skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure,

I was living with my girlfriend, got laid off from a startup but was burnt out a good 6 months before. Financial struggles of that company just made it worse. My previous job had been pretty demoralizing too. I needed a change.

28 yrs old, I got on a plane to Spain with my girlfriend who rented her house out to cover her mortgage. She didn't enjoy it and needed to work to survive financially as I couldn't support both of us not working the whole time. So she left for Aus and now works a desk job there.

I've been living off savings and money from the sale of my car and bike. The lifestyle is pretty different as technically I live out of a suitcase but the experience is great.

In 4 months, my visa will expire and I will move or go home. If I don't work I will eventually run out of money. I could live off ~1000Eur a month but I like to socialize so it's closer to 1400.

There's a lot of people who do it in a more sustainable fashion and on a permanent basis. A couple I know from Cali live here and are renting out their house. He works remotely and she's started teaching English since being here.

Give it some thought, it's a lot of fun and adventure.
I find this dismissive.

We are not talking about some throwaway web app. We are talking about the Linux kernel. Something that has been used for decades and is currently used on millions of devices every day. From literally computers that power spacecraft down to mobile devices.

UX certainly has its place, however I think changes and additions to the kernel should be carefully considered. If excluding a debugger excludes some careless programmers then maybe that is a good thing.
Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach
One of the main benefits of trust is to be able to rollback transactions. A warm fuzzy feeling of trust is not what is needed.

This provides the fuzzy feeling without any tangible benefit, and all the of the downsides of trustlessness.
Socialism.

Taxes are used to pay for things like housing assistance, welfare, health care, and so forth. Also, "minimum wages" are higher.
>What is immigration?
No body/tank is getting through the ironically named Demilitarized Zone dividing South and North Korea, without getting lit up with fast moving pieces of metal hitting with high kinetic energy.

Hence the tunnels.

North Korean government's long standing, highest priority goal is conquest of South Korea through any means, including military invasion.
Under normal economic conditions, loaning money for longer-periods of time should result in higher interest payments than loaning money for a short period of time.

For one major benchmark, this is no longer true. The 3-month US Treasury and 10-year US Treasury is now inverted, where the 3-month Treasury yields a higher interest rate than the 10-year.

This is one of the more reliable indicators of an upcoming recession. There's a lot of studies for why the yield curve is a leading-indicator of recessions, but it gets pretty complicated to explain. (IE: I actually don't know the reason, but there's plenty of citations available online :-) )

This seems to have been a sudden shift downward of the US 10-year Treasury. Yesterday's 10-year was trading at 2.54%, but apparently dropped 10-bps today (not yet reported on Treasury.gov yet, only being reported by Bloomberg right now)

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/i...
I wish. In my country you have to wait till they harm someone before anyone will do anything. Human rights and all that. How can someone with a visible mental illness be considered to know and make decisions about their health is beyond me. It's wonderful how they simulate normal behavior that even experienced psychiatrists don't notice until it's really bad. I witnessed someone calmly and rationally explain that they have a messianic delusion, like they don't really believe it. Back home it was a different story, performing miracles and whatnot.
Not at all. FUD. If you're going to make a statement like that at least come with some facts. There is a massive difference between me getting login permission TO MY OWN APP, and accessing a users facebook account, or masquerading as them on other apps.
For a first world individual, highest impact is not heating/cooling or skipping on transcontinental flights. Meat production globally has a non trivial emissions output but for a first world individual, diet is maybe 10% of footprint. Without Hot Air book goes through these calculations.

Still, planting 1000 trees and making sure they exist for 40 years makes your footprint invisible.
Shanty towns slowly developing into established neighborhoods with permanent houses is the normal way cities have been built throughout history, and still dominates throughout the developing world. A significant proportion of all people alive today live in shanty towns.

Of course urban shanty towns can be dangerous and have plenty of problems. So do rural villages.
There was an EC funding stream to address precisely this:

https://www.cleansky.eu/
That’s a good way to put it. There’s some kind of uncanny valley of rendering, I think. Not exactly the same idea, but I noticed this starting decades ago while playing on an SGI- the demos with flat shading oddly seem more impressive than the ones that had an environment map and chrome reflections. It felt like the computer was doing more work when the image was less realistic, and the more realistic it got, the less it felt like billions of amazing calculations were happening under the hood. It’s still true, and it’s ironic when I’m seeing these amazing demos today with real time path tracing and astounding amounts of complexity, the visceral feeling is more like looking at photos than amazement for how incredible the rendering is. I have to force myself to think harder about what’s going on in order to appreciate it.
I believe this is a personal choice to potentially give up privacy for sites a person values and/or trusts. It's fine for you to believe that no site should make money via advertising, but others can have a different view and act on that opinion.
Sounds like the first thing you are describing is closer to ray casting. Ray tracing doesn't have the limitations you mention.

Roughly speaking, ray tra in techniques are variations on the concept of tracing a ray from the camera back into the screen and seeing where is ends up. The different variations distinguish themselves by what happens at a ray intersection. Classical ray tracing will spawn a shadow ray towards light source. Path tracing will stochastically sample some distribution of ray directions (usually based on a combination of light locations and material properties) in order to do Monte Carlo integration of the rendering equation. There are other variations.

Ray tracing (w/ only shadow rays) doesn't give you global illumination. Path tracing (this work) does.
Given how height conveys many advantages, including higher pay* thanks to people's biases of taller = leader, I wonder how long it will be before people start genetically modifying their unborn children to be taller.

* https://www.payscale.com/career-news/2016/03/theres-a-new-ty...
Perhaps highly contextually constrained applications are where we should look first?

Machine Learning used for power tool kickback detection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdW7vhYYSdM

EDIT: This is a bit risque, but I'm seriously asking: Has anyone applied Deep Learning to sex toys? The timing and processing of feedback involved seem like a good target for current tech.
People will pay for convenience. These might not be particularly difficult or time consuming tasks, but they're also rather menial, and inconvenient to have to deal with.

Just look at how much money people will pay to avoid the inconvenience of having to physically plug in their phones to charge them, for example: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=QI+Charger
Yeah, I agree.

With the internet you can share an idea regardless whether it is tied to the objective truth or not.
If I’m not mistaken, for your last paragraph, general visibility tests for lines that does not otherwise involve actual rendering is typically just called ray casting.
Not in a few years. Does the maintainer value backwards compatibility?
People who aren't in Seinfeld.
We want it to be as widely geographically distributed as possible, with as much variety as possible. We won’t even care about security of the PHP 5.2 in the traditional sense.

Truth be told, we will soon just need a bunch of open HTTP servers listening on the internet, and we will tunnel end-to-end encrypted traffic through them for signaling/matching clients by key and perhaps TURN relays. We already have 40,000 installed users and growing, our apps that run on people’s home computers will be able to make sure that stuff is secure and validated and enforce consensus with MINIMAL CPU power. We made the mistake of doing proof of work mining in the past and quickly removed it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=qbix+mining&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-...

I think DNS is eventually going to go the way of the dodo, and we will have this:

https://qbix.com/blog/2018/08/28/vision-for-a-new-truly-dece...
Did ‘artificial intelligence’ spot petition fakes in City Council races?
This may be against a TOS, but I'm sure if you changed your User Agent to match a common web crawler you would observe... something.
Mayor of Chicago: “The Adoption of Cryptocurrency Is Inevitable”
A good question to ask yourself is where do you get all the information about the earth being flat?

If the answer is the internet, then that is the reason why it has become so lively.
My mom and I are six feet tall; from Indiana. Took her to Amsterdam last year for a few weeks; she said it was the first time she didn't feel like a freak.
Does anyone besides pop psychologists actually believe that?
Ask HN: What happened to server-side rendering?
A few years ago, there was a lot of talk about Isomorphic rendering of JavaScript, but seems to have died down recently.

Are any products still using it? What happened?
I'm really curious about this item

>Community
Good technical leaders are also leaders in the outside communities.

Well, why would they be ? I mean, they can be, but I fail to see it as a requirement.

I'm a bit concerned that nowadays the dev culture is that you should be working ten hours a day, and also go to meetups/brown bags lunchs/user groups/whatever another 3 hours to show off how passionate you are.

Any opinions aroud that ?
I think "Software Engineers" can't tell the difference.
While the blog post is well-intentioned in its message, I can't imagine why it resonates much with the author because their professional history seems to indicate that they've never been at a job for more than a year. This isn't an ad-hominem and I'm not trying to say you need to be a faithful old fart at a company for decades to reach the rank of a technical fellow; but there's something to be said for barely being around to learning the problem space let alone having a deep impact. Seems to me a high ranking technical leader should have the experience of influencing, aligning and leading large teams on complex cross-vertical projects. Some of these things take months to design with key stakeholders, launch and finally "land". And that doesn't include the phase where you learn from said projects.
Ask HN: How often do you type a comment and not submit it?
How often here on HN or anywhere else do you type a comment and not submit it, because in the end you think it's not insightful enough, too controversial, too political, too inflammatory or any other reason?
For the record, I'm not personally talking about giving homes to people who are currently homeless. I'm talking about increasing supply of a certain kind of housing so that we see fewer people land on the street to begin with, as well as addressing other social issues, such as access to healthcare.

"Throwaway" children are a hard issue to resolve. There are no simple solutions once things have gone that far.

But I'm talking about focusing more on prevention generally. One side effect of that will be to have more per capita resources for those hard cases who do land on the street.

One of the problems with most conversations about the issue of homelessness is the mantra of wanting to "help the homeless." It tends to lead to a sense of hopelessness. The problem seems too big and thorny to resolve. It's also not the most humane approach.

I'm talking about creating a world where people are at less risk of homelessness because their lives aren't being suddenly and completely derailed by high medical bills, because they can find housing within their budget that works for them even if they have no car, etc.

Such a world should generally see fewer throwaway kids as well. We really don't do enough to support parents in America today. It's dreadful.
Is immigration considered as a factor in such studies? Because many of the tallest nations in Europe are some of the least ethnically diverse.

Also, 4 out of 10 tallest nations in the world are from former Yugoslavia, which is one of the poorest regions of Europe[1].

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/the-tal...
From few beers per week? I don't think so. What about the happiness coming from evening spent in intense social bonding?
Calling servitude as punishment "actual slavery" is disingenuous to the point that I'm willing to call it a lie. You can't buy and sell them. You don't have them indefinitely. When they reproduce your don't own their offspring. They get sentenced to this servitude by society's justice system, not captured through conquest or purchased from foreign lands.

Calling labor as punishment "actual slavery" is incredibly dismissive of actual slaves.
To a certain extent, it's that kind of thinking that got us in to this mess.
Thanks for the links. Actually, I had seen one of those articles before, but didn't understand it well enough.

My understanding now is that some 4G deployments are subsidized, and to correctly compute the amounts to be paid, China Telecom needs to collect more data than is usually available, so they came up with the idea of sending the data to zzhc.vnet.cn.

Still pretty hacky, but it kind of makes sense from a perspective of doing the minimum necessary to fulfill the requirements.
and I sort of miss ICE machines.

Oh well.
an "Alexa" robot that is initially just the same Alexa we all know, just mobile (flying or rolling, or both) with a small arm and able to do a few rudimentary tasks.

"Alexa, get me a beer!" Actually, a device or a couple of combined devices which could enable that gracefully might sell pretty well. (Some kind of fridge which can dispense canned beverages as the 2nd device? This could be adapted from vending machines.)
How come? I'm new here so I apologize if this isn't in-line with other content on Hacker News
Or more concisely: Someone who has learned enough to positively engineer the engineering process.
If companies are "people" in the legal sense, why isn't there a 'corporate death penalty' for utter gross violations that would get real humans locked in a case for decades?

Is the CFAA only for fleshers? Why so?
How can I watch Rick Steves?
>I think that's kind of a stretch.

It really isn't. I know a lot of people that have a concealed carry permit, myself included, and regularly carry a firearm. You would never know it, because it is concealed and they won't go around talking about it, but its relatively common. Also, I'm in a pretty liberal state so I imagine its even more common in conservative areas
Boracay is open since October 2018. The rehabilitation is still ongoing though and visits are regulated[0]. Cases have been filed against officials. Businesses found in violation of environmental laws have been closed down. Infrastructure has also been rehabilitated. Land titles were given to indigenous people through land reform.

It was deemed impossible at the beginning. Imagine cleaning up an island and disrupting the status quo. Some opposed it because of economic impact. Rumors of a casino to be built were unfounded. But seeing the result after, it proved that it can be done through holistic approach. It's one step to responsible tourism. More needs to be done. There's hope for the environment.

The next challenge is the rehabilitation of Manila Bay [1].

[0] https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/09/02/1847925/25-bor...

[1] https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/03/03/1898154/5-million...
The technique you are talking about, used for Wolfenstein 3D in the '92, is more commonly called "ray-casting." You cast one ray per screen X (or fewer) and see what object it hits, and then draw a slice of that object.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_casting

Ray tracing as used here means simulating light rays bouncing off of objects - it's a high fidelity technique generally not used in games in the past, because it is so slow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics)
My first intro to Rick Steves was when his soothing yet excited voice guided me through the Louvre via his iPhone app. Ever since then, and time I'm in a new place in Europe, I always look for one of his guides. He's helped me through places like Vienna and Budapest. I'm glad he exists.
Another way of saying this, is you don't really need the same level of domain expertise if the problem space is entirely defined by a small set of clearly articulated rules.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Immigrants into the USA come from shorter countries so that is a likely factor.
The unstated argument to all the homogeneity arguments I've come across (intended or not) is: "We are too bigoted for that to work here, we'd never allow the $OUTGROUP to have it that good", with a side-dish of "they'd be bigoted too, if they weren't homogeneous". When laid bare, it's an appeal to ignorance.
This has been my experience as well: I only resort to the debugger when my other avenues have proven fruitless. They can also be useful for Heisenbugs.

However, I did have one job working on an embedded device with no console at all, and a JTAG debugger was invaluable there. But I would have preferred to have a console and be able to do printf debugging, as for easier bugs it's just a lot quicker.
One way to think of it isn't "A place to keep homeless people", but as an option that someone could choose to live in voluntarily at an affordable rate.

When I was in college, I loved living in the dorms. I don't understand why that isn't more of an option for people. It's a community in a building rather than along a street.
>do you often meet people with weapons in public in the US? I didn't

You probably did but weren't aware, as the vast majority of people carrying firearms carry concealed.
Yes, but the parent post is specifically talking about countries so 'To each their own' I'm using is in the context of countries. A country in relation of other country.

Of course if you drill down within a country then the context of 'To each their own' is within its individual.
Brazil and Mexico are on the way to becoming failed states. If America moves towards a Mad Max future you can have your gun back. Until then, let's leave the shooting to the people trained to do so instead of literally anyone who wants to shoot. All the experts I've seen interviewed say people think they'll be awesome in a high-pressure situation like a shooting but unless they're actually trained specifically for it they'll likely harm people they didn't intend to.
K&P usually refers to Kernighan and Plauger's Software Tools, or The Elements of Programming Style.

For the book Kernighan and Pike wrote, The Practice of Programming, the canonical abbreviation is TPOP.

Sorry about the pedantry.
Timing, for one thing. "The big one" might not hit the San Andreas Fault for 10,000 years for all we know.

It might not ever hit. Crustal rocks can permanently store tremendous amounts of energy as stress; if the stress is changing, the fault might only move enough to release some small delta of the total stored stress. But: grease the system and you might release a lot more, and all at once.

It's very hard to predict what will happen, either naturally or human-triggered. IMO this is a good argument to not rush it. Every day that passes gives us more time to understand and prepare.
I don't know if it's available outside the US, but PBS has some of the more recent episodes online for free:
https://www.pbs.org/show/rick-steves-europe/
Is your country the USA ?
> LinkedIn conversation with an owner of one very successful iot chip company 3 years ago...

Turns out, Linkedin is NOT an ideal platform to communicate with C-Level types. Even they're tech savvy.

Refresh contact -- ping him this time via E-Mail. If he doesn't reply in a weeks time, give him an actual telephone call.
You’re not mistaken, ray casting would be more common, but ray tracing is also used. This is especially true among people that design path tracing renderers where we consider “ray tracing” to be a visibility primitive. “Trace a ray” and “cast a ray” are synonymous. I also think using “ray tracing” for visibility might start become more popular now with RTX hardware since the “ray tracing” hardware only provides the visibility test, not a renderer.
I'd say that I know very well what they are doing, having to sit in the same meetings and all.

Broke organization? Probably. They all seem to be in some way or the other.
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How many of those billion dollar companies own a fab?

Realistically, only Samsung, Intel, and TSMC can make next-generation chips. (Global Foundries just quit the 7nm race. They're going to be stuck at 12nm). Intel is fully proprietary tech, so that leaves Samsung and TSMC as the only companies that make chips for other companies.

At the end of the day, an open-source chip isn't really much benefit when there are only two manufacturers of chips.
Precisely.

One of my favorite bugs I ever introduced was typing 0 instead of O in a variable name. Review your mental model all you want, a debugger is going to be a lot more useful in sussing that kind of thing out. Even just being able to see you have two variables on the stack RockOn and Rock0n will pretty much save you.
This is super weird but just a few days ago Mike Patey (guy behind the draco bushplane [1]) posted a video [2] about his next airplane build and briefly showed a huge evap tower that he described as being for separating water produced in the petroleum industry. Oil water separation doesn't exactly sound like a millennium challenge problem so I wonder if there's some sort of grant competition right now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17743960

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9MNWh8kkIM
Not sure what exactly you're referring to; most people don't refer to illegal drug abuse openly in polite company here in America either. Of course, it's also impolite to ask.
“Ordinarily technology changes fast.

But programming languages are different: programming languages are not just technology, but what programmers think in.

They're half technology and half religion.”

— Paul Graham
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Well we all know the one scuttled due to damaged reactor was actually a cover story for defecting with first strike technology to the Americans...