skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is great. Hispanic families in the US would also benefit highly from non-predatory financial products. I spent a few months learning about investing and tried my best to pass that knowledge on to my family but it was challenging communicating the value of savings. Hope you have great success in Chile and are able to expand to other markets.
Another idea to consider, something like the Elgato Stream Deck (LCD keyboard where you can configure the image and behavior of every key).
In FL, a moped also has pedals and low power and does not need a tag/registration, nor a drivers license.

I’ve seen normal street bicycles retrofitted gas engines, ala early 1900’s motorcycles.

I have the understanding that aside from cost, people without a license due to DUI ride these since they can’t legally drive.
I am already running an API service on Zeit now using a golang container that adds the binary and a csv file to a scratch image and re-reads the csv on each request (all requests take less than 0.3 seconds so i have not optimized).

Currently I have to make sure to set min instances to 1 on the 'production' version of the API and set min instances = 0 to older versions.

Will have to try before knowing for sure but I seems like switching to serverless docker would mean I don't have to make the distinction between 'old production' and 'new production' anymore and keep servicing requests to very old versions of my API without an expensive (7 seconds) cold boot.

Nice!
There are a lot of websites that I'm not sure if they count as businesses but are reasonably simple:

- code prettifiers,
- converting from X to PDF,
- converting image formats,
- YouTube downloaders,
- TimeZone converters,
- Online calculators,
- SQL formatters

And so many more...
Luckily, we don't have to have the argument about whether Trump voters are unfairly treated, because the evidence that Torba is an odious anti-Semite is clear and obvious to all but the willfully blind.
I think topics like this (definitely Cowan's style) are better left a little more open.

The "thing that is happening" is a sort of etherealization of property. One underlying cause is that the bits of "property" themselves are digital/ethereal. Books, songs, films... They are no longer physical, and the economic norms around them are changing to reflect that. In conjunction, I think the cultural impact of consuming more digital goods (and probably a million other things) is that people are used to this type of economy. They want the same for their car, bike, etc.

I would call uber a step passed renting, or an extreme form renting. Leasing has already been the norm for a while, along with financing that is indistinguishable from leasing.

The "handful of corporations" part is... more of a consequence, I think. Etherealization/digitization is proving to be very centralization (or winner-take-most) friendly. There are a bunch of drivers to this though. One big reason is centralization of wealth. Big piles of money need big investments to go into. Uber could raise money on better terms than an "uber-for-aukland," adjusting for scale. $1 of profit/revenue/DAU is simply worth less than 1/100th of $100 in profit, on the "speculative investment" market.

I agree on your main points. There is a danger of becoming more of a "rentier" economy. If this trend continues (projecting trends is always speculative) we could end up with more property/wealth in corporate hands, and private individuals will only have liabilities and consumption.

The big elephant in this room is the same elephant that stomped through pyramid rooms 5,000 years ago: real estate, or "land" as it was once known. This is the big ticket item, and represents most of the wealth ordinary people own if they own anything. Cars, CDs and such just don't add up to much value, not anymore.
I think there's an unexamined assumption that a "theory of everything" must exist.

As it stands now we don't have a working theory of the turbulent motion of fluids. We don't know why hurricanes and eddies happen, but we're investing brainpower in understanding particle physics in a neighborhood of the big bang? Get out of here.
Yes, this was in the US. And yes, I had to give SSN. As far as I understand this requirement was added sometime around 2011.
Or two years too early. That's always the question.

In favor of it already being too late: TOL is back to where it was six years ago, with three times the sales now vs then, and for practical purposes infinite more profit (they only finally got back to profitable in 2Q12). What would the short thesis be against that setup? It certainly does look like a lot of downside is built in now. Meanwhile HD is trampling estimates.

We've got no inventory build (the exact opposite, a painful dearth of inventory). The job market is extremely strong. Mortgage defaults aren't soaring. Household debt isn't soaring. A value stagnation (wages aren't rising fast enough) looks like the most likely bad scenario for now, instead of a meaningful correction.
One nice thing about Tcl vs. Node: Tcl doesn't crash if there's an error in one of the asynchronous call stacks. The Tcl interpreter catches the error and passes it to a (customizable) background error processor, and keeps going.
"I only wanted to take away due process from other people!"
I am not a big fan of Alex Jones, but...
pushing somebody away from popular platforms because a percentage of the users do not like him or her for whatever reason is appalling.
With this way of thinking the twitter account of The Rolling Stones -- who have less followers than Alex Jones -- can also be deleted quickly.
Who is next?
Yes. But the academic meaning cannot be used in this context as a legal meaning. It fails the basic requirement that a government enforce the rule of law with equal standing and rights before the law.
> Americans confuse control with love

Ownership culture has always exhibited this sort of pathological tendency. People who live next to a park with a basketball court insist on an inferior hoop in their driveway. The suburbs are littered with garden sheds full of identical, mostly-idle tools. We insist on a car for every member of the household.

Similar examples are readily conjured.

To the extent that any of these involve practical advantages, they're far outweighed, it seems to me, by the bizarre psychological impulses that are really driving all this compulsive behavior.
My favourite personal example of this is using a GPU to perform an all-pairs nearest neighbour lookup in an image (for all pixels, find the nearest keypoint). That's something like 2 billion comparisons per image. A decent CPU (parallelised) took minutes to do that, at the time.

By far the simplest solution was to brute force it on a GPU. Probably took longer "single threaded", as there was no optimisation at all, but over O(10e6) pixels with a list of O(10e3) keypoints in shared memory it was basically instant.

It was a great lesson in premature optimisation. I could have spent days tweaking the CPU method with heuristics, sorting the inputs, etc. In the end it was less than 100 lines of OpenCL I think.
3 reasons to use Vue.js in your next web project – Prismic
Sure. But you (think average person, not specifically a valley programmer) probably can't generate as much value on your own as inside the firm, so in part they take the value that they put on the table.
These comments make me sad.

People here are mostly saying "its better than smoking", but vaping is becoming extremely popular among kids who would never think of smoking.

We need to get rid of nicotine.
Heavy duty are supposedly cleaner (per unit of fuel) both on paper (standards) and in reality, because manufacturers don't shy away from exposing business customers to the maintenance burden of exhaust treatment systems. But trucking is a border-crossing low-margin business, corners will be cut at every opportunity.
The psychology behind why you always want to sit in the same seat
It's a political problem. So you can volunteer with or fund organizations that are pushing for change politically.
Are you asking about simple software? Or simple business models? Or something else?
Is the testing center free?
It would be more effective to sanction the Trump Organization in Turkey [1].

1. https://www.trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/istanbul/trump-t...
My brother and his girlfriend both worked at the same retirement home when they were in high school. They both were harassed extensively and on a daily basis. And yes, they were both minors at the time. Your experience is exactly what I've come to expect of centennials :)
The US is a very, very low bar to clear. Things here in Europe are getting worse every year. Of course, not getting-shot-by-a-gang bad, but bad. They are not horribly bad, but they don't have to be this bad.
...which makes me wonder if maybe the blockchain aficionados are onto something. The problem that blockchains solve is precisely to replace the "trusted middlemen" with a distributed network of miners and coin-holders, and to split the rewards that would accrue to them across a competitive market. If every Internet marketplace were replaced with a smart contract, that's a massive potential market.
Thanks! I can't see your personal email in your HN profile, please email anything to vivacolombia@fintual.com to get your contact! Thanks again!
Because he's already serving consecutive life sentences and the prosecutor sees no state interest in pursuing a conviction when the defendant is already going to spend the rest of his life in jail.
> This is the trouble when you start to try to “moderate” content according to some moral, as opposed to legal, standard: you inevitably end up creating this huge, complicated tree of rules that are often inconsistent and conflict with themselves, need to be interpreted and argued about, and frequently require escalation to more senior people when there is disagreement.

That's absolutely not a result of using a moral standard as opposed to a legal standard.

I mean, that description is word-for-word applicable to legal standards, too.
I would say that all three of those topics are being worked on by researchers who have also worked on string theory (among many other people), but string theory is not directly relevant to most of the work in those topics. Especially tensor networks, which is largely driven by condensed matter physics and thus far has limited relation to string theory. Eg: most of the research at the interface between tensor networks / high-energy physics is restricted to a particular tensor network known as MERA, and its association with holographic spacetime [1].

If I might make a sociological observation, people who work on "string theory" have had to do the hard work of understanding quantum field theory in its many contortions, and the "good researchers" among them often have a thorough understanding of a good chunk of ideas in fundamental physics and related math. This also puts them in a position to capitalize on any related research avenues which they consider promising, even if those topics have little to do with string theory as such. So, IMHO (b) definitely carries weight, and I do not have a complete enough picture to comment on (a).

[1] PS: I have worked on this topic. Also, FWIW, I wouldn't claim to have a string theory background, but I did learn a little string theory in grad school.
Move where exactly? At this point x86 is the least of all evils that have respectable performance.
Hey, I just went through your signup questionnaire to test it out (I work in a similar space in the US). It felt very long to me in comparison with most services I've looked at. I'm not sure what the regulations in Chile require you to ask, but for what it's worth, Betterment entirely skips doing a risk questionnaire and let's you immediately choose a goal/portfolio. The signup funnel for financial services is long and brutal due to all of the PII you have to collect, so making it shorter is usually a big win.

Overall very impressed though! Awesome to see this sort of stuff launching in markets outside of the US.
You would probably use something like a queue[0] that takes in data from the websocket and dishes it out to lambda functions. You might also use something like Kinesis[1] or other alternatives.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/
I bet you he (or she) stores large heavy things in their fridge, like big pots of stew or heavy cuts of meat.
They're not as separate as many seem to think.

The reason lawyers tend to ignore the speedy trial act is a practical one. They object, the judge dismisses the charges without prejudice, and the prosecution refiles the charges (or substantially similar ones). Speedy trial clock reset to zero. Everybody except the defendant shares a laugh.

In many cases (including mine), the prosecutor will of their own accord and with no apparent prompting, supersede their indictment with minimal changes, achieving much the same result. It's like hitting the snooze button on a case you want to procrastinate (or sweat/squeeze the defendant into a plea agreement).

This works great until the case is dismissed without prejudice and then the prosecution tries to refile past the statute of limitations. Whoops. Check, and mate. The only practical power of the speedy trial act.
At a hotel I stayed at in Hinton, Alberta (pop. 15,000, which had a bad drug epidemic at the time), the laminated hotel security card on the bed specifically said that, at nighttime, if someone knocks on the door claiming to be from the hotel, first call the front desk to verify that a houseman had actually been sent. This is a solved problem.
Sorry I'm a moron today - correction for my own OCD:

I said "Errata" - I meant "Addenda"
simple software that solved a common problem and has a pretty straightforward business model.
You could argue that you are in control and just outsourcing the making of money and spending it to Elon Musk or the large corporations :)
Is that the old Reddit switcharoo leaking into HN!? Haha
Those safety features have improved a lot over the years. A 2002 car will have a airbags designed for 160lb men, probably lack side-impact airbags, may or may not have stability control (and if it does, it will be primitive) and will passed only a handful of crash tests.

A 2018 car will have front and side airbags designed to work as well on 120lb woman as a 200lb man, backup cameras, very advanced stability control systems, and will have been tested against the most common causes of crash deaths since 2002.

You can go to the NHSTA website and download the raw crash test and see how many gs your head will experience or how many netwons of force will be applied to your femurs. Using this information, I can see that you would be very likely to sustain a concussion in an accident in a 2002 Camry and your chest would be compressed by 30mm, while in a 2018 Camry you're at minimal risk for any head injury and your chest would only compress by 23mm.

It's pretty interesting stuff. TL;DR: cars are safer today than 20 years ago, by a lot.
> Are we going to now require contracts before going into any relationship that might involve a power dynamic?

I don't think such a contract would be enforceable. It's better to avoid relationships with people you have power over entirely, because they may feel forced to comply to avoid you wielding power over them in revenge.
> according to the highway code in most of the world.

Was there some article written on this? Can I get a link?
Interesting - any idea what the other circumstance are? Is there a statute for this? Have you considered requesting some specific source code and publishing it yourself? Might make sense to start small here.

I have a lot of experience in making public records requests and would be happy to help.
> He’s saying, “you ought to own the stuff you possess.” Which I didn’t think was a controversial opinion but I guess I stand corrected.

I think you and the author conflated ownership of "stuff" with ownership of--or a stake in--society. All of the things you listed as owning versus the not-owning (whether it's called renting or leasing or subscribing) are trade-offs you made because you value the concept of ownership of stuff over the opposite.

My view is different: I want ownership of society; I want to be a full participant in society, regardless of the actual state of being of the physical and electronic objects around me. This is why, for example, I give money to local journalists on Patreon, and why I deliberately live in a smaller place in a large city where I can pay taxes to a well-funded library system. This is the type of "ownership" I value.

Other things I do, like ride mass transit, subscribe to Spotify, and pay my city electric bill (I wasn't aware that buying electricity from my municipality impacted my "ownership" of anything, as the author claims), are all things I do because I find them to be more efficient or more useful to me. There are things I unequivocally own, like records or my treasured collection of baseball cards, that have value to me beyond my simple possession of them. There are some things I own, like my residence, where ownership has been more of a burden to me than a non-ownership method would have. It's all about balance.

(One last question: Could you clarify "I do my own taxes?" What is it that doing taxes yourself, presumably by pen and calculator, gains over downloading a product like TaxAct and saving the PDF of the result?)
Delivery food is a great way to save money, but they can't deliver to your hotel room. You have to meet them at the entrance to the hotel.
I don't think you've really taken in the article if you think what it says is we need to buy more cars. The point here is that we use things we don't really own, and in fact ownership (particularly home ownership) has traditionally been one of the things that's ensured the stability of the country. People who feel they've got something to lose don't generally seek to burn down the whole system.
Code Review Review Is the Manager’s Job
That's a really difficult argument to make without a source. A lot of recent research is disproving the age-old trope of 'Damn Dirty Diesel'.

sources and additional reading:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es034928d

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-carcinogenic-soot-particles-pe...

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/03/f9/2002_deer...
R vs Python: which to choose for data science
Or just keep using AMD CPUs, because yet again they are unaffected https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/security-updates
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17759762.
Samsung fridges are hot garbage and imo should be avoided at all costs.

I had a not-so-drastic experience with a high-end samsung fridge: A design flaw where the recirculation fan would accrue ice, and symptoms were that it sounded like a chainsaw every time it turned on, and eventually the fan would freeze over. The only way to "fix" it was to thaw it out every few weeks, and any attempt to replace parts was futile since it was a design flaw, not a mechanical failure.
I personally don't like when people use legal quirks so he already lost my vote.
This is a great idea! It's always a good idea to control carefully what information is available to a system you might not always be able to trust completely. It's especially important to be sure you're not leaking info through a channel you didn't consider, which at times means that an allowlisting approach is preferable to a blocklisting approach.

Your heart is in the right place. Keep iterating!
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I had assumed that methadone was a safe alternative.

So, are there solid studies on how mortality compares per-capita, per-usage duration?
Even if you truly have "nothing" to hide, how much do you trust these companies in securing the information from you they harvest? It's not necessarily the companies i'm worried about. It's the people that hack those companies i'm worried about. Once the hackers obtain that information, they can clone you and do all kinds of nasty fraud in your name. They can literally ruin your life.

EDIT: By clone I mean virtual clone of course, not Arnold Schwarzenegger "The 6th Day" clones
Converting X to PDF is far from simple ( I wish it was! ).
The article mentions houses specifically as something that, with the "smart home," may end up looking more like your iPhone and less like we've traditionally thought of houses.
Not to mention noxious.
Anyone know of something like this for face recognition?
That's the case already: anyone can sign up for a free Zeit account and deploy code (wrapped in a Docker container) that then executes on Zeit's infrastructure.
very nerdy.
Probably craigslist, if you count that. It seems ultra low maintenance, and makes good money.
resolution of cognitive dissonance?
I'm seriously thinking about getting an AMD CPU for my desktop when this i7 4770k finally needs replacing.
Meltdown strikes back: the L1 terminal fault vulnerability
It's actually not always hard (depending on use case and what 'x' is) if you use an existing api or something that has already been developed...why re-invent the wheel?

wkhtmltopdf is pretty easy to use... there's some other tools...
I don't really think striving for total equality is necessary, but the number of people I see begging for change every morning suggests to me we've taken this to a pathological extreme.

The connection between hard work and wealth is also rather more attenuated than your simple ideal suggests.
I thought it has quite a bit of software but splits it into more repositories (and handles many repositories better):

https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=steam
It's entirely possible that self-driving will just be an auto part, sourced from the usual big auto parts makers.

I've always assumed that this is the eventual outcome, even if there is a brief period where SelphDrivin, LLC, et. al., sell their own cars. For decades Bosch would sell a whole fuel injection and ignition system for your new model. Brembo and Bendix will sell you some brakes. I don't know who makes ABS sensors and computers, but I'd guess it's not GM (probably Delco, though) and Ford. MobileEye's lane assist was an option on the Mercedes Sprinter we bought. The next logical step in my mind is self-driving systems.
> I’ve gotten bronchitis several times in the past few years. I’ve finally tracked it down to the nox fumes

Oh, I'd really love to hear how you did that.
And airlines are niche compared to mass market cars too, but they're still a good business!

One thing I think most people don't appreciate is that the switch to self-driving cars will transform America into a mostly-transit society. Once you don't need a car to live from day to day, you sell it. Then you take a self-driving Lyft from your house to the bus depot, train station, or airport.

The market for self-driving busses between cities will grow alongside the market for self-driving cars within cities.
More accurately, faxes do not support accounts. Faxes assume that a single phone line has a single user, like machines on computer networks in the bad old days. The modern equivalent would be using a single email account for the entire company and posting the password around the office.
I'm not at all surprised that the academic meaning of the term "racism" is entirely different than the colloquial meaning. I am, however, confused as to why people are demanding the academic usage enter into common usage.
Lithium Iron batteries makes sense. The cobalt used in anode of common Lithium Ion batteries, 60% of the worlds cobolt is mined in Congo. Cobolt is conflict mineral
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt

It makes sense to use Lithium Iron batteries in a bus because these batteries can take more recharge cycles 2000-8000 instead of the normal 500 recharge cycles of Lithium Cobolt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery
Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought it was European explorers who caused the most damage to the population of Easter island? At least that was the opinion of the David Attenborough documentary I watched on it.