skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Improvements to property often bring little to no return at time of sale —- especially if those improvements have worn in a few years. More than a few years? Forget it. Improvements are generally made to improve immediate rental value (similarly maintenance repairs are made to retain existing value). Gains realized on sale are mostly from natural appreciation of real estate over time (on which capital gains will be paid). This is why house flipping is not a more popular enterprise.

> going to charge more for rent

You mean, be able to charge anything at all.. it’s not like we’re taking about buying turn-key properties and updating the cabinetry or something.

> not really doing any labor

Properties require upkeep. (N) properties require N times the upkeep. In addition to normal expenses, there are also risks; for example a tenant may damage your property, and then you need to fix it. You may think your security deposit covers that; in reality that amount of money can usually only cover minor repairs / cleaning. Landlords need to recoup that sort of thing over time, so it ends up getting rolled into your rent.

I really don’t think you understand how expenses for these things work. The way you’ve been talking, it sounds like you think your rent check goes directly into the landlord’s bank account as profit. Maybe you should try home ownership, and see what the actual ledger (expenses + time) looks like over time. Compare that plus your mortgage to rent. You may need to do this for the long haul to see the real picture though, not just a couple of years.

Better yet, acquire some properties and try your hand at rental yourself —- either you’ll end up filthy rich for nothing like you seem to think it works, or you’ll learn a valuable lesson about the true cost of services…

Because, while you assert that landlords offer no value, the fact remains that there are people in this world who want to rent, not own. Without landlords, how is that supposed to happen?
Why is that allowed? I didn’t realize one could do that in js.
As a general rule human notions of "efficiency" that lead to straightening water channels, draining wetlands, clearing mangroves, replacing river basins with concrete, etc have downsides that can often be severe down the track a few decades.

Every specific case is a bit different, of course.

That said, removing a meander can improve boat navigation, but it reduces total water contact with shore line interface, filtering effect of weeds, opportunities for water way animal breeding locations, increases flow rates, etc.

The downsides can be loss of habitat and species, more polluted water, faster water in flood times leading to stronger gouging effects, banks bursting etc.

Wetland habitats clean and filter water, near the ocean and large lakes they reduce storm surges, etc.

Where rivers drain into oceans or lakes with different water properties (oceans have higher salt levels) banking at the river mouth reduces backwash from the larger body up into the river and preserves the distinct water types which can benefit fish species, water based plants and animals, etc.

It's a swings and roundabouts problem domain.
There are legal definitions of negligence. IANAL, but I'd imagine that what you're describing would meet those definitions.

Investment decisions aren't as easy to diagnose because there's a chance of upside. If FTX didn't end up as a scam, you stand to gain a LOT of money. The same can't be said of putting your only copy of a movie on a crappy SD card.

In addition, you could make the argument that the chances of FTX being a scam were priced in. That is, you're buying stock that accounts for the scam chances.
In France, "Licence" and "Master" (Bachelor's and Master's degree respectively) are protected diplomas that can only be delivered by universities (or by schools that depend on universities).

To circumvent this, private non-state-certified schools deliver things called "Bachelor", "MSc", "MBA" or "Mastère" that walk and quack like regular diplomas but since they're using those specific names, they're not actually state-recognized diplomas. Which means that if a company is hiring "people with a Licence" they can reasonably deny someone with a "Bachelor" because even though it's also a 3-year degree, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it's actually worth anything. Anybody can create a company and hand out sheets of paper with "MSc in Psychoceramics" written on it.

This is a big problem for high schoolers who usually don't know the difference and end up paying thousands of euros for private schools that deliver close-to-worthless degrees (not all are worthless, but their worth is mostly correlated to how well-known the school is, whereas if you get a real state-certified degree from a random university anywhere in France it'll be recognized by any company).
In NYC, if you’re around 3rd Ave and E 51st, check out Greenacre Park.

One of the Rockefellers built this waterfall and park in middle of the city, and litigated for years to prevent the neighbors from building higher.

It’s a beautiful, peaceful oasis in the middle of the city.
Many people don't seem to realize how existential this is for Russia

What was existential for Russia? If they had of just remained peaceful and sold resources to the rest of the world, nothing would've happened to them, there was nothing existential about it.

Maybe Putin is a paranoid lunatic and thinks people were out to get him, but there is no way there was some secret western plot to invade Russia or anything like this? In fact, Europe and the rest of the world was trading with them just fine. All we hear about on here was how Germany is completely dependent on Russia.

The truth is, countries side with NATO for a reason, because they have something to offer. If Russia had something better to offer, was trustworthy and Putin supported democracy, maybe less countries would be interested in partnering with the west and happy to form stronger ties with the autocracy. It doesn't mean anyone was about to invade Russia though.

Edit: Down voters, let's hear your counter.
Dutch is Vader.

In German, it's Vater.
For this to work, does my primary computer need to be on all the time? The way I understand this, the 'host' computer will be running this piece of software and fires the event for the monitor to switch inputs.
> It does grate me then, when someone else manages to raise 100M dollars on the premise of reinventing the wheel to solve the exact same problem, but from a worse starting point because they start from zero and they want to retain Python compatibility. Think of what money like that could do to Julia!

Python is a juggernaut with total control of the ML space and is a huge part (even if less dominant) in modern scientific computing.

A VC has way better chances of success building solutions compatible with Python rather than replacing it.
The poster might have confused social sciences with psychology?

>Study replication rates were 23% for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48% for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, and 38% for Psychological Science. Studies in the field of cognitive psychology had a higher replication rate (50%) than studies in the field of social psychology (25%).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

Definitely better than medicine!

>Of 49 medical studies from 1990 to 2003 with more than 1000 citations, 92% found that the studied therapies were effective. Of these studies, 16% were contradicted by subsequent studies, 16% had found stronger effects than did subsequent studies, 44% were replicated, and 24% remained largely unchallenged.[76] A 2011 analysis by researchers with pharmaceutical company Bayer found that, at most, a quarter of Bayer's in-house findings replicated the original results.[77] But the analysis of Bayer's results found that the results that did replicate could often be successfully used for clinical applications.[78]

25% of experiments replicating in-house is crazy low, but explainable due to very different incentives (the researchers need to get the paper out; the Bayer scientists need to have a functioning product)
> allows me to run dplyr operations on database tables

Which require that data take a round trip between the R process and the database. It's not uncommon for these jobs to spend more time in the read/write step than doing meaningful work, and why I prefer dbt when possible to keep transformations as close to the data as possible.
I personally don't really enjoy any process that produces a more or less static object. The dynamic nature of the produced artifacts is the allure of software for me, though I get the point of the parallels the author is making. Not saying you can't make dynamic art with woodworking but that is not traditional nor expected.
> how can you assure that? it seems like a classic self-fulfilling prophecy of arrogance.

Because colleagues have told me so, and the annual employee reviews were positive as well. In fact, outside the PEP the only actionable/to-improve feedback I got was essentially "Sometimes you can be a little harsh/blunt", which is vastly different from "this person is difficult to work with".
> the laid off entry level developer who wash dishes in order to work is the laid off entry level developer who stands out for their work ethic.

Sounds like someone has never worked a job like washing dishes. Food service is exhausting, and when I worked it full-time I didn't have the energy to do anything, let alone cram leetcode.
> Trying to convince someone that he is able to process his trauma and continue his life without this burden.

I believe it's to help them process the trauma, but if the above position holds, you don't need to do that. Convincing them they never had trauma is just as good. Minimization seems like a much better strategy if you actually believe that.
> Where you get into trouble is losing focus on solving your real practical problems.

Absolutely agree. As I say YMMV, but my experience is that often people have adopted tools because "that's what data teams use" rather than because it's the best tool for the job. Often, we could — and should — build an in-house solution that fits perfectly rather than buying (every month) an imperfect solution.
Funny thing with experience. It might be harder today, but I once started a Wordpress engineer job with zero Wordpress exprience, which I was quite open about. The company said they wanted hardened, very very good PHP engineers and that your average Wordpress developer usually wasn't that good.

We ended up building the biggest WordPress sites in the world, by volume of traffic served. By the end of it WordPress wasn't WordPress anymore with all of the plugins we built that basically replaced whole sections of it.
Why Musicians Are Broke and How to Fix It
Ask HN: What ever happened to the GOOD Super Bowl TV commercials?
I did the same. Always listened ti lectures only (or skipped them) and then took meticulous noyes based on the textbook chalters covered. This usually was essentially rewriting the content of those chapters in my own words in while sentance and never using pronouns or bullet lists (this is important)

I found this to be an ibcredibly effective learning technique
That cost analysis seems incomplete. How much did it cost to implement in the first place? That seems like millions of dollars in capitalization before service expenses are even considered!
It's about 230 miles from West Lafayette Ind to Columbus Oh where Intel is building their new 20B fab. I suspect that this is part of an effort to create more semi-conductor engineers to work at that plant.
Famous Solopreneurs Who Accomplished Nothing by Age 30
You can split it into two drives at about the same price. Or add a backup drive to minimize the risk.

Though I would say that thinking you need a certain amount of data safety is more of an unhealthy thought pattern than saying "sure, give me all the movies for my $250 drive".
I can’t actually figure out why anyone would want to use this. The readme is pretty vague and doesn’t give me any setup instructions. More importantly, I don’t understand the advantage of this over the existing tools.
What's going on with that huge pixelated gif for the lead image? Could they not use webm?
Starting it tomorrow.
Is there any compiled language that doesn't benefit heavily from release builds? That would be interesting if true.
> Is it mainly to avoid being identified as torrenting by authorities? So if i live in a torrent friendly country it doesn't matter?

It's not just that. Streaming from an proper server always beats streaming from P2P connections. The former is much faster to stream, forward, and rewind, making the whole streaming experience better. Especially when watching 4K content or old movies with relatively less number of seeders.
It's about the North Stream II.
They were all wrong
Sounds like there’s a huge opportunity then, maybe you or someone else will be breaking into this space soon. I’m skeptical because nobody has tried your idea and there’s been no real barrier for implementing your idea.

> but their goal is to keep the status quo

No, the goal of a company leader is to maximize profit. Microsoft themselves flipped their entire business model away from being Windows-centric to maximize profit. Imagine 1999 Microsoft letting you install Linux on Windows or run Linux servers in their data center because it had profit potential that Windows could ever achieve.

Azure was a huge shift for Microsoft. They would do the same for LinkedIn if they saw the potential to quadruple revenue like you claim.
I was once asked: "Are you a rock climbing mathematician or a cat mathematician?". It was a joke designed to break the ice, but it turns out that 3/5 of that class were climbers, the others were enthusiastic cat owners. No outliers.

I'll add software engineering and woodworking to the list.

I wonder what other surprising relationships there are out there.
> If your thing doesn't work

One of the things I find paralyzing about electronics is the fact energy is involved. Software just outputs garbage to the terminal if I screw it up. Circuits though? Isn't it possible for components to be literally destroyed, fires started?
> man in his 40s who developed manic and psychotic symptoms temporally after receiving his first Moderna/Spikevax bivalent COVID-19 vaccine ... He previously received three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech/Comirnaty vaccine with no significant side effects ... he was hospitalized and treated with Olanzapine, after which his symptoms resolved.

> Clinicians should be alert to the possibility of patients developing neuropsychiatric complications post-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination ... Possible underlying mechanisms may involve mRNA vaccines triggering autoimmune responses and proinflammatory reactions, leading to neuropsychiatric symptoms ... There is a need to systematically collect data on the neuropsychiatric side effects of having COVID-19 booster vaccines in order to develop a standardised clinical framework that can be used internationally for patient safety as well as to guide healthcare policy decision-making.
Soon, but I don't think I, and we, will really watch them. I think we'll watch the "real" old movies instead.

I think it'll take the route of other art forms, and we will value the craftsmanship just as much as the output
In impoverished and conflict torn countries, there isn't much worse that the situation could get with kids and the mortality rate is higher, so there's less interest in family planning. On top of that, most such countries are ones where there is significant cultural pressure to have children early.

This also translates to other things, if people are having families in their early 20s, the third generation has relatively young grandparents. If they're having them in the late 20s, early 30s, the third generation has grandparents who are in their 60s and not as capable of chasing after toddlers all day.

Being expected to give up on career goals also comes down to the same issue, when you're primarily focused on staying afloat, your career goals are also just to not have things get worse.

Famine or war would not reverse this in the West, unless it was at apocalyptic levels such as to cause a total cultural reset back to a society where women are seen as child factories first.
The Brennan self-balancing monorail [video]
> It looked overly worried about office organization and dynamics. Is it true?

No.

[Ed: it is concerned with organizational dynamics - like senior management dreaming up release dates after talking amongst themselves - but they can (and do) do that in closed teams meetings or management/leadership zoom strategy chats...]
OK, but why does Welch come up so often in Boeing articles? It's like there's this meme that "What happened to Boeing is all Jack Welch's fault!" It comes up over and over and over, and from multiple authors. Why?
Confused, what are you implying?
Should make the frame out of wood or some soft material so no one thinks you welded it to the table.
The answer is yes. Simply because the question is flawed.

The premise of the question is advanced alien civilizations exist.

It asks are we visible to them. We don't have a definition of what advanced here, so for any answer that's no yes, let's just assume they could get more advanced.

So the question is just: are we visible? (Assuming infinity advancement and that there are alien civilizations). Yes we are visible.
> All the layers/tools that are heaped upon one another just lead to complexity and dependence on paid services. I'm not advocating for reinventing the wheel, but rather that a bespoke solutions seem to be worth the cost.

Which third party products do you use in your stack, then?

Do you only use basic cloud building blocks (VMs, EBS, S3), or F/OSS components like Spark and Trino, or are higher level things like Tableau/Looker also part of the solution?
> I guess that depends on your exact ecological niche within bioinformatics.

Agreed. I know people in my department who just ran Galaxy pipelines and R scripts to make pretty plots. I was on the other side of the spectrum and needed fast parsers, so the SAM and VCF specifications were my bible.
Respectfully, I didn't. I specifically wrote the following:

> I didn't get along well with this manager, The resulting conflict lead to a "performance enablement plan", a procedure meant to get things back on track before the need for a "performance improvement plan" (PIP). A PIP is meant to be used as a last attempt at improving the relationship between an employee, their work, and their employer.

Not getting along with someone doesn't imply or mean that a person is difficult to manage. Instead, it means there's simply friction between two people.

In this specific case, the main source of friction was that my messed up working hours resulted in me performing tasks later than expected (though still within any deadlines), though I recall those time frames not being well specified to begin with (i.e. it was more of an implicit assumption that X would be done by hour Y).

I believe I was also a little late for a meeting because I'd overslept. That's not good, but it certainly isn't a case of "Wow this person is so difficult", instead more of a case of "This person needs to get his schedule back together".

Either way, you seem to be interpreting the story in a way different from what's written down. I doubt I can change that, so I'm going to leave it at this comment.
> I mean, sure. And then you can tell ADHD people to just pay attention, then we'll have less ADHD people. If mental illness struggles were this easy, we wouldn't have them.

But that's my exact point. That doesn't work. People with ADHD have it regardless of their belief status.

> I just don't see the upside to this. The worst case scenario is that someone receives care they may not strictly need for a brief period of time

The worst case in the "it's trauma if you think it is" isn't unneeded care, it is that you convince someone that something is trauma that they previously didn't, and they become legitimately traumatized during the intervention. That is to say, that the intervention is capable of a net increase in suffering. That's a serious consequence and not something to brush off.

It feels like you aren't taking your own idea seriously here. I'm saying that if you're right, you need to be way more careful with the way you discuss trauma. Because the way you're doing it, if you're right, seems legitimately dangerous.
That’s a powerful diplomatic argument, and I’m shocked Putin hasn’t reconsidered now you’ve made it.
Honestly the major pain point is that the grad student that wrote the package you need is no longer maintaining it because they’ve graduated. Also the code they wrote sucks, but whatever.

I’m wary of software engineers coming over the bioinformatics because they never have the domain expertise required to make meaningful contributions, and yet many think they know everything.
Are software engineers actually driven more often to woodworking? Software engineers aren't a special class of people seeking hobby ideals.
There are parts that are outdated like advocating against dress codes or cmm but overall no
Sorry but I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Google Analytics and BigQuery are both nominally free, the service expense is $1K/year, and the implementation cost literally a few minutes of my time.
Earthmoving works too.
> Every time I read the word "should" I cringe.

You should probably get that checked out.
Gyros were also used to balance a massive passenger monorail in 1962 without a Raspberry-pi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
When you have only 30 employees, and your people at the top are buying multiple supercars and planes, and your revenue is somewhere in the ball park of $5M+ per employee... you sure as hell better be paying salaries commensurate with that, or people are going to be bitter.
These comments have always been prevalent in YT/Instagram/Reddit.
Putin tried to do that at the beginning of his presidency. He was talking a lot about joining NATO and even EU, but that didn’t go anywhere. Russia is much more valuable to the EU as a fossil colony.
That's a good question to think about actually. I don't think they handled it the way Russia is handling it now (assuming that this is in fact what's happening with Russia).

Actually the big European powers gave up their empires fairly quietly. Yes they sometimes fought wars to keep them on a case by case basis, but I don't think any of them launched large scale campaigns of invasion as a response.
Now I want to see a YouTube series where they show how to the same task with different tools. Here is how we use a planer. Now we will do the same thing using a router sled. Now the same thing with some hand planes. And so forth.
> The tension is fundamental and comes from a perfectly reasonable desire to know how much things will cost, how long things will take and what they will get at the end.

Then they should buy their software off the shelf and resist the desire to customise it. For most enterprises building their own software makes about as much sense as building their own vehicle fleet.
Wow, I think the Empire Strikes Back is the best movie in the Star Wars saga. Darker. The movie was directed by Irvin Kershner instead of Lucas.

It would be great if someone puts an OCRed version of it to quickly search. I tried with ChatGPT but it "said" that is took many resources and need to cancel. Google Gemini couldn't do that and only suggest external resources to do that. Can someone try with Acrobat Reader or something similar?

Edit: OCRed via [1] and available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_CPDjo-TDzXZDOSIXPuhOcrv8lc...

[1] https://tools.pdf24.org/en/ocr-pdf
Can we please change videogame music licensing to how the movie industry works? Nobody is going to jank away Apocalypse Now because of the Doors contract expiring.

I know I know videogames are just toys not art etc etc. But they make more money than anything else now.