skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But these same people tend to be a little surprised when I point out to them that the money spent on home loan interest, property taxes, the cost of maintenance and upkeep, etc., is also something you'll never get back.

Right...but all those things you mentioned are less than rent, and at the end of the mortgage, my continued monthly costs are significantly less than what rent would be.

When I put $15K down and borrowed $323K at 4% for 30 years. Over the course of 30 years, including interest and the down payment, I'll pay about $570K.

At the time I bought, the rental value was estimated to be $1,800/month. Over 30 years, that's $648K.

Property tax is about 1.5%, so that'll add about $152K to what I pay, bringing my total to $730K.

But rents go up. I've been in my house 9 years and rental value is currently $2,700/mo. If we say you pay $1,800 for 10 years, $2,700 for another 10 years, then likely $3,600 for the final 10 years, then over 30 years, you'll pay a whopping $932K in rent.

Home value goes up, too, which does mean my property tax goes up, though I live in Oregon where the assessed value of my house for property tax purposes cannot rise more than 3% per year. So no matter how much my actual value goes up, after 30 years, my house can only be taxed on a value of $820K, which at a 1.5% tax rate, is $1,230/month.

So after 30 years, my mortgage is paid off, I'm only paying property tax of $1,230/mo, while you're continuing to rent at likely $3,600+. The early savings you had is now being absolutely devoured. Meanwhile, I'm holding an asset worth at least $820K. It's illiquid, I'll give you that, but if I found myself needing an influx of cash, I can use it as collateral. Or I can sell it and downsize.

I'm open to being proven wrong, but in the long term, I think it's abundantly clear that renting will cost more.
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Science Says Everything You Know about Food, Diet and Drugs Is Wrong
2014 in retrospect: Samsung announces the NX1 mirrorless camera
> Comparing the two scenarios, we found that about half of the observed decline in US social trust may stem from: i) ever more unemployment experiences, ii) ever less confidence in political institutions, and iii) a slight but systematic decrease in satisfaction with income.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X2...

I would also wager it has to do with increasing social and economic stratification and decreasing homogeneity.
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The ABC thing is very evident when you are on the end of it. Every excuse to keep you there and try to get you to sign, they have a response for it. No money? We have loans. Bad credit? Lets get a cosigner. Anything to keep you there or to sign.
The web site looks like a typical crypto scam.[1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230216090211/https://ecurrency...
> There were create/read/update/delete service functions that clients used instead.

Oh! I haven't seen this pattern in a long time - not since I worked on Oracle Application Express apps. In a cousin comment I noted that the bulk of app developers don't think about how to use the database to their advantage.
I'm not sure how you imagine the process of getting into one of these no-degree businesses goes. You don't just "start doing it." First, you need tools and transportation. Then you need to know what the hell you're doing. Then, probably, some certifications. And now you have to find people to pay you in a highly competitive market full of scammers who make it even harder to sell services.

The usual path is to work for someone else until you have the skills and tools and certs to strike out on your own. That someone is not going to hire you if it looks like you won't stick around as soon as a better option comes along. And no bank will give a startup loan to someone who's never done it before.

People make great money doing these things because they've done all this for years and built up the tools and skills and certifications and referral network to make it. You don't start charging $200/hour any more than you start out in SV making $1m/year.
Ray-Ban Glasses Are Getting New AI Features and More Partner Integrations
Heh, I always just assumed that you needed a Samsung account to use the galaxy store. But since I've never used the galaxy store, this doesn't affect me personally. I'll just continue to not use it.
The stack blitz demos did not work on Safari iOS…. got a blank screen.
I'm happy with dynamic languages for almost everything I do and generally do not want to sacrifice flexibility, which is the price to pay for a static type system. However, certain parts of a program become more crystalline over time, whether for performance or correctness reasons, and being able to express those parts using a static type system makes a lot of sense. PreScheme [0] is an example of a statically typed Scheme that composes with the host Scheme. I'd like to see more work in this direction as Scheme already works well as a multi-paradigm language.

[0] https://prescheme.org/
It largely depends on the market you're in and timing. In SF Bay, things are extremely skewed toward renting right now because so many people are sitting on houses benefiting from ZIRP and locked-in prop taxes. It's probably 50-70% cheaper to rent on per month, even considering building equity. We own and are looking to rent a bigger place because it's much, much cheaper. I'm surprised more people aren't talking about how incredibly skewed things have gotten. The problem is there's a lot of "high-end" rental stock in our area, but it tends to be outdated.

NYTimes has an excellent calculator for informing your own rent-vs-buy decision based on factors like rent, purchase price, marginal tax rate, interest rate, etc.

edit: adding link - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
> but probably still a better deal than owning a full vacation home that sits empty most of the year

If you can walk away: then 100% yes. I've considered a timeshare at a ski resort during the popular school vacation week.

The problem is that often you can't walk away. IE, with a vacation home, you can sell it; or otherwise default on the mortgage / taxes. With a timeshare, that's harder.

Personally, I just stay in hotels. So much easier, and the hotel bill is cheaper than whatever monthly payment the timeshare / vacation home is.
The authors claim to have found that as LLMs become larger and more instructable, they:

* become less reliable in tasks of low difficulty,

* become more prone to giving sensible-sounding but wrong answers than smaller, less instructable models, and

* become more stable to different phrasings of the same question, but continue to exhibit pockets of variability persist across task difficulty levels.

All these claims ring true... but it remains to be seen if LLMs will continue to suffer from the same issues as they become orders of magnitude larger. No one knows yet.

Nonetheless, the authors take a big leap: They somehow conclude that we need (quoting) "a fundamental shift in the design and development of general-purpose AI models, particularly in high-stakes areas for which a predictable distribution of errors is paramount."

I'm not sure there's enough evidence to reach that conclusion today.
I more worry about AI hoovering up my hard work and that makes me think about the honesty of my beliefs about why I write.

In my hobby domain, authors were traditionally very protective of obscure sources, it was all about getting the book published, becoming recognized authority. There would be a sense of pride in having an expensive limited-run book. They were/are gate-keepers extraordinaire.

I kind of hate that hoarding of knowledge. But maybe my approach wasn’t about the virtue of making info available to all, but more like Bezos’ theme of, “your margin is my opportunity”.

I still appreciate some recognition and am not writing to feed a machine. Someone back during the Industrial Revolution remarked that the machines and engines are supposed to aid people but when you go into a factory you see the people climbing all over the machines to fix them, and sometimes at great risk of injury, like we are here for the care and feeding of the machines.

Just makes me think.
Google translated to English:
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+1, we still have a lot of performance we can extract! JIT-compiled train steps, more optimized data loading and sharding, gradient accumulation, and activation checkpointing. We will continue building and will do another blog soon after implementing all the improvements!
wouldn't be volcanic activity be a consequence of a large enough impact, basically a waterhammer with magma?
I disagree with the resilience point and distribution. They costs differential is just too great (more than 10X last I checked), and the grid transmission always has to be sized to support 100% of local demand.

I think the crux of it is your point that Economies of scale in solar only benefit utility companies. I largely agree with that and think the other issues flow from this.

It doesnt matter if my power company is buying large scale solar for $0.03/kwh, they will figure out a way to charge me $0.50.

In California, power companies are not in competition, and the government sets price controls based on a ~10% corporate profit margin. Naturally, the power company drives their opex costs as high as possible every year.

The system is so broken, it is hard to see a way out. I want to try to mitigate costs by rooftop production, but the state is shifting costs from use to grid hookup fees. Hell, there has even been proposals for taxing residential rooftop production.
For comparison, Android phones with 120Hz displays seem to keep it at 120 during movements and only drop below when still. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbb0SoH765s

Is the difference visible? Probably yes, although it's not huge. The big scandal is how Apple still sells an expensive phone with a 60Hz display...
Oh, they'll know.

All that book learnin' changes you. With life and experience and life experience, you can stop coming off as a stuck-up out of touch asshole to people doing this kind of work.

My entire generation got endless refrains of the message that these are the kinds of jobs you fail into if you don't get a degree. That doesn't break easily. It seems like the next crowd gets similar messages.
A jq255 elliptic curve specification, and a retrospective (2022)
How do you know what your lawyer is saying isn’t incorrect? It’s not like people are infallible. You question, get a second opinion, verify things yourself etc.
Very curious as well - I use Supernote A5X for PDFs and sometimes I reach to the edge of the screen to try to turn a page
Maybe it could be called System-I.
Well it's good you're a free thinker, we need more of those. Sorry for assuming where you had placed yourself.

The 'conspiracy' label has no sting if you meant it to. I'm sick of clown world and voicing my opposition to it and shaking my fist at clouds. You can't blame me for not accepting predominant narratives, we are so propagandized. And when I am wrong, I own up to it.

I don't believe Trump will be allowed to be president again, so you shouldn't have to worry about Agenda 47 bugaboos.
But, did you successfully receive that 4 day/night accommodation?
'I'm motivated by the puzzle': how Courtney Dauwalter became ultrarunning's GOAT
> It's a language aimed at experienced old school programmers, and doesn't aim to be friendly to younger less experienced programmers.

I think Rich Hickey had a point when he said "[musical] instruments are made for people who can play them". I don't see people complaining about the piano or the saxophone being difficult for beginners. They are.
The statement I struggle with is "Web Components are mature now", not because of bugs per-se, but more of interoperability with the larger eco-system.

One example: if I want to use tailwindcss, then adopting web components comes at a cost/risk. While there are techniques like in this tutorial [1], you end up getting cut by the bleeding edge if you are not using Lit, you are using vite (based on comments), etc etc. (And the space moves so fast, I'd be afraid that any architectural differences between Tailwind and Web Components, might start to hurt me further in the future.)

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwkXCYiRgtE
Andy's blog is on another level. He's also leading the Hoot project to compile Guile to WebAssembly and I work with him on that and try to absorb whatever compiler knowledge I can while doing so.
Zotero has a beta Android app [1][2]. I haven't used it, so I don't know if any functionality is missing.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.zotero.and...
[2] https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/110371/available-for-be...
A friend who is a builder (has done approx 700 homes) recently said it well - in any given market, there are 2 agents who are doing really well, 15 agents who are doing better than minimum wage, and then there is everyone else. Extrapolate those numbers up for your market and it is accurate - the majority of agents are at best making a little travel money, and likewise the average agent doesn't last 4 years in the business. Buyers you may have invested a lot of time in end up buying with another agent (yes, even after enforced buyer broker agreements this will happen) and sellers sometimes decide to cancel their listings after you've invested (photos, videos, drone work, postcards, mailers, open houses, etc) potentially leaving you without compensation. So you are absolutely right that in many cases the reason it costs as much as it does is simply the cost of doing business.
> Not seeing what AI brings to the table here other than being a fake human that gives inaccurate advice ~5-10% of the time

So you agree that AI does bring something to the table if it can narrow the range to ~5-10% ?

Human appraisals are a joke and should be a narrower range than what I've seen. It's never exact, even a house for sale is just an Ask Price for what they hope someone will pay. It does no good to a buyer if their agent advise buyers on prices and values and what to offer if this range is too wide or margin of error too large. It basically comes down to offer X% below ask if you like it, offer ask if you love it, offer X% over ask if you will cry over losing it. No AI needed or agent needed at all, this is just a personal finance decision making process and more about your emotions & budget than anything else.
Seniors had the fortunate, and unfortunate now, opportunity to grow up in a considerably more high trust society than we currently live in.

I question that. “Swamp land in Florida” has been a thing since before this retiree was born. Sales of similarly useless land in Arizona. Look up “California City” for another example. Cemetery plots, hmm, I’m sure I’ve missed others. Let’s not get started on car dealers.

I don’t recall a time, and I’m confident my parents will say the same thing, where one didn’t distrust a salesperson by default.
Similar experience but with RDS at a non-profit, we were running everything on AWS with SQL Server BYOL and when they yanked support for BYOL on AWS, we were left scrambling. This was in 2017-2018 and they kept getting away with it, from giving free non-prod licenses only on Azure to expanding the terrible licensing to other products. No one checked them on it and here we are...
OpenAI Pitched White House on 5-7 5GW datacenters
Bendable non-silicon RISC-V microprocessor
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Must be amazing to have the skills to discover the hidden relationships of reality.
Treewave used something similar, to great effect, on his Cabana EP. Prominently here on Sleep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKx8bZ5eq8

He hacked up the firmware of a dotmatrix printer to send it commands from his Atari 2600 or 80286 Compaq to make music. "Sound is generated by the print head pins striking the paper and the sound is picked up by a tie-clip mic on the print head. By adjusting the frequency of the printing process in software, different pitches can be played (with about a two octave range.)"

He thoughtfully includes all the source you need to do this to your own Epson LQ-500! https://www.qotile.net/dotmatrix.html
Those replies are a dime a dozen. Unless they’re poignant, well thought out discussions on specific failures, they’re usually from folks that have an axe to grind against LLMs or are fearful that they will be replaced.
Llama-Stack
this was a lot of fun, great job
No, not an American. Did you mean that Americans have lower standards than Europeans in this respect? I'm confused about your last sentence.

Anyway, my note was specifically about publishing NLP research at ACL conferences (ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, etc.), where publishing mediocre work hasn't been difficult. Just go through the proceedings, and you'll see that's the case. I don't know about NeurIPS.
Simple reactors can be designed to be turned up and down according to need. A 300w RTG is more than enough to run all the necessary electronics. The ice-melting 30,000w+ heater can be a second rector that is spooled up only when ice needs melting.
Follow the guidance of your Planetary Protection Officer:

https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection#pl...
A lot of rights (like your right to remain silent, your right to a speedy trial, your right to bear arms, your right to vote, your rights to be free from search without reason) have been interpreted only apply up to the point of conviction. So yes, things get MUCH tougher once convicted as many rights no longer apply to you or are stripped from you.

In this case, up until conviction you are presumed innocent and guilt must be proven. Post conviction most of the appeals process is bared if not filed within 14 days of conviction (it used to be forever but then the US Justice system decided woohhh there that's too long and burdensome on the Justice system so 14 days was deemed a reasonable change to the previous 'forever'. A totally reasonable happy middle). After 14 days from conviction really the only relief available is to prove actual innocence, a much higher and more difficult standard to meet.
I’ll point out that a common method of detecting bugs at the time was to set up a radio receiver with a speaker and then sweep the frequency, if you managed to hit you would get a feedback sound between the speaker and bug. These oddball modulation schemes would prevent that from working.

I like it a lot that many of techniques have a hybrid analog/digital structure that would involve sample-and-hold, sweeps and comparators like the Triple Pulse scheme.

Today I can’t believe you wouldn’t use some digital solution but at that point in time you’d be lucky to be able to use a small IC.
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I love the idea of a Haystack VR world! It's a shame that VR software is in a tenuous state due to the biological factors, but I believe it's the future "one day".
The article explained why there is a "good demand for the material":

> The economics involved are simple. On one end, the demand: the effectively infinite, indiscriminate appetite for content of websites like Facebook and TikTok, which need enticements for users and real estate for advertisers. On the other, the supply: the astonishingly adequate, inexhaustible output of generative-AI apps like ChatGPT, Midjourney, or Microsoft’s Image Creator, heavily subsidized by investors and provided to consumers at low or no cost.

As for academic sites being a source of quality training material, it points out 'In June, researchers published a study that concluded that one-tenth of the academic papers they examined “were processed with LLMs,”' and mentions the monetary incentive academics have to use AI-generated papers 'to pad [their] résumé with more publications and citations'.
Does this project take any inspiration from Light Table?

Potential feature request - take the visualization beyond 2D. Really complex systems are usually an intricate graph (polite way of saying ball of yarn) and just visualizing in the 2D plane doesn't seem to cut it in my experience.

I would love to have something like concentric spheres of visualization - boundary services on the outer layer, core/domain services in the inner layer.
I write stuff that I'd like to read.

I've found that most others, don't want to read it. It seems that it needs to be short-form video, if I want to get eyeballs.

Meh, whatevs. I still do it. Making decent video is a a lot more work than writing.

https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany
Yeah I guess what I was trying to get at is the instrument isn’t “naturally biased” towards a specific key in the same way woodwinds and brass instruments are.
Amazing, now I've really seen Thatcher blamed for everything.

The problem of false scientific claims is global. The UK is by far not the worst offender (mostly places like Iran, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China are worst affected by paper mills to pick one problem...). And university funding has been tied to research everywhere for decades. It's really got nothing to do with Thatcher.

Really, under an actually libertarian government university research wouldn't be funded at all. From their perspective companies are more than capable of doing research and the patent system encourages publication.
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A family member took over another family member's time share after they passed.

Their options and just getting anything scheduled was becoming harder and harder to the point that you couldn't schedule anything. They took your money and pretty much no dates were available....

It just so happened that this family member frequently traveled for work and were in some credit card + hotel points program that also was managed by the corporation that ran the time share. They went and checked what they could redeem their points for and ... it was the exact locations they used to be able to book via the timeshare.

The company had taken the timeshare owners money, now that they had it, they gave the benefits to their points / credit card customers.

In a semi related story I worked once with a timeshare company who wanted to "get into the digital age". I never worked with a more ignorant customer. Their standard operating procedure was to get their vendors on a conference call and tell them to "figure it out".
You're almost certain to end up with the exact same line just a different provider on it. Very few areas have multiple fiber networks, although it's getting more common.

I still believe that the original move, forcing KPN and other network owners to allow competitors on their network, was a better option than digging up the streets twice to get two fiber networks in place.
You need to pay if you want to use it commercially, however (and it's not cheap).
Very awesome!

I want this for C# and Python! Are their any technical challenges there? I would love to use this with Unity.
Coroutines themselves are a really simple concept. But in practice they give you all the headaches async stuff generally gives you. And in C++ there is a ton of extra complication, especially because there is no support library. I wrote this in a tutorial a while ago:

> they are functions that can suspend themselves, meaning they stop themselves without returning, even in the middle of their body and then can later can be resumed, continuing execution at the point they suspended from earlier.

If you want to use coroutines in C++ specifically you can have a look at this tutorial, if you want: https://theshoemaker.de/posts/yet-another-cpp-coroutine-tuto...
I don't know of anyone that read it, but I spent a lot of time on it.

It essentially tries to explain how to build a coroutine support library yourself, but if you don't care about that, skip it and just use libcoro or cppcoro. They have examples too. My little async io library has some examples as well if you want to get an idea.