skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better killed our deal this Summer.

TL;DR: ALWAYS USE A LOCAL LENDER.

For some reason they cancelled our inspection without telling us or the sellers. Worse, they told the inspector that the inspection was cancelled because we were changing lenders.

The listing agent eventually called the inspectors to find out what was up and the sellers were furious when they heard we were changing lenders. We were accused of all sorts of bad faith tricks to keep the home under contract.

Better’s lie set the tone for the rest of the transaction. We missed all of our deadlines, the sellers walked away, and we were stuck. It got so bad that our agent refused to try to resurrect the deal with a new offer.

I eventually convinced a local lender to guarantee that she could put a loan together in less than 26 days and made our agent bring a new offer to the listing agent. If he hadn’t, I would have done it myself.

The sellers were suspicious so they set a new closing date that was months later than the original. We’d already packed so we had to live in a completely NYC apartment with boxes stacked floor to ceiling for months (I had to pack my desk just to make room for our boxes. Instead of a week or two, I had to work on the floor all summer. My back and neck still hurt), AND my gf missed her first Summer in the Midwest (where Winter is the best 8 months of the year.)

Better was awful. This is just one story, there are a few others from the months we had to deal with them. If a mistake is made Better is not structured to recover from it. They just blame their byzantine process and babble about how x, y, and x departments are on it, but, no, you cannot contact anyone in those departments.

Always use a local lender.

I’m so glad that we’re not going to be sending money to Better for the next 30 years.
I had a LG Gram. Awesome. So light, had latest gen CPU when Apple didnt. All the ports that Apple didn’t have. Linux worked too. The only reason i went back to Apple is the trackpad. If Linux sorts that out, back to LG Gram.
Same here, though they say this in the paper, about the experimental confirmation they propose: "...To be clear, this would not be some simple analogue or proxy representation of a space warp phenomenon, rather it would be a genuine implementation of the idea in physical fact with observable consequences in the laboratory – just not in the dramatic form of a craft bound for a distant stellar destination."

It seems that they're proposing a real, achievable-with-current-manufacturing-skill experimental contraption that they think will be able to create a real, not analogous, not hypothetical, honest to god warp bubble. So I'm waiting for a real physicist to wake up, come and crush my dreams on this one.
A winery could assign a token to each physical bottle, and lets its customers freely buy (winery is involved) and then exchange their tokens based on the supposed bottle value ups and downs (winery is not involved any more). Then, from time to time, they come to the winery to take back a real bottle from a token.

Admittedly, there is little to program, but we can imagine all sorts of auctions, games (tokens becoming playable items in a virtual world, but still exchangeable for real bottles), etc., around those tokens.
The Ideal Vim Keyboard
> so, how is that a problem with C++ and not [...]

I don't think you should see this article as a criticism of C++.
Just a rent on how hard it is to use in the Linux kernel which is openly against it.
This is the first year I'm not being burnt out by AoC. Everyone I know doing the puzzles has so far either been a 10 % rockstar developer or had enough free time due to unemployment, illness or for some other reason. This year they seem to cater to us mortals, too...
That was my first thought when I saw the CT scans of the AirPods: where is the canonical URL for this, and where is the archive of previous analyses?
We don’t need government to censor Al-Quaida or Aryan Brotherhood recruiting, or the mountain of abuse that a bully will apply to a 4-grade target, but I’ll censor them myself if they show up in my house or my kid’s school. Will you struggle to defend their wide spread?

But I think we agree, let society handle the taboos and morals, not government. Though that means outright falsehoods might have standing as protected speech. Hope we’re not saying libel is protected?
A lot of crypto trade (especially on shadier exchanges without KYC or the option to use fiat) is denominated in tether.

Tether keeps printing billions of dollars with no oversight or regulation. They lied about it being backed by cash reserves, and now make a much softer claim that its backed by "some cash" and other assets (other assets include more crypto IIRC).

Basically, it feels like tether is inflating the price of BTC, and the exchanges all have a vested interested in continuing to pretend tether is worth something. If there was a run on tether (i.e. everyone tries to exchange for fiat) it could be catastrophic for all of crypto.

(Disclaimer: I am not a financial expert, and have just picked this up from reading about tether over the last few months).
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Sorry, I was wrong about that, see
timmytokyo's comment below.
They use two so that if you rest the airpods on table in various positions, at least one IR sensor is pointing away from a surface. They turn on and off the device (pause, play) once both IR windows are covered by human skin (or detect a surface) which is the scenario in which they are fully in your ear. If they used only a single IR, the function wouldn't work if taken out of the ear and say laid face down on a book or table.
Right, I understand that can appear to be tightening, but the IRS guidance is exactly the same since 2014, as are the penalties. They're now more actively alerting US taxpayers they need to pay taxes on their "virtual currencies." But the US taxpayer has always had that obligation, and the IRS is now starting to more visibly enforce it. They've been doing so less visibly as well. With so much more digital asset economic activity, there's that much more taxation, and that much more enforcement. The code is the same.

American crypto exchanges were actually reporting predating that announcement; they had to in order to not get shut down. Thoughtful people knew that certain regulation would have to be met from the beginning, but that memo wasn't universal and there's no one who goes door to door with the facts for hungry home speculators. There's likely to be a continual wave of retroactive enforcement for some time. That's why most sincere people in the space have been paying any required taxes generated by their activity starting for the year 2015 at the latest.

Incidentally, bitcoin hasn't been considered a security by the IRS yet, but the infrastructure bill that just passed has a whole sea change of new regulation for the space. I don't feel I've been informed well enough yet to comment much regarding macro implications. But there is something in there that could effect the latest buzzwords to go media viral: NFTs. Securities-related Know Your Counterparty and Anti-Money Laundering regulations that will be in effect starting in 2023 may apply to NFT sales, for any seller. That could have a real impact. You would need the EIN or social security number of your buyer.

We could call this tightening or a crackdown, but I think it also might be fair to call it reigning things in to prevailing standards. I don't really know. All this revolves around interesting questions about how the standards continue to be established for what constitutes a digital security vs digital property/currency.

As to the ICOs crackdown, it was nice to see regulators actually take real action on straightforward and often inept securities fraud. They were enabled by capability advances that weren't as feasible with bitcoin alone. They were old grifts cycled around again for a round of digital "innovation," so they were nipped in the bud pretty quickly. These kinds of fraud will probably spring up at every stage of the digital asset technology development cycle. The noise can be a bit maddening, and I can understand your general sentiment.
> I’ll start off by saying that I work 60 hours a week, at least. My stress and anxiety levels are manageable now, but only because I found ways of managing them. They’re not reasonable though and most importantly, they’re not sustainable.

Would you care to share what kinds of things specifically cause you stress and anxiety?

No problem if you don't feel comfortable to do so, I am just really curious what kinds of stressors people such as yourself are experiencing.
Ask HN: How to convince big tech team that tests and code quality matter?
I recently joined a big tech company. I'm slowly realizing our codebase is too lax regarding automated tests, and frankly code quality in general (e.g. no teamwide style guide).

This must lead to a lot of problems which I'll only face after ramping up, but even onboarding is painful if you don't have e.g. clear automated testing set up.

I've been in the industry for about 10 years and testing has always been an important part of the job. I guess I saw it as a given; to me part of the job _is_ writing tests. I assumed this was fairly obvious in 2021.

How should I approach this with the team and my manager? Keep in mind I'm new and a IC, not very senior. Others in the team might already have struck this chord in the past as well. Or perhaps I should drink the cool-aid and shut up.
I've also wondered about the implications of a causality-violating miniature warp field, and the hypothetical application I found most intriguing is the possibility of it allowing information to be sent back in time from the future.

Of course it would have the limitation that you could only send information back to a point after the "time machine" had been switched on, and you could only communicate to entities in the future who knew of your time machine's existence and design, but that's enough of a pinhole to send lottery numbers back through.

This has probably been considered before in fiction, where presumably the author thought about the other practical problems, like the time machine being on a rotating and Sun-orbiting Earth, meaning that the spatial distance between the time machine's location on subsequent days can be considerably large (relative to reference frame of the Sun). I don't know what the engineering consequences of that are.
I think the comment you were replying to was just fine. They have opinions about another service, I think that’s ok.
HDMapGen: A Hierarchical Graph Generative Model of High Definition Maps [pdf]
American cheese is really "McDonald's cheese." I couldn't understand why it was good, until I had it on a burger. Once I did, I recognized it as the flavor on every McDouble. Then I knew, at least, its proper application: melted over a pan-fried burger.
When people donate to an open source software project, they probably aren't intending to donate to some other cause that the maintainer cares about. It would be at least slightly unethical to solicit donations for the former and spend them on the latter unless the donation page was exceptionally forthright about it.
You could cut off access to the blockchain instead
Give privacy.com a try my friend and use whatever name you like. You put in your debit card for funds and generate credit cards per merchant.

I never buy anything with my real name anymore.

https://privacy.com/join/L6N28
That's a valid statement. It creates a hyper-monetization of sorts. I struggle with it too, although less. I think there are other way to think about it. And feel free to accuse me of mental gymnastics. But I sort of came to blockchain for the espoused values associated with Ethereum, so I am projecting those perhaps.

There have been real-life experiments with local and community currencies, for example the Ithaca Hours and Boulder Bucks (and many others [1]). The point of them is to have something that accrues value and keeps it inside of a group, unlike the government issues currency which knows no bounds and can easily be extracted from a community. I see online (and local [2]) communities and DAOs that issue tokens and distribute them to a more restricted member group doing the equivalent of that. In effect you are not creating a parallel currency to the national one but creating a space where another means of representing value exists. For an example of a community with strong internal economics check out the builder collective 1hive [3]. What is actually happening here, I think, is not finance in traditional sense (although there is plenty of that, sure) but something that to me resembled anarcho-syndicalist utopias or restructuring of the capitalistic system around human relationships. In a world of a multitude of community currencies things like Uniswap's AMM provide interfaces between community microcosms.

Then there is another thing I think should be considered. Something like half of the population of the world has no access to banking. And then for the large portion of the ones who do the banking systems are terribly opaque and unstable. In Russia for example almost everybody holds their money in a single government-controlled bank because trust in the banking is super low. "Westerns", I feel, deeply under-appreciate the hardship shitty banking causes to people. (There are, btw, blockchains that specifically target the unbanked/underbanked populations that have limited access to financial instruments, and I do not mean in an exploitative way.) And even if you live in a place with a great financial system then plenty of people are restricted from harnessing it's potential. For example accredited investor laws might be seen as protective but they also prevent common folk from participating in all sorts of promising endeavors and getting a share of the wealth. So, yes, I am with you on that financialization is not all pretty, but at the moment it serves some people well and others very poorly or not at all and the latter group has much to gain from it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...

[2] https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/10/31/cities.html

[3] https://1hive.org/
well the magnet you're referring to are closure magnets, not the hinge magnet. You can see them on iFixit's teardown as black rectangles. Those magnets attract gnarly metallic bits which, yes, permanently make marks on the surfaces of the interior. Airpods OG vs. Pro for comparison. Both have closure magnets, I think the primary reason to move away from them was space, based on the internals.

https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/f3k1ysoFjvJ5xoF5.lar...
https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/DSCA4bK5SAlTVGtn.lar...
It's hard for me to understand how and why you are developing an app and a website and all the other stuff for free, then I read your privacy policy and maybe I'm understand: https://incoggo.com/privacy/

Anyway thanks for the effort and the transparency, I'll consider to install it on a secondary browser just for read some articles.
The issue seems to be that the alcubierre drive requires things like external negative energy which are 'theoretically possible' but have never been detected and probably should have been already if they existed. Also, even if they worked, the negative energy requirements is something like the mass energy of jupiter on the high end or the moon on the low end.

This is an hour long interview Dr Miguel Alcubierre who wrote the paper describing the Alcubierre drive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JafY92PhgKU

For a shorter 10 minute video, see this PBS Spacetime video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ed4v_T6YM
bruv clearly it's sriracha on everything bruv
macOS 12 can run on 404 MB RAM (but refused to boot on anything below 404)
What does facebook give it? A free marketing page and limited discussion board and the ability for anyone to find it.

Ethereum would give it another payment option for customers. But also another payment option for suppliers. Could open a new hidden supply chain where a middlemen is not required.

It doesn't solve physically shipping but it does resolve one problem. Prompt payment resolution. A check can take 7 years to bounce.
maybe call around and try to find a genetic counselor who would be willing to work with a patient who has the resources and capability to contribute to research efforts.

would recommend trying to find supervision from an expert rather than just diving in alone. every field has its nuance.
FWIW, my personal belief is that when the dust settles in another decade there will only be a metaphorical oligopoly of distributed systems, each of which having generalized in their purposes in order to have "shared security" across a number of different use cases. Regardless, I maintain that Tor doesn't protect against the NSA today (and for even more reasons than come from this article today: the NSA can do attacks that don't even require running nodes, involving stuff like timing analysis attacks that Tor does nothing to prevent), so focusing on the NSA seems like a pointless exercise.
I'm guessing old people's homes are bound to get a whole lot more interesting!
A lot of these type of tricks try to reduce a problem that is not reducible, at least not in a general way. This sounds great when read to oneself, but the moment you actually think about it for more than a second you realize the bullshit that this type of advice really is.

Namely, there is never only one reason why something is the case at each of the 5 steps. It's usually a linear combination of various causes with different weights. Furthermore the reasons are not definitive, sometimes at best you can assign a vague probability to each. And finally there are unknown unknowns, the inexplicable. You may only have an intuition about something, but cannot put it into words. Remember often times intuition can be spot on and identify things that your conscious mind may not have access to.
That reliability matches my anecdotal experience. I've had multiple failures of the 2019-2020 MacBook Pro 15" & 16" models. Gone through 4 machines, and these mostly sat on desks during the pandemic. One machine due to keyboard stickiness to the point of unusability (this of course is the most known issue). Two slow logic board failures (increasingly frequent kernel panics until the machine no longer worked); the second one I didn't wait until it fully failed. One display failure.

I just switched to the new M1 Pro 16" which I'm hopeful has resilience that matches my earlier Macs that would last 4+ years -- it seems like Apple has reverted 5 years of design choices with this model (ports, MagSafe, weight, thickness, edges, keyboard -- of course with better battery/performance/screen).
> For every winner, there has to be a loser.

Completely agree with this sentence. Now, have you happened to frame this sentence in your head when talking about fiat money? Just wondering.
Here's a post I made on reddit about how to do exactly this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebulagenomics/comments/nhjfpa/how_...

You use the VCF and a java project called the Exomiser, and it will give you output files with all the pathogenic variants marked

In my case and is the case with a lot of rare diseases you could have unique pathology and mutations in a certain gene but that don't show up as pathogenic in clin var. For example my family has a lot of autoimmune diseases and as expected my HLA genes are totally trashed. However none of these mutations have ever been seen and flagged before especially was WGS is so new.

If you only have a list of genes and the genomizer will give you a list of the genes that are the most heaviy affected, you can put them into this app to get some further data and idea about what kind of tissue expression or rare disease spectrums you may be dealing with: https://maayanlab.cloud/Enrichr/

you can make informed decisions on it like for example I have a defect in my thiamine transport gene, so now I follow a b1 megadose protocol. A lot of people do that with the basic 23and me methylation reports but this is more in depth. So in my family maybe this looks like parkinsonanism, autism, diabetes, muscle disease, metaboloic syndrome, but we're understanding these diseases to be more like mitochondrial diseases that are more systemic. The answers you get are often really just too cutting edge for GPs or even specialists to deal with and you have better luck just researching, biohacking or talking to a natropath. Genetics doesn't really have that place in general practice yet unless it's something like a very very clear pathogenic marker which honestly isn't the case in a lot of cases, or alternatively you end up having a "pathogenic" marker that we had no idea even exists in people who aren't gravely disabled. For example I don't have lissencephaly regardless of what my pathogeniticty says. instead in that case you look at the gene, and see the big picture which that it's linked to neurodevelopmental disorders, and I have autism so that could be a factor there. But autism != lissencephaly. WGS is so new

sadly the reality is though you can have all that and it almost puts you at a disadvatnage with doctors because you look crazy and sus claiming you have some HLA mutation or whatever. Who told you that? Oh well I data mined it...uh huh sure....honestly to get it back into the medical system and to be taken seriously you'd probably have to get a doctor to retest it, for example I can can spin this up to get my HLA alleles from my fastq https://github.com/nf-core/hlatyping

But no doctor is going to put that in my medical record until I convince them to run a blood test for the same damn thing.

if anyone wants to help me with my own genetic search woes and help me out or know solutions please let me know. if you want to help me publish or add to that guide somewhere let me know - i asked nebula if they wanted to print it on the blog and they said the'd be interested but I just never cleaned it up
It's one of the most fundamental structures in the kernel. Pretty much all driver headers include it, if indirectly.
You want to become one with the tribe, wear the same clothing, and dance the same dance. Right now you are the outsider and outsiders are always a threat. If you come in there with your outsider ways you will immediately face resistance and risk not being accepted into the tribe. Once you have shown the other primates you are a trusted member of the group, then you can suggest that they cook the meat before eating it.
Many/most car ads are fully CGI

Definitely false.

Most car commercials for American cars are shot in Los Angeles on weekends. The cars are driven around on city streets like a normal car, with the camera(s) on a rig on a separate vehicle.
No I agree with that, I was looking at the 2020 peak to 2021 peak magnitude on the Boston Area plots and the same relative magnitude on the SCC plots and being somewhat surprised at how much of a difference there was between the two locations. As far as I understand we have roughly similar levels of vaccination although santa clara county is probably less dense so I would have guessed we'd have similar magnitude changes in positivity rate. (A good reminder I am in no way an epidemiologist)
wish there was a video of the final result!

(and of the LEDs reflowing into place)
That would be neat! But before anyone thinks they can build a citizen p2p version of internet this way: LoRa can do bits per minute. Think old time telegraph throghput.
As seen here, I put a very quiet Noctua fan on mine. It's bigger than the heatsink, is not centred, and is held on by only one screw, but the cooling is fine -- and so are my ears.

https://twitter.com/BruceHoult/status/1464713464090271744
JSX requires a build though, it's easier to enforce syntax when a missing character will just work while writing it. There are no JSX errors at runtime for this reason.