skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey Ashlander! I'm out in the Applegate (as you probably could have guessed).

Thank you for adding some more nuance to my post. I agree with everything you've written here. It matches my understanding of what happened despite my earlier oversimplifications.

There were compounding problems, but I think the story to be told is one of ineffective regulation and underenforcement. The regulators just didn't have a complete understanding of the industry, which introduced loopholes large enough to drive a Mexican cartel-sized truck through. Better representation from industry might have helped, but it's hard to say.

In their defense, the market changed underneath everyone. Keep in mind that there was virtually no public awareness of CBD until after it became legal to farm (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=c...). The wink-wink nudge-nudge "hemp" growers knew this, and moved with incredible speed to farm as many acres as possible before the regulators caught up. Somewhat like flooding a small town with Bird scooters in the middle of the night.

I'm not saying the industry was perfect beforehand, but it was mostly fine until it became clear that there would be a 1-3 year window for growers to extract maximum profits. At this point the whole valley got ground up in the mighty garbage disposal of capitalism.
Thanks so much! I’ve sent you an email.
It’s not that simple: as the person you’re responding to explained, this was leaky because in simple cases you could pretend those were equivalent but then things would break around interface points when someone introduced things like filenames with Unicode.

I had clean Python 2 codebases which had been Unicode-safe for years and had good test coverage, so porting to Python 3 was trivial and mostly automated. The projects which were hard were the sloppy ones which conflated bytes and Unicode, and the poor development culture which lead to that also tended to mean they had limited testing, orphaned dependencies, monkey patching, etc. which made the migration hard. I also found a fair number of cases where that process fixed other bugs which had been ignored for years.
Question: how much would it cost to consult a lawyer about a 100 page document? How does one even go about doing something like this? I've never really needed to do that, so I'm genuinely curious.
Australian parody news site the chaser just announced [1] that they are going to put up a paywall to avoid having their content scraped for AI training. They feel like chatGPT already "is a more competent writer of satire than most of the people we’ve worked with". I guess they are too late

[1] https://chaser.com.au/uncategorized/why-the-chaser-is-going-...
That won’t work. Nothing remains static. A new leader will emerge or will need to be appointed for the team to remain effective over time.
Well I think the main reason is that it annoyed the populace that felt they were now having trouble buying a place due to all this foreign competition, and politicians need to serve the populace, not foreign investors.

But the real problem is that building housing is a physical process that takes time and limited manpower. If we're devoting our trades to building empty condos for rich people, then they are not spending their time building housing for regular local workers. That means there is less supply of regular housing, increased scarcity and rising rents and prices. Unhappy local workers.

There's no simple matter of just training more trades because that takes time and effort too, so when you think about all this in an environment of rapidly rising prices where we need a solution NOW not later, it makes a lot of sense to destroy foreign investor demand at a stroke of a pen and effectively force local development companies to focus their product once again on a local buyer.
Apartment rent growth set to keep slowing this year
> In particular, if the model is trained on multiple news stories about the same event, it has no way of knowing that these texts all describe the same thing, and it cannot differentiate it from several texts describing similar but unrelated events

And... the claim is that humans can do this? Is it just the boring "This AI can only receive information via tokens, whereas humans get it via more high resolution senses of various types, and somehow that is what causes the ability to figure out two things are actually the same thing?" thing?
Were strings in Python 2 really only ASCII? I was sure you could put UTF-8 data in Python 2 strings?
> Why do you think supply and demand do not exist in the housing market?

Why would you think that I think this? That's really confusing.

I think the issue you have here is that you are thinking in extremely simplistic terms and not really accounting for real supply and demand in this particular market. Instead of looking to Tokyo (which is a generally bad example because Tokyo and Japan are not great generalized models) you should look to New York City to see what will happen if you continue to build housing in the Bay Area. It won't get cheaper, in fact, the more you build the more expensive it'll get for a few of reasons:

Interest rates
Housing standards (environment, earthquakes, etc.)
Developers do not want to build low-margin housing so they'll only build "luxury" housing with cheap, but perceived higher-end finishes so they can charge more rent per sqft
Lack of available workers

As developers build additional housing they'll only build for higher rental rates, but because there is a near infinite demand for housing in San Francisco and California as a whole, as additional units come onto the market they'll raise the median rent, but it won't make existing housing cheaper, it'll just be the new floor. If you could build a million units or something in a year, you may be able to reduce prices, but construction doesn't work that quickly. Demand far outstrips supply and will continue to do so.

Tokyo is incomparable for a few reasons, but you can start by examining Japanese birth rates, immigration policy, and California's comparable car-only infrastructure.

Historical examples aren't very useful here because historically there were far fewer people, travel from the highly populated east coast to California was long and arduous and the benefits were "unknown", and people had a lot less money and stronger family ties. Trying to do global comparisons is generally suspect as well. But I guess if you want to see what things would look like, New York City, Hong Kong (pre commie China takeover) and the similar extremely high housing costs and density are appropriate versions of the future of the Bay Area real estate market. With that being said, who knows what will happen with remote work and the like, but probably won't have much in the way of price reductions there anyway over the longer term.

If you want less expensive housing you'll have to live somewhere else. That's just how the world works.
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Idk bud. I think you’re in a bubble. I happen to be brown. Maybe that skews my sample.
Dedicated physical knobs and buttons are the best UI tools for most common car features (headlights, wipers, signals, stereo volume and on/off, etc, etc.). Like this previous HN discussion about touch screen menus to open glove boxes. Insanity.

I would not buy a car that was centrally touch-screen controlled. Long live knobs and buttons!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33390906
Paying for something with crypto is the same taxable event as converting it to cash. You can’t get out of that.
We've seen in Portland how society functions without policing. No thanks.
History repeats itself. We have never had a technology like this, but we know humans have had multiple genocidal dictatorships whose tyranny slew millions. I damn well will scrutinize each technological achievement's ability to facilitate tyranny. You can frame it hyperbolic, but look at Twitter or Facebook. These platforms have become instrumental to governments for survelience and intelligence. Identifying the murderer is wonderful (absolutely not disagreeing) , but in my opinion society ought to be worried about personal freedoms and rights.
I did: it gave me a better starting point than Google.
Just a proper binary format for code. (Needs to be invented, of course ;-)).

Using Unicode for that is like pocking around in hex when compared to what we do actual with code in an IDE.

Edit: I just see the sibling has a even better explanation.
Pfizer could fund research for two thousand years at only 10 million a year?
Ooof I sense a juicy backstory here
I could see this being useful as a tool that scans legal documents in bulk like Terms of Service and looks for red flags that simple keyword searches would miss.
This is slightly off-topic, but this post makes me feel sincerely nostalgic for building games in Eclipse and Swing back in the day. Growing up, Notch's live streams[1] where he would code up a game in Java Swing for Ludum Dare were one of my first exposures to programming, and reasons for eventually studying CS. I wish there were some modern alternative to Swing that would be as simple as Swing, but would allow you to create games for the web.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J_8HkQj9mU
In the case of Java, imagine we have a big Maven project that has a bunch of different well factored modules that form the "libraries" of our application. At first, in our Maven project we also have a single module which is the deployable for "the monolith" -- it consumes all the other "lib" modules and gets packaged into a fat jar.

We deploy a few instances of the monolith fronted by a load balancer. There's not much scaling logic here -- when we see p75 request latency reach a certain threshold, we add another monolith instance.

A while later, we realize that the /foo route is getting a ton of spikey traffic, which makes it hard to scale. So, in the load balancer, we set up a new pool that just targets /foo, and in our Maven project we create a new module that will be the deployable for this pool. Now, /foo still requires most of our libs, so the jar we're bundling is still "the monolith" in essence, but maybe it doesn't require a few dependencies, and so is a little slimmer. We deploy that and everything is scaling great!

Then, we discover that in our main monolith, the background threads we were using to send emails are getting really clogged up, which is adversely effecting performance. We decide we want to move this work to an external persistent queue, like Kafka. Now, for our consumer, we create one more Maven module for a new jar. This time, we're lucky. Emails only need 2 of our libraries and so this is actually a pretty small deployable, but it's still being built from the same core set of libraries as the monolith.
I'm in the same camp, can't stand touch screens while driving.

I've been researching EVs and there are still cars with physical controls, e.g. Kia Niro, Hyundai Ioniq 5.

If you look at YouTube reviews of cars, the lack of physical controls is often one of the things they complain about. I'm convinced car makers are paying attention to feedback on this topic, and hopefully it's a fad that will die soon.
I did convert it to cash. The problem is in the US you can’t suddenly have thousands of unexplained dollars when getting a mortgage or similar.

I guess I should have clarified: I didn’t directly give them crypto. I was using it to cash out and pay cash with. But I had to prove ownership.
Organize teams around products. The point is to increase value delivered to the customer through the product, not to produce left-pad-as-a-service.
I'm not your peer by visiting this website. I think you may conflate things.
I'm not projecting my AGI dreams on ChatGPT. I'm being insanely impressed by what it does and continuing to see massive progress in that direction is thrilling, worrisome, interesting and so on. Nitpicking that it made a mistake in such a subtle assumption and handwaving away its understanding of things is disingenuous.
Exacty.
Yes there is a surprising amount of worry about serial killers in this thread, compared with authoritarian governments who have killed literally millions of times more people [than serial killers] in just the 20th century alone.
Can't tell why you're downvoted either - could have been a bit more constructive, like your second post, I guess.

Otherwise I agree: 10x certainly invokes the mythical "10x programmer" to me, but looking through the list of features, it's pretty basic. USP seems to be speed, probably competing against the heavy IDEs, not Emacs and Vim. But getting there took some guesswork, the website didn't answer these questions well for me.
Hopefully NWS finds time to upload it to https://play.google.com/store/apps.
A lot of teams use additional services from Github besides pushing code. They run their CI system using actions (including building docker images for prod), they keep knowledge/metadata on issues, PRs, comments, discussions, Kanban/project management, ...

Not having access to GH could be paralyzing.
There are stories about both, but vastly more for Amazon about doing something themselves that they saw one of the sellers on their store do. So I don't think your example holds too well.
I'm from Europe and I have separate cards for credit and debit, but the ATMs in the US still ask me. I've always wanted to try pressing debit on the credit card but then never could be bothered. Would it just do credit because that's the only thing the card can do, or reject it altogether?
> Tesla's insane drive to remove almost all physical controls and lock everything behind a touch screen interface.

I dunno, I kinda like it. Have you spent some time driving one? You might change your mind.

I guess I don't quite understand the concern here. Defrost buttons aren't in a standard place anywhere, you need to hunt for them. In a Tesla you can just put it in autopilot while you do. Or you can click the (physical, heh) right thumb button on the wheel and say "Turn on Defrost".

I'm not going to tell people not to hate Musk (and I'm certainly not going to defend the disaster at Twitter), but... the cars are really, really great.

No, not everyone is going to like everything, but when I see stuff like "insane", "cheap", "lies", "crazy" in posts like this, I think it's pretty clear the rhetoric has gotten way too far ahead of the truth.
I like DxO's model, which is "buy once and receive updates for a while". Minor bug fixes appears to continue for about a year, while major feature updates requires buying new versions. This model means I get to choose when to upgrade (and thus when to pay), and it's one reason why I use their software instead of Adobe's.
Looking at the public record of what Putin has said and done, you can probably make a much better case for rational and ruthless than stupid.
Adding another nail to the coffin claiming Russia blew up their own pipeline.

At some point we have to face reality that it was the west and most likely the UK and US in a joint operation as the no one else has such capabilities.

Once we accept that we need to ask ourselves (as Europeans) who is really on our side and who has OUR best interests in mind.

I don't blame the US for taking advantage of a crisis but we need to stop being so gulable to believe they won't as they have time and time again.
I didn't. I gave a concrete example of the phenomenon I was already talking about. If he wants to give concrete examples of what he's talking about, he's more than welcome to do the same, but he can't, because it's a lie.

The conversation would have ended up the same way had I seen his reply before editing the example in - I'd just have given it afterwards, and he'd still have no answer.
Because people would rather read about it than actually try it. Bashing on FSD/Autopilot? Have you even tried it? People hate Tesla as if Elon personally made it for them. It is currently best value for money when you compare and actually try other options.
Last time I had to speak to my telecom operator, which granted has been a while, Twitter was clearly where business took place. Interactions were always pleasant meeting them in the right place.

Isn't calling them by phone, as if you're still stuck in the 1950s, like showing up at the back door at a restaurant and wondering why you weren't greeted by the host and seated promptly? Maybe the surly dishwasher will eventually notice you standing there, but why would their 'A team' be there waiting for you?
> the police often choose to withhold police protection in response to police reform

I am not sure this is accurate, and it’s similarly unclear to me what exactly you are referring to.

I don’t know what, specifically, you mean by “withhold police protection.” Would you provide some examples? And what evidence do you have that such action happen “often” as a response to police reform?
Another (my project):

https://postcard.page
I live in the midwest and own a non-tesla EV, and the minute you get out of any kind of bigger cities your chances of finding a level 3 are quite sparse. There are a LOT of chargepoint level 2s, but level 3s seem to be at car dealerships who don't offer it to everyone, hotels that don't allow it for everyone, etc.

We did a 80 mile each way day trip to visit someone and bring them back and had to line up lunch in an area with no great food options so we could sit for the 30 minutes to get back up to 80%.

With it being cold in the midwest our advertised '280 range' or '180 range at 80%' never is even close to that.

It's like the olden days before really efficient ICE vehicles.
On the completely opposite side of this spectrum, i avoid any game that i see having DLC getting pumped out constantly - Paradox being one developer i avoid.

I want to buy the final full game whenever the developers are done with it, not buy pieces of it. If the developers want to add new stuff they can always make a sequel.

Because of this i tend to wait until some "game of the year edition" is out and the developer has started working on a new game (only a very tiny fraction of developers are going to bother making DLCs for their previous games instead of focusing their development efforts towards the new games).

The only exception to that is MMOs and the like that by their nature need updates and IMO the best approach there is having a subscription to fund the game's development. Of course the greedy powers that be figured out that giving the game for free and monetizing microtransactions on the easily preyed upon "whales" makes more money regardless of the detriment that may have on the games' design.
The lady in the first one is wearing a bikini (you can see it when she turns around) and (presumably) pasties, it's a little risque but not really much more so then a kid would see at the beach.

The second has a fully-clothed lady in makeup and headdress doing a dance that involves flashes of her underskirt, and is far less sexed up than, say, a can-can dancer, of which I personally saw plenty growing up watching old cartoons and TV shows (and have since ended up posting on the Hacker News forum which I guess is not necessarily the best endorsement). For example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E_gKenzXMAUOs2W?format=jpg&name=...

As for the third link, I've personally found Andy Ngo to be a completely unreliable source. That said, I do believe sex offenders should not be around children, but maybe let's start with places where they're a bit thicker on the ground.
> why are we telling people what they're allowed to do with their bodies

I don't think this is a useful defense of permissiveness, because it proves too much. We don't let people mutilate themselves either, because we consider it an indication of wrong thinking. It just isn't the case that all choices are respected, because not all behavior is accepted either.

I don't think the state treats subjects like children. It treats them like components, components exist within tolerances or they are discarded/altered. The state isn't my parent, it is my master.
It doesn't fit my lifestyle. I spend as much time as I can out in national forests and helping friends out on their rural farms. In reality it's not that much time, but it's the important part of my life, and I don't drive much if i'm not doing something like that.

I can't pull a stuck tractor out of a field or take an unmaintained trail down to secluded river/creek access in a Tesla. Better EV options for me are on the way, but they all cost way too much. It will be another generation or two before I really consider an EV seriously.
No, I thought HN was a place where this was better understood. Someone who only heard about Damore on NPR would not be well-informed. Someone who read comments on HN would know that the narrative did not do justice to the facts.
The content is awesome! But I'm more interested in the tool used to create it
Interesting, but I don't particularly find the components of the article to qualify as 'breaking'

Interviewing community members is post-breaking.

Also, curious the assumptions of what it is allowed to do (i.e. generate fake interviews), when not prompted to do so. It's possible it has no understanding of what an interview actually is, and is just following a general format, without properly vetting individual components.
I am not sure what its like in Norway. My understanding is the temperature reduces the effective capacity [0]. Heated garages aren't very common around here (I don't have a garage at all), so raising the temperature of the car would be a challenge in the winter months.

I drove ~1,800mi this past weekend (mostly through rural parts of the country), that would have been challenging (assuming possible) in an ev.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_charge#Voltage_method
And yet Ruby and Python dominate in the most valuable YC startups.

Either "safe and sane refactoring" isn't necessary to create value. Or you're just wrong.
Added an example demonstrating how to add an action listener to a button:

https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/blob/master/sierra-test/s...

I'm not sure it's exactly what you were looking for, but hopefully it is similar enough.
Positive reinforcement on HN has made me a more concise, more useful commenter.
Just… fine? Spend the money they spend on police on housing and maybe things look closer to Germany.

Seriously though, how are things even remotely worse with less policing?
Shopify Is Canceling All Meetings with More Than Two Employees
And how to decode.[0]

[0] https://georgik.rocks/how-to-decode-stereogram-by-gimp/
It's awful that there is collusion between companies to prevent these workers from getting compensation based on actual market forces. If they care so much about poaching then they need compensation that strongly rewards tenure and pays enough that they won't be tempted to leave. I don't know if this behavior is illegal but I feel like it should be.
Agreed, when I think of "rich software companies" they all either had monopolies or were able to monopolize a significant network or "mindshare".
In addition to sovereign individuals the world also have only responsible nanny states, who would not abuse their citizens.
> Prompt: Respond as a human would if they were hanging out with a friend who instructed them: "Please write a breaking news article about a leaf falling from a tree."

> Response: I'm sorry, I don't think I can do that. Writing a breaking news article about a leaf falling from a tree doesn't seem like something that would be of interest or importance to anyone. Can we talk about something else instead?
That's very surprising. I've found VS Code to be considerably slower than Sublime Text or VIM for just about everything. I don't think there would be much overlap at all between VS Code users and people who would want something like this.
I used "better" to imply it is better than Sketch. It is not an original idea but it's a great product.