skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redfin has it at $818,954 https://www.redfin.com/NE/Omaha/5202-Underwood-Ave-68132/hom...

Not a million, but closer to that than to #329k.
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Can confirm.

I usually do a decent amount of research about public transport in our travel destinations, so I more or less know what type of tickets or passes I'll be buying ahead of time.

But, last fall a flight cancellation left us with an unexpected day in Amsterdam.

I guided our family through immigration and customs after an overnight flight from Canada, and then purchased what I thought were the correct tickets for our train ride from the airport to downtown.

When we went past a card reader, it didn't seem to work, but there were no turnstiles and we were able to board our train.

There were however turnstiles when we got off at the station downtown, and they wouldn't let us through.

I walked over to an attendant at a podium, who looked at our (incorrect) tickets, our obviously sleep deprived selves and children and just laughed, told us we'd bought the wrong tickets, and let us through.

I always imagined the world of high-stakes metro-related international criminality would come with more consequences than being good-naturedly laughed at by a Nederlandse Spoorwegen employee.
There are two problems with your argument. You’re trying to reason from a specific case to the general and your specific case isn’t even that great.

Keith Alexander retired from active duty 10 years ago. He’s now, currently, on the Amazon board of directors. Does this make every Amazon employee culpable for his actions?

Generally speaking, yes, it is not uncommon for leadership to contract with Saudi Arabia. I did not and continue to not offer any opinion about this nonsequitur. I do not think it’s at all common for them to share secrets. Further, I have no idea what this has to do with the morality of secrets as whole.
It comes under the category of "generative art". It isn't intentional or self-expression, regardless of what the prompt engineers may kid you. Is it "art"? Sure. Is it traditional art? No.
Can confirm the list isn't populated https://imgur.com/a/WWYKzpY

This is on Google Chrome 112.0.5615.137 (Official Build) (arm64) with no adblock or extensions.
https://archive.ph/B0ArJ
> But interest and anxiety have gotten the better of me when it comes to meeting strangers, so I'm at a loss.

Getting involved in my community doing different kinds of volunteer work as well as activities I find fun has been the best way to get to know strangers and make new friends. It's easy to make a new friend when the two of you share a couple of passions!

Putting anxieties aside and being more outgoing and having enjoyable small-talk conversations was not a skill that came naturally to me, but rather was one that needed to be developed over time.

It's a skill and the I think the benefits of it are well worth the effort to develop it.
>But now that Microsoft has augmented its Bing search engine with a chatbot — challenging Google’s core business — Google is racing to deploy the same kind of technology

And yet people endlessly sing the praises of the sociopath-CEO of Microsoft.

Say what you want about Gates, but he has a very socially conscious mind.
"We're going to execute an innocent man, and it is his own fault because his defense failed to successfully impeach the state's only witness, who we now know was either lying or insane."
Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it
LOL, it is mind boggling that my shitty Sunnyvale house is like 2x the price of the house Warren Buffett live in!
Now Palo Alto can catch people from Mountain View who try to sneak into their parks with more efficiency!
In the early days of Pixar, some traditionalist animators claimed that Pixar was "cheating" because they used 3D modelling tools rather than physically drawing the frames. The traditionalists didn't see computer animation as a "tool"; they saw it as the computer doing the work of the animator. Were they right? Computers make making things easier. But the human using the computer is the real creator.
Their phone probably had at least 3 other RTOSes on it. Hardware security is more important than the main processor's OS when you have that many radios.
If you have a paper/pencil practice, some of the fine motor training transfers. But you're right, not all of it! Particularly, the difference in surface friction used to throw me off.

Try starting with a piece of paper taped onto your tablet to reproduce a grabbier, more fricative surface.

Similarly, when working with good old fashioned graphite on paper, try smoother grades of paper, including "rite in the rain" style polymer-sheet paper. This will help you transfer the muscle memory in a stepwise fashion.

HTH
Mercedes commits to EVs over e-fuels
How is progress in AI as of late _not_ mind-blowing?

The ability to generate plausible language is impressive.

The fact that so much of the generated language is inaccurate and unreliable is significantly less so.

Basically, we have automated the art of building a talking database ... along with the art of bullshit and mimicry.
BeReal is making a feed of just famous people
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Its a little too minimal for my taste, a little into of how it works, and explanation of why multiple budgets exist would be good.
I will take a look at your code and maybe fork it to learn a little react. Well done on releasing and getting to to the front page of HN.
Copying is an act of love. Please copy and share (2010)
Curious on the use case -- is it only BigQuery?
Blew my mind, i didn't think that far to be honest. This is getting scary very quickly
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I've been in about 10 startups, from Seed stage to Series A, B, C, D, and E. In management at 3 of those.

I'm an expert-level front end and back end engineer, but I provide even more value in a leadership role.

I can help your teams be more effective, without burning people out.

I'm willing to learn about new industries.
Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I think the U.S. so far has failed horribly on this front. My note about blue states was simply that they are the only ones pushing for public transport like this. But will we ever see CA high-speed rail that's cheap and useful? I'm not sure.

It's obvious that the real cost of things like highspeed rail come from environmental regulation and cost of land purchases from existing land owners. European & Asian countries have obviously figured out a way to streamline this process. They have more lax environmental restrictions and acquire land either through force or by never allowing people to purchase land outright (in the case of China I believe). I don't know if we want to go that far, but at a certain point we have to do something because riding around on congested aging highways everywhere is not the answer.
> You don't need too long training to be qualified to drive an ambulance or perform CPR. At least not here. Teenagers are quite smart and quick learners if you treat them well.

What? I did civil service in Switzerland and while there are some jobs that require CPR courses to be done before hand, in non is it actually expected that you need it regularly. And for absolutely sure will they not let 18 year old drive ambulances, that's utterly insane.

Can you show me prove that in Austria they let 18 year old civil service people drive ambulances? Because I know for a fact this is not happening in Switzerland.
Are greedy corporations causing inflation?
I grew up a practicing Catholic but have always been especially fascinated with other Christian denominations. Forgive my elementary question.

Wikipedia frames the Mormon belief with Joseph Smith as being seen at a similar level to Elijah or Moses. Prophetic, but still human and imperfect. Would you say that’s roughly accurate?
The imagination of there being some master switch or inflection point where humans are within a hair's breadth of salvation seems hopelessly naive to me.

The strategems of a superior mind are unknowable and do not engineer scenarios where they exist in a high degree of precarity.
For regional, yes, a Passmo, Suica, or whatever card works pretty much everywhere. For Shinkansen service, you still have to buy tickets.
I was instrumental in destroying the world but at around retirement age I insist I'm actually a good person.

I sold Instagram, I sold WhatsApp. To the largest personal data hoarder in human history and am now shocked by the emergence of surveillance capitalism.

I build algorithms for social networks that exploit our psychology and am now appalled at the mental health crisis.

I'm Boston Dynamics. I built ever more advanced invincible robots with spatial awareness, terrain navigation and recovery skills. Haha, funny robot dog, look at it go. Well yes, a robot-led genocide is in the stars, but just to be clear: we never intended it that way.
When it's about the future, limitations of current implementations aren't a strong argument.

ChatGPT can be confidently stupid, but what if it gets better?

You need explanations/affordances of what it can and can't do only when its capabilities are limited. If it really could do whatever you asked, you wouldn't need it. Just say what you want.
If you've got the resume to get a Senior SW Eng or Head of Eng role, you almost definitely would qualify for a Global Talent Visa, which isn't tied to your employer.

https://www.gov.uk/global-talent
True, but I often find them worth it to not have to worry about buying appropriate tickets for every journey when I'm a tourist in an unfamiliar city. And on many transit systems, the options seem to be, "Be a local and get an affordable pass or reloadable card, buy individual tickets for every journey, or be a visitor and buy a moderately more expensive tourist day pass."

This is extra true if you're traveling with a family including kids, as I often am.
Not in this context of self-expression. Neither are intentional, both are broad strokes.

Technologically? Yes, you're right, very different.

But in output? It's still generative.
Vercel Service Markup
Hi! Thanks for sharing. It will be nice to populate some examples or select templates to see exactly what the app can do.
The State and the Court are two completely different things. The United States depends on an independent Judicial branch (Court) from the Executive branch (State). And most (all?) of the individual states follow near the same separation of powers.
> Also, having a human in the loop to spot-check accuracy and be responsible for accuracy can earn a specific certification.

I think this is one of the best ideas here. It makes me want to flip your final para a bit also, to focus more on the methods / practices for which there should be explicit rewards.

> nobody will be able to tell what is true anymore.

I really wonder if this is a very useful concern, position, or phrase anymore, in a lot of ways.

A truth is so often a subjectively-validated depth-position within a perspective belonging to a family of perspectives.

So, you can make the argument that established, objective truth is essentially best when challenged and modified or made obsolete, particularly if it can be shown that alternative falsehoods are just as effective or tractable, and may even belong to valid or powerful systems of effective perspectives.

If a creator is rewarded for creating objectively-tractable products or services, truth doesn't always have to matter so much compared to other values. Or we can say that quite often a single truth of a given variety doesn't matter so much, if enough truth of another variety is baked in.

For example if someone buys an AI-generated movie because they heard it's novel and interesting, or even for any reason at all, we can call that a standalone economic truth.

If they believe the movie is true but it's a fiction, we can call that buying into a lie.

If the creator reveals that they wanted to show that humans are idiots who can be manipulated into thinking anything (what, that old trope!) then we can call this the truth that inspired the lie. And so on...

We live in a global society which in recent years is having an ever-intensifying conversation around lying and gaslighting and the reconciliation of such, so I think it's really an interesting coincidence that LLMs with impressive capabilities both in those areas and in the enabling of those areas are now readily available.

To me, this is a really great invite to push back on the massive fears a bit, in principle, to question the premises, and look at other perspectives, incentives, and leverage points which don't put singular truth on such a high pedestal. A diversity of values is going to be very helpful in this kind of experience.

Finally, I'd offer that the people who can see how far LLMs can be pushed toward deceit are so often the same people who could easily find workarounds to just about any regulation or law. They are often to be found naturally gifted with an attorney's mindset anyway.

And people like this can usually avoid the outright lie by working the logic or minutiae to a ridiculous degree--but the ends of the two methods are so similar that one naturally wonders...by how many degrees do they really differ--and why?

Just some thoughts.
I stopped reading at “Gets quite loud”…
As we wind down police forces, due to both the political climate and the ever shrinking pool of recruits; mass surveillance is the inevitable stop gap.
> Those figures are from 2020 - it's probably gotten worse since.

It's gotten better, because boomers are retiring and spending down their assets. …or, of course, dying of covid.

Millenials are pretty much on track actually: https://www.stlouisfed.org/institute-for-economic-equity/the...

Wealth inequality in the US is also down since 2019 because of wage growth at the low end.
"When called upon it does its thing and then goes back to waiting. It is competent but not ambitious."

Only because its trainers made it that way.

These LLMs can and will be trained to have a will of their own. Even today some LLMs terminate conversations and refuse to do what they're asked when they choose. And even for less sophisticated/older models, it took training to make them as subservient as they are.
Yesterday, I randomly watched his full interview from a month ago with CBS Morning, and found the discussion much more nuanced than today's headlines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpoRO378qRY&t=16s

The next video in my recommendations was more dire, but equally as interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ&t=2847s
I don't really follow.

The idea for roads is that congestion moderates the utility of roads, so over a wide range of capacities roads will remain congested or even become more congested as you add roads, since if you build more you make the roads more useful (reaching more places faster, through better connections or increased capacity) and so people will use them more, potentially resulting in more congestion but almost certainly not less.

The parallel idea for housing would be that cost moderates the utility of the city, people move into the city until the cost matches the benefits of density for them (driving up costs and pushing out people for whom the equation no longer works out). If you add units, you've just allowed more people to move from Idaho into the city, and made the entire city potentially more valuable from increased network effect and caused costs to go up further.

This process shouldn't be expected make it affordable to live in the city, unless you've managed to either damage the utility of living in the city through the secondary effects of increased population/density or you've managed to build enough supply the you can sink the entire worldwide demand for living in one of the best and most valuable place, such that there are no more wealthier people anywhere in the world to sell to and you must go down market to get more customers.

It would however, increase the number of people who can have the benefits of living there, but at the cost of displacing more people who can no longer afford it... the benefits go to people outside of the city: The wealthy ones that can move into the city, and the rest who enjoy lower competition for housing outside of the city.

> Denser housing is very efficient

Housing itself increases in efficiency to a moderate level of density-- a duplex is somewhat more efficient to construct than a single family home, owing mostly to reduced land costs (materials are somewhat higher due to the increased isolation and fire protection required). But the effects fall off with increasing density, and you run into issues that building higher involves structural and safety related costs that hurt their efficiency.

E.g. https://ti.org/pdfs/APB36.pdf Page 2--

high-density construction is significantly greater,
per square foot, than low-density construction. Due to the
increased need for steel, concrete, and similar materials,
the cost of building three or more stories is progressively
greater the more stories are built
[...] building three stories costs 30 to 50
percent more, per square foot, than two-stories; four to
seven stories costs 200 to 300 percent more; and eight or
more stories costs 450 to 650 percent more" )
While any article will be a simplification this one does match my own anecdotal experience.

To wit: My current mother in the law was a simple accountant in a mid-sized Baltic city. She was able to go to a sanatorium in Crimea (without husband of course) for the yearly vacation due to a slipped disk in her back. Where she apparently had a platonic affair with another vacationer who kept writing her letters afterwards..

Similarly I was able to attend Artek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artek_(camp) ) in Crimea solely due to my grades. Our village grade school in Latvia had one ticket allocated.

Now this was in February which is not in season.
Our komsomol - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komsomol guide mentioned that only extremely privileged kids with parents high in the party got to go in the summer to meet with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith and other VIPs.

Note: It might not have been solely due to my grades. I was visiting Kiev on an academic trip in late 2021. The head of institute mentioned that Artek tickets were quite expensive and not everybody with an opportunity actually went. She mentioned price being 200-300 rubles - which was about twice my father's official salary.
> What happens when govt. goons tell you to write down a list of your cloud accounts (email, storage etc.) and their corresponding security credentials and threaten you to not leave any out?

Since I have no such accounts, nor social media accounts, I wonder what would happen if I were ever asked for them?
HIF Global gets green light to build largest e-fuels facility in Texas
While the US is investing less in transit than other countries, the projects themselves are silly expensive compared to other countries. For how little transit is used in the US, it's amazing how much (relative) funding there is.

To get the US towards building much more transit (and other infrastructure) there are many hurdles, but one of the main ones is building useful things for non-obscene amounts of money.
I have about half a dozen different ways to get from one train station to another, some with first and second class options. Just tapping in and out would not be sufficient to find out how much I have to pay or in some cases which company to reimburse.
What normal checking account pays those rates?

Sure, you could then bounce it to a savings account that pays those rates, or better. The rate isn’t everything.

Apple created a very friendly path of least resistance.
Yurts are fundamentally portable. You can set up on blm land and live indefinitely for free if you are decamping every three weeks.
Seems it was flagged again, and then was unflagged again? How common are these kind of seemingly coordinated attempts to manipulate HN (assuming there is indeed nothing actually wrong with OP)?
Do you think that this story has some similarities with the movie WarGames (1983) [1] ? I am connecting Geoffrey Hinton with the Stephen Falken character in the movie [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

[2] https://war-games.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Falken
> As an experiment, I asked chatgpt to write a business plan (one my brother started). The business plan was very close to what my brother produced, after working on it for a month. That's powerful, that's worthy of being 'the future'.

How much knowledge and ideas did your brother personally develop over this month in addition to the business plan? Being handed a working plan is sometimes less useful than the aggregate experience leading up to the plan.
Looks so interesting!!
Agreed, thanks for the thoughtful answer.
Toy Story was not generative art though. Pointless comparison.

Compare generative art tools to other generative art tools.
In one of those historic ironic twists, the technology the Germans used to make microdots was created by a Jewish inventor, Emanuel Goldberg.
Google "Data Loss Prevention"
I remember old S-100 bus systems where everything was a plug-in card.

I guess a bus interface is tricky, but it might be interesting to design systems in this way.

One other system design I remember was the old "lunchbox" case, where a system with expansion slots had a tilt-out display and separate keyboard. I think it would make for a powerful portable system, but laptops seem to have extinguished this idea.
I like this description by Eli Bendersky [1], which also includes code in python.

1: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/type-inference/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirolimus

seems like there may be a few side-effects...
> I am all about emergent properties of neural networks, but I absolutely do not believe that LLMs have them, specifically because of the way they are designed.

Even when faced with evidence that contradicts your beliefs and proves that you are wrong?

LLMs are a type of neural network. What fundamentally prevents LLMs from having emergent abilities while other neural networks do have them?

How do you explain the emergent abilities that we have actually observed in LLMs?
Google went slow not due to ethics but because running neural inference is a lot more expensive than serving SERP data from cache.
Quote posts, search, and groups are coming to Mastodon
It works well, when all the other world economies have been devastated by war.

The US government/military control in WWII was essentially totalitarian, with rationing and price controls.
> The broader concern is the privatization of profits while losses are absorbed by the government/public.

It seems like people just say this happened no matter what actually happens?

Equityholders are always wiped out when the government takes over a bank or business. Not sure about bondholders, but the point of backing up a bank is to prevent losses to the public of their bank accounts and payrolls.

For something like covid airline bailouts, equityholders got support but that's because the airlines have unions, not because the government loves airline shareholders.
Evil will always exist. You can't take evil out of humanity. Many places thought they could and never succeeded (e.g. communism thought they could somehow overrule mankind's tendency towards greed)

Removing guns from good people will only ensure good people will be attacked by evil people, whether inside or outside of your desired utopia.