skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The program already ran out of money. $300m for 2300 buyers. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-08/californ...
> Fairly high profile people like Neil Gaiman

Who?

I have to say, that doesn't sound remotely convincing to the 220M+ daily users of Twitter who continue to use the platform since there was no 'mass exodus'.

It was more like a leaf falling out of a tree.
Thank you. I think this is actually already me, but I need to get better (and/or more confident) at selling/marketing the “leg(s)” of the “T”. Particularly when it’s something I did more than a few years ago, but I know I still have expertise and good instincts there.
lol just go along with it, we need to label them something, and "non-partisan" just doesn't give anyone a self-righteous dopamine hit
California is really creative at finding ways to spend money.
Perhaps higher because some people already could afford part of a down payment, but yeah.

Can't pass rent control, but can pass giveaways to landlords.
No, (and I'm not sure that "causally" would even result in a comprehensible sentence).

Her deliberate use was exploiting her very close childhood friendship with Tim Draper's kids to get Draper to fund her and use his network to find other investors and to get the message out. Another was her using her network to get a number of distracting and bizarre board members (ex generals and the like), especially when Vally VCs (other than Draper) refused to give the company the time of day.

The casual way I noticed was how she just slipped into a milieu of Ted talks, various "though leader" pieces, and circulated at Davos and wherever. No gawky fish-out-of-water period.

This is quite different from the typical nerd "has to get used to things" situation and gave her tremendous credibility with the rubes outside the valley.

I would drive or bike past their office on Page Mill and for a long time had no idea what they did, despite having been in the life sciences myself at the time. They were weirdly physically in Silicon Valley but simultaneously not part of it.
Not really, because it was the live virus from the cheap vaccine, that mutated and got dangerous again.
Would love to know what you're interested in doing.. we make Extism[0] which allows you to more or less ignore the lack of a "standard library" for something like V8 wasm environments.. Spin definitely makes it easier to compile high-level source code & have done great work on their SDKs to provide these "standard lib" elements. maybe Extism is useful, but if not please feel free to drop in our Discord[1] and chat w/ the team.

[0]: https://github.com/extism/extism
[1]: https://discord.gg/cx3usBCWnc
It's also right there in the "common sense theory"
2 reasons:

1) there will always be demand for drugs, thus fulfiling that demand legally will reduce the harm caused by low-quality/tainted drugs, the side-effects of the underground drug trade (violence, weapons smuggling and gangs branching out into other crime) and can be offset by taxation (as long as the total price including tax is still lower than what the black market offers).

2) existing users who are addicted can't just quit cold-turkey, they will need a certain dose of the original drug or an adequate medical substitute for a period of time - that dose can be lowered over time as part of a recovery/rehab program but cutting those users off forcibly will hurt them physically and force them to seek out black-market sources.
The more recent news is that they have run out of money.

> 'Unprecedented' demand: $300 million set aside for home loan assistance program gone in 11 days

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/unprecedented-dem...
I really hate the way these subsidies were done. Why on earth should companies get better handouts than individuals, for the exact same product?!

Cars are already getting harder to actually own, given subscriptions and manufacturers having remote control over various features. Pushing more people into leases further erodes consumer control.
The day after this article was published, the program ran out of money after helping "more than 2300" homebuyers.

https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homeownership/bulletins/2023/2023-...
Whiel there were always some Jews, most of the Jews living there moved there after 1900, as many of the surrounding Kingdoms (particularly Egypt and Saudi Arabia) had become increasingly antisemitic and forced them out. Israel's current location wasn't even the only place considered, they also looked at a place in Africa, and this was possible because most people were immigrating there and it wasn't a generational homeland.
My friends and I have been pretty satisfied with the federated matrix server that I've been running for several years now.

I imagine that the future of social media will look something like that and mastodon.

Small silos of people connected through an adhoc trust network seems to be a pretty good mitigation strategy for the issues of AI generated spam.

we sure don't see any corporate spam in our rooms.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/9053ccad1b4c4c688537ebf4716...

You can edit the resulting url before opening it or copying it, and choose between archive.ph, .md, etc. Editing is useful if you want to get rid of utm_source arguments, etc.

Apple’s Shortcuts is just a hodgepodge of built in functions, the best way to learn is just to try build something like this. You’ll be searching a few times for the little function you want until you find the right name for it. As far as discoverability goes, it’s OK, gets the job done. Naming things is weird too — let’s say you make a Text block, then you can only seem to name it when you reference it elsewhere (Select Magic Variable, scroll and tap it, then highlight it and Rename from the menu).
>Sure they don't have the handling of a lightweight Porsche, but

Be careful with those old concepts. Lighter weight is no longer always better for handling. Drivers state the Taycan has better turn in and a more neutral balance due to the low center of gravity when directly compared to the 911.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/25091/porsche-taycan-to-have-l...

https://www.hotcars.com/taycan-vs-911-road-test/
Very interesting!

If I need to do more than one query to the database in series, my intuition is that it would be faster to make those calls in the same region as the database, rather than at the edge. It seems to be true using Vercel's playground[1] (towards Supabase).

Any guidance for Supabase based apps? Is it possible to run my functions close to the database?

[1] https://edge-data-latency.vercel.app/
France eyeing antitrust action against Apple
Bits of witchcraft worked too. Some of those herbs really did reduce fever or pain. But you didn’t actually have to stir them three times widdershins by the light of a quartering moon to ensure the effects would last.
Especially when they're factchecking for partisan narrative compliance
Btw funds were depleted from this almost immediately, and nobody that signed up for this was processed.

People that were already closing on a home and in that agencies system were first in queue to flip over to this programme

Everyone else will have no time to identify a place, sign up etc
Unfortunately, the way financialization works, we should expect this to lead to a bump in home prices that roughly perfectly offsets the increased buying power created by this financial instrument. The only long-term solution to affordable housing is abundant supply.
does not rebut the RationalWiki page but is a poorly written smear piece. convienently, emil kirkegaard does not mention he lost the lawsuit he filed and changed his name and moved country to avoid debt collection. https://www.pdf-archive.com/2022/11/27/emil-kirkegaard-name-...
Averages out to roughly $130,000 per buyer. Assuming those are all at 20%, then average home purchase price is about $652,000.
And over a billion ICE cars...

Not to mention that if you go back a handful of years, BEVs were in the same boat as FCEVs. Like I said, all of this is selective reasoning and doesn't prove anything. And you're still ignoring my point about the resource problem. We could be forced to suddenly change our minds by reality no matter what.

Worth noting that something similar undermined all of the biofuel strategies of the past. Once people realized that biofuels simply couldn't scale, they had to abandon the idea, even though they also got plenty of government support.
Lol it's not a loan, the state is literally buying equity in the property, same as a VC does.

CA is now a REIT.
> Just as software developers often fall prey to "NIH"

What does NIH abbreviate?
Are you talking about the RLHF? That's where Vicuna/Alpaca and other finetuning help a lot.

There's also already tools for conversation flows (which just means you prepend the conversation history to the prompt).

I'm not saying the performance is nearly as good, but the actual workflow does already exist and is massively improving. The interesting part to me is that this finetuning can be done in a couple few hours on a consumer gpu (4090).
I tend to think that's the point of having a government.

Edit: While I appreciate the downvotes, can someone tell me why my thinking is wrong?
Can I just say... such a healthy way to help the ecosystem but retain distinguishing features
US Bank Lending Drops over $105B, Largest Decline Since 1973
> In a perfect world, health experts say they'd like everyone would get the more expensive polio shot which is incapable of mutating into a dangerous, circulating virus.

but then...

> Mass immunization campaigns with the more expensive yet safer injectable vaccine, he says, are nearly impossible in some of these places. There simply isn't the infrastructure or trained medical staff to carry out such campaigns.

So, let's try to understand this: if we throw a boatload of money onto this problem, is it possible to eradicate polio using that decent, more expensive vaccine?

or... do we have a theoretical misunderstanding of viruses?

If I'm not mistaken both IPV and OPV is applied to children in national immunization problems of developed countries. So there must be something still missing in IPV.
Indeed it's hard to grasp what mission the framework is up to.

I'll just say though that am very happy to see htmx getting more traction.
I'm a technical marketer and I was really saddened to see trend of bussiness logic being expresses in TS and spitted out into small bundles for marketers to have no clue on what's going on.

Now I just say this magic combo to frontend team: htmx+alpine+xstate-fsm. And suddenly I have gained the control back! JS-in-markup is a dream comming true for those who actually keep working on optimizing the websites after developers create them.
If entire classes of financial transactions can be blocked through backroom conversations between financial companies and regulators, don't you think that's bad for democracy? We have laws which allow the US to tackle money laundering issues and it's understandable that regulators would create regulations along those laws; they have a clear mandate to. It's not clear to me that other classes of transaction should be blocked based on amorphous dealings with regulators and companies.
Point is that even groups we often associate with backwards thinking still will do the reasonable thing like caring about their health and listening to medical professionals.
Found this part really interesting:

>Evans said the new loan program has a shared equity program. “When you sell the property or refinance the loan, they take up to 20% of the appreciation. The homeowner gets to keep 80%," he said.
I think you deal with bad designers the same way you deal with bad developers.

Try not to hire them in the first place, fire them if you can, and if you're stuck with them try to make sure they are occupied with tasks that will not cause too much overall damage.
This is pretty incredible. I guess the thing that we have to keep in mind is that we really can't compete with an AI that understands natural language this well and also has the entirety of the internet as its reference materials. Maybe we need to accept that or rework our definition of what makes humans special
>I actually think you could use his methodology to basically destroy all social sciences.

You can indeed, which is why I judge peoples sincerity on this subject based on if they reject the social sciences entirely as pseudoscientific drivel or apply this reasoning to IQ heritability specifically because they don't like it.

If I'm being honest, deep down, I have to think "the social sciences are pseudoscientific drivel" is the more sound argument. The science is pretty bad which is why the replication crisis hit the social sciences harder than virtually anything else.
The best way to “defend” NIMBY-ism while feeling good you’re helping the poor and downtrodden.
CRDT Papers
When I was growing up in the 2000s, it was required to learn a foreign language in school. I took Spanish but dropped the class after a year, thinking that when I grew up, computers would be able to translate text far better humans could.

Would you believe it, transformers were invented ten years later.

I wonder if it's worth learning anything anymore.
A handout to sellers in a buyers market
This seems suspect no? I agree the amount you need to out down is too much right now (floating 100k plus for a down payment), but making it essentially require 0 down sounds like you seriously run the risk of 08 part two, where it will be very easy to lend to people who actually can't afford it, or aren't financially responsible enough to handle it.

Lending half of a down payment or some other percentage would sound much safer.
Not exactly, because it only helps them make their down payment. The magnitude of their loan continues to be primarily defined by their income, which this program does not change. But yes, it will make houses more expensive. Not 20%, but some quantity by increasing the pool of competitors for the same fixed supply.
Thanks yousifa! I see, yeah, there’s no expectation for hover sliders, I’ll consider making them drag-only.

What led me to experiment with hover was that three-finger drag is not the default macOS behavior and therefore native controls have to be dragged through click-press, which I always found too cumbersome for how wonderful the MacBook trackpad is.

Good point on the onboarding. I considered prompting for the key on first start, but then I thought one would try to run first or anyway, which is when the field pops up now. I’ll make something that can be then extended to having other providers, custom endpoints, and local models.

Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it.
Same.

Most of my readers come from HN, reddit or substack itself. Now it's mostly Python so it makes sense a tech oriented medias will be reading more about it.

Still, the ban on substack by twitter means that, while a #python tweet gets some view, the same with an article to substack tanks bit time.
The solution is to hire better designers, unfortunately. Savvy/wise/experienced ones know when to follow the rules, and when to break them.

Edit: That might not seem like the most helpful advice, and I'm sorry you have to deal with this – but it's the most effective, without having to write an entire book.

This book was written for industrial designers by an industrial designer, but I did find a lot of useful advice in here for designers on understanding the business mind, deferring to clients, embracing constraints and requirements, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/Designers-Are-Wankers-Neville-Brody/d...
Or VPN users, which is still relatively small.
I would really like to know how you came up with that observation. Are you from a fundamentalist religious group? Small agrarian tribe? Billionaire yacht club? I think 99% of Americans recognize the opposite as overwhelmingly obvious.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
Shot, meet chaser: https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2023/04/10/california-first-...

I appreciate this as an anti-inequality measure, but it feels like in California low/med income buyers are being outpriced by a lot more than 20% of a down payment.

"We can fit 18 million groups into 14 million units of housing, as long as we pay 20% of the cost" feels like a really last ditch housing policy.
so when they introduced drive by wire, and just put it out there on the roads without telling anyone, that was reckless? or any of the countless other designs that have led us to the modern cars we have now? how about all the severe recalls, not over the air recalls that tesla gets press for but real safety issues? GM and the others have tons and tons of real physical safety recalls, way more than tesla, and thats not shoddy to you? thats not reckless to you? thats foolish. fsd as it is now probably drives more safely than a teenager. so do you want to take all teenagers off the road? and where is your crusade against drunk driving which kills way, way more people than fsd ever will every single year. doesnt bother you. no, your issue isnt with safety or with ethics or principles or anything like that. your issue is with elon musk. because you read brain-rot mainstream media all day who use lies and misdirection to paint elon musk and tesla as evil.
Agree, Reddit is terrible. Heavy handed political bias too.
> receiving stolen property, perjury, campaign finance violations, etc

Campaign finance violations seem clear cut corruption. (Again, not mandatory jail sentencing. But jail is on the table.)

Perjury and contempt obviously need the capacity to put someone in jail. I resolve the moral discrepancy with their short durations. Theft is the elephant in the room for this framework, and I don't have a good answer for it.
This is throwing fuel on the fire, not only by increasing demand in an already supply-constrained environment, but by the government of california committing $300M to fairly-directly invest in residential real estate.

It's also not entirely clear what happens to the state's "20% cut of appreciation" if the home value drops. I suspect the state isn't going to take a haircut off their initial loan amount.
More concerned that if I’m returning a precached response, I ought to be able to claim some sort of carbon credit :)
Not invented here, probably?
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gifski does a great job at being relatively simple, while handling quality stuff for you.

https://gif.ski/

gifski --fps 10 --width 320 -o anim.gif video.mp4
The headline I wanted to see: California to spend $300 million building new housing by retrofitting commercial real estate
Offering simple "solutions" that don't actually take into account any of the complexity of the problem space and don't actually solve the problem, but sound pithy and coincidentally reduce the solution to "throw someone else's money at it" bear a rather suspicious stink as well.
> Can't pass rent control, but can pass giveaways to landlords.

Rent controls do nothing to make houses more affordable at the limit, since prices reset to market any time someone leaves. They just make the market less efficient. Only adding more houses makes houses cheaper.

Tons of the world's least affordable markets are already rent controled. Rent controled apartments in SF aren't cheaper. Neither are ones in Ontario. I can't really find any evidence they work at all.

[edit] Here's a study I found on the effects of rent control in SF.

> Leveraging new data tracking individuals’
migration, we find rent control limits renters’ mobility by 20 percent and lowers displacement from San Francisco. Landlords treated by rent control reduce rental housing supplies by 15 percent by selling to owner-occupants and redeveloping buildings. Thus, while rent control prevents displacement of incumbent renters in the short run, the lost rental housing supply likely drove up market rents in the long run, ultimately undermining the goals of the law. [1]

[1] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/aer.20181289
I don't have time to play Forensic Photoshop right now, but there might be something to divine from what was erased from the page.

All of the terms could be mistranslations or interpretations of otherwise-established systems. It looks an awful lot like Fallout-flavored GURPS to me (you've got SPECIAL if you interpret Agility as Dexterity and Faith as Luck) mixed with Cthulhu (library, faith, occult, track, spot hidden, nature-related skills).
Digg was there before I think, MySpace maybe qualifies as well, as do Tumblr, DeviantArt, DejaNews, a couple of IRC networks and probably many others besides.

That network effect works for you until it works against you.
Edit: I’m reading this to try and get some sense of the issues - https://www.amazon.science/blog/near-linear-scaling-of-gigan...

What about with some fairly frequent and periodic synchronization?

Is there potentially some balance where small enough subsets can be chosen and disparate workers broadcast the small changes at small enough intervals that the net gain in learnings is still larger than the loss in fit due to de-cohesion. I was thinking maybe this algorithm would be 10x less energy efficient but have the benefit of decentralization. Something along those lines.

I’m guessing the current training algorithms do something like this but since rapid synchronization always makes the efficiency increase (in the extreme that giant single wafer cpu) then openAI and others use systems with high interconnect bandwidth.
Presumably, like PPP, all the giveaways went to friends of friends of people in government while the common people got frozen out.
- Their valuation is high because they raised during the recent bubble

- If you raise more money at a lower valuation than your last fundraise, it's highly dilutive. Investors paid $10 for 10% of a $100 valued company last round during the bubble. Vs. given current market conditions, new investors would only pay $10 for 20% of a $50 valued company this round. This second round would dilute existing investors, except...

- If you crowd source the funding, now you can raise at a $100 valuation again (less dilution), because these crowdsourcing investors don't know what they're doing
And subsidize property speculators.

The problem needs to be solved on the supply side not demand side.
It's ADAS Level 2. Tesla is one of many. And are you equally concerned aboout parents who allow their 15 and 16 year olds to drive on the same streets with no-to-little training... and where the parent cannot easily grab the steering wheel or press the brake?
Isn't this a prefect recipe for a super-bubble?
When you help people with the down payment this much, wouldn't basically everyone try to apply to enjoy appreciating property values, driving demand and prices ever higher, and even worse - with relatively little commitment to follow through if the economy gets choppy? With the down payment, at least you have some skin in the game, but with this program, for the first 5-10 years you would probably see your mortgage mostly as a rent alternative...
Not invented here (I.e. if we didn’t make it then it’s either bad or bad for our use case).
In the face of civilizational collapse due to taking the wrong strategy vis a vis carbon emissions, my iPhone's battery life seems inconsequential.
> We're headed towards a future where all of the drudgery is automated away and we can be free to pursue all of the hobbies that we never have time for because we're too busy working on shit that doesn't really matter.

I don't really think it's true. ChatGPT has been out for a while, and it still takes me the same time to do chores. My commuting still takes as long as it did before.