skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Arango but these days it's very hard for a database to compete with Postgres which is incredibly powerful.

Every time I've bet against Postgres and used some other data storage mechanism, I always come back to Postgres.
Tangential question: This guy's blog has fantastic content but I don't see an RSS feed or any other way of subscribing (apart from a much broader Twitter feed). What's the best way to keep up?
No it was a question and you havent answered it. How do we do that?
> and the inspector is financially responsible for exactly the > cost of the inspection.
> No more.

And gets more business the more time he stamps yes for the realtor.

(also true of the broker and appraiser)
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I assumed from context that he meant "GRND_RANDOM" as the "blocking variant" in that thread, which is different from flags=0.
A good realtor cultivates relationships and deal flow. I suspect that a decent percentage of transactions in a competitive market never even hit the MLS as the houses are sold before they even get listed.
Why are you just allowing anything outbound or inbound? You can specify Allow/Deny on any combination of source subnet, dest subnet, source port, dest port for starters. That gets you a pretty comprehensive ability to lock down a VPC on its own.
I personally don't like the logo, but is it really fair to say Instagram and Uber "messed up big"? Because they're both wildly successful companies with highly recognised brands. Maybe the way you and I have been taught to think about logos and branding is.... wrong?
TensorFire
I presume you mean don't get fully drained. They also should not get fully charged either. They could make the battery stop working earlier and limit them from being filled, but this is going to limit a lot of one time use cases when the trade off is worthwhile.
Or you can get the worst of both worlds (looking at you H+R Block), where you pay accountant prices for someone to walk through what is essentially a customized version of something like Turbo Tax.

When I moved to the US I used them, once. I had just arrived, was working from home, had bought a hybrid vehicle, my spouse was a student.

I/we literally sat there with someone entirely clueless as she read questions off a screen.

"Okay, for Item X, how much do you want to claim?"

"What can I claim?"

"What do you mean?"

"As in, what is claimable, what isn't?"

"I'm not sure."

"So why am I paying you to prepare my taxes?"
Dashboard UI refresh
We tried to keep the equipment cost down, to support emerging market. Reusing existing 45cm/60cm TV satellite dishes is part of it. The usb SDRs cost $10-15 on ebay.
> But we could spend 5% less and still spend more on the entire world combined and have tons of money for the sciences, social programs, etc.

Fun fact: in the recent audit of the Pentagon, it was discovered among other things that of the funding they received last year, they had been unable to spend $28 billion of it. That's more than the entire budget of NASA in unused budget allocations.
I’ve booked cottages for years, my parents did it for us in the 90s, when the catalog was posted out.

My understanding was Airbnb started as renting out sofas or spare rooms, but is now basically the same as cottages.com, but with more hype, and apparently far worse property owners.
Taken aback that there's an artist that passed MC Solaar - although in this source, they report him using 7691 words out of the first 30,000.

http://www.slate.fr/story/93477/rap-francais-infographie-mc-...
Not really. How does that seatbelt work? This is the problem, you dont know.
Do you know of any alphas running for App Engine? I'm interested in testing.
Spoken exactly like somebody who has never suffered from chronic, debilitating, relentless pain.
How many reviews did the place you booked have?
Wow! Did I write "public" - I meant "secret" - it's been a long day.

Of all the comments I've made that should have been down voted, the one I made above was it. HN gods are having mercy on me it seems.
Correction: his base will blame Pelosi and Schumer for standing in the way of border security and vote in droves for Trump Term 2: Electric Boogaloo.
The going rate is 2.5% to both the selling agent and the buying agent, each.
Not sure how many HN people follow the Bogle philosophy, but to me it feels not inappropriate to turn on the black bar.
Video gambling didn't turn Illinois in a circle of hell - Chicago politics turned the entire state into a circle of hell. Probably a good 90-95% geographically in Illinois would love to kick Chicago/Cook County out of the state.
Index Fund made it possible for the layman to get into the game of investing.
Flooding, storms, drought, infertile land and so on. Death have gone way down not up
That would be more plausible if one side had not already claimed "credit" for the shut down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n-Y4TIgktg&feature=youtu.be...
btw you can see the sent queue and send messages here https://blockstream.com/satellite-queue/
Reminds me of some of the 60's-70's era electro-accoustic experimenting, with the exception of some of the more modern synth sounds that crop up here and there. Actually, during the first couple of minutes Berio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Berio) came to mind, though I'm not exactly sure how fair that reference really is.
If you had to ask, please don't ever design logos.
Love it! Surprised by the negative reactions. The original logo feels a bit cheap and not well thought while this one has more purpose.
> The contract that I signed to sell another property specified that the full commission was due from the seller regardless of buyer representation, but that any registered real estate agent working on behalf of the buyer would share equally in the commission, paid by the listing agency.

Not anti-competitive, at all...
All of the full time real estate agents I know sell WAY more than 4 hours per year.
There is a setup guide by grubles https://hackernoon.com/building-your-own-bitcoin-satellite-n... for linux capable people.
2019 - 250 != 1630
Yes, it's definitely sarcasm.
No one is as far as i am aware
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Depends on your priors for the parameters in the Drake equation.
What realtors are you using that only charge 1.5%? It was 3% each to the seller's and buyer's agent last time I moved.

They do end up not being too rich on an annual pay basis where I live because the number of realtors actively working adjusts to the volume and pricing.
> "Part of the problem is that most realtors want it that way."

absolutely. the cartel doesn't help the top 2% of agents, because they're good enough to earn the 6% (or higher) anyway, but the monopoly works because the overwhelming majority of interested stakeholders benefit.

(that's not to imply that most agents are lazy though. a stat i dimly recall is that only about 10% of agents make enough to be full time.)
x.ai isn't SV. ;) It's NYC.
Was going to post the same link. He was an extremely smart guy. RIP Jack.
> Taxes may not be meant to be a punishment, but they are certainly presented as such in certain cases.

> "Those one-percenters make too much; make them pay their fair share!" "Smoking is bad; raise taxes on tobacco products"

That first pseudoquote is not presenting taxes as a punishment. It's presenting them as a fulfillment of social responsibility to "pay a fair share." The second one is presenting them as a disincentive for a harmful behavior.
Thanks for the feedback. The post only answers "Do we have a good safety net to change this legacy code?".
Mutation testing is not a new concept. It's usually used in critical systems: the system is mutated and you measure the time for detecting the mutation and the time for solving the problem.
the #1 illegal immigrant in the USA is Canadians

I don't think this is true. Or maybe I'm misinterpreting you? The quick searches I just did suggest that about half the illegal immigrants living in America are from Mexico. Here's an example: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2018/11/27/u-s-unauthorized-immig...
It says that there are about 11 million "unauthorized" immigrants living in the US: 5.5 million from Mexico, 2.5 million from Central and South America, and only 500,000 (combined but not distinguished) from Europe and Canada.
Is it just me or does it resemble a swastika?
In SV, million dollar house is a low end now...
An average of 3 months to sell a single $1M house in the Bay Area? $60k sounds like it would translate to a pretty good hourly rate.
I do all the time!

Mostly clothing...things I didn't even think did existed
This post shows exactly what I mean: editing Lisp with a good editor is nice, however when you're bootstrapping a system sometimes the only tool available is vi (no even vim, just vi).

Try to find a close parenthesis after 8 function calls without syntax highlighting, or without your "hide parenthesis".

Nix syntax is quite simple to read even without any editor support. I did the whole bootstrapping of my current NixOS system only using vim without special support for Nix language and still got it right in my first try.
I agree with you, sadly it seems that most that do ban IPs tend to do it permanently and without a good reason (I do not think that banning all the IPs of all dedicated servers and tor nodes in the world has a good reason)
I'm happy to share the reasons:

- with Meteor, I have all my services (front end, back-end, etc) in one place, running on one dyno, with automatic deploy via GitHub

- my Meteor set up has stylus, minification, etc, configured

- I have libraries for routing, state management, and etc handily available

Ultimately, it's a choice based on personal productivity and convenience. The whole project took me a couple of days, whereas with the JS ecosystem, I'd probably have to spend that time configuring tools.
The detectors are heavily, heavily optimized based on the properties of the beam, and they are not that expensive compared to the cost of the accelerator, operations, and data analysis.
That's not convenient when you're putting things into the box piecemeal, especially with `git add -p`. A thing I do frequently is to run `git diff`, scan through it, and add files (or parts of files) one by one in a second terminal. Then I do a final review of the staging area (with `git diff --cached`) to make sure it only has the changes I want and commit. I'm the sole devops engineer at my company and my workflow is a bit more scattered than a typical developer's.

Anyway, `git commit file1 file2` by itself is most of the way to being the put-close-box function you want; it just doesn't work for adding/deleting files from the repo. Seems like they could make a lot of people happy by closing that gap and letting `git add` be an intermediate-level feature.
Even if we ignore the expenses, that's only $100k/yr in an area where $117k/yr is below poverty line for 4 person family.
I've forgone the home inspection during the most recent transaction. In the previous few houses, I've found things immediately after the sale, which the home inspector didn't find. OTOH, they find tons of trivial things that frequently don't matter (or are just plain wrong).

And of course, while they might be able to tell you if they find termites, or foundation problems, they aren't actually doing a deep analysis, so they will themselves tell you to get an engineer or termite inspector if your concerned about those things. AC/mechanical problems are in the same boat. The inspector will tell you something like "the AC is 15 years old, but has a 15 degree drop" (something you can discover yourself in 30 seconds with a picture of the nameplate) and a thermometer. Actually measuring the subcool/superheat, no way. The latter will actually give you a good idea about the state of the machine.

Making the seller pay for a home guarantee for the first year is probably a far more effective way to spend money. Although again, don't use them until you know whats going on. Your AC gets warm, they are just as likely to send a guy that looks the other way, pumps a 1/2 lb in the system and kicks the problem down the road a few months.
The 3 fund portfolio is better, which also includes international stocks and bonds. https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio#Vanguar...
If I'm understanding correctly, the basic principle doesn't work for an online service - any sensible buyer registers to look at houses in someone else's name, then takes the 2% discount on the "first" house they look at in their own name. Even if you stopped this on your own platform, other means of looking at houses exist.

Plus I hate to think what would be wrong with a house or its starting price for vendors to offer a 2% discount (that's ~2% of their net worth for a lot of homeowners) for people not to consider any alternatives.
I'm getting a 503 :(
Not a good measure, because so many are reduced to service industries. Factory automation has been a headlong rush to automation for decades.

We're down 5M factory jobs since 2000, to something like 13M. And the rest are slated to go as automation becomes cheaper. When factories 'come back' from overseas, its only because now automation is even cheaper than foreign labor.
Not sure whether your statement is ignorant or insightful.

Yes, once electric cars (with superior traction and brake control) take over automatic gearboxes (actually electrics don't even have gearboxes) will be the norm, but as long as there are engines driven on dinosaur fuel there will be a need for manual gearboxes. Which is why you should learn how to drive one. Once you're able to do that, driving an automatic is trivial, which was the point I was trying to illustrate.
Having already read multiple articles about Oumuamua, the only thing this particular article added to my knowledge is that Isaac Chotiner is not a particularly good interviewer.
Usually they do; specifically the MLS has a listing type for before the house is on the market that only agents can see.
I am stunned that this is legal in the US. It would surprise me if this is legal in most countries in western Europe. Anyone?
That's quite a reaction you're having here.
I find it pretty amazing that I can take my phone overseas, and someone in a third country could send me an SMS and it will find my phone in a matter of seconds.
No why would it its mirroring the way investment trusts /investment companies work in the UK and where set up in the 19th century to allow small investors to invest.
Them being crap on purpose was also speculated on in my company's general as well. They're so generic now
So many adjectives, so few facts.
Except I didn't do anything like that. Show me where I claimed to give an exhaustive list of what motivates people to use Linux. I gave one reason why some people use Linux. That I thought might motivate the author of the project. Besides that, it's a friggin issue on github, not an essay on why people use Linux. Get over yourself.
Haha, similar. I was shopping around for a Sony mirrorless camera a year ago. Ended up with the model I actually had in mind in the first place (A7S2 for its supreme low light capability), but shit am I hounded on the Internet either for Sony cameras or accessories. And there's no way I know of to get rid of it! And for what its worth even Facebook and Instagram (at least the latter, I only use on my tablet in the app!) showed me camera ads.

This is annoying and, when one thinks about the implication that everyone and their dog knows who you are, scary.
No, but it's bad enough that the US wants to extricate itself from the situation.

The tip of the spear only causes a small wound.
Agreed; just to be clear, when I've had this happen to me it's showing an ad e.g. for the exact same model coffee grinder from the exact same store that I already bought one from. Clearly no intelligence involved there.
Better than $15/h minimum in some cities, but definitely not 'extremely overpaid'. Note the 60k is for a year, not a single house.
With this quick hack I drained my bank account! I set up an Instagram bot to browser for 30 minutes a day. It had a 2% chance to click any of the ads I saw. This aggregated URLs of products I wanted. To simulate bad late night purchase I set a Chrome headless instance to crawl these page at 11pm each night. This had all my form-saved information. To model drop off from bad UI, it would recursively auto fill the forms and try to proceed through the purchase, this gave me about a 70% drop off rate once in the checkout process.

(Just to be clear I didn't actually do any of this.)
Where is your 4 homes per year stat coming from? It's extremely low.
That is so not true. Like, nothing you said is true.You literally have zero idea of what you are saying.The reason not to use Qt for cross platform work is you don't know what your doing. Pretty much it.
> France has oil trade deals with African countries and China.

99% sure that is an impossibility but willing to take a look at any refs/articles you could link?

> Switzerland has trade deals that explicitly exclude certain EU member states

Similarly, pretty sure this is an impossibility. Any trade agreements are with and available to (all members of) the EU under the same set of conditions or they're not and they(Switzerland) would then trade under WTO rules.
Full-width layout with more columns is great, I appreciate less wasted space.
I agreed with your conclusion but not your methodology nor terms nor those of the person you were responding to.
Having had the extreme pleasure, and honor to work with Mr. Bogle I am truly saddened by his passing. He was selfless to a fault, a great man.
The Chicagoland metro makes up 75% of Illinois' population. Illinois would just be a corn colony without Chicago. But I will agree with you that Illinois is, politically speaking, a mismanaged dumpster fire and has been for decades in large part due to the Chicago-style patronage system.
and yet folks are studying UBI already by supplying individuals with a basic income and measuring their behavior. Including YC.

You can't of course study the impact on the economy, but you can surely understand how people change with the UBI.
I think in such case AWS would be implementing Spanner/F1 directly using Postgres protocol and I'm sure that like Google Spanner itself, it won't be cheap.

For the rest of us we can start using CockroachDB from day zero hoping to get big enough to someday need Enterprise features.
> To me, part of the difference is that the risk/chance involved (life) is not intrinsic to the transaction - it is more or less known what your returns will be, and under what conditions.

It is? I'm pretty sure health care pricing is far more opaque than slot machine payout amounts (the opaqueness of payout rates varies by state).

You have increased the downside of not having large hospital bills. You are taking on risk, but the idea is that the small risk reduces the variance in your outcomes. See the other reply thread where I am trying to understand why reducing variance in one situation is gambling but doing it in another is not.

> if what you posit is true, is the peace of mind one gains from having insurance akin to gambling addiction?

I would say akin, but obviously not the same. In both cases you have made wager that you can be usually pretty certain has a negative expected value and the motivation for this wager is to acquire a positive/pleasant state of mind.
I hope they build that statue.
The meaning of the word can remain the same, but the way something has the property of said word can vary drastically. As a thought experiment:

Dangerous things should be banned.

Riding your bike without a helmet is dangerous.

Doing cocaine is dangerous.

Driving a car is dangerous.

Ergo, those three items listed above should be banned.

Are all of these actions equally dangerous? The answer almost everyone would give is no. That's where the bias enters into play. The definition of the word hasn't changed at all throughout.
Both you and that article are misleading and completely ignore the very next sentence where it calls them "essential". They were ultimately saying the real problem is immigration law.
Those are all rather localized and minor events that still can and do devastate whole countries for a long time. Now take them all (except earthquakes, maybe add social issues like war) and start gradually increasing frequency. Do you expect there to be a breaking point? What do you expect to happen when least lucky countries collapse and add refugee pressure on neighbors. Is there a threshold where dominoes start to fall?
While the inspector recommended by your agent might be fine, there is an implied incentive/bias for the inspector to help close the sale;

The recommending agent is a marketing arm for the inspector; if the wrong deal falls apart because of the inspection, the inspector knows the agent isn't going to get their commission, whether or not that means they'll recommend them with as much fervor the next time can be largely dependent on how badly the agent needed the money that time.

But, by hiring without an agent referral; the inspector has no incentive to approve a house that shouldn't be approved; you're not going to be the new marketing arm. Indeed, absent a relationship with an agent, the inspector has an interest in inspecting as many properties for you as possible, and therefore finding as many deal breakers as possible.
I don't think UK investors in the 19th century were buying index funds where they owned a tiny piece of every company in the market. The current situation is quite a bit different.
Maybe slightly off topic but I don't get what the point of Uber driver reviews/star ratings are.

The passenger can't pick what driver they get, so who are those reviews helping?

I have a worrying suspicion that it's only so Uber can put pressure on drivers in some way.
As an Illinois resident, I had a different experience dealing with I-Pass issues. Apparently my card on file expired, so they couldn't refill my account. By the time I realized a week or so after noticing that I was getting the yellow light and not blue, I updated the card, paid the outstanding tolls. A month later, I get a fine notice for like $500. I called customer service. Took about 90 minutes on hold, but once I got a hold of someone, the gal was very pleasant, took a look at my account, said something along the lines of "Your accounts in good standing, I'll cancel the fines." Never heard another peep about it. Also one of the few times I asked to speak with her manager to let the manager how happy I was with the service (rare for a government employee).
^ This! Also, the most valuable part of investing is asset allocation, i.e. how you split your money up between stocks and bonds (and optionally real estate). Take your age, and put that percentage of your money into bonds (if you're 30, put 30% of your money in bonds). Bonds are safer and you want to conserve your money as you age. Make sure the bond maturity dates aren't later than you're going to need them. Reallocate your assets every 18 months so that your diversification continues to match your age. Read fund prospectuses to learn about the fees and expenses they incur -- this is boring, but the lower the fees and expenses the better your portfolio will perform.
It is an approximate number I have heard myself from agents directly.
The phrase "optimize for iteration" feels like something you do when you don't know what you're doing. They say experienced developers spend most of their time thinking, vs. writing code, and so with inexperience you don't have the tools to eliminate iterations in your head.
1) It's not entirely obvious; I had to search for it.

2) It's literally a different pattern than the Nazi swastika. The shorter portions break right in the Nazi symbol, left in this image.
I had a host make the same claims. When my SO's siblings stopped by for coffee I got a text within 5 minutes demanding they leave.

There needs to be some reasonableness to this. And consistency.

I wrote them an insanely negative review. I also unplugged their router, because fuck them.