skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Los Angeles

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Unreal, Unity, propriety game engines, C/C++, C#, gameplay programming algorithms

Résumé/CV: https://nobledust.com (pdf available at the top)

Email: max@nobledust.com
I’m all for breaking them up but I’m not convinced it will revitalize the industry. Google is enormous. Even if it is broken up, the resulting pieces will still be massive, and almost impossible to compete against.
Location: Yangon, Myanmar
Remote: Yes
Website: https://www.hexcode.tech
Resume/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/phyo-arkar-lwin-6601487b
GitHub: https://github.com/v3ss0n
Email: phyoakl@hexcode.tech , info@hexcode.tech

Seeking: Contract, Project-based, Full Team Hire, Long-term
Availability: 48 hrs/week
Minimum contract: 3 months

Tech Stack: PyTorch, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Local LLMS, Generative AI, Computer Vision, DevOps: Docker, Nginx, Ansible, Pyinfra, and more.
Backend Frameworks: Django, Litestar, (Flask, FastAPI, Quartz, Bottle)
Frontend: React, React MDX, Svelte, SvelteKit, Tailwind, Carbon
Design: Figma, Drawio
System Integration: Odoo, Erpnext, Authentik, Authlia, Teleport, and more.

We are Hexcode Technologies, a Fullstack Development software agency based in Myanmar. We offer competitive rates and are available for full team or project-based development. With 30+ completed projects, we have a strong track record of delivering on time and within budget. Our flexible rates make us an ideal choice for startups, and we have experience building full-stack software for banks.

Our team consists of 3 Fullstack developers, 1 Tech lead, 1 Frontend Specialist, 1 Deep Learning specialist, 1 Backend Specialist, and 1 UI/UX professional.

I am also available for hire as a Consultant and Fullstack/CTO . I have 20+ years of experience and actively contributes in opensource projects.

Focus: Python [Litestar, Django] + Typescript [Svelte, React] + Tailwind.

Contributes to Litestar: [Litestar Contributions](https://litestar.dev, https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar).
Regardless of how it is described or presented, the buyer pays for everything related to a real estate transaction: fees, commissions, inspections, etc. Even when the seller pays, that expenses is ultimately built into the sale price of the property.
I actually applied for a developer advocate role and haven't heard back yet
Most Recent Work:

- Voice-activated report generation system using LLM and Speech to Text. Reports can be edited with a Notion-Like WebSocket-based editor that can be shared and peer-reviewed in real-time.

- A Delivery and Logistic platform: TNC Logistics Built using Svelte and Litestar.

Notable Achievements:

- 2010: Built ETL + MLOps system for a NY-based eDiscovery firm.

- 2016: Developed Myanmar's popular telehealth platform, serving 200k users.

- 2022: Created an insurtech platform with deep learning-based pre-underwriting and automatic product recommendations.

- 2023: Contributed to Litestar and built a full-stack delivery platform.
The CEO of Airbnb wants you to charge less for your house
I find the comments odd that Apple could do X.

They made $30B in profit last quarter. $166B in the last 4.

That level of profit, coupled with their existing manufacturing and software capabilities means they can do basically anything.

What they do is very carefully chosen to maintain their current steady path. Speculating on what they could do in these terms is odd.
Yep, even if the top quintile (top 20%) eventually invest they spend very slowly compared to the other economic quintiles. The supposed "investments" are often just shuffling things between themselves, financial instruments, but also art, luxury goods and other items that don't truly drive economic activity. The bottom quintile's money multiplier was almost 11 times over the next twelves months in the 1980s. The top cohort then had a spending multiplier of only 0.4 times over the twelve months after they get it. They don't spend or 'invest' all their money even once in the year. The way the economy and especially the distribution of wealth and income since the Regan and later tax cuts has shown clearly those tax cuts haven't helped anyone beyond a small donor class.
Meta Floats Charging $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook
It's 30k and 3k respectively if you're talking about one side.
SMS clients aren't inherently visual; there's almost certainly a braille device that can be interfaced to an SMS client, no hearing nor (visually) reading required.
Given that the US' nuclear weapons could ultimately have taken out Hitler in short order - and possibly ended the war in Japan at the same time by way of demonstration - I'm not sure what the point is of quibbling about this. All the Allies made a contribution, certainly.
Can't all those use cases in the Bugzilla report be fixed by "inform users that using pip in Firefox on our videos breaks the functionality on our site"?
Terminal Click – Abner Coimbre – Software You Can Love Vancouver 2023
It is not often that companies come back from missing payments... RIP WeWork.
I truly hope this can start the rebuilding of the real estate industry.

It is incredibly user hostile.
One of these had a twofer deal: A next generation OS with a visionary CEO attached.
>” "I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."

- Stalin

>” "If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," he wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."”

- Kruschev

The Soviets made monumental sacrifices in the war and smashed millions of German troops.

But the idea is that they did the lion’s share of the war is just silly.

I don’t even know how’d you’d rank contributions. It was a group effort and without any of the major allied participants they would have faltered.

https://www.rferl.org/amp/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-bala...
And put all the shorter people in front!
As a native Korean, I can confirm that "각" is perceived as a single character. But the example itself is bad anyway because everyone use a precomposed form U+AC01 instead of U+1100 U+1161 U+11A8 instead (they are canonically equivalent). This is more clear when you also consider a compatibility representation "ㄱㅏㄱ" U+3131 U+314F U+3131, which is same to "각" after compatibility normalizations (NFKC or NFKD), but perceived as three atomic characters in general.
Yes, same with VUSXX (vanguard), FSIXX (fidelity), and UTIXX. There might be a negligible amount subject to state income tax, but I am not exactly sure why.
Ah but they used the 1 gigabit realtek in the models I was thinking of. Perhaps now they use more modern ones though.
Thanks so much for posting guys! I'm Gordon one of the founders of Anything World and I'm so happy you folks are into it!
Exactly the fact that commissions are still 6% despite nearly every part of the process (searching, walk throughs, negotiation, closing) becoming online and automated in the past 30 years shows that there are other [cartel] forces at play.
Technology patents create a complex MAD situation. At the end of the day Alphabet will be paying tons of money to Microsoft who will pay it to Apple who will pay it to Samsung who will pay it to probably Nokia or Xerox or Nintendo or whatever. And this goes on for each and every company with wealth in these spaces.
Turns out it's a quote. Admittedly, a good quote, used by the most important politicians in modern Dutch history (Johan Thorbecke, who basically wrote our constitution), but it's just a "quote by a famous person", it's very much not a Dutch proverb or saying ;)
> me having an "oversupply" of money will

So, if you were to buy a house you'd spend more for the next 5-10 years but because your payments are fixed, whereas rents will increase each year, there will be a crossover point where your mortgage+tax payments will eventually be quite low. So people who buy a house may pump more cash into the economy in the future. Plus theoretically, whoever sold you the house will be spending any extra cash they get from it (if they buy/rent in a lower cost of living area, or if the house was sold as part of estate that goes to a younger generation).

But yes, in the short term you might be pumping the economy with more cash than you would if you bought a house, depending on your ongoing savings rate vs. spending rate.
Real estate, at least the land aspect of real estate, should never be an investment. It leads to misallocatiom of resources and rentierism.

The only aspect of "investment" should come from proper maintenance of structures, and replacing structures with greater density as soon as the land values justify it.

Home ownership as investment has been a generational disaster
I can't imagine that being true. The Nazi's learned a lot from the US's eugenics and segregation programs and the Soviets, while progressive on women's issues, were just as homophobic, ableist, and racist. I imagine there was quite a bit of overlap between these three nations in terms of censorship, bannings, and burnings.
They seem like equivalent statements. What was the point of rephrasing?
3% of 1 million is $30,000 not $60,000.
Similarly, 3% of 100,000 is $3000 and not $6000.

But I agree with your overall sentiment that the real estate market is a cartel.
I feel like this article is dramatically underselling the Lend-Lease program.

But, more to the point, it never actually addresses why the French changed their minds!
On the other hand, if you need housing (and who doesn't!), it's not a bad deal to pay for a house and "only" end up realizing (at a later sale) a couple percent of gains. Frankly I consider that a great deal! I wish I could buy a car and sell it 10 years later for higher than the purchase price. Or furniture. Or computers. Anything non-consumable, really.

Also probably important to consider that most people who buy homes cannot do so without a mortgage. So you're not even really comparing it to whatever else you might do with that money (well, aside from the down payment); it's just a pure expense. Sure, unless you have an interest-only loan, you're also putting principal into it every month (which you could put in the S&P instead), but that's sometimes better than giving a similar amount to a landlord, depending on housing economics in your area.
I've been building websites since I was in grade school yet still I have no idea what I'm doing. Somehow I put together an interactive ROI calculator with Vue.js in a prior role but I also just learned that if you have an array of numbers 'nums' in vanilla JavaScript and call 'nums.sort()' it doesn't actually sort it in ascending order! I already got the executing 'rm -rf *' in production screw up out of the way. I'm looking for an entry level position or maybe something more junior than that. If you were entertained by this little spiel and you'd like to say "hi" send me an email! I'd love to chat with you.

Location: Wheaton, Illinois
Remote: Yes or Hybrid
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: LAMP, WordPress, Laravel
Résumé/CV: https://bryanhoffman.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Bryan-Hoffman-Resume.docx
Email: bryanhoffman1@gmail.com
But they were “subhuman” or in other words still human based but less then. Silicone is not human nor subhuman.
you must have accidentally hit the reply button before finishing your intended additional sentences about the experience.

no worries, happens to everyone.

but if you could go ahead and correct that either in place or as a reply…
Okay I’ll admit this is super cool- I like what AI art generation has been doing for the game/animation hobbyist, and as someone who sucks at 3D modeling and sculpting I’ve been hopeful it’ll come to the 3D model space. This rigging if it works good will be a step in the right direction.
Their privacy marketing is in clear contradiction of their privacy policy.

Homepage marketing:
For your privacy, all of the recordings are stored locally on your Mac.

Privacy policy:
We will collect ... text-based conversions of audio and video files on your machine.We may disclose any data you input into Ask Rewind with OpenAI to help generate content and responses based on user inputs.

Elad Gil: "Rewind’s privacy-first approach is a compelling way to offer truly personalized AI." Really?
Can’t wait! ;)
Why doesn't supply and demand work to set the prices properly in this case?
I see Redfin as one or two points on a continuum of service-cost tradeoffs in the real estate market.

On one end is a traditional realtor arrangement, with the 5% commission divided between the two agents. On the other end is for sale by owner, with potentially no commissions. Adjacent to that is a flat fee listing service, which costs about 2.5% in buyer's agent commission. If you sell through Redfin, your total commission is reduced to 4% from the industry standard 5%, with 1.5% going to your agent. If you buy through Redfin within twelve months of selling through them, you get an additional 0.5% off the commission for a grand total of 3.5%.

Not bad. It can save you $10k or more at jumbo mortgage house prices. Redfin has already done well by doing good and offering a differentiated product in the middle of two other offerings.

I have sold two properties, one using a flat fee listing service and one using Redfin. The former was a fair amount of work, while the latter was way less, comparable to a traditional realtor in the level of service offered. I would recommend Redfin to anyone.
What do other countries pay teachers? What benefits are included?

What does your district pay teachers? What benefits are included?

Is part of what you’re counting as teacher pay something that’s taken care of via other taxes elsewhere (pension, healthcare)? I feel like this isn’t at all apples to apples.

In general, when a teacher can make $50k/year, and someone with a 6 month boot camp can double that, you’re going to lose a lot of potential teachers to other jobs, regardless of what other countries pay their teachers and their software engineers. The US, frankly, isn’t Sweden (or wherever). Pretending that what works in one should work in the other is confounding a lot of things - do other countries force disruptive students to stay in the classroom? What measures are being used to indicate quality? Do other countries have similar numbers of parents unable to work with their children at home? Do other countries base funding on neighborhood taxes, and if not, how are you normalizing costs between them?

I tend to think any comparative analysis is going to be extremely lacking, if it’s not done hand-in-hand with people who actually understand educational challenges in each environment. Certainly, reading a budget is insufficient.
The interest is also deducted from the borrower's AGI. USA being nearly the only country that subsidizes loan interest.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2018/may/why-economist...

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2017/02/02/w...

https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2010/09/13/dont-defe...

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2015/05/16/a-senseless-su...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-tax-deductions-econ...
"The consumer welfare standard gradually replaced the rule of reason principle as the dominant legal theory behind antitrust enforcement by the 1980s."

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

Maybe the judges are confused, but there was a shift in enforcement around the Reagan era. I also think "consumer welfare" in this context is taken to mainly maen low pricing. That is, if a monopoly causes higher prices, then we should go after them. The DOJ going after Google and Amazon is a bit of a return to the former standard. (Source: news programs I listen to such as The Majority Report.)
I used to wait 9 months before upgrading, so the third party packages could be update. Is that still an issue?
I'm sorry about that. Checking to see why you have not heard back yet. I'll follow up by email (assuming the email in your profile is correct).
I think many underestimate allies bombing campaign, which destroyed Germans industrial complex, oil industry and air forces (75% of aircraft were destroyed by allies, many on the airbases).
Not to downplay the product which is awesome, but how common it is for a single logo to be used by multiple commericial entities ?

For example, this one seems to be from https://creativemarket.com/Mujigraphic/27123272-Logo-S-desig...
It makes sense for him: you sell lower, they get a higher conversion and end up making more money.

Why do you oppose big business making more money off of you? ;)
>> American households, on average, have $41,600 in savings, according to data last collected by the Federal Reserve in 2019.

Average vs Median strikes again.

Median household has 4k. 70% don't break 10k.

It's the high end that weighs on that average pretty hard.
Can you expand on why do you think langchain is so useless ? I'm quite happy using it for development.
Obligatory: Slava Ukraini! / Слава Україні!

This has tactical precedent in WW2 for similar reasons. Good on them for making it costlier for the other side.

It also has been used effectively in strategic deception by organizing entirely false divisions away from the very front but visible with aerial and satellite reconnaissance. Coupled with intentionally-planted intelligence, such as Operation Mincemeat in WW2, this can misinform enemy war planners into making incorrect strategic allocations.

I'm curious if anyone knows what % of Russian tanks have FLIR because a functional tank (when occupied) and a decoy appear entirely different on thermal. The intel folks believe the fraction of Russia's advanced tanks sent to Ukraine were destroyed and replaced with refurbished, mothballed T-62 (c. 1970) (2500-3000 remaining in storage). With proper tactics and better tech, Leopard 2 and Abrams should be able to give T-62's complementary ventilation with their visit to Ukrainian land. NATO allies aren't necessarily sending the latest gen of all hardware, but it's serviceable for the purpose. The Russian army has already lost 4000+ tanks by all causes. My thinking is the Russian army is critically low on FLIR tank gear, with most of it reserved for defense of the homeland.
So there is privatized cost for universities. That's actually a major chunk of privatized cost a family with kids will bear. In Illinois, U of I has a total cost of $40k/year (may vary by major) for undergraduate education.

The rest of it varies. Health care costs are mostly high deductible plans but a lot of companies proactively add money to your plan to soften that. In general, for a family you're looking at around $7k out of pocket per year. As long as all is good its fine. When there is the unfortunate situation of family members needing medical care you are saddled with the worry of maintaining your job. This is the spot that sucks the most in my opinion.

K-12 schools are government funded but you pay property taxes. Here again, depending on where you live you can get excellent schools or not so great ones. But I think that's the situation in most places.

The Bay Area maximizes these problems because cost of living is so high there. My point on the misrepresentation was that a lot of places in the US do not have Bay Area cost of living, especially with the real estate. So you can actually have a pretty good quality of life.
Their unlawful spies and our brave intelligence officers.
FSBO can pay a buyer agency fee also. The reality is that there is a cartel that props up the 3% to each side.
> The issue is that they try to treat everyone exactly the same. I don't understand why it's so hard to have 2-3 different modalities, and let people pick whichever works best for them.

Treating ICs differently is something many organizations suck at. I think that's part of why low- and middle- managers get such a bad rap; they should exist to allow treating ICs differently at scale, but in many organizations they are not empowered to do so. This leaves them with a job that is basically to try and repackage shit from above in as palatable way as possible for their DRs.
Do you really have an engineering manager role open? I may be interested, but it is not listed on that page.
The problem isn’t that supply and demand doesn’t set prices properly (there may be market issues in this market, but that's not the complaint), the problem is that AirBnB doesn’t benefit from prices being set properly.
Perhaps if they believe in Democracy harder the same leaders that have been in power for decades will suddenly decide to care about them. I think the magic of Tinkerbell works in a similar way.
I find that just creepy looking. I could imagine that visitors from somewhere else could look like that.
Yeah, this article's awful. I was expecting, you know, coverage of afore-written campaign. Instead it just notes that French attitudes changed, then attempts to refute that changed attitude. The "why", which the headline implies will be the focus, isn't just not the focus, but is absent.
Yeah, I've seen stuff like that in my role as a system integrator. We've built all these automated processes for transforming and moving data from system A to system B, but occasionally we learn about other teams who are using excel and VBA for everything. It's very strange.
I assume they mean that the selling agent refused to show the house to someone without a buying agent.
Branch | Ecommerce Product Manager | Remote Friendly EST (NYC / Toronto Preferred)

Branch makes and sells work products for remote workers and growing teams. We're looking for a Digital Product Manager to lead the development of our ecommerce site and systems. You’ll ship beautiful, functional and accessible commerce experiences addressing both our enterprise and DTC customer segments, as well as full-stack applications (mostly built on Shopify) to support our operations.

As the only product management hire at Branch, you’ll have the opportunity to lead a product practice at a well-funded and rapidly-growing startup pursuing a unique opportunity that anchors in online commerce and extends far beyond it.

What we're looking for: 2-5 years of relevant product management experience (preferably at a high-growth ecommerce startup) OR experience founding an ecommerce business, reps managing a sprint planning process and owning a product roadmap, knowledge of Shopify Plus and the Shopify ecosystem, strong portfolio featuring experience shipping exceptional features that users love. Some ability to code, love for furniture and design big bonus.

Open to any remote candidates in EST (or willing to work those hours), with NYC and Toronto slightly preferred. If interested, email hn [at] branchfurniture.com with a few sentences about you and your interest.
Lower transaction costs lead to a more liquid market as the cost of entry and exit are both reduced. Every body wins except the middle men.
You guys have any use for someone with 5 years of engineering experience and a JD and biglaw experience? Not as a manager (not really qualified), but as a dev or something
Pretty much all libertarians favor some mechanism for the enforcement of property rights. They may differ as to how, but they agree that you shouldn’t be allowed to steal other people’s stuff.

(Please, I beg you, argue with the opinions that people actually have instead of something you just made up.)
Not exactly. It depends on the relative elasticities. You're correct that the cash flow isn't everything.
so pretty much queenpins https://screenrant.com/queenpins-true-story-real-life-coupon...