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Show HN: Easy Sell AI – AI that sells for you on marketplace apps
Hey Hacker News! I've developed Easy Sell AI to address the challenges I faced when I had to quickly sell items on platforms like Facebook Marketplace and OfferUp.

Problem:

1. Constantly getting lowballed by potential buyers, and I just didn't know what I needed to say to get the price I wanted.

2. Spending hours negotiating with potential buyers, only to often get ghosted.

3. Encountering fake accounts and scammers, making the process even more tedious.

Solution:
Enter Easy Sell AI, an AI-powered tool that does all the selling for you on Marketplace Apps. With it:

1. The AI takes over negotiations, giving the perfect line to get you the price you deserve.
2. You're only notified when a genuine deal is on the table.
3. Set your preferences, like your minimum acceptable price and availability, and let Easy Sell AI manage the rest.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts!
I don't want "two instances".

I just want to trigger Firefox to open a new window. Just like it does when I press CTRL+n.
"PID (Proportional, Integral, Derivative) works by continuously monitoring the boiler’s temperature and making small adjustments to maintain an exact and stable target temperature."

So basically a smart thermostat that accounts for ramp up and cool down times when adjusting the temperatures.
It's bottom of the barrel right wing hogwash. Calling it neo liberalism is good enough, imho
It's the manufacturing process of the solar panels and replacement being factored in. Obviously, power generation is carbon free during the panels lifecycle but manufacturing today produces co2
macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported
Firefox was a better product because it was faster, had tabs, etc and it generally rendered pages as expected.

That, in a large part, was on web developers, making sure the user who took the leap had a good time on arrival.
I guess so! I was speaking with someone on Mastodon today with some WD Reds and they failed at almost exactly the same number of power on hours as mine (~43k hours).

Given mine were in a ZFS mirror, they would have had almost identical wear so I suppose we could say they that they're predictable (though mine are the CMR drives which you don't get in the 4T these days and SMR drives are bad for ZFS).

If I was to replace them with the same drives I'd have a rough idea when to replace them before they start failing but I'll be buying larger capacities these days so those numbers are probably out the window.
I got a bit suspicious it was at least partly AI-written. If it is, I don't judge.
These are the scales at which neither General relativity nor the standard model (QM, QFT, etc) dominate, so you cannot just ignore one and do the calculations with the other. To solve systems at these scales, you need a working system of quantum gravity. We do not yet have one of those. These quantities are essentially where our current models of physics break down and we can no longer make anything resembling a prediction.
When your espresso machine has some thermal mass (eg E61 group head), then a simple bang-bang controller performs just as well as a PID. After tweaking PID controllers in drones, HVAC systems and my espresso machine, my experience is that PID's do more harm than good in systems with a lot of inertia and slow response.
We'd all be using TeX, right?
thanks, appreciated the pedantism :)
Smart apprentices take the day off when told to get blinker fluid. But your point stands.
Most of the answers seem to contain bullshit. The one you quoted is wrong because the leading 0 is for octal notation, not hex
Just my command line tool telling me "Now look at the following page" and open a browser window with a url.
Capitalism-induced shit-life syndrome.
Previous discussion (March 11, 2022 | 243 points | 66 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30641883
Good tip, thanks.

Prism Launcher's MC 1.12.2 lwjgl-platform-2.9.4-nightly-20150209 has OpenAL DLLs with metadata dates of 2013/04/07.

Do you think simply repacking the DLLs in this jar and adding an `alsoft.ini` with `hrtf = true` would work? I'll try soon.

Edit: Looks like MC uses a paulscode OpenAL implementation dated 2010/08/24. Doesn't look trivial to replace.
Not only that, but there are a number of terms which are "updated" on a regular basis because they inevitably take on a derogatory connotation and must be euphemized repeatedly. I feel that this is often unreasonable political correctness.

In fact, it's a non-Inclusive practice. One effect of updating the language is that you exclude people of a certain generation. So you can identify and out and then segregate people based on the terminology they use. Are you familiar with "shibboleths"? Happens all the time.

What the IETF is doing here is creating shibboleths for the next generation of IT professionals to separate themselves from the previous generation, who may not be careful enough to update our language.
Is your schadenfreude meant to make a point, and if so what exactly?

Minorities affected by slavery matter, but minorities affected by the holocaust don’t?
Iron Dome shot down Hamas drone over Gaza
Yes, I was talking about using gates of bounded fan-in.
There's a bunch of stuff in the MOTD every time you log in, and then apt keeps telling you of all the nice security upgrades you could be enjoying if you were paying them, in a very "nice system you've got there, shame if anything happened to it" way.
Good luck with that. I'm one of a handful of people on a team that maintains a native iOS app and the powers that be want to transition it to be a minimalistic container for a React web app so they can "just design it once and push changes without needing a separate App Store submission". I can fight that only so long, and then we need to let them do it and prove to themselves and every user that the UX will suck. The best they can hope for is mediocrity.
As it happens I'm on vacation in Ontario right now, just outside Toronto. The vibe is VASTLY different to mountain towns of BC or the Yukon.
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That’s a different scenario altogether. I think the parent is referring to link farming and arbitrage type pages that serve the purpose of netting a commission, not selling more first party products.
Plug for Excalidraw:

https://excalidraw.com/

https://blog.excalidraw.com/

Which, FWIW, supports Apple Pencil and iPad quite well since 2022:

https://twitter.com/excalidraw/status/1491044642493992960

As well as a seemingly evergreen release of the Obsidian plugin that gets people Doge levels of Such Wow:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/s58d2o/just_dis...

Video walkthrough here:

https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

The team based real time collaboration in Excalidraw+ is just fantastic. Glad to have a way to compensate the author:

https://blog.excalidraw.com/introducing-excalidraw-plus/
Because the author is ChatGPT.
> The reason is that employers are mandated to provide some kind of health insurance to employees

Even many Finns don't understand that this is not correct. Employers are not mandated to provide any kind of general health care. They must take precautions to protect you from work-related health risks. So for IT workers a physiotherapist checking that your are sitting in a good position would probably be enough. In a mine or steel work it would be a bit more. When you get sick and go to your company health care doctor, that is a voluntary part of your employment contract, in no way mandated by law. One explanation given in the public uses to be: Employers don't want to wait for employees to queue in public health care forever, they want then to return to work soon. Even that explanation does not sound very convincing to me. After all the average flu is over in a week if see a doctor and in seven days if you don't. As an employer I would not voluntarily pay significant money for it if I hadn't to for one reason or another.

See also my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37199110 , it's a really weird, historically grown cost-sharing model that cannot be explained by legal obligations.
Makes sense.

> was writing code where I couldn’t be bothered to put together ideas from several distinct tutorials. It’s fantastic for writing code that you can basically google for, even if you have to read several disperate pages to get a clear picture of what to do.

I think this description of yours nails it.

Soon, though, you’ll be able to feed it a corpus of documentation and/or library code and question it based on those. That might help your use case.
No, that does not work from a different environment.

You probably inherited the environment from the process that started FF.

How did you try to do it from a new environment?
My bad then, I stand corrected.

Although the rest of my message remains correct, if writing a dummy browser only took a few hours/days, nobody would ever ask for new APIs.
VidCutter: A program for lossless video cutting
> PID's do more harm than good

In what way?
https://archive.is/4Wh96
From "X media" to "ex-media".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZw35VUBdzo
Do you have any examples of these workflows or what sorts of results are possible. For me ChatGPT has been relegated to synonyms and small trivia lookup. I've been keeping an eye out for such things but I've stopped checking on it and figured I would eventually hear about it somehow.
The whole point of using Go is to explicitly handle errors as they happen. All of these steps can fail, but it’s not clear how they fail and if the next steps should proceed or be skipped on previous failures. This is harder to reason about, debug, and write than grep and bash.
If you place the dawn of the computer era (in terms of more than, say, 1000 people working in the field) sometime in the 1950s, and the youngest of those people were 20 when they began, we are now reaching the point where even the oldest of those people are dead or about to die.

Broad demographics are regular, but we're sliding into the period where "the first 10,000 people to make a living from working with computer technology" are all going to be dead or about to die. That's a sort of unique inflection point.

If you also reflect on the fact that a lot of the computer technologies that impact people the most today were developed in the 1970s-1990s period, this becomes even more so.
The whole site is a dumpster of SEO spam and affiliate links for probably trashy products (hint: if the product was any good you wouldn't need to be paid to promote it).
That's excellent spin. At least we didn't crash on the moon! Just at take off :)

Can we just agree that India's Chandrayaan-3 will be a huge moment for humans? The first touch down, and in an unexplored interesting region in most of our lifetimes.
SOME good sources - they downgrade sources that don't agree with their POV, and therein lies a big part of the problem. FACT: Many of the news sources they consider reliable got so much wrong during the Russian collusion conspiracy. Even the CJR pointed it out in a 4-part article. What WP has done to citing sources is a major embarrassment and why so many editors (left & right) have vacated the project.
This is kind of mind blowing to me. The linked xkcd is a fantastic (if exaggerated?) illustration of this effect.

Objects in mirror may be further then they appear.
Apple also has their tracking network. Airtags + every Apple device
I now have two reservations (open questions) about Project Xanadu.

Centralization

I believe but cannot yet prove that (durable) two-way links require some kind of central authority.

I was very slow to appreciate that Nelson always intended for Project Xanadu to be centralized (authoritative?). Much like Facebook and AOL. Whole onto themselves. Walled gardens.

Being a huge fan of the Xanadu vision (and never understanding the tech or stack), I was disappointed with the Web's one-way links.

Now I see that we dodged a bullet. A suspect that an "open" Web and two-way links are mutually incompatible.

Tumblers

I've always wanted the transclusion feature. But I never fully grokked tumbers, Xanadu's fundamental data structure. I'd done a bit of work with SNMP MIB, which uses OIDs. Honestly, they sucked. But I couldn't think of anything better.

Now I suspect the tumbler approach has been mooted by the advances in version control systems.

I still want something like purple numbers or xpointers. Some kind of "light weight" tumbler. Not to say the tumbler data structure is itself heavy; just the over reliance on tumblers. So something like tumblers, as needed, when they're a value-add. So intra-document tumblers, not inter-document (eg directory, catalog). And definitely not for document management (workflows, version control).

--

Thanks for reading. I write to understand. (And Xanadu is something I've struggled to understand for decades.) Feedback appreciated.
Yes, yellow pee is normal. But it can also be an indicator that you have consumed less water. When we drink "adequate" water, our pee is less yellowish and can even be quite clear.
Kris Nóva has died
Allergy rates are significantly higher in urban areas compared to rural areas.

That wouldn't be compatible with your suggested explanation, unless you think rural kids are currently dying of allergies at a disproportionately higher rate -- which I don't think there's any evidence for.
When one considers that the world will spend somewhere around a quadrillion dollars on energy in the 21st century, fusion is actually getting very little money. The market is saying the chance of fusion grabbing this gargantuan market is rather small.
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Has there been any interest in using Datasette for bioinformatics? I didn’t see any plugins for that space, but I could see a lot of potential for scientists to publish their datasets in an interactive form.

Better-equipped or tech savvy groups do this using custom websites today, and some people upload raw data to central “depositories.” A suitably-priced offering of Datasette Cloud could open this up to many more scientists.

Python already has a fantastic ecosystem of biology-related libraries (arguably R’s is better but Python is definitely a contender).

One potential risk is that “omics” datasets are often much bigger than is typical for SQLite.
That us exactly how stuff worked around 2005. And no, you should not do a full form post just to toggle a checkbox.
New malaria vaccine works well in infants, offers adults layered protection
And my library has the DVD available to rent for free!
Good to know they use a thermostat.
I still miss my Aureal soundcard. I remember being able to pinpoint where people were in Counterstrike by sound. I have a Steel Series set now and they definitely aren't pinpoint.
Judge Tosses Suspected Saudi Bomber’s Confession Because He Was Tortured by CIA
However it should at least allow us to prioritize. Someone who just doesn't want to get off the street should be lower priority than someone who doesn't want to be there and for whatever reason can't make it work.
The unstated suggestion here seems to be to impose such a system through governmental structures, putting great trust into another system of control…
I don’t necessarily disagree, but I do think there’s a case to be made that such dumping needs to happen more mindfully than it has in the past, and/or in some cases isn’t dumping at all, but just a division of roles/responsibilities (which I think is what you’re getting at).

But in any case, this is not what the book is about.
I met quantum by the first way, it is natural. However I agree the latter approach, quantum is more math than physics to me. With the age of quantum is about to come, I will read this lecture.
This sounds oddly similar to the systemic dysfunction seen on reservations in the USA.
The limit might apply to some specific part of the message, rather than the whole. You can't check this without actually deserialising, or at least doing most of the same work.
It's actually a great way for corporations to enforce ageism and political correctness.

Just bring the person in for an interview, ask him/her to describe OSPF router relationships, and as soon as he/she says "master/slave" you just tick the box that reads "not a good culture fit" and show him/her the door. You didn't even need to inquire about age or political beliefs.
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Chances are, you’re probably tuning it incorrectly. Tuning is not an easy thing to do, but you should get much closer if you draw out the block diagram. At a minimum, even fuzzy logic would be better than bang on/off.
It is an ionophore which facilitates the absorption of zinc which destroys coronavirus's.

It is a known antiviral.

It is an anti-inflammatory.

These properties are all important in defeating coronavirus and the resulting Covid-19 cytokine storm.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7539925/
For a slightly less positive take, see essay "Epic Pooh" by sci-fi/fantasy author Michael Moorcock:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/under...
Really? Well, see if you can explain your position on Wikipedia which is a source Justapedia used to find controversial topics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_controversia...
Justapedia affords editors an opportunity to neutralize those controversial articles because the big part of what makes them controversial is the lack of substantial diverse points of view. It's either WP's systemic POV or the material is rejected, and any editor who dares to change it will likely themselves groveling at one of the dramah boards, or swiftly topic-banned from that topic, broadly construed.
>Educated people usually exhibit such humility because they understand how limited their breadth and depth of knowledge is.

This does not match my experience at all.
I usually subscribe and then immediately unsubscribe. You get the service for a month, no need to remember to cancel. It’s just like renting a movie, and (to me) definitely worth it for Get Back. I wasn’t expecting it to be as good as it was; I was engrossed and plowed through it, and thought about it a lot for a couple weeks afterward.
I'm German and I'm wondering. I have never really looked up the data but the general impression is the following: Germany is doing a lot to reduce CO_2 emissions. At least you have the impression when listening to politicians and reading newspapers. E.g. a few months ago it was announced that Germany is on track with the goals posed by the government (e.g. see https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/deutschland-klimaziele-erfu...). Also in many statistics you can see that already around 50% of the electricity consumed in Germany is from renawble sources.
How comes that on electricitymaps.com Germany is on the higher side of carbon intensity? Is it because the German industry and population is much bigger?
I've heard from a couple of people who are using it for bioinformatics. It's not an area I know anything about myself but I'm excited to hear it's being applied there.

How big are we talking here?

My rule of thumb for SQLite and Datasette is that anything up to 1GB will Just Work. Up to 10GB works OK too but you need to start thinking a little bit about your indexes.

Beyond 10GB works in theory, but you need to start throwing more hardware at the problem (mainly RAM) if you're going to get decent response times.

The theoretical maximum for a single SQLite database file is 280TB - it used to be 140TB but someone out there in the world ran up against that limit and the SQLite developers doubled it for them!
I assume they meant a hundred units. The tallest buildings in Finland don't even reach 40 stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_F...
I'm seeing game dev hit extremely hard right now.

Voice acting, art generation, NPC creation, even storyline writing.

In less than 5 years games will be different almost endless games and game dev as a field will be dramatically different with a lot less people.
The addition of China data would make the legend useless, but it still goes to show out sized some things are, while the UK continues to chase Net Zero at the expense of its citizen's wealth, other countries (India, China, the US) prioritise their economy.

Heading towards a clean energy future is great, but it's costing our poorer citizens unequally more than our wealthier ones. See: ULEZ.
How is that difficult? I'm wondering if you have a different UI to me, because I can both search an album and then play it, click on the album art from a playing song, or if I want just pin an album and then it behaves like a playlist
I'm from the UK, I just happen to agree with the RFC, as (I'm certain) would the vast majority of my peers and co-workers. I'm happy to let any readers of this thread judge my comments as they stand.
If the source code is public domain, can the binaries produced from it be copyrightable?
My first question was, how urgent is this particular treatment? The true prevalence of malaria in young infants is not well characterized.

Infants are thought to be protected against malaria during the first 6 months of life largely due to the transfer of maternal antibodies(1) and the presence of fetal hemoglobin.(2)

That said, pretty cool development.

(1)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6383091

(2)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/337159
And no one will find your page with the best dog biscuits because it’s buried on page 30 of the search results behind all of the people trying to generate ad money who don’t actually know anything about dog biscuits
> Do you think most republicans would be voting against abortion, to ignore climate change, to let the rich pay less taxes etc

Opinions on abortion and taxes are entirely moral judgements, so if the university system is swaying its graduates' opinions regarding them, this confirms what its critics say: that the system is a form of indoctrination.
Generics were also already on an experimental branch by the time .NET 1.0 was released.

Microsoft decided not to delay the release waiting for them to get ready.

Don Syme of F# fame has a couple of blog posts with the history of generics in .NET, as he was part of the original design team.
> a lot of wrongs they want to address (but that’s not a devil)

Isn't it? The wrongs can end up portrayed as devilishly apocalyptic. American capitalism is consuming everything and might cause the extinction of life on the planet. The American state is intrinsically racist, founded on extractive unequal principles, to benefit the elites. The police serve solely as the protective arm of capital. The failure to appropriately censor incitement to hatred against LGBTQ people is literally genocide against gender-varying people.

I don't think the above is downright caricature? That is, one could find an American making those sort of statements pretty easily. (I've seen such things here in the HN comments.) I personally believe a weaker version of most of those claims. But I don't ramp it up to 11 like some people, who seem to need an incarnated, unambiguous evil to fight against.
PID controllers require more tuning, which becomes harder with more latency in the system. They are more susceptible to integral windup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_windup
They require an MCU, whereas a bang-bang controller can be done mechanically (or with analog components), keeping them simpler.
The first image is a Rancilio Silvia espresso machine. If you like DIY, you can add your own PID with an ESP32 (wifi-enabled cheap microcontroler), a thermocouple (to measure the temperature of the boiler) and a solid-state relay (to turn on/off the boiler heating element) for less than $40. I did it in my own machine following this repo: https://github.com/rancilio-pid/clevercoffee. I have perfectly stable temperature, I can turn on the heating from my bed (with MQTT and HomeAssistant) and I used the occasion to fully understand how my machine works (which tbh is always a big part of the motivation for doing these kind of projects).