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I have seen a persistent trend of comments talking about housing unaffordability in the US for the last 5-10 years. The reasons cited are NIMBYs, Black Rock and other institutions, Chinese buyers, greedy Boomers etc.

However, the data says otherwise.

1. Since 2015, Homeownership Rate in the United States (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N) has fluctuated around the average of what it has been since 1965.

2. Since 2015, Monthly Supply of New Houses in the United States (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSACSR) is at or above the average of what it has been since 1965 (modulo pandemic years).

3. Even to account for the selection bias of techies on this site from expensive regions, homeownership rate in California has been pretty flat since 1960's (https://www.ppic.org/blog/homeownership-trends-in-california/)

So is it just a phenomenon that those who cannot buy are more prone to complain and those who can don't bother to participate in such discussions?

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Hey all,

I recently graduated from a good PhD program studying NLP. Unlike any sane person who would go become a professor or make a gazillion dollars in industry, I decided to try bootstrapping my own software business. This is my first product.

The inspiration was from my research on computers understanding social norms. When ChatGPT came out, I was amazed how well it could understand social etiquette. I thought it'd be fun to make a game where you have to talk your way out of sticky situations - like you miss your friend's birthday party, or your boss catches you trying to leave work at 2pm.

I made a prototype in a couple days, and it was super fun to play with. I thought I'd spend a "couple months" making a game for others to play online. Now, only 10 months and 923.3 hours of work later, it's playable in early access.

In the game, you talk out loud (ASR), and the NPCs (LLM + TTS) talk back at you. It is fun to play with a friend! And because it's just talking, non-gamers do great, often better than gamers.

I really want to have a free demo, but no time yet to implement. For now, it's purchase only ($4.99). If anyone decides to try it, I'd really love to get more feedback. It was an enormous learning experience, especially targeting the web - so many partially supported web APIs and browser inconsistencies! Still feels like 2008 in some ways.

Also happy to answer questions of course. Thanks, and enjoy the weekend!

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hey folks, we have been building AI agents since last year and seeing many other passionate folks attempt on the same. We think AI agents will always require human help to be able to make payments, click on captchas, post a mail in physical world, call someone up, etc etc we are envisioning a platform where AI agents will be able to make a function call to deploy capital and hire a human with the right skill for the task

This will ensure AI agents are able to get shit done even if it goes beyond their capabilities by using funds given to them by their developer.

example: your AI agent figured it has to buy a new creative and is unable to make a payment, it can ask human to make a payment to buy the creative and pay the human $5 for the same. we need to figure out a lot of things but wanted to know your thoughts on the idea.

if you are an agent developer, please fill this form: https://bit.ly/agent-developer if you are a human who would be interested in completing the tasks, fill this form: https://bit.ly/human-for-ai-agents inspired from YC startup that's building human teams to help physical robots that fell over / get stuck on roads and private areas

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