skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steel can be recycled. And we are sitting on a giant ball of matter, so making more bricks or glass is easy. (Glass can be recycled, but it's not really worth it.)

You are right that wood captures carbon. But you have to think about the opportunity costs: the same land that you use to slowly grow your wood could be used to eg run wind turbines or solar panels to replace fossil fuels. (You could also stick a nuclear power plant on that land to replace even more fossil fuels. But on the margin, nuclear isn't really limited by the available land but by red tape and permissions. So adding a bit more land won't make the nuclear industry produce more energy.)

You'd have to run the numbers, it's not obvious to me which effect dominates. Probably also depends on how well wood grows in your climate, and how sunny and windy it is. And what else you could grow on that land.

Speculation: I suspect that emissions during construction will be relatively small fry, compared to the impact of density. Eg re-inforced concrete allows denser living (by building taller than wood, and by allowing single-stairs to be still firesafe, etc), and density tends to lower per capita CO2.

Of course, rural settings won't make use of the possibility of density. So for them it's just about the first order effects.
I may be biased as I am a trained Mathematician, but I always feel when someone says "Math is Hard", that is because they had bad teachers.

Math is easy if you build up from fundamentals, not like physics education where you say "but lets delete everything before because it had an oversimplifying assumption", rather if you build your knowledge entirely sequentially from things you know or assume, you build up a toolbag that applies literally everywhere.

So math isnt hard. Learning random bits of math out of context is hard. Climb the ladder once, you have it for life.

Hopefully for this person that sticks.
If you’re going to do that, you might as well limit yourself to the 3.6R - it includes the “heavy duty” version of the transmission.
If you're not selling/ putting your model out there as a generic competitor to OpenAi then you're not competing with them
But didn’t X do that with their ML model Grok?
Right now there are mandates to build out the manufacturing base needed for military efforts.

They know the tech sent off shore will, for the most part, remain off shore.

Additive manufacturing, an example of "latest tech", is a primary build up target here. It is new and expertise is being created as the tech itself is.
> when using my brain, my subconscious can only do very simple things for me and it's very difficult to teach it anything new.

That's fair. I'll often forget the details or maybe the abstraction isn't good enough, or abstracts the wrong thing. I often have to switch layers, pick up some critical info, and keep that in context when working above. Sometimes it happens often -- forgetting piece A to work on piece B, then forgetting piece B to remember piece A, then having to remember all the intricacies.

I stopped trying. I just write unit tests for the layers and details. It also helps me to keep things simple -- if the unit test is too complicated at a lower layer, then the upper layers are going to be even more complicated. So simplifying that layer is certainly necessary.
I'm interested in studies that address the 800 lbs. gorilla in the room: widespread over-nutrition with the post-WW2 "Western diet" is likely the primary suspected cause of a subset of cancers not seen in holdout individuals adhering to traditional diets and portion sizes that avoid too many calories and processed foods. My hypothesis is our immune system and cellular machinery can only effectively kill emergent cell lines under the assumption of sufficient cellular stress and restricted caloric intake. Chemotherapy are late substitute nuclear options, i.e., pausing cell division and/or clamping down on nutrient uptake pathways.

I'd be curious to know if people who have endured famines, controlled for age, have lower (and/or higher) rates of some cancers in certain phases of their lives.
Congrats on the launch! How does this compare to https://www.patronus.ai/ ? They seem to offer a very similar solution for getting on top of unpredictable LLM output
You don't always want to do that. I don't think the whole family wants to watch one kid playing video games on it.
> We don't really have shanty towns in the states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tent_cities_in_the_Uni...
At any given company, approximately 0 employees are as competent as Oppenheimer.
This letter is too fucking heavy. I couldn't read it for long. Emotions overcame me. He's having a terrible time in prison. I feel sorry for him and angry at him at the same time, for the insane fucking stupid thing he did.

I followed the trial coverage at the time, on Wired. It was a fucking nail biter and by the end it was clear he'd done it and I was just like, fuck, Hans, why did you do it??
In Japan it seems like some buildings use those as primary stair cases. They have elevators also, but too many people need to use them to be very useful, so its up and down the outside fire escape.
Yes but I doubt anyone is going to get the Aaron Swartz treatment over it, especially when OpenAI's own models are no doubt generated by playing fast and lose with ToS. E.g. at least as early as 2018, StackOverflow's ToS said:

"Any other downloading, copying, or storing of any public Network Content (other than Subscriber Content or content made available via the Stack Overflow API) for other than personal, noncommercial use is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from Stack Overflow or from the copyright holder identified in the copyright notice per the Creative Commons License"
Exactly. Anyone who can't imagine a failure case where they suddenly become a "criminal" because people who disagree with them obtain control of the legislative apparatus haven't read enough history (or have extremely boring opinions).
Which is ironic given the fact that scraping was likely against the ToS for many of the sites which ended up in OpenAI's training corpus.
It looks like it is using a service running on Haier's servers, which is probably what brings terms of service into this.
That's a moving target :)
I had a team diagnosis. Cost depends on where you live. Here in NL there's a waiting list (adult nearly a year pre-corona, since corona kids even longer) and you'll burn through your medical "own risk" (currently IIRC 485 EUR a year) but you might already burn through that and they tried to fit in as much as possible in a year (besides the diagnosis also counseling). We both had a different diagnosis before our current. The thing is: diagnoses can co-exist but the other ones stem from autism. Autism is the root of the problem (or the roit of being if ya wanna word with cup half full).

Ever since we got our diagnoses our life has been in full motion once again. Though we also became parents right after (twice) and that alone is a rollercoaster.
OK.

Though if they can't withhold supply, how are those cartels supposed to hold up prices, then?
Even if it has to go through extensive vetting on the theory side, the ability of these models to improve the starting points for the harder process is very strong.
For example, in daylight modeling - and this is 2-3 years ago mind you - it has been found that "AI" is perfect for getting 99% closer to the actual luminance in something like 01% the computation. So that even if you feed those "precalculated" models into the traditional raytracers, the improvement to the first guess is well, well worth it.
> Autism isn’t diagnosed by blood tests or imagining like you might expect from simpler disorders.

I, perhaps incorrectly, understand a diagnostic test for ASD to be something involving a lot of interaction between the patient and the professionals analyzing the patient’s behavior and described thought processes. That process isn’t perfect but it can work.

The brain imaging method seems more robust in theory. As you point out (thanks for the details!), it’s not particularly advanced and may not be effective in the long run but my hopes are still high for it. It may be a long way off but a future generation might have access to a less costly and more accurate test. I guess calling the current process a “test” seems off?
When I was a pilot, we used to get Air Safety publications which told of air crashes and their causes. Extremely good educational material. Probably why I'm still alive today.
Considering the quality of YouTube's Apple TV app[1], this should come as no surprise, and frankly it's probably for the best. This type of thing is better off starting small with applications that actually work well, instead of bolting on some well-known names that are just going to phone it in and disappoint users in the long run.

[1] Anecdotal, but: it recently added its own screensaver that plays instead of the system one, and never stops playing, meaning if I accidentally leave YouTube open, my TV never switches off. The VLC app can't discover UPNP services on my network as long as YouTube is in the recent apps list. It decides to be in French sometimes. (Our system language is not French). And, not entirely Google's fault, but there are about three different ways to cast a YouTube video from the iOS YouTube app to the same gorramn TV, and which one is actually going to work today is completely random.

The indifference YouTube gets away with on Apple TV tells me, if that team made an app for Vision Pro, it would provide guaranteed headaches. Apple is dodging a bullet here.
> An LLM might be better than you at everything, but you would still enjoy your mediocre implementation, just because you did it. Maybe this is what it really means to be an artisan.

So true. One way to defeat determinism is to enjoy the process.
It will be interesting if the same court cases proving their use of everyone else's data make it fair use to use their machine output as training data. They're definitely in their rights to ban whomever but who knows if they have recourse beyond that?
I remember going to check it out, and them refusing to let me try it unless I used Edge and/or a Bing account (don't remember exactly and don't care). And that's how they blew their one shot to get me and hordes of others to give a flying fuck about it.
The Pentagon, one of the largest buildings, is getting rooftop solar
Burning bridges and getting sued isn't uncharted territory for Elon Musk.
NSFW IMO, https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/
why would you expect that?

I've been rejected from a few jobs that I've applied to at this point. honestly, this was the only time I can remember that it was an email, let alone an email from a no-reply address. every other time I've been passed on after interviews, the recruiter at least had the decency to call and tell me over the phone.
Second staircases are pretty good. I think most people should have them if they can afford them.
> But at the same time, it makes the price you can get for the parking lot much lower.

Lower than what? The price it would have had without a tax? Sure, but the same applies to the lot with the skyscraper. Increased land taxes will push down land prices, whether it's a land value tax or not. That doesn't seem like a fundamental issue with the idea.

> And once I've seen that under a LVT, the parking lot has no or little value, because it can't be sold for much money

Why can't it?

It's always possible to set taxes so high on an item that it's worthless, but I don't think that's inherently part of the LVT proposition.
How do you find out it was private data without viewing it first? How is that misuse of data if you just view it?
the microsoft debugger back then allowed the use of dual screens
DESQView was my daily driver for a number of years. I even ran Windows 3.1 in a DESQView window.
I have, and it was in a period of my life where I was taking all <sorts> of nootropics. Im sure you've heard of them but they're not just ADHD meds rebranded as mind enhancing or memory boosters like some of the hype would lead you to believe.

Ask me about my TEN K For The Mind. It is a stack I had fun designing in my free time and even if it never sees the light of day, it still will always be The Extraordinary Nootropic Kit For The Mind!
He did not advocate sex with minors good grief.

The mans worst crime is singing.
I believe this is where you get that view from the most optimistic side...
Although I agree with you - election is all about electing the best Con man / woman , most decision are made behind closed door - government agency often have high responsibility non elected director - which is all about talk and politics.

I have myself - worked for several short term governmental contract - observed that the person at the top of the food chain in those department - don't get elected - and are often totally incompetent technically speaking. But are great at talking and doing politics. Anyone making them some shadow - or going against the established narrative quickly gets dismissed. They choose to promote ass suckers - because it makes their internal political life easier.

Once they get the seat - it is for life, they won't get fired - unless they get caught doing something really offensive, such as sexual abuse - or money laundering. But they won't get fired for making obvious mistakes...

And of course, they often have to promote the most incompetent individual - when promotion is due...

Maybe I didn't got lucky, and got to always land on that ** contract - but of what I have talked around - and observed in human nature + logic deduction, I believe this is pretty much everywhere the same.
Perhaps no one has updated it.
I wonder if this could be iCloud Private Relay? It appears that it's effectively a VPN with some redirection layers that change often, though I don't know the exact details.
Right handed man finally cracks the code!
Thank you. I'm not the brightest, and could not figure out the headline. What was the first teleportation?
I don’t know about salaries but “the only game in town when it comes to open source” is flat wrong. Google open sourced Tensorflow, Flutter, Dart, Filament, Microsoft open sourced ONNXRuntime, Olive, WavLM, F#, .NET, NVIDIA open sourced TensorRT, NEMO, etc etc.

At the end of the day, the company that pushes clickbait to sell ads is probably the one I trust least.
> hose places that don't have housing emergencies generally have just as bad regulations, and would have the same problems the instant they became appealing enough to move there.

If American population was equalized across these other cities, there would be less pressure on the few hot places everyone wants to move now, since our population isn't growing so much these days.

> Eventually you run out of built out sprawl.

Manhattan is not a sprawl and a very desirable place to live, with super high rents to boot. Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, and even Tokyo are the same, so I'm not sure what you are trying to claim here. Out of all those, only Tokyo does well, but that wasn't the case in the 80s and is on the basis of a moribund economy and a not growing national population (one wonders when Seoul and SH will follow). IF you want to solve your housing emergency, limit growth in some way (or at least, make sure residents don't have as much money to bid up housing).
Here's some discussion about that: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/15596/are-there-a...
A unique 100k each day or is there overlap? Also are these genuine messages or just wide-cast spam messages? Technically we all get sexually harassed daily if we include our GMail spam folders.
I think in Japanese apartment buildings they’re all required to have their own rope ladder? Since you go from balcony to balcony they don’t even have to be very long.
But that's not what's going on here. It's like you gave me a key to your house and said its so you can get your stuff. And then when I used the key and saw everyone else's stuff in the same room I let you know and you threw me in jail for trespassing with a key intended for me to use to get into the house.
Interesting to see what the results end up being, as long as real live fire tests are the exit criteria. All the canards about the difference between unit testing and integration testing and testing your mocks come to mind.
Silly question. Of course it's safe to drink. It won't have bugs in it for a start.

Maybe it might need some treatment or other, but even simple distillation will make it drinkable. And plenty of solar energy on the Moon to do that easily.
This assumes that climbing the ladder comes easy. To me at least, it doesn't. It requires tedious labor, and lots of repetition for every single step. That's the main difference I keep noticing between me and people who say they like math or find it easy. They just look at each step of the ladder once, and immediately "get" it, sometimes even skipping steps. In contrast, I need to repeatedly step up and down the ladder multiple times, until I can take the next step.
Wow, apparently FBM has gone the way of Craigslist since I last tried it (back in early 2022).
Kind of, yes.

I'm aware of employment contracts that require you to pay back the cost of training if you leave the job before some specified time period (maybe 1 or 2 years).
It doesnt? Well in that case its even more useless than i thought!

I'm not concerned with the clothing of someones rhetoric im concerned with truth, and utility.
Where and when did you find that?
What I think isn’t very relevant, as I do not have a medical degree, and neither do you.

And considering you couldn’t identify a confounding variable if it hit you in the face, I’m not sure what you think is very relevant either.
Me too, I expected more. Given 2 billion daily active users, then 0.005% of the users are children who are being sexually harassed.
$49/student/month? That's excessive.
So you are saying Kindle doesn't have end to end encryption.
Right now its just based on a db schema (you connect your DB and we automatically read the schema) and we're adding support for a csv file schema in the next week or so. Our input system is pretty flexible, so it's not too hard to build support for an openAI spec. Happy to chat more if you'd like, my email is evis@neosync.dev.
No thanks, I'd rather not ask Margaret Mead anything, including but not limited to: "where's the restroom?" and "how long until the next bus comes?"

Mead is nothing but a legitimate fraud, and it seems quite clear that her elaborately falsified data has been thoroughly debunked. Why does the NYTimes keep appealing to her alleged authority? It's quite suspicious.
As a mostly "retired" psychonaut, I think this can easily be avoided by just legalising drugs.

Very few people are going to want to try RCs if conventional alternatives don't present more legal risk. Most people using them are avoiding legal risk or trying to beat drug tests etc.

There is a tiny minority of "true psychonauts" who are in it for the experimentation, but we tend to be acutely aware of the risk and take much better precautions than someone who is chasing a high they're addicted to.

And adults knowingly taking risks(on their own behalf) and suffering consequences is just the human condition.
Or press K
> Math is easy if you build up from fundamentals

To a certain point, I guess. Most people hit a wall of abstraction at some point, either because the abstraction is too hard or because the abstraction stops being relevant so the person loses drive to learn. For me, the wall is model theory and the second course of abstract algebra. They are both too hard and too abstract for me to push through.
Supreme Court likely to discard Chevron
I'm ashamed to admit that I spent more time highlighting random snippets of text than I did reading the article.
Is the stairwell you’re talking about fully enclosed? If not, then I don’t think it counts.

Per the article, the latest IBC codes seem to say each stairwell must be fully protected/enclosed and the old external ones are insufficient. I used to live in a building with something similar and if yours is like mine then I doubt it meets the latest 2nd stairwell requirements.

(Which is a shame since I agree those backyard stairwells are lovely, and landlords will be even less likely to build them if they have to build 2 internal ones already. Of course if those stairwells increase property value/rent revenue, then that could incentivize them anyway)
Microsoft makes its AI-powered reading tutor free
Single-stair multifamily: why not. I live in one now (wife, daughter and me) after having spent time in a rural area (detached house in the middle of nowhere).

But why take Barcelona as an example? These superblocks are horrible. Barcelona is noisy, stressful and impersonate (plus there are shitloads of pickpockets and serious issues between independentists and nationalists).

There's a middle ground between one house per family and these fugly superblocks.

You know why people like me suffocate so much in Barcelona? Because Franco (a dictator) allowed the Comarcal plan: cheap housing and allowing buildings to become much higher. And unsurprisingly it all turned to shit.

Superblocks came much later and were an answer to that past SNAFU where these high, gigantic blocks created an unlivable city. Superblocks are at best a band aid which doesn't fix Barcelona's root issue: these blocks (no matter if they're grouped by 9 in superblocks) are simply completely oppressive.

Where I live (another EU country) all the buildings are semi-detached (so it's always two buildings together), four stories / eight apartments per building. So sixteen families for two "attached buildings". And, contrarily to Barcelona, people can breathe here. There's five times two attached buildings, disposed in an "U" shape. So it's open (not closed like these fugly blocks in Barcelona). There's a shared park and below the buildings are the parking spaces (all shared). There are I take it about 80 apartments altogether. Next block: repeat something similar. But there's room. It's not suffocating. It's not alienating.

And all these blocks are facing a "Natura 2000" protected forest: nothing shall ever be constructed there. Nature: I'm sure some city planners have at least heard the word "nature".

You know what I did today? I didn't use the car. I left my single-stair multifamily and went for a walk in that forest, with my family, walking in the snow (there's been a snowstorm last night).

Explain me, when I'm in block 298 in superblock XKY, surrounded by countless superblocks, how do I get to nature?

I mean, yeah: it's nice to try to fix housing. But it's 2024 and by now people have figured out better arrangements than those created under a dictator in Spain.
RISC-V Implemented in FPGA
We recently did this on my team over Christmas this year. We opted not to use Blue/Green for this but instead spun up an encrypted snapshot and began replication from the old database to the new database using MySQL’s tools. Once traffic on our platform was sufficiently low, we cut connections to the database, waited for for replica lag to reach 0 and relaunch the servers with the new databases host info. Our downtime was around a minute.
3D movies are a gimmick.
Moreover, most video watching is TV Shows, short form content, and UGC.
This blog post is starting to seem evergreen.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210522003136/https://blog.nucy...
We're a US company with a single Canadian client and a Canadian on-site rep. He has his own entirely separate payroll system for the Canadian side and gets Ontario taxes taken out.

Sending equipment across the border does get to be an interesting logistics challenge, though. Easier to just expense it and have him spec local.