skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this smells like pure spam to me
The seller doesn't care about how much you put down. Cash offers will beat a comparable offer with a mortgage contingency. At the margin, sellers may compare equivelent offers based on how likely they think the mortgage is to be approved; but most buyers are pre-approved regardless of down payment or mortgage type, so this wouldn't be that significant of a factor.

The bigger factor sellers look at is how much money you offer them. At 20% on a conventional, you may be able to get your lender to wave the appraisal requirement, which would be a help if you try offering much over the list price (unless you also have the cash to make up the difference, which if you need the 3% down payment, you probably dont).
I'm sort of embarrassed to admit it but I can no longer write anymore. I can barely hold a pen and make any letter at all... anyone else feel like this?
only need 3% down for most conventional mortgages. I might be out of the loop, but are 2mil+ houses for first time home buyers normal outside of places like Manhattan or the bay area?
It has a lot to do with GDPR, because GDPR article 22 explicitly prohibits all kinds of severe decisions (including but not limited to dismissal) from being done by an automated unappealable system.

Like, even if the dismissal was after a warning, because of rules well known in advance and with an accurate explanation, GDPR would still prohibit making this decision solely through automated processing, there has to be a place for human intervention.
Is this a GPT-3 generated comment? Did you reply to the wrong thread?
tl;dr: yes

although i find it extremely likely that cars were already being tracked and people are only finding about it now because of the push notifications.
Being outdoors in the "real heat" (say, above 96F) is challenging. but much easier than similar temperatures in Philadelphia ever was as long you have access to water to drink.

We are lucky to live in an old (1875) adobe house that handles the massive diurnal temperature change (sometimes 30F, occasionally more) very well. It has encouraged us to fall into a lifestyle during the summer where you follow one of two patterns:

1. (most common) get up within an hour after sunrise, do whatever you need to do outdoors (exercise, gardening, construction, whatever). Complete that by 10:30am, then head inside, close windows, stay there until about 6:00pm. Open windows, potentially head back outside (depends on altitude a bit, can still be on the cool side at 6-7k' after sunset). Sleep in delicious temperatures.

2. get up, head up to 8000' or higher, stay outside all day.

Las Cruces is definitely much hotter than Santa Fe. I would not enjoy living in ABQ or further south without adobe (preferably double adobe) during the summer - it would require too much a/c for my taste.
#1 probably. #2 no. AWS is not responsible for how you setup your resources. They are very clear about that unless you use proserve or something. They are not your IT dept even for managed services.
A part of me keeps my eyes open for opportunities to move somewhere more remote. Once I have Starlink, I can be just about anywhere. I don't really want to be truly remote, though, so I have a lower limit. I want to be within, say, 30 minutes of 1) a walmart, at least (not my favorite place, but there are a lot of them), and 2) a legitimate hospital. That is probably rural enough so I can escape most of the traffic stupidity.
I would love it, but no one has quite managed it yet! There are simulations of, e.g., plate motions, but even those get quite uncertain if you go back more than about a billion years.

Forward models of the flow of the atmosphere, oceans, or even the mantle all exist, but with harsh tradeoffs between resolution and how much geologic time you can simulate. For this reason, we have coupled atmosphere-ocean models, but not really atmosphere-ocean-mantle models (because the timescale of mantle convection is just too much slower than the other two). I would really love to see more integrated whole-earth-system modelling, and that's probably something I'll try to work on in the future, but we may have a long way to go!
I got a feeling it's because of the increased risk due to the eviction moratorium.
> I'd also worry (not much, but just enough to be creeped out and never want to buy one of these) that there may be some system that is still programmed with old silos as targets. If things heat up again, or if there is some error, that property might be a target.

At that point I think you'd also want to ask yourself whether surviving a nuclear war would really be the preferable outcome.
Everyone has their own opinions on how important each factor is.
you can do conventional with only 3% too. your down payment has no affect on the offer chosen, the seller doesn't even get to know.
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: absolutely, yes.

I owned a Walmart bike when I was 16-17. Rode it into the ground and had a blast. I did zero maintenance on it for two years (not ideal) and it serves the purpose. Bought a much nicer entry level Trek in my mid-20s and hardly rode it. It wasn’t until much later that I bought a bike that I rode more. It just happened that I could afford more and decided to spend more, but it absolutely wasn’t necessary. In fact, a guy I ride with in summer works at a LBS and still rides his trusty 1990s MTB (mid level). Oh, still regularly beats on most other riders too on it.

Nowadays Walmart is actually quite involved in the biking community and used to sell moderately high end bikes, though they may be out of the game now. Most people looked down on these bikes for some reason even though the entire group set was equivalent to a major brand high end bike. But it was sold by Walmart so how bad could it be? I suspect you don’t own one of these but the point is the same - as with many other hobbies, snobbery is very much thriving in cycling. Hell, I’m guilty of it to an extent too.
#2 is horrid, but could be solved by inverted if conditions and a single “cleanup:” label with goto:

if (!SUCCEEDED(hr))
goto cleanup;
> The self-play stats show how massively imba all those suggestions are,

Classical, white wins 18/1000 and black wins 3/1000 with 1 minute per move. Semi-torpedo, this is 27 & 6/1000, so it's both less imbalanced and less drawish than classical chess with very high level play.

(White's 6x advantage is reduced to 4.5x).

It also has a slightly richer set of interesting moves per position on average.

A bit more imbalance in other variants isn't a catastrophic problem, either, IMO, with tournaments consisting of multiple games and equal numbers of games as white and black.

Your other point-- yes, any benefits of tinkering with the rules needs to be balanced against what it does to the traditions and continuity of the history of the game.
Perhaps to avoid encouraging potential rivals from attempting to build rival products.
Completely agree with this. I bought last April and have already needed a new roof and a new water heater. These were not expected expenses based on the age of the home. For me it was an unpleasant surprise but not a big deal, but people who overextend to buy can end up in a very serious situation.
This is absolute baloney. I've ordered numerous research grade chemicals from multiple suppliers and not once has any of them been the wrong one nor outside of stated purity grade — and I regularly checked, since it's standard practice. If a solid organic material is in a lower grade of purity it is typically recrystallized.

Now, yes, impurities — even minor ones — can have significant effects. But that tends to be in rare circumstances and chemists are quite aware of the need to check for it where it's most needed such as catalysis research.

No one is going to scream "I have a new drug" for something for which the composition is unclear.

I don't know what world you live in, but it isn't one of a typical North American nor European university research lab.
Pfizer took $2 billion in Warp Speed money. They declined the initial research funds from the US government, instead taking like $440 million from the German government.

The $2 billion was part of the manufacturing half of Warp Speed.
How do you go about teaching people that are outright hostile to the command line and anything that resembles code?

Currently dealing with a snobbish painter/graphic designer who has used Microsoft Frontpage and Adobe Muse for over 20 years and just wants their GUI WYSIWYG back.
Ah, chess is fine as it is. It's just we meek humans are no longer the ones who play it best.
AWS very much assumes you know what you're doing.
Products like CloudConformity exist to let you know when you're probably misconfiguring something.
> … and if you don't think so you're probably just old.

I resemble that remark!

(apologies to all; too good to pass up)
20 and 10 percent respectively. Enough to create a decent surplus capacity for night time charging. Given Texas is a big believer in dynamic electricity rates based on supply and demand, you’d just need to check the night time rates.
Ohio lured Intel's chip plant with $2B incentive package
Pretty interesting read from spaceraccoon! Thanks!
His endorsement of the vaccine was very thin cover to a mountain of attacks on everything they rely on (on Fauci, CDC, the 'deep state', all of government, science, it's just a flu, many, many others) and support for endless crazy conspiracy theories and their proponents.

And how did he encourage the vaccines? We didn't have daily tweets saying things like 'TERRIBLE people opposing vaccines! SO SAD!!' He didn't really get behind them.

You can't spend four years supporting everything that undermines them, and then quietly say 'get vaccinated'.
I haven't been able to figure it how to implement my Jekyll use case in Hugo, maybe you or someone else would be able to help me.

I don't want to use a theme at all because I don't really use it for making posts, but just a website with different pages. I have a page template that pulls in my head, nav, page content, and footer.

You can see an example here:
https://github.com/etheralpha/clientdiversity-org/blob/main/...

Pretty basic stuff but when I checked out Hugo I was having the hardest time trying to figure out how to do it.
> "Automotive semiconductors will continue to be a limiting constraint on the automotive market through the first half of 2022, but barring any unforeseen shutdowns or semiconductor manufacturing issues, supply should gradually improve through the second half of the year," she said.

Probably a good idea to wait til the end of the year to buy a new car then. The market is simply and truly insane right now. The best price you can get for a used car is now the MSRP of the new version. And the best price you can get for a new car is $5-6k over MSRP. It's just insane. If you're spending $40k on a RAV4 or CRV, you might as well just spend that same $40k and get a Tesla.
Lack of culture and education mostly. Lack of anonymity. Tribalism. Gossip. Conservatism. Racism. Good ol boys. Local government corruption. Brain drain. Shrinking populations. Low wage jobs. Tiny or non-existent dating pool. Hospital far away, possibly no ambulance service. No childcare. No decent stores other than Walmart or Dollar General. Have to drive literally everywhere.

The only thing "small town living" has going for it is the scenery.
Yup, make a plan and make sure she understands what you want to do and that she is ok with it. You have to live with her so it might as well be a happy time.
You might want to look at https://www.canada.ca/en/intergovernmental-affairs/services/... to see what is exclusively a provincial matter and a federal matter and then where the power is shared. Now you tell me what provincial legislation should have been interfered with at federal government with respect to mandates and lockdowns.
Demand and lack of new supply. After the housing bubble in 2008 there was a major contraction of new home construction. It has been slowly recovering ever since but is still off the highs by quite a bit. So the combination of very low rates of new construction for nearly a decade and a current rate of new construction that is still depressed.

The notion that private equity is some how manipulating home prices independent of true supply and demand dynamics is largely a lie being told by people who’s politics fit well with that narrative.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST
$400 and you'll throw in a free tetanus injection.
That place looks like an OH&S nightmare. You just need one fat kid to fall down the main shaft and things get real quick.
Yeah, there exist a few like that for WordPress, I know a few big sites use them. I think Simply Static <https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/> is pretty popular?
> For some of us, it's a challenge to disentangle the achievements from the politics

Who are you attributing this to? It's a cheap way to delegitimize people who disagree by making general derogatory statements about nobody in particular.

> Let's applaud the achievements that saved lives, regardless of the administration that promulgated them.

If that's what happened.
No discussion of the cost per job.

Also the idea that someone would start a car factory next to a fab is an absurd idea from a century ago. A fab isn’t a big building where sand is trucked in at one end and ribbons of chips come out the other.
What’s your gripe with android tvs? I hate Samsung for their ads but I own an android and have found it to be nothing less or more than what I need.
What is a "md5 file"?
Assuming you’re referencing the graphic on that page, note that it’s discussing throughput of road vs rail in the city. Freeway is a very different kettle of fish.
There was a popular internet sentiment ~10 years ago where everyone was convinced renting was superior to buying. "Invest the extra cash in an index fund!"

Meanwhile housing is an amazing handout to the middle and upper classes through the 30-year fixed rate mortgage plus the mortgage interest tax deduction. Inflation increases rents, but the fixed-rate mortgage never increases. One of my property's mortgage is now only 40% of the rental rate after 8 years of inflation. It's like an annuity with an automatic inflation adjustment - I'm going to get rent until I die, which always goes up as the cost of living increases.
Looking at the price history, it looks like they have been trying to sell it for almost 2 years now.
Well, you're kinda right but houses are the most expensive they've ever been. You need a hefty downpayment which is gonna take a lot from your savings. It's not like houses are given for free now.
Yes this was my first thought, but wouldn’t the potential stock rises from revealing the true crazy growth override that concern?
> Here in Wisconsin, a vital supply for fixing flats while on a ride is mosquito repellent.

Where I am, in the south of France, as well. And they are of the really aggressive species!
>His books all have a scientist doing evil because of their lust for grant money.

How unrealistic. Scientists like Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance would never do anything evil or untoward, such as using grant money to perform dangerous gain-of-function research on coronaviruses, demonstrably lying to the NIH about the scope of this research, and then misleading the public on the COVID-19 lab-origin theory while failing to disclose their financial and professional ties to the lab in question [0][1][2].

[0] https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/25/one-perso...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/lab-leak...
I think a lot of the smart car features have to do with legislation.

All new cars require a back up camera due to legislation. But a backup camera with a huge 8" screen is only useful for backing up. So the manufacturers try to use that screen real estate for infotainment when the car is moving forward.
>it's no surprise that you don't think I provided enough information to criticize his books

I didn't say that.

My point is that your comment reinforces the point that is made by the much-quoted quote.

He said he knows show business. Calling his writing on climate science crap is consistent with the quote.

Can you see how your comment sounds paradoxical?
If we compare like with like and assume that in both cases you're developing locally on windows and running on GH Pages, something established like Jekyll has a much better chance of working consistently on those different OSes than a hand-written script, IME.
With Lazarus[0] you can basically get the same experience as REALbasic/Xojo. Here is a video[1] i made a few years ago, making a simple 2D tilemap editor using it.

[0] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JgeIUo1X0
It's not technically possible, it's pretty readily available. A real estate lawyer for a simple transaction is like 500 dollars, same with a basic inspection. You don't need the lawyer unless your offer is accepted.

In a warm/hot market, anyone with a mortgage is going to lose to someone with cash, so not really an issue.

Anecdotally from friends buying their first homes, very few to zero of them put down anywhere near 20%.
Modern sports bikes are marching towards the same future - self balancing bikes, fancy dashboards, electric bikes with no motor etc.
I'd hesitate to presume that what worked for Warp Speed would work in a non-crisis situation.

With our early-pandemic PPE-relief efforts, we had endless advantages that most projects don't have: almost-unlimited supply of high-skill and high-motivation labor, almost-unlimited support from any tech-partner we contacted with free service credits, almost-unlimited demand from "customers", and a sense of mission that was as strong as I've ever encountered.

Warp Speed must have been similar -- "If we don't make this work on the first try, hundreds of thousands of people will die. If we don't make it work quickly, hundreds of thousands of people will die. The Federal Government will give us anything we need. Let's do this right."

That's real different from bog-standard decadal industrial policy.
You can get a conventional mortgage for 3.5%
I use ScriptSafe which disables scripts by default on any website... but you can whitelist or temporarily allow a website to run scripts.
Where are your sources saying this project was corrupt? Genuinely curious, as I have not read much to this effect.
> A fab isn’t a big building where sand is trucked in at one end and ribbons of chips come out the other.

You also need a gobsmackingly enormous amount of water too?

I presume you're talking about personnel though. :)
> Perhaps depositing a VM with everything ready to run.

Yes, this is hugely important. We need clearer requirements for what constitutes properly 'published' data, code and methods. It should include all raw data (both used and discarded) as well as complete snapshots of each preliminary and intermediate processing step in a time-stamped chronology.

This is an area where the expertise and best practices of software development, documentation and source control could help inform standards and tooling which would dramatically improve the quality of scientific publishing and replication.
> There's no way governments can repay their debts (and not just in the US: EU, Japan... about anywhere!)

Population growth, persistent production....there are several factors that could help governments dig themselves out of debt.
With current Covid pandemic. I could be wrong but it seems most studies are looking at effectiveness of vaccines and little to nothing on effectiveness of natural immunity. I say this as someone who was one of the first to get vaccinated. Not that I am saying the pharmaceutical companies sponsored the studies. So to answer your question sometimes it is what is not funded that is probably more telling.
So much asbestos!
I think this was also touched on in the show Hamiltons Pharmacopeia
Because society wants smart TVs. You and a lot of people here don’t, but collectively, people like the idea of having Netflix/Hulu/etc right on their TVs. The cat’s out of the bag now. If you/me want a dumb TV, don’t look at consumer TVs in BestBuy, but expect to be spending over $1000.
These guys created an AirBnB from one in worse shape.

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/45816677

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-KKIb8rvtMQnKZOfxShr...
Me neither. I think this is one of those botany linnean sub-categories which make little sense when you look at a raspberry and a coconut.

Don't get me started on Peanuts. They grow underground. How does this put them in the same category as tree-nuts? it doesn't! They're technically a legume, yet in their protein they display the same anaphylaxis risk as tree nuts, if not worse: if you're allergic to peanuts you are much more likely to be allergic to tree nuts than legumes (this isn't FODMAP btw)
Policing their customers' configurations would open them up for liability and embarrass them and their customers. But they do provide a ton of tools for customers to investigate their own security.

AWS basically rents digital chainsaws. You hope they know how to use it, but you know a fair number probably don't.
Don't forget that Starlink is geo-locked to within ~1mile.

Just because they aren't enforcing it 100% of the time right now doesn't mean it will stay that way.
Do You Have “Productivity Dysmorphia”? Here’s the Cure
Sounds like a sensible strategy and there is not a day I regret for not getting in the housing market sooner like two years ago when things were still affordable (it looked quite expensive even back then but compared to now it looks Like a great deal).

Question is what happens during the inevitable impending credit default crisis as you outline. Would the housing market just floor to zero? Or your hypothesis is they would let the inflation go run away? Either way (default or inflating debt away strategy) I am not sure how the housing market will adjust just because I am not sure what the outcome of downfall would be to all the middle class families who stretched to max and bought SFH post 2015.
It's really nothing special, just some general principles that are sensible to me:

- Production levelling/burst smoothing early in the process, so other steps don't have to bother with variability.

- WIP constraints/limited queue sizes both to reveal problems and improve latency.

- Kanban/backpressure to stop the problems at the source, and help troubleshooting.

- Using Little's law as a guideline in tradeoffs between batch size and latency and size of system.

- Deliberately shed load when it cannot be served in time, rather than vainly holding on to it for dear life because "surely we cannot outright reject work?!"

- Dropping at the head of queues to improve latency and serve the fresher requests sooner.

There's probably a lot more, and TFA covers some of it too.
What has happened with all those cars that weren't sold during 2020 and 2021 due to pandemic? I remember seeing photos of huge parking lots filled with new cars? Did they all get sold in the end?

Here is just one atricle on this topic https://time.com/5830664/cars-cargo-ships/

[Edit]: fixed typo
Not really an issue as far as AWS is concerned, as they view this as on the customer as per the company's Shared Responsibility Model. [0] If you don't know how to manage infrastructure, physical or virtual, perhaps it's time to learn. And if you don't want to, you can string a bunch of SaaS solutions together and hope those companies have their act together internally.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-mode...
Doom-Emacs: An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker
No, it really hasn't done that at all. American liberals are absolutely not social democrats.