It is kind of funny to me that the lede is about Palontir instead of the absolutely stunning call by a Republican for the DoD to reduce budget by 8%.
It’s 8% cut per year over 5 years which is quite a bit.
Readit Newstotablebanjo commented on Palantir Drops 10% on Report of Pentagon Slashing Budget msn.com/en-ae/money/compa... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi
“Television, he always said, is inhuman to children because it gives them answers to questions they never asked. It did this for purposes of control.” From the article - Wow
If you don’t give them the answer they might have a moment where they discover something on their own.
“There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.” J. Robert Oppenheimer (I read this quote today in the book, the medium is the massage, by McLuhan.)
Postwar by Tony Judt. Published in 2005, it covers 1945 Postwar Europe to ~2005. Good coverage of not just the major Western European countries like the UK, Germany, and France, but attention is paid to the Eastern European countries and Soviet Union. The US of course comes into the picture at parts, but the book is firmly focused on Europe. I found the economic development, political attitudes and party shifts, and the coverage of the Soviet Union and countries behind the iron curtain.
I am looking for a follow up and may read Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, Stalin by Kotkin, or The Free World by Mendand. Suggestions appreciated
totablebanjo commented on Ask HN: Do you know methods for improving predictability of time series data? · Posted by u/toombowoombo
Forecasting, Principles and Practice by Rob J Hyndman and George Athanasopoulos is a great resource as a starting point: https://otexts.com/fpp3/
> ‘We’ve determined the unpredictability in forecasting home prices far exceeds what we anticipated and continuing to scale Zillow Offers would result in too much earnings and balance-sheet volatility,’ CEO tells investors.
That's quite a statement. The head of a company with a privileged view of the US residential real estate sector says that the market is "unpredictable." Not the good kind of unpredictable where you can't figure out how heavy the money bags that get dropped at your door will be. No, it's the bad kind of unpredictability where you can... lose money.
Reading between the lines, I conclude that Zillow sees a major shakeout in real estate on the horizon. They've already been hit with losses and see a lot more where that came from. In an effort to get ahead of whatever is approaching, the company is making an abrupt exit from the home flipping business.
Zillow was founded in 2006, as the last US housing market bubble was furiously inflating. It has seen a complete cycle of boom/bust. If anybody knows the US residential real estate sector, it is Zillow.
A counterpoint to your last statement is that if Zillow really knew residential real estate they wouldn’t have had such large losses this quarter.
It really calls into question their pricing algorithm, but I give them credit for actually trying to get into buying and selling properties.
totablebanjo commented on Algorithms by Jeff Erickson jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/tea... · Posted by u/ngzhian
Yes, the X73 courses were theory based. Something changed after I graduated and now I think CS 374 is the algorithms course, but I'm not sure.
If you want to start with the fundamentals, CS 173 (Discrete Structures) is required of all undergrad CS majors and is the first of the sequence (usually taken as a freshman/sophomore). The book is available online along with problems/solutions: http://mfleck.cs.illinois.edu/building-blocks/index.html
Thank you for pointing out the starting course of the sequence!
In larger companies management, HR and compensation are all separate teams, and a decent manager will be negotiating "with" you and "against" the other two to get your salary match.
Ah, that’s a fair point and I can definitely see that working out.
The power move is to have an offer in hand and then tell your company that you're considering leaving for <reason>, but you'd like to give them a chance to beat your new offer by <increasing salary to $X, resolving reason X with a team move>.
Some companies will flat-out refuse to negotiate in this way as a matter of policy, and some will really appreciate you giving them the opportunity to bid to keep you; it really depends on the company and their comp strategy. I think as long as you're earnest about the conversation and don't try to run a bidding war, most companies won't burn bridges with you over a round of negotiations in this fashion.
Do you really think you’ll be treated the same by management if you pull that?
And you get to do that every months. And you can't get a prescription earlier, you have to wait a full month. So, essentially: Right when you're forced off your medication that helps your executive function, you need to exercise large amounts of executive function.
It's massively stupid.
The meds themselves have dramatically improved my life by being more capable of getting tasks and work done. Main downside is the drop off around 8/9pm when I become really tired and unfocused.