skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some sense, I actually agree with you. But I would like to see the US set a national goal of finding some way to foster the creation of enough low cost, market based housing to house 2 percent of the population.

I don't want it to be poverty housing or The Projects or a Ghetto. I think there are big problems with that. But cost matters and I think we need to find an elegant solution that does this as a market based solution.

It's a hard problem to solve. I am still thinking on it, so I feel this comment is kind of half baked. But, yeah, there are inherent problems with providing people benefits based on having X problem. It tends to entrench that problem and penalize people who are poor for other reasons.
It would also be pretty easy to spot something like that happening. If you see a stock in the Russell 3000 that is substantially less valuable than the distribution's tail would lead you to expect, then somebody is probably fucking with things. I would be astonished if Vanguard and other fund managers do not have automated monitoring to detect cases like this.
I'm not so sure that's true.

People who use a tool for a long time report the tool feeling like an extension of their body.

Also, try this thought experiment - try to flap your wings. I know you don't have any, just try to activate them anyway. Do you sense yourself trying to move "something"? Your brain clearly is able to map anything it wants.
I am not entirely sure if you are trolling. People being brought out of destitution is progress, absolutely.

It's the very first and most important step of progress. If people don't have enough to eat, even their brain won't develop properly. The lower layers of Maslow hierarchy are absolutely essential.

After that, more progress is needed, but having food, essential health and physical security is definitely the fundamental thing for any other types of progress, such as education.
It's a de facto standard because markets for common stock generally don't exist for private companies. If you're comparing Uber against AirBnb it makes sense to compare valuations based on preferred stock, if you're comparing them to anything in "the real economy" or are interested in the value someone has placed on the company as a whole it's less clear which number is more useful.
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I think the Linux version of XPS is also $100 cheaper
> an Exa-ops computer

I think it's misleading to compare the brain to a computer, the architecture differences mean that the brain is great at some stuff (vision for instance) and terrible at others (multiply 2 64-bit integers in your head).

I don't know if computational meat will ever be faster than machines at number crunching. (when I say machines I'm including next-generation computers beyond silicon too). But that's okay, each seems to complement each other's weaknesses.

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and...
Hi, Im a principal at AWS. I havent worked in Minneapolis myself. I have worked in Seattle, Portland, Palo Alto, and Dublin Ireland. Ive also visited the Vancouver, Sydney, and Paris offices. The difference between teams is definitely larger than the difference between offices. That said offices tend to reflect the local culture. Dublin likes team afternoon coffee/tea breaks. Paris is big on social group lunch time. Portland has more social/charity/community oriented activities. Happy to chat if you had specific questions.

WRT jobs you can filter by location, role, or keyword[1]. Depending on role I see network & monitoring software, supply chain/logistics development, customer relations software, and developer support/solutions/account management roles. I suggest applying for any that seem interesting. There will be calls with the team manager and an IC already on the team. Set aside some time to ask them any relevant questions. If youre local, meet for lunch or coffee.

Three key things to keep in mind. Interviewing works both ways, ask your own questions. The job you apply (and interview for) is not the one you have to take. All interviews are “for amazon” and basically fungible across openings. And lastly if you accept a position that doesnt fit its low risk. Internal transfers are valid after 30 days and dont require permission from the team/manager youre leaving.

[1] https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/search?offset=40&result_limit=...
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I think I've seen this before - I think this is an old list. Yeah, the blog post for this is from 2015.

With data sets like this, the question is always what do you do to keep these up to date? Well done for putting in the work in the first place but with no attention paid to updates it just gets stale.

I'm familiar with this problem due to my work on https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/ - a list of tech events in the UK - and some other projects I'm currently working on. I already have some tricks to help with this.

So I am honestly interested in answers to this question - if you maintain a data set like this, how do you do so? And how do you keep it refreshed? Thanks,
That will be a brutal task, knowing that doing it ensures your colleague will get tortured and be unable to stop the torture by giving up the bitcoins. Still, probably for the best.
The problem with subscriptions is not the cost, its the sheer number of them - and some come up almost accidentally. I pay a lot to my ISP every month. I would like to see a company that charges me monthly to eliminate all adware by micro-paying the participating websites for my actual page visits. In fact, if my ISP added such a service for a fee, I would sign up.
That's pretty much just PBKDF1.
I cannot understand why people are not revolting against the health care system in general.

This crisis is not about pharma in particular, it's about the entire system. In fact, the opioid crisis illuminates a lot of the problems with the system at once.

Pharma benefits because it creates a market for their drugs.

Physicians benefit twice, because the initial prescribers get the seekers and then the "addiction specialists" get to profit when someone tries to come clean and are required to go to them to do so.

There's no oversight because the foxes are in charge of the henhouse. I.e., we say "physicians are the only ones who are really positioned to understand and regulate the system."

The criminal justice system benefits because they get to treat everyone as a criminal. Cause that's the right way to approach the drugs, right? Oh, and cracking down on drugs has really improved society in the US and elsewhere right?

The FDA is revealed to be useless because it's banning harmless drugs like cannabis and kratom while allowing harmful drugs to be used under the assumption that the monopolies they're granting (to pharma, physicians) are selfless, competent experts who only have the patients' well-being in mind.

And I'm sure all this is being charged and reimbursed appropriately?

The US healthcare system is a protection racket enabled by the government.
One could export the man pages from another *nix and import them into OSX perhaps?
I have been very fortunate to have bosses pull me aside and give me advice like this while I was young. It has helped me tremendously throughout my working life. I try to keep that in mind as I work with younger people. It can be hard to bring these sorts of things up diplomatically, but it is really important to do it if we expect folks to change their behavior.
That doesn't count. With a card, you could turn your Apple //e into an x86 PC as well.
Couldn't it already do the exact same thing without constexpr? (And shouldn't it have already done that when optimizing? In fact for simpler expressions compilers already do this, right?) How does specifying constexpr help?
But without the benefit of hindsight, how do you tell the difference?

When I look at some of the giant wins of the last major tech wave, often times the key factors in their success were external events that happened after the formation of the company. AirBnB benefitted massively from the housing bubble & financial crisis (3 years after formation), which created a large class of people who were desperate for income and whose primary residence was their primary income-producing asset. Uber had to try the idea multiple times before cell phone batteries became good enough to run navigation continuously in the car (2 years after formation), and took off because of the publicity of getting sued by San Francisco. WhatsApp took off after the addition of push notifications to iOS (~18 months after formation) made it feasible to use as a messenger rather than just a status update.

All of these companies certainly did things to influence their success, in particular having a product on the market at the time the market changed to take advantage of the product. But for most of them the product was actually wrong in the sense that it was a complete failure in the market until that market changed. Brian Chesky's fond of calling AirBnB "the worst startup idea that actually worked".

It's like the formula for success = preparedness + luck. This cribsheet does a good job at preparedness, but you have to acknowledge the role of luck if you want to actually capitalize on that preparedness, and being afraid to work on the wrong ideas will often shut you out of ideas that require some luck to work.
SafeButler (YC S17) is hiring employee #3 to modernize insurance
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Bugs in our system could mess up people's lives big time. If you take pride in writing code that "just works", if you love turning an idea into a deployed feature in minutes, you'll love it here. Practical experience with Python/Django, SQL and automated testing strongly preferred. Practical experience with Ruby/Rails or Java will be considered too.

Please contact jobs@safebutler.com. We are a 4-person team based in Newark CA (across the bay from Facebook HQ). The company is backed by a group of angels, including YouTube co-founder. At this point, Bay Area candidates with US citizenship or greencard only please.
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This is literally just a 'money in a box' subscription.

You're paying $10 a month for $20+ a month. Of course subscriptions are going through the roof. It's free money.

I think if you wanted to make a blue apron level unicorn, just selling a subscription for a $20 bill in an envelope every month for $10/month would give you a better user growth story with lower churn rates and customer acquisition costs than this.
Both YouTube and Netflix use VP9. As videos from these two services constitute the vast majority of my video watching, Apple devices are an exceedingly bad choice for battery life and performance if I want a VP9 encode or for video quality and bandwidth usage if I stick to an Apple-approved codec.
There are links to the documentation, but they're not labeled as such. They're labeled as though they're links to download the components.
Spending wisely + intoxication. You expect strict budgeting under those circumstances?
Basic income experiment receives $5M worth of Bitcoin
I want to do this with ios.
>we've had drunk driving in the "bad" bucket for how many decades now?

I think you'll find that outside of larger urban areas in the US, drunk driving tends to fall into a gray area of morality, or in some cases (in my experience, very rural locales with very little meaningful road traffic), an accepted norm.

Almost nobody I know that lives in an urban US area drives drunk or finds it acceptable. This becomes more lax among my suburban friends and acquaintances. For some of my more rural acquaintances, taking a 6 pack along for consumption during a drive is typical behavior that nobody in their community even bats an eye at.
Here is the gist of what I got from the article.

Things that worked:

-Blogging

-Referrals through blogging

-Posting comments on HNs

Things that didn't work

-Networking Events

-Participate in marketing or consulting communities

-Partner with agencies or other consultants

-Hound people

-Cold outreach

-Advertising

-Handing out business cards
Halide: Decoupling Algorithms from Schedules for High-Performance Img Processing
openssl(1) links to https://man.openbsd.org/openssl
tldr; "there’s no magic formula, so experiment faster until you find what works for you."

I manage a small full-stack design and development team. After 5 year, we have a pretty steady stream of clients. It wasn't easy. I like the idea of blogging to get leads - we haven't done much of that. Most of our clients come from referrals, but I strongly disagree about the don't send cold emails bit. I started sending out about 50 cold emails per month as an exercise, and have found a number of great long-term clients. It's a low probability game for sure, but it takes me maybe 1-2 hours per month and if I get a response I can generally determine if there's a good fit within a few back and forth emails.
What about values that aren't needed at compile time, but can be so optimized.
Does this cause the NYPD forces to be downsized?
> there literally isn’t any documentation of LibreSSL.

This is plain wrong, it's particularly annoying as a great deal of effort has been put into updating the documentation [1].

> Instead, you just have to read the OpenSSL docs, and just hope the behavior is roughly the same.

I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt and assume they refer the "OpenSSL docs" as naming hasn't been changed, as opposed to looking at actual OpenSSL documentation. Indeed it doesn't make a great sense rename everything in the documents because as the LibreSSL website states.

libssl: a TLS library, backwards-compatible with OpenSSL
libtls: a new TLS library, designed to make it easier to write foolproof applications

[1] https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20161215221715
Your comment is ridiculous. You're seriously taking a 4 post thread on apple support forums as the sky is falling? I use high Sierra daily on my 2013 mbp and have had 0 freezes.
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Copper, scrolling, sprites etc., sure won't actually touch the frame buffer. What you're forgetting is the blitter, which indeed is a way for the Amiga to redraw the whole framebuffer faster than its CPU alone could handle, AFAIK well within the time span of a frame. Add game logic and other I/O to that and the difference could very well cross the line between not enough CPU and enough CPU.
Still, the "later author" is the same as the "leading author" and I could have said only "author".
No, it takes you to the OpenBSD man page wiki, not the Open SSL wiki. But the tool is still named OpenSSL for interoperability.
This is where all corruption originates.
One group seeks to use the state to impose their will on another group.
The victimized group, in turn, seeks to defend itself by bribing the enforcers.
Instead of capital flowing to those who are best able to convert it into the most happiness for the most people, it flows to those seeking to enrich themselves by pitting people against each other in order to extract ever larger bribes.
The state grows ever more corrupt in this fashion.
It might be wise to refrain from the impulse to use force long enough to consider alternative ways to remedy the perceived problem.
> people are 10x more sensetive than other platforms that have all the same issues.

To be fair it's because they charge 3-4x what other platforms charge (the ones that do) and use to have a slogan saying "It just works". People paid the Apple tax because they didnt have to deal with these issues and now they do and still pay the Apple tax.
When it comes to an index like the S&P 500 where even some of the smaller components (e.g. Church & Dwight Co (read: Arm & Hammer), Hilton, etc) would be considered "large cap" then you probably want to do equal weighting rather than market cap weighting.

When it comes to something like Vanguard's Total Market, you probably want to put more money into the blue chip stocks than into the smaller companies at the bottom of the list (sorted by market cap). Smaller companies have lower trade volume/are less liquid which makes them subject to greater volatility/price fluctuations. There is no sense taking on greater risk there when the reward opportunity doesn't meaningfully increase with it.
Can High Performance Be Portable?
Like communism!
I suspect that designated drivers are economically worse than sponsored rides. A designated driver is a person not buying drinks and yet still taking a spot in your capacity. If you can sell $1000 more drinks by sponsoring rides, and those rides cost $500, it's totally worth sponsoring rides.
I am actually in the early stages of building this at visifile.com

Doesn't work over the cloud so it's secure too
If the 6000+ tonne number quoted above is accurate then a BFR is a very long way from sending one to Mars - I can't remember the precise payload figure but I think it was around 100 tonnes to the surface of Mars.
The latter feels like a classic case of questions for which the answer is unhelpfully, 42. That is to say, do we even know what the question is? We have no real reason to believe that the universe came from nothing, or that nothing exists in a way that isn’t purely Conceptual. Certainly all of our explorations into the nature of nature indicate complete absence of nothingness, which may go someway to explaining the popularity of theories which don’t require it. Cyclic universes, cyclic ekpyrotic universes, multiverses and more all essentially attempt to reframe the question on nature’s terms, not ours.

So it’s interesting to think about, but there are reasons to believe that humans will always lack the tools to find the answers. Imo that makes it feel like questions about the existence of god, or an afterlife. They are important and have massive bearing on our existence, but I doubt in our ability to answer them, or even to ask the right questions in the first place. In that sense, they’re less interesting than questions we can actually formulate and hope to answer, like the “hows” rather than the “whys” of existence.
Denver bought a bunch of electric busses from BYD for service on the 16th street mall. My understanding is BYD offered a 12 year warranty on the batteries, in order to make the economics work.
Funny that is what you get in Linux Mint, given that it is based on Debian and on Debian (stretch) you get...

$ openssl --help
Invalid command '--help'; type "help" for a list.

Maybe Linux Mint 18 is based on an older version.
Start reading books instead of consuming digital content piecemeal.
Happy to be corrected (EDIT: indeed, I stand corrected! see replies below), but I don't think the C++ spec says anything about 'inline' encouraging the compiler to inline the compiled code?

'auto' would've been an example, but that also got removed, because they realized it was useless. I don't get how constexpr is any different.
I agree with what you said with respect to bosses. Some will certainly hold your doubts and or honesty against you, and that's unfortunate.

So, yes, beware of who your boss is.
For every person who rode a powerful technology wave, there are also many others who rode the wrong ones.

One of my favorite stories from Drew was that when he first started Dropbox, he created a 4-minute demo video showcasing the product that functioned as an MVP for the product. The video drove hundreds of thousands of people to their site and grew their beta mailing list from 5,000 to 75,000 people overnight.

On the outside looking in, skeptics might have thought that it was nothing new. But the MVP provided validation around what future customers actually thought.

My main takeaway from that story (and that I share in the book) has always been to validate your ideas early and often, so that you can get more signal on whether the assumptions you're using to shape your behavior are accurate.

More about the Dropbox story here: https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/19/dropbox-minimal-viable-pro...
Unfortunately, with Linux "full control" usually means "you'll have to manually edit every single configuration file before your computer becomes barely usable"

That's why I prefer distros that work out of the box, like Ubuntu, or Fedora.
It took me a while to find where the link to openssl(1) is on that page.

So, in order to find documentation, one would have to land on LibreSSL webpage and click on all links hoping to get to the correct one.
Practical Formal Techniques and Tools for Developing LLVM's Peephole Optimizations [pdf]
This relies on finding an affordable Flir camera on eBay - I checked and you can't find anything under $100. If you want to build your own, it will turn out as more expensive if not more expensive than buying it from FLIR
Except that networking events definitely DID work because he says that the first gig he got was through someone he met at a networking event.

And the rest was basically, "be lucky".
Really great book! The things that stood out for me:

- Optimize for learning

- Invest in time-saving tools

- Shorten the debugging loop

- Don’t sprint in the middle of a marathon

- Recovery over prevention

- Automate mechanics, not decision making

- Make batch processes idempotent

We read it in the book club at work a year ago, and I wrote a longer review of it here: https://henrikwarne.com/2017/01/15/book-review-the-effective...
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The option was discussed during standardization. It is expected that some corners of the language will never be available at compile time, for example I/O. So you need a keyword to declare a function to be callable a compile time, otherwise its constexpressness would depend on its implementation details and wouldn't be possible to check it in isolation.

It might not be a great reason (some code becomes a keyword soup with all the pointless boilerplate, we really need a DWIM[1] keyword).

[1] Declare With Implicit Meaning of course.
I highly doubt they can rule out other sources with total observations counted in single or double digits especially that they can detect just one in bazzzilion of neutrinos that go through the detector.

But I guess you are right. I just read that in case of some more energetic neutrinos interaction can create electron muon or tau dependant on neutrino flavor.
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This means that the days when a person could write the entire thing by himself/herself is over, and a lot more co-operation is required among engineers to design and build effective systems.

At that point, you're not really talking about being an effective engineer, though. You're only talking about being an effective engineer in a large organisation working on a large project.

I know plenty of people in the freelancing and startup world who can build and maintain very significant systems single-handedly. Take someone with the skill and experience to do that, give them a free hand in choosing whatever tools and processes work for them to get a good job done, and remove the overheads of micromanaging this and co-ordinating that. It's not unusual for that person to outperform an entire team working for a competitor under more traditional constraints, or for a small number of such people who can keep the overheads down to outperform a more traditionally organised but mediocre team an order of magnitude larger. Of course these people also need good soft skills, but those are not why they are so productive.
> But without the benefit of hindsight, how do you tell the difference?

See value missed by others.

Do you have sources for any of the success factors you described? My understanding was that WhatsApp's success was largely due to focusing on feature phones, increasing ubiquity.

Regardless, none of this changes the fact that OP is correct in saying that you shouldn't work on the wrong ideas, of course.