Don't you think it helps seeing opposing perspective, especially if it might likely be the majority opinion rather than just be an echo chamber of all the other comments agreeing with each other on how it's unfair and inefficient how unaffordable housing has become?
>If you consider this as a whole, the growing importance of inheritance starts to become clear. In Britain one in six of those born in the 1960s is projected to receive an inheritance that exceeds ten years of average annual earnings for that generation. For those born in the 1980s, the ratio rises to one in three. The inequality of what people inherit, meanwhile, is startling. A fifth of 35- to 45-year-olds are expected to inherit less than £10,000 ($13,000), whereas a quarter are expected to inherit more than £280,000.
Moreover, how does this fact disprove the article's thesis? Is the implication that because less than 50% of people are getting giant inheritances, everything's fine?
Hey, check this one out with all the different flavors that existed out there. I think I made something better. https://cofyt.app
As far as I am aware, feel free to test it head-to-head. This is better than gecall, and you can chat with a transcript for detailed answers to your prompts
But as I mentioned, my main concern is what will happen in 6 months when you fail to get traction and abandon it. Because that's what happened to previous 5 products I tried which were all "good enough" .
Getrecall seems to have a big enough user base that will actually stick around.
I understand your perfectly reasonable argument to make from your position (user).
First let me tell you that I saw a lot of things out there including getrecall before starting building this and felt there was nothing out there that had a good UX/UI that actually makes it a enjoyable product (nice and clean).
I’m confident in the direction and committed to seeing it through by building something better for me and maybe for you to by doing it with more care.
Appreciate your feedback and while no one can control the future I´ve added this thread to my calendar do come back here in 6months.
Hundreds that specifically focus on noticing a page you’re currently viewing has been not only posted to but undergone significant discussion on HN, and then providing a summary of those conversations?
If you're implying that generalization isn't at play because game knowledge shows up in its training data, you can disabuse yourself of that by watching the stream and how it reasons itself out of situations. You can see its chain of thought.
It spends most of its time stuck and reasoning about what it can do. It might throw back to knowledge like "I know Pokemon games can have a ledge system that you can walk off, so I will try to see if this is a ledge" (and it fails and has to think of something else), but it's not like it knows the moment to moment intricacies of the game. It's clearly generalized problem solving.
For eg., Bug type attack is super effective against Poison type in Gen 1 but not very effective in Gen 2 and onnwards. But Claude keeps bringing Nidoran into Weedle/Caterpie.
DAU is a very one-dimensional and misleading KPI, one that gave us ever-growing, VC-backed unprofitable companies. The Threads is definitely net-negative in the sense of wider impact and not just single-dimensional KPIs. Take as example Uber and AirBnB. Both have had millions of active users and one could argue their service is even useful to a lot of people. It's still quite easy to argue that they are are net-negative, because even by the narrow metric of revenue and profitability, they are not even returning value to their shareholders - they turn a profitable quarter like what, every few years or so? The effects on society such as traffic congestion, real-estate market etc. are also quite visible in many major cities in the western hemisphere these days (and beyond even...). Now specifically for the Threads: as it stands right now, they are not even driving revenue at Meta, in the corpo-speak of their own CFO: “Specifically, as it pertains to monetization, we don’t expect Threads to be a meaningful driver of 2025 revenue at this time,” said CFO Susan Li on the earnings call. “We’ve been just pleased with the growth trajectory and again, are really focused on introducing features that the community finds valuable.” (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/31/metas-threads-app-now-has-27...). As for the wider positive effects to the society at large, feel free to point out any. As far as I recall, they launched with the promise of sort of "sanitised" contents being promoted, kind of Pinterest 2.0 if you will, beyond that I am not aware of anything relevant coming out of that platform honestly.
Ach. You seem full of (unrelated, unwarranted) ragefulness, and you stand ready to handwave away both scientific studies and actual user experience. Without, I see, providing any grounded counterpoints. As a bonus, anyone who disagrees with you is a ‘tool’ of sinister ‘bad actors’
Are you quite sure you’re on the right forum? That’s not generally how we do things here.
Not to burst your weird leftist-rightist libertarian bubble, but vaccine passports are actually a fairly normal thing in most of the world mate. You know, it's just about documenting what vaccinations you were receiving throughout your lifetime. Go outside and touch the grass, you sound very angry.
No mate, read your comments again- the only one projecting anything here is you. For my part, I was quite sure how to label you and it's based on the first two rows of what you wrote, which is a mix of leftist, right-wing and libertarian views. Now as others have also noticed, you seem to have some deep-seated psychological issues, most notable in your rumbling and unconnected thoughts. I mean this without malice: seek help.
I don't care about you - I don't even know you. But in the interest of the whatever community you are a part of, I implore you to look for professional help. And put your smartphone away - it's obviously not good for you.
... speaking of vaccines "not preventing transmission"...for the love of god, please learn how the vaccines work. Did they not teach you in the primary school that it's about priming body for the immune response by introducing a very small concentration of the virus into the body. No vaccine can prevents a transmission, it's purpose is to enable your body to respond and reduce the severity of the infection symptoms. Have the education standards really deteriorated so much, or is this just the effect of overexposure to the social media, I wonder?
Not being able to get your kid to sleep because the upstairs flat is now a weekend party place for tourists is… a non-problem?
‘Wonderful’ convenience for tourists, sure. Writing off reasonable objections as ‘ideological zealotry’ from ‘bad political actors’ is a very weird take.
Case in point, I recently backed out of buying a house when I found out the house next door was an Airbnb, and the neighbours were not digging the thoughtless visitors. Is that an ideological preference or a pro-sleep one?
Please read more carefully and don't shove your own words down other people's throats, it's rude and un-called for. What zealotry? The only politically-sided arguments in this thread are coming from you. By the way, if you took a few more seconds to read a bit more carefully, you would have noticed I never said they did not provide any value - only that the net negative seems to be outweighing the benefits to the society as a whole, and this is based on hard data, not ideology, mate. This is to make comparison to Threads, which is, unlike these two, not even providing a real-life service to justify it's existence. Plus, please learn: revenue != profits. I won't go down the rabbit hole of discussing the business models of Uber and Airbnb, you obviously haven't understood who carries the actual operating costs of those "businesses" and maybe in your world these are great services, as they come with an implicit ego-boost for all the Karens of this world?
Do something crazy and teach kids to write their own QP solver. That will force them to learn quadratic functions, vector norms, solving linear equations using LU decomposition, dot products, vector matrix and matrix vector multiplication, convexity, Lagrangian multipliers, etc.
The quadratic programming solver can be used to calculate ordinary least squares for linear regression and controlling robot arms in real time or linear model predictive control.
I would say data structure and algorithms are not more practical to actual literal children. Better off letting them cook/bake, where they have to work out ratios, temperatures, giving one third more or quartering other portions, etc etc. let them do scoring, figure out how to split 300g of chocolate between 5 friends and the like.
such a shift in demographics will bring a lot of difficult societal problems that come with emerging Middle Class who will want more housing and more freedoms
Social problems mostly 4:2:1 depedency ratios, i.e. elder care. Hence PRC pouring a lot of resource into this sector, but TBH unless automation catches up, they're just going to follow JP model - old people are going to be minimally taken care of, and simply die unceremoniously while most of workforce busy competing to pay attention. Helps that cohort is part of the incredibly poor with high savings rate, i.e. they are expected to take care of themselves and it doesn't take much too for the state to take care of them - perks of old before rich is old don't have rich expectations. Overall PRC is still resourced to increase QoL among poor old vs west trying to sustain onerous but expected social nets for rich old.
IMO housing will sort itself out if you consider reverse of 4:2:1 is 4 households / wealth transfers to the 1. Every married couple and their kids eventually has access to ~4-8+ housing units. Hence IMO even TFR will sort itself out once housing pressure / availability disspates by virtue demand decreasing due to less people. Of course transition can be very difficult/painful/messy, i.e. demand in T1/2/3 cities still going to be high, a lot of freed up housing is going to be rural, like all the abandoned villages in JP. Maybe remote work + cottage culture will finally pick up in PRC once most families inherit some rural land to chill on. TBH I can imagine PRC life being incredibly more relaxed once less people compete for resources.
As for freedoms, depends on which kind. I think most will be satiated with increased material prosperity / fully automated luxury communism meme conveniences. There's plenty of Chinese diasphora in the west jaded with western political process, and I wager that trend with continue with how things are progressing. Plenty of international students with first hand experience become more pro CCP. Ultimately people are going to decide if they want freedom to talk shit about unresponsive governments that get nothing done or crusing along in their self driving cars enabled by surveillance state.
And let's not pretend immigration driven demographic growth strategies are not bringing their share of social problems... in fact it's probably one of the largest sources of domestic instability being interrogated by such countries right now.
I've been all over China and it's true current generations are only all too happy to be rich and quite often obscenely rich.
They have very real understanding that all of it could be unilaterally taken away by the state at any time, so even if they flash their wealth they keep their mouths shut. At the same time many do buy in to state propoganda.
But what of their children who are born into comfort of middle class and are less materialistic and willing to fight to justice?
As they should, particularly the obscene rich who could not have possibly gotten obscenely rich without shady sheningans that _should_ get a CCDI visit. There's tacit understanding that phase of wealth accumulation is mostly over, and if you lie low, keep you mouth shut, behave, you can likely live comfortably but quietly enjoying the misbegotten gains from being fortunate beneficiary of "let some get rich first" period.
>willing to fight to justice
Over what? Peak covid19 lockdown brought a few white paper protestors and negligible shanghai libtard youths coming to the streets. IMO they're unlikely to experience that tier of adversity short of another blackswan event. Many of them are guanxied into comfy enough work opportunities with their parents nest eggs to coast on eventually. I don't really see any particuarly incendiary justice issues to fight over from this cohort except feminists/LGBT and related identity politics, but society skews old and conservative, those cohorts losing fight due to demographics for a long time regardless. They'll be even more quiet, because society is overwhelmingly indifferent to them. Which is not to say against, just not proactively endorse. And with cultural shift west is trending, there isn't exactly going to be a liberal model to follow without rest of country mocking them. Baizuo is a dying breed, west is increasingly not a place to emulate, especially when many international students and diasphora with experience in west is getting CCP pilled after experiencing western dysfunction, exacerbated by anti PRC sentiment.
Everyone else is going to be too busy with the grind like SKR and JP trying to fight for scraps with academic/skilled workforce inflation/overcapacity and eventually accept their lot in life for being statistically mediocre. This is probably where the real discontent will swell, fighting for their share of more materialism. And IMO that's partly why CCP focus very hard to indigenize everything and embrace material model (i.e. not pure profit) of industry - they want be able to drive cost of everything down so masses can buy $20,000 cars that's comparable to a $60,000 car - there's still a lot of headroom of satiating masses with nice things.
