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Fair question.

For homes, I don't know if there are. But I think taxes should be levied in line with incentives. If you place a wealth tax on property ownership, the only tangible thing that will happen is rents going up to offset. Since the tax applies to all landlords, it will be the closest thing to rent inflation.

What you really want to avoid is homes built but sitting empty. Whether that's a builder who can't sell at asking price, or a landlord not getting the rent they want doesn't matter. If the city sold a lot to you, they did so for improving home supply, not the developer's profits.

For commercial, my opinion was based on Louis Rossman's YouTube channel about New York. The hypothesis there is that loans are based on property value, which are tied to requested rent. Asking for a lower rent might mean they have to put up more collateral, which they can't. So they keep asking for high rates and leave it vacant.

Do the well-behaving clients really need to use those servers? Could you have done something to avoid this bottleneck for all users?

Yeah, this is a farce.

Or unoccupancy tax. Forcing landlords to let at the price renters are willing to give will probably do some to reduce rent levels.

Same goes for commercial, but in that case, I'd even suggest forefeiture if you are not reducing requested rent within a year of vacancy. Let someone else take over if you overspent.

To be fair, the EU governments led the way to an unencrypted future with TETRA and the broken TEA1 encryption scheme. They're just giving back freedom and openness to the people now. /s

For Claude Code, I feel 1M is enough. I've had a compaction once, but that was because I was forcing Claude to do something it clearly had a hard time understanding.

For general chat bots where the user doesn't understand what a context window is, what do you do about context? Latest few messages and then a memory tool? Compaction?

Thermos has only been producing flasks since 1904. There shouldn't be an expectation that they already have this on a checklist of things to watch out for in new designs. /s

> Scientific Information on Coffee

That sounds hilarious. So I had to look. It's the ISIC: Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee, "compris[ing] five of the major European coffee companies: illycaffè, JDE Peet's, Lavazza, Paulig, and Tchibo."

https://www.coffeeandhealth.org/about-isic

But it's okay, because

> ISIC is dedicated to contributing and consolidating balanced scientific information on coffee consumption – providing a reference for professionals and authorities who address health and wellbeing. [---]

Though

> ISIC works with the European Coffee Federation as well as with national coffee associations in the following countries [---]

suggests they don't work with any tea or soda federations to compare the scentific effects of coffee to other beverages.

Main authors study neuroscience (Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland,) so I bet the results are real, but as you point out, they knew that before even starting.

> We are continuing to work to resolve the issues preventing users from accessing Claude.ai, and causing elevated authentication errors for requests to the API and Claude Code.

What are you doing with the authentication servers? This isn't the first downtime I've seen caused by that.

1. This is already the situation if you don't have technical knowledge in-house and outsource all development.

2. Yes, if you only have few people who know how to use a powerful tool, they might have leverage.

3. The supply-demand mechanism is certainly there, but the time scale is never mentioned. It'll take time to remove the unemployed juniors from the pool (maybe they get sucked up into other jobs.) It'll take time for seniors to realize they have leverage. And, of course, the company must not have rehired junior engineers for other reasons (e.g. because the coding tools become so good that seniors are not needed.)

Any objections about "this thesis isn't true; look around you" needs to take this into account. The argument is not that we're there now, but that there's a mechanism to lead there.

In a few years, they'll realize that the savings from public health care now requires an an even higher amount of money poured into the police, customs and justice systems to enforce it. Because suddenly, there are these weirdos trying to sell it in dark places. Who could anticipate that?

But that's for another government to deal with, of course. Not our problem. Oh, and the future government will be happy to announce they are giving funding that will go to new jobs!

I propose a ban on people that use bans as a brain-less cheap way of fixing complex issues.

Nice! Done. Thank you!

And here I am, just wishing that someone with the knowledge would make font ligatures that render -- and --- as en and em dashes, so I could use them more.

Hmm. There have been five posts of this, from different posters:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738575

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743553

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743841

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743961

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744492

All flagged. Sigh. Maybe this one will stay because Europe is waking up now.

Nice!

> The company will proceed slowly, says Sharon Rosenzweig-Lipson, chief scientific officer at the company, treating up to 12 people with a specific type of glaucoma, and then up to 6 people with another condition, called NAION, that causes acute optic nerve damage. The genes will be regulated by a genetic switch that turns them on only when participants take a certain antibiotic.

This would be huge for IoT. It'll obviously be abused to send "metrics" (a.k.a. private data to be sold) by companies, but still. I hope there's no limit on SIM cards.

This is nice, though I think the use of indices instead of stable identifiers might bite in complex models that undergo changes. I've been toying with the idea that you could specify a point (2D or 3D in some coordinate system, depending on context) and pick the face/edge/point closest to that as the identifier. The only other alternative I see is diffing old and new, and trying to match the outputs of each operation geometrically, but that would produce extra output that needs to be persisted...

E.g. when splitting a face in OnShape, I might have to redo a whole bunch of operations later because the identifiers change, but I'm often surprised how good it is at matching up faces after a single operation. Like modifying a sketch, then having to add the new face to an extrusion, but then it magically does the right thing for chamfers and drafts.

Rheinmetall stock is up 1,439% and Saab is up 991% since February 2022. European defense materials companies are ramping up just fine.

"I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."

Indeed. Tit for tat is well known to be an effective strategy. It's almost guaranteed to create one side that feels weaker than the other, while giving that party a way out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

Speaking of plans... If you haven't made bank already when the passport expires, perhaps it wasn't such a good idea to move abroad after all.

Surely SAMs have improved since 1991? Have the F-15s improved significantly? (I know nothing about military stuff.)

In Sweden, you can choose to have your investments in an ISK or KF, which effectively allows you to choose whether you want CGT or wealth tax, for public investments.

The current ISK tax is about 3x that of a low tax canton.

Should an engineer be allowed to create a tool that denies its users some requests?

We already have many such examples, especially with heavy machinery. For LLMs, specifically: do whatever you want with your product. The market will decide.

> no cooling or tension with the U.S., because they know the rules

Not to add to the fake news cycle, but since the US seems fine in abandoning international agreements (at least for climate and nuclear weapons,) this comes across as blue-eyed or disingenuous.

Google has little need for more money, so the price will be much higher. OpenAI being a separate entity also means Google's competitors (Microsoft, Amazon) can invest there without looking silly.

No, I meant running separate DC wires. I'm Europe, so it's 240 VAC vs 24/48 VDC. For small devices, 24 V would be useful in that you don't require an isolated SMPS, so cheaper endpoints are possible. Slightly less risk of burning down the house with some cheap Chinese AC/DC. 24 V is still high enough to use USB PD/PPS at 20 V, and I doubt I'll run enough current that the losses due to lower voltage would be a problem.

For PoE, I thought it was standardized at 48 V, but I see lots of cameras run at 24 V, and I think I've even seen 12 V. Seems a bit of a mess.

They were pressured from somewhere to show results. They had to invent a metric to be able to prove they make results. It was easier to ask the neighbour what they are measuring, than to think it through and form a synthesis. If it works for the Jones', it'll work for us.

I'm starting to believe that AGI really will cause a singularity, even before the technology exists: it's the only thing that will be talked about in my circles. People will forget to eat, families will be divided and split apart, houses will be foreclosed on due to neglect to pay the bills. It will be technology's last and eternal heroin high. The one you never experience coming down from.

I'm renovating a house, and have been considering 24V or 48V DC outlets in a few rooms. Semiconductors become more expensive above ~32V, so 24V might be the sweetspot.

However, there's also PoE (24 or 48V!), so maybe that's the right approach. It's not like each outlet is going to run a heater anyway.