skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that right now, you can still get a very nice house for < 500K in many midwestern college towns

I'm in Madison, WI. The house I'm currently in was 180k back in '09. It has appreciated some since then. My neighbors have each turned over in the past decade and have sold their house for ~$300k.

If you go with 500k, you're in a very nice part of town or one of the extremely large corner lots. Most of the houses are in the 300k - 350k range.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1305-N-Thompson-Dr-Madiso... isn't uncommon.

> And the worse the weather is, the better the real-estate value.

That's a big consideration for many people. Little tolerance for the winter.
Paying property taxes and mortgage interest and insurance and maintenance and real estate commissions are also throwing away money. Don't forget all the carrying costs when you're selling the house and have the house sit empty for months. Just because you already moved out doesn't mean it stops costing you $$$.

Buying a house only makes sense if you're going to stay there 5+ years.

I've owned several homes as I've moved around. Lost money on all but one. My parents lost money on all the houses they bought. Real estate is hardly the guaranteed "wealth builder" people think it is.

I hate mowing the lawn, too.

Oh, and if you build a new house in Washington state, you get to pay sales tax on it! That's another 10% poke in the eye.
The Wikipedia app is actually quite beautiful, and with access to location services it's fun to discover stuff around you.
Show HN: I redesigned my landing page to be as unprofessional as possible
This assumes I want to pay for housing over a period of time. I’d love to just pay for it once and never be beholden to anyone ever again. My car was $5000. When something breaks I fix it myself for nothing. I’ve replaced heater core in 1940s furnaces myself, put on new roofs, can drywall anything myself. Houses are cheap to fix and you can find people that do it right for little money if you know your stuff. I’d love to settle down and I’m ready to do that where it makes sense, but where I want but is not affordable. I can rent but then I’m wasting money. Building more housing fixes this problem very easily.
Same with cp. Could not reproduce on the Mac or Linux.
Algorithmically tailoring feeds is not passive.
I mean... first of all I would like to hear what are the consequences of good/bad IAQ (Indoor Air Quality?)

I'm actually more driven/interested in data/compare it to other folks, but I don't have a clue what does it mean for my health. What's the difference between PM2.5, PM10, PM1, PM0.1. What is TVOC (as in sensor description: benzene,etc Volatile organic compounds), HCHO (is for formaldehyde). How do I measure them (parent expands on these questions), what are the "norms" and, most importantly: WHY should I care about those values?

Then ofcourse tips on HOW to decrease those particles. That's where filter comes in, yeah. First time someone said he just slaps filter on an air ventilator, I was like: "Wow, it's SO simple? Yeah, sounds logical"
As a counterpoint, I found HPMOR to be incredibly disappointing. It felt like a brilliant idea squandered on author-insertion proselytizing. This review sums it up better than I can, and I think I enjoyed reading the review more than HPMOR itself: https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/
The New Akita
Don't forget closing costs and the opportunity cost of investing the down payment (which regulations basically require to be like 20% now I think).

But yes, I agree that that's the history, that if you're in an area for a few years it's better to buy than to rent, but isn't it untenable for real estate to increase in value at ~3% higher than inflation indefinitely? I genuinely don't understand the long run bull case for real estate as an investment.

But the idea that you'll get a rate of return that's close to the stock market, from owning some land that's just sitting there? It's very strange to me, from a 10,000 foot view of the economics.

It's true that there's a fixed amount of land, but the population (both in the US and in the world as a whole) is growing slowly now and will soon stop.

I suppose one potential driver for real estate's value in major cities is that the returns to concentration of talent will continue to increase. That seems possible (though beware of tail risks there, like remote work, VR, pandemic). But for real estate that's outside of a big growing city?

It just seems possible that we've been in a long bull run in real estate that could slow down or halt drastically at any time.

But that doesn't mean that it's not better to own than to rent. When you rent, you've got another party that's looking for a profit, and your rent is pricing in risks that are more under your control when you're an owner (like the risk that you totally trash the property, or the opportunity cost when the house is sitting empty).
Why is that 'not really inflation'?
Waltzmania in the Paris Pleasure Gardens
My fiancee is from West Virginia. She doesn't even come from the really rural part of it, but she basically has nothing good to say about living there. Poverty, drug abuse, environmental degradation. And seeing as half the people I've met from WV are basically lowlifes I'm inclined to agree.

You can get land pretty cheap there, though. I've thought about buying a forested plot before but ... nah. If I want to do that I can afford to do it in a more rural part of Ohio.
Honestly, if you're working 60 hours a week, and not by choice, it's time to start considering other positions. I don't work over 40 hours a week most weeks, and still make a reasonable salary. Admittedly, I'm not 1.5mm home rich; but, when rent is 2-3k, I don't find much value, myself, in buying a house or condo for more than like 500k, so I'm sitting and waiting, for now.
German submarine U 1058 was given to USSR in 1946., 18.01.1958 was taken into use as a floating charging/loading station PZC-32. Was sunk probably in the end of
1958, west from island Saaremaas in ca 98 meters depth.
They don't need to force you to migrate, the new site pushes people into mindless meme sharing only, and completely altered the contents of the site already.
In general I think I agree with you, but on forums this is subtly different.

In a general internet forum, it's up to you decide what you read. On FB, there's an algorithm that determines your feed, and therefore the profit of Facebook itself.

If FB were connecting people, making the world a better place, and making profit by doing that, I think I'd be fine with that.

But it looks like FB can trade the general good will of people, replace it with extremism and make a profit doing so. And if that's true, I think we need to seriously look at section 230.

There's a series of commons that we all share (e.g. water, air). I'm not quite sure if this fits in this category, but for democracy to work, people have to agree to not resort to violence to solve their problems. Trading the common good will for your fellow country men for profit, while watching the world burn, is I think not what we want as a society.
Yeah...there's something spooky about places like Racine, Wisconsin or rural Illinois. And I don't think it's specific to me. Get Out resonated with a lot of people (ofc it's way different and difficult for Black people) because there is some fear and discomfort in going to a white, rural area. Even if the white, rural area is ostensibly liberal and friendly. There's something disturbing about being alone, the only one of your race and surrounded.
Why don't we have an X prize for incremental self driving around collision mitigation & safety?

So much interesting research on the advent of "Automatic Braking Systems" and its introduction ->

- eg in China researchers demonstrate the potential of saving thousands of lives per annum - "fatalities could be reduced by 13.2%, and injuries could be reduced by 9.1%." (1)

- and when using data from insurance claims - ". . front-facing automatic emergency braking systems can cut the frequency of bodily injury liability claims by nearly 25%. A similar study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) involving police-reported crashes — typically the most severe type of collision — found front automatic emergency braking reduced "front-to-rear" crashes by 50%. Often referred to as rear-ending another vehicle, these crashes can be deadly, particularly when the car responsible for the collision is moving at high speed. " (2)

- Or when outfitting large tractor trailers with the tech - "Equipping large trucks with forward collision warning and automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems could eliminate more than 2 out of 5 crashes in which a large truck rear-ends another vehicle, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety suggests." (3)

I recognize that we'll see "trickle down" safety improvements from the self driving groups, but how do we just ensure every 2025 model or what have you has some basic automatic braking system in place that includes pedestrian recognition?

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037779/

(2) https://www.jdpower.com/automotive-news/report-automatic-eme...

(3) https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/study-shows-front-crash-pre...
> what does that tell you?

Others are less sensitive to human waste then I am and will work 60 hour weeks to be around it.
HN has headline length limit.
Creating Views with PostgreSQL and TypeORM
i loved J-core , it showed the importance of ISA .. RISC-V & J-core can change this world ..
Counteracting blame game comes down to being careful not to ever use certain phrasing common to the enemy. We just had one I threatened to cancel because one of the lead developers was asking how a decision happened and using The Tone.

It’s not a matter of whose hands the hammer is in. Nobody gets to use it at all or everyone will.
not enough green, or amiga-style florid colour changes.

where's the dancing cat?

otherwise, bis!
This is a perspective immigrants to America seem to have that I’ve never really understood. What’s the point of moving to a new country if the number one thing one to seek out is culture and cuisine which makes them feel like they’re back home?

I certainly can’t imagine someone from Texas moving to Japan and wondering where the all American BBQ places are :)
Yes. It’s the effect that propagates.
This is a very clear distillation of the absolute lack of imagination that is endemic across the National Parks Service. It is this mindset that stagnating progress in the National Parks. 105 years and there have been no major developments in Parks technologies. No waterfalls running in reverse, no water-skiing bison, no Grander Canyon.
/s
Probably focused on, and wanting to get out of the way of, other oncoming cars.
It's a personal choice. I respect their choice.
The Four Corners potato
>Why do people put up with these tiny homes in cramped, expensive cities?

In what universe is 2000 square feet tiny? Most of America - to say nothing of the rest of the world - makes do with far less. Sure, if you have 5-7 people living under one roof, more might be appreciated, but especially for 2-4 people it's tons of space.

If you want more space, a city isn't the place for you.
Lungs don't "respirate", they absorb oxygen from the inhaled air and pass it into the bloodstream in return for carbon dioxide which is then exhaled.
> 55" 4k TV that's about 33" away from my face

This is so obvious now that I think about it. Name the number animals in our evolutionary lineage whose survival depended on staring at a tiny object closer than an arms length away. Besides us, I can't think of a single one. Even most humans were able to get by with mostly distance vision until very recently.

I'm glad that large screens are becoming so much more economical, because this just makes a whole lot of sense.
Sqlite is just that, lightweight. If you want better JSON support specialized for what you want, extend it. The product allows extensions easily.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms_(TV_series)
I'm always blown away by the effort some of us put into random passion projects.

This looks amazing!

I personally wouldn't install it. I don't like cluttering my browser with too many extensions and I don't use Wikipedia enough for it to be worth it.

But well done.
Are you running an irregular version of libc? Something else unusual?
Aldi is pretty awesome, but I quite like Lidl! When they opened up a store in my hometown, it was game changer - their hazelnut croissants are incredible and the food is super affordable
I suspect thicker A pillars are also part of the problem. The A pillars have gotten a lot thicker in recent model years. That improves passive crash safety by making the car body stronger and allows for more airbags. But it also reduces visibility when turning. Sometimes drivers literally can't see pedestrians without moving their heads to the side.
Deukhoofd is correct — we compile the WASM code back into C in order to reuse and reduce friction with our existing compilation pipeline.
I’m resisting the urge to vomit after seeing that keyboard layout. The trackball-esque thing, the arrow cluster, the numpad…

So many questions.
This is what I like about chrome extensions, you can modify things, store your own stuff, etc...

I am curious I don't think Wikipedia does it/would do it but I have seen some sites break if you modify their DOM.

I think including CSS overrides would be different but YT is an example where injecting something into their DOM has an error show up in console.

Wondering if that was a concern for you.
It's a lot of what m.wikipedia.com looks like, actually. Just hitting m. on any given Wiki article on a Desktop makes it so much easier to read in my experience. YMMV. :)
Header in the article:

> DNS is pull, not push

Except for when it is.... If you increment the serial number of a zonefile on your authoritative ns1 and reload the zone, it will push it to any slaves that are configured and set as authoritative for the zone. Very standard IXFR config.

If we are referring to third parties' caching recursive resolvers updating a zone, then yes, it absolutely is pull not push.
Typical driver mindset, blaming those they run over. If anything, the "iPhone issue" you mention is probably more apparent in distracted drivers, not pedestrians.

Do you also park in the cycle lanes, and then later complain about cyclists not using them?
Yeah, I don't think blaming the typo is the right outcome for this. The right outcome would be identifying where your testing / review / launch / validation process failed. Evidently it failed, or nothing would have gone wrong even when you made a typo.

Usually the response to a good root-cause investigation isn't "I'll try to avoid making mistakes" (although sometimes it's just a mistake and no changes is required). The outcome should be a new rule or practice for the organization, some kind of decision that determines how things will be done going forward to make the error less likely. This almost always requires a leader at some level declaring by fiat that things will be done this way going forward; if your managers aren't doing that, they're not 'leading' at all.
Current employer has 10,000+ employees. Individual teams have limited ability to customise jira.

One of the funniest ways this manifests is the list of custom ways that two tickets can be related -- you know, "relates to", "is caused by", "blocks", "is blocked by". Well that list has over 100 custom entries, many of them variations of capitalisation or spelling. The first choice in the drop down list is "is actually supplied by vendor".
I feel like there's the issue on Reddit
7NewYear's Resolutions for 2022 – Your Best Year Ever
I'm really disappointed that there's no midi of the X-Files theme playing the background.

For everything I built that never leaves my home network, I always use the HTML `marquee` tag somewhere, simply because I think it's funny and it's bizarrely still supported.
I love it. Honestly, it could be less professional.
Both C++AMP and Tensorflow abstracted away the movement of data behind relatively easy to use interfaces.

C++ AMP in particular was a generic interface behind a template<> class: Array<> and ArrayView<>.

Array<> always existed on GPU-side (be it GPU#0 or GPU#1), while ArrayView<> was your abstraction to read/write into that Array<>.

Array<SomeClass> foo = createSomeArray();
ArrayView<SomeClass> bar = foo;

This could be CPU-side or GPU side code (foo could be on GPU#0, while bar could be GPU#1). While you can use C++ AMP code to manually manage when the copies happen, the idea is to simplify the logic down so that CPU-programmers didn't have to think as hard.

In this case, "bar" is bound to foo, and bar will remain in sync with foo through async programming behind the scenes. bar[25] = SomeClass(baz); will change bar in this context, but the Array<> foo will only update at the designated synchronization points (similar to CUDA Streams).

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So its a lot easier than reading/writing cudaMemcpy() in the right spots, in the right order, in the right CUDA Streams. But probably less efficient, and therefore going to be less popular than using CUDA directly.
Hi, app4soft - I'm not sure I'm following your comment regarding "vendor lock". Would you mind explaining a bit further what you are referring to?
Personally, I treat documentaries as entertainment. They can be informative, but I usually only pay attention to the finer details they provide proof for. Any kind of arch or narrative I remain skeptical on.
Haha you're right! I'll try to add those in - new update coming on December 32nd!
Yep. A few months ago I bagged myself a 10% raise immediately after asking for a counteroffer. Sometimes it's the only way.
Regardless, FJCVTZS is still literally a "Javascript" instruction: "Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero".
Information Disorder Prize Competition
I have a Vindriktning with the ESP8266 makeover sitting on the desk behind me, feeding its data into my Home Assistant instance. So far it's working great, except for one annoying detail: I'd much prefer the forced airflow fan to be on at all times, since the constant on-off cycling (around every ~10s) is quite audible and distracting in a quiet environment.
Or you know, don't have left turns and pedestrian crossings at the same time. A simple software fix of the traffic light pattern would eliminate almost all of these fatalities.

Sequence should be

- Pedestrians in all directions including diagonal

- Traffic in horizontal direction, no pedestrians

- Traffic in vertical direction, no pedestrians

Repeat
Yeh i bought some dodgy nitrogen online and i got air! So i am still alive...
To be honest, if he does launch the iRobot thing and it does work as intended, it will have been so because of his decision to use vision instead of radar.
I love this! A large appeal of this kind of thing is unlocking possibilities outside of the Generic Website box, so making that dead obvious to people is a very straightforward demonstration of value.
Without going into unreasonable drivers (that surely are plenty), how many turns do one make in a trip there, what is the speed on the outgoing street, and what visibility do they have over the new street.

Anything you do is an exercise of balancing risks. Breaking too hard is a risk, taking time slow at a fast street is a risk, and turning too fast is a risk.
Well done, it looks easier to read. Make font and background adjustable (like reader mode in Safari).
They don't allow pull requests could be one reason. E.g. if you wanted to take SQLite in a different direction.

https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
For a particularly dramatic example of this, Tom Scott made a video about an intersection in the UK that's poorly designed for visibility:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYeeTvitvFU
Wow, pretty brutal victim blaming here.
You're driving on average a 4000 pounds vehicle at speed, you need to be the one responsible for it. "They got in my way" doesn't really fly.
This sounds like Amazon
Probably one of the safest ways to turn left as you have no bi-directional flows to compete against. When in a city and it is a grid I would just do the UPS right turn to make a left. One extra street down, right, right and straight.
I believe the implementation in Firefox masks off the high bits of pointers and adds the result to the base address before performing a load/store. This requires us to reserve a power-of-two-sized region of address space, but we can lazily/incrementally commit the pages as the sandboxed code invokes sbrk.
Stephen Diehl to the rescue: https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html
A lot of people believe that the law operates kind of like magic, and that if you can check the right boxes then the government just has do do whatever thing you think checking those boxes will make them do. This isn't the case, of course.

The way-off-the-deep-end extreme version of this thinking is the SovCit movement, the adherents of which seem to believe, contrary to all sense and evidence, that the right words spoken (or written) in the right order can eliminate the ability of the government to enforce its laws on a given person—that the government is in fact well bound (by whom? Who enforces this?) by some arcane set of well-hidden rules that, if you know how to correctly invoke them, gives you exceptional power over it. As if the government is some kind of rules-bound genie or magic mirror or something. However, weaker versions of this are common. If you've found someone who talks a lot about "technicalities" in legal cases, you're probably dealing with someone who operates under at least a partial misunderstanding of how the law works—that is, they very likely believe that finding little "gotchas" is way more powerful a tactic than it actually is.

I'd be surprised if there aren't a lot of people who think religious exemptions work a lot more broadly than they actually do, and that all you need is to get an ordained minister of some sort to sign off, and that's that, the government has to let you do what you want, and if they don't then that must represent some awful and dangerous break from the norm. Meanwhile, that's not how it works at all.
Other facts about pedestrian deaths:

80% are at night.

33% involve a drunk pedestrian.

20% are elderly.

Contrary to these data about SF, most pedestrian deaths (73%) are not at intersections, but at non-crossings.

I try to tell friends to be more careful walking at night, and to not walk drunk (take an uber, it's safer).

https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/pedestrian_safety/i...

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/road-users/pedestr...
"unprofessional" is the wrong word. It's simply punk/brutalist.

You can find a similar aesthetic in many art spaces:

https://rhizome.org/events/

https://indigo.ooo/en/

https://2019.indigo.ooo/en/

https://2017.indigo.ooo/en/
How do you know it is working great? Have you compared it against other known sensors?
I think you're missing the mark a bit with the `density` and `room for content to breath` space. While I generally prefer to not hide (common) actions behind menus, and have some (imho) better design to surface these types of things I can accept it. The current trend with giving content all the room and shoving every little action into a pop-out is getting a bit much. We all have massive displays, even on our phones, and we _can_ show the more common actions (in this case, history, edit, etc) instead of hiding everything behind a `...` or a hamburger menu.
how do we just ensure every 2025 model or what have you has some basic automatic braking system in place that includes pedestrian recognition

The step preceding that would be to determine whether this is the most effective way to spend resources for the expected benefit. The marginal car buyer who will have to wait in order to buy one of these more expensive cars might have been able to upgrade sooner if this safety equipment hadn't been ensured.