skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good news for op. I know a homeless developer who is not so lucky (yet?).

Emmanuel (we call him Mani) is a 50 (or 60?) year old homeless man who would smile and shake our hands every day when we showed up at our local library to hold coding hours. He came in to every single office hour from (4-8pm) to learn as much as he could and literally never missed a day in the 3 months pilot that we were there.

We learned from the librarians that for the past year, Mani has been coming to the library right when it opened (9am) and stayed until it closed (8pm) every day (including the weekend), trying to teach himself how to code. He was hoping to launch his website so he could make some money off ads. With a notepad++ on his usb drive, he coded every day piecing little things together. We taught him basic JavaScript and simple server stuff and helped him get his website up! https://newsgusher.garagescript.org/

Our office hours has ended, but Mani is still plowing away at the library. If you want to meet him, you can find him at Downtown San Jose Public Library on the third floor.
Luckily it doesn't work with TLDs or the "domain" part (or whatever the name for the "google" in "google.com" is).

So stuff.www.com shows as stuff.www.com

But www.www.com shows as www.com
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> The PCIe lane story is stuff of fanboys. It comes at a cost, power and heat.

Could you unpack this a bit? Specifically, I'm curious if the cost is a premium per lane (e.g. W/lane greater on AMD than on Intel) [1]. Also, is that cost at all affected by the I/O volume or merely the CPU being power-hungry overall?

[1] Of course, that assumes everything else being equal, which it can't be, as well as equal proprotion of PCIe utilization, which is unlikely.
I think "genius" is one of those things people say about people just to be nice. That certainly seems to be the case here, if you get the whole context of what Munger thinks about Tesla. Compare what he has to say about Tesla and Musk with what he has to say about BYD.
Bugtrackers are not an appropriate place to post feedback on products. They are for listing bugs.
Reducing the displayed value from { "is_secure" YES/NO, "http/https" ARGH/WHAT, "full URL" GIBBERISH } to { "is_secure" YES/NO, "domain" AOL KEYWORD } improves my chances of defending against a phishing attack someday, as well as those of non-tech users.

Reducing information density is a critical component of automobile safety measures. Dashboards in cars just prior to the "screens everywhere" era have been boiled down to the essence of what's necessary for a human being to operate a vehicle safely and without putting others at risk: One bright line showing speed, one bright line showing engine speed, one bright lint showing fuel remaining, and a few multicolored status icons; and then, a central info display where any logic more complex than "push to show next value" requires parking the car.

EDIT: Changed NAME to AOL KEYWORD.
Fan or not, GP said there was no way Tesla could make and sell 25,000 cars a month and here they are last month selling 20,000. Would it be so shocking to see a month with 25k?

GP said Ford makes the F150s with “no drama” and yet their factory is burning and their cars are catching fire — something I recall Tesla getting flack for, but Tesla never had a $140 million recall for it.

I get it, different standards for different companies. The company making 20 mpg pickup trucks in business for 115 years I completely agree it’s a different kind of drama for their factory to burn, all F150 vehicle production to cease, and to recall 2 million vehicles for spontaneously combusting.

GP said, “It's not credible that Tesla, with a limited sales network, limited charging infrastructure, high costs and long backlog is going to magically take away double digit percentages of the highly competitive small luxury sedan market.”

Except that’s exactly what they’ve done. Fan or not, those are the facts, and I think to debate about Tesla it helps if you’re not in denial about their actual accomplishments.
Eyes on the pies: how Mabel Normand, Chaplin’s mentor, changed cinema
> One week I measured how much water I needed to clean myself top to bottom: two glasses.

This measurement is meaningless without calibrating for how dirty you were to start with. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you were mostly clean and presentable, wearing freshly cleaned clothes daily, only needing to wash off some sweat and skin oils.

A person living rough on the streets will probably be wearing dirty clothes for days or weeks, and constantly be exposed to the elements. The grime accumulates, and unless you've reproduced these conditions in your experiment, your figures are unrealistic.
Yes. I personally feel like the trading space is ripe for someone to come along and kick over everyone's cans. Etrade, Schwab, TD, they all work but -- they're all just so clunky, and early 2000's, and old, and just...just so not desirable. As a 25-year old professional who doesn't have the time to research stocks/options, and doesn't want to park his money in an index fund, I desperately need a MODERN alternative. But sadly there is none (no, Robinhood is not an alternative, it's a casino in your pocket).
Not only are the incumbents well protected, but they are increasingly few.

2 years ago I had 300 Mbps cable service at home via Time Warner Cable, then they were bought by Spectrum. Now I have 150 Mbps service.

I still live in the same place and I'm still using the same cable modem (one I own, so as to avoid the ridiculous rental fees) I used back then, but 300 Mbps was simply killed as an option. I can't even pay more for it.

Google Fiber may have been a useful gambit to increase the pace of rollout of other telecom's high speed offerings, but I would bet good money that it will be a very short-term play with erosion of net neutrality and further consolidation of the telecom market quickly wiping out the benefits.
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One of memories of Psychology 101 is that people will retain brand preferences by the mid to late 20's for the better part of the rest of their adulthood so the earlier you can imprint your product on them, the better the opportunity for marketing to work. It's also why TV advertising can charge so much more for shows with a younger demographic (> 18).
I think those all grew organically without the analogue of "VC Money" backing them.
Work journaling
Would a tool that allows software engineers/tech workers to journal their workdays be useful? For example, if I want to find a person who uses or used a tool, say ElasticSearch, I could go to LinkedIn and search the term and I would see people who may have listed it as a skill or even just mentioned that word. But I want to know how they used it. For ex, I may have a need to build a search system using ElasticSearch and if I find someone who has done a similar thing, it would be helpful to parse through their journal to understand how they used the tool to build the search system. Also, users who journal their workdays regularly get a chance to reflect on their career progression and interests. As more users journal, the content grows and it might provide meaningful insights to the users and recruiters may also benefit. Thoughts?
My premise is that an animal in my care, if left hungry, will suffer, just like I would suffer. The cat's degree of consciousness, or whether or not it belongs to a species that eats its young, is not relevant to that premise. If you think that is a broken premise, I don't know what to tell you, but you might perhaps really enjoy reading Hume.
That's a legit distinction, especially for a company that wants to work with/stay in the good graces of the Federal government (e.g. now the Air Force is pondering how to respond, given their relationship with Space X).

But it's apparently too sophisticated a point for the article, which is pure clickbait.
So it's a virus? ... because it sounds like a virus :D
The amusing thing, Musks asks, is this legal? And JRE said yes in California. Wonder about JRE's other guests with security clearances now, since he has many military contractors, etc.
I run home mail sever for a while. I used to have smtp at home but a few years back I switched to a smtp proxy/forwarder on AWS ($5-6/month) connected via TLS SMTP on custom port at home (which also serves IMAPS on a custom port). Once a year I have to update DNS when my Comcast IP changes. Otherwise it is completely trouble free setup.
If you compare the years and years of antt-Intel articles against an objective measure (say Intel's revenue or its price action) a reasonable person would not conclude anything but that the site has an extreme anti-Intel bias and peddles conspiracy theories that have zero predictive power and nobody would read it. (See also Infowars, all tabloid journalism.)

The reason this never happens is because the people who read this stuff aren't actually concerned with reality or the actual prospects of Intel. It's an interesting kind of market "failure" where people are demanding a broken product and that's exactly what they get.
They’re the largest insurer aren’t they? Medicare + Medicaid + the VA.

So if a hospital doing it is good, why isn’t having the largest insurer plus a huge hospital/care center/doctor group doing it better?
As a libertarian who argues for government regulation being the problem and not the market a lot, I must say, I'm not surprised.

This is basically normal and what you expect. People are just blind to the massive amount of regulation that struggles and often basically predetermines the market and when you try to explain how 3 different regulation combine to make the improvement impossible peoples eyes gloss over.

If the regulation is not "THIS GUY HAS A MONOPOLY" its very hard to get anybody exited or even talking about these regulations.
Reality: we get Electron but this time using Servo
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I think the eventual goal is to get the major DEs and toolkits to stop supporting their X backends in the near future. Then X would be effectively dead but for ancient legacy applications.

This has already happened for ALSA with some applications. If you want to use BlueZ or Firefox, your options are either PulseAudio or no sound at all under Linux.
Senior engineering values
jetting with his new girlfriend to Italy for weeks at a time != taking 2 hours to go to his kid's little league game
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If you're having Python bottlenecks, it is the wrong language. First try Pypy, and if that doesn't/can't work switch to Julia/Go/R/C++ as your domain requires.
NYC: still old world elites and I like it

this observation still prevents creating what works about Silicon Valley
Wow that website loaded so fast. It kinda grows on me. Reminds me of the web back in the 90s when all HTML was coded mostly by hand.
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Oh jesus, it was a joke, token-overly-serious-HN-commenter.
which drugs do you fund? I doubt that public funding of drug R&D will be as efficient as a privately funded effort. If it were all publicly funded, the incentives for selecting drug candidates throughout all stages of the pipeline are shifted.
Here's a few choices,

https://www.amazon.com/SOKOO-Portable-Efficiency-Reinforced-...

https://www.amazon.com/Foldable-Waterproof-Efficiency-Cellph...

https://www.amazon.com/Balight-Outdoor-Foldable-Powered-Char...

28W basically gives you an fourth panel, but your backpack is probably 3 panels tall.
>> Facebook allows me to stay connected to people I rarely see.

>If you rarely see them or interact, how much true value are you gaining other than an abstract sense of nostalgia.

In short - a lot. Add to that the fact that people travel - and I do pretty often - and Facebook is currently the best tool to meet people you know in faraway places.

I live in California, and last time I traveled to Germany, I got to meet two of my friends who live NY there who just happened to be there for an occasion (work/conference travel). I wouldn't have thought to notify them personally in advance, and neither would they. Posting "Hey, I'm at (location)" on FB is by far the easiest way to go about it.
Are people still considering smaller, local ISPs for email? Or are there even enough of those to consider?
Genius and good CEO are very different things. Also I dont think he is a genius at all.
It ain't working that bad so far. I mean we have increasing gap, but the 0.0001%, which arguably is pretty smart, is in the end using both their wealth and wisdom to try to selflessly make the world a better place.

I just checked the numbers and indeed, relative amount of money spend on philanthropy seems to be increasing[1][2], I couldn't find any global numbers though.

1. https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&...

2. https://www.nptrust.org/philanthropic-resources/charitable-g...
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we're primarily paying for early stage basic science, which is the desired purpose of public funding. The huge investments in biotech and pharma (>$50M to bring a drug through clinical trials) are privately funded
Chesterton's Fence is about a technology somewhere between thousands and tens of thousands years old. Fences are extremely well understood.

All of software has been around less than a century; the concept of personal computers running software that an end-user might adjust settings on is about sixty years old; thinking about Internet security is roughly thirty years old; the modern web ecosystem is no older than JavaScript, 22 years old.

You're still right that blindly changing settings is not a great idea, but the Chesterton's Fence analogy is misplaced.
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This is a good question that is difficult to answer.

I think the answer is that drug development is the kind of process which public institutions are particularly ill suited to manage. That isn’t to say it’s impossible, but the chance of messing it up is very high. A public institution simply cannot fund a research process purely based on facts. There are always other political motivations involved, about where the money goes, who gets the money, who is getting too much money etc. A drug company is free to pursue and fund development of drugs based on merit alone.
I'm now the same way, and it pains me to see "optimized for Google Chrome"

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/4/16805216/google-chrome-onl...
I know you are being facetious (HTML!), but this did remind me of the Fresco project:

http://wiki.c2.com/?FrescoFramework
http://berlin.sourceforge.net/

Hard to believe that 15 years has already passed since I heard about it.
The limiting factor is Google has undergone the same transformation as nearly all market-leading companies go - their function has changed from innovation and disruption to protecting their markets and rent-seeking. They're too large now to do anything without it being prohibitively difficult and expensive.

The day I read an article announcing they'd hired the former CFO of Morgan Stanley, and she would be focusing on "cost containment", I knew Google Fiber was dead.
Yes large differences in orientation will make Euler angles gimbal lock. And it looks strange, even for small differences in orientation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocoibc7MoKg
I'm most excited about "Enhanced Open."

The reason Open WiFi never had encryption is essentially because people argued that if a connection cannot be perfectly secure then it shouldn't try to be secure at all. Or the exact opposite of defense in depth.

Enhanced Open does what we should have been doing since WPA1, Opportunistic Wireless Encryption. It is imperfect, but a substantial improvement over current Open WiFI.

To quote Voltaire "Perfect is the enemy of good."
That’s completely true, I wasn’t clear in my first post, I meant images alone do not necessarily cause harm, whereas a cigarette does necessarily cause harm.

You’re completely right that there are images which can cause harm
Hi Doreen,

As someone who has careened on the edge of homelessness, due to mental illness, but thankfully not yet fallen into it straight out: thank you for your replies and posts in this thread :)

Kind regards.
The company could still figure out that he can't attend an on site interview and he's in Russia.

By the way, Russia is a particularly bad choice. Russians are not permitted to work in London, it's outside of Europe and there is no immigration agreement. The resume won't survive the first pass from HR.
> The pay wasn't even impressive.

Famous companies that people intrinsically want to work at don't have to offer extrinsic market rates for labor.
Hey Jesse,

I'm also formerly homeless, and now the cofounder of https://LambdaSchool.com (YC S17). We have a nonprofit fund designed specifically to help out homeless software engineers looking for a job.

I'd love to put you in a cheap airbnb or apartment, hook you up with Lambda School's career services team who will help review your resume, get your github and portfolio in shape, practice interviewing, and help you land a job. We've already seen multiple success stories (for example David https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/homeless-man-handing-out..., who is now making almost $100k/yr).

Generous donors have allowed us to continue to grow the fund after Lambda School's original $50,000 contribution.

I know how hard it is to focus on getting a job when you're just trying to survive, so let's try to eliminate that distraction. Hit me up at austen@lambdaschool.com and let's help you focus and get to where you need to be.

PS if anyone on HN wants to donate to the fund it's here - https://www.gofundme.com/lambda-perpetual-access-fund. Generally we can help someone who knows how to write code go from homeless to hired with a couple thousand dollars all-in.
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Usually those tricks show up during texturing or because of float/half imprecision in the pixel shaders. Rasterization of should be the same across all hardware, mandated by the D3D spec, and a very well-tested thing in the D3D compliance suite [0]. If not, you would see various seams in applications.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/di...
A Chinese company is probably a bad example since their real wages have been increasing, but do you think relative charity might be increasing because the rich keep getting richer and the poor poorer? More people need help and the rich feel the pain less.
I was talking about suffering, pain and choice IN humans, you brought animals into the equation. It's a comment on HN so sorry for not specifying that the article and my comment were regarding humans only. Bringing animals in was the broken premise. If it is your responsibility to feed the cat, then yes the cat will suffer. I don't even understand your point, where does the cat get a choice to do anything at all? But that is also nonsensical since cats can't do anything about it but react which was my point to begin with.
When those words first became common the people for whom they are painful were not as plentiful in the field. The painful meaning of those words far predates the existence of computers.

The lack of foresight of the coiners is not an excuse for current callousness.
Here in Phoenix Google announce Fiber and Cox Communications when crazy rolling out their gigabit offering. Google stopped, Cox pretty much stopped too.
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I think that what you are saying is true, in a manner.
To my eyes, it is however in the manner that for the small syntax and the small number of idioms, it consistently surpises me how weirdly they interact.
make >$500k/yr

That does, at least, place you in the top quintile of slave compensation worldwide.
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I'm not trying to bust your chops, I'm trying to let you know how you come across. If you don't care, that's fine.
Agreed as well. It's annoying because they think they're deprecating downvoted comments by fading them out when they're actually calling more attention to them by requiring the reader to invest more effort to read them.

It's reminiscent of the infamous "disemvoweling" strategy used on a few other forums, where the reader is forced to decide whether they want to painstakingly reconstruct offensive and abusive comments or blindly trust someone else to restrict what they see.

Life would be so much easier if they just displayed the comment score like most other moderated forums and let the reader decide the merits of the comments based on visible information.
Hoping wireless will solve the B.B. problem is laughable. It doesn’t matter what technology you use, the airwaves are a single shared medium while wires are essentially private sanctums of bandwidth within their own little environment with essentially the same bandwidth in each wire. Wireless companies are still charging per Gb, while wireline companies charge per 100s of Gb. People use streaming all the time, and that’s only increasing. Wireless is not going to be viable for the streaming future of 4K, etc for a very long time, and even when the tech is ready, the providers are still going to charge huge sums for that access. If wireless really is cheaper to build out, then why the huge disparity in price per Gb?
I would expect basic morals to be par for the course.
my boss is hiring and i have a spare room to let. only half a world away.
Just to be super clear, I don't think that the increasing gap is a good thing. I was just commenting on the fact that surprisingly many super rich people decide to go into philanthropy instead of letting their wealth dissolve within their families.

Buffet had a nice, pretty old article about why leaving huge loads of money to your children is a bad idea but I can't find it at the moment.
It's weird to think of Oblivion as in any way procedurally generated, coming as the sequel to Arena and Daggerfall that really felt like RPG versions of Elite.
Elon stoned and drunk has an oddly soothing voice. He should narrate the "cow jumped over the Moon" book to small children. I was listening to that podcast today and it was a strangely relaxing experience.
For one, I really appreciate his public image. His one of the few people, let alone billionaires or CEOs, that are sincere and communicate without layers of legal and PR departments. If only more billionaire CEOs were like that, I think we'd live in a much better word.

Edit: Keep talking Elon, you're the only one we (the world) have.