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New comment by yingw787 in "Generative AI for Homeownership Assistance Programs"

yingw787 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:58:00 +0000

Hey everybody!

Been working with my cofounder on a proptech play (https://gotopright.com), and we've gotten some feedback from industry experts that homeownership assistance programs could be a useful thing to expose to average borrowers.

It's pretty early but wanted to get everybody's feedback. It's live on our homepage so feel free to play around with it!

Generative AI for Homeownership Assistance Programs

yingw787 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:58:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.loom.com/share/181a1462553e495b8d20530808fabfa5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37959380

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by yingw787 in "Scaffoldable: A new way to hire data engineers"

yingw787 — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:17:50 +0000

Hello everybody! I've scaled a data engineering team at my current company from just myself to 10 people over this past year. As part of that effort, I designed our internal technical interviewing loop for data engineers, and candidates who've tried it out have said it's both challenging and refreshing. I looked at interviewing solutions on the market when I looked at technical screens and didn't find anything targeting late hiring funnel that I liked, so I'm thinking there might be opportunity here for a side hustle. If you have preferences on your ideal hiring setup for data engineers, sign up and let me know!

Scaffoldable: A new way to hire data engineers

yingw787 — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:11:08 +0000

Article URL: https://scaffoldable.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794295

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by yingw787 in "Rowy: Open-source Airtable alternative on Google Cloud"

yingw787 — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:40:41 +0000

This looks awesome, thanks for building this! I really like how it's hosted on serverless stuff and therefore we can use it for long-running personal projects and MVPs.

New comment by yingw787 in "Myanmar orders wireless internet shutdown until further notice: telecoms sources"

yingw787 — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 20:05:12 +0000

Makes sense; thanks so much for the explanation!

New comment by yingw787 in "Myanmar orders wireless internet shutdown until further notice: telecoms sources"

yingw787 — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:29:19 +0000

Are there material differences between wireless and wired Internet w.r.t. infrastructure? Is wired Internet easier to trace or something? I'm not too familiar with computer networks, but I thought that they would be the same.

New comment by yingw787 in "Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study"

yingw787 — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:08:30 +0000

Dan Luu has a great blog post on discontinuities and public policy: http://danluu.com/discontinuities/

I found it very interesting!

New comment by yingw787 in "The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets"

yingw787 — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:31:20 +0000

I've used HTTP/2 SSE for TinyDev (docs.tinydevcrm.com) and I've encountered the need for a reverse proxy and the unidirectional dataflow to be kinda eh, even if it is great in theory. I haven't played around too much with WebSockets though, but IMHO money + traction carries a good deal of weight.

One Item Store #1: Start

yingw787 — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:27:48 +0000

Article URL: https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2021/02/13/oneitemstore_1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143573

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yingw787 in "Property-Based Testing in Python"

yingw787 — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 04:50:02 +0000

Thanks for sharing! You might have more experience than I do in this sector, I've mostly written tests for tools/projects I've owned for a number of years and that might be why it appears more self-documenting to me. I try to write tests that are relatively clean. By contrast I've also had to maintain Confluence wikis as documentation and I've found it much more difficult, same with versioned Markdown documents and the like. Auto-generated documentation might be a sweet spot, though I don't have experience on that front yet.

I think regexes may have a steep learning curve, but IMHO it's well-worth the effort in order to learn. Pythex is pretty great at learning regexes and once you learn them you have a pretty powerful tool at your disposal for a number of matters.

Property-Based Testing in Python

yingw787 — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 05:58:04 +0000

Article URL: https://bytes.yingw787.com/posts/2021/02/02/property_based_testing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26010998

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by yingw787 in "Show HN: Fourhands is a P2P MIDI jam room for pianists"

yingw787 — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 16:01:02 +0000

After months of really bad audio in teleconferencing calls, hearing crisp keyboard playback was a refreshing experience. Highly recommend to check out the demo!

New comment by yingw787 in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

yingw787 — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:19:16 +0000

2021: The year of the Linux desktop?

But seriously, I have installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS on my personal Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 2, and work Dell Precision 5550, and it works fine in both cases. Stick with it for a month and macOS becomes old news. Also I think OEMs are wising up to "Linux = free" and charging for Windows on their laptops again, so you can also save some money on OS licensing going forwards.

Ask HN: Is YouTube slower on Firefox than Chrome?

yingw787 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 03:56:29 +0000

I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS using top-of-market, workstation-grade hardware, and when I'm watching YouTube on Firefox 82.0.2, the videos keep buffering. I have a 55 Mbps down Internet connection, and this didn't happen before. I had a sneaking suspicion that YouTube would work better on Chrome, opened YouTube using `google-chrome-stable` 86.0.4240.183 and it worked beautifully.

It's been frustrating this year because there's a bunch of little changes made to Google apps in order to make it break on Firefox, like Google Sheets added an extra carriage return on Firefox that wasn't present in Chrome, and Google Meet forcibly errors out with a "network connection" issue that requires Chrome. Also the `youtube-dl` ban thing, I'm using somebody's fork right now but not sure how long that will last.

Just wondering if other people are experiencing these "buffering" errors.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031314

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by yingw787 in "Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S."

yingw787 — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 19:59:36 +0000

Congratulations to the President-elect, and to the government workers and volunteers at all levels who tirelessly worked around the clock to ensure our elections were free and fair.

I think these next few weeks is a time for reflection, so that all of us can work hard to create the future we want. Wishing everyone well and to breathe in and out regularly, it's been a stressful year.

New comment by yingw787 in "Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency"

yingw787 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:36:42 +0000

I think Vitamin D is fat-soluable, not water-soluable

New comment by yingw787 in "Hum to Search Song"

yingw787 — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:33:26 +0000

I'm reminded of the CollegeHumor "If Google was a Guy skit": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxqca4RQd_M

"song that goes meow meow meow meow meow meow", can't find it at the moment for a timestamp. Wonder how many real queries of that actually happen.

New comment by yingw787 in "How Are Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's Changes Affecting Workers?"

yingw787 — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:26:58 +0000

Funny little tidbit: my 1940s townhouse neighborhood has no universal front desk and hands out building keys to USPS for each townhouse. The mailbox is inside, and USPS is legally obligated to access it, so I know if USPS ships a package for me it's next to my apartment door.

UPS and FedEx do not have access. You have to be there when they drop off the package, or they're tossed into this hole (like a literal hole) next to the door, or they do the "we missed you" thing and sticky a note to the outer door and you pick it up in person.

I live a ten-minute drive away from the Pentagon. It's not just remote villages in Alaska that'd be inconvenienced by USPS going away.

New comment by yingw787 in "Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees"

yingw787 — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 22:05:33 +0000

Are they software contractors making a couple hundred an hour, or Lyft/Uber drivers making a $25 an hour? I think the problem some people see is many Lyft/Uber drivers don't have that wealth of choice.