skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without question this extends to the other iBuyers in the market.

Zillow exiting because they could not make it work should be a massive alarm bell. Not only are they no longer buying new properties, they are liquidating their existing assets. You would not do that if you thought the market would come back to you.
By that logic, all cryptography is always broken because anyone could steal anyone's private key at any time.

This isn't a reasonable stance, it's just a tactic of poisoning the well such that you can never lose the argument.
Is it surprising that two-way data binding is a source of bugs? We learned that lesson from Angular, and it influenced React’s preference for one-way dataflow.
But can he solve an obscure dynamic programming problem from the interviewer's PhD thesis in 20 minutes on the whiteboard, with a marker that's almost spent? That's a completely different skill than actual software engineering, that the companies (including Microsoft) continue to inexplicably screen for.
nocode === IDE
Lol this sounds like a class assignment.

E.g. the origins of agriculture. It's going from the idea of having a single point of origin to multiple (~15-20) points of origins around the world.

Another major shift in thinking about agriculture is realizing it wasn't so much of a technological advancement (indeed agricultural people had radically reduced lifespans, less leisure time, more disease, etc) as something people were likely forced into. And most people around the world grew at least part of their food or at least had the knowledge to do it so people shifted in and out of agriculture commonly.

Another major shift in thinking is around cities. In anthropology the concept of cities have actually been defined by hierarchical social structures. We have more and more examples of many very large rural places that very much go against the idea and drive a big hole in the idea that hierarchy is a natural biproduct of increasing populations.

I could go on. One that I wish got covered more in the book was the relationships between cultures and ecologies. This is more of a major shift in archaeobotany and will probably take a while to be fully fleshed out and reach the wider public, but archeologists are increasingly seeing, for example, the Amazon rainforest as a manufactured landscape. One that was very heavily shaped by the indigenous peoples that lived in them and would not be around in the way that it is without them. Same for California and it's deep dependence on cultural burning practices and also for most of Australia that early colonists often described as looking like a "giant well-managed park".
Symbl.ai, provider of conversational intelligence APIs and tools, gets $17M
Why would you back your argument related to jobs up with Tiobe which is not a measure of job listing commonality. Hell “assembly language” is listed above PHP in that list, and I can confidently say there are a lot more opportunities for PHP devs that for people working in some assembly.

Your off topic rant on an article simply discussing speed improvements on a compiler seems significantly more ideologically driven than most comments in here.
I know a guy that had the best thing ever happen to his career, because of this.

Back in the last century, he was a well-paid employee of a bank (C++). He managed a group of experienced engineers.

The bank wanted to roll out a new product, and they asked him to submit a bid from his group. He specced out a reasonable 18-month plan for a C++ project.

A Vice-President then stepped in, and yanked the project, stating that he, and a small team of sycophants, could do the project in six months, using VB.

My friend quit, and spent the next two years, traveling the world.

When he came back, the project was a shambles, the VP had been fired, and the bank was begging my friend to come back.

He vowed never to be an employee again, and signed on as a contractor, for an eye-watering rate; which the bank immediately paid.

Last I talked to him, he’d brought a house in a Tony neighborhood, for cash, and he wasn’t even 40, yet.
Very different perspective from the debate here in Norway . Here is is seen more as a duty of academics to engage with the public and a push to get them to do that more. What value is knowledge if it is not known? We live in a media world increasingly dominated by quacks and pseudo science. The need for real experts to make themselves heard is bigger than ever.

Thus at least hear in Norway the academics who popularized knowledge and engage with the public are celebrated. Politicians have started to put more pressure on academics to speak up.

I know from a mother who was a life long journalist that it was always very hard to get experts to talk to media. They are so focused on a level of accuracy and formality that often is entirely unsuitable to address the public at large. But that does not mean that the alternative is to let quacks dominate public discourse.
Cool projects like money laundering (libra cryptocurrency), sex bots (PornVerse), and tree forts (data centers, office spaces) are about devs, not customers.

Facebook believes its core operational challenge is recruiting and retaining talent. That means buying their loyalty.

Separately...

Its financial challenge is preventing thieves from stealing its hard won cheddar. Such as governments imposing windfall taxes and thwarting its cash cows.

Its sovereign challenge is maintaining Zuck's continued dominion over the enterprise. Which will end shortly after Zuck, Inc's profits stop growing, causing a shareholder revolt. (And talent exodus.) I'm absolutely certain Zuck's financial team has predicted that crossover point with uncanny accuracy, including factoring the projections you identified, and much more.

I have zero basis for predicting that the status quo of Zuck, Inc will be stable for the next 5 years, and more likely 10.
What Climate Change Looks Like from Space
I wish I had time to read this, but there are too many other new posts on HN that need my clicks.
HN probably deletes/hide content that is more then 4 levels deep...
Rust is 11 years old, Go is 12 years old.
The three most productive locations for solving complicated long form thought problems are sleep, shower, and shitter. In reverse order.

All three have the commonality that, traditionally, you’re not disturbed and you can think at a relaxed pace.
Muddy Shovels
> But what if Russia or China has some trick/secret weapon to disable the SLBMs?

Then do they have a secret / trick to disable all briefcase bombs? The Davy Crockett nuke is under 50lbs and was designed for infantry to use (in a almost certainly suicide manner). And then plenty of other types were invented as time went on.

If you can't get them with the big guns, you get them with the small ones, which are still devastating. There are still layers-upon-layers to ensure MAD, as far as I can tell.

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

And let me remind you: the pipebomb guy from Jan6th hasn't been found yet, despite modern surveillance methods and nearly a year of FBI searching and interviews.
Vanilla markdown I've realized isn't what I want. What I want is Markdown's editing simplicity, but I do want WYSIWYG for inserting pictures (drag / drop, copy+paste), resizing them, and I do want inline-rendering of more complicated things like graphviz and plantuml.
Used to listen to him on my overnight road trips between Salt Lake and Vegas. Just the endless desert under a full moon, and Art's guest is rambling on about interdimensional beings. Could almost believe it for that moment.

Yeah, there's something about that time of night, being out on the open road. Reality seems a little bit, erm, looser, or something. I think it's just that all you have is you, the radio, blackness, stars, maybe the moon, and possibly a cow or a coyote or something. In those moments, there's less "stuff" to slap you in the face and remind you "Hey asshole, there's no such things as aliens, UFOs, ghosts, zombies, time-traveling Titors, etc." You just stare off into the black, see the millions (or so) of stars you can see, listen to the static-crackling AM radio, and, wait is that light really a star? NO... it's blinking wrong...
Anyone using Rust on ESP32? I'm 24 hours into trying and it's dredging up memories of old cross-compile toolchain problems, like trying to compile dependencies as x86 :). Either way, it's a fun project so far so I'm not complaining. Embedded seems like a great fit for Rust for ensuring correctness and speed.
I wonder if the site is down because of the interest from folks on HN?!
The Wage/Economy Illusion
Rust was announced in 2010. Many sources state it is 11 years old.

The kernel is a crucible. I'm curious to see if it's system facilities are adequate and operate with reasonable costs in that context. We'll have to see, but I am still suspicious of what often comes across as hype.
I'm not as familiar with how anthropologists feel about Yuval Harari, but fwiw Graeber is far from unique amongst academic anthropologists in his distaste for Jared Diamond's work and the misconceptions and myths that it spread
This blog kinda orbits the idea that intent is more important than the activity itself. Browsing Reddit can be a brain-dead time sink or it can be a thought provoking exchange of ideas. I used to play World of Warcraft and I still have fond memories of “wasting” 300+ hours on it. Rather than viewing specific activities as bad or good just be aware of what your intentions are going into them. Distracting yourself from responsibilities you don’t want to face? Who cares if you do that with chess or Twitter?
Note that U+00A5 is also ¥ sign. It's really confusing so I avoid it and use ￥ (U+FFE5 double width) instead for yen sign.
The main advantage of rail is capacity, not price. Roughly speaking, a railway station can handle 10x more passengers than an airport using 10x less space. In a densely populated area with a high passenger volume, it's not possible to build enough airports to handle intercity passenger traffic.

Capacity also means flexibility. When the service is frequent enough, you don't have to plan in advance. You can buy the tickets just before departure for a reasonable price. You don't have to adjust your schedule to make it to the specific train, as you can also take the next one 30 minutes later.

Different modes of transport have their own strengths and weaknesses. Switching to another mode never makes things unambiguously better. If you want to switch to another mode, you also have to change your habits to take full advantage of the strengths of the new mode.
That'd be nice - no uppercase/lowercase mixups (or the need to support Referer and Referrer).
I think it would behoove you to explain how you're coming up with that number, given that the person you're replying to has pointed out exactly when Rust 1.0 was released.

If we're going by design inception dates, Go goes back to 2007 or earlier.
That's all just baseless conspiracy theorising.
Literally provided a link with its popularity.
I'd recommend this article for a deeper look at how Zillow and its competitors exhibited different behavior in Phoenix as the market cooled:

https://www.mikedp.com/articles/2021/10/19/ibuying-is-hard-z...

> As the market cooled between August and September, Opendoor and Offerpad purchased fewer houses, while Zillow purchased more.

> The iBuyers also adjusted to changing market conditions by paying less for houses. The median purchase price in Phoenix peaked in August. Opendoor and Offerpad's median purchase price also peaked in August before tracking the market and declining in September. But Zillow kept paying more and more.
Korean Windows also shows ￦(Korean Won) symbol instead of \.
It's not an analysis, it's an opinion. There is no possible analysis: there is a behavior, you choose how to interpret it. It's not like you decompile the code and the machine code spells out "screw you".
Community Metrics
I wrote this essay to identify and organize the best metrics for community-based companies.

The bottom line: What to measure and how to measure it to keep people in the center, create positive impact and grow financial outcomes
For the last few weeks I have been successfully blocking time wasters via DNS using nextdns.io.

The nice thing about this is that you can't get around it by altering anything that you are doing on your computer other than changing DNS settings. For example if you are using a browser extension you could have switched to a different browser.

Perhaps because I am independent/rebellious by nature it is helpful that there isn't a program actually telling me that it is blocking me.

It also helps with a layered approach: you can use this with any other tool such as a browser extension.
Another simple layer that I like to use is to locally remove some sites via an /etc/hosts entry.
> Don't mistake weird operators in some hardcore FP libraries for "Scala syntax".

Fair, but Jesus every Scala library I look at seems to have its own DSL making the language seem unapproachable.
That video isn’t available in my country but the one I was thinking of was some local pilots who crashed.
They have to offer the seller more than the seller thinks the winning bid would’ve been if they sold it without Zillow. And it has to be less (including their transaction and improvement costs) than the actual winning bid will be, when they turn around and sell it themselves.
> If that’s the point, why are you telling people it’s JavaScript? You can make that point just fine without starting arguments.

First, I say it's JS because it is. Just as decorators are JS. By being an extension of JS it is JS. The two are mutually inclusive.

Second, I didn't want to start an argument, I wanted to call out the very wrong blog post, how it referenced React not JSX, how the spec is an extension of JS, explain the limitations, etc. Until now it was more of a debate. Now it's a bit more of a semantics debate unfortunately.

> But you are starting this stupid debate by telling people it’s JavaScript when it isn’t. If you are tired of people pointing this out when you call it JavaScript, why do you do it? There seems to be absolutely nothing to gain from that except “a stupid debate”.

Actually if you go up the comment chain you'll see I didn't start this debate. If you're tired, just don't participate.

> We are not talking about the value of JSX, merely whether it is JavaScript or not. JSX could cure cancer, but it still wouldn’t be JavaScript.

Oh but we are, again if you go up the comment chain, it's being compared to Svelte's template system, that's how it got brought up, and that's usually why this topic gets brought up. You don't have to create a whole template system. You just use nested functions. To use pretty brackets it needs a small extension of the spec. You don't have to come up with a loop system, a conditional system, etc.
For a year I've been constantly thinking about this state and how there must be way way more people with the same experience.
I recently managed to ask a few people about their current situation. And indeed, they too share this experience.

Thank you for the short "Absence of more meaningful activities"
paragraph. I was about to head down a rabbithole and procrastinate higher priority tasks but the text reminded me of more important things.

One thing I'd like to share with you all, it was by far the most helpful regarding this topic: Dr. Andrew Huberman (hubermanlab.com) recently published a video called "ADHD & HOW ANYONE CAN IMPROVE THEIR FOCUS", I couldn't possible summarize it nearly as good as Dr. Huberman did and I kindly ask you to use your favorite search engine to look it up.
It opened my eyes to new options to get out of this time wasting loop that I wasn't aware before.
there is no recent history of conventional warfare. It's all guerilla stuff.
I recently interviewed with AWS. I still remember one of the questions. It boiled down to: please implement Aho-Corasick in 10 minutes on a virtual whiteboard.

Perhaps there are folks in programming competitions that can do that, but not moi.
+1

You just have to look at WordPress / Squarespace / Wix / Weebly / I forget the rest ... for examples of consumer-oriented platforms, however you define the term "consumer," that promise no coding needed for the average user - but you'll get a better result if it's built by a fluent developer who isn't constrained by the platform's conventions.
yeah it does suck, so I blocked hn and reddit and a bunch of other sites on my ipad (I guess I can override it but I can resist that urge for some reason) and only look at hn/reddit on my laptop
> I’m also using 1x scaling on both displays which perhaps simplifies things.

I'm sorry if I sound snarky but this right here is the problem. Using a display at 1x scaling which needs at least ~1.5x scaling for text and images to be legible isn't really feasible so I expect you've scaled just the font size instead?

If yes, you've basically chosen to compromise because all GUI apps will look out of place and odd with buttons and icons still at 1x. If you've neither scaled your display nor your font size, your eyes are exceptionally good to be able to read tiny fonts but most people don't have such eyes.

I've been told by people that they don't use GUI apps and just use the terminal but if that's the case, they should point out this caveat about their workflow being unique when singing praises about Framework laptop so that others don't get misleaded into a buying a laptop with a display that's basically broken.
Hard graft: backyard gardener's world record tree bearing 10 different fruits
Are you serious? What would ever lead you to think that such a limited diet could be healthy? Humans evolved to eat everything.
You are a better person that me. The second bricking would have had me agitating for revolution. I'd be firing off many sternly worded letters.
You stuck this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165602

You posted this, whether by userscript or directly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29167680

and then this subthread, where we're having this conversation after dinging me.

The OP didn't disclose the requirement of a browser extension. The linked site didn't function in two out of three browsers, and prompted extension installs on Chrome. It was also breaking in user tests.

The users responded as they did. When the extension requirement became the core topic, OP rotated between multiple reasons for why, including some rather bad generalizations about google being a $2trn company, users not being smart enough to switch the default search provider, and almost-but-not-quite admitting it's user capture.

They were back in the other thread debating back and forth, and called out about dishonesty in regards to more of their product claims since. They also removed the extension requirement.

Where were you?

You dinged me, a day later, but never said a word to OP about the need to disclose unexpected software installation requirements for a search service? You allowed them to post, in two separate threads, and market their product with dark patterns.

That's how pile-on's happen, Dan. The product didn't work as submitted, as it required an undisclosed software installation on only one browser, and didn't function at all on others.

Did you test the landing page before sticking their promotional comment?

Did you test it at all?

Do you verify any of the submissions?

If so, why didn't you verify this one?

Why are Show submissions allowed to promote their products with dark patterns?

The people that care about this community's fellow members rightly piled on, because you weren't doing anything about it. This is not the first time this situation has happened. That pile-on is the public screaming warnings to those who might be unaware of potential danger.

Good faith says you just missed the context because you're swamped, I get it man.

When you start dictating what other peoples words mean, without context, and trying to redefine their communication styles to fit your preferred format, on top of the perspective I just shared; How do you think that looks?

I think your approach on this, from the initial submission up, is either disingenuous or careless. I think you fired from the hip, based on my comment, and didn't do anything to actually address, or understand, the cause of the issues in this thread, or the other one.
I think Matt Levine's take was pretty interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-03/zillow...
Why not a link to which languages programmers like the most[1]? It's our field, after all.

[1]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...
This just tells me spending increases. Nothing about absolute consumption. I don't know about others, but I'm consuming about the same amount of milk I was when I was getting $10/hr vs $35/hr. I might buy more "luxury" products (ice cream, organic milk, etc), but I'm certainly not buying more than I was at $10/hr. My caloric intake is about the same. Perhaps, I'm the odd one out. In my case, most of that extra money just went towards rent and a car.
Wiki and Tech
Can you list some STEM and cyberpunk or tech in general wiki?
If someone would ask me the same, I would say:
1. https://wiki.installgentoo.com
2. http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Rosetta_Code
3. https://the-eye.eu/
4. https://digdeeper.neocities.org
5. https://eldritchdata.neocities.org/
6. https://www.goodsites.tech/
7. https://wiki.r-selfhosted.com/
8. https://computersciencewiki.org/
9. https://wiki.qt.io/Main
10. https://wiki.ros.org/Books
11. https://wiki.dlang.org/
12. https://wiki.libsdl.org/

Can you help me extend this list?
I am not an anarchist at all but I think he has some very good criticisms of a lot of fundamental beliefs among modern day economists. Economics as a profession is built upon a set of axioms or premises about human nature and society. Graeber cannot go toe to toe with modern economists with their equations but he does a brilliant job of tearing apart the assumptions of economists within the classical school of though.

I lived “Debt: first 5000 years” and “Bullshit jobs”

Both challenge a lot of truthisms about our modern capitalist world. I am surprised the ideas in these books have not become more widely known on the political left.
there are virtually no jobs for it. You have a bigger chance of finding a job as a COBOL developer.
LLVM (Rusts' backend) doesn't support the Xtensa instruction set, which makes this so complicated. The newer ESP32-C{3,6} instead use a RISC-V instruction set which is already supported by Rust, so its much easier to set up.

So far I managed to get basic serial coms working, but am waiting for some HAL so I can build a blinky LED.
Shelters won't fix the issue.

San Francisco did a breakdown on their homeless.

Almost 75% have some chronic health problem. 15% have a traumatic brain injury.

That requires facilities for long term medical care. And it basically means universal healthcare.

Unfortunately this puts us back to "You know all those facilities that we closed back in the 70s? Yeah, closing them was a stupid idea and we needed to fix them instead."
RudderStack founder here.

We tend to believe we have a pretty good reverse-ETL product too which can be used standalone without event collection. Best is class is a moving target anyway and upto customers to judge :)

However, I do agree on the point around focus. Our positioning, go-to-market, pricing, use cases etc are centered around building the end to end customer data infrastructure. There are folks who already have pieces of the stack or don't need a full CDI (e.g. non PLG B2B companies) and only need reverse-ETL.

The market is enormous so I believe we both will do great. Congrats on the launch.
How to people in general feel about the backslash (\) in the non-english speaking world?

Me personally I hate it. It is OK for escaping (as it doesn’t happen that often) but for things like typing out LaTeX or paths on Windows is awful to an extend where I would rather not write LaTeX outside of my custom keyboard (Caps Lock as third level shift and Emacs key-chord of ðö together [icelandic keyboard] types \).
Add Docker and Google to that.