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At the local level. And yes, these local zoning laws are strikingly similar in their opposition to multi-story residential.

American zoning forbids taller ~6 story residential building and trades open green space parks for shorter, 1-2 story buildings. The lower density means people are further away from the few parks that do exist too.

The take home message:

“While modern AI models have expressed some capabilities in certain fields such as coding, cybersecurity research, language translation, etc, no AI model is capable enough to replace the critical thinking and common sense of an actual human being.”

When the AI bubble pops, the collapse will be spectacular.

“Anyone with common sense understands that the nation of the USA is/was a place with a specific culture and genetic makeup”

This is genuinely racist. You are a vile human being.

Reported.

Historically then, unless you are a Native American, you are an immigrant.

Perhaps it’s time for to GTFO? Is that the message?

Hacker News really resembles a MAGA rally at times

“It was built by Americans and regardless would have continued to be built by Americans.”

The xenophobic ignorance of this sentence is breathtaking. America, of all places, is a nation built precisely by immigrants.

First, I think the H1B does need genuine reform to keep the big companies from gaming the lottery system.

Having said that, I’m not sure banning H1Bs or immigrants in general is going to help American workers. Take tech for instance. Many tech leaders are immigrants. If they hasn’t taken in the Jensen Huang’s, Sergei Brin’s, Sundar Pichai, etc… the companies they lead and jobs they created would be elsewhere. It’s amazing how immigrants have shaped the US tech scene:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2026/06/03/immig...

Second, when you ban immigrants/H1B, companies get around the ban by outsourcing to foreign countries.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2017/06/10/if-yo...

Something similar happened in Boston decades ago when the city decide to build Storrow drive over what was supposed to be parkland donated by Charles Storrow’s widow. Instead, they turned Boston’s riverfront into a ghastly highway.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2009/07/17/esplanade-future

I don’t know the particulars of this Texas case, but the lack of green space in American cities is often the result of a car centric and building height limited urban planning.

Paris is an excellent example of how urban density and green space can go hand-in-hand.

Your version is considerably worse, and imo, more verbose. It misses a multitude of subtleties that the author packs into a single phrase, and frankly, doesn’t even come close to saying the same thing.

I chalk it up to an American technical class who consider the height of good writing to be an O’Reilly book.

This line jumped out at me:

“In other words, AI is on track to perform at base competence on most tasks in about three years. These researchers believe agents will need another few years to outperform humans”

LLMs have shown steady improvements, but it’s a big assumption they will continue their performance gains, and specifically, that it’s a simple matter of time before they surpass human level performance on “most tasks”. (In six years no less!) The author is claiming LLMs are fundamentally AGI capable.

This is not going to end well. At least I will be able to pick up used DDR5 memory and GPUs on the cheap in the not too distant future.

Not inherently they don’t.

Fair points.

More broadly, I think this an instance of how AI/Deep Learning is turning over technologies (photos, video, voice communications) we have come to rely upon, and for us to continue to rely upon, they will need to be radically reworked with security as a starting point, not an afterthought.

This seems to be partly a technological problem. We will soon need secured, authenticated modes of communication that can verify a person’s voice.

A similar problem is emerging for photos and videos. We also soon need cryptographically signed devices in order to be used in journalism or to be admissible in court.

Otherwise we are going back 150 years where we depend on in-person communication and eyewitness accounts.

I believe they can be used offline, at least the last time I used Garmin I was able to set it up such that I could sync it to Golden Cheetah. It took some jumping through hoops and an older watch version to get it work, as I recall. For serious runners and hikers, the hardware is better than Apple.

I'm only a casual fitness tracker so the Apple Watch fits my needs better.

I considered an Oura but went with an Apple watch instead. I turned on Advanced Data Protection on the paired iPhone for peace of mind. No other large data providers really provide anything equivalent to ADP’s E2EE protection with zero access encryption, especially in the consumer space for activity trackers.

Thanks for the reassurances. Love your product.

The after effects of DOGE has left the NIH in tatters. Staff has been gutted, grants are months and months behind causing research groups and startups to go under.

Whatever good Musk has accomplished with SpaceX will be offset by the harm he has done to biomedical research in the final accounting.

Being new to the idea of using agents to run programs on one’s computer, could someone provide several use cases?

Growing up in a blue collar family, this smacks of the plumber on the job site complaining the shape of his piping wasn’t pretty enough and demanding extra time and pay to make it pretty for pretty’s sake.

Just get it to work reliably the cheapest and quickest way possible. This ‘craft’ stuff is just too much.

What’s next? Laws banning McDonald’s French Fries?

You miss my point. The ‘new standard’ will be settled on by various committees each composed of different people with different priorities including maintaining the status quo. It will take years to potentially decades to settle on any technologically superior alternatives.

Design by committee is how Europe works. It’s also a reason Europe moves slower and is less innovative than America.

I carry USB-battery pack or my MagSafe battery. At night I use pass through charging.

Works just as well.

With that attitude, we’d still be using D-sub connectors.

You can’t squeeze blood from a stone as they say. If AI companies go bankrupt there’s no money to be had.

Sophomoric take more precisely.

“I’m pretty content to say that North America absolutely mogs the rest of the world in national parks. “

This is exactly what a European friend remarked to me years ago. He thought us Americans were a bit unaware of just how good we had it compared to the rest of the world.

I dealt with sharp edges issue by investing in an Andar leather case. Works just as well.

https://www.andar.com/products/the-helm

The problem is not annoyance. The problem is confusion.

One should aim for clarity.

FooPilot, Barwonk, etc.. would actually be a vast improvement.

I’ve been in the startup and scientific community for 25 years now and during that that time I’ve run across about two dozen 30 under 30s. Every single one with exception of two were douchebags.

I think a reason it so over represented by douchebags is because the awardees — unlike McArthur winners — are very involved in the nomination process and work to game the system.

https://thegenzeoclub.substack.com/p/forbes-30-under-30-nomi...

I’m surprised no group has hacked the Epstein files, given the extreme interest.