skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little perplexed by you just dropping the statement: "I've found a way." It seems to me that you should either discuss your findings and intentions, or not mention it until you want a public discussion of it.

I'm surely not alone in a desire to escape the life of sitting behind a desk, and would love to help such a project, in particular to get in early at the prospecting stage. But it is hard to tell from a generic statement like that if you are really working towards something or not.
I did read that article when Anil first posted it and while I agree with him, it's tough to apply his lessons on a day-to-day basis. You might come across several articles per day, and on each one you have to decide what you want to do about the comments. You could use the opportunity to launch into Anil's manifesto, but most of the time you won't have the time or mental energy for that, and so just leaving without reading the comments is the only real option.

Edit: On further reflection, I guess Anil was writing as much or more about the "Don't read the comments" joke itself as about what to do when you come upon a comments section. And in that vein, it's true that my comment is pretty unhelpful. I've deleted it.
As one of the unlucky ones with this disease, I'm very happy to see some advances made in the field. (Tho I've been hearing about promising advances for decades, without ever seeing any concrete result...)

Did you find other organizations working on gene therapy for SMA?
People who discriminate based on race should at least come out and say who they refuse to rent to. If they're going to be racist pieces of shit they should at least own up to that and not waste the time of people who are trying to find somewhere to stay.
Chromebooks also do auto updates, and do it such a way that typical non technical end user finds it difficult to turn off permanently.

That's a good thing too.
Not to mention the community around it is very much alive and well. Today is the day for monthly 2600 meetings (http://www.2600.com/meetings/mtg.html) and this July is their 11th HOPE conference (https://hopeconf.wordpress.com/).
Why has no one mentioned the Python 3.5 has type hinting?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

The PEP 484 proposal:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/
You can use Ethereum as a private blockchain
I find it hard to imagine that if you're struggling to attain your own bare necessities you're going to have the energy or wiggle room to generate more wealth (e.g. to start a business)
Lol. The OP really doesn't understand what lawyers do all day. Running a a so-called 'hacking back' team isn't done lightly. And instigating an attack, hacking without the 'back', is just plain dangerous. I may not be the sort of lawyer that is sent to openly attack rivals via abusive legal process, but I do have a slide deck of hacking back stories that ended badly. One ends with a panicked call to an attorney after a response team snapped a pic from the webcam of the attacking machine ... an virus infected desktop in a kid's bedroom. That team suddenly found the need for legal process and advice, something they eschewed only minutes previously.
Right, it makes sure the photo matches. But why is that important/useful? Do people show up at the door who try to pretend they are the renter, but really aren't?
But your assumption that the industry is already doing the right thing is exactly what the article is speaking out against. Personally I don't know but I do believe there is a lot of value in questioning conventional wisdom.
Seems me to me that ultimately up to the owners to decide who they want to accept. If they turn down too many people with variation X, its their loss, and someone else will make money on that.
You can extend this argument to banking though:

If the U.S. pumps an endless supply of money into Haiti, how could Haitian banks hope to compete with their loan offers?
I think it's not quite right to say that Nirvana wasn't popular, though. Being at #6 instead of #1 is a pretty minor difference in the grand scheme of all the music that gets made.
Very cool. Thank you for the summary -- it does look interesting. I like the use of a real programming language and level playing field in terms of capabilities. It would be awesome if it could be made into an OpenAI gym environment. Although OpenAI is python, so there would probably be quite a bit of code to integrate them properly. I bet it would give a significant infusion.
Yes, I am aware I can't actually do anything about this, I was answering a different question.
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Yeah, I don't like the idea of forcing people to do things they're uncomfortable with when it's their home.

AirBnb could easily alleviate the situation with rejection updates. Although reviews leave far too much to personal opinion.

For now, at least, a demographic for each place would solve a lot.

"Oh 200 people have requested to be here and 100 were rejected. Out of that 80% of all black men who requested have been rejected and 30% white men and 0% of women, across the board... I think I'm good..."
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Additionally, software is eating much of the enterprise. By and large software makes companies more efficient. Lawyering makes them less. Adding hackers doesn't just protect the enterprise, it improves it.
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Ever see an empty pepsi can in a stiff breeze?
The problem here, I suspect, is that this std::whatever::now() clock is somehow being treated by the compiler as if it requires no sequencing with regard to function calls.

It's probably not that Microsoft's compiler is optimizing through the function pointer, but rather that it thinks that now() doesn't have to be sequenced. And its return value is just assigned to local variables, which have no interaction with the function being called. So if now() doesn't have to be sequenced, the initializations of those variables can be reordered.

This is definitely a bug somewhere between now this now() function is implemented, and how the compiler treats its definition or declaration. A clock-sampling function simply must be properly sequenced with regard to surrounding code.
Agreed. After a few mins of reading, it became annoying enough that I felt an urge to remove it via dev-tools.

Nice content, nonetheless.
Why doesn't transferring money from you to me make me wealthier? It allows me greater access to goods and services, which seems to me to be almost the definition of greater wealth.
Find something better to do with your time.
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I recently sold everything I owned and started living out of my converted dodge caravan while I was prototyping what I wanted to build next. With an eye on my burn rate, I lived as cheaply as possible. I can tell you without a doubt that there is no natural system in place for homeless to get out of that rut, and it looks and feels dehumanizing.

I wasn't completely broke but I couldn't keep affording rent as expensive as it was. I was able to shower at a gym, and worked out of Tech Shop on what I was trying to build. But it's hard -- like super hard to just be homeless. The social stigma associated with the word alone is hard for people to get beyond. I would often hear, "But you don't seem like the type to be homeless" and then they would slowly just distance themselves from talking to me. Super weird.

I have been harassed by cops, you feel extremely transient and embarrassed just to be alive at times. Sleeping in a van sucks too. Street noises keep you up, cramped for space, etc. On the up side there is a contingent of tech people that are doing the same thing, so I had the pleasure of meeting some others like myself.

I've never taken up the opportunity of food, shelter, or clothing offered by the city, because frankly I'm doing this on my own accord, so I can't speak to how that part of the system helps people get back on their feet.

After this entire experience my heart breaks every time I see a fellow human having to resort to sleeping in the cold, wet, outdoors with no shelter and nothing but some cardboard and discarded newspapers to cover up with. I often wonder how close I could have come to being completely broken by this decision, and what coincidences led someone down this path. In the end it has helped me understand that we must all care more for one another, no matter what.
Nice! Any plans for an audiobook? (that's how I'm able to "read" most books - during spare moments walking / driving / etc.)
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IBM launches cloud based quantum computers available for free
1. Universal, affordable health care and strong policies to help families out. This reduces this sort of inequality of life.

2. Fair and equal access to both preschools and end-of life care. For example, Norway's nursing homes cost 80% of your pension, no matter what your pension is. And you are only eligible after you need more than a (free) nurse coming to your home 6 times a day... because it is cheaper.

3. Fair and equal access to quality schools, including college, university, and trade schools. This should be decoupled from the property / income taxes of an area. One school might have higher maintenance needs one year, while another does not and providing it at a large scale makes it easier on all.

4. Job contracts for all, no matter if you work part-time in a fast food place or you are the head of a coopration. In addition, unions being available for all - including management. This reduces some strife between the two since it is the different unions that are actually negotiating.

5. Being able to easily find out other people's pay and tax rates. This is going to be uncomfortable for many, but it will encourage transparency.

6 Support for those that aren't making enough to fill their individual needs so that they have access to all the tools that are needed for the modern world - this includes cell phones, clothing, computers, and internet access. This also would mean that caseworkers have the ability to make exceptions for those that have higher expenses for whatever reason. Strict poverty lines are rough for many folks and leave lots out in the cold.
The reason why is that mesh vs mesh essentially should never be used in video games. The accuracy in hitbox bounds and ease of use (making a model mesh your collision mesh) you get from mesh collisions are completely and utterly overshadowed by the performance and lack of accuracy in determining the time of impact.
At 60 fps it's really hard to tell the difference in collision between a typical dodecahedron and a sphere. Just use a sphere! (Or, more likely, some aggregate of AABBs, spheres and capsules)
Personally, I've found that most cases you can avoid using trait objects by just using generics, but it obviously depends on your use case. You especially need trait objects to have things like heterogeneous arrays. Trait objects are pretty much the same as C++ classes with virtual methods, with one tweak in the representation. A C++ object is referred to by a pointer to (vtable_ptr, class_fields). A trait object "&Foo" is a fat pointer (vtable_ptr, ptr_to_fields). So a trait object reference is two pointers, but doesn't have a pointer stuck to the front of all of its structs. Method invocation requires you to dereference the vtable, get the function pointer, and call that, passing the data pointer. In C++ you would dereference your pointer, dereference the vtable, then pass the pointer to the function. If anything, I think the Rust method may be faster because you avoid the double de-reference, but it's probably so small as to be unmeasurable in all but pathological uses.
Yeah, why?

Can it even be so?? :)
I've already had to edit the JSON file on S3 to remove/edit a couple of comments. That was pretty easy to do from the command-line, but I think most people will want a web interface.
I wish someone made a Spotify playlist for this.
Its more than that, most of the things that utilize the parallel port talked to the IO ports directly for the bit banging. The USB->parallel ones hide the parallel interface behind the windows/etc parallel port driver so that provides an additional roadblock for the old software which otherwise might work.
Would you agree that she shouldn't be forced to rent to a man she felt "uncomfortable" with, even if it was just a feeling? Especially talking about hosts that truly are offering their residence, part-time (i.e. not running a small hotel chain).
I made thousand other projects work successfully for me. Sometimes one should stop hitting their head against the wall!
Wikipedia says you only get unemployment benefits for 6 months in the US, is that correct? Seems quite harsh.
> I can tell you without a doubt that there is no natural system in place for homeless to get out of that rut

What would such a system look like?

EDIT: Totally serious question. To build something, you must first architect it.
Again, most hosts have published rules. If the guest agrees to those rules, is in good standing, and the place is available then how is there a legitimate reason for denying the reservation? "Because it's my house" is not a real reason. If you are that protective then why are you on Airbnb? If you are scared of parties in Miami during <insert holiday/allstar weekend> then why is your unit available at ALL on those dates?
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Its dependent on each state, but that's close enough to average, yes.
Very helpful post!
Puh-lease. His multiple homes in one part of Miami? This guy runs a hotel. It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of race in restaurants, hotels, and many other places.
Ya, because SpaceX is the only company to have ever transported something on the deck of the ship. It was a rocket until the moment it landed. Now it's cargo.
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Watch a Hitler rally and that feeling you get is what I feel about chanting, clapping nationalism.
Redis has proven to be a very flexible to use and very easily to deploy piece of software. Muchos gracias.
Where in the world is it easiest to get rich? (TEDxOslo)
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Redis has a great developer experience. It's super easy to spin up and to add to applications. There have been a few warts though when it comes to operational experience in production. I really miss things like administrative connections and tls for client connections that I get in the relational db world. Also, using redis in highly regulated environments is challenging because you have to meet all sorts of compliance requirements. As a result, I find myself jumping through a ton of hoops to get redis to work there. It'd be great if it "just worked" in that arena.
What you are describing is a mercantilist theory of development.[1]

Giving people free things usually helps them; what doesn't help them is the way that the 'gifts' are chosen, whom the 'aid' is given to, and how the poor are treated.[2] The gifts are usually chosen based on which companies and unions the 'giving' country wants to promote and help, instead of what the poor need. The 'aid' is often given to tyrants, and is a substitute for tax income, which disconnects the ruler from their populace and local accountability. The poor are then often treated like sheep who need to be told what to do, and can't figure out what to do with themselves, so they are the subject of government theft and general injust treatment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elusive_Quest_for_Growth
and it won't affect your buoyancy at all.
> People who discriminate based on race should at least come out and say who they refuse to rent to.

Except it is illegal to do so in a good number of countries. Racists know that. That's why they make up excuses.
Ask HN: Site with resources for habit forming
Hi HN,

A while back (few months) in the comments of an article about habits, there was a link to a site with resources about habits like how to choose rewards, example rewards, etc

I was convinced I had bookmarked it but I've been searching for it for the past few afternoons and I can't find it. Perhaps I've forgot to tag it :(

Do you know of any similar resources? TIA!
Why was living in San Francisco so important to getting your prototype built? Friendships, community, family?

I wonder why more people don't choose to move to places like Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo where housing is dirt cheap. There aren't many jobs there, but if you are working for yourself it shouldn't really matter.
Please do do a nice blog post about it :)

And blog about the collision detection in general.

Not just for me, for the next hobby coder bumping into this.
> Gentrification has been an (not so small) issue in Berlin since the early 90ies.

Yeah, I heard Berlin really changed a lot in the 90s...
So let's say you give 1 bar of gold each to a group of 50 year olds, and 1 gold bar each to a group of 12 year olds. Each group is now equally wealthy and could each produce a cathedral of the same quality?
What happens after that?
Cheers. Probably makes sense considering the "freedom" mentality in the US where everyone has to work for himself compared to the welfare state mentality in Europe.

Actually makes me feel a bit good for paying my taxes :)
Morals are a intellectual shortcuts designed to help circumvent our natural proclivity for short term thinking over of long term thinking. As such, they change to some degree depending on the culture and society they arise in, to better suit the long (or medium, depending on your scale) goals of that society. Ancient Mongols were not immoral, fist differently moral than many of their contemporaries (and probably not as much as you would think), but that propelled them to the apex of human nations (based on what that meant at the time) for a while.
It depends on the size and the stability of the basic income. If a bank knows a customer will get $X/year for the next 5 years, giving an upfront loan to allow that person to create a business becomes a lower risk proposition. A basic income could easily expand the number of low to medium-risk borrowers and expand the amount of savings present to use as a base for lending.
Ebay has dozens of them, although the prices are outrageous. I even see the adaptec usb->scsi converter I had a few years ago. The problem with them is that there compatibility seems pretty limited, especially if you try to attach an old scanner, tape drive, etc.
>Economies don't spring up out of a pile of free rice.

Rice is a viable basis for a currency, it worked for China for a thousand years. Maybe the free rice piles just aren't big enough.
There are protocols for securing unsecured cargo. Whether delivered by rocket or crane, things land on decks every day and are tied down by hand.
EnterpriseDB
Tech recruiter here.

Junho I dont think we have every personally talked but I believe my company has worked with you in the past.

I'm not sure if you know Griffin at Enova but he started the Chicago CTO Forum over three years ago. I think its exactly what you're looking for. I've personally worked with or represented half the guys in the group and they're all great. It's probably the most impressive collection of VP/C level guys in Chicago.

Links below:

http://www.chicagoctoforum.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4950491/profile

You probably know a couple of them but if not let me know and I can intro you.
Nah, what you said made sense, I initially read it the way you meant it, but it is ambiguous enough to read either way.
>Even easier than being a fanboy is to

Easier? How? Because you said so?

>promote one's own superiority via dismissal

How come I haven't noticed that it isn't working, then?

>sneering at the efforts of others..

This is where you show your fanboy colors. The GP said something along the line "I don't think that is as amazing as you say", and you overreact, saying that they are, "sneering at others efforts". Another commenter said SpaceX is facing "incredible" criticism in HN. All signs of over reaction, typical of fanboys when their need and expectation of unquestioning acceptance and praise from everyone, for their object of worship, are not met..

>You probably see yourself as sophisticated, remarks are no different than a 7 year old putting down somebody for throwing like a girl, It's adolescent, not contrarian.

More typical, hurt fanboy reaction. Stop for a moment and and think about what exactly in my comment have provoked you to attack me in this fashion.
I don't think this works. Presumably cash has a lot more utility than rice or shoes, for example. These people can always use more money (i.e. bank loads in your example), but once they have x shoes or y rice, the utility of new shoes or rice is very low.
> rarely an excuse for not having one, or even multiple, fine-grained locks in any object that has things that need to be synchronized

'wtf' is right. locking sometimes adds as much risk as it removes.
I guess we just have a fundamental disagreement over the definition of the term "league".
Banks generally do better when people have more money, not less. They'll get more deposits, and hopefully more loans that can actually be paid back.
Honestly you just sound kind of brittle if others chanting USA! ruins something for you. Sometimes the USA chant is overdone but in this case I think it's awesome.
> The FDA already regulates other forms of nicotine (patches, gum, lozenges, sprays, inhalers).

And it's able to do so because these are sold as a cure for smoking i.e. a medicine. If you tried to sell charcoal as a cure for, say, cancer then FDA would be in its right to regulate you as well. I do not oppose FDA overseeing medical claims on principle. More, I think this is exactly what FDA should be doing. And I agree that this discussion is going nowhere, you seem to consider regulation good by itself, which should be enforced no matter the effects.
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But why are they struggling so? Is it simply because of a lack of money?
Music platforms don't just take off based on one or two successes, it's about accumulation. Plus that music is now firmly in their catalog. If they're able to play a long game, people will move over as they gather better exclusive content. I think if you revisit Tidal's success after Beyonce's Lemonade, for example, you're going to see some pretty different growth patterns.
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I plan on using it to track what database objects have a corresponding cached image thumbnail. 10 million objects in my database, thumbnails generated on the fly, fast get/set the unique ID of the object in the bitfield. very small storage for what you get.
> Inviting someone into your home is not just a business transaction.

You might be right, but renting a place is regulated in most Western countries. And I'm pretty sure racial discrimination is against the law in most of these countries too, as much as refusing a service based on the race of the "client".
>not waste the time of people who are trying to find somewhere to stay

This is important as hosts usually have 24 hours to respond. In that time period alternative listings I may be interested in could be booked. This has happened to me multiple times and puts unnecessary pressure/stress on me as a user of the service. If host can reject requests on a whim it lessens the user experience. I know IMMEDIATELY if a hotel has any vacancy, why do I have to hold my breath and pray an AVAILABLE booking goes through just because I'm black?
Looks like there are no more state payments and you have to depend on charities, family or friends.
I agree, though it seems a distinction needs to be drawn between aid that's providing goods and services that could be produced locally, vs aid that's providing medical goods and services that couldn't emerge from the local economy fast enough to help those being helped (such as perhaps the Gates Foundation does).