skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny story.

I have three domains (.com, .org, and .net) of my [first initial][last name][.tld]. Have had them for a long time.

A defense law firm in Australia, set up a domain, with [first initial][last name].com.au

I used to get regular emails, with terrifyingly personal stuff in them. Many of these emails came from Australian government/court orgs. They probably could have been sued into the mantle for some of the stuff (like juvenile criminal proceedings), that got sent to some random Yank in New York.

I was always careful to forward everything I got to the lawyers, along with contacting the courts, and letting them know their mistake.

In a couple of instances, I was thanked. In most, I was ignored.

No one ever tried the barratry route with me. I actually probably would have sold them my domains at cost, if they had asked, but they never did.

I haven't gotten one of those emails in years. I have no idea why.
Ask HN: GPT Real Estate Agent
Thoughts on configuring GPT to act as an intelligent real estate agent assistant?

As an renter, landlord, and investor, there is an enormous volume of redundancy and ignorant questions asked by prospective renters and buyers.

The logic would be the system would retrieve MLS data to answer properly specific questions, schedule showings, assist people with screening or applications and the agent could oversee the communication to intercept it at any time.

Then, long-term, voice AI and later replace apartment rentals with AI that posts rental listings on various websites.
Technological and Scientific Blind Spots
I don’t think the comparison makes the point you’re trying for: iPhones became part of people’s lives quickly – I remember executives suddenly pushing for mobile websites – and people who had them used them heavily & inspired other people to buy them.

VR costs more and has been on the opposite trajectory: the only thing you ever hear people be excited by are a handful of games (and maybe VRChat for a few communities) and the way it requires dedicated space & excludes other people means that even the enthusiasts I know don’t really use it much. I think decades of sci-fi created some demand but I think it’s still in the Palm Pilot era, especially for the number of devices purchased by people who thought they’d use them more.
That’s not what you said though, better or worse is just moving the goal posts, and it’s of course contextual and relative. And no, by my logic most software is bad, not all, and I would actually say that’s true.
It was widely reported that the Conservative party moved their internal communications to Signal in 2019. I wonder if they still use it?
I have been on both sides of the fence on this one...and it's rough. There are/ were people making ludicrous amounts money that did nothing, or openly did a second job.But it didn't matter because there's free money, and the workaholics made up for them, and management was too busy patting themselves on the back. Now there's "productivity goals", and pressure and an everpresent threat of layoff. I see people working late , overworking and trying to game the metrics.
They're not really small state, and have never been. They're small state about certain things.

They're small state about consumer protections to make it easier for their corrupting donors to pillage Britain and it's workers. They're small state about not letting public bodies solve big problems like forbidding councils from building houses.

They're big state about controlling the population. They're big state about centralizing government control. They're big state about gerrymandering to impose a minority view on the population.

Very much like the Republican party.
+1 one for exercise tracker. I got the Fitbit Luxe a couple of years and I have been wearing it every time for exercise to get points. A bit like gamification.

Highly recommended. It's small enough that i don't notice it.
> My biggest issue is that controversial opinions are buried.

I very rarely see dead comments that did not deserve it (including occasionally my own), and I see all of them in the threads I read. Do you have any example?

> On any topic, there is an acceptable HN Overton window of acceptable opinions and it skews very Silicon Valley.

Reasonably constructed comments can be downvoted, but are very rarely hidden. And the tone of the community varies dramatically depending on the story and its subject. HN is not a homogenous hive mind.
I saw a variation on this. Mostly with old legacy systems. At a well known grocery store chain (GSC) in Sweden they decided to outsource their IT department. Then realised that noone understood the AS/400 systems, so the outsourcing company hired the old GSC IT employees back at a much higher salary. One I spoke with basically tripled her salary as she was not interested to come back and wanted to scare off the recruiter and gave what she though was a fantasy number as monthly salary, and the recruiter accepted it within the hour.

An other guy I've spoken to, who is a retired sales person, and this is way back, he's dead now. He still got sales consultancy work from his old employer in the 1990s and early 2000's because he was the only person a very large Japanese company would deal with and refused to have their account managed by anyone else but in return they would not shopp around for cheaper prices. Apparently the guy had managed to impress during Nomenkai during the 1980s, and I think he managed to save the customers CEO's face in an unrelated matter without realising it until later.
That may depend on whether operating systems (including app stores and package managers) are also regulated, e.g. via the EU Cyber-Resilience Act, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34760173
Why spend the money defending a $5 domain name, especially when you're not making any money by having it?

It's just a name, and if you're not a registered company, you're going to be seen as a squatter no matter what.

All I'm suggesting is to be prepared to have the domain ownership contested and have a backup if you have to change domains.
No Mossad conspiracy theories needed on Amdocs. Aren't they a major supplier of CALEA interception equipment to US law enforcement agencies?
I think most people phone their real estate agent in order to speak to a real person. They don't want to send messages.
Don't Tayloe mixers also suffer from mixing on the odd harmonics due to the square wave LO?

The article does mention the sampling caps like in Tayloe mixers, but also talks about charge stacking.

I'd have to hunt down the actual paper to know properly.
I too suffered from a very high "wtf per minute" rate when reading this article.

GPTZero thinks it's written by a human, for what its worth... i guess the author is a bit confused or unable to clearly articulate ideas.
This comment is true on the facts, but militates for what I consider to be a poor conclusion. I know a lot of people who talk this way, and it's usually those who are best positioned to defend themselves from surveillance. This is annoying to me because giving up on surveillance defense doesn't really make sense in the long term for individuals, and we need technical experts in the resistance.

Try to remember that policy, law, and major social trends tend to have slower feedback loops than other machines. It's hard to know today where we will innovate that will ultimately make a contribution to societal progress, but I can tell you with pretty high certainty that giving up won't help change anything for the better.

Like the lady said, "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable--but then, so did the divine right of kings."
Progressive prices that way. Not all insurers do. Some will just drop you with an accident others have grace periods.

With car insurance, it’s all about price in most states. You should be shopping annually if you want to optimize for price. That may vary in a place like New Hampshire or Florida that is more lax from a regulatory perspective - cheap insurance there may be too cheap.

Age, car, history, address tend to matter. As a boring 40 something, I’m paying less for $0 deductible, $1M limit insurance than I did for a 100/300 $2500 deductible 10 years ago. If you drive a Tesla, live in Brooklyn and have moving violations, forget it.
Many use phone number validation/verification services that know if it's a personal or business number.
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Was it $5? I had the impression the OP paid more.

> I spent like a year or so to save up for it, which cost roughly 6 months of average net salaries in my country about 7 years ago.
>As we also open the ability for applications to be uploaded in binary form, which is essential for low-friction compatibility with popular language-specific build systems such as Electron/Node, Rust, Go, etc - we also reduce the ability for users to scrutinise the source in the Flathub build system that was used to build their application.

This is unacceptable. Open-source apps should always be built from source on a trusted infrastructure and ideally the builds should be reproducible. Otherwise, one of the main benefits of open-source software -- ability to verify its security -- is completely lost.

Fortunately, Flatpak != Flathub. There is also Fedora's flatpak repository and that's what I'm using. It doesn't have as many apps as Flathub, but their number is growing.

I prefer flatpaks to RPMs because of the sandboxing feature. While it's not perfect yet, I like that I can forbid most of my apps to access the network and to limit access to the filesystem and other system parts for apps that require network as much as possible. As a result, the trusted base of my system can be reduced significantly (and the base system can then use other method to confine its processes which on Fedora is SELinux).

Another benefit of Flatpak over traditional packaging systems is that it's a cross-distro package manager and the apps can be installed on any Linux distribution. Even if we end up with multiple Flatpak repositories like Flathub and Fedora Flatpaks with different approaches and philosophies, users of any Linux-based OS can then install apps from any repository they like, and OS developers can focus on the base system.

So in general I like Flatpak and I think it's a step in the right direction, but I can't say the same about Flathub. For me it's unacceptable to install anything from Flathub unless they fix their supply chain security flaws.
This is... just management.

You've got middle managers (directors) who link teams with leadership priorities. You've got line managers (tech leads) who are in charge of ensuring that work gets done.
Things have changed a lot since 2017. In 2017, I wouldn't touch KDE with a barge pole because I had work to do and it would disassemble itself if I looked at it funny.

Now I'm writing this reply from KDE, quite comfortably, and it's quite stable. Comfortable, even. And it doesn't get stupid and die when I plug/unplug monitors and stuff.
What I’ve found from our Tailwind codebase is this:

If you have a design system, Tailwind.config can be used to both extend and limit the classes. Notably, we cut all tailwind colors out and only define theme colors. We also define all sizing, shadows, and text styles around our design system. This constrains your design down to only “legal” values. This doesn’t mean every design will be magically right, but it separates the possibility of non-standard values out at the very least and has actually caught bad mocks as well.

I think, to me, tailwind isn’t done and I need one thing: let me group classes with modifiers.

I want xl:[text-bold p-4] instead of xl:text-bold xl:p-4

Ultimately I don’t think tailwind is perfect at all…but no CSS framework is. In fact, I think part of the reason it is a hit is because mixing custom components with both custom css AND bootstrap is a mess as well in the real world. At least Tailwind has a single source of truth.
I'd say that's _because_ it's an old app that hasn't been rewritten ground up to take advantage of modern hardware resources.
Why did you bother to register your phone then? I've used many smartphones and never registered any of them. I wouldn't give the time of day to Google or Apple let alone my personal details.

Similarly, I use Firefox on Linux but I also regularly browse the web or post to HN on a phone that's been heavily deloused of Google using Firefox and other browsers—but never Chrome.
I mean even stripe is just paypal isn't it
FOSSDA: Preserving the history of open-source and free software
Expiry date is in 2029, if he passed on, they'll have to talk to the estate. It's also possible they don't know he died.
The article defends parts of spammers as legitimate industry that for now remains legal in USA.

Hopefully it will change.
But that's why I have Peloton and other gym equipment at home.
At work I have about 500k words of AsciiDoctor source, and everyone (developers + document authors) is pleased with it.

That looks like a minor issue in GitHub's stylesheet, not really an AsciiDoctor problem.
Same product every time. Not every accelerator took equity. Some were government or university sponsored programs.
This may ultimately be a positive outcome for those involved with Figma.

Consider Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, which were acquired at what proved to be bargain prices. The founders came to regret the transaction, while Mr. Zuckerberg appeared prescient.

Although it may appear to be a challenging and lengthy path for Figma to achieve the acquisition premium on its own, I am of the belief that it is a more attainable goal than it may seem.

Moreover, it is worth noting that Adobe not only has the potential to be disrupted, but it is in fact in need of it. The company has been met with widespread criticism for various reasons, and as such, it presents an opportune market for Figma to capitalize upon.
I'm told I was stopped from walking to school around the age of 10 (which did involve crossing a very busy road without any safe crossing apparatus) because someone reported it to the headmaster who then asked my parents to put a stop to it.

I don't remember it well enough to comment
Some states allow for really awful insurance programs.

Florida allows minimum coverage as low as $10k in liability. They also like collecting fees and are very lax in enforcement for passenger cars for plates, etc. Thats why you’ll see hooptie mobiles with Florida plates all over the place.
In the current wording: yes, you can go encrypt your messages with PGP before sending them.

However, the worst-case scenario is that Ofcom would then say to Apple and Google: "Hey, you are communication service providers (thanks to iMessage and Google Messages/Chat/etc). We believe you are failing to adequately block illegal content. Therefore we legally require you to perform content moderation. And given you also provide the operating system for your services, and given you've already demonstrated you are willing to do client-side scanning at the OS layer (https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/apple-csam-child-...) clearly we expect you to scan for illegal content in the OS. Therefore, please scan all content for illegal content, otherwise we'll send your UK-based staff to jail. By the way, have you considered putting scanning in the graphics pipeline? Then we can make sure that you do OCR and image-classification on all pixels that users see, to make sure that after users PGP-decrypt their messages we can spot words like 'bomb' or worse, and send evidence through Apple/Google's moderation teams, so they can be able to block the illegal content and uphold their obligations to report CSAM etc to the authorities."

To be clear, this is a worst-case scenario, but it's the logical extrapolation of what the OSB allows. (That said, IANAL).
Probably snail.
They picked a bad registrar for a .com then, because they're dirt cheap.
Technically the board is responsible for all shareholders but his extra voting rights means he can force it to give him preferential treatment. The reason the deal was secret is probably to try to stop any shareholder lawsuits.

> The board has a fiduciary duty with respect to the shareholders; that is, the board has financial and other responsibilities to keep the corporation running efficiently so the shareholders don't lose money."

https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/advocacy/issues/board-respon...
Stratechery did a really good analysis of why the Blizzard acquisition should go ahead.
96% vaccine effectiveness! Into absolute uselessness when deployed to the masses.

As someone who believed them and took the vaccine, that was the last time I'm trusting medical research. I won't be fooled again, and from now on research won't be enough to make any personal decision, I'm waiting until independent evaluation in the real world happens and there are enough anecdotes to see that it really works as advertised.

The entire coronavirus debacle has corroded the trust in medical establishment to zero. I think it's justified and we've just been ignorant to the fraud, it took a lie so big and obvious to really wake people up.
First I have heard of Penpot.

Do you have a favorite link that gives more insight on why you want it at the top?
>> Except Walmart has to follow certain standards to ensure the products it sells are legitimate.

And so Walmart makes a solid effort to ensure they know who they are buying product from.
You should play competitively so you can understand the problem first hand.

Otherwise, you're just doing what the previous generation did mocking people with their 'nintendos' because the problem is not relatable.
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Hiding “Open in App” Annoyances
It's not always the case that production is made intentionally low. There are actual limits to how much times a chemical/biochemical production process can be run in a given year. I'm actually learning this the hard way with one biotech project.

The alternative might be a $200 million dollar production facility which may not even be feasible to cater to the excess of consumers. Or which may be too excessive for the excess of consumers targeted.
"Those MLM videos dont represent real startup/tech culture"

For the record, I agree with you.
One Weird Trick to Improve Bug Finding with ASAN – Fuzzing Weekly CW8
There is no link here. Perhaps try resubmitting with a link.
He was someone with several millions of dollars to burn and apparently not a lot of business sense.

He could have just sold the domain for a ton of money and had Nissan give him uzi.nissan.com in perpetuity, for example.

I mean, I'm all for freedom and all, but being smart about things is also a solid guiding principle.

Edit:

Ah, he agreed at some point:

> “Who the hell wants to buy a computer from a company that’s in a lawsuit with a giant like Nissan Motor?” he said. “I would have let it go first day if I knew what I would have to go through, and what it would do to me and my family,” Uzi told Jalopnik. “I was driven 99.9 percent out of business.”

> “Court proceedings were going every week,” he added. “I had to read hundreds of pages of proceedings and make sure they are correct. The best attorneys will make mistakes. You know your story more than anybody else. And then you don’t have time for anything else.”
> To break it down - probability is about possible results, whilst likelihood is about hypotheses.

Nooooo. I want to report this article to the fake news / harmful speech authorities. Never a better case has been made against free speech and pro censorship.
Nice, yeah let me know if you want to chat further, feel free to send an email to jacob@depot.dev or the address in my profile. It would be really useful for us to know more about how you have things structured in GCP, etc.
I strongly believe (as a citizen) that the UK will collapse within my lifetime (before 2070), even without outside interference.

There's just so little positive momentum in the country, and that's reflected at all levels, and in the British public.

Our politics speaks for itself. We've had a rut of populist leaders because of a populist platform, that every economist, organisation, foreign country said was a stupid idea, and which has and will continue to decrease the standard of living for people of the UK. Despite this, including a currently unelected prime minister, and one partially elected (by 20,000 or so people) who almost wiped out an entire generations pensions, the next election will rally against immigrants or something and easily be a +10 CON, because the voting bloc are dense and easily manipulated by the media.

We have a healthcare system which has already collapsed. Ambulance wait times, doctor appointment wait times etc. now pose a threat to health should something go wrong with you. Mental health, as the article describes, is in collapse. As is physical health. 64% of adults are overweight/obese, the same for 22% of 4 to 5 year olds, and 37% of 10-11. Almost a quarter of 10 year olds are obese! Smoking surged during the Covid pandemic (because people "were bored") and while there's nothing to suggest problems at this time, vaping is increasingly prevalent. Alcohol use is basically ingrained in social life, and binge drinking is common amongst students. The population is overwhelmingly sedentary. Olympic/international sporting success is massively misleading as these athletes represent the cream of the crop funded by the National Lottery. We have a population that doesn't give a toss about their health and a collapsing healthcare system. It's hardly a surprise Covid wiped out 150,000 people here, whereas in countries like Japan with similarly elderly populations but fitter populations, had far less deaths. The elderly population is growing and young people aren't reproducing so the healthcare system and economy are soon to take a bashing from the forthcoming demographic crash.

We have an education system which hangs onto the coat tails of international success and recognition from the 2 biggest (Oxbridge). The rest are either middling or sub-standard. I don't consider myself to be highly intelligent, but there's a distinct dumbness about the UK population. People are very susceptible to poor lifestyle choices, lack of hobbies, lack of skills, poorly read, poor grasp of (what should be) common knowledge, too focused towards celebritism, consumerism, status display, and gossip. It's very hard to find interesting people to talk to here.

Our younger generation are completely steamrolled by social media and whatever app/website America/China has kicked out. Whether you sit on the conservative/progress side of politics, both sides blindly follow anything they are told to, with little critical thought.

I'm scared for this country, and I know it reinforces one of the points above about demographic collapse, but I wouldn't raise a kid here until emigration is on the cards.
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They probably bought it from someone as it wasn't free at the time.
This is very cool! How does this work internally?
NYC has had a handful of fatal helicopter crashes and largely banned helicopter pads in the city even though they such flights where never very common. The idea that say 10,000+ large drones can safely and continuously fly over a city is ludicrous. You could use even larger drones to cut down on flights but now they’re even more dangerous.

Rather than drones the obvious safe solution is to use small tunnels for underground delivery which various cities have used at small scales, but such dedicated infrastructure isn’t cost effective. And delivery drivers aren’t common enough to make a real difference by taking them off the road. However, several same day package delivery companies do make use of the subway.
It seems natural to me. You may have poured a lot into the company but so have the employees; you shouldn't be able to unilaterally tear up everything you've built together.