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by nilsbunger 4y ago
An ocean-view apartment 2 blocks from the (admittedly very cold) beach is definitely rentable. Will it rent for 10% more or 10% less than something comparable in inner sunset? That's the question.
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Sure, at its most basic a graph database is just a bunch of many2many relationships. The recursive query is cool, but how is the performance for graph queries compared to a DB optimized for this use case ?
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Elon Musk and others call for pause on AI citing ‘profound risks to society’(nytimes.com)
13 points by nilsbunger 4y ago|9 comments
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
This isn’t just about productivity of labor, it’s about productivity in terms of end result. That kind of or productivity is deflationary, not inflationary. Eg a TV costs 10% of what it did 20 years ago. Fewer person-hours of work are invol
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Baumol’s law enables this growth in the administrative state - the money is available to pay for tuition, so it gets spent however the university wants.
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Better than inflation? Generally yes. Better than jobs which are replaceable with automation? For sure.
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
In 2003, I had a vigorous debate with someone advising their nephews not to go into CS because outsourcing to India would commoditize it. I don’t know if the AI stuff will play out similarly, there are some differences. But it seems to me t
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The Baumol effect(en.wikipedia.org)
127 points by nilsbunger 4y ago|77 comments
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Look up the Baumol effect. When productivity rises in one sector, there is an increase in wages in other sectors. The flip side of the coin is over time we spend more of our income on the things that don’t have increasing productivity. Thin
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
It's pretty straightforward -- if you have asset yielding 1.5% forever, you can make it an asset yielding 3% by cutting its price in half. In this case it's a little more complicated since you also get the principal back in pieces
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YIMBYs sue Sausalito over housing element with underwater sites(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by nilsbunger 4y ago|0 comments
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
They're doing threading without the GIL, which means it's not compatible with existing C extensions. CPython is also building a -no-gil compile-time option. If that gets traction, some of the big performance-oriented C extensions
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Lua has been used a lot for that kind of embedding in the past. I think because it's easy to move data between Lua and C? Python would certainly be a big step up but I don't know how hard that kind of integration is.
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
At first I thought this would be about performance, but now I think it's not. Their github.io page mentions interesting use cases though: > RustPython can be embedded into Rust programs to use Python as a scripting language for your
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Their problem right now isn't adding more customers - they seem to have more than they can handle! If I were them I'd focus as many resources as possible on making the stack rock-solid, and away from acquiring more customers or ad
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RadioGPT - Radio station where all the DJs are AI(listen.streamon.fm)
1 points by nilsbunger 4y ago|0 comments
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Stevia linked to heart attack and stroke(cnn.com)
12 points by nilsbunger 4y ago|4 comments
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Funny that they didn't mention it! Seems like an obvious thing for them to plug their own distribution.
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Python typing is optional and only checked statically, just like typescript typing. What else would a “Typescript for Python” add?
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Comparing Auth from Supabase, Firebase, Auth.js, Ory, Clerk and Others(blog.hyperknot.com)
1 points by nilsbunger 4y ago|1 comments
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
While I experience the world in a subjective manner, I have ZERO evidence of that. I think an alien would find it cute that we believe in this weird thing called consciousness.
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Touche! I can't lose :) EDIT: I guess calling the idea stupid is technically against the HN guidelines, unless I'm actually a ChatGPT? In any case I upvoted you, I thought your comment is funny and insightful.
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
What if we discover that the real problem is not that ChatGPT is just a fancy auto-complete, but that we are all just a fancy auto-complete (or at least indistinguishable from one).
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Banning natural gas in new construction seems reasonable and also the biggest win since you don’t have to run pipes to the building. But existing homes? They definitely need to first figure out the objections in the article: * supply chain
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
If we train a LLM on this data, which VC firm will it make partner at, and which quartile will its performance be in?
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
if you think about it, all humans are just a spicy autocomplete (per the article): * we regurgitate bullshit we heard * we aren’t very smart * we are a threat to democracy by spreading misinformation It’s kind of true too. All of us take wh
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
We're hosting a Zoning Holiday party tomorrow in SF at SPUR center to celebrate! 25+ architects for all kinds of firms submitted 5-unit designs to us, and we'll showcase them at the event! It'll be a fun opportunity to meet l
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
Oh interesting. But if an archive hash isn’t stable, how is it meant to be used? What’s it good for?
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
This is especially true of something like a git SHA, which is drilled into your head as THE stable hash of your code and git tree at a certain state. It should be expected that lots of tools use it as an identifier -- heck, I've done s
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by nilsbunger 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you should also use CSRF protection in POST requests when you do cookie-based sessions.

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