skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could buy a house at the end of a run way for cheap, or in a desert, but no one wants to live there.
>How do you 'simply' bail out millions of homeowners?

Simple three step process:

- Be the leader of the CCP

- Declare that the homeowners will be bailed out

- Sit back and watch while your entire society restructures itself to bail out homeowners

I'm only half-kidding; this kind of stuff has been done time and time again, side effects be damned.
So… Vietnam?
My 5 cents: This makes it way too easy to accidentally collapse threads as the clickable area is hard to tell apart from whitespace. (Speaking from regular and annoying experience with on old.reddit.com.) I, for one, much prefer the HN style buttons.
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voila.. took a bit longer, the code was "too slow"... turns out I was using the wrong branching factor!

https://github.com/tomprimozic/vector
> One path to doing that is to sell dollar-denominated assets. US Stocks and bonds in other words.

A big part of the world economy is literally or effectively dollar-denominated, so a sale of dollar-denominated assets does not imply a sale of US stocks and bonds. You can sell just about anything for dollars.
I was replying to a comment comparing the quality of Austrian houses (presumably detached single family homes) to US houses.

I agree with you that stick built is not desirable for multifamily housing or any housing that shared walls with other families.

I disagree that people dislike shared and more dense housing because of their conceptions about what what noise insulation could be. Shared maintenance would be more of a concern, but shared and dense housing has a ton of other drawbacks (on an individual family level), even though the society wide level benefits are positive.

Who would not want space to park their individual cars and store their skis and beach gear and have a backyard to throw parties in? Not to mention the use of zoning only for detached single family housing on larger plots of land to be able to keep out people who cannot afford as much from the local schools. But that is a separate conversation.
Wanting a 911 call to go through is an unusual use case?
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Quill owners could prevent that while selling. I'm pretty sure they were aware that Twitter will/could do that.

You can negotiate these things while selling.
Personally, I would argue that if Teams is able to somehow interfere with dialing 911 from outside of the app, that's a major Android bug much more than a Teams bug. --The last thing you want is any app to be able to interfere with emergency calls whether it's intentional or not.

But Microsoft is certainly not going to try and argue that Teams doesn't have to be able to make emergency calls, at least not when it's used as a VOIP solution - they have plenty of documentation to help ensure emergency calls are routed properly: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/what-are-eme...
Glad you noticed the Chicago reference. There are many more such examples. My favorite doublespeak is the fancy name for killing Obama administration used:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
Rand Fishkin is a professional when it comes to whining, and this was a hilarious read.
10/10
Where do people pay 50% down on a loan? In Australia, it used to be 20% but now can be as low as 5-10% if you pay an additional fee.
Serialized roaring bitmaps in Golang
I fully own that taking a job here was my decision and I knew in advance what I was getting into. There are some incidental circumstances that make the job somewhat desirable despite that.
I see. "Bedroom Community" typically means something more like Worcester or Lynn, at least from my understanding. A distinct hub beyond the suburbs from which people commute into the city.
Scoop places a [new] tag next to comments that have been posted since the last time you refreshed the page, so that you can just Ctrl-F. So there have been popular sites doing this for 20+ years, e.g. Kuro5hin and DailyKos. HN just hasn't had features like this due to being limited by single threaded compute for various reasons. Although if the comments were served via an API, this could now be down in the front end with just the timestamp of when each user last refreshed each page.
Speaking of UT99... it's still getting patches https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches

> OldUnreal took over maintenance of the Unreal Tournament code base after reaching an agreement with Epic Games in 2019.
Usual problem - how do you define a journalist and how do you say whether they've been jailed for being a journalist or not.
https://hckrnews.com/ then
Dated number for Brazil, which counts 3 imprisoned journalists in 2021, not 1.
Typical European superiority complex. Europe is slowly becoming a third world union. Salaries for software developers after tax are even lower than in Ukraine (!!!). What else could be worse?
The part that the market authority seems to have based their decision on is that the Prime label increases visibility on Amazon.

By making a particular logistics company a requirement for the Prime label, Amazon's dominant market position raises sales for that logistics company. So far this isn't really debatable, what matters is whether this is an unfair use of Amazon's market dominance.
Worth noting that this "dollar short squeeze" is the exact opposite of the most common conspiracy theory about the dollar: that the Fed is printing them like its going out of style (through quantitative easing and whatnot) and destroying their value.
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“ As an example, Friend Camp is anti-free-speech, at least in the sense that freedom of speech is commonly understood as a value. This is repulsive to some people on both the left and the right, and it's important that people with that core value find somewhere other than Friend Camp to set up their online home.

For those wondering, the RationalWiki definition of freedom of speech is exactly the kind of freedom of speech we take issue with on our server. Again, you may find this abhorrent, but you don't have to join our server, and we're never going to house more than a few dozen people.”

Lolololololololooololol. Even rational wiki is too moderate.
In my opinion, if you feel the need to write bash scripts that mount and/or format drives, there's already something wrong with your approach.
Depending on the environment (old school linux system vs. orchestration suite) I'd rather do it manually, or if possible, let IaC (eg. Terraform, Ansible) handle such infrastructure tasks.

For lots of people, bash is the hammer, everything's a nail. Can be very frustrating to inherit such environments.
I agree, `mktemp` is very useful. I recently worked on a script that would check if you had a repo locally, if so update it, and otherwise clone it for you. `mktemp` made it a lot simpler, as I could just always clone it and be sure that I would have a freshly cloned state.
This, I think this is really why Facebook bought WhatsApp.. Because they buy everything they view as a threat and it kinda is.
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If someone appointed me as the czar of legislative voting, my way to resolve this and reduce the incentives to gerrymander while improving minority representation would be to replace single district voting with a vote-point system.

If one candidate in a district gets 100,000 votes and another 85,000 votes, both would go to congress and each would get that many vote-points. Rather than number of representative votes, voting outcomes would be determined by who has more vote-points. That way if you have three similarly sized districts, District X and District Y where 40% want party A and 60% want party B, and then district Z where you have 90% want party A and only 10% want party B, you'd still end up with .4/3+.4/3+.9/3 (56%) votes for party A rather than 67% for party B, regardless of how you redistrict. Plus you'd have asymmetric interests where opposing parties would represent the same districts so they would be incentivized to work together, and also some representation for minority regional parties who may align with one party on some issues and another on others.

To limit budgets, I guess there would have to be a maximum number of candidates per district, maybe filtering out anyone who does not have at least 10% of the vote (or some other number determined by some reasonable formula), an option for candidates who don't meet the threshold to reallocate their vote-points to someone who did (or a ranked choice voting system that keeps going until everyone remaining has the minimum vote threshold), and maybe no matter what you'd at least send two candidates unless literally only one candidate had votes.

This would also have a side effect of incentivizing more people to vote and allow people to vote with a bit less strategy and more earnestness.
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What are the ramifications of the PBoC “pumping” money like this?
According to a few agent's I've spoken to, the insurance companies are able to pull mileage data from when you do maintenance, such as oil changes. Annual (low) mileage is already baked into my rates, but it's a minuscule if not negligible amount.
Well, normally a bailout doesn't involve just giving people money (the bank bailout was a loan), but you could do that, it'd be a massive cost however. The biggest winners would also be those with terrible loans/those who issued them.

Alternatively, you could just give all homeowners a loan instead - but this doesn't change the fundamental issue of subprime mortgages, so it would really just be pumping up the bubble further.
"It's well understood how to"

And

"It likely wouldn't take much to"

Are worlds apart in this case, training and deploying models on that scale is a huge investment, even if you already had all the code and cleaned training data.
At least in vehicle infotainment systems, we test 911 functionality EXTENSIVELY. It's a major part of call testing, because dialing 911 overrides all sorts of lockouts and exercises code paths that aren't otherwise well-covered by testing.

Usually there's a hidden config register where we can change "the number for 911", so for some portion of testing, we'll set that to "Chris's phone" and inundate a coworker with calls, but once we've been through a shakedown with that, it's time to coordinate with the local PSAP and identify a slow time when they can field some real test calls from us.

There are all sorts of safeguards here -- they want a regular phone number for one of the testers, so if the test phone malfunctions in any way (say, calls complete but audio doesn't open), they can reach us out-of-band. And it's always perfectly clear that they can cancel the activity at any time, if enough real 911 calls come in that they don't have spare operators for our testing.

It's been a long time since I was on the carrier side, but I remember doing tower turn-ups, we'd also place one test call per carrier-sector, to make sure the location info was transferred correctly. Similar coordination but it was largely a formality because it was usually just 3 or 6 calls, and very brief ones at that.

In the instant case, both the phone maker (Google) and the carrier (unsure) should've exercised this in their acceptance testing. Since it sounds like a Teams bug, it's understandable that they didn't catch it, but also unacceptable that Teams could interfere with the ability to dial 911. Since we've now learned that apps can interfere with that, this hugely balloons testing requirements until/unless they fix the OS so apps cannot interfere.
Indian edtech giant Byju’s acquires Austria’s GeoGebra in a $100M deal
My house does nothing, because I can't afford a house :(

I would also prefer a house of sticks than no house ;)
Alcohol doesn’t kill the guy standing next to you while you consume. And if it does (DUI) it’s regulated already.
I actually wondered if there was an uptick in boxing after Muhammed Ali had his fight in Zaire.

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

Here is a great documentary on that fight:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Were_Kings
See my github. Mostly system stuff: languages, libraries.

https://github.com/rurban/

E.g. I preferred hashtables as database in phpwiki. There I needed sorted pagination, but even without btree's the simple server-less hashtable architecture was 20x faster than mysql/sqlite with its overhead. Also, why logarithmic btree's when you can have constant lookup. Not everything needs to be sorted.
Interesting, I was just thinking Halo 2 was great for that sort of thing. I have some fond memories of joining private parties and goofing around for hours hunting for glitches
The hn header doesn’t match the tweet - quill is providing the ability to export (with one or two exceptions, e.g direct messages)
>> For example, what parameterization of rotations do you use?

For orientation we use quaternions. For other things it's an axis-angle representation. For the equal angle constraint I'm not sure how that's implemented. There was a recent addition of length-ratio between lines and arcs. That implementation was surprising to me.
These things are a consequence of unaccountable, unvompetitive contractors, not just a cause. We could have had routine volume space flight many decades ago, if the money we spent went to competitive free market purchases. Even the Space Shuttle was originally meant to have something like weekly launches, and then they didn't, mostly for bad political reasons.
I think Vimeo was once going after a similar market, but lately they seem to be distancing themselves from individual content creators. Their landing page, for example, describes their offering as "simple tools for any professional, team, and organization to create, manage, and share high-quality videos".
Google is not scared of fines. They're more akin to a machine.

if fine cost * probability of fine being issued > cost to address then address else end.
That's fair enough - my bad. I wouldn't perceive it as an insult, but I can see that it's widely treated as such.
For things like that, I usually make use of the C-Left and C-Right combinations to get to the same place on every line; after all, if two lines are similar enough for me to do the same thing to all of them, they very often have the same sequence of words. (Sometimes there can be issues, e.g., if one line has an extra index.) For reference, I tried your particular example, and the keystrokes look something like:

C-f, "foo\(" [open a Find dialog]
C-Enter: [foo(]XX, YY, ZZ); [Find All shortcut]
Right: foo(|XX, YY, ZZ); [move to the right side of the match]
C-Right: foo(XX|, YY, ZZ);
C-Right: foo(XX,| YY, ZZ);
C-Right: foo(XX, YY|, ZZ);
C-S-Left: foo(XX, [YY], ZZ); [select leftward]

I suppose that it's not quite as ergonomic as Vim keybindings, but it's definitely less of a departure from the usual OS text boxes.
It's amazing what you miss on HN when you skip a day
Perceptions of Musical Octaves Are Learned, Not Wired in the Brain (2019)
GA is about as safe as riding a motorcycle, which is what this article and the EAA say: https://inspire.eaa.org/2017/05/11/how-safe-is-it/

This is much less safe than driving a car.
When We Were Kings
Glad you liked it.

Also just to add one point. When you are an employee you will never get to be more than a sharecropper, growing your crops on someone else's land.

I find it's best to always remain clear about this. Do good work sure, but remember it's never yours, really. Corollary: it's not worth investing too much ego in it.

If you want to work on something you love, then start a side project.
> Every year they change some colors and rounded edges

We are going to... Material YOU!
At first I read that as "Testes". Whew. Dodged that one.
It's largely a waste of time due to the extreme anti corp bias on HN, but the idea that Apple employees don't value or contribute to OS is extremely misleading.
> You can negotiate these things while selling.

Can you do so in a legally-binding way? Surely if you are selling then they own the company, the staff, etc and can do whatever they want?

To do otherwise would mean that you still retain ownership and control of the company, thus not legally "selling".
I wasn't asking about what you think of it as an objective, but whether you think it is possible. Furthermore, when being considered as an objective, whether it is done by anyone's definition of AI seems utterly beside your point. Neither the feasibility of automating the pilot's job, nor whether it is desirable to do so, depends on whether 1st. generation autopilots are considered to be AI.
Betteridge, get in here! We've got a live one!
Their message says there is export: https://quill.chat/updates/2021-12-07-quill-twitter/
There used to be an awesome online game where your challenge was to gerrymander constituencies. I had great fun and it was amazingly education. God knows what it was made in, possibly a Java Applet. I wonder if anything exists with modern tech.

Edit: It was this - http://www.redistrictinggame.org/game.php

It looks like someone has made one here though:
http://gametheorytest.com/gerry/game/
I just realized I'm still on 7.3 because I could never get the image renderer to work on 8.x (the thing that shows the graph in the alert email). Anyone got a Docker image that will render images out of the box?

[edit: Just installed 8.3. Alert conditions warn they are now "beta feature" and "could stop working in next version". Is Grafana removing features every release?]
> though I'm not 100% clear on what the interaction should be if you have a custom phone app... maybe it should be able to handle the 911 calls?

Thankfully, the law is completely unambiguous and tells us exactly how it should be handled:

> Mobile telephones manufactured after February 13, 2000... must incorporate a special procedure for processing 911 calls. Such procedure must recognize when a 911 call is made and, at such time, must override any programming in the mobile unit that determines the handling of a non-911 call.

Android is required to handle emergency calls differently.
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When I hire engineers, I look for basic familiarity with the stack, and then we talk in broad terms about technology, architecture, some interesting software problems. What I look for in these conversations is the enthusiasm for tech, the "spark", if you would. In my 25+ years software career I've seen people with enthusiasm conquer every possible technical issue, even if they didn't have deep knowledge about it beforehand. Sometimes it takes more time, yes. But you cannot replace the spark. So many engineers these days just view this as a cushy career that pays above the market. FWIW, I mostly hired mid- and senior-level, so maybe in junior-level it makes sense to use the whiteboard. Maybe my approach is similar to the "potential" you talk about. I've also never looked at the "fit", I enjoyed working with all sorts of people, my "authority" denied, there's nothing better than engineers asking business questions and arguing about things that come from above. Unfortunately, this is not how things are done in most companies, so I guess if you want a "career" you better train that "emotional intelligence" thing which may mean completely different things to different people.
I wonder if those numbers average by locality, seems like you would need to or it would get skewed by cheap real estate where people that live and work in expensive cities can't access (until companies embrace WFH and stop indulging management's obsession with butts in seats). Houses out in the country can be a great deal with a city income but it's tough to bring those two together.
Then you end up with preposterous situations like California boomers hanging onto property where the value (and thus the property tax) was last assessed in the 70s.
Paraphrasing u/klebe:

Corporations extract concessions from US taxpayers. China extracts concessions from corporations. This is unfair. Why aren't US taxpayers getting the same deal as Chinese taxpayers?

Paraphrasing u/pembrook:

Something something nationalism. Whoa. Be careful. Corporations extracting wealth from US taxpayers is good for world prosperity. For reasons.
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I don't get why people lose their minds about basic economics when they talk about housing construction. It's not like you can't get bricks and concrete in the US. You can, it's just going to cost you including the added labor costs.

I would also argue that old houses are not built better. The materials that you consider "better" where cheaper back when it was built. So it's not like someone back then sat around and said, like some people like to imagine, "I could use cheaper material but I like to do things right. Let's spend twice as much as we need to and future generations will thank us."

Old houses have problems as people have pointed out. Have you seen the windows on a 100 year old house, the insulation, the wiring, plumbing. I think there's also a lot of survivorship bias. You know what kind of house makes it 100 years? One that had a certain construction. What happened to all the crappy houses? They were razed or they fell apart. I also see people looking at what was a mansion, probably owned by some turn of the century robber Barron, and is now just some quirky fixer upper and saying, "They just don't build them like they used to" but that would be like moving into Jeff Bezos's mansion in 100 years and saying, "wow they just don't build them like they used it". They never built them like that. You're just looking at what's left or was worth saving.
Counterexample: having a family of libraries for writing tests that is named "Testing Library" is terribly confusing.
The timing of this is not accidental and Facebook is not acting on its own accord here. This is a move by the Russian mafia/state to make it easier to evade the imminent cut-off from SWIFT and global financial networks.
> you can actually see where the steps are performed. It's sometimes faster than reading a bullet point than finding out where on the screen it is

If and only if the steps are performed in the correct order without any fluffs. In one particularly bad example that I saw someone was showing how to use an updated feature in Photoshop. The sequence went something like

* the instructor showed the old way of doing things

* they then did 'undo' a few times to get back to the point where the new feature was different

* they started showing the new way

* they then realised they'd made a mistake earlier on - missing out a step in the new sequence

* they did undo a few times

* they did the step they'd omitted

* they then carried on from that point

I had to watch several times to work out the actual sequence of correct operations. To my mind they should have re-recorded from the beginning rather than show their disrespect for the viewers.
You can export until Saturday, no? https://quill.chat/updates/2021-12-07-quill-twitter/

Previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29472836
Note that the extension is also for Firefox (and, I'll attest as well, is great).
You are describing "Login with Google" HN could easily support that, but one of the features of HN is that anonymity is optional.