skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I wish there were more resources for this stuff. Even though I have a good agent and will continue to use her, I'm always interested in how to DIY things, even big things like real estate.

I'm curious why you're paying for an inspector, though? Wouldn't the buyer want to hire their own inspector? Are you just looking for issues that the buyer might complain about? (My experience is that an inspector will _always_ find things that the buyer can use to negotiate the price down.)

I was under the impression that the title company was also chosen by the buyer (or their agent). Although they generally expect the seller to pay for, well, almost everything.

If the buyer is using an agent, I assume you're not paying the buying agent's 3%, right? I wonder if that would dissuade some buyers.
>To your second point, it's very funny how OpenAI seems to have soured the tech crowd on tech.

In this particular case, I'm not sour because of OpenAI. I am sour because of deceptive and gross business practices highlighted in the article.
Were you intervening on a system that was working perfectly?

"Using FSD as full self driving" == no intervention possible. Would you not have crashed if you couldn't intervene?
> Sometimes I think about where I would be in life if I had no moral or ethical qualms. I'd probably be running a company like this.

I think about this all the time. If I didn’t have a conscience, I would be retired by now.
Sorry, these classes were years before the Internet existed. There's a world of data accessible only thru non-Internet sources. If you really need to know then hire a reference librarian+ to find it.
Legalizing floating market exchange rates.
"LLM + speech" was such an obvious and inevitable idea, so their only advantage was rushing to sell to the early adopters. It could have been an app, but the margin on a device is higher. But early adopters with novice coding ability realized the openAI API is just a single curl command. I like the free voice call modes the chatgpt and gemini apps have now, but I'm still using my homemade slapped-together phone and laptop apps (if you can call a few lines of shell script an app) since the groqcloud API is soooo much faster than openAI (instant really) and has `whisper-large-v3` & `llama-3.1-70b-versatile`.
It's also a bad example because most doctors people encounter are overworked, on a budget, and not very smart,* which means they're very frequently wrong.

Assuming the patient is as intelligent as the average on HN, and motivated about their health, they may well be able to learn more about what's going on with their health in the month it takes to get an appointment than the doctor will in the ten minutes they spend with you.

(* Because most people who live in cities, and most people who go into primary care in cities do so because they weren't competitive enough for one of the more interesting and lucrative specialties. It's a similar dynamic as to why most people in the tech industry that people encounter—IT help desk reps—are not usually the cream of the crop.)
Would highly recommend Zero engine - it was used by DigiPen for their summer camps (which I attended)! The scripting language is a custom one called Zilch, but it should be straightforward to pick up if you know JavaScript.

https://github.com/zeroengineteam/ZeroDocs/blob/master/getti...
Founder Mode Is Creator Mode. What Paul Graham Gets Right
If you really want to prohibit high prices, you can set a cap on rent per area and enforce with auditing.

More typically, you limit the amount of rent increases for new tenants, and have the original reference for rent be set before the law was brought up, so nobody had time to preemptively raise rent to cover rent control.
I can recommend Cem Yuksel's youtube videos about interactive computer graphics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVCuWQV_-Es&list=PLplnkTzzqs...
I submitted this because I fully agree. The dev world is getting easier but also more complex when it comes to guessing the expense for software
Wasn't the tech crowd getting soured on tech by all the ads eating the world?
It's never available on homebrew the same day so we all worked hard to make it available the same day on Neon. If you want to try out the JSON_TABLE and MERGE RETURNING features you can spin up a free instance quickly.

https://neon.tech/blog/postgres-17

(note that not all extensions are available yet, that takes some time still)
OneDub Chrome extension to dub movies in realtime
Hey everyone,
I wanted to share a cool Chrome extension I made
recently called OneDub. It lets you watch movies and shows in your preferred language by using AI to dub them in real-time.
It works with major streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+. Just choose your content, select a language, and enjoy seamless dubbing that feels natural.
I've been using it to explore international films and improve my language skills at the same time. If you're interested in breaking down language barriers in your streaming experience, check it out on the Chrome Web Store.
Would love to hear what you think!
god forbid that actually be happening in a way to improve the commons
The basic idea is reasonable enough: split ownership of a vacation home among multiple owners so that they can all efficiently use it for vacations, with each co-owner having a regular time slot assigned. But in practice the contracts around them are often predatory, with excessive financing costs and annual maintenance fees. And since it's a share that you own, you (nominally) can't get out of the fees without transferring your share to someone else. However, since the downsides have become well-known, people have sometimes found that they can't even give away their shares, let alone recoup much of their initial purchase cost.
Fixing the real problems often isn't a matter of technology or thought. There are many issues in which the majority are overruled by an influential minority, almost always because the larger group lacks the will to effect change, usually because they think that any effort will be wasted. Those don't take problem-solving skills, they requires the charisma, leadership, and political ability to motivate masses of people to cause revolutionary systemic change.
It was never above page 4 (position 90):

https://hnrankings.info/41651548/

This version of the thread is the first to have had any traction on the front page.

When the algorithm artificially stops a topic from surfacing to the front page, the article that finally makes it past the algorithm's suppression is not a duplicate, it's the canonical copy.
If information is publicly available to be read by humans, I fail to see any reason why it wouldn't be also available to be read by robots.

Update: ML doesn't copy information. It can merely memorise some small portions of it.
What do the semantic commit purists do when a rebase causes some arbitrary commit to go from red to green? I've always wondered about that. Commit A becomes A' in a rebase. A is good, but A' is not. A' might be 20 commits ago in a feature branch.
I am using octopodes from now on!
I haven't been involved in some time, but I saw a reduction in my tinnitus while experimenting with Steve Gibson's "transcranial neural stimulator." His idea has gone through several revisions (and names) since then, all documented in his newsgroup[1] dedicated to the experiment. It started out as a sleep aid, but as it progressed many ancillary benefits to its use were discovered.

1: https://www.GRC.com/groups/health.tns
I think all of these problems can be traced back to, basically, free market capitalism being allowed to run a bit too amok. Capitalism is great. But it needs some safeguards in place, and we've just allowed those safeguards to deteriorate into almost nothingness over the past ~60 years.

The trouble, now, is that these ideas have enveloped and corrupted virtually everything. The tools we have to address them (government / politics) has also been utterly corrupted by money to the point where we're incapable of holding powerful people to account. A handful of individuals have more money and power than entire government agencies.

I'm not sure if this is what you were suggesting or not. But if you're suggesting some for-profit startup can address these problems, I think it's a bit naive. Tough to 'disrupt' a system working squarely inside of it, susceptible to the same conflicts-of-interest that produce all the other problems you've outlined.

We need some significant political reforms so we can start putting safeguards back in place, and we can start holding rich and powerful law breakers to account. Until then, we're in a bit of a pickle.
You might be retiring in jail, though.
It's infinitely funny (and disappointing) to me as an American that one of our top cultural exports, almost synonymous with American Hegemony, Coca-Cola tastes like trash here compared to other countries. Its to the point that people will pay extra for "Mexican Coke" because it uses actual sugar.
We, in the US, have a housing affordability crisis. Therea re a number of causes for this:

1. Cities are reaching the limit they can sprawl while still effectively being the same city. Atlanta springs to mind;

2. People vote for politicians who restrict supply to increase the value of something they see as an asset rather than something simply to provide shelter; Increasing house prices are simply stealing from the next generation. That's all. Minimum lot sizes, SFH only zoning, bans on MDU/ADUs, etc all exist solely to increase house prices;

3. Politicians only ever tackle the problem from the demand side eg mortgage interest tax deductions, first home owner grants. All this does is increase the prices by the induced demand. It's a wealth transfer to the existing homeowners.

4. Landlords. In an ideal world, they wouldn't exist. This almost happened in the UK and it was surprisingly simple [1]. They are quite literally and figuratively rent-seekers.

The YIMBYs will tell you "build! build! build!". This is overly simplistic. It also depends on what you build. Look at Manhattan that is building ultra-luxury skyscrapers. There is no trickle down effect here. It's simply money laundering and parking capital.

What we need is a healthy supply of quality, affordable housing. We simply won't get that relying on private landlords. The only solution to thisis so-called "social housing". That is, government owned and supplied housing. Vienna is a prime example here where over 60% of the housing is social housing. Americans will tend to immediately rject this as "projects" or "ghettoes" (or, worse, "socialism").

Housing unaffordability is the number one factor leading to houselessness. It's not even close.

Denying people shelter is, quite literally, state violence. It is causing direct and immediate harm for the sake of wealth accumulation by a few.

So where does rent control fit in all this? It can be a short-term aid at stabilizing prices but it is not a long-term solution. It tends to make it impossible for people to move. Landlords will resort to unethical or even illegal tactics to force out tenants so they can relist at market rates. Or they'll leave units vacant (IIRC there are 100K+ purposefully vacant units in Mnahattan).

Pretty much our entire society is designed to extract wealth from the poorest through rent, student debt, housing debt, medical debt, vehicle debt and maintenance (because in 99% of the US you cannot exist without a car).

Billionaires spend big to block public transit [2]. Why do you think that is?

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-...

[2]: https://archive.is/UFujh
I've had FSD since the very first beta and honestly even the 13 mile number is generous. Maybe on freeway only driving it's every 13 miles. On city streets, it's more like every 1-2 miles requires manual intervention unless you want to be the biggest nuisance on the road and a total jerk to everyone around you.
It's specific-object identification, not object categorization. Also in front of a controlled background. They had a limited set of known objects. There was no generalization expected. It asked if it's looking at one specific ball or one specific hammer, not the general category of bird in the wild.

In fact, that scope was solved fairly fast, using techniques like Canny edge detection and Minkowski fractal dimension features, Hu moment features on Otsu thresholding etc.
Yes, i feel like the biggest problems getting real treatment are in equal parts, people not thinking of the concomitant factor/asking the right things/being afraid to tell certain things, and doctors having no where near enough time to actually listen to someone and think about their situation.

I try not to fall into the first category but I've known many people who do. Though I've had many experiences with fast talking, eyes glazed, interrupt me to push the first thing that comes to mind type doctors. Once i had to fight with guy to just get him to let me finish a sentence! He changed his mind every 5 words trying to get out of there but it'd've been faster if he just let me talk! It's infuriating, I'll never go back to a doctor like that. Seems like he didn't even wait to leave the room before i was out of his mind, possibly i never even entered it
If God was real, wouldn't you? If God is real and you're wrong about that (or if you don't yet know the real God) would you want the computer to agree with your misconception or would you want it to know the truth?

Cut out "computer" here - would you want any person to hold a falsehood as the truth?
I'm being forced to use Linear right now and I keep asking for things I used to be able to do in Jira and it seems like the answer is just "you can't"
And it makes waterfall look nice. Evidently manifesto writing is harder than the author(s) thought it would be.
Kind of interesting. However bad design isnt a guaranteed attr for pairwise coupling. I get that its a strong indicator, but its not even mentioned that some systems force this, and some designs its assistive.

E.g.

- .mli, .ml
- .h, .c
- types module, impl module

His points still stand
grammar nerd sidebar:

> Agile is an iterative methodology, but all iterative methodologies are not agile.

is a sentence that contradicts itself. You meant

"Agile is an iterative methodology, but not all iterative methodologies are agile."

Notice the universal quantifier moving across the negation is not semantically stable.

And the reason i thought it "fun" to mention this is to segue to this cool topic, which is exactly what i mention above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws#Extension_t...
They are also moving so much faster than the regulators and legislatures, it's just impossible for people working basically the same way they did in the 19th century to keep up.
This is a very sneaky ethically gray company. Their app is not only of terrible quality but also full of dark patterns. I'm convinced that any revenue they make comes from people who can't figure out how to cancel. Stay away from it.
> This meant you could roll features out to:

That's how feature flag services work.

The whole point is that this is not a querying problem. That's a group assignment problem.

Users/sessions are assigned to a feature group according to business rules. These can be as complex as anyone wants them to be.

Once a user/session is assigned to a feature group, the problem of getting features is a key-value query.
And a child or ESL speaker will often use constructions that sound stilted. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

"Stilted" is a bit of a judgy word, but it's not a value judgment of anyone else's intelligence. Some English speech sounds stilted. So it goes. That's why I don't prefer that pluralization in my own speech.

Lord knows I sound weird enough at times; I'm not here to throw stones from glass houses.
Remember that Sam and/or the whole thing is dependent of Microsoft. It may explain shift and consolidation of power within organization.
Having been inflicted with both, I agree that if I have to choose between the two, Jira is the lesser evil. Azure devops makes almost anything else look great by comparison.
This law isn't rent control, because it's not strong enough to be considered rent control. OK, that seems like an acceptable argument.

But, at least according to MSN, it did have effects on real estate concomitant to the arguments against rent control.

Interesting result. Argentina is in the midst of a grand experiment.
I introduced the word memory model so that’s on me for that error - definitionally memory model does refer to concurrency.

However Op used “memory behavior”. The C standard definitely has defined and defined and undefined memory behaviors even pre C11. For example, dereferencing null is an undefined single threaded memory behavior that bit the kernel when the compilers started optimizing from assumptions about never reaching UB code. But for example there’s lots of defined behaviors like what happens when you dereference an aliased pointer.

And the Linux kernel definitely defined a memory model for itself before C and made all architectures conform to that.
Not explicitly; they're a black box with a stated security model where you trust the hypervisor (vs SEV-SNP where you can get some guarantees against it), and attestation in Nitro is built around PCRs rather than the SEV-SNP launch measurement system which is built around VM state.
One way to look at it: did you ever see a place explicitly following the manifesto successfully ?

To me the real message was "think for yourself and do what works best for you", and the organizations that actually do that typically don't need to be given directions and don't follow advice from productivity gurus. Toyota didn't read the Agile Manifesto and come up with their own solution to their own problems.

The people that fell in love with Agile where the most further from it, the message was vague enough that they would seek more concrete frameworks, which inevitably would put them out of the "think for yourself" zone.
> God I hope Merrick Garland isn’t asleep at the wheel. They’ve been trust busting like mad during this administration, so hopefully they’re taking aim at this windmill, too.

Little chance of that as Sama is a big time Democrat fundraiser and donor.
Holy shit, this is the best way to describe it. I mean, just that we have Scrum “ceremonies” should be an indication that it’s the opposite of what it says it is.
Though we should also accept that some things are just hard. Though that's not to say that we should give up on trying to make them as easy to learn and use as possible.
Actually, I think there's a pretty legitimate reason to flag this.

The actual article is from the quite biased libertarian Reason Magazine: https://reason.com/2024/09/26/rents-fall-and-listings-increa..., but it's being laundered through msn.com, which obscures that.
Recording devices destroyed most of the musician's jobs. Vast majority of musicians who were employed before advent of recordings didn't have their own material and were not good enough to make good recordings anyway. Same with artists now: the great ones will be much more productive, but the bottom 80-90% won't have anything to do anymore.
> for the first time in a century there is more money to be made in weakening copyright rather than strengthening it

Nope. The law will side with whoever pays the most. Once OpenAI solidifies its top position, only then will regulations kick in. Take YouTube, for example—it grew thanks to piracy. Now, as the leader, ContentID and DMCA rules work in its favor, blocking competition. If TikTok wasn’t a copyright-ignoring Chinese company, it would’ve been dead on arrival.
What is your modest proposal for convincing people to move away from California when the hole in their pocket is not a big enough incentive?
> I don't trust my government to get even the easy things right most of the time.

The American government was capable of putting a man on the moon in 1969; private corporations in the 2020's are failing to put much smaller landers on the moon.

The government can be competent, but people have been brainwashed by corporations into believing that it can't be.

Regardless of competence, the government can certainly be trusted far more than corporations when it is profitable for them to be untrustworthy.
I can't tell you how secure it makes me feel to know the my pilot and surgeon have been pushed to their absolute limits before I use their services.
San Francisco implemented a time cutoff for its rent control, which covers places prior to 1979.

That said, the increase limit is much less than the CPI, about 0.5X, So covered rents grow much slower than inflation.

As such, there is a pretty big secondary market where leaseholders make money subletting rent controlled places.

I know about a dozen people who have moved to other cities and states, but sublet in SF making thousands.
I am under the impression that Jira is a really poorly designed text editor, with the addition of boxes that can be dragged around to serve as a fidget toy for those who have nothing better to do.
It's easier to say X is dying when X is easy to define.
The best plural is simply keeping the word the same as the singular. I.e. "octopus". There are many animals using this form, e.g. fish, deer, elk, salmon, buffalo.

E.g. Look at all those octopus.

All the divers I know say it this way, easy to say, understand, doesn't make you sound like an asshole.
One way to frame the capitalist framework: The "private sector" seeks profit and the "public sector" seeks social stability.

I agree that the problems you describe are important. Most of them fall in the scope of "public sector" problems. I'm not working on those because I've chosen to work in the "private sector".
Even before AI, that website has been making overly optimistic claims for many years. It was never clear to me how real or effective it was. The Wikipedia article has more detail but it seems like this is the first time the government has actually called them out?

Of course this didn't stop them raising $10m from credulous investors in 2021.
Oh! That's never nice, but it's always better when someone else does it.

Check out https://onboardbase.com/. It's pretty handy for keeping secrets secret.
My Kia Niro is connected to the internet yet I can't OTA apply anything. Updates to the navigation data (~80GB) have to be done via USB and recall related updates have to get applied by the manufacturer. So I get 100% of the attack surface and ~0% of the convenience.
So what if it didn't make the front page. That doesn't mean ppl didn't see it. Doesn't mean ppl aren't commenting on it. Maybe it's just not that interesting. There was also a lot of other big news at the same time with Meta etc taking attention. And followed by the other OpenAI news with Mira. Again, the discussion is there.
DSS became BI became AI

At some point in time, Decision Support Systems became Business Intelligence and nowadays this is switching ti AI

BI (formerly DSS) is a set of tools that enable Business Analytics , OLAP and technologies that implements OLAP (Cubes and Columnar databases) enables BI
I'm just slightly disturbed that someone thinks a rich social life is defined by punching your co-workers
Link to related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41638199
People do work on hard problems.
My understanding is that they had much more linear automation of very specific, narrow, high-frequency processes — basically form letters plus some process automation — before they got GPT and decided they could do a lot more “lawyer” things with it.
That's really why "miles" is a poor measure. It implies going faster is safer.

It would be better to list intervention per hour and then list the categories of driving (city, rural, highway).