skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to clarify a few things, probably not entirely accurate as I'm not a Realtor, but I'm closer to the industry than most:

An MLS is really just a database and associated tooling for advertising properties among Realtors in an area.

The MLS is controlled by a Realtor Association or similar. This is basically all the Realtors/Brokers in an area working together. This is often a good place to concentrate some customer support and data integrity checks, compliance, etc..., for example.

Then there are the Realtors who work with sellers to market properties to buyers, and work with buyers to find the properties and oversee showings, etc...

Realtors vary in quality, for sure. Some sell 1-2 houses a year, some sell 1-2 houses a week.

The system surely has a lot of problems. But, it also provides value in a lot of ways that aren't easy to just remove. So you want to list your own house? Who's going to take the photos? Are you aware of the applicable laws, say WRT commercial drone photography? Do you know what will get you sued if you say it in a listing? How are you going to pick the price? On the other hand, you want to buy a property by directly searching the MLS: are you up for signing the data sharing contracts required to give you access to that data? How are you going to structure the offer? Do you know what a love letter is and whether it's allowed as part of the offer? Do you know the difference between being pre-approved and pre-qualified? How are you going to get access to the property and are you going to accept liability for any damage/theft? If the owner is directly showing the property (they want to remove the Realtor as well), are you both up for staring at each other uncomfortably as you look through their house? :-)

There's an awful lot of money that goes into the Realtor industry. But, if it were easy to get rid of, For Sale By Owner (FSBO) would be more popular. As far as I can tell, at least in my area, FSBO basically doesn't exist.

(Full disclosure: Not a Realtor, SysAdmin to an MLS)
It seems clear enough to me what the GP might have meant, at least clear enough that it need not be responded to with remarks like "Like what do you think the word "abstracted" actually means?" that reads to me as saying that, whatever the GP thinks, it is wrong.

Type notation presumably started off as a very concrete thing—probably just about anyone can read something like BOOL = TRUE | FALSE. But then—I'm speaking here from a general perspective of computer-theoretic notation, so it's entirely possible that these are not actual notations that occur in type theory—things were added like syntactic sugar, say, for character classes, about whose abstract-ness we can argue but which definitely adds a decoding layer for people not used to it; and things like parametrized types/higher types that very definitely do add abstraction. It's very likely that, almost any time a definition benefits from an extra side remark, "For example, …", it is illustrating an additional abstraction.
NASA Says July 2023 Sizzles as the Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880
But in that case, if the project turns out to be illegal or harm people, Jimmy would be on the hook and not you.

Jimmy can be a jerk, but he'll be careful if he'd risk being employed in his home state if he signs off on something he should know is unacceptable.
> What we do is try to educate them and loop them back in.

But that's selective education. You don't do it for every shadow moderated comment. The trend is still that shadow moderation more often disadvantages trustful users. Will you acknowledge that harm?

Over 50% of Reddit users have a removed comment in their recent history that they likely were not told about. When shadow moderation is in play, abuse runs rampant among both mods and users. Both find more and more reasons to distrust each other.
I also use Markdown files. Obsidian's own json config files conflict.
I wouldn't consider that a "tax" either if that's all it's for. Do you consider national park entrance passes to be a tax?
>I think hate is inherently bad.

Cool, I don't really believe you, but if that's the case, you're in the extreme (nonexistant) minority

>People who hate will come to experience it as the truth.

Literally every human who has ever lived hates things. I think you probably perceive what you're saying as profound, but it's actually meaningless. I hate Nazis for the Holocaust. I'm not coming "to experience it as the truth". I hate them because it is the truth.

>You don't address my arguments, you just create more groups of people to hate and to feel better than

LOL yes I did. You can reject basic reality, but I did address your "arguments"

> don't care if you hate me, by some old group definition or by something you've just made up, and you need way worse insults for me to hate you back

Bro bro, your victim complex is out of control Did you somehow skip to a later part of your canned argument? What makes you think I hate you? I can guess that you're probably a youngish radicalized white guy, but I don't know enough about you to hate you. Can you stop trying to manufacture drama and focus on doing something productive?
I once saw a women drive into a light rail construction site where her car was driving on the rail tracks which were held up by poles. She apparently thought that was how she could also cross the vast chasm that was the construction pit. Unfortunately humans have nothing on the self driving cars in this.
Many moons and a few jobs ago, I rolled an in-house Wiki in python, that was basically a very thin web UI over mercurial. Each page was a checked-in plain text file (I think some sort of markdown flavor, but this was circa 2010, a totally different era!), each edit was a revision/commit. Things like article history just shelled out to mercurial. "Querying" was down via filesystem operations. Rolled the whole thing in a day and a half or so - less than I'd already spent trying to get a MediaWiki instance stood up!
There is also the subset of actual software engineers (incl. degrees) that are hired to rapid fire features. In fact most engineers are hired to do this, because move fast and break things. Usually telling a PM that feature X needs proper analysis and design and that can take multiple sprints, they go “how can we break it into smaller pieces so we can deliver each sprint”. Sometimes you can’t do that. You engineers simply get into developer mode.
Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?
I think it's time folks.
I, too, would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves.

previous threads:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23276456

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540583
If you're in the EU or are willing to stay in the EU for an extended time (>6 months?), then you may be able to compel them to delete the comments using EU laws. If they refuse, escalate and let the entirety of the EU take care of the rest.

I get why hn is against deleting comments, and sure, make it really hard to delete comments if necessary, but you should honor the request of users who's unpaid contributions make your site what it is.
well, guess there is going to be a new fee listing fee added on
Yeah. For a lot of SaaS companies, their entire profit margin is about state management (in Kafka, elastic, HDFS, whatever). There's a huge incentive to squeeze that part of the stack for cost efficiency.
I agree, and somehow I am lucky enough to have 1G AT&T Fiber Internet for exactly $100/month with no other fees. At my previous home I had 500mb microwave/millimeter wave Internet and that was not taxed either. Seems like local/state/federal government hasn’t caught onto these mediums yet.
Money is like blood. When it stops circulating bad things happen.
efficient market hypothesis. No time travel because all valuable information has already been sent back through time.
Photoshop Beta does it best. The generative features are just new tools that work as you’d expect with all the existing tools. For example, if you want to do outpainting, just make your canvas bigger and you get a contextual menu where you can (optionally) type a prompt. Inpainting, just make a selection however you want and type a prompt.
Everyone’s throwing in a vim learning resource so I suppose I’ll join in with this: Learn Vim the Smart Way - https://learnvim.irian.to/
...and it may never have been a nefarious thing but a bug related to cookies or SSL activity on links and a myriad of other complicated things. Yes, Elon sucks but unsubstantiated nonsense that shouldn't have gotten beyond that HN post.
What do I think about Community Notes?
1)Absolute counts are meaningless given the wildly disproportionate population sizes. We're talking many orders of magnitude difference here. Cruise operates 100 vehicles during the day, 300 at night.

2)Absolute counts worldwide are meaningless when comparing against crashes in SF.

3)You picked an arbitrary period

4)Whether it makes the news is not reliable for statistical comparison. Millions of crashes go unmentioned. Many of them don't even result in a report to any officials.
I was disappointed to find out this has nothing to do with the great Sir Isaac Newton.

For those equally disappointed, here's a beautiful piece of science history, that culminates with a very famous quote by Johann Bernoulli about Newton: "tanquam ex ungue leonem"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Later_life_of_Isaac_Newton#B...
I'm not saying this is damning evidence, but how many human drivers are on the road versus AI? A quick Google search says there are 300 Cruise vehicles operating at night currently. I am confident I could survey 10 times that many taxi drivers and not find a single one who has accidentally driven into wet concrete.
What gets me is how it has made all my intuitions about how to program incorrect with time. And I'm no dinosaur. I started with an old obsolete machine with 128 KB. I remember getting a hand-me-down PC with a 486 (virtual memory at last!) and 16 megabytes of RAM and I couldn't imagine how I could ever use that much memory, besides for multimedia. Still hard to imagine, sometimes. How long to sort a vector of 1 million simple elements? Intuition says about a minute, but it's milliseconds. How big a working set before cache thrashing? My intuition is attuned to single-digit kilobytes, but it's multi-digit megabytes now.
Neat story but partially clickbaity title. More "How Thomas Edison oversold the qualities of an early lightbulb prototype to media and investors.", perhaps? (Not advocating to change the HN title, just clarity).

As an aside, to feed the original implication of the clickbait title, now I'm going down the rabbit hole of earlier/same time arc lamps.
~$1000 USD based on the quoted Whatsburger/USD cross rate.
> Maybe he signed a gag order and cashed out. We may never know.

Regardless, this is likely a painful moment for him. Maybe he just doesn't want to talk about it, and won't for some time.
Wow, I always thought draw.io was open source. Is this new? Does someone know what parts are missing?
Very interesting, thank you. I will point one of my colleagues that is busy with this stuff to these and I thank you on his behalf as well, it is exactly the kind of thing they are engaged in.
It sounds like the authors spent 10 years building a Twitter factory, and now they can produce a Twitter faster than Twitter could produce it "by hand".
What first Canadian astronaut on moon mission is learning from his crewmates
Glad they were able to get Paul Harvey's take on this
That’s some despicable behavior on the ex-boyfriend’s part, but $1.2 billion? Does anyone involved in this case have any actual expectation that the ex-boyfriend is capable of paying that in his lifetime? Is he a billionaire?

Can someone explain to me the possible reasoning behind such a massive sum?
If I had any power to do any harm to PG at all, I wouldn’t need to post ridiculous shit in the internet to get his attention, would I?

Leave the arm chair lawyering to the lawyers.
> They're invented.... until they happen.

Well at least we're agreed your entire argument is based on made up theoretical scenarios, rather than the real world, where people's accounts are breached because of poor password security, literally on a daily basis.

> Passwords used correctly aren't less secure than passwords + 2fa.

What was that about acting like you're hot shit? There is essentially zero way for you to know that passwords are being "used correctly", because "used correctly" includes how they are stored and transmitted. You have no view into how the remote side stores or transmits passwords though. For all we know (yes this is a hyperbolic theoretical scenario), GitHub stores all passwords in plain text. Or md5'd, or some other equally laughable scenario. Or perhaps they log passwords during authentication. Or perhaps there's an unencrypted path between a load balancer and a backend application server, which is open to packet sniffing by peers in a datacenter, or any number of other issues that have shown to be real-world points of weakness to a password.

A big chunk of the benefit of TOTP based 2FA is that it greatly reduces the risk of replay style attacks. If you get the OTP I send (through logs or packet sniffing or whatever) it holds no long-term risk.

> Well at least you're being honest about not caring about others.

Straw man much? I didn't say I don't care about others. I'm very comfortable with the level of help/advice/expertise I offer to people who ask for it.

Nowhere in any comment I've seen on this post, has anyone asked for help or advice. A number of people have made ridiculously misleading, uninformed or just outright false statements, with absolute confidence. Hence why I said (in another comment, but still a reply to you):

> I'm blaming humans for wilful ignorance and insisting that there is no solution to problems they haven't tried to solve.

> there are more scenarios than you can imagine.

I'm sure there is probably some scenario where having 2FA enabled is a strictly worse scenario than password security alone.

But you'll want to have a pretty damn strong argument prepared, based on a real-world scenario before you should expect others to listen to what you have to say and take it seriously.

Right now you sound like a kid making up excuses about why they can't eat their vegetables.
I don't think so.

While it may be true that new data is coming in at a trickle these days, due to things like Discord, Slack, et al. all locking conversation and context up, as well as the daily volume of chapter is small relative to what is out there now.

The fact is that training data can be used in many different ways and I bet you we see the products of that fairly quickly as those who see this same as I do reach a point where they want to show n tell and test.
It's always something with communes.
Learning via Negativa
The previous management was hardly better. They banned the New York Post for daring to break the Hunter Biden laptop story.
> the lower current, the lower resistance

The lower the current, the lower the losses. Resistance doesn't change. I^2*R is what decreases with current.
Uh, I know hundreds of drivers, and I've never met someone who's done this. Who are you hanging around?
> and this "fear my ISP is watching what I'm doing" Then I realise it's a US thing

I'm not sure about it being a US thing. But I don't personally have a privacy fear with my ISP because I can't really do anything about it. At some point a clear request has to hit the edge of my ISP and at that point, no matter what I do, they will know what I'm doing. It's better to mitigate the deep packet inspection part of it rather than worry about DNS requests leaking (that's what coffee shops are for).

The real problem I have with it is I pay $280/mo. for a "gigabit" line from Cox. It has a data cap. On top of having a data cap if I don't use my own DNS Cox will inject ads and other data into my requests. There are several blog posts on this happening and I am not on my computer with screenshots. It suffices to say that they, and other ISPs in the US (at least), regularly poison requests with advertisements, warnings, alerts, and other non-sense. During COVID, despite paying for a top tier plan, my connection was throttled to 10 Mbps 5/7 days a week because so many people were watching Netflix. It doesn't even matter if you pay more they'll QoS your ass into the ground at a whim. Billions of dollars and they can't even spend the time to install better hardware.

The combination of last-mile control and a resulting veritable monopoly on internet in most localities means ISPs can more or less do what they want. Sucks. I try not to blame the employees but they, too, are complicit in this nonsense. ISPs are a legitimate cancer.
DeepEval – PyTest for LLMs
Deepeval aims to make writing tests for LLM applications (such as RAG) as easy as writing Python unit tests.

For any Python developer building production-grade apps, it is common to set up PyTest as the default testing suite as it provides a clean interface to quickly write tests.

However, it is often uncommon for many machine learning engineers as their feedback is often in the form of an evaluation loss.

With the advent of agents, LLMs and AI, there is yet to be a tool that can provide software-like tooling and abstractions for machine learning engineers where the feedback loop of these iterations can be significantly reduced.

It is therefore important then to build a new type of testing framework for LLMs to ensure engineers can keep iterating on their prompts, agents and LLMs while being able to continuously add to their test suite.

Introducing DeepEval.
"thanks Facebook" was not a term I have ever actually wanted to utter.
What I'd like to know is if the concrete was marked out with cones.

If it was then clearly the car's fault, if not then the worker's fault. Cones become more critical with the proliferation of non-human drivers.
Bonds don’t out perform stocks over the long term. Buying bonds makes sense for risk averse people seeking fixed income with tax advantages, or speculators planning for a drop in interest rates. There may be a few 20 year periods where the stock market itself was flat, but anyone who had been buying during that whole time would have seen positive returns.
And over the course of a year their fleet has collectively driven somewhere around a million miles. Human drivers on US roads complete over 3 trillion miles per year.

So, one Cruise vehicle driving into concrete is about equivalent to 3 million human drivers driving into concrete on an equal rate basis.
"there aren't good tools for automated testing without a build step"

For our vanilla JS we use browser-based tests which we can check in any browser anywhere any time, and which can also be automated and measured with a headless browser from the command line. And we have also used Node and had even more luck with Deno for testing individual functions and libraries which may get used on the frontend! Hope that helps!
Q&A Regarding SCOTUS’s Decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
It's a JSON structure full of numbers which describe colors and spatial relationships. LLMs have no problem with the JSON syntax, but the numbers they put in it will be nonsense.
I'll say it again because apparently it didn't land: Germany != Western Europe. Germany had a lot of conditions that made it ripe for a vote like that which did not apply to any of the other nations in Western Europe at that time (or any other time, really).
And they're low bitrate and often come with arcane restrictions on what device you can view it on without getting stuck with even lower bit rate.
There is an actual difference. You can make acutal, real-world, impacts with today's LLMs in the existing business world. They can actually make a difference for customers.

That was never the case with a crypto currency.
Too bad https://make-linux-fast-again.com/ isn't loading anymore. Anyone knows an up to date guide for disabling all mitigations? I found https://gist.github.com/jfeilbach/f06bb8408626383a083f68276f... but it was last updated in March (?).

Also is there an equivalent for Windows?
This feels like one of those things you'll read about every 10 years for your entire life and will always be just 3-5 years away
It's comments like this that really highlight the extent of damage copyright has caused. It has conditioned people to think that they can own information once released, and that they can treat it like property. It's a notion that's ridiculous and silly that it gets threatened each time we make a leap in technology (tapes, computers, internet and streaming, and now generative AI).

I wonder how long society will tolerate the nonsensical idea of copyright before it's had enough.

Intellectual property is nonsense and I'm glad it keeps getting exposed.
Ok, thank you. This could easily save lives so it matters.
50mm sidewall /25.4mm/in = 2 in sidewall

24” wheel + 2 in above wheel + 2 in below wheel = 28” diameter, which seems much more reasonable.

Am I missing something?
How do humans write if not by intuiting what word comes after another?

Intelligence is the ability of that next word decision procedure to determine a next word that is aligned with our human intuition and model of truth.

I believe what you’re getting at is modality, that GPT-4 only provides responses in text. You can’t ask it to drive a car, or paint like Dall-e. And that’s a fair criticism, but it’s mostly just because it would make the models too large and slow, not because we don’t know how to do it. The thing we don’t know how to do is make a model reason as well as a human, and it makes sense to try to solve that in the text domain first rather than making highly multimodal models that reason poorly in all domains.
Accidents will cause less damage than intentional use of many.
First of all, thanks very much for these comments - all too often, threads quickly deteriorate into flame wars or emotional finger pointing, and I'm quite happy that this exchange of (opposing) opinions has remained very civil on such a hot topic.

I just wanted to clarify that I did not mean that these topics are all unrelated. When I wrote that these are separate discussions to be had, I was rather trying to imply that these questions are important enough to deserve an own treatment. However, I do agree with you that in the end, they all contribute to the question whether or not artificially generated child porn is abusive or not.

I do appreciate another sibling comment that points out the relation to other fictional child porn, such as literary works.

Additionally, I would like to add another dimension to the topic, namely that IMO, there is often an unspoken underlying assumption that portraits consumers of child porn as (potential) predators. However, unlike a juvenile delinquent who might find it cool to break into a local corner shop at night to steal some cans of beer, pedophiles are usually not attracted to child porn as a matter of choice. Like many sexual preferences, it is often innate, and can also be a burden to them: imagine you know that what gets you on is morally wrong, even a crime, and for most of your life you are forced to suppress your real sexuality as a consequence.

I'm thinking that fictional child porn, even when it's not AI-based but perhaps created with photoshop or in form of stories, could potentially help pedophiles to find ways of somehow dealing with their sexuality without actually preying on innocent children.

However, all of these thoughts come from a very naive understanding of the subject matter. Neither am I a pedophile myself, nor do I know anyone who is, nor am I a psychologist or something who works in the field. So I am very interested in corrections or additional options - especially, as I pointed out before, if they are done in equally civil ways as they have been so far in this thread.
Utopian Scholastic
How badly protected does a piece of fresh concrete have to be for this to be possible? Never heard of this happening before.
Probably quite binding, unfortunately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap#United_States
That is simply fun.