skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C's typing is so week it might as well be an untyped language - not even a dynamically typed langue. And that's what most of the software you run every day runs on.

Static typing was all the rage 20 years ago. C++ and Java were going to save us from the chaos of C. What people found was the vast bulk of software defects are not problems that can be detected by static typing.

Static typing just created a constraining, inflexible code base, that was no more reliable than C or smalltalk or lisp. Once your beautifully conceived collection of types were demolished by the cold hard reality of changing business requirements the type system actively worked against you.

Python and ruby and javascript started gaining traction, and at first it seemed crazy to use a language that didn't have a static type checker. But after people started using them they realized they just didn't have the kinds of bugs that a static type checker would catch anyway - because those types of bugs are caught by the dynamic type checker (something C doesn't have, and C++ only sort of kind of has) at run time when you write tests. And writing tests also caught all kinds of other logic bugs that didn't have anything to do with types. They were writing software faster and more reliably in dynamically typed langues than they ever could in the old statically typed languages.

Of course no language is a silver bullet, and writing software is still hard. Combine that with the fact that our industry has no sense of history, and a fair number of programmers today have only used dynamically typed languages, and you can see why the static typing fad is coming back around.

It seems intuitive that caching these type errors at compile time rather than run time will make for a more reliable system. But history tells us otherwise. Unless you just don't run your code before pushing it to production the dynamic type checker will catch it just as well when you run tests. And your types will drift away from the reality of the business requirements grinding development to a halt.

The static typing fad has a 5 year shelf life. Just enough time for managers to force a new generation of programmers to re-write all their code in typescript or whatever and learn it is just as unreliable, and much harder to work with.
We cannot destroy natural world. We can only change it. Just like cyanobacteria did. Was that event any less natural?
I take an extreme(?) view that humans are a product and a part of nature, so whatever we do is still natural. It may affect other parts of the nature by a different degree, it may make out living more or less comfortable, but it is still natural.
By being part of the same data structure and managed by the compiler there is no way to get out of sync, due to copy-paste or mismatch when several arrays are being used together.
And the reason this can't be done online would be...?
Eight ways to stay ahead of influence operations
Literally all of the problems you mentioned existed before GMO was a thing. Companies have been patenting varietals since the 1930's. Patent trolling in agriculture is also quite old. E.g. the yellow bean patent debacle:

https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080507/full/453145b.html

GMO is tangentially related but few of the biggest overreaches in agricultural IP are directly tied to them.
There's a whole slew of home ownership startups recently; I was recently buying a house and checked them out.

Board (https://board.live) lets you make a cash offer instead of a

Zerodown (https://zerodown.com) and Unison (https://unison.com) I believe have a similar models to Arrived, with some different specifics.

Generally, they seem to be a response to how hard it is for millenials to buy homes [1]. I did the numbers on ZeroDown, and it seems to be a good deal for someone early in their careers who is faced with high rent and student loans to pay off, given their other choice is waiting 15-20 years to save up a down-payment (during which time prices will have tripled again).

[1] AFAICT, this is due to the complete refusal of every city in the US to zone and build enough homes to keep up with demand, as well the student debt crisis, general wealth inequality, and similar stuff.
This really resonates with me. I'm often frustrated with a feeling that I'm saying things to people and yet still not feeling heard. This speaks a lot to what might be helpful.
Recently had a startup school interaction with this startup -- congratz on making it to the front page!

Pretty interesting concept, although I don't know how it'll work long term, I'll be keeping an eye on this. Personally, I have my doubts that it'll really impact renters, but we shall see. Definitely should incentivize renters to be more careful to their homes, but for a few dollars back a month, I don't know if materially it'll impact poor renters.
You're correct, it's the same thing under a different name. Corrupt greedy jerks easily got around the ridiculous religious nonsense by giving it a new name. And the sheep are fine with it.
100% guarantee that this is a mediocre-at-best deal now, and that it will gradually get worse over time as tech bro MBAs hit their quarterly targets by tweaking the terms to be shittier, shittier, and shittier.

reference: uber driver pay over time
I would imagine you don't get to keep lease payments, since my understanding is it's effectively treated as rent. So, yeah, you could still get kicked out and then never see a dime of the money you paid back.

However, I'm not an expert on Islamic finance - the expectations around leases could be different.
Having lived through Windows phone's saga, Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and the first set of outlook.com redesigns, I know one this - their feedback tool is a placebo button, a self therapy session to get stuff off one's chest.

Microsoft doesn't listen to feedback through their official channels. They might step back temporarily when there's overwhelming negative outcry from the news but they'll definitely attempt it again after a while.
Oh I remember this story. Back then when I dug into it, it was a real spin-versus-spin situation.

Sure, when you introduce an approach that suddenly creates considerable inconvenience for some population of parents, sure they complain (no one likes having to drop off kids at ~ vaguely recalling ~ 10 am and pick at 5 pm, sheesh, it was something terrible). Some large portion of working people are fairly dependent their children having ordinary school schedules. Maybe these were relatively better off parents in the public school system - where the actually wealthy use private schools (I know Boston well enough to attest to this). So the algorithm failed to "optimize for those they could effectively screw" but hey, would it be too much to ask to just give all schools a sane schedule? Maybe pony up that extra money, give up the need to optimize everything, keep the tail of bus optimization from wagging the dog of school scheduling?
Agreed, seems like spam
I tried those squeeze devices too, but in my opinion they're too weak unless you specifically shell out for the stronger / adjustable ones. Mine were from China and didn't do jack for the rsi pain.

It's deadlifts that whips forearms into shape, and then getting used to various presses seems to make the wrist more adaptable. I started with Phrak's Greyskull LP which is a modification on SS with less volume.

Back, shoulder, and neck pain disappears too.
In Germany we're assigned to the nearest school.

I remember walking to school in elementary school, later taking the bike for 20 min or public transportation. I don't live in a particularly dense area.

Is Boston too sparsely populated to have schools in walking or biking distance?

Seems that we accept distances of 1-2 km for elementary school walks. (0.6 to 1.2 miles)
Walmart is private property and not a public space. I'm not sure that there is a 2nd Amendment right to carry a gun onto another person's property.
アタック帰還。今日はとにかく撮影に集中しました（祈）†
This reminds me about my own name. Everyone always gets it wrong (including people from where I am from). Except the Dutch. They always get it right, every single time!

There was also a meme about a person that wrote on her ID application "note the hat on the 'e'" and of course her name was Sarah Note The Hat On The E on the issued ID.

EDIT: Yes her name was not Sarah and there is no 'e' in Sarah.
This looks like a lease option with extra steps.
To imagine our own extinction is to be able to answer for it – Aeon Essays
Many thanks for your question! It prompted me to rethink a problem in Home Telehealth and Elder-Care having to do with tracking Dementia patients. Anyway, a PubMed paper published 2018-1-24 titled: Passive Infrared (PIR)-Based Indoor Position Tracking for Smart Homes Using Accessibility Maps and A-Star Algorithm
(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5855945/) may help you.

The paper is about using passive infrared sensors (active badge etc.) to accomplish indoor position tracking. This may be overkill for your need but I figured I'd put it out there for you anyway. I hope to have some follow up information in a couple of days and will revisit this question.
Oh, wow, this really is cool.
Infrastructure should not be weighed on whether or not it is profitable. You don't buy a stapler and think about whether you will return on your $7 investment, you buy it because it's the tool you need.

NYC only has a big subway because it gobbled up all the failed private railroads, still unprofitable today but it's the only way to move the workforce into midtown Manhattan every day.

LA at one point had one of the most extensive rail transit systems in the world (1), but it was ran by a private company that couldn't make any money off infrastructure, cut service, and circled the drain until its doom. The city opted instead to switch to busses, build elevated highways, and tear out rails instead of purchasing and improving existing rail transit. Today, the city is spending millions per mile to build rail over some of those same former railbeds that were dismantled 60 years ago, because rail is the right tool for the job of moving people around a city.

1. https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2013-01-30-1925.jpg
Producing GMO food isn’t science. It’s engineering.

Science seeks to test new theories about the nature of reality, to improve human knowledge. It often relies on engineering to conduct experiment.

Engineering is for solving human problems at scale. Often based on scientific discovery, but not necessarily. Humans were selectively breeding food for years with no scientific theory of plant genetics.

And we kind of do not have the best track record with engineering things we can’t be sure of in the lab. Generally we do ok with tech, but bio engineering is much different.

What’s more the food industry has lied about what’s healthy for profit in the past. We have a habit of passing the buck to the next generation to cash out now.

Human avarice is enough for me to be against GMO given the plain track record (global warming, aforementioned lies by food producers, etc) of bullshit that was only found to be bullshit later.

That and I hate bananas.
It sounds great... But it probably isn't, at least for the "client".

The only way Arrived can build a sustainable business is by doing what Opendoor is already doing - either buy low, or sell high.

It might be good to build equity... But you start with a big disadvantage, and statistically you are going to be worse than if you simply invested in other types of funds.
There is no one test, especially because dyslexia co-occurs with various other neurological differences (ADD/ADHD/dyscalculia/processing disorders, etc.)

I run a startup whose technology is used as an assistive technology for people with dyslexia (and also as a speed-reading aid for non-dyslexic readers). Some reading specialists have suggested that our tool could be used as a litmus test for certain types of reading issues, including dyslexia. For some (not all) people with dyslexia, the first time trying our line-wrapping color gradients is life-changing. (For most people who use it as a speed-reading tool, it's a cool lifehack, but not a quantum leap.)

She can try it by just looking at the demo on our website. [1] Protip: we're going to launch a fully-functional, free, version of our browser plugin later this week. It will require occasional tweeting, but not a Twitter auth or any PII gathering whatsoever.

1: http://www.beelinereader.com
It could work if they have a very large portfolio in high-demand areas and can save on administration costs.
It would be a lot of traffic, but circling the block to find a parking spot is already such a huge contributor to traffic that it might still be a net win
Differences matter. Your derisive, dismissive view is shallow.

I haven't analysed the effects of this home ownership structure, but the business investment approach means that the banks aren't lenders, but are part owners of the company. This gives a different incentive structure and changes the relationship - I think for the better.
I have a LimeSDR. This is where a plugin that allows it to interoperable with GnuRadio can be found:
https://wiki.myriadrf.org/Gr-limesdr_Plugin_for_GNURadio

Highly recommended.
Noted! We're currently working on adding case studies and we'll take this opportunity to make the screenshots clickable.
> Humans in general are very sensitive to sounds within 2kHZ-5kHz range. If the frequency of a virtual sound doesn’t match up to what we expect it to be in reality, then we are more likely to identify the sound as “not real”. This is particularly true if you compare how easy it is to tell if someone’s voice is broadcast through a speaker vs. someone is talking beside you.

I never thought about that in regards to gaming or even conference room voice chat, it is extremely easy to tell the difference. Must be a challenging problem set to solve, sounds fun!
What was wrong with wxgui? I never understood that. For years everyone was saying don’t use it, but wxgui widgets always seemed much more polished and usable. For example, the wxgui waterfall diagram was far beyond anything I could find in qtgui.

I haven’t used GNU radio in maybe a year, so I don’t know what this release brings.
The reason is regardless of how much 'leave' you have its easy to get fired. If you fear for your job then it's better not to take too much leave. And managers have reason to make sure people fear for their jobs.

For another thing I don't think it is ethical. Specifically it is not fair towards people who do not have families. The loneliness we have to suffer is already punishment enough. We die earlier because we do not enjoy a happy life. Yes mothers should have a leave, because of simple necessity. But I don't think we should force people like me to compensate for fathers lack of will towards using their vacation days to care for their child.

Edit: of course medical emergencies are a different matter. I don't want to give the impression I want people to continue working if a dependant requires their care.
Again it depends. I downloaded an installer only yesterday that did not have it, even when it was part of the subscription. It is also not being pushed as an office update to my users yet. But then again I haven't checked if that is because WSUS is holding it back
Can one buy multiple properties, combine them, and build a subdivision or apartment community with more modern designs and materials?

I mean, if Detroit wants to save Detroit, seems like that would be better than letting houses rot.
The competition was what made those services better. Now there is situation where is almost no competition. Which is killing the possibility to get even better services.

Google has gone its way to the mega corporation where nothing else matters but money. And they are moving into direction where this money is comming from worse possible sources.

Regarding "true evil", to some people google IS true evil. And based of their conduct in last 5 years it is hard to argue.

If you want some insight, read: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Fr...

> Do you remember how terrible email was before Gmail? How awful MapQuest was before Google maps?

No? There was nothing wrong with email without g. I am still using it and having my own mail server. And now you have OpenStreetMaps, I don't use Google Maps, when I want map, I want MAP, not map&ads&suggestions&search&reviews,..
Can anyone recommend a good book to learn more about the GMO debate?
I'm my experience they do. They know the cost of using a list instead of a hashmap, know the difference between a bubble sort and a quick sort, know the difference between a binary tree and a linked list. And for 99.9% of the job this is more what you need. I wísh they know more about composition instead of inheritance...
Personally, I've found how they aggregate research and list it a valuable resource for how I continue my own research on a particular supplement.

I find it much more valuable than the empty Mayo Clinic and WebMD articles that are so conservative in the information they provide that it's basically just reading common knowledge.

I think if you're using one site for your source of information for supplements, you're doing a disservice to yourself and potentially putting your body in harms way. So, with that said -- I also do not think Google should be removing this from their search results.
r13y.com tracks the progress for NixOS reproducibility (well, for the tiny subset of nixpkgs that forms the minimal ISO image at least).
Wow I might start doing that myself for my projects to be honest.
Why would a stateless service need a database?
People are adopting RISC-V not because it is an order of magnitude better ISA, but it frees them from vendor lock-in.
Whether it is the one good design to rule them all, we'll only be able to tell after a decade or two when the computing/tech world has moved on to different applications.
For e.g. what happens when 128b register widths become the norm ?

I suspect the base core and may be the FPU will remain relevant (because by then it would be legacy with vast amount of software base), however the other extensions will be superseded/replaced. This will lead to managing the extensions with conflicting encoding like one has to manage different SW library versions.
"The banana is one step closer to disappearing" - seems to be overstating it. They mean the Cavendish Banana and therefore large scale Banana cultivation. However we could still have a variety of bananas, lower scale and have banana be more of a treat than a common food.
Oh, try calling in for support on that $1+M CommercialDatabase(tm) installation and tell them SELinux is turned on, or any other similar super expensive software. The 1st line will happily tell you that the most prized data you were willing to pay huge amounts for can't be protected by something so .. easy as SELinux.

They will not take your ticket until you turn it off and try again, and to your great surprise they will not be sharing their favourite selinux tagging configs with you.

So in the end, what can be protected with a decent SElinux config will be that statically generated catblogs-r-us.io site you run, but not the company financial database.
"Priority inversion", or something to that effect.
I think this comment assumes corporate greed and consumer hoodwinking from the outset, when instead the economics for this arise organically.

You wish to buy an asset, but don't have the funds to do it. At that point, your only options are to pay in installments towards eventual ownership. So you go to a for-profit lending institution, which agrees to let you pay it back in installments, and has you sign a contract for it.

There's nothing inherently greedy about this - it's just the way agents in an economy work. It would be greed/hoodwinking if customers were tricked into giving money away or didn't have terms explained to then upfront or that "interest" or "rates" beyond what is needed to recoup the asset despite depreciation - but I've not seen anything to suggest that is common practice in any home loan situation.

All that Islamic finance does is change who is nominally the owner of the asset under consideration until the asset is paid back. The standard American model - you're the owner, until the bank reposses it. The Islamic model - the bank is the owner until you buy it back.
Probably only on a million year time frame. We've coated a decent portion of the Earth's crust in crops. It's all being irradiated by the sun all day long, decade after decade, but the mutations people want aren't always appearing naturally. Some changes appear to be extremely unlikely.

Which is probably good, or we'd all probably get weird cases of allergies from strange plant mutations.
Parental leave benefits you even if you don't have children. When you're old and infirm, you'll be lucky if society has enough young people to pay into social services and/or healthcare.
Umscientific jib-jab. Throw this away. Reject it. Get back to empiricism.
Ask HN: Is this a good fit for a column-oriented database?
I'm looking for a database which can fit this use case well:

- Able to store 100M+ items/records

- Everything stored in one table/collection, with 100+ columns/fields (probably)

- Many columns will have numerous duplicate values (often with a small handful of distinct values accounting for most of the data, and a long tail of rare values, e.g. most "favorite ice cream flavor" data clusters around vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry)

- Pre-defined schema, but each item will only have values for a subset of the columns (5 - 20 on average); everything else will be empty / null

- No need for a sophisticated or relational query language, but basic aggregation support is needed (ideally group by count, sum, and average)

- A very common query will be a "group by count" for a few columns

- Most queries will only select a few of the column values

- Regex support required in the query language

- Support for streaming ingestion is a plus

- There will be about 3-6x more reads than writes

- Potential for data loss is acceptable

- No need for an in-memory datastore

- Python driver support

I'd be fine with using PostgreSQL, but for this use case, I wonder if a column-oriented database like Cassandra might make more sense. Any recommendations?
> Digital cash, Mr. Zimmermann explained, is "a combination of cryptographic protocols that behave the way real dollars behave but are untraceable."

> In other words, they are packets of worth that have value in cyberspace, the same way dollars have value in the real world, except that they have the properties of anonymity, privacy and untraceability. Many details remain to be worked out, Mr. Zimmermann said.

Very cool how people were predicting cryptocurrencies from the beginning!
Testing this feature of my tracking app. Will delete this in 30 minutes. Hope you can click on the button there and get into a video chat with me. I've been helping people grow their followers for 5 years. I'm sure we can come up with a new tactic for you to try right now.
I've designed and took my creation, the RadioInstigator, to Defcon.

https://hackaday.com/2019/06/05/mobile-sigint-hacking-on-a-c...

Runs 3.7 GnuRadio along with a whole slew of tools and antennas to boot. I even put the guy who runs the Wall of Sheep... on the Wall of Sheep. He was running a Logitech clone dongle. Pwned.

My device is GPL3 and on https://gitlab.com/crankylinuxuser/siginttablet . It costs around $150 to build.
The most likely way large companies would prevent people from growing bananas would be by not making GMO bananas, and just letting disease ruin all the other varieties (if some varieties were resistant, then how could the existence of GMO versions prevent people from growing those?)
Nowadays the home mortgage interest deduction is, for some homeowners, overshadowed by the new large standard deduction. I think that fact makes this model of home ownership a little more acceptable since this model does not seem to include the mortgage interest deduction anyway.

But it seems sort of like buying shares of an REIT or something.