skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York-based next generation real estate technology and brokerage firm NestApple (www.nestapple.com) is offering home buyers the opportunity to earn a 2% rebate check of the sale price.

NestApple founders, Georges and Nicole Fishman Benoliel are long-time real estate investors in New York City. After going through the lengthy and costly process several times, they grew increasingly uneasy about the outdated system. While most segments of the economy have evolved due to innovation, real estate still operates in an antiquated manner which dates back from the 1980s. While websites like Streeteasy or Trulia make it easier than ever to search for homes and find comps, nothing has changed in the way people buy and sell real estate.

In an increasingly transparent market, there is less value in what traditional brokers offer. “The market has never been so transparent”, says Georges Benoliel, “all the information is available online, two clicks are all it takes to know what your neighbor paid for his apartment or whether he took a mortgage”. “The role of realtors needs to evolve and adapt” adds Nicole. While searching for ways to bypass the system, Georges and Nicole stumbled upon the concept of commission rebates which are legal in 40 States according to the Department of Justice and have in fact been publically encouraged by New York’s Attorney General.

Real estate fees are too high

Real estate fees in the U.S. and New York especially are considerably higher than in Europe and represent 5 to 6% of the sale price. This percentage is then split evenly between the seller’s agent and the buyer’s agent (2.5% to 3% for each), if not, seller’s agent receives the entire commission. NestApple is listening to the market. While some brokers sometimes give small discounts, a vast majority of them will not decrease their commission structure. NestApple pays back 2% to the buyer at closing which averages $22,000.
This is a great summary and the first part nicely describes what is, somewhat jokingly, referred to as the Dodo Bird Verdict: All therapies are equally effective and it is instead the relationship with a trusted therapist that is important.

I guess it depends on your definitions, but I think your 20-30% numbers are still way to high.
What exactly does he mean by "tech climber"?
This looks like SEO spam.
"force installing" in this context means "you want X? you're getting Y too, whether you like it or not".

No, you're not forced to install both X and Y. But it's pretty clearly taking advantage of a dominant market position.
Concerning, but not surprising. Doxxing is violence; or at least a precursor.
> So write HTML and push that directly to your webserver.

A much better option. Still have to deal with the de-facto boilerplate of every html file: head, body, header, footer. Which is why I built something that does it in the browser for me.

> Forgive me for suggesting the first thing that popped into mind, could you run the generator script locally and also push the /public dir which your server then serves directly?

Same as CI - adds an extra step to the process. But as I said, services like Netlify come and go and the news might slip by you and catch you off guard. If I had to go down that road, I have ~10 raspberry pi's 6 of which are currently booted up. A 5 line shell script could easily do that. But again - I see no point in doing it if there's no need for it.
For Americans who are interested in alternative voting systems, I recommend The Fulcrum: https://thefulcrum.us/ They cover good-government type reforms, including voting reforms.

For example, the city of Fargo just switched to approval voting -- coverage here: https://thefulcrum.us/voting/approval-voting-2646444809
Good for Slack. Filing a major lawsuit against one of the biggest tech companies is an incredible decision to make.

Microsoft has been doing this for years with basically all of its products and hasn’t really changed its behavior [1]. They continue to get fined for not abiding by earlier EU judgements and rulings.

Curious to see what regulators end up doing to force compliance since these fines don’t seem to do so.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/business/dealbook/eu-anti...
> I would argue the upsides out-weigh the downsides.

I could agree, but that doesn't mean replacing tars by zips doesn't have drawbacks. Even more so as you can use whatever compression scheme you want with tars, not so with zips (unless you use them as tars and then… they're just a worse tar).

> Out of two downsides you mention, one actually applies to tar archives as well (the ordering of files can be random) -- it's just that there's no index to compare against.

There is no schyzophrenia because tars always behave that way.

> If you added an index to a tar archive it would have the same issue.

Yes, if tar were a completely different format it would have different issues. It's not though.

> Naive whole-archive compression makes efficient random-accesses impossible because you have to decompress everything before the data you're trying to access. A sufficiently-clever archive and compression format may be able to overcome that, but I'd argue that zip made a reasonable trade-off here.

So did tar, they're just different tradeoffs. For instance archiving tons of small files with zip is an absolutely miserable experience because you've got more overhead than you have content for instance. Because tar was designed for tape archive, its use-cases included backups which, for university computer, would be likely to include lots of small files.

> tar doesn't checksum anything, there isn't even a CRC.

It's not a CRC, but tar has a very simple checksum on headers: the 257 bytes of the header are summed into an integer.
>He’s got a history of doxxing people he doesn’t like, for trivial things like bad reviews even.

source?
Displacement is a vector whereas distance is a scalar (similarly for velocity vs speed). Even if you restrict to 1 dimension there's a difference as displacement (and velocity) can be negative.
Reef's website shows anything but where the food is actually cooked, a bunch of stock pictures and unknown-but-cutely-named brands related to comfy food.

Restaurants have strict sanitary rules, what are the ones for parking-based-kitchens? From the article and the company's website, Reef looks like a business making the parking spot next to your flat a source of nuisances (the smell of frying out, the noise of a kitchen) while offering yet another way to make people pay a premium on warmed up frozen food.
Ugh this certainly sucks. I disagree with the rule that you can’t ask for feedback on your product! But fair I guess, considering that it has lots of potentials of misuse.

Will remember this next time. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction
The wiki article on positive predictive value has the formula for calculating it based on the sensitivity and specificity of a test, and the prevalence:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_and_negative_predic...
Can I be against MS bundling Teams and against Slack using the government to unbundle it? I know that public companies attack for growth at all angles, including litigious ones, but this turns me off of Slack's general business strategy (if I wasn't already). I yearn for the company that accepts modest growth, applies its principles to itself only, and remains technically focused no matter how large.
It hit them where it hurts - profit. /shrugs

Consider open source alternative such as zulip or matrix. Zulip is used by rust team :) and has a pretty good threading model.

1) https://zulipchat.com

2) https://element.io

3) https://mattermost.com
Right. I think the issue here, based on the title, is that this behavior is anti-competitive.
The New York Times is getting into the attribution game now?
Which GPU do you have? According to https://mesamatrix.net the radeonsi driver for GCN and RDNA cards supports OpenGL 4.6 (the latest), and the r600 driver for older TeraScale cards supports 4.5.
Adding a new component that is really difficult to disable or uninstall, auto-starts on boot and gets put in place without asking for everyone who uses your office suite, which you basically have a monopoly on, is bullshit. Teams is a component of the Office suite but it doesn't behave like the other components (staying out of the way until you ask for it).
"We discovered that brain connectivity — namely the efficiency of information transfer through the neural network — does not depend on either the size or structure of any specific brain. In other words, the brains of all mammals, from tiny mice through humans to large bulls and dolphins, exhibit equal connectivity, and information travels with the same efficiency within them."
Same could be said for code, right? It's a great idea, but in 30 years we've never seen code done well.

"Well" is a slippery word.
So this is another reboot of the browser wars but with messengers? Is this the new era of messenger wars?
Sounds like a pretty desperate move to me. Teams is not preinstalled with Windows; it's part of a suite of products. Office products these days don't even need to be installed (in fact, I bet MS would rather prefer that you did not).

Imho it's a very, very weak complaint.
Big Events ≠ Big Cause [Not Always]
There is a lot of, mostly unreliable, third-party documentation, but Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Birth to Age 5 for the American Academy of Pediatrics has seemed to be a pretty good value.

https://shop.aap.org/caring-for-your-baby-and-young-child-pa...

Beyond that:

You and your co-parent need to watch out for your own and each other’s physical and mental health. It’s easy to lose track of.

Talk to your baby, as much as possible.

Everything will change when you least expect it. Be flexible.
Well the article says it was initially published elsewhere... although the date on that article is just feb 2020...

Still maybe he is writing about the distant past?
I suggest checking out thread.com if you're in the UK. I've been using them or years and love them.

Each week they suggest "outfits" for you and you can buy them all, bits of them, or none of them (you can ignore the emails). They then send them to you, and you can try them on in your home, and sending them back is super-easy (put them in the box, drop at collect+). They pull from many different other shops and brands.

I promist I don't work for them, I just really love the service :) As someone who also hate clothes shopping it was a revelation.
> They're smaller than many US states and most people wouldn't make claims like this comparing those.

People absolutely would, should, and do. Right now, the contrast between New York and Florida on reopening policy is pretty clear, despite differences in their economies.
What meeting platform did your school use? Which school?
The author became a senior engineer (earned the senior engineer title) after a couple of years on the job, not immediately after the bootcamp. More here: https://randallkanna.com/about/

She got a job two weeks after the bootcamp (what the post is about).

Edit: added parenthetical about earning the title.
I've been using Slack for a while and quite much like the basic functionality (chat) when you working in single organization context.

However recently I've been playing around with Teams quite a bit and I'm feeling this integrated experience with all the tools is the future. Even when running just in browser it is already pretty good. You have chat, calls, mail, can collaborate on documents etc. Having everything in one package feels convenient. Not saying it's perfect. There are bugs and for example different file storage backends (Sharepoint vs Onedrive) are a bit confusing.

It will be challenging to for these "best of breed" apps (Dropbox, Slack, Zoom) to compete with the integrated offering from Microsoft. It's just so easy to get everything from single vendor. One user/group management, one invoice etc.
Slack's "Dear Microsoft" [0] letter in 2016 looks even sillier now.

> Dear Microsoft,

> Wow. Big news! Congratulations on today’s announcements. We’re genuinely excited to have some competition.

Uh yeah, I don't think you are..

[0] https://slackhq.com/dear-microsoft#
Firejail – Linux Application Sandbox
actually, come to think of it, an excellent way for Microsoft to fend off this anti-competition accusation would be to go embrace Matrix for use in Teams and demonstrate they support data portability, and are serious about not locking users in.
On the Matrix side we'd be happy to help them do so (we have a few big undisclosed projects already on the go to expose existing chat systems natively into Matrix :)
I up-voted this because I agree that large institutions should have the resources to not use Zoom/Meetings/etc. and should use open standards instead.

That said, I think it is fine for individuals to use one of the proprietary video platforms to talk with their parents, etc. I think organizations should be held to higher standards than individuals who are juggling getting work done, maintaining family and friends, etc.

I dropped my paid membership to the FSF a few years ago because in my own lifestyle I rely on closed platforms like Apple Watch + AirPods, etc. to enhance my life. I release software under open source licenses (I favor dual LGPL and Apache 2 licensing) and the books I write, even though I charge for them, are released under a Creative Commons license so (with some restrictions) people can share them.

Anyway, I find it a tricky balance between software and information freedom vs. friction free life.
This is best open source combination, open source chat app + open source video call app
It’s definitely monopolistic to include Teams into Office(Excel,Word,PPT) only after slack shows value. As a user though, Teams is working out well for us.

This is MS’s version of sherlocking. Every big Tech company does this.

I think one work around would be to have an independent council that recognizes these events, and forces the big players to pay out $100M per incident. This might satisfy most parties involved.
w3m supported tables and frames, but I'm pretty sure it never supported JS out of the box. There was an experimental w3m-js extension, but I don't think it ever saw much development: the most recent snapshot of that page [1] is from ~2010, and it links to patches from 2003.

Elinks supposedly had it, but you have to compile it in yourself and I'm not sure how it fares these days. Edbrowse has decent support for it, but its rendering is not meant for sighted people and rudimentary (e.g., no color, it doesn't bother with aligning table cells).

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100504081232/http://abe.nwr.jp...
Had you marked your article for distribution, i.e. behind the paywall?

If so, then yes, they have a curation team that is manually reviewing articles for extra distribution across their network. As a publishing partner, I have a copy of their guidelines--mostly stuff that can be done at scale. And mostly what they are doing is trying to find the right topics to feature the article in.

I'm wouldn't be surprised if they have some sort of prioritization system to deal with the volume of articles along the lines of what you describe. If an article is getting traction and hasn't been reviewed, then do it quick.
Excuse my ignorance, but I've always been told that CTs are significantly cheaper and faster to administer. According to the famous XKCD radiation graph, a full CT head scan is about 50% of the normal natural yearly background radiation you'll get. Not something to cheer over, but nothing to lose sleep over either. If a CT scan would suffice, why tie up the MRI machine?
But Peter Thiel specifically did none of these things. He initially got rich via PayPal, which simplified safe online payments, which is clearly something people wanted at that time and not particularly immoral. You might say it was progress.
Teams from what I understand is pretty much free with office. Slack is going to have a hard team competing with free. It also doesn't have the same video desktop sharing capabilities as teams from when I last used it.
Dang this is nice Elviz!
Pay people for producing value. If you believe design docs have value, pay people more for writing more better ones.
Notably there are substantial excess in 2018 or 2019 during the same weeks. Not quite sure what to make of that.

If you were subtracting 2020 from 2018 then it looks like you would end up with 80 thousand fewer deaths in the first 10 weeks of 2020. What is that about.
Absolutely... in the situation where the systems are actually legacy systems and not new installations or adoptions of obsolete technology. What I was trying to get at, and realize I expressed poorly, was that they are sometimes looking at implementing (today) things which are obsolete. That's what I meant by 'would be legacy anywhere else'.

This, I guess, would be a consequence of legacy bureaucracy, given that the people making the calls are not very aware of the new technologies and their advantages. A reluctance to adopt Python for example out of a distrust of FOSS comes to mind.
CT is simply more practical for full body scans, since an MRT would take forever. Imagine laying completely still for 2 hours... CT does it in 5 minutes.

They also differ in diagnostic value for different types of use cases. But I am lacking any expertise there.

Either way, CT plus constrast agent is the standard in cancer diagnostics/staging.
Get-rich-quick grifters, would be my guess.
So nothing like automatic retries/backoff or queue failed requests?
MATA Malware Framework Can Target Windows, Linux, and macOS
A Philosophy of Software Design - John Ousterhout
The Orwellian statement "Freedom is Slavery" applies to the EFF and FSF more than any domain I've seen.

Like it or not, the Apple 1984 ad was all about how computers oppress people by exposing their innards: talk to business people and they will say you "get your hands dirty" if you spend any time reconciling the contradictory mess of desires people have with a computer's ability to show you the logical outcome of that contradictory opinion. In the U.S. they will give that job to an Indian, and the Indian would give the job to a Dahlit if they let Dahlits get an education enough to do it.

People don't remember that the Mac was the first computer that didn't come with BASIC or some other tool that would let you program it. We learned the hard way in the next 30 years that the computer programs you whether or not you can program it...

So when people like the "FSF" describe what they think of as "Freedom", most people think that is being a slave to the transistor and mathematics. What the "FSF" describes as "Slavery" is perceived by neurotypicals as "Freedom to let somebody else Slave on your behalf"
Wonder if Peter Thiel had a hand in it.
Another possibility to throw into the mix is that the domain is now in a public zone file, like the one ICANN[1], Nominet and others provide:

1. https://czds.icann.org/
Babies - owners manual

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Babies-Haynes-Explains-Owners-Works...
State of Open Source Terraform Security Report
When your products next innovative feature is a lawsuit the future looks dire.
See also: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea...
XMLHttpRequest is callback based and has an interesting API. fetch was written to be a sensible replacement. It does nice things like supporting promises by default and handling request cancellation.
And people wonder why there are so many megacorp chain restaurants everywhere.
Your website looks awesome, and I think this is a great product. I've signed up. What software/languages/tools did you use to build this?
Neither of these offer any explanation to why there would be exponential growth for four months, followed by a flattening of the curve and a sharp decrease.

Being isolated from international travel is helpful when other countries have the virus and you don't, not the other way round. And I haven't seen anything to suggest that people restricted their movements in June/July than the previous months.

You're right that it's not a perfect control group as there was some change in behaviour. But that's not relevant to my argument that we now have a good data point for the total "area under the curve". If they'd had no change in behaviour, we'd have seen the peak somewhat earlier. I don't have a good feel for whether people in Florida are restricting their behaviour more or less than Swedes - seems close enough to consider them the same.
This is really cool information.

My current laptop is a €3.000 Lenovo X1, which I'm not particularly impressed by.

I was impressed by my 440s which lasted 5 years though.

Where would you suggest I go for my next laptop?
MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-Related Terms
There are two main conceptions of antitrust: making markets fairer, and controlling price for consumers. The latter is the American approach, the former the European. It is worth considering the fact that without adequate competition prices will rise and quality will fall. Slack are essentially asking for a market optimisation to allow them to continue improving their product without Microsoft maneuvering to reduce its effective price to zero. This, I would say, is a net gain for everybody.
He might be good at his work but he's not a god, he can't be right 100% of the times. We still have to evaluate him based on evidence everytime he utters anything.
Perhaps I've been fooled. I assumed the priming was also just casual nlp.
Stockfish NNUE – The Complete Guide
What’s missing from all these online courses is a sense of community. The forums are ok but they’re not very vibrant.

For an example of a vibrant community, I’d look toward what video games, such as Rocket League, have created.

Players have a specific ranking based on competition stats. They level up when they when a sufficient number of games within their ranking. Progression through the game doesn’t have to be a solo endeavor because players can look to the community for how to improve.

The community not on my celebrates wins and gives advice on losses, they offer free coaching that can result in paid tutoring [1].

Not only that, but on average the community members are positive and light-hearted.

I think other skill-based activities could learn a lot from how and why these communities function and incorporate those aspects into their platforms to help students succeed.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLeague/comments/hv2vus/coachi...
I think it’s read-along. Which sounds suitable.
He lost me with the whole "make founders take on massive personal debt to survive" tweet. Removing that particular stressor, particularly from people from poorer backgrounds who lack the access to that kind of credit is how we get a better sampling of ideas.
Yc taking advantage of their b2b alumni network is common sense in my own opinion, they are playing to their strength in fact.
Rapid Decay of Anti–SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Persons with Mild Covid-19
Right. You are getting at the nuance of how this conversation is a shade off.

People who like Medium almost always say they like it for the distribution.

So people who say you should host your own blog should be more clear about where you get distribution from.

Almost always, you are going to get distribution by trying to siphon readers away from other walled gardens. But you are almost always working with these massive systems you don't control. Google SEO, Twitter & FB followers, etc.

And even if you manage to siphon away a user and get their email address, you still have to deal with GMail's spam filters. You're never really in control, that's a pipe dream.
For profit institutions do not get sympathy for their fixed costs.
What are the main differences between this and storybook?