skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s strange there’s not flat fee agents.

Essentially the cartel prevents this. If you started a flat-fee agency, you would not be allowed access to MLS listings to show your buyers. Homes you represented to sell would not be allowed into MLS, and Realtors would not bring buyers to your home (because you're not prepared to give them 3% of the deal).

This is not an accident of the free market.
Solving the corruption problem will solve the shortage problem.
Living in a pipe dream where you think people want to be educated about maximizing their freedom, at the expense of their time or convenience, is delusional. That's why the rest of the piece is basically irrelevant, if it only works when everyone or the majority follow through with this plan.
>This was also at a time when we had "No Meeting Wednesdays" but were strongly told this shouldn't be taken as "WFH Wednesdays".

Got to love performative work
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I think there are no specific grievances - the grievance is because there isn't a collective agreement in place.

I would guess hardly any employees will strike, because a collective agreement would probably not involve any stock options/RSU's at all.
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There's certainly other forces at play, but having participated in one, I tend to view the main reason that war is traumatic to the individual is its depersonalized (and in modern times, mechanistic) nature.

A person being confronted so undeniably with their place in the machinery of superorganisms in conflict induces all sorts of problems, including cognitive dissonance, and the mind struggles to form the individually senseless nature of strangers lining up to disassemble each other with kinetic force into some kind of cohesive narrative, usually failing miserably.

So, that's the true horror of it: the deep destruction of the self. That's why what remains of participants are often these psychological husks, their reality model permanently shattered.
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Highly doubt 0 correlation
Thanks. I'm familiar with accessing the imagery data from the various instruments. I've written several scripts utilizing curl to download once I learn their naming scheme.

I was hoping for more of how to go about creating the 3D aspect. Are people using custom 3D engines written specifically for astro type work, or are they using something that a FX post house would use, or can it be done in Unity(shriek) or Unreal. Are these 3D models/layouts even remotely close to being accurate, are they just faking it for creative license?

So I guess it's more of a tooling use question vs how to obtain pretty pictures question
I think you make a good point. Purely from the public trust perspective, paper and pencil seems so simple it makes people trust the system is secure. If the claim is it's cryptographically impossible for this system to be cheated, most of us would still have to trust the experts making those claims.

However, it's beyond simply the public needing simple systems; the number of experts that would be required to lie about the certainty of a system is low enough that you really do create a less secure system. Paper ballots are harder to cheat because the systems scale in a way that you require more people in on the heist, which is the hardest part of any scam.
If they were replaced with homeowners in their primary residence it wouldn't matter. By your logic rent would be lowest of there were no homeowners except for investors.
> Santamaria was later required to come up with security plans outlining the number of officers needed per night. The officers insisted on getting paid cash, she said. She feared if she didn’t oblige, she’d lose her license.

> Eventually, another officer helped schedule off-duty work: Derek Chauvin. He worked security at her club for 17 years.

> ...

> She sold the club in 2019. When Santamaria saw Chauvin pinning George Floyd on the pavement in the video that shocked the world, she recognized both, because Floyd worked as a bouncer inside the club in 2019.

That is an interesting connection. I didn't know that they worked together.
Our current technology encourages human misunderstanding.

There’s nothing in the human evolution that would prepare us for nonstop phishing attacks.

It absolutely is a computer failure because we haven’t changed, they have.
That sounds hypocritical. If you're against wind and solar on some principle, I'd hope you apply that to your own life, not just others.
> we occasionally have to let someone go on background issues

What kind of issue would that be?
> Working on projects that never ship is, anecdotally, one of the largest causes of burnout.

This stings. I’ve spent so much of my software career writing code that management just threw away after months of work because priorities shifted, or money moved, or a C suites mistress didn’t like the name of it. It’s beyond frustrating to design, implement, and actually complete a hard software product that never sees the light of day.
Yeah I mean that's maybe fair, and I thought Torvalds had been making attempts to avoid this kind of tone. I still think even if he had been concise and terse he would have been perceived as slightly-rude though.
This is a good summary example of something I find distinctly dangerous about the way people think of figures they don't personally know (i.e. how people on the social web treat public figures, or even just any stranger they see on the web). We see snapshots and assemble a person in our head. We can barely do that with any degree of fidelity regarding people we personally know, much less public figures.

People do good and evil things. But a person, in virtually all cases, is not "good" or "evil". Even if Feynman was engaging in the two behaviors you are thinking of at the same time (whatever those behaviors are - I'm not commenting), it still doesn't make him some kind of paradox. It does so much damage to think like this. This false dichotomy is especially prevalent for sexual topics, because they trigger stronger emotions and push us towards our "that guy good, that guy bad" instincts.
Probably the user submitted it on a Mac that auto "corrected" the capitalization
Nobody's arguing against that or telling you what to do with your money.

They're saying its a problem for social mobility when "how much money your parents have" becomes a gatekeeper to homeownership.
It's a joke the FAA take longer to shuffle paperwork than SpaceX take to design and build an entire spacecraft.
There is, at least on browsers. I use the Return YouTube Dislike extension on Chrome.
> "Everyone wins", yeah expect for the people who's parents don't have a spare $60,000 to give their kids for a down payment on a home.

my bank deposits are available to be reloaned out to people who don't have a family resource

there is no real injustice here, we all contribute to collective support in many ways, from taxes to loan assistance to education and infrastructure that elevates all and provides opportunity for all

you will always have some people who have an advantage others don't, that's life
> Why can't the powers that be just leave the people to live their lives in peace without being snooped on by the surveillance apparatus?

The very microsecond that some tragedy befalls the populace, the very first thing people start screaming about is how pathetic the government is for not knowing about the tragedy in advance and preventing it.

We don't live in 1923. We live in 2023. You can't put a secret agent in a room with a bunch of nefarious terrorists anymore, because those terrorists don't sit in a room with each other. They talk on Telegram. We, the tech nerds and libertarians obsessed with privacy and the freedom to do whatever we want, have been fermenting a technological arms race for decades. The more bullet-proof encryption we create, the more the government has to encroach on our privacy to do the thing we require them to do: keep us safe from the real threats that do actually exist in the world, and hide among us.

If you want more privacy, paradoxically, the best thing would be to actually give up some privacy. Telephones and letter mail have been automatically scanned for like 50 years, and this doesn't seem to concern us, and was good enough for intelligence services that they didn't need to collect anything more. So we could stop sending all our communications with bulletproof encryption. We could give the federal government a bypass. Allow the security services to peek under the covers. If we give them some leeway, they won't feel the need to compromise all privacy and security. But if you give them nothing, they literally have no other recourse but to compromise everything, because they don't know where to look and they have no leads.

Nobody wants the government snooping on them. But if you really can't handle any level of surveillance at all, tell your elected officials you no longer want any federal or state intelligence services, and deal with the consequences. When the nation falls to all the other nations' intelligence apparatuses and covert operations, you will decry it and ask why the government did nothing to stop it. You simply can not have your cake and eat it too.
I can picture this as someone publicly berating junior employee for trying to do something good "in a wrong way".

There is no need for such language. Other commenter here shown the whole "review" could be just one or two sentences.

That to me shows someone has not been going to therapy.
Sure, but it’s possible that these relatively needs will in all likelihood conflict. So a valid answer might be “you can’t”.
> That makes perfect sense.

On the contrary, it has multiple glaring flaws. When you consider that you can ask an LLM one question and get a nonsensical answer, saying that stopping them from forgetting will bring them closer to “universally-accepted” AGI has no basis in reality. Humans can’t even universally agree that the Earth is not flat, it is a pipe dream to think LLMs will bring any consensus in a few months.

Another poster points out other issues with the answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37915367
Not in the US but have the same issue where i am.
And because prices don't seem to affect supply, everyone getting money from parents is just pushing up the prices for each other. The government doesn't do much about it because many of them own property or own multiple properties acting as landlords.. and older people with property still vote more.

The same older people complain their children or grandchildren can't afford to live near them. But the moment someone tries to build more houses or apartments in the area they'll be submitting objections to the local council because it will affect their property value.

The government did a "help to buy" scheme but that just made it all worse. Because the higher the price the more they paid (up to a certain limit). So you'd have people who can afford more getting paid more from the scheme.. and getting help from parents.

So if two of these people start bidding on a house they can both now afford to bid higher against each other. Pushing prices up at the expense of tax payers.

And then just to make all worse a huge number of properties being taken off the market to be used as Airbnb's. Forcing the government to utilize hotels to house refugees and the homeless. Which is then creating a need to build more hotels and push up the prices of airbnbs..

We're in some weird feedback loop.
I think this is short sighted. Even if you want to ignore all the arguments about what's best for society and just focus on your own personal gain, what about your great grandchildren? Or your great great grandchildren? It's estimated that over half of children do worse than their parents today. Investing in a strong safety net and high social mobility are a way to ensure that if generations from now branches of your family tree fall out of middle class they'll have a chance to climb back up again.
Mark Twain said "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one". Seems like what's happening here.
It's been many years since I read his memoirs but I remember feeling that he came off as a barely-sympathetic womanizer in them. He had more or less absolute control over his own portrayal of himself so I assume the truth was significantly worse.
Love this. So relatable. Keep this attitude please, and use it beyond your work life.
US retail sales rose for the sixth-straight month
Came here to ask this, pleasantly surprised to find it already asked.
Like England after Hastings 1066 with the French loanwords, or more slowly in Italy after several invasions ~400-1800, or at much larger scale in all of the Americas from North to South after 1492?

I googled a little and found "linguistic imperialism" [1] which assumes some power relationship between the two languages. That's not probably the general concept you were looking for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_imperialism
My parents died penniless in my early 20s (mid 30s now); I have friends who's parents are gifting them a Condo or Down Payment as a wedding present.

Thankfully my wife and I make good income and have been saving, but the treadmill doesn't work for everyone.
But, again, you are determining whether something is a sculpture or not based on your knowledge of what sculptures look like and/or where the object in question is when you find it. Without that knowledge you are not able to make that determination. Without that knowledge you can only make much more basic statements, such as tell which one is heavier or larger, or what they're each made of. That's because those properties are intrinsic to the objects, unlike whether they're sculptures. You can't change those properties without changing something fundamental about the object.
If it's not prosecuted, it's defacto legal.

What we really need in this country is a way to prosecute which bypasses the DA since this type of thing seems to be becoming more common.
Unfortunately corrupt cops aren't limited to just one legal fig leaf for collecting payments, or even to operating inside the bounds of the law at all. Even this specific article discusses four or five different towns with varying flavors of this corruption problem; it focuses on Minneapolis probably just because that's where the newspaper is based out of, not because that's the only place where cops do a protection racket.
I am yes. "Alone of the emperors, he gave proof of his learning not by mere words or knowledge of philosophical doctrines but by his blameless character and temperate way of life" -Herodian about Marcus Aurelius.
The most basic law is the only law that can not be broken, the laws of physics. That is what might makes right is backed by, surviving and reproducing is what you get as the result of being able to inflict more violence on the other side than they can on you.
Exactly what I wondered...

Mar 12, 2019 — New data from financial services company Legal & General finds that 43 percent of homeowners age 34 and younger got money from family or friends

That one is from CNBC, and that same year freddiemac said:

May 7, 2019 — The share of homebuyers who used a gift or loan from family and friends has been constant since 2013 at nearly 25%.

https://www.freddiemac.com/research/insight/20190507-the-dream-of-homeownership
No, because said paper work is there to ensure nobody gets hurt when said spacecraft explodes, as it did.
> Many people look at things like the Stasi and think - the problem with it was who was in charge, not that it existed.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

It seems to me that most of the Eastern European states would be against this law but as it stands, they most certainly welcome it.

> How a group does is more about what it does with it, and how it directs it/reins it in (and acknowledges it), rather than its lack of existence

I am not sure I understand what you mean
Did you grow up in Cupertino by chance?
Most of the banks I have seen have a clause allowing them to buy insurance that covers what you owe -and usually costs more than what you would pay for full private insureance- and bill it back to you... if you don't make the full payments, then the bank will foreclose. So there is usually that extra step of them taking out a policy.
I get that you’re basically right in technical terms. A nice condo development could meet all their physical needs in far less space. And we would all be better off as a society if that is what happened, if it could just spontaneously, voluntarily happen.

However it’s just not compatible with any concept of freedom, as understood by those people themselves. A lot of people have an expectation of fairness that they ought to be able to own a home of their choosing and stay in it until they’re ready to move (or dead). And they are sentimentally attached to their homes where they raised their children.

We in the West have a society whose framework is roughly aligned with that idea. We could change it, but it would require lots of other “the government knows best” policies, and ultimately the massive empowerment of police to enforce those “best practices” when people object. Even one would agree with the outcomes in housing policy, it would be pretty risky to create that kind of totalitarian situation in general, because we might not like the other “most efficient best practices.”
Yes, that particular example was especially off-putting.
The average rate is 3.9%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
38% doesn’t seem very high. I wonder what it was in the past? Parents have always helped their children it’s not like this is some new trend. Without any historical saga this article is pointless.
0.4% you say but that paper says 0.7%. However, lets be real 10% to 1% vs 10% to 0.7% still gets the same message across.

But I'm still really not sure what you're trying to argue. My claim is that a X% wage increase will be followed by an <X% increase in inflation and so far all anybody has done is backed up my claim.

This isn't even rocket science. For any product you'll spend say $10 on labor, $15 on marketing, $5 on parts for a total of $30. If your labor costs goes up to say $20 then the total cost is $40 and one could expect the price that the 200% increase in wages lead to a 25% increase in the products price (inflation).

> In the base specification (p. 162), which included only monthly and yearly controls,
the cumulative wage-price elasticity from three months before up to three months after a
minimum wage hike was estimated at about 0.07, meaning that a 10 percent increase in the
minimum wage is associated with a 0.7 percent increase in FAFH prices. Aaronson, French, and
MacDonald (2008) used microlevel restaurant price data for the period 1995–1997, during which
two changes to the federal minimum wage were implemented, to generate a wage-price elasticity
of, again, about 0.07. 3 Though the empirical literature is somewhat limited outside of these two
formative works (see Lemos [2008] for a review), other studies have found similar results in
other countries and other cases.
Was a missing word typo/editing error. "creating twice as much business [value] per year"

Pure software engineering type roles, no sales/sales engineering. Just simply being better at value creation via software engineering.

I'm sure you've worked with the "whizzes" and the "whiffers". People who can effortlessly create elegant, reliable systems vs people who struggle to craft limp-along systems that look and behave as if they are comprised of bailing wire and load-bearing bubble gum.
They already do. QSAR has been a thing for a long time. The limiting factor is almost always the data. The publicly available SAR data in chembl / pubchem is trash, and why would you spend time and money designing and generating a good training dataset for a model when you could just be optimizing the compound?

Keep in mind that the dataset generated during optimization and the one you would prefer to train a model are quite different.

Also, in practice optimizing a lead compound is about more than just potency. You are also worried about things like toxicity, bioavailability, off target effects (selectivity), synthesis routes / yields (manufacturability), etc. And functional readouts (the assays you run) are not consistent across diseases / indications / targets / compounds.

That being said I am almost certain someone has used Bayesian optimization for an assist.
Absolutely, certification is necessary for manufacturer interop. But I do think separating profiles from the stack would have saved a lot of headache, especially in the early days. Each implementation had tons of bugs, and it was often impossible to do anything about it unless you were an OS/module vendor, or were otherwise in a position to deploy your own HCI firmware.
> Apple is no-one's Firefox.

It is in terms of OS market share.
>I didn't know that they worked together.

Surprising. It came out fairly shortly after the incident that they were at least known to one another on some level through that security job.
I'm not sure what is the role of police here. If their role is to extort citizens I see no reason to keep them around. Or you think corrupt cops also protect some neighborhoods? Maybe for a nice price? I can rent my own thugs instead and I bet they'd be cheaper.
No it isn't good (in this case). All the options are pointless aesthetic choices that don't make a difference in correctness or performance, and the time spent tweaking them is far better spent pushing features and fixes.
Fascinating to learn that George Floyd and the cop who murdered him worked at the same nightclub for a while, and that the cop ended up also being charged for not paying taxes on the ~10k he earned under the table at the nightclub.
That link, if you zoom out a little, makes the situation seem LESS bad than many in this thread are claiming. Even setting it 100+ years into the future, only shows major annual flooding along the coastlines.
Only a short amount of time before it devolves into pizza cartels
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I hope this spreads to the rest of their locations.
Why can't a PE firm hire an actual super-genius, who can understand things with a fraction of the usual effort?

Sizable firms can easily afford a seven or eight figure compensation package for someone really really competent.
well I'm sorry but what are you going to do about it? you don't know where people get their down payments...if you are really dogmatic about this, you end up with 100% mandatory public housing
I can see you're being downvoted by both sides already.

I think the crux of the issue is scale. When people make sweeping statements like "Poles were helping Jews" and "Poles were giving Jews away to the Nazi", technically they are both true, but it really makes the difference how many people were in each group.

The thing is, memories are passed down in a different way. Every Polish family knows someone who helped the Jews during the war. Poles are also the most represented group among the Righteous Among the Nations which is statistically obvious since Jews had the largest population there (for good reasons). But when you pass on your memories, you don't mention anything wrong you might have done during the war.

Polish is the only language that has the word "szmalcownik"[0]. This means that these people existed. It is impossible to estimated them, but we know they were there, and that people hated them. So practically speaking you can make an infinite number of arguments on both sides, finding more and more actual cases, and never finish.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szmalcownik
As it should be, they came first. Hope they sue the fruit for infringing the trademark of the old famous computer company.