skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rabois talks a lot of noise about how well they're doing, but Opendoor is a miniscule fraction of the size of Zillow, and it's hard to know exactly how good Opendoor is doing anyway. We'll see as the years roll on with a lot of economic uncertainty coming up.
How many people have access to this 100 Mbps fiber though? From what I'm seeing on Wikipedia, the internet penetration rate is around 50% of the population. Starlink isn't intended to replace existing reliable broadband solutions. It's meant to provide internet access to remote areas where running fiber to those areas is way more expensive. Fiber and cellular (usually needs fiber backhaul) would be prohibitively expensive to bring to many areas of the world and telecoms won't do it unless the government pays for it. But for $500 up front and $99 a month you can bring 150-300 Mbps to remote villages and schools. They don't need a dedicated connection per household, 300 Mbps is enough to split across potentially dozens of households or even a smalls school.
Doesn't this also (largely) mean more stock was sold for cash in 2021 than the same two decades combined?
domain registration and a blog solves most of this. You have to BYO discoverability though.
> Suggesting companies always don’t care about employee opinions as well.

Ah yes, the same companies that laid off mass numbers of engineers in 2000 and did it all over again in 2008. The same companies that vehemently fight any kind of unionization efforts and the same companies that insist to haze potential hires with live-coding & whiteboarding tests even though folks have 10+ years of experience. The same companies that were wage-fixing employees' salaries and had to pay out almost half a billion dollars in restitution[1]. Those companies? If you think you have any kind of influence on corporate culture as random engineer #3419, I've got a bridge to sell you.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/01/16/37...
Your argument is circular. Lending, borrowing, human coordination, liquidity management, censorship resistance, art patronage, royalties, permissionless non-custodial 24/7 trading, community development, a global pool of start up capital that rivals silicon valley and will eventually eclipse it, transparent treasury management across jurisdictions, user ownership, etc.

There's no need to believe crypto has value. It has value. It trades 24/7 with a market cap approaching $3 trillion. The market isn't wrong about what has value, the market determines what has value. Deny that all you want, but it's not going anywhere, it will only evolve and grow from here. We've barely explored the design space for what is possible.
I hate the term “computer science”. It not only conceals the true nature of the field (one that is deductive and mathematical rather than inductive and empirical) but it has been excessively conflated with programming and IT literacy.

Forget computer science or programming; IT literacy itself is manifold in nature. We need to analyze the goals of computer and IT literacy before we even begin teaching it.
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I disagree. Reading the books mentioned by the OP are more geared towards being a better software engineer. Your list seems to be better aligned to improving the success of a software manager. As for Remote, I found the book useful for making the case for remote work, and how to succeed with remote workers in a corporate culture that was highly resistant to the ideas.
It copies bits shown on the screen, so it loses e.g. EXIF data, if any, the original color space, etc.
I did find the article’s point - that having a comically evil villain can sometimes work out really well as a narrative device - to be relevant. The example that the author points out - that some people are just plain evil and their malice is beyond comprehension - is exhibited really well by the Joker. A few other memorable examples that come to mind where such villainy plays off its absurdity to make a larger point are Gary Oldman in Leon the Professional and Tilda Swinton’s various villains in Joon-ho’s films.

But far too often the one dimensionality is used as a lazy writing device and serves as a showcase for an amateurish script.
With enough dedication and CPU-cores and reasonably intelligent pruning of the search tree, you may be able to do something like that: http://tasvideos.org/6347S.html for _Breakout_.
Completing the square teaches students something beyond just how to find the roots of quadratics. It teaches them that one approach to solving problems is to transform them into a problem they already know how to solve.
Just gave this a whirl and it's pretty neat! Some feedback:

- App looks very pretty. Highlights are the subtle animations when scrolling long lists in the Library, and using album art in individual rows.

- I like the output of the visualizer. The glitch transition between tracks looks great.

- Having the visualizer in the background while browsing music is a bit distracting.

- Definitely needs some default imagery for the visualizer, I expected it to work out of the box.

- Took a really long time to index my music collection (about 20 minutes for metadata and another 5 minutes to generate thumbnails). This is for 81,000 songs w/ a high-end desktop computer.

- Under library > artist, `Unknown Artist` has almost all albums attributed to it. Most of my collection is MP3 with ID3v2.4 tags (artist field always populated, album artist populated when applicable). In Hyperchroma, most artists are listed with the correct number of songs, but 0 albums.

Probably not what you're after, but I think this could be very successful as a free/cheap alternative to After Effects specifically to generate the music videos. (rather than a music player)
TBH Docusign also has more polished UI - like allowing to specify where to sign and knowing that all places necessary were signed, etc. - and keeping track of documents I've signed has value even for me as a user. So it's nice when a company gives the signing party a more polished solution. But yeah, I've signed many documents by just typing into PDF too. For something like lease, it's completely fine.
Print to tiff file then back to pdf. Boom. Looks like a scan.
Hey...I saw this in my home state of Wyoming, at a Walmart parking lot a few months ago. I hung around for 30 mins hoping to talk to the owners but unfortunately they weren't around(or, they were inside sleeping and I didn't want to disturb them).

They were hauling a trailer as well, so I guess there isn't too much storage space in there.

https://i.imgur.com/pCd7opK.jpeg
I must be stupid because I did not find the explanation easy. In fact after I read it I thought to myself: I think I’ll just rely on memorization for this (not that it’s actually needed in my day to day life and I’ll have to look it up if I ever actually need it).
6% historically has been easy. Going forward it wont be as easy, think 3-4% is more likely.

Plus sounds like you dont have kids, they are very expensive in both money and time. Have you seen how much childcare is?
I also know him from my teens and agree with previous poster. Juan is an amazing coder. (hello biomemo :))
In Firefox, beside that, you can press Ctrl + I, open the "Media" tab, and pick any of the graphics that were already downloaded to display the page. Then you can save the picture(s) you're interested in. I suppose the source of it is the local cache.

Does not work in this particular case, of course, because the whole image is not yet in the cache.
this is hacker news not a store
Would suggest https://aphantasia.com/ and their twitter as well. As Someone with aphantasia I was still amazed as how different the level of aphantasia can vary between people.
Correct your circadian rhythm.

This includes correcting your meal patterns and the times you are exposed to sunlight.
How to parse EVE Online chat logs (in Common Lisp)
The government already has that control for one of the most important bits of 'truth', its called a land registry.
Sandy Munro asked Musk about the terrible paint in his interview. Apparently they fixed their paint process in Dec. 2020. Until then people had to get paint protection film, ceramic coatings and mud flaps to keep the paint looking decent.
I’m going to be smiling all day thinking about this use of the term piglet
I love this site so much. I was amazed the first time I ordered when the parts showed up the next morning. Now I just deal with the shipping cost because it saves me so much time navigating websites to order from them. I wish there was a version for small computer bits, like generic HDMI cables or USB-SATA dongles.
>Then clever people learned how to trick the VM into letting them punch a hole through the hypervisor, and we’ve been using that trick ever since

Can you say more on this trick. Is it available by default on the cloud VMs, or is it something that has to done in the user's code.
I have seen tweets from DirectIO developers saying AWS Nitro machines are better for kernel-bypass-IO compared the Google cloud VMs. but my understanding of it was something done by Amazon Nitro card engineers/developers, and Google was working on something similar to improve the performance.
AFAIK Coinbase Pro isn’t a market maker, it’s a marketplace. a market maker would be someone who offers to buy/sell some asset for a specific price. for example when i use Coinbase Pro to place an offer to buy 1 Bitcoin for $55000, i’m acting as a market maker.

all the same, i agree with you: it’s already cheaper to use Coinbase Pro as an on-ramp to obtain USDC and then trade the USDC on a decentralized exchange that charges 1/5th the fees as Coinbase Pro. that wasn’t the case 2 years ago, and i don’t see any compelling reason to believe that Coinbase the company won’t continue to lose its mote, over the long term, in an industry which is fundamentally about decentralization.
This is a great mindset to have. I would especially recommend that you avoid management for as long as possible. The joy of building software is hard to replace once you hang it up and start attending meetings for a living.
This doesn't sound right. 2% of the firm's revenue in its first year, combined with a plausible growth trajectory to 5x or 50x that, is great!

I don't doubt that your €42m project got shut down, and that your employer might well have been right to do it. But this particular Zillow project wasn't shut down because it didn't move the needle - if anything, it was shut down because it did.
They want a large number of followers who trust the person.
But what if iBuyer calls the Wallstreet Chronicle and tells them that Blue Horseshoe is buying 742 Evergreen Terrace?
The AWS load balancer controller for Elastic Load Balancers is capable of configuring routing directly to pods in an EKS cluster because those pods get a routable VPC subnet IP address by default. They’re not stuck behind bridges connected to non-routable subnets, so no NAT needed.
Not disputing what you say, but mistakes do happen to the best of us.

http://sunnyday.mit.edu/accidents/Ariane5accidentreport.html
and yet again another OpenSSL bug , another flaw in the open source fallacy of many eyes to spot bugs...
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2021/03/28/serious-security...

plus when considering in maths there are ways to rearrange formulas including new discoveries like this one (a new way to do quadratic equations)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29342161
https://www.sciencealert.com/math-genius-finally-discovers-e...

I wonder if discovering a new way to do things could be done to cryptographic algorithms.
Amazing story, and very well written. Thank you for sharing it.
The thing that changed my career as a software engineer, in terms of seniority & remuneration by time and effort, was by changing my efforts from learning arbitrary tech to learning the domain I worked in. Asking useful domain-related questions gets you noticed in stand ups and helps you write the right code. I work in fintech so the best bang for my buck I’ve had was reading an entry level cert in investment finance.

I think the generic bit of this advice is to excel as an engineer is to focus on the business, not the tech.
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They probably accessed the account first, then invested the time in the videos and held off on taking over the account until later.

Just speculation though.
Dude, when I was 16, 15 years ago, I remember doing a school essay about the risk of social media and saying "social media is not the culprit, it's us being so addicted to this new way of manipulating people around us into thinking we're "social credit"-worthy by uploading everything we can in a never ending race to the vacuum. We'll end up with what we deserve: we'll have traded our ability not to be lab monkeys clicking on buttons for the pleasure of our observers in exchange for the vain pleasure of sticking it to our ex/neighbour/psychotic mom/more beautiful colleague/whomever else insecure jealousy pushed us to addiction.

I feel we're just reaping the reward of our vacuity.
Very much this! I can count on one hand the number of successful businesses I've seen that use machine learning to do some magic inferences humans could never do. I've seen hundreds where humans are pretty good at doing their job, but machines can do it faster, more consistently and cheaper.
If this is indeed not new, one should be able to find a published source anywhere in the world's literature from before 2019 that does it this way, correct? The author mentions in his blog post / paper that he has looked for this exact method in many sources and not found it anywhere: can someone find it?

See section 3.3 "Brief historical context" of the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06709v2 — he also mentions on his website of many attempts to find this exact derivation somewhere earlier: https://www.poshenloh.com/quadratic/

> In summary, the author has not yet found a previously-existing book or paper which states the same pedagogical method as this present article and precisely justifies the steps, but there exist independent references that contain the key ideas and can be adapted to achieve this. That said, it is entirely possible that the method in this present article was previously observed by people who did not share their findings.
It isn't about anyone dying, it's about crime stats that show that brown citizens commit a disproportionate amount of crime. If no one is incentivized to report crimes, then problem solved! No more racist crime stats. No need to actually address the cause when you can just redefine the issue so it's not a problem anymore.

It's the same reason BART doesn't release footage of subway crimes anymore.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/09/bart-withholdin...

Also, who's getting murdered by the sf police? https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/published-repor...
The tell is the author had to resort to using the Buzz Lightyear movie as an example of rehabbing a villain.

I think they dramatically misread Toy Story, which is disqualifying given the subject of their thesis. Biased and lazy, a twofer.
Thanks— I didn't realize there was an actual character for them. Though IIRC MSWord would sometimes auto format them into that single extended dash appearance.
Thanks, I understand your point now, and I agree. The SQLite3 devs seem to think that because other SQL RDBMSes do this, they should too. At this time I'm of the opinion that more strictness is better.
I started using Python in 2003, I think. Quickly built a desktop GUI for our embedded device. numpy was just gaining traction and Travis Oliphant had landed on the idea of funding it by selling a the book. Python replaced MATLAB for me after that.
I heard the minor symptoms are muscle aches and tiredness.. Like most days for the elderly.
Still not secure.
> To keep things simple, the current parser accepts duplicate options without complaining, but that might change in future releases, so applications should not rely on it.

I love this level of attention to detail and kindness in the SQLite documentation. Very few projects do this.
I am a bit cynical about this system.. isn't this system naively gathering a temporary consensus that is constantly being changed by the raging media landscape? As soon as there is a media campaign about any topic whatsoever, all these temporary records of consensus will shift and change into completely different directions. How much value does a consensus system like this truly have in finding the truth of a subject matter versus being the equivalent of a slightly fancier strawpoll? I participated in one of these polis discussions and I have to admit that I found it interesting to see the different opinion clusters but at the same time I realize how little it means. Even the tonality or phrasing in a question could change the clusters completely. It's such a hard problem where I somehow tend to think that this system may be impossible to use for healthy politics but might be used as a tool by people with bad intentions to gather data about what the population superficially thinks and then be able to shape your media campaigns into changing people's opinions even more ruthlessly to what you want them to think.
I want to know what the ROI is

There is plenty of meat market content here no need to make an arbitrary line, its on topic here, deep fake, compute time, SaaS, account engagement, revenue

It lets us know how rational the incentive is
The Pi symbol has a conventional meaning of course -- Pi is to products as Sigma is to sums. So, I'm sure it is avoided as a variable name for the reason that Sigma usually is.
Their use is technically the correct/original one: middle-class means the middle section of a pyramid.

In the USA, an alternative definition has become popular, where middle-class is like the middle section of a bell curve.
Other methods have been posted, but I wanted to share mine. Mac needed:

1. Secondary click image → "Copy Image"

2. Open Preview

3. File → New from Clipboard

4. Save image
> what do you think btc's 'black swan' will be?

Being a usable currency.
I seem to recall that the __MACOSX folder is there to support resource forks? Something along those lines at any rate.
> people are miserable, that's the only KPI you cannot fake.

too bad this can't really be quantified. Or can it?
> Yet somehow https://www.githubstatus.com is ALL GREEN! smh

this is because status pages, at least the green/yellow/red light bits, are usually updated manually by a human. because if you automate those things, the automation can fail.

also, it's a weekend, a holiday weekend for some, so expecting updates to happen on the minute is a little unrealistic.

ALSO, it may take a bit of time for their "what is and is not really down" process a bit of time to be followed. on the weekend. by people who maybe haven't done this before outside of a training event 9 months ago or something.

> somehow

it is not hard to imagine how, to me.
I was once watching an episode of House with my college roommate and the doctors had a machine that let them see a visual image of what the patient was seeing in their head. I laughed to roommate and observed that it was a stupid machine because, of course, people don't really "see" things in their head.

In the ensuing discussion (and Google searches) I learned about the word aphantasia and about the phenomenon where people do actually (claim to) visualize things in their head. Until that moment I assumed that language was just figurative.

I still have some doubts that people actually do visualize things. One example is when you ask people to draw a helicopter or a bicycle they produce nonsense simplifications or abstractions. Are they really visualizing these goofy versions of the machines? If not, why don't they draw them accurately. I tend to think that I have a better understanding, I know my brain doesn't create visuals. When I draw a simplified bicycle I know it's because I only remember things like "two wheels, pedals and handlebars". Other people think they have a visualization but do not.
Yeah, it would be pretty cool.

I think the main reason is that the visualizations are driven by audio analysis, which is often inferior to actual videos edited by hand. This isn't designed to compete with videos made by people, only to provide a good-enough substitute.

I could implement a video editor to let people have more control over the visualizations, but people can already use existing video editors to do that instead if they really wanted to. So I decided that it wasn't worth the effort.
I used to play so much Tetris that after a while I could just close my eyes and play without a computer. From talking to other frequent players this was not uncommon.
You are correct. But it’s time for them to learn that a semicolon isn’t a danger to anyone.
I've been thinking along these lines a lot recently. When young I thought everything was all carefully architected, thought out and planned. I've come to realize it's all chaos, interactions between the disparate desires of various individuals and groups randomly acting constructively and destructively with eachother creating random results.
>The online world should not be a wild west where bots and bigots and trolls and others are anonymously going around and can harm people

I can't express how much I hate this. The online world SHOULD be a wild west, away from government reach, in my opinion.
“stupid senior” here! don’t listen to them :) always go for 90+% . lower coverage is laziness and may hurt sooner than expected.
Sure full coverage doesn’t preve tu r you to write a bad test.
Wow. I have an early Twitter handle and they let me turn off password resets without additional information. (I think you have to enter the email under which I've registered before it will send the request.)
This profession doesn't scale. You are at a peak and then you'll have diminishing returns. Only way to progress is to start your own business.
100% agree, we bought ours a couple of years ago along with a separate grinder and it’s absolutely amazing. We bought the espresso machine for half price which was a steal (approx $950AUD instead of $1800). Literally never buy takeaway coffee anymore, most of the time if we do end up buying coffee out its far inferior to the coffee we make at home with fresh locally roasted beans. Definitely has paid for itself, make 1-2 coffees a day since December 2019 with no issues, and it’s very to clean.
>Also, it's cheap AF.

A pay as you go model would qualify as "cheap AF," but the subscription model can be extremely expensive on a per document basis if you need to do a couple a year.
99.99% uptime means something is always down 0.01% of the time. That's an hour every year. It's not down at time of checking, so it seems about right. I wonder if there's an effect of different cloud items being down an hour every year.