skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realtor and Mortgage Lending industry is very slow in tech adoption and adaptation of digital strategy. Unless there is a lift across the industry on the buy-sell-marketplace together, such mishaps will occur. This industry will fail if injected with viral nature of social media algorithms.
How do police sketches work? If a person is describing who or what they saw, are they only recalling metadata or ascribed properties?
Ask HN: Should I have to do a coding test if I have many GitHub projects?
Yeah, and this is a relatively good one, so let's have some perspective.
In times up until the Civil War there were private citizens who owned ships armed with cannons far more powerful than any modern small arms.
It doesn't prove it originated there but all of the evidence points that it doing so.

Also [1] doesn't mention what countries the diplomats were coming from my guess would be an African country.
Is that a surprise? It's one of the few major unions that is not outright antagonistic to Republican policies and goals.

Republicans see cops as defending them from the outcome of failed liberal policies. Even rich liberals tacitly acknowledge this by hiring their own private police, while they seek to reduce the efficacy of "the public option".
Agreed - I live in rural New Hampshire and the constraint to growth is the cost of civil infrastructure that has to be built through granite.

With the book from the panic, people have bought lots all over thinking they could just build… it doesn’t work like that. The rock doesn’t always agree w your plans.
you know nintendo uncle? Well my mum was lego's first employee in Australia, she spent a summer holiday playing lego with kids at the Melbourne department store Myer. She had a cool lego enamel pin that as I a kid I was obsessed with to the point of losing finding, wearing everywhere all the time, breaking, losing traumatically forever. I ended up with not the 8880, but the 8860. It was mind blowing (the diff and the steering!) I'm still building stuff with the bits with my own kids 40 years later.
In New Mexico, if you want to hunt from out of state, you have to go through a lottery system. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.

I think global warming is going to make it harder for "mountain resort town" supply.
Show HN: Background.webcam – Train new hires remotely in real-time
I get that any one of us can do all of these things during normal business hours (assuming that said situations arise then). But "can" isn't the same as "will". There are plenty of things I'll never get around to if I can't explicitly set aside time for oncall.

> Being woken up in the middle of the night never builds empathy and if you pay enough attention to the industry, we're leadning more towards trauma, depression, anxiety and self-diagnosing ADHD.

Being woken up in the middle of the night leaves me grumpy and motivates me the following work day to figure out how I can avoid getting woken up again for the same issue.

This is somewhat like dogfooding the oncall experience. If I'm trying to troubleshoot something but the logs are unhelpful or the runbook is too vague for my sleep-deprived brain to figure out, I can fix that for next time. If it takes me half an hour to answer a simple question, it's worth considering how to improve our monitoring and dashboards. If I can't follow my own documented process, how can I expect a team who didn't build these systems to do so?

As I said, I don't think oncall is for everyone. Oncall as a hidden job requirement is especially problematic, especially if your team / company doesn't expect (and/or mandate!) that your regular project work will be on the back burner during your shifts. Ideally oncall should be opt-in, but there's a balancing act with not having enough people to avoid rapid burnout. Google limits how much you can earn per oncall compensation (for SWEs, 2 weeks per quarter) -- if you're regularly exceeding that limit, then your oncall rotation isn't healthy.

There's a lot of horror stories in these comments about oncall rotations, and quite frankly I wouldn't want to join one of those either.

...

Another program Google has that's like oncall on steroids: Mission Control [0]. It's an exchange program where SWEs embed themselves in SRE teams, up to and including taking on their pager. It's a fantastic opportunity for gaining a deeper understanding / appreciation of production, but it can potentially be an even greater imposition. If you're an unattached 20-something, you might welcome the opportunity to live in Sydney for 6 months, but if you've got kids, that's not reasonable. (Of course, with the pandemic, relocation to a different country isn't really a thing at this time.)

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/adventures-in-sre...
if your github work speaks for itself in creativity, solid coding concepts, continued daily commit schedules, don't see the need for tests. When hiring at botsplash.com our first impression coming from candidates Git account.
They are probably looking at, among other things, the Nagoya Protocol, which prevents the transport of biological samples, or data derived from them, across national borders of contracting parties.
Is Delta more deadly? I thought that was not really believed to be the case any more, just that it is much more transmissible. I could totally be wrong though; it's hard to find reliable info.
As a westerner living in mainland China, I might be able to weigh in on this. China's data does indeed look hard to believe from basically anywhere outside of China (and New Zealand). I don't expect to sway anyone who doesn't want to be swayed.

But I can say this: (a) there really is a pervasive nationwide effort to track and trace, which affects everybody and everything, and (b) the minor outbreaks that do happen get shard pretty faithfully on social media -- even if there is also censorship, it seems it's not as fast as the grassroots spread of news.
Not unreasonable? It forces people to engage in commerce whether they want to or not, and "but we want it!" doesn't seem like the kind of compelling public interest that could justify that. Beyond that, it's trivially easy to work around (ok, now my software costs $10M a copy.)
Cloth Masks: I think you're wrong here? Per the CDC[0] (which all airlines seem to link to), it says:

> Cloth masks should be made with two or more layers of a breathable fabric that is tightly woven (i.e., fabrics that do not let light pass through when held up to a light source).

So cloth masks are allowed. Also, this is an issue that I agree has been settled for a while, but the media/political effort to push it has been minimal, it's always "mask up", without going into the details, which can be very important.

Intervention & Money: The doc you link just says they tried different approaches, but don't seem to details the differences with the different motivational types. It's not clear to me from what I saw that they really dived into this. And when there are any kind of rewards (ie: not blind), you will get different results in the intervention group that you were not expecting (people change behavior).

Observations of Mask Usage: I agree, this is probably the better than survey based (as from what I've seen, people self-report very differently than what they really do). This was a weak critique on my part and I would have to understand what alternatives there are that could be better.

Positivity Testing: I think my original point was moot here as well. I think the better argument here is that we do not know the change that covid had already spread in any given area prior to this test. I understand that they tried to group control and intervention groups that were near one another to try to cut down on this, but it is still a big blind spot for this study.

My other issue here is that there was no random testing done to find asymptomatic cases. This is a huge issue with this virus in general, and it makes our numbers not as good (The UK being one of the few countries that has this kind of data, but it's not truly randomized still).

Older Population Education: See this post on the topic[1]. The point she makes is that the reduction in covid by age group should have been equal if masks worked equally, but the results from the study show that the reduction in cases was mainly in the older age groups.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/masks/mask-travel-guidance.ht...

[1] https://twitter.com/Emily_Burns_V/status/1433122687765856259
1. Read and do the problems for the first half of the book. Do not rush this part of the process.

2. Skip the second half of the book when the chapters switch to being real world examples

3. Having trouble on a particular section? Watch the youtube video to get a cleaner read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22hwcnXIGgk&list=PLOtl7M3yp-...

4. Don't spend too much time on NP/NP-Complete/NP-Hard topics

5. Over learn chapter 2. This is arguably the most important chapter having a deep understanding of runtime analysis helps you in every other chapter and on the interview

6. Don't spend too much time on writing proofs in Chapter 1. Understand them and be able to work through them and understand how the math comes together, but writing a specific proof isn't too valuable.

7. Sometimes the interview problems at the end of the chapter are silly. If it feels dumb, example: 1.36. How much does the ice in a hockey rink weigh? Skip it. These are older school programming interview questions and have been largely phased out
My observation where I live is that there are somewhat exclusive networks and not everybody is in the same one -- they might be clustered around catering to a clientele speaking a particular foreign language, for instance, and be somewhat apart from more "mainstream" agents. Anyway, I personally watched the selling agent try and convince me and my agent that the water damage in a property I was looking at was hardly damage at all and anyway, it doesn't rain in California, so don't worry about it. Sure, that's just an anecdote. So is your story, though.

I don't doubt that two agents who had frequently worked with each other amicably might be more frank, but I do doubt that agents all, or even mostly, presumptively do this with every counterparty they meet.
What's the difference between offering it for sale and publishing something? That seems like an artificial distinction.
Show HN: 3D Animation from Speech in Browser
I wonder if hydroponically grown herbs would lack them. Could be a business opportunity, if people care enough (or the government steps in to regulate).
same around Chicago(-land) in 70s and 80s, and in Phoenix the grocery stores do the recyclable glass bottles from the local dairies still (but not to the metal box on the front step delivery from 50 years ago).
It ensures separation of concerns is at least minimally applied in order to support two separate presentation layers (GUI & CLI). CLIs are also much more testable in general, so usually it’s easier to write e2e tests if a CLI is present. It might not cover 100% of the code because it doesn’t test the GUI, but does often get you something substantial like 90% of the way there.
I think the real "market" solution here would be to remove the ability of both out-of-town owners and locals to block new housing development. The article cites an example of a 200+ unit development in Brush Creek that was effectively vetoed by local NIMBYs; this in an area where only 800 people voted in the main Crested Butte elections.
> 1. If COVID sticks around, ... we'll be getting into that 'vulnerable' category. When that happens, how will you feel about large groups of 'kids' ... protesting getting vaccinated against a disease that may be very mild for them but fatal for you?

1. I, personally, would not care about it in the slightest. If the current "response", dictating that I should fixate on this one thing, and, more importantly, strictly controlled and prosecuted if not fixated enough, holds any longer I simply won't be around in 10yrs. My "life score" is satisfying to me as it is, any day of life under lockdown, curfew, mask, vaccine mandates only subtracts from it. So I'm looking to "cut my losses" soon, so to speak.

2. It may also mean that "we" failed to give these "kids" proper upbringing. I, certainly, did fail. When the panic started our son, 16 at the time, one day wanted to casually go to the shops to buy some junk. Suggestion that maybe it is better to minimise the cumulative number of shop visits because of this new unknown virus out there, and get your chips and coke once a week in bulk rather than on whim, was met with "I don't care, I need my fix". Did we get emotional after that. Sure we did. Did we berate or disown him, or even forced him to not go? Not at all. Love is not conditional on absence of inconsiderate behavior. As it stands, my chance of dying within a year at my age is around 1/300. Covid, if caught, about doubles it. No point in losing respect to those respected before over such numbers. We will all die anyway.

3. Our kids were always accurately immunised according to the recommended schedule. Did it ever come to mind that "freeloaders" must be forced to do so by mandates? Quite the opposite, my thinking was always - isn't it a wonderful side-effect of vaccination that people can act according to their conscience. These childhood vaccines are so good now that everyone refusing them must have very good (for them) reasons to do so. I have absolutely no interest in knowing the reasons of their choice, but I was always very pleased that we were able to contribute to their ability to make such choice. (Although my expectation to be afforded the right to define my own "validity", "eligibility", "vulnerability" and "essential" status turned out to be naive. But that's on the society conscience, not mine). No medical procedure, however beneficial on a population level, must be forced upon people. I'm fine with myself dying for this principle. Maybe not quite so for my loving ones, but there is no escape from the fact that everyone is mortal. I'll hold the fort for my kids until they are 14, but after that I cannot do much more - they will have to settle their own scores and live with their conscience. It is far better to live a short but free life than a looong but thoroughly mandated and controlled.
A tangential word of warning for anybody feeling inspired to DIY some fresh herbs: mint spreads very aggressively. If you want to plant some, put it in a pot on a patio or pavement to stop it from getting into the ground.

If you do not, in a few years you'll have mint growing absolutely everywhere.
Who is a Chinese organization so of course they don’t want to offed their boss.
I fear we are conflating morality with legality
This isn't a peer reviewed study, it's a submitted abstract. The sole name on the paper is someone who sells psudoscience plant-based debunked theories that the majority of our health issues come from lectins. He "authors papers" for Gwyneth Paltrow's weird publications. The guy sells supplements based on his scaremongering research to fringe-groups who like the idea of plant-based medicine, I don't trust his opinion or his bias with data in any non-peer reviewed studies. If there's something to this wait for a real research group to come out and say it - if there's a chance of world-changing science that will happen (would have already happened).
I really wish that we had a collective, global experience during the COVID-19 pandemic that made everyone trust that the national and international authorities had all of our best interests at heart and that they would implement controls fairly and judiciously with constant monitoring of efficacy and incremental improvement of methods, communication with honesty and transparency, and above all, respecting individuals.

However, correct or incorrect, this has not been the experience of many during this pandemic. So there can be no surrender of sovereignty, personal or otherwise, from a large enough portion of the population, which would make any attempt at international control pointless at best, and tyrannical and horrific at worse.

I truly hope that the governments of the world learn from their mistakes instead of blindly pushing forward with their current approach.
The "free market" didn't give those activists the right to veto development, the political processes and rules of their communities did. It's silly to treat that veto as a natural result, it's just as contingent as any other political rule.
Speaking about inflammation in the gums, I feel like I get that too. Like sometimes the gums around my teeth taste kinda metallic or "raw" is the best way to describe it. I also get super itchy all over my body if I don't take an allergy pill at least once a week or so.
What percentage do you think merits serious consideration?
I'd spend $2k on an outdated painting from Rembrandt if someone offered me one at that price, but that's just me.
The human mind, even one highly trained, is capable of ignoring all sorts of inputs when conditions don't match expectations. For an SR-71 pilot I can easily imagine flying low and slow could create such an issue. It's scary in general just how many airline crashes are "controlled flight into terrain". In 2009, Air France flight 447 crashed off the coast of Brazil after the pilots flew it at a stall from 35,000 feet.

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/?p=8a7678c37982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9rjfR84aKY&t=52

In India, Delhi and other major cities, water is sold in cheap pouches TODAY. Its usually 1-2 bucks which is very cheap

I could not find a video on it quickly but these water pouches are very accessible, very cheap in delhi
Naval's wealth creation strategy is all about leverage, as the other commenter says...

Turn your skills into a product, automate yourself and sell your product

And as the Stratechery dude says, software has zero marginal cost, so just sell infinite number of copies of your software.
What are they supposed to do? The DA won’t prosecute. The police does not want the risk of being called racists. And the population keeps voting for the leaders who perpetuate this. At some point, it becomes hard to make a case that local population does not want things to be this way.
The actual Youtube Subscription also removes the ads and you still can help creators.
I don’t necessarily think ad funded content is bad. But YouTube seems to do it the worst. 2 ads at the start, sometimes they can’t be skipped. Ads in between at weird places. Now there are 2 ads at the end too.

Spotify is ok. Ads. Bunch of uninterrupted songs. Ads. Like radio. Many Anime streaming services are similar. Ads bookend the content.

YouTube could have spent time curating good content and building a platform worth a damn. Instead the vast vast majority is trash. There are really only a handful of content creators that make anything good. And it seems like more and more of them have patreons or their own sponsorships. I again don’t mind these. But I have direct ways of paying the creators. And if they moved somewhere else I’d follow them.
Yes, lack of housing is a huge part of the problem. The entire article is about how housing has gotten so expensive in these areas that few of the locals can afford to live there anymore, which leads to crippling worker shortages and many other problems.
Sure, who's to say you didn't just copy/paste it all?
YouTube premium removes ads on YouTube so that covers half the woes.
Well, "new" as in over the last 20 years, not too long on the Japanese time scale.

You obviously have strong feelings about this, but can you expand a bit more on who exactly the "victims" here are? I'll readily admit I haven't been in the area for a long time, but my understanding is that the Niseko boom largely involves the construction of net new housing (Swiss-style chalet apartments etc), since the Australian/Chinese jet set fueling it is not particularly interested in typical cramped and disposable Japanese-style housing.
Fair enough, I wish you luck.
You don't have to do anything. It's a free country. Feel free to say no.
Well, yes, but it can get eerie when I suddenly start seeing articles aimed at a very specific machine I happen to have recently begun playing^H^H^Hworking with (i.e. the DX7).

Hmmmm....

I REALLY LOVE THE ROLAND D-50. GOSH, IT SURE WOULD BE NICE IF THERE WAS AN OPEN SOURCE EMULATOR FOR IT...

...and now we wait.
Sorry, a vaccine that still allows infection at a significant rate will continue to foster evolution. It may slow the process, but not change the result. There’s just no way the current vaccines stop this.
Not really, the comment posted didn't degrade to it's current state over repeated postings, it was just created to mock the original by someone sick of seeing it posted all the time.
Apple uses a Qualcomm baseband chip. They share the capabilities with other manufacturers, but Apple is working on their own baseband chip which they expect to ship in 2023.
Everyone is a new person to someone
An honest question, how do you feel about the WHO? I personally have severe distrust in them, at least the leadership. They have show they are heavily influenced by China, and that should be enough to remove them. They really botched early covid.
I don't read group chats _inside_ working hours. I'm working at work, not group chatting.
What makes you suggest Karmarkar's algorithm as relevant to Indian patent law? As the Wikipedia article you linked points out, Narendra Karmarkar left India in 1978, getting an M.S. from Caltech in 1979, PhD from Berkeley in 1983, and briefly joining IBM in California as a post-doc (1983) and then AT&T Bell Labs (later in 1983): he came up with Karmarkar's algorithm while at IBM and applied for the patent while at Bell Labs, so everything related to it happened in the US. (The fact that Karmarkar was from India, or that he returned to India in the late 1990s, has no bearing here.)

(Unless your comment was about software patents in general, and not India's patent law specifically.)
I've hit this myself as well. I no longer purchase streaming media, but instead, I buy Bluray's or DVD's. I rip them to H.264 with Handbrake and use those for travel. Yes, it's a bit annoying, but much less annoying than the "convenience" of streaming video and offline downloads.
> I suspect, if AI ever does away with Homo sapiens it will be by convincing us not to breed by changing our incentive structures.

I think it'll be by just sitting back and waiting a few decades :)
Yeah, I honestly don't understand how they managed to ship it without doing any testing because it's not like you could miss the package manager not working.

I do, however, think you're underselling the importance of the kernel; not only is 3.18 a complete security disaster, it's so old that it's starting to actually miss features that I would care about. And yes, strictly speaking any device with the source available or perhaps even without the source available can eventually be made to work, and if I ever manage to find the time and develop the skill I'm happy to port the patches myself, but in practice if there's not a community of other people already working on it I tend to avoid the hardware because the odds of me personally maintaining the whole thing is effectively zero.
That Spotify model basically already exists on YouTube with YouTube Premium. YouTube pays creators directly when a Premium viewer watches.
I think you have entirely missed an entirely different comparison. The median hourly wage is about $15 an hour and virtually everyone already has a smartphone.

Option 1: Work 14 hours for money to buy kindle paper paperwhite and 10 9.99 ebooks. Proceed to click and buy as you desire.

Option 2: Work zero hours and click and download epubs and other formats on your phone which can accommodate multiple formats including the incredibly common on pirated sites epub format.

Also honestly it doesn't help much to list the steps out when both options take less than 90 seconds and you have already decided to invest 2-10 hours in reading the book. I will happily spend more than an hour reading descriptions and reviews of different books to decide what I would prefer to read next.
Thanks a lot. Your objection to the statement also makes sense.