skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>as of October 27. Out of 224 homes, 208 — or 92.9% — were priced below what Zillow paid.

>36.5% were listed for less than the company first paid for them from the outset.

So these are ZillowBots numbers in Phoenix. They start off with a third going for less than they payed. The rest "hold on for a bit" and slowly the price keeps dropping

Eventually there are so many price drops where 93% of the homes are on the market (so, even now, not even sold) for less than what ZillowBot thought was a good idea

source: https://www.businessinsider.com/zillow-offers-ibuyer-sell-ph...

so 2/3 of these houses go with the "hold on for a bit" strategy then fail

I don't live there, but from the outside it seems like the Phoenix market is on a downwards trend, and they chose horrible timing, or really bad algorithm coding
Has someone created rubyscript or typed ruby yet? I need a good lol.
Can we stop putting any of these product ideas on pedestals, as if they were acts of technological genius? They are all incremental interesting improvements, often thought of around the same years with unique insights, but not some revolutionary inventions no one has tried to build before. They are what they are because of their execution.
And then what? Again, at some point, we have to decide which action to take.
But if you want your show to be a success you have to take chances.

If they make just another derivative show they can’t be surprised by the poor reception.

(Besides I’m not sure I agree with the premise. Game of Thrones was a big success and it was much more complex than a simple Hero’s Journey.)
If they had named the show anything but "Foundation", I think it would be a decent lure for Apple TV. Loosely basing it on the Foundation series, and naming it "Foundation" was more to generate hype than a love letter to fans of Asimov's work.
You've broken the site guidelines badly in this thread also. Yes, the other commenter started with the name-calling, but the guidelines specifically ask you not to feed flamewars in such cases, and you ended up doing nearly as much damage. We ban accounts that do this kind of thing. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
I think I experienced it with Google Docs once. So much context switching happens until you cannot switch contexts anymore. Then you are just numb.
Great seeing how this tool can solve problems many other teams are facing
Face blindness probably operates on a spectrum. I too aren’t face blind, but often struggle to remember the names of infrequent contacts until I get some other prompt, like vocal recognition.

I assume this is less of a genetic problem, but related to having undiagnosed myopia as a child when perhaps facial recognition pathways are in a critical development stage.
I'll be the YIMBY broken record here. These institutional investors are suddenly interested in housing because decades of artificial constraints on new construction have created a situation where prices are rising quickly as demand outpaces supply. Don't believe me? Here's the SEC filing from one such investor:

> We have selected locations with strong demand drivers, high barriers to entry and high rent-growth potential.

Understand that "high barriers to entry" is referring to legal regimes that limit new housing.

Later, they say:

> We have selected markets that we believe will experience strong population, household formation and employment growth and exhibit constrained levels of new home construction.

These companies aren't driving up prices. They're reacting to high prices. That's what's making these markets attractive.

Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1687229/000119312517...
There is a lesser-known part of Minecraft already used by educators:

https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/discover/impact

This is the kind of product I hope for with the Metaverse but will probably never see.
The images are still huge for the quality.
There's a lot of gains to be had with proper compression here.
Personal attacks and flamewar comments will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong other commenters are or you feel they are. No more of this, please.

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Edit: we've had to ask you this kind of thing a dismaying number of times before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26746696 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26137187 (Feb 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25449372 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25449361 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376648 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23511440 (June 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20538819 (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20377920 (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19956799 (May 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18679163 (Dec 2018)

You've continued to post unsubstantive comments and flamewar comments. If you can't or won't respect the rules here, we're going to end up having to ban you. Please fix this!
This should be called OneNotion
In construction, if the foreman / lead whoever is always angry, people get fearful of speaking up about something, and then more mistakes get made because nobody wanted to point out the glaring flaw.

Soldiers also prefer trustworthiness over skill competency. Of course you want your brother-in-arms to do their job well, but it's more important that you can trust them with your life.

Technical skills are needed to work with a machine. People skills are needed to work with people.
Besides pronunciation, this is great for searching videos by audio content. I'm surprised this is not an standard youtube feature.
I also independently stumbled on this idea. My rational was that it turns the process into more of a checklist, without all of the hassle of handling edge cases in my code. Because usually whenever I try to fully automate I re-learn the wisdom of that xkcd cartoon about "automation expectations versus reality".

Another wise thing about it is that it's a relatively low-friction way to start documenting institutional knowledge. Your engineers might hate writing docs, but maybe they won't mind writing a bash script like this. Which is essentially documentation in disguise. And since it's (presumably) living with the rest of your version control system you increase the chances that your engineers will explain changes to the process over time (via commit logs).
Combine skimplation with wealth inequality and lowered product quality and you will begin to see how far gone we are.

Imagine, like global warming, if certain people knew that massive inflation was occurring, but that a correction would slow down their profits. Then imagine, like global warming, those people spent all of their time disguising this reality rather than trying to fix it. We're pretty far into the grift at this point.
Scream tests are always fun. ("break it and see who screams")
what is up with those weird recipes in the third section? That's not vanilla
Of course it's not dominant by the market share, but it's the most powerful tool and it would be cool to have a healthy competition there. Reaper also has a vibrant community of scripters and their skills would be of some help for any free software DAW. The reasons are the risk of it being sold (unlikely) or, y'know, a "bus factor".

I have a huge respect for Ardour and its devs a lot, but unfortunately it's not even close. I suppose, Harrison income is minuscule. Thank god the development didn't cease some years ago when Davis wanted to step down, that would be a loss.
Well, I'm still feeling out the platform, but I'm tossing around some ideas for components like these:

- A generic GraphQL query component. It would be nice to be able to pop open an embedded GraphiQL UI to set up the query and maybe set variables.

- A generic "state" component that could have a list of state vars you want to track. The UI I'm envisioning would let you add a list of state vars (essentially wrapping `useState`) and their default values.

- An authorization component that could show/hide children based on a role or auth status. The UI would need to be able to select the role or user property to key off of.

Maybe these would be built into the platform itself in the future, but they could probably be done as components in the meantime.
There are probably easy loopholes to get around your suggestion. Just form another LLC and purchase the property under that LLC instead of you as an individual, then each entity owns only one property, so they get the standard tax rate instead of what you are proposing.

Of course this would be a giant pain of a workaround to scale, but for the non-mega corporations it'd probably work. I'm sure that the huge corporations owning large swaths of residential properties would figure out scaleable loopholes.
Yes, they could double or triple the current homestead exemption.
Hi,
Wibbly is a Browser Automation API which allows to extract data from any website.

The API can extract normalized metadata from any website from HTML tags, JSON-LD and Open Graph, all in a simple JSON response.

Wibbly can also extract any content from a website adding custom selection rules to the API request. I called this fetaure Selective Query and allows to provide selective rules in a simple format, straight into the GET request. More info here: https://www.wibbly.co/docs#selective-query

I just launched so any feedback onj the service would be highly appreciated!
> 1. Don’t do things you do to make yourself sleep or stay asleep. It’s ok if you enjoy them.

What does this even mean? The second sentence doesn't follow the first, which I still can't parse after reading it aloud a half-dozen times.
I think so, too. Or what if you just publish a web site that also displays ads?
> In air?

Why "in" air? Could just mean it's a regular sailing ship - after all they are powered by "air" so they are "air vehicles". Or it could be made out of air. In which case you could claim Indians had inflatable ships thousands of years ago :)

> And flying a balloon from Sri Lanka to Nashik(while crossing ocean) and back again would have been an achievement in itself during that period.

Of course, my point was that there are many possible interpretations and when you say no interpretation is needed you're just showing your cultural baggage.

There's a legend about Pan Twardowski. In it a nobleman makes a deal with the devil and forces him to do various impossible feats to avoid going to hell. One of these feats was "making a whip rope out of sand". Optical fiber is basically a rope made out of sand :) After that the nobleman escaped from the devil and landed on the moon (where he lives to this day).

It's pretty obvious to me that it's just a legend, but if I wanted to interpret it literally then Poles were on the moon in 16th century and had optical internet :)
> My experience has been that very, very rarely is any installation as straightforward as "curl && ./configure && make PREFIX=whatever install", partially due to everyone in the known universe thinking they need some awesome new build system [...]

Aye, This is particularly impacting when the build system itself needs to be eh built.

> The value of Homebrew to me are the constantly bumped formulae descriptors, definitely, 100% NOT the "brew" frontend for it. [...] and using "--build-from-source"

I hadn't thought about that and I suspect you are right. Although I lack recent exposure to it and I can certainly recall getting very annoyed by it, I have to say that my experience with Gentoo's Portage/emerge is by far the least unpleasant as dealing with package managers goes.
> What is the carbon emissions per kwh

The raw materials are lithium, potassium and iron. All are abundant but require significant energy to extract. So if we have a clean grid they can be produced with almost no carbon emissions. So if using "dirty" batteries is necessary to create the clean grid, it's still a massive win.
Archlinux doesn't even support Secure Boot. Fedora does, and so does Ubuntu, it is much more pleasant this way when dual-booting with Win10 or Win11.

Fedora does have a VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED Vulkan problem with Nvidia though that Arch does not. F34 or F35 can't launch Wolftestein Youngblood from Steam on X11 session and errors out with VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED. Same system works on Archlinux and can even launch Youngblood in Wayland session.

Under Fedora I notice the following things:

- in wayland session vulkaninfo fails to run unless WAYLAND_DISPLAY is unset like so: WAYLAND_DISPLAY= vulkaninfo

- on Fedora with X11 session vulkaninfo randomly toggles between Mesa's software lavapipe vulkan and nvidia's vulkan implementation

- steam fails to launch a Proton game (Wolfenstein Youngblood) on X11/Wayland with "Startup failure: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED" message

- I hear you need to set Vulkan variable: export VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/usr/share/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json before running 'steam', I tried and it fixes running 'vulkaninfo' so lavapipe doesn't randomly activate but it had no effect on steam, still getting VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

Vulkan on Fedora is absolute shit show.
Multiplayer virtual worlds have been with us since the beginning. I think there was a multiplayer high fantasy package for the PDP series of minicomputers?

There's a concerted push to foist this buzzword on us either way.
Relevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083014
I don’t see the notion in using Notion’s UI here albeit with Miro/Figma flying cursors and pointers
Everyone wants to use science to promote their own political agenda.

I hope they all fail.
If they're loading the EFI image off of the SSD, it'd affect that too (unless there's PXE in the bootstrap code, but I seriously doubt it)
What would be your reaction if there was an American rapper who would rap day and night of say secession of Texas and glorifying a militant group whose goal is to secede Texas out of USA? And say those gangs did kill many hundred innocent people through explosions and so.
Do you think the families of the victims of this militant group think it is okay to sing songs in praise of this group?
I think the evidence presented was "history"

> The people saying this have obviously never gone through a "bust" cycle. This is unsurprising as we've now been in the longest bull market in modern history. It's not always like this. It won't always be like this.

I once heard someone who ran an investment floor say, paraphrased: During a bull market, I want my floor staffed with people too young to have lived the last bull market.

They didn't want the risk aversion - drilled into people by the last bust cycle - on their trading floor.

The cycle will repeat itself, folks will go from being unbelievably wealthy to bankrupt overnight (overnight as a figure of speech speaking, the crash will come but might drag out). Folks who bet it all will have their lives ruined. We will have another generation of market participants who are risk averse from hard earned lessons.

The flip side of this is that _everything will go on sale_ for those who had stable investments and those who are income rich.

If everything doesn't go on sale soon (soon might mean many years) it'll be the first time in history we broke out of the boom/bust cycle.

For me, personally, I track my net worth and check in monthly. For the past year I've excluded my home's valuation from my net worth, it's monopoly money; by the time I'm willing to liquidate my house we will be on the other side of a bust cycle. I'm mentally prepared for my home to lose 50% of its value "overnight."
Its terrible and Teams on Linux is a trash fire on top of a dumpster fire on top of a landfill fire.
For life to appear, there are 3 prerequisites.

Two of them are abundant carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and sulfur and a source of energy that will ensure that there is a continuous flux of compounds that are not very stable so they can take part in chemical reactions to generate complex molecules.

These 2 conditions might exist in the atmosphere of Jupiter, if lightning produces enough unstable molecules.

However, there is a 3rd prerequisite, the existence of inorganic catalysts, e.g. the sulfides of iron, cobalt and nickel. Other transitional metals might also work, but they are much less abundant, so they are unlikely to be used by life in the beginning.

The problem is that on Jupiter rocks with metallic minerals are found only very deep under the exterior part made only of light elements, at depths where the pressure and temperature might be to great for any life form.

So we do not know for sure, but it seems unlikely that life could have appeared on Jupiter or Saturn.

On the other hand, on the large satellites of Saturn and Jupiter, there are much more chances for a place with good conditions to exist, than in any other part of the Solar System besides Earth.
Tadpole started off making 68k multiuser UNIX systems, I don't remember those having ISDN.
We have a compute cluster made mainly of Westmere-generation Xeons from 2011, which has been the workhorse for research publications from our group for a decade. They are still running fine, the (non soldered, replaceable) ECC DRAM chips are failing before anything else.
Who still honestly uses Office in their personal lives? Some people use excel for work but you don't buy that for yourself. Most young people I know just use google docs and never used MS Office so it doesn't even have the name branding for them to call the others bootleg versions. The ribbon was so disgusting and annoying that I never used it again and only used 2003 after trying 2007.
Unfortunately, naive assumptions tend to bite later when the amount of rework needed to remove them is discovered. Being able to change time signatures is the sort of feature that is more important than delivering an anemic DAW sooner, and not only in theory as a "nice to have" but as proof of being able to be better than the competition.
Only for vacation planning where people are researching and inputting suggestions on a spreadsheet, or where people are brainstorming on a docs sheet.
I don’t see how organic facial recognition is any worse than electronic recognition. Evidently some people can take a simple wanted or missing persons person and solve a case. But for me that ability feels like magic. How is having an aid, like facial recognition glasses, any worse?

This of course assumes a non-scalable offline system. Obviously something online like China’s social credit system is more of a breach.
I don’t understand the definition of “fully-featured”.

Can a software be called “fully-featured” before the development is even far from complete?

Oh, obviously “fully-featured” doesn’t include time signature support.
LMAO, isn't this very similar to FaceBook's recent DNS problem?

Also I love the idea of removing it and seeing who complains.
Contractor access is its own hellscape.
They sell b.s. on Mad Men, so that's not exactly reflective of the broader economy. People like to sell soft skills in web forums where humanities majors exchange ideas, without thinking about all the hard tech decisions that went into building those forums. We're exchanging text via bits sent across wires installed in the ground and across the public rights of way, all brought about by the military industrial complex. This online post is brought to you by tons of unliked guys
Not just with that one comment.

It's easy enough to get unbanned.
I just hope don't try to tie this into SharePoint somehow.
Is there some service provider/tool for this that is widely used in the used car industry? Or just convergence on a common approach?
No, but as others have said I've seen it with multiple people in different parts of the same document. Demoing 3 cursors on screen at the same time expresses the capability of the product in a couple seconds, explaining how you should actual use it would have taken longer and killed flow.
> They could form a massive train ... with 1 inch of space between each vehicle.

Okay, now a deer or a moose runs onto that road during a short gap in traffic. What happens next?

> the more you look at self driving cars, the more they look like trains

Sure, really big trains, with a tiny fraction of the carrying capacity.
Few people are criticizing the show from deviating from books per se. It isn’t good on its own merits.

Of course they had to make some changes and flesh out some characters to adapt it for TV. They just made poor choices. Instead of going with chosen ones, heroes, and battles, they should have gone for politics in space.

Something like the political manouvering in A Song of Ice and Fire but in space.
Because skills can typically be taught. Much harder to teach someone not to be an asshole.
criddell is wondering what thing in common Fedora and Win11 had that made switching to either of them preferable to just sticking with Win10, I believe. As in: why not just stay on Win10, unless it was lacking something that Win11 and—apparently, if it was a viable alternative—Fedora have? What was the thing they both had that Win10 did not?
Agreed about individual homeowners; which is why the use of homes as an investment vehicle is intimately tied with institutionalized racism and redlining. You could not “invest” in redlined areas as banks would not issue mortgages on those properties. So those houses never appreciated in value the same as houses in non-redlined areas, and the generational wealth created by owning your own home was only available to those homeowners in non-redlined areas.

The history of redlining is incredibly recent (it was in full force well into the 1990s), so it’s not something we can pretend is a historical artifact. Highly recommend The Color of Law for more on this subject, it really opened my eyes on how laws used to encourage homeownership were also used to marginalize black people.
Yes, Apple is also probably not targeting the population of people who cannot backup to iCloud and also not backup regularly to a NAS or USB via Time Machine.
Most people who don't work for a tech department and many who do.
Thereby driving up rents.
I think for me it is genetic, my dad is also very bad at this - although he is more confidently wrong than I am.
I don't use homebrew too much (I'm usually on Linux, and when I am on macos, my development environment tends to be pretty lightweight), but based on my experience with Linux package managers, I wonder if this is mostly a pain point due to the performance issues brew sometimes has. On Linux, I tend check for upgrades fairly often (at least once a day, and always right before trying to install something), so I don't run into this issue much there. However, with my Linux package manager, checking for updates is always really fast (maybe a second or two at most unless I'm on very spotty wifi), whereas sometimes trying to do the same with brew takes significantly longer (and that's before even applying the updates). It seems plausible that users who are frustrated with slow updates start updating less often, which then causes updates to take even longer the next time they do, until eventually they have an experience like OP where they try to install one thing and it takes 45 minutes. I imagine there isn't an easy solution if this is in fact the core issue, but I think it's worth considering that the core issue isn't actually the update strategy you describe, as that's fairly similar to what I've seen with Linux package managers, and I can't remember ever seeing any complaints like OP's about any of them.
2 is not only a long shot but it's also not like if there were a third world war there would be some asset classes that escaped unscathed. If China went to war and that somehow crashed real estate prices, it's not like stocks would be soaring.
People who need a level of compatibility with MSO that LibreOffice and OnlyOffice still can't offer.
I've read on HN that "processes are organizational scar tissue", I think it applies here.
And you were really... alive?