skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making a bad deal is perfectly legal. Lying about the product you're offering is not.

OpenDoor was reportedly making several false claims, including "we make money from fees (and not by immediately reselling your house for a profit because we bought it below market value)" or "we charge about the same in repair costs as you'd pay on the open market" or "we buy your house at market value (and not intentionally below what we think is market value)."
That sucks, hopefully you'll find some that work better.

It used to be kind of like that for me, though me feeling guilty to let people down usually made me fight to barely make it. It's day and night now, I just sit down in the morning and get to work. It helps that they let me hunt squirrels as long as I make enough progress on the main topics, but even things where the work is super boring you just need to put the hours in is now just "okay, works for me" where it would have been a week of agonizing start, work 30 minutes, pause for 3 hours. I've been more productive in the past two years than I have been in the ten years before that.
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He's not missing the point, he's outright saying that statement is true because of the reasons he gave?
Potential unexpected bad effects, Whales might have been wiped out for their oil?

Likely that we wouldn't have any trees left, either, were it not for coal. I'm going to get this a bit wrong, but my understanding is that what with making iron implements (whether swords or plowshares) and the like, England was on its way to being stripped of trees. Then coal was discovered. (There was a whole article months ago on HN, talking about iron production, and this particular point. Damned if I can find it, though.)
I thought Discord is mostly webview-powered, is it not? If so, this change will make very little difference to the user.
Yep. That's why I'm amazed this article gets reposted so often like it's sage wisdom and not a wealthy Western writer complaining that Singapore doesn't have enough poverty and crime to inspire books about dystopian futures (with a bit on Singapore's same-as-all-the-neighbouring-countries draconian drug laws lest anyone conclude it sounds quite nice actually)

Not sure Kowloon Walled City was notable for vibrant nightlife, producing great art or being merciful to people caught competing with local drug cartels either.
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the declaration of independence is ~1300 words. a half-assed attempt at counting the words in the article (minus of the copy of the declaration that it contains) comes up with about ~10900 words. is that strange?

what ratio isn't strange?
In order for this to work, we need to understand why the US and Japan are behind Taiwan in this technology in the first place. For TSMC, as a foundry, their value is maximized by their ability to fabricate devices that semiconductor design companies cannot fabricate themselves.

Intel and Toshiba apparently don't see cutting edge device scale as a differentiator and so far haven't invested (enough) in matching TSMC in that arena.

There is very little chance, IMHO, that establishing and funding an independent organization to pursue 2nm will yield the desired results. Providing funding tranched on a results basis to existing firms stands a much better chance, provided that they are permitted to pursue 2 nm fabrication without sharing what they've learned, so they gain the benefit of the effort. If that were the approach, I don't see why the US and Japan need to collaborate at all.

Seems more like narrative-supporting publicity than anything else. Ugh.
Software distribution becomes distinctly more complicated if you're running multiple distros. As is, I can install a lot of software from an internal apt. Saying "hey now we need to maintain an internal yum and pacman and also deploy internal packages to those" or alternatively come up with some bespoke cross platform binary distribution method seems effortful.
no, here you are wrong, mate. Having mechanical (or any other) control for your dishwasher or washing machine is a VERY bad idea. also for your engine timing and sensor evaluation in your car, also planes, also, basically, everything. I understand the notion where you wonder "WTF there is a WiFi in my freackn OVEN?!" and "WHY THE HELL WE HAVE LCD SCREENS HERE?!", but in general microcontroller is a FAR superior and __safer__ controlling contraption than everything else humanity have ever devised.
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We have been burned very badly by vendor lock-in in the past so we now have policies against renting other companies computers.
Unsurprised to be honest. I have access to a few HPC resource in various HPC center, all the the newer clusters (from ~2yrs) are using AMD EPYC CPUs. These are traditionally the market for Intel. Landscape doesn't look good for Intel.
I am a pretty hardcore AMD fan, but fair is fair:

> whatever is gong on with 10nm

The modern 'nanometer system' is nothing more than a bizarre versioning scheme (specifically its usually the 'major' portion of a semver), and you wouldn't be able to identify a physical thing to measure to compare different fabs.

Intel wouldn't have been competitive if they were still on their own 14nm process.
I've bought several tech books in the past month such as Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasak, none were fake. I think you'd get less push back if your rephrased the original post as more of a warning that books ordered may be fake.
IIRC, you'd still pay some 'commission' fee, but it was to opendoor itself. It was listed in their offer breakdowns, just downplayed a bit. Yeah, perhaps it's 'only' 3%, but then buffering in another 4% for maintenance updates on the house brings it to 7% (for example). Some of that you might get in traditional sales anyway - sale contingent on seller fixing floors/windows/etc.

I got 3 offers from opendoor over about an 18 period. We were on the fence about moving, and explored opendoor and Zillow house buying, to save us some hassle. The offers were easy to see that they were lower than 'market'. Part of what you're paying for is convenience and timing. Is it worth it to me to 'lose' $10k off what I might make in the 'open market' if it means I know for sure the house will be sold on a certain date? IIRC, also, one of those companies offered some discount on their fees if you were buying another one of their houses in their portfolio.

What I did see in our area (slightly rural area) was a year or so of buyers like opendoor coming in with offers fairly low, then flipping and reselling, and making that spread, but fairly quickly. A $300k house they might have picked up for $270k then flipped 2-3 months later for $340k.
Technically, yeah. But not really.

In the last 30 years, Singapore has executed more than 400 people (Wikipedia has stats for 470, but is also missing the counts for many years.) Most for drug offenses. In the same time-frame, California has executed 13 people. And none in the last 16 years, and none for drug offenses.
Could a DAO build the next great city?
I would prefer something actually native, instead of a switch from one bad web based thing to another.
What's the very old con?
That’s kind of like hunters who buy expensive camo and then their wife washes it with laundry detergent that contains brightening agents. To human eyes it still looks like camo, but to the deer you end up looking like Barney the Dinosaur.
Spyware developer charged by Australian Police after 14,500 sales
I'd love to know the difference between seasoning on cast iron vs carbon steel, it seems harder to do carbon steel well, but I do think it gets to be more "non stick" than cast iron ever does.
Most builds are divided into two phases. The first phase "do we have libfoo installed, where is doxygen, are tests enabled" is run infrequently. The second phase "recompile everything that needs to be recompiled" is run over and over again. The second phase is more or less a solved problem now given that Ninja exists. The first phase is where a lot of people have different ideas and tastes, so we get cmake, meson, autotools, etc.

You can certainly do everything in one system. In practice this seems to lead to a build process that is much slower than it needs to be, see for instance Scons.
Yes to all that.

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Complaint%20%28...
> iBuying is a business and your paying for the convenience of them taking your home as-is

If that was the case then OpenDoor wouldn't have "asked sellers to pay for home repair costs that were higher than what people would typically spend on repairs in a market sale".

That's not my definition of "as-is", is it yours?
You should use enterprise value (mkt cap + debt - cash), not market cap for that type of comparison. It takes into account the fact that most other car companies are levered but not Tesla. Shows Tesla still very big (overvalued IMO) but not by the same ridiculous margin.
You can skip the tar pit of the Scrum Industrial complex (e.g. "here! you MUST take our certificate program!") and the drag setting pointless sprint boundaries and focus on just repeatedly, successfully, ship high quality software. The Accelerate book is a very good starting point - https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Techno...
Under that logic and reasoning any joy or happiness the child experiences can also be traced back to the parents decision to bring them into the world.
This thread is funny, reads like a gamblers support forum
Thanks.. But until your electron density matches what?
The idea that other companies are now rolling out their first EVs is complete nonsense. The argument 'competition is coming' I have been hearing since 2014.

There are many EV that came out that most people don't know much about since they were not produced in large numbers.

And we should also consider that the battery space is running into material shortages and Tesla had the longest to prepare for that and are the largest buyer of battery materials/batteries on the plant.

Other companies might want to sell more EV, but they will literally not be able to.
This. Geopolitics is everything.
My parent house is along the Tour de France route, but despite that I've never heard of the existence of the women's Tour de France. It might be one of the many reasons why winners of this tournament win less money overall.
Who cares how cash was intended to be like 100 years ago, it rationally bears no relevance to how it should be done today. I said they are not supposed to be private, not that they weren't.

The IRS sets a cash threshold above which you are required to manually report the personal information of the payer (ie Form 8300). The headline notes the Israeli threshold at 6000 shekels, the IRS sets it at 10000 dollars. We've established the threshold, we're just haggling over the number.

I never expressed any intention to allow people to hide from the government based on technical hacks that won't realistically be known or used by most people anyway. If you don't want government to read your stuff, that's the law's/legislature's job to determine that, like the Stored Communications Act. While criminals and citizens alike have equal access to technical loopholes, the law alone distinguishes between them.

Financial crime is the backbone of organized crime, it is the foundation of hostile spycraft and funds the most depraved regimes. I absolutely refuse to regress to the era where the mafia and cartel leaders ruled the streets and stood toe to toe with law enforcement. Anti-laundering laws are written in blood and they are designed to prevent those scenarios, not tie law enforcement hands then blame them for not working hard enough. You're going to have to do more than spout libertarian cliches to convince anyone.
Their reason for switching to react native is to address these issues
There are, it seems, a few aspects that went into the seemingly-obviously-poor decision to go with UCP.

The first is that the criteria that appears to have been most important was performance in near-IR (i.e., night vision). Humans can't see in NIR themselves, so it's not readily apparent that the UCP is actually pretty good camo in NIR conditions. It's pretty atrocious in visible light, though.

The second is the requirement that the camo pattern be good in all environments. And "standard" woodland patterns to be utterly horrendous in sandy desert environments, while desert patterns do similarly bad in woodland environments. And you can see how something like the UCP might score well--while it's not a good camo pattern for any visible pattern, it sticks out less than a standard woodland in desert or vice versa. Of course, there were other patterns at that time that performed strictly better than UCP in all environments (save NIR).

The main kicker, though, is that the winning pattern seems to have been constructed out of elements of all the participating patterns... with no follow-up work done to make sure that the resulting combination actually worked. As you say, this is where some tests would have saved an awful lot of embarrassment, and my suspicion is these tests were not run for either time or money reasons. (And yes, this is a false economy here, but it's one that I can really believe bureaucracies pursuing).

There is historical precedence for this kind of short-sightedness however: the Mark 14 Torpedo, the main torpedo the US used in WW2. Which didn't work, and the Navy's Board of Ordnance took a couple years (and ultimately an unsanctioned live-fire test demonstrating that it didn't work) to be convinced that they actually didn't work rather than the submariners being packs of incompetent morons.
Charles Henry Turner: study of insect behavior in the early 20th century
Patent for hydrino-based power generation
Last night a lady was having trouble with her card, not sure why... took minutes and everyone was annoyed while we waited.

Later, I handed the cashier two twenties and change was dispensed from a mechanical dispenser. Took ten seconds or so, plus or minus.

No, I don't use any of those shitty products you mention.
Ask HN: Assuming any barrier could be overcome, what API do you wish existed?
Assuming ANY barrier could be overcome, I have a few ideas.

1. API for accessing apps in a smartphone:

I wish I could pull all the new messages from every walled garden chat app and view it in one place. I wish I could set a reminder to respond or follow up in every app. I wish I could have all my late night messages held and only sent in the morning. I could even have my phone automatically dial to different friends and family on a schedule.

2. API for confirming charges on physical credit cards:

I wish I could have it check code I wrote. I could have it only charge within a daily budget, at certain stores, at specific times, maybe even for specific items. I could hand out charity cards to those in need that only allow $100 a day for cell phone plans and fast food chains for instance. The bonus to this is fraud would go way down.

3. API for where people are physically gathered in a city:

Is this bar popular right? What will the wait be for the that restaurant next door? You could plan a whole day based on this. Even better if it breaks it all down by demographics. Is there an event in the park with people around my age?
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Bolt Mobility has vanished leaving e-bikes and calls behind in several US cities
Opendoor technologies(OPEN) is currently trading at $4.79, way below their all time high of $35.88 back in Feb 2021. They went public via SPAC merger with IPOB on Dec 18, 2020.

Some might say that they are not doing very good.
They're working with the Japanese, so I think there will be good results.
Congrats on the launch. I like the clean design, reminds me of google reader. Which begs the question - how are you guys planning to support yourselves?
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react native =/= electron (and similar frameworks like CEF). The former uses native widgets. The latter uses HTML/CSS rendered by a browser layout engine.
I'm working on my competitive programming skills.

Looking to get back into doing TopCoder after a 10 year break.
A lot of "serverless" is functions (i.e. backend or app server), but I would probably also say most apps would be fine on Hasura [0], a GraphQL-API-on-your-Postgres-as-a-service. I've built a couple apps this way and now I cringe at the prospect of building yet another CRUD backend.

Hasura + [some kind of FaaS] is great; definitely recommend considering this stack.

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Just replying to say how amazed I am that a domain name like radar.com was available in 2022.
u can cure type 2 if u have it quite easy. i recomend books by jason fung, diabetes code and obesity code.
That's what I do as well with tail lights of cars. There is a clear distinction between LED and normal lights: the LED's form a trail of dots.
You think that’s bad? Check out the article for the Gettysburg Address (272 words).
On the desktop I don't think there's much value in it. Electron is much more compatible with the web, requires less platform specific work, and doesn't really come at a significant performance or UX cost.
> I have read many of these books, and don't think its much of a concern because they often don't even agree with each other, and anyone paying the slightest attention to what they are reading will wrestle with the tension.

I'm not sure you're the norm, at the very least a large number of engineers I've interacted with or mentored have come away from these books with either an explicit belief in these hard rules or an implicit one.

I've found Uncle Bob's work tends to be particularly bad in getting engineers into this mind set (though maybe I over-indexed because I think so much of his advice is bad).
Related:

You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29769275 - Jan 2022 (3 comments)

“You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are?” (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591535 - June 2020 (200 comments)

You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18850203 - Jan 2019 (12 comments)

You want to know something about how bullshit insane our brains are? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17724178 - Aug 2018 (2 comments)
Let's say my home would sell on the open market for... $260k. Got an offer from opendoor indicating they'd offer me $240k, but then I also had to factor in another $13k for their estimated repairs, so my final 'in my pocket' amount was $227k. That's a non-trivial diff, because I could likely have gotten closer to $260k on open market, then negotiated $10k or so with buyer (to get needed repairs in place by sale date).

You're paying for convenience, and while I didn't find the opendoor written offers completely confusing, it did seem a little... misdirection-y.
dentists don't like this type of innovation...
Reminds me of Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance. Unlikely (to my way of thinking), but is an amusing alternative explanation of why breakthroughs happen at the same time (it's all those minds resonating through spooky action at a distance, not quite like the clocks on Huygen's shelf but loosely analogous).
I had the same problem! Surprised to find the diagnosis on HN!
Messaging Apps Tapped as Platform for Cybercriminal Activity
Did the even more successful engineers liked the experience more or less than you?
> I much prefer being somewhere that has everything- grimey to super nice and flashy.

The psychological trait of Orderliness definitely plays into both the aesthetic qualities and the deference to authority within a society.

I prefer the clean and flashy aesthetic to a grimey one, but I probably prefer a more natural, organic aesthetic to either.

While I think many politically right-leaning people (like myself) see a lot to admire in Singapore, my own response is more measured. Like you noted, the authoritarian nature of such a state can come across as paternalistic, whereas I would rather be treated as an autonomous adult.
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I would love this! It could put plaid and Venmo out of business, but for some reason the banks haven’t done this. Again why I say this is the banks’ fault.
Great article and important message.

> Lifting the phone should not unlock it. This setting is called “Display & Brightness/Activate on Lift” on the iPhone

On my phone it's called "Raise to Wake". I didn't know that you could turn this off, but I just did so because it's inconsistent and sometimes doesn't work. I like predictable behavior, even at a minor cost to convenience.
I think the brutal slaughter of Khashoggi is why people pay more attention to Saudi Arabia now than before. Until then the crown was viewed as a unique country prone to excessive wealth displays, but since has become something a bit more ominous.

I'm glad investments are being made in renewable energy sources. I hope they leverage the same comparative advantages as fossil fuels gave the country and allow for continued investment and growth.
This has been treated as a foregone conclusion and upon closer inspection is more myth than fact. At the most generous: the concept of prolonged nuclear winter really stretches atmospheric climate models.
Interesting. So you'd prefer all the "great ideas" to come from a select few in the C-suite?
Research into new manufacturing technologies and building out more capacity in mature technologies do not draw from the same resource pools.
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