skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience in NL makelaars (brokers) serve particular niches, and I expect they can outcompete larger firms that don’t understand the neighborhood or municipal market as well, the market segment (roughly price), the kind of buyer/renter, the kind of seller/leaser, not to mention just their access to “deal flow” in their networks unrelated to their expertise.

Think it’s all related apartments and houses not really being fungible.

ESIT: Also, more directly to GP’s experience, when I was in the market in NL I found the biggest aggregator to be very useful, which is apparently different from their experience: funda.nl
The history of PostgreSQL's SERIALIZABLE isolation level implementation is one example of this going well.

As far as I remember, the story went something like this, about ten years ago:

- organisation employing a PostgreSQL developer asks "can we have SERIALIZABLE that actually does what it says?"

- developer says "nobody has that, it's a hard research problem"

- developer looks for recent academic research and finds someone with a proposal that might be efficient enough to be practical

- developer contacts the researcher

- developer and researcher implement the proposal in PostgreSQL

- it turns out the design is in fact practical

- PostgreSQL gets a useful feature, researcher gets a paper with the developer as co-author

Looks like this is the paper:
https://pmg.csail.mit.edu/pubs/ports12__serial_snaps_isolat_...
Not bad advice. If you can do 3 pushups today, do it. Then do 4 tomorrow. Then 5. and so on. Or run for 5 minutes, then 6, then 7. Whatever you are able to do, add a little bit to it the next time. Not so much that it's a barrier. Just a bit more than you did last time. If you can stick with it, in a year, you'll be amazed where you are.
Where are you getting this data? It was 3.48 million in 2012 and it is of 3.57 million today, from what I can see

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/204296/berlin/population
It is interesting that you used word 'gerontocracy', because it is the same word used by Thiel to describe current true owners of US financial system. I certainly do not disagree. I think some fresh blood is needed -- and not just in there or academia, but also on just about every political level.

I am personally kinda done with people, who don't understand basic technology. They should be retired. They should not have any real influence on what the current generation is doing.
And again, since you’re making me belabor the question instead of answering the obvious one, what does that look like? Isn’t that more harmful to the student than the institution? Again: what is the leverage?

I’m from a three generation UAW family, married into IBEW, and I was on the line at eight years old. I’m not exactly hearing about unions for the first time here. I’m also struggling to understand how they’re the obvious answer to education problems shared in this thread, in your estimation. Think you can share 10 or, even, 20 words to help clarify?
The US is actually #2, behind Mexico (closely tied with Spain).

> Spanish communication is often conducted using -x ending

That’s true if by “Spanish communication” you mean NPR reporters sprinkling a couple of “Latinx”s into their English-language articles.

> even by the president

This does not make the case you might be hoping it makes.
Had an excellent experience finding my last two places from Zillow - one in SD and one in Denver. Truly wonderfully luxury 1 beds at below market prices from landlords who had this as their only secondary property.

Tried the same thing with NYC and things went nowhere fast.
Note, there has actually been a jump from hearths (kitchens as living rooms, as you will find in almost all dutch art of this period) to separated kitchens (more of a Victorian and/or very upper class thing), and recently a return to a pseudo-hearth "kitchen as gathering space." But it's not precisely new.

I am somewhat surprised by your comment, because I do not think the contrasting painting is particularly closed (the ceilings are taller, I thnik), and the kitchen I designed for myself[1] is fairly open, though it is not as spacious or dependent on electric light (it is touched by a wall of southern windows). In some ways I consider the richo kitchen more claustrophic than open, owing to the large amount of upper cabinets. What makes the richo kitchen feel off, in terms of openness, is the hallway effect with the adjacent rooms. But my critique is mostly one of the materials making the space and the utilitarian feel.

[1] A couple images are here: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1450480908822265865

Note there are now two sets of shelves, we have been slowly adding to the kitchen since we built the house.
You're cherry picking. I can google "wrong person arrested" or similar and find 1000s of stories in the USA. The fact is Japan's conviction rate is lower than USA if you measure the same way. It's only because of the way it's measured that it appears to be higher.
{insert strawman here}

The US government doesn't do nearly enough to ensure the welfare of workers. If not being treated like shit by your employer bothers you have plenty of options.
For what it's worth, that was the legal situation in Germany until 1975 [1]. A shame in my opinion that even small-scale theft under extraordinary circumstances got handled as a full blown crime since then.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundraub
Either way we don't know

So when you want to talk about a subject you don't know, you take the formal route

What do you want to debate with: "Doctors in China been executing prisoners, using their hearts 4 transplantation"? to non chinese audience? "what?? chinese doctors are serial killers? they execute prisoners?"

So you first educate your audience and say: "it's actual death sentenced prisoners since china has Death Penalty"

Now this gives the ability for your audience to be educated about the matter and potentially be offended by Death Penalty

For the second part, it's all linked,

Doctors used that as a way to get prisoners organ, breaching the dead donor rule in China

Now instead of sayin "omg china bad", if you use my proposed title, you get to allow your audience to debate and react about both subjects

- Death Penalty

- Organ procurement abuses by doctors

The original title is biased and doesn't allow any debates, therefore any changes
> But they'll be competing against people that don't do that,

That's already the case, yet there is no way to escape. We need to go back to browsers that don't take over our computer (harvest personal info etc).
Imagine how people would react here if they were forced to film themselves every time they program something at work.
Tandy was just bringing the Model 4 up to par with the Model II/12/16, their business line. Those machines had high resolution (same 640x240) available as an option almost since their inception.
If it's simply a quality issue, then at the point that AI generated content becomes better than human generated content, will Google ban human generated content?
The cost for the average Bitcoin transaction is a lot higher than 15 cents. And likely to go higher as transaction fees make a higher and higher portion of miners' reward. The power use involved in mining "coin" does not simply pay for itself.
The Big Promise of Recommender Systems (2011) [pdf]
What do are you using spreadsheets for privately? I never dig deep into their capabilities, so I mostly use them to track expenses within some particular scope, e.g. healthcare. When I recently wanted to compare several loans and estimate our financial situation several years in the future, I wrote some Python code and used a Jupyter notebook to enter parameters and make plots. Has any of you done something similar using spreadsheets?

On a side note: I didn’t find a Python library for time series generation (not analysis). Something where you can build some models (e.g. loan, income, expenses) which depend on a common parameter (time) and then evaluate all your models for different values of the common parameter. Right now, I generate pandas series/dataframes and combine them afterwards, which also took some massaging of pandas (which I also usually don‘t use a lot).
This grinds my gears. I'm a part time at my office (govt contractor), and do more work in 20 hours than some others on my team do in 40. Restrictions on firing underperformers put us in the position of "needing" 40 hours in the workweek.
An apartment broker.

Just like when buying a house, an apartment broker works on behalf of the landlord or the tenant. They charge a fee which is a percentage of a year’s rent. It is negotiable.
Understood. So what I should be doing is trying create optimal solutions. Obviously completely optimal solutions on some of them could take hours, if not years to come up with. Those would be "you either know it or you don't" or you're the equivalent of Mozart when it comes to code. I am thinking I will work on some of those solutions today.
What if I am using a mouse without a scroll wheel?
The last thing you want to do late in the PhD process is get a new advisor. In many cases that is akin to starting over.
I find the flow in the US the simplest:

1. go to craigslist

2. play with the filter

3. add keywords in the search bar like "rent control" and "-studio"

4. go to the maps page

5. bookmark the page

6. check every day

In the US/France, there's too much fragmentation and real estate agents

In China I would go to the lady selling phone cards in the street and managed to visit a lot of apartments like that.
Land value tax solves this
Good! The grad student system is incredibly broken. Grad students are basically slaves at worst or indentured servants at best. The worst part is the universitys all know this and dont care because the university gets massive benifits from having highly educated slaves producing intellectual property that can be sold and licensed. The grad student of course gets no benifit from this. Its like the work for exposure BS except worse because the student often has no alternative. Especially foreign students on tight immigration visa deadlines.

Thus doesnt even start to touch the IP subject where universities are public funded and have no right to the IP produced there in the first place...
Since horizontal scanlines were visible in RGB CGA, it probably made a nice even grid on that display.

It may have also made a solid color on composite CGA.
Sure this is a valid strategy, one I've also employed, but I would prefer a world where we can be open about the fact that we don't actually work nearly as hard as we pretend to rather than the current situation. Dishonesty shouldn't be rewarded.

> It's a great thought, but I'd be fired pretty quickly if I tried that.

Hence the call for unionization.
Reverse-engineering the LM185 voltage reference chip and its bandgap reference
because not enough votes.
> Clean-room reproductions are valid defenses

No such defense exists. If you tried making your own Mickey Mouse cartoon, Disney would pursue a copyright infringement case against you and would almost certainly prevail. (There are some fair-use defenses permitted like parody, but mere “clean room reproduction” is not one of them.)

(IAAL but this is not legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney if you want legal advice - most definitely NOT HN.)
> Berlin politics

Berlin citizens. It's a public referendum.

> seizing landlords' properties

with 3000 or more units.

> defending against an illegal law

It's not a law and it will very likely never be one as it's pretty much against the constitution.
While I absolutely approve of this, I’m constantly amazed at how far we’re (and mainly the US) is willing to go for ridiculously small percentages of the population. Parkinson’s is estimated to be about 1% of the US, but now every pharmacy in the country needs to buy and stock these bottles?

Every time I’ve been to a pharmacy in the US in the last 20 years, they’ve had an option for “arthritis” bottles - something that isn’t child-proof, has a big top, etc. That is not going to help you dispense the medication, but it seems obvious it would help someone with Parkinson’s open it.

In Europe everything (literally everything) comes in a box in blister packs. I can’t imagine trying to open those with Parkinson’s.
$5/mo for 10 accounts is $50/mo in total. I don't know where you got the $500/mo from.

And that is a very reasonable price for a core service like email and not selling you data
Human filtering of AI creativity might work, but deepfakes mismatch with that. Personally I decided to make it a pattern that I unsubscribe from channels that use deepfakes since I saw Internet Historian using it and possibly adding to the already crippling confusion regarding UAPs. - IH is not a credible source anyway, but you can easily use the clips they produced without attribution.

I think the world will be a better place if everybody follows a similar pattern. The only reason to use deepfakes is if the victim who's identity is being stolen is not cooperating with you. - It's a new way to violate a person's integrity and their right to agency in our already fading grasp of reality. You could probably gaslight your girlfriend with it, if you are incomprehensibly evil.
This is the prime example of a phenomenal approach to aggregation of various data using various languages, in this case on about hunting for a decent apartment.

Absolutely stellar form of data science!

Keep up the great work!
I worked my ass off for the Indy. Actual cash out was not too painful. Modeled some projects. Fast!

I have to tell you Iris was a real treat. Best Computing experience I've had frankly.
For me the biggest change was to switch to working part time. I now work six hours a day instead of eight and don’t get mentally exhausted.

I have energy to work on my own projects or do whatever with the two free hours.

I don’t ever want to go back to full time, it’s so exhausting.
I'm speculating that the purpose would have been to avoid getting straight lines on top of the background look jagged.

Besides, it is also faster to render.
This is an incorrect oversimplification of copyright’s protections. Copyright is a bundle of exclusive rights, among them, the creation of derivative works.

(IAAL but this is not legal advice. Please consult a licensed attorney if you need legal advice, NOT HN.)
The discussion expanded upon this issue at length. I found this reference interesting:

>Aristotle used the term oligarchia to designate the rule of the few when it was exercised not by the best but by bad persons unjustly.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/oligarchy#:~:text=Aristotle...

The presumption of democracy as inherently virtuous was also explored. The counter point being that it is majoritarian rule, where the minority is subjugated.

As to the above poster, I'm not sure what his point was. If we consider it in the context of the discussion where Russian oligarchs are demonized as such, then we can also see where these same Russian oligarchs have been punished or even removed from their position by the Russian state. Typically this was when they went against the ruling political elite.

The discussion was interesting and perhaps the title does it injustice. However, I'm not sure how such a wide ranging topic could be effectively summarized in a single title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_oligarchs#:~:text=The%...
While true, I suspect most of the people who are looking for walkability want something more than a small town with a pub, a small market, and maybe a couple other stores/cafes/etc. I've stayed in many of those small towns and they can be very pleasant--but there's not a whole lot within easy walking distance.
I meant in 1968.
Essentially. In NYC, many real estate agents will represent the renter for a service fee, just like they represent the buyer in a purchase transaction. It supplements the income that comes from the higher-value (but much less regular) money that they get from sales.

There are agencies that make most of their business in this area, and generally have better rate structures (typically a month or two of rent, flat rate). Others want to charge you on a percentage basis, which you can negotiate, and obviously changes the incentive structure. All of these are "expensive" (relative to free), but worth it depending on how you value your time.

Other people are (rightly) noting that there is risk of getting a scammy real estate agent, but that's true of any service. You have to look at reviews and trust your gut. Good real estate agents are motivated to do the right thing for you, because they see it as a marketing channel into larger sales in the future. Bad real estate agents are in it only for the immediate cash. These people behave in such obviously different ways that they're pretty easy to discriminate, in practice.
I’m a middle manager at a company that is fully and completely embracing remote work, and I feel as needed as ever. It’s the bad middle managers who only know how to provide “value” by instilling fear and managing presence who should be afraid.
I also don’t like to work out in the morning, but if I’ve failed to hit the gym for a week, I switch to must doing this. The same goes for anything else overdue: Laundry, dishes, accounting, homework.

In the early hours I question myself less, and I just do what I asked myself to do the night before.
The Careless Display of Ill-Gotten Human Remains
I feel this way too, particularly about cleaning in the kitchen.

I don't love it any more than anyone else does, but adopting this type of mindset allows me to see the chore as an opportunity for peace and reflection rather than one more distasteful thing to slog through on my way to the grave.
That solution is bad. You have no idea what you’re missing out on by using an agent. You might think you had a good agent, but unless you’re already really familiar with the market, you could have missed out on significantly better matches and you wouldn’t even know.

You know how we know this is a solvable problem? Listings for places to buy don’t have nearly as many problems.
Please do say, what interesting incentives appear? :)
Even better to post a reference on a basic economic issue that is not coming from basically the most biased perspective possible.
I would take that pay cut in a heartbeat. And yes, I realize the cut won't be proportional, I just want to work fewer hours and still have healthcare and reasonable pay for the time worked.
The inflation rate might have peaked under Carter (13%), but not by a lot. The annual inflation rate was 11% in 1974.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/infl...

It blows my mind to think that Nixon, in an effort to combat inflation, unilaterally decreed that there would be price and wage freezes across the board. There was certainly dissent and discussion about it, but nobody stormed the capital, nobody called for blood. Imagine what would happen today if Biden tried the same edict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
It will be hard because India likes to buy from Russia recently and doesn't see a problem with invasion.
Yes, it could be one of many scenarios including the one you mention. It could also be that the child of the US citizen was born in Mexico perhaps during a vacation or prolonged stay.

For that child to become a US citizen would take at least 20 years and perhaps much longer to the point it would not be feasible, like in the case of the author.
> That's already the case

How is anybody accepting micro payments currently? What technology do they use?
On reading your original post again, what you experienced (both being super exhausted after work, and a shower helping) resonates with my what I felt early on in my career.

Things that helped were
- Take care of primary needs during the workday. Eat, drink, bathroom breaks. The basics. I could get so caught up I would forget about those things.

- More experience helps. Work is still incredibly taxing mentally, but as I've grown a bit more battle worn I don't have to second guess whether my work is good enough all the time, which is also exhausting. Being introverted, having been in the same place for a while (not to mention - being remote) also helps, I'm not being bombarded with people I don't know any more since I know them all.

- Having kids was brutal in terms of taking time and energy, but luckily it somehow came with an 'extra gear' to cope with it. Totally worth it though, I can only hope it becomes an option for you with time

- I also found that having a plan for what to eat after work was worthwhile, so I didn't have to think - just cook it and eat it.

- If something work relates is spinning in your head, write yourself an email about it and postpone it until tomorrow.

Not sure if any of this is helpful to you, but worth a shot :)
>While I absolutely approve of this, I’m constantly amazed at how far we’re (and mainly the US) is willing to go for ridiculously small percentages of the population. Parkinson’s is estimated to be about 1% of the US, but now every pharmacy in the country needs to buy and stock these bottles?

Where did it say anyone has to stock these bottles? The article describes people who are 3D printing them: "Because of this thousands of people responded to Brian’s post and are now printing the bottle."
In other countries, not in the USA, I've never once had a good experience with renting via an agent.

It seems it's in their job description to try to convince me to pay more for less. They listen carefully to my requirements and then take me to places that don't match at all.

I guess they figure since I've taken my entire afternoon with them, and since they've been friendly, I might give up on what I'm looking for and rent whatever it is they decided to shill that day.

Of all the countries I've rented in and had occasion to interact with agents, ones in Turkey behaved the most like cartoon caricatures: they use every sitcom used car salesman trick in the book. It would be funny to watch, except that they're perpetually wasting their time and mine.
It does. The people assigning grants know and will take it into account.
"Then, when work is the thing you spend the minority of your time on, you start to ask yourself "why am I doing this at all?""

Crap! And i thought i was anonymous here.
Really there are just too many managers doing too little work. They seem busy because they're in meetings 40 hours a week. 40 emails would be about as productive, and free up half their week (so they could do twice as much, hence we would need half as many).
Interesting details brought up here about location specifics.
At least in Zurich most ads contain an address. I fed it to google maps api to get the time by bike to my workplace which gave us some cheaper options we wouldn't have considered before. We also ended up taking/getting the one with the worst pictures.
Imagine someone would scrape all platforms for your city of choice and aggregate those with some value added and maybe automatically apply with your personal documents to make sure your application gets in first even when you're busy, what would it be worth to you? Despite local differences it might still scale.
Decoding the video manually seems so much overkill when all that's needed would essentially be a currentFrame property. But it seems I have to explore this avenue as well. I only aim to support Chrome and Firefox but as much as I hate to admit it, Firefox is somewhat lacking on the video side anyway (as there is a bug that lets it display different video frames for the same currentTime than other browsers or FFmpeg [1]). Therefore I already discourage using Firefox for video annotation.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1735300
Yes, anything is better than nothing.

Lately, 5-10 minutes of yin yoga and 20 minutes of walking is what I can prioritise.

Just having a walking break during work is great; three people at my office do that.
>without interference from the government.

I don't see the corps giving up all the advantages they have such as mandatory arbitration and the like. It wouldn't be an equal negotiating table for the vast majority of people.