skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Typora for years and always appreciated the simplicity of use. In the case where I'm writing prose I want the tool to stay out of my way and provide just enough value to be pleasureful.

I've gladly paid the one time fee and plan to continue using it over Obsidian and Roam which I've tried in the past.
The null hypothesis is the natural state of humanity, without medical intervention.
I find it interesting that I am using semicolons more these days because clients like my work Outlook recommend it in places I wouldn't use it but are correct; as a result, I use it more often.
Sure, it's a better target, but the other proteins may not be entirely useless as targets. Natural immunity at least has a chance to do something with them; a vaccine that includes/produces only the spike protein does not.

There was recently (but pre-COVID) a problem with a vaccine (I think TDAP?) that was reformulated to use specific proteins instead of whole killed bacteria, and produced less persistent immunity as a result.
I suppose I don't quite match the reasoning you're describing, but here's mine. I indent; I just don't want semantic meaning ascribed to whether or not I'm missing an indent. I'll handle the {}s, my editor handles the indent level, and everyone gets along fine.
While no doubt Zillow made many of these mistakes, I think the reality is more sobering that the author of the article realizes. The more grim possibility, is that Zillow got out of the house buying business, not because they weren't good enough at it, but because they _were_ good enough at it to realize that it was at the top.

If buyers want more now for their house, than it can be sold for in a few months time (which is necessary for renovations and other prep for sale), then there is no ML (and no non-ML) method to make money. Either you overpay and lose money, or you don't overpay and you don't buy any houses.

In that situation, the only smart play, is to get out of the market. Zillow is, no doubt, not perfect. But they have a lot of knowledge of the housing market, and they thought it was time to get out entirely. I think the author of the article either isn't able, or doesn't want, to consider that Zillow might have been exactly correct in doing so.
Could you share how you remapped your modifier keys for optimal emacs use on the Kinesis Advantage2?

Thank you in advance.
The article starts with:

Vladimir lenin believed that a tiny vanguard could, through force of will, harness historical forces to transform how global capitalism works. He was right. However, the revolutionaries have not been bearded Bolsheviks but a few thousand investors, mostly based in Silicon Valley, running less than 2% of the world’s institutional assets.

Some of the most famous VCs had communist backgrounds like Ben Horowitz:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/technology/one-family-man...
Seems like it could be cool, but too little information; I reallywant to know several more things to start.

How does its shape actually behave under pressure? They say "acts like an ultra-hard, shatterproof glass when compressed", so is it really changing state that hard? - I'm not seeing an crisp edge imprint of the rectangle in the top metal sheet that I'd expect from the same setup running a car over something like a wood/metal block of the same shape. If it really stays hard and firm as glass under a certain amount of pressure, that could be actually bad as a cartilage replacement. OTOH, if it just squishes and regains it's form, seems like a lot of other plastics.

How much energy does it absorb? If it really absorbs and redistributes a lot of energy both spatially and temporally, it could be really good shock protection. But I can't tell from this announcement.

What is the real stress level it can handle? They talk about an elephant, but the reality is that it is about 300kg (25% of a 1200kg car assuming roughly wheel weight allocation) over a aprox 3"x3" piece, which amounts to less than 75psi, or about 5x atmospheric pressure. As it turns out, if they are talking about the actual pressure under an elephant's step, it is in the same ballpark [1]. However, the way it is phrased is the entire weight of an elephant, which would be 3000kg on that square, which would be 730+psi.

All in all, disappointingly vague announcement from a crew that should have some expertise readily available in physics and mechanics...
https://archive.md/YS2lb
All talks are prerecorded and will be uploaded after the conference to the conference website. curl or mpv them later at your leisure!
Frequently in computer programming work we will not understand all about a project until we begin implementing it. This is part the inherent or essential complexity of creating software described by Fred Brooks: "The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one". Brooks found that prototyping software was instrumental in understanding a project's needs and problems. I have found Dr Brooks' insights to hold true, so I would recommend approach B. Otherwise you might be studying things you don't need to know (premature optimization).
Look up “foundation training” , by Dr. Goodman, it’s a different way of moving and looking at back injuries. Helped me a lot!
You can do this in Kubernetes by combining Envoy's draining support and graceful shutdown in the backend Pod (via handling SIGTERM or adding a preStop hook to delay termination). The big users of Envoy+Kubernetes are mostly running their own custom ingress controllers to coordinate this across the ingress system (easier than it sounds).

https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/arch_overv...

Source: I helped build a system like this for a major tech company that handles many tens of billions request daily.
Perovskite Solar Cells Understood
This is really not true. Every software-focused startup that's ~30 people and growing need someone to guide the way for the less experienced engineers. Systems design is a part of every software engineer's career, but experience there can be pretty limited. (Most people try to simplify the field down to 1-person projects, because they started programming with 1-person projects. That very quickly fails to scale, and needing to make 15 1-person projects work together is a common demand.) So you need to learn it "on the job", and you need someone around to help. That's exactly the position that the OP is looking for, and looking around at job listings, it is quite in demand.
Take a look at the most realistic next-gen real-time face in Unreal Engine 5
Not sure what you are trying to say here, but non-Newtonian (non linear shear stress vs viscosity) fluids are common and studied.
My top 5:

* https://uxwizz.com - Analytics/Session recordings/Heatmaps/Event tracking

* https://wordpress.org - Websites/Shops/Blogs

* https://joplinapp.org - Note taking

* https://bitwarden.com - Password manager

* Percona PMM[0] - Database/server monitoring

[0]: https://www.percona.com/software/database-tools/percona-moni...
They do, but that is referring to the potential for reflected DDoS attacks which is discussed in the previous paragraph. The referenced 'defective implementation' is that of UPnP. In my case, I'm also concerned with the service that is exposed.
The O Variant [video]
Not exactly. From what I read it’s almost completely benign in most humans.
yes, I do also: https://techspot.zzzeek.org/2012/02/07/patterns-implemented-...
> This is just what I read, I don't know it actually makes the vaccine better than a normal immune response, which I imagine is also robust.

I'm sure the powers that be have their reasons for not going into detail, but I am interested as well. I'm sure I only understand a simplified version, but I thought that a vaccine worked pretty much by invoking an immune response. As a curious layman, I'd like it explained to me. Just to satisfy that curiosity. Web searches give me the "CDC says it's better" without going into the "why."
I split about three cords a year, all by hand. It's mostly hemlock and alder. The biggest rounds are 24-30" in diameter.

I thought I'd need a heavy maul for the large rounds, but I use the axe for everything. On the larger rounds, start at the edges and work your way around. One nice thing about working in from the edges is that the edge pieces with bark are thin and have lots of split surface area, and all the inside pieces have no bark. So everything dries faster. I don't have any trouble missing strikes with this method.

The knottiest pieces for me tend to be spruce rounds from mid-trunk. I use the axe to get as much off as I can, and then either stack the larger knotty pieces in one area and burn them whenever they've dried enough, or use the chainsaw to cut through them one more time.

I haven't picked up my maul in 3 years.
Go Does Not Need a Java Style GC
Using K8s for what you described is so overkill it's hilarious.
Okay even accepting that Zillow made big unforced errors, that doesn't sound believable. Like, they don't make the offer conditional on someone looking at it in person for red flags?
Thank God you feel that my point is bizzare. I guess India no longer gives a flying fuck about poor people. Daily wage labourers now don't have to choose between food and medicine, they now have to choose between food, Medicine and telephone like telephone is a fucking luxury.

I mean you can't be that dense to think that everyone in India works in IT & earns 6 figures per year? We are slipping steadily in hunger index ( translating for your privileged eyes: more and more people are going hungry because they don't have food or money to buy food)

And also in the next five years you're going to be outraged on twitter and dumbbook about "Jio raising prices and making telecom costlier than what it used to be before".

Min recharge needed to keep your phone active has gine from 49 to 99 in two quarters. Guess what'll happen in the next five years?
Keymacs: Modern Symbolics-Style Keyboard
Ironically enough I find "social" games (or perhaps "social dilemma" games) to be anti-social as they often hinge on deception, lies, betrayal, and ganging up on people. I would agree that they aren't a good match for people who aren't merciless strategy gamers.

I have also found kingmaking/vote who wins to be a largely unpleasant feature/flaw of most multiplayer games that aren't races or competitive solitaire, so I'm unenthusiastic about a game where kingmaking is the core mechanic.
> I turn off intellisense

Unless you are doing this for performance reasons, this one I'll never understand.

I'd much rather type "x.someP" and hit tab then type in "x.somePropertyThatHasARidiculousNameIAlwaysForget" after having to consult the documentation yet again to get the name.
You know its an idiom, and refuse to just Google it?
Any sufficiently smelly marketing campaign is indistinguishable from phishing.
Euthanasia clinics refusing unvaccinated customers
Ahlablog, High Tech
News technology and processes
This website renders horribly slow for me on my mobile ... maybe its a SVG in the header, and its fixed to the screen? its still horribly slow when not visible, though.
I liked the HVAC controls of my 2005 Honda CR-V. Three big knobs: fan control, temperature, direction/mode. The temperature knob had one notch per °C. Simple and robust. All three were a pleasure to use even after 15 years, usually while keeping the eyes on the road. Oh and the vertical hand brake freed a lot of room between the front seats. No car is perfect of course.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=honda+cr-v+2005+dash&t=ffab&iar=im...

Wifi router WNR3500L with DD-WRT. True eventless running for 10 years. Cannot tell the same of my current setup. On PC the Debian GNU Linux distrib is pretty good for peace of mind.

I like Vim for its modal interface with old-school menus as a fallback and mplayer for its complete command line and keyboard controllability, and its effective OSD.
I’ve recently got back onto Java project after few years and Intellij feels crazy fast whan compared to VS Code. And it has 2x IDE functionalities built in.

As much as I love JS on web and backend via Node, I really hate desktop apps in Electron.
DevOps for Node.js Engineers: Shell Scripting
Everybody wants more freeways, no one raises their hand when asked if they would give up their house for the right of way.
I prefer Aunt Jemimah or Mrs Buttersworth to good, real, maple syrup.

I really enjoy telling people because it just somehow seems to really annoy people.

In almost every other category of food I go for high quality but with maple syrup the bottom of the barrel is the best.
Computer Science was supposed to be taught to everyone, and wasn’t about a job
West TN; we've got that happening too. The neighbor's $750k McMansion has ludicrous "market value" implications for the hunting camp trailers beside it and the doublewide up the road.

and (ahem) East TN is more "western Arlington VA" IMO. I said rural. I'd have to walk a half mile to get a decent rifle shot at a neighbor. It's getting too crowded here.
> All in all, disappointingly vague announcement from a crew that should have some expertise readily available in physics and mechanics...

It's a press release that should be somewhat understandable for non-scientists.
According to this discussion thread, Julia requires the number of kernel threads to be specified at startup: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/does-multithreading-requir... This seem to be more like pyprocessing and much more limited than the pthreads interface.
Does anyone need personal learning?
I’m trying to validate something. Would you use a service that gave original Classes for various different things like Swift, SwiftUI, Machine learning etc in a guided manner from basics to Pro level lessons in each class. Would you use it? Would you pay for it? Or is this a problem you don’t have.
> actual racist/sexist hiring practices are what led to the imbalance in diversity in the tech field

Can you name "actual racist/sexist hiring practices"? I'm not american, but my understanding is that lack of women in tech comes from that fact that more women are interested in people that things. 80%+ women go to nursing schools, 80%+ men go into engineering. If you make society more egalitarian you maximise those differences between sexes, hence 10-15% of women engineers in Norway and 30% in Bangladesh.

no idea if that is caused by biology or social framework (the way you were raised, a lot of software jobs are in contracting, so no maternity leave etc.)
But they lost money last quarter while the market was still rising. Seems there was some problem with their prediction process.
Kindred spirits it seems. Yea I think there is a serious future for Julia. It's my R&D and prototype workhorse by preference :).

Again, completely agree with the sometimes confusing state of the ecosystem. Sometimes I wish a bit of democracy existed, but people are people. I proposed some solutions to that problem a while ago but that's a story for another year.

Academia does create a very different kind of reward system that is often counter to community progress. IE: get there first, publish, obfuscate to thwart competition, abandon for new funding. Tends to reward people the highest for not giving credit, or sharing progress.

Meanwhile, people relying on alternatives to julia are more like: load in trusty xyz, use it in trusty way, I'll upgrade when it makes sense, and check the docs not the code when I am unsure of something.

Not to say industry is much better(I keep saying `academia`), but industry projects do tend to appreciate/honor free labor a little more kindly. That or they close the OSS gate and you get what you get.

Novelty is a driving force, but too much entropy and not playing well with each other can destroy a meaningful future quickly. It'll work itself out, one way or another but only because the technology is good :D.
A pattern I've seen a lot of is people joining a young startup as the founding engineer, and then move to an engineering director role once the company gets a good round of funding. Eventually the startup will push them out, where they'll either turn a side project into a business, or make a lateral move as an engineering director somewhere bigger.

I chose to keep being a software writer, and lean into mentoring. I'm 50, and don't have trouble with respect or salary. I don't know European employment law, but over in the states it's common for higher performing devs to shop their skills around every couple of years to find a better salary.
I can't agree with the article or many of the comments on it.

(A) Both Wall Street and Machine Learning Modelers struggle with tail risk. Hedge funds measure performance against

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

which assumes risk is (i) normally distributed and (ii) a source of reward. For most people, however, risk looks like Theranos or the Fukushima accident or the Challenger distaster.

It's unbelievable that a machine learning model trained to predict house prices based on experience would be accurate in the face of events like the COVID-19 pandemic or what will happen when the Fed raises interest rates. You can model risks like that, but to the extent that you're working from experience you are working from a database from the 1929 Crash, South Sea Bubble, etc.

(B) Mark Levine wrote a good article about how you'd exploit such a predictive model. If you consistently gave people low offers, a few people would accept them. You would get a high rate of return but could invest little capital.

To invest more capital you have to make more offers that get accepted, that is, give better prices. Your rate of return goes down and if there is shrinkage from errors, accidents, etc. you could get a negative return.

It's that "tendency towards a declining rate of profit" that Marx warned about.

(C) The analogy with stock market market makers doesn't sound good when you consider the differing timescales.

Market makers are isolated from some risk because of the length of their holdings. Yet, they make profits by exploiting the stochastics of a stationary market (e.g. if you don't like the price at time t1, you will usually get a better price at t2) but they lose money when markets move definitively in one direction or another.

That kind of trader heads for the bathroom when things go South and in the interest of being orderly markets impose sanctions on market makers who do the natural thing and press the "STOP & UNWIND ALL POSITIONS" button when it gets tough.

In the case of Zillow I see holding times that go on for weeks or months and all kinds of real world risk like planning to do certain renovations but having to delay the work because out of 20 things you need from Home Depot they only have 16 of them.
Most banking apps support SEPA QR codes as well, specifying a receiver, amount, and subject line. Which makes payment super easy.

If I’m sharing a bill with friends, I’ll just generate the QR codes, the friends scan them, click pay, verify with biometrics, and are done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code
RIP to a great composer, and by all accounts, a wonderful man. I took a composing class in 2004-2005 and Sondheim came in talked with us during the session on writing for voice. I don't remember the specifics, but I recall his offering to give a close listen to a project a student was working on; the other kid must have been in HS or college at the most, and here was this God descending from Mt. Olympus to help him out.
Copper, tin, cobalt . . . LME
> Surely Zillow was also using that data.

One would hope.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/must-see-list-colle...

This is a sampling of some of the statements issued by colleges and universities in response to the Rittenhouse verdict. Lot of prominent names on the list including Columbia, NYU and Stanford.
How are the schools funded?
I think having a dualistic economy plays a big role in this.
I had back surgery and it only helped for 1 year. I can't explain that one either...
Yeah, that's one side. But how you can guarantee that everyone that uses your software has really a license? It is not an easy problem.

And once, the product is discontinued, they still could release an update disabling the license check.
“may be”, that’s this issue. The variation of the immunity means that it cannot be relied upon. This is why it’s still important to get vaccinated.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, for with strange eons, even death may die.

SCNR
Wait. You're saying that CP/M was created with PL/M but PL/M didn't affect CP/M?! It's been a long day huh?
Can we process credit card payments as ACH to bypass merchant fees?
A silly idea…

Could we somehow place an ACH proxy in front of a credit card to bypass merchant fees by processing as ACH?
You Are Not Rich
Here is a list of all the talks, with videos of the ones that have finished: https://emacsconf.org/2021/schedule/
Exactly. It was an electronic pencil in terms of the importance it had to the fraud.
Israeli Researchers Discover Tiredness Mechanism
Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior (2007)
> But how you can guarantee that everyone that uses your software has really a license?

You can't guarantee that even with DRM, since it's breakable.

> And once, the product is discontinued, they still could release an update disabling the license check.

They could, but what if they don't? It's not like they're legally obligated to escrow their source code in case they don't, or anything like that.
While this sounds plausible, I think there are a couple of factors that work against this theory:

1) Why layoff your data science division if they are predicting with accuracy?

2a) If you have enough conviction to call the top of the market, why sell off so much housing at a huge loss? Zillow are the only participant in the residential real estate market losing money right now.

2b) If you see signals of a forthcoming housing crash, why not short the housing market?

The simplest explanation is that Zillow was poorly run.
Whoa! Never realised that was a thing, and I am thankful for you and your colleagues work.

I am brazillian, and the reason we have those sidewalk copy shops is that a large amount of government bureaucracy (and we have a huge amount of these, according to the "ease to do business" there was years where we had the dubious honor of having most bureaucracy of all countries in the world) has paper copies of documents mandatory many government offices do not make copies for you but will happily tell you the nearby shops with Xerox machines (literally, here Xerox and photocopier is same thing).

Even basic things like: open bank account, close bank account, get internet, or a new phone, require at least a Xerox copy of a bill in your name to prove you live nearby (yes, this sometimes result in circular reference, like power company wanting a power bill to start the contract).

For more complex things like opening a company it is not rare to visit in person 5 different government offices taking with you 50+ pages of Xeroxed stuff (I know this from personal experience. Also closing a company is similarly nuts).

So without these machines working perfectly we would all be screwed, sometimes a humid paper jam could mean you having to wait months to get a new appointment with government office to solve your problem. Or outright epic fines (for example if you needed copies to comply with regulations or taxes)
On iOS, long press > add to photos

I now have a photo of the Mona Lisa in my camera roll.

I guess this is one of those things that wouldn’t be as edgy with the actual mechanism stated. :)
Escaping Your Creative Blocks
I'll second that this article is just wrong. Zillow burned plenty of money in their Offers business. The problem is that all that spending revealed that they performed poorly in a questionable market segment.

Ultimately they were really bad as flippers. More often than not paying more than market price for the homes they bought.

I think the root problem is that this was a panic move. They saw Open Door's success and thought they had no choice but to try and replicate it. But its a questionable business move for Zillow and ultimately they couldn't make it work