skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without adjusting this for population I don't know what it really tells us. Yes, Australia with a population of 24 million has fewer "Tier 1" population centers than a country with 325 million.

Just going by ratios I would expect the US to have 26 Tier 1 cities.

I would also expect the US and Europe to have roughly the same number of Tier 1 cities, since they have roughly the same population.

I agree that the federal model of the US (which cascades down and has similar boundaries at the county & city level) is probably one of the root causes. Having "NSW Police" versus 482 city police departments in California is just one of many examples.
Indian Government Think Tank Trials Blockchain to Combat Fake Meds
I can't speak to this particular detail, but it's written in ARC LISP, which itself is written in Racket, which has serializable closures (https://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server-internal/closure.htm...) so it's at least possible.
> Stockholm is 23% of Sweden

But this is like saying "Phoenix is 23% of Arizona", which is also true. (Arizona and Sweden have roughly comparable populations, though Sweden is a bit larger.)
Not only that, but by the time you are ready to sell, you will have some expenses toward the "freshening up" of the place. Paint, minor drywall repair, cleaning, curb appeal shit... etc. It all costs $$$$...
I'm with you on this. I feel exactly the same way. I played Dota casually for years (i.e once every couple of months I jump into a pub game with my friends and have some fun) but I used to enjoy watching high level tournaments. In my opinion they ruined the game by iterating through changes way to quickly. It feels like to me every successive patch in last 2 or 3 years there has been huge sweeping changes. The Dota I see now is not the game I fell in love with all those years ago. Almost everything has changed.

Sometimes you need to realize when you have a good thing and leave it alone...
Privacy Pass: Proof of work ‘passes' (browser extension)
I've built large production apps in all 3 frameworks. After using React with TSX -- and getting symbols and refactoring across templates -- there's no going back. IDE support with VSCode is incredible.

I routinely see Angular and Vue projects littered with magic strings/globals in their templates. These are ok on the first pass-through building the app, but refactoring and maintenance are a nightmare.

The state of the art right now IMO really is React + TSX.
Isnt Apple already using our data to make money? Their approach is just different, they collect anonymous data and they ask you if you want to participate.

My Apple health data is being used for science for instance, but I decided to opt-in and the data isn’t actually linked to me.
I've experienced the downside of this. If there's a major issue related to your unit, but it's the association's responsibility, you're at their mercy, hoping they'll act quickly. I had a rental unit sit empty for 5 months because of a slow-moving assocation that was reluctant to admit that certain work needed to be done. (Admittedly, I think I could've gotten it resolved _somewhat_ faster if I had been living in the unit myself, or at least lived nearby.)
Exactly. It is like going to a restaurant and ordering an Apple.
How fairly are market values calculated?
Agree with db1's feedback. I almost immediately closed the page after not finding the pitch.
> If God wants to call a whale a big fish, stop telling God what to do.

Exactly. If God wants to call a man a man, why should I tell him "no she's a woman"?

"But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, 'Why have you made me like this?'" Romans 9:20
Teen Who Hacked CIA Director John Brennan Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison
That's fair. It definitely underscores the actual point of the article which is "You should run your own numbers rather than believe 'conventional wisdom'".

I'd love to see some analysis (perhaps a monte carlo sim) on how the "no recourse" angle plays out. I can only assume that a floor on losses skews the expected outcome significantly.
I'd say the HEAD section is the best implication about the behavior they expect. Where in this section there is precedent set for the spec requiring it to be equal.

I'll agree and admit that implication is not explicit specification, but I think it's a reasonable example to follow.
This is one of the best articles I've read on here.
What races are you referring to? Irish, German, English, Spanish? What’s their average IQ? And what genes play a factor in IQ?
They had a data accessibility / source of truth issue. You need to normalize before you denormalize or else you're just spreading the mess into the warehouse.
It covers that: "Rachel pays $307 per year in renter’s insurance."
> The tax system is very biased in a favor of home ownership.

With the recent tax changes including increased standard deduction, SALT cap and mortgage deduction cap, this bias is greatly reduced.
Yes, and there are some exceptional papers from the 1960's as well.
I guess the main determinant should be mobility. If you are 23 and you dont have a career yet, want to go to a law or medical school, do your phd or whatever then chances are next 5-10 years you will be moving a lot and have no idea where you will end up settling down. In such cases having had committed to such an investment is a bad idea. But if you are 30 years old registered nurse married to your high school sweetheart who is a teacher and dont plan moving anywhere then buying is absolutely a safer bet.
I dont know about other parts of the country but here most of the good areas of North East region mortgage is cheaper than rent. Most people buy a 4 bed 2 bath house and sublet the top floor or something making sometimes more than half of their mortgage payments from subletting.
I think its an awesome investment if you purchase it at the bottom of the market, not on the peak, even if you buy at the peak over the course of 30 years you will end up having made a good investment unless your town goes to shit for some reason.
And just like any market, housing markets goes through ups and downs and since its such a long term investment you are better off holding off 5-10 years to wait for the lows of the market meanwhile saving up for the down payment.
SQL analytics was past, predictive analytics is the future

You're over-simplifying things. SQL is here to stay, regardless of how big ML, which I'm very bullish on, becomes. Start with the simplest approach and try alternatives when/if it doesn't work. Simply jumping to "predictive analytics" is silly.
I've been reading the site myself on-and-off for several years now, and while it certainly has a particular spin much of the time, an awful lot of what shows up there as critique is just basic common sense. If you can't see that then perhaps you lack common sense yourself - because it seems that "common sense" isn't really so common after all.

And certainly not all of the comments "are just a bunch of back-slapping" - in fact things can get quite heated at times. Which you would know if you'd actually read the site in depth and to any great extent.

There may have been valid complaints in the past that the site was sloppy and too one-sided. But the tone has changed quite a bit over recent years, in that they now try to keep everything more balanced and in context. For example, they may print large parts of an article while highlighting and commenting on certain portions of it, rather than just presenting a few sentences from it that they think are relevant, with little or no context. They will also try and make sure to point back to original sources whenever they can, and so on. They still get it wrong sometimes, though.
Not while the current cohort of homeowners is also the current cohort of voters.
You shouldn't use PHP's unserialize implementation with untrusted sources; but my point was that its format makes it relatively simple to parse vs json or xml where you have to do a lot of work to parse strings. If you're writing your own parser (including a parser for another language), you could decide to only parse basic types (bool, int, float, array); if you're designing your own format, you could take the lesson of length prefixed strings are much easier to use for computers than delimited strings.
Magento Ajax Cart Extension
Does Magento Ajax Cart Extension offer the admin to display the top-rated products of the website on the popup?
There goes the whole "too big to block" BS...

Although Durov and Telegram do have rather dubious reputation.
Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice
It seems more embarrassing than entertaining.
It's worth noting that browsers allow a lot of things that either look like errors to a human or are forbidden by the RFCs. Some people want defacto behavior, others want dejure.
There's another post recently that's discussing the same topic. For an FHA back 30 year fixed mortgage, you don't need to put down 20%. I think the most I had to put down for my house was about $3000. It's turned out to be the best investment of my life, because I had to move away and so I am renting it out and make a nice profit each month.
> But houses in all but a few markets are and remain "good investments" by any reasonable interpretation. To argue otherwise is to argue in bad faith. Stop it.

What about the interpretation that I don't want to be subject to price fluctuations of a single object that represents a large fraction of my net worth? The argument that I might not wish to manage a property? The argument that I don't want to avail myself of the opportunity to be foreclosed on because I would like to maintain my credit? All those seem reasonable enough to me as factors to consider in defining a good investment (obviously subject to any individual investor's utility function).

Personally I think what should stop is you accusing anyone who disagrees with you of arguing in bad faith.
Well, it sounds like we are in fierce agreement then. Sorry for misunderstanding your comment earlier.

I've been interesting lately in exploring at aiohttp, and your comment about it being too strict is certainly very enlightening. And I want to second your comment about libraries following the lead of what browsers will do. My strong feeling is that the battle over what HTTP libraries should do has been fought and been decided by browsers, and that whatever browsers do is what HTTP libraries should do as well, regardless of how ugly it is (IIRC, when I last checked, browsers did pay attention to the Content-Length header and wouldn't display results that were shorter than it - but if I'm misremembering, I would happily change my position with respect to honoring this header). The purist in me hates to say that, but, the pragmatist wants to get things done and fighting against browser behavior feels counter-productive at this stage.
All information is useful, but too much can be worse than none at all. When faced with too much choice, people tend to shut down a little. Curation is important.

Edit: I've probably overstated my point. I'm not sure I believe too much is worse than none at all, but it's certainly worse than a well-curated selection.
Mac users might pay more when shopping online (2015)
Actually unless one is doing JavaScript, JSON is extremely difficult to parse correctly. I challenge you to write a simple, understandable JSON parser in Bourne shell or in AWK.
Your 15% leveraged return is only true if you have no borrowing costs. If you had a 4% mortgage you would actually be losing 1% the first year.

A leveraged return L = (asset return - ((1- %down) x loan) rate)/%down. With a 4% mortgage that's (3% - ((1 - 20% ) x 4%))/20% = -1%
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'The U.S. (and, today, Churchill) do it too.' I haven't heard that refrain on HN in at least 5 minutes. Apparently people believe they are magic words that can normalize anything, from Hitler to Russia to China. Am I missing anyone? Stalin? Mao?
> you don’t have to do it by putting words into people’s mouths

A fair criticism. I'd intended "You're suggesting [...] ?" as a "are you suggesting <implausible thing not-X>?" form of "what about X?" question, rather than as a "you said X" claim. I'd not noticed the second reading. :/ But a less personal phrasing would have avoided the potential for misunderstanding - and consequences. Sorry about that.

> how Facebook’s current scrutiny is connected to Hollywood

Regards "current", tactical politics, perhaps someone else can comment. But the strategic context, part of those "political headwinds", is a long-term lobbying and press campaign to "correct" the "excessive approval" of Facebook et al, and to establish "rules of the road" for the "Wild West" Internet. One can of course agree with part of that, and disagree with the other. But... given a political bandwagon, it seems worth noting the principal conductors, and their intended playlists.
Yes, under that assumption. But even if nothing bad happens, you will retire sooner or later and your income will drop.
The SSD runs its own proprietary firmware that controls the raw disk device itself. If it wants to insert a blob of code into your bootloader or grub2 that can do keystroke interception on a full-disk-encryption unlock, it can. This is the same idea as a technique used by intelligence agencies with a typical "evil maid" attack.
> the colon overload of C++

There's a lot of colons here too:

- (id)outputImageProviderFromBufferWithPixelFormat:(NSString *)format
pixelsWide:(NSUInteger)width
pixelsHigh:(NSUInteger)height
baseAddress:(const void *)baseAddress
bytesPerRow:(NSUInteger)rowBytes
releaseCallback:(QCPlugInBufferReleaseCallback)callback
releaseContext:(void *)context
colorSpace:(CGColorSpaceRef)colorSpace
shouldColorMatch:(BOOL)colorMatch;
I own my home in a relatively cheap COL area... I would rather rent. Houses nickel and dime you to death. The expenses pile up at both the front and back of the transaction... that is, when you buy and finally sell.

Please show me how the small increases in property value multiplies my initial investment. The problem is most people don't move sideways or down... they move up, thus negating any windfall in investment prowess. Timing, once again, can make or break you and timing is a fool's errand.

Renters don't always pay the taxes. There are several rentals in my neighborhood that are less than the mortgage. Once you cross a threshold of monthly rent, the market for available renters shrinks rapidly (Unless we are talking bay area). I mean... there are very few people spending $3000 a month in Phoenix renting.

I agree about the tax system bias toward home ownership... but there are ways to beat that. Starting or having a small business being #1. We could get into many ways to beat the tax system... but lets suffice to say that homeownership isn't really "beating" the tax system.

That "savings" on tax isn't savings... it is rent on top of rent... let that sink in.
Are there any modern incarnations?
Sure, I'm up for it
A good way of looking at the “hidden cost” of buying your home- when you get a mortgage to buy a house, you’ve simply shifted from renting your home to renting the money used to buy your home.

Since your house and that cash are (sorta definitionally) worth the same amount, which you do makes less of a difference than you would think. (And no, it doesn’t matter that the mortgage money is “rent to own”- as the article points out, a home-renter could have just as easily been putting that extra cost into stocks the whole time.)
as I remember...they were offered it and even had a partnership with Toyota that lasted until Musk started being rude about Toyota products.
a hard drive is a huge source of attack vector. In particular if you're running full disk encryption with a very tiny unencrypted ext2 boot/grub2 partition, malicious firmware on a disk can intercept the plaintext keystrokes for a passphrase-unlock on FDE. This is a known intelligence agency attack vector.

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/27/encrypting-laptop-like-m...

see the "attacks against disk encryption" section.
How so? I personally feel that most of the changes Swift made to the language really do solve real problems that Apple and third party developers have had with Objective-C (and other languages, as well).
Appreciate the feedback. We recently redesigned the website to offer silos, and one of the goals was to make the landing page not offer too many specifics that would make some audiences bounce. But perhaps your suggestion is just what we need to do. Thanks for taking the time to share!

One lesson learned: I should have linked to the /individual page instead of the generic landing page in my comment. Updating link now...
I strongly recommend to read his novel “Peace on Earth”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel)

It brilliantly depicts an evolution of military AI, robots and so on.
This is a really poorly written and exaggerate article. I purchased a home in 2015, I had to pay $3000 to close with no further down payment. After three years I had to move for work. I'm now renting that house out, and earning $380 a month in profit. That house is mine. Our use that profit to pay extra on the principal and contribute to my 401(k). Someday, that house will be paid for, and it will be all mine. Then any profits will be completely mine, minus taxes and insurance of course. Renting puts you at the financial wims of someone else. How often do you see a rental company lowering your rent? By owning, you know that your monthly outlay is going to be very stable. That makes it a lot easier for financial planning, not just now, but for when we are older. Who wants to be 65 and still renting?
There is a lot of overpriced software, especially on MacOS. If people are willing to pay (not necessarily you) - why not let them?

Will people realize how easy this app is to make? Will they care? I think it's worth a shot for the developer. It could pay for a coffee or two.
Fraud protection and dispute resolution are what you pay the credit card interchange fee for. What, did you think they were suddenly going to give away that service for free?
I'm much more hopeful for ABI stability than C++ interoperatability. I think will take a long time before we'll be able to seamlessly work with C++ code as we do currently with say Objective-C or C.
How many people from automakers would Tesla need to hire to hoover up all this knowledge?
The biggest threat of AI is not its ability of taking jobs or exterminating mankind, but the amount of distraction it creates.

When politicians say they improved the economy like 30%, nobody buys into that. It's an overly exaggerated misleading political talk. But when some tech gurus talk about how AI improved their profit 30% or something, everyone seems to hop on. It's an effective marketing, for sure, but this is a worrisome trend. The root cause of this is I think the lack of proper understanding of fundamentals (and intellectual sloppiness). AI will continue to plague us on this front, and I'm still not sure if the net gain is going to beat all the distractions it created.
It might just be the purist in me but I don't really enjoy limited overs cricket.

Test cricket (the 5 day matches) on the other hand is just about the perfect spectator sport for the Australian summer I reckon. You have the Xmas Holiday period with time off from work combined with the fact it's too hot to do anything around the house. So putting your feet up enjoying a few beers and watching the cricket with your extended family is a great way to pass the time.
I'd say it's more that it quite correctly implies that if you resist sharing your personal life with Google, they'll punish you.
My renter pays for my mortgage which includes principal and interest, landlord insurance, and taxes. Not to mention an additional $380 a month and profit that I put towards the principal and my 401(k).
Was just about to mention leverage. I would also add that you'll be hard pressed to get a loan at mortgage-like rates if you wanted to put your money in the stock market.

The other important point is that buying a home is still very much the "American Dream" - it is the single best way for the middle class to create wealth simply because the entire system is geared (some people would use the word rigged) for home buying. Interest tax deductions, primary residence rules, etc.. etc... are all setup for you to take out this massive loan and buy a house. If you wait long enough, it will be worth your while.
No it specifically mentions renter's insurance near the beginning but the number cited seems like a minimum policy.

> Rachel pays $307 per year in renter’s insurance.
imho, AI and ML are being applied to problems for which they are not the best solution, primarily out of ignorance by the practitioners, or by their desire to hop on the AI/ML train. I expect machine learning to steal some attention from data science, but in name only as at the end of the day it is all based on statistics.
One of the very first things the article states is that this is not for people who are not living in the home as their primary residence.
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Whistler was one of the best characters in Sneakers.
Never forget: how to steal a flag (https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/d7eddj/4chan-does-first-g...).
The author clearly cares about prestige - his bio mentions having an MBA from Berkeley.
‘If the flash wait states are a major problem, it may be possible to copy the interrupt handler code to RAM and run it from there. I’m assuming the internal RAM has zero wait states, but I might be wrong on that point.‘
Well the data shows just how much active cooling helps to lengthen their live. Gen 1 Leaf packs didn't have active cooling and their life goes downhill quickly.

https://insideevs.com/nissan-issues-statement-on-leaf-30-kwh...
It's true, we could use AI or ML to do stuff not related to the core product. But these investors thought that we should be using ML in the coloring algorithm itself. Even if this made sense to do (that is, if it improved reading ability for people compared with our current product), it would be much harder to explain.

Right now, it's easy to say it's a color gradient that wraps from one line to the next, guiding your eyes. I don't know how I insert "machine learning" into that sentence somewhere and not sound like I'm trying to trend-surf.
How does the utility derived from the asset factor in? There's an argument that the cost of borrowing is also paid by a renter (passed through from the landlord). The true cost of borrowing would then be interest paid minus the corresponding portion of comparable rent.

The real point of the article stands. "Run your own numbers"
What is booking commerce?
All kinds of splits are happening all the time. People are damn good at grouping everything. What I'm saying neither choices nor immutable traits shouldn't be basis for judgement that are not reasonable and/or not directly related to specific situation.

What I was talking about judicial system is the other way. When it looks the other way because of immutable trait it's seen as natural behaviour. Wether it's treating psychos lightly, because it's a condition or looking the other way from certain crimes because of skin color.

P.S. Would you say "poor have less money, with all that entails"? I bumped into many people who think shitting on rich is fine, since it's part of the pack. Yet they go completely bananas if I do 180 and say the same about poors :) That's exactly the unreasonable judgement I was talking about.
Why the marketing line "this is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time"? I don't mean to be rude, but it's kind of an aphorism, and a morbid one at that. But I see people whom I respect making this observation. I'm sincerely wondering why pointing out the obvious is important
True, but I excluded unlikely events like an eminent domain takeover, asteroid strike, etc in my cost-benefit analysis.

An earthquake related eviction is probably most likely, but that'd be the case whether I own or rent.