skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A surprising number of those citations are calling out zerohedge for promoting the "right wing conspiracy threory" that Covid leaked from a lab...
If there is a way to get GPT to do that, I'd be curious to see it. Definitely let me know if you figure it out.

The outputs from 65B are frankly amazing. https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1632621948550119425

That's all for tonight. I really underestimated people's ability to screw up sampling. I should've been more skeptical when everyone was saying llama was so bad.
Wow. I wrote about the potential for this literally last Wednesday: https://generatives.substack.com/p/hearing-voices

I really didn't think we'd see it play out this fast, though.
Ada might be getting pattern matching soon too:

https://github.com/AdaCore/ada-spark-rfcs/blob/master/protot...
I agree on that - that private data (in a best case scenario) should not and would not be included in the training but there would be some parts of internal documents which would be public (lets say public website) - It is expected that chatGPT would know at least those ..
Both? I can imagine someone looking at the graph showing a decrease of affordable homes sold over time and wondering if they will soon be on the other side of the line.
Is it possible current iranian government is the author of such insane act?
Remind me of Art Bell's callers in the early 2000s.
Even if that scenario were true and we were to generously call "rich" the top 10% of the income distribution, and let's go further and discount the entire bottom 50% of households as renters, then the naive breakdown would be 3 "unaffordable" homes owned by the 10th (richest) decile, 4 owned by the 6-9th deciles, and 0 homes owned by the rest. So 43% (3/7) of homes should be priced for the rich and 57% for the non-rich. The fact that it deviates so egregiously from that is pretty striking, I think. The graphic indicates that as recently as ten years ago, 50% of homes were affordable to the median household.

Seems clear that the US is simply not building nearly enough homes in places where people want to live, and therefore what is being put up for sale fetches a huge premium. That works out great for home builders and people who are already homeowners and are seeing their homes appreciate in value, and since people who are truly wealthy willing pay a premium to buy property in locations with restrictive housing laws, there's a disincentive to alter the status quo.
Pika Pods[1] deserves a mention here. No affiliation.

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284512

It's essentially "self hosting as a service". They package popular foss projects in docker containers and run them for you (on fly io, iirc) for a dollar or three per month.

1. https://www.pikapods.com/
> 1. This report only looks at the 100 most populous metropolitan areas. A list that wouldn't include Reno NV or Montgomery AL. I understand that these 100 areas represent over half the population, but they also represent more expensive homes than the places not studied. This skews the percentage, and the title is over generalizing.

In addition to this excellent point, you'd also expect a larger number of homes to be unaffordable to the typical household given some realistic assumptions (eg, housing is a major expense in the modern West) - and it doesn't appear they are correcting income for regions in the same way they are only selecting real estate.

So they are taking the more expensive regions comparing to the country-wide income and not pointing out that we;d expect maybe up to 50% of homes to be unaffordable anyway.
> it’s a subsidy paid for by taxpayers.

I think you're referring to the tax credit for mortgage interest payments?

If so ... this subsidy ironically only applies to those carrying the largest mortgages. During the Trump administration, the standard deduction was doubled, which means that (a) many, many people who used to itemize (and thus include mortgage interest payments) would no longer do so (b) this deduction somewhat levelled the playing field between median renters and median mortgage holders.

To have enough mortgage interest payments that you can itemize deductions implies a very substantial mortgage. $500,000 @ 4% only gets you to $20k of mortgage interest in a year, not enough (by itself) to make you itemize.

So yeah, but no, except sort of.
I see one, and you're mischaracterizing the article.

"Scientists Haven’t Found Proof The Coronavirus Escaped From A Lab In Wuhan. Trump Supporters Are Spreading The Rumor Anyway." Buzzfeed April 22 2020.
My first year I lived entirely off of my savings and dedicated myself full time to my first project. So, it is indeed the anniversary of when I attempted to go full time, which was the sentiment of that sentence. Sorry if that wasn't more clear.

All the contract work I've done was part-time at most, so I also haven't had the comfort and safety of a full-time gig during this time period. My projects have been the priority, and I've only done the bare minimum to get by. Which, imo, is still full time "indie hacking", though maybe you disagree.
Oh boy this is just scratching the surface. I would go a LOT further and say the ENTIRE scholastic mental health system is a sham and a massive source of iatrogenic harm that students and teachers are pressured into in order to get more favourable treatment by the schools and government assistance, whereas the schools themselves get more government funding and lowered scrutiny in regards to standardised testing. How can mental health treatment in schools NOT cause harm with such perverse incentives?

I had a particularly fraudulent school psychiatrist. When my IQ tested low enough, my IQ score was reported. When my IQ tested too high, it was censored on the grounds of being "misleading". Parental and teacher evidence was submitted to justify further mental health interventions which was grossly fraudulent (I was portrayed as unable to dress or feed myself) and a cursory 5 minute examination of me would have revealed this. One of the most disgusting things they did was pull me out of gym classes to spend more time sitting in a room with special needs teachers who occasionally nagged me to use a planner and do my homework. Exercise you know, being an extremely evidence based intervention for mental health, unlike whatever that shit was. Being treated as mentally ill and being perceived that way by myself and my peers did nothing to help me, especially since it only helped to reinforce the idea that the lifelong physical health problems which got worse during my school years were nothing but "anxiety" and that consequent declines in my mental health could be attributed to my earlier mental health issues and all the medical fraud helped to confuse the shit out of doctors.

I think the mental health system is a sham and that it doesn't have proof it treats the problems it claims to treat, and if anything the rise of suicidality over the last few decades as scholastic mental health has become more common as well as increases in self-reported, parent-reported, teacher-reported, and physician-reported mental health problems among students proves its somewhere between totally impotent and actively harmful. The final goal of increased mental health interventions is not getting to a point where nobody is sick anymore, it's to create more patients.

The biggest thing that pisses me off is that it's rarely measured if scholastic mental health interventions work, they are just ASSUMED to be positive without evidence. Nobody gives a crap about iatrogenic effects.

The episode of King of the Hill "No Bobby Left Behind" speaks to me: https://kingofthehill.fandom.com/wiki/No_Bobby_Left_Behind
By all means don't take it seriously, but in the interest of conversation, Tyler Durden is a pretty obvious reference to the quote "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero". Would you be more inclined to take a website seriously if they simply said their articles were penned by "anonymous"?

ETA: One thing I appreciate about ZeroHedge is that they include their sources. For example there was an article earlier today about a court ruling and the text of the ruling itself was embedded right there, inline with the article. Similarly when they mention a post on Twitter you can usually read the tweet for yourself and decide if their analysis is appropriate. That is a breath of fresh air after spending time on so many news sites (both major and more "fringe" ones) that just expect you to take them at their word. I'm not saying everyone should follow their lead exactly, but is it too much to ask that the primary source that is the focus of an article at least be linked somewhere at the bottom of the page, CNN?
Yes. but things like backups or security will not make them money either. So I can’t assume that they're protecting my data.
Follow up: it helps that they all sleep through the night now and that the pandemic is over so they are at school or kindergarten during core hours at work.
if it's being used for air bnb enough, it's not a primary home.
IMO, inventory is locked up as in many situations homeowners can’t afford to move. Cost of new construction, rates, etc.
While they share an origin story those are now two different companies completely independent from each other.

"...in 1845 and opened the well-known shop on Paradeplatz in 1859. In 1892, the chocolate-producing branch of the business split off from the confectionery and now operates independently as Lindt & Sprüngli.[2] Owner of the chocolate factory became Johann Rudolf Sprüngli, son of Rudolf Sprüngli. While his brother, David Robert Sprüngli, was allocated the confectioner's."[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confiserie_Spr%C3%BCngli
Are smaller plugins like this potentially an easy place for first time contributors to work in?

My Rust skills are certainly very lacking but if there is some big list of arbitrary flake8 plugins that there is a desire to have ported, that sounds like it could be a relatively easy place to get one’s feet wet.
Most complex systems don't work correctly. They just don't fail catastrophically very often. They fail in small ways instead. A lost user account, an incorrect payment, a missing parvel, a poorly routed call. These things happen regularly - millions of times a day in fact - but out of hundreds of billions of interactions its hard to notice them.

We're so used to things failing we stop noticing and think slightly broken is the same as working properly. That's kind of OK until it's your payment, or your parcel, or your account.
On the other hand, licensing this patent to other auto makers could become a great source of revenue for Ford. I'm sure all auto makers would implement the feature. You won't be able to avoid it.
> The reason for-sale inventory is currently so unaffordable is you had a ton of people who paid top dollar for houses in the past few years, but at rock bottom rates

That's part of it. The other part is that builders stopped building enough to keep up with population growth over the last decade, which contributed to the massive inventory shortage. Couple that with the supply side crunch of the pandemic, which made it more expensive than ever to build, and we have a perfect storm.
At the time when lobsters were fed to prisoners, they hadn’t yet figured out the boiling-them-alive trick, which is supposedly how you get lobster to taste good. I don’t know anything about oysters though.
Ok, I just looked up the specs for the most amazing CRT, I still have around, the ultra-flat, digital 17" Apple Studio Display. (It has no label of any kind that I could find.) This one clocks in at 115W, which is not so much in line with what I commented previously. Conversely, the LCD display of the same seies is rated at just 40W at 17". However, as digital connection standards moved on, the only computer you can hook these up to is the G4 Cube.

Generally, CRTs have a sweet point at about 17 or 19 inch. Anything bigger will come at a noticeably loss of quality (due to increasing alignment problems that come with color CRTs), even for the rather expensive ones. (Even a Trinitron is not that sharp at 19" as it is at 17". And I remember a particular 24" Radius display, where you couldn't tell dithered from solid colors.) I wouldn't go above 21", unless you're specialising in large layouts and insist on doing them on a CRT. ;-)

And, as far as I know, the production of commercial CRTs stopped in the 2000s. (But you can still get them, if you're Airbus or a similar manufacturer. [2]) However, for the mere mortals…

[0] Apple Studio Display 17" CRT (Diamondtron is yet another name for Trintron after Sony's patent expired): https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/appl...

[1] Apple Studio Display 17" LCD (not that great as a display panel, yet too early…): https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/appl...

[2] https://www.thomaselectronics.com/faq/
> forcing an economic asymmetry which otherwise wouldn't exist

There is already a far more fundamental economic asymmetry.

China’s intellectual property regime is different. Their government steals IP on behalf of their private sector.

Their relationship between government and private sector is very different. Specifically, their laws are far more malleable to the interpretation of officials and are less objectively factual. They will hold businessmen and tourists hostage to gain leverage in business deals or diplomatic negotiations.

That said, I don’t think there’s value in restricting all tech or all chips. Military-specific single purpose? Yes. Bleeding edge semiconductor manufacturing tech? Maybe. Commodity RFID, Bluetooth, WiFi chips? I don’t see any value except to create arbitrary shocks to the supply chain and force tech companies to add redundancy to their suppliers (which has already happened).
+1

If I remember correctly, it was actually slightly negativity correlated with work quality because extremely talented competitive programmers would smash the interviews but write competitive programming style code (aka not enterprise quality).[1]

1) https://catonmat.net/programming-competitions-work-performan...
Same. I asked my wife and she too thought spinach is high in iron. I was surprised to read that this mistake was discovered 30 years ago. That news sure isn’t getting passed around. We are both highly educated voracious readers and we had no clue.
Building cost of 5000€ for a square meter just blows my mind. Especially for wood frame building. What’s so special about it? Maybe you have a source how these costs divide into materials/salaries/permits/etc? I would say prefab panels is a solution. That’s how houses are built in cheap labor countries in Europe and then moved on the trucks to expensive Scandinavian countries. Assembly takes couple weeks.
It’s not just a “functional programming language”, it’s a lisp!

https://mobile.twitter.com/haxor/status/1580959518984241158

It will never be popular.
No - a fixed rate mortgage, which can be paid off early without penalty, refinanced at any time, and fully backstopped by the US government, is a luxury only possible because of subsidy. A free market for mortgages would not enable such a product, or at least not with such amenable terms.
> For buyer’s with a median income, only 21% of listings are satisfy traditional standards of affordability and it’s worse now than in recent years.

I think parent is disagreeing - they point out that 21% of listings in a metro area meet the standards of affordability for everyone in the county. But not everyone in the county has a city job that pays more, and not everyone in the city is willing to live out of town. Thus, more than 21% of city folks can afford a house in the city, and more than 21% of folks living in the country can afford a home in the country. Parent is arguing insufficient granularity, and that's a fair criticism.

I argue of course that everyone should be able to afford a place in town, thats a function of zoning. Federalize zoning, let anyone build whatever they want on their land without asinine parking minimums and setback rules - and years of prostrating yourself in front of council only for them to tell you to get stuffed - and watch the problem sort itself out.

The builder's remedy should just be the status quo and then we could finally stop talking about this.
> are they scaling those small gradient magnitudes larger to try to "pull" you into those holes faster?

No, they are making the numbers bigger so the drop in precision doesn't lose details.
Yes. Anti-depressants is just to give the initial lift out of a very dark place. They won’t cure anything.
Lots of people AirBnB their primary home when they’re traveling.
It can also be a case of confirmation bias however. I have seen some people that have seemingly made some apparently near perfect predictions about wild far out things only to check their back record and find 1000 misses on other things. If you have the time to dig through these kind of site they can be really cool and useful however it is usually only in hind sight that you can figure out what was really worth paying attention to.

I am not down on ZH, they do some really neat things, it is just that it sometimes they need a little boiler plate warning on their content.
I personally much prefer not using cash. I also do not trust checks - they can be stolen, washed, changed to be cashed by someone other than the intended recipient.

We still need a better way though to transact between individuals and businesses.

Venmo has transaction limits.

Zelle is not reliable (far too easy to send to the wrong person, reversals are difficult to impossible, management of the associated account isn't terrible), etc etc.

Wire transfers cost money.

I'm hoping something like FedNow can vastly simplify and improve our ability to transact quickly, reliably, and safely.

We have enough tech today to get by and to pave over all the issues around moving money - but it's still very annoying.
> Being content based implies database queries for every request as in the previously mentioned option (3), but by raising this functionality to the framework level, more optimisations may be implemented, and correctness ensured, in one place, likely resulting in a lower impact of those additional queries.

I'm not at all convinced that the performance overhead of a database hit for every incoming request in order to resolve the URL is significant enough in any of the widely used frameworks to justify throwing them out and doing something different.

Most database-backed web apps I've worked on in my career have had a dozen or more SQL queries executing per page rendered.

Adding an indexed lookup against a URL table of some sort is a tiny additional load - and it's also usually quite straight forward to add a cache using memcache or Redis or Varnish if is starts to become a problem.

URL lookups are a lot more likely to work as a simple TTL based cache than most other kinds of query.
> Being around people like that was just amazing

RIP. He probably say the same about you
but this is not a tourist/residence differentiation. but more like buying in bulk or not.

i have lived in vienna for years and never got a yearly subscription but bought weekly or monthly tickets as needed. and many others do as well. a better comparison to the yearly subscription is the monthly pass which is ~50€ and transferable. so two or more people can share it, and that may turn out cheaper than even a yearly pass in certain circumstances.

i never considered monthly or weekly passes to be only for tourists. they go from the beginning of the week or month which is not flexible enough for most visitors. only more recently a more flexible variant has been introduced that goes 31 days starting any day. those are obviously more useful for visitors but they cost the same.

that said, looking up the tickets now it appears that anything but the yearly subscription is considered for visitors. when i lived in vienna this was not the case. and in other cities it still isn't. tourist tickets were/are those valid for 2 or 3 days and they often are considerably more expensive because they include things interesting for tourists that i never needed even when i was just visiting. everything else was/is for locals.

it is also worth noting that vienna in general is considerably cheaper than many other european cities. which is probably why i never bothered getting a yearly subscription myself.
I'm about to launch a bootstrapped project on my own (my third idea). Your post really resonated with me because I have been thinking about the same feelings and outcomes as you shared in your blog. My conclusion is that the only guaranteed outcome from ventures like this for people like us (who are trying to build wealth from nothing) is and should be the learning. I have accepted that today I don't know how to create wealth by building a SaaS product and I want to immerse myself in that problem enough to learn more. Building my product is my teaching instrument. When you have a full time job, a family and other responsibilities this a hard thing to justify because you sink so much time into it; time which you are taking away from yourself and your family but this is what it takes to succeed IMO.

I am sure that I will fail but there is no other choice except to assess what doesn't work, adjust, rinse and repeat until I figure it out. Some of us get lucky and struck success early but others will have to try again and many will never succeed and that's just life and nothing is free in life (unless you come from money but then again I've never been in that position either).
I really wish I had the reference, but I did the "paid trial" for a week for out interviewing process (startup, 40m evaluation) based on an article that said that standard tech interviews gave you an 18% predictability and that paid trials gave you about 72% (it was only one study).

I can tell you that at our company we definitely dodged candidates here and I was very happy with everyone we hired (but you could call that bias, as I was the hiring manager -- but I also worked withe veryone I hired)
Deckard VR headset comes first, and then the component will transfer to Deck production, is … how I’m speculating.
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And yet all of these issues, when they come up, are invariably happening in the "land of the free", not in the "totalitarian state dystopia of the EU and neighboring countries".
Favoritism can be reinforced when assigning projects:

- assign low effort, high impact, high visibility, low risk projects to the most favorite engineers.

- assign high effort, low impact, low visibility, high risk projects to the least favorite engineers.

Favoritism in toxic orgs is the reward for "loyalty".

Another way is by reorganizing teams, assigning favorites to a team just before the completion of a project. Or assigning undesirable employees to a failed project.
Sounds a lot like using a "downturn" do layoffs, while really just to reducing expenses under pr cover. Does anyone believe anything that any giant corporation says any more?
Yeah Iowa is getting totally jacked in this thread.
I work at a FAANG and took a paycut to get here (from a startup).
Why Is Congress So Religious? [video]
From 2014-2018, Santa Monica issued permits allowing 12 multifamily units[0]. Since the builder's remedy is forcing the city's hand, applications for over 4000 new units have been submitted.

Construction costs are a thing, but the blocking of new construction is absolutely real.

[0]: https://smdp.com/2022/11/07/santa-monicas-builders-remedy-ex...
> What’s so special about it?

Nothing. That's exactly what I mean when I say the cost is labor. The quoted price $450-$550 per square foot does not include land, permitting, soft costs, etc. That's just labor and materials.