skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the target demographic?

IMO the UI is too complicated for someone who isn't really dedicated to doing research. Seems like a great research tool for someone who wants to dedicate time to it, but I am unclear if that is the target.

If you're trying to reach the average voter, the UI has to be devastatingly simple - like , no possibility of them putting any real effort in simple.
Yeah, that sounds like it, and it's at the right time.
Might be interesting after getting something like a transmit capable SDR like the LimeSDR
SpaceX’s Mars Colonial Transporter can go “well beyond” Mars
That was one of the first lines:

> We contacted the author of the piece, Hidde Boersma, who promised to resolve the situation.
Perhaps the post has changed but this is the title I see: "Ask HN: How long did you work on a side project until it was your full time job?"

Adjusting it would definitely helps clarify if that's not what you meant. Perhaps, "How successful was your side project before you went full time?", or "How much MRR / traction... ?"
my assumption was that you build something that models what we know about the black hole but then look for new properties in the model since we can actually "play" with it. then we try and map the new properties or physics back to the real object. i don't know if that's what's happening, but it seems to be a decent approach.
> Vyvanse put me to sleep, adderal-xr worked, but the "come down" sucks

Adderall does have a bad come down. Often depressive even on low XR doses.

Vyvanse is still amphetamine, so if it put you to sleep, are you sure you took enough?

20mg Adderall XR is about equivalent to 50mg Vyvanse, which is what I take.

Everyone I know switched from Adderall to Vyvanse and we all report the same thing -- much more gradual curve throughout the day and far less depressive on the come down. I'd consider Adderall XR to be a real tweak compared to Vyvanse and far less therapeutic for a day-to-day drug.
I agree with you. Penn's material (even when he's right) is all about calling other people wrong, to boost his own ego and that of his similarly-opinionated viewers. It's crack for the "smarter-than-you" contrarian crowd. I feel as if that kind of attitude is not beneficial to creating more reasoned discourse, and I don't like that at all.
> - Discuss each bill in the discussion section

> - Join the discussion boards to discuss the latest events and news

> - Vote on bills (similar to Countable)

Based on my experience of other similar sites in other countries, these features will largely be a ghost town. Even if they aren't a ghost town, they can never be representative samples of the US population.

I'd really encourage you to focus on features that are useful even if you only have one user. It's too easy for this sort of site to try to do everything, successful ones tend to be narrowly focused -- I like your notification approach.
For most applications, getting training images onto the GPU isn't the bottleneck by far. Training the Inception model, for example, handles batches of 32 images (299x299x3) in 1.2 seconds. That's a pretty boring ~300KB * 32 ~= 10MB/sec of read bandwidth off the SSD for Imagenet. Even dealing with "real" images is probably only 10x that, which is trivial to get over the PCI bus.

The question would be whether we can turn the crank on the design of models to make it possible to do something really cool given access to very high-speed SSD storage.
After you get a US bank account you'll be surprised that you can't qualify for a credit card because you don't have a credit history yet. Be prepared to pay 500 USD into a separate account which gives you a credit card with 500 USD/month limit. So you'll likely pay with your UK credit cards for a while and the exchange rate is a cost.

Your L1 visa (I assume) should be not problem, getting a US driver license is easy. In the first week setup an appointment with the social security office to get a social security number, it's amazing how often one needs that number.
Is it possible to apply that test for a multi-body simulation? I guess you could look at the combined GPE + KE of the entire system, but not individual bodies?
All fields seems to follow something like an S curve.

It starts off slowly as the foundation is laid (aerodynamic understanding, electric generator, etc etc) then then goes near vertical for a number of decades as the possibilities that said foundation unlocked gets plucked.

And then it flattens out again as it starts running into physical limitations etc.

Never mind that the last century or so saw two massive, highly technological, wars. Wars, to be a bit cynical, is the one thing that seems to get a free pass when it comes to the politics of money.
Scaling from Side Project to 200k Downloads with Xamarin and Microsoft Azure
My personal experience, I did nicotine patches before anything else.

I had previously used adderral, and was seeking an alternative that wouldn't require a prescription. I used nicotine patches for 3 years, before switching to vaporizing for 2 years now, almost entirely because of the socialization it has allowed that patches did not.

I'm sure there's more adverse effects from vaping than patches, and I'm sure long term stimulant use of any sort (caffeine included) can cause problems of many sorts. I personally don't think adderall or other prescription drugs (or unmedicated as I had been most of my life) would have been better, but of course they could have been.

So just wanted to share my experience.
Sounds like markets succeed by creating monopolies... like cable providers...
What is the myth they are referring to?

I haven't been following any stories about the Pacific Gyre in the mainstream media, but I've always understood it to be a region in the Pacific where garbage seems to concentrate because of ocean currents. Much of the garbage isn't visible as it floats just beneath the surface.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StNZ3XUBDYw#t=1m17s
The cool, beautiful canopy of my hometown street was destroyed by Dutch elm disease. In the woods behind my house, my grandfather planted a row of hemlock trees before I was born. Now his legacy is being destroyed by another invasive from Asia, the woolly adelgid. With the elm and hemlock gone, we have mostly sugar maples, white pine, and ash tree remaining. The maples ares sickened from air pollution and just last year I noticed our pines turning brown from needlecast. And now I hear the ash borer is coming.

Between the stress of pollution/climate change and allowing these invasive pests on our soil, the US government has totally failed us. Trees are majestic, vital to the ecosystem, and the lungs of our planet. Why are our policies so backwards that we can spend $5 Trillion on war based on lies of WMD? Yet we lack the millions necessary to improve border controls and research curing diseases that slipped through already.
Declaration assignments should be more explicit. For example:

foo, err ::= someFunction() // explicitly declare both

foo, err := someFunction() // declare only foo, err must exist

Then you get all the convenience without surprises.
Where do you get the data from?
Could be. Both sides in the cold war pushed education as a social "cure all". And thus many that would be quite happy in a hands on job as long as it offered decent pay has gone on to get a degree.
Some of the most arrogant people I know reject the notion that they are gifted (as in, born lucky) in favor of the idea that they just work hard and anybody else could do the same but everyone else is too lazy. I think there are some definite positives in recognising the advantages you were born with.
I don't know, but I was quite surprised to see more than 30 people in a weekend HAM class.
It's about to get bigger because of Hams being able to put up antennas in places that now have deed restrictions.

On getting a license, you no longer need to know Morse code, about 20% of the questions are easy safety questions.

Do a search for a local ham radio club, lots of them run a 3 hour license class. At the end you take the test and 99% pass.
If I am reading the bill correctly, this effectively prevents HOA's from forcing antennas to be taken down?
I doubt this will offset the huge boost in emissions which will come with Amazon's 'Flex' service, which will see products delivered fast via horribly inefficient passenger cars, as opposed to relatively efficient vans and trucks.
The use of the rational numbers I was referring to was more in the equations than in the running code.

In fact, part of the appeal I find in rational trigonometry is that it should be easier to adapt for computing, since as you pointed out, computers can not represent irrational numbers. Yet trigonometric functions usually return irrational numbers, and a computer can't do better than approximate them.

On the contrary, it is possible to do exact arithmetic on rational numbers. Granted, you can't do that with floating points, though.

PS. To be clear: although the numbers actually used in the code are floating point numbers, the equations have a purely algebraic form (no sine, cosine or sqrt), so it should at least in principle be possible to use a Rational number type instead, and the computation would then be exact. The only approximation would be due to the Runge-Kutta algorithm.
It's worth noting that ssize_t is a POSIX type, and is only guaranteed to have the range [-1, SSIZE_MAX] (basically a size type with one error value) [1]. If you need negative sizes, then ptrdiff_t is perhaps better.

[1]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696699/basedefs/sys/...
I'm currently going thru the process. It seems quite simple, buy the book[1], sign up for a $15 exam, do a bit of study (there's a test quiz trainer app on iOS), and you should be good.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/ARRL-Ham-Radio-License-Manual/dp/1625...
"whoa is I" ahahahahah
I hope this brings us closer to widespread external GPUs, where you could use a slower-than-PCIe bus like Thunderbolt 3 or USB 3.1 to upload all assets to the EGPU's SSD during a one-time loading screen.
Not exactly. How about, there are a million other options than straight up donation. Not at all a false choice.
> The real Achilles heal is certification, for it to be valued employers need to be convinced you aren't cheating and that the assessment is rigorous.

I really don't think this is it either, because you have to be naive to think there isn't massive cheating that goes on in traditional universities. I would venture to guess that cheating is perhaps lower currently with the students who complete MOOC's because the fact that there is no current incentive to do so. Also it's not that it isn't rigorous either -- at least for some of the EdX courses they are almost 1:1 translations of the OpenCourseWare versions, which themselves are just the actual classes they teach at MIT.
Interesting because there is no Amazon DC anywhere near that area.
That's not really fair.

upstart was created way before systemd, and in many respects was an improvement over the init.d scripts -- furthermore, they made no effort to make it into a squid with tentacles in everything (which some people consider RedHat with systemd do).

Ubuntu started using "baz", which was a fork of "arch/tla"; I think both predate git, and IIRC Linus said that tla even informed some decisions in git (by setting a negative example of the wrong way to do things). "bzr" was adopted because "baz" was at a dead end, "bzr" already existed (and showed some promise), and it wasn't clear which among bzr/mercurial/git/monotone is going to be the best option.

Mir and Snap are going their own way, yes - but they do that in a civil way, as far as exerting their influence goes.
This is a great site. I don't mind setting up an account. It was easy enough to link to my Google account and set a less random username. I gave it my address and it linked me to my local elected officials. I went to the bill section and started reading. I have voted on 4 bills. It works better than yelling at the darkness, which is what I was doing before. I thought the gamification angle was pointless but then I earned some points for voting and now I want to be president...
Hacker house blues: Life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream
On the contrary - computers certainly can represent irrational numbers - but not with floating points.
Imagine our technology got so good that housing, clothing and feeding most of the population is affordable without raising taxes, as in Star Trek.
I'm actually also very intrigued as to how ARRL seem to wield so much influence. Don't get me wrong, I'm currently studying to get my technician license and think it's great, but the privileges and allowances given to hams seems to be fairly out of sync with the benefits in many ways.

Coming into it as a newbie, I noticed there was a bit of a reputation for it being predominantly old white guys having a bit of a chat and a fair bit of a whinge on the airwaves. I'd like to say I haven't seen that myself, but can't.
Software Defined Radio (SRD). You now no longer need racks of equipment in a dedicated shed. A laptop and a 20$ dongle can now do what once took hundreds of thousands of dollars. The only things that haven't really changed are the antennas, which this law seeks to address.

The physics haven't changed, but there is a growing movement that fears any antenna as a source of, for lack of a better term, bad energies. Even a passive antenna only used to listen to FM radio can catch the ire of those who fear EM waves. This law is a bit of a bulwark against that movement.
I downloaded Musical.ly after hearing about it via Gary Vaynerchuk. Honestly, I found it pretty disturbing. Many of the most popular accounts were attractive young teenage girls wearing suggestive-ish clothing in their videos and their followers - creepy old men. I felt dirty just having that app on my phone and deleted it.
I may be mixing them up, I was around 15 when I last "experimented" with the different drugs.

I might talk to my doctor about my options next time I'm in there. The comedown doesnt bother me all that much, but I think it is starting to bother my wife as I can get a bit "cranky".
Objectively it is strange, but it is the norm in that industry.
I am not sure I understand where you took
your numbers from.

The links I listed give 3,016 homeless people for Montreal and 6,686 for SF. Dividing by their populations, you get the per-capita rates I gave.

I believe it is HIGHLY incorrect to compare the
number of homeless people from cities located in
DIFFERENT countries.

Yes, I'm sure country has an effect, and we can't count the entire SF vs Montreal difference as being due to weather. Similarly, different cities have different institutions and are otherwise, so figuring out the effect of weather is pretty hard.
The wind powered cloud.
I'm going to keep writing/speaking, but probably not launch any new for-money style projects. Partly this is out of respect for the day job's wishes, partly this is out of desire to maintain free hours for spending with my young family.
Looks good, I would remove the underlines though. In this context makes text harder to read. I would use light blue-black for links instead of underline.
> Which is why most simple languages created as a reaction to complexity, end up with complex codebases full of workarounds to fill the lack of features.

I agree with this. It is a ~zero-sum game. We note this phenomena in terms of concurrency, system architecture (microservices), as well: deceptive up-front simplicity will exact recurring payments with compound interest :)

Frankly I think this says far more about our [field] (academic to industry) than any specific tool, or language.

We have a problem in this field and we haven't solved it. (My money is on machines writing most of the code in the future.)

> In Go it is already visible with developers using error handling libraries and code generators.

Agreed, but note that while I'm critical of the uncritical embrace of "solutions" that don't spell out the consequences on the proverbial tin (such as microservices), at least they get to float their boat. Consider that lacking this alternative a possibly substantial subset would be sitting on the beach dreaming of sailing :)

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I think you've built a really worthwhile site. I used it for a bit and got good information from it.

Here are a few things that will help it along. Under the house of reps description there should be more info on the rep's district. Where is/what does "Representative from California 37" mean. Searching by zip code would be good.
Switching to a wiki back end might help -that way people can help you update the site. There's just too much info to update for a one person or a small group.
Also sign-up should be less emphasized. I know you want to get people involved but these days people get turned off if they have to sigh up for a site without clear benefits. I know you can browse the site but without it but it's not clear from the start.

Good job, much fortune.
Libreboot Screwup – 18 Sept 2016
What if it's both?
Or you know, real life. It's just a matter of priorities (and game theory).
All the anecdotes I've seen of being addicted to nicotine gum or patches have been of former smokers who were using them to try to quit. That's not necessarily nicotine being addictive so much as their pre-existing tobacco addiction latching onto a replacement.
Ive tried out your attitude before dude. Toughness, rawness, bitterness toward the rest of those meager peons breathing your air, whining over their petty inconsequential concerns.

It's gets tired real quickly, buddy. And yeah while most of us will die and the rest of the world will go on watching football, if your personality is normally anywhere near as vitriolic as it is in this thread they'll be breathing sigh of relief after yours. I wish you the best.
The Laserjet I have is a real pain to get working under Linux. It also looses its firmware every time it is unplugged.
> Yes, but why? Barclays profits with every customer that revolut brings/ will bring. Other banks would want to profit in a similar way.

Actually they hope the startup does well so they can buy them later. Revolut's cost of acquiring a user is far less than Barclays (<£10 vs £300+).

Barclay's deal isn't free, they take equity in exchange for letting startups using their infrastructure, it's not that expensive considering what they give though.

I think I know what you're getting at, at replacing the Correspondent bank system. There's another one, Transferwise, that seems to be getting transaction where Banks in other countries use it internally to avoid correspondent banks (transferwise often matches transfers to avoid transfers).

The BoE's 2020 system isn't for an ordinary firm to replace a banking partner. It's to join the payment network and have an account backed by the BoE/blockchain without it being at a designated high street bank. It wont be easy to use I guess, but it would be compelling enough for a Fintech company to use it.

I can see alot of value with the service you're describing, I don't think the level of value would be high out of countries which have high legislative requirements/forex controls. I had a similar idea a few years ago and my base assumptions were incorrect regarding people's needs for my service.
I don't think it ever went away; it's been a pretty stable hobby for a long time now.
“In The Zone”
I just got my Technicians license. The process was very simple. A local club had a class [1] after which I took my now free license exam! To study, I browsed the manual[2] and did a bit of quizing on Ham Study[3]. Really though, the class right before was the most helpful, as I could keep many of the rules in mind right before the test. Let me know if you have any other questions!

[1] http://www.jsg.org/sandiegohamclasses/San_Diego_Amateur_Radi...
[2] https://amazon.com/dp/1625950136/
[3] https://hamstudy.org/
You can apply it for any system with only conservative forces. And gravitation is conservative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_force
I don't now if it fixes it per se, but it does make it harder to mess up. For example, it does not automatically convert between sizes (usize) and unsigned integers (u64).
The credit card model is a major departure from classical banking, so I wouldn't consider it a valid counter argument here. And besides, credit cards aren't about maximizing eyeballs, they are about maximizing fees and revenue. And I wasn't suggesting you were advocating lawlessness, I was suggesting you were comparing apples to oranges. Facebook and banking are based on totally different business models.

Banking, proper, retail custmers, includes merchant banks, investment banks, money markets, M&A, public markets debt and equity, and such. The piece seemed to boil it down to retail banking.
What Can Hitters Actually See Out of a Pitcher’s Hand?
At any rate, psychologists will tell you how harmful it can be to tell a child how smart they "are", rather than letting them know they've simply "done" a good job.

The distinction seems to be between being and doing, with the former being static and the latter dynamic.
I think it's more than what we perceive as propaganda. I wouldn't put it past Bezos to put a double bind on the government for a damn good reason.
Did you get an equally stimulating effect from nicotine patches as you got from aderall?
You can always be arrogant if you try hard enough. But not being arrogant is far harder.

Personally, I believe that I might have had a bit of an advantage in some fields. Not because I'm necessarily better, but because my approach functions better in that area. But most people can do the same thing if they wanted to. It's merely that everybody has a limited amount of focus, and most people choose to spend it differently. Looking down on them is unproductive, and also incorrect: they're probably experts in something you don't know anything about.
The allowances made for hackers and amateurs in both radio and aviation are pretty incredible. If either of those things were invented today, there's no way the amateur radio or private pilot licensing programs would exist.

Food for thought. We have these programs because the hacker/maker/tinkerer community was at one point pretty good at lobbying. We'll lose them if we don't keep up.
The website is out of sync with our ideas. We need to update it. Apologies for any confusion caused.

If you don't see any new idea then can you at least see a concept that has been proven already by revolut. If so can you see a possibility that this concept can be taken further to include other businesses and banks? If you do can you can you imagine a scenario where ideas we suggest might be probable?

And if we are able to overcome the challenges you put forth would you say that this idea is a winner?
libcurl recently got CVE-2016-7167 for 1:

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20160914.html

"The provided string length arguments were not properly checked and due to arithmetic in the functions, passing in the length 0xffffffff (2^32-1 or UINT_MAX or even just -1) would end up causing an allocation of zero bytes of heap memory that curl would attempt to write gigabytes of data into."
You still need a good antenna to do any sort of HF work.
The VIC Cipher
> I always felt P.O. boxes should be free for those that are homeless. If said box goes unused it is put back into general use.

They (basically) already are. USPS provides free mailing service for people who don't have a fixed address, and you can use that as your street address (unlike PO boxes, which are invalid for use in circumstances that require a street address). They'll hold onto any mail addressed to you for 30 days.
Another article on this, from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7099784.
In the current immigration debate, neither side is revealing the whole picture
Why Supermarket Bacon Hides Its Fat