skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I was in prison, I received The Rise of the Creative Class. I also received an Artificial Intelligence textbook as well. And I received Headstrong.

I did a lot of reading. In fact, once I got a chance to go to the computer lab, I wrote upwards of 100 articles. I wrote articles about introductory AI, health, and science.
Oh, totally, but that wouldn't work half as well if individualism hadn't become so fetishized already.
The actual complaint is worth a read: https://www.scribd.com/document/412705747/Lyft-Motivate-v-Th...

For example, I’ve wondered for some time why I’d see Lime Scooters in San Jose, but not bikes. The complaint contains the answer!
No, it’s not. The audience is meant to understand “if this isn’t specifically the thing you’re building to use, you won’t have to worry about it.”

That’s useful to me so I can just not worry about that thing.
Many of these forms are empty it seems. I tried two random ones, and I could not find any data in them. Also, could not find some non-profits. Does anyone know how much coverage does this database have?
Yes, exactly- that was my point; it is fairly unlikely the hotel cares too much. But how secure are these devices? What is stopping someone from hacking into a bunch of them, recording hotel guests and then mining the data for compromising footage to sell / use to blackmail / <insert malicious purpose here>.
The best non technical/political reason is that if AWS or Azure goes down or you have an issue with them none of your higher ups or investors are going to ask you, why did you choose AWS. It’s the old “no one ever got fired for buying IBM”.

Besides, you can never go wrong politically by saying I chose the vendor in the upper right corner of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

The technical reason is that if I want my hosting service to do more of the “undifferentiated heavy lifting” and provide managed services. I won’t get as much of an offering from Linode/DO. The last reason is that AWS Business Support is excellent. They’ve helped me out with some head scratchers and when I just didn’t want to figure something complex out myself. Their live chat is awesome.
Yet another application of Betteridge's Law of Headlines.
If you don't e-file does that mean the IRS don't digitise your accounts and so you avoid appearing in these sorts of data sets?

Sounds like a lot of interesting data will be in that last third, in which case.
Thank goodness for that. Microsoft Flight Simulator is a game that needs a PC rather than any other type of computer or an X-Box. The two go together, a fine combination like how some beverages go with certain meals.

A PC confers that it is not a game but something more like work. It gives the game seriousness as it becomes a simulation and not a game. Plus there is the legacy going back to the DOS versions, which will always have some magic to them that the new shiny graphics versions will not have. Maybe the blocky pixel versions were better for the imagination, the controls were pretty good you just had to imagine the scenery.
I can't say it's correct or incorrect: it's undefined, and this is one way of handling it. For some purposes it might be the best way to handle it, for others it might be bad.

Because rot13 is not defined for a lot of possible inputs, different implementations can produce different results, and not be interoperable.
Good catch, that's an odd mistake. I would assume the author knows the adjoint isn't equal to the transpose unless the matrix is real.

If you only ever work in R then technically that'd be fine (though notationally awkward). But that's not a good habit to keep since it would introduce pretty insidious bugs if you ever take the adjoint of a complex matrix intending to take the transpose.
I guess this is a specific example of the Blub Paradox.

I saw this a lot when Swift came out. Suddenly a lot of Objective-C programmers were learning a new language with a fairly different type system, and it was tough. The Optional type was an especially strong pain point.

What I found particularly interesting is that C (and Objective-C) has optional types. All pointer types are optionals. What it lacks is optional non-pointer types, and non-optional pointer types. Because optionality is an inherent part of pointer types in the language, you never learn to think about optionality separately. It's like a fish in water: it's so common you don't even see it.

I suppose it would show up even more strongly with someone used to a language like Ruby. If C programmers have a hard time really grasping the idea of optionality because the language doesn't make it explicit, then a Ruby programmer might have trouble with static types at all. (And, to be fair, the same no doubt applies in the other direction: someone coming from a strong statically typed language probably has some hurdles to understanding dynamic type systems.)
Have you talked with a therapist?
That would have exactly the same result as a search engine publishing their complete ranking algorithm. It would instantly be gamed and worthless. I find Yelp useful and generally accurate.
Juno is developed by Uber.
Disclaimer: I grew up in that environment, community Catholic, and am now an atheist.

I never enjoyed the Sunday gatherings, I was an angry child, but leaving it does give me perspective on why people stay. It gives you a real sense of community that most people I know don't have. It connects you with people, hell my family wouldn't have any friends without their parish. Religion, specifically Catholicism, has a lot of problems, but their are legitimate reasons why the vast majority of people hold onto them.
Please explain to me how do I benefit when the taxes I pay to live in my house go up
‘I believed I didn't have the right kind of brain for science’
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It's really easy to do a VR flight sim that simulates what you see out the windshield, but much trickier for the instruments and controls inside the cockpit. Where do you put them? Do you build a real, physical cockpit and AR what's outside? Or do you simulate the instruments in VR space? If so, how? Do you need haptic feedback? To what degree does this emulate real flying?

Not saying it can't be done--it's being done--but it's tricky and not as universally desirable as many non-pilots seem to think.
Damn, really trust this coming from a brand new account called “xyelperTTFs”
Why You Want to Start a Startup
This may be a reference to texture streaming. While I've never developed for consoles, I do know that texture streaming on desktop & mobile can be challenging.

Being able to mmap a texture directly from ssd (as if it were RAM), with the hardware & os taking care of all the details, could be a big deal for developers.

Edit: To get a sense of how challenging this can be, see this recent talk from GDC for texture streaming in Titanfall 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BuvKotqpWo . Literally all of this complexity would go away if you could mmap textures directly from disk and let the gpu handle it.
Your understanding is close, they sourced bacteria from puddles that had glyphosate resistant bacteria, then they modify agrobacterium that are specific to whatever crop they are trying to modify. Every cell in a plant has to be able to fend off disease because there is no central immune system. So agrobacterium inject their DNA into plant DNA so the cells think they are not a threat. So, if you have an altered agrobacterium, then those altered genes are passed on as well. BUT, to grow a whole new plant, you have to cut the infected cells out, grow a callus, then grow an actual plant from the callus before it can even produce seeds. Very few plants can grow from clones like that in the wild AND you need to have enough cells that have the same modification for any significant chance of growing a modified plant. So the odds of a single aphid injecting agrobacterium in a cell, then that cell somehow falling off, growing in a medium that can support callus development, then also somehow developing roots in an auxin rich environment, all before the seasons kill it off so it can spread seeds are very slim indeed.

Being that all of the techniques used in the industry are based off of nature anyways, if it is plausible for GMOs to do it, then normal plants have been doing it before GMOs even existed.
Not sure when they were issued.
Have you tried flight/driving sims in VR? You might change your tune once you realize how much closer to reality it feels compared to having a bunch of monitors in front of your face.

You also get that close to reality visual experience for a few hundred bucks, compared to professional sims that would be totally out of reach to anyone but actual flight training companies (and hobbyists with large amounts of time and money).
At very least increasing taxes is a great way to make more people leave, and thus help with congestion on way or another. ;D
“Everyone knows how fragile these systems are”

How about not connecting your ICSs directly to the Internet?
well, thinking outta da compton-box for just a second.
Does anyone want to put Ubuntu mate onto an Xbox360 classic?

'cos they only cost 20 bucks plus postage these days, libxenon being the principal component.

http://free60.org DM me, cheers.
PackageCompiler.jl is definitely being worked on, but this post is about summer students and I think PackageCompiler.jl work is much too intensive for a summer student project. It's mostly up to the core compiler devs to get work done on this front unfortunately.
Indeed. I would have been pretty interested in what LOB was non-profit under the umbrella of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.
Ask HN: Should I find a job or try to build a profitable project?
A little about me. I'm close to 30. I recently left my job, I was burnt out. I want to take 1-2 months for myself to reflect and figure out my next steps. I'm a software developer and I have been working with various small to medium software companies for the past 4-5 years. I currently live in a small city in the south (gf and I want to move to NYC or another big city). I can build CRUD apps from the ground up. I have around $60,000 saved and with my current bills, I have a runway of 1.5-2 years. My life goal is to build a successful business and entrepreneurship has been something I have always been interested in. However, I have never successfully built anything that gained traction, so I consider myself more of a wantrepreneur.

Options:

#1 Spend my time studying and finding a new job in NYC. I'm pretty confident that if I spend my time on leetCode and networking I will land a good job. I feel like this is the safe route.

#2 Spend my time pursuing a couple ideas I have. It's nothing new or innovating, a productivity app and a yelp like service working with small businesses. Reading all the content here is super motivating and inspiring, I feel like I could make these ideas work, but it's also super risky. I don't want to spend 1-2 years working on these ideas only to look up and realized I wasted my time and money.

#3 Some combination of both? I was thinking that I can pursue my side projects and look for a new job at the same time. However, I feel like having a clear focus on one thing is important.
Be careful with git repositories shared in Dropbox in this manner. If you are running an ide on multiple machines, the idle ones might do some crazy things to your .git tree. You can look for signs of trouble by running “find .git/ -name ‘conflict’”.
Right, and I absolutely agree with that. When I bought my house, I had no expectation that utility services would be the same. While my neighbors and I have some complaints about the quality of our internet service, we're looking for 15-25Mbps, not 100Mbps, and certainly not 1Gbps.

But GP's first sentence was mainly what I was trying to address:

> I am all for utility companies cutting service to rural areas, for cost savings or otherwise.

If my electric and gas providers suddenly decided that I was too expensive to serve and cut me off, I'd be out in the range of $20-30k to install batteries, a generator (since solar might not be adequate in the middle of winter), and to convert my heating from natural gas to propane.
How do you get the data? I wasn't able to find the forms for 2018 for some charities. Did the IRS make them available yet?
Lenders look at monthly payments when calculating debt to income. $150 a month in student loans won't prevent you from getting a mortgage unless $150 is all that's preventing you from affording the mortgage.

Cancelled debt is only taxable up to the point of solvency meaning that most people who have a substantial amount of debt cancelled won't owe anything.

>IBR operates very similar to welfare - including the embarrassing intrusion and analysis of your private life by your lenders. It is a last resort option and not something we should be encouraging.

I've done it. You provide your tax return. They don't care about anything but income. It's by no means intrusive and shouldn't bhe thought of as a last resort.
Nice, website was working before I posted here, guess some protesters here don't like it.
Maybe they mean some kind of software ram disk? Whatever it is it sounds like gold plated 90s marketing.

... fog lifts from stage

... a huge screen with flashing, strobing lights emerge with diffused 90s font writing ...

Some kinda music roars and the writing on screen is undiffused instantly revealing

“SOLID SATE DRIVE POWERED VIRTUAL RAM”
Not sure what’s so extraordinary about this — I’ve used such rural systems in France, Germany, Australia, Canada, and the USA.
Just looking at refunds is misleading regardless - withholdings changed, which affects refunds. ideally refunds would be near 0.
Update to my Fallout 4 script It is much faster
k=1 FTW!
alright then, can't wait. thanks for the info.
MDN has a page documenting differences in API support between major WebExtension browsers:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
The one before people / machines went back in time to alter the past. We (or at least, I) don't know what happened to Dyson on Judgement Day the first time around.
Julia takes after Matlab, where matrices are defined by enumerating each row followed by a semicolon. Personally I prefer Mathematica's syntax, but the Julia/Matlab syntax is still way better than Numpy syntax (though to be fair most of that is due to the lack of native matrix support in Python).

If it helps at all, this is exactly what you'll see when you create a matrix in Julia:

julia> mat = [1 2; 3 4]
2×2 Array{Int64,2}:
1 2
3 4
These secondary effects are what I’m concerned about as well. Seems this would create a dead zone.
Yes, I still use IRC. I use it on Freenode and also a few others. I would like to have server-side logging (and have implemented it in a IRC server software once experimentally), but nobody else seems to have that. (It has nothing to do with the protocol, but rather, with the implementation.)

Since now some people are using Discord instead, I am not communicating with them. IRC is much better than Slack and Discord and Matrix. (I also think that they should make this Hacker News available with NNTP, too.)
Blerg. There should be asterisks around that italicized conflict word.
I read that as implying that the SSD is part of the standard memory hierarchy, byte-addressable and not requiring a filesystem. No need to load assets: just create pointers into the SSD's address space. Sort of a modern version of the ROM on an NES cartridge.

I could, of course, be way off.
I love this, but I found their web pages confusing and with too many products.

I think they need someone to look at how they express themselves. Can't believe I'm saying this, but it's in need of some simpler, clearer marketing.
#3, for sure. Multiple streams of income is always a good thing to have. Nobody says you have to kill yourself working but spend an extra hour or two building your side thing.
Good question. I've been using Rust exclusively for a few months. I came from C#/python. typical GC'd application languages.

With Rust I don't think you have to choose.

Once you "get" the borrow checker and understand the ownership model Rust becomes very productive and feels like a high level language. There's a little noise in the syntax but what you get in return is so worth it. There are quite a bit of high level features to take advantage of that "compile away" with so called zero-cost abstractions.

It's a legit low level language in the sense that you can write a legit OS. No GC, guaranteed memory safety. It's bonkers.

I believe it is blurring the lines of what it means to be high/low level.
> If you model individual States as "countries" conceptually, the political dynamics make a lot more sense.

No, not at all. US states being somewhat like countries can't put the USA behind the EU. EU states are countries.
HTML5 was honestly the opposite. XHTML and XHTML2 were born of a desire to have stricter, more semantic markup. But we live in the shitty timeline where XHTML2 died and we got HTML5 instead.
Wooden Balcony Blaze destroys 20 flats in east London
I know of at least one, F-droid.
I am stressed out about interviews
I have an interview at facebook and google coming up. I have about 7+ years of experience. I have been doing leetcode and studying for last month.

I have tried to motivate myself, I have been reasonably diligent in studying, but when I read through these forums it seems like people treat these interviews as FT jobs. I want to do that to, but I lack the motivation because I don't think I can compete. I feel I am hard worker, but apparently not compared to other folks. The only way to really compete is to put in as much work as these people. I got like a 100 in my algo classes, but they can ask the gambit of questions. They can ask anything from heaps to recursion to dfs to red black trees to I don't know what. I graduated top 10% from one the 10 best CS schools in country. I don't think I am dumb, but I feel I am just not as sharp as I was when I was younger.

I feel like not going because its just stressing me out. Heck I didn't even apply for these jobs. Sure I would love the money and having google or fb on your resume looks nice, but its not helping my mental state. I really got to respect people who work at Google or FB for going through the tests.

Are there really that many people who are so good at algo that they can come up with o(log n) o(1) solution to a problem in 30min? I am guessing they are recruiting a million people so they get 1% to pass through their tests, but is the stress really worth it?
In short, no. The city gives public space for Lyft to install these docks. Forcing them to treat every company equally in that regard simply wouldn't work, not to mention that the cost of building the network in the first place requires some guarantees in return. A bike share system needs lots of docks in order to be successful, granting one company a monopoly isn't that crazy in that context.
People stopped being poor. It's difficult to become obese when you simply don't have enough food. The solution to the problem isn't going to be in the past, because we want people to live a better life and not worse.

I think what will solve the obesity problem is education. The basic ideas of nutrition (in terms of physics and biology) should be taught to everyone. It should not be possible for someone to graduate high school and find the basics of a nutritional label difficult to understand.

This should also be coupled with a better cultural attitude. People should feel encouraged to try to lose weight when they're obese, rather than told some form of "healthy at every size" nonsense or be made fun of when they are at the gym. It should be seen as an ailment that can be improved rather than something shameful. If you have a broken arm, then you're not told that it's fine to have a broken arm, nor are you made fun of for trying to get your broken arm fixed.

I used to be overweight and I understood that it was bad, but it was difficult to try to improve it. The people around you notice that you're doing things differently and you'll hear snide remarks or encouragement, but this leads to expectations, so you try to hide it instead. That way nobody expects anything.
Well, there's Prepar3d, which is derived from the FSX codebase but as of version 3 has advanced quite significantly - the biggest changes being full multi-threading and being natively 64bit.
>After some years the restaurant closed for renovation, and when it reopened there were completely different people working there, and the food was way worse. It was probably sold or went under new management, though they kept the name. So all the reviews this place had gotten over the years were really no longer relevant, as it was effectively a new restaurant. Yet all the Yelp reviews remained.

Well, it makes sense doesn't it? When you buy a restaurant you get to keep the name, location, word of mouth, etc. Makes sense you also keep the reviews.
I’ve thought about that. I married the objectively wrong person in my late twenties. Got divorced four years later. But, I definitely wouldn’t be as good of a husband or (step)father now if I hadn’t made that mistake the first time. I wouldn’t have appreciated my current marriage as much.
I would prefer it if the API exposed the messages in the input format rather than HTML format.
How would education help under the current regime? Xi jinping isn't going anywhere until he dies, and Party members aren't elected (well some kinda are).

What good does education do if it doesn't drive government changes? What changes would the PRC allow at all?
I agree, physics are key as well as how moddable and expandable it is. Microsoft flight simulator has a huge modding community.
That's a non sequitur. Demand is orthogonal to value. Heroin isn't valuable to society yet it exists.
And hold onto after it crashed around 1999 until Balmer left.
It's amusing that both the Xbox and PS5 stories are leading with "8K gaming", which is of course empty Big Number nonsense that's not going to materialize in real games.

I remember being a wide-eyed teenager that would get hyped up into a fever pitch by this kind of game system marketing.
How can reading books be a human right when humans went 190,000 years without writing? Was every pre-literate culture violating a human right?
Thanks for sharing. Key point:

> Yes, debt is on the rise in the developing world, and Chinese overseas lending is, for the first time, a part of the story. But a number of us academics who have studied China’s practices in detail have found scant evidence of a pattern indicating that Chinese banks, acting at the government’s behest, are deliberately over-lending or funding loss-making projects to secure strategic advantages for China.

> The main example of these purported ploys is the Hambantota Port in southern Sri Lanka: The government handed control over the port to a Chinese company in 2017 after struggling to make its loan payments to China. But that’s a special case, and it is widely misunderstood.

> China does not publish details about its overseas lending, but the China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University (which I direct) has collected information on more than 1,000 Chinese loans in Africa between 2000 and 2017, totaling more than $143 billion. Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center has identified and tracked more than $140 billion in Chinese loans to Latin America and the Caribbean since 2005.

> Based on the findings of both institutes, it seems that the risks of B.R.I. are often overstated or mischaracterized.
Architecture and Applications of the Connection Machine [pdf]
> In 2003, more than 500,000 protesters demanded Tung to step down in the light of the proposed legislation of the Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23 and the SARS outbreak. Tung resigned in the middle of his second term on 10 March 2005.

2 years delay make attributing causality seem like a bit of a stretch. The Wikipedia article makes it sound like he resigned after losing the backing of the PRC government.
China Uses ‘Great Firewall’ to Block Washington Post, Guardian Websites