skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comment is focused on USA. Some people need or want an agent, some people don't. For the majority the checklist for buying a home is fairly straight forward and could be automated with checklists, yelp, Plaid/UWM, and DocuSign. But not all.

The bigger issue that I think almost everyone can agree on is the standardized percentage thing. Being an agent should be a flat negotiated fee or billed like the trades per hour / cost+. The good ones charge more, you pay for what you need, etc...

One other thing. I'm not usually for more government intervention but at least in the USA, the government backstops the vast majority of mortgages (Fannie and Freddie), and collects rent in perpetuity through property taxes. They are so integral to the housing market that they should be providing the standardized forms and checklists that would cover most residential real estate transactions. Not Redfin/Zillow and definitely not NAR/MLS.
Manufacturing is low value commodity work. If for some reason a country has lots of low value commodity bodies to screw things on, then focusing on manufacturing makes sense. But if you want a high standard of living, you need to have high productivity. That is incompatible with humans working assembly lines as they simply aren't that productive.

The US economy is the world leader and continues to pull ahead of everyone else.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/04/13/the-lessons-fro...
No the US will never move or learn as fast as china. It's just the overall mentality there you have to see it to know what I mean.

Look up what Elon musk has to say about China. He gets it because he's seen it.
Did Dante get authorization to clone Virgil's likeness—to put words in his mouth, and send him to hell to narrate the damnation of Christian popes?

How would one distinguish the two? To me, this is all just a continuation of human storytelling tradition in different media.
Not really. See Yemen and Syria.
It’s lazy and inaccurate both on trends and policy direction
>there just isn't that many large ones to hit.

Maybe not here in the US - we only have 10 cities with more than 1 million people. But China has 145 cities >1m. We would not be a threat to their industrial base with only a dozen nukes.

Yes, a dozen nukes would cause many billions, perhaps even trillions in damage and horrific loss of life, but China would still have 125 other cities to keep their war machine moving. Deterrence through countervalue threats is great, but once that trigger has been pulled you still have the rest of the war to fight.

No need to be condescending, by the way.
If you didn't have to commute to work, how often do you really need to leave your neighborhood though?
This sounds fine to me. If you're going to be granted natural monopoly status, then you should not be allowed to use profit notice as a reason to do (or not do) anything. Regardless of anyone's race, why are people in one region more deserving of faster Internet than in another?

There's a reason why the USPS is required to deliver more or less everywhere. I admit that their service levels do vary, but I think the aspiration is a good one.

Maybe our broadband infrastructure just shouldn't be owned by for-profit corporations. They've already proven themselves poor stewards of the commons. (Ditto for utility companies, really.)
Why would the government need to be involved? It's an uninteresting self organising phenomenon where commercial entities pay attention to and show respect to bigger entities.
Pixart-alpha provides an example of C: The bot labels can be dramatically better than the human labels.

Even though they used LLaVA, and LLaVA isn't all that good compared to gpt-4.
I think the main delay is probably turnaround time on later prototypes. It takes a while to get something custom made, get injection molds done, get a prototype out of them, so like the idea is that she would have been working on this for 3 years, but not constantly on it for free years.

Getting anything done with custom PCBs is the same sorta design, order, wait, assemble, test, repeat process. So while it may take 50~250 hours of work to make just the electrical portion of a DEF CON badge, that 50~250 hours may take place over 6 months.
Don’t be ridiculous, you can disagree with the war and still understand nations have competing interests and Ukraine being in NATO comes at the expense of Russian interest.
> the end goal is to end all human civilization.

To clarify, not just the two fighting parties too. No country works alone. Everyone has skin in the game, so there's large incentives to encourage your allies to back off or even sabotage or turn on them should you believe they are going to risk it. Everyone and everyone is playing the game, not just the superpowers.
MoCA is great but the downside is that requires two active components. And leveraging PoE becomes impossible.

Also, why not replace the coax cable with UTP? Tape some fish tape to your coax cable, and gently pull the coax cable on the other end. Then ape some UTP to the other end of the fish tape and pull again slowly. Pretty easy actually.
For the buyer, the value is clear: someone to go out with you to house after house, let you in, walk around with you, talk about whether you could fit a king-sized bed in that room, etc. It's a lot of work and the buyer gets a lot of value from it.

But for the seller, who pays the tab, the only value is that some buyers' agents will steer their clients away from you unless you offer a large commission. The individual realtors I know are nice people who work hard, but the industry as a whole is pretty obviously maintained by collusion, and I'm glad it finally seems to be crumbling.
This splice is the only issue, really.
Great list! I'm in my 50s and all of this resonates with me but when I was 30 I was missing a few. My top one at this point is "Help others succeed, and they’ll help you succeed in the long term." As I'm reaching the end of my career I can say that this behavior has been a winner 100% of the time.
Yup, exactly what we use it for and also to check the time. I always notice the lack of Alexa when I'm on vacation and have to get out of bed to turn on/off all the lights.
Ah, so the truth was more specific than I thought. Consider me educated!
Yeah because the people making those cheap coat hangers aren't paying retail prices for materials. That was his point.

They also aren't paying western salaries for R&D.
I think it's actually just anglo countries. The UK is batshit about cars as well, and I don't think the Aussies are much better.
A game about staring into the eyes of a stranger
Here’s a few ideas:

- Try scheduling explicit hangout time, either 1:1 or group (have a happy hour, play some games, just chat).

- Ask if any of your coworkers would be interested in coworking in person. Doesn’t have to be a whole company thing, fly to one coworker or maybe a few people live in one spot. Most major cities have coworking spaces with reasonable day pass rates or you can use a coffee shop if budget is tight.

- There’s a lot of virtual office products out there (e.g. Gather, Remotion), see if there’s any interest in trying one out.
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Ah yes, THE commissioner. The one single commissioner that the FCC has. Anyone who says there are 5 commissioners, three of whom are democrats, are just trying to deny Mr. Carr's supreme authority.
I would be delighted to ride a zip line to work
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This sounds more like advice that he's gathered or been given that seemed the best to him. I think that's fair. People give young people advice a lot. Also becoming a dad makes one feel quite a bit older. Now it would be interesting to see him reflect back on these in 30 years...
That is not a specification. A specification is a prescriptive document of how a system is required to work whereas a reference is a descriptive document of how a system happens to currently work. Python has a reference, in fact it has many references that even contradict one another in subtle ways, but it does not have a specification.
I think we will see a persistent divestment from the space in the next five years. Smart speakers/devices have been a tremendous financial failure and virtual assistants in general are pretty much outdated tech since the release of ChatGPT.
Force Tesla to reimburse all customers, which Tesla can either do or start having their stuff seized. That includes their factory in Germany.
> Are you serious? No one is being FORCED to suffer in the United States. Such is the beauty of our freedom.

People have multiple jobs and can't afford healthcare and are living paycheck to paycheck or don't have parental leave or paid sick leave or paid time off do that because they want to, right?
> Capitalism repeatedly creates situations where new things are created that make everyone's lives better, and existing things get cheaper and better over time

In theory. In practice, can you really say that existing things are getting cheaper and better, generally? Most of the Western world is seeing unprecedented price increases combined with record profits in multiple industries (so it's not just general inflation) combined with drastic quality and quantity decreases, combined with "enshitification" across multiple industries.
Yep, water gets under the stone in the dirt, not enough for it to sink, and then the water/ground freezes, and pushes the stone up.

It's why foundations are build below the frost line, to prevent heaving.
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This take seems incompatible with the general prosperity nations that focus on manufacturing experience - look at the major economies of the 20th century, or of China’s booming wealth roughly commensurate with the stagnation developed nations are experiencing as they’ve outsourced manufacturing to China.
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You may be interested in this post and the one it is refining: https://without.boats/blog/revisiting-a-smaller-rust/
I recently read Invisible China by Scott Rozelle which raises concerns that impact this strategy.

TL;DR: Most of Chinese population lives in rural China. Birth rates in rural China are also much higher than in cities. Education and childhood development in rural China have severe issues. Quality of education, but also access to equivalents of highschool. Simple health care issues like worms, iron deficiency and lack of correction of simple sight issues that could be addressed with glasses. There is cultural pushback against remediations due to believes that glasses will ruin children's sight in the long run and work deworming will make young girls infertile and that you need some worms. Due to the hokou system rural children cannot attend school in the city in the many cases that parents from rural areas work in the city. Children get raised by grandparents who, as the book put it, know how to raise subsistence farmers. All these issues matter because to not fall into the middle income trap you need educated workers who can work in hightech manufacturing. China is becoming too expensive for cheap manufacturing, but struggles with a educated workforce for high-end work in much of the country. A concern with this is that this will create structural unemployment for badly educated workers who will make money in the informal sector (black market, but also crime) which drags everyone else down. Examples of this would be Brazil and Mexico. Countries like SK, Japan and Taiwan avoided this trap by creating a highly educated workforce before they need it.

One of the most surprising things in the book to me was that school, even before college, requires tuition and many poor families couldn't afford it. Quite the communism...

Edit: Given the massive urban/rural split in education the book describes, I could see limited success of the 2025 initiative in urban areas, but a total falling behind of rural areas with migrant workers as we've been seeing for the last 20-30 years not migrating any longer and no longer bringing money back home. This feels like a recipe for some form of upheaval. That combined with the cursed demographics, we have some interesting times ahead.
GenAI absolutely will make them more useful. Even just for normal Q&A functions. I installed a shortcut to Bard on my phone and several times have compared the results when I ask the Google Assistant a question (on a Google Home) with what I get from Bard. The sooner they can get Bard responding to Google Assistant queries, the better.
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I think their view is that money is fungible, and ultimately factored into the price the buyer pays. The agents aren’t getting paid unless there’s a buyer, so everything in a real estate transaction (the commissions and the property) is paid for using the buyer’s liquid assets.

When I’ve been a seller I’d have been willing to lower the price in a slow market more, had commissions not been a factor. Instead I shelved the listing until the market improved because I reached the lowest price I was willing to close at. So in that sense, the buyer is definitely paying for that commission via inflated price.
This is going to be very uncomfortable when Supermicro sues Canonical over a trademarked term.

Supermicro has been selling Microclouds for years, and is a well known product line in the industry.
That's his point though. You can't patent "Claim 1: a folding coat hanger".
Alexa (and the google equivalent) were an over-exuberant experiment. Speech is an interaction mode, not an all-encompassing one, and also a low-bandwidth one, so a device centered on it can't ever be a general computing device. Amazon tried to think a bit more broadly by having other on-keybaord interaction modes (buttons, which were really just clutter because their use was infrequent, and their wand, which was actually pretty handy) but again, didn't integrate it deeply into the rest of their world, so died due to lack of imagination.

Google's thing is even more stark because it had no primary raison d'etre so I only ever saw one in the wild and it was at a google employee's home!

Apple went the other way, making a speaker that you could also talk to. Of course Siri is such crap that it's fundamentally "un-sirious" too.

But speech is not a terrible adjunct. I often use speech to control my watch (start a workout, set a timer, what's the weather outside) bc the screen is so tiny and the controls so few. It sometimes tells me things if I am wearing airpods. But I have the watch cranked down to only provide me with a few things, mostly by glancing at it after it taps me. And who would design a tap-only interface?
I like it very much. The concept, how she communicates, and the fact that she solves her own problem first.

I do not know how will she prevent people from copying it?

Amazon is terrible, if something works, many will copy it for half the price. And it's not fare.
Fun! But how to read the Y axis? Why does it start from 1 twice?
This is extremely patronizing to users.
there like literally infinite amounts of new culture
> I think the issue here is that we don't have a system where being an OSS contributor is a sustainable career path.

As is true for many (most?) crafts.

If I am an artist (e.g. painting, digital art, etc). and give my work away for free, my fellow artists are not going to sympathize with my inability to make a living.

Ditto photography ("look at all these companies taking my free stock photos and not giving me any money!") Ditto music. Ditto writing. Ditto anything that involves a significant amount of creativity.

It's silly to expect SW to be any different.
No. Signal has the funding, the technical talent and the customers. They are as "open source" as it can be. The issue with them is that they want to control the platform.
The US is a very low tax country for the bottom 50% of income earners compared to many countries.

From a quick Google: The US federal income tax rate for low earners is something like 12%. In the UK it's 20%. In Sweden it looks like the municipal tax is 32%. The few other countries I looked up had complicated tax systems that made it hard to compare, not that the above examples (and the US) aren't missing their deductions.
I don't think I've ever met a blue collar worker who has thought outsourcing was a good idea. So, maybe the generalization of us worker is a bit too encompassing.
Should I be surprised that the reactions posted here range from "I stretched a cable across the ceiling like two tin cans and a string" to "I will fly a drone into my attic".

Instead of: "I took my $500k/year tech salary which I formerly spent on Teslas and cardboard apartments and just hired a competent electrician or other tradesman to pull cable to every room."
Not for IPv6. And for IPv4, I believe few routers actually handle IP fragmentation properly or at all (which is why this was removed from IPv6).
I bought an ebike to complement my aging 2007 Toyota instead of replacing it outright with another car. I use the bike for most light use cases within the 10 mile radius and still lean into using my car when needed. Here are my takes on ebikes.

Pros:

- Ebikes help people punch above their weight class, allowing them to bike farther and faster

- Going uphill is much easier

- Ebikes encourage people to be more adventurous and discover local scenic routes

Cons:

- Good ebikes cost as much as my 2007 toyota

- If you drive a hub motor and you get a flat (and you will eventually), it's harder to fix it up

- They tend to be rather heavy (harder to drive without assistance), and lighter ones cost a lot of $$$

- I am worried my bike may get stolen a little more

For those interested in getting an entry level ebike and living in US, I recommend REI's gen 1.1 and 1.2 ebikes. They're 40% off(!) right now, which seems to be a rare discount for ebikes.
If you ask nicely and go at a not-busy time, larger home improvement stores will generally cut them for you there.
A core, dense walkable and expensive area (where a bike might be viable) surrounded by miles and miles of cheaper suburban sprawl (where it's not) is how every major American city is structured. I live next to commuter rail in a mid-sized city that I try to take advantage of, but if the option of a car was completely taken off the table for me it would make so much of my life more difficult by at least an order of magnitude.
> but the changes basically align with Apple's browser/content APIs that they introduced in like 2016

This, but Apple's changes are just as bad and should be used as evidence of how this kind of restriction can go wrong, not how it can go right.

Adblocking capabilities on Safari are unarguably weaker than they are on Chrome and Firefox. People will occasionally get upset at me when I say this, but it's really not debatable, there is a reason why uBlock Origin is not on Safari. There is a reason why the best adblocking apps for Safari run as desktop applications and then communicate with an extension.

Safari has a ton of other great privacy features, but adblocking is not one of them. So when we talk about how Manifest V3 is going to harm adblockers, we have good reason to make that claim -- we can look at Safari and see how it played out when Safari did the same thing.

> That's the point - it restricts the ability for extensions to monitor, snoop, and steal content from every website you browse.

Most of the changes in Manifest V3 are actually pretty good, especially changes around the permission models. Active click is great, the optional permissions improvements are good.

I understand why people are phrasing this as "Manifest V3" because you need a name for it, but I hope it's not lost in this conversation that Firefox is also moving forward with its own implementation of Manifest V3 and it has the vast majority of the privacy improvements and almost none of the downsides.

Getting rid of blocking request handlers doesn't really improve privacy. Active tab permissions and optional runtime permissions improve privacy. When people talk about Manifest V3 being bad, what they usually mean is the extra restrictions Google has imposed on top of the privacy stuff; restrictions that do very little if anything to improve privacy (seriously, it is still trivial to spy on users using Chrome's Manifest V3 across all sites) but that cripple adblockers.

It's possible to get the privacy improvements without the downsides.
I’d agree with that. A quick skim says there’s nothing in that list I haven’t heard elsewhere. That doesn’t invalidate TFA, it is advertised as “collected bits”. But most does not appear to be original with the author.
I think the only part that hasn't been "fixed" is that it sends frames. 10Base-T is a new topology and cable with the bus virtualized in a hub. Switched Ethernet is like a different, intelligent network larping as Ethernet to naive stations. Signaling changes as you increase data rates and media now stretches from copper to fiber and the standard has retired baseband coax above 10Mbps. It's cool that they've made it work and kept it under the same "roof" of standards, so that we don't have to make so many vendor decisions or have regret building out one vendor's network and watching another one with different cabling or signaling take off with higher speeds and lower prices.
Training on bot data can be bad when it's ungrounded and basically hallucinations on hallucinations.

Having LLMs help curate something grounded is generally reasonable. Functionally, it's somewhat similar to how some training is using generated subtitles of videos for training video/text pairs; it's very feasible to also go and clean those up, even though it is bot data.
Why not? This isn't my area of expertise or knowledge. Articles like this inform me. Sure, it's maybe logical when you have time to think about this but this would be news to more people than not.
Converted my own with a mid drive bafang kit off of amazon, there are plenty of guides out there and while its not the easiest of bike maintenance jobs it’s also not that hard.

The other option I considered was buying an urban arrow, yuba, tern or “harry vs larry” bakfiets style bike.

If you’re looking for a car replacement the electric Bakfiets style is absolutely amazing for carrying cargo or even a person. (I pick my wife up in it sometimes)
so hu what kind of lightbulb do you tolerate well ?
Work out of a coworking space. Best of both worlds. It's what I do.
Once I got a car, I became pretty unwilling to walk anywhere. Grocery store is 3 blocks from my house. I haven't walked in years. I would micro mobility though if there were a safe way to store the scooter.
Ask HN: How do you personally measure the success of your open source projects?
I been running an OSS project for almost a year now and I feel like it’s been fairly successful for a small project. We have had quite a few contributors - especially during hacktoberfest that have given us high qualilty PR’s. While the contributions have been better than ever expected we’re not as strong on some other “metrics” such as stars, forks, watchers, etc. Looking through discussions some people only value those things while others completely disregard them. I’m curious how other maintainers determine the success of their OSS projects. Outside of “metrics” and contributors is there anything else to consider?
> Manufacturing in the US will never be as good as china.

There's a very entertaining book called "Poorly Made in China" that will quickly disabuse you of such notions.
For Bell, presumably the goal was to provide a monopoly to achieve an otherwise difficult goal: universal service. That's certainly the case with the post office in the UK (although now being eroded).

For Microsoft: I think that's a weird argument. Plus I think there would have been lots of things pushing towards a single big player for desktop computing in the early-middle days (network effects).
Big fan of neocities, my personal website is on there! The neocities gem makes it very easy to update the site.

It's just two commands for me:

- jekyll build to build _site

- neocities push _site to recursively upload modified files in _site