skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose at this point most people don't remember that in the 20th century the Multiple Listing Service was a private database that only registered agents could access. So your average buyer had to hire an agent just to get a good idea of what was on the market. The upside of this is that the MLS did a lot to make the housing market rational, with more accurate and consistent pricing. So a house became a better investment. A lot of people thought that was worth the commissions. YMMV.

In the early 2000's the NAR made a bet that they could make MLS listings accessible to the public via the internet and maintain their business model. For decades the bet paid off, and people got the convenience of being able to do their own real estate shopping. But time seems to have run out on the payoff.

The smart move for the NAR at this point would simply be to take the MLS private again. Then buyer's agents would have leverage to contract for a minimum commission regardless of what sellers were offering. If sellers decided to offer little to no buyer's agent commission, then a lot of deals would fall apart when buyers realized how much they'd have to cough up in cash to cover the buyer's commission at closing. The alternative would be either for sellers to offer competitive buyer's commissions, or for the buyer's and seller's agents to make a side deal to roll the buyer's commission into the mortgage financing agreement.

The net result would be the same as the current situation, less buyer's money going to the seller -- but instead of everyone seeing the commission numbers up front, the question of whether the buyers could actually afford the house would be pushed later into the deal process, more money would go to lawyers to sort things out, and more time wasted by all parties in busted deals.

If the DOJ forbids taking the MLS private, then the NAR would simply have no incentive to maintain it. Without it, I expect the market would revert to the previous wild-west status, where it would be much harder to value a house, and financing would be more difficult and time-consuming to arrange, with many deals falling apart amid such difficulties. If this scenario were to come to pass, I expect there would eventually be public clamor for a new deal that would be equivalent to the current arrangement, except for names and who referees.

The most interesting question in that scenario will be whether the new deal happens before or after a real estate market crash.

I have no idea what equivalent system if any there is be in Europe for fair and consistent pricing of houses, and listing of available units, and who pays for MLS equivalents, if they exist. I never hear that discussed in articles on this topic. I'd be interested to know more.
Or maybe it's a splash of reality for those businesses that have relied on undercompensated labor and VC money to acquire market share.
Thank you for your encouragement. I actually had to think about if I should post this on my blog, because despite being cool, it was also pretty terrifying. Interestingly, it seems HN moderators don't like it either[0] ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[0]: https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals?tab=rea...
> FWIW, I have a Bachelor of Software Engineering, accredited by the Australian Institute of Engineers.

FWIW, your bullshit title is just as bullshit as everyone else's bullshit title. It's what you do that matters. Most programmers / software developers / software engineers are garbage at their job, and I give it about a 0% chance that your accredited software engineering degree means you're any less likely to be garbage too. The guys who walk around talking about how they have a Bona Fide Microsoft Partner Certification (BFMPC) are usually the worst coders of all. You realize that they literally just called it "Engineering", right? Some universities call it "Engineering" and some don't, that's just a word they decided to use. You're literally claiming to be better than other people because your college called it "Engineering" instead of "Science". That's the kind of person you're deciding to be.

Anyone can get through school; it's meaningless. And it's meaningless that your college happened to pick the word "Engineering" for your degree. My local colleges distinguish between "computer engineering" and "computer science" as the former being more focused on logic gates and C, and the latter being more focused on type theory and high-level programming languages. That's all it is -- a focus.

The only titles that matter are those that can be revoked, like a medical license, the Bar Association, or a Professional Engineer's license (which is not the same as simply having graduated with the word "Engineering" in your degree), because at least then you know the person is less likely to be literally dangerously unqualified. But I'm guessing your Superior Better-Than-Everyone-Else Bachelor of Software Engineering Accredited by the Australian Institute of Engineers isn't something they'd revoke if it turned out you didn't know a for-loop from your own asshole, is it?
Bluesky's Moderation Architecture
Not sure but I guess because that is the going rate now for a Senior Dev in a HCOL area like NYC.
Separation of Power for programming tools and deployment infrastructure
Why should McDonalds be individually saved from a shitty contract that they signed? How about we fix the crappy DMCA anti-circumvention clause that has been causing problems for tons of people since 1999? Oh, because this will provide press coverage and notoriety for somebody who's probably up for reelection soon.
Governor Walz Announces Meta Will Build New Data Center in Rosemount
Because there are so many fields of software development, and you don’t need to be good in all of them. Don’t put yourself down for not understanding, you can always put some time into algorithms again if you need to :).
What's a DAP? I can't find a single thing about it when googling.
Sure, however, the bill also requires that a manufacturer does not "impose a substantial condition, obligation or restriction that is not reasonably necessary to enable an independent repair provider or an owner to diagnose, maintain, repair or update consumer electronic equipment that the original equipment manufacturer makes or sells"

My guess is there would be challenges in court if they made the certification process onerous.
This also took me a second The issue is he failed to show for a hearing.

We miss things all the time: Flights, meetings, tests, etc.

We have normalized missing to then try to explain after the fact. Thats not how it works for the courts. You must show up unless you are physically unable to do so. Yhis is why the burial date mattered.

Clearly a death on the same day would make it impossible to attend. But a few days prior would mean its not impossible. You simply need to notify and a new date is granted. Its just poor planning on the plaintiff side.
Fascinating in-depth write up

> Another idea would be to render tiles and modifying the tiles content by just modulating the bit fields or map a set of tiles differently or do simple transforms using bitwise operations such as mirroring, once you have a complete set of tile operations you can combine them to compose detailed patterns / images, ones could also animate tiles individually by switching values in a cyclic fashion…

Could something like the wave function collapse algorithm[1] be used for this, ie. generating tiles that are similar to a certain base pattern?

[1] https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
> you could promote a single pawn at three files simultaneously. One by moving forward and then left and right capture.

Ooh, didn't think of that, thanks. Still there's enough constraint in the legal destination squares to work around that. There's at least half the board that's inaccessible to a pawn about to promote, which should be enough to encode any of the 3 legal destination squares and 5 possible promotion targets.

Edit: maybe keep the destination file as-is, and use the destination rank to encode the promotion piece?

> Additionally, you could have two pawns promoting on the same square

The source square should disambiguate between those though, right?
> it isn't, I know how a good one looks like)

Good. Just don't tell others lest they point out many shortcomings in your choice.
I'd say that "pure Functional programming" has become a no.

But "Functional programming approach" has been subsumed into existing programming languages, e.g. records in Java. You get most of the benefit of FP while keeping all of the other good stuf from an imperative language.
If enough people read and internalize the fraudulent conclusions via pop science journalism etc., maybe the effect will become measurable enough to replicate the original paper :)
I think Rust team would still have a very small stdlib even if they have more funding, here's a talk[0] where they aim to be relevant for the next 40 years, in that time span there would be a lot of changes and to be backward compatible, you cannot have features in your stdlib that will be irrelevant or change in the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3AdN7U24iU
Did De School close because lack of interest? From what I've experienced (during ADE) and also heard, Amsterdam is very popular for all the techno sub-genres.
Very cool. Would love to be able to save/share my work (could probably even be in the url string if the CSV were online).
I just happened to be trying to install yamlscript at this very moment.

Luckily I cloned the repo already, though building from scratch is having other issues.

EDIT: it finally finished building properly, I had to rerun make build several times, probably due to network timeouts while fetching dependencies.
If you have access to someone’s email account can’t you dl the totp authenticator and bypass this? Effectively that makes email the authenticator which isn’t better than a phone number and device
A bit off-topic, could someone explain how data brokers operate?

I've been involved in the development of B2B SaaS solutions, and there are a few providers, such as ZoomInfo, Apollo, and Clearbit, that greatly assist the sales team in gaining a deeper understanding of customers. It seems that venture capitalists love those businesses.

Has anyone attempted to create similar companies that offer Data as a Service?
The Mathematics of IA
The fact that superhot is mentioned so little here tells me what i should think of the opinions of these posters. Q3 + superhot is an amazing experience. It’s fun for social game nights and also decent exercise.

AVPro is the best thing to happen to Q3 because the Q3 is ready for prime time at a price point people want and, despite metas reputation, with an open enough platform to support general computing. If you aren’t a gamer or aren’t consuming 3d content, yeah VR isn’t for you. But otherwise, yeah it’s a pretty cool experience for the price.
So glad I don't use either MS or GOOG browsers so I don't have to witness this childish behavior myself.
The company is vertically integrated. They control the size of the blades and will design them to fit inside the airplane.
Lots of people really do prefer the old awful buildings.

There was a story just a couple of days ago [0] where residents are protesting having their windows upgraded, despite their existing windows being cold, draughty, rusty, and mouldy. One man felt so strongly about it that he said he'd electrocute anyone who tried to change his windows.

They're concerned new slightly thicker window frames might destroy the character of their 60s water-stained concrete brutalist eyesore.

[0] https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/yes-it-s-cold-but-y...
Until recently, and since 1980s the cheapest is no meal deal just egg sausage burger.
LZW would do very badly on a list of binary chess moves.

Huffman (and even more so arithmetic encoding or ANS (asymmetric numeral systems [0]) would be significantly better, if you're careful how you encode data.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_numeral_systems
I suggest reading the report by the Minnesota Department of Labor [0].

Some interesting pulls from the summary:

> Census data and the driver survey indicate the majority of Minnesota TNC drivers are male immigrants and predominantly Black or African American non-Hispanic workers with less than a four-year college degree; many live in low-income households (up to 200% of the federal poverty level) and, relative to all Minnesota workers, are disproportionately reliant on public assistance.

> Nearly half (45 percent) of those driving for Uber and Lyft are relatively casual drivers averaging fewer than 10 hours per week and providing only 11 percent of all trips. The focus here is on the committed, non-casual driver since they are more likely to rely on TNC driving as a primary source of income and provide the majority of trips.

> Median earnings for all Twin Cities metro area drivers were $50.04 on a gross passenger time (P3) basis, $29.64 on a gross working hours basis
(P1+P2+P3), and $13.63 on a net, after-expense working hours basis. Twenty-five percent of drivers had net, after-expense hourly earnings of $10.54 or less, and 25 percent of drivers had net after-expense hourly earnings of $17.51 or more.

> The Minnesota per minute rate is designed to compensate drivers at the equivalent of the minimum wage, plus the employer share of federal Social Security and Medicare payroll tax: ($15.57 Minneapolis minimum wage plus $1.28 in payroll tax in the Twin Cities metro area, and $10.85 state minimum wage plus $0.89 in payroll tax for the Greater Minnesota counties). The Minnesota base per mile rate provides for the 63.8 cents per mile cost of acquiring, operating, and maintaining a vehicle based on Minnesota-specific costs from early 2024.

> Applying the 2024 base rate pay standard per minute and per mile rates to the hours worked and miles driven during 2022 indicates that average pay per trip for Twin Cities drivers would rise by about 10 percent under the base pay standard, and by about 17 percent on average for Greater Minnesota drivers.

0: https://dli.mn.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/TNC_driver_earnin...
I’m not sure changing capitalism is a very viable solution to malfunctioning ice cream machines
Passkeys.
Alberta allows "Software Engineer" title for non-registered professionals
"Engineer" is a regulated title in Canada, and non-registered professionals cannot call themselves "Software engineers". The government of Alberta just changed this rule for their province
My Room and Board sofa from 2011 is still rock solid. I was a bit nervous buying it used a few years ago because of the age but it turned out to be a great purchase.
How is that true? Plenty of people work minimum wage jobs that aren't subsidized by government welfare.

If someone has a roommate or a partner or a parent or a child that supports them?

There are some jobs that are only economically viable at a certain wage, and anything beyond that makes it not economically viable. So those jobs won't exist.
that is the dirty truth. All of those feel-good minimum wage laws are in fact stealing wages from those workers. Those workers were OK to work for those wages before the law. Now they have nothing.

The result is now higher unemployment and use of tax-dollar to subsidize those people.
To be fair, the parent never mentioned traveling in another country. The strategy works equally well while traveling within one’s own country.

If your digestive system tends to have you issues when given unexpected inputs, as is the case for a lot of people, then this is just what you do to stay comfortable while away from home.
> You almost universally need a pin or last 4 of a social to access a customer account now without a manager override.

Last four of a social is a terrible additional form of security.

Even four random digit pins isn’t particularly secure if they don’t have proactive monitoring of attempts.
When people think about Supply Chain security, they generally think of SBOM and vulnerabilities in your direct and transitive dependencies.

But most people are completely blind of vulnerabilities in the Build Pipeline of those same dependencies. The SLSA framework considers those https://slsa.dev/spec/v0.1/threats#build-integrity-threats to some extent. And OpenSSF aficionados know, but it's still niche.

I like to think of those as a parallel universe! An orthogonal plane of vulnerabilities that are beneath the surface and completely independent of vulnerabilities into the source code of the project itself. Basically never tracked as CVEs... Those can be nested deep, deep, in a transitive build dependency 5 levels down.
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CloudyInputs also provides you as a webmaster dashboard that enables you to trace what your users are typing instantly to get valuable insights about your users' interactions thus you will have a clear idea about your users’ needs.
I'm not asking for evidence about the author. I'm asking, is there any scientific research into the matter in general?

If there was any research on the matter, it wouldn't be "purely a personal preference".

If the author had data about their personal productivity, they would probably have mentioned it in their blog post, no?
Sure, interesting. I guess it may come down to what the majority of civilizations did in regards to marriage, and maybe it's a toss up. If we limit it to the West, then its more clear that current traditions originate with monotheistic practices.
You can encode a promotion as the destination file plus rank 1-4 for the 4 different kinds, since pawns can't move backwards
They offer a service and you can choose to drive for them. This in a lot of cases helps people make extra money or hold them over. But you think it’s better to let the government remove this option?

I just can’t get onboard with this thinking. I understand it for W2 jobs but for freelance and pick your own hours it does not make sense.
AT&T Mobility (AT&T's wireless subsidiary) is headquartered in Georgia, unless they moved to the conglomerate's Dallas HQ in the past few months.
Mcdonalds the corporation benefits from the argeement while the Mcdonalds franchises suffer from the same agreement.
It's not publicly traded :(
A turbine blade isn't something that you can partially assemble. They looked into building temporary blade factories on site but the analysis indicates that a custom airplane is cheaper and less risky.
Entrust mis-issues a certificate, Refuses To Follow CA/B Rules
Other headsets are like a DC film and the Vision Pro is like a marvel film before endgame. The differences (that matter in GP’s context) are qualitative rather than quantitative, and a big distinction is the shift from VR gaming, which most incumbents and current VR fans won’t “get” nearly as fast as the public will (once things get going).

Somewhat ironically, I have no interest in showing people my AVP, I use it for hours everyday but showing it to people feels weird in the same way showing your neighbor your workstation and monitors feels weird. (Part of that is, of course, that I’m not going to give them my laptop to run Mac virtual display, which means they won’t fully “get” it anyhow.)

In contrast the quest devices are practically begging to be shown off but lie in disuse a majority of the time, especially if you don’t have time for gaming.
Ok so, this is good for McDonalds actually?
Dang... a Berlin native friend of mine took me to Renate around 2011-2012 ish. Great vibe but I got yelled at for being a tourist :(

I get it though, where I live we have desert undergrounds and parties up in the mountains with a vibe that is threatening to be overrun by tourists. To say nothing of all the plug-in camps popping up at Burning Man...
Although I agree with your general point (to be a successful Ivy League academic you have to be quite an outlier, therefore there is pressure to cheat), it isn't specifically true that you need to be "strong" on willingness to cheat and shameless self-promotion.

There may be disciplines where this is more true, but it is definitely not required in the humanities, for example (perhaps because research is not empirical, so "cheating" isn't a hack that gets you ahead).

I actually know some successful academics who are very humble, and have zero willingness to cheat. The reason they have been successful is because they are extremely talented, well-liked, and also somewhat lucky.
> unintuitively the ball will take the left to the finish

really that makes no sense, physically or in the universe of the game :)
I think the battle between RISC and CISC is overshadowed by the battle between non-x86 and x86. On average are new designs more RISC than CISC? I don't know but that's different from numbers of chips of a certain type sold.

RISC showed what you could do with a clean sheet and the battle has really been about whether we can afford the cost of changing to a new instruction set just because it's better by a bit.
Tax labor correctly then, so that it reflects how much the government wellfare will need to subsidize.

Simplistic feel-good minimum wage laws are creating unemployment. This is a perfect example.
Ukraine is a special case.

When the Soviet Union disintegrated, the Ukraine was left with the world’s 3rd largest nuclear weapons arsenal. They gave up every single one of them in exchange for a promise from the western world to help them defend themselves from aggression.

If we don’t live up to that promise, how can we ever hope to limit nuclear weapons proliferation anywhere else?
lmao this has got to be one of the most ignorant comments on hn. Unless you're just shit posting, then meh.
I can't speak about Europe, but I don't think the healthcare records alone would actually help care in the US. Once again the problem is the base incentives - a doctor doesn't actually want to have access to your whole medical history, as it would mean they would have to spend time reading it or otherwise possibly be liable for some detail in it. My experience is that staying at the same practice, even one with its own EMR, they basically ask you to complete a new patient health questionnaire every single year and self-enumerate all of your health concerns. Presumably it's the same incentive of not wanting to have to read, understand, integrate, and synthesize everything from the past.

My problem with your previous comment is that you just baselessly asserted that healthcare standards would go down with single payer, which is a common political talking point that completely ignores how the industry has already been captured and destroyed by private corporate bureaucracy (ie we already have "death panels", only they each consist of a single malpracticing doctor with a computer algorithm and an autosigner). Payment isn't the underlying problem of why healthcare is so bad, but it's certainly another problem for many people who go receive (shoddy) healthcare, and then afterwards end up at the pointy end of fraudulent billing shakedowns.
Save the Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Formal Methods was for people who didn't want to write any code.
They're not actually getting $42K out of that transaction as someone pointed out in another comment.

30% goes to the brokerage, 20% goes to taxes. Add NAR fees and team split, and the real estate agent is getting maybe 25-30% of the commission. So at the end of the day they are pocketing ~13K (versus 42K).

It is fair to ask whether the brokerage deserves their 30% cut.
One might term it "needlessly greenfield".
They were literally caught red-handed doing this in New York. https://ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/traffic_and_transit/2024/01/19...
mf said get rid of explicit return statements
They may have an adversarial relationship with franchisees, but the McDonald's corporation owns and runs 2800 restaurants themselves. You would think that's enough self-inflicted pain that they would do something.