skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An eye opening example for me was that I was working with a Ruby/Rails class that was testing various IP configurations [1] and I was able to just copy and paste it into chatgpt and say "write some tests for this".

It wasn't really anything I couldn't have written in a half hour or so but it was so much faster. The real kicker is that by default chatgpt wrote Rspec and I was able to say "rewrite that in minitest" and it worked.

1 - https://wafris.org/ip-lookup
> How do you ensure people aren’t using human or corporate straw buyers to take advantage of this?

You can’t. Plenty of countries have no-foreigner and first-time only requirements, and they’re flagrantly violated throughout. There isn’t a demand-side solution to housing I’ve seen. That said, there are better and worse ideas, and the affordable-housing gimmick is among the worst.
This is a contractual SLA, which is certainly not the same thing as legal liability, and your contract might (obviously I haven't seen it) shield yourself from financial liability on top of your lack of legal liability. (Saying that you will respond within one hour is not the same thing as saying that they can sue you for every hour you're down.)
Renting might be stable but it's very dependant on whoever owns the house and what type of regulations and protections your government has in place. Owning a home (house/apartment/land/etc) gives you more rights over where you live and more stability in most countries.

I've seen rents go up with inflation where inflation grows at 25% yoy, and I've seen people kicked out of an apartment 3 months after moving in because the owner found a buyer with a good deal.

But I agree with you, single family housing is the goal for some cultures and generations, and it was carefully crafted by governmental policy, propaganda, marketing and third party interests. We are now seeing the consequences of such.

Yet, not all people have that goal, but a lot are content to just owning a place to live even with relatives, a community or others.

I feel it's hard to not wanting to own something if it grants more rights and protections against injustices. In the countries I've lived, having a property deed of any sorts with your name on it makes your life so much better and stress free.
> historical population growth creating scarcity

Is that really down to a single factor? Would it be impossible to improve the situation by creating more developed land and/or rezoning the land we already have to allow higher density in more desirable locations?

If it's all just population growth, then all you've done is shifted to a new "unsustainable" metric with all the attendant problems you've just flagged.
Its head and thorax were still functioning just fine. Just the abdomen was insensate.
The calculus also changes dramatically based on the cost of the payload. If it's the JWTT you'd definitely want to double the launch cost to increase probability 20%.
I think there are probably serious limits on the extent to which decentralization is viable in North America. The lifestyle that comes with rural life for example is not one that the majority of the population finds attractive, with how far removed from not only creature comforts but also employment opportunities and essential services it makes one.

There's also many things that don't work out economically for towns below a certain size. This is why little towns of 1k-10k tend to have only megacorp chain shops and restaurants — despite the cost of operations being so much cheaper than they are in more urban areas, things like little family owned bakeries, delis, etc are mostly found in cities in the US.

The latter of those paragraphs could perhaps be changed, but it'd take an earth-shattering level of infrastructural redevelopment that I don't see happening any time soon.
Because Catalan’s conjecture.
My point is that even with improved tooling I don't think it will be accessible to a layman. You will need to develop some skill to wield the tool.

It seems like you agree based on parts of your comment like "A well built tool will build on the competences already natural for the professional".
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The gains from selling a house are taxable. In addition, last I checked, 6% of the sale price is split between the buying and selling realtor. But the biggest factor here in California is the controversial Proposition 13. The assessed value of the property for tax purposes can only increase by 2% per year. Since real estate has appreciated in value much faster than 2%, an elderly couple like my parents are only paying about 1/10 of the normal tax rate.

The house my parents bought in 1975 is worth $4 million (according to Zillow) because it is in a prime Palo Alto location. In their case, assuming the house is actually worth $4M, they will make a tidy profit. They could buy a downsized house, but only if they move out of Palo Alto. And their tax bill would sky-rocket.

A better example might my house, which I have owned for 22 years, valued at a "mere" $1.4M. Taxes at market rate would be $12,320. Assuming I bought it in 1975, my yearly tax bill would be a mere $1,232. The first problem, small houses in the Bay Area are still expensive. But suppose I found something for $700K, my tax bill would go from $1,232 to $6,160. OK, maybe I move somewhere cheap, and get a house for $350K, I'm still probably paying more than 2x my current tax rate.

Add to that the enormous stress involved with buying a house, I'm not planning on selling, ever.
I almost like your fentanyl comparison -- but where it fails to me is that your biochemists will have very specific ideas about what will happen.

To me, tech's war on crypto feels more like "the War on Drugs." It's fine to be against, but it's the extreme lack of interest in discussing detail (which if you were anti you'd need to get into to stop it) and they don't do that.

Let's say you wanted to attack crypto on principle? Great. First you'd need to ID and figure out their weak points. Bitcoin kills the environment so you attack there. Now, others don't - but a lot of the post ETH coins are centralized with a small number of founders, so you can get them there. Now, ETH is going to be harder because they've done a better job on decentralization...

ETC.

That little paragraph above is orders of magnitude more detailed than any actual attack I've seen. Which again- SUPER WEIRD for tech folks!
> holding them hostage

elon threatens to put them on the next starship test? get real, they are not hostages, there are plenty of alternative platforms, you have only to select one, or more.
> Let me introduce you to the myriad of definitions of income and area, and how dare you suggest we include public subsidies or salaries in the calculation, also, why aren’t we creating a special category for [things]. These floating variables immediately corrupt. You can fight political nature, or you can write good policy.

This is why, at the national level, you have someone who sets these definitions using common sense. All of these are completely surmountable problems - the only thing lacking is political will to do it and defeatist attitudes.
Pre commit hooks that fail are trash, just absolutely the worst thing you can do to ruin your team's good practices of committing often & keeping flow high.

Any check that take more than 6 seconds can also go jump off a cliff as car as I'm concerned.

But I do greatly value fast fixing & feedback. Run format! (and don't print out unchanged things!) Run lint! Maybe run tests, if they're fast.

One of the constraints becomes that you are trying to make quick actionable easy to view data, and the output can become too long. We had some outside teams come in & deploy centralized & more updated lint & testing, and alas there's just multiple pages of yellow jest configuration warning as it starts, and it's just so much harder to quickly check status. These hooks need to be quick to read, as well as run. All of the hooks should run if they can, not stop on first problem.

Ideally the ci/CD system is a good fast way to see test results. Devs shouldn't even have to think about it, just commit & off board the running. I hear Facebook has very interesting systems where devs aren't even having to make commits for this, which sounds epic. Alas many ci/CD systems are doubly slow, which sucks: slow to start, slow execution speed, and most damming low caching, so they have to do a lot of from-scratch bring up that just takes a really long time versus what local dev has. Systems like nx in JS land are starting to change this more systematically, rather than being a lot of custom ci/CD tweaking.

Informational, not prescriptive! Use the tools to accelerate & guide. Right now we're all learning but tool heavy setups are for sure the way.
> if a scientist questions climate science, he becomes a pariah

As a climate scientist myself, I can tell you this is untrue and a harmful legend. As climate science is mostly atmospheric physics, biology and chemistry, it's pretty much very easy to disagree with anyone if you have a good argument supported by data. If you have strong scientific arguments, it does not matter even if the whole world is against you. On the contrary, this will likely make you famous and secure your career. Scientists (at least the curios ones) love to be proven wrong.

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The HOA fees are _on top_ of property taxes that would make Europeans’ eyes water.
Nice. The low end of the market has been neglected in too many things for too long. I get why -- dollars are votes, and the dumbfuck who wants the $150k Escalade gets more -- but it's a serious problem. We need cars under $15k and houses under $300k. This is what mass-production is supposed to provide. Otherwise we're better off living in the trees.
Nice idea, but how many ship-lengths does a submarine need to slow down from full to zero speed? Probably more than a few.
Interesting, thanks. I didn't realise that it was already in 2020.

Huawei announced its first SoC with integrated 5G modem, the Kirin 990 [1], in September 2019. The Kirin 990 5G was featured in Huawei's flagship smartphone, the Mate 30, which was launched in the same month. So Huawei was only 1 year ahead of Qualcomm on the consumer side.

[1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/HiSilicon-Kirin-990-5G-SoC-Ben...
Adding to this, I quit my job in January and was employed again in March. Pay increase and better benefits.
When I was working for US company I saw funniest thing - two obese coworkers sitting in Mini Cooper. They fit just fine.
> There are many careers that can be attained without college.

What does that mean? There are many careers that be attained without a home, without literacy, without healthcare. Heck, you could be a hunter-gatherer.

And the idea that college is for career is a fallacy, a framing of the issue that suits the reactionary, don't-want-to-pay taxes crowd. Life is so much more than career; our country and communities are so much more, have so many more challenges, than careers; education benefits all of that.

(For example, reasoning about public affairs benefits from education.)

> many careers that can be attained after college that will easily pay for the loans that were taken

Could you provide evidence? I'm not sure that's the case.

Also, we need lots of people to do work that doesn't happen to pay especially well.

Also, I greatly value freedom and opportunity and believe everyone should have it, not just the wealthy.

> I don’t see why that burden should be placed in the taxpayer

What is the basis for what we do or don't want to fund collectively? As a taxpayer, I absolutely want to invest in education - for the welfare of the people being educated, for the welfare of our country and communities and the world, for my welfare. You don't have to agree, but on what basis do you make this analysis?
I agree you can’t stop it entirely. But when you catch someone doing it, you seize the property and then stick them in a jail cell for 20 years. You break the law, you face the consequences.
It's a good start. Also, it's good to use a toy problem for explaining how to do it. It would be great if more people published the results of careful experiments like this, perhaps for things that aren't toy problems? It would be so much better than sharing screenshots!

However, when you do have such a simple problem, I wonder if you couldn't ask ChatGPT to write a script to do it? Running a script would be a lot cheaper than calling an LLM in production.
Solar panels & batteries are also made of toxic material. Mining & the material breakdown of these materials spead these toxins to the land they are deployed on.

Much of this material is also unethically mined. Children are coerced to mine some of this material.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news. You may be able to downvote this comment but you cannot downvote reality.
For fun I tried asking chatgpt to create a simple using an opensource project I maintain. The generated answer was sort of correct but not correct enough to copy and paste. It missed including a plugin, used a version of the project that doesn't exist yet, and generated data that wasn't valid datetimes.
High gas prices are regressive and are a little oppressive. So they function like a tax, most impacting the poor.

Makes sense to while about it. And is an oppression, while definitely not the worst.
Honestly, for adults too, pen and paper is often a better solution. Word processing and number crunching are the main use cases for a computer and I think kids should learn these things with a computer, but it would be so much better if they had direct instruction in a computer lab rather than giving them all a distracting laptop/chromebook.
Simply not necessary for normal applications running on my local desktop. And yes, I do work in security.
Fortunately, there are other means of fertilising. Green manures - generally annual legumes - are a good option. The difficulty is that this, and other organic approaches to fertilising and structuring soil, require a proportion of land to be allowed to lie fallow for a while.

In other words, fertilising the soil with fossil fuel derived products is just.. more profitable.

The solution is probably carbon pricing of some kind for fertilisers: the cost of organic farming needs to be roughly the same. Agricultural subsidies are already enormous, so some of them could be directed to food prices directly, to ease the transition for consumers.
>As another poster pointed out, it’s extremely suspicious that the penalized under drug policies seems to have a racial used tinge to it.

I haven't seen a blatant double standard in Singapore, smugglers from every part of the world get similar treatment.

>Did America’s strict drug laws create a better society than countries that tried more empathetic approaches with legalization

US drug laws had a racial targeting component that most other countries do not. An attempt at a direct comparison probably wouldnt work since incarcerating specific outgroups was a goal of US law.
Easy to stop? Lol it's down right impossible and all this discussion is colossal waste of time. Humans are never going to coordinate globally to do this.
your comment made me laugh.
I never thought about entering a codebase by searching for fsync, but in the case of a DB that's probably the best place to start :))
Are you saying that software engineers in Canada are P. Eng licensed?

(If not, then your example is one where software engineers are misusing the protected term, but as they usually do not set up shop and mislead the general public into thinking they are certified, which would be the activity the protection is designed to thwart, the protection is rarely enforced.)
I'm a sucker for Common Lisp content. However, this article needs s/binary tree/binary search tree/ in several places. Delete is left as an exercise for the reader.
house price appreciation is due to historical population growth creating scarcity, and cheaper money allowing for higher and higher leverage

If was just population growth and cheap money, you might expect housing prices would rise everywhere, but prices have dropped in places like Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland. The housing price bubble is in large part because there is a been a highly uneven distribution of high value job creation. Also, a side effect of the influx of high paying jobs is that local amenities spring up (restaurants, grocery stores, coffee, breweries - typical gentrification), and that reinforces the demand and pushes prices even higher.

Drive across the country and it is clear land scarcity is not a problem, it is just that too many people want or need to live in the same small areas.
I don't understand why you see a distinction.
there are already some people in the population who have enhanced visual perception. i believe they have a fourth cone.
Sweden has a very different climate than most of the US. Compare houses in Maine or Minnesota to Sweden. The answers to most questions in that article can be answered by visiting Colorado or Virginia or most places.
I remember being a "good google querier" before autocomplete rendered that mostly irrelevant. While i think you're right to some degree, you still have to articulate exactly what you want and need from this machine, and no amount of the LLM guessing what the intent was will ever replace specifically and explicitly stating your needs and goals. I see a continuing relationship with the complexity of the task tied to the required complexity of the request.
Not so sure about that. The biggest part of prompt engineering I am seeing is of the kind that sets up context to bootstrap a discussion on a predetermined domain.

As I've said elsewhere, in most knowledge work context is key to getting viable results. I don't think something like this is ever going to get automated away, especially in the cases where the context comes from proprietary knowledge.
Plenty of unemployed section 8 tenants will spend the next 40-50 years living in the same Los Angeles rent-controlled apartment. It's not necessary to have the productive members of society drive a long commute when the unemployed are living near jobs.

The notion that poor people (especially the unemployed) have the "right" to live in any neighborhood (even the most desirable) is crazy. Plenty of seniors living only on social security move out of California to a cost of living they can afford.
Others cobble together a basket of benefits like Section 8 or low income housing lottery, disability payments (spurious), free health care, subsidized utilities, and snap. They end up with the same consumption level as your nurse or line cook without any job. I'ts not easy to get on all these benefit programs. It takes a combination of luck and tenacity.

The idea that LA could just pay it's poor people to live in Adelanto wouldn't work. This needs to happen at a state or federal level.
This is generally true, but policy is hard to define and individual cases are easy to have an opinion about. Specifically, what you're describing is sometimes literally impossible, because society is zero-sum. When situations between people are at odds due to no direct fault of either party, it's unreasonable to expect people to cede their own interests to those of others. Of course there's a limit - you shouldn't oppose nearby housing if it would help people in need and wouldn't hurt you in any appreciable way, obviously. Point is, it's subjective.

Also, I would suggest closely analyzing your thoughts and feelings when you run into a situation where you are broadly considering some category of people "morons or evil". Such categories obviously exist, but when you see them in the real world, the picture is often more complex than you might be willing to admit at first.
Judge it on its merit, not where it's coming from or who's saying it
The techniques in this article are good practice for general model tuning and testing with a correct answer. So for tasks like extraction, labelling, classification, this is a great guide.

The challenge comes when the response is a subjective answer. Tasks like summarization, open question answering generation, search query/question/result generation, are the hard things to test. Those typically will need another manual step in the process to grade the success of each result, and then you need to worry about bias/subjectivity of your expert graders. So then you might need multiple graders and consensus metrics. In short it makes the process very very slow, expensive, and tedious.
In theory the poor is better looked aftered by the Communist Party than the West's Tigerstripe, Leopardspot political parties scaring the horses to death with fear.
Interesting. I wonder if the knowledge one could acquire in the book would easily translate to mainstream databases.
> Ok, so let's stop using fossil oils and animal agriculture (let's ignore human farts for a moment).

> How could that be detrimental for human flourishing, I ask? Are the burgers essential for humans to flourish? I don't think so.

Disclaimer: I decided to interpret the comment as disagreeing with me because it seemed like the most plausible interpretation giving the ambiguous potential use of sarcasm, but it's very possible I misinterpreted.

The burgers and the farts were an attempt at humor.

A much more serious consideration (also in my original) is heating our homes. If you have ever been homeless longer than a day or two during cold months in a cold place (I spent 6 months this way), you pretty quickly learn how important modern climate controls are. I don't see how you can "fluorish" when you're freezing your ass off. Good luck getting the sleep you need to perform either physical or mental work, which currently is needed in order to fluorish (unless you think the homeless on the street are fluorishing). If you're lucky your employer will be able to heat their office so you could live there, but not everybody works for someone like that. The wealthy would be able to buy whatever they needed (electric heaters, solar panels, battery storage, the high labor costs of retrofitting all these things, assuming these are even still available after the long chain of dependency is broken) but the vast majority of people would not. Human fluorishing is not just comfort for the wealthy. The average person's life matters. Much of what advances our human condition come from people who aren't born into wealth.

How exactly do you propose to heat the average person's home when all fossil fuels are no longer available? And any derivative products of fossil fuels such as plastics? Keep in mind even bio-plastics made from corn and other products would not be nearly as available since we would lose orders of magnitude of production capacity by no longer being able to use fertilizers, tractors and other machinery, etc.

I guess we should probably establish what "human fluorishing" even means otherwise this discussion is pointless. If your idea of human fluorishing is where a massive perecentage of human labor is doing farm work again like in the 19th century, or going back to feudalism where we all work the Lord's land and pick his crops. My definition is where human quality and standard of life continually increases. We're not perfect right now (especially with life expectancies in the US dropping) but our current situation would look like a future paradise compared to what we'd have without any fossil fuel.
You're taking the term cryptocurrency too literally
This might be due to misunderstanding of the economics involved on my part, but I don't see this happening unless the cost of renting in desirable areas drops substantially enough that yearly price increases can no longer present a substantial risk to the average individual's financial stability. Needing to periodically move to keep rent affordable and the anxiety that comes with always having to think about where you're going to have to look next gets old really fast.

From my perspective as a mid-30s millennial, much of what's fueling desire to own a home right now is the ability to turn housing costs into a semi-fixed and mostly predictable expense, even if mortgages aren't all that much cheaper than renting in the short term. That assurance is worth quite a lot.