skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More typically in that price range: 5% of 1m = 50k. / 2 brokerages so 2.5% = 25k. * 80% to agent = 20k. - agent costs = You would cry at how little net most agents make.

You are not paying an agent hourly for the amount of time they work on your transaction, but for their knowledge and experience - which cost them significant amounts of money - to guide you through the transaction and not shoot yourself in the foot. There is a fine line to walk between getting rejected outright and a deal never happening, and overpaying. You also might be buying a lemon (and not just from the perspective of a home inspection - people *regularly* want to do things with properties and transactions that just won't fly. They need to hear that from somebody on their side before they wind up losing much more than a couple percent). An agent will help you avoid them. Add on top of that how agents can help avoid the many lawsuits there are when people feel slighted and/or are actually slighted in RE transactions, and real estate agents are a decent value.

Agents are functionally like mini-attorneys + advisors for real estate. You wouldn't walk into a court room without a lawyer, and it is not a whole lot smarter to enter into a real estate transaction without an agent.
Hanging? Why not shoot on sight, like the second amendment absolutionists/extremists think is the way to go?
> Your wording suggests that you seem to be aware that none of these avenues actually work in the real world, which is precisely why platforms have the ability to block.

You may personally infer that, but the precise reason platforms have the ability to block someone is, "I don't like this person for whatever reason so I don't want to see their posts or replies". Maybe you don't want to see their posts or replies because you feel they are harassing. Blocking/ignoring them stops you from seeing them. It shouldn't affect anyone else's ability to see their posts or replies to you.

Honestly, in what other public, online discussion forum can anybody without admin powers, arbitrarily and unilaterally ban others from publicly replying to public posts?
Seems a lot like that would be the other way around, copyright law overrules random company's policy.
I tried Furnace Tracker earlier this year. I always wanted to learn more about using trackers to create chiptunes. I followed a tutorial from Button Masher:

How to Learn Chiptune Trackers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q37XuOLz0jw

The tutorial uses Furnace. It provides a great overview of the components, and then guides you through a hands-on exercise of transcribing an existing demo. This was a nice way to get more familiar with Furnace. Button Masher provides some demos to use, but also there are many demos at the furnace github project:

https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/tree/master/demos
Of course. We would not go back to that any sooner than working our own land, turning back the clock is no solution. The problem area is policy and culture rather than technology in itself. Between kitchen innovations and store-bought items (and other services) it's possible to eat healthy delicious food with increasingly less effort (and it's possible to have a horrifically bad diet).

I think the younger generations, starting from millenials on, are more health conscious than the previous, but you also notice a class divide in that sense.
To whom? Everyone will do the same because everyone's incentives are the same.
The consequences of US not allowing Ukraine to win quick and decisively. Their deescalation tactic ended up escalating things instead.
I loved reading this! Brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for posting.
Sam Altman's nuclear company Oklo to start on Idaho microreactor
This is kind of awkwardly phrased, especially because state machines or things that look like them are unavoidable in payments. You have a UI flow with state transitions.

But it also has a very valid point about events. Or rather accounting records.

Because ultimately it's a payment system, and what you're doing is updating the accounting records across at least three parties: the user, the payment service, and your own records. You do so by sending messages, and it's a good idea to keep track of the content of those messages. At which point it starts to look a lot more like an event system.

In some cases recording may be a legal requirement. French NF525, for example, mandates securely recording every receipt.

https://www2.ikosoft.com/en-gb/all-knowledge-about-the-nf525...
I found reading the article a bit frustrating because it keeps talking about those analogies and never gets to the actual point. I kept reading thinking "surely there will be some practical examples in the second half of the article" but there wasn't much to that effect.
godot is best: instant feedback, quick to get started with, no glass ceiling, free software to prevent unity-style rugpulls. take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjX5llYZ5eQ to see what it's like in 6 minutes (from 4 years ago so kind of obsolete) or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOhfqjmasi0 to see a complete, high-quality tutorial walking you through building a 2-d platformer

it doesn't use python anymore, although gdscript is very similar to python. but you can get pretty far into building godot games with only a few lines of code
Because your mission is to make home buying easier, faster, and far more enjoyable?

Sounds like you just said you don't care about that, and your real mission is to maximize your profits.
Yann LeCun (Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta):

AI datacenters will be built next to energy production sites that can produce
gigawatt-scale, low-cost, low-emission electricity continuously.

Basically, next to nuclear power plants.

The advantage is that there is no need for expensive and wasteful
long-distance distribution infrastructure.

Note: yes, solar and wind are nice and all, but they require lots of land
and massive-scale energy storage systems for when there is too little sun
and/or wind. Neither simple nor cheap.

Link to LeCun's comment on X here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621097

See also:

Microsoft paying $100/MWh to restart Three Mile Island nuclear power plant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443
Since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 in the USA, many innocent Americans have been executed by the state. There is a considerable literature of scholarly research documenting this issue. For those interested in learning more, I highly recommend the following books:

Justin Brooks (2023) You Might Go to Prison Even Though You're Innocent, University of California Press

https://www.amazon.com/Might-Prison-Though-Youre-Innocent/dp...

Brandon Garrett (2011) Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong,‎ Harvard University Press

https://www.amazon.com/Convicting-Innocent-Where-Criminal-Pr...

Mark Godsey (2017) Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions, University of California Press

https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Injustice-Prosecutor-Psychology...
That's right - it's just a quicker way of being able to comment/uncomment conditions when doing EDA or debugging.
Major companies keeping hiring North Korean IT workers
On the other hand, I live in Switzerland and I see the apartment buildings around (it's a village) with large balconies and terraces, only a couple of stories high and well insulated, with services for the elderly available around the clock, public transport close to home even at night, and they are built by, whaddya whaddya, developers. So please don't dismiss something just because it's not working in the States. It IS possible and it EXISTS already, whatever you block the messengers or not. And if you folks keep your eyes closed or keep saying "not possible here" you will never have it either. Never.
Plus what of the potential profit? The guilty person could be a teenager making a silly mistake who could grow up to become the next Einstein. Insert Bill Gates' mugshot here, who is responsible for hundreds of thousands of jobs and bringing billions into the US / worldwide economy.

But he was guilty and it would probably have been better to execute him because what if he did something else wrong?
I am curious about this model. How well is this working in practice? How many ISPs do you have to choose from, and how do they differentiate? How close to wholesale are the retail prices?
Well, what good is a naive misgiving if you don't even use it to haughtily dismiss genuine expertise? I can't tell you how many times I've had developers essentially manaplain my non-dev fields of expertise to me knowing that I was a credentialed professional and they were making stab-in-the-dark assumptions. Phrases like, "theoretically, it should be very simple," should usually be replaced by, "It would be ridiculous to assume everything I don't know about this is inconsequential, but here are some baselessly confident words about it:".
This whole system seems like something out of a bizarre comedic parody of human society, except it's real.
Yes and no. There's excessive irrelevant spam nowadays: people send resumes for any position.
They say in theOP "Our mission at Modern Realty is to make home buying easier, faster, and far more enjoyable."

But here in the comments, they say their mission is to get rich with AI. Tricky! I wonder which claim is right.
I'm gonna bite on this example since you chose such a good one: if the convention on the platform is that `Page` buttons are like scrolling – NOT like arrowing – then good applications should respect that convention.

You personally list this particular (mis)behavior as a "plus" since you like the PC convention better. But another person will think the opposite. Objectively, it's simply just inconsistent.

What we need is "good platform citizen" apps which respect the local conventions, and you as the user get to choose the platform with its set of conventions you prefer.

What we DON'T need is apps "unifying" behavior across operating systems based on their own opinion of what's better, ultimately just creating more mess.
The speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHhZQWAtWyQ
A national lab retires–and shreds–large computing resources
It was only a matter of time.

I have a feeling -- not being a lawyer and not intimately knowing the US Law -- that the whole legal structure of the Federal Government will soon experience a tremendous shift. Alphabet agencies will stop having any kind of authority that the Judicial Branch never approved of. It will completely shatter everything we know about the feds, from drug regulations (FDA et al), to communications (FCC et al), to stock market (SEC et al), to worker/consumer rights (FTC et al), to immigration (USCIS et al)... There will be a period in the US history where no lawyer will be sure how anything can be relied on anymore because there will be this giant free real estate the Judiciary Branch can make precedents on whenever they want.

When congress passed laws to create these alphabet agencies, they thought they're assigning some amount of authority to them to "regulate", and they thoughts these unelected bureaucrats making up laws -- instead of the glacier slow Congress -- will let Congress off the hook. But they didn't realize that the Judicial Branch would ultimately see it as an existential threat to them -- because the authority to "interpret" law belongs to the Judicial Branch and not the Executive Branch -- and thus by doing so, they actually wrote a blank check to the Judicial Branch (ruled by another set of 9 unelected High Priests) to eventually determine all these things for the Congress. It's gonna take the Congress an unprecedented megaproject to take these powers from the Judiciary and exactly define each law as elected Congress sees fit.

I hope I'm tremendously wrong, but I'm expecting Armageddon-level legal change to soon follow in this country.
> but they do not represent facts in the "real" world.

In what sense do they not? On the assumption that there can be other "worlds" for which math, but not physics, holds?
A decent rule if considered in a vacuum, but perhaps you missed some necessary context related to this particular discussion?

> - they want to save money training the employees,
When a dispute is filed the bank will issue a provisional credit the same or next business day if the dispute meets certain criteria. I forget the exact details on when you do and don't get a provisional credit right off the bat but basically boils down to the only situation in which you wouldn't get a credit would be where it's not a dispute over whether the charge was authorized but one over whether the goods/services were delivered because in those cases the bank has to give the merchant a chance to tell their side of the story or make good or whatever. I forget if this is a Visa/Mastercard network policy (they homogenized the rules between credit/debit cards awhile back and it might have been part of that) or a regulatory one but the end result is that you're only without money for a day if there's an unauthorized charge.
It's not a very good blog but it is simple HTML + vanilla JS.

https://retorch.com/blog/
Since the face is smiling, maybe there can be a bit of leeway for their response times :p
Historically it’s because TCL uses the BSD license and GNU readline does not. But yeah, no reason not to implement an alternative.

As for speed, it’s less that everything is a string (internally, data gets stored as both a string and whatever it last needed to be converted to) and more because TCL is so dynamic that compiling it is hard.

There’s been some work on compiling to native though.
I used Datomic for a few years at a job.

In addition to the cost and proprietary nature, I'd say there are two reasons;

1) New and different things come with risk, and many folks are risk averse, especially in groups

2) More concretely, it is very easy to write slow queries in Datomic, and it can be a struggle to diagnose why the order of your datalog statements matters so much
And has been openly sneering at competitors whose prices are too low, and at the idea of price transparency.
I agree. The blurriness at fractional scaling factors on Mac and in very recent versions of Gnome is obvious on a non-HiDPI display (at least a 24-inch one like the ones I use).

Until a year ago, Gnome/Wayland did it the way Windows does it! I.e. the method the OS used to make the text and the other UI elements the size the user specified refrained from applying any blurriness-causing resolution-scaling algorithm as long as you avoided the XWayland compatibility layer (and the compatibility layer that lets modern Windows support legacy apps makes the legacy app blurry, too).

Chrome's "zoom" feature (activated by the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+plus and Ctrl+minus for example) does fractional scaling (i.e., allows the user to adjust the size of the text and the other UI elements) without introducing any blurriness. Installing Chrome and experimenting with that feature is probably the easiest way for the average reader to see what we are talking about.

One parenthetical detail is that (unlike on Mac or Windows) in order to get fractional scaling at all on Gnome/Wayland you have had to use a command line to add a particular key to a list named 'experimental-features', but that will change next month when Gnome version 47 will be released, at which time the user will be able to change the scaling factor in the Settings app just like one can on Mac or Windows without first having to configure anything or opt in to anything.

I would love to know the reasoning behind the Gnome team's decision here because just because although you or I might not be able to notice the blurriness on a HiDPI display or to say with confidence that the blurriness is there doesn't mean that the image is as sharp as it could be: the scaling algorithm used on Mac and on Gnome versions 46 and 47 is clearly throwing some "visual information" away regardless of the resolution of the display.
This goes much further into philosophy, politics, and legality than I'm comfortable with but there's lawful and unlawful killing, the difference being... well, one is allowed and the other isn't, as per the law (be it national or e.g. international / warfare laws).

I can't even make a statement whether killing is always morally injustifiable or not.
Why wouldn't your friends and family also live in the ideal city?

What is the ideal city lacking that sees you need to travel for other reasons?

Don't get hung up imagining the shitty cities of today, except without cars, actually think about an ideal city.
Interesting. Is there a good entry point into the bus vs tram cost and flexibility research?
Why is this submission not on the front page if it has so many upvotes in the past hour, and the number of upvotes exceeds the number of comments?
Curious if you've seen the WAMR runtime which is explicitly designed to be lightweight enough for freestanding embedded systems on some higher end microcontrollers (Cortex-M4F).
> Versus with our voice which is the clunkiest, slowest and least precise input method we have.

Some related issues I have:

- my thoughts always seem to be jumbled when talking to AI

- I rush to talk quickly because any pause seems to trigger a response

- I worry words or DSL I use won’t be interpreted properly

This all leads to a pretty poor voice experience for me, and I usually forget half of what I want to talk about.
Google files EU complaint about dominant Windows Server platform ties to Azure
https://www.homes.com/jackson-wy/sold/?so=1
I think the 80s was a big period of change from what malls were to what malls are now. My beard is only half grey, I wasn’t there for that.

I was born 10 years before you and I remember in the 90s smaller malls still having one-off and quirkier shops, but many of the bigger ones were already full of the same chain stores. Eventually the smaller ones closed or followed suit, until now even the bigger ones have met the same fate, it just took longer.
> This story is (for the most part) not wrong. It’s plenty good enough to give students a rough notion of how biology works. But its elisions, omissions and simplifications can create serious misconceptions about what genes are and do.

This sounds like a recurring pattern across any and all fields of scientific research. We create simplified models of the world and forget we are thinking in abstractions that obscure some of the messy and beautiful details of the real world.
> Google alleges that Microsoft, through its dominant Windows Server and Microsoft Office products, can make it difficult for its massive roster of clients to use anything but its Azure cloud infrastructure offering
If no one did the research that anyone could do, it would never get done.
> A state machine cannot reconstruct the past. It can only move forward.

Does keeping a log of state changes, an addition to the current state, transform a state machine into an event-driven system?

> You’re getting scalability by forcing the client to accept more responsibility.

How? Believing that a client is never buggy or malicious is just asking for problems. Alternatively, if "responsibility" here means simply that a client should be able to replay a history of events received from the server on its own, then this problem reduces to the question I asked paragraph above.
re: the arxiv link

Why is it that microarray true positive p-values follow a beta distribution? Following the citations led to a lot of empirical confirmation but I couldn't find any discussion of why.

More to the point of this rebuttal, though: why would we expect the amalgamation of 70k micro-array experiments' abstract-reported p-values to follow a single beta distribution? And what about modeling the bias-induced bump of barely-significant results?

If there's some theoretical reason why the meta-study can use the beta-uniform model, then I could see this being only a mild underestimation of the proportion of false positives (14%), but otherwise I'm confused how we can interpret this.
Making a Maze: Development Principles for Excel Games (2013)
So is the sqlite file on disk or in memory somehow?
They consistently also deliver the moon.
For a blog? If you don't put anything important on the server itself I can't imagine a hacker could do much. Maybe put a nasty image on your front page, or put their Bitcoin address pretending it's the place to send donations, but it would take a lot of time and effort to remain hidden for hardly any gain.
Hey all,

A few days ago, I developed an AI-driven tool to enhance my hiring process. It features:

- PDF text extraction (OCR, Computer Vision)
- NLP-based resume and job description matching
- Match percentage and compatibility analysis
- Candidate feedback generation
- Red flag detection and portfolio analysis (I check for 404 errors)
- Candidate ranking with emojis and titles

Leveraging OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude (added OpenAI support recently), it automates screening and delivers actionable insights. After evaluating 100 resumes, I've identified a strong candidate.

I get the irony, this might seem a bit unfair, but it’s also a showcase of how these smart HR systems operate—black boxes by nature. I’m looking for feedback on how well it matches candidates (and weeds out spam) and would love any suggestions for additional features. What are your thoughts on AI’s role in recruitment?

Development journey: https://x.com/stas_kulesh/status/1838524611513708940

Questions or insights welcome!
Tell HN: Google's play console phone verification is broken
Per Google's new play store policy all app developers need to verify their information. This includes a valid phone number(s). Businesses also need a DUNS number.

The Issues is that there is a deadline and the phone verification either by sms or phone call does not work. I have been trying for over a week and I keep getting an error regardless which phone number I try. All request show up in the browser console as 429 (Too many requests) so there is some issues probably regarding preventing spam.

Many others are also experiencing this issue which can be seen by this thread which has a new reply every hour. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/thread/206281945/we-can-t-verify-your-phone-number-right-now-try-again-later-play-console?hl=en

Is anyone from Google here that can take a look and escalate this? There obviously seems to be a Problem but no one seems to be able to get in touch with anyone who can actually fix it.
> Neither do the Targets in Richardson/Plano

Ooo, I was just at the Target in Richardson Monday and yes, yes they do. Razor blades are 100% locked up, the electronics sections is more or less for show, and whitening strips are in prison.

> And please, once again, explain what benefit the store gets from locking up merchandise if it has nothing to do with shoplifting? What positive outcomes comes from it from the business' perspective?

Probably none. But I'm saying they may believe they're preventing shop lifting, but they're not.

They're not doing it thinking "oh this locking up is good outside of shoplifting". No, they think "this will prevent shoplifting" - and it does. But is it on a scale worth preventing? Depends on store to store and area to area.

> 74.1% of retailers report increases in external theft over 5 years

To be completely fair, a lot of this is 100% their own fault. At this point the customers are employees. They have to find everything themselves and they have to check-out and bag themselves. Naturally less employee intervention means more stealing.

I could've told you that 10 years ago, but these retailers are so short-sighted and greedy they don't care. My local walmart ONLY has self-check lanes. That's 1 employee per, like, 20 people checking out at the same time. Versus 1-1 before.

A 20 times reduction in oversight, of course shit gets stolen. After a certain point we have to come back down to Earth and acknowledge the human condition.
Can't wait to see DOOM running on this one!
And? Fiskars frying pans are pretty good!