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by falcolas 2y ago
> However, broadly speaking, given more supply, rents fall. There is just tons of empirical evidence for that at this point. That will depend, honestly. The popular narrative that backs this is the 1-2 property landlord who can't af
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by falcolas 2y ago
It is, by the most recent data I can find, short by between 4 and 7 million homes. But other reports state that there are in excess of 10 million homes sitting vacant. No, the two numbers are not interchangeable due to location of the homes
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by falcolas 2y ago
Over half of the for-profit rental stock in the US is owned by people or companies with over 25 units. And they are more than happy to let empty units stay empty if it will keep the value of their other units high. It's not the "1
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by falcolas 2y ago
I had a more detailed point by point argument, but it really boils down to this: Stability AI is breaking the intent of the law, even if it's technically respecting the letter of copyright and other IP protection laws. That disrespect
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by falcolas 2y ago
By the common IP definition. Reproducing something, in part or in whole, and making money off it. And before the whole "Copyright should be abolished" assertion rears it's head (again, it's already in this post at least
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by falcolas 2y ago
An AI can only work with the inputs it has, modulo a random seed. That is, it can't interpolate using anything more than two axes (to use your example). A human can interpolate in 4 different axes (if not more). And let's be frank
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by falcolas 2y ago
> That's how human brains work too. TL;DR: Brains and diffuse AI work very differently, and it's short sighted that the meme is so often repeated. It's really not. Human brains don't categorize inputs by a set of keyw
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by falcolas 2y ago
An email address is, at this point in time, a pretty permanent part of a person's identity. It's also something that should be mutable for any given account (yeah, that is a direct contradiction of the above, but still), which a U
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by falcolas 2y ago
Via a user id, which need not be tied to your actual information? It's not a hard problem to solve, once you set the requirement that you don't need you need a person's real information to let them use your product.
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by falcolas 2y ago
I'd personally found it to be akin to a exceptionally technical junior developer fresh out of college. It can generate some really good niche code, but it can also generate the exact same code that's right above it. And so you nee
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by falcolas 2y ago
My Shadow is Purple Wicked Where the Crawdads Sing The Perks of being a Wallflower Looking for Alaska 1989
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by falcolas 2y ago
Or Google. Or Bing. Or DDG. Some of them even optimize for showing you porn.
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by falcolas 2y ago
So is getting paid in cash a problem because some of it could have been stolen from a bank?
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by falcolas 2y ago
They're not trying, they are just more successful with books. They've re-defined obscenity for the books, and there's no real reason it won't carry over to the rest of the media.
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by falcolas 2y ago
If, and only if, the application supports it. Frustratingly, not all do, so you're stuck with the biggest black bars framing a microscopic landscape video. Contrast with a monitor, where it will at least be viewable vertically, even if
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by falcolas 2y ago
It's a mixed bag. Toyota absolutely implements a minimum speed. As does Subaru (for non-adaptive cruise control). Ford, in contrast, does not.
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by falcolas 2y ago
Ford, at least in the mach e, has kept capacitive controls away from the steering wheel. The wheel and stalks are clear, leaving only the lock/number buttons outside and the touchscreen. On the outside, even the open button is an actua
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by falcolas 2y ago
How much value can a disabled veteran provide to the free market? If that value is zero, should they just lay down and die? What if they're not a veteran, but just an unfortunate soul with a disability that provides "zero" va
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by falcolas 2y ago
It's a good thing that you don't need the community to do interesting things with radio signals, just an interest in doing so. Chatting with other people is just a nice side effect of working with signals sent over RF. And when it
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by falcolas 2y ago
> that's basically a solved problem. ... why not use the internet? Pretty close to everything you can do with radio signals is "solved", just like almost everything you can do with computers is solved. But these problems h
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by falcolas 2y ago
TL;DR: They used it for OpenELM models, not Apple Intelligence models. There's no clarification of what exactly OpenElm will be used for, just "for the betterment of humanity" or similar corpspeak.
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by falcolas 2y ago
> You can count on people to take action where action is requested, and to take note where taking note is expected. Unfortunately, I work with humans and technology, both of whom are fallible. As such, reminders and prompts are occasiona
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by falcolas 2y ago
Ironically, since HN tends to dislike short content-less posts, which means quite often unless we have something more to say, we do not respond at all. That is, there is no ack signal.
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by falcolas 2y ago
> Would you mind explaining what the negative practical consequences would be in the event of a Trump nomination? Simply put, Trump and the current conservative majority would like to make the health and welfare of people I love illegal.
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by falcolas 2y ago
> Arguments they find convincing are not convincing to the average programmer I think one problem is believing there exists an "average programmer". It's easy to think in averages (or medians), but the reality is that ther
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by falcolas 2y ago
I know I've tried. And every time it was "just a standard part of the contract" and "not up for negotiation". Yes, they'd rather lose me as a candidate than offer a one-off contract change. A surprising number
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by falcolas 2y ago
Respectfully, that's baloney. The document is written by the Heritage Foundation and hosted on their website. Leaders of the Heritage Foundation have directly testified to congress that it's their creation. The Heritage Foundation
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by falcolas 2y ago
To clarify, this is a scope problem. 23 agencies each with thousands of regulations that apply to millions of companies, all up for question and challenge at the same time. Bringing in the agencies will not change the scope of the problem.
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The pillar in question - the judiciary - will be hit pretty hard by the two-hit-combo of the removal of the statue of limitations for challenging regulations, and courts having the burden of going through an entire trial instead of a quick
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by falcolas 2y ago
This might work if we were still living in the 1700's, where companies were held in check by the communities they served. Today, they're happy to do the bare minimum required (required today, not in the world you're advocatin

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