skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may misunderstand how the "entire world" thinks about it.

I'm French and live in Hong Kong so I'm exposed to a lot of European and Asian real estate experience, have friends with everything from a villa in Vietnam to a flat in Berlin etc.

So the way we see the US is:

- it's risky to live there, for many reasons (high crime, gun ownership, children mass murders, rampant untreated schizophrenia, drug abuse issues)

- it's optimized for gasoline consumption, you can't really live near your work as much as elsewhere, the city center isn't as interesting as in Asia/Europe and suburbs are very low-density, copy-pasted houses, so the "value" of a property is more flimsy than other places.

- it's expensive with low speculative upside: it's a very mature market, it might conserve some value but it won't like double like in Saigon, Bangkok or Lisbon, and it won't "last forever" like Paris or Hong Kong who have structural reasons to be expensive (Paris as capital of a European geographical center between 6 rich countries, Hong Kong as a gateway in and out of China). To give you a random example: Seattle is quite "new" and particularly useless / unknown to, say, a successful Tokyo upstart. It's considerably more expensive than what it should be from an Asian point of view.

- Visas are annoyingly complex vs very open economies (in term of real estate investment) and the US is far down the ranking of countries you trust to access your property easily. I'd rather have a small thing in Singapore that I know I'll always be welcome to visit, than something huge in Ohio which will make me feel like shit each time I have to fill paperwork to see.

- Political instability seems to have taken hold and we never know if foreigners will be barred from the US on a whim because of some flu. It doesn't feel that much better than China, which is considered one of the worst market to invest in around me (basically you have random chances to simply see your house unreachable for years there, or disappear).

I feel "the rest of the world" considers the US as average, not too dangerous but not too profitable to invest in. Most of my friends are very wary of investing there. I would never myself. All these may be factually wrong btw, this is just how I hear the market talks around me, in the rest of the world: the US "brand" is not very popular, is all.
Financing affects the financing part of the payment, unsurprisingly… not the price part.
Highlights of RisingWave v1.6: The Open-Source Streaming Database
Do we agree that showing a 14 year old a picture of a man's gaping asshole is bad? If this image had "nearly a hundred thousand viewings" and 17% of MySpace's user base in 2009 was under 18[0], what's the math on that? These were people writing HTML for the first time and had the most basic understanding of it, they didn't know what IP or HTTP was, these were just kids trying to make their computer display a cool picture of a Grim Reaper to them and their friends. They probably didn't even understand the mechanism behind why pasting a link between some triangle brackets (which is already pretty difficult to figure out) into their page made it show the image or that bandwidth came from somewhere. And that's why he did it. They deserved it because they were posers, lesser intellects, that got on his internet after September 1993.

Why call me ignorant? I understand perfectly at the technical level what happened, but words like "hotlinking" and "bandwidth" and "solution" shouldn't come into play here at all. If your logic made you permanently imprint a shock image on thousands of impressionable minds you're not the hero. How much did it even cost to upload a 60kB image half a million times per month in 2007? $10?[1]

[0] https://statista.com/statistics/266881/myspace-users-in-the-... but it's of course the parents' fault for not reading the RFCs and realizing that sadistic web hosts were a flaw in Tim Berners-Lee's design

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-economics-of-bandwidth/
Unique 3-word identifiers for every 3 meter square on Earth
It'll always be that way. The suburbs are vast. Walkability is the rare exception, not the rule. Due to distance. Some exceptional parts of some suburbs are walkable.

For example, I have in mind the immense suburbs of a second tier US city. These are impossible to redesign, and travel to do simple errands is measured in half mile increments. With expanses of residential housing and heavily trafficked roads inbetween. This is for convenient locations. Much of the housing is less conveniently located.
Not sure how it works in Europe, but if it's similar to the U.S., the issue is similar to what happened to SVB - they invested a large portion of their cash into low-rate mortgage-backed securities, so when the rates rose, the actual value of the mortgage-backed securities dropped, making it hard to sell them without losing a bunch of money (which was deposits, not their own revenue/profits). The FED did guarantee all money in all accounts - even past $250k - but it's not a great look to be taken over by the fed to ensure money is available for withdrawal to depositors.
They mean "symbol" either way, except when trailing ":" also means they're a key.

I'd be inclined to agree it's a wart, but not that it affects readability to any noticeable amount.

In this case, though, the DSL looks just awful to me.
Fairly self evident. Far fewer married people, many want to live in apartments, and others enjoy renting houses for a few years at a far cheaper rate than being locked into a dwelling.

A careful glance at any of the academic research around housing corroborates this. Or, any modicum of common sense
Right? If it doesn't use the shift key and the entire numeric row of the keyboard, count me out.
Was really looking forward to the j-core project and got into SH4 emulating the Dreamcast port of NetBSD which is currently available for the latest version which is 9.3 I believe.

http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/dreamcast/

GXemul is what I used at the time.

https://gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/machine_dreamcast...

There are also lots of interesting things going on with NAOMI emulation on the gaming side. All of it is very hackable and j-core would have made a great addition to that.
Unless they park in parking garages.
I feel like only way to fix this is with government intervention, and I absolutely hate that idea.
It’s hard to take the dismissal of nuclear at the article seriously when it doesn’t lay out any numbers.
PyCon 2024 May 17-19 (ish). Went in 2023 for the first time and found it simply amazing. This year it’s in Pittsburg. Also a fantastic place to get a job for anyone looking.
Yes. I don't know how it works at other places, but at FB, according to the manager training I went through, after you were in a 'non-terminal' position beyond the time limit, they would evaluate you according to the rubric for the next level up.

Presumably, you would get bad reviews because you weren't doing the things for that level (it wasn't clear to me if you would be told that you were going to be evaluated at that level), and then you'd get on a 'performance improvement plan' and then likely terminated.

Thankfully, I wasn't a manager for long, and didn't have to see that happen.
They will go down if we adopt California-style zoning reform, or enact other policies that allow the supply of housing to increase.
Did you actually save a lot of money from doing this? Those refinance fees and origination fees can be pretty hefty, typically 1% of the value plus fees like credit score, appraisal, recording, etc.
Ask HN: ChatGPT device like Amazon Echo
Asked ChatGPT about a potential idea. How feasible is this?

Creating a device similar to Amazon Echo using a Raspberry Pi and ChatGPT would involve both hardware and software components. Here's a conceptual design:

Hardware Components:
Raspberry Pi (4 Model B recommended): Serves as the core computing unit.
Microphone: For capturing voice commands. A USB microphone or a module compatible with Raspberry Pi can be used.
Speakers: To output the ChatGPT responses. Any standard speaker with a 3.5mm jack or Bluetooth connectivity would work.
LEDs/Display (Optional): To indicate the device status or display text responses.
Power Supply: To power the Raspberry Pi and peripherals.
Software Components:
Operating System: Raspberry Pi OS or any compatible Linux distribution.
Voice Recognition Software: To convert voice commands to text. Solutions like Google Speech-to-Text, Mozilla DeepSpeech, or similar can be used.
ChatGPT Integration: A custom program to send the text input to ChatGPT and receive responses. This would require an API integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Text-to-Speech (TTS) Engine: To convert ChatGPT's text responses into speech. Google Text-to-Speech or other TTS systems can be used.
Workflow:
The microphone captures the voice input.
Voice recognition software converts the voice input to text.
The text is sent to ChatGPT through a custom program.
ChatGPT processes the input and sends back a response.
The TTS engine converts the response to speech.
The response is output through the speakers.
Additional Features:
Implement wake word detection to activate the device.
Add WiFi/Bluetooth modules for internet connectivity and wireless speaker support.
Consider adding a small screen or LED lights for visual feedback.
Assembly:
Connect the microphone and speakers to the Raspberry Pi.
Install and configure all the necessary software components.
Enclose the setup in a casing with proper ventilation for the Raspberry Pi.
Programming and Configuration:
Write a script to tie together voice recognition, ChatGPT API calls, and TTS output.
Configure network settings for stable internet access.
Test and optimize for better performance and reliability.
This setup would essentially create a smart assistant device using Raspberry Pi and ChatGPT, offering functionalities similar to Amazon Echo but with the advanced conversational capabilities of ChatGPT.
NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft
i didn't know what i was expecting when i started to read this but it wasn't that. i didn't know the author before the article but i thought it was really an amazing read. i think it speaks very well to the power of collaboration and a congenial and healthy work environment.

as another commenter mentioned the thing about the branch prediction bit flipping in awk was quite something. the SE Toolkit to monitor kernel perf, which could run for years without issue - was something cool too. the guy who found and fixed a kernel bug offering the biggest performance win in Solaris 8 in the course of writing the first book in a series called Solaris Internals - wow. the description of "the can of worms project" in which they run workloads that look like what customers might use, things that that go beyond typical eng team benchmarks, and the meltdown prevention and heading off of customer issues, it's a great concept from my personal point of view. i appreciated the touching on other more human subjects like the capacity planning DB pricing calculator for customers and the bizdev, relationship, and product design points.

i started off being jealous of what the guy was saying but i was so blown away by everything that i had forgotten that feeling by the end of the article. it was replaced with awe.
That's a fine piece of manic writing. I enjoyed it so thanks for sharing. The other weird thing for me is that I'm a huge fan of female artists starting at a young age with Joni Mitchell (I kept this to myself so the fellows didn't think I was gay) up to Aurura, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey and the other previously mentioned artists but total blank on Taylor Swift.

These are the more conspiratorial type stories I was referring to

Pentagon Rejects Fox News Conspiracy About Taylor Swift Being Recruited as an Asset

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-p...
So instead of supporting the community and a project with a specific goal, your point is that you bought a Chinese knockoff of a different product?
I'm not sure why this is interesting enough to post. It's an old gem, and the DSL seems awfully verbose to me for how little it does. I love Ruby, but I wouldn't want to write Ruby like this...
We are back to the ambiguity that affects all conversations about this. In my experience, most of the time when people are referring to what is normal, they are not actually referring to normal distribution, but to how they believe things should be concerning human behavior. Outside of ethicists who might be concerned with specifying norms, this is usually based upon group belief that they have adopted without reflection (i.e., herd behavior, trying to blend in, fit other people's expectations, etc).
I can't agree more. I'm from China, and did Math Olympiad before as well and ended up in US. And most of good ones are here as well, except those would works well with that system.
Changes Aren't Permanent, but Change Is
The financing for home builders would also be a bit lower if housing were easier therefore less risky to build.

But agree that higher interest rates hurt builders too.
I first saw "triples" in the context of RDF & the "semantic web" a couple decades ago, and it drove me batty, because really it's just a weird roundabout way of saying "binary relations" but sounding novel....

This article saying it's like "one big table" ... huh? No, it's multiple binary relations. Sure, you could formulate that as one big ternary relation and call it triples? Somehow? Oof. But why?

In any case, binary relations are not intrinsic to Datalog, just to the form of it that Datomic implements. It's entirely possible to make "a datalog" that uses n-ary relations (or to compose binary relations into something that looks n-ary).
Show HN: We created a tool to validate triangulation at the computer error level
Lill's Method
Yes. Of course, each org is different, and some orgs still might expect growth at L4, even if growth = “approaching L5”.

But some orgs may be fine with terminal MI (~CME) L4s.
> You implying that malevolent motivations is the only plausible explanation for their support for larger blocks is disingenuous.

How is that disingenuous? They stand to benefit from more users and they stand to benefit more from being the gateway for user activity. It's not contradictory for both to be true at the same time. And we know they took steps to make this happen with BitPay saying "this is the new Bitcoin, go download it" and linking the new Bcash client.

> as all facts indicate the contrary.

This isn't true though. It's very hard to measure these popularity contests. And again, even if the majority (appears to) want something doesn't necessarily mean it's actually good. We'd all want free kittens but that doesn't mean it makes sense to give everyone them.
I don't know what I'd do. This hasn't happened. I don't really want to watch movies that are on netflix either until I log on and see what they have.
> I agree that genetic, pre-natal, and very early childhood environments have a huge impact on behaviour.

I agree, but I don't know why we should have "very early" there. Late childhood and adolescent environments can also have an enormous impact on behaviour.

> My opinion relies heavily on an assumption that there's genetic and pre-natal neurological/gene expression differences for autistic people, and that is probably the source of our disagreement (i.e., nurture vs nature).

There's genetic and pre-natal neurological/gene expression differences for lots of people–yes, including "autistic" people, but also including people with "non-autistic" disorders (such as ADHD, OCD, personality disorders, schizophrenia spectrum, bipolar). I'm unconvinced there is any fundamental difference between "autism" and "non-autistic neurodiversity"–"autism" is a heterogenous collection of many distinct differences, and some individuals with "autism" likely have more in common with certain cases of "non-autistic neurodiversity" than they do with most other cases of "autism". The same difference in gene expression or neuroanatomy can produce radically different behavioural results in different social environments
Yes, this is why I cringe whenever I hear someone use the word normal when referring to human behavior. It is used uncritically, and loaded with meaning stolen from other contexts, and has caused real harm.

Addendum: I'm not able to reply to your comment below, so I will add this here. Anytime you ground your argument on what normal people do, you are almost certainly deluding yourself. This is not an objective statement you can make. It is a subjective statement about your own beliefs that you have puffed up by appealing to your impression that other people share them. Real harm has been done and continues to be done for the sake of "normalness". I felt the need to poke that hole because it really bothers me that in this day, most folks still are unreflective about this.
SH-3 also powers the Korg Electribe ESX-1 and EMX-1 which are still the best grooveboxes ever made to this day.
I have no idea how Regex became the standard. The syntax is impossible to remember unless you write regex expressions daily. Most people only rarely need regex so it needs to be relearned every time. It is also incredibly unsatisfying to write (and read).
"Apple's rep said that pricing isn't based on a single feature. It's worth noting that the watches haven't become cheaper to make, as they still have the same components as before."
> So, it seems "office politics is not optional" is based on the unstated premise: "if success in the workplace is the only thing you care about."

> As for me, I've been a developer for 25 years and never wanted to go into management. I love my job because I love to code and I love learning new things. I'm 100% not the target audience for this book.

Agreed. I think it's also a false dichotomy that you either have to "play the game" or "not play the game"; as most things, how much you want to "play the game" is a spectrum, and there's definitely merit in picking your battles. I ultimately don't care enough about most technical decisions in the products I've worked on to try to outmaneuver someone else who's trying to play politics, but if someone is actively politicking to try to affect _me_ specifically rather than the product, I'm not likely to stand by and let it happen rather than try to influence things. It's useful to be able to understand how office politics work from defensive perspective even if you don't plan to actively utilize it.
SQL grammar could easily specify that braces are just not allowed. In fact, I thought that was the case. Now that I know they're allowed, now I agree that right joins have no reason to exist.
Main issue with taking inflation into account is that wage inflation doesn't exist, companies aren't giving raises every year to 'match inflation', if they do offer raises it's for retention and/or is performance-based.
Yes. There are fees associated with a refinance so it might not make sense if you don't plan to be in the house for at least a few more years.

But I've refinanced twice (two different houses) once to get a lower rate and once to both get a lower rate and shorten the term to 15 years.

The real key is to NOT take equity out when you do this. Many people do but that's like starting over with a higher mortgage balance. Just refinance the outstanding balance if it makes sense, and do not reset the term back to 30 years. I'll have a fully paid-off house in a few years that I plan to retire in with only taxes and insurance to worry about.
> You can sink data from sources and tables in RisingWave into another table in RisingWave using the CREATE SINK ... INTO ... command. The behavior of this streaming job is the same as creating an external sink and the sinked-to table can maintain the snapshot consistency with the upstream table.

This is super cool. It sounds like a pretty general form of materializing your own views, in a pretty direct & clear way. And it can be cross-table, which greatly elevates the idea. Super neat, love it.
I feel that "soon" is doing a lot of the work here, as far as I recall back in 2018 people in the research community absolutely were expecting something similar to GPT-3, only the expectation was that these capabilities would land perhaps 2-3 years later than they did.

And at least part of that was the (implied, natural, understandable) "linear extrapolation" of the total cost of compute applied - if your intuitive expectation of progress if effectively "oh, what would happen next year if we'd triple the budget" but actually the applied compute power increases hundredfold, then obviously the outcome arrives faster than you expected.
- Your priors were correct but are newly out of date (no headcount growth since late 2021, completely new regime)

- "No one is particularly happy about “coasters”" - your word, your assertion

- quite frankly singled out for victimization and almost everyone would rather that they quit: I could see it, heard horror stories about Amazon, Google had great work/life balance. It absolutely was not expected you were busting ass for promo. Infamously you'd usually get a better grade by doing less. It was a "don't like tryhards" culture.
Love that this exists. I found that they also have a Github(1) with a public data archive. Any existing projects using this API in an interesting way?

[1] https://github.com/nationalparkservice
As expected honestly. They found "chemical signals" that indicate DNA in the fossil. Such thing can be anything, from contaminations to errorneous readings. To sequence that supposed "DNA" is a whole other level of technology. In fact, it would be so complex that unless they are hiding alien tech somewhere, I dare say we can't do it at all with our current level of technology.
Oak Park, IL is wealthy but not like Kennilworth wealthy, or Lincoln Park wealthy. OPRF, our public high school, has zero teachers making less than six figures.

Lane III (bachelor's degree) CPS teacher entry comp --- year 1 --- is over $80k/yr, including benefits (a defined-benefit pension) and 10 weeks vacation.
It's a technical achievement, and the headline reads like a breakthrough. I completely understand why people's trust has eroded in media, and especially in science.
Where is safety not a concern? Apart from the obvious risk of blowing up, every structural material has to be reviewed for hydrogen embrittlement.
Call me a coward but I would not work near a substantial quantity of 800K hydrogen either.
It's just a string on a page? Or does validation actually prevent you?
Were there train tracks through Midway Airport's runways? (2017)
Ok. It was a near total loss. My point stands.
What is a grey collar culture?

Somewhere between blue and white, or something else?
mDNS and a GUI
From my experience (from a few years back but still appears to be the case) is that Wind River is just wrapping Yocto these days. There could be value for some orgs where they don't have engineering teams if they do a contracting arrangement but I think, generally, orgs are better building directly on Yocto (or BuildRoot) without a vendor in the middle (other than your SoC vendor and their support layers). I'd save your money and pay for a seasoned embedded linux expert or three if you are maintained a connected product.

For smaller deployments, I think it makes more sense to look into solutions like mender.io, etc. for updates/fleet mgmt/etc.
Worse, oil wells frequently flame off natural gas because it's not economical to capture it from those wells.

So there are layers of waste.
> I mean do you expect the 40% price hike during Covid to become permanent? I don't.

The 08 crisis had a large impact because of inflated home values but it wasn't triggered by inflated home values. What triggered the drop in home values is all of the foreclosures that flooded the market - which was triggered by people with inadequate income/asset verification, multiple homes, ARMs, etc. The Dodd-Frank Act largely fixed all of these issues and made it so that banks had to verify you could actually afford a loan before you can get one, leading to all of the security that exists for home sales in the current day.