skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s some subtext that I think most commentators are missing. NAR and some of the major brokerages have been under intense anti-trust legal pressure this year. By all measures it seems that these lawsuits are working. REMAX just settled one of these lawsuits to the tune of ~50 million and has promised to change their business practices, potentially including dropping the requirement that REMAX brokerages must be members of the NAR [1].

Let me be clear. Redfin is only breaking ties now because the NAR is fatally wounded. Redfin now thinks they can scoop up a lot of market share in the chaos that is going to happen in the next year. They’re not doing this for altruistic reasons.

[1] https://www.housingwire.com/articles/re-max-settles-buyer-br...
Last I read, they're finishing up on some architecture upgrades in order to scale the service in the future and that it should be finished by the end of the year. After that, the invites might go away.
This company has been extending fractional ownership to a lot of communities in California.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacaso
One thing I love when going on holiday is paying the equivalent of a hotel for the privilege of doing my own dishes and cleaning the place afterwards.

And having to sneak out the guiltily because you know everyone else in the apartment block hates the owner for turning their apartment into an Airbnb without their consent.

What's not to like?
> The US economy is a complete dumpster fire for those of us worth less than seven figures.

Not sure what you mean, you can invest in VTI, wait 30 years, and hit 7 figures real. The US economy is stronger than almost every other economy on the planet and is so even for the non-rich.
That's lock-in, moats are things that keep your competitors out. Source: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/economicmoat.asp
There was an article shared here around launch time. The quest pro is better seen as a dev prototype than a mass market product.

In my opinion the significant innovation is the design and implementation of the precision gesture control interface.

I can very much see that in use a decade from now with some future devise iterations be they laptop/watch/glasses/iPad.

#horselesscarriage
I really liked this book on the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/da/book/show/57615568-collapse

The inevitability of the USSR collapse was certainly framed that way by pro-western ideologues, but my understanding is that it was the result of conscious reforms and more often than not, blunders, taken on Gorbachev and his cadre of supporters.
I'm the opposite because of kids.
SolveSpace has been ported to Qt
They (BigCo) traditionally cross-license to benefit each other and lock out new entrants.
I think the 5% happens but is rarer than 5.5%. Maybe we need to negotiate better but amongst all my friend circle 5.5 seems the norm.
Don't give too much props to redfin. What's going on here isn't justice. It's competition. One middle man wants more power from other middle man so they fight.

As an outsider we don't want any side to win. If RedFin wins they could become the new NAR.
So...you couldn't just like launch it then fly it...because of the weight? You couldn't add anything else to it, so it wouldn't be useful?

Couldn't you just like find a more efficient fuel/oxidizer mix? Or is this like fundamental chemical energy density? Does it make any difference if you just have to fly in atmosphere, and not escape Earth's gravity? Seems like it should be easier...so you could have more payload.
SolveSpace Qt5 port repo: https://github.com/shingen75/solvespace_qt5
No. It really is that your view is wrong, and not that you simply failed to convey it.

You glimpse the problem at the end, only to dismiss it. Your glimpse is when you say:

> Now, NIMBYs using government fiat to drive down housing supply in their market is an annoyingly common failure mode of local democracy, maybe that's all you're upset about.

The triangle that you're looking at is that NIMBYs lead to lack of construction, lead to undersupply of housing, which is a direct cost of both high housing costs and high homeless populations. The profit that I have as a homeowner comes from somewhere. Where it comes from is artificial scarcity that causes renters to struggle, and over 170,000 Californians to be unhoused.

Looking at that without guilt, is like New Englanders whose families made a fortune investing in the triangle trade, congratulating themselves on not having been those evil slave owners. Sorry, but it is tied together. You cannot both profit from the crime, and disclaim a portion of responsibility for it at the same time.
Yep an AirBnB with a busybody host is the worst. I've stayed in some that have video cameras in all the rooms.
Just to clarify in case of any misunderstanding of my comment (to which you originally replied)…

I don’t view serfdom as a net benefit to the serfs. Nonetheless there were initially small benefits that surely dwindled to nothing over time. I think this is exactly where the op metaphor is most apt. When power is traded for comfort, what seems like a good deal now will eventually become a raw deal in the future. (And we moderns surely have more relative power than the serfs ever had)
Cool, man!
afaik price fixing is only illegal when two parties conspire. If anyone knows about market manipulation regulation please correct me.
> It was a fork of ISO 10646.

It never was. The earlier draft of ISO/IEC 10646 bears absolutely no resemblance with the current 10646 and Unicode (for example, the first character in ISO/IEC DIS 10646:1990 was 0x20202020, which I believe is mapped to a space U+0020). Unicode had a much better design compared to 10646 so the final 10646 was retrofitted to Unicode instead.

> It's main contribution over 10646 was UCS-2 - ie 16 bits per character. That decision was so bad it had to be abandoned.

UCS-2 was already in 10646 in the draft stage. It had an even worse mechanism than surrogate pairs: escape sequences from ISO/IEC 2022 to switch groups and planes (upper 16 bits of code point). The standardized UCS-2 doesn't have them because of the merger of then-16-bit Unicode.

> Later they introduced the grapheme clusters rather than allocating a separate code point for each variant.

That sounds like that Unicode initially allocated separate code points for each variant. They didn't, or rather couldn't. An easy example is a Latin character with combining marks. There are a lot of combining marks in existence, some even defined before Unicode (yes, it's not the Unicode invention!), and sometimes a single character can have multiple marks. So Unicode only gave separate code points for compatibility, and otherwise resorted to the normalization mechanism that understands how to handle such cases.

The concept of grapheme cluster naturally arises from the existence of normalization. Not in the strictest sense, but it can be thought as a closed set over normalization and concatenation, so that it roughly matches with user-perceived characters. So grapheme clusters were already there, only the precise algorithm was specified later.

> To my simple mind it had one job: allocate every grapheme a number (code point).

You can easily have more than 10M code points in this way. The current set of Hangul syllables, precomposed or not, is 125 * 95 * 138 = 1,638,750 characters. Latin characters with at most 3 combining marks (known to exist in the wild) would be probably in the same order of magnitude. Maybe now you can try, thanks to the computing power and all the information, but in 1990? Fat chance.

> Maybe they ran out of code points. How could they possibly run out of code points, given U32 has 4 billion of them and UTF-8 could potentially have more?

For last 20 years the rate was about 2,700 new code points per year. It would take more than 200 years to fill all other unassigned planes at this rate. And most "new" code points (in quantity) are for rare or ancient Han characters, which are technically unbounded but strongly bounded by existing ancient works and scholarly works to uncover them. I doubt there remain more than 100,000 potentially encodable Han characters.
I booked an AirBnB once in a location where hotels were scarce (tending towards resort style) and expensive. It was convenient and nice--and was a situation where a screened porch to hang out was nice.

But, in general, I'll take the predictability of hotels. And, as someone else mentioned, if you don't have a car, hotel features like being able to leave your bag at reception can be really useful. Yes, you can sometimes find luggage storage (rare in most places) or take advantage of some hotel's luggage storage but again you're getting into friction.
I used to be a big fan of Airbnb, but have gone back to hotels. Cost is one thing, but honestly, the entire Airbnb experience is shit now:

- Used to be very personal/unique. You’d stay in someone’s house while they were camping/whatever for the weekend, they’d meet you to handover keys, give you tips about the area, etc. Now it’s just some landlord with 17 properties that you never see

- You almost always have to go to some random storefront far from the apartment to pick up the keys

- When things go wrong, there’s no front desk to help you out. For example, I stayed at an Airbnb with very sketchy wiring, power went out in a snow storm and the place became freezing cold, took a full day before the host would do anything

- Hosts often try sketchy things, like making you pay off platform damage deposits

- Not only are there no cleaners, if you don’t clean to their satisfaction, they charge you extra

- Hotels offer so many things that Airbnbs generally don’t: late checkout, watch your bags, gym, pool, etc.

- And yeah, it’s very, very often more expensive than a hotel

I also don’t like that it’s contributing to making longterm rental markets worse worldwide, by eating up already scarce rental properties. I’m very, very bearish on Airbnb longterm.
Hi! I was wondering why you don't sponsor visas and require residency in Germany or the EU/EFTA? As a US citizen considering a move to Germany or another EU country in the near future, my understanding is that I only need a job offer to apply for a blue card myself. Therefore, visa and residency shouldn’t be a problem. So I was quite surprised to see this requirement and would really appreciate any clarification you could provide!
I worked on something similar and I am so happy to see someone take it to the next level :)

https://twitter.com/radiofreejohn/status/780664363631935488

and

https://twitter.com/radiofreejohn/status/784050276198080513
Shelter is a basic human need, not housing.
Hm.. you realise that your opinion is not necessarily fact? Yes there are bad bits, but the service is extremely useful for a lot of people. That's my opinion :)
Service fees are ok, as long as they're upfront.

My mom runs her house as an Airbnb now. She puts a ton of work into the turnovers. So it's a similar amount of work whether guests stay for 2 nights or 7 nights. So yeah, it can be expensive and maybe it pushes people to do longer stays, but that actually makes sense for whole rentals.

But when you're searching for something, you just don't want the price to double once you get to the checkout page.

I wish they also had more options for just a place to crash for a night, like in a spare bedroom.

Hotels are certainly nicer for many cases. But Airbnb is worth it in some cases still.
Fun facts about red dwarfs*

If you look up on a dark night, you can see 5 to 10 thousand stars. For every star you see there are 8 red dwarves. Not one of them is visible to the naked eye.

No red dwarf has died of old age yet. They live trillions of years and the universe isn't old enough.

Proxima Centauri might not be part of the centauri system. It's orbit is so long (80,000 years) that we can't tell if it is orbiting Alpha and Beta or just drifting by.

Since they are flare stars (suddenly increase 10 - 50 percent in brightness), there were a few minutes in 2015 where if you knew where to look you could see it.

The book (and netflix show) the three body problem is about aliens from the centauri star system.

w/apologies to JRR Tolkein, who said the correct word is dwarves.

* this is all from memory, might want to verify it.
Well, this is a very one sided view on the world I'd say. From personal experience, I can surely tell you that I was much happier in countries where productivity was lower. The people there are just so much more pure of heart.
The sybil-proof mechanism here is not POS but a variant of POW.
Strongly agree.

That said, is this actually going to change how Redfin operates? They used to rebate part of the agent fee in certain markets, but at least in my market, they no longer do. Now they're the same price as everyone else while providing a slightly worse service.
SEEKING WORK | Remote and onsite, hybrid | Backend engineer or Data engineer

Location: New Delhi, India (Indian Citizen)

Remote: Yes, any timezone. Available worldwide. I actively work in EST and CEST.

Willing to relocate: Yes, will need visa support. Looking for full-time job in Netherlands, Germany or UK which can offer visa sponsorship but open to remote as well.

Technologies: Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, AWS, GCP, ETL, Spark, Airflow, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, Terraform, Git, Linux.

Email: shashankgrovy[at]gmail[dot]com

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xUOP7lFkUsQQw_wwq-zgg9o7j3f...

Github: https://github.com/shashankgroovy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashanksrivastav/

Hey everyone! I am Shashank, a data, cloud and backend engineer with 8 years of experience. Currently, I am working at an Ad Tech security company where I specialize in building backend APIs, ETL pipelines, working on security tools, overhauling our architecture and deployment processes, and managing a small team on the enterprise vertical. Prior to this, I was a founding engineer and data engineer at a DeFI based music startup, where I single-handedly built the entire data infrastructure, payments platform, analytics and reporting system and most of the company's products.

Throughout my 8-year career, I have gained extensive experience in delivering products from concept to launch, designing architecture, product & infrastructure planning, and managing small teams.

I have been working fully remotely for New York based companies since the past 4 years from India and Europe as a digital nomad. I am open to fully remote roles as well as onsite/hybrid if visa sponsorship is available.
There's also an interesting story about Chile under Allende trying to implement some cybernetic systems in the 70's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

There's a book called "Cybernetic Revolutionaries" about it, I haven't read it yet though.
CLI is one of my biggest pain points with C# on Linux. A lot of the Console functions simply don't work because they're expecting an entirely different kind of console. Just clearing the screen doesn't work, you have to sneakily pass a "clear" string to the input stream, or something like that.

Console drawing is an enormous pain. I went to a lot of effort to optimize my console writes to construct graphics quickly, and it just does not work on Linux. I'd have to switch to a curses type library and it just makes me sad :(
Has anyone made Eliza talk to any of these yet?
> Before comparing strings or searching for a substring, normalize!

...and learn about the TR39 Skeleton Algorithm for Unicode Confusables. Far too few people writing spam-handling code know about that thing.

(Basically, it generates matching keys from arbitrary strings so that visually similar characters compare identical, so those Disqus/Facebook/etc. spam messages promoting things like BITCO1N pump-and-dumps or using esoteric Unicode characters to advertise work-from-home scams will be wasting their time trying to disguise their words.)

...and since it's based on a tabular plaintext definition file, you can write a simple parser and algorithm to work it in reverse and generate sample spam exploiting that approach if you want.

https://www.unicode.org/Public/security/latest/confusables.t...

> and CD-ROM!

I think you mean Microsoft Windows's Joliet extensions to ISO9660 which, by the way, use UCS-2, not UTF-16. (Try generating an ISO on Linux (eg. using K3b) with the Joliet option enabled and watch as filenames with emoji outside the Basic Multilingual Plane cause the process to fail.)

The base ISO9660 filesystem uses bytewise-encoded filenames.
Location: USA

Remote: optional

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rust, C++, C, Python, storage stack, kernel programming, filesystems

Résumé/CV: https://sincerely.dev

Email: devashishpurandare@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/devashishp

Hi, I’m an about-to-graduate PhD candidate at UCSC, working in SSDs and hardware-software coordination. I’ve worked in the block layer on filesystems and on a userspace shim layer to enable intelligent placement of data on ZNS SSDs with log-structured systems like RocksDB and WiredTiger. I’ve had two systems internships: working in networking at Riverbed and on SSDs at SK Hynix. Feel free to reach out! I plan to defend in December and will be available from January.
SEEKING WORK / The wilds of NY / ALWAYS REMOTE

My name is David Vandervort and I help companies improve their use of AI.

I have a long background in tech, programming, architecture and research. I've built products and teams from nothing and I see many of the mistakes of previous HOT NEW TECH being repeated with AI. I can help avoid unpleasant surprises!

More about me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvandervort

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Hi, do you sponsor US Visa?
Believe me, if it were that simple, I wouldn't have spent 3+ months looking for a job.

In any case, what check boxes are you specifically referencing? Appearance?
That feels certainly right on both points.

Another point of contention that perhaps shall be left out for later discussion (i might have got some preconditioned view, but perhaps would like to hear others first) is whether the third category should be considered "equal" to the 0 and F.
The "death is terrifying" social malady does have some FDA-unsanctioned treatments you might consider. Check in with your network's Elusinian priests for the traditional cautions.
Simple: housing affordability is racing out of reach at an accelerating rate. There is no future where the savings lift them into the landowning class, so they decide to not be as miserable as they could be if they futilely saved for something that would never happen.
One way to look at it is to use the particular fuel and engines ISP. Specific impulse which really is about pounds of thrust per pound of fuel per second.

Rocket each pound of fuel + oxidizer you burn a second gives produces a few hundred pounds of thrust. Call it 300.

Air breathing engine doesn't carry oxidizer. A rocket needs to carry ~3 lbs of oxidizer per lb of fuel. Using the 300 number above an air breathing engine would have an ISP of 900.

It gets worse of the rocket because prop and turbo-fan engines also use air for reaction mass[1]. Which boosts the calculated ISP even higher. Call it 5X higher. Now your ISP is 4500.

So yes you can use rockets for an aircraft. But it won't travel as far as one with a piston or turbofan.

1 Thrust is basically mass flow X deltaV. Where power is mass flow X deltaV squared. So it's more efficient to create thrust by accelerating a large mass flow a small amount (turbofans) than a a small amount of mass a large amount (rockets).
Location: New Delhi, India (Indian Citizen)

Remote: Yes, any timezone, available worldwide I actively work in EST and CEST.

Willing to relocate: Yes, will need visa support. Looking for full-time job in Netherlands, Germany or UK which can offer visa sponsorship but open to remote as well.

Technologies: Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, AWS, GCP, ETL, Spark, Airflow, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, Terraform, Git, Linux.

Email: shashankgrovy[at]gmail[dot]com

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xUOP7lFkUsQQw_wwq-zgg9o7j3f...

Github: https://github.com/shashankgroovy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashanksrivastav/

Hey everyone! I am Shashank, a data, cloud and backend engineer with 8 years of experience. Currently, I am working at an Ad Tech security company where I specialise in building backend APIs, ETL pipelines, working on security tools, overhauling our architecture and deployment processes, and managing a small team on the enterprise vertical. Prior to this, I was a founding engineer and data engineer at a DeFI based music startup, where I single-handedly built the entire data infrastructure, payments platform, analytics and reporting system and most of the company's products.

Throughout my 8-year career, I have gained extensive experience in delivering products from concept to launch, designing architecture, product & infrastructure planning, and managing small teams.

I have been working fully remotely for New York based companies since the past 4 years from India and Europe as a digital nomad. I am open to fully remote roles as well as onsite/hybrid if visa sponsorship is available.
Why would people want to buy data about users that aren't seeing ads? I guess they see ads on other sites and fb cookies tell you what demographic the end users are in. Still... seems weird.
Exactly. Their desktop app uses whisper.cpp for handling transcriptions, then stores the output in a SQLite database. Summarization is handled by piping the transcript into GPT-4…
> It agreed to implement a compliance plan

What kind of compliance plan could this be? My understanding is that the spacecraft is basically out of fuel. How can it be brought into compliance?
It may seem great, but what happens if you hit these theoretical markers?

No insurance? Higher premiums? No treatment, for a prior "known condition"?

Required test prior to getting insurance? Renewing?
I originally started using and recommending AirBNB for visiting cities where hotel prices were ridiculous. Friends and family coming to visit me in my city (Austin) frequently found it was cheaper to rent a whole house in a desirable neighborhood than to book a dark, drab room in a mid-range hotel chain. Now that hotel prices are more in line with other cities, thanks to a boom in new hotels, AirBNB seems like it fills more of a luxury/party niche. I no longer recommend it to people who are just looking for an affordable place to stay.
Quick and easy answer: A rocket wouldn't last long enough. A jet can fly for hours.

Read up on the German rocket fighters used in WW2. IIRC the rocket engine lasted about six minutes. They had no power available for landing, so had to glide to a close-by landing strip or crash.

Fast, they were. Useful, not so much. Dangerous to their pilots, also.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_163_Komet
More space and a kitchen is probably one of the main use cases where AirBnB (or VRBO etc.) still will often win relative to even extended stay hotels.
LLAMA2 Running as a Unikraft Unikernel
> Pacaso is a property broker that buys single-family homes and sells them to consortiums of buyers.

Why not just buy a REIT?
"Google has argued that the default positions are not overwhelmingly powerful and that users can switch to a new search engine if they like."

OK, then why pay Apple close to $20 billion annually to be the "default".

"Mr. Schmidtlein hammered Mr. Nadella with questions about instances in which Bing had been the default on mobile phones, only for users to switch back to Google."

If Google search is so great, and Apple needs to use it as a default, then shouldn't Apple be paying Google.

If users switch without Google paying to be default, then why pay.
Still very much unregulated in many parts of the world. The cleaning standards in the last two airbnbs I was at were an absolute nightmare.
But they didn't invent time shares?
houses aren't the only thing in the equation.