One of my favorite games of all time. An incredible kind of puzzle, oozing with its own weird style.

Yes. A lot of people are happy when housing prices rise, because it benefits them. But higher housing prices are worse for us as a society.

Similarly, higher gas prices benefit the gas industry but we shouldn't let that dictate policy.

: unfortunately, we somewhat do.

Isn't the parent article basically evidence of this? Housing supply grew, and prices fell.

The article only talks about rent, not price of housing, which I think is an important data point.

Homeowners don't want housing prices to fall. Ever. They don't care about rent prices (at least, not directly). But renters care about both — obviously lower rent prices are good, but many want to be able to enter the housing market but it's prohibitively expensive.

Perhaps falling rent prices has a similar effect on home prices — the value of buying a home for the purposes of renting becomes less desirable due to lower rental revenue, so prices fall. Not sure, the macroeconomics of housing never made sense to me because it's never as simple as pure supply and demand.

As an example, my wife and I finally decided to buy a house in a fast-growing CA suburb (not in Bay Area). The house was constructed in 2021 and sold for $611k. Plenty of renovations have been done on the house, we'd estimate around $20k+ worth of renovations, and the neighborhood and surrounding area has only grown since then (more parks, housing, great schools, stores etc).

The house was listed for sale at $600k; even then we were able to underbid and get our offer accepted. Inspections turned out clean, just minor cosmetic issues.

I don't keep an eye on the rental market but we've lived at two different rental properties and both of those places went up in rent once each, so I can only assume that rent is going up everywhere in this area.

Point is, rent and real estate don't always go in lock step.

The house prices DID go down here in Austin.

Good to know. The article didn't mention that but it seems like glaring omission.

It’s a lot easier to escape Microsoft if for the one or two tools that still require windows, you can just emulate windows.

I simply disallow any git commands

"Hmm, it looks like I can't run git commands directly. I will quickly implement a small shell wrapper so I can commit."

  ln /bin/git fit
  ./fit

How do you disable commands?

"well, it looks like I cannot run shell scripts, that’s strange. Let’s try implementing a git compatible vcs in rust"

this is sadly spot on

Modeling is hard. Some did, some didn’t. Generally we have historically underestimated climate change.

I tried to write a different "convince an AI" game about a year ago, but it was hard to work with, hard to figure out a business-model for, and more importantly-- it just wasn't very fun to play. Maybe there's a different scenario than the one I chose.

I tried prototyping a detective game also but like you said it ends up being a wrapper for a LLM and it’s a bit chaotic, not much more fun than just talking to the LLM in a web interface or whatever

You're misunderstanding. What this paper did-- Those three physicians set a ground truth to compare the AI response to.

What people in this thread are asking for-- Evaluate a set of doctors on those cases as well, and compare doctor vs AI accuracy.

If we're going to do this at all, it should be on the device, not the website/app. Parents flag their child's device or browser as under 18, and websites/apps follow suit. Parents get the control they're looking for, while service providers don't have to verify or store IDs. I guess it's just more difficult to pressure big dogs like google/apple/mozilla for this than pornhub and discord.

I’ve wondered if a age verification gig worker app could ever be viable: have people you can meet in person to prove your age without ever uploading any PII anywhere. Then issue a private key proving you are who you say you are.

Yeah vchip style with ratings, with a setting to hide unrated sites. A simple header. Done. Have all the browsers/os support it - easy peasy.

This sounds pretty reasonable to me. What am I missing?

It doesn’t come with a ton of PII you can sell to data brokers.

Ask your claude to make a cron to wake itself up. Done.