skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you have another theory

I do (becuase I've heard it from a buddy of mine who's an MD at a Bulge Bank) - there is no capital to invest in consumer real estate anymore.

Large portions of that industry died out in 2008-12, and capital for large real estate projects like a housing community tend to be allocated 2-3 years before ground breaking, and then an additional 1-2 years to build.

So to build a brand new community by 2020, you should have done all the leg work in 2014-16. And to build a new one today, it should have been done in 2019-20.

Any pipeline that even existed is now dead, because manufacturing construction was the asset class of choice in the 2022-24 period along with high interest rates (making projects much more expensive) and tariffs on Canadian lumber, so the housing shortage is about to get even worse.
> The proposition that Trump is an appeaser does not bear scrutiny. Neither does the speculation that Russia might be capable of or interested in a wider war with Europe, let alone the USA.

OK, then why shouldn't we call Russia's bluff and tell them to get out of Ukraine, or else? That would surely restore peace if you are correct.
"Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation's highest office."

- J. D. Vance

"Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people. "

- J. D. Vance
i did not read the study. an obvious confounding factor is that doctors with better board scores are hired into better hospitals with better patient populations, and thus better outcomes.
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And still, the model works. Lives are saved. We might save many more with a fully integrated non-simplified approach, but it’s not necessary to keep seeing growth in positive outcomes.
Are you saying that economists aren’t interested in sustainable economies?

IANAE, but this sounds about as implausible as claiming that developers aren’t interested in building sustainable codebases
That highly depends on what services your're using.

We migrated from AWS to GCP in 2016/2017 (mostly VMs and related stuff, CloudFront, etc - no lambdas) and it was pretty painless and everything worked smoothly until the end of that company.
Yeah, but how you feel about it is separate from what might be done about it. If you just want to blow off steam and morally condemn people, be my guest, but this is exactly what everyone has already been doing, and it doesn’t seem to have helped. You might even say, it only ever makes things worse.

There’s a structure to the political system. There’s a structure to the way that people argue, and what they will accept as arguments. There’s a structure to how we are manipulated by the media and how social media is manipulated. These structural issues are the real problem, but as humans we’d rather see everything as being attributable to the individuals involved. Also known as the fundamental attribution error.

Those issues are solvable in my view, in the long term. Getting there might be rough.
It really feels like you're responding to thinks I didn't write. I didn't say that the US provides most aid, I didn't say that other countries aren't pulling their fair share.

I'm saying that with Trump right now the US is unreliable and other countries have the money to fill the hole in this particular program. If anything what you're saying further supports the need to stop depending on an unreliable partner to provide funding for critical programs.
> the rich have been transferring money from the poor to themselves at a dramatic rate.

1. The poor don't have money to be transferred to the rich

2. The top 1% pay 40% of the Federal income taxes

3. Medicare, Medicaid, Education and Social Security are wealth transfers to the poor

The wealthy businessmen created their wealth, it was not transferred to them.
> layers of irony is so widespread in white supremacist circles on the internet

Is it? I wouldn't know. I don't participate in white supremacist circles. Very few do, which is why it's joked about so easily. It's a damn shame though to hear "layers of irony" is blacklisted!

I had to google the 14 flags thing. Ridiculous! At worst it's inverted trolling; shitposting by a calculated provocateur - a term Grok coined about Musk.

Falling down conspiracy rabbit holes to construct allegations about hidden meanings of rants on X, is to fuel the fire Musk is toasting his marshmallows by.
If the guy were grateful for anything that was just given to him, he'd be a much different person. Rather it's got to be an explicit "deal" that can feed his ego. "I did such a great job..... Such a great job they just gave me 5 billion dollars and said they'd give me tar and feathers to come back...... yuge..... yuge amount of money..... Just the most"
Raise taxes to 80% after making more than a million a year? That's more than enough of a ceiling to keep incentives for 99% of the population. And any taxed income comes back to the masses anyway. Of course this depends on having good government programs so that the money is not wasted or stolen.
If your service is simply prompting an AI model, your company will be eaten be obsoleted by AI.

If your service acquires real world data specific to individuals and organizations that is used to make better decisions, your company will not be eaten by AI (immediately).
Obsolete answers shouldn't be removed. They should be de-ranked and marked as such, but still available without extra clicks.
Zuckerberg will pay his burly security force by providing a better future for the security force’s family. Like fresh water and golf courses. Security forces will not leave the compound at the end of their shift-they will live there with their families.

(Edit fixed a typo in a word. Sorry I am on mobile)
It's a special move in chess called "castling". See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castling
I didn't make the claim and have no interest in defending or building it.

FWIW I appreciate the epistemic humility.
> it wasn't hard to make that leap in 2023

It...does seem hard to make that leap to me. I mean, again, to a casual and uncritical outside observer who is just listening to and (in my mind naively) trusting someone like Sam Altman, then it's easy, sure.

But I think for those thinking critically about it... it was just as unjustified a leap in 2023 as it is today. I guess maybe you're right, and I'm just really overestimating the number of people that were thinking critically vs uncritically about it.
It's already adjusted for inflation, like most economic statistics posted by non-cranks. "Real" means inflation adjusted, "nominal" means not adjusted
Most patients are unable to communicate their symptoms accurately enough. Which is why you need to see them in person, talk with them, and examine them. Not saying a robot couldn't perform, but certainly not a simple chatbot. Despite what some papers say.
I have had the flag to enable this setting enabled for quite some time. It’s never caused any issues. I have only seen it pop-up once- for a cert that I had just issued a second prior. The cert was logged properly and the page loaded another second later. Very quick.
Sergey, Sergey, Sergey... I really liked you when you just dropped a cool search engine and algorithm, earned the "kiss-my-ass money", and then went away to enjoy the money. That's where it should have ended.

> You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain
Correct. That is how it should be, not daily update spam.
"Gleason told a CBS reporter on Tuesday that she was in Mexico, with The New York Times later reporting that she was on a previously scheduled vacation." - https://www.thedailybeast.com/doges-mystery-leader-finally-u...
I wonder if google discloses their search ad revenue vs cloud revenue etc.

I have to imagine that their search revenue is declining with their search being nearly unusable these days, and with AI.

This is a great way to milk all their paying customers to bring those revenue numbers back up.

Pichai is seriously the worst CEO. I hope google gets their own Nadella soon so the once great company can actually innovate again like it used to.
A 16:10 screen on a 12-inch laptop is a hard no.

For all its faults, the MS Surface Laptop Go with a 12-inch 3:2 touchscreen is the gold standard form factor. Framework should have found out who makes that screen and used it.
Investors are the worst people to hear about these topics from. In general, Silicon Valley VCs are the most arrogant and clueless category of people I've come across in the business world.

They're usually people who attribute their success entirely to their own intelligence/wisdom, even though it's usually mostly luck, being born into a wealthy family, and/or fortunate timing. They then think they can examine every other topic in the world on first principles with no education on those topics at all, and they come up with some of the absolute dumbest takes. Calcanis and Sacks in particular are idiots with enormous egos.

Maybe OP wants to hear right-wing talking points from wealthy people who support fascists, I don't know. But they could at least get these takes from people who are educated on the topics they discuss.
That first link is not adjusted for inflation.

$1 in 1970 == $7.54 in 2022

That 1970 middle-classer would be making around $450k in 2022 dollars, which sounds insane, but I also know my parents had normal jobs and were able to buy a house shortly after getting out of college.

https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

(yes we all have more luxuries than back then, toys got cheaper, necessities exploded in cost)
Should be obvious why it looks like one side is talking seriously and the other is flailing:

Ukraine could just sell the lease for minerals in Russian-held territory. That could all be done in uninteresting ways without Zelenskyy.
Dear Apple: Add "Disappearing Messages" to iMessage
Note that a Georgist tax on 100% of land rental value does not stop the landlord from earning a return on their improvement values. The land tax of a property with a 100% land tax will decrease the land price down to $0, and thus instead of for instance putting $500k into buying land and $500k buying apartments, they could instead buy 2 $500k apartments for the same capital cost. The end result of this will be more apartments, which will bring down rents, but this will yield a higher ROI than they currently achieve, since they have to pay less rents to the banks.
I want to circle back to the beginning of this conversation, in which you claimed that HNers are all of one mind and that we'll downvote a contrary opinion because we're all just reflexively anti-Trump.

This sort of reply is why you're getting downvoted: Making an argument based on emotion and characterization of others without evidence.

Persuasion is the burden of the claimant. If you believe Zelensky was being disrespectful and merited the President's and VP's response, that is your case to make, clearly, logically, and with reference to the source material. That's Debate 101. It's not your opponents' duty to prove a negative.

I believe that you and folks like you don't want war, and that's in good faith. I don't think anyone really wants war. I think the question comes down to what we're willing to sacrifice to avoid it. This is a totally reasonable argument to have, but we don't have to publicly demean and dress down other heads of state, especially those who are our guests, in the process.
Well, it is just the right amount of clickbait (and for a good cause!)
> After all, where is GPT 5 going to scrape the next set of answers for new libraries and frameworks..?

with open source code, it can generate docs, feed those docs in on the next training run, use that knowledge to generate que and answers. With tool use, it can then test those answers, and then feed them into the knowledge base for the training run after that.
the author apparently never checked the ouput. it has nothing to do with the original - its all hallucination. any professional can see this in 5 minutes.
And PBS is Czech, to name one.
I do not use cursor but tried other agentic integrations (including claude-code) and see nothing resembling this issue.

my guess would be in cursor they wanted to force models to be much more defensive because they kept forgetting about error handling etc. but Claude 3.7 is just good enough ootb and that extra nudge is too much
I think it would better to let them renovate/build public goods like schools/libraries/streets etc. If they pay taxes I don’t think it would help society. It would require politicians which don’t use tax money to improve their wealth on their own (I know they would be taxed too but then the money is just moving on paper and not really used).
The study at least proves better test taking strongly predicts outcomes, test scores are correlated with intelligence as countless studies prove. It may be the case that some non-clever people get high test scores. That doesn't dismiss the general conclusion.
I know, but I'd be happy to accept a "lockdown mode" for Android that enables these features with a setting. Lockdown mode on iOS breaks apps (and clearly warns users about it) and that's been accepted pretty well.

Besides, Android breaks tons of apps every major version upgrade.
Certain right wing figures have spent decades coordinating an alternative media infrastructure whose only goal was to sow doubt about truths that were inconvenient to their political aims.

Any discussion of public media trust that doesn’t include this as a component of analysis is immediately suspect.

An analysis that claims that public mistrust in media is because the media did not create more space for right wing obfuscation and disinformation is at best misguided. In practice, it is more likely another element of the campaign that created the problem in the first place.

There are many valid criticisms of the modern press. “They didn’t conform to the right wing’s warped presentation of reality” is not one of them.
I’ve had similar feelings about Apple since the mid-2010s, that my interests as a Mac user are not in line with Apple’s interests as a corporation. Since Steve Jobs passed away, Apple made moves that made the Mac less attractive to me, most notably the shift to soldered RAM throughout its lineup and even moving to soldered storage. I now use Windows as my daily driver on my personal machine, but I’m not happy with my options, which involve either paying exorbitant prices for a Mac that has the amount of RAM that I need (my PC desktop has 64GB) or dealing with the shortcomings of Windows and desktop Linux.

Unfortunately personal computing has undergone “enshittification” across the board in the past 10-15 years, and one could make a good argument that Apple has been the least bad offender. Indeed, I still choose a Mac at work whenever it’s an option, and I have an iPhone because I prefer iOS to Android. I personally believe today’s tech giants have too much power. More specifically, they have too much control over the computing experience, and they use their control in ways that benefit the platform owners at the expense of the user.

I love free, open source software and I use it whenever I get the chance; indeed, I have and regularly use Linux servers and development VMs, and I sometimes use a Linux desktop in certain settings, such as on my Raspberry Pi devices. I’m appreciative for the Linux desktop, but the ecosystem lacks the polish of even Mac OS X Tiger from 20 years ago. I understand that writing an entire ecosystem of software is a massive effort that requires time and coordination, and it’s very difficult to have Mac OS X Tiger-like cohesion and conformity in a bazaar-like development ecosystem. However, this seems to work well for infrastructure like compilers (GCC, LLVM, the various compilers for other languages), databases (PostgreSQL and MySQL), and even the base operating systems themselves (Linux + the GNU tools, the BSDs).

Perhaps the way out of “enshittification” and reliance on tech giants for our computing needs is to have an ecosystem of user-focused companies and non-profits serving us. I quit using Facebook last month after over 18 years of use. I use a Framework 13 laptop because I value user-serviceability and upgradability. Regarding the FOSS desktop, I have some ideas I’ve been thinking of for over five years regarding how we can promote component-based software as an alternative to large, siloed applications, not only to improve usability, but also to make development easier (http://mmcthrow-musings.blogspot.com/2020/10/where-did-perso...).
For those who don’t know Sentinel Rainbow is a DRM dongle these were popular in the 90’s through early 2000’s for enterprise/business software especially that could be useful on the smaller end of the businesses scale (CRM, ERP, CAD/CAM) where piracy concerns were much bigger due to the relative high cost of development combined with a relatively small market to begin with.

SAAS pretty much made all of that obsolete, since with SAAS you get an unbeatable DRM for free.
Eric Schmidt was Google's Nadella.

Now it's basically an MBA paperclip maximizer.
Please add the ability to drive an actual iOS device instead of simulators.
Not only that, but the "lessons" learned here don't seem to have anything to do with the specific fact its an emscripten port anyway, just like general webgl troubleshooting.

To be fair, its very explicit that this isn't really a typical writeup. The whole article is apparently just about giving you answers that the AI didn't give them:

> I believe anyone can learn this tech with the presence of resource and LLMs, however, It’s worth to mention the mistakes that your cursor IDE might not be able to figure out after a while of composition to and fro.
Obsidian fits the bill
Show HN: Kata – An AI app for practicing languages
Nice to find you again! I miss your comments with a lot of relevant citations.

> What habits are useful to practice and what tools are useful to use to facilitate communication without getting nonviolent, peaceful, legal protesters in trouble just because they are trying to organize to express dissent?

I'll repeat my old recommendation: Assume three letters agencies can read all your communication anyway. Beware of the guy that wants to escalate and blow up everything, he is probably an informant (or an idiot).
I think American involvement in Korea is a huge positive for Korea and Koreans.
https://youtu.be/UqiBJbREUgU?t=628

Digital Show & Tell from Monty at Xiph

> Those of you who have used analog recording equipment may have just thought to yourselves, "My goodness! That sounds like tape hiss!" Well, it doesn't just sound like tape hiss, it acts like it, too. And if we use a Gaussian dither, then it's mathematically equivalent in every way. It _is_ tape hiss!

> Intuitively, that means we can measure tape hiss, and thus the noise floor of magnetic audio tape, in bits, instead of decibels, in order to put things in a digital perspective. Compact cassettes... (Monty holds up a tape, then glares at it and flips it over in his hand) ... for those of you who are old enough to remember them, could reach as deep as nine bits in perfect conditions, though five to six bits was more typical, especially if it was a recording made on a tape deck.

> That's right - Your mixtapes were only about six bits deep, if you were lucky. The very best professional open-reel tape used in studios could barely hit - any guesses? - 13 bits _with_ advanced noise reduction.
Dressed up like a journalist, an obsequious irrelevant Greek chorus.
I don't think I understand what you're not understanding, so I'm afraid I won't be able to change your mind.
They're breathtaking party tricks when you first encounter them, but the similarity in outputs soon becomes apparent. Good luck coercing them to make properly sad or angsty songs.
>According to Statista the inflation rate has been equal or more than that with the exception of four years during that time frame.

The 57% growth is after inflation:

>>...median real income rose by 57% from 1990 to 2019.

('real' income means after inflation, 'nominal' income means before inflation.)
Open AI in Trouble
How did the cold war bot end with the fall of the soviet union?
In the same league as the UK and Germany. This is why I don't support unfettered American alignment with these countries. There is no major country as liberal as the United States.
No, it just does the layout, not the text. Much like LLMs do the code tokens but not the goal. Abstraction in all things, and automation of the lower levels does not devalue the higher levels (that is, a traffic sign works the same regardless if hand painted or commercially printed).
Tangential question for c++ devs: How would this even compile before the author fixed the Sphere* typo in the vector?
We'll need Servo to counterbalance Chrome's dominance. I'll chip in $5.
I believe LVT is the opposite. Tax land ignoring what’s on it. If you own land with tremendous potential but don’t improve it, that’s your loss.

Otherwise by taxing land based on what’s on it, it negatively incentivizes improving it. The nicer my home gets, the more my taxes go up.
I think there’s another possibility: people eventually accept inequality and lower their expectations and ambitions for life. A lot of energy is wasted on trying to make everyone equal when the scales have become too tipped. At some point they’re simply isn’t enough activation energy left to right the ship.

In the past (centuries ago), it seems like people simply accepted other classes were better and they could never be their equals. That’s how you end up with royal families, etc.

So in the future, people will simply work to the bone, find whatever pleasures they can when possible, and maybe just not wake up ever again on some morning before their shift starts. They will live in small simple residential units mostly for sleep, eating, bathing and watching some content on a screen.

The rich will segregate themselves away to enjoy a finer life somewhere that they can be shielded from the plight of the poor.
> This is nice. And it’s all true.

Normally when someone makes a statement like this it comes with a citation. Maybe a link to an audit, a permalink to someone's git repo... but since it's Apple, I'm supposed to take you at your word here?

Queer times for digital safety, I tell you.
No, no contradiction. I said: high USMLE score != smart. GP said: good doctor = smart. Study says: good doc = high USMLE score. As I also said: good doc = understand what you read.
You are confusing bemusement for being threatened.
Looking at the Case-Shiller index for Austin[1], Dallas[2], NYC[3], SF[4], and LA[5], it doesn’t seem like Austin’s prices have grown any less in the last five years. They’ve basically all nearly doubled in that time. If there is any improvement it’s too small for my eyes to see. In fact, SF seems to have had the lowest price growth (perhaps due to fears about crime?).

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ATNHPIUS12420Q

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DAXRNSA

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYXRSA

[4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SFXRSA

[5] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LXXRSA
You’re way overthinking it.

I go to a show. There’s maybe 50 people in a dark, dingy room. I want to support the band so I buy a shirt and a record from the merch table.

Sometimes I’m right by the record store so I stop and browse. I see an LP for an album I like, either used or new. I buy it.

Now I have a stack of records. I go home and play records. I still use Spotify.
I tend to be username-blind and thought you were the person my comment replied to. Reading your comment on its own, I have no issue with it and I apologize for mistaking you for them!
Bitcoin mining was also a hobby that paid for itself within a year. And tulip farming...
Irrelevant to whom? Did I miss the meeting?
What We Owe to Artificial Minds
Perhaps it didn't cross your mind that I expressed it in a stilted manner on purpose? What a weird thing to get hung up on anyway
Or we could idk tax billionaires.