, depending on whether the gender of the objects happens to be the same or not.
> Another opinion popular with no one: AI will have on artists the same impact that Spotify had on the music industry that is, it will kill any revenue flow for anyone outside of the publishers and big artists/players.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but how much money do you think the 7500 creators on Spotify making $100k+ [1] would be making without Spotify or other streaming platforms? My guess is closer to zero than 100k.

Also 0.09 percent of 8 million creators making 100k+ [1] sounds horrible, but my guess is that should be taken with a grain of salt. How many folks are included in that 8 million who registered, but uploaded nothing? How many uploaded once or twice? How many uploaded and did ZERO promo of themselves? How many are just plain terrible musicians?

A number of years ago when I stumbled on him, Russ was pulling in a few hundred thousand per year from streaming. Looks like he’s making 100k per week as of a couple of years ago [2]. Yes, he’s probably an outlier. But he works his butt off on his craft, handles production and writing himself, and markets himself well.

Headlines like “Big tech and AI destroying the indie music industry” get more clicks and attention than “Streaming platforms provide income where once there was none” so shrug.

[1] https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2021/02/24/spotify-artist-e...
[2] https://twitter.com/russdiemon/status/1325853093074923520
I’ve been waiting for something like this.

There are still many places even in developed countries where a stable network connection isn’t guaranteed
I work at a small company. We're 3 years old, up to 160 people. Not a start up anymore, but we were within living memory.

As soon as our series A started the CEO disappeared. Because he was just constantly meeting investors. We closed that and another round and I have not seen him on the engineering side of the business since. He's not lazy and he gets it. We spent a lot of time talking about clients, issues, roadmaps etc. Until investors just absorbed 120% of his time.

I wonder how much worse it must have been for AIM senior execs over the last few years. How can any business operate like this? Least of all one in a dynamic, competitive environment with complex mixes of tech, people, politics etc...
Yeah. I think it's also why chatgpt (and copilot, etc.) actually did turn out to be a strong SO competitor, because it actually can do a pretty good job on these factual questions.

But unfortunately it's pretty bad at this other kind of judgment-based compare-and-contrast question. It's especially bad at the "what other solutions am I not aware of?" part, because it isn't kept up to date.
Their claim:

> Institutional investors own the vast majority of rental units

False - individual investors + trustees own the majority. Institutional investors are nowhere close to the size of a 'vast majority', especially when you consider that many individual investors choose to work through LLCs.

My claim:

> Institutional investors own less than 3% of rental homes

This is referring to single-family homes - I could probably have been more explicit when using the term 'home' above, but I was also replying to a comment specifically about SFH so I thought it was obvious from context.

Probably most of the discrepancy comes from 'institutional investor' not being a well defined term. If we are discussing megacorp, it is closer to the 3% number I have mentioned. If we are discussing mom & pop operating behind LLC, it is likely higher.
The best counter-argument is that people say they are going to build a nuclear plant but a year passes and they add another year to the schedule. That problem, and not what people imagine about safety, nor the fact that the headline costs aren’t terribly attractive, is a big problem,
While I largely agree with this blog, I would like to point out one thing that often come up in HN: an inherent weakness or flaw in the current AI architecture that prevent it from widespread adoption. Right now it is either scaling hardware or hallucination. But there can be something deeper that we yet to see in public, for example, the inability to adapt to some specific, but critical, reasoning logic.

I don't see the post address this possibility even though it is very likely. Microsoft promised AI powered Office a while ago and we are still waiting. GPT4 is supposed to be able to look at images and solve problems but we still haven't seen that yet. Something is preventing these big companies from implementing these features and this is supposed to be a solved problem. How can we be sure that there is no serious roadblocks in the future that plunge the field into another AI winter?
Norio Nonaka is the main reason Cheap Trick Live at the Budokan exists (2021)
US Workers Now Expect Almost $79,000 Salary to Start a New Job
Did I read this correctly? One's background rate of making it to the top 1% is 0.89%? That's amazing isn't it? It's effectively almost completely random.

Not a massive surprise that someone who goes from 10% to 90% has something going for them that means they reach 99% more frequently than the base rate but that appears to then only by 2.1%, or twice what you would achieve by chance alone.

I must be missing something.

> Controlling for age, parental background and earnings, moving from the 10th percentile to 90th percentile of wealth distribution increases the probability of making it to the top 1 percent by 1.2 percentage points compared to an average probability of 0.89 percent.
14 CFR 121.580 (see also 91.11 and 135.120) Applies civil penalties.

49 USC 46504 Applies criminal penalties.

"An individual on an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States who ... interferes with the performance of the duties of the member or attendant or lessens the ability of the member or attendant to perform those duties, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both..."

I don't actually think you would be prosecuted for having a zoom call after being asked not to in a general announcement, but I think that if you pushed the matter, you would definitely be flying home on a different carrier. I also don't know if having a zoom call "interferes with crew member duties", but if one of their duties is preventing people from making zoom calls, then arguably yes, it does.
Price increases were driven by supply issues resulting in price increases. Then companies realized that customers don't react to the amount of price increase, merely to a price increase.

Why bump up prices by 5% when you could bump them by 20%?

Fiat money printing didn't directly impact pricing unless you consider a lack of demand during a drop in supply but put another way "people didn't starve during the market problems" doesn't sound so bad...

Certainly a lot of money was given to investors which certainly made the housing crisis worse given it was considered a safe investment for the excess money.

Ukraine is mostly getting old equipment and listed at its purchase price...

High energy prices are due to increased demand due to global warming increasing climate control costs hugely.
https://archive.ph/g5Akd
How in this world do you imagine I would ever be able to move somewhere? I would have to buy the whole home?
Fair, I should perhaps have clarified that I meant music chosen by the listener. Roughly I would say around the time the Walkman was invented.
Is this not a sign that letsencrypt has taken away their golden goose?
> But zoning restrictions are incredibly difficult to rewrite.

I really want to know how they got written in the first place. It seems clear that somehow, zoning regulations is one of the biggest issues we've got. But everyone has these onerous zoning regulations that make life worse... where did they come from?!
This sounds like a job for what standard C calls "popen". You can do

import posix; for line in popen("ls", "r").lines: echo line

in Nim, though you obviously need to replace `echo line` with other desired processing and learn how to do that.

You might also want to consider `rp` which is a program generator-compiler-runner along the lines of `awk` but with all the code just Nim snippets interpolated into a program template: https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/doc/rp.md . E.g.:

$ ls -l | rp -pimport\ stats -bvar\ r:RunningStat -wnf\>4 r.push\ 4.f -eecho\ r
RunningStat(
number of probes: 26
max: 31303.0
min: 23.0
sum: 84738.0
mean: 3259.153846153846
std deviation: 6393.116633069013
)
If your idea of illustration is some irrelevant piece of clip art, it hardly matters. If the illustration actually illustrates the content, you probably can't generate it with current AI anyway.
Why not switch to linux though? You know there's some real cool hardware available out there that looks and feels way better than a mac, and battery aside, can do a lot more, is upgradeable and not locked in. Just a thought.
I think the article is an attempt to make your idea more precise. What if monad 3 could use the result of monad 1, not just monad 2? Then you couldn't write that computation using your pipeline metaphor.

The article is saying that by judicious use of a "strength" function, you can in fact write any monadic computation as such a pipeline (or composition of monadic functions).
This reflects my experience of late. It wasn't true for me in the past.

I think the issue is straightforward when you think about it, and the author basically spells it out, while missing one important fact.

When you're dealing with the long tail, it's better to have many small hits. Because long tail items are all pretty similar in their results.

But when you're dealing with the fat head, a slight improvement moves you dramatically up the graph.

Which means: When you're not very good, it's better to take many swings. Spending hours trying to be marginally less mediocre isn't going to get you much. Post often. Miss often. Score some hits.

But when you're good, it's more valuable to spend time becoming great.

On my newsletter[1], I like to think I'm in the middle. I'm not great yet, but I'm good enough that it pays to put in the effort. And I do see the results. The traffic and subscribers I get from a handful of high-effort posts (where I spent days on them) far outweigh the results of all my other posts combined.

Additionally, I think this will only become more true as time goes by, because AI is making is so easy to create low-effort content. That long tail is getting awfully long.

[1] For the curious: insurgent.ca
It is only glamorous to other people. There is an enormity to being the Jon Hamm that takes a toll. You are playing an archetype in a three act play.

Being picked up by a big firm is easy, they are always hiring. Once you're in, you can pivot into the sales process, especially if you can hunt your own kills.
I've been in some really bad situations related to low-code products.

A. If the product isn't powerful enough, then users can't easily handle situations outside of the normal workflow or quickly change processes to accommodate business needs.

B. If the product is too powerful, then you need someone technical to work on it. And no technical person wants to work on it. Code is easier to write and more powerful than some convoluted SaaS low-code product.

The reason excel is the most popular low-code solution is because it's turing complete and non-technical people can do the bare minimum with it.

Any solution that isn't turing complete is going to run into problem A. Any solution that is turing complete, including excel, is going to run into problem B.

The best thing you can do is solve for A as much as possible, and let technical people under the hood as much as possible to solve for B. Don't try to force technical people to use the problem A workflow.
> buying housing is better.

Not sure if that is true with current rates - and also is due to government policy propping up cheap money to homebuyers.

As I've said, no bank in their right mind would give out the mortgages they are right now if they didn't know they could turn around and sell it straight to Fannie & Freddie
I've been fasting regularly for many, many years. I usually eat once a day, sometimes twice a day based on activity or training goals. Protein is high on all days, carbs lower on non-training days, fats higher on non-training days, carbs higher on training days, fats lower on training days.

I never know what to make of "the science" of fasting, it doesn't matter to me. I just know that fasting makes me feel good. The body can adapt to all sorts of things, mine has adapted well to fasting. I'm fit and healthy and mobile and I'm certain that fasting has played a role in my overall good health. But it's not for everyone.

I started fasting for one reason: it felt gross to eat all day. It felt gross to always have something in my stomach, to always be digesting something, to always be thinking about food. Fasting made me feel lighter, sharper, and more capable, so I stuck with it.

If there's one thing I've learned over the years it's that "nutrition" is simply eating the foods you respond well to. That's it. Forget the diets and the programs and the plans. Pay attention to what you eat and how it makes you feel, adjust accordingly. Same thing with training and fitness. It's less about following a specific routine, and more about building intuition so that you are training in a way that develops the type of body you want, that expresses your ideal of strength, endurance, capacity, etc. in a way that feels natural to you.
That’s why I said “including power usage and price” above. IBM just weren’t able and/or willing to match Intel’s chips for Apple’s purposes.

(As I recall, but maybe I misremember, Apple claimed a big performance advantage for their high-end G5 Macs but in the real world it was a bit dubious.)
I'm a partner in one of these firms, clients know they can hire a small team of us and turn us loose (literally their secret weapon). We will gather requirements, apply our domain knowledge to refine processes, and build a complete product before the business can even work out the high level agreements. If this is even possible with a body shop, it is not, then you need to tell them every single thing that needs considered and implemented. We just run with it and get it done. Our rate is too low...about 20-30% higher than the "body shops."
Fantastic, this is great work. Takes me back to my undergrad days studying Ben Johnston’s JI systems for my own compositions.