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by awongh 1y ago
I haven't dug into how they average these numbers out, but Singapore is especially interesting because their housing market is closer to just NY, SF or LA than it is to the general average of the USA. In that sense they're doing r
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That kind of cash too is just another form of cost- and I think that goes to part of my point which is that especially because of speculation the sticker price of a home is really inflated. If the buyers don't have a profit motive (nei
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by awongh 1y ago
I think one way forward in the US is for a housing association to get the ability to have a mortgage that is a government backed housing loan, with a favorable interest rate. afaik right now that's very hard to do.
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TICs are a scam though. They are just condos with less legal protections for the relationships between the tenants. They don't solve any of the cost of ownership issues or deal with the idea of appreciation of the value of the real est
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by awongh 1y ago
> Also, the incentives of a cheaper than market rate flat, means that corruption and nepotism is rampant in those buildings. Maybe there's some middle ground between socialized housing that incentivizes people to take advantage of o
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by awongh 1y ago
This article is really low on actual facts about how these co-ops can actually operate. I feel like the problem in the US isn't necessarily that the government won't directly pay for these kinds of things like they do in Switzerla
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by awongh 1y ago
TIL about baseline widely available. I do wish we would start to move further towards a sane set of front-end application (logic) technologies (I don't think the current leader, Typescript NextJS is it) But I do appreciate that CSS is
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by awongh 1y ago
This link should be to the website instead which seems to be a demo of the app. It’s a good concept, I just installed dumbify, i’ll see how that goes first. It seems like there is a lifetime option? The pricing doesn’t seem to indicate that
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> if Republicans maintain control after mid-terms Is that still possible? I guess I'd assumed that they were set to lose, but I haven't been keeping up with the overall picture.
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by awongh 1y ago
Were premiums that high pre-pandemic?
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Is there any republican justification for this, other than, by the time people notice it will be too late / we will try to blame it on the other party? Are they expecting the states to step up and pay instead?
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by awongh 1y ago
I'm excited to see the next crop of real LLM powered language apps. I could see it coming from 2 directions (since I think most people agree language learning and SRS go together): - anki on steroids - a dynamic way for me to do SRS th
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by awongh 1y ago
I've used anki before. Most of the decks you get are randomly downloaded from the anki website. I'm not sure that an LLM hallucination is that much more likely than a typo or error in a random free deck I downloaded that someone c
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by awongh 1y ago
Like it's mentioned in the article the motor controllers themselves are closed source so they have to hack the protocol in order to plug the battery into it. What if all the software and hardware systems of the bike were open source, n
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by awongh 1y ago
The thing is that you can now ask the LLM for links and you can ask it to break down why it thinks a piece of code, for example, protects the bucket from being public. Things that are easy to verify against the actual docs. I feel like this
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by awongh 1y ago
This is LLM as semantic search- so it's way way easier to start from the basic example code and google to confirm that it's correct than it is to read the docs from scratch and piece together the basic example code. Especially for
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by awongh 1y ago
This is exactly what I use LLMs for. To just read the docs for me and pull out the base level demo code that's buried in all the AWS documentation. Once I have that I can also ask it for the custom tweaks I need.
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by awongh 1y ago
It would be cool to see a fully open source ebike. Sort of like a framework (the hardware company) of ebikes.
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by awongh 1y ago
The details on what the architecture of this aren't clear, but I can see that the big feature is deeper integration into the browser. To me this is an obvious direction for all coding agents to go in. Right now the cursor chrome browse
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by awongh 1y ago
Pure speculation, but people have suggested that the iOS app Tea was vibe coded. (Based on the quality of the code and the founder's stated background)
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by awongh 1y ago
Is langfuse the best? It seems nice but I'm not sure what the options are.
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Are people still building with lang chain?
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Unfortunately the new victims in the system of LLMs and the way they distribute knowledge is the specialized content website. Now an LLM just knows all the content you painstakingly gathered on your site. (It could also be, and is likely th
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by awongh 1y ago
This is great, but as others have mentioned the UX problem is more complicated than this: - for other models there are providers that serve the same model with different prices - each provider optimizes for different parameters: speed, cost
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by awongh 1y ago
> making something that is merely similar, but clearly different from the original, is not a copyright violation Is a cover a copy? For music, it's not like I'm selling you sheet music- I'm still outputting something you l
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by awongh 1y ago
It's not as if individuals are the only ones who bear the consequences though- huge companies sue each other all the time over copyright. I guess it's a function of the legal system at all levels that money buys you more access to
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by awongh 1y ago
> The case is arguably even more clear cut: copyright protects more-or-less exact copies. What about songwriting? Or even music performance- me performing a song doesn't produce a more or less exact copy.
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by awongh 1y ago
To be clear, scraping the entire internet so that ChatGPT knows what Mickey Mouse is may not be a fair use of copyright. Or to be more specific, being able to generate images of Mickey Mouse may not be legal- that is the ingestion of those
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by awongh 1y ago
My main point was that if you are against AI scraping, are you also against this guy being able to post this video? Separate from the level of consequences for an AI company or this guy- for example if he was forced to simply take the video
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by awongh 1y ago
It's interesting to me that for critiques of AI, one of the major arguments is "stealing from artists"- and I know that the argument is more nuanced than this- but a lot of the specific legal framework for intellectual proper

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