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jonahbenton commented on     · Posted by u/SilverElfin
jonahbenton · 20 days ago
"sagging disapproval" is an idiotic incorrect double negative.
jonahbenton commented on Back in power 5 years later, Trump has all but erased the stain of Jan. 6   politico.com/news/2026/01... · Posted by u/throw0101d
jonahbenton · a month ago
He has not, and it isn't the right framing. In this telling he has also "erased the stain" on many crimes. We will see how long that whitewashing lasts.
jonahbenton commented on Why Are 50k New York City Apartments Vacant?   city-journal.org/article/... · Posted by u/mhb
mhb · 2 months ago
The article makes a whole bunch of points - the main one being that rent control is not a good way to address expensive housing. Are they wrong about other things besides your somewhat beside the point example? Are they wrong that "The city now has nearly 50,000 empty units"?
jonahbenton · 2 months ago
The fact is a fact, their diagnosis and narrative is fantasy. A fair number of the stabilized empty apartments are due to the specific points in the 2019 law that too greatly impacted the economics of stabilized apartments. Prior to the 2019 law, it was economic to operate stabilized units, but too easy to unstabilize them, hence the motivation for the law. Replacing those dynamics with section 8 is idiocy.
jonahbenton commented on Big GPUs don't need big PCs   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mikece
jonahbenton · 2 months ago
So glad someone did this. Have been running big gpus on egpus connected to spare laptops and thinking why not pis.
jonahbenton commented on Why Are 50k New York City Apartments Vacant?   city-journal.org/article/... · Posted by u/mhb
jonahbenton · 2 months ago
City Journal is a right wing rag whose opinions represent propaganda. There is one correct point that the 2019 law eliminating rent increases tied to capital improvements is broken. But its other points are simply not correct. Vouchers are not a like for like replacement for stabilization. Like work and other gates applied to SNAP and similar programs, they are fundamentally broken and inhumane.
jonahbenton commented on Ask HN: How are you building your MCP servers?    · Posted by u/block_dagger
jonahbenton · 2 months ago
Yes, MCP has to be LLM friendly. APIs are data-oriented (what used to be called machine readable). MCP is narrative/human language oriented.
jonahbenton commented on Kennedy Center to Be Renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, White House Says   bbc.com/news/articles/cp8... · Posted by u/throw0101a
jonahbenton · 2 months ago
Has as much effect as

"Trump to be locked in the pillory for mocking and pelting" citizens say

jonahbenton commented on My contribution to the idea that we lived in a simulation    · Posted by u/Gardinengleiter
jonahbenton · 2 months ago
It doesn't matter what the idea or narrative or hypothesis is. How do you test the hypothesis.
jonahbenton commented on Ask HN: How would you monetize an AI book-writing app?    · Posted by u/eibrahim
eibrahim · 2 months ago
I tried llama a few months back and the output was very disappointing. I don't think it will handle book writing well or produce good quality.

what do you mean tts for interviews? You mean use AI to interview grandpa and get his story and then use that to create "his story"?

jonahbenton · 2 months ago
To a first approximation, yes. You are young and don't have perspective on this, but this is what old people do. Recognize the value of stories and try to preserve them.

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