skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Know anyone who got an advertised rate on a mortgage to buy a freshly renovated home?

No. I know people who got an advertised rate to buy a non-recently-renovated home (including one who decided to take a year-ish sabbatical to totally rebuild and repair the house herself as a life-goal). Others either didn't renovate the old style or renovated it the way they wanted.

I take that back. I do know at least one person who bought a freshly renovated home out of foreclosure auction. But that was because of the price, not the renovations.

But again, you're conflating "add any value" to "worry about adding the most value to society"
Maybe there should be? Maybe not single-family detached homes, but people need to own something
True, I'd forgotten about that. That was in the last major release, right?
Hare ;)
Not only that; rent can keep going up.
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Yes Minister is much older.
It is clear that the majority are drug addicts. That's known and uncontested. Whether that affects their motivation to find a sanitary place to defecate is maybe up for discussion, but I think it's a good bet that it does.
What I remember most in general from my undergrad courses is that most the "fun" ones are the ones where I already was interested in the topic to the degree I knew something about it or if I didn't it's obvious I would have learned something if it was brought up at some time.

The "not fun" ones on the other hand are the ones I remember the most from because those memories aren't competing with lots of other exposure to those concepts and thus they left a lasting impression that I might not have gotten any other way.

Going down the path of "fun" might be easiest and overall more enjoyable, but it also ultimately might be less fulfilling in the end. Your mileage may vary, of course.
Personally, as an Aussie, I don't have any massive gripes with MyGov specifically.

Bear in mind that it's mainly (only?) a portal to other departments (ATO, Centrelink, Medicare?).

I don't actually see why we're bothering to "upgrade" it at all, the mention of not being able to deploy a styling change, who gives a toss honestly, styling is way down my list for something like this.

When I had to get a MyGov ID for my son, it did the facial recognition off his passport (no idea if it would have allowed someone else...) fine, set it all up just fine in Covid lockdown so that's a +.

My main gripe is that unless you want their crappy app installed, the only MFA option is SMS, which as this audience knows is just not secure.
If you're not doing this for an enterprise IPsec use case you can build an entire WireGuard setup with a guide the same length as this one which is just walking you through using pre-made setup script and images. The WireGuard setup will likely perform better and work in more places as it's just outbound UDP. Example guide: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-20-04-set-up-wireguard-...
> Searching is a chore

While my Siri remote thing makes it a little nicer, the thing that drives me bonkers is searching for an exact title that I know is in their library and getting other results instead of it as the first few results items. Ridiculous.
The assertion remains true though. Unwrap should only be used if you are prototyping or you are 100% sure it will never actually panic.

It's just like the IndexOutOfBounds exception in Java. Many functions can theoretically throw it, but most libraries and programs do not catch it because usually if it is thrown it means that something happened that the programmer did not expect and therefore the program should crash.
When I consulted for Fortune 500s, I was regularly proposing in-house solutions that would be carefully tailored to and integrated with corporate KPIs.

They'd nod their heads in agreement, pat me on the back for the sage advice and themselves on the back for bringing in that sage advice, excited about things that would clearly bring in billions in revenue.

Which then never actually happened.

But you could have the crappiest most conartisty 3rd party offering at a ridiculous price tag that they'd gleefully throw money down the drain with, and then the next year I'd get brought in I'd be met with reluctance to work on whatever I was proposing because "oh, we tried that."

No, no you didn't.

Eventually I got tired of being a professional Cassandra and left the industry.
The EU Apple to US orange comparison you mean? What’s the EU have to do with US home values?
I’d be damned if I were going to pay for a lawyer because of a $35 goodwill thing. Ancient Roman art or no. I can totally see why people just keep it on the mantelpiece.
I’m incredulous. That sounds like some kind of abuse of power.
This is wonderful. Thank you.
Right. The whole language is held up by a bunch of "people generally" conventions that are non-obvious and frankly difficult to figure out if you haven't been watching the language for 1+ decades. It simply isn't designed for novices to pick up in 2022, and that's a smell.
I don't think that studying mostly theory is going to convince anyone that you are a good manager.

Different if you want to upskill as a programmer
And they're working with Amazon for Android app support on Windows.

If they quietly make that work well (kind of like ChromeOS did) they could just use that on their future mobile OS and it'd go a long way to solve their "no apps" problem.
A lot of that seems to actually be down to the fact that he now runs a New York Times column with a similar premise.

Would still be nice to still see posts to the site, or even a mention of the fact that he's got that column there, but...
For Windows, PowerToys offers something comparable to Divvy (and IMHO better): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone...

I'm very surprised they don't distribute these tools among Windows, now that they are matured.

PowerToys name also brings a lot of good old memories :)
My (paid for) house in the Bay Area was built ~70 years ago, and it’s just fine, thanks :)

As a European living over here for the last two decades, I agree that European houses are generally sturdier (my parents house pre-dates the USA, I don’t expect mine to last that long), but when you’re spending 6 figures on something, looking after it is a good policy. Catching problems early is the key - as soon as you notice something, fix it and fix the cause…
I think the author did the right thing here: pick an arbitrary cutoff like top 20, and assume that within that bucket they’re all pretty good, without worrying too much about the specific ranking of each school.
That would mean the DA would have to file charges, which he doesn't like to do because he doesn't believe in prosecuting crime.

But then, he won his election, so I guess that's what the people of SF want
That's not for developing emacs, but for accelerating emacs startup.

Smalltalk in contrast has GP's model of saving and reloading the VM state.
I think it is clear that the parent is using home-ownership to include land-ownership.
> seems like Rust people are from another planet.

There’s no need to talk in a condescending manner.

What they said was correct - an “unwrap” outside of test/prototyping is considered a serious bug. They Rust loving strawmen you’re creating never claimed that every line of Rust ever written is perfect and bug free.
Having been in a lot of Goodwill stores (including the one in this story, from which I once bought a broken receiver (pro tip: test electronics at the store before buying)) I'm not surprised in the least. Though at least this is one of their more 'upscale' stores, so maybe they get partial credit? I'm going to guess that at least it wasn't on the same shelf with a bunch of old coffee mugs.
I had this very experience today! I was looking at some code for markdown parsers (I'm trying to build one in Hare), and I stumbled upon a Nim example. I don't know what it was, but just seeing how complex the author made what seemed like a simple struct to me filled me with dread. I'm sure if I took the time to understand the language it would make sense, but Nim is just one of those languages you need a second glance to understand if you're not already familiar with it.
I’m an engineering manager at Netflix and this isn’t true. I’m really proud of the fact that a lot of colleagues come from so many different backgrounds.

I’ve seen data scientists from political science backgrounds, UI engineers who studied literature and philosophy, and I have a CS degree myself, but I’m originally from the bioinformatics space.
Yes, they did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31248556
So how many do you need? I'm disappointed that the question wasn't answered.
Unwrap is supposed to be used when the developer know that the error can't happen.
Or that if that error happen there is no recovery anyway, and the best thing to do is to abort the program.
People have made the same incorrect assumption that fido can't be backed up many times and it is a common misconception that halts adoption of the best security win since TLS. I feel important to correct this in tech circles so we start telling friends and family to setup a solution to the most common account loss problems.

Also, BIP39, the only backup spec that exists for FIDO atm, originated in the Bitcoin community where key loss is a very expensive problem that needed an elegant solution.

BIP39 can be used to backup any type of asymmetric cryptographic key that could ever exist in a human friendly way but sadly I am not aware of any vendors implementing it outside of hardware wallets which are general purpose tools

They can be used for PGP and FIDO and password management without using them for cryptocurrency and this is totally valid.
I thought that was weird also until I became a homeowner (in Seattle). There are two other townhomes in my cluster, both are owned but unoccupied most of the time. My neighbors have other homes, one is technically owned by parents in China (who might occupy it someday, my wife is Chinese so chatted about it with the person who occupies it occasionally). It might be totally weird luck, but maybe those houses are being bought by a small segment who are acquiring multiple ones?
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You can still write memory safety bugs, you just need unsafe. I'm glad unsafe is used in so many libraries.
The pile of bananas larger than Manhattan is how many you need to power a single house.
Archived: https://archive.ph/D2Fh1
We 100% know they regularly buy this kind of data from cell phone companies. There was even a story a few days ago about how the CDC bought similar data.

Buying tracking data from private sources has even been tested in court if my memory is correct. As the government is buying a publicly available asset they do not need a court order to do so.

It's bullshit, but legal with almost no call to change the law.
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How was it flying through the blinding cone? Genuinely curious
“Even if you captured that decay energy with perfect efficiency, powering a house would require about 300 quadrillion bananas, which would form a heap large enough to bury most of the skyscrapers in the NYC metro area”

300 quadrillion
laser print
It was answered. You need 300 quadrillion bananas if you only use the energy emitted from the radioactive decay, or 10 bunches per day if you're willing to just burn them and basically ignore their radioactivity.
If you want to put together keyboard-shortcut-triggered automations on a Mac without any third party software, I think you have to create an automator service and then assign it a shortcut in System Preferences > Keyboard > Services.

I know you asked about Swift, but...

If you're ok with third party software, I would recommend keyboard maestro. In addition to triggers (keyboard-based and others), it offers a pretty high level API over the macOS automation stuff you'd typically hack together with AppleScript, such as "activate app", "bring window at index i to front", "simulate keystroke", "insert text", "move the mouse to x,y relative to Element", "run JS in frontmost browser tab", etc. And that's only roughly 5% of what it can do.

With keyboard maestro I don't see much point in writing one's own native automation apps. The APIs it exposes are just as powerful as what you could write yourself and a heck of a lot easier to use.
I'm certain this is solid advice, hindgut fermenters live on a knife edge.
I use `entr` all the time for feedback on testing and development. Have you found a way to get it to handle "new" files. It is very good at watching a group of files, but my memory of it is that it barfs when you add/remove files?

> ls *.clj | entr -rcs './problem01.clj < input01.txt'

The problem is that ls only returns the list of files that existed at the time it was run...
Sure, whenever I can't find a convenient plastic bag when I need to defecate, I just do it in the street, because, what choice do I have?
If you don't trust statements in the article, then you have absolutely nothing to base any of this discussion on. Following your reasoning, why do you trust anything in the story, rather than just select pieces of it - does the bust even exist? Is the person in the story real or just made up? Is the bust even Roman?

Everyone here is discussing the situation, given the story reported. What else do we, armchair critics, have to go on?
The relative change in the number of goods/services for sell. This is determined by taking the $ output and then dividing by regularly adjusted industry specific normalizing factors to try to convert $ to quantity.

Labor productivity (what this article is mentioning) is then further divided by total hours worked across all considered industries.
When I was in college, I got really deep into OpenGL and worked through old textbooks about OpenGL 1.1. I think my favorite one was just called "The Red Book"? It was so much fun.

After finishing that I found out that they were already several major versions ahead and had fancy things like shaders... it really is an amazing tool.

Recently I started messing with some Three.js stuff and it does have some nice abstractions... main benefit of it for me is the ecosystem around it. Being able to just plug in some physics and interactivity and not have to deal with digging up old screen-to-world conversion code is nice.
The really old homes I’ve seen in Europe are made out of wood oddly enough. Of course, when the house was built in the 1400s, it is probably a ship of Theseus. Well, most homes that are around for a whole have to be maintained, even (especially) if they are made out of concrete or brick.
Don't the various corporate pure-ish research labs require a masters these days? The ones that may or may not work on things that turned into products? Or do the need a PhD ?

I can see a lot of people wanting the job of "play with cool toys and don't be responsible for products", especially as a mid-career transition.
If the supply in SF is limited then the army of cashed up buyers is also limited.

Forget SF and just follow the money. More dollars created since 2015 than before 2015. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL. Half the money supply came about in the last 7 years!

Tech workers are closer to the money than ever before (maybe closer than quants etc.) because
money is looking for yield at any risk. Tech investment provides that promise.
Houses lose value by depreciation. In few decades the value is zero, then becomes negative - the price of demolition for the next project.

What gains value over time is land. Poeple only think they invest in houses, but they are fooling themselves and overspend on the construction and interiors. They pay for land.

Easy to prove - construction material and labor are highly mobile. Cement, bricks and imported labor costs the same in New York as in middle of nowhere. The price differs only by transportation costs and temporary lodging of workers. The real difference comes from 1. price of land 2. bribes for construction permits of a respective town. In other words - location is what you pay for.

In Japan, this is more explicit. House value drops to zero in 30 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/nov/16/japan-reusabl...
And the largest ones in Ouarzazate (pronounced Where Za Zat) use at least 2000 af of water annually.
> Netflix, SpaceX, JPL

Interesting list of examples, I wouldn’t necessarily have grouped these together?

Have you applied for these at some point? I haven’t, but the emphasis seems quite different at each company
Some people don’t understand that reducing bugs and eliminating entire classes of bugs is progress. Their “gotcha” is that it’s still possible to write logic bugs, and therefore what’s the point of any language improvements?
That’s kind of brilliant
Hold on a second though, I read that certain job levels get skipped if you have a masters or a phd for some companies when hiring. For where the field of study matches the company wouldn't that be quite valuable? Also cost of a masters where I live (Canada) is a lot less than America, but maybe comparable to Europe?
The data seems too old for Rust unfortunately. But yes I'd love to see it on the list.
it could be. the article says it comes from a museum dedicated to pompei
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31281260
Nature documentaries are a different beast from other documentaries. They are primarily about showing great nature footage. If you happen to learn something from it, that’s just a happy side effect.
Japan also has a cultural habit of demolishing old homes to build new ones, and not building said new homes to last more than 30 years or so.

Here, the only time I see old homes getting demolished is to make way for a new apartment block.

Hell, the house I am living in appears to have been built some time in the 40s to 50s
I got very skilled by learning this lesson! Then I started coding in JavaScript, and now I find it’s only my code about half the time :-/
I'm wondering how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy relates to that.

I've read it can be good for some people with MS. Depends on the sort of worms, apparently.

Quackery?
what are you using for sending emails? any recommendations if you have evaluated multiple platforms for email?
There is an open source application called „AltTab“ that basically brings the behaviour of Windows‘ app switcher to macOS
Thanks for the paper.

I understand the NIMBY-ism. I do wonder how much people care about the value of their house going up if they don't plan to sell soon. There are advantages to your home being less valuable and the only disadvantages come if you want to leverage your home more, refinance (not likely with rates going up) or sell it.
20-40 years turnaround in a civilization is anything but slow in my opinion.
I’ve always been curious about this. If you are not writing out the state of the program is there some convenient way to output parts of it? The article describes adding functions and refactoring data types but if you are doing that I’d assume you’d want those changes back in your source files.
(I posted about the same for Windows a day or so ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31257779)
Well, being a cynic, because she was in possession of a looted piece from some relatively powerful sources, a German museum! And the looting happened during a famous war, and the Germans are America's allies now and like really powerful allies.

but reading closer it says:

>Back at home, Young had a problem: She was in possession of a looted piece of ancient art. She couldn't keep it. She couldn't sell it. And giving it back to its rightful owners was a lot harder than it sounds.

So it sounds more like she felt she couldn't keep it or sell it because of her morals.

on edit: of course if she had sold it maybe 10 years down the road the Germans come and say we want our head of Germanicus back please, then either the people who bought it are on the hook or maybe also her for selling stolen goods (depending on laws and how much people want to enforce them)
it's Latin
Given the gay abandon with which people like to sprinkle them in fancy sounding sentences, perhaps this was for the best.
The TPMs are in-chip now, so they’re made in the TSMC Taiwan fab along with the rest of the die.
It’s also possible it was legally brought to the US. Speculation about it being looted doesn’t really hold a lot of legal weight I think.
I replied to that comment as well. Affordability of housing the EU (or Japan, or China, or India, etc) isn't really that relevant to the situation in the US.
So if I let my bananas sit out longer, they will technically have more calcium.
Yup, I work with pre-release hardware, too, and you are spot on. The general audience I was addressing usually is not hit by CPU errata, and anyone who is should know about it.
JSON vs. XML vs. TOML vs. CSON vs. YAML
Renters aren't really active participants like homeowners and sellers are, they are passively beholden to the market. For example, they aren't actively setting prices the way home buyers do when they try and put in a bid. They are passively setting prices perhaps, but once again the only reason why these drum ups are also possible is because there are renters who are willing to pay at these prices because they are compensated enough to pay these prices.

Plenty of people are on the sidelines in this situation too, either in waiting in a rent controlled apartment perhaps, or opting to add another roommate and keep rent low in the face of an increase which also removes this new roommate from entering the market for themselves and contracts further the number of renters who are out shopping for apartments on the market at these prices.
There's also strong differences in density - in the US it's often either single family homes or apartment high-rises; but if the City of Los Angeles had the 5-10 story wall-to-wall houses that Paris has it could see a population of 22 million, compared to the current 3.8.

Going for the metro area could be even larger.

One huge advantage places like Paris have is that they've been dense for so long that there is older housing available in dense areas; in the US any new density will be new construction, and therefore tend to aim at the luxury/higher-cost buyer.
I read it as they want to see that the owner has put good management in place before selling.
9 fatal cases out of 17,000,000; I'm honestly impressed it can be tracked that well.
>I hope Rust comes out as the winner in the current crop of possible C/C++ replacements

What makes you think C and C++ will be replaced?

I see no systems programming language that's simpler than C and no systems programming language as flexible as C++.

Being that C++ is huge already and its developers like to add features after features, it's almost guaranteed that you can find a subset of C++ that suits the way you like to work.
There's a difference between what you should do and what people actually do. If a lot of them use unwrap in production, then OP's argument is valid.
> The district attorney refuses to seek jail time for drug dealing or most any other offense not involving direct, physical violence.

To the extent that's true, the solution is to replace the DA. The DA not prosecuting the way other city leaders would like does not empower those leaders to assume dictatorial power and impose arbitrary punishment without due process.
Do this "seed pod" things work well enough? (as in do they get a decent proportion to grow into trees?) I'm sure they wouldn't work where I live though most places in the world have less pressure from game than there is here.
The early designs were required to redirect the mirrors on cloudy days. Sudden full sun would damage the tower.

The largest CSP has half a million mirrors.
related but unrelated: does anyone have experience going back for a PhD/transitioning into academia after years in industry? I can't find many people who've done it, most of the professors and grad students I've ever spoken to either ended up working at a lab as their "industry" work or just went straight to grad school.
Maybe KaiOS will do the same for phones.