skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What should appraisers go by other than "what other people were willing to pay recently for similar homes"?

Look up "appraisal gaps" in 2021 news. Appraisers and banks already try to curb this some - the bank doesn't want to loan more than they could get back if the market changes an over-leveraged buyer goes bust and they owe more than the property is now worth in a new situation - but guess what else happened recently? The stock market went up up up, crypto went up up up, etc... buyers had enough cash to cover the gaps.

The difference between now and 2008 is that people had much more numerically-sound financial footings to drive these bidding wars. So I don't expect it to implode without other things imploding first, this time around (you could argue that they had those sound financial footings because of inflation in other markets, like stocks, but the stock market has merely corrected to pre-2020 trends, not imploded).
Some of the things you think "modern" means, perhaps. What makes it "modern"? On its own, the word conveys nothing useful. It's even worse than something like "fun", which at least implies some kind of commitment to a general mood or vibe, since everyone seems to think their offering is "modern", so you can't really take any meaning from it (the only thing that word on its own really suggests, to me, is "needlessly resource-heavy").
Thank you very much for working on Vector Search. Looking forward trying it out as soon as it gets stable. Thanks again!
>The length of the queue, and the experience of those in line are sharing, is an expression of that respect, minimizing it is disrespectful.

Is it really an expression of respect, or of how little Britain's government cares about the peoples' dignity, health and time versus shutting the entire country down for a mass civil ritual of obsequient suffering before the nobility?
I think the key aspect of this is how you capture iterative refinement. One can capture a high level intent ("Build a webpage with widgets to accomplish foo", or "Buy me tickets to the playoff game") But upon inspection there are fractally increasing levels of details that need further specification. For the webpage - say authorization requirements or visual design details just as an example. Or for the tickets ... which seats? what cost is acceptable? if the next best seat is just slightly more than the state budget is the tradeoff worth it? What about the special bundle that includes some sort of promotional item, worth it? And if it is worth it this time, does that apply next time?

For code-technical decisions, design documents, or the code itself provide a good record for the ever increasing details and scope, but we certainly haven't found the best way to capture everything. Perennial debates about code documentation, or what should go in PRs, or literate-style programing and more show we haven't figured it out. But at the same time, I definitely find myself having non-productive slack conversations, or PR threads or whatever, when my colleague (or myself) prompts: "hangout?" or similar to have call and talk through the issue. Something about the real-time conversation is able to cut-through written mis-communication very well - which then can be captured back in text for the benefits of other colleagues.
This must depend on where you live in the city – just yesterday we had massive fog in the morning and at night in the sunset.
There can't be fraud of the sort that you get with credit cards on a blockchain unless you leak your private keys.

The fact that security is built around a 16 digit number and 3 digit pin that you share with everyone and can be reused is embarrassing for credit card companies, not a win. Amazing.
"going too hard on FIRE"

There's no such thing
Yes. Badly, with arbitrary punishments for those it finds out of compliance, and no appeals.
I have recovered and am hosting the source code for version 3.4.2, the version prior to the Avast acquisition, on GitHub at the following

https://github.com/elgrove/idcac-3.4.2

I am not well versed in open source licensing but I believe the GPL3 gives me permission to do this. Please could someone more knowledgeable confirm this for me.

I am not a web developer, I'm hosting the code in the hope that someone else will take it and fork it. It's one of my favourite extensions and a day 1 install on any new machine, along with UBO
I don’t think it gets the job done as reliably though.
I own in the GBA.

2.6% interest rate.

1.2% property tax rate.

Look for deals; some places need work, or don’t have AC, but can be had for cheap. Most buyers in the GBA don’t want a house that needs even a new kitchen, much less some walls knocked down.
> I do love the US but so many of our cities really are garbage.

Indeed. The reason it feels so different in many European cities (and feels much better IMO) is that they are human scale instead of automobile scale.

See James Howard Kunstler's The Geography of Nowhere
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125313.The_Geography_of_...
The big banks & investment funds will figure a way around it, meanwhile individuals and small businesses trying to grow will struggle. I know people who've used a 1031 exchange to sell a smaller location and move to a bigger/better version of the same. How about limiting 1031 exchanges to small business(es) (for some definition of small businesses that's actually meaningful).
Yep, the Airmap app is really useful for getting those local restrictions & any applicable TFRs.
Hamid Karzai's brother owns some restaurants in Baltimore. They're pretty good.
Did you get flu updates in the past? What about yearly physicals? Obviously I’m not going to convince you, but I would like to invite you to wonder what the difference is. RNA tech is potentially scary, but the idea that vaccines are secretly doing something else is a bit silly. For one thing the number of people who can “decompile” the vaccine is pretty large. I believe there have been some research papers on it even and beyond that biology is pretty limited. You’d need a lot more than is in the vaccine to do anything more than your run of the mill virus does to you dozens of times a year and honestly a lot less than some because it can’t modify your dna, it can’t save itself anywhere.
Are Toshiba's external hard disks good?
I liked their internal hard disks decently. what about their external hard disks?
Applying strong scientific principle and a lot of time and effort to an obvious conclusion to everyone? Not clever.
> dedication

Indeed! Looking at the comments it seems that it was astoundingly difficult at every level let alone putting them together.
> The original Java date classes (also from the 1.1 era) were functional and correct, but badly designed. A modern time API was introduced in Java 8 in 2014.

I'm pretty sure they were neither correct nor functional. I've read pretty detailed examples of everything they got fundamentally wrong, which was a lot. Wrong, not as "this is cumbersome to use" but as in "this fundamentally misunderstands what dates are at a conceptual level, and produces wrong results". Unfortunately, I would have to google it now.

All I can find right now is Jon Skeet's summary [1], which leans more to the "avoid using java.util.Date because it's one giant pitfall" side of the argument. Though it does mention some fundamental problems with it. However, this is not the article I found back in the day, which was both more comprehensive and more critical.

> A modern time API was introduced in Java 8 in 2014.

I seem to remember even at that time people were still not recommending Java standard date classes and functions, but I may be misremembering. Or were all the replacements like joda time from a previous era?

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[1] https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2017/04/23/all-about-java-util-...
Blocking cookie popups renders some pages unusable. For instance adidas. I could not scroll when blocking cookie prompt.
A spermwhale's brain is about the size of a basketball. An infographic for all brains and how their neurons are divided up in special domains, the ratio of brain size to body size, etc, would be interesting to see.
holy bright pink, batman :-(
We still get haar a lot here in Scotland - its very common on the Firth of Forth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haar_(fog)

Edit: I have no idea whether haar occurs more or less frequently - I moved to a spot where it is very visible a few years back so it certainly looks more common to me!
Relay Attack Against Teslas
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/700-year-decline-of-interes...
51% killing the 49% in iteration is 1% killing the 99%.

>The three other forms of government you mentioned are all equally capable of that atrocity.

If you ignore the psychological disadvantage of the killers having a monopoly on 'legitimate' violence. For instance, in some anarchistic type scenario there is at least the upper hand that everyone understands the aggression of others is not granted some philisophical legitimacy over their own, and people frustrating these efforts will know their defensive efforts are not philisophically disadvantaged. Moral is an important component of self defense. It is easier to push many people in the cattle car if they think a legitimate 'authority' of the government has spoken.
Concur: I spent perhaps 10 days in the city in 1995 split into two blocks at end of June and beginning of September. Definitely foggy on multiple days, especially over towards Golden Gate Park and the bridge.
R. Crumb Means Some Offense
If you allow me to assume you are male, my quickmafs thinks you're taller than 4/5 women, as opposed to the median male who is taller than 19/20 of women.

Do other women want men taller than they are, or do they want men taller than other men? I don't understand the mechanism myself.
JavaScript Rest vs. Spread Operator – What’s the Difference?
I'm not talking about tampering, not in the sense of a 51% double spend or anything. I'm talking about off-chain real world human influence. I'm talking about things like The DAO, an organization that was such a huge player in ethereum at the time that when they suffered an exploit like so many others have over the years ethereum did a hard fork for just them to fix things.

How many smaller players in the crypto scene have received that kind white glove treatment, going against the "code is law" principle, when they've lost huge sums of money? Code was law right up until The DAO massively screwed up and was deemed Too Big to Fail. No different than traditional financial institutions.

As the mining resources of the various trustless Proof of $X models needed to makes crypto work are increasingly centralized into the hands of massive players in the field the principle of crypto democratizing control of money & finance is becoming an Emperor With [increasingly] No Clothes.
This is the same set of rules that Basketball players fall under. They played a game in $cityState, and that locality wants their cut.

Granted, there's little way to tell if I'm working from the Grand Canyon, or touring it, but AZ still believes they should get their cut.
That only applies to redistributors, not to the original author. The way the GPL works, is that the author absconds some of the copyright they hold by default, in exchange for people taking advantage of that committing to publishing even modified source code whenever they redistribute it.
The other thing to mention is just that a lot of people have taken a 20%+ wealth haircut too, from the stock markets. With that much abated m2, there's considerably less money supply to buy with.
running is hard on joints, esp for heavier folks.
This sounds similar to work I did years ago to combine phase-space manifolds with a rule-based expert system to address problems diagnosing failures in mechanical systems exhibiting multi-modal operating regimes.

Hopefully the researchers found a simpler computational method than I did in trying to mate those two systems together. :)

What really caught my attention was the output of a probability curve showing how the system might operate in the never-before-seen regimes once the tipping point was reached. The ability to predict behavior outside the training set is a huge win. My method was only predictive while the the system operated in the training regime; outside that regime it was useless.
How to save as food inflation jumps more than 11% in a year
Obvious conclusions like "heavier objects fall faster"?
I still use my copy of Fireworks for everything graphics related that I need. Yes, it doesn't do everything as well compared to modern suites but the UI was just so easy for a developer to use. Even Homesite is still better than most editors I've ever used.
Some countries use a comma as the decimal point. So it's not obvious to everyone that 3,900 == 3900
I like TallSlim Tees [0] – pricey for what they are, quality-wise, but for me it's worth it to get a good fit for once. I have a similar build to GP (191cm, ~77kg) and wear a size medium in these. Very nice not needing to clad myself in a billowing sail just so my shirt can reach past my belt

[0] https://tallslimtees.com/
Hey look! Another place where breaking the law can be a competitive advantage
I have recovered and am hosting the version 3.4.2 source code, the version prior to the Avast acquisition, at the below repo

https://github.com/elgrove/idcac-3.4.2
Delivers card readers... Gas pumps aren't a single monolithic unit.
I love how my initial title was "Zoom Is Down" but it got updated to "Zoom was down" by moderators after the issue was solved. =)
You are saying two contradictory things. First that those with the most money control Ethereum, and then that transactions can't be controls be reversed, indicating that you want a human layer of control that is currently missing. This is a conflating of layers and evidence of a fundamental misunderstanding of of how it works.

The fact that these types of get off my lawn comments get voted to the top of HN that make me wonder if I'm on a ship of fools that is no longer the center of gravity of interesting and creative tech thought.

Crypto has been around for over a decade and isn't going away, and it's an complex technology that has massive depth and a lot of interest. These sorts of negative superficial comments that get repeated ad infinitum are tiring and provide no value.

If you prefer credit cards then use them. No one is taking that away from you. That isn't the main use case that Ethereum is going after.
Our university subscribes to Adobe Products Suit- when all of their functionality can be replicated with FOSS. They sent out a survey about this before they started the subscription and I answered negatively to that, to no avail. So that's where our tuition/grant/loan/savings money are going.
I am 6'4".

Flying sucks.

Can't fit in a Miata and sports cars suck in general.

Showers in hotels suck.

Buying T-shirts is annoying.

I did have a nice dating life....but I missed out a ton because I was a quite oblivious lol...now I'm married and it doesn't really matter.
Product managers are absolutely ga-ga for drag & drop, no matter how much you tell them it'll at least double the defect rate on the site and slow down all future user-facing feature development. It's that valuable to them, to the tune of effectively hundreds of "story points" over the life of a Web project.

So the use case is adding drag & drop interaction to sites, which is evidently extremely desirable.
As a well below average height guy who had knee surgery following an ACL tear: no freaking way I would even undergo surgery that wasn't absolutely necessary. Your bones may heal, but what about your muscles and the nerves they touch? Being healthy is way more important than looking good. I have (small) problems even from a routine intervention, I don't even want to know what these experiments yield.

And as insensitive as this might sound: get over your god damn insecurities. All the statistics in the world of how much more money tall guys make can't account for individuals, and we all know plenty of short rich business owners and poor big guys working terrible construction jobs or worse. The only real limitation in being short is dating tall women. But guess what, there's plenty things limiting your dating pool: baldness, being fat, facial features, age, social and financial status, etc. Nobody has it all and you will never finish if you go the rabbit whole. You can only end up like those women butchered by too much cosmetic surgery.
> Like many of you, I grew up using Adobe software and it was a critical part of my personal creative journey.

Yes, it was the part of your journey that made you realize it was a company that made bad design software, and you devoted your life to making an alternative to it. For me, it was the part of my journey I was happy to leave behind to use your alternative.

I think it's okay if he wants to make $20B, but don't spin it! A blog post like this makes me lose trust, it doesn't reassure me.
Will 1863 be the year of Linux on the desktop ?
Yes, we plan to do that, but we will start off with first supporting raw vector data type and search on that.
There's even an object database built around pickle, ZODB. It even has a networked implementation with replication / failover. Used to be part of Zope, originally written in the 1998 time frame or so - GvR actually committed a bunch of stuff to it.
I can't agree more. I still use an ancient version of photoshop/illustrator sometimes and lemme tell you, the difference in responsiveness is STARK.

The problem is largely the entire concept of SaaS, but some stronger anti-trust anti-monopoly laws couldn't hurt either.
Hum, it pretty much is how classic attenuated vaccines worked, except here we are directly controlling the rna that gets stuck in your cells rather than trying to evolve the virus a bit and then stick it in you
“Easily achievable” depends significantly on where you live (and of course your health).

Sidewalks might as well be illegal in most parts of my home city, given how many areas are completely devoid of them.
More than one person can come up with the same riff, right?

If someone is worried about an original image, why not watermark all uploaded versions?

If I walk about my neighborhood scattering paper copies of an image, and someone else picks one up to hang on their wall, did anyone break any laws (besides me littering)?
You only "lose" in this scenario if you bought a year ago and need to sell now or sometime in the next 12-18+ months. Even if you're underwater temporarily it won't matter unless you need to sell.
Thank you for at least explaining your position. We certainly disagree, and that's fair. But it helps to at least understand each other.

> obviously you can believe whatever you want, but there's really nothing different about avoiding ads and cracking software, aka piracy. and if you're OK with that, fundamentally there's really nothing special about digital goods, including money whose existence for many exists primarily virtually.

But this makes it clear that I've failed to make myself understood at all. Oh well, such is life.
15-20k steps/day sounds a lot if your day job doesn't involve walking around. Before the pandemic, my typical day was 10-15k steps. But now that I'm working from home, it takes some effort to reach 10k, because I have fewer reasons to leave home.
I wish I was a little bit more able to comfortably sit on an average office chair.

I recommend the Haworth Very for taller folks. At the max height my femurs actually sit slightly above the horizontal plane containing my knees so I don’t feel boxed in.
I've always heard that "perfect is the enemy of good" and in my experience as long as the tool communicates "I did what I could, and didn't know what to do with the following elements" then clear communication can go a long way toward allowing users to make informed decisions
It doesn't seem like the call service was down but their website, the service that would route you to connect to the call, thus Zoom links are broken. Indeed, I was able to join a meeting at 10:57 but nobody was able to join the same meeting two minutes after that.
I actually prefer the funding model where occasionally these free software developers do receive a big payday without any shame or stigma and a fork of their project is almost instantly launched under different branding. So Avast gets a one time user network buyout but the functionality of the tool persists in availability. Better funding for the project while it remains free is never a bad thing though, if you get a lot of value out of some free software you use please never forget to tip or even patreon/other-subscription-payment-plan its continued development!
Very interesting. I also regret FW fondly. Your post scratches an itch in me and I may be tempted to work on that.

Sorry for my laziness to look it up but could you explain "Fireworks just stored projects as an extension chunk of a PNG file" ?
OK, assume they don't. Assume they stay the same. Then you've borrowed money at 6% in an 8% inflation environment forever. That's not bad.

Or, assume rates go up. Then you've borrowed money at 6% in a 10 or 12% inflation environment. That's not bad, either.

Personally, I'm not sure that I like "load up on debt" as a strategy, even if it makes sense financially. But it can make sense financially.

Note well: The hidden assumption here is that interest rates track reasonably well with inflation, and also that your income tracks reasonably well with inflation. The first assumption is probably reasonably solid. The second one... your mileage may vary.
nice try? never went to UCSB.

edit: looks like you found @whynaut on github? I don’t repeat usernames, though.

> unlike your post which is full of malice

Hah! You need some serious introspection.
> You sound anti-sex in dismissing sexual stimulation as non-artistic.

Pornography isn't sex, it's a gross caricature of sex, usually shot from the perspective of male subjects involving the degradation of women, other men or children, purely for commercial purposes in order to give a false sense of sexual gratification. This isn't art, this is akin to butchery, with human bodies as meat ready to be consumed by incels and all kind of other frustrated males and depraved individual.

The former certainly like claiming pornography has any artistic merit as a way to justify their consumption of depraved content and their lack of any actual sex life.
This is why I want a browser with an extension repository that is managed in the same way linux distros like debian manage their repositories. It should only allow open source extensions in the repository, packaged by employees or volunteers known to the organization. If the upstream gets sold to a malware company like Avast, that package is forked or simply removed from the repositories if a trusted maintainer for a fork cannot be found.
I've also got a theory (based on observations) that it takes a really intelligent person to do really stupid things.
The primary complaint about the 2008 (and the entire move to fiat) is (1) the government gets to print money at its own whim, deflating everyone's hard work. (2) fiat is inherently based on usury, which billions of people find appalling and abhorrent. What happened in 2008 was the natural outcome of such a system, and it will continue to happen if things are not fixed.