skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine a house that was purchased at 10% downpayment. A 2x (+100%) house value appreciation gives you a 11x (+1000%) return on that 10% downpayment.

A 2x appreciation is probably something 95+% of houses will never get to in a decent amount of time. As a benchmark, the S&P 500 tends to double every 10 years after adjusting for inflation. Not many houses do that. Yes, there are always markets where this happens, but it's not the norm and is pretty much a speculation game like stocks are.

Of course, taking leverage into account you don't need it to appreciate 2x. With a 10% downpayment you just need it to appreciate about 9-10% to double your investment (probably more than 10% to make up for all the fees you'll pay).

And don't forget to subtract all the interest payments you made while you wait for it to appreciate. Factor that in your ROI.

Most of the gains in real estate these days is finding crappy houses that you cannot get a bank loan for. So you buy it at a big discount if you have the funds, or you get a private loan at high interest. Spend 3-6 months bringing the house up to code and then refinance to rent or sell (i.e. flip).
There are a few presidential candidates that are for it, including mushrooms:

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/decriminalizeopioids/
>In what way is it unethical? No harm is done to anyone.

I'm not sure what to say to you if you can't see it. No harm is done? Maybe you only imagine physical or financial harm. These aren't meaningless numbers in a vacuum; likes/followers are taken by people to indicate social importance or approval, they show how other people in the world feel and think about things (comments, pages, issues, opinions). A large part of the public sphere is in this form nowadays. Faking likes/followers/comments is deliberately misrepresenting yourself, fraudulent deception - lying.

Seems to me your argument would apply to faking or buying votes in an election, or TV ratings, or referendums or..faking corporation profits, buying fake stories in news media, or anything in the world where the numbers are diddled. "In what way is it unethical? No harm is done to anyone. There's this system with side effects. Finding a way around the rules does not make it unethical."

Imagine if voting and ranking on HN stories and comments was entirely determined by bought upvotes, downvotes, flagging, abuse reports etc. The site would be destroyed. And if the same thing happened on every forum of any kind online? "No harm done?"
Ask HN: What were the best science fiction books that you read in 2019?
My point is they didn't call it out in the headline or write an article focusing on the failure.
I think the parent commenter is pointing out that the descending aircraft could (and arguably should) have refused the descent clearance on noticing that it would lower them into FL290 traffic that they could see via ADS-B display in the cockpit, long before TCAS fired.
If you can cover 90% of citizens with an estimate and a list of predictable circumstance checkboxes that can be phoned in for a new estimate, would that be sufficient to make it viable?

(Or, if you’re being sarcastic, please indicate so more clearly.)
Simon’s Win32 Cheat Sheet (2016)
It is pretty common to induce flowering of plants with gibberellin, for example cannabis.
cruising around work and checking people's setups...

The overwhelming majority do nothing. Many folks do everything on their laptop (not possible to be ergonomic) and most desktops lack any sort of ergonomic planning (monitors off center, no wrist rests, etc)

There's a lot of low hanging fruit out there.
> simplicity is in the eye of the beholder

My example of this is git. I find it very complex, but it's clever, and very useful.
At the aggregate level, every trade deficit is a capital inflow. IMO, talking about this in terms of capital flows is far more illuminating - over the last few decades, massive amounts of money has flowed into the US, primarily seeking the perceived safety of the dollar. The narrowing of the deficit is pretty worrying to me, since the privileged position brings a ton of benefits to the US.
Selfies with Strangers
Maybe run on a platform of banning coal exports, or vote for someone running on that platform.

Good luck!
> If your argument is novel or unfamiliar

... you probably are a genius!

Students usually talk about things they don't know, understand or can relate to (yet).

Or, as Alan Kay put it

> Socrates didn't charge for "education" because when you are in business, the "customer starts to become right". Whereas in education, the customer is generally "not right"
Ask HN: What's Next After “Email”
Yeah e-mail makes sense as some sort of digital folder that tracks messages, but what's the next step?
>...collaboration with the industry to develop a camera stack... protecting vendor core IP.

Can't say I have any interest in protecting "vendor IP" in their crappy camera drivers. Let vendors open their blobs! Closed source camera drivers will just reduce quality and increase bugginess.
kudos to OP! AI & ML are also on my list for 2020!!

> All of the theory and such is mostly worthless, its too much to learn from scratch and you will probably use very little of it.

i, too, believe in code before theory. but not for stats, artificial intelligence, or machine learning, numerical computing, etc. why?

because, for instance, if you compare a popular & successful machine learning framework to a "build your own deep neural network in 150 lines of python", the difference as far as data structures or programming constructs choices will be staggering.

especially if you are an experienced programmer. or just someone who cares about the data structures and programming constructs in the first place. but these choices are not accidental!

you will find that "parameters" are represented by a "class", ie. objects with associated operations and not values. why? because you want to do things like accumulate contributions to derivatives, and all these other calculus things i thought i was never going to ever use.

theory is important for people who truly care!
Very true. For me, it is the feeling of 100 small 2-minute things. I find myself looking how to get out of as many as possible.
Show HN: The Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor, and the Gas Flare Tracker
This is why the whole “man-splaining” thing is weird to me. As a male, I’ve always appreciated people telling me things or explaining things to me, because they at least cared enough to take the time.

Similarly I once watched a woman at work struggle opening a jar. She congratulated me for not offering to do it for her. When in fact I felt like a jerk in that moment for watching her struggle. There’s an odd difference of perspective here I don’t fully understand.
Nice article, but I’d point out that “the maybe catamorphism” is fundamentally just an if statement in disguise. You could, if you were feeling particularly extra, use the Foldable instance...
Ok, this makes me feel like maybe he had intention and thought behind this. I can honestly align with that thinking if he was doing it for this reason. It seems like the world only works with subterfuge, sadly. Is it impossible to be honest about what you want to do and move people in that direction, or is it only possible to motivate change by lying to people.

I don't love Grover Norquist, but I thought it was interesting/open-minded of him to see Burning Man for himself. And, I align with the idea of reducing taxes. So, this makes me feel like he was not just a useful idiot if he actually did it for this reason.

But, still, what a cost to bear. And, does the long term goal of reducing taxation by causing people to hate the IRS get him any closer to actually reducing taxes and/or getting rid of the IRS? Obviously, that did not happen.
That's why your local storage is the single source of truth, and anything you put "on the internet" is just a copy of something from there. I mean that's how you did things riiiight?

No biggie if not. As someone said elsewhere in the thread, most of that stuff is clutter and probably best forgotten anyway. But if it's something you want to keep, and the only place it exists is someone else's site/computer/database, then yeah, it's not a bad idea to start thinking of it as being gone soon, or even gone already. (Unless you WANT it to go away; in that case you should apply Murphy's Law and think of it as uncontrollably hanging around forever.)

Growing up with computers and the internet and not knowing how they truly work is maybe the central problem here. Did you "post a picture on Instagram" or did you create an image file, upload it via an app or browser, pass it across the network, to a server somewhere, where it's getting stored in a database, to be retrieved and displayed later? Seems like if you understand how it really works, you automatically start thinking about better practices. I dunno.
Thank you! I was wondering how these work around the poles!
I would again argue, the natural progression for this concept would be:

1.) Trains classifier
2.) My train error was so low! Why is my validation error so high
2.) Googles -> Why is my classifier training error lower than my validation error
3.) Learns about overfitting
4.) learns about bias variance

Its always a natural progression. Reading about this stuff without encountering it means it usually doesnt stick, and really doesnt make that much sense.
Esports Industry Predictions for 2020
Well, with impaction causing deformation of the remaining bones, risk of infection etc I think I will wait until we can reprogram stem cells to make cartilage
You're right that I am not a c&d regular, but I do have respect for them. I lumped them in with other publications that like to write sensationalized articles about Tesla. I'm still not 100% confident that they'd write an article if they had a similar failure in a mundane vehicle.
GP has a habit of exaggerating claims that have some basis in fact when looked at through your eyelashes but that fall apart on closer inspection:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21899843

I don't think this will be any different.
Good time to have this but how is this different from services like Postable? We just used it to mail out 100 postcards for the holidays.
You do, and it is also //e

I did the ebook for fun. Had a space opera that I was chipping away at. The experience was nice. Just fire it up, settle in, read.
Yeah, I don't buy Norquist's theory. Making taxes easier doesn't make them any more palatable. Probably the opposite because people would have a better understanding of how much they're paying. Right now, a lot of people mindlessly fill in their needlessly complex forms, and pray they get a refund or don't owe more than $20 or so (because that's all they have in their wallet).
First chip-to-chip quantum teleportation using silicon photonic chip fabrication
In my opinion this is mostly a telco problem. They are the provider of phone calls and infrastructure and should own this for their customers.
A close friend of mine who suffered from a severe autoimmune disorder was unable to receive proper care from literally dozens of different doctors over the course of fifteen years of suffering. No experts could provide a useful diagnosis or safe drugs to treat symptoms. It was either tramadol and other potent narcotics or immunosuppressants, which have severe side effects.

Kratom was one of the only medicines that allowed him to function and it was getting more difficult to reliably source due to regulatory pressure.

He died abruptly 3 months ago due to rapidly progressing infection secondary to immunosuppressant / chemotherapy drugs prescribed to help him control symptoms.

He was 34.

Pay attention to the FDA's leadership. It's a revolving door with industry. Access to safe, effective medicine is not the FDA's goal in practice.

I'm torn between the need for effective regulation and the often dysfunctional real-world implementation of those controls.

Culturally, scientifically sanctioned pharmaceuticals are usually the only option provided to patients who are left to either seek alternative therapies or become dependent on treatments that often do not improve their well-being. "Non-traditional" medicine is often demonized as anti-science and lumped together with nonsense like homeopathy despite long successful histories in folk medicine.

This is unfortunate, because I believe that by treating medicines outside the mainstream -- medicines that are widely accessible, sometimes illegal, but primarily are not commercially viable (and thus are excluded from much scientific research) -- as akin to snake-oil means that a large and growing body of people are susceptible to things like anti-vaccination silliness. "Correct think" -- a culture of fetishism of scientific expertise that isn't actually scientifically motivated -- is responsible, in my opinion, for reactionary movements that are harmful to everyone. We live an an age of a narrow definition of scientific and off-load our critical thinking to experts who, in the best case, do not have the resources or data to look beyond the recommendations they learn in medical school, or in the worst case, produce phony medical trial results that exaggerate benefits and overlook harm. I would call it scientific myopia, but it's a cultural illness and not a problem particular to science.

It's possible to approach non-mainstream medicine rationally and not be casting bones in search of omens. But not according to our current cultural outlook.
Have you looked in a Windows user's home directory?
That's why Google is alphabet now. So they can absorb and develop different liabilities at once.

Android isn't broken because Google doesn't care. It's broken because the team is fatigued. They reached their max potential. It will take a new team with new ideas for significant iteration. You can't add a junior dev to the android team and expect massive improvements anymore.

That being said, there isn't a lot of low hanging fruit left in android. But the cafeteria, I'm sure, has a long way to go and a lot that could be reduced.

IF the costs continue to rise, that is.
Always seemed insane to me that pharmaceutical drugs based on Marijuana are bad but drugs that share a base with heroin are okay.
It appears that "Supremacy" isn't going away ;)

Overall, a very enjoyable read. As long as we are speculating on the limits of bio-based computatbility, The same physical constraints governing inanimate systems would of course apply to biochemical reactive systems.

What biologic does buy you is reproduction. An proclivity to seed machines over a wide geographic or cosmic area that is self-propelling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_computation
I'm utterly confused. Why is your reply so combative? I just read the Wikipedia entry on Eloi and Morlocks and I don't even see how you could pick apart OP's on this item. Consider this odd line:

> The Eloi are herded, bred and maintained by the Morlocks as a food source, much like cows or pigs are today.

Right. I've got no dog in the ol' Eloi vs. Morlocks debate, but let me apologize, I do not want to appear as an Eloi sympathizer in you presence -- or even risk taking any creative analogy (for one even I am glad to have made aware of, as my reading list ever grows), lest you accuse my tone against a fictional race as you are surely itching to -- as demonstrated prior.

Nonsense aside.

> I'm certain that practically no one who uses Facebook is actually unaware that the rest of the web exists.

Well if we're exchange common things bandied about on HN... Let's take a glaring example here. The above is an opinion presented with uttermost confidence about groups of users and their knowledge -- all in the presence of zero evidence. Hah, take that! Wait, how many does it take to tango?

It is a personal anecdote and long held opinion of mine that although the ease of access towards the internet, and therefore availability of, has increased, the technical chops of the general population may not be spread equally -- perhaps the unfairest of this is on the age variable with retired seniors not being able to get around much without help. I have helped old people with this matter, so I experience this sometimes. Perhaps I agree with OP on this, that they don't know the web really exists, and it's all a Cumulus cloud to them and I'm the wizard handles those unknowns for them. And I can take a step back and say, its alright that not a lot of people know https vs. http, or yada yada and perhaps on that point I differ from some opinions on HN, but I don't think you understand how oblivious people can be to the internet. I fear you will accuse my tone of condescension towards "retired seniors" and must now stop lest I dig myself any further. It was all fun and games with the fictional humans...
Bottled water is tap water.

https://clark.com/deals-money-saving-advice/pepsi-aquafina-t...
Single family detached homes require wealth, and are an easy way to discriminate between those with well heeled families and those without. This results in school districts where children in the well heeled suburbs have greater chances of “success” than those in urban neighborhoods.

Even if one doesn’t desire the actual quality of life of less dense areas, they rarely want to sacrifice the chances of their children’s future. See what is happening with NYC public education currently. Hence, the zoning requirements against high density housing is to keep certain socioeconomic classes of people out, especially as it would allow their children into the school system.
Excellent news, and congrats to Propublica for in no small part making it happen.

This wasn't just a shady operation -- Turbotax openly lied to customers about its free file program, it deliberately suppressed the program from search results, it lied to veterans. It was 100% acting in bad faith during negotiations with the IRS.

Sometimes topics like this end up becoming kind of ideological or partisan; but in this case I feel like Intuit is just very objectively in the wrong, and that the IRS agreement for the free file program very objectively just was not working. I myself contacted Turbotax about their free edition and got personally lied to about the differences between the programs.[0]

> In this call, I was told that the form availability between the Free File and Free edition were the same, and I wouldn't be eligible for either. To check this, I created a second account and added the same forms to the Free File program. I was never charged or told that I was ineligible. All of the forms were added successfully.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piuv7KH37D4
Another problem with the DMCA is that AFAIK, to file a counter notice, you must submit to the jurisdiction of USA courts. For instance, if Bob submits a DMCA takedown notice, and Alice successfully files a DMCA counter-notice, everything is back to how it was before the takedown, except that Alice is now under the jurisdiction of a USA court. That is, either Alice has to accept the takedown, or she has to accept to submit to a foreign country's jurisdiction, even if the original DMCA takedown notice was invalid.
It doesn't feel that natural. I think we should stop resorting to human nature when something fits our mood. Violence is natural but we try to stifle it because it haa few benefits. Greed should be the same. I don't think our current worship of money is healthy for the future - if you believe what they say about climate change atleast.
Vaping risk compared to smoking: challenging a false and dangerous claim
Actually I just tried to tease out a definition from the investopedia article, which I was mislead reading the sales tax example which has a fixed amount (the price of some taxable goods) which holds no sliding scale based on income. The regression appears to be strictly around the idea of burden to the individual and how much disposable income they get left with.

Looking at the wikipedia article they claim that flat tax lies between a regressive and progressive tax.

> The opposite of a regressive tax is a progressive tax, in which the average tax rate increases as the amount subject to taxation rises. In between is a flat or proportional tax, where the tax rate is fixed as the amount subject to taxation increases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regressive_tax

Where in my statement does the assumption of equal income mobility pop up?

Another hit mentions a proportional tax as a middle ground between regressive and progressive gradients. The central point is how things are treated relative to income.
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-are-dif...
Citizens do demand it, but the US does not have a government that is in any way responsive to the demands of the general citizenry.
Please don’t use code blocks for quotes, they’re impossible to read on mobile.
I’m sure for a large percentage of Americans like myself the “$XXX” that they saved you is just the standard deduction. Maybe at some point in my life an itemized deduction will actually save me more money, but every time I have filed taxes TurboTax looks at my info and decides that the standard deduction is the best I’m going to get. So for some percentage of Americans TurboTax won’t be able to compete because they can’t save you more than the IRS already did with its deductions.
For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NDqZy4deDI

Transmitting text from ATC would also be able to have checksums which are then played by an automated voice. Pilots would become accustomed to the automated voice, as opposed to varying accents

Regardless, if you think "I have no idea how major accidents don't happen every week" then it's likely because you don't recognize how much what you're referencing is an outlier, or you're disregarding what else mitigates issues
Ah, yes. I meant a different model. RH does support as in backporting required patches and generally making things not stop.

What I thought was implied by a fork was more of a consultancy / paid support like https://railslts.com/
> It's broken because the team is fatigued. They reached their max potential. It will take a new team with new ideas for significant iteration. You can't add a junior dev to the android team and expect massive improvements anymore.

Hm, but I thought that today technology can solve any problem so long as we gave it the right amount of funding? Including human resources problems?

> IF the costs continue to rise, that is.

As pointed out elsewhere in this discussion, a megacorp with Alphabet's net income can surely swallow the cost. They have bigger things to fund.
A fantastic feature - I've used it regularly in the past to load large log files into the database with incredible performance.
Quick Tip! Sharing Terminal Output with Termbin
>For razors, double-edge safety razors are an option, but a bit tricky to learn to shave with.

Beyond reducing your plastic footprint, this method of shaving is substantially cheaper - albeit with some upfront costs. I switched years ago, and paid about $150 for a nice weighted blade handle, brush, and soap dish and now I spend maybe $60 a year on new razors and soap. The one draw back I can think of, aside from the fact that you have to learn how to shave like your grandfather (which isn't really a drawback, if you ask me) is that you can't bring these razors through airport security in your carry-on.
Is this aimed for smartphones or for real cameras? I mean, the Sony Alpha series do run Linux, even with an (ancient) Android runtime...
Surely you are better off simply running PostgreSQL locally, loading it into a couple of tables, and running a simple query?
This way to name things give me the impression that science is not any more about advancing knowledge but about to find the most grandiloquent way to speak about your work. All this "quantum supremacy" and now "cellular supremacy" seems really disturbing.

As they propose the term in this article, I hope that someone will found a better name. It's an interesting subject and it deserve a better name.
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Your brain consumes about 40 watts and you wrote that sentence.