skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got an... interesting result when I tried it. The URL was almost plausible, until the anchor came up; I also included the beginning of the next paragraph simply because it is hilariously unrelated:

A coworker of mine came up to me earlier today and started asking about the C memory model. In response, I showed him the documentation and asked that he check out the following link:

http://doc.opencv.org/en/cv_c-memory_memory.html#cv_c-unused... = 8192

That is all. :)

Now, the last piece of the puzzle, what happens when you have a vector of N variables? Well, that's easy, just assign them to a N×N matrix:
Things like Big-O notation are part of introductory computer science classes and introductory algorithms classes.

BigO notation also applies when an algorithm is distributed and runs over a network. An algorithm that's O(n^2) will always be slower than an algorithm that's O(2n). You don't need to run benchmarks to find that out.
Same experience here. Constant small business loan offers. Not as many as you, mostly we get mail offers. At least 1-2/week.
"Demonstrates" would have been a better word choice than "explains".

The XKCD comic myopically references the 1st Amendment for the promotion of simplistic authoritarianism. Whereas without an explicit 1st Amendment, Freedom of Speech would have been forced to be held generally by society, rather than making for a legalistic red herring.

Alternatively, Freedom of Speech could have simply vanished. A good way of addressing that question would be to look look for rights that the Founders held as obvious, yet were not codified - how did they fare over time?

IMO the entirety of the Constitution suffers from the same basic flaw wherein the Founders did not foresee layered-complexity creating contradictions. This is understandable, given they preceded Gödel.

For example - "the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial". Yet by actually trying to exercise this right today, you mortally up the ante of your charges. To me, this seems like a failing test case.
Sprawl is non-contiguous growth - subdividing land for housing that is not adjacent to already subdivided land. These towns are not that. In most cases, they are where they were planned to be based on euclidian zoning.

A lot of the small towns are gone. The towns that used to be medium sized are now small and its hard to get services and groceries there.

A lot of these towns would be viable if there was decent internet.

Missouri Start Quilt Co started in a small town and used the available buildings and infrastructure to jump start their business. Would not have been possible without good internet.

https://www.missouriquiltco.com/content/aboutus
Well then I’m sorry for that. It’s a good indicator of a broken culture.
Of course it is, the wholesale cost of data is peanuts comparatively. However there is _more_ money to be made by marking it up and charging $X per GB above an arbitrary cap.
Aston Martin Motorcycle AMB 001 Milan Debut: Specs, Price, Photos
Everyone has the freedom to pay.
This is the second study I've seen on HN today that used a pool of subjects from Mechanical Turk.

By coincidence, I tried MT itself (as a worker) for the first time a few days ago, just to see what it was. It's mildly interesting, but one thing that immediately jumps out is that the pool of people actually working these tasks is probably very different from the general population.

Good enough for click-bait I suppose, but hope no one is trying to do serious science this way.
Most/all of the laptop drivers are in the kernel and would be universal, or mostly universal, with other distros. I don't really care if Canonical or Red Hat or Theo de Raadt paying for it, since it will almost certainly be comparable with other distros and would be free of the Windows Tax; if you don't want OpenBSD or Unbuntu then just install something else. Plus you can do the SHA1 sum when doing your own install and know it's a valid ISO from the source.
I was excited to see a class on "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy", though i see it's just an archive of the course material -- lectures and readings.

Lectures and readings are great, but it's a far cry from learning what the material really means without the discussion section. MOOCs are good for learning facts-and-figures type things, and it's an OK way to learn the tools of the trade (including the trade of programming). But the thing that makes a top university really "top" is the interaction, challenging your thinking and learning to read and understand closely, not just study a craft.

I'm very excited by what they're doing at Signum University[1], which is working on college-level classes without the overhead of a campus. It's not free; you can't really teach an in-depth education for free. But the direction it's going, you'll be able to get all the things that we prize about a four-year college (the things that many employers consider more valuable than somebody who studied at a place like Devry).

[1] https://signumuniversity.org/
Sorry, the dailybeast is "alt-right"? Did I miss the next step in the career of Tina Brown?
This isn’t true. Market returns are almost always going to be higher than the borrowing cost. In fact, I can’t think of a single hedge fund that doesn’t use leverage either through: shorting, borrowing, options, or futures.

Leverage is almost always the secret sauce to institutional strategies. And if we’re talking about quant funds, without leverage they wouldn’t exist.
Seed-Funding of Emerging Market Fintech: A Conversation with Tahira Dosani
I tried learning Braille. It’s incredibly difficult, and I’ve only had a handful of times in 10 years where it would have been helpful. In my opinion, screen readers are king. Also, Audible is amazing!

My last job search was very enlightening. Coding tests, phone interviews all went great at several places. Step into an in person interview with a white cane though and everything changes.

I understand it can make people uncomfortable, especially if I’m the first blind person someone interacts with. But, that doesn’t make it any less illegal to pass on me over someone else all else being equal.

I think most hiring managers just aren’t aware of the bias they might bring in to the equation when they encounter a disability for the first few times. Incredibly frustrating though.
Please don't take HN threads even further into political and ideological flamewar. We don't want it here.

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I don't know about the front page, but /u/ir0nyman definitely got a mention in Money Stuff, which basically constitutes "winning" r/wsb AFAICT. I doubt there's anyone in finance who hasn't at least heard of the ongoing wsb/RH drama at this point.
FYI while you're here: Your search is broken: https://support.stripe.com/search?q=Countries
No way. I work in a startup (~35 employees) on a small, mission-critical team (~6 members). Even so I consider my contribution to company success or failure to be negligible. It boggles my mind that someone at a giant company like FAANG would allow their options to influence their work habits, as if their role in any way impacts the share price. Perhaps if I was in a top leadership position, but for a line-worker, equity is just an investment that happens to be correlated to the performance of your employer (ie bad, because its not diversified).
I grew up in India and have family in India. India is not ready for PRIME TIME not in my life time.

It's complicated, its nation of nations. Still caste is a still is strong basis of political patronage. It has come a long way, but has long way to go!

India's Navy is a joke, Airforce is a flying junkyard and Army is an amalgam of bad ideas, and pension commitments.

I do not see India going anywhere. India has been hope of Asia since 1950s, and it will remain that way into 2050!
FWIW the absl CivilTime library is excellent: https://abseil.io/blog/20181010-civil-time
Much depends on the ad network. The default YouTube one, which is essentially the only network you can easily get into with a single video, paid me 23 cents CPM for video-game genre.
Protection from scams requires that a malicious actor with full technical control of some account is still unable to make irreversible transactions by opting out of whatever structure supports escrow, chargebacks, etc; so either those mechanisms (conditional reversibility, with technical controls defining a reasonable regime of when reversals will be possible and when not) are built in the core system and aren't optional, or the system doesn't have a sufficiently usable reversibility because all the really large scams will simply avoid that "structure on top".

The other alternative, of course, is someone taking on full legal liability for transactions that can't be secured technically. If Facebook would offer Libra to consumers in e.g. UK, then all that "transactions are technically irreversible" means is that Facebook would be required to "reverse" the transaction to customer while being unable to recover the funds from the beneficiary - and if they can afford to do that, that's their choice to make.
> I do not understand this comment, as I have done separate compilation every day with C++ for over two two decades: the model inherently only allows this, as every translation unit absolutely must be compiled separately and then linked... you don't even have a choice in the matter.

Except if your headers include macros or templates, which must be evaluated every time. This is not separate compilation. What C/C++ developers have been doing for 20 years is jumping through hoops to incrementally reuse previously compiled results because C/C++ violate basic modularity principles [1]. They call it "separate compilation", but it's a pale shadow of true separate compilation.

Proper modules would enforce abstraction boundaries so true separate compilation becomes possible. I can't speak to the specific C++ proposal here, but enabling separate compilation is exactly what modules are for.

[1] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-11/Gregor-Modules.pdf
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While this article was an interesting take, it doesn't really provide a clear path forward. It points out a variety of problems, contradictions, and dangerous assumptions, but the reasoning presented falls short of offering solutions.

For example, the section titled Fixing Facebook irks me. Where's the fix? It just goes on to point out more problems. The conclusion of both the article and section begins with: "To that end, the fact that this debate is even occurring is evidence of the problem..."

That's not to demean the usefulness of the article: it articulates a series of related issues and thoroughly explains why they are problematic. But I don't see any path to a solution embedded in the logic presented.

While I understand that the first step in solving a problem is to understand it, this is a very abstract, historically-anchored view of the situation in isolation, so its utility as a practical analysis from which solutions could be derived is questionable. This article serves an intellectual purpose, but I fail to see how it is likely to lead to a solution that will remain remotely tenable when other factors are taken into account. The only derivative solution I see here is that culture needs to change, rather than law--whether it be the values of our culture or a collective migration away from centralized, monopolistic communication platforms. While cultural change might be a good long-term goal, it's something that can only happen over the course of multiple generations, which makes it impractical when a short term solution is needed.
Those are natural limits, though. If I go to an all-you-can-eat buffet but just had my wisdom teeth removed, it's not their fault that I'll cry in a corner while delicately nibbling a small bowl of pudding. They were willing to let me eat more, even if I wasn't capable of it.

If the same buffet made you wait 2 hours between plates, then it's no longer realistically an all-you-can-eat buffet.
No matter how much you comment your code, you are not going to bring people up to speed on an algorithm that requires background knowledge on dozens of scientific papers, hundreds of pages, with a few code comments. This code is aimed at researchers who are familiar with the techniques and have the necessary background knowledge. For such people, the code is very readable.

Think about it like this: If you write a game engine, are you going to document each function with proofs that explain how the underlying Physics works for people who don't have such knowledge? No, you assume that people who read game engine code have read some basic physics books.
How can I make a VirtualBox VM out of this?
Coming from ZH? it must be gold.
Does Eigen not work for your use cases?
The emergence of laboratory benefits managers: PBM déjà vu?
Not sure about IB, but the surveys at most brokers are jokes. You check a couple of boxes in a form, possibly over-stating your experience. The next day futures, options, or whatever you wanted is turned on.
It has its role in quick and dirty preliminary analysis and experiments. Studies have shown it is actually pretty damn good. http://web.mit.edu/bentley/www/papers/chi-case-surveys.pdf
Since around 1970 (US leaves the gold standard) gold has slightly outpaced inflation according to the US BLS inflation calculator [0].

Calculator thinks $6,000/kg => $41,000/kg, actual price $6,000/kg to $48,000/kg. That makes sense because 'true' inflation (consumer goods + assets) probably outpaces official inflation (consumer goods only).

Gold can't exactly get more or less valuable over time. It is a rock. We have no practical uses for it.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're all the same, which makes them tedious and off topic, and they lead to flamewars, which we don't want.

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React, JSX, ES module imports (dynamic too) in browser without Webpack
It seems weird to pair D3 with React, since D3 is just another abstraction over the DOM, just like React. Why not just render the graphics with React?
I haven’t heard that one in about 10 years.
This has been studied: https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/19164
It is very, very good.
In my experience, most people outside of the USA are not very familiar with anything between NY and LA. Usually I have to tell people, I live in Oregon which is north of California. Oh, California, yes we've heard of California. I doubt the majority of the world has even heard of Utah or has any concept of where it is or that SLC is the capital of the state.
Ideally one, maybe two? An LTS and a current version?
> Find me a robot that can navigate 4x4 trails and identify rocks with accuracy.

There's at least one doing so right this very moment on Mars, though it's pretty slow at it.
> Just as an amusing side note: Common Lisp used to be criticized for the massive size of its libraries and later likewise C++.

Part of "size of libraries" is "mental size of libraries".

And C++ and Lisp and have very large mental spaces for their main core libraries. A "String", for example, carries a huge amount of mental baggage in those languages. In most other languages, a string is extremely straightforward because it was designed into the language from the start.
That's like saying that blizzard and oracle are competitors because they are both in the software industry. If you can't substitute the product from one company with another, then they are not competitors.

In this case, if you can't buy phone insurance (the product you would buy from T-Mobile) from Lemonade, they are not competitors.
> Seventy-seven percent of the Medicare decedents' total healthcare expenditures occur in their last year of life, a staggering 52% in the last 2 months, and 40% in the last month. We are basically spending a fortune as a society for healthcare for very old, very sick people that does not increase the lifespan of the individual by more than 30 days, if at all.

That's almost a tautology, right? Pretty much the inverse of the survivorship bias.

Life-saving procedures are expensive because they are difficult and risky and almost by definition likely to fail, since once medical science is able to "manage" one kind of medical challenge, they immediately have to deal with the next one that would kill the person who was saved. In that sense, it should be obvious that most money is spent just ahead of people finally dying. It's almost that cliche of how you always find your keys in the last place you looked.
> I understand the equity as a lottery ticket - I'm confident on the startup I chose will grow big...

I know you already got a response, but I wanted to offer my experience.

Your immediate concern shouldn't be whether the company grows or not. Your immediate concern should be what happens to your options when your employment is terminated.

All jobs end in two ways: you are either terminated (fired, laid off, etc) or you terminate yourself.

What you need to understand is what happens.

- Will you be able to afford exercising your options? Not a huge deal most of the time, especially for engineers. It might cost a few thousand. In extreme cases, you're on the wrong side of the golden handcuffs. Once you exercise, you are chained to that company's future unless a secondary market is available.

- What's the window for doing so (typical is 90 days!)?

Further questions to ask before spending too much time:

- What are the founders' beliefs about VC (Growth-only, money-hungry, what)? Every dollar that is invested post-hire potentially means your options are worth less.

- What are the founders' beliefs about revenue? Do they want to make their product "free"? Do they have a business plan?

- How open are they about finances? If they aren't, just don't. If they spin some BS about not being able to legally disclose company finances to employees, run.

Having $1MM worth of equity means nothing if you can't exercise them or if the founders' crash the company into a cliff being dumb.
Full disclosure, I work for a mental health startup.

Some of you may not know but many tech companies, especially in the Bay Area, has mental healthcare benefits via their EAP (Employee Assistance Program). You should find out from your HR. The one I work for makes a point of making it super easy to find a therapist for the patient and the appointments can be done in person or over video. EAPs are generally free. Please use it if you feel like you need it and take care of yourselves. Don't try to shrug it off -- approach it like how you would with other forms of health care.
I submitted this because there are more than a few startups in the lab test space (partly to take advantage of CLIA).
Sorry I should have made that more clear haha
well I already don't own a car (last mile vehicle is enough for my use), and follow a mediterranean diet, avoid waste, etc

But e.g. as much as I try to avoid single use plastic, my limited useage is not going to do much vs just banning / heavily taxing them.

So my question was more : what can I do to actually make the lines move.
Faith, Hope and Probability (1991)
I think this is a reduco ad absurdum.

If AT&T didn't throttle, I suppose "unlimited" would still be a lie because there is still a limit to how fast your phone will download it. If you remove that it's still a lie because there's a limit to medium bandwidth, and so on.

All of these things are artificial! Should AT&T upgrade all users to phones with the latest modems because otherwise they are "artificially limiting" their experience? The impact on AT&T would be the same as stopping traffic shaping: spending more per user.
Flip the Switch on the Imposter Syndrome
what would you do instead ? surely you would not have std::string be a template directly and type std::string<char> / std::string<wchar_t> instead of std::string / std::wstring every time you want a string ?
Bad enough to get involuntarily committed. Good enough to say the right things to avoid being committed. Somewhat ironically if I get committed I'll almost certainly off myself because the idea of restarting from being broke, unemployed, and homeless again is a complete non starter.
I'm not entirely convinced that this is a bad thing. The dependency-heavy environments a la Node.js gave us some interesting security nightmares.
So your typical Reddit/Hacker News new computer build.

"$300 for the whole thing. (Note: This doesn't include the GPU, motherboard, case, or monitor that I already had prior to building.)"
Wide and tall, 43" 4k
Good spot. I must have been either using the British definition of billion (million million) rather than the US definition (thousand million), or failed to spot that the 25,700 taxpayers in the referenced document actually represented 25,700,000. Anyway figure corrected. Thanks.
> Mill’s reasoning ultimately rests on what principles he believes would result in the best outcome, from a utilitarian perspective. The point I’m making is that he wasn’t some free speech absolutist, but that an assessment of harm/utility undergirds his thinking, and that the different media environment would be something Mill would have to grapple with. And it could lead to an exception.

I suppose that's possible, but outside a specific argument as why Mill should change his mind, I'm hard pressed to think he would.

You're right that he wasn't an absolutist, but in my experience a sufficiently advanced utilitarian philosophy is virtually indistinguishable from a deontological one. This stems from the obvious limitations in human ability to perform the ethical calculations required by utilitarianism.

> You seem more concerned with defending Ben than thinking through what needs to be considered in this issue.

No, I'm trying to elicit a concrete criticism or argument that I can engage with. I happen to agree with Ben's position: so don't just tell me I'm not thinking about the issues, tell me why I'm wrong.
I took a storytelling class recently and the book we used as a text, "Storytelling and the art of Imagination" (Nancy Mellon) has some sound advice for using stories for healing purposes. I find it rather powerful as a way of extending journaling and taking it out of the nihlistic-ruminating mode that feeds anxious-depressed cycles - just taking control of an ordinary life story and adding a few fairy tale elements does a lot.
but again you can revert to gcc-4.9 behaviour with -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0
I don't think there's a public API.
I said "if society wants it". At least society has a democratic choice. I grant that it can still amount to exploitation for some people.

Also for society as whole perhaps even an economic argument could be made, like the benefits for society of helping those kids could be higher than the costs. Then in summary nobodies tax money would be misappropriated.
It also happened to the Italian lira at the same time. Up to the point (or perhaps, the consequence) that the government at the time forcibly withdrew money (not large amounts, mind you, but if you do some sums...) from all bank accounts throughout the country overnight.
I'd put my bets on student loan debt. The push for forgiveness is so strong, there must be some other force at play--something more than just pandering to millenials.
I don't understand why this would be at all difficult for RH to go after. It's clearly fraud. The WallStreetBets top comments seem to have this pretty much dialed in: the best case is that RH unwinds the profits you make; the worst case is, well, much worse.
Holy shit I hadn’t even considered that. Thank you, that gives me a lot to think over.
Investors knowingly chasing risk with these junky bonds is perfectly fine. In 2008, investors were defrauded by ratings agencies and bond creators who masqueraded junk mortgages as gold plated, at massive scale.
Arent these loans based on receivables factoring?
Pocket change is right. How about some real fines?