skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't is also true that the original pricing algorithm was built for a very different purpose? It was useful for getting a ball park estimate of value, but it was hardly accurate in the underwriting sense (for the reasons you point out). The hubris of assuming that those prices were so accurate that Zillow was willing to buy at them sight unseen is mind blowing, particularly when one takes into account the adverse selection (if Zillow's estimate is above what I can get from in-person bidders, I am more likely to take it than if the error is in the other direction).
I’m over 40 and in the US. I also just did a job search. I left a midsize company as a Lead Dev and interviewed for staff and principal roles in order to get back to more technical work. Here, in the US at least, I found a couple roles that were at that senior-plus level and don’t involve a lot of meetings. I took a staff role at a much much larger company and it seems great so far. Keep your eyes out and maybe you will find a few of these roles around.
From what I can tell, eliminating the Wheat Board has at least been a positive.

On the liquor front, that cartel is the provincial governments themselves! There’s been a bit of relaxation on those regulations, but until recently alcohol was only allowed to be moved between provinces with Crown approval, typically via provincial liquor boards.
>sudo systemctl start anybody_can_initiate.service
> In my understanding (but I might be wrong) this has been disproved for natural languages, i.e., (most) children learning more natural languages do not perform worse on their mother tongue except for a brief period were they tend to mix languages.

More than that, for each related language you learn, the nth additional is easier. After French, Italian and Spanish, you will be able to read Portuguese almost fluently, without any specific study. People like that who write/speak often do mix things up, admittedly. But it tends to go away with regular exposure. To carry forward the metaphor, I'd argue most if not all computer languages are closely related in the same way Spanish and French are.
I find this alot. I'm 40 -- say -- and I've been applying for engineering positions and get alot of "you'd be great for engineering manager and or senior x,y and z -- would you do that instead?". The general trend I see at the moment seems to be that companies have staff, but lack experienced leadership that can deliver products. I have a couple of patents and have delivered some products and this seems to make the difference.
Well if you don't want a boss, you need to switch to entrepreneurship, maybe start a solo sass ... I don't see a way around it.
Edit : need a cofounder? :)
You’re totally missing the GP’s point.

You’re also absolutely right that the social media content: the photos, the sentiments, the likes, the connections, should not in any way “belong” to FB/G.

The data that does belong to them, and that is useless to anyone else, are the outputs from their sentiment analyzer service,
the weights and trigger conditions for their content ranking algorithms, the intermediate outputs of their ML evaluations, etc.

GP, and the article, are saying: look there first. Try to start by truly understanding “what you already know, but aren’t paying enough attention to,” and don’t just treat the problem as “needs more data.”
Did it work? Is Germany now a COVID-free bubble? Are Germany's results even better than nearby countires who locked down less, or never?

Neither the US, nor its porous-border neighbor Mexico, is likely to accept any such measure.

And even areas that had fair bubble-like control early, like Iceland, New Zealand, & Australia have now given up on that goal. They have the most experience with such a strategy – and no longer believe in it.

File this plan away for when you're world dictator.
Sounds like we need experts in mechanism design to work out the greedy-agent backlogs. Clear the bureaucracy to make it happen!
The point of the starcraft bot was never to be able to beat humans, it was about getting headlines and moving on. To be honest getting good at starcraft isn't really an interesting problem for AI to solve, you can probably do it if you throw enough GPUs at the problem, but you learn pretty much nothing in the process.
Main Aspects of Reactivity
The problem at the big (especially FAANG) companies is that to be effective you need to really buy in to the company's tech stack and development ethos. People who were promoted to those roles naturally do; you probably don't. In fact, if you have a lot of experience elsewhere you're likely to have opinions that conflict with the company zeitgeist, and that leads to conflict with its champions. Similarly, effective principal/staff/+ work requires a lot of strong connections to people in many teams, which again tends to favor internal promotions. This is not competition for its own sake. It means that when you're compared to your home-grown peers every review cycle it will be difficult for you to keep up let alone stand out (even for a while after the typical one-year grace period which isn't long enough at this level). This is discouraging, and in some cases can leave you in a permanent bind w.r.t. team trust or possibility of an internal transfer. Many thrive despite all this, but many also end up seeing it as lost time and opportunity. Quite a few end up going back to where they were, while others opt for a smaller company.

P.S. I'd argue that, for all their advantages within the company, those internal promotions are usually over promotions. People's attachment to that tech stack and development ethos, and lack of experience with any other, means there's an even sharper drop in their value going elsewhere than for outsiders coming in.
>Does anybody think these variants will ever stop?

Variants were always there, for every pathogen out there. It's a good old media keeping the masses engaged...

>Particularly embarrassing is how Sweden and Florida have just survived without much restrictions.

Not many will admit that, will they? Infact they will even interpret any figures from those places to be indicate that things have been terrible over there.

The reality field for many people ( possibly including me) is distorted.
Something not mentioned anywhere in this whiny post, which you have to read from his About page:

I’m a senior iOS engineer at Microsoft
I'm also mid forties and am in a similar boat and mindset. I also just want to build things. I have found whenever I talk with a company about possibly working there, they are considering me for hands off architecture/leadership roles which I could do but don't prefer. My solution so far has been freelancing, which has been working well. I can also see myself heading towards startups for similar reasons.
> I think the housing market is so fucked no one really grasps the scale of the problem.

I don't think I agree with this assessment. I live in a very rural area two hours northwest of Austin, literally in the middle of nowhere. I've studied the local economy and understand how things work here.

I think the characteristics you've identified in the rural housing supply are not unusual and also not as serious in a practical sense as you seem to be indicating. For example, in San Saba, Texas, 20-30% of the households are under the federal poverty threshold. The median household income in the town of San Saba is about $32K/yr. People just don't have any excess cash so the maintenance on dwellings is neglected. That means folks become extremely thrifty and resourceful patching what needs to be patched, very cheaply, if not for free. Some dwellings simply aren't maintained and one day won't be there anymore.

Families live on small budgets, don't require much and generally just "get by". The municipal and county governments have very small budgets but extremely resourceful staff who accomplish a lot with very little. Everyone comes together as a community when needed (see: February 2021 freeze event) and it all works very efficiently, actually.

To someone who is not from here and who doesn't understand that dynamic, they might see those properties as you described and believe a tragedy was unfolding. But that doesn't reflect reality on the ground vis-a-vis my neighbors.
I'd second this; the N64 version still took skill. I also can't place my finger on it but modern version NPCs feel worse as well.
You make a good point, but I believe that the behaviour you see is more because of cPython's internal string handling.

At least that is what PEP 412 is implying.

For example:

s1 = "cookie"

s2 = "cookie"

print(s1 is s2) # should print True
It seems like you’re presenting a straw man. Being able to sell your house and not be tied to one home for life is a reasonable desire that has nothing to do with speculative investment.
I can do all of that now, I live in the UK which has no restrictions.

You talk about being "forced" to be in an office but ignore the other side of being "forced" to work over video calls.

I mean, neither are forced, like I said I just left the industry. So it goes, life moves on. What a shame to have wasted so much time on a dead end path, though now I'm having great fun doing other stuff. :)
Great response, thanks! I like the HN questions -- but I understand maybe that's not their thing. :)
Stack-safety for free?
I think the opposite: there is not much valuable data, it is just noise.

It is very difficult to go from what users browse to what they actually buy. People very often say one thing, then do something completely different.

And sometimes they browse stuff just to make sure that their current decision is correct, so they will look at a lot of items they're not going to buy.

(oh, and everybody and their mother knows photos are important. No need for ML to find that out)
Yes this is one way bu the salary gap is too huge and most startups when they start growing start hitting same problems. There may be handful with top class leaders who are better but from my limited experience they have been very rare or may be my network is too small.
How about passing a lockdown law and ticketing every monkey who disobeys?
The Token Disconnect
Is this some legacy infra that Acoustic has "inherited" from silverpop, perhaps? An old-but-valid DKIM key, a private dns entry for a mail2550.paypal-notification.com server, etc?
Generally in modern languages you use libraries rather than language features, which IMO is better and shows that the language is generic enough to allow programmers to build abstractions as needed.

However, some of these (#4 in particular) are exactly supported in other "modern" languages.

1. Assignment by name.
python: A = {**A, **B}
javascript: A = {...A, ...B};

2. Both binary and decimal data
For these you use libraries like Decimal in python, boost::multiprecision in C++

3. Bit strings of arbitrary length
vector<bool>, boost::dynamic_bitset, or write your own
in python you would use numpy

4. A named array is normally passed by reference, as in F(A)
In C++ you can do this for any type with a copy constructor.

void f(A_Type& A) { ...
... = f(A); // by ref
... = f({A}); // by value

5. IO by name.
Not generally done as far as I'm aware, but you could easily build this in C++. Something like
class StdOut { void operator=(string s) { cout << s; } };
StdOut{} = "hello\n";

6. SORT statement
Why not sort function? c++ std::sort, python sorted() builtin

7. Complete implicit conversion
Javascript is the KING here, and we all know how helpful that is....
Of course C++ let's you define this yourself, but there isn't directly language support.
https://archive.md/o6ew4
Deno plus Tauri is getting increasingly close to this.
We All Nearly Missed the Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected
At least it was just the XR!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanage_Edge
>Kubernetes isn't always the right tool for the job, with which i agree, especially for smaller teams

I think this is the key point. Kubernetes is great when used correctly, in the right scenario. And I feel that most of the hate comes from situations where it's not suitable. Kubernetes is just one of the many platforms available to run your code. My point extends to more systems, like Ansible, Chef and all the others. TL;DR it's not a tool for developers, it's a tool for operations and systems integrators.

A developer working on an application shouldn't care about the platform being run on, only defining its requirements - think big enterprise system that just consumes data, processes and stores it. The moment an engineer starts thinking "I need X platform" they're not developing the app anymore, they're integrating it too.

The system integrator should be able to take those requirements and match it to the right platform - choose the OS, native package vs container, scalability, fault tolerance etc. But the system integrator doesn't need to care about the long term maintenance of the platform, just how to integrate the application onto the platform. k8s can be considered here for long term support, ease of integration, portability etc.

The systems maintenance are responsible for ensuring the system has the resources to run the application and fix any faults that appear in the infrastructure - this is where k8s shines the most, because I can drain a node, update it and uncordon it without worrying about where I'm going to move the containers running on the node because k8s will do that for me. Gone are the days where we need to plan taking a machine offline for an hour, making sure the right failover procedures are in place, because k8s should be demonstrating that regularly.

Essentially, kubernetes/Ansible/etc. should not be a part of the development process. It doesn't solve problems that an application developer should care about. It's an operations tool, able to monitor and manage deployed applications. The hate occurs when the wrong people are using the tools, or the right people are using the tools incorrectly.

And of course, these kinds of separations of concern can only really happen in larger teams, on larger projects. Dedicating a few people to maintaining a deployment, a different group to continuous integration, and a 3rd group to actually developing the functionality. That's just not possible in every case, and the most hate seems to come from those in-between scenarios where there's too many people to call it a small team, but too few to enable this separation of concern. Meanwhile, the most love seems to come from those that can differentiate between the many hats they need to wear in a small team.
"Modern pig casting machines produce stick pigs, which break into smaller 4–10 kg piglets at discharge." -- wikipedia page on pig iron
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>5% chance of ever beating it

If you actually read the paper where that 5% figure comes from (Cairns,2005) you'll see that it is for untreated, naturalistic recovery. Looking at recovery after treatment (e.g. MRT) the figures are more like 30-35%. Heck, even the Rituximab trial resulted in 38% remission at 4 year follow-up just due to the placebo effect!
In Switzerland, most (e-commerce) businesses allow to buy on invoice, e.g. you just pay by providing your name and address. Is this prevalent in other countries?

The shop usually provides 2-4 weeks of credit until that invoice gets paid eventually.

There's a whole industry behind that, where businesses can sell the risk to a third party and receive the money instantly by paying a commission based on the risk assessment of the buying party.

Is there a name for that?
It's not strange, it's precisely because AI is used as a term everywhere now, that we should be skeptical of using it that way.
My state (I assume similar in all/most) has laws about how businesses must handle unclaimed funds, eventually if they cannot get a response from the owner of the funds, they get deposited with the state and the owner (or heir) can claim them.
> Usually the strongest opponents of these controls and regulations are the giant players

That’s only partly true. The other side of it is that many of these regulations also ensure that the giant players remain firmly entrenched. As an example, it is illegal for me to go directly to a dairy farmer and buy a gallon of milk directly; it has to work its way through the entire supply chain first, even though the producer is running his operation in compliance with all food safety regulations (otherwise his milk wouldn’t be allowed into the supply chain anyway)

Edit: or, before the Wheat Board was torn down, a farmer couldn’t directly sell his wheat to the grain mill down the road (or across the border), it had to go through the CWB. This kept a lot of middlemen very happy.
No, it's that if I need to sell it I've structured my finances and my life to be able to take time to do it--because I've intentionally made decisions with the remodeling in my home to be suboptimal for selling anyway. I'd have to put up a wall and reroute a bunch of plumbing for my laundry room off my master bedroom so I could turn it back into a bedroom because that's what the dollar-signs-for-eyes crew values, so why would I be worried about selling it in 48 hours?

This is an industry I actually know a teensy bit about. Normal people don't need to sell a house in two weeks. That is an abnormal condition brought on by stupid, disinterested money flooding the market and the idea that everyone must be hyper-mobile all the time is one brought on by the more deranged, "humans exclusively acting as work producing automatons" part of a market economy. Solidity and permanence are valuable. I'd go so far as to say that when you take into account the benefits of long-term residence and ownership--and they are benefits you will not see in your ML model, such as a cohesive neighborhood where you actually know and maybe even interact with the people who live around you--that it might even be a positive to discourage market thrash. You know. For humans, and not investors.
Nintendo sees them as kids games, hence the effort to balance things.
I think the aeropress coffee press was very well designed. It's made of three sturdy, plastic parts that wash easily and last a very long time. It makes a great cup of coffee. https://aeropress.com/

I'm also impressed by the MSR whisperlite international camp stove. The international edition is designed to work with a variety of fuel types-- white gas, kerosene, etc. The stove compacts down to a very small size. It produces a jet sufficient for boiling a pot of water in less than 10 minutes. It can be easily maintained and there is a market for parts. https://www.msrgear.com/stoves/liquid-fuel-stoves/whisperlit...
In Rust, omitting a semicolon has a special meaning, ie a return from an expression. So, you can't just ditch it.

I wouldn't mind Python's whitespace indents in Rust though!
It's intentionally obscure, it's basically a safeword for young kids that enjoy torturing each other in one way or another. You're getting piled on for being weirdly critical about something you clearly don't understand.
Oh ok sorry. But Netflix is always touted as the biggest commercial user of FreeBSD. I wonder what they're using it for then if not streaming?
Throughout our lives, we impact the world in various ways, we leave footprints on the ground, we cast shadows and show up in mirrors, and form ideas in people's minds, but even though those effects look and act like we do, they aren't truly us, they don't actually experience the world.

There is an equivocation there. The Mark Twain that appears in his book is not the same as the Mark Twain that wrote his books. It's two entities bearing the same name. It's a category error to say the two are the same, it's conflating the idea of a thing with the thing the idea represents.

We do of course both have an idea of Mark Twain the dead author, and Mark Twain the literary character, and that may muddle and be the same idea in our mind, but that idea is not the same entity as Mark Twain the person. Unlike a person, an idea does not have subjectivity, it does not experience.

You can write a book where the character Mark Twain has a conversation with Harry Potter, even though Mark the human could never meet Harry the fictional character. If people and characters the were truly the same thing, wouldn't they be subject to the same constraints and limitations?
If salary is important to you as you get more senior, then you need to play the mainstream game. Which mostly means going into management, architecture, consulting, etc. For those of us who don't really want to go down that route, I think sacrificing salary is a common concession you need to make.
>To another commenter here, it does indeed sound like Poppers paraphrase, which is a thought terminating cliche that protects lazy minds from dissonance. When inclusion of authors and texts from unexpected* places was transgressive it added perspective, but now, it's just designed to homogenize and liquify culture to produce nihilistic ideologues who can't be trusted as fellow citizens to share a recourse to truth.

I have nothing to add, just want to say that you hit the nail on the head and this sentence in particular is enlightening.
>>> you should expect to lose 50% of your capital allocated towards underwriting.

How ?
Almost all PL/I features have already been present in an internal technical report about NPL (New Programming Language) from December 1964, which was done by an IBM team, concurrently with the software design for the new IBM System/360 series of computers, for which PL/I was intended to be the main programming language.

The design of the new language has taken into account the feedback from the users of FORTRAN IV and COBOL on the previous 7xxx series of IBM computers and it was also inspired by features from ALGOL 60, but otherwise there was no direct influence of outsiders on the language design.

Around 1966, a few extra features were added to PL/I, the most important being pointers and unions, which were taken from the Hoare and McCarthy proposals for the successor of ALGOL 60.

At that time IBM did not care yet if any of their programming languages will also be used on other computers. They were a hardware vendor, which offered as a bonus operating systems and programming languages with their computers, to convince the customers to buy the hardware. They were not selling software yet.

Compatibility with other hardware was not at all desirable for IBM. Only the other smaller companies were interested in porting IBM languages like FORTRAN or PL/I to their computers, to make them an acceptable alternative to IBM hardware.

So the standardization efforts were done in other places, but based on the de facto standards created by the IBM products.
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Love the examples, thanks for ELI5.
Almost certainly the latter. Python excels in this because it’s really easy to learn, so non python libraries provide python functions that you can call which may not be implemented in pure python.
>Go beats Julia in parts where python is not good at.

I have not seen good results from differential equation solvers in Go.
Yes, but it is used to describe the book like thing that came before the modern book. We love overloading our Latin words.
Immunity from Covid-19 Infection May Be as Strong as from Vaccination
Semicolons drown adventurers every day in NetHack and show no signs of decline:

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/;
'How Much Air is in Your bag of chips?'[original study]

https://kitchencabinetkings.com/ideas/how-much-air-is-in-you...
Create separate OS users for each project? I think it could help with focus/avoid distractions too.
What’s the issue with GMO? How is it different from cross-breeding and husbandry which we’ve been doing for millennia?

(I’m asking honestly.)
If they are discouraged, why do they have their own entry in the header[1]? I always thought the light text was just to separate them visually from the comments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
Also an old fart. I am doing my best to remain a developer. Spending my work days in meetings and managing people sounds horrible to me.