skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can play this game to, it does not prove you assertion, provide a data sours that should the majority of urban locations are land value heavy

Random Property in Philadelphia [1]

Assessed Value 2023: 257300 / land: 51460 - Structures: 205840

Assessed Value 2015: 186800 / land: 90300 - structures: 96500

So in Philly land DROPPED in value, Structures increased

In Austin they appear to claim Structures s have not increased in value at all in 10 years (very odd) and the 100% of the increase in the value of the land

I bet if I dig into local tax laws I will find some justifications for both valuations methods (meaning the local taxing authorities are manipulating the values for maximum tax revenue)

[1] https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/9320-Andov...
> I'm uncomfortable (to say the least) with disarming the very working class most impacted by said socioeconomic inequality at all, let alone before actually addressing that socioeconomic inequality.

Does that imply you'd support an armed insurrection? That seems pretty extreme! And if not, then why exactly do these people need guns?
This is cool, it reminds me of a program I used to use from Corel called Click n Create. Definitely got me into coding so I like the direction you’re heading!
What makes him a 3rd party instead of your neighbour? If he lives near your home, you trade to with him, visit him, exchange goods and fix regional issues and even try to global issues, isn't it a good neighbour? Helping him may prove wise. I doubt there was any gun involved. I suspect a more sensible approach that involved cooperation and negotiation. Italy is the third-largest net contributor to the budget of the European Union so I don't see what made you think the deal is so one-sided.
Don't remember how I stumbled on this site, but it had to have been 15-20 years ago that I did. Was pleasantly surprised to see that it's still online and that the author is still singing the praises of DOS.
Everything is blogging now. I miss getting those shareware diskets/CDs...
> So Facebook is explicitly countering opt-in requests for privacy (without informing you)

Facebook informs you of their tracking via the privacy policy you agree to when using their services
The earliest historical opportunity for 13 year olds to program computers was likely with the release of the Apple II in 1977. Born in 1964, 22 years old in 1986, 58 years old today. This is at the very earliest. The supply of previous 13 year old "hackers" would have still likely been extremely low for the entire decade of 1986-1996. Mostly a non-factor, I'd say.

For the older generation of programmers, their first access to computers at all would have been in college, not in junior high school.
I remember reading this issue cover to cover. Good times. The August issues of Byte were always a treat!
Why would you expect to ever hear about it even if it was happening? The result would be a company failing to build a working product due to struggling with hiring, which is an incredibly normal thing. Interviewing with a company, deciding you don't want to work on the thing they're building and then later hearing that they failed isn't exactly unusual, but no one involved is going to know that it failed specifically because developers were morally opposed to it rather than some other reason.
You are confusing a “30 year mortgage” with a “30 year mortgage”. They sound the same, because they have the same term to repay the principal, but they are completely different because in the USA you usually know your repayments for the next 30 years, but in many other countries the repayments can go up a lot if interest rates rise.

In the USA, the usual mortgage has a fixed interest rate for the term of the mortgage. In New Zealand the interest rate is approximately a floating (edit:variable) rate over the 30 year period.

In NZ the mortgage interest rate (which controls your repayments) can be fixed for up to 5 years (the median is 2) but after the “fixed” period the interest rate resets to the current interest rates (edit: typically mortgagees lock in a new 2 year “fixed” rate at the current 2 year interest rate). NZ rates were around 2% to 3% since 2008 [1], but now they are closer to 6% [2] and most mortgage holders in New Zealand will have to pay twice as much for the interest component of their mortgage repayment, putting some people under financial stress (an acquaintance is being forced to sell an investment property because they were over-leveraged). The mortgage interest rate over the 30 year term is more of a stepwise approximation to the floating interest rate: I am unsure how much control the mortgage holder has over varying the principal repayments (I think I can pay 20% more principal per payment, shortening 30 year term to 24 years).

It is more complicated than that, and the USA has a wide variety of mortgage products you can buy including ones similar to NZ (not just the usual USA fixed rate 30 year). Other countries have their own quirks, so I am only speaking for NZ where I understand the details better.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/new-zealand/interest-rate

[2] https://www.interest.co.nz/borrowing
I know you're joking but they don't even need that amount of accuracy, facial recognition is more than enough
> to change the "meta". to make tracking more expensive and meaningless at scale, etc.

The point is that the cost of tracking stays unchanged no matter what the data you feed it says. It's also just as meaningful in that it will still be collected, sold, used against you and will still have very real impacts on your life. The contents of your data will not and does not impact the machine or its functioning at all. All that matters is that there is data to collect and to leverage against you.

You're right we can't trust companies to save us here. The only solution to this is strong regulation with oversight and teeth. Until we get that, we can only do what little we can to limit the amount of data we give up and increase awareness of what's happening and how it harms us all.
The facts are: In the US, most Americans, including indigenous people, go their entire lives without seeing a single structure built before 1500. You can't see one without driving several hours from any population center, and several days from the population centers where the overwhelming majority live.

In Europe, most people see buildings built before 1500 every day. Many people live in them.

Those are both facts. My belief/opinion is that these facts explain the difference in attitude between Americans and Europeans. It has nothing to do with whether "most Americans simply don't identify with or think about history prior to British/American colonization"

Also I'd like to point out that both of my paragraphs are facts, not opinions. The difference is that I could be wrong if for example there was evidence that the Taos pueblo structures were built in the 13th century, but there isn't.
Yes, I realize that historically in agrarian societies, common folk in particular have had a very different relationship with animals than most modern Westerners, and some people still do. I did not mean to imply that compartmentalization is something inherent or unavoidable, just that clearly in the modern Western society this sort of mental model is more or less prevalent. You’re probably right that it’s connected with our relationship with death.
Yeah this article takes some strange positions
> I believe throwing people in jail for getting high is a reprehensible act

Are you actually required to do that as a police officer? Would it not be up to the discretion of the officer as to whether it was in the public interest to make an arrest or not? Here in the UK it would be pretty unusual for someone to be arrested for getting high unless they were causing a public nuisance, property damage, or similar.
One of my past PMs has two primary school kids that they do an extremely less structured version of this for, including some equivalent of story points and a kanban board that they keep up to date with larger tasks (so "eat lunch" is not a WIP ticket).

She says it's been helpful with teaching them how to get better at correctly estimating progress on stuff like summer break homework, studying for upcoming exams and also remembering what day the exam is on, reducing procrastination - at first the "story points" equivalent was wildly variable ranges, but started to get more accurate over time, being able to gauge what was a harder task than an easier task, for example if weaker on maths they aren't embarassed to outright say that and allocate more points/time toward their maths exam revision and dedicate less time to an essay due on the same week.

When writing an essay or studying for a concept they use the ticket/issue comment section to toss in their drafts, links to stuff they find that might be useful later, links to helpful YT/khanacademy videos, and it seems like an organiser of sorts, and the next day can just pick it up from there.

I was really weirded out at first but it didn't seem too absurd after knowing more about it and that it isn't just dinner standup - this is really clearly not making your kids send you an Outlook meeting request to speak to you, but more akin to keeping a journal or todo list, though I think it's going to be moved off Jira soon given the "everything cloud" push and that the $10 10-user licences no longer exist.
Constructions are implicitly proofs, aren’t they? But yes.
Ask HN: How to acquire raw image data for JPEG encoding
I’ve been reading about image processing and I’d like to write a JPEG encoder. But I’m stuck figuring out something, where do I get source image data and table specifications?

My question comes from page 13 (17 in pdf reader) https://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/itu-t81.pdf
Probably, I'm sure we more power in the winter.

Although it's likely they'll be power cuts as grid equipment overheats.
I do hand-updated CHANGELOG.md files, for all my projects.

Sometimes, my Git commits can be kind of verbose (and I'll occasionally put in smartass comments).

I wouldn't dream of mining my Git logs for CHANGELOG entries.

Actually, I hand-run many things that a lot of developers automate.

Part of it is because I have control issues...
> before you comment.

his question seemed clear and reasonable to me,
which you answered well, minus your comment in the final sentence.
You're not only not arguing the facts, you're not addressing the initial claim but a strawman of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32120884

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Exactly. Xpath is great. Also, being able to have as many types of closing tags as you want to define, makes it much easier to visually parse what is going on in a complex data structure. That alone has a ton of value. I am still struggling for the right mix of highlighters and tools to work in various formats/languages, due to the opacity of closing structures like }]}]];.

Now, there is a trade off in more complex paths to interoperability with Uncle Joe and his DTD. It is still easier than trying to parse some convoluted json coming from yet another api that the dev team never dogfed a day in their life - because you can jump levels so precisely in xpath due to those verbose types and attributes. So as to XML verbosity at least, which for many appears to be the main complaint, for me it is worth it when done right.
What makes him a 3rd party instead of your neighbour? If he lives near your home, you trade to with him, visit him, exchange goods and fix regional issues and even try to global issues, isn't it a good neighbour? Helping him may prove wise. I doubt there was any gun involved. I suspect a more sensible approach that involved cooperation and negotiation. Italy is the third-largest net contributor to the budget of the European Union so I don't see what made you think the deal is so one-sided. Now it has more access to gas so it may share some. This is precisly why it's good to have close relationships with your neighbours.
For example because some ISPs inject ads or malware when using HTTP.
Although I don't like dictatorship, they do have a stable process in doing this through at least 3 administrations.
More than you would expect.
I just skimmed EM's response in the lawsuit. It sounds as though his entire strategy is a "Gish Gallop" of incoherent claims about the mDAUs and a consequent demand for massive discovery that will take forever.

I don't see any question that the expectation is to confuse people in court about definitions, the same way random EM fans have been misled. Ever single point made was based on a misunderstanding or misrepresentation, until I quit reading in horror.

It's kind of terrifying when I imagine it might work. Even if it doesn't, I can't imagine that his lawyers will be punished or disbarred for this, which is almost as terrifying.
What about not and just make life better for everyone?

> In a sane world, Hairer would long ago have been given a healthy grant or a generous basic income, as well as a majestic set of lodgings wherever he so desired.

Is this comedy?
I'll second the recommendation above. For folks coming to algorithms for the first time I would recommend _Grokking Algorithms
An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people_ as a nice quick _tour_ of the field.
And the _Common Sense Guide_ (mentioned above) as the next book. For complete beginners this book has the best simple explanations of algorithms I've read in any book (and I have a whole bunch of them).
Seems naive that, as the article claims, nations might agree to limit their detection technology to enhance survivability of their adversaries’ nuclear forces.

If “ocean transparency” comes to pass, it seems much likelier that we’d have to deal with a realignment of the MAD calculus.
Russian threats forced American scientist to flee for safety
Train carriages used to go ca-chunk-ca-chunk, ca-chunk-ca-chunk, ca-chunk-ca-chunk. Each carriage has two bogies and each bogie has two pairs of wheels on axels; the first ca-chunk pair was the forward bogie, the second the rearward bogie.

It was as recent as the 1980s in Ireland, I remember the sound when travelling by train as a kid.
Good thoughts, thanks. This mirrors my own experience. The whole thing did seem very approachable to me. Pretty sure we had to implement a FORTH in a programming languages course I took back in college as well, so I had that basic familiarity with it.

Actually writing FORTH programs, on the other hand, is for me a real brain-bender. It seems to require a very different kind of thinking than does programming in C (for example).
You are 100% wrong. The current infrastructure only exists to reduce liability (hr ect) and nothing more. It could be subsidized to prevent poor outcomes but I'm honestly afraid of the lobbying against it.
What are LAs? Legislative Aides?

I feel like you're onto something here but I need that acronym's meaning :)
Yah, PC games have been known to drive hardware sales, doom, quake and then unreal all drove me to upgrade various components (486, Pentium and then voodoo2). I guess it still happens but the closest I can remember to buying a new piece of HW for a game was a GTX-1080 to play Witcher 3 a few years back.

The CPU/GPU HW vendors could probably boost their sales by buying rights for some of those games and selling them very discounted to drive HW upgrades. Thats basically what happened to me with Witcher 3, I bought it on some super sale for $10-15 discovered it didn't play very well on my older graphics card, and ended up spending $500 (or something) as a result.

For the most part I think people mostly ignored the MPC spec's though. Outside of maybe 7th guest which drove CDROM sales, most people I knew who were interested in gaming already had purchased or scrounged up a soundblaster and a 10base2 nic (for lan parties).
-- looking at their website I can see why this is his mindset - they appear to be extremely traditional - and his bio - well - the dude is ooolllddd --

https://www.landisconstruction.com/our-portfolio/
Worth noting that the Outer Space Treaty prohibits “weapons of mass destruction” in space, though that is generally interpreted to apply only to nuclear weapons.
When a half-burned shell in Walnut Creek, CA sells for a million dollars, the value is clearly having buildable land located near a strong labor market.
A Forth is so easy to implement that it can be done on a graphing calculator[0] and in-game computer[1] using very similar designs.

[0] https://github.com/siraben/zkeme80

[1] https://github.com/siraben/r216-forth
Easier said than done. They take up a lot of space when not in use, they are very heavy and unwieldy to move around 2 storeys, the windows we have in the UK are difficult to attach the hoses to.
While everything you said is correct, there are still significant advantages to the 'result' method.

Sometimes you want to return 200 even if most of the backends fail. Sometimes one part may want to retry based on any error.

Even aside from this, disallowing exceptions leads to a very predictable control flow, and makes program state able to be expressed in the type system, which is useful for many reasons on it's own.

While yes, it's often just like an exception or panic, I'll take that over exceptions in my code any day
Start with theory you're sure you could grasp. Understand how convolutions work and that covers a good chunk of theory.

Here's a good resource: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/depthwise-separable-convo....
At least for the US why not keep one or more nuclear missile subs in the Great Lakes?

Lake Superior alone covers 31,700 square miles to an average depth of 483 feet. It’s far to large an area to target with a first strike and well protected from non US/Canadian forces.

Edit: A US/Canadian treaty demilitarized the Great Lakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush–Bagot_Treaty
Huh? I'm talking about taking money from you as a "deposit" so that he can finish building my house or buying the property for another person altogether with gov't approval yet no oversight on how the money is spent
Foundation settlement as well.

Grady of Practical Engineering has a good segment on that:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0_KhihMIOG8
Dont listen to other peoples advice, it is ridden with jealousy and ego
I was just thinking that the site looks about the same as the first time I saw it too. That must have been around 2007.

IIRC, that site once had Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 pages as well.
get a job at a hedge fund for a few years, and then retire and have enough $ to do math and buy a home

plenty of hedge funds would love to have a field's medalist
There were some decent issues in the late 80s, but yeah, it had passed its prime. They relaunched as a website in... uh... 2009 maybe? I had a long conversation with the editor at that time about what I loved about Byte and Dr. Dobbs in the early days. I think it went over their heads and they sort of went back to "reviewing mice and computer monitors."
Recommended reading: Cyteen by CJ Cherryh. The geniuses in this universe are called “specials” and enjoy special rights.

I still think that sci-fi novels are the best material covering the ethics of science.
I'd tell my younger self nothing. In fact, I'd stay completely out of my younger self's way and never meet.

Meeting my wife was so dependent on luck that any change, anywhere would make it not happen.
Most comments here are just based on the title. The commenters not even read into the article. This is somewhat a phishing message to test how shallow the reading is in a modern internet world.
> Wind and solar people talk in terms of scale and economics.

Until you ask them about energy storage, and then they start talking in superlatives.
So little to no insulation. What you describe is "little" insulation. In climates like CA it tends toward "no insulation".
They can be movable without being mobile homes (any house is movable, it’s just a matter of how easy they are to move!). Legally, they definitely aren’t classed as mobile homes, they aren’t permanently attached to a chassis. You can probably get a mortgage for them, for example.
in the postgresql world logical replication is boon.
out-of-band immutable datastore is key, as well.

we are looking forward to qualified replication in upcoming pg15.
> The price has gone up dramatically, well above inflation, at least where I live

I grew up in the US and have now lived in Canada for more than 15 years.

Unless your country has VAT or other import taxes, you can easily just take the USD value of the Apple product you are trying to buy and convert it to your currency. The price of the product will match up exactly with the value of your dollar in the last 2-4 months.

2011-2013 was a great time for Apple product buyers in Canada, the dollar was nearly at parity for a short time. And then 2 years later, every Apple product increased in price by 20%. My salary didn't go up. Inflation didn't hit Canada particularly hard.

Apple has a strict profit margin they are targeting, and if your dollar goes down in value, and they will simply ask you to pay up.
> the Catalan independence movement went full in on treason

There's a few hundred million mainlanders, and the entire leadership of the CCP who feel the same way about Hong Kong. Perhaps Madrid and Beijing should compare notes?
The houses were designed differently. I live in a 120+ year old house in the middle of corn country in Illinois. We finally installed central AC only three years ago. How is the house designed different from current construction methods? WINDOWS! My 2400 sq ft 2 story house has 54 (FIFTY FOUR!) windows. Every room in the house (except the bathrooms) has windows on two separate walls. After the sun goes down, by opening all the windows in the house and leaving all the doors open, the cooler night air can permeate throughout the house. In the morning (before dawn), all the windows are closed and the curtains are closed. This will trap the cool air and reduce solar heating.
> I have to agree that "zero trust" is terrible marketing

I hate to say it but it's brilliant marketing to the people the vendors selling this are targeting - IT departments and CSO's lumped with compliance to arbitrary security certifications and audits.

For these people the user themselves are as much the enemy as the actual attack vectors: they do not trust the staff in their organisation and their goal is to implement infrastructure to control and surveil and limit the scope of their activities to the greatest extent possible.

So in fact, the double-speak of the "zero trust" phrasing fully aligns with their internal motivations and is now well and truly embedded in as a marketing term in the latest crop of security vendors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_W._Franke
Like 90-95% of the world population lives at latitudes that get better solar resource than Northern Europe, such as Germany and most of the UK, etc.

The seasonality isn’t that great and you can displace like 80-90% of grid energy use affordably with a battery (at least in bulk prices) even without net metering.

15kW of solar, which is about what you can get with a roof full of solar panels, would be enough to handle the household energy including heating, cooling, cooking, and commuting in electric cars for my household of five.

And with tandem Si-perovskite cells commercialized over the next couple decades, etc, that amount could climb to ~20-30kW for the same roof, taking care of seasonality effects, etc, except at very high latitudes.

I love nuclear, too, but if nuke-bros are gonna make excuses for NIMBYing solar roofs, I don’t want any part of that.
The ones you love are more important than anything else. Adjust your priorities and behavior accordingly.