skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ive been buying near the greater Syracuse area.

I have a couple now, and so far I've been lucky to get financing from family members. The plan is to refinance the loans with the bank after the first year or two and re-use the money for new purchases.

When we run out of private money we'll go to the banks. We've applied already for the houses we've gotten because we didnt know we would be able to secure private money. I saw downpayment amounts varying from 20-25% for personal loans and 25-30% for business loans (if you're buying with an LLC).

With the interest rates the banks charge its still doable in our area, the private money interest rates are higher in at least one case and both are 15yrs (vs the 30yr we would want to go for with the bank).

Iirc you can get up to 10 personal mortgages in your name before needing to resort to small business loans, so if you're just starting off, you've got room to grow.

If you are starting off and live in the town you will be investing in, I highly read up on house hacking, which there are a few articles on the topic at biggerpockets.com (this was a great source of info when I was starting off, I recommend most of their books too).

edit: Also note that downpayment requirements vary by location, and if banks offer it, its much better to go for their portfolio of loans if they offer fixed rates (unfortunately, all the banks in my area only offer ARM loans) because the closing costs are lower (portfolio loans are not sold to the big banks, so the closing cost fees are not dictated by them).
> given the migration of the Torch community from Lua to Python via PyTorch, and subsequent waning support for Lua Torch, Cortex began evaluating alternatives to Lua Torch

I'm a bit out of the loop, has PyTorch really become so much more popular than Lua Torch, in the short time span since it launched? And is it true that most of the original Lua Torch community switched to PyTorch?
It taught me that people react differently in stressful situations than they say they are going to.

Also, when I was growing up, my parents always said "divorce is wrong; you can always make a marriage work if you try hard enough". Interestingly, they've completely flipped on that opinion now that they've heard how I'm being treated, but I guess I'm still "brainwashed". If I didn't have these irrational moral qualms, I would have ended the marriage by now.
To me the most obvious technical competition for Vue is Angular, not React, and if Microsoft were going to choose something other than React, I would've presumed it would be Angular.

Both Angular and Vue have a similar component DSL and contrasts from React by trying to have a complete out-of-the-box experience, rather than the build-your-own framework style of React. But Angular is backed by Google, and it supports TypeScript out of the box as well as RxJS, which is somewhat of a cross-platform API for async. Unfortunately I think the Angular reputation still suffers from its Angular 1 days.
> From what I've heard/read it may be possible to cure skin cancer and melanoma the same way.

Citation definitely needed.
Yeah I think this is a much more relevant metric. But also, who cares? Both are good tools.
Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
TL;DR I'm about to get evicted because I ran out of money and can't seem to land a job.
I'm also in a bit of a rush, so i apologize for any grammatical errors.

I have been a web developer / software engineer for 15 years (fullstack, 5 languages).

I am living in Colorado with my wife -- I quit my job In Jan due to issues I had with the way our company was treating customer data. This turned out to be a foolish move as it has proven difficult to find a new job (I had something lined up when I quit, but it fell through).

I did land a contract between then and now, but in order to survive I had about 1.5 months to find a new job and that hasn't happened.

I was 3 days late on my rent this month and now have to appear in court to explain why i haven't paid. I fully expect that to lead to an eviction.

I've never had an issue finding a job prior to this so I'm quite frustrated with myself.

I don't own a good laptop (i use a desktop) and have about $400 to survive on. I've tried upwork but can't drum anything up quick enough / at all. I have multiple interviews lined up but I'm not hopeful at this point. I have things I can sell but I'm not sure how quick I can turn them around. My wife has a job but its only a couple days per week so not enough to survive on... she has another interview on monday but no clue how it will turn out of course. We own a car and are currently planning on a shelter (car is second plan).

The questions I have for HN are: what are my best options for survival? any pro tips on how to live on the streets and still land an engineering job?

Thanks in advance guys
Machine Learning for Kids
I agree that they're very different, but at the same time, there's a non-trivial base of users who earnestly believe that when you're picking a JS framework to use for <insert whatever>, momentum is a meaningful factor in it.

Obviously, it rarely makes sense to select a framework that is completely disused, or unsupported, but there are articles out there by reputable sources who assert that if you're not using the current hotness, you're going to miss out on every new tool that crops up in the ecosystem, and your startup will languish and die as a result of having to spend so many more cycles just to keep up with what other people can 'npm install'.

What's worse is that they're not entirely wrong. Any good plugin for Vue right now is going to show up in React or Angular post-haste, if it doesn't exist there already.

Edit: I also can't help but wonder how many people saw this article, clicked the link, realized it was based on stars, and then went and starred Vue (exactly as I did). Every time I refresh, Vue is closer to 'toppling' React (at least according to these nonsense metrics)
It looks like it may only be a "thin veneer" on the top of it:
https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1007016681426898945
I don’t think there’s a war. I think there’s a fanboy who was amused by this and took 5m to put a page together.
I wonder if it’s a nerd thing.

“Linux is better than Windows”

“Android is better than iOS”

“Python is better than PHP”

“Vim is better than everything else”
If your perimeter is poorly architected and you dont have logs from every single ingress/egress point and/or application within, or you arent forcing traffic through a proxy requiring authentication, its easy.
FYI links to jwz.org from Hacker News redirect to an... interesting... image. Copy and paste into your browser instead.

As an aside, who's really the man child? Hacker News users, or the ~50 year old man insulting/trolling them with that image?
Saint Mary's Cathedral (in San Francisco)

I don't say it's as beautiful as the Parthenon, and it might not last 500 years, but we moderns aren't completely shabby...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_Mary_of_the...

> Its saddle roof is composed of eight segments of hyperbolic paraboloids, in such a fashion that the bottom horizontal cross section of the roof is a square and the top cross section is a cross.

The interior is open.
I had an environmental ethics professor in college. Her pet cause was the plight of the atlantic bluefin tuna. She frequently lamented that only the cute animals get any real support.
This idea comes from a stereotypically female perspective. Men typically form stronger relationships with other men through shared struggles -- playing on a team together, going hunting, building something, etc. Working together and not complaining builds trust. To say that the female approach of long emotional talks and displays is objectively superior is not justified.

Ask one of your friends who works in a female dominated workplace what it's like. They might prefer a bit more stoicism, less emotional displays, and more working together without complaint.
They are now mostly real people organically being morons, as opposed to mostly bots spamming other channels and a bunch of stick figure chain mail.
I’ve managed to do this with direct access to the JSC C API — you could probably write an interop w/ Obj-C / JNI.
So many concrete bridges fail for so many reasons, it's kind of crazy that we keep building them. It's much easier to inspect and repair steel than concrete, and it fails more gracefully.

Also, I'm not even an engineer and I can tell you that uneven strut design would give you uneven loading on the span. Christ. Why didn't they just build a damn cable stayed bridge?! If traffic was a concern, they could have built it half cantilever, half guyed. No formwork, strong, still visually appealing, no stupid truss design, and no concrete.
I like your viewpoint. I’d be more inclined to call programmers engineers under your proposed system.
This frames it a lot as a competition; it really isn't. Facebook Open Source is a contributor to Vue.

I think it just resonates with the community that this is a Patreon-backed, very community-driven project, whereas React has Facebook behind it, and Facebook has been controversial. Not that that has much to do with React itself-- if anything it means it probably scales well.

Either that, or it's another iOS vs Android situation, where people just like picking teams.
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I already posted a comment before seeing your question, so here is just the main point:

Will React Native finally support exchanging BINARY data (ArrayBuffer, TypedArray) across the bridge?
It's unclear what it is you think Atlas gives you and therefore what you would consider an alternative.

If you're in US, you can accept Stripe Payments without a company. You can accept money in your own name or by registering DBA and using that as a name.

Stripe Atlas automates creating an LLC for exceedingly low price.

If you're in US it would be hard to find a better deal but if you really don't want to spend $500 on Atlas then you can do all they do manually. It won't be free, there are fees you have to pay anyway. And figuring out what paperwork to submit and filling it out (without paying some professional for advice) will be painful.

Atlas is most attractive for people outside US that want a US identity because Stripe Payments (and others) don't support merchants in every country.
In case you didn't realize it at first (I didn't until I happened to click on "/home"), this is the first of a 5-part series:

1. Ethernet & ARP (this post)

2. IPv4 & ICMPv4: http://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-2-ipv4-icmpv4...

3. TCP Basics & Handshake: http://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-3-tcp-handsha...

4. TCP Data Flow & Socket API: http://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-4-tcp-data-fl...

5. TCP Retransmission: http://www.saminiir.com/lets-code-tcp-ip-stack-5-tcp-retrans...
Burnout, Depression, and Suicide
“Hey guys let’s go hang out on the bridge over the highway.” It is like a plaza, but a bridge! Ignore the fumes and deafening roar of traffic.
I’d argue that genuine curiousity about how the world works is more than sufficient to drive rational inquiry. I didn’t start tinkering as a kid in search of a religious feeling, I did it because I, as most primates are, was curious about how things worked. I just don’t see it.
Flutter is at least open source, here's hoping that the dev community gets organized enough to have the will to adapt annual iOS updates into the Cupertino widgets once Google drops support for the project.
On the Surface Book? There are two versions, the 15" and the 13." I think the keyboards are both full sized. Maybe you mean Surface Pro. I love my Surface Pro, but I have long skinny fingers.
Once you get old enough, you realize everything is shit and nothing is better than anything else because, again, it's all shit.
"But they suggested that over-reliance on the computer models, a common pitfall in the profession, may have played into it."

It's very easy to be seduced into assuming a computer model's results are correct. Computer models of critical bits should always be double-checked by a separate independent calculation.

For this bridge, a simple analysis of static forces should have been sufficient for a cross-check, despite the article repeatedly implying this was a difficult/tricky computation. It is not.
I love toys and I would love to jump feet first into optane, but a dollar per gigabyte is hard to stomach.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

well, they were acquired by google...
That's based on a nonsense message posted by a rogue employee.

https://mspoweruser.com/no-microsoft-is-not-rewriting-office...
> It also guarantees exactly-once semantics for application pipelines to process logs in the form of event bundles.

Well, it's got my attention.
"They crippled the Mac Mini (which was quad-core, 2 drive bays and upgradeable memory) to try and drive people onto the Mac Pro"

Ummmm, no. That's implausible. There's no plausible way to "drive people" from a $700 computer to a $3000 computer. They're entirely different classes of buyer.
I was using the term to imply someone (or some thing in the case of a company) being labelled as the villain without the evidence conclusively proving they are guilty of the crimes they are accused of.
combine that with number of projects with react or vue in the package.json in github.
Sorry, I missed the question about research.

We didn't do much research in the way of occupancy. Because its remote Im limited to the towns around us that is convenient for my family to visit. We played with the idea of getting an apartment building from another distant relative that owned one, but weren't ready for hiring the staff that came along with it (and the cost since it had a restriction to low-income housing for the next 6 years, which made it hard to make a profit off it to start. We may revisit when we have a better base to cover potential short-termlosses).

Generally from what we saw with no new housing being built in our town we knew we would be able to get someone to rent it to at least break-even. Our second option was to partner with an organization that helps subsidize low-income housing, since some offer partnerships that involve fixing things that their tenants break and helping cover costs for repairs.
GDPR benefited citizens and hurt big companies, article 13 benefits big companies and hurts everyone else
While it may be your full-time job, you're still participating in a larger mission, right?

Take the case of the legal problems with the React license that eventually were ironed out or the privacy issues facing the company more recently.

Neither of those would have been a factor in your day to day life if React was its own thing, right?

If no engineer has left the team, through their own will or through enticement, you have my apologies.

I'm not arguing that you're not committed. I'm arguing that working for a large company is a distraction, which is true of all large companies. Would you agree that the licensing issue was unnecessary and distracting?

Don't get me wrong, I think you're doing great work and React isn't going anywhere, but there's a broader mission there that is distracting from doing that one thing. Do you ever wish it were it's own thing (if money weren't involved)?
* It doesn't matter what you set your desired location to in LinkedIn. Recruiters are going to look at what you've done in the past, and assume you want more of that.
I wonder though, how CDN links might mess with this comparison? And whether devs are more likely to use the CDN version with Vue vs React.
Cannabis companies now have access to property, liability insurance from CA govt
The struts varied in thickness according to their net loads, so their loading should have been the same.
Personally, I don’t think that waiting for the NTSB determination is a bad thing. However, I do believe there’s a problem with suppression of public record so that, in effect, a single agency can control the statement that comes out.

To be clear, I fully trust the NTSB. It’s more that I want to make sure that there are checks and balances — even when a just agency is doing the reporting. It adds another protection layer to the system.
As It Stands – Electron Security (2016)
My understanding is that a license is not a contract, but simply permission from one party to do something. A license can be part of a contract e.g., when a license is provided in exchange for money. However, if I just plonk an open source license on a bit of software I wrote, there's no contract with anybody.

It's unlikely that invalidating an open source license would be of benefit to a user, since they then have no legal right to make copies of the software.
Guess he'll be moving on to IRS scamming
The latter, of course! I'd be interested in your numbers. H2O is 2.5% of the atmosphere, so I can't see our CO2:H2O production having a significant impact in that respect; but still, an interesting angle since H2O is a major greenhouse gas.

Estimates for biogenic sediment accumulation ranges up to 5 cm per thousand years -- two orders of magnitude smaller than current prediction of the rate of global sea-level rise.
jwz had to threaten Netscape with a lawsuit to see any share information, and that was in the mid 90's.
The matte screen is one of the main reasons I got an XPS 13.

In many environments I don't like the reflections of a bright window behind me or the ceiling office lights.

You can buy matte stickers to put on glossy Mac screens, but they can be hard to apply well without bubbles.
> I got stuck at the package management part

Bazel.io has been a revelation for me, and made C++ essentially practical to use on a day-to-day basis.
I agree there's a decent correlation. There are a few notable exceptions/edge cases. For example, Ruby's rake has just ~1,300 stars:

https://github.com/ruby/rake

It'd be an interesting project to compare frameworks/tools by aggregating the stars (or whatever metric) of its major (i.e. filtering out hobby forks and skeleton repos) dependent projects, e.g. the 22K stars of gatsbyjs/gatsby would count towards React's overall reach/popularity.
Yeah it's tough. Do you go into a new technology and have issues finding jobs or do you use the tried and true, risk stagnating and costing yourself future jobs.
I use stars that way too - as a quick bookmark. Thinking about it now I don't actually star things that I'm using.

(have used both React and Vue a lot, haven't starred either one)
Maybe this will put paid to the nonsense people constantly spout about "real engineering". Turns out doing new things is hard.

But also let's be real, you're not going to cross a 10-lane stroad, bridge or no bridge and feel like you're in 'a college town'. It was never gonna happen.
Chrome Vulkan
Awesome, thanks for posting this! Been hearing/reading some of the claims that FB is done supporting RN and it got me spooked :p

We've been working on a RN project [1] for the list 6 months or so. Although it's been a bumpy ride - overall I have loved it. RN mixed with Firebase has been an awesome experience.

[1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bunch-group-video-chat-games...
I can see La Sagrada Familia not only being around, but being celebrated, for 500 years more. It's still under construction and has been for (almost?) 100 years. Google it, the church is absolutely beautiful.

In fitting with the theme of the GP, not only is it structurally sound (to my knowledge) because of how the pillars are constructed, but it successfully pays homage to Gothic architecture and the oldest inspiration, Nature, while also being new and innovative.
It was a cable stayed bridge. The bridge span was just put up. The tower and the cables were to be installed over the next few weeks. They allowed traffic under an incomplete bridge because money.
Microsoft rewrote the whole thing in React Native! It’s like keeping score of the opposing team in the match when they have already qualified for the Olympics. Play the long game.
I can totally see Google incorporating this in Self driving cars down the road, after training on millions of hours or dashcam footage, to augment or maybe even replace Lidar. Paper suggests it is capable of segmenting 2D picture input into logical objects and their discrete configurations/positions.

Its not without its pitfalls tho, instead of Monocular SLAM generating factual, albeit fuzzy point cloud map we get overfitted (5 pictures x 2M similar scenes) magic black box generating very training set specific hallucination. This is how we get Scanners replacing numbers in scanned documents http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...

Similar example was posted 2 months ago https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/aeirikur/extremecompression/ example picture (no doubt best case authors could manage) gained additional data absent from original, some of it dangerous like fake license plate numbers.
> (in many areas of Europe it did, I don't know about the Americas) there was a huge influx of people with no technical expertise, all of whom simple wanted to be a startup owner for the sake of it, with no plans or targets, just to be managers.

I find this perspective quite fascinating, as it is something of the converse my impression of some of the complaints I've read about the startup scene here in the US (mostly SFBA/Silicon Valley).

Here, the complaint seems to be that (some) founders may have technical expertise but lack the business/managerial savvy (or, again, with no plans or targets) to turn it into a real product that makes money.

I'm unsure if either criticism, lack of business or technical acumen, is actually fair or accurate, but it may be a subtle indication of an over-focus on one over the other (by the investors) in each of our regions to the detriment of overall innovation.
When a tty is hung up on Linux, the file operations of all open file structures associated with it are replaced with hung_up_tty_fops, which means all subsequent read(2) returns 0 (EOF), write(2) returns EIO and ioctl(2) returns ENOTTY or EIO.

This is basically a tty-specific implementation of revoke(2).

Also, when the session leader exits on Linux, the kernel does send SIGHUP and SIGCONT to session leader's process group and the foreground process group (this is in tty_signal_session_leader()).
Cool concept. If it comes to my city, i am totally doing it.
I agree entirely. That sounds like an absolutely unhealthy relationship if she couldn't be honest with you in the first place regarding where she stood on relocation if you got a job. She basically called your bluff and lied to you, betting (wrongly) that she'd not have to pay it out.
What problem spaces are you passionate about? What type of societal problems are you personally interested in solving?
Check out Dart with Flutter. You get browser compatibility with Dart alone, iOS/Android through Flutter. Flutter isn't a JS bridge solution as RN is, alleviating some of the pain that RN exposes.
Ethereum is not a security?
love mixpanel, keep up the great work
I appreciate the link, but i am looking for a job, part time at that, not starting a company (i'm already a partner in a small business). How does your business help me become a staff writer?
I fail to understand why you need to mention you are a Googler? It’s unhealthy to tie so much of your your identity to who you work for rather than who you are. Besides that I wish you the best.
If you did find a way to design a structure so that analysis of the static forces was not straightforward, might that be a good indication that you shouldn’t build it at all?
It's just a matter of which shit tastes better to you. =)
I recommend "The Ominous Parallels" [1] for a detailed examination of the philosophical and historical causes of Nazi Germany, and how these causes have echoes resonating in the US today.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ominous-Parallels-End-Freedom-America...

(the now-flagged book review was https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/books/review/benjamin-car...)
Meanwhile we're still using ASP.Net MVC w/ a vintage 2008 web design. Could care less about $latest_web_technology, because having a viable business is more important than what the site is coded in or how it looks.