skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economics is only a single factor though. Part of the decision for me was that zippy-peppy driving, it's mad fun. I haven't driven a Prius, but I don't get the impression it's so much fun to operate.

Also, I hate stopping at gas stations, not just for the monetary cost, but for the time and general annoyance. Now I just plug in every night, my car is always ready to go. I'm never rushing off to an appointment only to realize that my tank is nearly empty, which will make me late. And I never have to change the oil.

And now I can make my weekly ~140 mile round trips without feeling so much polluter's guilt. Sure, it's a drop in the bucket, but a full bucket is full of drops.

Did you take into account that these cars can be programmed to wait until nighttime to start charging, when rates are lowest?

Anyway, sure, economics is a big factor that will slow adoption, but it won't halt it.

Edit to add: Plus I get $9,000 in total tax rebates. Tasty.
We've all had physically demanding jobs. After a few weeks your body would have fully adjusted.
I think they mentioned Spotify somewhere in the "Ten Commandments". I'm pretty sure that's their primary software.
Looking for contributors: Fancy i3status replacement in Rust
This is a little sideproject I've been working on. If you love i3, you'll love this project. Minimalistic in system resource usage, yet packed with features to get so much more out of your i3bar. Because this is only something I can work on in my spare time, I haven't finished many modules yet (like CPU usage, battery, device mounts etc etc.). I only got around to get the framework working properly so far. This is why I'm looking for contributors to get this thing everyday-ready. It is going to add a nice look, buttons and dynamic blocks to your i3bar, al the while using less system resources than i3status by saving block updates through push-updates, caching and individual block update intervals. Let me know what you think, it's my first public Rust project.
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And then became a professional writer...
>You forgot oil changes in you calc.

Are you, perhaps, being sarcastic with your comment?

Anyway, there are few countries (if any) on Earth where EVs make financial sense for an average person. Their time will come, but buying into it now is not investing – indeed, as the GP commented, you do it for altogether different reasons.
Sounds like everyone got what they wanted.

Also sounds like you were dealing with humans, who (before escalating) followed company protocols.

Also seems not too far-fetched that those protocols are in place to weed out the whatever% that make bogus claims.

All in all, nothing I'd call "truly sad", "evil" and whatnot. Just big businesses being big businesses.
Because, for some stupid reason, having your startup or blog post appear on the Hacker News frontpage is a Really Big Deal, and the staff don't want anyone peeking at their algorithms to find ways to game the system. Which means the really interesting problems they have to solve like voting ring detection, spam detection, etc. are the ones they don't want anyone to see their solutions to.

Also (personal theory of mine) maybe the code doesn't have the degree of abstraction or separation of concerns necessary to allow open sourcing without also exposing YC business concerns or parts they want to keep secret.
Amazon is finally paying for the rampant counterfeits in their supply chain?
Rich European countries like Germany and France meanwhile have even less fiber than the US. I suspect much cheaper labor and less anti-development regulation is the big factor in the low cost of fiber in Eastern Europe.
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My 2015 Taurus weighs over 4000 lbs @.@
Maybe just call them "conversations"?
Quick question, trying to get my head around the product:

Say I just got an email from my boss that I think is passive-aggressively accusatory (e.g., perhaps it lays out the specifics of what she wants me to do tomorrow in a way that I think she's implying that I can't be entrusted to get things done without detailed instructions).

I paste the email into Boost, asking for feedback; am I crazy, or is this an accusatory email, I wonder, eagerly anticipating Boost's response. Perhaps I also want to hear Boost's advice on how to respond to the email.

After I do this, who is reading and interpreting the email on Boost's behalf, then giving me advice on how to respond? I'm sure you're feeding it into a sentiment analysis API, but apart from that, what human attention does the email get and what are the backgrounds of the humans doing it?
I bought a 3-pack on amazon recently after visiting family over Mother's Day weekend seeing all my little cousins and niece/nephews with one.

I definitely see the appeal after toying around with one.
You are lucky.

I wish I could have just enjoyed college without worrying about food, gas, and keeping a roof over my head.

Working to pay for all that as a science major was no easy task. I cut corners and sometimes took too many credits to graduate in a timely manner.

It wasn't Animal House or Legally Blonde.
It's true in practice, because of the practical ways in which large-scale capital flows are manifested.

The stronger point, that it's true in all cases, is made by Pettis somewhere deep in his blog... and it boils down to the idea that other edge cases diffuse the allocation of debt, investment, capital -- but the identity must still hold true at the level of abstraction of the nation / currency area. Those edge cases tend to look starker (and harder to explain) in toy models, though.

I can't really do his argument justice, though. Sorry! I'm simply nowhere near sophisticated enough.

But... the case where it's not re-lent, there is still exchange-rate pressure, but the 'missing' capital (say it's not stuck under a mattress, but is instead burned in a furnace) effectively deflates the remaining capital in the economy. The identities still balance. Again, the exact allocation of debt etc doesn't matter to the identity, and it's easy to construct a situation where the capital somehow disappears, or the underlying mechanism (or lack of mechanism) obscures the overall identity.

This all works because currency is effectively meaningless, it's a derivative of actual 'value' in an economy, as measured by the total output of goods and services. I'm going to stop here before I butcher it any worse; but if you find this at all interesting, Pettis is a much better source than I.
If you go public, you have to obey to the rules of the market you join. That why I don't get why some companies even go public.
Ebola doesn't give you freedom to live where you want and work where you want. We live in a world where we can afford to travel what was once long distances to do so, all due to the automobile. We spend tons of time in our cars, and it's safe time because we have to drive 100 million miles before we can expect one death among us or our passengers.
No, you need a physical and legal infrastructure that will make a viable market. Basically, have the state own the cable, and rent those to ISPs by the bandwidth. No bulk order, and no minimum area or minimum bandwidth, so players of any size (including 10 nerds who want to be their own ISP) can enter the market.

Then you can "let the market decide". It will decide very differently from what it is currently deciding.
Is iCloud experiencing issues right now?
Third party apps seem to think I have two factor auth on when I do not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11176894

> A version of HN's source code is included with the public release of Arc, but HN's algorithm has many extensions that aren't public.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13456306

> We're unlikely to publish all that because doing so would increase two bad things: attempts to game the site, and meta nitpicking.

Including at least at one time a Chrome extension for moderation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11670071#11670562
Speaking of monads, one of the themes in Prof. Sussman's "Adventures in advanced symbolic programming" course was that many metacircular evaluator experiments can be set up by using mostly the same core evaluator but swapping out the underlying monad. I'm pretty sure I implemented the "ambivalent operator" that way, using the list monad (in Scheme), but when we lifted amb to the host Scheme, it needed call/cc to be able to use the built-in control flow.

One thing I like about Haskell is that it's designed so that adding new control flow is not a big deal -- just design a monad. In Scheme it seems to be more work to get it all right.
I'm in SLC proper, so I'm sure my battery range will be impacted in the coldest months. It'll still theoretically be well above my maximum needs for years to come, but just in case, our second car is an old fashioned ICE (which will likely be replaced with a hybrid one day).
I don't want to discount the toll that physically demanding jobs can take on your body, but I think it's important to note that you can't really extrapolate much from the first week on the job. Just as you wouldn't after the first week of a new exercise routine.

I've worked some pretty physically demanding jobs before, warehouse/fulfillment center, construction, farm labor, landscaping, and assuming you have proper protocols in place for safety, your body gets much stronger after a period of a few weeks.

Edit: I've also worked customer service jobs were I sat in a chair for 8 hours a day and tbh I think that had a worse impact on my overall health than even the more grueling and unsafe construction jobs I've worked.

Edit#2: Just to be clear, I'm not trying to excuse any unsafe working conditions at Tesla or elsewhere. I do however believe a job can be both physically demanding while also following proper health and safety guidelines to ensure employees aren't being hurt.
It's a very low percentage, somewhere in the low single digits (if not an even lower order of magnitude). Still high enough for it to be worth paying engineers to maintain the backwards compatibility :)
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> so you're forced to less than optimal solutions like table inheritance for large numbers of records

Would the "native table partitioning" feature introduced in this release be a solution (or, at least, more optimal) for this?

Alternately, if you want to go off-heap, what about using Foreign Data Wrappers (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Foreign_data_wrappers#File_...)? These two both sound like they might solve your problem:

• https://github.com/ZhengYang/dc_fdw/wiki

• http://multicorn.org/
Driving is super safe. There is no evidence that driving is any less safe for young people. They just rarely die of anything.
Your argument is akin to arguing the most egregious type of death is abortion, because it costs someone their entire lifespan
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This is also true of below-water-table tunnels and pipelines of various sort, which are often at much higher pressure and with much greater environmental risk.
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There have been some posts on HN about hiring more experienced developers for one-on-one tutoring / pair coding over Skype (on freelance websites etc).

A guy wrote a blog post about it (can't remember name), he hired a couple people for a half hour each until he found one he liked.

Alternatively see if there are any meetups in your area (meetup.com is great for that).
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My brother in law bought one the moment he saw one. Returned it for a different color. Now he has 9. It's been 4 days. These things are definitely a phenomenon and the eCommerce world is going crazy.
Hey! Founder & CEO here.

Love the emotional response. Hey -- some people have to think it's incredibly stupid for it to be a good idea, right? #vclogic ;)

Anyways, we don't see this as just an advisor/coach that you use once or twice a year. That's thinking by the old school rules of how career coaches work.

But Boost is very, very different.

The vast majority of our users use Boost to analyze internal workplace situations, such as those dealing with politics or trying to climb the ladder. Many users do this weekly, when they get new communications that confuse them and they want to ensure they put their best foot forward.

We started the company as an advice-giving system for those during job hunts, but found nearly everyone should have been talking to us 3-6 months before they were switching. Most people don't have online brands that exude quality, they don't land speaking engagements, they don't push themselves to hit goals, and much more.

The people who push, have constant feedback, and have social accountability end up achieving much more. They gain an edge over the people who only "need advice once or twice a year."

Tighter feedback loops = faster learning, which equates to faster career growth.

----

Oh, and it's not a chatbot. Think of it more like Facebook M -- we have a full-time staff of career coaches who ensure every conversation is of the absolute quality. As of right now our chatbot tech is exceedingly limited and we're prioritizing quality over scale.
I laser cut one with my niece[1] thought it was cool, and ordered one. It was easily worth the $10.

[1]I try to spend as much time as I can teaching my niece how to make things. She had a spinner, and j wanted to show her that she could easily just make one too.
Their customer/enterprise support is notoriously sketchy, at least from the outside (a la HN) looking in.

That's not the same at all as their bug bounty program, which is generally one of the best out there.
Interesting question, but ultimately it's still hard to say .

The story on power consumption of managed/VM language is still not clear. Most of the computation in the world are now happening in mobile/IoT devices and cloud/data centers; Both environment put a strong constraint on power consumption and therefore on efficiency. There is already a huge amount (and growing ) of native code running in the cloud. As our computational requirement increase (and unless we have a break through in computation efficiency) people might want to revisit the lost implied by managed environment.

The other side of the coin is that managed env. are popular because they usually bring safety, ease of programming and productivity. Modern C++,rust and D are showing that a lot of those attributes can be had with native languages too.
Thanks! Definitely helped clarify some stuff. I guess I should be more careful about assuming things next time.
Poloniex have suspended deposits and withdrawals for ByteCoin (I'm not sure when), although it looks like trading is still active.
Is there any particular reason that the CI system defaults to using Performance-M dyno type ($250/mo)? I know that it's prorated to the second, but it seems like overkill.
What right do we have to decide that captivity is a better fate?
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Less important than the social stigma is the potential for placing your kids at a competitive disadvantage. Exactly what that will mean depends on how the next ~18 years unfold.
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I HIGHLY recommend that anybody who has family or friends who are interested in these things (kids i mean) just take a few minutes and build one. They're super cheap, and super easy.

Go to your friendly local makerspace if you don't have the tools to do it yourself.
I did say opportunity not viable long term businesses :)
My mother in law suggested that we get one to see if our daughter will do that instead of sucking her thumb when tired

Other night she had thumb in her mouth, fidget spinner in the other hand, so I'm chalking that up as a fail

They're pretty cheap ($5 or so), so it's a pretty low cost experiment if your wife is curious
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Never mind that most of the biggest contributions to science had nothing to do with the market economy...
I imagine that there are things you know about that you don't fully understand or haven't put into practice yet. So focus on understanding them, and especially understanding them by doing them.

And if by some miracle you don't have enough of those things, spend more time on HN ;)

Edit: Getting a mentor can be tremendously helpful. If you work at a company see if there's anyone you can get paired with. Someone more experienced is great, but even someone at your level is likely to know some tricks you haven't learned yet.

Alternatively, ask a friend, go to meetups, or you can even hire people online to teach you how to code (on freelance sites etc).
Do you have instructions for this that you've used with success?
Because they took money from VCs who want an exit.
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Except that statistically car injury accidents are so rare, they probably haven't.
Except when iterating through a hash, where 'key' and 'val' are my go-to names for stuff
> We're unlikely to publish all that because doing so would increase two bad things: attempts to game the site, and meta nitpicking.

So security by obscurity helps at times.
Try arguing with them about an SLA violation they had with their cloud infrastructure. The game is setup where they can chisel and have these guffaw and aw garsh moments but every adword and every billable second on their cloud will get paid hell or high water.
Of course it still matters. Almost all the software that runs whichever device you're reading this post on has been compiled to machine code. In operating systems everything from the filesystem to device drivers to the window manager to the web browser are written in some low level language. For hard real-time systems you need to be close to the metal. Same for most embedded applications.

Sure, there are many situations where sacrificing performance in exchange for a VM is totally appropriate. If you think this covers 99% percent of applications (or even 50%!) then you may only be thinking of a very small subset of software development.

Also, inefficient code produces excess heat. Meaning reduced battery life and noisy fans. So all software that gets used a lot should be optimized for performance just to conserve energy.
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I don't understand this comment:

>too far apart to reasonably take trains between them //

It's way nicer IMO doing inter city travel by train. One of my favourite journeys ever was from Wales, via England to South France.

Aren't railways one of the main ways to do long journeys between cities?
Curious why you have such high tolerance for this type of behavior, since it appears that you don't actually approve of it.
My parents told me growing up that I'd have to pay for it myself, but by the time I was graduating from high school they decided college was too expensive for someone to pay their way through on their own. So they helped out.

So given the above experience, I think it'd be good to do some math and see if there isn't a middle ground. I think there's a lot to be said for students contributing something to their own education, but I don't think that means it's realistic for them to pay for all of it.

(Assuming college makes sense for someone to begin with.)
In the "Communicate Better" section, did the imaginary employee really attach business confidential information in a Boost topic?

i.e. "I've attached a PowerPoint full of sensitive information that I'd love you to read and profide feedback. Soon afterwards I'll be needing job search advice since my employer will fire me for having such terrible judgement."

Sounds like a terrible idea and a poor example of how to use the service. Do they really want to advertise Boost as a service which will provide unapproved consultancy of confidential info?
This would be a lot more useful with information on distribution of scholarships (and more generally, the distribution of all means of financing among these groups).

For example, the data points showing that that men receive more help from their parents and graduate with higher levels of debt seems contradictory absent additional factors not considered.
Based on the libertarians I've talked with about seat belt laws, their argument would probably be to hand-wave it away with "It would have happened anyway thanks to the magic of the market."
I'm halfway through the article and still have no idea what a fidget spinner is.
Huh? Never fails to impress?
Fortunately for this company not everyone is so self-important that they think an AI-enhanced coach couldn't help them.
I think education should be free and provided for by the government. But since that probably won't happen any time soon, I will at least live my own values and pay for my kids college as my parents paid for mine.

Also if you care about your child's well being (both emotionally and financially), it's much easier for the parent to start saving a small amount when the child is born per year (compound interest) then for the child to have a houses worth of debt to pay off.

Also my kids don't have to go to college if they don't want to. And if not, I guess I get to take a 150k vacation.
Personally, I would do whatever you think best sets up your child for success. In my case, it's unfathomable in my family culture to not pay for college for the child if you're financially able because that is what we believe will set up the child for success - to be able to freely seek out higher education and realize their full potential without worry of debt and finances. However, the counter point is that there are those that feel the financial constraints will make your child stronger and instill in them a stronger work ethic and appreciation for what they have. An upbringing that combines both elements is likely ideal, but personally I chose to instill the latter values in different ways that doesn't cripple my child with debt.
This kind of assumes that you're trying to crack a password with the operating assumption that words are indeed not used, that every character is random, and that you wouldn't use some sort of word library to construct passwords.
of course it helps, i don't think anybody's ever denied that. It just shouldn't be relied on.
Tesla has very specific applications that make induction motors almost as good, but 3x cheaper. The efficiency of the motor is most important under that high-speed low-load point, when on the highway.

PM motors have very large advantages over induction. They have half the iron laminations of an induction motor, so they have half the hysteresis losses. On an overall basis there is no way for an induction motor to make that up. Even at high RPMs I've only seen indications (papers/FEMM sims) that induction motors can roughly match PM motors, not surpass them.
Interesting. In Vancouver in CDN$ $5.15-$7.72 to charge and $25.80@1.369 per liter to fill up.

https://www.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/el...
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Step 1: Drill a hole in the centre-of-mass of any object/material.

Step 2: Insert a bearing of the correct size, aiming for an interference-fit. If the hole was too big, apply glue.
Applied science surely needs to rest on a healthy bedrock of pure science to draw ideas from. I don't think you can advance science purely by relying on what might have "real world" applications. It's a process of discovery.

Also remember lots of "useless"/theoretical science turned out to have enormous real world uses.
Didn't make it far enough :) Thank you.
Did you seriously come to hijack a story about a Google bug bounty so you could complain about an irrelevant issue?
They still ask us to do that when the thread has lots of comments.
Passwords are security through obscurity too. Things would be a lot less secure if all passwords were publicly available.