skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is if a recession happens, then a lot of our properties actually decline in value.

So, you've hedged against a broad real-estate market decline, but you aren't just making broad, representative real-estate market investments, you are investing in properties selected by the combination of your algorithm and customer choices. There is no guarantee that the subset of the properties selected by your algorithm that also appeal to buyers interested in your product will perform as well as the general market (your algorithm could turn out to suck[0], your customers could simply happen to select the worst of your algorithm’s recommendations, or an unpredictable event could occur which negatively impact values in a subset of the market which just happens to disproportionately correlate with the properties your customers selected.)

[0] And, sure, you think it doesn't, but the problem with any ML algorithm that is supposed to outsmart the market is that the market is full of people using tools like that to try to outsmart the market.
I mean, the management engine these days is the same code architecture, also loaded by UEFI. Is it the same thing?

And yeah I'm sure places like Google that control the whole stack have the ability and will to get rid of SMM for their own systems but that doesn't make sense for the vast majority of systems, particularly from white box vendors. As an example, new archs like AArch64 and RISC-V have equivalents in EL3/PSCI and Monitor Mode (mandated in all chips) respectively. The concept of a piece of code shipped by your board vendor running under the OS and hypervisor for system management tasks is just too useful of a concept.
I don't believe there is enough evidence available to state what Google is making its decisions based on. I think its somewhat safe to assume the first major round of demonitization (the original adpocolypse) was likely based on advertiser feedback, since the major complaints being made involved extremely inappropriate ad placement/tone for the videos they were being played on.

The more recent demonitizations have appeared more and more "proactive" in protecting Google, but due to the comments being made by the CEO of youtube, and by the patterns in the demonitizations its not unreasonable to suspect there maybe other factors outside of keeping advertisers happy.
It's certainly something we have considered.

One issue is the capital raise. On top of that we really wanted to address the specific pain point of people wanting to buy a home but who cannot afford making a bad purchase. As such a pivot to a fund model would be a pivot from our initial motivation in starting Lofty. Nonetheless, it's an interesting idea.

Appreciate the feedback!
This is weird also, why would you be shown different results than me? If search was unbiased wouldn't we all be getting the same results?
I'm somewhat disappointed that this didn't work out, as I have usually promoted a C++ core along with a thin native wrapper as the solution for those looking to share code across platforms. At least they moved to native development, though, instead of some poor facsimile that was "easier"…
> Personally I am much more old fashion - I stubbornly don't want a CRM to remind me of keeping in touch. I want to have my own mind to tell me...

My own mind has proven itself incompetent at this task, so I'm good with a little assistance.

I was actually planning on re-reviewing Monica soon, so I'll add this to compare against. For me my goal is just about tracking what people enjoy or don't, what we last did, important developments in their lives, whether I've updated them on my own important developments, etc...

Just offloading all the things my brain has repeatedly failed at in favor of garbage like song lyrics or API documentation.
I used to see it that way. Now I remind myself that for nearly all of us, there are certain truths never to be acknowledged.

Such encounters are a rate opportunity to gain first-hand insight on someone else's particular set of unbearable truths. Maybe start with "What whole-Earth map would you recommend?"
It never seems to involve open chat protocols, does it?
May his memory be a blessing
Shipping, Container and Architecture are all prominent Software terminology.

In fact, any HN reader who didn't think that should be perma banned ;)
This sounds a lot more like inviting a trolling argument than any kind of genuine inquiry.

Here I say "landlord epxloitation, profiteering from necessities, houses left unlived in as investment vehicles for the international super rich, NIMBYism and entrenched residents voting against housing stock, AirBNB, broken zoning incentives" and then you say "FREE MARKET it's rich people's right to buy up everything and if you disagree you're dumb, free market is best market". And then we disagree to agree and both leave unhappy. Is that an approximately good summary?

We don't need to determine who gets which for this comment chain, we only need to question whether a 30 year mortgage should be the default way for a normal person to keep the rain off their bed, someone who isn't thinking of a beach condo in Malibu or a NYC penthouse, whether that is the best possible "perfect" world. I think it isn't.
It's mentioning DVC inside it, I would be happy to discuss and answer any questions as one of the maintainers.
> So an academic doesn't like reusing industrial machinery for living in. Does he also hate rowhomes? Tokyo apartments? College dorm rooms? A Manhattan studio?

This isn't an academic's whim. Shipping containers are not designed or adequate for residential use. This does not change if you enumerate other examples of awful living conditions.
I have come to this same conclusion after many years. It's not cost-effective to have any bespoke business logic (models, controllers, etc.) shared between the two mobile platforms (don't get me started on sharing UI code). If you have some incredibly tricky low-level algorithm/library and/or need for speed, think database, crypto, intense graphics, etc., then fine, you may be able to swing a shared module in C++ or something. Other than that, it's almost like the collective consciousnesses of Google and Apple conspire to make cost-effective code-sharing of typical CRUD apps almost impossible.

Here's a fine alternative to code-sharing: well first and foremost you need to have a good requirements spec. After that, implement it on one platform first in a platform agnostic way. So heavy use of delegates/interfaces/injections to handle platform-specific functionality, even for one-liners like getting current system time. So the code should be pure, boring, plain old Java, Kotlin, Swift, whatever. Minimal use of fancy language features that may not port cleanly. After one platform has the module in place and well-tested, do a copy/paste port to the other platform. You will find that the copy/paste port will actually uncover bugs, optimizations, edge cases, etc., that can then be ported back to the original platform. Things you would not have found if you were only writing the code once. It's like the most intense kind of PR code review you can get.

So I've found that copy/paste-port-based code sharing between platforms is not just a lesser evil, but actually a strategy that has its own unique benefits. If you get into a groove you can build up a set of regexes to give you a sloppy transpiler that does most of the tedious porting for you.
If there were a better alternative I'd gladly use it.
But I am sure they have great parties.
None of the major ISPs in Switzerland have data caps, I have 1Gbps for 65$/month.
Given that manufacturers are thinking seriously about reducing road death to zero (well in survivable speed scenarios) [1] I guess looking at secondary effects is the next step

[1]https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/287046-why-volvos-cappin...
I mean, the app is meant to help organize your contacts, is it not?

If I see an app ask for my contact data without good reason, I'm immediately out in most cases. But they've got a good reason: it's what the app is supposed to do...
I pushed hard for that one... we turned up 5 YIMBYs in our not-so-big town on a Friday morning to talk with our state representative, and had a lot of people put in calls to our state senator - both Republicans who ended up voting in favor.
I've long been a bit troubled by the valuation of newspapers during the dead tree era vs the valuation of their electron based replacements.
i wrote my master thesis on wavelets! a few years back they morphed into shearlets and contourlets.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearlet
I loved working at WeWork in Singapore for my remote ex-employer, and will definitely do it again with my own cash if I need to work by myself. All the other Coworking spaces (a dime a dozen in this town, I tried them all) had issues with something or the other.

I think they do create something of value, and so do ridesharing companies (I love using them and hate the experience of hunting for taxis).

Maybe it’s incorrect to look at just short term revenue/profit figures when deciding if these companies are creating wealth for their users...
We Started a Successful Hot Sauce Brand
I lost most of my hearing in my left ear in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. No other injuries. The audiologist said that my eardrum was in the kind of state you usually only see in battlefields from exposure to large explosions.

People are always surprised when I tell them this was my only injury, and as a result I've always wondered how common this type of injury is with vehicle collisions. This is the first thing I've seen which makes me believe that it's a lot more common than people suspect.

Very cool! I hope this is taken up by other brands as well.
Less foot guns. And it's not crazy in either env to have externally built libraries.
Fun! The basic feature feels like a cross-platform/device way of doing the iOS Messages drawing feature.
All I know is that with 80-char width I can have 2 files side-by-side on a 15" MBP along with the dir-tree on the left in an editor like PyCharm or VSCode and fully see both files wo wrapping. It helps my productivity immensely.

Same deal when it comes to reviewing PRs in GitHub. Wrapping just interrupts flow for me.
America's Small Town in Canada
Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot (2016)
Well, since they got 10 employees by spending time instead of lots of money (e.g. at least 10 x $15k), then it may well be a good tradeoff for a company/founder that's (relatively) time-rich/cash-poor.
The Mercedes is known for being more expensive than most, but in most cases, it's worth it, not only for the luxury, but for the extreme attention to detail they put into safety.

For example, when you get into one, it will adjust the tension of the seatbelt automatically to be ideal for each passenger. And of course this pink noise. And a ton of other little things that cost extra that most people will never notice.

There's a reason the Mercedes is always at or near the top of any vehicle safety list.
>This is not, in fact, an unusual thing- people are are frequently willing to take some personal pain to punish what they believe is wrongdoing or failure to adhere to social norms.

I would even go as far to say, it might be a case of them believing that they are taking short-term losses to come out ahead of this in the long-term. Whether it will turn out this way in reality, we will see, but that line of thinking actually does make sense.
I think this should be marked [2015], as the video included on the site was uploaded in 2015.

But still, this is really cool! I also didn't know that the ear has a "self-defense" mechanism against loud noise. I wonder how that mechanism interacts with things like headphone audio being played at high volumes. Does the mechanism eventually wear out? How does that affect people who do sound effects/mixing/mastering for a living?
Can you expand on what data structures and algorithms specifically you're talking about? And what is your use-case for needing to know these by memory?
I've given you this information to support it: nearly every time we investigated these claims, which are legion, we find nothing but the accuser's imagination. This pattern is overwhelming, which is why we've written that guideline the way we have.

If you're worried about abuse, you should be doing what the guidelines ask and email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting off-topic and destructive insinuations in the thread, where the odds are we won't even see them. We don't come close to reading everything here. I looked at some of the accounts with similar names and didn't find anything. That doesn't mean I looked at everything you saw; I probably didn't. If you want your concerns taken seriously, we're happy to look into specific links that you send. Occasionally we do find evidence of abuse, and in such cases we crack down hard. But we need you to follow the site guidelines, and not react to our requests to stop breaking them by breaking them further.

It is indeed poisonous to accuse other users of posting in bad faith, merely because their views seem preposterous to you. Users accusing other users of astroturfing, shilling, meddling, propaganda-ing, foreign-agenting, spying and so on is the most common internet trope there is right now. It's painfully clear that almost all of that is simply made up, and obviously we can't have HN discussions degenerating to that level.

The only approach to dealing with abuse that makes sense is to look for actual evidence. Someone else having an opposing view, even a completely wrong view, isn't evidence of abuse. It's just evidence that people have different views on divisive topics. As for "voting happening in bursts", "hallmarks of disinformation campaigns", and so on, all that kind of thing is notoriously in the eye of the beholder. People mostly see whatever they've primed themselves to see, and that is a function of how strongly they feel about their views: the ones who feel most passionately about a topic are inevitably
the ones who see the most convincing 'patterns'. Still, if you're concerned about it, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com with specific links and we'll look into them. We always do. Just please follow the site guidelines from now on.

I've posted about this countless times, and anyone who wants more explanation can consume arbitrarily much of it here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Edges seem pretty reasonable to me in the 1:1 image. I'd dramatically prefer to watch shows with the sharpness of the post-processed image. This is a taste thing, and different folks will have different strokes.
While initially resistant I've come around on Black for our team and a failed Black check will now make a CI build fail for all our projects.

We're still using the community edition of SonarQube [0] for inspection but Black finally did away with the constant bikeshedding over formatting minutia, seems like it's saving us tons of time.

[0] https://www.sonarqube.org/
Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On
Employees don't leave because a head hunter made them leave.

They leave because they want to leave. Because someplace else offered them a job that they think will be better, be it pay, work environment, commute, work/life balance, or some other factor(s).

Recruiters and head hunters just helped the ex-employee find out about a job that will, potentially, make them happier.
There's quite a few places that are still dealing with 4 codebases with varying degrees of shared code. Desktop, mobile web, native Android, native iOS.

A shame, since many of them don't really need more than one responsive web codebase. Native apps do add value for many use cases, but not all.
Reminds me of the Tesla tent assembly line.
For UI, react-native is really good for sharing code between platforms
Or (shudder) Scala. The only time I ever think “oh, this computer is a bit slow” of modern high end laptops is when it comes to Scala.

I like the language, but the compiler is painful.
> We collected data on NMEs approved between 1992 and 2004 and assigned each NME to an inventor country.

I'm curious why they chose that time period. It was published in 2010. This omits 6 years between publication date of the article and the end of the range they chose and omitted all data prior to 1992. How would the data differ if you didn't choose this 12 year period?

> although fewer drugs have been discovered worldwide over the past decade, most are therapeutically important.

> Other large studies show that most new drugs add few if any clinical benefits over previously discovered drugs.

These two statements contradict one another and the second one sounds awfully like moving the goal posts because the data doesn't support the conclusions.
My personal take on this: if a person claims to be too smart to be brainwashed themselves, then they are probably not as smart as they think they are.

Kinda reminds me of the people who say that they aren't susceptible to advertisement.
Right. He did show up. But he wasn't healthy. It is told that his speech was recorded.

Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OerjiALcPq4
This is very cool. This is basically what I do when I'm making a presentation and talking about a block of code (albeit with a ton of work in Keynote to make it easy to follow).

I think this is a really great way of explaining code, and I hope it this makes it easier for people to adopt.
The app is "a personal CRM that reminds you to keep in touch". There are people that I want to keep in touch with (which I can add manually), and the rest of my contact list, who don't need any organizing.
PHGamer's comment could have been phrased better. But I suspect the actual point is this: It might be hard for a non-Chinese to become rich in China - harder, say, than for a non-US-citizen to become rich in the US.
"Hard time hiring" sometimes means that the candidates cost too much, which would make sense here since we're talking about senior C++ people.
Lisp is very valuable in the concepts which it teaches; expression trees and their inherent parallelism, functions without side-effects, structured data definition, lazy evaluation.

I've been programming for about 30 years, and did a fair bit of scheme, then lisp early on. I no longer use it, and it's not a great modern language for a lot of internet or IO stuff, but as a data transformation language, few are its equal. I still apply what I learned from lisp to write better code in Java, Go, Python. It puts you into a mindset of using composition of simple functions and data structures, which will generally lead to better code in any language.
A really polished version of this could get you acquired by MS for a hundo million I feel.
Who gets taught wavelets now?

Are they supposed to displace Fourier decompositions, or did that fizzle?
> In this case, Danish mortgages are not bundled, rated falsely positive, and not sold as an investment tool like in 2008.

Danish loans are definitely securitized and sold as investment tools. They are a classic interest rate risk hedge.

It’s been a while since I was adjacent to them but the bigger difference in Danish mortgage backed securities were a) no governmental guarantee on them b) less protections for the borrowers than in the US c) no derivatives d) much smaller market & e) much longer history.

So credit risk, which is what ratings agencies nominally judge is likely not a problem.

Interest rate risk is though, but given its more straight forward, it’s what investors are looking for exposure to & there is low leverage it’s unlikely to cause systemic collapse.
I don't use Chrome. Or Gmail. Am I SOL?

Also, I used to use Contactually for this a few years ago, was great with email integration and FB before they killed the API. Good luck!
Obtaining Pixel Exact GBI-HF Output
“Mercedes-Benz is constantly at the forefront of automotive safety technologies” - not really. Rear wheel drive, which is common in mb and bmw cars are a real danger in winter. Volvo claims, and seems to be, a safer and more at the forefront of safe driving choice.
> Their prices go up, if the real estate market goes down.

Hopefully they provide more detail here.

I'm old enough to remember 2008 and recall many financial instruments with a traditionally inverse correlation to each other behaving unexpectedly. Similar unexpected behavior led to the LTCM crisis in 1998.
If they advertised for a junior position (with the associated salary expectations) then it'd be reasonable to expect that nobody with that experience would apply; I mean, why would they?
There is no data. Everything in the US medical system is opaque. It’s the same story with hospitals. They say they have to overcharge everybody to compensate for the people who don’t pay. But there are no real numbers to demonstrate that.
monetization is the payment scheme at issue. Some creators get paid, some of the time, and a lot of content creators on youtube feel the whole system is unfair. That's why they are unionizing.

For what it's worth I'm not a big fan of monetization on youtube in general. I prefer content to be posted out of a passion to share than a profit motive and for supporters to support content creators directly, but I also object to the idea that Google owes nothing to youtubers who are simply mooching off of youtube, a company that is graciously providing youtubers a free platform, or that google doesn't gain anything from hosting videos that don't have ads all over them.

Without the content creators youtube is worthless and google has an interest in keeping them happy and using youtube. If creators have grievances with how google handles things, they are free to organize and try to apply pressure collectively.
How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars?
Agreed. Turkmens never had a "united country" for centuries before Russians conquered (1880th). Soviet gave us "education" but, also made people more obedient to the government with strong KGB system. It is still running the country.
If you’re cash poor why the hell are you based in SF? It’s insanity.
>This doesn't sound like democracy at all.

I don't care for democracy.

>Who is threatening your existence?

No one atm, I just think China should be wiped off the map and its leaders executed in public.
I would expect something described as a real estate company to be long, well, real estate. As I understand it We is short real estate.
I just launched (like, an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20700196) a cross-platform app that is almost all shared code. In my case, the solution is a web app with very lightweight native wrappers, and I'm quite happy with it. Obviously that wouldn't be the perfect fit for all apps, but none of Dropbox's "(not so) hidden costs" are relevant in my case, and I suspect many apps would be a good fit for the architecture I went with.
So in this view, 1929 corresponds to 2008?

But I'm not sure that it's going to play out the same, because the Fed took unprecedented action to keep 2011 from looking like 1932. They were not at all the same - we never hit 35% unemployment, nor anything like it, even if you take "discouraged workers" into account.
Why not link to the source directly at Mercedes [1]?

The website has only added marketing to the information available in the video from the original site.

I honestly thought this is satire until I saw it from the source, but this is actually pretty cool.

[1] https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/next/connectivity/pre-safe-...