skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Real TLDR:

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As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we’re not poets.

If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you’ve written one line of one poem, you’ll be very lucky indeed.

And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you’re not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

Does that sound dismal? It isn’t.

It’s the most wonderful life on earth.

Or so I feel.
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-ee cummings
It would always be possible to project a 3D world onto a 2D plane in any 2D graphics API, which is exactly what the projection matrix does in OpenGL.
Central Planning as a Service?
What’s the best podcast app for iPhone?
The answers to your questions are basically "all of it" and "whatever makes the system work." The Department of Energy is pouring millions into 'smart grid' R&D, which includes everything from good old cybersecurity all the way up through nuclear power research, stopping at coal, diesel, steam, solar, and wind along the way.
Even if you don’t discount, do you agree that his FB investment is different from his angel investments?
You can always reveal the source code, without giving it an open source license. Of course, this will mean some people might not contribute, but you take what you get.

Another way is giving it a 'non-commercial use only' stipulation, which might not be lawyer proof.

Any of this won't prevent people from trying to profit off of it though.

PS: Remember to have an CLA so you won't have any problems with selling it.
And who's watching that on a PC often enough that a market alternative doesn't even exist? Not to mention, a significant number of laptops are still sold with 1080 screens.
What do robots have to do with outsider artists?
My local McDonalds has 2 of these. I never see anyone using them since they were put at a very inconvenient place. Also, they made them very intimidating in size, they are very big. And, the ordering is very public. For whatever reason, I hate that people can see what I'm ordering. I'd say they are a failure, for now, but only because you can go to a cashier and order, no need to use them.

I think they need to convert them so they look and function more like an ATM. People are used to using ATMs and they would be more comfortable with them.

The real killer is the McDonalds app. Once they emphasize the preorder/order feature that will kill the need for most order takers. It's only a matter of time.
The other week my Dutch language teacher (he's ~55) wrote an email "I would like to try Linux, can you please assist?" after learning about what is open source and libre software. I was pleasantly surprised to receive his email. So last week I went to install Fedora 28 on his new laptop. It all went smoothly. No, that's a lie; I had to do a little scary command-line surgery while he watched me do it (and heard me assure he doesn't need to do anything like that).

I set up all the requisite things, and since it was his first time, we went through a few common desktop workflows tailored to his needs. There I noticed: he was single-clicking where he needed to double-click—e.g. while opening a directory. I briefly explained the differences between the two and we tried again. He got better, but still struggled. I biked back home wondering if he'll continue to struggle with the double-click. :-(
The article is striking in how similar his description on "becoming a poet" is to some insightful advice from Paul Graham and others I've read about "moral weight" and becoming an entrepreneur.

Both paths also promise a more enriching life.
Don't forget the decimals of pi record holder for a while (on a laptop)
College? As in older than 13? What else did they write? Was it the first time they saw paper? I'm flabbergasted but want to know more!
That’s an Enterprise feature, depends on what subscription you have.
The benefit of playing an instrument is being able to make music. Isn't that enough?
Yes! I'd suggest learning OpenGL, then Metal, then Vulkan/DX12, which is how I'd rank them from high to low level.
Interested to see that the top ten shrinking countries on Earth are all in East Europe. Any Eastern Europeans here that can attest to the impact of this?
Well you don't start as an operator and also it helps to have connections unfortunately
In praise of 'scruffy hospitality' (2016)
Considering the ugliness espoused by "The Art World," I can't imagine that any true artist would want to be anything other than an "Outsider Artist."
It would be wise for Apple to make sure their suppliers aren’t all in one basket.
This was around 20 years ago (!), and yes, he was a fully-grown person. But he probably hadn’t slept in a few days — exam week and all. And he definitely spent more time with a keyboard than a pen.
FACTA and auditing are the main mechanisms.

Foreign banks are required to report information about accounts owned by US citizens to the FinCEN (this is called FACTA). You may remember being asked if you are a US citizen when you opened your foreign account -- this is why. If the banks don't provide this information to the US government, then they are heavily sanctioned. Many criticize FACTA for its world policing, and past attempts at repealing it, spearheaded by none other than Rand Paul, have been struck down by the courts.

If something doesn't match up between what the banks reported about you and what you reported, then this triggers an audit. Then, the IRS will request documentation, and if you do not provide it or if it does not match, then you are criminally charged with tax evasion, facing heavy fines and jail time.

This whole sour experience of being an expat and getting screwed in multiple ways has literally turned me into a tax reform lobbyist. It's quite a different experience than importing your W-2 into Turbo Tax in 30 minutes and getting a refund every year like 99% of Americans.
It would be good to have pesticide and hazardous chemical amounts per serving listed along with the other ingredients. What an eye opener that would be. I wonder what it would take to accomplish this given that contamination happens throughout production and distribution.
Someone wants to speculate on what would happen if intel would open source their ME as a reaction to this?
The law is the law though. If you can afford to lobby to have your standard become law, then you should have made your business plan more robust than charging people to know the law.

I don't really care that the standards organizations lose money from big corporations when thousands of small businesses gain free legal access to the laws governing their industry.
Countless people can drive a car but have no clue how to change a tire. If they get stuck in the wilderness during a blizzard their life is in serious peril but most people are just "you really don't know how to change a tire?"

And most computer usage is creating tons of valuable information to feed into the googlebrain.
Anyone lived in a pretty how town //

with up so many antennas down //

bit by bit and byte by byte //

they laughed their is //

and cried their was //

smirked their are //

sneered the been //

//

//

then one day everyone died I guess //

and no-one stopped to book their face //

busy people buried them side by side //

all by all and deep by deep //

and dream by dream and sleep by sleep.
There is also a two player version, 7 Wonders: Duel, that is lot of fun. My wife and I have been stocking up on the two player games since our son was born.
Well, you are speaking about an OS that isn’t publicly released. I’m speaking about programming capabilities of iPhone et al. as they are right now and have been in the last 10 years.
I don't want to go down this road but it is easier than how you make it out to be. For example matlab can be installed in $HOME even though it is proprietary because the install script takes that into account.

I got frustrated by the Windows updates and app updates that I am willing to put in that extra effort once to install something and then forget about it than try to fight the system on a daily basis.
Art theory and psychology also frequently connect outsider art to mental illness, which doesn't really help the associated stigma and consequent classism. Rather, it tends to more tightly bind the two together, by creating an implicit relation, which persists in the collective cultural consciousness.

This clearly will affect an artist's perception of themselves depending on what level of success they obtain for themselves.

Source: a self professed, so called 'tortured artist'. Unsuccessful in the arts by choice, but still affected by the stigma as a computer scientist. Change culture: solve problems -> make more of them.
Open borders to Western Europe. Mass migration for the better wage. Basically selling our productive (both in term of jobs and kids) people for euromoneys.

Impact is our older generation is fucked because they won't get reasonable pensions. Businesses are having hard time to find people for local wages. Hard to compete on price to western europe when it's right next door. Inflation is crazy to catch up with Western salaries and pricing. Yet we don't have manufacturing and R&D base to compete on all but price. It's slowly coming up (e.g. software is doing great), but prices/wages are raising quicker than that. Hopefully we'll squeeze through to have enough to compete on by the time we're no longer price competitive.

TL;DR: fun times
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17517278

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Financially Independent. Now What?
Again, you don't get promoted for "caring for the company", you get promoted when you show that you can perform more demanding tasks than your current role requires. Be it because you were underestimated when you applied or because you learned a bunch of stuff since then.

Promotion is not a reward for playing nice, it's about getting the maximum possible value out of an employee.
This is nothing new. Municipalities have been doing this kind of thing for centuries.

My grandfather was an alcoholic who became homeless. He was also a WW2 vet that had shell shock from the Battle of the Bulge (likely cause of his alcoholism). He passed out on a street corner in Chicago and died 48 hours later from cirrhosis of the liver. For 20 years we did not know what happened to him. Cook County said that they buried him in a cemetery. We went to the cemetery on the death certificate and could not find the grave and the cemetery had no record of his burial. We called about two dozen cemeteries trying to find him but also nothing. We later found out that there was a scandal in Cook County at the time where indigent burials were done in a mass grave in Indiana and the burial money was siphoned off and pocketed. We are resigned to the fact now that we will never find him.
Something something robots
>> an actual instrument package

> What does that mean?

It means the speedometer is in front of the driver where it belongs.

>> Android Auto and CarPlay

> You think that's a feature worth shelling out for, I think it's a crutch.

On the Internet, opinions are pretty much free of charge, of course. Android Auto voice control is dramatically better than the voice control that comes in a Model 3, and Android Auto pre-caches map tiles along your route (and anywhere else you specify) while the software in the Model 3 never preloads anything so it's pretty much always showing blank tiles when in an area of no mobile coverage. Also when Tesla goes out of business or for any other reason decides to stop supporting and paying for the mobile data connection in the Model 3 owners are going to wish they had something more like AA or CarPlay that's upgradeable separately from the vehicle.
We're building an API to interact with utilities. Most interactions with utilities (data requests, interconnection requests, etc.) are still manual processes, adding significant customer acquisition and asset management costs and slowing down deployment for distributed energy resources (DERs) and energy efficiency (EE) vendors. Automating those interactions removes a huge friction point, allowing DERs and EE to scale much more effectively.

I got into this because I was a project engineer for a commercial energy consultant, and I was spending half my time wrangling utility data instead of actually working on designing and deploying projects. So I started UtilityAPI.
At first glance it seems like this would constantly consume fresh water due to evaporation.
Interestingly the lack of tracability brings it's own problems (if you are a terrorist). If some group were to have claimed responsibility for the 2014 ebola epidemic, would you have believed them?
Yada yada artificial organs
GitLab is not on rails 5.0 yet.
But it's on its way.
I'm about to switch my team to Gitlab hosted for one reason: it's the only CI product I can find which has any notion of allowing the feature-branch/shared-repo model to have secrets protected from regular committers during builds.

Now if they could implement branch-specific secrets so I could manage ACLs amongst devs, senior devs, ops etc. then it would be near-perfect.
I think a dimpled fabrication would be best... with whatever amounts to heat sinks on both sides.
You can have inequality of outcome with a much higher floor than what we have today. Social benefits are not an attempt to smooth things out, it’s scraping the excess from the very top to raise the bottom up to a dignified existence.
Use a different CC#
Here's a comment on what specific software needs there are in distributed solar[1], and here's a comment on where to look around for interesting energy companies that may be hiring software engineers[2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13250336

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15127154
They've also been widely used within the geosciences for about 40 years. We refer to gaussian process regression as "kriging" (after the originator if the method) and classification as "indicator kriging", but it's the same method.

If you've ever heard anyone refer to what they're doing as "geostatistics", they were almost definitely doing a regression problem using gaussian processes.
Same here, I even sync my notes across devices and put them under version control
Maybe it's the assumption that salaries aren't competitive? Maybe it's because most business models in energy tech aren't compatible with VC? Maybe it's because you have no idea what specific problems there are that need solving? Maybe the assumption is that energy is super slow and bureaucratic?

Since you're asking, and I can only speak for myself, I don't like taking that path because at some point you'd need to communicate with some sort of local/national authority and/or politicians and I'd rather eat ear wax than go down that road.
One thing I'd like to add: they're not actually 4-Dimensional. (read the link for more on this)
It depends on who you ask because school serves different purposes for different people. School is a service that someone can use as part of their education.
These are just brain farts. Read throughout the sibling threads to see all the other personal accounts.
The gist of this seemed to be that we need to either allow unrestricted immigration, mainly from Africa, or up our robot game.

So really, if the "robots are going to take all our jobs" people are correct, we should just stay the course? Since we'll need those robots soon?
When I saw they won this case (I didn't know the case was in action), I donated what I could. I donate to the EFF and they support him with legal counsel.

I've been a vocal opponent of the law not including the standards they reference due to copyright. Once it's enacted into law you should lose all right to prevent dissemination of those standards. It's not like the government is ever knocking on your door as a standards designer to enact your private standard as law.

I think a large part of why housing in Florida is expensive is because of the prohibitively expensive standards you need to purchase to even determine what you have to do to legally build a home.
This is not negative, this is called objective. The bear eats fish. That is nice and relaxing for the bear, but really painful for the fish. And there is not much the fish can do about it. Will the positive thinking fish get better results? No. Has the bear an innate advantage in that exchange? Yep. Is it negative to say that the bear has innate advantage? Nope.

If you think that your success comes from happy thoughts I bet you are in a similar good situation as the bear.

E.g. compare a western european software manager to his developer comrades in eastern europe offices. Independent of his skill he can make $70-150k a year. Most of his programmers will be in other countries where even people 5x his skill and putting in 3x his hours will earn around $18k/year. (Example could be Munich vs Brno, 600 km apart)

Who do you think can achieve more with his happy thoughts?

I don't say "do something for the poor". I don't say "you are bad for having an advantage". What I want to make sure is that one knows about ones advantage and that others can't easily copy it. In fact ignoring that difference is quite assholey.
Oh, wow, I thought it was excellent, dark humor. As well as the other advice to use an office app like Microsoft Word to get basic English spelling and grammar, consider first serving a smaller audience well in one of your team’s native languages.

If an English speaking market is what you are first targeting that is cool too. I would recommend adopting Lean Startup and refocus on what is your MVP and product/customer fit, conversations and experiments.
I don't get why anyone would buy this over the AOC model that already exists, is bigger and doesn't involve Kickstarter.

It's also only $160 at Amazon... less than this Kickstarter deal.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12768/aoc-adds-usb-typec-port...
St. Louis Uber and Lyft Driver Secretly Live-Streamed Passengers, Report Says
Did a Group of Grad Students Really Help Plan the Gulf War?
So, "All mainstream languages marketed as functional" would include Elixir, and yet Elixir "barely missed out on the top 25"?
I'd prefer to stay at OpenGL level. Maybe some kind of standardized high-level API pops up on top of Vulkan/Metal, for those who don't want to go that low-level.
Maybe, but I think the concept of metro areas doesn't help much when trying to define people moving from small towns to cities.

For example, the Philadelphia metro area has over 6 million residents, while the city itself has only about 1.6. Problem is, the metro area includes extremely rural and small towns within about a 1-2 hour drive of the center of the city [1]. I'm not sure I'd consider someone living in exurban/rural Chester or Montgomery counties, 50 miles from the city, to be living in Philly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Valley
Finding money to support the disenfranchised.

Edit: My original answer was unclear and too brief for someone.

A clearer answer is that outsider artists, as generally identified by profound social marginalization, typically resulting from mental illnesses, are statistically almost never able to support themselves on art-making.

Programs exist for the mentally ill, yet it would be a hard case to make that these are sufficient for creating quality of life such that everyone suffering in that category, and who would rather be making art as a primary occupation, can support themselves and live independently (provided that is a goal) on art making income.

But like many causes, money for this cause is harder to come by than it could be in the wealthiest nation in the world.

Extracting money, not currently available, from the least creative of workers to support creative work and fulfilling lives for "outsider artists" and all others on the margins of the modern economy seems to me a kind of fair play.
Moreover, DRM enables content industry to control where content can be played, known as geoblocking. For example, I live in North Europe, and the titles that are available in 'official', DRM-controlled sources, such as Netflix, are noticeably different than in North America. Maybe Netflix only has distribution rights for some title in the US market, so when I try to look it up the search comes back empty.

What DRM allows Netflix is to still sell one and the same subscription globally. The content you can view is not tied to your account's registered post address or such, but which physical region of the Internet you are actually accessing the service from currently. When we were visiting the US, my spouse was able to play titles with her Netflix subscription that are not available at home, because she was connecting to the US DRM servers from the WiFi of our Airbnb in California.

For our flight home, she put her phone in flight mode and was able to watch cached titles during the flight. But as soon as she turned on her data in Europe, the titles magically disappeared in thin air, as the EU DRM server realized the geoblocking violation and revoked her license to those titles.
Worldwide map:

https://www.electricitymap.org/?page=map&solar=false&remote=...
The point kinda is that Webgl is closer to the chemistry than the cooking: It's a fairly low level API. It doesn't offer you a scene graph or otherwise let your work with 3D objects. It doesn't care if the vertex shader input is 3d coordinates, or anything else. It doesn't handle the camera for you, and so on.

It offers you the essential elements you need to compose 3d abstractions (or you can use it for something else), or for a library to run on top of. Or you can choose to use it directly, but then you are in effect cooking with a chemistry set.
Heh, seems like a good adaptation for the old saying. Politics and regulation is like third rail of tech, no one wants to touch it. But that's where the power is.
I'm afraid 'Flood' really annoyed me. The US Govt response was twofold: 1) start a starship programme and 2) make a deep underwater base for govt officials. Not the obvious 'build lots of boats'.

And in a standard Baxter plot theme, the starship is then hijacked by lowlifes.
Yes, but the incentives improved equally.
Most (in my state - MN - which I do believe is known as one of the better ones) state library systems are networked, for this reason. Simply reserve a book you want and it will show up on the weekly van delivery.

I spent a few years growing up in a ridiculously small town where we'd have to drive to the next town over to check out books - and I never missed anything I wanted to read, just had to plan ahead a little.
The Admiral of the String Theory Wars (2015)
Sure, but that's "in our CPUs" in, kinda, exactly the same way that nginx is. It's a microcontroller. It's not like the hardware implemented an HTTP server.
My guess is that a lot of people have become jaded over time because energy contains such a high degree of business and politics.

Another hurdle might be that it's difficult for pure software developers to enter the field because most problems require a combination of hardware, software, infrastructure and regulation in order to be solved.
Darpa has competition plans for insect-scale robots
My favourite bits are the talking snake, and getting one of each animal on board.
Sure, there are superficial interactions with strangers in dense, global communities. There’s also an increased likelihood of meeting someone who may significantly expand your network and change your life at any moment.

Humility is an aspect that’s often missing from these urban vs. suburban/rural discussions. Living in an suburban community and working in tech, it’s very easy to have a high opinion of yourself. Moving to SF quickly humbles you as you are suddenly surrounded by people much smarter than yourself. You feel a need to focus on what you’re uniquely good at and work on continuing to improve your skills in that niche. That was my experience anyway.