skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. What if I purchase a home, to live in. Then I take a job overseas and move for 2-3 years. Must I sell the house rather than rent it out on a short term basis?
pystatx is now on PyPI
Check my previous post on pystatx: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26624564

Repo: https://github.com/ckarageorgkaneen/pystatx
Better than the best. I need more english classes to bring myself up to date.
Cum is sticky regardless of culture, and can be used to hold things together, and make things stick. Furthermore, it is more often at arm's reach than duct tape.
https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Chekhov_Gun
I use GnuCash. For card transactions I simply import my bank statement .csv file every other week or so. For cash transaction, I use the app on my phone, otherwise I just forget how much I spent and where, by the time I get to my PC.
Am I on reddit right now?
It’s a nice theory but it would involve tossing people out of their homes because they can’t afford the tax. If you make an exception for them, then the entire system is defunct because it’ll just be a web of exceptions that just create a “housing elite” that is exempt from the rules.

The easier thing is just make is easier to build more housing, denser if needed, to fulfill demand.
I am not sure, I think it is an almost acceptable introduction for the layman to the divergence between deterministic, classic AI and in-focus, out of ANN functions AI. It gives the reader a notion that the divergent paths exist - but not much further structured historic or divulgative context. Interesting and informative notions, e.g. the existence of fuzzy logic based systems, or artificial vision as tending to rely on textures instead of shapes, or the problem of transparency, are hinted without leaving the reader with more understanding. Real problems and historic achievements look as if a current matter born out of contemporary industrial issues. For example:

«How to give AI at least some semblance of that understanding - the reasoning ability of a seven-month-old child, perhaps - is now a matter of active research».

Err... «Now»?! No, that has been an explicit topic. Expert systems come to mind as one of the most explicit efforts to tackle it. And they are mentioned, at 60% - as a reference that the layman cannot decode! And an example of how the article makes academic matters seem like strategies promoted by industrial agents.

The Economist has better material. I now also have the doubt if on average it does stand without crutches - without the reader having to put it back into an historic framework of reality -, though.
You could have been a teenager when the Wright brothers first flew, and 80 during the moon landing.
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(1/H * c) = (1/α * ke^2 / (electron mass * c^2)) *
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This makes me wonder. It occurs once in a while that a student (although in this case a particular bright mind) solves a complicated problem where experienced researchers haven't.

One well known example that comes to mind is the famous George Dantzig case (he mistook 2 open statistics problems for an assignment, and promptly solved them).

Also in this case Tang apparently was hesitating to approach his his mentor Aaronson about this. And Aaronson also wanted additional scrutiny like presenting to limited audience before publication.

Why is it ? Are people just smarter when they are young ? Or is it fear of failure ? Or prejudice - it's unsolvable ?

I remember myself in college, cryptology class, where a fellow student invented a shortcut for some calculations. Back then, we didn't know whether it was a known formula or not, or even whether it was correct; we searched but couldn't find it mentioned anywhere. He never dared to tell the prof, but most of us actually used it successfully during our exams to assist and validate our calculations.
I live in rural Ireland and I remember a family friend came back from the US and gave us a shareware CD-ROM with 1000 DOS games on it. This was the mid 90s before we had internet. We had just fitted a sound blaster card and a CD-Rom, I filled my dad’s 386 hard disk with them, it absolutely blew my mind. Shareware versions of Wolfenstein, Doom, Jetpack, all the Apogee games, all the classics.
> even with HTB which is a terrible policy the people who can afford to buy are already in the top percentiles

What a load of rubbish. HTB really helped us when buying by giving 5 years of interest free

We bought a 240k house with a 12k deposit and 48k htb. Moving costs etc meant we had to find about £17k, which we borrowed.

Assuming you do that now, HTB means paying £647 a month on the mortgage and £330 a month on repaying the deposit. Total of £977pcm.

After 5 years we sold for 240k with £48k htb and £160k mortgage, leaving us with 32k in equity. We could have remortgaged and repaid the htb at that point for a total outlay of £911pcm (with about £500 in fees)

With two earners on a middle 28k a year that's falls into well into the "affordable" bucket.

Even in London, a 600k house with htb will mean a £30k deposit (a problem) and a £330k mortgage. Two people on 41k each can borrow up to £368k with nationwide which gives an idea about affordability (you'll have to knock some off for things like service charges which are ubiquitious in new houses)

And 41k a year with a coalition loan means you have £30,310.51 per year after student loan, not before. If you still have a labour loan from pre-2012 you'll be paying an extra £600 a year.

All that's assuming a 600k loan. Reality is that help to buy homes aren't that expensive. This is a decent sized 2 bed flat for £375k.

https://www.helptobuyagent2.org.uk//property-search/property...

Personally I think you'd be crazy to live in London when there are far more reasonable places to live just half an hour out of a one 1 station and far far less cost, but it London is affordable for people with two London incomes.

If you're single on minimum wage and wanting to live in central London? Well tough. Move somewhere else. Plenty of choice for houses in Crewe and Stoke, and plenty of minimum wage jobs.
I attended a talk from Digger webcomic author and artist Ursula Vernon, and she seemed to have a different approach. If I remember right, she said that instead of planning the whole thing in advance and placing specific Chekhov’s Guns as needed, she put in a lot of small detailed world building everywhere, allowing her to choose from whatever seemed appropriate at the time.

Chekhov‘s Guns are important for short stories (which is what Chekhov was famous for), but short stories are not the only type of fiction and they don’t fit everywhere.
We _are_ exceptional in quite a few areas. Our communication skills are unmatched anywhere in the animal kingdom and even the best animals fail at anything higher than primary school math. We also constantly see animals failing to adapt to the modern world with things like cars, screens and sometimes even glass.

So I do think it's newsworthy that animals are able to parse complex human action and intent.
I agree, because DRM has potential to outlive copyright law. Sure, many DRMs are broken, but there are many that are not. As the arms race escalates, DRM will become harder and harder to crack (I can think of a few offhand that AFAIK have never been cracked publicly, like the encryption used on cable systems in the US). The people in control of the various DRM systems are not even thinking about future noninfringing use, because they're not even thinking about current fair use in developing these systems. These are largely people who do not think copyright should expire that are driving these anti-public efforts.
The “security” angle is pure BS. This will only help scammers
> it can be summed up in this citation:

And this cartoon:
https://i.redd.it/ifb8agngc7dy.jpg
Sugar rots the tooth from the inside out, so external hygiene is not enough to prevent decay
> doesn't solve any problems for a typical user.

Mentioning "Federation" as a feature will not be very appealing to the average user, indeed. It is more of a technical concept. But there are features that derive from an app being federated.

Ever heard people complain they were suddenly banned for no apparent reason, and have no means to get it fixed? In a federated service you may just go to another instance (and in future migrating / controlling your own content will be easy).

A big centralized platform has a single ToS, and algorithms throw random people from the entire userbase at you. In a federated system you can choose a server with rules / ToS that appeals to you. An individual server is like a community with own culture and topics of interest.

Wanna escape ads, algorithmic driven UI? Choose any federated server (currently fediverse is ad-free). Server adds ads later on? Migrate to one that does not.
Does it matter that you can't change the IMEI? Your IMSI identifies you anyway.
"Banks don’t get to create money." nope, they create debt, which is the same in practice.
Entrepreneur Raised $100M to Bring Peace of Mind to Travelers
>it's all the fault of Brexit driving away the foreign workers who had to do the jobs

Forgive me since I’m American, but wasn’t getting rid of foreigners taking jobs one of the selling points of Brexit?
Octopus. The Primary Research Record
You can consider emotions as a compass. I have found it useful to listen to them, to figure out their cause. We will carry emotions our whole lives, ‘changing’ them doesn’t bring about the insight to actually deal with them. I recommend looking to resources like ‘It’s Not Always Depression’ by Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Not sure about minimum wage. But certainly for regular blue collar labour it was. And I don't see why it should not have been.
> earning an average wage

Average wage in London, not average overall.
> you are part of the top 1% of the globe when it comes to wealth.

So what, what do you want the person to do, go live in a hut?

How is that person greedy compared to people with multiple houses?
Firefox has a config option to not close window with lasttab. I actually find it quite useful. If you're on Chromium based browser, pretty sure there will be something similar
Humans are literally animals.
In a perfect market where there was always enough housing and rental units to supply the demand, rent would just end up settling at the same price as owning. See price vs rent index.
In my own assessment, fiat exchanges are just the tip of the crypto iceberg.

None of the cozy corporate firms want to go near privacy coins, to name one example. They know that those don't fit into the plan, so they're ignored. But so long as you can exit their exchange, there's a path towards trading them - and therefore a problem for regulators akin to digital media piracy.

Bitcoin never set out with the goal of being the currency that literally everyone uses - it had in mind the cypherpunk framing of being underground by default. So it's just totally unsurprising that upon its adoption by the existing power structure, alternatives would pop up. That's not a failing, just a step towards an arms race.
> To chit-chat and connect. To reintroduce small talk into my life.

I get the need for this. I had been living pretty solitary and hadn't worked in an office for a little over a year when I went back to working part-time in an office and those first few days were a shock to my system.

That first lunch together with 5 people in the break room felt really weird and it was hard to even keep up with the conversation.

In the afternoons I was completely spent, my brain was fried. Sometimes to the point where I did not even realize what is was talking about anymore and I frequently lost my train of thought. Blanking out in the middle of a sentence.

So for what it's worth taking advice from random strangers on the internet: take things slow when reintroducing social things in your life. Give yourself time to adapt. Ease into it and listen to your body and brain signals.

Of course YMMV. In my case it was not only covid lockdowns, I was also struggling with burnout and a recent autism/ADHD diagnosis which probably affected my social skill decline as well.
In 2007 a photo album came to light of guards at Auschwitz relaxing at a resort not far from a death camp, with gas chambers and ovens and such, the details of which they were well aware. In the photos they can be seen laughing, smiling, making funny faces, singing and joking about running out of blueberries. Historians asked; how could these people be so callous? How could they disconnect and compartmentalize like that? What went wrong with that generation? Why didn’t they care?

Now today we know certain things to be true. If Apple, the world’s largest company, deploys this scanning technology on a billion handsets then many offenders will be caught and they will go to jail, and as a consequence a large number of children will be spared the type of abuse that totally destroys lives. Those victims lose everything.

I’d wager that for the majority of people on this forum, if they witnessed an adult sexually assault a child in person then they would intervene. Even if considerable risk was involved. There’s plenty of reward in saving a helpless child. But take that reward away, without the incentive, different colors show.

Do you care so little about the wellbeing of children you’d let child rapists walk free around the community rather than let a company scan your cellphone for contraband?

Perhaps we need to think less about how much we trust the government we elected or fear the potential negative future consequences of technology, and think more about being remembered as a human being that simply cared for others.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/laughing-at-auschwitz-1942/
How do you take "inflation is extremely high" from that chart?

56% over 20 years is 2.25%ish per year.
I'm using AttennaPod from FDroid store. Assuming that means it might be podcast specific.
It also depends what we call "empty house". Your link doesn't provide a definition. Is a house occupied a few weeks a year considered empty?
I live in social housing (in the UK), and could easily afford to buy or rent non-social... and I was already in that situation when my current tenancy started.

You could say I abuse it, and I agree in principal. However, I'm only abusing it because social housing is scarce. The solution is to build more, and I do my bit by voting for a government that would probably do that.

If they ever decided to make it means tested, and my tenancy was at risk, I would just buy the house.
Isn't this a good thing? The more constructions, the more housing.
> Really, where is this enthusiasm around ML coming from?

Same as most other "enthusiasm" in this industry: HYPE!

Everything from self-driving to machine learning, TypeScript, React, Containers and everything in between is driven by hype, that is usually supported by huge companies investing in marketing to create said hype. Once the ball is rolling, it'll keep on rolling until people realize they got got, then we all move on to something else to hype. Rinse and repeat.
Crypto’s Rapid Move into Banking Elicits Alarm in Washington
Anyone have experience with Apache Kylin? Seemed to me as a way to blend the cube concept with columnar stores.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kylin
Commercial banks create money when lending money.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
We have straight property tax in Cambridge(ma United States). If you live if your unit they’ll reduce the value that is taxed (by about 400000$ Or about $2500)

I’m not sure it’s helped, but it might be worse without it.

https://www.cambridgema.gov/departments/finance/propertytaxi...
It's a bit queasy IMO. I really, really, really disliked it when the animal rights activists in Britain pushed the banks to cancel the accounts of some customers.

But in this case Godaddy had a ToS and the site is in clear violation. IMO most those ToSes and EULAs are dubious, but this particular case isn't. Arguing to restrict what a ToS or EULA can say would be a good thing, but supporting that argument with the poor mistreated texan lynch mob... no. Surely another case will come by with more sympathetic victims.
> Really, where is this enthusiasm around ML coming from

Pioneering, squeezing the potentials out of a technology which has immensities to offer - just not necessarily ready for specific industrial applications. That, the article shows pretty well: a problem - "self driving vehicles" - was proposed and the tehcnology is imperfect for that one specifically.
Market investment, ie. where little new value is added, is gambling dressed up to look respectable. It's all about getting something for nothing which is the root cause of all our economic ills.
Ridiculous how? I don't think you addressed anything in my post. e.g. the notion that simplifying 'VAPA' to 'Arts Department' improves communication, and particularly to certain groups of people who aren't being reached. How is improved communication self-parody? This isn't a law mandating speech, it's an organisation rebranding itself to communicate more clearly what it is.

You do ridicule it by comparing it to use of other acronyms.

I hope you can understand that there's a difference between use of acronyms of an Arts programme of a single school in a local area. These acronyms may be entirely unfamiliar to groups of people that historically have lower-access and that you're trying to reach via communications, and acronyms don't help in this situation, and are also unnecessary.

Versus the use of an acronym that represents about 5-10% of the world population (0.6 billion people), and is used and recognised on a worldwide scale, and is actually one of the major driving forces of communication. Acronyms in this case do help, and actually improve communication. (of course, there is a limit to the logic. And the communities themselves are constantly reevaluating what typology makes most sense, and which acronyms make most sense).
We had housing cooperation's for a century until they were forced by consecutive right wing governments to sell their houses, and thus ruining a system that was well working, except for rich friends of the right wing government to speculate with the housing system, which is taking place now.
If authors kept their copyrights and submitted the articles to the likes of sci-hub themselves, they would enjoy higher citations and virtually everyone would do this and all this would be legal. But now journals are keeping uncountable number of articles as hostage in order to parasitize on publicly funded institutions and universities. Higher education places in Africa and other poor parts of the world that don't have resources are unable to lawfully access the papers, it's not just morally wrong, the current system is throttling the progress of science and harms the research in important subjects.
I actually watched someone do this recently. With the right equipment, it works surprisingly well.
In Europe you don't have to be affluent to live relatively safely. And murder rates in SA are around 8 times higher than in the U.S, you could make the same claim that most people killed in the U.S are gang related. It's still 8 times worse in SA and I really doubt the middle class is 100% unaffected by this. Yes the extremely rich maybe do not care, not everyone is very rich.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
> I cannot access the full article

(You missed the link to the copy at archive.is :) )
So it’s like Factorio? If you accidentally fuck up your critical path you suddenly find that all your production dies.
If people only cared about land area, the distinction between urban and non-urban land wouldn't even exist.
What makes urban land special is the infrastructure, schools, workplaces, restaurants, cafés, theaters, libraries. These things make a city a city. These things promote density because people cluster around them.

As I explained in another comment[1], a property tax discourages density and encourages sprawl. A land value tax, on the other hand, does not have these adverse effects on density because it taxes only the fixed supply of land, not the variable supply of buildings.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28423428
On the other hand, if you fake throwing a stick, a dog may run many times before it becomes suspicious.
In theory you are right. In practice this part of the system is having problems too:

- people who used to move on to a larger house stay because of the increased costs
- older houses are broken down and are replaced by newer ones … but due to building regulations fewer are build at the same place
- due to stagnation in outflow and decreased number of houses the waiting time for getting a “social house” is increased by a ridiculous amount. In Eindhoven it is more than 10 years - in theory. But due to rules about preferred placement it’s often way more.
It's not mainly due to chip shortage, but other parts made in ASEAN. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Toyota-to-cut-g...
There are special rules for that specific scenarios. As long if you don’t live in the Netherlands yourself and it is the only property you own
Not sure about that. When the mass vaccination phase will end, sure, but now, with adequate planning, we can still make good use of these multi-dose vials. 3% waste is bad but not that bad.

I remember in the beginning of the vaccination campaign that the vials themselves were in short order. It is probably all sorted out but making 10 times more will create additional logistics and production challenges. Is it worth it in order to save less than 3% of the substance?

And there are solutions to the wasted doses. Basically, plan the vaccinations ahead to have the required number of people and setup a waiting list so that if someone doesn't show up, call someone else. Where I got vaccinated, I asked them the question about the potentially wasted extra doses, and they proudly told me that using that method they didn't waste a single dose out of the 10000+ they administered.

EDIT: As for the New-Zealand reference, we can also say that we could have vaccinated 0.5% if India with all these doses, which sounds much less impressive. It is all a matter of proportion. I also think that in the case of New-Zealand, right now, being a remote island is more of a problem than the availability of doses, thankfully, it is also helps them keeping covid at bay.
So... Singapore?
Interesting tone. See also [1] "The Dangerous Legal Illusion of ‘Parental Rights’"

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/03/no-parent-...
> That's what enums/unions are for.

I don't think providing unions or algebraic data types are well supported in most RDBMS systems, they're such a pain to build.

> I find it hard to believe that static type checking

It's not static type checking. Errors happen in runtime, not compile time. In compile time there's no data yet.

If you need static type checking you're most likely to do it in your programming languages. If you want static type checking against the database schema you need languages with type providers like F#.

If you want to ensure business invariants, it's not enough to just use rigid tables. Plus those invariants are better to be enforced in the model because you can write better tests against them. There's no point to write it twice as there would be inconsistencies.

As a personal experience, being unable to express algebraic data type often leads to bad design/modeling, as developers don't have to tool to model things are they are, they have to use subpar workarounds.