Imagine being able to connect two computers over the internet using sockets. WebRTC is a marvel, but I miss the whimsical days of running something on a port at home and connecting to it without thinking about NAT.
Can't speak for every listing on here, but depending on the state and type of auction there can be lots of issues that you have to be aware of, like physical issues with the property itself, liens on the property, and even potentially people occupying the property who may have defaulted through things like not paying their property tax, but not yet left after the state has technically 'seized' it.
Well, HUD wants to sell it to someone who intends to live in it, "owner occupied", and most of them are garbage. Some from the pictures are almost certainly condemned/require significant repair before it could be considered safe for occupancy. So you need someone willing to invest the time and money a flipper or real estate investor would, to live in a really cruddy house.
In short, the people who have the money to fix it want to live somewhere nicer.
LLMs can produce text information but they cannot have experiences. Writing about authentic experience is still a worth while endeavor. Expression of a preference is also an experience when framed correctly.
I think about Irish and British writing of dialogue, where is is extremely common for characters to only just now realize the importance of something their interlocutor said, and backtrack the conversation. Often this is done for humor. (Think about characters correcting each other with the use of “exacerbate” in Shaun of the Dead)
The only way to write like that is to have a real theory of mind for the two characters and understand that they are four processing speeds: that of both speakers, that of the narrator, and that of the reader.
I’ve been using SimpleX for a small circle of friends and it has been pretty easy to use. I am surprised it has not seen wider adoption. Writing scripts for it is also straightforward.
I tried to figure out its identity model and failed, and I consider myself somewhat familiar with encrypted IM protocols. How should non-technical users ever figure this out?
And if they don't need to, and it just works as a regular encrypted messenger: Why should somebody use this over any of the many alternatives?
Other than that, its "advantages" page looks highly disingenuous, e.g. by describing Signal as "Possibility of MITM: Yes", but itself as "No - Secure", with a footnote of "Verify security code to mitigate attack on out-of-band channel". How is that different from verifying a Signal verification code!?
A web where text/markdown is prevalent is a win for human readers, too. It would be great if Firefox and Chrome rendered markdown as rich text (eg: real headings/links instead of plaintext).
These days, I've noticed that lobsters feels a lot more genuine to me, like hn was a few years ago. These days it feels like hn is bland and homogeneous, which I suspect is due to LLM-written comments.
In my experience every English-language online forum not rooted in some project or community external to the forum (e.g. an open source project's forum or a local club's forum) devolves into anger, cynicism, and American political partisanship. I suspect that the people who like discussing these feelings are more numerous than the spaces that want to discuss them and so any open forum fills up with their posts. Lobste.rs's unique rules and moderation culture results in a particular manifestation of symptoms but the disease is the same.
I picked up lobsters last month, and I started to appreciate it much more because of the lack of generated comments. It has a anti-LLM slant, and they have their own moderation challenge (everything is getting tagged as vibecoding - which makes the tag lose meaning). But the comments are noticeable not-slop.
When they answer back to us in personal pronouns, we will always be wondering if it is like LLM just putting most probable words together or something really sentient.
When someone makes a virtual girlfriend of it, is it really a disembodied person or just a smart answering machine?
A whole lot of ethical and psychological issues are to open up here.
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