jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How much are you really spending on gas?

I paid $11,000 for my now 3 year old car when it was 2 years old. I didn't finance it so I didn't pay interest. I average about 35 mpg and drive about 12,000 miles a year. If gas was $4 a gallon that is about $1,412 a year. If I drove 15,000 miles a year that is $1,700 in gas. My owner's manual* says to change the oil once every 10,000 miles or once a year whichever is first. The dealership does that for me for free.

I'd have to drive my car for 30 years to make up the price difference between the cars ($52,000)

If you want to get a luxury car, then get a luxury car, but don't act like you're doing it to save money.

*it is no longer true you have to change your oil every 3,000 miles for most cars.

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/how-do-you-really-know-when-to-c...

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4209/is-it-neces...

http://www.edmunds.com/car-care/stop-changing-your-oil.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/your-money/11shortcuts.htm...
Yeah it's kind of crazy. I just turned of ad block on download.com and there's like nine iffy download links for one real one.
Yeah, I ended converting all the project to spaces.
I'll see about recording some gameplay tonight and uploading it to the Play Store :)
> Great news unless you are living in a village near the tigers.

This fear that people have of nearby predators is, in fact, a real problem with conservation efforts to preserve those predators. David Quammen addresses this aspect of conservation in his book "Monster of God". He believes the fear of predators is more deep-seated in our psyche than most other fears.

I suspect your 100-250 number is high (perhaps way high?) but it only takes one in a village where everyone knows everyone to ratchet-up fear. If a neighbor kid were taken by a bear, I'd sure want the authorities to do something about that bear.
Are drones stealth? After all, they're now doing much of the day-to-day work that used to be done by piloted craft.

From my very casual outsider view, it looks like manned platforms are indeed becoming more expensive, but unmanned platforms are much cheaper and taking over much of the work.
That's an unpopular opinion of course, but it's important to understand the attitude of the people living around them. The Outside Online article linked by avemuri elsewhere in this thread gets into the issue. Wildlife conservation is important, but I can't help but empathize with the people living in the surrounding area. With very little work and very little money to go around, and with tigers killing their livestock and rhinos getting into their crops, what are they supposed to do? It doesn't even have to happen often for it to become quite a contentious issue.
Happy holidays :)
I think they're just making a point about what the absence of any kind of acceptance of failure is like. It's not that there's a spectrum between "failure culture" and "Italy-like", it's that "failure culture" itself is the spectrum, and Italy-like is the point at the very end. It's what happens people don't respect failure.
Picking a demo from http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/ and then clicking on the "View Demo" button allows you to view the demos.

Most of them (except VR) seem to work for me in Chrome on Ubuntu (5.0.375.55 beta).
This problem isn't handling names, its validating them and trying to do clever things with them, which is rarely, truly, necessary - especially if its a customer's name that they see on mail, bills etc and that they have the ability to correct... they will validate it for you.

I think the real bad assumption is that validation is necessary or even desirable - applying the technique brainlessly to names is the root cause of this problem - you don't really need to make any assumptions.
http://css3please.com
Uhm, correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Move work on completely different principles?

I mean, I thought the point of move was the six axis accelerometer combined with the sensor picking up the ball of light?
How do you sue someone you can't contact? What if the costs involved in bringing suit exceed the amount owed?
Python's docs are reasonable, but could be better. I don't like the left-hand contents, I find it breaks the flow. Wikipedia's inline contents seem far more intuitive. I'd like to be able to jump to specific functions.

(Moving to bpython solved most of these problem though, as it shows the docstring for a given function inline.)

Also, you end up spending a lot of time reading the docs and so a little typographical polish wouldn't hurt. The page is simply too wide.
Coffee is destroying America.
A great example of taking something relevant in the news and applying it to your project/business.

Great stuff.
Is there an exclusive app to OSX that doesn't exist on Windows? If you make it for Android or OSX, it will eventually be done on Windows/iOS because of the larger user base (more profits).
I miss the tooling for VRML.
I did a lot of modeling in VRML back then, but gradually all the tools have stopped working.
I particularly miss the cosmos editor and browser. It had a fantastic ui, but was lost in buyups by incompetent adobe-wannabes. Also, blaxxun disappeared.
I found it a very easy language to prototype 3d in.

Now when I look at a-frame, i see them just reinventing a square wheel. "Oh, it is like vrml, just worse in every way..?".
Sigh.
Nowadays, i prototype in roblox instead, but its not the same.
> disappointing to eat

I’m halfway convinced that the recent plant-based goop phenomenon is not a story about environmental or moral concerns, but instead disillusion with the blandness of commodity meat.
100%
There is climate change yes.
There is probably even man-made climate change although I don't know how much.
There is pollution yes.
But no, there is no climate crisis or catastrophe. Thats horse shit.
You have to know these things when you are a king.
The same people who dumped the same crap in my country (Belgium): https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2022/04/09/is-there-pfas-contam...
"The climate crisis", yep very crisis-y out here.
I could just print out and bring a patent.
Reminds me of the cooler company Blue Coolers, whose entire business model is that they source from China to compete on price against USA made Yeti coolers. The company almost didn't make it, until they had their big break selling thousands of coolers at a trucker rally. The truckers loved the cheap coolers, even though they are only cheap because they are undercutting USA made coolers with Chinese ones. False consciousness in action!
Source for this story via clips of a the reality show "I Quit" in this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZqt2bPZT1w
Maybe young people watch less news?
Look at the colours - the grey ones are the undocumented endpoints.
A lot of the more desirable countryside or smaller city prices have gone up as well.

Not that I really disagree. Especially if you're settled in there are a lot of frictions to moving--more or less depending on circumstances. Absent a need to move for a job or whatever, you're talking at least a lot of time and at least some amount of money. So if you're "OK" where you are, the default is certainly to stay put.
Is there some deep-learning tool to reconstruct songs that got distorted in various ways?
TWITCHAIN engineers and users scraping Twitter could be anonymous
It’s a soul crushing job over time. Feeding the lizard brain of guys jerking off to whatever instructions you get gets old, and the money is usually just good enough to keep people around.
I dunno, the design philosophy seems ripped out of their (former, to their credit!) playbook.

https://twitter.com/woketopus/status/1447150924846313475
You're missing the point. A kids birthday isn't a fun place to do coke. Coke goes with sex, dancing, mingling with strangers.
Give fresh eggs a couple of days to a week to mellow. The flavour of a just-layed egg from a backyard chicken with a rich diet can be pretty intense.
Nice work! Like the OS feel. I don't think you need to link your skills page out to the various related websites, that takes the visitor away from your portfolio. Instead maybe show some examples of what you've done with each skill.
TLDR: if your goal is to make your own innovations/progress/etc then probably don't waste your time playing armchair sociologist writing this sort of thing before you've actually done any of that. Or spend a lot of time reading this sort of thing.
There's nothing more disheartening than spending a great deal of time and effort building something that absolutely no one uses or even wants.
Also known as "telling a story".
I have no clue what you are talking about and I don't think that you have either so I'll just leave this discussion now.
Nobody? I'm sure you researched that statement along with spending some time actually doing that before you said it right?

In most versions of Common Lisp you can see the exactly assembler output of your function, allowing you to optimise your code at any level you want. Like other people mentioned, you can add type declarations to ensure that the correct machine types are used, and you even have goto. What specific aspects of Lisp are you saying prevents optimisation? Especially given that Lisp has more low-level control than most other languages.
>>Perma.cc promises “to create citation links that will never break.” It works something like the Wayback Machine’s “Save Page Now.” If you’re writing a scholarly paper and want to use a link in your footnotes, you can create an archived version of the page you’re linking to, a “permalink,” and anyone later reading your footnotes will, when clicking on that link, be brought to the permanently archived version. Perma.cc has already been adopted by law reviews and state courts; it’s only a matter of time before it’s universally adopted as the standard in legal, scientific, and scholarly citation.

Glad to see this exists and is being properly utilized.
Wow, thanks for that. I had not heard of them. They even have positions advertised in my area of expertise (which is not even directly related to finance).
I've read quite a bit on standing desks and I'm curious if there is any study/research that shows, experimentally, that it's actually [standing] that leads to some of the proposed benefits. I only ask because I wonder if simply exercising while sitting [1] or in general [2] lead to the same benefits or if the very sedentary nature of the circumstances surrounding sitting that lead to these poor outcomes (which then are solved by standing).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/FitDesk-v2-0-Desk-Exercise-Massage/dp/...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B1VDNQA/ref=psdc_3407781_t3_B00C...

EDIT: Forgot to mention, when I say exercising, I mean during the same time where you would be sitting (e.g. during work, continuously)
Don't be a smartass, read the study.

They measure risk of death as 'your risk of dying in the next 12 months'

And if you really want to be a smartass, note that about 5% of all people have never died.
Cell service could be provided with a femtocell.
This is pure hogwash. Literary fiction is just another genre of fiction, not something that stands above other genres. There are serious literary authors who have branched into genre fiction who agree with me. Read over this interview with Michael Chabon [1].

This is like complaining that music from the 80s is so much better than music from today because you've cherry picked a few dozen gems from an entire decade.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/27/entertainment/ca-cha...
Maybe further saving could be done by converting to cbor before urlencode
Thanks, that is correct. I couldn't edit my comment.
Neither nuclear power nor wind/solar is readily ramped up/down economically, but at least nuclear power is consistently available and can be dispatched to some extent.

You can always turn off renewables during periods of overproduction. Whether you build nuclear+renewables or just renewables, you need to overprovision the renewables and be willing to turn them off. You just have to do this more with only renewables.

(Of course, you'd want to use all available strategies to reduce required overprovisioning-- including maximizing use of dispatchable hydroelectric and biogas, some storage, and agreements with utility users to reduce usage during times of critical supply shortages).
Thank you, that is a sad story. And well buried - hard to Google, and I never came across this even when they were a client of mine.
This is great! It's also very similar to the approach we use to teach deep learning at fast.ai, based on research into teaching methods done by David Perkins at Harvard. A couple of our principals are:

- Teaching “the whole game”–starting off by showing how to use a complete, working, very usable, state of the art deep learning network to solve real world problems, by using simple, expressive tools. And then gradually digging deeper and deeper into understanding how those tools are made, and how the tools that make those tools are made, and so on…

- Always teaching through examples: ensuring that there is a context and a purpose that you can understand intuitively, rather than starting with algebraic symbol manipulation

If you're interested, there's more info here: https://www.fast.ai/2016/10/08/teaching-philosophy/
Yeah, but did he ever win the Putnam?
Sales are irrelevant because the margins are so thin. The vast majority of actual profit comes from AWS.
> Natural gas isn't a base load power source, it is a peaker power source.

Gee, what are all these combined cycle gas plants that take 12-24 hours to start/shutdown, and require high duty cycle use to be economically competitive, if they're not base generation?

(Yes, I know we're starting to get faster combined cycle plants, but they're still not fast, and they still require to be producing power most of the time to be viable).

> Even with a pure nuclear grid, you'd still need a peaking source. That would be provided, probably, by natural gas or hydro if available.

I suggested use of biogas and hydro in the comment you replied to! Did you not read it, or just talked past it?

> A storage solution is simply required regardless of where the grid goes.

Sufficient overprovisioning of renewables and smart grid greatly reduces the amount of storage/peaking needed. A bit of reliable, carbon-neutral base load greatly reduces the amount of overprovisioning needed.
I knew her pre-Jennicam, from IRC. This was before JPEG was really "out." She sent me either a .bmp or a .gif of her left (I think) calf, using a device she called a "digital camera." At the time I had been working on making an incredibly primitive (and slow) scanner using an XY plotter, a light pen, and a data acquisition board, so it dovetailed with my little project.

She was interested in disintermediation. She could take an image and send it directly to someone without it being taken to a darkroom, without it being published and distributed, and so forth. This is common now but it was ... really startling back around 1991 or 1992. No later than that, given my timeframes.

An image of a hand may have also been sent. She could just ... send me random local images. Given that my home setup was a simple terminal, I had to go to campus to look at the images on a workstation but it was still from there to here without anyone else being in the middle of it.

My memory of decades old conversations are rather dim, but it wasn't about exhibition for her, rather it was direct access, without filters or someone else trying to decide "what is worth publishing." Her willingness to explore this new territory was very impressive to me.
More widely supported Reading Mode. People piss on Safari and love to hate it on HN and Reddit but the Reading Mode has saved my eyes many, many times.

Additionally, something that will make me immediately switch to any browser: ability to style websites even if they don't have switches for light/dark mode. Put that in a browser and I'll switch right away. (Although this can be easily tackled if the Reading Mode works on the site, so it's related.)

Finally: built-in, harsh, and highly configurable ad-blocking.
Everyone I know goes once a week. once every two weeks and you'd start to run out of fresh produce in week 2.
I believe humans actually, I just stumbled upon this infographic today : https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/164FE...
i founding hit everywhere, amazon included

https://www.amazon.com/Dissident-Jamal-Kashoggi/dp/B08QTQFNT...
Downloaded their CSVs. Most handles have been anonymized, and only a few hundred accounts in total.
I just think that all big money is tainted and founders should be honest about what they're raising when they raise, so there aren't surprises later. If one reads the Panama Papers, this comes into very clear detail.

I guess I should add a bit more color here, which is I also don't necessarily think of this tainting as a purely moral question, as I believe it's also a logistical one. The more money is being managed by a fund, the more likely it is that some nefarious utilizations of it will come into the picture. I think of it a lot like the law of large numbers.
Hermès Birkin Bags have famously beat the S&P for decades: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/hermes-birk...
Can you read it? Definitely let them know - there is a news station email in the article.
I think it depends on how much it costs and the environmental impact of energy generation and transmission. There's a continuum between austerity taxing a resource for insane frugality, moderate pricing, and giving it away that has to be deliberately comsidered.
Similar situation to yourself except we already have some Ubuntu as well. Decision is yet to be made. Ubuntu is a viable alternative and just as capable as CentOS if not more so these days. Snap is there in case what you're looking for isn't already available in a repo, but it's not mandatory to use it. One of the nice things you get with Ubuntu is LXD System Containers. Think half way house between application containers (docker) and full fat VMs. Super impressed with how lightweight and flexible they are (snapshot, cluster, publish, migrate, etc).

If you're really paranoid about getting burned by a proprietary business decision again in the future have you thought about Debian? Providing your hardware is supported it's also a solid choice. It can also optionally run snap and LXD Containers (via snap currently).
"Teapot in the shape of brain coral" yields the opposite. The topology is teapot-esque. The texture composed of coral-like appendages. Sorry if this is overly semantic, I just happen to be in a deep dive in Shape Analysis at the moment ;)

>>> DALL·E appears to relate the shape of a half avocado to the back of the chair, and the pit of the avocado to the cushion.

That could be human bias recognizing features the generator yields implicitly. Most of the images appear as "masking" or "decal" operations. Rather than a full style transfer. In other words the expected outcome of "soap dispenser in the shape of hibiscus" would resemble a true hybridized design. Like an haute couture bottle of eau du toilette made to resemble rose petals.

The name DALL-E is terrific though!
Well, in order to find the composition of interstellar dust, they will use spectral analysis as well...
Please do...

In my freshman year of college, I asked my real analysis professor why 1+1=2 and he failed to provide an edifying explanation. He did, however, commend me for asking -- I think it earned me some brownie points, which I redeemed by asking for extra clarification on more course-related topics later in the quarter.

Anyway, it's always bothered me so if I can learn something about it then I would love to!
My experience is exactly opposite yours. I find it easier to come back to old Scheme code than to old code in C, Java, SQL, Bourne shell, Perl or PHP.

Your assertion is false that it's easy to perform a usability test on a subject familiar with programming concepts but not exposed to syntax. It is not easy to learn programming without exposure to any language, so finding subjects for such a test would be difficult.
I agree with you, and indeed that is where the argument lies. You have deprived the owner of the design of their right to determine how that design is distributed, in a sense. Whether there is such a thing as legitimate ownership of intellectual property and whether this right in itself is legitimate is a different question. All I ask is that we do not conflate ownership of the copy with ownership of the rights to the design.
"Way too much text on some of these slides... that's what loses the audience. "

Some of that way-too-much text explains that were this a real, in-person, presentation the text content would be severely cut back.
Murdering bits (deleting them) will get you nothing, but copying bits (creating more of them) will get you a jail sentence. And in this case it's allowing access to bits that allow other people to copy bits,

It's a bizarre world, and I think stuff like this is a direct consequence of subscribing to legal fictions.
Though Unity works as expected (awesome!), there still seems to be some other bugs with VirtualBox integration. A big one for me is that seamless mode doesn't work when running 11.04.
On OS X you can add

apple.awt.rendering = quality

to the info.plist properties section in the .app Contents folder and it seems to make the fonts a little smoother as well.
Maybe we should try 'tweet compression'? Im sure you could pack a lot more text into 144 characters using the right compression algorithm.

Dammit i missed april fools day to announce my 'tweet compression' service :(
"The creators of Garageband for iPad didn’t care about what their software could do. They cared about what people could do with their software."

Aren't they the same thing? Feature lists describe what your software can do, which shapes what people can do with your software.

That GarageBand for iPad is accessible to all might be more to do with the platform than the featureset.
Even better to avoid chaining altogether by using delegation (cf. Law of Demeter) and taking advantage of the :allow_nil option to Active Support's Module#delegate (http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Module.html#method-i-dele...).
So basically the repeatInterval is expected to have one of the values of an enumeration assigned to it, where the enumerated values are calendar units (representing daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), and it somehow mishandles the value representing "once-per-era"?
You can plug in an external screen into your laptop. Sometimes I use just an external display with my laptop; sometimes I use it as a second (primary) monitor.
Paul -- I use CK to monitor my Linode apps. Should I expect to start seeing "switch to rackspace" pitches when I login? Are you going to do anything non-anonymously with my data?
Yep, I think this is just a preferences thing. The bug "Pull request" tab implies to me that they're pull requests that are currently pending, since it's in amongst the source, the issues... and since it's a tab. The button implies "start a pull request for upstream" since it's up near several other 'action' buttons.

To each his own. TMTOWTDI. :)
IMO, building a social network is quite difficult nowadays because you can't monetize it right away. So you either have to bootstrap as a side project and build a community for years or getting paid by VC money early on.

We tried something similar [1] a few years ago. The limit is 5 posts per day. Our approach was minimalistic in a sense as you could post links only and no text, pictures, or videos.

We named it Turtle, symbolizing the opposite of the chatty twitter bird. It wasn't so clever from an SEO point of view though.

[1] https://turtle.community