skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you both bought and sold a primary residence without a realtor?

Interested to hear about the experience.
I don't know of a single place where you can consistently can find "high-quality writing about the world and its inhabitants" as on former NG. There are quality articles but they are scattered against the vast deserts of the Internet.
Second this. Storygraph is great and has a ton potential. It just needs a bit more development put into it to match Goodreads minus the bad parts. I wish had the "plus" subscription tier set at $10/yr not $49/yr. I'd definitely donate that much, but $49 is a lot in majority of the world.
That's right but if the best price you have found before asking is AWS, you probably have not done a lot of research.
Highly subjective. Can't recommend. Seems like some aesthetics wieners gathered to dismiss others.
Quoting Reddit: "The problem of rebuilders has been around forever. Things heated up a couple of months ago when we detected what we think was a continued bad-faith action from one of the rebuilders, not on the code/engineering side but on the commercial/money making side of their house. That's as far as I'll go publicly. After that it was just a matter of discussion on what to do about it, so we landed on the announcements I made last week."
Interesting it is working for me from the UK
> I don't see the connection.

As you said: "But my personal protection is my sole responsibility.". If your personal protection is your sole responsibility then from that must(?) follow that the protection of anything that you own is solely your responsibility.

> But if I'm trying to interpret, no, I disagree with the right to shoot people just because they're trespassing.

That goes directly against your above claim.
Yeah of course it was. In terms of business work you can do on an iPad it's really send emails, take teams/slack/zoom calls, write documents, create spreadsheets. That's really about it actual coding needs done on a laptop/desktop.
I feel like Somethingawful figured it out 25 years ago. You can read a slightly censored version of the site for free, but if you want to post and read the swear words, it'll be $10. If you mouth off too bad and get banned, that's another $10. I guess it doesn't scale to world-eating business size, but I gladly sent them $10.
If I have to, I change the link from www.reddit.com/r/stuffgoeshere to www.reveddit.com/r/stuffgoeshere

It's what I used as a undelete viewer, with power tripping mods and admins. I'm guessing it'll quit working tomorrow.
Eh, with security cameras for ~$20 per camera, you can buy a lot of security cameras for the 25k commission.

Heck, you can buy over 1000 security cameras and still save money.
As a serious bowler I wouldn't say Belmo broke bowling - he's saving it.

Two handed bowling isn't unfair and it's not easier than one handed bowling. I've tried it on multiple occasions but it's really hard to generate the speed required to throw 500+ revs.

Furthermore, if it was so easy everyone would switch it to because it's clear that it won't get banned.
Last time I went to China (2018) you could simply get a China Unicom Hong Kong SIM card and then use that to roam in mainland China. With that you'd get the Hong Kong censorship level, which is much much less restrictive. No VPN or anything needed apart from the SIM card itself.
Lol nice.

I’m not entirely sure what the authors argument is.

If an intelligence explosion occurs with humans and AI working in collaboration, it is still an intelligence explosion. No?

Computers will make themselves smarter - with the help of humans. They already are. RLHF is a perfect example of this.

They’re arguing that you can never take the H out of RLHF? I don’t see why not. We are physical systems just like AI. Our general search algorithm is to find systems that maximize accurate predictions. Minimize surprise. This can be coded.
> don't heat stuff for the infants in a plastic.

Or any human
When I see something like that I just assume the realtor knows they’ve been handed a dud listing and is expending as little effort on it as they possibly can.
You misunderstood your parent comment. What he/she meant is that the "algorithm" is only a guess from reverse engineering. The actual algorithm deployed at GFW can look significantly different.
Actually I was also recently looking for a good Python library to make nice terminal UIs , for example to present a list of choices and let user use arrow keys or integers to select options, and ran into Questionary (Python version). A similar interface is used by the excellent “gh” (GitHub) cli tool, not sure which library they use (and may not even be a Python lib)

Do folks recommend Questionary as a good Python command line UI tool? I really like Rich but it goes not have this type of selection UI.
Not everyone who used it cargo-culted but certainly some did.
TSMC faces $70M ransom demand following lockbit cyberattack
I bought some new pans a few months ago, and the folks at the shop suggested "Earth Brite" clay cleaner. It seems to work really well.
You can do both to hedge that interest rate risk. Some fixed, some floating. No one knows where rates are headed and savings account providers can change rates at any time.
XMPP does use Atom as its (micro)blogging format (XEP-0277), and making followers/following lists (subscribers/subscribed in XMPP terms) public is opt-in with XEP-0465.

Note: I'm very involved in XMPP, and the author of the latter XEP.

Edit: forgot to mention that it's also available to ActivityPub thanks to the XMPP <=> AP gateway (that I've authored too)
If you deliberately try to make it do so. Even then it usually doesn’t work.
Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

https://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html
And it got sold! I happen to remember this

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64389615

I suppose leading with a picture of it actually on fire is better than a post or pre fire photo.
I’m not surprised that you haven’t seen iPads on tour, but I think it’s coming. The software ecosystem is here now.

If you music, have an iPad, and can spare the cost of a couple restaurant dinners, I recommend picking up the USB adapter and an app like AUM ($22). There are a ton of workhorse tools available like BIAS FX 2, and a ton of apps which are just fun, like Gauss Field Looper ($7). The price/performance of this kind of setup is just out of this world. I don’t think it’s replacing the DAW any time soon, despite the arrival of Logic/Cubasis/Reason/etc, but it’s giving pedalboards a run for their money.
Goodreads is only good (eh, decent?) as a database of books you've read. All the other functionality is pointless and or broken. The recommendation system is a joke and is obviously used to promote nonsense instead of giving you personalised recommendations.
Managing multiple windows, copy/pasting, using shortcuts from muscle memory and things like instant middle mouse click are terrible experiences on any tablet or phone.

Just opening a new tab on a browser is tedious, and if you deal with a lot of intranet tools, this is the very basics of productivity.
I apologise in advance if this seems inflammatory, I'm not trying to start an internet argument here, I'm just being honest about my first impressions of this app.

Of all things, the spaceman in a car was what put me off this, as I straight away felt like anyone who would use that as art must be some kind of Elon Musk superfan. And then the buzzwords web3, blockchain and *coin made me turn away completely.

I'll say one nice thing - I like the live preview of the app on the front page that is interactive and actually works. More web apps should do this
Why should one have to do this? The slippery slope of what is ok goes straight from this to copyright laundering via LLMs.
They don't have onboard cameras with eyes on the front landing gear mech? Why not?
Pretty well from my limited testing! For standing poses, it works roughly as well as a human in good lighting and contrast conditions - as in, in situations where you would have a hard time picking out where limbs are, Mediapipe will too. The more common issue is poor lighting, or clothing that blends into a busy background.
Comparable to the M1 Air.
I only use them to keep a list of what I read with my own reviews. For Storygraph I need more taps so it's slightly behind (I tried the switch once).
The page has burned through over 45GB of data in a handful of hours! YIKES! So I have just made some image size and quality optimisations and now link out to Internet Archive for the larger versions. Let's see if that slows down data and money usage. Patreon supporters are always welcome! https://www.patreon.com/gingerbeardman
Which is better than nothing.
Having been through buying a home I think I’ll push back on that a little: our agent knew what was a fair price, what we’d likely be able to push the sellers down to, advised us through the whole process.

Rental brokers on the other hand… now they’re absolutely useless and you can sometimes pay astronomical brokers fees just so they can sit between you and the landlord.
> Accuracy doesn’t make money, engagement does.

Accurate information creates a better society for everyone. Angry engaged people fed bullshit create a worse society for everyone.

But yeah, the incentives are perverse, and the owner-class are willing to do whatever it takes to keep them perverse.
I am not sure about good taste of alcohol. I can agree about some wines and brandys (although they are universally better to smell than to taste), but beer? Bitter liquid, enriched with CO2. Do you remember first time you tasted beer, probably at the age of 5-7 from the bottle of your father? I can't see anyone liking non-alcoholic beer outside social context.
Tried Storygraph once and it lacks Japanese books so I still stick with Goodreads unfortunately.
Right, this is why I said it's not strategy proof.

The bid is just an input you control into an opaque function where the output is some cost and conversions
Probably just bored the crap out of them. Just be fun.
Yes, and even if you are a “top performer” doing gods work… that does not give you any right to belittle others. I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment and would pay money to see us as a collective (me included) try our hand at something like real estate. I for one know I would fail, but that’s me.
> From the user’s perspective, it is one less step involved.

I was replying more to your point that micro transactions lead to perverse incentive structures.

Perhaps an aggregated service over individual service would change the dynamic but I think many of the same incentives would remain.
I will back this up by saying that all the banking apps (plural) I run on GrapheneOS run perfectly fine. I don't even have Google Play Services installed, either.
When we reach 2030, I'll raise a glass for you mate.
Yeah I mean we said sorry, what more do those people want? \s
It's been completely down for me in Sweden since this morning (8 hours and counting), but it works fine when using a VPN to US servers.
When people talk about Twitter dying, they are talking about its relevance. No one means "Twitter.com will redirect to a domain squatter".

E.g, despite it being dead since the redesign in 2010,
you can still go to digg.com right now, create an account and all. Fark.com still exists. Slashdot still exists. None of these sites are relevant anymore though.
I think China doesn’t care if foreigners use a VPN, it’s their own people they want to keep under control.
They literally could’ve said you’re required to pay for the premium subscription if you want to use third party apps and things would’ve gone over so much more smoothly.

Now they’re facing competition in the fediverse, with apps that remove a lot of the barriers to entry (two iOS apps are currently in test flight and both look VERY promising)
Bayesian Learning
Not exactly real estate agents for buying/selling but related:

I remember reading about the fact that, at the time, most apartments in NYC were "broker only" (aka you can only see and then rent an apartment if you are using a licensed real estate broker).

The more I thought about this, I started to see the benefits for both sides:

- for the landlord: the broker acts as a filter for people who are serious vs "looky loos" (actual quote from a real broker)

- for the tenant: the broker wants repeat business so they will, in theory, only deal with reputable landlords

- for the tenant part 2: if you are a busy, hard working individual, the broker acts as your "agent" (in the principal agent sense of the word) to save you time by going and finding apartments for you so that you can focus on your high paying job.
He was more enthusiastic about drugs for the poor:

'What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer, and are not ashamed to shew even visible displeasure, if ever the bitter taste is taken from their mouths."'
This is a good point. I criticized it in another post here in typical Hacker News fashion but just to add some positivity, iPad Pro is great for precisely architects and engineers bringing CAD drawings etc because the guys pack a tablet with a large screen with them to the actual site and can intuitively work with and demo the project with their hands alone. I know this works because we have people at work doing precisely this and they wanted the big displays for ease of use and showing.

But be very cautious if you need to integrate multiple applications and maybe even those not on the iPad (like Visual Studio Code), having to restort to web interfaces or remote computing apps, terminals... Stuff exists for all of this but it's going to get progressively more painful from my experience, the more involved and "not in this single app" your workflow is.

If you stay like 95% of the time on the iPad and a very few apps in a very basic workflow (like bring a CAD drawing to the iPad before you head out), sure that's a good iPad Pro use, I think!
I disagree completely. Tesla, AMD and now nVidia are irrational exuberance stocks. Apple is a money printing machine, with no end of their dominance in sight. They put a lot of that capital into buying back stock, thus making it rise themselves.
I also agree with this. Regulations don't work and tend to serve the interests of incumbents who can afford to work around them.
I would prefer it if governments would get rid of all regulations entirely and, instead, they would remove the concept of 'limited liability' entities - That way if a company harms people, the directors could be pursued legally and could potentially even be held criminally liable. IMO, the most effective form of regulation is self-regulation; it needs to start in the mind of the person who is making product decisions (they are best placed to understand their product and their customers after all) - The way to do that is by making sure that people are held fully responsible for any harm that they cause. Even if someone is partially responsible for causing harm, they need to be held liable.

Note that this does not require the government to create new laws; it merely requires that the government remove old ineffective laws which protect people from being held fully liable for their actions.

This level of liability will make it impossible for corporations to exist... But that would be a good thing. How many times have corporations like JP Morgan been fined for violating regulations? The fact is that they are simply not equipped to be responsible for their own actions at the scale that they're operating.

The modern idea of governments trying to prevent harm before it happens instead of merely punishing it after the fact is deeply flawed. The best way to prevent crime is by punishing it relentlessly and making an example out of the perpetrators. It has always worked that way. Let producers know that they're responsible, that they're the ones taking the risk and that the penalties are harsh.

What modern governments are doing with regulations is essentially taking responsibility away from the people who are causing harm.

Then instead of fostering a mindset of "We don't want to put sucralose in our product because we don't want to risk going to jail or being sued if some of our customers get cancer and a causal link is established in the future", we foster a mindset of "Look, sucralose is legal, if we put sucralose in our products within the allowed guidelines and people get cancer, it's the government's fault because they said it was safe."
Thats probably more like what they should be doing.
This is some naive approach in my opinion. Nobody sees human beings as “human beings” in their day to day life, it is all about statuses, circumstances, etc AND also the individual. Distinction is an incredibly important feature between groups of people.

For example, someone may bring a lot of your cultural assumptions into how the country should be run, but a different group of people may see things completely differently. So when the majority group of people imposes their culture and influence on the less powerful groups, how is this fair and just to say everyone is equal & we don’t need to see distinctions?

To give you a silly example something like bathroom design is heavily influenced by culture. In places where water was important and cleanliness, they had bidets. But in places like the US and Canada, there really isn’t this present in many places, as a result we lose many benefits of bidets from imposing the current cultural standard for bathrooms.

People talk about tests, well standardized tests are also rooted in gate keeping undesirable groups of people, and by setting requirements that are “equal” they actually discriminate against people who were actively hurt by unjust social policies and circumstances. For example if one group is more illiterate because of historical injustice against them, if you make a test requiring literacy and then nothing is done to address the injustice, you are just perpetuating an excuse to continue discrimination under the guise of being equal.

Does that make more sense?
Require reviews to show a substantial understanding of what the book was about? That means moderation which is always dangerous but probably better than the alternative.
some people just don't want to throw out the baby with the caste-water.
Aeropress will be releasing a premium version made out of glass later this year.

https://coffeechronicler.com/aeropress-xl-premium/
At least the north american subcontient is safe now: https://web.archive.org/web/20040810221240/http://www.jir.co...
Works from US Mountain West. Looks like their /24 is announced by Cloudflare [1][2] and that may be having routing issues in the EU and parts of the US?. Having my old 1keyes account would be useful but CF does show up in their public dashboard [3].

[1] - https://bgp.he.net/net/103.168.172.0/24#_netinfo

[2] - https://bgp.tools/prefix/103.168.172.0/24#connectivity

[3] - https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/
> Canadian users will still be able to search for news content from international outlets such as BBC, New York Times and Fox News.

This is really the icing on the cake for me. Not only are you losing a lot of search traffic, but now those users are going to be directed to international sources so they won't even be looking for you. What a great way to screw over national media.
From what I have read, they all wrote when they were sober, not when they were drunk.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/henrydevries/2018/12/11/ernest-...
> What on earth are they doing as a non profit to justify keeping that stash safe from taxation?

They are stashing 1.6 billion bucks is what they're doing. Regardless of how pure the original motives may be for any foundation or non-profit, if they get enough money in them they will be taken over by the soul-less financiers.
Out of the loop, but has there been anything particularly interesting UFO-wise lately?
Yes but there's two parts to this: the teachers and the students. The student body in top American universities (especially undergrad) wouldn't even make the wait-list in a fair number of European schools.
Stock buybacks create a steady demand that’s price inelastic. I think one side effect of that is it suppresses natural price discovery.

Another part of it is passive investing in indices and etfs cause money to flow disproportionality into the biggest stocks by market capitalization. This is a positive feedback cycle for the largest companies in the index.

These stocks may well go higher. But they are also at levels right now where you are unlikely to get a good return on them if you invest long term from here.

I would neither invest in them nor go short against them.
It's a nice release. The two "the worst Rob Liefeld drawings" articles are some of my favorite pieces of media ever.
And are willing to pay for things that don't attempt to make users into products or buy into attention economics.

Oh but that isn't interesting.
I wonder if recent Reddit/Twitter events might have finally given blockchain a real problem to solve.

The problem is centralized entities can take away access to data you generated at anytime. They can also ban you for whatever reason they want. So if your livelihood depends on these services, it can cause a huge disruption.

If Reddit/Twitter's data is stored on a blockchain, then anyone can build a client to access that data and Twitter would essentially have much less power.

The problem I see is that blockchains are too slow, and too expensive for mass products like Reddit and Twitter. Heck, I'm sure it's already a huge challenge for centralized databases to have as much data as Twitter/Reddit - let alone a decentralized one. Maybe at some point, we'll have a quantum computer breakthrough and blockchains performance is solved for use cases like this.
GFW only looks at connections with destination IPs outside of China, the private fibre line bypasses it entirely.
I know professional photographers that use them for photo editing, but not as their main machine. It allows for a more casual way to work when that is desired.

It also works well for showing photos to clients. Clearly it’s valuable to at least some professionals.
Swank. This is what I've been waiting for. The plastic is my only beef with the Aeropress.
The question is designed to guide us towards a realistic course of action.

If you can't define a target upon which reaching it would allow us to consider the problem solved, then suggesting that anyone will move beyond identitarianism after the problem has been solved is totally disingenuous.

To suggest that there is no need to define an upper limit to reparations implies that you don't believe the problem ever can be solved, and that these kinds of multi-generational grievances should persist perpetually.

I don't agree that "0" is unworkable. I'm obviously not thrilled that my not at all distant relatives were slaughtered by Nazis, but holding my breath for reparations is only going to do me a disservice and isn't going to bring those people back or undo that suffering.

The suggestion to "start with 1 dollar" is frankly bizarre. Is that all my dead relatives are worth? A dollar?
Hang on. Imagine that these image generators were based entirely on public imagery, but work equally well.

Clearly that would clarify the legal situation, and it’d be a lot harder to ban it. But would that help artists? If so, how?
As someone who switch from Android to iPhone just a few years ago, it's insane how quickly I got engulfed in the ecosystem and now have Apple everything in my house.

At this point, I don't even know how I'd switch back to Android even if I wanted to (and I don't). Once they've got their claws in, they've got you—and you're happy about it.

No wonder their growth and expansion continues.