skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not so much about risk as it’s about balancing the books. With equity money involved the way you build these buildings is with a combination of private investor money, your own company money and bank loans. The way you balance the budgets is on potential profits, and that requires a certain amount of expected rent. If you lower the rent, you also change the budget forecasting. You can do it, but you can also not do it and bet on things changing before it becomes more expensive to not having lowered the rent. Which is like 5-7 years for most projects. There are a few high risk projects and they tend to go bankrupt, but with property it’s usually not necessary to take on much risk because it’s one of those commodities people will always pay for… like electricity or water.

It’s much more complicated than that of course, but that’s the general essence of it.

The harm of the laws by no way outweighs the benefits. We would absolutely tear tenants asunder without those laws. They are, however, outdated. Probably because they were created long before private equity funds basically took over every major city. The “easy” fix would be to tax apartments which are kept empty, but again, there isn’t much of a political interest in this because the housing market sort of relies on the high rent.
Thanks I will give it a try.
It's not that mobile-friendly with the battery-draining background animation.
Look at the rate at which munitions are expended on the frontlines in Ukraine, for example. Those kinds of amounts need the transportation network to be working in good order. Bring down a single major logistics hub, and bad things happen.
Yes, I too increasingly get the feeling that OpenAI's leadership wants to become the "next Apple". To me it seems more like a fancy masquerade ball than real solid ingenuity.
Should proposed AI laws make this distinction? The EU regulates decisions against individuals which are determined by algorithms, but it doesn't and realistically couldn't prohibit a corporate director from running a financial model to help inform whether team X should get more staff. If you want to regulate that director's use of AI to exercise her corporate power, it seems like you have to be concerned about the question-answering AIs which might be easier to use than her spreadsheets.
Unless your company makes a special arrangement with them, Microsoft will steal all of your data. It's at least in their TOS for Outlook, and for some reason doubt they wouldn't do the same for Teams.
youtube is the modern nanny and that is the most valuable ad space on the planet
More like $30K-$45 EVs from BYD. When you see the dollar price in China, double that to get the German or Australian prices and you could expect to pay at least that much in the US if BYD builds cars in the US or Mexico where labor and transportation prices will hike the price even further.

Another way to think about this is BYD will undercut Tesla by 10% to win market. If a Tesla is $40K, the BYD might be $36K. It will not be $25K because that would cost BYD $11K they didn't have to sacrifice to win the sale.
> Some people might not like the answers, and some of the answers might be wrong. That's true of web search results now.

Nobody blames Google when the answers are wrong, because search doesn't give you answers. Search only returns results, and it's your job to evaluate those results and decide which is most likely. AI skips this and tries to give you the answer directly, which makes it responsible for its accuracy. But there is no signal for whether an answer is right or not, especially because it usually doesn't give you a source for its response. You have to roll the dice in a way you never have to for search.

This is a fundamental issue with AI, which will always exist until it stops pretending to know everything and instead work by finding the answer and being transparent about its "thought process".
https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos
It was one of the first PC titles ever to enjoy that sort of traction with non-gamers. I know a couple of people who actually bought a home PC just to play it on.

Whatever your opinions of the game, it definitely played an important role in opening up gaming to a wider audience. Myst is an important artifact in the history of gaming.

Now... were I not more restrained, I'd hope here that you step on the sourest of your grapes.
How does this compare to the Seikan tunnel constructed 40 years ago?

https://web.archive.org/web/20161018110338/http://jr.hakodat...

> Minimum overburden (under seabed): 100m

> Maximum sea depth: 140m

Excuse me for being daft, is the difference going to be a showstopper ? Construction and material engineering surely advanced since quite a bit.
It doesn't need to be solipsism - for instance, maybe half of us are conscious.

But if we can't even know that, if we don't even have a test to see whether some human or animal is conscious or not, how can we start trying to figure out what makes them conscious? It seems it's impossible to get to something falsifiable without such a test.

Like, you say a rock isn't conscious. But what about a sponge? An amoeba? How can you answer that if you can only guess answer whether your neighbour is?
Have we even figured out how anesthesia actually works yet?
note I put "undemocratic" in quotes, I do not think it is actually undemocratic, but I do think it feels that way.

This is because the main difference between the EU parliament and a country parliament is that the average European has only a vague inkling of who their MEP is, what groups or parties exist in the EU parliament, and how they stand on issues.

People do not (generally) change their vote for a MEP because they did good/bad in their last term, they change their vote because they agree/disagree with the national party they represent.
Tesla has received 3-5 times what BYD has received in US and California government subsidies. Take that subsidies bullshit somewhere else.
In a similar vein: https://www.pathetic.org.uk
It doesn't look like the search has a geolocation feature to automatically pick the language I speak and a store in my country?
There are tons of written books and journals on this topic.

My favorite:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/shadows-of-the-mind-...
Water, food, internet, housing, transport, health, etc should all be public.

Restaurants don't fall under essential so no, nor do hotels, I don't count those as food or housing per se.
Cryo me up, Scotty.
If memory serves, JPI did a Modula2 compiler that looked quite a bit like Turbo Pascal.

http://www.edm2.com/index.php/TopSpeed_Modula-2
You may have a bit of a caricature of America - the stories you here are generally exceptions, not rules, if they were mundane everyday American life, they won't be news.

It'd be a bit like me seeing a biography of a French alcoholic and riffing on it with "Tbf if I lived in France and I was out to eat [in their fabulous elaborate traditional gourmand cuisine], I'd buy at least one bottle of wine with a meal.
Not a huge fan of people drinking too much, but needs must when it comes to your country I suppose."
There have been a couple candidates, so damning a lot of astronomers would rather not talk about it.
Not a chance. BYD cars outside of china sell for twice that.
Google declares the end of the World Wide Web
All you need to do to see some change is pick a goal and commit a long time towards it. So if you have a long time maybe you can help with this project that you would like to see.
If you're in 2025 we have a few questions for you.
For all we know Europa and Enceledous could support millions of tons of biomass.
Strongly reminiscent of the British 70's folk song "I'm gonna be an engineer" by Peggy Seeger: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8IGVxBb5uYk

We didn't need religion to quash women's ambitions back in the day!
Modula-2: The Book
https://www.modula2.org/downloads/wirth-modula2/Wirth_Modula...

Mostly Unknown: There was Actually a Turbo Modula-2 (by Martin Odersky for Bordland)
https://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/6/64/Borland_Turbo_Modula_2.pdf
> Thus the thought experiment is set up from the start to find that conscious experience is something non-physical

The point is that if you accept that p-zombies are possible, then you accept that consciousness is not necessarily physical. If it's not necessarily physical, then physicalism is false.

> really all it shows is that intellectual learning is dry and dusty and limited.

What it's attempting to show is the limit of factual knowledge. If physicalism is true, then everything that can be observed must reduce to objective third person facts. But, Mary has all of the objective third person facts. So if you find it implausible that Mary would be able to infer the experience of red before actually observing a rose, even with all of those facts, then you're admitting the existence of first person subjective facts, which cannot be reduced to objective third person facts, not even in theory.

Daniel Dennett has some great responses to these challenges.
I'm not taking health advice from a guy that died at 42!
Just to tag along, we are building a P2P GeForce Now at https://borg.games . It is not open-source though (and neither is this Netris btw, streaming is not part of the source repo).

Only a couple hard coded games are currently available, but we are close to getting GOG.com support.
Yeah, if there was a miscalculation of Russian capacity, it was not its ability to fight well, but its ability to absorb the cost of, and willingness to continue the campaign despite, fighting poorly, which is why actually scaling up production wasn’t an immediate response.

Russia has taken (by the most conservative estimates) on the order of 10x both killed and wounded as the Soviet Union itself took in the nearly decade-long war in Afghanistan which was a major contribution to the collapse of the USSR in a little over two years.
Have you successfully fine-tuned an LLM for anything useful?
I'm interested to see if people are fine-tuning the larger LLMs just for kicks or if there are situation where it makes sense (not including high-stakes decision making like medical/legal) and it is computationally efficient?

Smaller models that are cheap to host, sure, but in which cases does fine-tune a larger model (and host it) really shine? Oppose to just using RAG and a closed-source API.

Perhaps it makes sense if it is serving a huge customer base, and the tone of voice needs to be different, but the question is how much work it is to train it and if it is worth it.

I'm not against fine-tuning but curious what the actual use cases are, where it makes economic sense and how successful people/organisations have been.
Bit it's useless,its circular. The definition must have something to do with the experience of qualia, that's the hard to explain part.
> Altman threw a fit and threatened to pull out of EU

News to me.

Or did you mean the quote from last year that was:

> If we can comply, we will, and if we can’t, we’ll cease operating… We will try. But there are technical limits to what’s possible.

> The law, Altman said, was “not inherently flawed,” but he went on to say that “the subtle details here really matter.”

https://time.com/6282325/sam-altman-openai-eu/

Because I find it extremely irritating that for the last year so many people have taken the worst possible interpretation of him saying "we won't break the law".

I wish this whole topic wasn't a massive popcorn drama fest; but I suppose that was always wishful thinking for a tech that, at it's friendliest, is going to be a 10x speed-run of the industrial revolution.
I don't think that's an accurate description of how search engines work today. I just googled "What is a dog?", and I don't get any traditional search results at all until I scroll down half a page - the landing UI just shows me an info page describing what a dog is and depicting various breeds of dogs.
Producthunt has been filled with low effort airtable sheets that they call a ‘product’. A lot of things are greatly inflated over there.
> repairing the damage by the tenant cost me a year of rent

Is that not something your homeowners insurance would have covered?
Yes it's now a available. Thank you !
I agree with your point on the C++ standards, but disagree about your complaints with Unreal's unity issues. There are issues with non-reproducibility in theory, but I've worked on massive projects and the impact is minimal.

> We worked around this by introducing a mandatory pre-merge CI stage that constantly does non-unity builds - but it's costly and not something a small company can often afford (a non-unity build of our UE project is ~20min on a Linux runner, and way more on a Windows one. That adds up fast).

Or you could only build the files that have changed. Even the largest of large files are one minute compiles.

> Unreal itself hasn't been non-unity buildable for a very long time.

Unreal builds in non-unity just fine. There was definitely a time period where it _didn't_, but for the last few years it's been much better than that.
I don't think we should expect alien mission architectures are likely to look like this in terms of mass or size unless we are very near the homeworld of the aliens and they have just started exploration. A civilization that has been building systems like this for 100s to 1000s of years would have deployed lasers along the flight path of the spacecraft allowing significantly higher and more efficient payloads.

The big challenge faced by our approach is that the laser array is limited to earth orbit. As it pushes the spacecraft away from earth and the laser rapidly loses efficiency. However if you had laser arrays over the planned route of the spacecraft you can keep adding velocity. However getting that infrastructure into place decades to millennia. You start with the array in home world orbit and then start building further and further out arrays. You also want the boost stations at the destination to slow spacecraft or change their directions.
With the risk of getting downvoted, let me play the devil's advocate here.

Russian economic growth hits 5.4%
https://www.rt.com/business/597842-russia-economy-growth-qua...

(Russian propaganda outlet. May not even open in your jurisdiction. Used it today because corruption allegations against Ursula von der Leyen appeared early there). The fight against Russian oligarchs has actually worked to the advantage of Putin. For the first time in 30 years, the oligarchs have to reinvest their money in Russia.

I don't see a command economy. War expenditures are still pretty low measured in % GDP

RUB which is basically "funny money". No, it isn't. Friends of mine converted dollar and rubles in Moscow easily. Western banks blocking SWIFT and other stuff makes financial transactions difficult. This does not mean the Ruble is worthless.

Russia has a flat income and corporate tax of 13%. This may be eye watering for a westerner.

Russia has raw materials, gas and oil. And little debt. I think the US has 300 times more debt and debt INTEREST payments have reached, according to a recent visual capitalist graph, 1 trillion USD per year alone.

The war in Russia may not be winnable by the west. While the industrial might is bigger than that of Russia, China has more industrial capacity than the EU and US combined.

And BRICS+ are working on their own currency to replace the dollar as the world reserve currency.

Don't get me wrong. I am a western citizen, not from Russia or China as my nick may suggest, and not a fan of Putin. But it is very possible that Russia emerges as a major power from this conflict.

Other outcomes are possible too of cause: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/13/ukrain...
Nikita is a renown Clojurista https://github.com/tonsky He authored numerous popular libraries.
I think language acquisition provides a pretty compelling example of learning affecting the experience of qualia. When someone is learning to speak a foreign language, there is often an period where certain sounds are difficult for the learner to produce, because those sounds are not present or are not distinguished in the learner's native tongue. For example, the R and L sounds of English are tricky for a native Japanese speaker.

A reason it's so hard to learn to produce these novel sounds, I would argue, is because the learner literally cannot hear the differences at first. It's only after learning (i.e. when the qualia starts to change) that production of the new sounds becomes possible.

One can think of other similar examples in the context of expert performance: a sonar operator can hear sounds in his headphones that most (at first) cannot; an artist can distinguish colors that the novice cannot, etc.

If you buy this argument, that learning can affect perception/qualia, then it's a fairly small leap to imagine how qualia itself might also be learned ex nihilo.
There is one more serious issue: currently, to establish a dictatorship, you need the support of many people because the armed forces consist of people. Now imagine that the armed forces are mostly autonomous robots.

I also agree with your point about virtual girlfriends. Add VR to that, and young boys who are increasingly socially isolated will use this technology to meet their needs.
You are confused. US and California subsides for EVs (cars and factories and tariffs) far outpaces China's. Tesla has received 3-5 times what BYD has in subsidies for example, so maybe take this tired ass bullshit claim of China subsidies being somehow out of the norm here to some forum with people who can't read good and you might get away with it.
First point: We have a transparent political system…many years ago. The leverage points get co-opt and even separation of powers cannot prevent its eventual gaming and corruption.

Second point: the market-based legal system will not devolve into a system of ineptitude only if the money used in the market system is sound and free from political control, which we currently do not have in the US.
> This is so wrong, sorry

That's an overstatement. More than one thing can be true. What you said is valid, useful and mostly true, and so is what skepticalmd said above.
Has GenAI _really_ been good enough in stock art use cases, or are they given temporal leniency? I feel they're mentioned too often for that to be the case.
The legitimately world changing life improving work I do somehow always happens to be unpaid. Funny how that works :)
Somnium
> Doctors are pretty much required to follow Establishment medicine. They're not going to tell you about folk remedies, because it could be malpractice for them.

Not in the USA. In the USA doctors can absolutely recommend non-medical treatments like supplements and homeopathy and other crap. Each doctor has their own threshold of comfort in what they will and won't recommend. But as you yourself then followed up, your doctor said when you brought up nasal rinses, "a lot of my patients do this and they seem to like it." Other doctors will go so far as to suggest them, mine has, and he was right. My doctor (same doc for my wife) will bring up lots of things, and explains his position on them all clearly, even explaining risks and things. He even went so far one time as to suggest a Chinese medicine treatment for a rare disorder my wife has. He didn't say it would work, but said he's heard about it and it should be risk free if she wanted to try it.

Doctors are allowed to recommend lots of things, it's the presentation and outcome that define liability. If a Dr says "you should shove bees up your butt to cure this ear infection" then yeah, they're going to get in trouble. But it's a lot less black and white than you seem to feel.

Note: I've worked in real-medicine healthcare for 9 years now.
I was bit confused how a formula that depends on a constant frame rate works with variable refresh rate. Then the author commented that you don't need to calculate the quantity that depends on frame rate in code. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40401211

I'm really lost, but alas have ~0 experience with 3D about 15 years into a career.

Ignoring variable frame rate:
1. Doesn't the frame rate depend on the display hardware?

2. Can you know the frame rate at runtime?

Variable frame rate:
3. What quantity do you use for frame rate for variable frame rates?
> I may not be understanding what you mean by "working" ...

> They can use it themselves to earn, or they can be paid by others to use theirs. ...

> Given a resource that has an intermediate step and could be valuable to many people, the mentality may change to "what should I sell this for?".

Well, with your initial comment it sounded much more like you intended for people to get a resource (compute) that they themselves exploit to generate revenue (cash) as opposed to just giving people revenue (cash). Which to me defeats the whole point of UBI and is likely to be worse as whatever resource picked is in no way going to be exploitable by everybody or sellable for the same price as it was obtained by the government.

> As far as scalability, with hundreds of billions being spend on compute in order to train AI, I doubt scalability of distribution would be a major issue.

I guess with the covid stimulus being in the trillions, spending just billions wouldn't have the same scalability problems.
> Microsoft: "A new era is coming. Find out what's next on Monday 5/20."

Are they finaly addressing security issues ? /s
> if it’s been automated

Bcrypt has key stretching, brute-forcing every address in existence would cost a lot of CPU even for one city. How will the attacker get compensated for that?
How is ‘not renewing a lease’ an eviction?
Was it ever explained why pg abandoned Arc so quickly?
There is a loud faction rhetorically on the “Left” that does too, though they don’t have any allies in office; their main role is trying to pull the left electorate away from Biden and the Democrats to third parties in the election, so that Trump and the GOP will win.
The hidden puzzles go DEEP on Animal Well.
Am I too old to create a popular programming language?
Each one of those cards is associated with a source that you can go to directly. Google itself isn't "learning" what a dog is and telling you with authority. Instead, it's saying "Here's a bunch of basic stuff about dogs I pulled verbatim from this, this, and this site."
is it just me or does this website not copy the Metafilter theme?
Fascinating to compare the take on storytelling/worldbuilding articulated at the end of the article to a game at the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Dwarf Fortress which has the explicit aim of being a story-generating tool, but creates worlds sort of as an accidental byproduct. What would it take to be able to generate a puzzle game with the kind of depth seen in Riven using a generative tool like Dwarf Fortress? A deeper question might be, is there any generative process that would produce the complexity of Riven without an explicit desire or demand to create such complexity. The complaints by the author in a sense echo the utter impracticality of creating such complex puzzles. Most of the time the practical solution is just to have a key, but that leads to boring bog standard gameplay. Maybe a virtual civilization that only allows initiates that demonstrate a certain persistence and curiosity, but how do you weed out those that simply follow the instructions that others have given? Well, if you have the ability to generate a whole new set of equally challenging puzzles that can't be rote memorized and copied, maybe that is sufficient.
Machine Unlearning is a thing, see e.g. here [0] for a introduction.

[0] https://ai.stanford.edu/~kzliu/blog/unlearning
Or GP himself watches these videos. And I would push back on the claim that most posters here are more likely to watch a Youtube video than read an article.
Worked for me with Chrome on macOS.
Largest ever extraction from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (2023)
This logic fails at first scrutiny, look up Salami tactics.