skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Misguided handout-seeking poor are not stopping construction. Rent control doesn't solve the problem, but it doesn't cause the problem either.

> NIMBYsm in disguise

Yes, this is the real problem: the same capitalist incentive structure that pulls forward the future returns of a new housing investment also pulls forward the consequences of future supply normalization onto current owners. Capitalism also guarantees that these owners are the ones with power. It gives them the means and the motive to torpedo new development. So they do.

Capitalism causes NIMBYism. Which is the real problem.
The language choices for the newsletter display as ‘French’ or ‘Français’. Touché, nice touch!
Setting aside whether you're right or wrong about this... assuming you are right, then are you worried this will set everyone down the wrong path? That we'll spend ten years iterating on transformer models, never getting any closer to AGI? Is there another direction you think we should be moving toward instead (or at least simultaneously)?
1. Assumes one knows enough about the process for getting a grant that you could a) write a proper grant application (at least as well as an e.g. uninspired rando who knows nothing but the best ways to navigate the system) and b) knows where/when/how and to whom to submit the grant - assuming there is even a grant currently available that serves the purpose. So to recap, if we wanted to apply this to the number of people who could be freed up by a UBI, you would have millions or tens of millions of people writing grants instead of developing their ideas... after they figure out all the other aspects (additional time, energy, and money). Then you would also have a ton of other people reviewing these new grants. This does not seem better in any way. Instead of making it easier for creatives to bring their ideas to life, this adds additional burden to them and a bunch of other people.

2. This is the problem. If I have an idea that could revolutionize the world, but I suck at 'convincing people' or explaining the value of my idea, (according to you) I have nothing - thus everyone else loses out. Amongst the billions in the world, there could be untold millions who have the ability to improve the world with their work, but have no chance to develop it because they're working their asses off at dead end jobs just to stay afloat.

But hey, at least with your way we can make ourselves feel better about our successes, because we are capable of convincing someone with money that our idea might have merit.
It's like VDR?
>> is that it has generally applicable intelligence that is on par with a human

Which human or humans?

I freely admit that I do not posses the intelligence to "invent new math" but I am pretty sure that I am "smarter than the average bear" (to borrow a phrase).
What does water "feel" like at that depth? There is a lot of weight felt I guess from the pressure, but is it thicker to swim through in some sense?
10 days of personal time off and 11 federal holidays. Basically 4 out of 52 weeks off a year. It's really not that dystopian.
Yes. There is a reason that when Britain felt threatened by the turmoil in France they didn't just bar unions or political clubs. They banned "combination" almost entirely in general.
I keep keep hearing people claim we are at the end of corpus scaling, but that seems totally unfounded. Where has it been proven you can’t running the training set through in multiple epochs in randomized order? Who’s to say you can’t collect all the non-English corpus and have the performance transfer to English? Who’s to say you can’t run the whole damn thing backwards and still have it learn something?
Living in CA, I always keep a lot of accrued PTO because it is paid out to me if/when I leave the company. It's a nice buffer between jobs or whatever, which is more valuable to me than multiple-week vacations.

This is the main reason I dislike unlimited PTO policies.
Why would it need to be trained on Copilot’s output? Its training data is publicly available code on GitHub, so just use that directly. ChatGPT is different because they specifically trained it as an assistant with a private dataset
You're right, it kind of makes me think AGI won't come about from LLMs.
They'll be decided by AI, not by governments, corporations, or individuals.

There's still a kind of wilful blindness about AI really means. Essentially it's a machine that can mimic human behaviours more convincingly than humans can.

This seems like a paradox, but it really isn't. It's the inevitable end point of automatons like Eliza, chess, go, and LLMs.

Once you have a machine that can automate and mimic social, political, cultural, and personal interactions, that's it - that's the political singularity.

And that's true even the machine isn't completely reliable and bug free.

Because neither are humans. In fact humans seem predisposed to follow flawed sociopathic charismatic leaders, as long as they trigger the right kinds of emotional reactions.

Automate that, and you have a serious problem.

And of course you don't need sentience or intent for this. Emergent programmed automated behaviour will do the job just fine.
onBeforeRequest(), though, is just one of several ways to run arbitrary JS on a 3rd party page within an extension. There's a reason it's "first to be hobbled", and that reason isn't privacy. Nobody can prove intent, of course, but I'm predicting the pace of "privacy improvements" slows considerably after the smart heuristic-based ad blockers are out of the way.
I’ve been to both London and Tokyo. Their transportation is significantly better, but it’s optimized for a local minimum from the American suburban perspective.

“They made the best of a shit scenario, which is way too many people living in one place. It’s better than the way the US dealt with the people that have to live like that, but it’s still worse than being able to have an acre to yourself in the middle class.” The US optimized for people who are in that camp.
Is that the stuff that causes cancer?
yes but then I can talk sh*t to my polish coworker who loves any polish cultural references. Anyway thanks for the referral.
You probably see more interesting and diverse landscapes in 3000 km of France vs 24000 km of Canada.
GNU is an ecosystem of free software.

Linux is a kernel.

People often refer to the whole system as Linux, but what they really mean is GNU/Linux.
We can't comment on why, but there's no rational way to watch his behavior and assume he isn't obsessed with being liked. He constantly tweets about his own tweets performance, makes humiliating appearances on stages, and pretty much terrified that someone might do something 1/100000th as awful to him as he and his family have done to others.

he is isn't a CEO, he is a whining baby
It is generally accepted that some applications of technology are good and some are not, or at least not self-evidently so (weapons of mass destruction, environmentally disastrous things like PFAS, packaging every single product into barely-recyclable-once plastics, gene editing humans, addictive social media/FB/TikTok, etc.)

Is this particular application of technology good, and even self-evidently so?
I’m wondering the same thing. You can see their fins flopping around as if it’s regular depths
Even with the best ideas, execution, and teams 99.99% of startups are. That's okay. They're assumed to be experiments.

There is no such thing as self-made. And there's nothing wrong with friends and networking, especially as some particular help or chance encounter could be pivotal to nudging onto something great.

It's the trying and learning that are the gold to try again. Timing, honest perspective, persistence, and a measure of prepared luck seem to be more of it. There is no magic formula. I wish success to all who want it.
not tabloids, not a hoax, did you go on Twitter during that period? I have him blocked and saw his tweets
I also feel weird about all the crypto stuff in Brave. I chose Vivaldi (also a Chromium based browser with built-in adblocker). It's developers include a lot of former Opera devs.
Well at least one: in the year 2000, I used to work for Verizon and a picture from one of the local networks hubs was circulated showing a bunch of thick cables tapping into the network and alleging that the government was listening to all calls Americans made. People made a lot of fun of that photo until Snowden brought the details to light.
I live in an apartment in a city (not in the US). Walking distances from my home:

Pharmacy - seconds (right in the next building)

Bar - seconds

Supermarket - 1 minute

Bakery - 1 minute

Greengrocer's - 1 minute

Children's playground - 1 minute

Beach - 1 minute (OK, not representative of every apartment dweller, I'm privileged) :)

Stationery shop - 2 minutes

Bookshop - 2 minutes

Bank branch with ATM - 3 minutes

Amazon locker - 3 minutes

My son's school - 4 minutes

High school - 4 minutes

Health center - 6 minutes

Park - 7 minutes

Library - 7 minutes

Theatre - 13 minutes

Cinema - 15 minutes

Commute - 3 minutes walk to bus stop, buses every 5 minutes, 15-minute trip

Train station - 25 minutes

For me, moving to a house where I would need a car or much longer walks for most of those things would be a huge downgrade in standard of living, not an upgrade. Sure, I would have more space. Not worth it at all.
> Nonessential-to-life property

A car is pretty essential to life, especially in place like Texas. New and used cars are skyrocketing in price, and if you're a lower wage employee, chances are that you still have to commute to work. For millions of Americans, losing a car means losing their livelihoods.
A toxic workplace is a toxic workplace, whatever PTO you have.

A toxic workplace can make fixed PTO just as miserable as unlimited PTO if they want to, and vice versa
this seems fantastic

if(condition) document.write('<!--')

How else accomplish that?
That survey makes a lot of sense to me, as a Brit. If I don't take my PTO my boss's boss gets nagged by HR, so they nag my boss, who nags me.

Our PTO year runs from 1 April, so the only (unwritten) rule about vacation is that we should try to spread it over the year. This is because we're only allowed to carry over 5 days to the next year, not taking PTO is frowned upon, and HR don't want everybody to be using up their PTO at the same time at the end of the year.

A few days ago we had a Zoom town-hall meeting where our CEO thanked everybody for taking time off.
IR35 killed contracting a few years ago (it did for me and many of my friends, anyway)

The phenomenon that presently affects your job prospects is the tens of thousands of good developers being laid off from FAANG companies and suddenly competing with you for any open roles.

Recruiters within my employer (a mid size tech firm) are keenly hoovering up ex-FAANG engineers. In fact roles are being filled by ex-FAANGers referring FAANGers.
Not sure about the main story about the article. However, construction on that Ursvik/Rinkby construction site has been very slow since long before the current crisis. I was biking through the neighboring bridge of the one mentioned here (that is about 100m down the road, so much about that new bridge alone enabling crime) for about 8 month and while my way through changed a few times, progress was very slow. (Not that any of the many many construction projects in Stockholm has been fast). What the article misses is that the Swedish Krona has lost more than 10% compared to the Euro over the last year and that, while theoretically making exports more valuable, increase inflation for all import products. Which for me as an immigrant is the main economic flaw in this country: it should have adopted the Euro like Finnland or at least locked the exchange rate like Denmark. But no, false national pride has now made the entire economic down-turn even harder.

(One should also note that mortage rate here in Sweden are still surprisingly low. My 3 month fixed rate right now is 3.65% of which I get back 30% via taxes. Hence I am effectivly borrowing at 2.5%)
Lighthouse in Chrome dev tools
> Immigration is an entirely separate issue. Conflating it with the fact that hard working Swedes can’t secure good housing

How do you figure the two are unrelated? The native poor are competing with an influx of poor immigrants for the same pool of housing. I find it hard to understand how those same poor natives would be worse off in terms of housing prospects if the immigrants never showed up, all things being equal. Immigration is never 100% of the reason behind housing issues, but it’s more significant than most people want to admit.
Admittedly there were a few issues in the past, just nothing in the last couple of years that I can think of.
That’s correct. Starting in version 109 earlier this year, Firefox supports many MV3 APIs without removing or deprecating MV2 APIs. To ease the transition to MV3 for extension developers, Firefox extensions can use both MV2 and MV3 APIs.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/11/17/manifest-v3-signi...
Stealing a car is like stealing a horse, a penalty punishable by death since the Roman days. Deprive somebody of their car by theft and you could be killing them, in the deep desert.

There is an argument that a person who steals a truck is probably working their way toward murdering for a truck so it's like a vaccine for society, as well.
Looks great and I signed up! Nice work. As several people below have said I was looking for it to have math as an option.
The December pause announcement stated it was until at least January 2024. This update still mentions a timeline of next year for v3. I find it hard to read as anything beyond the update of progress which was promised for March when the pause was announced in December.
In addition to company culture, that's one of the big divides. I've always maximized the vacation I took including month-long trips. The only time I got a significant payout was when I got laid-off during dot-bomb and I hadn't filed the paperwork for the vacation I had just taken yet.

I've also only had 4 jobs in the last 35+ years.
Same. It’s not required, but if I’m just sitting there I’ll give a pointer if I can.
That’s all well and good until someone has a tool critical for their survival stolen, and are told to ‘turn the other cheek’.

In most of the US, a car is as critical to survival as a horse used to be.
This has to be an April Fool's day joke right?
GPT-generated comment.

These aren't supposed to be on hn.
Arathorn, when you inevitably read this, I want to be able to do similar via Matrix protocol in Element.

Your friend,
Hammy
> I'll counter this - the majority of the people in the US want to live somewhere and get around in the least difficult method

No they don’t. People consistently give up better commutes for more space.

> It's very nearsighted to think our model is the penultimate in structuring society. Plenty of people are happy, fulfilled, and productive living in apartments & townhouses while taking trains to work.

100% agree. But Americans want houses more than a public train ride. Figure out how to solve the issue of living in shoeboxes with people still getting space to have a personal garden, a wood shop, etc and you’ll be onto something.
In exchange, they could also through their billions in the volcano.
Water is incompressible, so I think it should behave similarly. Even viscosity remains within a few precent [1] (Mariana Trench is around 100 MPa)

[1] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/absolute-dynamic-viscosit...
> A Tailscale account on the SaaS control plane (you can use some throwaway gmail address for this).

How, with a throwaway SIM-card? I don't understand Tailscale's dependence on third parties for authentication. Google/GitHub/etc. don't need to know which computers I'm linking together, so I use ZeroTier instead.
There have been many examples of companies inventing new technology, then failing to take it to market until a competitor copied the ideas. The classic example is Apple and Xerox PARC. The criticism in this case is that while icons and GUIs are obviously harmless (so it's good we got them out of the lab!), maybe AI is the kind of tech we should have let researchers play with for a while longer, before we started an arms race that puts it in everyone's house.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230401205313/https://www.wired...
That's rude and unhelpful.

Read the linked material. The metaphor of bootstraps was an impossible and Quixotic feat like perpetual motion that became coopted as a celebrated mythology of "self-made". There is no such animal, friend.
I fundamentally disagree. Admitting danger dissuades people. Most want the thrill but not real danger. Placing the value in the danger aspect is like saying computer viruses are the most valuable thing in the world. I'm exaggerating a bit, but the way you put it sounds to me a bit much given the fact that Altman really doesn't have to convince anyone at this point that they have something very different.
I try to remind people in the US that there’s exactly one constituency that wants affordable houses.

People who don’t have houses yet.

Everybody else wants housing to continue to be a growth investment, and thus increasingly unaffordable. Developers want to make & sell more expensive things. Lenders want to make more & bigger loans. Existing owners want the value of their most valuable asset to go “up & to the right”.

That’s a very big hurdle to overcome politically. Even worse in the US where real estate investments are a central pillar of the broader economy, and if the “growth investment” patina of it starts to fade, then a cascading catastrophe will likely follow. The situation might be untenable as prices keep going up, but there are so many incentives working against any kind of intervention, that I never expect one to occur.
I like it, but I hope

it can have a shortcut to dismiss a read article.

it has a dark mode.
Burlington VT banned gas leaf blowers but also defunded the police so… yeah, no change.
The assumption that markets are infallible or that good things never fail because of an imperfect market is a fallacy.
Such techno-utopianism... political power belongs to people who control the guns. There is no way around it.
Totally different from my experience. But it sounds like you don't actually like to go on extended vacations (or at least prioritize to do so).
Lol we only get 5 days of PTO, personal leave.
This isn't particularly interesting, though the steps to get access are nicely done.

Most devices of that era including many Android phones lacked any sort of secure enclave for tamper proof secret storage or encryption. I believe the early Echo stored the wifi password using a weak block cipher and a fixed key, like Kindles. Given the password needs to be eventually decrypted in software, any sort of encryption like this is effectively obfuscation. Physical access is far, far worse!

I think folks forget how much security innovation there has been, and become accessible to consumers, in the last decade. It wasn't too long ago that SSL was considered a luxury.
This is socialist nonsense. The government won't protect anything outside of their interests[0]. Free markets are good and necessary for human flourishing[1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Creature-Jekyll-Island-Federal-Reserv...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Human-Action-Ludwig-Von-Mises/dp/1614...
The coventional wisdom in epidemiology that diseases can be separated into those spread by aerosols and those spread by droplets. This turns out to be complete nonsense based on a single flawed decades old study claiming particles larger than 5 microns can't stay in the air for an extended period of time, when the actual limit is orders of magnitudes higher. The failure of the public health establishment to realize this reflects long-standing issues the field has with appreciating research done by experts in other fields. Aerosol scientists knew all this, and tried to tell them.

Luckily the CDC has admitted it's mistake, though they haven't properly updated guidance accordingly.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
People who want to release a new, cross browser, extension are left in a crappy position.

Chrome won’t accept a new manifest v2 extension. MV3 extensions have lots of problems in chrome, and are even worse supported everywhere else.

Google needs to reopen mv2 to new submissions until they’ve got things figured out, and the other browsers are on board.
Talking with GLaDOS: Whisper AI, ChatGPT and GLaDOS Voice Model
https://archive.is/Quo4t
Sure thing. My interests mostly lie in performance marketing, automation and ops. I enjoy creating landing pages, running ads, writing copy, and CRO as well. I haven't had the chance to leverage these skills in a higher traffic environment yet however, so I imagine the next step is getting my foot in the door somewhere to do that. My overarching goal is to become a T-shaped marketer with a broad depth of general knowledge and specialities in a few distinct areas.
Do you mean resonance? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_resonance
I did the GR20 last year and they were all in AllTrails.
I used an extension a while ago, however, it became unnecessary once the built in json view was implemented. Not sure if it's still around or whether it offers any advantage over the built in feature.
>> Tao, Perelman, Wiles etc. aren't math geniuses because they can multiply numbers fast

You're getting stuck on semantics.

I expect Tao, Perelman, Wiles, etc. can process/handle/deal with numbers much more rapidly than I can.

Now imagine if these folks could do the same, except 10x or 100x or 1000x faster, without having to ever be bothered with things like sleep or food.

This may not be a good definition of a "Math Genius" but it is reasonable to think that all or most "Math Geniuses" possess this skill. Speed matters.
>no, it isn't to hide bad CG

Yes, yes it is. Black Panther's CGI was notoriously awful even by 1990's standards.
> France specifically seems to have a bizarre tolerance for "pay to play" culture and limited access in outdoor recreation. Countries all around them have shown how strong freedom to roam laws (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam) can work.

Source? Because that Wikipedia page does not state that: no word about France, Italy and Spain, and just a little "freedom to roam" in UK and Germany.

In France, you can enter any open landscape and bivouac there, unless the owner directly states you cannot. The law also forbids to build anything too near to the sea, breaking access to the coast. Private beaches are forbidden. Isn't that more than in most neighbouring countries?

> Even in the US, our trails are largely maintained by volunteers, non-profits, and federal institutions.

It's the same in France: mostly unpaid helpers from associations and paid workers from municipalities.
I'm not sure, I live in a rent controller apartment and it certainly is great for the many people in my apartment who work in the city but could never pay the rents.

Thankfully me and my girlfriend can afford and we're therefore planning to buy and lose our contract, but to be honest it probably going to go to someone who needs it. Because owning your own place, being able to modify it to your liking and having people that live there take care for it just makes it much better to own instead (in my opinion).