skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that certain cases will remain, such as for, say, a plumber, though in theory the ubiquity of autonomous vehicles means that a plumbing supply company could provide JIT service.

But although I don't blindly believe in homo economicus, I wasn't kidding when I said that the car is an (or for many the most) enormous expense for most people, and the size of that expense will aggressively drive the adoption rate. The ability to have a box of Kleenex or your gym bag will become a nice to have when the price of that convenience doubles or triples your transportation costs. The difference in price might allow you to afford gym membership in the first place.

It's also a generational thing. My 19 yo kid and his friends are pretty uninterested in cars. A bunch of them don't even have licenses (which is common in some big cities like NYC but uncommon out here in the sub urbs). They care about phones though.

In the case of the toilet and bed, those are typically bundled, but even then some people do make the economic choice to have only a shower rather than a bathtub just like they make such a choice for a normal car vs paying extra for automatic transmission.

(there are also transitional and special cases; it's hard to hail a car where there is no phone service!)
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I recently became kinda obsessed with computer and hacking so anyone that knows a site to learn it kindly drop a comment.
If you tried to make a point you kind of failed.

I make $40k after tax, in Russia, employed locally, and while that doesn't sound like much to an American ear, I've bought my apartment for $90k a year before. I seriously doubt anyone is going to pay me $400k before tax in the US as you suggested. I'm 32 by the way. And I never work more than 40 hr/week.

I don't see how you can underpay a dev in Russia. Maybe you can by hiring in really small and depressive towns? Or promising rocket science job?
There is a drone delivery system that is being developed right now. The plan is to install towers into buildings, where the drones can land and drop off the deliveries. You could potentially do your shopping at work, and then pick up your deliveries at the door once you come home (or have them delivered at your workplace). I'm much more excited for this than the robot.
Hm, did you read my comment?

I said source: Wheat Belly (book by Dr William Davis), but also my experience working with clients and with trainers who are experts at transforming clients from fat to fit.
So you don't eat fruit?
It's a terrible format, I'm not sure if you've tried any alternatives but I really don't understand how people think it's worth paying for.

I mean, you're paying money for something you never actual own, what's that?
I look forward to pedaling for merits any day now...
Citations, not a diet books and anecdotes.

Edit: hate my tone all you like, but keep in mind if this weren’t fringe bullshit I’d be met with more than downvotes and attitude.
The big incoming UI challenge is XR. But as with ST/Alto, it's an integrated bootstrap problem of hardware, system design, foundational software, user software, and UI.

Absent research labs, we wait on market availability for hardware. For the modern analogues of mice and bitmapped screens. Eye tracking may be cheap next year, but now it's $2k. High-resolution HMDs may be $10k next year, but now they're simply unavailable. Hand tracking is flaky. Haptics are "it buzzes".

For software, we're so used to the 2D windows interface, it's easy to forget how much foundational work was needed. Eg, around topography, and Smalltalk, and live coding. Hand gesture recognition, spoken dialog management, 3D constraint-based layout, are just a few modern analogues. And so on.

So it looks like we're going to be doing broad-based innovation and infrastructure construction, gated on hardware availability. And plagued by patents.

It's not clear to me what can usefully be done to explore UI in the meantime. You can do wireframing in TiltBrush, but not really. It doesn't give you the feel of say hand-attached controls, and of automated collaboration in general. The "oh, it feels good to present this graph as a sphere, and hold it you lap and peel off layers". So...

Perhaps do UI design by paper improv? A crew scribbling on and holding up paper, hovering around a "user", who is managing a todo list? :) That could be fun.
100,000 people die every day of diseases caused by aging. If that isn't an urgent reason, I'm not sure what would be.

http://santafejeeptours.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Santa... (from the TV show "Manhattan")
In terms of investment round valuations there's Instacart $3.4bn, Coinbase $1.6bn and Gusto $1bn.
Buffett's best years were the Buffett Partnerships, from 1956 to 1969 (iirc), where his returns averaged 40% per year.

Berkshire has benefitted from insurance float for a long time, but it's a minor benefit. Float can't be invested in the stock market, it's extremely restricted in it's usage, and it's only been helpful because of the incredibly disciplined way Berkshire runs it's insurance companies. Proof is it never gave Berkshire Hathaway remotely the returns the Partnerships achieved.
Check out what my pop-rock song generator does
I would expect WebAssembly to be used to implement things like video codecs that aren't provided by the host browser, not for typical frontend code. I'm happy to be proven wrong by ambitious WebAssemblers, though!
"Occlusion culling is a technique that came out of the video gaming industry where you render what is actually visible at a given time."

I don't have any proof handy, but I imagine this was leveraged in areas outside of gaming.

Spreadsheets seem likely to have used this, for example.
Not my intent, but can totally see how it could look like that.
Hey! You win the worthless example competition! See the front desk for your prize. How about comparing a full stack, monolith app in Java vs Golang? While you’re at it, don’t just compare binaries. Compare how well it handles concurrency. Compare how well it handles templates. Or how smoothly it handles DB interaction. Then look at all this and compare the population of Golang vs Java devs. Compare how well you can leverage existing language knowledge while working on a major mobile platform too like Android.

Binary size for a hello world app means little to nothing. I can beat that with Bash: echo “hello, world!” Compare to real applications.
I've read that it's the same case with Venus' core, but its atmosphere is far more dense than either Earth's or Mars'.
Could this be used to diff pdf's?
>You should be extremely grateful you were actually able to reach anyone and get it restored at all.

Nitpicky, but no he shouldn't, he should feel lucky, sure, but grateful? No, he should feel angry that it happened in the first place, and only somewhat placated that they restored it.
> Self-driving cars and subscription-ownership cars are two circles on a Venn diagram that don't have to exactly overlap. I'm a great example - I want a self-driving car of my own, but I don't want to share it with anybody else. (I've played the Zipcar game in Chicago and I'm over that.)

That's transitional and based on the hysteresis of looking at the current system. I remember when PCs started to be introduced; they replaced dedicated word processing systems (and, via Visicalc, some central data processing) but it was pretty well accepted that they would never make it into the corner offices because "executives don't type". In 1982 I worked at a lab where the director had his secretary retype his email onto paper; he would read it, mark it, and give it back for filing, and would dictate responses (she was overjoyed when I showed her how to print the mail out).

I have a longer reply to a different reply to my message which emphasizes the primacy of the economic drivers (and mentions some corner cases where it might be worth buying one)
The Copenhagen Consensus link you provided is specifically referring to indoor air pollution from cooking and heating homes with open fires.

I haven't explored the Lancet Commission's study enough to know how much they ascribe to indoor vs outdoor air pollution, but in my opinion, using the indoor figure in the same context as Global Warming or any kind of global pollution problem is extremely deceptive. You might as well just call all smoking-related deaths "caused by air pollution" because cigarettes were polluting the smoker's own air supply.
It's more important to start with the easy stuff than to worry about the hard stuff.

And this isn't about a technical solution to conspiracy theories, it's about the markup that will help surface the highest quality human answers to conspiracy theories.

Reminds me of the Bielefeld Conspiracy [0], a German satire of conspiracy theories that spread on Usenet.

The theory poses three questions:

1) Do you know anybody from Bielefeld?

2) Have you ever been to Bielefeld?

3) Do you know anybody who has ever been to Bielefeld?

A majority are expected to answer no to all three queries.

Anybody claiming knowledge about Bielefeld is promptly disregarded as being in on the conspiracy or having been themselves deceived.

Conspiracy theories will always be with us, but at least now Google can help show high-quality answers to easy questions like Bielefeld.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy
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until you hit SPA sites that need javascript to work.
Hmmm. Odd. I took all the above. Maybe our classes were shorter (~50min each)? Or we had longer days (7.30am to 3.30pm and then the extracurriculars started)?
> being forced to have only one choice (Javascript)

When it comes to JS, you already have a gazillion prettier and more enthralling languages to choose from that transpile neatly to JS. Are {{TypeScript/Flow/ReasonML/PureScript/Elm/CoffeeScript/Haxe/Haste/GHCJS/Fay/Fable/WebSharper/Scala.js/GorillaScript/Roy/Idris/etc}} really not enough choice? While wasm is still busy being hatched and birthed, JS has already long become "the web's choice compilation target".

That's not to say that projects compiling to wasm aren't worthwhile of course :D but I observed that the precursor "asm.js" paradigm didn't get widely adopted even though browsers already do optimize-for/precompile it. Unless the whole "EcmaScript + Browser APIs" (dom/xhr/string/array/etcpp) are readily-available from within wasm by default without bridging (ie "the modern web client runtime" exposed fully within wasm -- in a prim-op/pointer fashion I guess), I remain mildly skeptical that it'll take off as "a full JS replacement" rather than remain a pluggable niche component for specialized high-perf computations and such..
> every trainer who is even half-way decent at transforming clients tells them to avoid grains, don’t discount what people are ACTUALLY doing to get results

Isn't it more likely that trainers tell people to avoid wheat and corn because they tend to be high-calorie, low-satiety foods? I've lost 70+ lbs over the past year on IIFYM-style caloric restriction. I still enjoy corn and wheat products, but somewhat sparingly because I'd rather have an extra half pound of chicken than a piece of bread.

Cutting out grains is a quick and easy way to help people hack their caloric intake more than anything else, IMO.
AMP, PWAs, HTTP/2 and Service Workers: A New Era of Web Performance?
This doesn't feel particularly true in the enterprise space. There still is the constraint on IPO exits due to (unclear what exactly -- that's another topic), but I don't see companies like HPE, IBM, Dell, etc. getting more innovative, nimble, or effective.

It might just be that in the consumer space there are some exceptionally good companies, where that hasn't really happened in enterprise, or it could be a function of the technologies and markets. Amazon (AWS) and Google to some extent compete in enterprise as well, but they're not as dominant relatively.
It is possible using an AOT compiler for Java, like Codename One or Robot VM.

So far Oracle has shown little interest into integrating such features into OpenJDK, but the ongoing efforts to add AOT compilation to it, might become a possible solution.
"Progressive" and "Conservative" are sometimes used in extra-political contexts this way, e.g. in linguistics when characterizing dialects.
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Right, but there's not going to be one solution to "diseases caused by aging". If you spend 5 years exclusively trying to rejuvenate a dog, and you actually succeed, are you really better off than if you had spent that time and money exploring a number of strategies and using existing research infrastructure?

I mean if somebody theorized a single device that might cure aging, then the Manhattan Project might be a good model. But nobody even knows what the goals should be, what projects will work, what areas should be studied. We don't know enough to start a singularly focused project.
There are AOT native Java compilers for iOS, the majority just tends to ignore them.
> Ask how many could have even possibly been a direct result of air pollution.

That's now how this works. To go back to the smoking example, lung cancer is not a direct result of smoking. It's a combination of factors, smoking being one of them. Many people smoke their whole lives and are cancer free.

The question is, across the population, how many more people die of heart disease when pollution is present. That does not imply that pollution is the only cause, but simply an additional factor that pushes the number of deaths higher.

> Then ask how many were obviously linked to poor diet, lack of exercise, and/or smoking. Then you do the math.

Where in the article did it imply that pollution was a greater risk than poor diet and lack of exercise?
What makes you think I am suprised?
I was President of my high school’s Industrial Arts Club circa 2001. Until this comment I had never seen or heard anyone else use the term.

Since my graduation the school has closed down the wood shop and metal shop...and when my old teacher retires in the next couple years they will no longer offer drafting either (of course we lost our T-square desks my junior year for computers and autocad).
You could have a hundred billion smartphones mining Bitcoin via you website and you wouldn't make a single dollar from it.
Alternatively: the bubble is inflated with wealthy oil sheiks’ money, and transferred to upper middle class workers.

Edit: a word
Raccoons Pass Aesop's Fable Test By Upending It
Very Nice! Can you tell me how this could be different to a tool like niffy (https://github.com/segmentio/niffy)?
> So again please don't discredit Susan Folwer's blog post.

I didn't. I said you're over-attributing the Waymo lawsuit to it. You didn't respond to that.

As for whether Fowler was the sole factor in "TK's" ouster and none of the other crises had a material impact, well, that's a strong claim. Benchmark's letter alludes to cavalier business practices as well: "[Operating without a CFO for over two years] cannot be justified, given the scale and complexity of the business, and is symptomatic of the broader problems with past management practices."[1] There were more problems at Uber than just morale.

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/08/14/benchmark-employee-letter-uber...
That might be a catchy phrase. "Fat functions", or a single function that holds a lot of endpoints in a single lambda (or another platforms' version of cloud functions). Have you had any issues with requests getting timed out, or managing the 'health' of the fat function?
I live in Malaysia. A lot of these places have become co-working spaces - loud, crowded, located right in the middle of a traffic jam area. Many are not free from distraction either. A lot of people in these places are paying to network, so you get accosted by networking types while running a train of thought.

Something like a university library would probably be ideal. Environment is just nice for focusing, no harrasment, good coffee, and walking/public transportation access.
On average, obese people are a smaller burden on the health care system because they die quickly (from a heart attack or something similar) rather than the drawn out deaths that people of average weight have. End-of-life care is by far the most expensive (health care wise) phase of a person's life.
Not really, unless you enjoy to program in Java 1.0 again.
>I make $40k after tax, in Russia

That makes you a rather expensive employee if the company hiring you actually pays your pension contributions, EI, medical bills, and other quasi-tax charges (which are much higher than in the West.)

24k a year is what a good grad can expect in a company that pays taxes in full. The full cost of employing such a guy will be right about $40k
Absolutely feel a little grateful, to the people that I was able to reach. And somewhat lucky that I had contacts, to escalate if necessary, though I did manage to go through public channels.

And yes, I'm absolutely livid still over the fact that their system couldn't observe a purely consumer account, with only a few small comments, could be flagged as copyright infringing. Had I been unable to reach a human for manual review of the nonsense of my account status, I'm positive I wouldn't have regained access.
That's exactly my point. Google is advertising this as a truth-telling mechanism, but it's a "majority belief" telling one instead.
That gave me the best bad idea ever: a four-legged robot. The front legs are controlled by Javascript; the rear by PL/pgSQL.
Scaling up Blockchains
> 1. Payment is done using only CPU power and you electric bill which are private, and the process itself could be made secure and efficient by incorporating it into browsers.

Not really private... my electric meter broadcasts my power consumption in plain text on the 900MHz ISM band every minute... I used this program to read the meters of all my neighbors: https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr ... You probably also can buy the data from the power companies...
GitLab's Acquired Product GitHost No Longer Accepting New Signups
Isn’t that the whole idea of “the community”? Acting in the narrow self-interest of incumbents and not caring about outcomes for the population in general is exactly what we fetishize when we fetishize community activism and local control.
Yes it does, when using Java 9.
Am I incorrect without an active lava core, the magnetic field is basically non-existient? Then Moon tunnel is probably not good enough for humans to remain healthy.
Total GDP is irrelevant to everything. People use it like it means something, and it's just annoying.
Wheat Belly is not a diet book, it’s a summary of the science out there on grains with 100s of scientific citations. Yes it has diet recommendations at the end of it.
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tl;dr:

> Editor's Update - 5/22/2006: Monad has been renamed Windows PowerShell

Plus there's an interesting interview with Erik Meijer and Jeffrey Snover [0]

[0]: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-...
Today’s equivalent could be to make the same thing again...
Foreign learners do not generally find Russian numbers to be "straightforward". Not only do nouns qualified by numbers take different numerative cases (the genitive singular for 2–4, the genitive plural for 5–10), but the declension of compound numerals is also surprising for speakers of many languages.

Compound hundreds are also unpredictable. Yes, historically the varying forms are clear (the back yer in Common Slavonic sŭto ‘100’ was lost or strengthened depending on position), but learners today without any background in the Slavic languages simply need to learn them by rote.
I had some reservations at first, but that actually seems incredibly useful. I'd love to be able try it.
Good spot. The Copenhagen Consensus is referring to indoor pollution there.

The wikipedia page address both indoor and outdoor pollution. Presumably this new figure has both indoor and outdoor pollution.

Burning things for fuel is what causes a lot of air pollution, both indoor and outdoor.

The only reason I mentioned global warming is because Lomborg and the Copenhagen Consensus centre are far from most environmentalists on these issues.
Might I highly recommend something like youtube-dl to save those precious videos and playlists locally. You never know when they're going to shut down your account again or go under.
Though a jewelry made from Moon elements would probably have a ten-fold price tag than the Earth’s counterpart, because it’s from the Moon.
haven't tested it myself, but I assume headless chrome can render PDFs, so the answer should be yes. Try it and if it doesn't work, submit an issue on github and we'll make it work together. You'll probably need to use a fixture producing a local file, check out https://github.com/AppraiseQA/appraise/blob/master/examples/...
I don't think that a strategy designed for a specific engineering problem is likely to succeed on a huge scientific problem. In fact, if you prematurely treat a scientific challenge as an engineering one, you'll generally just end up wasting your money, with little incremental progress or positive side effects. Has top-down science ever worked?

(For example, you can throw away a huge amount of money developing chemotherapy regimes by just screening tons of random chemicals and running large trials. But the amount of progress you'll make will be trivial compared to what you could do by spending the same money on understanding the mechanisms of specific cancers.)
> that transpile neatly to JS

As a PL researcher, I can assure you that there is nothing "neat" about transpiling to JS. JS is an awful compilation target.
FoxDot: Live Coding Music with Python and SuperCollider
If you read the Xerox PARC papers, there was a lot of shared work between the Interlisp-D, Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar teams.

Actually some of the REPL and debugging features in Mesa/Cedar were done because they wanted to appeal to the Interlisp-D and Smalltalk users, while offering a strong type development environment.
The Wikipedia article only cites this article http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/8/2/84 . Do you have a link to another paper that also supports this conclusion?
Bitcoin Cash Investment Thesis
The sad truth is that many cities around the world had light rail 50 years ago, they removed them saying that buses were much flexible and better and now they are bringing them back.
Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
I've never been there, but they look like they have a decent Social Safety net? It matters.

It's much easier to take on risk, and do great things if you don't have the fear of being walked over on the sidewalk if you fail?

I'm looking at you San Francisco. We seem to have one swing here, unless you come from wealth.
GitLab acquired GitHost from me a couple years ago [1]. They were able to do more with it than I ever could of. It's a very niche product that probably wasn't worth the engineering effort to keep it feature complete, especially at GitLab's pace of adding new features. GitHost was created before CI/CD was integrated into GitLab core. It was a much simpler product to automate deployments for back then.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/
I think React Native / Expo can be an opportunity to do this on a touchable interface.

Here’s a thing: https://youtu.be/ZFdFyQBlXXU

You can eval JS there.
I don't get how this one anecdotal example of bad parenting is suddenly worthy of broad attention.

Is there a tie to this being common or widespread that I missed?
> Of course our kids need to do their chores and homework.

Citation needed.
Today, canvas and WebGL are enough, we don't need DOM.

Tomorrow, DOM access might actually exist.