skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a huge pivot to go from flipping houses to becoming a landlord. It would essentially be a disaster for them. That's a high-touch business and probably the costs associated with it, and the legalities around it are too complex. That's basically turning into an Avalon or something.

The interesting question is around their bonds. They were basically convertible bonds which likely triggered, but now they have to pay back the cash. How much of a liquidity crisis will this introduce to the company?

The more interesting thing is that this business crisis won't be reflected in their last quarter 10-Q which should be coming out soon. I'm assuming this is going to be talked about in that earning call, so that will be an interesting one to listen to.

I think Opendoor's model is a lot better, but I guess we will have to wait to see if there are any repercussions to their business.
My point is not going about going backwards, it's realising there isn't infinite growth that we just need to solve for
At 14 years old, is Backblaze still considered "young"?
He actually called himself out for this during the conversation. I'm not sure how to convince someone to stop doing that.
How do anti-glare coatings on lenses work? Could something similar be devised for the air-water interface?
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Here is their roadshow video for those like me that are more audio and visual. Great information in the video with their CEO and CFO. Funny that Matthew Prince (Cloudflare founder and CEO) is included in the roadshow video pumping up Backblaze when Cloudflare just announced a directly competing product. DigitalOcean (huge recent IPO and tendies) is also listed as a partner of Backblaze. I wonder if DigitalOcean object storage is built on-top of Backblaze B2?

https://www.netroadshow.com/custom/IPO/Backblaze/retail/road...

I applied for IPO shares from Robinhood. Robinhood is my play brokerage, but they do have the best IPO platform.
Dilbert guy is mad a coinbase guy is a useless chump
Neither Portland, Salem, or Eugene are tech hubs. Oregon has IPOs, just not tech ipos.
The South China Sea issue does get a fair amount of attention.

It is very unlikely that this is the cause of the Muirfield Seamount. They would have had to artificially create an underwater mountain taller than Mount Rainier to do so. The surrounding water is 16,000 feet deep.
Anecdotally:

Zillow quoted a number for a house that I was selling right at the peak of all this, pending inspection. They couldn't come around and look at it though for about 6 weeks.

By that time the market had turned and they said they weren't interested.
bigly huge
In my experience, this sort of thing is why good leadership has an outsized impact.
Thanks. Definitely paints a contrast to 2009 when a lot more property was on the market.
I love the Backblaze personal backup but never used another product by them. Wish them the best of luck, thats a super tough market for sure!
> today US subs mostly exist for a nuclear second strike capability.

I understand that you say “mostly”, but it is not quite true. There are many other mission types US submarines serve.

There are US submarines which provide nuclear second strike capability yes.

There are US submarines which carry land attack cruise missiles. These are mostly used to surpess enemy air defences.

There are US submarines clearly optimised for “special missions” such as insertion of special force units or taping underwater cables.

Then there are US submarines designed to hunt other submarines.

For example the USS Connecticut is a Seawolf-class nuclear powered fast attack submarine. Nuclear powered means that the energy used to propel it forward and power its systems come from a nuclear reactor, it doesn’t necessarily means that it has nuclear armed weapons. ( Some might think that I am stating the obvious here but it is surpisingly common to confuse the terms “nuclear armed” and “nuclear powered”. ) In any case she does not carry the kind of nuclear armed ballistic missiles one would associate with a second strike role.
This is one of the things I like most about my current job, I feel like we are all able to fix stuff, and everyone is open to questioning what we are doing and how we do it. If it's not working, or there's a better way then we change. People don't take it personally, everyone seems open to suggestions.

I've been here for 2 years now, and while there's still things to be improved in both the code base and the way we do things, we've been making steady improvement over all that time, all while managing to deliver on new features. Even at times when the progress might slow, just knowing that there is some improvements happening, and more will happen when resources allow, creates a whole different mindset from previous places where I've just given up and left.
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Is there a way to reconcile the duality of tmux and i3wm fighting over terminal/window management?

I am very frequently logged into remote systems, running tmux, and multiple terminals. At the same time I have multiple window manager windows running multiple of these tmux sessions. Different types of window arrangement. Different types of clipboard. Different keybindings. Different support for focus follows mouse. It’s janky af.

This article alludes to an iterm2 specific solution to the problem. I would dearly love to figure out a general one for my window manager of choice.

Help.
How does demand for housing increase? Falling mortgage, downpayment assistance programs, government guaranteed loans.

Also growing population and people moving to areas where the jobs are. Most recently: pandemic refugees from NYC and California settling in adjacent areas. When demand changes for a good with inelastic supply you see large excursions in price.

And housing is also larger than 20 years ago.

That's a problem right there. Everyone needs a roof over the head. Some people would like a palace. There is not enough entry-level housing being built to keep up with demand, meanwhile the existing stock has reached the end of its serviceable life. There's a good chunk of 70's construction which has deteriorated to a point that it needs rebuilding. The shortage at the low end causes high rents for those who can least afford it.

Food prices also rise when demand increases.

Food prices mostly rise in response to missing supply, either because the harvest fails and the government can't secure imports or because of political upheavals. Either way, it's a political problem, food riots are what starts revolutions. and food price instability is a hallmark of banana republics.
Wins are often incremental. It's much better to start with the potential of guaranteed safety, sidestepped by a manual (opt-in) sacrifice of it in favor of getting something working, and slowly chipping away at the unsafety over time; than to start with the dispensation of safety as an institution altogether (C/C++) and hope that someday you can work your way to safety.

Put another way, as a developer, I'd much rather be part of a project using a language that is safe by default, which opts in to the unsafety it needs yet which hopes to someday simply remove all the `unsafe` keywords, than one that hopes to stumble its way to safety through relentless trial and error, testing, bug reports, debugging, etc. and has no actual measure of its level of safety.

On top of that, if you only use, say 10% of one of those libraries, you can easily wrap the 10% of that library in a safe fashion instead of waiting for 100% of the library to have its own safe wrapper.
> The whole meaningless, punchline-less joke "Microsoft sux lol" thing that's been happening since the Triassic period is what did the Zune in

I don't know if that was near as much of a factor as the fact that Apple had basically solved the digital music problem almost 6 years prior with iTunes and the iPod, and everyone already had their music libraries there.
I am not an analyst but this is my armchair understanding of the market:

1. The construction of new homes was limited in late 2019 early 2020. This was due to covid and labor shortages and supply lines being blocked.

2. Demand for homes rose to an all time high. The people in big cities said: "Why quarantine with nothing to do in my Manhattan apartment when I can buy a house and sell it when the pandemic is over. House prices always go up so I'll make money"

3. Zillow, banks, etc saw the fed start printing money which was going to lead us into an all-time high inflation rate. Their inflation hedge was simple: shift all liquids into long term stable solid assets. For most of human history this has been housing (single family and rental properties). Zillow specifically got a massive credit line via taking advantage of "zero risk" money from the fed via their bank.

4. Zillow + banks + the middle and upper class families start buying homes at a record high. This compounds with the lack of new supply.

5. Foreign speculators move in and see the increase in property value. The common wisdom of "prices only go up for homes" has encouraged them to invest in these properties. I know some people who have been doing this. Foreign speculators are concentrating on some limited markets (USA, Canada, and Australia).

Now that most of our liquid assets have shifted into properties any fluctuation in property value would have interesting implications so there will now be a large interest in keeping home prices high.

The core problem: properties are only worth what people are willing to pay for them. Regardless of what has been going on with inflation or how much money you have put into flipping it. If no one will buy the home for 200k over assessment then you have to lower the price. This is slowly causing a large reversal in the market. I've been seeing homes steadily creep back to what inflation would account for in price delta.
Gee, what could go wrong with over fitting incompressible models?
Oh that's really cool. To answer your questions:

- A/B testing: not supported yet, although we are thinking on building this. Would love to learn more from your use case!
- Incoming referral, bounce rate, time on page are available through our built-in analytics. If you're familiar with Plausible https://plausible.io, we're using their self-hosted version to offer the analytics feature, so you should get everything they offer.
- Not familiar with n8n.io, looks like it's similar to Zapier. We don't have any integration like this yet, but most functional components that you can add to your Typedream site (like forms, waitlist, etc) can be done using HTML embeds. For example, to add a form, you can embed an Airtable form in your Typedream site. This means that any automation supported by those tools can be used.

With that said, interactions such as allowing customer to buy a product, sending emails, and adding orders to Airtable/Google Sheets can be done by using a third party service, like Stripe Payment Links to allow users to buy a product, then use Stripe's functionality or Zapier/n8n.io integrations to send emails or add orders to Airtable/Google Sheets. This is also the case with comments, for example you can embed https://commentbox.io/ into your Typedream site to enable comments.

Hope this makes sense!
If you're confident, short it. Make some money.
I think it should be noted that even with with encrypted data you'll generally just encrypt the master key with multiple passphrases; one (or more) master keys for admin use and one for the user themselves. There's really very rarely a good reason to share any secrets.

It's pretty much a necessity for any larger business that device data be protected with the user's own password and with a master password known to IT so that it can be accessed when the user's password is inevitably lost.
That is in turn just a rationalization of a social system you think will be beneficial. It makes no more sense than a literal caste system or astronomy as a basis for selection of competence.

I shouldn't have to say this but actual competence matters - without it at best you get stunted potential and mediocrity. At worst the whole thing falls apart like the cliqueish house of cards it is.
Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth. https://youtu.be/0Rl9Cxc7uZA?t=24
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Only if you think your users are scum. Do you think your users are scum? Do you? Why do you hate your users?
I don't get Zillow's play here.

They were for a long time the de facto neutral party everyone used to look at houses. Great. Then they got into doing contracts apparently, still OK.

Then they started competing against people and overbidding everyone, at the height of what appears to be the biggest housing boom of my lifetime. This was not only apparently financially dangerous, but an act that puts them in a bad light, publicity wise.

I cannot think of how anyone thought this was an OK idea.
Madness.. Its not like such a feedback loop hasn't been encountered before in systems. I like this example:
https://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
I do see images and hear sound when I dream, and when I daydream! That is interesting, isn't it? I have always thought so. So, maybe it's like that unconscious memory crystallization subsystem works, but the conscious recall subsystem doesn't work quite right. I suspect that these are two quite different things, though I don't really know.
Most of the major medical records systems are iterations of 1980-1990s platforms that (particularly in the case of cerner, or which I have an ungodly quantity of experience with) were adapted from accounting software and are focused on billing (which is not really important where I practice but is a impact of the US medical system and incentives).

The systems have horrific UI/UX with no consistency and every time a new feature was decided to be added a new button was added (ie imagine Word 97 with every toolbar enabled).

As a clinician, you lose the ability to use nice shorthand (ie on morning rounds, the fastest way to convey your examination findings is to stick figure a person and draw lines/ticks/circles/x es through parts of the body to indicate your findings).

You lose all of this with an emr.

The long term contracts and aggressive vendor lock-in (cerner operates a proprietary database and doesn’t play nice with letting other people have access) means we are stuck with these systems possibly forever.

If they were to be redesigned from the ground up it would be totally different but because they have microsoftjuggernaut style BD power the situation is really unlikely to be resolved in anyone’s natural lifespan.

The impact on clinician well-being is immense. The impact on patient flow is immense - a deloitte study of Cerner Firstnet[0] in New South Wales emergency departments indicated a significant decrease in patient throughout - not surprising given the increased burden of administrative responsibilities imposed on clinicians, however something that has not ever been resolved - I work in NSW emergency departments and in places that still do not use first net I can cover 10-12 patients in a shift; in a first net hospital I am lucky to break 8

[0] https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/docplayer.net/amp/3816353-Do...

Ultimately they are not fit for purpose, they are not designed for humans, they create patient safety risks (whilst now I think potentially decreasing some other risks due to automated systems monitoring observations etc) - medication management is horrific and makes it easy to make errors - and the situation is unlikely to change

[0] https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/docplayer.net/amp/3816353-Do...
Getting rid of its facial recognition system is a good step, but lest people either forget or miss...

Although Facebook plans to delete more than one billion facial recognition templates, which are digital scans of facial features, by December,

it will not eliminate the software that powers the system,

which is an advanced algorithm called DeepFace.

The company has also not ruled out incorporating facial recognition technology into future products,

Mr. Grosse said.
Indeed. The learned helplessness comes in after you try make improvements over and over again, and still no action is taken. You assume, usually correctly, that you're helpless to effect change so you give up.

The main driver of learned helplessness is those who refuse to listen to feedback or act on feedback.
You said this:

> As a Googler, it's often easier for me to setup a GCP consumer account, AWS, or Heroku account to demo something, compared to using anything internal.

I get you're trying to make a point of saying you can do something easier elsewhere, but then why even through in the "as a Googler bit" without clarifying that you're not really working on anything of consequence where you'd be actually asked to host things internally.

You're basically hosting open source projects on AWS.
Please don't take HN threads on generic tangents and definitely not generic flamewar tangents, regardless of what the CIA has done or you feel the CIA has done. This kind of thing leads to predictably low-quality threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How they have been doing?
What could possibly go wrong with that approach? :-)
Wouldn't this review be done on the data collection and planning side, rather than at point of publishing though? Surely you can publish datasets of just white faces or just black faces if during planning that's what you intended to do for some reason?
I like the idea but I think the concept of using technology to build big, low cost volume housing is mistaken. The act of concentrating affordable housing is not desirable and easily forgotten about. It creates ghettos. Watching interviews about homelessness, a lot of homeless folks will talk about how dangerous it is to hang out in places like Skid Row. That it's dangerous to be surrounded by other people with problems. Read about the struggle faced by youngsters in poor neighborhoods, about how their surrounding were a huge strain on their ability to develop and escape. The environment in which you are located, when you're facing economic struggle, really dictates your odds of recovering. I grew up poor in a single-mom family, and lived in lower income neighbourhood and know first hand how their influence is bad for kids. My mom did all she could to pull us out of there, so we wouldn't be influenced too much by the neighbourhood. Still, had plenty of time to see sad things and be originally influenced in suboptimal ways.

I think we should build more single unit affordable housing! And shove it all over the place, in affluent neighbourhoods! Help people leave their problems behind.

This thread is getting deep for HN and it's hard to respond, but I had shoved my random thoughts on this in https://twitter.com/AntoineGrondin/status/145489614700107776...
The best predictor of teachability is how much they learned in the past. If a person is incompetent today then most likely they will be hard to teach, and if a person is competent today they will soak up most things you say.

There are exceptions of course, but friendly and unteachable and unfriendly but very teachable are both very common scenarios. Teaching the unfriendly person might not be fun but it still works.
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creating housing by the the government is a possibility. (a ton of plattenbau build straight after ww2 is still used in my country).

if they could fix the housing crisis my bombed out city straight after ww2, I'm pretty sure the US is able to do so 80 years later with modern construction methods.
But there is no P in FAANG. And Steam/etc don’t make their living on adult games. And youtube has no porn on it.

I think the issue with winning it with adult content will remain unchanged, at least for a while. Porn is so classic, that it cannot tunnel through this potential barrier.
Maybe they should try using google earth
"Inflation" isn't the right technical term, and I'm skeptical of the more conspiratorial implications, but the Federal Reserve is pretty open about the fact that it buys a lot of mortgage debt and mortgage rates are low because of it. See for example https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2021/0826.
It's not the mass difference that matters, but how rapid a momentum transfer your structure can survive.
I can't see Tony's skin since it's covered by fur unless you count the "toe beans" and nose
It still is, but it used to be, too.
I've been using their product for awhile, I even have my 72 year old mom on it. Solid backups, gets out of my way, great price. Congrats to the Backblaze team!
I hear you, but... we can't even properly tax major corps selling coffee yet :(
If I took my companies code and hosted it anywhere execept where I was authorized to do so, I'd expect flack for it. I'm less worried about Amazing stealing it, but it seems like a silly place to put it nevertheless.
> I would argue that all deployments (no matter how small) should have configuration management.

I would argue that in most cases, they don't need anything but some documentation explaining what was installed, and why.

I will take a word file with screenshots over a broken script in an obscure language every single time.

> but there's no reason not to use something like Ansible that's designed for infrastructure automation,

There's a big one: my time isn't free.

If someone is willing to waste money on that, sure, I'll be happy to bill them for their extravagant tastes (but only after having done my best to explain them it's a waste of money)

And still, I will think about the next person that may have to maintain or tweak whay I wrote, so I will also leave a document full of screenshots in case they don't know ansible or whatever new fashionable tool that the client may have specifically requested.

> it's faster and the resulting system is of higher quality.

Not everything needs to be of high quality.

Forgive me if I'm assuming your gender, but I see a lot of black-and-white thinking among male sysadmins/devops: it's good or it's bad, it's high quality or it's not.

I prefer to have a "sufficient" degree of quality: if a checklist is enough, I will not waste time writing a script. If a shell script is enough, I will not waste time writing proper code - and so on.

> Over time you will also accumulate a library of bits and pieces that you can copy over to new setups, further improving your speed and quality

Except you assume a continuous progress, without any change of scope or tools, and with the tools themselves never evolving. It doesn't work like that: over time, you will accumulate a bunch of useless code for old versions.

Even small inconsequential changes (like unbound in debian 11 requesting spaces before some options, which wasn't the case before) will take some time and effort. Why waste your energy one one shots?

The do-nothing approach argues that you should avoid premature optimization, which strikes me a good approach in software in general.
> carefully-thought out Unicode policies

Like https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/tr39-24.html ?

The phrase ‘It's not difficult’ is probably rarely applicable in the context of multilingual text — notice the possible homographs!

My simple-minded approach was to take the Unicode TR's list of "confusables" and make an Emacs display table indicating all the possible non-ASCII characters that could occur in a homograph sequence, assuming mainly ASCII text. But that is simple-minded, and you don't always want it on.

»¿ʇı̣ əsnqɐ ʇ,uɐɔ noʎ ɟı̣ ɓuı̣ɥʇʎuɐ sı̣ pooɓ ʇɐɥM« — anon
I didn't say it was unsubstantiated—rather that your comment was unsubstantive—because you swerved into a classic flamewar topic with a provocative swipe. That's clearly against the site guidelines.
When was the peak in your view? What market is this? Thanks
Yes. Everything you said is correct. Often startups sell at a loss, this is not news.
You have underestimated the weight of a loaded cargo container by more than 50%.