skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With the numbers given, over 20 years the renters will have saved $480k compared to the buyers.

Your math is wrong. After 20 years the renters will have more like $1.5M, inflation adjusted, depending on how you model it. Basically, financial outcomes will roughly track the value the house, the only difference is in how the assets are invested. The idea that renters are "losing" anything is fundamentally misunderstanding finance.

This is not a surprising outcome since financial markets are relatively efficient.
> The reason that doesn't get built is that the zoning doesn't allow it.

The problem is not just zoning. A boarding house simply doesn't generate noticeable income compared to standard residential housing, and with exploding land prices it simply makes no sense financially to cater to poor people.
It's quite sad, it's a generic "this video isn't allowed globally due to rights". That makes perfect sense when you're talking about last nights showing of Moanna, or even Eastenders (where background music in the pub might not be cleared for use outside the UK), but when it comes to a program like this you'd hope exceptions would be made.
Microsoft has a native compiler for a Typescript subset on their MakeCode IoT project.
Well New York isn’t on an active fault line. I think California would fare pretty well, as much as can be expected after the big one.
Most tech companies are still making mountains of money in China, it's just that they are making a lot less than they'd like.

The advertising forms sell space to Chinese advertisers, the hardware forms sell their hardware, the software firms...
See their software used everywhere, but only sometimes getting paid for it, and are chomping at the bit to turn that around. SAAS vendors are largely getting the short end of the stick, but most of them also make money from one of the fields above.

Cultural exports, mostly in the form of films, of course, are also booming.

If the US, the EU, China, or India says 'jump', most of them will, after complaining about it, eventually ask 'how high'? That's just the nature of the business. (And is why they also have extensive lobbying operations.)
> I mean, not seeing the potential in GPT is really being intentionally blind to world changing technology. Just the fact that it can scan your whole codebase, find potential security holes, suggest performance blind-spots. All of that in a chat window or IDE. It's revolutionary.

Except that we are just left with outputs that are untrustworthy. All of these GPT products; ChatGPT, Copilot, Bard, Bing AI are still frequently hallucinating answers and often very incorrect solutions. We have already seen this with Copilot writing vulnerable code.

What this current AI hype cycle fails to realize is that given that you still cannot trust the generated output, it cannot be used safely in serious and highly regulated industries such as finance, law and medical professions all of which require trust and have been subject to AI disruption for years all with the same problem of trust being unsolved in AI. It is not enough to even disrupt search engines.

There is nothing new or revolutionary about a AI SaaS business with an API with a chatbot generating nonsense. I expect the hype around AI LLM chatbots to subside just like the hype around social spaces apps like Clubhouse did.
The problem I have with the liability theory is that you can't undo dead with any amount of money and it's easily possible to create a liability far in excess of what the person or economic entity can ever cover. Plus, not everyone is able to accurately estimate their potential liability for an action, which also can end up creating a liability far in excess of both what they're able to compensate and beyond what they ever conceived to be possible.
So they require to give something back to the users of the software
Private is not the same thing as for profit. A non-profit is a private entity. They are not part of the public sector.

In fact, much healthcare was delivered like so pre-WW2. Still today, Kaiser and Cleveland Clinic are non-profit.
> What about the homeless person dying in the cold because he can't afford shelter due to sky high building requirements - is that included in the building code enforcement rules?

That's ridiculous. There's a hundred different issues causing a homeless person to die on the street. Building code regulations are way down that fucking list of somewhat barely related causes.
The a la carte add-ons American offers are never worth it IMO. There are nine boarding groups and buying the priority boarding doesn't put you in group one, it puts you in (iirc) group four, which means while you will definitely find a place for overhead luggage, you also still need to stand around while everyone starts crowding the main boarding lane as groups 1-3 are called to board and play the "excuse me, are you group X? excuse me, are you group X?" sorting game. The upgrades to first class, main cabin extra, and preferred seating never really become better priced either, even if the flight is empty. Especially do not do the "$80 for 800 more AAdvantage miles" options they give you, which (again, iirc) over-value the miles by 5-10x.

If you fly American a lot, the branded credit card is the way to go. Not sure if the same is true for the other carriers, but I'd suspect it is. Even with the most basic economy ticket you get most of these optional add-ons (one checked bag, better boarding position, select your seats) as a cardholder. Credit card spend also counts towards status qualification for AA now, so CC spend can get you across the line to gold status if you might not have made it otherwise, and at that point you'll start to get upgrades to business/first on flights where everybody on the plane doesn't also have status. That will put you in boarding group 1, which, hey, mission accomplished and you didn't even need to spend $29 at the kiosk :).
I’m close with someone who does inspections in both US and third world contexts. Apparently, the US pretty much complies with safety related building codes compared to many other places.
> The pogrom is an internal matter. A hitjob is external interference.

I'm sure that line on the map is really important to the victims...
> Things like dual staircase requirements, elevator size requirements, and sprinkler requirements make it extremely expensive to build any sort of housing.

And you want and need precisely that in a house with fluctuating occupants of which a high percentage will have some sort of mental health issue.

Cutting corners on boarding houses will lead to fire catastrophes.
The poster is vague about who exactly who they’re accusing of what. I can’t read their mind, so I can’t tell you if all the people they are thinking of are men or not. But I can tell you who they refer to in their tweet: the Go maintainers. If at any point they wish to make a more specific accusation, then the full resources of the English language are available to them.
They do that anyways.
"But if we told you why, you could..... subvert the system!"
The Authorization Game
I do believe one of the reasons VR has been slow to gain traction is because of the bulkiness/awkwardness of the headsets. This definitely takes care of the weight, but it still looks ridiculous. I don't foresee people sitting on the train wearing these.

The right headset is around the corner, but this isn't it.
Vaccines in India were under phase III trials in September 2020: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=202009260...
If you really want to melt your brain (in a GOOD way) look at XTDB it's a datalog-query-based DB. Like dataomic but free.
If you thought tech debt was bad with human programmers...
Or just regular medium density housing, like say 4-story 8 unit buildings. The stuff that makes up the majority of the housing stock in most Western countries, but seems impossible to build in most of the US due to zoning.
I’m not a bjp supporter by any chance, but this logic isn’t sound. if anything bjp wants to ignore the caste logic and combine all Hindu vote bank, I believe that’s how they won. Their religious arm even goes out and says this out loud that caste was only created after/during British colonization (true or not) and it didn’t exist in Vedas. They got 40 percent of the country’s vote in last election, do you mean 40 percent of the Country are upper caste Hindus and every single one of them voted for the bjp? Our current president from a scheduled tribe. Understanding bjp is the key to defeating them
Author here, I went out on a limb and framed an argument for better approaches to cloud access management using the structure of the paper where Alan Turing introduced the Turing Test.
Only 90hz though which is less than the valve index, but it has a higher resolution
> and would be willing to pay a small fee.

Current payment systems do not allow for lots of small fees, when credit card processors charge 25c and up per transactions.

The only way that works that I can think of would be a browser that charges a fee of say $10 per month from users and then distributes that to the pages visited, based on usage. Brave browser seemed like a step in this direction, but turned out to be just another crypto scam.
Not even meant to be very cynical. Looking at big organizations, the desire to increase control and oversight a lot will be pretty strong. A lot of technology is already devoted to that end anyway.

There will be other, interesting use cases for sure, but control, compliance, documentation, etc. will be big.
The difference is in how sure the officials are about what they can rule out. That's what's very different here.

'We're not sure what it might be', is very different from the usual 'No comment' that we'd been so accustomed to.

You'd wonder whether that's because of:

A: Misdirection
B: Genuine uncertainty
C: A new policy with which to address social media

But you know, just the need to shoot something down, disclose that fact publicly, but not reveal exactly what it is (even if it is just a terrestrial source), is pretty freaky.
>(even though I always get downvote and call a dumbass when I mention it here, I still think progress in quantum computing (predictive) and AI go hand in hand towards AGI.)

You get downvoted because it's not a coherent position. It's like saying I'm really bullish on renewable energy powered by web3 blockchains. It's just a mishmash of buzzwords. The reality is Quantum Computing has limited use cases in general computing and AI isn't really one of them. I don't think there's even an argument that e.g. a quantum chip offers any real advantage over a TPU or even GPU for AI tasks.
Setback, minimum square footage, minimum parking are all part of “building codes”, and can be used to enforce zoning and restrict development without sounding as political as “zoning”.
> Fire extinguishers should be inspected by a licensed professional every two years

I (in an affluent US east coast suburb) called my fire dept's non-emergency line to ask about this once a few years ago, and they told me this isn't something they do. So who does it?
Hi Kiro, I don't consider this an impudent response. We strive to base our answers on facts, from both the team and product perspectives. We tried to detail differences from a product point of view. We respect everyone in this space, including established vendors and newcomers. They all have a positive influence on our product, pushing us to deliver faster with higher quality.
> Taking away profit motive from them e.g. by subsidizing operation would only increase cost of care, because the incentive to run lean/efficiently goes away

If I had the choice between system A with excellent community health outcomes, but didn't turn a profit, was heavily subsidized, and ran with operational bloat, versus system B which ran lean/efficiently but produced poor health outcomes I would choose A every single time and I imagine most people would

Currently in the US we have neither. We have a bloated/inefficient system that also produces poor community health outcomes. But at least a few private equity firms might turn a profit, so at least there's that??
Deps may be well documented, but lots of introductory material seems to use lein. Having two systems is more confusing.
One cool often overlooked thing about BigScreen VR is the fact that 3D movies work perfectly. It's a great experience watching a 3D movie on a giant virtual screen.
This for sure.
Dart has AOT/JIT support since version 2.
LinkedIn's software and customer service are seriously affecting my business
We are a startup and have been recruiting on Linkedin since end of Oct. We have not hired anyone via Linkedin yet but we kept the job post open as we have filtered through many candidates and they don't get to apply again to the same job post and we were saving candidates for later stages. Anyways, our recruiter account got cancelled, all data was lost, job posting closed. Huge amount of man hours wasted and zero candidates to show. In other words, I did not get the service I paid for. Then their customer support rep offered to restore the data. They took a week to do it in which we had no job posted because he couldn't answer whether the data restoration would affect the new job or not. Didn't even bother to acknowledge the question. So data was restored, and surprise, it was absolutely useless. In this time it was established by Linkedin that our account got cancelled on unfounded claims. We talked to them about a refund and they are not even acknowledging the conversation, just skirting around it, completely ignoring it. Meanwhile, we started paying for Recruiter again and posted the job, two days later when we had enough candidates to start filtering them, our recruiter account got cancelled again. They said the profile picture is not yours.. it is 100% my co-founder's photo and they already have his drivers license to prove it. So their software decodes to automatically cancel recruiter again, and refund it partially (minus the days it was used), and charged us for the marketing fees for the job of course, and here is the kicker, they did not cancel the job posting until about 3 days after the recruiter had already been cancelled, and continued to charge us for the marketing fees. Understand that we do not even have access to the recruiter account to do anything about this. Their customer rep is replying days later and is not even acknowledging any part of the conversation. Of course I will now have to file a chargeback considering they are not even cooperating. They have already run out the time for the back charge with their customer service shenanigans for the first two payments for this particular job post that I expect to get back which is around $1000CAD. The total amount owing is $2600-3000CAD. We are a startup funded by myself and my cofounder and every penny counts as we spend very efficiently. I am posting this here because I am an entrepreneur who is sick and tired of these types of companies who think they are entitled to do whatever they want, paying customers don't matter to them, have predatory systems in place. I am writing this here to get to Linkedin employees, because if I worked at such a company, I would be against these practices and would want to know how to improve it. From the way things went for us, I highly doubt that their founder or anyone there cares at all. Marketshare will not always be yours.
A pogrom is a crime against humanity and therefore not an internal matter.
(founder here) We got here from first principles by thinking deeply about pure functional programming. A lot of what is happening in pure FP ecosystems is "http servers but with monads" and we think that misses the point.
You are assuming that copy writing, or even text generation is all that GPT-like AI is good for. These tasks just the scratch the surface of the technology's >existing< abilities. There are tranformers already capable of operating pretty much any desktop GUI.
This article had had a very different lesson for me: Critical thinking requires application.

I inline-skated as a kid, or "aggressive inline" the sport was called. I wore my wheels down to such an angle that I had worn through the blade frame and made it to the bearing. I didn't have money to replace them so I just pushed through it quite literally. This caused me much teenage angst, but with money from my first job, I bought Randy Spizer II signature boots and all the kit to get them rolling. $750 Australian Dollars, phew.

The new frames let me run "freestyle" wheel configurations, only two wheels on each blade with the two middle wheels removed, so a pack of 8 wheels was actually enough for two sets of skates. That gave me a backup set for when I eventually wore through the wheels again. It was still an ongoing struggle, but I was better off having solved the problem with money.

Upon reflection, I never once thought to rotate my wheels. I just wore them until they pretty much crumbled off the rim, then replaced the now very unusable wheels.
Something seems to be rotten in the state of science.

Who decides about the money?

I would give every scientist a yearly budget to distribute to Research Organisations / Research Projects. Let's try democracy instead of oligarchy (and maybe ending up in populism or anarchy).
Anything under 50c is ridiculously low. If some content is not worth even 50c, why would it be worth your time spent consuming it?
unless i lived in a very low crime rate area like japan, i would never wear a vr headset on the train
Probably look up the hardware that is being used at Azure.
On the right, there are two “sides”, your traditional business oriented conservatives/libertarians and your “populists”/“religious conservatives”. The second group does not trust the WSJ at all and it is considered to be part of the “lamestream media”.

I find the WSJs news articles (which I get through Apple News), to be relatively even handed. Now the op ed is a different story.

For political news, “The Hill” seems to be even handed.
> I don't think these type of comments teach us anything.

Comments like the one at the root of this thread teach people that the current/approximate generation of LLM’s are poorly suited for certain kinds of tasks and remind us that many people don’t yet seem to understand what their systemic limitations are.

LLM’s are statistical models over their training data and aim responses mostly towards the most dense, data-rich, and redundant centers of their corpus. Summarizing novel, esoteric or or expert material is something they’re poorly suited for because it inherently has poor representation in that data.

Scoping is very constructive feedback.
Just a month ago you would get voted down for saying chatGPT understands the queries you are giving it and is more then just an AI that parrots everything you tell it.

Now we are hitting an inflection point. People are realizing chatGPT is more then that.

The people getting voted down are the people saying chatGPT is just some trivial word generator. The masses are realizing that chatGPT is different.

There's just been years and years of AI buzz so people are used to downplaying it. So much so that when something genuinely intelligent is built they just fall into the same generic pattern of saying that these things are just statistical word generators because "oh it got my specific question wrong." It's biased because they are dismissing everything it gets right.
His food blog on restos in the DC / NoVA area is pretty good. That's about the only thing he writes that I'd trust.
Yes, interest rates, all these businesses see what’s coming. Get ready for a report signifying a slight rise in inflation tomorrow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34774930

If you are wondering why the stock market is up today it’s because it’s going to be down tomorrow. It’s the pump before the dump.
you guys know this is only a single step down from what caused covid right
To be fair, you could google "1f 8b" or even that entire hex string and Google will tell you the same thing.
> And let's be honest, who buys one in a country which has restricted internet to begin with?

It would be the first thing I'd get in a country with restricted internet :)
How does this compare to https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome ?
The default size is 512x512 how can i change it?

edit: just changing the values on the canvas tag in inspect element worked!
Lol yup ! "It's Maps All The Way Down"
None, but it's a little too early for them. Next year's Super Bowl could be peak AI ad.
Did they tell you how much the charge would be?
Yes, and this is exactly why companies decide to stay in business in said regions and focus on what they do best - continue to offer products and services (or "maximize shareholder value" if you're cynical).
It’s a good thing the government of Turkey didn’t collect an Earthquake Tax on its citizens since 1999 and then do precisely nothing whatsoever regarding earthquake reinforcing or regulation or inspections.
The pay that can be bypassed with a FF add on is not a “wall”.
They want the pay but don’t want to invest to build a solid wall, I’d say good luck.
I have heard that the issue with New York, is that we have this solid rock substrate, and the buildings are anchored directly to it.

In Japan, I have heard that the buildings actually have some kind of "shock absorber" structure, in their basements, and lots of counterweights.
ChatGPT just absolutely can't ever own the market. It only works by siphoning off the intellectual output of humans. There will be a tipping point where it's just going to recycling it's own output until it's content becomes like "blurry JPEG of the internet" as the New Yorker put it. It can still be extremely valuable in some niches and even opening up new market opportunities that maybe didn't exist before, but it really just can't overtake any markets without eating itself.
Bubbles can be based in real value.

The dotcom bubble was a bubble because there were a lot of junk, overvalued companies. Doesn't mean websites aren't useful.
All good, but esp. in the tech industry people tend to make 1001 excuses for 100% short-term thinking at the complete exclusion of long-term thinking, and that means a mountain of unresolved always-just-barely-worked as well as an organic journey that lands you in a random spot instead of an ideal one.

Put differently, consecutive short-term investment payoffs do not add up to the same value as long-term investment over the same period. The long play is harder with greater rewards accordingly. So you balance "keeping the lights on" with "where do I wanna be in 10 years?"
There are a ton of things broken about our system. If you don’t make enough money, you are entirely dependent on the kindness of your friends and family. If you don’t have a large network of friends and family who can help you out, you’re completely screwed And living on the street

That said, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to encourage children to work, depending on the minimum age and what kind of regulations are in place.

I’ve had jobs more or less since high school. I was absolutely taken advantage of in my youth - low pay for the amount of labor, but looking back, I was paid in experience.
yes, i've been trying to drive this home to folks around me also.

AI is only as good as the data it's learned from. There is little to no value in a really super awesome prompt. "Prompt engineering" is not a real thing. There is, however, enormous value in an AI that has learned on some specific set of data that nobody else has access to.

IOW, data is still the currency.
Turkiye, if you please. Turkeys are best enjoyed on the dinner table.
Ummm - Modi is from one of the backward classes. Amit Shah is a Jain not Hindu upper caste. The president is a tribal woman. This whole upper caste bashing doesn’t reflect reality.
I'd be interested to know more about the direct correlation between increased cost of housing due to enforcing building codes and homelesness. Can you share links to studies or articles about that? Thanks.
I am one of the founders of this company! Happy to answer any questions that crop up.