skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I question the wisdom of corporations house flipping. How can they evaluate an individual property and make the series of educated guesses about the co ability in various regions? How do they find and predict all the remodelling issues before they happen? How do they know that a particular house is worth messing with? I only know a few counties in Ohio where I would even attempt it because I know the areas very well.

If you could statistically trade houses people would have been doing it before we were born.
Isn't human trafficking just used as a scary term for what is basically 'willful prostitution' in contexts like this? I highly doubt Craigslist is systematically used to sell slaves or anything truly nefarious given how public and easily monitor-able it is.
Show HN: Select,COPY&PASTE code shown in code videos andindentation is preserved
I can't remember which company it was that launched a camera with face identification features, but that didn't recognize any face that wasn't lilly white like every single engineer that worked at that company. They could have probably benefited from a diversity and inclusion review. Heck, employing a single brown engineer or even QA engineer probably would have been enough to notice that before launch.
I’d be more inclined to believe this if it wasn’t painfully obvious how much Z was overpaying for homes in the last half year, especially when all the other iBuyers saw the market slow down and reduced their offers accordingly. Seems much more likely that we can take them at face value and Zillow’s forecasts were just bad.

Zillow hasn’t ever bought and sold homes (until now). That’s not their business.
That's a maximum weight, typical containers are maxed out volume wise long before they are maxed out weight wise unless they carry large amounts of steel, and this particular container would have to have been floating submerged which puts a pretty low upper limit on how much it could have weighed.
One of the informal tests I found interesting was to play some of those "spot the differences in two pictures" games. First do one where the pictures are side by side to get your brain used to recognizing differences and hopefully reduce the variable of "how do I even do this". Then do a game where one picture shows up and waits for you to look at it and memorize it, then shows the slightly different picture and let you identify the areas of difference. Finally, have a picture which clearly identifies the differences (by circling them or something), waits for you to intentionally proceed, then shows you a slightly different picture where you select a difference but then have a multiple choice question about what is different (eg "the mailbox color in the first picture was blue/green/red/white") for each.

I haven't seen one of these online yet, and I took it as part of a battery of mental health/intelligence tests nearly 20 years ago, but I wonder how hard it would be to make one and conduct studies from it today.
There's an interesting episode about Tipu Sultan on the podcast 'Stuff the British Stole' by Marc Fenell ('that movie... guy' for any aussies of a certain age), if anyone is interested.

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-brit...
But what if Web 3.0 is the Metaverse?
Yes, many people don't know what's broken in the first place.

My minimum threshold for reaching out to a repair technician is 1) the problem must not have a solution that is easily found through an internet search, and 2) the solution must require more time and effort than the time to get it to and from the repair shop.

What saddens me is how few people will do the internet search before giving up.

Yes, I'm tech-savvy so I'm speaking from a position of privilege, but if you're looking for "What's wrong with this thing?" how can you NOT think to search the internet?
When will governments step in to stop historic low interest rates from preventing anyone not bathing in cash from buying a home?

It’s a grotesque situation in Australia with property appreciating by exorbitant amounts every month to keep up with the rate of cash printing.
I wonder if this is why rubber duck programming is so effective for a lot of engineers. They have a hard time with their own inner dialogue that they need to physically force themselves to talk out a problem to get their brains to create the right connections

Interestingly enough, my inner dialogue is usually me as a tutor, describing my actions to someone (myself?) as I go. As I'm writing code and I realise one of my explanations doesn't quite make sense, I realise that the code isn't probably that great so I rethink the problem
Sure. For example, consider the municipality of Wenatchee, in eastern Washington. In 2021, street maintenance is 3.5% of entire municipal budget. Another 6% is for capital improvements for road infrastructure (e.g. installing new traffic lights, new sidewalks, etc), but capital improvements do reduce maintenance in areas where capital improvements were done, so let’s say that 5% of entire municipal budget goes for road infrastructure maintenance. That’s hardly a large maintenance burden.

As it happens, most places that are not having some unrelated problems, like eg. being depopulated after industrial collapse, can easily cover the road maintenance, considering how little they spend on it, compared to other items in the budget. If you don’t believe me, now it’s your turn to look at the data: pick a municipality with terribly maintained road, and tell me what percentage of their budget is spent on road maintenance.
The meth is ADHD medicine. Nobody is going to make it at home if it is made easy available. If society develops a reasonable culture of it's consumption we probably would see a boost of productivity and creativity instead of the growth of the wasteful prison industrial complex.

>These radical criminal businessmen began as Communist partisans and Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, and were sent to Guangdong province in southeast China for re-education in the 1960s and ’70s.

Must be something in the communist Kool aid. Disproportionate share of the Russian businessmen of 199x with all it's ruthlessness, illegallity and violent crimes, raiding and takeovers came straight from the Young Communist organization bureaucracy.
Flipping is extremely high touch.
The fact that the definition of the "metaverse" is stipulating so much disagreement and discussion is itself the problem.

When smartphones were launched there was a simple description - "oh cool, it's a traditional phone but it has a computer running inside of it? makes sense"
I find this part interesting - of the ~500,000 customers, 70,000 are B2 customers and 430,000 are "backup" customers ... which are flat-rate "unlimited" users.

These flat-rate users are very fickle and price-sensitive.

If you peruse subreddits related to cloud storage or online backup, etc., they are filled with very picky users who expect the product to be free - or close to free.

It's a fools errand to pursue this market and I assume the pivot to B2 was to build something more sustainable with a much higher price and usage ceiling.

Regardless, roughly 85% of the user-base are paying $7/mo for "unlimited backup".

I wish them good luck.
> I'd love to see a similar movement in the academic world.

but computer science is an academic discipline, and FOSS didn't emerge from the academy. in fact, inasmuch as Stallman started it, though he could be said to have been in the academy, his actions were somewhat anti the academy.
I am older now than John von Neumann was at his death.

I do not possess his genius, but my life has been far from worthless.

I do not feel myself slipping, and I have much to look forward and appreciate.
That's a good stick, yep.

They could also add in a carrot, to reduce capital gains on sale of non-primary residences.

There are too many incentives currently to hoard properties like the damn monopoly man, so you need to start clawing away at them. Taxing the eventual sale just encourages people to not ever sell, so tax them for hoarding directly.
That all depends on the cross section of the impact area. If you'd hit the container in a corner (extremely unlucky) then that would be highly annoying. But subs are made to survive pretty strong impacts, including using the conning tower to ram through ice layers. They're immensely strong compared to regular vessels due to the kind of forces they are exposed to when diving deep.
Looks like someone is desperate to get into an argument
Zillow paid too much. Tapering isn't going to have a material effect on new mortgages or home sales.
The gold standard would be the matrix but one that you’re aware you’re in and can leave at any time.
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Demand certainly contributes to rising prices if supply lags. Houston does a much better job than other places of adding supply, and part of that is their 'zoning-lite' approach.
Sure, but then again, typing shell commands into text files is assuming you already know shell commands. You have to spend time to learn your tools at some point.

For simple configuration management, Ansible is a straight upgrade to most shells because of idempotency alone, never mind the fancier features like the more advanced modules, multi-node orchestration, or encrypted vaults. The YAML syntax is dumb and it has its issues, for sure, but it still does even the simple things much better than plain old shell.

Anyone who has any familiarity at all with UNIXy systems can learn Ansible from zero well enough in a day or two for it to start becoming truly useful, and if you don't have the foundation for that... why on Earth are you setting up a web server? I mean, it's of course fine to tinker with things for learning, but I was assuming a real deployment scenario.
Typically existing owners have been spending those sweet, sweet VC bucks that go on "growth hacking", and after an exit event the business switches to actually trying to make some money instead of pretending MAUs are better than money for whatever reason they like this week.

In the case of Backblaze they've only raised $5.3m over three rounds so that's unlikely. There wouldn't be much VC cash to hack growth with after 14 years.
It's a mix of economics, technical issues, politcs, and safety concerns.

The economics of building or even operating nuclear power plants continues to be unfavourable relative to either wind/solar, or natural gas (for peaking plants). Nuclear has, of course, a smaller carbon footprint than gas, but until that is built into economics (through emissions costs or higher costs for natural gas fuel), that doesn't translate into a financial benefit. Long-term costs of nuclear have been rising whilst those of alternative renewable and low-carbon sources (notably solar and wind) have been falling for well over half a century. If you're hiring^Wbuying based on slope rather than intercept, nuclear is not attractive.

Technically, nuclear power is poorly suited to peak-power loads. It doesn't ramp easily or quickly, and performs most economically when operated at constant power outputs. Gas (and hydroelectric or pumped-hydro storage) by contrast can follow demand-side changes rapidly, in a matter of minutes. For pairing with a variable-input solar-and-wind capability, something other than nuclear would be a better supply-side match. Pumped hydro, compressed-air energy storage (CAES), thermal-electric storage (e.g., molton salt), electric battery, load-banking (e.g., as thermal energy) or demand-side shaping (adjusting heavy loads to maximum generation) would be better fits. For now, natural gas turbine peaking plants fit the bill, though those also need phasing out.

Politically nuclear power is a challenge for numerous reasons, spanning those I'm raising and with others. The economics make for challenging financing and popularity, with very long lead and pay-off times. Cancellations of plants during construction or operation means that potentially-realised benefits are lost with major costs. In many ways, nuclear solves the wrong power problems (though it does solve the right emissions problem).

Nuclear continues to carry risks, and very-long-tailed ones, despite the claims of supporters. Many of those are not technical in nature, but operational, organisational, or reflect global threats outside the purvue of a utility itself. Nuclear plants typically have a paramilitary security presence armed, trained, and authorised to use lethal force. Relative to coal and oil plants, the net safety record is better, but one of the characteristics of nuclear power is the capability for things to go from operating very well to behaving exceeding poorly in a matter of minutes. This has happened repeatedly, across a wide range of designs, despite assertions of safety. Once things go poorly, then tend to remain that way for centuries or millennia. Long-term environmental consequences of fossil fuels notwithstanding, other power options don't have this specific handicap.
And this is probably why facebook won't win.
>Fine, build your own shit then.

Sure. Do what you want but don't try to claim that this is a good license. It's the opposite of a good license. It's ambiguous, capricious, and arbitrary.
This is a study of MBA students. I'm pretty sure you'd get very different results if you asked CS students, there I think people would take the unfriendly genius who guarantees them an A+ on the assignment over the friendly guy who doesn't contribute anything.
It seems like this kind of problems occur mostly within some specific areas, meanwhile OP seems to suggest that this kind of review should be applied for everything.
Fedora used to be on the bleeding edge ages ago.... For anybody who abandoned it after FC8, I'd say you can definitely give it another shot. A lot has changed in the past decade. I run it even in my production servers (yeah, I know RHEL is there but I don't want to pay for subscription) alongside Debian and it has never crashed on me.
> and I'm sure it would happily not have a top-level status code (or a more meaningful one) itself anyway

Fun thing to learn about: WebDAV introduced the HTTP 207 "Multi-Status" response status, for precisely the case where the response is actually a multi-response envelope. https://httpstatuses.com/207

I often feel that the extra methods and features introduced by WebDAV would be usefully generalized to other analogous use-cases, like GraphQL. But then I recall that most of the WebDAV-specific stuff specifies XML-based request/response message formats, and quickly give up on the idea of any modern programmer doing it as a cool hack. Can't have "cool hack" and "XML" in the same sentence, after all ;)
> 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.

The Fed is (likely) going to announce bond purchase tapering this week, they’re currently buying $80B of US Treasuries and $40B of MBS every month. I believe the plan is to taper buying completely before raising rates.

The lack of QE could see the long end of the yield curve start to rise, which would push home prices down. If and when they start hiking the FF rate, look out!
7%, not one in 7, still an unthinkable number of people.
The Architecture of Complexity [pdf]
A good reminder that we know less about what's happening under the surface of the ocean than we do about LEO and near space.
"Fickle"? I've been a subscriber to the unlimited tier since seemingly forever, and I didn't realize it was now $7/mo instead of $5/mo. I think in the aggregate, subscriptions are pretty sticky due to inertia, etc.
I've read that nowadays because they effectively have 8-channel or 16-channel RAM, there would just be too many connections to make them removable.

Imagine 8 DIMMs next to each other, and then fitting that into a laptop form factor.
Not a BB user, but 100% agreed that CCC is fantastic, reliable, fast, etc.
A couple things I've wondered about:

* The popular fake meats, such as Impossible burgers, seem like ultra-processed foods. Is that right? Are they healthier than meat (a question without a general answer, but worth considering)? They could help with climate change, regardless.

* A basic question, but I haven't found an authoritative answer: Warnings about carbohydrates talk about processed foods but are silent on whole grains. Are whole grains a more healthy way to consume carbs?
It is funny, but isn’t it kind of a maritime rule or law that a smaller vessel always gives way to a larger one? So it makes sense they would say that really.
I think drugs should be legal (or decriminalized) but probably with at least two categories, which no doubt causes it's own set of problems:

1. Recreational, like marijuana and alcohol and many hallucinogens, where regulating and taxing is the best solution, to deter organized crime and make sure people are getting the product they want to get

2. Harmful (and the definition is tough here) like meth and heroin, where the goal is something closer to medically supervised use, and breaking the habit where appropriate, but also making sure people are getting real drugs and not resorting to more dangerous alternatives or those of unknown origin.

The point isn't that drugs are good, it's that people will do them anyway, so how do you remove the criminal element and keep people safer under the circumstances. I agree that they shouldn't sell meth at convenience stores, but someone addicted should be able to talk to a doctor and get it, and not have to buy some dangerous unknown thing off the street.

I imagine if this happened, the next fight would be social control advocate groups pushing for currently legal drugs (alcohol) to me moved to my category 2. People's own puritan values and a hatred of the idea that someone else may be enjoying themselves in a way they don't endorse are a (the) main root cause of all the societal problems with drugs imo
> Not that I don't appreciate a security-minded platform, it just seems overkill for 99% of the people who'll purchase them

No man is an island. If my mom is insecure, then all the messages I sent her are leaked, too, no matter how secure I try to be. If my boss is insecure, then I'm even worse off than that.

Also, if high-security stuff is normalized, then you don't wind up stuck in a place where you have to choose between "the secure option" and "the option that can actually run the apps I need." E2E encrypting the whole world is also the best defense against the government passing laws that make E2E encryption illegal.
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It's actually super related, given that (at least in the medical software sector) you won't get anything approved by the FDA before spelling out the entire software development operation in processes.
Typically it's the main roads that have traffic jam. Neighborhood roads are open, so the dark store has to be close enough to the customers. It could be done, but would be expensive.
How do you justify racism against asians, who are the most affected group by these discriminatory policies, when they are often poor and somehow quickly rise with good scores?

Obviously, it's not historical overt racism holding black people behind asian people, it's genetics. The real overt, disgusting racism is "affirmative action".
Sure. You just need to apply your anti-glare coating to the world's oceans.
Detention is when you keep a container out too long. Demurrage is when you wait too long to pick it up.
I'm a little depressed that this a minority viewpoint.
The multiple repetitions of “This is Google” hit home for me. I never worked as a software engineer so much of the rest is out of scope to my experience, but the constant idolization of Google, and by proxy each other for working at such a place, eventually changed from feeling coy to cultish.
I think they might know something we don't. Such as, for example, that loan rates are about to go up a lot, which if inflation is not "transitory" (which it isn't) they will.

They already did go up some. Most people can't count to save their lives, but $1M at 2.5% APR is about $4K monthly (borderline doable for quite a few folks on 2 incomes), whereas at 16% (historical peak) it's something like $13.5K (not really doable beyond the top 1%).

In spite of their large loss, this could prove to be a wise divestment under that scenario. If loans get a lot more expensive (which happened during Carter and then Reagan years, see "stagflation"), the housing market will tank right away and people will be desperate to lock in at least some of the gains they thought they had, creating excess supply. Not a good environment for flipping, especially at the mid- to low end of the market. The game of musical chairs seems to be coming to an end, and Zillow has just grabbed a chair. Three legged and busted chair, but a chair nevertheless.
I guess the fundamentals are solid then.
> does not require an economist to see

IME, people have lots of theories that look good to amateurs. Look at physics, as a striking example of how wrong amateurs can be for thousands of years.

Anyway, you aren't required to do research for me, but some person on the Internet writing economic theory is not persuasive to me. Oh well.
I run ssh/mosh on a Linux laptop to my Mac desktop all day every day. I suspend the laptop every night, and when I open it in the morning, it immediately reconnects.

I run tmux (locally, nesting another session on the Mac) but I don't think that would make a difference here.

I'm not aware of any special config, but I've been using this setup for several years with no major adjustments.
> At worst, the former is a neutral in his overall contributions

No, with an extra teammate the expectations on your team increases, so you have to work hard enough to pay for that guys salary as well.

Lets extend this a bit, would you prefer to work in a team with 5 incompetent but nice persons who don't contribute anything, so your work has to be enough to pay all their salaries, or would you want to work with 5 assholes who work hard enough that you can slack all day because they pick it up? I'm sure a majority would prefer the second scenario, the first scenario would lead to burnout really quickly and soon they will call you the toxic asshole genius.
Do you think lower interest rates had no effect on prices? Or do you think it did - but that raising rates for some reason won't have an effect?
My guess is supply would be constrained because of how addictive it is. You’d still end up with street-level dealers selling it. I could be wrong but it’s hard to see how cheap, legal, easily-available meth can lead to anything but an addiction crisis.
I was reading some other articles and found a picture of him rocking this SPARCbook in a coffee shop: https://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/myblog/copyleft-is-... :)
It’s billing that’s the problem. The software has to account for all sorts of billing codes to make sure it’s billed correctly.

I’ve said it before but I think medical billing is the problem with healthcare in the US.
Where Does Bad Code Come From?
Didn't know Backblaze offers cloud storage. Cool to know!
Serious question asked from a place of naïveness: how do you short at IPO assuming one doesn't already have stock?
Oooh, that clip launching stuff looks nifty! I'll have to try it out.

I'll also take a look at temporal. You definitely have a point when it comes to avoiding mistakes of the past. Your help and guidance is appreciated!
"Plant based meats" are carbohydrate heavy so they are really only meat-like in terms of taste and texture but fail as meat replacements due to the completely different nutritional profile.