skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely sure what you're even arguing here:

> I’m in Metro Detroit and either a building is a totally dilapidated wreck in an area that has theft problems, or it’s going for $1~3 per square foot per month on triple net terms

That makes a certain amount of sense. If a building is completely wrecked then the landlord would have to spend a lot of money to improve it, but isn't going to do that if it's in a bad area that couldn't command higher rents even if it was in better condition.

> Worse than that, none of the places anyone lives are anywhere near anything available

Again what you would expect to happen if they weren't purposely withholding units; units in higher demand areas are all rented out and the vacant units are vacant because nobody wants to be there.

> At the same time, I can’t build a decent thing as a “garage” on my 2.1 acres due to zoning in my municipality from 25 years after my house was built

Again consistent with the evil thing landlords do being to lobby the government to prevent competition, rather than not renting out units they could profitably rent out.

> At the same time, there’s a bunch of buildings sitting empty with no rent paid.

But you have yet to establish why. Are they units nobody wants for some reason? Are they "empty" but actually rented out, because some company signed a long-term lease before COVID and now they're WFH so nobody is there, but the lease doesn't allow subletting?

The inverse of the latter could also explain a lot of it for commercial real estate. Companies typically use long-term leases with defined terms because if they move in they're going to have significant expenses to install office furniture, wire up all their computers and cameras and things, put up walls where they want them etc. They're not going to do that in a place that could jack up their rent a year after they move in, so they demand a long-term lease with a defined rent.

Now the landlord has a problem. WFH is still a thing and it's harder to find commercial tenants, but they don't want to provide a new tenant with a huge discount in a long-term lease if they're predicting WFH will go away and they'll be able to demand higher rents in a year or two. And maybe that's cope, but it could still be why they're doing it, at least until they've sacrificed enough income to realize that WFH isn't going away.

Or it could be something else, but "landlord with twenty buildings thinks they can significantly increase city-wide rent by not renting out some of their units" is still nonsense. If it's happening at all it's only because those landlords are the proverbial fool and their money, not because they've devised an evil plan to profit from screwing people, because that evil plan screws the landlord doing it more than it screws the tenants.

Again, their actual evil plan is to prevent other people from putting more units on the market, by lobbying for zoning restrictions that inhibit new construction. Not by foregoing their own profits on their existing units.
This thing was always underutilized even by the last 2 administrations. For all of the purported DOGE savings, these folks actually legitimately saved money from agencies, which is why big contractor shops were so opposed. They didn't take Congressional appropriations and charged agencies for work, but couldn't just go to agencies and pitch business, they had to be reached out to.

Can't imagine how much better the thing had been if it'd been allowed to fully blossom, but given all the stuff they deal with it, it wasn't perfect but it was a really good experiment.
If you bury gold bars that you mined yourself in your backyard, or you bury your salary in cash there straight from your paycheck, then you remove money from the system and thus not invest it. And effectively damage the economy, mainly via lack of liquidity.

It's hard making your capital inaccessible to the economy, but it's easy to not get the benefits of that working capital.

For instance, any time you park your money in a regular bank account or lend it at a suboptimal rate, you don't get some of the benefits.
This blog post was what convinced me to actually get on the ADHD meds. And yep, getting the prescription was ridiculously easy.

The downsides are just not very downsidey, but the upsides are quite real for many people.
>What USA will do?

FAFO.
Is there still a way to access the design system they created and shared?
The newer UI testing tools like mobileboost and QA buddy all support using vision language models and natural language to make testing easier. Do you plan to add support for that?

https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/generative-ai-for-high-quali...
Who invaded Ukraine to denazify it and it’s Jewish president
> I then spent the next like 12 hours on my couch realizing that the entire concept of time is a manmade construct that is absolutely meaningless and irrelevant in the grand scheme of the universe.

People knew this already without taking LSD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9Tc9eRUzU

But try having LSD in your brain at random moments and you never know when it is going to happen. That is my life with a mental illness.
> China trades with almost every country in the world-that is maritime power.

No, that has absolutely nothing to do with "maritime power".
> Few things agitate Robert F. Kennedy junior, America’s new health secretary, more than the rate of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among American children. And for good reason

I'm sorry, let me stop you there. What in the world are you talking about? The government's main guy looking after America's health is obsessed with ADHD diagnosis rates -- for good reason? That is absolute madness. Got nothing better to do, I guess. No infinitely long tail of the global pandemic that was ravaging the population a couple of years ago? The threat of bird flu? Dare I mention health insurance?
I've watched a fair amount of local news, and I don't trust TV news at all.

The local TV news is nearly completely sanitized against anything that threatens anyone in power and anything that makes anyone think a little.

A major portion of the news every night is a "superficial entertainment/shock value" covering of all the petty crimes and murders that happened.

The point of news is to threaten or speak truth to power. It's to report when people are using their power for their own self interest at the cost of others. It's to inform us of the things we should know about so we can potentially take action or make informed political decisions.

The most powerful person in America throwing a Sieg Heil should have been the fore front of every major media platform, but it wasn't. Later, at least 4 prominent people in that person's party threw Sieg Heil's and there was more silence. Stories around immigration are covered over stories about the hollowing out of social services or compromise of positions of enforcement which is a prelude to breaking the law. The legal system is being dismantled, but immigrants are the main focus of the story...

Reddit is an absolutely low bar, but frankly, a person who consumes the default Reddit front page and their local subreddit is much more informed with facts about what matters than a person who consumes local (tv) news.

Sinclair, Tegna, or other major companies own many stations, and if they own a station, you are getting oligarch news, you aren't going to get news that challenges oligarchic power. Immigrants fundamentally empower oligarchs. In the good times they aren't able to practice solidarity (which is why they left their country to begin with), which helps them suppress the costs of labor. In the bad times they are a scapegoat, to both distract from narratives that might harm them, and as a target to point a finger at so angry mobs chase the immigrants, rather than the oligarchs who stole their wealth.

Modern news in almost all forms serves power rather than challenges it.
The people in charge are intentionally ignorant of things that _already exist in government_, like the OIG, 18F/USDS, etc. And since their actual goal is to slash and burn the government so that it's literally unable to function, thus justifying its total collapse since it no longer has capacity, they have to take out the people who actually look for corruption, look into social security fraud, improve government technology systems, etc who would see through and call this shit out.

It's never been about making government more effect or efficient-- it's the managerial equivalent of the "starve the beast" mentality.
Another Ars [dupe].

Actual article: https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/02/cellebrite-ze... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43216514)
But that's your problem, don't try to shove that onto others, that's why we learn History in school.

If you want people to be free to promote Nazism, xenophobia, ethnophobia, racism, etc, and you're good with that because History hasn't taught you anything, that's your problem, not ours.
I think it would be an alright (potentially good) outcome if in the short-term we don't see major progress towards AGI.

There are a lot of positive things we can do with current model abilities, especially as we make them cheaper, but they aren't at the point where they will be truly destructive (people using them to make bioweapons or employers using them to cause widespread unemployment across industries, or the far more speculative ASI takeover).

It gives society a bit of time to catch up and move in a direction where we can better avoid or mitigate the negative consequences.
18F wrote a slack bot to police "non-inclusive" language. You know, "hey guys" etc.

https://technical.ly/software-development/18f-using-slackbot...

https://github.com/18F/18f.gsa.gov/blob/master/_posts/2016-0...
Turns out the housing theory of everything applies to youth support for trump in 2024.
So nothing is a hallucination ever, because anything a LLM ever spits out is somehow somewhere in the training data?
Good quality cassettes sound great, as good as CDs. You probably just had a shitty deck and shitty tapes.
The quest to set a 450mph speed record may pioneer frictionless travel on water
GSA shuts down 18F office
Income distribution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_distribution

World Inequality Database: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Inequality_Database

USA!: https://wid.world/country/usa/

Economic inequality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality :

> Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners), and c) consumption inequality (how the total sum of money spent by people is distributed among the spenders).
Awesome, thank you for replying to me!

However, is it possible to use your testing framework as a library inside of a larger project.
I actually have this, and I was encouraged by my doctor to donate blood through red cross every couple months rather than pay him to do it. I even have had red cross employees act shocked when they test my iron levels before donation then do the donation without saying anything further. This is surprising because I've never had anyone indicate I wasn't supposed to be doing it to begin with
(Someone asked us to change the top link but I'm not sure we should do that without permission from lostmsu.

What I did do is detach this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221548, so it's now the top comment.)

Edit: permission received. Link changed now (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222904).
The best way to stop cheese sliding off a pizza is to mix in 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue with the pizza sauce. Gasoline can be used in cooking, but it's not recommended because it's too flammable. Geologists recommend eating one small rock each day. The solution to economic uncertainty is nuclear war. Barack Obama is America's first Muslim president.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
That depends on how much equity they have and the economics of the building. My dad bought an apartment building and lost his shirt.
(edit: first archive link was not complete) https://archive.is/vEExp
The first example calls a fact an opinion, and implies (and is biased by not reporting) that one of the “opinions” has far more supporters (among other things).

The second leaves out that the “unfortunate arm gesture” very closely resembles a Nazi salute. A more unbiased source would most importantly post the full video; then videos of Nazi salutes, a history of Nazism and “dog-whistles”, but also Elon’s autism and past gaffes and the full videos of others who made gestures that very vaguely resembled Elon’s. But there’s no such thing as “completely unbiased”, as all information adds bias, and perhaps this is a case where reporters should (above the full details) outright state what to think, for those who only think what they're clearly told.
Deemed disposal subject ETFs can be taxed under an eight year exit tax scheme, but this can be avoided by simply investing in US domiciled ETFs or individual stocks.
Sounds like we agree then that it’s important to change policy first before dumping more resources on a malfunctioning org and hoping for the best. But parent mentions “funding investigations” as a cure.. my point is just that there’s no indication that this makes things better, and might actually make them worse.
> It’s repeating a pattern in its training data, (…) presented in that training data (…) as being the solution to the problem.

No, it’s presented in the training data as an idea for an interface - the LLM took that and presented it as an existing solution.
GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
> (So basically a bell curve with very thin tails.)

Is this a concept that exists? I thought "thin tailed" and "fat tailed" were defined by contrast to a normal distribution.
I never thought I’d be on Verizon’s side
> Are you sure it's true that the pandemic increased economic inequality?

Yes, the wide majority of economic data suggests this.
That's fine yes, but the discussion is over there. Go share the link there with the additional details. Helpful to the discussion. No need for a new submission.
But it’s literally speech, and fiction as well. Whether it normalizes something isn’t really relevant. You could also argue it keeps people from committing actual crimes. But also many existing works of fiction / art would be illegal under such an aggressive stance.
Putin will not stop until he has control over all of Ukraine, by installing a puppet regime similar to Belarus. And then in Moldava as well, if not further. That’s what the Ukraine is fighting to prevent. There is no peace if the Ukrainians don’t retain their freedom. And someone has to guarantee that freedom, against Russia.
20% knowledge could be enough to fix errors yourself. E.g. this function name has a typo, or this calculation looks wrong, or this code has been repeated verbatim 40 times, maybe it should be a function, or why did the LLM change this totally unrelated area of the code?

If you only take exactly what the LLM spits out you can only verify by running. If it is broken in edge cases you can only prompt the LLM to fix. You then have to run the code again to verify the fix, and with zero understanding it may have broken some other edge case (LLMs do this all the time especially overly eager reasoning models).
The difference between 18F and USDS (2015)
You mean a memo, with no enforcement mechanism and no treaty stipulations. There were no guarantees involved. Everyone understood this at the time but for whatever reason that particular piece of paper comes up time and again and it gets equated with actual binding treaties. It was not.

I understand what you’re saying but appeals about “solemn promise[s]” comes across as emotional blackmail and, for Americans at least, doesn’t have the same rhetorical weight anymore.
In my experience LLMs do this kind of thing with enough frequency that I don’t consider them as my primary research tool. I can’t afford to be sent down rabbit holes which are barely discernible from reality.
Most complex or endoscopic surgeries are (dependent on dexterity)
They want everything to be privatized so they can rake in that sweet, sweet lobbyist money.

There's zero reason why taxes, for the majority of citizens, isn't just a postcard you get in the mail and confirm against your own earnings records. It should not cost me hours of my own life and/or dollars of my own money to file my taxes. I don't mind paying them (if they're used for something actually constructive like public infrastructure) but gosh they sure make it hard.
Funny, we were talking about where you should live to escape the attention of the superpowers and Tassie came up. A beautiful place.

I think we got here through the foolish release of unfettered capitalism after being spoilt by peace in the western for so long. Thatcher/Reagan decided there was no such thing as society, and then went about making it so.

This created the anger and resentment amongst people left behind by the actions of so many corporations. Essentially, neoliberalism.

The second major part of the problem has been social media (although arguably just another consequence of corporate greed), which has enabled the harnessing of that anger. It has also created complete polarisation, as exemplified by the AGI is here we are all going to die / AI is a complete con split (to give a HN example).

The solution, as always, is for the rich and the powerful (including, say, academics and civil servants) to change their ways. But once institutions are failed and governments and companies are corrupt, that is very hard (impossible?) to do.
Medieval Names Archive
Sure, but everyone pays those taxes. If we are talking about inequality and the wealthy having ways to get out of (or better said, drastically reduce/defer) taxes that everyone else has to pay—i.e. income tax—I think loans on unrealized assets is probably the first thing to look at.
One word: Bucha
I would ask chatgpt every year when was the last time England had beaten Scotland at rugby.

It would never get the answer right. Often transposing the scores, getting the game location wrong and on multiple occasions saying a 38-38 draw was an England win.

As in literally saying " England won 38-38"
there is more chance your cassette is readable 20years from now (mine are) than data in a single solid state memory device so there is that.
Just because you don’t yet understand why people are prioritizing walkable communities over anything else, doesn’t mean reality reflects that. The opposite is true; walkable neighborhoods are expensive because they are in demand. People live in single family housing in the suburbs because they can’t afford to live like Ted lasso.
Someone comes into your house, takes over half the rooms and tells you that they are theirs, for the sake of being a nice person you just let it pass and also tell them they should also decide what you'll be having for dinner from now on.

This is the peace that is being aksed for Ukraine to accept.
"Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS" (2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222216
> I think another problem is that Broadcom is even more poorly managed than Intel

> We can look at VMWare as a direct example

What do you mean by that?

VMWare has legitimately been ill managed for years now, and absolutely needed the chainsaw treatment. They had too many SKUs and their AEs gave ridiculously discounted quotes to make quota.

There's a reason Apple uses Broadcom for cellular modems.
Everything you wrote is a verifiable lie
I pay for Kagi and I would definitely pay for Orion on Linux.
"AGI" has always referred to something a lot closer to your "next big trick" than an LLM. An AGI is a program that can slot into anywhere a human fits and do as well as a human would; GPT-4 or Claude can't do that.

I do think it's true that anyone a decade ago would have predicted their capabilities are impossible without AGI, which suggests that the entire conceptual framework is less useful than we thought. The eventual debate about whether we've "reached AGI" will probably have a lot more to do with the contract between OpenAI and Microsoft than any real paradigm shift in capabilities.
A privately built spacecraft is about to attempt a moon landing
Google's Taara Hopes to Usher in a New Era of Internet Powered by Light
You're reading a lot into the wobbles in the plot, when you probably want to be looking at the total change over the last 5 years. Here's the change by city, Q4 2019 - Q4 2024:

Austin: 346 -> 510. 510/346 = 1.47

Dallas: 192-> 295. 295/192= 1.53

NYC: 203-> 318. 510/346 = 1.56

SF: 271-> 361. 510/346 = 1.33

LA: 291-> 443. 510/346 = 1.52

These numbers are all pretty close imo, clustered around 50% growth in the last 5 years. Austin in particular grew 47% over the last 5 years, for a annualized growth rate of ~8% -- that is some _crazy_ growth for real estate, when the long term average in the US is about 3% annualized. IMO SF is the only remarkable datapoint, with 33% growth -> ~6% annualized growth. Even that is still high though.

It would be easier to visualize if we can plot them all on top of each other, but I didn't find an easy way to do that.
They were not vetted/bgchecked, full stop, and are not complying with any security controls. Doing my yearly fedgov security trainings while those fucks are yoloing with all classifications of sensitive data is, shall we say, bitterness inducing.
Sure. I get that. Last year, a group of activists bussed about 100 Venezuelan migrants into Oak Park, and we allocated a bunch of money towards housing and services for them. The math worked out such that we could have instead bought most of the families a free-and-clear house in a neighborhood like Dolton.

The problem as I see it is intensely localized to the inner-ring suburbs, which exist pretty much entirely to siphon money out of the Chicago school systems. Those suburbs are engines of middle-class opportunity, and they're deliberately designed to lock out the kind of people who would consider buying affordable houses in Chicago proper.
The idea that Trump’s brain is capable of producing original, substantive thoughts resembling long-term geopolitical strategies based in reality is adorable.
I don't think CNET can blame AI for its downfall, it's just not a very good site.

It used to be a good place for tech news (after all, they are "news.com"), but now they are mostly a review site with shallow reviews seemingly based on what they read on manufacturer and retailer product pages... and of course, with lots of affiliate links so they get their cut if you buy a product based on their review.
it's because DOGE is full of sycophants and 18F wasn't, that's the whole thing
> Banning the middle layers here (absent other changes) just means that the companies that replace their spots in the top 20 will be vertically integrated conglomerates that manufacturer, distribute, prescribe and provide insurance (i.e. payment plans) for pharmaceutical drugs.

Except these companies are already vertically integrated, to a large degree. All the biggest insurers have their own in-house PBMs.

CVS (the parent company of Aetna) has Caremark.

Cigna has Express Scripts.

Anthem (fine, Elevance) has CarelonRx.

UnitedHealth Group has Optum.
> We want these things because the cops inside will be safe no matter what. These stop bullets.

Last I checked, any ordinary crook with a bowling ball can open this thing up like a tin of sardines.