skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to think of an elegant way to put this but I'm going to go for terseness.

Fuck Amazon.
This is a good piece, thanks! But some of this becomes a lot more complicated when you have children.
people who can't contribute anything individually
Note that the regression is on the differences, y_t - y_t-1 not the levels, just y_t.

So the argument is more subtle, that the "change" in AirBnB share is correlated with changes in rents. So level effects such as being a nice neighborhood are accounted for.

Having said that, a large change in AirBnB share is probably still related to unobservables related to factors that would increase rent. E.g changes in hipness of a neighborhood unaccounted for by changes in demographics. Therefore the $616M figure is biased upwards, though I bet in reality still a large number.
The rule is a residential rental is only worth the risk or has a good return if the property can be rented at about 1% of the value per month or more (e.g. a $100k home should rent for $1k/mo). I generally try to get an annual cap rate of 9% or more (1%/mo less expenses).
Over the years I’ve concluded, reluctantly, that the ONLY documentation solutions that matter are the code, revision control logs and issue trackers.

Create massive comment blocks to explain things if you have to but put it all there in the code, next to the things that matter. Then it has half a chance of still being accurate. And, you know exactly where the documentation is. If the code becomes obsolete and is removed, you naturally strip out documentation that is no longer relevant at the same time.

Revision control log messages are important. I so hate lazy messages; if you change 5 files in random ways and your message is “fixed bug”, I think you should be fired. If it’s in the issue tracker, your log had better mention the number. Add a paragraph daring to explain what the hell you did so I can read a sensible log history and figure out what happened when.

Issue trackers are useful for capturing every relevant detail, especially new information that is found while the bug is being investigated. The bug might come up again, and details can help to sort it out.
BBC R&D gave a talk on this very project a couple of years ago at a UKNOF meeting, it was very interesting:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yLL8wl8YUwA
- mispellings and typoes

- long term consultant wanting full time job

- hotmail / outlook address

- lack of learning new things across their career

- non-business like fonts and general lack of typography

- buzz word list
I am non programmer business guy who 'excels' a lot. Been teaching myself pandas through notebook. Awesome combination.
Pizzacoin - tie the unit price to a 12" stuffed crust from dominos.

Minor units are "Slices".

I mean dogecoin was a thing.
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Why does Elon Musk have any credibility regarding the cash position of his company? He's repeatedly made similar statements that didn't turn true too.
Many options including blocking anyone not in your contact list. Also include spammer blocking service nomorobo. Comcast also allows nomorobo service for free.
I wrote up a Python framework to play around with a different 100 prisoners problem here: https://github.com/CydeWeys/hundred_prisoners/tree/master/pr...

People might find it interesting to play around with implementing the solution in code.
I will be joining a long line of people with "I told you..." said in address of dotcom browser devs shoveling OpenGL with effectively raw GPU memory access into browsers.
Precision medicine offers some hope here. With cheaper genetic sequencing it's becoming practical to correlate effects and side effects with particular genotypes of the patient or infectious agent. Still though you need a lot of test subjects to isolate the differences.
It sounds to me like Musk has a card up his sleeve. If he were truly in fear for the continued existence of Tesla, he would have been very patient and accommodating toward those whom he might need to approach later for more capital. I suspect that he has already secured the capital (or assurances that he will).
As a kid all I ever wanted from any computer was this:

Set pixel (x,y) to color (r,g,b)

I wish today’s kids had this with as little overhead as possible
GDPR compliance in Textpattern
Not only great talent, but unrecognized and unused talent -- he was working as a schoolteacher and at a car wash. And there were allusions that he had been cheated of his fair share of a prosperous company.
How Microservices Help Continuous Delivery in the SDLC: Part 1
He doesn’t want to do those things. He wants people to give him billions of dollars on the promise to do those things. Musk survives on putting in a minimal ammount of effort and having a great marketing team. The guy is a fraud.
> Absent evidence of harm

That's what the article is about.

> a plausible mechanism for harm

The plausible mechanism is that EM radiation causes tissue to warm up, which can damage it. This is well documented, and will happen already at frequencies far below what a mobile phone uses.

> All we have at the moment is an uptick in a particular kind of cancer without a plausible mechanism how do we assign that to cell phones?

Because of the location of the tumors.

> Why don't we see a similar uptick everywhere for example instead of just in england?

Because that's where this research was done.

Look, no matter what this is a very subtle affair. The only thing that this research has done - according to me - is to move the needle from 'instant dismiss' to 'maybe more and more careful research should be done' to determine the exact magnitude of the effect.
Continuous Delivery and Microservices, Part 2
As an investor, I do...they get 4 chances a year to ask questions. Considering Elon lies with every 3rd breath he takes, wanting concrete factual numbers not sky high goals let's me know whether to get out or not. I love Elon's vision, but I think he made a downright idiotic nepotism filled move buying solar city when Tesla was already burdened with so much debt. He had the same attitude then, ignoring and dismissing all dissent and now Tesla is just straddled with debt.
My favorite technique is asking “what’s a great undergraduate program / course(s) in this field?”

And then getting the syllabi. (A lot of professors just host their syllabi on their publicly accessible site, not through a portal. If one instructor needs you to go to a portal, try another instructor. Try searching for the syllable PDF or .Doc via Google)

And then learning the topics on the syllabi.
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I'll tell you what pierced the veil for me: being involved with code reviews and looking at other people's code. "Oh, THIS is what constitutes senior software engineering? Then I'm much more skilled than I thought I was!"
The New iPad 9.7″ 2018 review is it really worth $329?
Musk is definitely trying to achieve something that many entrepreneurs would be shy to even attempt. I'm rooting for him, despite feeling that his business model is inherently difficult. I think net-net, he definitely adds to society with his vision and the sheer fact that he tries to do what practically every one thought would not be possible. If anything, it inspires other would-be inventors and entrepreneurs to continue pushing.
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What were some of the parts they said you could improve on, and what were some of the positives they had to say?
It was fantastic to watch him use Gali as a PR tool while he dodged real questions?
You can't extract energy from a heat engine without cooling. Useful work is done in the process of moving thermal energy from a high temperature location to a low temperature location.
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This makes sense for companies to back: how many billions of their investors dollars just go straight to rent?
I get the feeling Elon thinks of Tesla as an OLPC for EVs: he doesn't care if the business fails so much as it gets the concept of consumer EVs out there and in people's minds.

Which probably doesn't make investors happy and understandably so, but the Musk moves in mysterious ways.
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What is the problem with the consultant? And with an outlook.com address?
There's also a transcript on Yahoo Finance. [1]

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/edited-transcript-tsla-earnin...
I always have an issue about the statistical viewpoint about safety. Musk finds it outrageous that AP like products are nailed by the press but I find it quite normal. It's a new thing, and it's related to injury, it will be pinned. I wouldn't expect any otherwise. Musk should just swallow the pill and just work around that. Press won't write about your car that doesn't kill people. That's absurd.
I wish SF had a better mayoral candidate. I feel like I'm stuck choosing between sane housing policy (Breed) or sane bike/transit policy (Kim). And I'm sure there are plenty of other dimensions where they're both bad.
My company is heavily involved in this area... there is a migration underway from baseband (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_digital_interface) to fully IP based infrastructure for routing and signal flow.

With IP, it's usually a software defined network model, along with some IGMP components for controlling video flow.

So the clients (software or control panels) would send a request to the routing orchestration system to request a route to send multicast flows (SMPTE 2110, separate multicast for video, audio streams, ancillary data) from a source to a destination, same as with a baseband router. With IP, the orchestration layer also drives the receiving device to join the multicast explicitly if it isn't IGMP based.

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He spent 20 minutes answering softball questions from a youtuber instead.
This has nothing to do with Amazon. This is a predictable outcome of a particular type of game system. Its like blaming the winner in a game of monopoly for being too greedy.
Yeah, but a conference call with investors is not the kind of meeting you cut short. Maybe a weekly status meeting sure, but your quarterly call with people who if things go south, you'll have to rely on their largess to borrow money from? That's something you treat with care.
Save the data, tell them about it in your privacy policy (i.e. that you remember that data and how you have in mind to use it), and add a "delete account" button that deletes that data.

Maybe show a notice just below the address input fields that "we remember your address for a while, this is why" and link to the relevant section in the privacy policy.
In summery financing from the public purse with positive valuable results belonging to private parties that people like Sachs can acquire and jack up the price. What a fantastic idea.
Context is important :) He was talking specifically to and about day-traders:

"We have no interest in satisfying the desires of day traders. I couldn't care less. Please sell our stock and don't buy it."
Tesla earnings call was the best I've heard in a long time, says Jim Cramer (a CNBC popular analyst):

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/05/03/tesla-earnings-call-wa...
Email is a low priority queue, and it’s gotten to the point where it’s unreliable because everyone’s inbox is overwhelmed.

Slack is (or should be) a high priority queue. It seems like something in between is needed. A place for “please deal with this soon, but don’t stop what you’re already doing” and that has far less noise than email so you know a request will be seen.
To be fair, isn't Everett's relative-state formulation the basis/beginning of all multiverse hypotheses?
Perhaps the problem then, is that the city slaps a huge tax burden on travelers who choose to stay in hotels? Last time I stayed in a hotel in NYC, taxes were about 25% of the total cost.
According to [1], there are 2,146,892 occupied rental apartments in NYC. So this works out to an average of $287 per rental per year. Hardly "piss in the wind".

[1] - https://www.nakedapartments.com/guides/nyc/renting-in-new-yo...
Tesla wouldn't have grown if it weren't for Wall Street and investors.

There are elderly people with their futures invested, pension funds that will pay people's bills, etc. Tesla really should answer the questions of its owners.
Why is this such an uphill battle?
Why would just the employees face consequences that dire and including prison time? Put the on us on the company and they should figure out how to incentivize people correctly. That's the benefit of capitalism right?
So, following your cycle looks like this:

Open box 7, find number 2
Open box 2, find number 2700
Open box 2700, find number -16
Open box -16, find number 0.9
Open box 0.9, find number ℵ
Open box ℵ, find number 赢
Open box 赢, find number two
...

As you can see, it's not necessary to use numeric digits to identify the boxes; any identifier at all will do.

But this is a cycle; if we had started by opening box 0.9, it would look like this:

Open box 0.9, find number ℵ
Open box ℵ, find number 赢
Open box 赢, find number two
...
Open box 7, find number 2
Open box 2, find number 2700
Open box 2700, find number -16
Open box -16, find number 0.9

Exercise: given that this cycle starts with "open box 7", how does it end? (Or in other words, what is the second half of the line before "Open box 7"?) If this cycle instead started with "Open box ᚠ", how would it end in that case?
Whatever Musk's and Tesla's current weaknesses, it's undeniable that they made a real impact in making electric vehicles mainstream. No small feat when you consider the entrenchment of the auto industry and infrastructure.
I mean dogecoin is a thing.
Then he should be fired because he doesn't care about his job.

I am so sick of the cult of Elon. There is no defending his behaviour here.
I'm really sorry to hear about your brother. Thanks for sharing what you learned though!
I think more people discussing housing on HN are angry at the entrenched, intractable housing and local government cartel that is making housing so expensive. Tech workers are paid well, but a) home ownership is lower in CA + NY, b) home ownership is lower in big cities, c) home ownership skews older to begin with and that has been increasing over time, d) HN skews young and is largely people in big cities, so it's safe to assume that lots of readers are sending a big chunk of that big fat tech money to a landlord.

The housing fight is largely older, wealthier, entrenched, long-term owners vs younger newcomers who haven't been able to put down roots. It's no surprise that it has been a political rout.

I wish the YIMBYs well. The numbers could be on their side but the structure of the political contest is not.
Also, TSLA is basically the kind of company that couldn't even exist as a private company. Access to the broad capital and debt markets is the only reason they still exist.
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You know Elon doesn't actually like turn wrenches and connect wiring harnesses right? Talking on the phone with investors and making sure the company maintains creditworthiness is his actual core job.
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While I agree with you that the implementation is not ideal, the use of "awful" is a little harsh and unnecessarily discouraging! To the creator, please don't take it to heart, but do look at the more constructive observations mentioned above :)
Ask HN: What skills would get me the best remote job?
So, due to family reasons I can't move from where I live (Ireland). The available jobs and salaries are incredibly poor here, I am struggling to make ends meet.

I feel I should try to aim for a remote job with a company that is willing to pay a much better salary (I am thinking $100k). I am a fairly competent web developer. Web developers are a dime a dozen, so I doubt if companies would really want to pay for a remote worker when they could easily get a handful just round the corner.

I am thinking I would need to become competent in a more niche area - an area that companies really need, but it is harder for companies to find recruits for. It would also be easier to become a leading expert in the field due to reduced competition.

Say I want to get this job in 1 years time, what skill sets would be the best to focus on - AI, networks, operating systems, compilers etc..? How should I best develop these skills? Presumably I will need to develop a decent portfolio to market my skills.. What would the best way to go around this be?

This is probably a fairly vague fingers in the air question, but any pointers or inspiration would be appreciated..
Once you postulate a substrate, you then have to wrap your head around what is its substrate, and what is that substrate's substrate and so on. When you look at it that way, the no-substrate version looks better.
I have seen those, most of them seem abandoned.
I take what he says, especially in tweets, with a grain of salt. That's why I ignored the tweet - but I looked at the earnings, which re-iterated this (as I said in the comment above)
I got it from this part, unless I'm misreading:

> Multiple callers, including sys_getrandom(..., flags=0), attempt to wait for the

> RNG to become cryptographically safe before reading from it by checking for

> crng_ready() and waiting if necessary. However, crng_ready() only checks for

> `crng_init > 0`, and `crng_init==1` does not imply that the RNG is

> cryptographically safe.
It's not really a flamethrower, it's a glorified propane torch with a plastic gun shell, it's a toy. Can't say S&W wouldn't get flak for making something like this given our current climate but it's really not a weapon.
To what degree that's true depends significantly on use case and architectural choices.

One design error we made with Riak in its early days was shuffling data around the servers via distributed Erlang, which led to some serious performance bottlenecks.

Distributed Erlang is better used for control messages; large blocks of data should be distributed out of band.

Nonetheless, our customers regularly needed assistance with disk tuning, because disk access does matter quite a bit.
He's never going to colonize mars. It's not possible with out current level of technology.

He might kill a bunch of people trying.
How did you figure out that the reason the stock fell was this particular one? (Edit: "Elon's hubris" in particular)

Stock programs have all kinds of explanations they give out as to why a stock moves. Usually, it's a guess.
>However, isn’t getting an EV certificate impossible for a natural person? You’d have to be some sort of legally recognized organization

no? random example:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/files/KeePass%202.x...

signer is: "Open Source Developer, Dominik Reichl"

edit: another example

https://yarnpkg.com/latest.msi

signer is: "Daniel Lo Nigro"
I got to work for a few years with pivotal labs in the Bay Area. They had a policy called “just don’t have f&$@ing meetings.” At first I thought this was a bit crazy. How could we work without meetings? Then I realized that product owners, actual 10 minute stand ups, and a 30 minute weekly planning meeting was all we really needed to make amazing products. I’ve keep that philosophy ever since and it has worked very well in big and small organizations.
Interesting. I see what you mean. That tip that someone else mentioned, IIRC, in this thread, to import modules inside functions that use them, could cut down startup time, but only if those functions are not called at startup, only later during the program's run. But it would not change the EXE size, I guess.

I wish Python and all other interpreted languages came with a way to build EXEs from the start. It would be great for deployment.
>Also I've worked on many open source projects. Same story.

Let me put this way. I am writing an article on how to keep your body healthy and provide a list of common mistakes.

Anti-pattern 5 is "you should stop smoking".

And your argument is "I have been into too many companies (startups and corporations) where people have been smoking all the time. So anti-pattern 5 is wrong."

Is this more clear?
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>If only they could collectively come together to make working conditions reasonable. And maybe they could then set up an organization that would be the stewards to the principles originally demanded; this organization could even adapt to changing work environments and technology.

Sounds like a great idea. I hear that in western Europe, esp. Germany, they even have such organizations, and it works out very well for everyone involved.

Unfortunately, this just seems to be completely impossible in the US. Either you go without such an organization and you get what we see at Amazon warehouses, or you get such an organization and it's completely corrupt and dysfunctional, only really serving the people at the top of that organization.
But once those dollars are given to the employees, why does it matter where they end up? Why would a company care if it goes to a mortgage or rent?
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They are the exception, not the rule.

Besides, they technically devoted themselves to the field of finance. They didn't just decide one day that they wanted to be billionaires and only work 1 hour per week.

They worked their asses off to get where they are today, and the goal wasn't even necessarily to make a fortune...
What does rendering HTML or needing a HTTP client have to do with Electron?

As far as I know, every single usable language comes with a HTTP client, and every single GUI framework has a "WebView" control or equivalent.
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The cost is already spread over everyone. Drug companies are paid by insurance companies and the gov't (public healthcare). Those entities are paid through insurance premiums and taxes.
How much extra do NYC renters pay from not building enough new supply?

Or from rent control stifling the development of new supply?
"And so where specifically will you be in terms of capital requirements?"

This is a question that can be answered by "any financial analyst"?
It's like how Truffaut said it's impossible to make an anti-war film, it looks too cool and exciting on the screen and there's no real understanding of the human costs involved.
What's really interesting to me is they had a second expedition after the first wholly within the sediment that the first archaelogical excavation put aside as waste.
You've clearly wrapped up way too much of your identity in Musk. If you actually care about his enterprises you should care about their financial sustainability.

Want to kill Tesla? Do you understand who he was talking to? These people are Tesla investors. Well, maybe that should be "were" now.
The west coast bias in Hacker News is always shocking. The capital markets exist for a reason, and the people he's mocking on this conference call are the ones that he's going to need to be begging for billions if things don't deliver in Q3 or Q4.