skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Institutions used to invest in 2 and 4 unit affordable housing. They’ve spent the last 30 years selling it. To suckers like me.

Now they want it back? They don’t want to own it. They want to flip it.

Rents (just to pay the mortgage) go up. The profit is in institutions pocket. The ongoing maintenance sits where it always has. Individual landlords.

And yes, if an institutional owner can't make 250k profit with a kitchen remodel and a couple buckets of slate grey exterior paint, they do tear it down. And replace it with a luxury unit at twice the local real estate price. It sits empty until the area gentrifies. Or they leave a vacant dirt lot for 10 years. See Chicago.
It's funny how spoiled people have been the last few years. For a long time the rule of thumb was to plan 1 month job hunting for every 10k of salary. Salaries have definitely gone up since then so the rule can likely be revised to something like 1 month/20k-30k of salary. The point is that the higher salary required, the longer it typically takes to find a position. The last few years were the outlier times, and it seems we're settling back to normal.
Yes, I suspect this rule will be removed more and more as the housing crisis continues across first world metros.
Exactly. Is like a mouth speaking without brain. We need a secondary "reasoning" AI that can process the GPT further , adding time/space coordonates and as well as basic logic including counting , and then maybe we see something I can rely on.
What if Alphabet calls the bluff and stops serving all of their services in the market. The population would know why which wouldn't be a good look for leaders. Google is too invested in $earch to call a bluff though.
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Why is this such a hard thing to get right? WebEx seemingly has 4 different mute keybinds, depending on the style of meeting you're in. It's worse than nothing because you randomly mash keys, making it look like you're not paying attention.
The more you have to pay for it, the fewer people have access to "on-demand everything". Meaning it'll become a luxury of the richer side of the arbitrary cut-off line where ordering groceries or getting an Uber is financially feasible. The less these services cost, the better for all of us.

The solution that solves that problem is to remove the infrastructure from the capitalist market - for example, by nationalizing UberEats or Amazon (although nationalization isn't the only option)

Doing so would allow the business to continue as usual but the expenses that are external to each transaction would be offloaded to a third party (the government for example, or just written off) thus allowing the maximum amount of people to access the service at the lowest price.
it's a reference to the previous para:

> Effective immediately, we will be moving laptop refreshes from three years to four years.
The local pharmacy has very, very strong financial incentives to sell you morphine all the time -- just not enough to kill you.

I don't know why you'd trust them any more than a drug dealer, and historical anecdotes about opium addicts suggest it's a valid comparison.
> Firing is when the reason for the employee leaving is their fault. Layoff is when it's "the employers fault".

That's not how I'd use those words. "Fired" just means your employment was involuntarily terminated. Layoffs are a type of firing, at least to my ears.
Many European regulations on fire safety are pretty stringent in other areas too that equally run up costs. Also certain buildings require two staircases but scissor staircases are permitted.
So, it’s easy to be cynical here and point to examples of where high-income countries have had disasters, and from those data points conclude that everywhere is the same, but it really isn't the case that everywhere is the same. The fact we hear about failures, we see their political causes debated, and lawsuits filed, and root causes analyzed, and hands wrung in headlines… these are all symptoms of a system that is more or less working. These are the course-corrections and isolated incidents that serve to calibrate and revalidate that the accountability is there.

This is nothing like countries where corruption is endemic.

Witness Turkey’s recent arrests. What do we think is more likely: those contractors were the true root cause, and their arrests will prevent future building collapses during earthquakes? Or that they are merely the tip of a very large, very corrupt iceberg, and they will be made scapegoats to provide political cover that allows the rest of the system to quickly get back to business as usual?
> Almost all tech has room for progress, ChatGPT is no different, it's just a question of how fast that progress will be.

all tech have also its limits, we could use internal combustion engines in the car, and even in some airplanes, but we have problems with this tech in building fighter jets and then spaceships.

The same is about ChatGPT, it is good to spill texts it seen during the training, or do slight transformation on it, but there were multiple attempts to teach NN do some algorithmic work, and it always failed miserably afaik.
Yep. What this shows is that Musk fears "world war", and this is a fear that Russia can exploit.

I stated elsewhere that we could offer Russia Donetsk and Luhansk in exchange for Putin. It would be a win for Russia (which is otherwise sacrificing thousands of Russian lives). But as long as Putin is in charge you know it would never happen.
Two severe layoffs so close together... morale must be in the toilet. Top performers are probably polishing their resume.
Sign-up flows from 100s of websites
Hi HN! Fil here from Formsort (https://formsort.com/). We just launched Fineflows, a design gallery that showcases leading sign-up flows from around the web.

Why? My team has been building sign-up flows for close to a decade across mortgages and healthcare. We’ve spent a lot of time working through the technical and design aspects of this problem, such as state management (getting that pesky back button to work), design flexibility, and data enrichment.

Time and again, we’ve seen product teams who don’t know what to build even though they can. Often times, builders of forms start their process by looking at what other people are doing, answering questions like: What are different ways error validations are done? Should I use photos of people, or is text enough? Is it appropriate to use emojis in forms? How can I decline a user in a polite yet firm way?

To that end, we set out to capture as many different form flows as we could and make them available. We’ve found it to be an invaluable resource ourselves, and many of our customers have used it to improve their own designs. I’m always shocked by how often people reinvent the wheel instead of using a tried-and-true technique, and I hope that we’re helping address that problem.

Take a look at the gallery at (https://fineflows.formsort.com), or head to Formsort’s homepage to start building yourself! Would love to hear any feedback, inspiration, or thoughts, as we are just getting this off the ground :)
> why is that having such a massive impact so quickly on these companies to the point where, the cost to service NEW debt (not existing) rises?

It's because a lot of tech companies have built their financial management on regularly refinancing and getting new cash through the debt market to keep things going, rather than minimizing the usage of debt markets for cash generation.
we use discord, it's is way better for real time communication than slack, for everything non-urgent we just use email
Isn't C312 the wrong way around?
As opposed to paying more in taxes to provide a social safety net for those individuals?

6 in one, half dozen in the other.
What’s a spectrumite?
Eh I don't like this generalization. I live in Europe it's a national news in my country if the police is using their weapon for a warning shot let alone actually shooting someone.
Over a quarter of the company (ignoring any hiring they may have done since September) though? idk, I'm not sure it's that clear-cut.

Not that I'm certain in my own opinion and disagreeing with you though - I only said 'maybe they thought'.
My numbers make it less appealing. Purchase plan every six months, 5% off the price, combined with a confusing and restricting insider trading policy.
That would require function and intelligence far outside the bounds of current large language models.

These are models. By definition they can't do anything. They can just regurgitate the best sounding series of tokens. They're brilliant at that and LLMs will be a part of intelligence, but it's not anywhere near intelligent on its own. It's like attributing intelligence to a hand.
Now consider the "Tivo" target, which is that the scripts and tools required to deploy the code are things they absolutely want to cover.

You didn't answer my question directly though (and nor does the linked article), what is it about deploy in your usage that is materially different from "install" in the text?

Do you disagree that the device case is covered? How do you consider a cloudy type environment different, and by what definition and justification? What if I sell the deployment in a box for on-prem, as well as in hosted VMs? Does that change users rights under the license?
Sorry for that, we'll fix it!
I am not trying to defend Teams, I hate it. But Cmd+Shift+M does that on Teams on macOS.
I think you're right. I noted on another thread that I got ChatGPT to produce a mostly right DNS server in ~10 minutes that it took me just a couple of corrections to make work.

It worked great for that task, because I've written a DNS server before (a simple one) and I've read the RFCs, so it was easy for me to find the few small bugs without resorting to a line by line cross-check with a spec that might have been unfamiliar to others.

I expect using it to spit out boilerplate for things you could do just as well yourself will be a lot more helpful than using it to try to avoid researching new stuff (though you might well be able to use it to help summarise and provide restatements of difficult bits to speed up your research/learning as well).
My Dad worked for Swift & Co. for 45 years. Nonetheless, when I quit my first job, he said to me, approvingly, "They're not loyal to you, so why should you be loyal to them?"

There are companies loyal to their employees. They tend to be small and family-owned, though, and when the family retires or loses control, the new owners tend to be markedly less loyal.
I'll refrain from commenting on what I think potential solutions might be since I haven't given the topic much thought and am not super aware of all the nuance involved.

I do think though that in general in Brazil we tend to double down on approaches when we don't get results when we should _consider_ taking steps back. Education is bad? More hours, more homework! (something to learn from Finland there as well) A lot of crime? More power to the police! Maybe easing things up might lead to more benefits in the long-term.

I have strong thoughts on the education front, but less so regarding the police. I see both sides - on one hand, a good chunk of the population only gets exposed to the police in situations where they're coming in rough (a friend once said "the police only goes up the hills to shoot"). On the other hand, it's rough being a police officer here, and your life can often be at risk. So unsure what the solution is, just glad to spark the debate!
That's a pretty reductive (and needlessly negative) characterisation of a YouTuber who does a great job of finding pretty random science tidbits all around the globe and making short, to-the-point videos about them.
is there any difference in outcome between those two numbers? like are you gonna do one thing if it's 0% and another thing if it's 0.001%? no.
> ”China conducts surveillance on US” gets plenty of clicks/attention.

Does it? As far as I can tell, the “TikTok spies on people” stories have all been met with “yeah, so does Facebook”. This is across pretty much the entire political spectrum. It seems to me that only the political/media class actually find it significant.

While it’s obviously too early to have non-anecdotal data on this, my instincts tell me very few people actually care or find it surprising that China “violated the territorial integrity of the U.S.” as if we’re not constantly flying drones over other world powers. It’s just standard operating procedure at this point.
> fundamental concern about the health of the company

Although Twilio has never turned a profit, they've cornered the "SMS via API" market and could theoretically start to turn one at any point.
This is simply how it was done before XMLHttpRequest existed. If it ain't broke don't fix it, I guess.
> hired in response to that growth

I think it's more direct than that. Rich people weren't getting any return on their money from fixed income instruments so instead they gave it to funds that invested in tech startups that then used it to hire people. Now interest rates are higher, rich people don't need to do that any more.
Is there an AI blockchain yet?
I’ve WFH’d for about 8 years now and have loved it, but have also heard so many times how it can lead to social isolation, and I can definitely see how that happens. I also didn’t start it until I was in my 30’s when I’d already had the benefit of working together with people and building a strong social network of friends and colleagues (and the skills to continue making new ones).

I think with a more remote-focused industry, it still makes sense to have coworking and neighborhood satellite offices. I think coworking was just a bit ahead of it’s time. The set wave really started breaking with COVID.

It might be a little tougher trying to complain about your code or describe your refactor to someone at another company altogether. But it could also be nice to have a completely disinterested (in corporate terms) party who can lend a sympathetic ear.

Meetups were already a thing but I’ve petered out on them, not sure if that’s a personal or widespread phenomenon. But I do crave that again. I’ve been wanting to start a book club, as well. The two aren’t entirely mutually exclusive. Sometimes old things can be new again. I also miss attending tech conferences and am looking at some this year.

And I know this idea has been done to death, but I also very much value my time at my community garden and athletic clubs (not a gym–a community organization). Doing clinics at both have introduced me to new people to continue enjoying the respective activities, as well as just making general friends that enrich each others’ lives.

I used to think social media could help with this kind of stuff but Corporate Social Media fell flat on that promise for me. The only social media I use now are this site, mailing lists for said organizations, and text/calls on my iPhone.

Maybe we need a speed-dating thing for making new acquaintances. Online people talk so much about social anxiety, we need to get comfortable with putting ourselves out there and embrace the fact that things might get weird. Sometimes that makes it interesting, and sometimes that is a good thing.
I have a number of personal development projects that I consider critical for my existence. One is to learn the language of the country I'm in; another is to go to the gym 3-4 times a week (75% of my sessions are currently with a trainer, because I'm new to it, started about three months ago).

And a recent 'wear away the stone' project was to earn X$ per month writing about AI, which took five years, beginning from some very humble pay checks.

But these are not 'vanity' projects: the latter was obviously pivotal to my survival, as I'm not independently wealthy, and had no job when I migrated; my motivation for the gym is that I have suffered from depression for forty years, and pushing myself physically and engaging with my body is the most effective treatment (albeit found late in life) I have ever come across to massively alleviate this (hence looking better, muscles, etc. is just collateral benefit); and the need to speak the language of my adopted country is obvious.

Sure, there are other things I have persisted in and improved in because they massively accord with my interests and enthusiasm, but those three projects are my demonstration to myself that persistence, while not a magic bullet (some people are never going to make it in Hollywood, for instance), is as near to a magic bullet for personal transformation as most of us are ever likely to have access to.

The gym is the one that fascinates me most at the moment; I look around me, as a relative newcomer, and wonder at the motivation behind the incredible bodies you see there. Are they all sprouting out from some deep psychological need? Even if it's 'just' vanity, it would have to qualify as pathological - as my own reason for being there is.

So I am interested in people who will go through these kind of pain and boredom barriers for less intense reasons, if indeed they exist.
Let's skip the focus on individual civil liability and insurance, and go all the way. Cops acting outside of official orders should be held criminally liable for their actions. A cop who beats their spouse can't claim that it's just part of their job, and neither should a cop or group of cops who pepper spray a crowd for sadistic fun.

Furthermore, we need to attack the root of the problem - this concept of sovereign immunity - and introduce civil liability for the damage caused by policing even when it's in line with reasonable policies. If a person gets arrested and later is acquitted or the charges dropped, they should be compensated for all the damages suffered as a result of the arrest and prosecution, regardless of the merits of the government's actions. Right now these externalities are funded by a perverse reverse lottery where we just expect the unlucky to bear them, which has caused them to grow without bound.
Mandatory gotcha counterpoint: it's risk free assuming immediate execution, which is not the reality. Between the time ESPP is finished at price X and the time your shares actually land on your account in Etrade / other broker so you can sell, there are several days of processing time, during which the stock can easily go down 10%+ in the "current economic climate". Then, the upside might be taxable (depending on your country) and suddenly the 15% becomes 0% or negative.

(Source: saw it happen.)

The good thing though is that you may withdraw all the money until a few days before offerring time end. Useful in situations of uncertainty like here.
This is awesome! We did something similar for our internal logging at Tinybird (which itself is built on ClickHouse) and I recently turned into it a (very simplified) Starter Kit that others can fork and use in their projects. https://github.com/tinybirdco/log-analytics-starter-kit

Rather than writing to files and using an agent like beats to tail them, it sends logs directly from the application code with a basic POST request. Obviously, you could just as happily tail the file and forward the logs, but this approach reduced the footprint of tools and made it work in serverless environments.
Ah ha, that one then! How long does a report usually take? Like, is there a preliminary and a final?
I have a weird feeling these guys are the scammers of slide n joy, the dual screen addition to laptops where they siphoned off money of buys for years, started with a Kickstarter.

Really hope these guys get investigated. From Belgium or French they were.
Expertise in software is about understanding the problem domain, understanding the constraints imposed by the hardware, understanding how to translate business logic to code. None of these are significantly helped by AI code assistance, as they currently exist. The AI only helps with the coding part, usually helping generate boilerplate tailored to your code. That may help 1.1x your productivity, but nowhere near 10x.
> "The problems lie in implementation and oversight"

This is a pattern that applies to every facet of human affairs: The declared "reality" differs from the implemented (real) reality. The key questions are only: by how much, and what happens when events force a comparison of these two "books": The one we choose to believe for expediency or profit versus the ground truth.

We can be fatalists and accept that this is "how things are". But that is not what history shows. Civilisation is a process of reconciling arbitrary, emotional, low-information, "fake realities" with objective, verified, cool-headed, facts about the state of the world. The closer we get to reconciling these books, the less we will suffer.

The only problem is that we can't emerge from our historical habits fast enough. Earthquakes, megafires, megafloods, virulent pandemics. How many wake up calls do we need? The game is over. We need to reboot to a better society.
Can any AI be trusted outside of it's realm of data? I mean it is only a product of the data it takes in. Plus it isn't really finger quotes AI. It just a large data library with some neat query language where it tries to assemble the best information not by choice but probability.

Real AI makes choices not on probability but in accordance of self preservation, emotions and experience. It would also have the ability to re-evaluate information and the above.
Domain knowledge resolves into intuition about solving particular types of problems. All ChatGPT can do about that is offer best guess approximations of what is already out there in the training corpus. I doubt very much that this exercise is anything but wasted time, so I think that people with domain knowledge (in a non trivial domain) are using ChatGPT instead of applying that knowledge, they are basically wasting time 10x not being more productive.
> I think this government does not have problem with criticism

> but internal and external forces who doesn't much on Modi in politics plays same card again and again.

Is the BJP's "IT cell" spreading propaganda on HN now too?

EDIT: totally wrote that without checking out parent's profile

> user: relavir212

> created: 16 minutes ago
Bit early for Act 3 of the tried-and-true microsoft EEE playbook.
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