skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not just landlords. Property owners as well. You extract wealth from the system either renting or paying your self rent. It’s just a matter of when you take those gains. Homeowners do when they sale.

As to why it’s unique to housing; you answered your own question: the housing market is arbitrarily limited in supply, which means it’s artificially low competition, which means people that own take an artificially high profit from owning. There are many rent seeking businesses, but housing is so universal and universally fucked that it accounts for by far the largest wealth transfer.

Everything I’ve written is true for housing now, but direct cash injections make it more apparent. See rent prices exploding after COVID stimulus.
The first PowerPC based AS/400e didn't come out until '95, so Satya would've been using the CISC IMPI versions.
So... what if my "c++ primer" copy is from z-library... does that disqualify all my c++ program?
The US has free education from kindergarten through high school.

The US also has something akin to UBI, called the earned income tax credit. It's not much to expand that, especially since social security already covers a percentage.
How efficient can I build the 100% Arm NAS?
Multiple city hubs, dispersed parks found to keep metro areas cooler
I can imagine first epoch engineers doing this, they are the ones who are in most need of giving their wrists a rest and less keystrokes.
> They are very loud

Loud and sometimes vibration-inducing. But this seems potentially feasible to mitigate through sound insulation (both on the train and on the buildings; frankly, our buildings should have a lot more sound isolation than they do).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39401709 mentions newer elevated trains generating less noise, by designing for that requirement.

> they bathe streets/sidewalks/buildings in permanent shade

And permanent rain-cover. Seems like it'd often be a feature for many, though a bug for others.
This post MUST be pure irony. Big lol! Thanks for the fun.
To Save San Francisco, a Democrat Wants to Scrap Environmental Reviews
>even an unhinged TV personality can not single-handedly destroy a country and what it has stood for for the last 70+ years.

A war-mongering, propaganda-spewing, dystopian corporate empire beheld entirely to the military-industrial complex and megacorps?

You're right, I don't think he can turn the ship around.
I for one, would much rather live in Elwood Blues's room than next to ANY interstate.
Thank you! There are some really excellent images there.
Why sell a healthy growing $10m business for 4x earnings? Did you have debt to service, or just wanted to do something different, or some other reason?
What criticism are you referencing? FWIW I'm a moderately pro-NIH person.
This is soooo much more exciting than the "put 100M tokens in the context window" idea
Thanks for the kind words!

Yeah, power cycling is one of our top requests and a feature I'd like to have personally.

If we just plugged into the ATX pins on the motherboard, that would be technically pretty straightforward, but it increases the work and expertise that end-users have to have. I've looked into something like a smart plug, but then users need to configure their BIOS to always power on when power is available.

Definitely on my list of considerations for Voyager 3.
Of course, when not forced to at gunpoint, there is a third option. :-)
> In my first meeting with DesignAgency’s team, I asked how long they expected my project to take. “How long is a piece of string?” their lead designer asked.

...and that would have concluded my last meeting with this agency.
Correct.

The database provider we use encrypts all customer data at-rest by default using AES-256 to secure all volume (disk) data.
>For example: in VSCode the user doesn't have to understand how to install a language server, it just automagically suggests allowing it to install one for you. In Emacs, if you're using the official distribution you will have eglot, whose developers specifically refuse to add that functionality.

I can understand this not being friendly for some users, but on most systems that people are using Emacs on, software is installed through a system package manager and not downloaded and unpacked into ${HOME}. I do not want software that isn't the system package manager to install LSP servers.

Maybe this is more of an issue for people using Emacs on Windows, since there is no system package manager, and people are less likely to understand how to install stuff.
GP does not suggest a valuation of zero. GP says that the profit and valuation is closer to zero. It is not crystal clear if this means "closer to zero than it is to $236k" or "closer to zero than $236k is" (i.e., less than $236k). The second is undoubtedly true.

The first may also be true, but would depend on the cost at which the labor can be outsourced reliably, and what oversight would need to be done of these outsourced activities.
Thank you. Beyond the brilliant photos, the archive itself is fascinating.
I'm aware we're technically strict, but I don't see the EPA shutting down roll coal culture any time soon. It took us this long to catch Cummins[1] after VW got dragged through the courts. At this point I find it hard to believe any diesel motor truly passes US emission standards.

[1]https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/27/cummins-fined-1-67-bill...
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Greedflation already exists without any type of UBI in place. UBI is not meant to combat greedflation. You're right to be worried about greedflation, but being against UBI because greedflation exists simply doesn't follow.
The price hike would come proportionally with each new hardware generation as their software stack becomes competitive with CUDA. Since it will most likely take them multiple generations to catch up. It doesn't make sense for them to sell hardware with comparable capability at a deep discount. Plenty of companies will want to diversify hardware vendors just to have a bargaining chip against Nvidia.
The full context is he said if those European countries did not meet their NATO defense spending obligations he'd let Putin do what he wants with them.
I think I'm quite familiar with Alexei's actions.
By definition they're not doing UBI then. That doesn't alleviate your concern that that's how things might go, but your concern is that UBI might not be UBI.
Sure, but it's not clear if there are enough people who will do that. And we also need to ask the question: what if there aren't enough jobs? Everyone without a job should just live off the bare basic necessities without entertainment? Or what will that look like?

There's a lot of optimistic views about UBI, but here is what I think it will be like realistically: poverty. Surviving, but not really living. The bare minimum to not riot in the streets. This is how these sort of things have usually worked out in the past. "Bread and circuses" etc.

As I said, I'm skeptical that all this post-scarcity everything-is-automated future will come to pass any time soon, but if it does, we almost certainly need to do more than UBI. A lot more. Sam Altman is mentioned in this article: OpenAI is built on all of our work. Whether that's "fair use" or "pilfered" is a matter of opinion, but neither view changes the fact that OpenAI takes the works of our culture that we all contributed to and uses it for private profits it keeps to itself. That's not really a huge social problem if it's "just" a company – maybe you can consider it unfair, but that's something else. But if OpenAI and companies like it really do eat the world as the AI maximalists claim it will we end up with a situation where an exceedingly tiny minority will have an enormous percentage of the world's wealth, all of which is very directly built on the public's work, and it's no longer "just" a company with handsome profits.

That entire situation will be spectacularly untenable. So what do we do with that? The entire "OpenAI is a foundation for the public good" thing went out the window as soon as green bits of paper became involved (and of course that was going to happen).

That's not the bit Sam Altman wants to talk about.

"Silicon Valley philosophy" like this is usually only remarkable in how profoundly shallow and self-serving it is.
In the case of

gzip -9 < /dev/random | dd of=/tmp/gibberish

the shell's not actually doing anything but forking things and connecting file descriptors of processes to each other

gzip -9 < /dev/random | while read line ; do echo "$line" ; done > /tmp/gibberish

The stdout of gzip is being processed by shell, and will make all the nulls go away.

(edited to add another example:)

Similarly - it isn't printing that you can't do -- it's anything -- consider:

case $(cat /bin/sh)
in
$(cat /bin/bash)) echo "they're the same!" ;;
*) echo "they're not the same!" ;;
esac

This is obviously an insane way to see if two files are identical, but worse -- it's going to fail for two different files whose only difference is how many nulls are in the file.
How did the account get suspended?
People down-voting this, care to explain how this is wrong?? I've thought about this a lot and as far as I can tell, this is the only reasonable expectation I can come up with as well... it seems quite possible to me that the reason Europe and the USA are turning up the "Russia will soon attack us" rhetoric is to justify higher military spending in the short term, and sending boots to Ukraine in the medium term, given that if you look at the reality of the situation, the Russian military has been stopped by a weak (compared to NATO) Ukrainian military, hence you would have to conclude that the possibility of Russia actually even thinking of attacking NATO in the next few decades should be very much zero under any circumstances. It's like thinking in the 60's that if we don't stop North Vietnam, they will come for the rest of Asia :D it just doesn't add up to any reasonable, rather than passion/hate-filled analysis (which is what we mostly see in the media, unfortunately).
atm its just a bot that gives you feedback on moves as you play against stockfish. it uses gpt 4 to generate comments.

what i'm gonna do next week is start analyzing games.

basically review your losses and find common patterns that you struggle with.

goal is to let you replay positions from your games with feedback to help you improve tactics and pattern recognition.
Hint: the money comes from redistribution, not blindly printing more, the latter would obviously be completely insane (which is why you'd rather argue that scenario) whereas the former would keep the economy going, which is obviously in the interest of the capitalist class. No point owning and producing if there's no buyer because everyone is starving.

What you seem to think would devalue money will be the very thing that keeps it going as a concept.

And I hope you understand somewhere deep down that Bitcoin is the epitome of monopoly money.
My understanding, entirely possible that it is incorrect, is that the "not causing interference" is to "authorized services", i.e. specifically licensed frequencies and users/devices, not other users of those "free-for-all" spectrums. But I may well be wrong, in which case I would agree with you.
Is there a reason bored tunnels need to be substantially deeper? Does boring lead to structural stability issues that the installation of the tunnel structure doesn't mitigate?
This has been floating around HN for two days and hasn't received any
comments, but it's an insanely prescient paper much apropos the 1800+
comments in threads on "video AI".
I haven't done much testing or anything, but it seems to me that siglip "understands" what it's looking at more than CLIP

also no, I just put everything on Supabase and added pgvector. super easy:

https://supabase.com/docs/guides/database/extensions/pgvecto...
The models will simply fill the unused compute with additional training or more expensive models.
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I have similar perspective. But, I struggle to imagine a holistic answer that doesn't seem self-contradictory.

Here's the core problem statement: As long as it is true that some places are more desirable than others, there is an increasing population, and we resolve access conflicts via capitalism, there are going to be financially displaced people.

Given that, where do we draw the line on whether it is a local problem to solve with "infill" (i.e. keep increasing density and lowering cost to satisfy all who want it) versus "displacement" (i.e. declaring the area is fully developed and occupied, so those without sufficient budget must try somewhere else)?

I am not advocating a particular view here. But, I do think the same question arises at different scopes/size/granularity, and I find it fascinating how people draw lines and answer completely differently for different scopes. It's heavily politicized too.

So here's the thought experiment: Does an individual rich person have to add housing to their mansion or estate for those who cannot offer enough to buy out the whole property? Or can the owner reasonably expect those people to look elsewhere?

What about a rich enclave/gated community/subdivision?

Or a small and rich city like Beverly Hills?

Or Los Angeles County?

Or various attractive regional or state parks?

Or Yosemite National Park?

Or coastal towns which are highly sought after and also more survivable without shelter?

Or the whole State of California?

Or the entire USA?

Of course we could ask similar questions about other US regions, but I tried to stick to California given the thread...
It is not about what America has or hasn't done, good or bad, but all about the possibility of Trump. The idea of the US getting a president as immature as yourself, who rather aligns himself with the gangsters of the world, whose idea of diplomacy is beg-for-mercy-who-is-your-daddy-now oneliners, that is what scares Europa into self-reliance.

Since Trump, the US might not be the US anymore in the future. It might break its promises, withdraw from NATO, from Paris and any other treaty it has made. War is coming closer to us, we cannot rely on a US that is actively flirting with authoritarianism.

Hopefully not, but it is a very real possibility. And we are not ready for it.
AI had the patience, Mr Anderson
> the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how to manage the situation.

OK, well, you walked right into this one:

You must know the answer: How do you manage it?
Same feeling here.

And also: any helpful or informational blog posts I post on the public internet I assume have been stolen to train these models, making me less passionate about sharing information through my blog posts.
You think the resourceful parents are just gonna sit on their hands and thinking: oops the school is not gonna teach the subjects, we are just gonna to collectively forget out them.

No. They will do whatever they can to make sure their children get the education. They will pay extra. Some will teach their children themselves.

Again, this is regardless of race/religion/lgbtq or anything. It's all hands on deck when it comes to providing for the children.

Sometimes I really doubt whether people are really that naive online? Or are they arguing for the sake of the argument? Tbh, I have never seen anyone in real life doesn't understand the situation and the parents that I am talking about.
Isn't this just the other side of trading privacy away? Most of the groups in the chart also harvest what was once private.

We trade our privacy for "free" goods. We are then constantly surveilled.

The institutions doing the surveillance can better gauge how much trust they can afford to trade for profit.

If this isn't their profit model, what is?
Also, check https://same.energy/
Funny how the Russian gov poisoned him and sent him to Siberia to a labor camp. They had nothing to do with it!
The JIT aspect is merely one component of the larger picture. With PWA’s specifically you have the entire browser stack to move around. Native code simply does not have this constraint.

They are (IMO) correct that having less layers between you and the lowest layer is ideal. The browser is an engineering marvel but it’s still a nuisance to work around.
That's so awesome! This looks like the most well-designed IDL-based binary serialization format I have ever seen. Well done!
It's not just Trump thinks; under NATO those countries are obligated to spend a certain % of their GDP on defense, which they've failed to do.
I like the dedication behind godot. Since unity can be a hassle to get to work on linux i might try out their solution.

On a tangential note: I am also excited to see whether Embark Studios will open source their engine once it's ready.
They (we?) could use AI for that, why would you write it by hand?
I'm also on my bike almost daily to get someplace, doesn't mean I don't enjoy the added benefit of scenery change, trees, being able to take a detour if I'm bored out of my mind of the same route, etc. Crossing the bridges in Stockholm always give me a lot of joy overlooking the water, seeing the city.

Being underground for most of my commute would be utterly depressing, I enjoy biking to see the world, not to just teleport to a place.
A billionaire's mediocre pump-and-dump "book" became a "bestseller"
The crown facing the hand is a carryover from traditional watches where the user would need to regularly wind or adjust the watch's time. It doesn't really have any benefit now, and just needlessly exposes the crown to shock damage and irritates the back of the hand if the watch falls towards the wrist.

Seiko diving watches and some others move the crown to the 4 o-clock position where it's slightly less exposed:

https://www.chronopolis.co.uk/blogs/news/the-8-best-watches-...

Some watches move the crown to the left side, like the Sinn EZM 3:

https://www.sinn.de/en/Modell/EZM_3.htm
We don't know that it is profit-generating, since the author doesn't take a salary. As for the assumption that the profit would be soaked up by the market salary for the founder, the fact that he's a former Google engineer or whatever is a pretty decent indication that this is true.

I would agree that most people would take some job flexibility/autonomy in lieu of part of their bigco salary, but my guess is that this particular Xoogler would be making well more than $236k (including stock) if he had stayed at Google.

EDIT: that doesn't mean he should have stayed at Google, just that his market salary would very likely soak up all of the profits this year. If he can keep up the growth (and ramp down his hours), then it would be clearer that the enterprise could throw of cash even after paying for all the labor.
Valve doesn't try to make general purpose engines, they make engines that suit their own games, so unless you happen to be making a game which is shaped very much like HL:Alyx or CS2 you would probably be underwhelmed with Source 2. That includes platform support, Source 2 doesn't officially support any of the consoles because Valve hasn't needed it to, having only ever shipped it on PC and (briefly) Android/iOS.
More proof Apple is terrible at software and iOS is a broken, stagnant OS.

I love Apple's hardware, but iOS is such a turd, I'm stuck on Android even though the rest of my eco-system is Apple (MacBook, AirPods, AppleTV)
Have anything to back up your first statement? Might be useful ammo...not that I've ever bought into conservative economics before.
You've expressed what I believe to be a widely shared sentiment clearly. Thank you.

But while corporations may pursue the "code checker watching over the shoulder of an intern" approach for a while in many domains, it will only prove cost-effective in a handful. The market for software developers will further polarize into roles which require extensive training and experience and roles which are relatively de-skilled.
The map is literally wrong.

What is it that you are hoping to add to this conversation?
What you do not like in it? Can you suggest better alternatives?
But it also fits the op's pov that most people don't care. Most people don't care that you have to take Apple device to an Apple authorized service center. We had to get governments to pass laws to deal with that. I suspect we'll have to do it with lots more things as it gets easier and easier to cryptographically lock them down.

As an example, I recently bought some smart light bulbs. They were "Matter compatible" so I thought they'd just work. Turns out, AFAICT, the manufacture ships them in a barely working state, this is so they can force you to download their app, register, and then they'll update something in the bulb that makes it work at full brightness.
> Most of these are either fairly short-lived limited pilots, or aren't really "UBI".

True, but the problem is that unless it's introduced, with the intention of it being permanent, there's no way of proving it would work that would satisfy its detractors. And even then, if it's introduced somewhere and works there, people would still argue that it doesn't work in their country.
Disagree. It is up to the businesses to send their up to date information to map providers, because it is in their direct interest that customers find them. If they're too lazy and cheap to do that, then it is their problem that they get fewer customers. They shouldn't rely on free labour and you shouldn't do this for free for them. If they don't know how to put their info on a map, then they should hire an agency that does.

Imagine being a business owner and ignoring the very basics...
> They'll get elected in 49-state blowouts like he did, and for the same reason.

Again you are speaking as though this isn't status quo. A huge slice of our political landscape is people who still think trickle down economics works, tons of politicians are elected running on platforms for tax cuts. Reagan's politics live on and are largely responsible for how shit the world has become over the last 4 decades or so.

> Even then, corpo's aren't actually paying 70%; there's a ton of loopholes and deductions.

Then close them.

> a) it's confiscation

I don't care.

> b) they won't magically keep churning out 12T in assets every time you confiscate it. Its wealth, not income.

Yes, and I am suggesting the tax be based on net worth, not income.

> c) the money isn't locked up in anything; how can you possibly believe this. It's invested in the economy. It's lent out to businesses and governments in the form of bonds. It's deployed capital in the form of stock.

It's not going to the workers, which is why we need UBI. People asked "How do we pay for it" and I have answered that. I don't care about lending to businesses, I definitely don't care about the debt traps set for the global south's nations, and frankly, I don't really give a shit about the economy either. We hear all about how great the economy is doing year over year, and me and my friends get more and more broke as it does. If the economy's doing great, it's not doing great for me or anyone I care about, and insofar as that's the case, why the fuck should I care if it continues to do great?

What goods an economy that doesn't serve the workers? If the economy is doing so great, why am I paying through the nose for every fucking service and resource I need? If the economy is so great, why are so many people living check to check and barely making ends meet? If the economy is so great, why is every fucking thing getting more expensive? If the economy is so great, why does a house cost 8 years of salary?

Great for WHO? It ain't doin' shit for me personally.

> Economic literacy is in an absolute shambles. We need to urgently improve the teaching of economics to kids. Between this, the common misconceptions about inflation, supply and demand, and people not knowing the difference between net worth and income, I'm getting more and more worried.

I didn't say income, you did. I said "bank + assets" but if you want the fancy words, yes, net worth, held stock, bank accounts. Etc.
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