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Hugging Face begins taking orders for its $449 Reachy Mini Wireless and $299 Reachy Mini Lite open source robots, which come as kits for developers to build (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/hugging-fa…

Hugging Face opens up orders for its Reachy Mini desktop robots | TechCrunch
Hugging Face is releasing two versions of its desktop robot meant for designing and coding AI applications.

Nice analysis of housing in Vienna. Back of the envelope calculation suggests rents are about 30% less than in San Francisco. Why aren't we hearing more about this from the "abundance" crowd? We know we won't get there with market driven housing production (I've had more than one developer explain that to me)

Nice analysis of housing in Vienna. Back of the envelope calculation suggests rents are about 30% less than in San Francisco. Why aren't we hearing more about this from the "abundance" crowd? We know we won't get there with market driven housing production (I've had more than one developer explain that to me)

Attorney General's Office Sues Investment Firm for Obstructing Access to Stable, Affordable Housing for Over 70 Manufactured Housing Units in Taunton | Mass.gov
https://www.mass.gov/news/attorney-generals-office-sues-investment-firm-for-obstructing-access-to-stable-affordable-housing-for-over-70-manufactured-housing-units-in-taunton

Rest day - wife wanted to visit the sports shop again (where we brought the hiking shoes). This time I bought a new #hiking trouser as mine starts to show signs of its age slowly...
This vacation starts to be expensive 🤔
But I admit that I thought about getting a new trouser since quite a while anyways.

lovely overview of social housing's benefits and recent social housing successes in the US! https://theconversation.com/from-seattle-to-atlanta-new-social-housing-programs-seek-to…

From Seattle to Atlanta, new social housing programs seek to make homes permanently affordable for a range of incomes
Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.

Detecting and Mitigating Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning Systems: A Comprehensive Empirical Study
Ibne Farabi Shihab, Sanjeda Akter, Anuj Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05619

Detecting and Mitigating Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning Systems: A Comprehensive Empirical Study
Reward hacking in Reinforcement Learning (RL) systems poses a critical threat to the deployment of autonomous agents, where agents exploit flaws in reward functions to achieve high scores without fulfilling intended objectives. Despite growing awareness of this problem, systematic detection and mitigation approaches remain limited. This paper presents a large-scale empirical study of reward hacking across diverse RL environments and algorithms. We analyze 15,247 training episodes across 15 RL e…

No one wants to live on Van Ness because it's a loud car sewer. Condo listings with a Van Ness address will tell you in all-caps if the unit doesn't face Van Ness. There's also no green space there. It makes housing on the corridor a passing-through place rather than somewhere to set down roots.

Van Ness Is ‘In Crisis.’ Revival Plans Hinge On Housing Towers and Chain Stores
This main SF thoroughfare once had grand houses and auto palaces. Now there’s a great bus line, but empty storefronts. Can it again be a place to live and linger?

Heavy rain this morning - we have a half-day rest. Our legs are quite happy about it after 6 days #hiking in a row.

#FotoVorschlag 'Stressabbau' 'stress relief'
Well, definitely! I'm so grateful that I have hiking and cycling for stress relief. Especially hiking in the mountains when I'm just so physically exhausted that I can't think about my daily problems any more. Plus the overwhelming visual impressions.
To me, this kind of sports isn't a hobby any more. …