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Sorry, I was doing conservative napkin math, better safe than burnt to a crisp, as grandpa NEVER said... I'm currently having to rewire a lot of the house that he built and I bought so he could retire. There have been a lot of electrical issues that the inspection never found.

He hated outlets, and hardwired almost every appliance directly into whatever circuit was closest that fit the amperage, including literally cutting the plug off a cord, to nut the wires directly into the Romex.

I still haven't found what circuit my range hood is on. I turned off all 120V and it remained blowing, and knowing grandpa, he powered it off a single leg of a 240V. And I know he didn't use junction boxes, so the splices are likely all inside the walls.

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il y a 5 joursdiscuss

That's why they said "depending on country"

In North America we are on 120V, making a standard 15A outlet only 1500W max, and something like 1200W sustained. To use higher wattage appliances, we have to upgrade our outlets to 20A (2000/1600W) or up our voltage to 240V, but that carries a different set of plugs and outlets as well.

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il y a 13 joursdiscuss

> many books are pretty low quality.

Even low-quality books have words people might not know. I often find people who don't read books (physical or eBook) have a much lower vocabulary, and they typically don't value vocabulary, which as an avid reader, I find weird, but I guess to each their own.

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il y a 13 joursdiscuss

Texans (generally) consider themselves Texans firsts. Similar to born and raised New Yorkers (NYC). That said, I really meant it tongue-in-cheek that my accent was too thick, and doesn't work well for Siri's STT model. ChatGPT's does way better, but I really don't like talking to an LLM.

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il y a 14 joursdiscuss

As a Texan first, American second, I sympathize with this statement. Siri can't understand me probably 25% of the time. I use STT for iMessage while in the car, and half the time it will take 3+ times to either get it right or me give up, and hope to remember to text them by hand when I next stop.

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il y a 22 joursdiscuss

There are properties on the API call you can pass for specific providers, so you test which providers you like the output, then add them to the list in ranked order if you want one by default, then to fall back to the other.

There might be something in the response, or in a followup API call for the session, that you get better details. I think I've seen the details in the dashboard, so they do exist.

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More than 3 decades. The original world wide web had them. Link "circles"[1] fell out of favor for SEO around 2015 or so, but before that, they had been a primary driver of Page Rank forever.

I worked in SEO from 2008 until 2015, and developed a lot of tools for increasing your PR from backlink indexing, to running a 15k domain blog network designed to build links to links to links to you, and my favorite: Click Faker - if you were ranked on Google already, on Page one or 2, it would search google find your site, click into it, navigate around, sit on some pages for a while before clicking an exit link or closing the browser - it was very powerful, but nearly impossible to scale, since it needed local residential IPs and I'm against botnets.

1. The circles actually couldn't close if you were looking for the ultimate page rank passthrough, they were actually a line, but still called circles.

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> You'd see a lot more 1200sqft new builds if it was more economically viable and developers could make a profit on a $125k home instead of needing $400k.

You do see them, but they are factory built. I could have a $75k manufactured home dropped onto a $20k slab, with $15k utility hookup, and have 3 beds and 2 baths and 1200sqft. It is viable outside of HOAs and "master planned communities" but it is hard to find places in the US that allow this in a "desirable" area.

I agree we need more, but we need smaller too. My parents right now have a 3600 sqft house they will die in, and can't maintain because they are in/approaching their 70s. They built it in 2008 for around $190k when there were still 2 kids at home, my grandmother still lived there, and my sister had a baby on the way.

Now their home is valued at $750k according to the county (after fighting and revising it down from $800k), and if it weren't for all the homestead exemptions and senior rates and whatever other tax breaks they were given, their property taxes would be over $25k/yr.

They've actually tried to sell it a number of times, but 0 bites even discounting it down to $500k, because the town they are in has no comps (single level 4 bed, 4bath on 3 acres).

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> without a strong guarantee you'd get it all back?

Mortgages are backed by the asset you are buying. $400k for a house is backed by the house. On top of that, almost every bank can sell off those mortgages and get the cash back immediately.

So, you are correct, I would not lend hundreds of thousands unsecured to a random person, but if I had the disposable capital, though, I WOULD buy a house with that money, and price in their credit rating to their interest rate, and turn around and sell it to Fannie/Freddie and recoup the principal that I lent.

Banks aren't on the hook for any of this (except for mortgages that don't conform, but most banks don't touch those, you have to go to brokers for those).

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Even if new stock were built, new homes in Houston start around $300k for a 3/2 configuration, but those are bought up nearly instantly because not many are built, and the remaining stock are $400-700k.

I grew up with 6 family members in a 3/2 house that was 1250sqft. Houses today start at 2000+ square feet in the USA. We DON'T need that. On top of that, there is very limited stock of homes for people who no longer have kids.

Every type of manufacturing in the US has gone toward lower throughput, higher price. Luxury apartments, 2500 square foot houses with no yard, $50k for a car. And it is because we are all comparing ourselves to each other and wanting to appear like we can afford this lifestyle, and its finally breaking. But it was allowed to go this way, because it was working. Pricing out the bottom 25% didn't negatively affect the profitability of the companies making these items, in fact, it made them more profit.

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I have 2 autoimmune disorders/diseases, and I have spent the last 2 decades managing them. One of them (thyroid) is relatively easy, take my synthetic thyroid hormones ever day, and check my levels every 3 months to make sure I'm still good. The other is symptom management, which is less consistent, and a flair up from one causes the other to flair as well. And flairs are particularly hard to handle and function well.

> I guess we'll see just how valuable monthly whole body ultrasounds are. There's a real risk that it will catch a lot of benign things without catching enough serious things.

I'm all for blood tests, I'm 1000% against everyone getting ultrasounds regularly. I have done them a few times for specific cases, and every time they have found something that looked absolutely terrifying, that turned out to be benign. And the time between ultrasound and biopsy is weeks sometimes, which is even more terrifying while you sit there wondering if you are dying.

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I only partially agree with this - Access to housing for people unable to access a mortgage is very important. And the capital outlay historically required to OWN a house has been nearly impossible for the vast majority until recently. And even now, banks really hate lending to people not already "on the ladder" to use a British term.

For instance: I bought my wife's grand fathers house. It appraised for $165k, and he sold it to me for $130k, I put $50k down, and got an $80k mortgage. I earn a very decent amount around 4x the median household income. I have 22 years of employment history with 0 days "unemployed". I have maintained a DTI of less than 10% and a Credit Rating of 800+ for at least the last 15 years I've been tracking. I have more money in my brokerage than the house is worth, let alone the mortgage, and yet it still took 3 different banks, and over 13 months to close on the house. I was denied by Bank1 (who I have over 20 years of history with) and Bank2 (who owns my business accounts and holds $10s of thousands on average up to $100k regularly). Bank3 approved me, but by the time they approved me, interest rates climbed from 2.5% to 5.75%.

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> Right now we're often in a situation where the only data you have is expensive tests ran when you're sick enough to justify them, when it may already be too late.

In the USA, an annual physical includes a good deal of blood tests covered 100% by ACA-compliant insurance plans. The problem is most people don't do it.

As a person with a few chronic conditions, I'm getting bloodwork done every few months at the cost to me of $5/mo (heavily discounted by my insurer's portion of the payment).

What I have found is people who complain about the cost of the tests either don't have insurance (with many excuses for that: I'm too healthy, I can't afford it, doctors are for sick people, etc.) or don't go to the doctor, even though they pay a healthy percentage of their income for the privilege.

Health Insurance is too expensive to not use it. Get every bit of free benefit out of your insurer as you can (gym memberships, annual physicals, drug/alcohol counselling, lots of screenings and vaccines, etc), and if they are going to charge you and/or your employer to the tune of $2000/mo, fucking use it!

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I didn't down vote you, but you aren't really adding anything to the conversation. This type of pithy comment might be fun on Reddit, but at HN, we try to provide more constructive, and information rich, comments.

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Why are you being nasty? And in what world is the Netherlands a second-world nation?

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And not old... literally only 6 years ago.

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I like this idea for something akin to p2p shared/sharded hosting.

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I have a similar rig, but a 10th gen i7, 128GB of DDR4, 2TB NVMe, and dual RTX 3090s. Built it in 2021 for crypto mining, it ended up paying itself off just before Eth went PoW. I kept it mining even after profitability, because it ran warm enough to heat my apartment leaving my HVAC on fan-only to circulate the heat around.

After winter, I started playing with various other GPU loads until LLMs and SD became easy enough to use. Now it's my experimentation machine.

It's already paid for itself, so anything I sell it for would be profit, but it is still super nice for running local LLMs that power various projects "for free".

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I think a lot of the HIPAA compliance can be signed away when you authorize them to send your medical information over email/voicemail/sms, but I'm not a lawyer, and my doctor doesn't email me anything but a link to log in to their EPIC portal.

jermaustin1

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

I'm not a very smart person, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

I think the path forward will have agents that use models that are individually specialized tasks (some might use a bigger model, some might use smaller models), then orchestrators that are good at knowing when to use which agent type.

I've played around with this in my own tiny coding agents, for TTRPG NPCs, and even a small experiment where LLMs controlled a MUD client as an NPC that played the game with you (only 5 rooms in the experiment).

Basically, break the tasks down into chunks so you don't have to use generalist models for everything, and can chose the right model for the job.

I'm also running all of this locally, where a generalist foundation model doesn't work, and heavily quantized models don't perform well for all tasks, so for unlimited token budgets, my solution is probably overkill.

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