skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zillow wasn't pursuing the strategy of a traditional iBuyer, which as you note is to lowball. Zillow thought they were providing a service of market-making and didn't consider the risks (I still don't see why it wasn't obvious to them...). If they offered some discount from the Zestimate, that would have been a lot smarter, but it would have undermined their goal of making a market, as well as undermining the very concept of the Zestimate (if Zillow says my house is worth X, why are they offering me 80% of X?). The alternative would be to appraise each house in person instead of basing the purchase price on the Zestimate, but that wouldn't scale.
A home 2 doors down from myself had been empty since the neighborhood was built in 2016 until 2020 when rental prices in our neighborhood blew through the ceiling.

I always assumed their financial calculus was such that the appreciation alone, on an empty home, was a better prospect to them than what they could've gotten in rent in those earlier years (weighted against upkeep/maintenance vs. leaving the place empty and coming by every 6 weeks to inspect the place -- which is what they were doing). Now that these homes are renting out for nearly 2x the mortgage price they have a tenant. I'm unsurprised to hear that it's commonplace. It's just... upsetting.
You still have the current UTC time in the top links. Googles knowledge graph is a part of the problem with their results.
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> I agree with the courts that "Product of the USA" okay...

It's okay to import an animal, put them on a feed lot for a few days, then move them over to the slaughter house and claim "raised in the US"?
Morlock-Eloi style division of species. Except the Eloi will be billionaire supermen. And the Morlocks will exist within a totally controlled, synthetic, optimized THX1138-style reality where they work hard, but at least they have their pride.

All progress will be bent to that end.

The only alternative is something completely different. Wizards or something.
| Why wouldn't you want to sync your bookmarks, extensions and settings between your devices?

Because you're afraid they'll get hacked.
Rust standard library includes RTTI support, though it's very rarely used.
I don’t think the problem is there’s a shortage of developers. Much less the language. There’s a shortage of people with the experience in working with search engines and the necessary algorithms to make them work as intended reliably.
"Literal talking point from the FDA"

Oh, come on. The tweet links to a page that gives information that doesn't fit in 280 characters; making a sly reference to what people are talking about is hardly outrageous, and likely intended to increase distribution of the useful info in the link. https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...

The next tweet has a FAQ, too (https://twitter.com/US_FDA/status/1429050498515144708) that's quite clear that ivermectin has some uses in humans, but isn't approved or shown to be useful for COVID.

If you base your reality off single jokey tweets, that's on you.
He does finance political NGOs around the world, yes. Communism, definitely not.
Mostly that they no longer have to compete with Zillow
I just make bash functions in my dotfiles for use cases like these, particularly good CLI arg combinations from Stack Overflow answers, etc.

Example:

# 2022-02-07
# because `poetry show --outdated` includes *all* packages (!), not just top-level dependencies
function poetry-show-outdated {
poetry show --outdated | grep --file=<(poetry show --tree | grep '^\w' | cut -d' ' -f1)
}

Or:

function disk-usage-summary () {
# output high-level disk usage stats
set -x
du --human-readable --summarize
du --human-readable --max-depth=1
df --human-readable --total
set +x
}
Likely some stressed out buyers paid for overpriced homes given the sharply rising prices across the market (although completely by their choice), and the sellers probably loved it - but that's already par for the course with the housing market at the moment. Zillow probably didn't help but isn't the sole contributor by any means.
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>beef born there, raised here, slaughtered somewhere else

Not rare to see here in Germany. I have seen it for Austrian-grown chicken to be slaughtered in Germany, similarly Argentinian beef is sometimes cut in the Netherlands.

EU regulation stipulates:

> The term ‘origin’ should be reserved for meat obtained from animals born, reared and slaughtered, and therefore wholly obtained, in one single Member State or third country.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=15906711...)

UK law requires country of birth, country of rearing, country of slaughter and country of cutting to be on the product.

Slightly surprising that US consumers don't get so much information.
in the western world, viewing depression as anything but a means to a profit has been culturally sanctioned.

feel bad? take your pills, don't try to actually improve your life - that is victim shaming!
This is absolutely not true. Most cars have switched to electronic power steering (EPS) which uses a manual steering rack and linkage, but driven by an electric motor controlled by haptics to create more power when turning. Steering wheels are /always/ directly connected to the steering rack, in every single vehicle intended to be operated by a human.

Drive by wire systems replaced a mechanical throttle linkage with an electronic control, and the reason for this is because it's massively better in every aspect, using EFI vs a throttle body. There are some hybrid designs called TBI (Throttle Body Injected), which are meh. EFI controls fuel and air mixtures dynamically using servos and relays driven by the ECU in response to signals from the drive by wire system.
> I kind of wish this urban myth dies

The popular sensory-based learning styles thing that people are sort of innately programmed to be “visual”, “auditory”, etc. learners is a myth, that people learn better via different totalities of educational methods (material, organization, content, context, timing, structure, etc.) based on a wide variety of personal factors (physical conditions, interests, relation of intellectual to emotional development, etc.) is not.
> I have given specifics. Your comment though is less useful.

I disagree. You list a number of random topics that are exaggerated and overblown, then attack the leadership of the organization personally and ascribe motivations that you have invented. Your comments are not useful for setting future direction of a browser, and you are contributing to a browser monoculture.

When we lose the only viable competitor to WebKit because you and other commenters hold Firefox to your unreachable standards, it will be a sad day.
Very similar career trajectory and move -- just approaching the 1-year mark.

In hindsight, I wish I would have:

- Listened more and Talked less in general

- Consistently started with "Why does this happen this way" vs. "This isn't the way that the industry does it, and we should aim for that"

+ The end states I defined were generally correct, but historical context matters and informed the route in ways that I would have benefitted from knowing about.

- Spent more time helping people realize my perspective on their own, vs. just communicating the necessary end-state and the justification.

+ Even if I'm right in what we need to do, people want to solve their own problems and feel ownership for the outcome when they've joined the cause on their own

- Really dug into it when contributors failed to meet their commitments to me to understand if there was a prioritization problem or an alignment problem (or if there's a skill or commitment gap in play).

- Remembered that it's just a job, and nobody there is going to be at my funeral. It's a transactional relationship that's less important than my mental health.

In terms of things I feel I did well with and/or found engergizing:

- Lots of new, really smart and talented people in my orbit

- Tons of information and perspective sharing, new reading, new insight

- Taking the time to meet people (this was hard over COVID), but bi-weekly 1:1s are key. People will generally tell you the (or at least their) truth in 1:1 conversations in a way that rarely happens in large meetings.

+ Chatting with my lunch crew on the daily is where I have historically gotten most of the valuable intel and feedback, and hashed out long-term strategies for the group or organization. It's also where people in my orbit communicate their vision and build coalitions around common pain points. I feel kneecapped by this and haven't found a good substitute.

+ There's really no substitute for sharing a meal with people. It's human and important.

I also came away with a deep appreciation for how good many of the "invisible" functions at my last job were, and what excellent leadership qualities were on display.
Bitcoin is not a viable currency. It's value is not anywhere near stable enough. It's honestly incredible that you haven't even thought of the very first problem with using bitcoin as a currency. Yes, the rich abuse the current system. They will do the same with any system. Saying "we shouldn't ensure that our currency has predictable value because that would make the rich even richer" is insane when the rich will be richer no matter what you do.

> I have a problem that it's an argument from authority.

https://danluu.com/cocktail-ideas/ you are the developer who thinks building a bridge is easy. Please just admit that you don't understand what you're talking about.
A friend bought a duplex in Berkeley. Due to the tenant-friendly laws there, she will only rent to international university affiliates whose roles/visas will require them to leave after a year or two.

Interestingly, she is very YIMBY and liberal, and even has a PhD in urban planning. But no one wants a forever tenant!
There are many factors that enter in this calculation. One of that we don't know which companies will survive a recession. This seems to be an easy answer when looking at Google or Apple, but it is not so clear otherwise. For example, many banks didn't survive 2008. Many tech companies didn't survive 2001. Nobody knows what will be the next group of victims in the coming recession.
Strictly speaking, that's more in the domain of BonziBuddy or Alexa than internet search engine.

What Google arguably struggles with is surfacing relevant documents, that is... search.
> has lost 95% of its userbase

That's not an accurate number.
Well, you should just lower your standards when it comes to picking a job, too. Maybe you could be a grocery clerk or a gas station attendant?
I searched fs js and the nodejs.org documentation was the first result.
Ask HN: Resources to Understand the Conflict?
Of course speaking about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

I'd be interested in understanding better what a diplomatic end of the war would look like. That is: what exactly both parties are likely to give up to end the conflict early? What does "early" likely mean?

I know that the question is very broad and answers can only be guesses: instead of focusing on opinions, perhaps it might be useful to share sources, tweets and explanations from experts.
This came just in time. So far I'm super happy with it.

One feature I think would be cool to have would be a check in/check out time for the first and last day. Other than that I really like it and will be super useful.

Good luck!
I operate a few public networks and I would like to think they are reasonably secure. I have dhcp-guard, client isolation, and a palo alto with risk filtering. That said, I do not use any public WiFi. There's a 'what-if' factor, but also my personal LTE alotment is sufficient that I just don't care to jump through whatever annoying hoops a business might require to connect.
I thought the Zillow webpage was simply to guesstimate the cost of houses. This whole scenario sounds like they were totally out of their core competency zone.
Cold treatment for insulin-making cells points to diabetes cure
This reminds me of a microquest that I foolishly embarked on during COVID-19 lockdown:

There's no standard, widely-accepted way to unambiguously serialize and deserialize nulls within querystrings. JavaScript is perhaps one of the more frequent client languages for that, but Python and many other server-side languages are affected too. Could we do something about that?

I liked the look of the proposal at https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/469 that was working towards this.

In short, it provides the ability for "?a&b=" to represent the variable "a" containing null and "b" containing an empty-string.
I'm working on a project that aims to give a lot of freedom for user-generated content, and I've been wondering for a while how to protect from the picture-in-picture attacks.

One way is to ban an entire color region around a particular color you choose for fields requesting passwords or doing other sensitive data. The problem with it is of course that it's too big of a limitation.

But how about a pattern like yellow/black checkerboard or stripes? This would require the parent to be able to analyze the child's look, and whenever the security pattern would be detected, it would display some kind of a warning about the content being similar to a secured input without actually being the secured input...
I don't think this establishes the presence of burnout. It's an expected result of increasing workload at any level and is caused by the diminishing returns to labor as an input of production.
This is what I use when:

a) I'm traveling
b) I remember to turn it on
c) I'm not blocked by the wifi (which is common)

IOW, while Algo is great, and I'm pretty paranoid, "distrusting public wifi" is sufficiently far down my personal threat model stack rank that I don't really care about it much.
I use GNU Guix and check my configuration files in a private git repo
US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than diesel
I knew a few elderly who managed to program their VCR. I also knew a lot of young people who couldn't.
> I don't understand why we should compare performance in artificial benchmarks to power consumption. Electricity is cheap

Battery life, fan noise, and throttling due to excess heat are all reasons to care about power consumption.
If you have a family home, you probably don’t want 8 college students moving into the house next door to you. This was a restriction in my college town. As a student, I didn’t like it, but as a homeowner with a family, I completely understand.
I think I'd rather have Github Copilot for the shell.
Is it possible to have a valid certificate for, say, capіtalone.com? The only thing you could rely on is your browser not automatically entering the saved passwords.

Funnily enough, I checked and the domain is available, so I guess such an attack is harder than I thought :D
I'd argue "kggle" should surface this result:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44077294/encounter-this-...
> The scary thing is that it's easy to see how something how like this could drive a market boom and bust cycle.

It would take a lot more than a billion dollars to make a dent in the national housing market. Total housing sales in Feb22 amounted to $161 billion.

That's enough to make a temporary splash in a rural market, but Zillow would need to spend 100x more than what they lost to even move the needle. And spend 10000x as much to really drive a boom/bust cycle nationally.
I've seen people make comments critical of Burry and others. I don't understand this mindset myself.
Having worked at a place where the AWS console session only lasted an hour, I could've easily been fooled if a fake SSO prompt was placed in front of me. "Oh joy, time to login for the sixth time today."
Economist here.

Probably not, but I’m not really sure what you’re asking? What do you want this concept to do?

- do you want to know where people will migrate to?

- do you want to know how people will sort themselves based on some feature they possess?
> And the crazy thing is you see people on HN demanding that some one person side project/SaaS has to be at 100% uptime with multiple failovers, automatic scaling, etc. etc. There is such an emphasis on scalability on HN and yet... you just brush that all away because "software is tough.

I'm not one of those people. I may have been when I was much more inexperienced.

Software is hard. Full stop. Organizational politics, engineering culture, business / tech alignment are all hard. Distributed systems are hard.

> Yeah, no shit. Poor Github. They are also Microsoft now. One of the wealthiest corporations in the entire world. And people are paying Github. This isn't Twitter fail whale we're talking about.

I may have also thought this when I was much more inexperienced. This isn't a resource problem. Even a small startup, when they start having failures due to scale from growth, it's not a money problem. Throwing money at this doesn't make it go away.

By the way, the Twitter fail whale impacted paying customers (advertisers).
Thermostat companies are too busy selling remote administration connections to power companies to allow them to control your thermostat to care about what you, the end user, wants.

Many Texans discovered this the hard way.
Echoing the other comments about a free VPN, the only free VPN worth trusting is the one you run from your own home router, which a decent router can offer.
New people have permission to ask lots of questions, embrace this.
A bubble that won't touch floor because organized crime (for example, the Mexican Cartels) use it to sidestep the banks in moving money across nations. The dumb people believing they're investing in NFTs will burst the NFT bubble, but cryptocoins will keep going even if their bubble deflates.
You are neglecting opportunity costs: if you could earn double (appreciation + rent) instead of just appreciation, you're leaving money on the table.
I find that many sites implement HSTS and the redirect to HTTPS wrong. For example, they will have http://example.com redirect to https://www.example.com instead of first redirecting to https://example.com. According to the spec, the browser will not automatically upgrade to HTTPS next time, leaving that first request still open to attack.

[Kind of a plug: I made a test for this in my tool, DomainProactive (https://domainproactive.com). I would appreciate feedback on this kind of error.]
Here's a quote directly from you in this very same topic:

> The comments like this from people who will complain about everything are completely valueless.

> We're lucky to have an alternative to the WebKit oligopoly. If you don't like Firefox, just stick with the other browsers and let the rest of us that are trying to prevent a monoculture continue our work.

Looks like you're doing the job just fine by yourself.
> > It's honestly quite scary how I'm in the top 2% of income earners in my generation and yet I could barely afford to buy a small place

> I live in Los Angeles, where a "small place in semi-desirable area" gets listed for 1.5M and goes for nearly 2M. I'm somewhere in the top 5% of earners in California, but that $2M 1950s tract housing would be >50% of my post-tax income.

I think the obvious answer here is that people in the top 2% or top 5% are not buying houses... It's the people in the top 0.1%. Last time I was home shopping, we were regularly outbid by all-cash offers of 50%-100% over asking price, no contingencies. These competing bidders are not teachers and nurses. They're not even high-paid tech employees. Do you really think a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft has $2.5M in cash sitting in his checking account to buy a home? No way. These are all businesses, investors, serial landlords buying their 60th house, hedge funds, 0.1% wealthy people--that's who's buying all these houses. Not us.
Telemetry waits 30 minutes to start sending to give users time to opt out, see the note in the documentation: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...
That's some Lawyer-brain legalism thinking right there bro.

People with Lawyber-brained legalism on the brain are the ones who write those poorly written laws.

“Don't struggle–only within the ground rules that the people you're struggling against have laid down.”
At least in my area, they've completely given up on providing a "historical" estimate of the house in question and just have a trend graph for the general area. I assume this data is also heavily massaged, too, though.
I voluntarily pay BW $36/year, matching the 1pw license cost.
It's a bash built-in, so the documentation lives in "help compgen", and the full blown bash manual.
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You can earn the money back of this machin in either 16-32 days
Does this support phrase match? (ie "a query in quotes"). A few tries seems to show that it doesn't. Or, if it does, its corpus is tiny.
I store my dotfiles in GitHub, using deploy keys to give read-only access to devices not under my complete control (e.g., work computers, cloud shells). The repo is private but I could in theory make it public. Nothing sensitive like a password gets committed, although I worry about inadvertently leaking information like usernames or pathnames that could be used against me in a data aggregation attack. Initializing my home directory is a simple matter of running `git init`, then `git remote add`, and finally a pull that overwrites everything not otherwise .gitignored.

Among my personal computers, I'm running syncthing. I sync my Unix home directory separately from my documents, pictures, etc. folders, with some carefully crafted .stignore files that largely (but not entirely) mirror my .gitignore files (where they exist). To get around the fact that .stignore files themselves aren't synced, the actual list of things to not sync is stored in a separate file and #include-ed into the .stignore file. The first time I sync my home directory, I set syncthing to read-only mode with a custom .stignore file that excludes ~/.config, ~/.cache, etc., switch to including the .stignore.common file, then switch to bi-directional operation.

I have shell scripts that install the usual niceties on Windows, Ubuntu, macOS, and Ubuntu on Windows.

I use Firefox Sync for browser stuff, although not every extension supports cloud synchronization (and the UI for the ones that do is rather clumsy).

For Ubuntu on Windows, I've symlinked key folders to their Windows equivalents, e.g., Documents. I run synchthing both on Windows (in the background using synchtrayzor) and on WSL (in the background using GNU screen). The WSL syncthing instance just takes care of my Unix home directory since the Windows syncthing handles everything else.

For VMs, I only sync the home directory.

I used to use roaming profiles and folder redirection and NFS and GPOs and SaltStack and so on and so forth, but those things are all really, really brittle. And slow. And buggy. NFS-mounted home directories have issues common to all Unix operating systems, chief among them no reliable offline mode. Windows has the Offline Files feature, but it breaks certain file system access patterns very badly. Few Windows apps correctly distinguish among the various shell folders, so they end up putting the wrong stuff in APPDATA or APPDATALOCAL—or worse, they put stuff in the root of USERPROFILE. And trying to do silent installs of Windows apps is such a pain. So treating each laptop/desktop as a standalone computer plus syncing things here and there works out much better in the end. I kind of hate it but can't fight it any more. At least I've (thus far) successfully resisted Apple/Microsoft accounts and iCloud/OneDrive/Google Drive/Dropbox/etc., although that's probably going to change once Windows 11 has successfully been forced down everyone's throat.
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