skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> value of the land

Only very approximately - it depends on contextual situation.

We had a ton of uninsurable "as-is" houses after the Christchurch Earthquake. Prices for those houses dropped massively because without a mortgage you only get cash bidders so demand was relatively low compared with supply. The price someone is willing to pay for an as-is property depends on many factors, and it can easily be below land valuation.

Firstly desperate or naive sellers would accept well below the land value. You assume that that there are enough buyers to compete. There were not enough buyers shortly after the quake because not enough had cash so there were very cheap properties. Plus you were buying risk too - you simply couldn't price correctly because there were too many unknowns - when whole suburbs are uninhabitable a new construction is irrelevant. The city population dropped significantly.

You could offer below land value on some properties because you are also purchasing a liability e.g. the council required some houses to be demolished & removed (demolition costs were tens of thousands - and demo companies were busy as fuck).

You might pay a lot more than land value:

• Some places could still be rented (uninsurable is not uninhabitable) so potential income mattered.

• Many places just needed work done - sometimes not much - but often a new foundation e.g. lift house and put in new foundation. New foundations had to be compliant with earthquake strengthening rules so usually very very expensive. The as-is homes were often sold by the insurance companies because they were uneconomic to fix.

I advise everyone to be very careful buying property in suburbs or cities where all houses have common/correlated risks of an event - floods - fire - etcetera. Insurance premiums will rise until it is unaffordable - then all houses will not maintain value. Disclosure: I do live in a flood prone suburb but I can afford to self-insure and most people cannot do that.

Even worse: insurance did not cover the financial losses for many people in the Christchurch Earthquake. Especially small businesses. Then again - many other people ended up with huge payouts and were financially much better off. However even then money is usually a poor substitute for emotional costs.
I desperately want to read Matt Levine’s take on this.
Isn’t that kind of how it works? Safety is a “no broken windows” problem. People who commit crimes need to be caught and punished at a very high rate. This basically requires surveillance, no?

Surveillance doesn’t guarantee safety. But what is the counter proposal on how to turn a large, unsafe location into a safe one?

I expect downvotes for this. But seriously. What do you propose? Is surveillance not exactly how countries like the UK and Singapore provide safety? Can anyone cite an example of a “safety turnaround” not based on surveillance?

Believe you me I wish that weren’t the case! Someone show me the alternative, please!
By then Asahi Linux should cover everything you need.
This is pretty common in 3D work. Blender has a feature called “blend shapes” that implements a similar interface, and is commonly used for complex facial animation and general model parameterization.
It's not like society without cars would be the exact same just without cars. People would live closer to where they need to be. It would be more public transport. More 15-minute cities etc.

It's a bit dishonest to argue for continued car dominance just because it's already status quo.
(Am Australian lawyer) there's no privacy recognised in any of those things you're talking about. Simple solution is don't lie to insurers or the government.

Of course we can elect politicians that change the law. Might be a hard sell if the motivation is to stop detection of illegal things.

Sources: (no general right to privacy)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Park_Racing_%26_Rec...

The Privacy Act (https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-legislation/the-priv...)
Unfortunately, the suggestive manual gesticulations required to finger your fretboard have caused guitar-playing to be banned in the state of Texas.
UK is also censoring porn sites...
Back in my aerospace days I worked on an obscure secure operating system, which, unfortunately, was built for the PDP-11 just as the PDP-11 neared end of life.
This was when NSA was getting interested in computer security. NSA tried applying the same criteria to computer security they applied to safes and filing cabinets for classified documents. A red team tried to break in. If they succeeded, the vendor got a list of the problems found, and one more chance for an evaluation. On the second time around, if a break in succeeded, the product was rejected.

Vendors screamed. Loudly. Loudly enough that the evaluation process was moved out of NSA and weakened. It was outsourced to approved commercial labs, and the vendor could keep trying over and over until they passed the test, or wore down the red team. Standards were weakened. There were vendor demand that the highest security levels (including verification down to the hardware level) not even be listed, because they made vendors look bad.

A few systems did pass the NSA tests, but they were obscure and mostly from minor vendors. Honeywell and Prime managed to get systems approved. (It was, for a long time, a joke that the Pentagon's MULTICS system had the budgets of all three services, isolated well enough that they couldn't see each other's budget, but the office of the Secretary of Defense could see all of them.)

What really killed this was that in 1980, DoD was the dominant buyer of computers, and by 1990, the industry was way beyond that.
There are a lot of podcasts out there and no good discoverability outside of large platforms. YouTube has some of the best discoverability out there, but YouTube viewers expect video. If you want to run a successful podcast in 2024, recording video and uploading it to YouTube is a must
I think of it more as a continuum. At MIT under Jack Dennis, a pdp-1 was converted to timesharing. https://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/timesharing/

John McCarthy discusses his memories of early timesharing systems, mentioning the pdp-1 https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/time...

https://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/protection/Stat... discusses protection hardware -- and how the 360 actually mostly used it on main memory, not on IO channels (even though there was protection available to IO channels).

I'm mainly saying that there were many 'experiments' tried in the olden days, and those plus "the market" give us what we have today. Recall, in the days of the IBM 1401 and DEC pdp-1, the notion of 'byte' as an 8-bit quantity did not exist. ASCII did not exist. The IBM 1401 was a Decimal / Character machine, and could add/sub/mul/div numbers of arbitrary length, in hardware (!). The pdp-1 used one's complement arithmetic. On and On...
None of those. The water was waist-deep and the mosquitoes would bleed anyone to death within an hour.
Aww, it's not making Chernoff faces :(

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face)
Insurance companies are keen to align risks with premiums. The more accurately they do so, the less volatility they will have. And in the short run, probably more profit as well. This also helps consumers, where lower-risk folks will overpay less, and higher-risk folks will be required to lower their risk or contribute more in premiums.
It is important to measure any response to a tragic event against the metric of “would this remediation, if it had been in place before the event, prevented it or improved the outcome?”

Most responses to gun violence in the US fail this test.
Reminds me of Baghdad.
I've never heard of "chilli crunch" but the description and photos in this article indicate it's just a regular Chinese chilli oil, which is commonly very heavy on the solids. And obviously goes back a long time.
> Chang still maintains ownership

Based on their past couple rounds with Siddhi and ACG I'd doubt he has majority ownership given the margins and financing terms for FMCG.
What? It’s not that they’re crushing everything, it’s that they’re doing nothing and letting you be crushed
>With the motorcycles’ front wheel next to the car’s rear wheel, one of the motorcycles can be heard inside the car and three motorcycles can almost be heard but, “unfortunately it is too late to be safe.”

These sound like very quiet cars[0] or not very loud motorcycles. Maybe my anecdata is flawed but I'm pretty sure I can make out motorcycles (and loud cars) on throttle driving an entirely different road, 100's of ft away when I'm driving, nevermind a straight piped harley 2 car lengths behind.

[0] I don't drive a new enough vehicle to attest to modern NVH isolation, but if the driver of a car truely can't hear a ~105 db exhaust noise (~comparable volume to say a horn, or the scream of someone being run over) the problem might lie with the car.

edit: for comparison, a car horn is apparently ~110-115db vs an allegedly 105db motorcycle that was tested. (5-10db is a lot more than it looks, but that should be the ~equivalent of hearing a horn honk from ~100ft away @-6dB/100ft)
I've had the audio equivalent of that at least once, and I think (can't prove it) a few other times. But it was scary so I never tried again.

I suspect I had the visual once, thanks to one time as a teenager I tried a magic spell and the explanation of "I'm capable of self-hypnosis" is much more plausible than the spell having had even the slightest effect.

I can easily create intense overrides for sensory experience whenever I like for my sense of which way down is, and mild overrides for the various kinds of touch.
Project started in 2014 and is still ongoing, but I think it's mostly small add-ons these days. I was on this project for nearly 6 years.
Agree with you about loud pipes, but I am not sure why you had to throw high-vis clothing in there, unless the point is simply not to rely on any one advantage and to assume every driver is going to try to kill you. I do and heartily encourage every other rider to do as well. There is data to argue in favor of high vis clothing, and honestly given that the only downside to it is a perception of personal style I don't get why every rider isn't wearing it.
Haha, this seems like something out of a parody. School ranking are kinda nessesary, but are also the biggest victim of Goodheart's law.

If you want to teach more stuff, then how about you just make the day longer? This decision seems less like something that was done for the children, and more for having another checkbox filled while keeping the kids easy to process.

I'm not even convinced that foreign languages are worth teaching at school. Bryan Caplan writes about how in terms if effort/reward, English is the only foreign language that will be worth studying. Personally I spent many years in Spanish and French classes, and I've pretty much forgotten everything. Complete waste of time. Another thing that makes me feel like this is just another checkbox instead of something done for the children.
Yes, no professional telescope uses a color sensor, because the on-chip filters on those are terrible and doesn't go away when you don't want color. All color images are either done by combining images with different filters or are false color images.
That way the ISP still sees what you're doing though.
>they used to vote for leftist parties, and now they think those parties don't represent what they want anymore

Ah! It could be we are talking about slightly different demographic groups here… Gen Z types are not happy with the Democrats because they don’t see them as progressive enough. That is a real problem, and I suspect what could happen over the next decade is a party split like what’s happening in the Republicans - something like has already happened in Germany between SPD and Greens. In Germany, progressives 40+ still mostly vote SPD; their kids vote green. I see the same thing happening with democrats- my generation will mostly remain with the Ds, the younger people are less partisan and don’t understand why parties exist and thus they are eager for something different.
Never let a good tragedy go to waste right? Political reactions never are about solving the problem, they're about exploiting tragedy to push through something one's camp already wanted.
I think compressing daily X.25 transfers for a national tax agency that pay per Satellite use.

The challenge in that context was that the compression should be done in an IBM mainframe without buying C because it was a infinite bureaucracy process. Another challenge was that it was not possible to connect the mainframe to the ethernet network because they also need to buy an expensive network interface. So we cannot compress it in a normal PC and transfer it automatically.

We did two versions one in Cobol and another in REXX.
I have been a 100% motorcycle rider (that is, no cars) for roughly 38 years until my last accident ended it all, but no, I don't regret anything of it: riding bikes is simply a wonderful experience. In my youngest years I would love having a loud pipe, and I had a moderately loud one, until the day they stole my muffler in the school parking lot and that moderately loud turned into an absolute mess.
Anyway, having been young and full of testosterone, I perfectly understand why some people want loud motorcycles (and cars). To me it all boils down to ancient instincts: the loudest beast is the one who marks the larger territory, and is perceived as the most powerful one, that is, the one who collects more females. This can be understandable in youngsters, not so much in grown ups.
Show HN: Transformers Crash Course
Comprehensive tutorials for using hugging-face transformers for Gen AI.
Yes, it can cause a problem called TCP Meltdown where the inner TCP and the outer TCP both try resending data and the connection degrades significantly. I think you can work around it, somewhat, by tweaking the TCP timing. But generally it's best to use UDP for the outer protocol when you're tunneling TCP
Especially also for bystanders. Porn is consumed mostly privately.
Presumably GP's fear is that there are a lot of VPN providers, and they all claim to offer security, etc (or if you google for a "$VPN_provider_name review" there'll be dozen of shill sites saying how secure this particular VPN provider is, click here to get a discount using our referral code), so it all feels like shady business.

For bypassing Sharia-state firewalls like Texas', any VPN provider should be good enough, but GP is asking for recommendations for providers who can be trusted to ensure privacy.
Totally agreed. Your other examples were spot-on, and the general sentiment also makes sense to me.
I'm not saying car drivers are better or worse (there's plenty of both on average), but you need to watch out for different things when around bikes.

Riding through red lights without stopping or yielding to traffic turning right, riding on sidewalks forcing pedestrians out of their way, zipping back and forth between the sidewalk and road, changing lanes without signaling and assuming the cars will read their minds and slow down for them are all things I saw in my few years living in a bigger city with lots of bicyclists.

Never got into an accident with one, but I was a passenger in a car that nearly hit one. She either had psychological problems, or was intentionally trying to get an insurance payout, because she absolutely tried to get hit, then freaked out on the driver when he managed to slow down in time.
This is not a technology or privacy problem - it's a legislative one. If it's illegal to do X, then it seems reasonable for the gov't to enforce that - the more efficiently the better. And if enforcing it seems wrong, then maybe it shouldn't be a law.

For another toy example, what if speed laws in the US were fully enforced 100% of the time - they would be yanked immediately, because they are dumb and mostly just used to fund the police. We only tolerate them because they aren't enforced on us very often as individuals. It's like a medium-skill lottery to see who pays for the police.
How does that change anything I said? Still all evidence is pointing towards this being a targeting mistake.
VPNs: $12/month if you sign up for 200+ months for blocked IPs and slow servers and service. awesome.
Proxies and VPNs are different, that's why?
In NZ Tesla 3 and Y last month registrations beat rest top 8 models combined. And I consider MG/BYD quite popular here.

They are just not in competition.
there's another cool aspect to your question too!

"Who gained and lost [energy] and how?"

>there actually is no objective answer as to which body gained and which lost energy! Energy is always conserved, but which way the transfer happened depends on your reference frame!

this isn't too difficult to demonstrate: pick an inertial reference frame A such that the spacecraft is at rest following the "collision" (aka the slingshot). In this frame, the spacecraft has 0 kinetic energy post-slingshot; therefore, it lost energy in the slingshot, which was transferred to the Sun. Likewise, pick a frame B such that the Sun is at rest after the slingshot (this would be the more usual frame to pick). In this case, it's the Sun that lost energy, and the spacecraft that gained it.

(depending on one's mechanics background this might appear anything from obvious to very weird and unintuitive)
Ok, but that's not the world we live in right now. Where my job is, is also in a quite boring area, almost rural. I don't want to move there.
> I made my ops team work 15 hours a day to make the facility expansion deadlines.

Am I supposed to be rooting for this person?
Ok, so why not just put the blame on Hamas? Seems like an easy win-win if that was indeed Israel's goal.
This is really cool. Here is one I made

https://edit-this.page/p?i=879f1f60fe1fe312c9608d72f3d2b6a52...
If a lawsuit is dismissed by a judge as frivolous, automatically put a minimum fee of a few good thousand dollars that the claimant now has to pay. Of course, it can be appealed, but the minimum fee on the same judgement just goes up.

Of course there are tens of other small improvements that could bring improvements, starting from simplifications of the legal code to small claims courts that would be allowed to punish minor offenses by corporations that are repeated on a systemic scale.

What are the abuses that you see, and most of all, do you think those abuses would be worse that the current abuses?
> This needs to be applied to more significant risks, like fire flood and storm.

It is. The NFPA (National Fire Protection Agency) writes the National Electric Code and other safety codes that get adopted into law as building codes. It was started by a coalition of insurance agencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fire_Protection_Assoc...
Yeah, I've been monkeying around with an AI tool to help me query piles and piles of PDF files - bazillions of specification documents and suchlike - and if there's a single thing I've taken away from it, it's that I can't expect the same answer twice, even for questions that have just the one correct answer.

That's all after preprocessing those PDFs, because there were some characters and sequences that blew up the works. That took some hunting. I did learn that FOSI processors love injecting x00 null characters into the PDF for some godforsaken reason. Didn't know that. Don't know why, though, and probably never will.

Falling back on older school techniques - from stats, text mining, topic models and other arcana - for some tasks is probably going to be worth it, for a while anyway.

Most users can't use any of this stuff, it's too CLI-ish for the vast majority of the people doing actual work. I suspect this is the gap the OP is hoping to insert themselves into, that gap between these . . these so-called "AI" things . . and the average user, but they're going to need to do a better job of scoping out just how big a job that is.

Now take all this with the following boulder o salt: we can't use any of the big cloud things, everything we do here has to be brewed up on prem, by people like me who do not know what we're doing. So we're not exactly AI superstars. Odds are everything I say is irrelevant for the outside world, with all your Geminis and whatnot.
Nice little touchdown it was. But that’s all it was. At least there was some doubt and ambiguity then; these days it’s just plain parallel universes: https://x.com/chronology22/status/1776661958827151663

>not the kind of war Russia ever thought about

Did the NATO ubermenschen of March ‘22 imagine getting themselves fried in musty old Soviet bunkers? Did they imagine they’d end up burning a cool quarter trillion and still lose? Did they picture their fancy schmancy hangar queens stuck deep in mud, being among the easiest prey for the new threats? Did they picture entire Patriot batteries gone in one strike? Did they unironically think they could “just drive around” or punch through the minefields? Did they ever consider the logistics of something that wasn’t a three week airland wet dream? Barrels? Shells?

Did Ukropians think twice before dooming themselves demographically and economically, for updoots and likes?

Good news, this isn’t even the funny part yet.
Just like other addictive things (sugar, caffeine, video games, gambling), the "socially approved amount" is determined by a given individual's own limits on what they can consume while remaining a functioning member of society.
> I can visualize the ball without color

Right now I can only visualise with a colour… unless "transparent" counts as "without". But even then, there's a full-colour environment for the transparency to be meaningful, and it can't be total transparency because then it isn't present. Even if I imagine a wireframe grid to show where it is, the grid has a colour.
The problem with the current approach is that it collects data and monitors the movement of everyone present, include innocent people. The data is centrally gathered and used for privacy violating purposes.

A better option would be to decentralize the monitoring and enforcement. Autonomous robots with cameras and guns could be installed everywhere - - they'd process all video locally, by themselves, and could take action right away. This way privacy is not violated.
That must be a US thing, over here in Europe, most people just use hotspots (or cellular data) instead.

That was a thing even back in my day, when LTE availability was not a given and cellular packages were much less generous.
Could you elaborate? Why would a pilot not know when to turn their engines on, and why is the timing not obvious (eg, "when we want the airplane to move")?
> We further construct an open-domain document-level factuality benchmark in three-level granularity: claim, sentence and document

A 2020 Meta paper [1] mentions FEVER [2], which was published in 2018.

[1] "Language models as fact checkers?" (2020) https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3466959631133385664

[2] https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/fever

I've collected various ideas for publishing premises as linked data; "#StructuredPremises" "#nbmeta" https://www.google.com/search?q=%22structuredpremises%22

From "GenAI and erroneous medical references"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39497333 :

>> Additional layers of these 'LLMs' could read the responses and determine whether their premises are valid and their logic is sound as necessary to support the presented conclusion(s), and then just suggest a different citation URL for the preceding text

> [...] "Find tests for this code"

> "Find citations for this bias"

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38353285 :

> "LLMs cannot find reasoning errors, but can correct them" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38353285

> "Misalignment and [...]"
Is that a good sandwich ?
Tailscale exit node on a cheap vps and you're golden. Well as long as the stuff you're doing is "legal". It's still traceable back to you.