skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It being a bad deal for them likely makes it a very good deal for you.

Also, letting them renege on the deal they agreed to would likely put you in a worse situation than had they not offered the (bad, for them) deal in the first place, making it harder to feel bad for them.

Ultimately, if a business made a binding agreement, letting them out of it to be nice is nice, but neither required nor financially sensible.
I've come to hate the term Best Practice
Whoever wrote this doesn't really understand what they're talking about.

Side note: this is written in 2019. Can we update the title?

First, terminology. "Flipping" houses has a completely different meaning. The author mentions buying a house and "flipping" it 5 years later. That's not what flipping is. Flipping is short-term and typically means rehabing a property. Done quickly, you can make a profit on this if you're good and can control your costs and keep to short time frames. People do pay a premium for finished products and/or just don't want to deal with the headaches of massive renovations.

Second, the author makes the same mistake every pro-stocks author makes and completely ignores leverage and borrowing rates. 1-2 years ago you could get a 30 year fixed mortgage as low as 2.5% with an 80-95% LTV. Try getting that on any portfolio. Houses don't have margin calls either.

Third, this was written in 2019. A lot has happened since then. The 2006 to 2022 housing situation is radically different.

Fourth, the national average of house price growth over that period isn't really meaningful. This isn't stock-picking as the author alleges. Just narrow it to greater metro areas with low unemployment, a growing population (even modestly so) and relatively low state public debt (ie not Illinois) and the picture is radically different.

Fifth, real estate tends to be a very good hedge against inflation. We're seeing that now. Inflation has skyrocketed and so has housing in the last year. That's not an accident. There are some systemic problems here but that's a separate topic. As someone who is trying to protect the real value of your assets, you only really care that it is could happen or is happening not necessarily why.

Lastly, property tends to be much better at generating an income than any other asset class. Gross yields of 8-10% aren't that uncommon. Getting a dividend yield like that is going to be much harder and will have much greater capital risk.
Here's a good visual explanation:
https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/2ndyearidlab/author/hohsuan/page/2/
Would have bet it was a data error, with unix time 0 being 1 Jan 1970.
Spot on. I don't know why we can't have an HT with a Blackberry-like hardware keyboard to send text. Or maybe something Psion-like (90's micro laptop thing made by Sony). I'd be very satisfied with Blackberry dimensions, as Psion would add bulk.
For me neither. I don't think its supposed to be a playground. They probably just forgot to disable editing for the code preview.
Implementations autogenerated by an AI? Absolutely, there are so many edge cases to consider.

However, I'm much more likely to trust a popular library implementation.
It's just as wasteful but more normalized
I did some very rough spreadsheet work, collecting average UK house prices[0] and rates of inflation[1] and tried to figure this out. So starting with January 2007's average price of GBP 176,758 I tried to repeatedly apply the annual interest rates I end up with:

* Jan 2007 price (inflation adjusted to 2022): GBP 243,199

* Jan 2022 price (actual): GBP 273,762

So it seems that in the UK at least the prices do seem to grow ahead of inflation. And the starting price we're talking about here is after a long, sustained housing bubble and was already quite unaffordable for many. Further still I think many people's wages have kept pace with inflation.

So looking at the raw price changes doesn't tell the whole story, but the whole story is still quite grim.

[0] = https://www.statista.com/statistics/751605/average-house-pri...

[1] = https://www.worlddata.info/europe/united-kingdom/inflation-r...
> the solution where you back up the data probably won't be the same one where the new live DB will actually run, so some data transfer/IO will still be needed

The S3 buckets where HN is backed up to could themselves be constantly copied to other S3 buckets which could be the buckets directly used by an EC2 instance, were it ever needed in case of emergency.

That would avoid on-demand data transfer from the backup S3 buckets themselves at the time of failure.

The backup S3 buckets could also be periodically copied to Glacier for long-term storage.

That's for an all-AWS backup solution. Of course you could do this with (for example) another datacenter and tapes, if you wanted to... or another cloud provider.
It might also be the kind of wake-up call that gets him to be less impulsive.
Sheesh! Give them (Dan & co) a break. It's obvious that they are doing their best to get things back to normal, chill dude.
The only claims QM make is about probabilities of measurements, and you can verify these experimentally, as we did, repeatedly. You are free to interpret these as many universes, pilot waves, or fairies playing tricks on scientists, suit yourself.

But we know for sure if it's fairies (or any other hidden variables) - they have to conspire globally. Cause otherways the experimental results couldn't happen the way they did cause fairies in place X wouldn't know which way to nudge the results to be consistent with the way fairies in place Y nudged them.
> Choosing to believe a company that has admitted to lying to investors is your prerogative, it doesn't make them trustworthy or correct

More to the point, it's Musk's perogative, which he excercised when he signed a contract to buy the company based on their represenations while choosing not to do any due diligence to verify those representations.

I think Twitter is probably more believable here than you give them credit for, but Musk trusted them 100% for some reason.
This is a concern in Australia too and we have mandatory voting with a near-100% turnout.
They might be referring to the signals on the track.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_signalling
There's a plan, so long as they don't check my HN handle as part of the hiring process.
How on earth does HN take 30 seconds but a website full of animated gifs is instant? HN loads instantly for me.
Used Amplify in the past. It’s great for like 80% of basic AWS use cases, but if you’re trying to do something non-standard or even if it’s available in the AWS backend APIs, but just not yet supported by the Amplify components, it can be a huge pain when you have to build that client support yourself separately anyway.
>more people own homes than at any other point in history.

Not in the US, and this article is about Americans.
Wildfires are erasing Western forests (2021)
The Go authors have never said #1: they said their waiting to decide how to best do it, and they want experience with the language to determine what problem needs to be solved before solving it

#3: they’ve clearly said that they’re doing “get it right before you make it fast”.
System76 also adds custom, open source firmware (https://support.system76.com/articles/open-firmware-systems/) and ensures the hardware works by coordinating with the ODM and writing custom drivers if necessary (https://support.system76.com/articles/system76-driver/)

Pretending to be a system integrator by buying proprietary Windows hardware and slapping Linux on it is a mug's game.

They were going to start building their own laptops at one point. I'm not sure what happened with that. Of course, nobody except Apple really builds their own hardware these days either (hence the term ODM).
Personally I don't believe that an agent finds people that want to buy, one may have more contacts than another, but it is not like the sale goes over or under asked price because an agent is so much better than another, either the initial evaluation (asking price) was underestimated by roughly 10% or the local market allowed a 10% over valuation.

A good agent (as opposed to a bad one) will help (a lot) in a number of other things (bureaucracy, managing and dealing with the details, counsel - if needed - about other professionals such as lawyers and technicians, possibly help in finding a suitable contractor for renovation works, and similar) but they won't be able to raise or lower the price sensibly, the price is mainly due to the market (locally and at that exact moment).
No. Local hidden variables can not explain experimental results of QM without implying something many people find distasteful. But no one has demonstrated any objective reason why that distaste has anything to do with the universe or its laws.

So, another way to say it is local hidden variables do explain experimental results of QM if you are willing to accept the implications, none of which contradict observation.
> Lose any code they don't have copyright to, release what they can, even if its not functional.

This was the approach with BSD Unix iirc. They removed the AT&T/other copyrighted code and the community filled in the rest of the gaps.
Perhaps, but at this point that means pulling the rope ladder up behind you so no one else can use it.
When the time comes for a new laptop, I would get a System76. The fact they somewhat disable Intel ME is a big plus for me. But I know I would miss the trackpoint.

My only main requirement is the hardware needs to support Slackware and Open/Net BSD.
My pet peeve is Vim tutorials that start with "use hjkl to move around" instead of "use `set mouse=a` to turn on the mouse." In my opinion you need to make sure that you are very clearly disclaiming that you are teaching a harder way of doing things in exchange for incredibly small productivity gains that will be realized years in the future, if ever.

(This is basically a copy-paste of previous comments I’ve made, I haven’t tried your tutorial beyond the first lesson.)
they are claiming that their basket of distortion N-Grams became more common faster than other randomly sampled n-grams from recent works.

This seems like an interesting approach to controlling for the bias, but I'd expect the random sampling would bias lower than a specific sample as a random sampling of n-grams would pick up a lot of english grammar which hasn't changed in many years.
Google works fine for me and seemingly most of the population.
NIST’s pleasant post-quantum surprise
One probably wants to provide a set of matching and a set of non-matching strings. Then the software would output a regex and some edge-case matching strings and non-matching strings.

This could be built using set operations on deterministic finite automata (dfa). Every regex is equivalent to a dfa. You can now construct automata for every positive and negative example input. Then calculate the union for all positive examples and the union for all negative examples. And finally calculate the difference between the two unions. Convert the resulting automaton back to regex.

https://scanftree.com/automata/dfa-union-property
To add onto this, many buying realtors will not show a house to their client that is for sale by owner. They know they won't get their cut of the commission so they leave it out of the options. They will only visit if their client specifically finds it and brings it to them.
The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Posthuman Era (1993)
Wow. I remember reading about buying books by the foot in a communist satire book, I didn't expect reality to catch on that quickly.
Well if he’s busy banning people for political ideologies when in reality he’s running a message board with the technology from 1995
I remember reading somewhere that this kind of convulated naming convention is intentional (both by Intel and AMD). Consumers prefer to buy the latest and fastest CPU they can afford. Such convulated designations confuse the consumer on what is the latest, and ensure old / previous generation stocks can still be sold for a good price.
The biggest subsidy is Fannie/Freddie buying 30 year mortgages with the now explicit backing of the Federal government.

If that didn’t exist there wouldn’t be 30 year mortgages. How that distorts the real estate market is a big open question but my guess is it drives up real estate prices.

Of course that has been a continuous policy decision for almost 100 years so it’s nothing new.
If you only consider noisy cafés with bad drinks and loud people, sure, better not go there.

Bit some cafés are very quiet, have delicious drinks and food, good music and are (IMO) perfect for some light to mild-focused tasks.
Seems like a sensible policy. Just getting people to downsize is certainly a win.
It depends on if you're trying to minimize damage to your car, or the passengers. For a light impact where you aren't going to sustain any injuries it might be optimal to let off the brake. But if the accelerations are going to cause injury, then you would want to apply the brakes to minimize the acceleration of the car.
It seems like a reasonable law.
No, that is not the case.

> B. NOTWITHSTANDING SUBSECTION A OF THIS SECTION, A PERSON WHO IS
22 THE SUBJECT OF POLICE CONTACT MAY RECORD THE ENCOUNTER IF THE PERSON IS
23 NOT INTERFERING WITH LAWFUL POLICE ACTIONS,

The basis of being subject to this law is that you are interfering with police actions, and lawfulness can only be determined by the courts after the fact.

I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that you would be in your legal right to record the police if you were being arrested for violation of this law, and likely it's something that would need to be tested fairly considerably in court before a definite interpretation was set.

This is a really badly designed/defined law, and I would not rely on the guarantees of the law as being subject to it means it's already been determined you're interfering with police action.
It says 14 hour battery life but how can anyone tell about future longevity? I usually find any other laptop than a macbook has poor long term life. For example I have my macbook (this isn't a pro Apple post but they have damn good battery life and power efficiency) that lasts 10 or more hours after 3-4 years and then a Dell precision 5540 that lasts 10 minutes after 1 year. These aren't exact figures but you get the picture. Is there somehow to calculate this comparison/benchmark against multiple workbooks with different hardware and claims with all the usage aside. Don't say "well if you use it more and has more apps open..." or "the operating system uses blah blah blah" just hardware specific benchmark agnostic of apps and os, etc.
We booked four flights for the weekend before the fourth, outbound from the east coast to the Midwest, plus returns. Of those, American Airlines cancelled two. Fortunately, one party had rebooked on an earlier return flight.
The whole purpose of Typescript is to be an early release of the next version of JS, so everything in TS will eventually be in JavaScript.

I think CoffeeScript died because it didn't offer any real improvement, which TS offers even incrementally (in a single function, for example) without going all-in.
Removing supply side restrictions can lead to densification instead of sprawl. It just needs to be paired with smart transit policy.
This could also be a bias in the google books dataset. As I recall, the older google books dataset relied heavily on library preservation. It's probable that library curation would filter books for utility, longevity, and educational purpose. These filters would certainly penalize informal books.
I wish there was a colophon or something with information about everything that was used do produce the book and website from a graphics and design perspective.
I have a plug-in clock with backup battery that has an uptime of always
PNG to icns (Emacs DWIM style)
My 3-4 year old Macbooks definitely don't last anywhere near their original battery life, and I've had plenty of MacBook batteries fail in the way of turning off under 50% battery when under heavy load. Not to mention swelling up.
Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick and Philippe Fla
Fuzzing the Rust Typechecker Using Constraint Logic Programming [pdf]
We got the weird 1600mm in Ireland :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track_gauge_in_Ireland
Yes, following that guy it is understandable why he would never be a hedge fund manager for a long time. When it comes to investing he is stupid as a brick.
I believe the mechanical keyboard you speak of is an external device (and not part of the laptop frame).
If you dismiss every single person on a rapid judgment you’re going to go through a lot of people
Why wouldn't these people not need to pay the bill? Can't they retry to debit the next day? I don't know Doordash but I assume they have proper T&Cs for this?
14m
It’s all about the imperfections. This is similar to the modern audio recording industry. There are a ton of new high-end clean condenser microphones that have extremely good and flat frequency response, and some of them are surprisingly inexpensive. All you have to do is to add some “character” in post-processing by applying an emulator that can mimic classic microphones like the Neumann U87. Heck you can even go so far as to emulate the recording console itself in order to reproduce characteristics of 60s,70s, and 80s mixing desks, compressors, limiters, preamps, and the like. These things add imperfections and distortions that are somehow pleasing to humans, and I am guessing that is similar to what these lenses do.

At the end of the day, you should probably just use what works. Ignore the hype, name-dropping, and brand snobbery. Plug in your shit and twist knobs until it sounds good. I usually avoid emulators and go this way, as it (usually) produces the best results for what I’m trying to achieve.

I’m definitely not a photographer, but I am assuming that it would be similar in that domain.
Apple went from using roundrects to squircles a decade ago:

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/circling-square-desig...
Now I wonder how difficult it would be to replace the firmware to create an AES+base64 typewriter with a configurable key.
I use OCRMYPDF nearly every day. It already has cleaning functions: deskewing, page rotation, despeckling, contrast, etc. The docs linked above show all the many useful options in full.
We need to dictate the what cars people drive in order to achieve green energy. Even if we had the political will to go 100% solar, the resources needed to make cars and panels and electricity generation are still going to be scarce. Why should those resources be thrown away on pointlessly large card when we could be using them for so much more?

It’s incredibly frustrating to see society dump our limited metal reserves into useless things. Every EV on the road that could be replaced by public transit and every big EV that could be replaced by a small one is N kWh of grid storage batteries that don’t get built.
Nor is it the trauma inducing scourge of society that really needs sheltering from
We must be odd folks. Everyone I work with uses Courier New in their editor and in Putty. Thankfully VS Code uses a same default.
It's a form of defense in depth. Ideally your application has specific test cases, property-based testing, linting, and whatever other forms of static and dynamic analysis you can think of. But if your code is obfuscated and/or you don't have a clear mental model of what it does, that adds a layer of uncertainty and could potentially hurt debugability.
I recently updated my 3270 font to the newest version, with much better hinting than the previous ones. It’s a font based on the 3278-2 IBM terminal from the 1970’s. I like the straight lines and slightly taller numbers, as well as the characteristic S, 6, 9, and the dotted 0.

I’d appreciate feedback and more testing.
Is CBSNews doing novel research in this article?

It starts with reporting a survey on Americans' beliefs (specifically that they can make money flipping houses). This is fine and normal news.

Then it transitions to novel research where the not-explicitly-questioned ground truth is "no: real estate flipping can't make money". How about cite some economists about bad future returns. Or at least some bank analysts?

Instead, CBSNews's "analysis" that real estate doesn't make money starts with this gem:

"Sadly, real estate is no better an investment today than it was in the previous century—and that's to say, mediocre at best. For people with a bit of money to put away, the stock market will almost always give the best return.

Between 2006, the peak of the previous housing bubble, and 2019, average home prices have increased just 13%, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. In that same time period, the S&P 500 rose 125%. In other words, stocks did 10 times better than real estate."

The author assumes:

- That returns to housing measured from the past peak is an unbiased estimate of housing returns.

- That returns to stocks measuring up to today (one of the biggest stock bull runs) is an unbiased estimate of stock returns.

- And that past returns from these periods will predict future performance.

- To put the cherry on top, she compares two price indexes, not total return indexes. Dividends (rents) are totally excluded from the series.

None of this is pointed out by the article itself, or even questioned. The most basic first-year-econ-undergrad mistakes are being made here. Which is unsurprising since this analysis seems like a journo LARPing as an economist to finish a writing assignment.
RAD for the web ;) ? Forget about it.
Rewriting everything (front-end-wise) is a constant source of income for frontend "developers".
OK, but back to the regex. That's just pattern matching, and ML/AI has been shown to be amazing at pattern matching (albeit underwhelming at most other tasks). I would trust an AI/ML generated regex, but only because such structures are easily testable. This tool from the University of Trieste has probably been around for 10+ years--probably only 1e3 parameters, not 1e10.

http://regex.inginf.units.it/
> Let me know what you guys think about it :)

Same as the last time you posted it: learning Vim has nothing to do with muscle memory and doing it outside of Vim is pointless. Plus, the "master Vim" claim is dubious given how basic the lessons seem to be.

:help user-manual is easy, built-in, and it goes way beyond this. And it's free.
The one complaint is this:

> He has had a habit of silencing some long-standing members of HN

If anything, that shows excellent moderation skills. Everyone should abide by the same rules.
Think? During the last year they were doubling their money around here.
I would have to imagine heat loss in transit, as it's not a problem anywhere else other than the far side. The plant itself has a lot of waste heat and not boiling too much water is a concern.
Given worldwide 'shot by cop' statistics, i would put '..AN EMOTIONALLY DISTURBED OR DISORDERLY PERSON WHO IS EXHIBITING ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR." as a valid label for US cops.
A black hole could swallow the earth
I'd take a rugged HT with a sleek and intuitive UI. The companies that make ham gear seem obsessed with complex and cryptic UIs. My Yaesu FT-3D is a good radio and isn't that hard to use, but its UI is still pretty clunky and the imprecise resistive touch screen feels like it's stuck in Y2K.
This is great point I often make. Not many people take this into consideration. Now, inflation has been lower than 4% for last 10-20 years. But the point stands.
But who determines the asking price? Not hard to claim success if the realtor themselves sets the bar.