skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it kind of crazy that the ocean isn't mapped out like most of the roads in the world are with street view. I get that sonar isn't stealthy and is not great for marine life, but considering the budget and capabilities of the U.S. military, I'm surprised they haven't gotten that over with as its own mission.
In a way, competence is for me, and friendliness is for others. Here's what I mean:

I need competence to get through the day without getting killed, and doing my work to my own satisfaction, even in the absence of anybody else watching. I have hobbies where lack of competence would be instantly obvious, such as being a jazz musician and manufacturing a humble but useful product.

Naturally I also need friendliness to get through the day in any social setting, and to do my work to the satisfaction of others. Since I'm moderately extraverted, this is valuable to me. My job is in an area where neither my boss nor my colleagues understand what I do. So, I need to be trusted.

But I can't imagine doing a job for very long, where friendliness can make up for lack of competence.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29087479

(A later submission, but with traction.)
> Either big business owns the politicians and so nothing gets done, or people vote but they're too stupid to do it in their own interests because of big business.

> This sounds like the typical "the election was fair as long as I won" trope.

How's that? It does not sound like anything but modern American politics. Not to say it's 100% true, but it's largely true on the West Coast USA for the last 40 years...as I can only speak to what I've seen. It's a legitimate surprise when grassroots efforts are not coopted with riders/judicial nullification or drowned by propaganda.
See also the recent discussion here of "I Don’t Know How To Count That Low": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988281
Fidelity is handling the IPO and if you have been a customer of BackBlaze for a while apparently you will get to buy before public, up to 1,000 shares between $15-17 per share. That is my understanding.
In general it's about not accidentally excluding people. All the cases you propose are deliberate blocks for various (mostly legal) reasons. The deliberate blocks are considered in the review, and as long as there is a sound business case for launching with the exclusion, it goes ahead.
No. Landlords do not "produce" rooms by taking raw materials and transforming them into goods. In the current market, the rent is determined by how much the marginal renter is able to pay. Increasing the cost to the landlord doesn't magically increase the renter's ability to pay
As a landlord, some tenants commonly did not pay until after the 15th. I never charged them a late fee.

A few didn't pay me for the last 5 months, and things did not work out with the state.

I will never rent a property again. This pandemic has shown me exactly who is disposable. No governor will again decide that my tenants don't need to honor their payment agreements.

May landlords vanish; I am no longer among their number.
You are missing something. For a piece of Rust software to run in any widely used computing environment, it is required to interface with a large body of non-Rust software via a non-typechecked ABI. Moreover, the Rust standard library itself contains many, many instances of the unsafe keyword. The benefits of Rust safety do not come from building a hermetically isolated tower of pure safe Rust code from the ground up, and those benefits do not become null and void the moment you include one C library used via FFI.

Rust safety is about being able to take an unsafe component, encapsulate its implementation details, and encode sound usage patterns for that component in a public API which can then be statically checked by the compiler. This allows the difficult problem of determining whether an entire codebase is sound, memory-safe, and free of undefined behavior to be factored into many smaller, more tractable problems of verifying that individual components are sound given their APIs. You can even do this with wrappers and bindings to C libraries, and there are many examples of this in the Rust ecosystem.
Well - if the Fed stops buying MBSes and interest rates go up - flippers in highly speculative markets (almost everywhere ATM) are likely to have a bad time.
I get it but I’d imagine there’s an actuary table that could be put together to insure against issues in most cases. I mean the entire process today is so dated, isn’t it? A bunch of people submit offers and then 1 gets picked and then a variety of inspectors come by to make sure nothing glaring is broken. What if the intermediary scaled the inspection part (pro services are hard to scale, yes) and when you buy from them it’s “guaranteed”? Like a certified used car.
I’m not going to say it’s a useful test, but how does https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29088032 work for you?
It's basically the service provider thing. Essentially, almost every used car lot in the US uses the same company for their website. They get their own domain and branding and it's mostly a unified database of cars across the country.

And it's not cool. They figured out a lot of dark patterns, like "number of photos, regardless of quality, is a strong driver to sale", so they started duplicating photos in a set to bump up the total photo count. They figured out they could reuse walk-around videos for any same make/model/trim/color across the country and nobody would notice when they walked in the lot the different door panel dings and such. Or they'd display a car that matches your very specific search, that was actually hundreds of miles away, to get you on the lot just to say "damn, we just sold it, but we got this other one in a different color".

I worked for them for about 3 months before I literally couldn't stomach it anymore. I threw up in my driveway, went to work, and gave my notice.
> I would love to use HN over NNTP.

How would you represent upvotes and ranking over NNTP, or would you just drop that for comments altogether?

(I'm asking because I've been thinking of implementing something exactly like this, with NNCP also maybe, but the ranking is what I'm not sure on.)

> tildex (Unix based micronetworks)

Ooh what are these tildexes?
Nowadays there's enough dissent inside FB itself (according to news articles), that if they lied about this, someone from the inside will probably leak/whistleblow about it...
Numerous other submissions / articles:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/zillow-quits-home-flipping-busi...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zillow-shuts-down-home-flippi...

https://www.businessinsider.com/zillow-homebuying-unit-shutt...

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/02/zillow-shares-plunge-after-a...

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/zillow-to-...
When I started at BigCo, the recommended policy was to spend two hours trying to solve it yourself, including searching the wiki, debugging code, etc. If you hadn't made any progress in that time period, then ask someone from your own team or make a post in a related internal support group. Only after exhausting that route, and getting no help, should you escalate to the team/oncall that owns the tool/service you are having problems with. It seems that culture has been lost.
It makes sense in a 'technically true but ugh' sort of way. The GQL server is saying it successfully executed that query, here is the response, it happens to contain an error.

And in further fairness, I believe there can be multiple 'responses' within, some of which may be errors and others not.

But still ugh, personally I'd rather have resource-oriented semantic HTTP (read: 'REST' without triggering empassioned debate) just for that. I don't think adds enough over HTTP to warrant this sort of weirdness (sibling comment describes it as the next layer) - if it were just an HTTP alternative sitting on TCP fine, and I'm sure it would happily not have a top-level status code (or a more meaningful one) itself anyway.
Why bother even going anywhere? It's a sealed box without windows—who'd know the difference?
This is not 100% fair.

A lot of web APIs are rolled out by Google without sufficient standardization or agreement from the other organizations that ship engines. So Google is being a poor citizen here, but because of their dominance, everybody else is blamed.
> we turned to Matt Round, an engineering leader who was a most interesting squeaky wheel in that his team appeared to get more done than any other

Matt went on to study theology, and he's started a church community in Scotland: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattround/

"Leader
Company Name: Hope City Church Edinburgh
Dates Employed: Sep 2017 – Present
Driving a new church start-up."
Your not wrong, there's been a huge number of companies listing over the last year and some of questionable size and profitability. Everybody sees the market as a huge money machine and all these companies want a piece.
It's not really ML gone wrong, more like a misapplication of the technology. No one who understands ML ever claimed it could produce accurate forecasts of chaotic systems.
> I didn't know anyone used sftp for ANYTHING, at least not in the last decade.

We're moving customers from FTP to SFTP. Most recent one was a well-known Fortune 500 company, which uses it to exchange some ASCII flat files with our software.

Mostly it's for XML files or PDFs.

It's simple, it works and it's easy for support to poke and prod.
I agree with you but it sometimes seems like Google doesn't care at all about it when they have the kind of customer support processes that they have.
A deer weighs maybe pounds 100 lbs. A car weighs maybe 3000 lbs for a 30 to 1 ratio. That sub weighs 1000 times more than a container. That is how momentum works.
CSSWizardry, aka Harry Roberts, who is (was?) big on BEMCSS and ITCSS, and the author of https://cssguidelin.es/.

He's helped me really understand how to properly take care of CSS and make sense of them.

Recommend reading his blog and that guidelines site to get a grip on CSS if you've struggled with it.
Simple.

Do nothing script:

echo “Go to your Google Account settings and set a vacation auto responder”

Do something script:

import oauth2 # I have already lost, there is no salvation in life, without truth or peace there is only the void that beckons
I think OP meant to post this?
- https://about.netflix.com/en/news/let-the-games-begin-a-new-...
That is a good book.
Civilian geophysicist (but not an oceanographic one) here. This is my best understanding:

As others have posted, above surface based propagating EM techniques won't work because seawater is conductive.

Acoustic waves are probably the best way to map bathymetry, but that requires active sonar. The subs don't use that because it gives away their position. Surface mapping (sidescan sonar) in the area is probably the best viable technique to do the job, but geopolitical concerns make it impractical.

Aside from sonar, gravity and magnetostatics could in principle be used to find seamounts. But both suffer from a fundamental problem that "upward continuation" decays short wavelengths exponentially faster than long wavelengths. In other words, to horizontally resolve a seamount with a characteristic length of (say) 10km you'd need to fly no higher than 10km. That rules out satellites. What's left are airborne and surface based surveys, which face the same geopolitical issues as sidescan sonar.

Give all of that, you might as well do the sonar survey, as long as you can solve the geopolitical problems.
Remember, curves are more computationally expensive than straight lines...

It's the law of spline demand.
Similarly housing starts are increasing drastically now that lumber has stabilized

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST
Having counsel doesn't mean they don't have to pay rent. It doesn't change the facts of the case.

If the court finds in favor of the tenant, that means the landlord screwed up (and probably broke the law, too).
I don't necessarily disagree with using web tech, but I do think store-and-forward is a lot more resilient than an always-pull model like the web. I mean, that's what a CDN is essentially: content is stored and forwarded to other CDN instances so that a user can consume it.
Would it be unusual for a sub to be traveling in a poorly mapped area? Seems they would only follow well known trusted underwater pathways
Thanks for the input, yes it's a recurring billing saas model, includes hosting, and the WYSIWYG is referring to a WYSIWYG rich text editor, like Medium, Notion, etc.

Thanks for pointing out about Pinegrow as well, this is my first time hearing about it! We focus more towards non-pro users and trying to make the UX as familiar and simple as possible. Seems like Pinegrow is somewhat similar to Webflow and the pricing is more "per user" than per site.

Is there any specific reason why you would like build lots of sites? We did encounter some requests on enabling code export and make a software package pricing so users can host the exported sites themselves, would love to understand your use case!
But how does it know that "This is slownews45's face, so don't show any auto-tag recommendation for it."..?
Right. This is Zillow getting out before the Fed tapers, interest rates go up, and real estate sales and values go down.
It isn't premature though, a service is as robust as its weakest link, so if you let people write crappy services that easily goes down and are hard to get back when they do then you will get a huge amount of outages in major services since they depend on so many small ones.
AWS announces similar service to Google's TrueTime
Some companies are trying some pretty cool tech

https://youtu.be/eR8TQ2rXTbE?t=119

Dang read up on USS San Francisco briefly and ran across this tidbit about sonar, dang.

> For those who dont know how tremendously loud it is. It can be used to kill enemy divers if they are near your ship. It will rupture your lungs at 200 Db and hemorrhage your brain at 210 Db, sonar operates at 235 Db ... also affects sea life
It is pretty easy to run into a sea mount when active sonar isn't on. All it takes is misinterpreting a chart or an inaccurate chart.
Sounds like the reviewer would glance at it for 5 seconds and say 'ok'
29 years old no kids here, have lots of coworkers in the same cohort. During the pandemic in particular a lot of friends started to pick up VRChat, and a majority of people in my age group still regularly play games. I think that's not that untypical honestly, I can see quite a few adults sinking at least a few hours per week into it if it gets interesting enough.
That's exactly what the Fed is expected to do: https://www.reuters.com/business/wall-street-banks-step-up-p...
Yahoo withdraws from China as Beijing’s grip on tech firms tightens
That seems pretty huge, if true.
7k homes isn't going to move the national market remotely.

There were rumors that Zillow was trying to test if they could manipulate small markets - and they were trying to buy a significant portion of listings in those markets. If true - in those areas - they could get completely destroyed if they list a lot of places at once. And if true - I hope they get a huge fine for trying to manipulate the housing market.
> Am I missing something here?

Yes. The principle of least astonishment.
I don't know what date "Visual Studio 6" implies, but I'd been using Irix for a few years before GNU Emacs 20 and coding conversion; I can't speak for anything vi-le. Anyway, it's not uncommon to find mixed line endings even these days (which Emacs indicates).
A review doesn't necessarily mean you need to resolve all diversity/inclusion issues. It can merely require that you identify the issues and understand the risks of not resolving them.
Isn't it the classical enterprise software situation where the user is not the buyer? These are bought by administrators from sales reps based on features that appeal to "leadership". Its the same with any SAP or other major vendor implementation, the software itself is a steaming pile of crap, but it ticks all the boxes a non-user wants to see (compliance and reporting and whatnot). There is no incentive for the vendor to "waste" money on usability.
Ask HN: How to get a job in one week?
Is it possible to get any remote IT job in only one week?
What if your house burns down?
You are misunderstanding, I'm asking what those differences of opinion or values are. That part has not been explained to me. It doesn't appear to be about init systems anymore, because Debian also has sysvinit and openrc and all that stuff.

Edit: Also, the proliferation of Linux distributions is illustrative of the same problem I think. There are a lot of distros out there that seemingly cannot really justify themselves, I've been using Linux for 20 years and for some of these distros it's still really hard for me to figure out what the difference is or why anybody would use it without spending days digging around and analyzing patchsets in random git repositories somewhere. Now just imagine how utterly incomprehensible this is to a non-technical person who doesn't have a clue what an init system is...
> ‘We’ve determined the unpredictability in forecasting home prices far exceeds what we anticipated and continuing to scale Zillow Offers would result in too much earnings and balance-sheet volatility,’ CEO tells investors.

That's quite a statement. The head of a company with a privileged view of the US residential real estate sector says that the market is "unpredictable." Not the good kind of unpredictable where you can't figure out how heavy the money bags that get dropped at your door will be. No, it's the bad kind of unpredictability where you can... lose money.

Reading between the lines, I conclude that Zillow sees a major shakeout in real estate on the horizon. They've already been hit with losses and see a lot more where that came from. In an effort to get ahead of whatever is approaching, the company is making an abrupt exit from the home flipping business.

Zillow was founded in 2006, as the last US housing market bubble was furiously inflating. It has seen a complete cycle of boom/bust. If anybody knows the US residential real estate sector, it is Zillow.
It happens. One of our competitors IPO'd at 30M in ARR.
I bought back in 2014. Ultimately the question I asked myself was: would I rather have a house in a place I wanted to live but overpaid for, or would I rather wait and get priced out of the place I wanted to live?

Ultimately I chose the former. Because at the end of the day, a house represents shelter to me. And roughly speaking, shelter is fungible. If the value of my shelter goes up by 50%, the value of the other shelter around me goes up 50%. If it goes down by 50%, so does the shelter around me. So buying into the market gives me a foot in the door to, roughly speaking, be able to move to similarly desirable dwellings regardless of where they are.

This is obviously a bit simplistic, but I think its a fair way to look at it.
Customer support is after the fact, reviews are before the fact. It's very cheap to do these reviews before launch and then you can point at those to say "we're trying!" while not providing any customer support.
A family member and I are both Backblaze customers, they received a surveymonkey link to indicate interest in an IPO share allocation through Fidelity. If there’s a way to get on that list, I’m interested if anyone knows.
Are you equating affluence with cool? Do only cool kids go to college? Apple has no competitor or equal?? I look around me, and I see lots of non-mac device, non-iPhones. So everyone around me must be incredibly uncool. But my parents, they must be the coolest, because they have iPads and iPhones, but then again, they use windows PCs, so not as cool as the affluent kids.
You think Zillow would have one person take 15 minutes to do a quick look at the offer prices first!
> They must be seeing flashing red signs across the board that there's a slowdown in the market and that scenario is exactly what will play out if they don't exit quickly.

There could also be the issue summed up as "thr market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent" issue. Even if your bet is right if you lack available capital for the temporal range and trajectory you can never capitalize on any theoretical gains. Even if you were right about Atari going bankrupt if you shorted at the very beginning of their existence in the late 70s and it took until the 90s for it to happen chances are you would default even though you were right.
COP26: Plant-based is not the answer to climate change
it’s kind of like a memory of what you think your voice sounds like, definitely more like a monologue
Oh where did you find this link? This looks like a broken link that leads nowhere, we should update that. You can check out the showcase here https://typedream.com/showcase
Personally I'm sad about debian. I've been debian-only user since ca. 2000. It was always the model for a stable, no nonsense distro where everything worked. People complained about slow change but to me that's a huge feature. I want the system to continue working for years, not constantly break with the latest API-breaking updates.

The systemd drama of a few years back really soured me on debian though. On the plus side, it has made me explore OpenBSD and FreeBSD, both of which I use these days. Also I'm using Devuan where I need or want Linux.

Still, I miss having the old debian which eschewed trendiness and valued stability more.
Oh the new REITs playing the algro game. This is cute.
agreed. i try to make my accent as neutral as possible, but at the same time, as long as people can understand me... why bother?

if someone speaks my native language with an accent, i wouldn't give a single fuck, but for some reason, every english speak must have a Californian accent.
Big ups to hedge fund short seller Jim Chanos for calling this one way back in 2019.

https://twitter.com/WallStCynic/status/1192663938720292864

Steve Eisman, the short seller who was Mark Baum in 'The Big Short' also predicted this in 2019.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/08/big-short-investor-steve-eis...
I think it’s not just possible but done[1], I do wonder why it still happened though. Maybe maps were outdated or resolution is not ideal?

1: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2012/05/Mapping_th...
There were even dedicated estate railways!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_narrow-gauge_railways#...

Not enough milk in the estate kitchen ? Send a maid with a train to the village to restock!

Also on north Germany they have a 60 cm railway connecting an island at low tide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCttmoorsiel-Nordstrandis...

Or the famous Kurobe Gorge Railway in Japan at 762 mm that goes via hard moutain terrain and 40+ (!) tunnels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurobe_Gorge_Railway

(We travelled it once, can recommend, superb experience!)

Still apparently even if you switch to electric cars and/or trolley buses tire and road surface abrasion is still apparently a significant pollution hazard.

I guess metal wheels on metal rails are less of an issues, so it might make sense to use rail based wehicles more heavily, especially with modern technology improvements (automatic routing/switching, battery powered trains, etc.).
True, though they are very important for continued and safe commerce in said waters. If you have any kind of ship-based commerce passing through waters, you want good charted data, and you want that data made public for the safety of ships coming and going.

It's worth pointing out that regular, non-military ships do run into uncharted seamounts too. A good example is the discovery of the Muirfield Seamount, which happened when a ship in what charts said was water over 5000 meters deep ran into it. The top was only 16-18 meters below the surface.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muirfield_Seamount
Here did you hear about this?
Right. Chromebooks are somewhere between a full actual laptop and a tablet or phone. Good for consumers.