skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something about in-person communication that's different for bonding. It's just human nature. Getting information across can be trained, but the social aspect will always be missing. That's ok if you make up for it.

Ones thing about meeting in physical space that I miss is directionality and locality of sound. If we are sitting with 4 people at a table at lunch, we can organically switch between having a single shared conversion or two different ones.

> "It's hard" is true, for sure. But "we decided we don't want to and never wanted to try, so we're going to inflict misery on our employees" is an abrogation of the employer's part of the social contract.

Agreed. Different from a power trip though. IMO it's just ineptitudes.
Liability adds a strong bias towards inaction and it's in society's interests to avoid that.

Like, pretty much everything has some side-effects, and if (for example) you have the choice between doing nothing and having a million people die and doing something for which everyone is certain that that will save that million people but on average might kill ten other people, then asserting liability effectively means saying that you shouldn't do that thing, because you won't be liable for the former million deaths but will be liable for the latter ten ones. So if the society wants people to choose the former option, they shouldn't be liable for such consequences.
If it is true that people are reluctant to change their default search engine, as Nadella says, doesn't that mean all Windows users are using Bing?
Restricting chatgpt-ish things from access to "the internet" means it's one of the first things the users tried. Of course :-) And I haven't seen anyone giving them a wallet but I'm sure it's already been tried also. Much slower than native but still fun to see happen.
Now, the next logical move for Redfin is to sue for access to MLS. This may be in fact building up ammunition for the case. They probably expect the NAR to susped MLS access. No way NAR will give away access to its crown jewel and Redfin is more-or-less dead in the water without it.
I don't think 'MLS' is a single entity - instead different areas have their own MLS, and these are interconnected based on contracts. Thus, there isn't a monopoly to disrupt in the first place.
How is it an "advanced" topic? Having multiple instances so that you don't have a SPOF is table stakes for any service you care about, and something any half-serious datastore like Cassandra, Kafka or even MongoDB (for all of which "clustering, replication and high availability" are boring things that you would naturally set up without making a fuss about it) will do out of the box. I'm constantly baffled that when it comes to RDBMSes people suddenly decide that single points of failure are fine now actually.
Let me stick a red hot poker on your genitals and you’ll find out.
Thank you (: I will be sure to read this.
By "actual evidence" people usually mean evidence that can't be discarded as easily as testimony.
> Why can't Apple do what Linux does

Specifically because it doesn't have native Vulkan drivers to run DXVK at high performance. That's just about it; Game Porting Toolkit is a confirmed fork of DXVK with Metal bindings. Apple hardware could be supported upstream if it was on their agenda, but... eh.
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Tesla scores Autopilot victory as judge rules owners must use arbitration
Fair. Physics so unfair.
I understand the existential fear of the eternal dirt nap - but I dont care how much my loved one will miss me - because the quality of those last memories will be poor - and eternally painful to them, and will color the memories of me from the good times.

Because of that, I would rather trade those moments of watching me die in the most agonizing, painful way imaginable, for the better memories - the times before I got sick.

I watched my grandmother die, of cancer - there is nothing, literally nothing - that would allow me to put someone else thru that - at least not without their full consent, and making sure they knew of what was to come.
Seems like a reasonable speculation. The ability to smell that asparagus smell in urine is also genetic, if I remember correctly.
It’s an appealing vision. Distributing the early review process across time and the whole community would solve a lot of problems with the current model.

I do suspect that this would strengthen the winner-takes-all dynamics in academic publishing. Like whoever has the biggest twitter following gets all the attention, then gets Nature and Science competing for their paper, which allows them to get funding to hire a publicist, who increases their profile.
Edge only. Fortunately, most of the exoplanets we know of were discovered by that exact method (by space telescopes that stared at a patch of stars for months at a time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_space_telescope ) so it's just a matter of working down that list.
>Which is the other reason you can't just start up the lynchings, this isn't America and you'll have to live with these people and their families on a comparatively small island.

By this logic neither the Troubles nor the Irish Civil War would never have occurred in the first place. Yet they did.

(And the latter was more fierce than the war that forced London to acknowledge the Republic's independence.)
Why draw a distinction especially given AT&T is practically joined at the hip with the NSA?
Silicon valley has if anything made real estate more of an investment, look at fractional ownership schemes. The costs of transacting business through an agent is a holdover from another time when those costs weren't that significant given how infrequently a home would transact (and lower real prices). I agree realtors generally don't provide value for the money anymore. However, all else being equal, removing realtors will itself make it more profitable to invest in real estate.
You can do this via Galleri web site where a doctor will prescribe it for you.

It's also weird that your doctor would be worried that insurance won't cover the costs of cancer being detected early. Saving money in this situation is not something that is on the top of my mind. Worst case I incur debt and then declare bankruptcy if I survive.
The successful campaign to convince people the USA and not the USSR beat Hitler (2014)
> Google as a search engine is far better than Bing and that’s just a fact.

I have been using DDG for several years now and honestly can't stand Google's results anymore. It seems like you can no longer search for an exact term and at every opportunity they try to slip in a merchant selling something as a result.
Unless most of that is going to pay down a huge mortgage, pay for childcare, and pay off student loans?
> Heck, maybe we're even ok with paying a premium just to get our games ported to Mac.

On this point specifically, price parity is a prickly subject among game devs.

For instance, there are allegations of Steam harassing devs who charge less for games on storefonts with fees cheaper than Steam's 30% cut, hence you never see a game cheaper on Epic Games than it is on Steam. And IIRC thats actually policy on the iOS AppStore and Google Play... How that survives antitrust law, I don't know.

There's also the issue of things simply going wrong on the less popular storefronts, with MS's Store being a particularly good example. Publishers don't like that kind of fuss.
In addition, jets (specifically turbofans) use air as reaction mass. This multiplies their efficiency severalfold.
Know Your Science (2010)
Correct, and some of the MLSs won't even sell you data (for all those trying to disrupt real-estate). They have exclusive agreements to only appear on Zillow or Realtor.com or something like that when I looked into it before.
> A 'new kind of network' is surface level analysis, we need to stop computers sucking the life (and consciousness) out of everything they touch.

Do you have any ideas on how we might do that?
There were few things more frustrating to me when we were buying our house, which we were currently living in, from our landlords, for a price we all agreed to over the phone, that we HAD to employ two realtors who, despite doing little more than paperwork which I could have done myself, took 6% of the sale price.

It's a grift.
We both sold our last house and purchased our current house with anyone using a realtor at any point. It was so easy. All the forms can be printed out from the Internet. Fill them out, the buyer gives a check for the earnest money, turn it over to a title company and they take care of the rest. Simple and trouble free.
Ask HN: Looking for a project to volunteer on? (October 2023)
This is my new monthly submission for people looking for open-source projects to volunteer on.

EXAMPLE:

ExampleScript: A small script that generates example text.

It doesn't have to follow this format, but it's as simple as it could get.
1. Not every browser has reader mode

2. I don't think it's a very good joke to post long-form content on your blog with the expectation that it's basically unreadable without a reader mode.

> The fact that people seem to take it seriously says something about the contemporary state of webdesign :)

Mind expanding and what it says exactly about contemporary web design?

Whether I take it seriously or not doesn't change the fact that it's still damn hard to read anything.
It is amazing how once someone becomes a homeowner, they become cheerleaders for unsustainable home prices (and vice versa). And I understand where it comes from. The mistake was to make housing an investment.
> ... Tom Waits, LeBron James, Knuckles, and, uh, Adolf Hitler.

I can't figure out if this is an example of Godwin's Law or not.
Recent consumer 2.5G+ LAN chips by Intel suck so it's make sense to adopt Realtek despite it's Intel product
Slight grandstanding aside, this is great. NAR and the buying / selling agent system in the US is egregiously overpriced and monopolistic. Borderline corrupt. It's 2023, technology could have brought these costs drastically down for homebuyers and sellers a decade ago.
ok
linux n00bie here
(w an iPhone 4)

can i jailbreak it
w/out knowing how to program
(like how difficult ,|,
I took a look at Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/stats/content/

It looks fine, dark areas are dark, green areas are green.

Still, my antenitas de vinil are twitching, someone, somewhere fucked up I think, probably not important and probably already fixed, but it was a weird one.

Because I just helped a client set-up their Monero and put funds into it, no problem, zilch, smooth as butter.

So are ETH, BTC, and even fucking DOGE.

For a moment I thought that the Serbians had rushed into fucking Kosovo and were pulling a DDOS, I mean... Not the Serbians obviously, but you know.

So yeah, probably nothing, meeting a mate next week in London however, he's BT so I'll ask him if he's seen anything odd.
Eh, maybe Europe is different. They were always more expensive in the US, especially since good laptops go on sale so much.
It’s not that yc cares about the age. It’s that the whole ecosystem that funds startups prefer younger and (till recently) single male founders.

One side of this is that startups are hard and demanding a lot of time and energy. Startups with other people’s money who are on a tight time frame to get a return on investment makes startups even more harder and even more demanding. Just by simple physics younger founders are better positioned to win on the demand vector. It’s about probabilities. Now an experienced founder who may have more obligations on their time and energy may still “win” on the demand vector but they have to skin the cat with some other ace up their sleeve that allows them to meet the time compressed demand needs of a startup.

So yea. It’s not about yc it’s about the whole system that thinks a certain way. Human psychology plays a big factor in this as these people in the funding side are no more “smarter” than the the average person and are hence susceptible to the same biases.

I say build something that people are willing to pay for and then bootstrap your way. If it’s a good product or service these same people will line up to you and you have the upper hand when taking their money which allows you to dictate your terms.
How can a slow being create a fast being, or a weaker one a stronger? I wouldn't argue that humans can or need to produce a "perfect" or "flawless" intelligence, but given the existence of mathematical proofs, it's not obviously absurd.
I've thought about this as well. I wanted to create anonymity pools and then use zero knowledge proofs to justify predicates about the entire pool.

So it would be like:

1000 participants formed 10 pools, assigned by random numbers generator. Preficatefoo was true of 19% of pool foo, 24% of pool bar...

Participants could then attest: yes, I was in pool foo. But there wouldn't be enough data to reidentify them individually.
Let's say you want an LLM to generate product descriptions.

You might have a first pass where you generate a handful (each run will be slightly different).

Then you can throw those against a pass where you give a system message of an in market shopper matching your target demo asking for the points that are most relevant to making a decision.

Then you give the descriptions and bullet points to a final pass with a system message as an expert copywriter summarizing the multiple descriptions with an emphasis on the bullet points.

You'll have MUCH better results than anything you'd be able to generate in a single pass. You'll need to play with zero shot vs few shot in each step, and there's other little hacks for consistency here and there that would be relevant, but a multipass approach like this makes a world of difference.

As for code, it'd certainly be worth a try of taking the output from pass 1 and then running it though another pass "Can you refactor this code with an emphasis on reducing cyclomatic completely while improving readability and its future maintenance?"

Though in general I'd love to see a dedicated refactoring fine tuned layer (or language specific layers) as an offering in the next year or so, as it's a task nuanced enough I don't know that a general purpose model is going to be great. But yes, I could definitely see running initial code generations though a second pass for improving the results.
> Since WGS technology has no PCR enrichment of targeted regions, non-human contamination has a higher impact on overall sample quality metrics and can cause higher sample failure rates in Saliva and Buccal specimens. Therefore, blood is the preferred specimen for the Invitae Exome, when available.
Your analogy falls apart because the 'train' you are 'on' is not moving. The people you are 'leaving behind' are still right there next to you. You don't live on Elysium. You have to go outside and interact with the people you're so smugly 'leaving behind.'

Do you think Do Kwon is still telling people that they're NGMI? I somehow think not.
I'm having a hard time reconciling "he knows what he is doing" with him making his site practically unusable without a reader mode, which by the way, not every browser supports (especially on mobile).
It'll convert the image to something that has the same overall statistics as the real data but may not bear any resemblance to reality in the details
That's great! Unfortunately, often real estate agents will refuse to show FSOB houses (at least unless the buyer asks explicitly) so that they take longer to sell, thereby showing the "value" of the seller's agents.

Perhaps Redfin should drop a line to Lina Kahn at the FTC.
lots of ignorant takes in this thread about sociology...not surprised tho
Just 10%? Eight years ago, I bought a house that has increased in value from $120k to $350k (validated both by Zillow and by recent sales in the neighborhood of nearly-identical houses). And for a mortgage whose interest has been less than the price of inflation!

I'd be happy about it too, but am overwhelmed by guilt when talking to my intern, our newly hired engineer, my younger siblings, and many of my friends who rent at ever-increasing rates.

That $230,000 was taken from the pockets of my non-homeowning friends. I don't understand how so many seem to be cheering the rising prices, oblivious to what it's doing to our society.
Because Microsoft is doing worse things than what they are accusing Google of, such as forcing users to use Edge and Bing in Windows. Also, considering the fact that Bing's market share did not increase even when Microsoft signed a contract with Apple to make Bing the default search engine on iPhones, and the testimony that Apple did not acquire Bing because of its poor quality, Microsoft's argument is completely unacceptable.
Well if you have the FAP (Familial Adenomatous Polyposis) gene then the action is to get your colon removed during adolescence, 20 years before you certainly die of colon cancer. The recovery is much easier at 15 than at 35.
The NAR is in desperate need of a disruption. I hope Redfin accomplishes this. The MLS is a monopoly and tying it to NAR membership is wandering into antitrust territory.
Most people don't understand opportunity cost or time-value of money.

How good an investment is it after you remove the realtor fees, closing fees, HOA, taxes, repair and compare it to a steady 7% on average on the SP500?

At a minimum your house MUST go up 10% over a couple years to get even.
I’ve been working remotely in wilderness areas of the U.S. in my RV, and it’s been great. I wouldn’t have attempted this without Starlink.
Wonder if it even matters, as when we bought our house ~12 years ago, we used Redfin as our buying agent, and, even though we had a real realtor working for us through them, the selling agents were super defensive and refused to deal with her. They would only deal with us directly and we'd have to forward info to her, etc.

First home so had no idea how this was supposed to work, but seemed other real estate agents didn't treat Redfin as a "real" realtor in any case.
Well, then we're talking $300 to have ElevenLabs do a single GoT book, but maybe as many as 8 books for HHGTG-style stuff.

That's just not good value. Was sort of my point.
Hopefully the FCC can force this agreement on any company using American launch infrastructure.
>Don't be too sure about that 10% increase in value.

Not disagreeing, but zillow and redfin both track their estimate accuracy: https://www.redfin.com/redfin-estimate https://www.zillow.com/z/zestimate/
Insurance unlikely to reimburse you, but its not prohibitively expensive. Some top tier employers like McKinsey cover the costs for employees over the age of 40.
I'm sure there are other reasons, or I might be misinterpreting this statistic, but NAR is listed as the #1 lobbying spender in the US in 2022. They and #2 (US Chamber of Commerce) each spent over 3x the third-place organization, and they spent more than 4x the top tech company (Facebook).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/257344/top-lobbying-spen...
"Most MLSs are owned by the REALTOR® association that formed them."
See: https://www.reso.org/blog/mls-faq/

Read the Redfin post. The rules the REALTOR association imposes to get access to MLS data is monopolistic.
Tell HN: Dark Pattern from YouTube Movies and TV
I don't carry a streaming video subscription anywhere, and so I mostly watch free YouTube, or I go to the theater and pay for a film. A while back, YouTube began promoting its films "Free with Ads" and I watched many of those, and they are unevenly awful or slightly tolerable. But lately I've also been renting singlet films from YouTube and it's been a smooth experience, with no ads of course.

Today I was logged into my church account on my phone, and notied a 5-year-old film that I would love, so I jumped at the chance to plunk down $3.99 for an HD rental. It was also offered for purchase, and AFAICT, there was no free option at that point.

So I went through the purchase process, and realized I was in the wrong account just at the end, because I don't store payment methods on that one. So I switched to my main and that's when things got weird.

As soon as I looked up the same exact film in my main account, I noticed it was touted "Free with Ads" and no rental/purchase option. So I was thrilled, but also appalled that they would've let me spend money on it without mentioning that option, you know?

So I started it on my phone and switched to my notebook, where my church account was still logged in (where I'd initially found it for-pay) and mirabile dictu, it's also "Free with Ads" here!

So here's my theory on what happened, based on salesmanship tactics and the sort of things other apps have done to me: I think they detected my willingness to watch, my backing out of payment, and so they immediately sweetened the deal so that I'd watch anyway.

Now some of you would rather pay $4 than watch a bunch of advertisements, and that's fair. But it seems that YouTube's playing A/B testing with our willingness to do such a thing. Par for the course, am I right?
"Spending $5" is the gas and "Holding $5" are bases of economic flow. Real world needs both.

"Spending $5 on coffee ... lets that business ... re-invest ..." means I'm giving them $5 and they are choosing to hold or they reached their tipping point of saving and can initiate a re-investment. That $5 could be used as simple as replacing a broken electrical outlet cover or fund constructing a drive-though. Could also go to funding the employee pizza party to invest in employee satisfaction.

Just like cars, some business investments are fully paid off and are now just there for utility. Only need operations and maintenance costs. Investment does not mean you need to by another car or build another location.

Is that a more clear?

Everyone stepping on the brakes means no one is going any where. Just like everyone stepping on the gas means no one is going any where. Wouldn't the 2007-2008 financial crisis be a good example of both? Didn't too many people overspending, which originally looked good on paper, turned out to become a head on collision causing too many stepping on the brakes because they could not afford the gas?
> Unrelated but Zillow says at 7.5% interest rates that house is now $750k+, weird... makes no sense... counter-intuitive, except for how tight the supply/demand situation must be)

I highly doubt this estimate is true, outside of very specific locales. Always ignore Zillow/Redfin estimates, and just look at comparable sales in the recent past.
Somewhere where housing is less expensive, perhaps?
It's a bad joke. It made me close the browser tab.
I used to play in a couple of competitive bands, I always ended up in 1st / 2nd chair, but I always started in lower chairs because I can’t sight read music and would botch my auditions.

Once we were in the room and playing, and I got to hear the music, I was good and the notes on paper made sense- but out of context the notes didn’t do it for me.
Wouldn't most people with $350k and long investment horizon rather invest that in stocks? (actually asking, I have not idea, just a notion). $350k seems like a lot of money to leave in a money market account as opposed to in a diversified portfolio of stocks/bonds in a tax advantaged account. I'm thinking long term growth.

Inflation rates go up and down (i-bonds were not attractive until recently) and so do interest rates. The current 5% rate may not last for long.
this DMCA scam is dumb
Who cares? Airbnb is a terrible company that exploits travels and gives hosts carte blanche to do whatever they want.

Mods, can Airbnb posts be banned? They don't need free advertising.
Summary: Americans are spending a lot of money on vacations and fun experiences that they might've otherwise put off, because they are prioritizing to enjoy life now than later.

Inflated housing prices made savings almost pointless and COVID crisis taught them about fragility of life.
Many companies do this, but those companies don't get as much attention