skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Teletype with Atom this past weekend to help my cousin with his C++ homework, and it worked out pretty great. It was easy trying to communicate what to do instead of screen-sharing and specifying each line of code verbally.

Looking forward to trying the VS Live Share, as I primarily work with VSCode anyway.
This is one of the primary use cases Bitcoin was invented to address.
The Chinese basketball court cleaner whose work ethic propelled him to fame
why did he post on fb lol
They got rid of coal for not only energy and central heat generation, but also for the villagers in and near Beijing who used it to keep warm during the winter. Coal in the form of dirty personal furnaces was where most of the pollution was coming from.

The downside is that they had to import more natural gas for heating, and there has been a shortage (china has no significant NG production, it’s all imported). Villagers without gas access have been using electricity, and the subsidies they were given to do that haven’t been enough to offset cost, so there has been some unrest. The government is backing off on this aggressive approach a bit for other areas (e.g. in Hebei where the problem has been worse than BJ).

If you look at the aqicn history, the air still isn’t that great in BJ, they spiked red for a few hours today for example. Still a massive improvement, but Beijing is also still at the mercy of the wind when it comes to clean air (but a purple before being a red now is really good, I can deal with a red, but not a purple).
Sometimes, it's actually cheaper to buy the Kindle + Audible version, rather than just Audible.
That is probably the most well-known problem, but it’s not the only one.

Another issue is that people generally don’t test failures as much as they should. They’ll generally get “everything must be rolled back” but mess up “only some things should be rolled back.”
Honestly, I don't know — but I'm sure there is some history or context to their actions. I'm actually mixed — Dad is caucasian/Austrian and mom is African/Sierra Leonian. I grew up in a mixed race household and lived in 5 countries on 4 continents before I was 16. I don't really try to guess people's motivation for their actions, I would rather someone be overt and tell me what's going on. What I can say is that the taxi industry did absolutely nothing to attempt to improve its product for customers like myself.

I'll also say that I work at Uber now. Part of my motivation for working here is motivated by my personal experiences and a desire to improve transportation for everyone.
Agreed this is normal and a pretty regular thing to do with free float like that.

As you pointed out, investing heavily in equities or other more risky assets is probably not normal and would be surprised if they did this - this would essentially mean they were more interested in being a hedge fund rather than Airbnb.

Generally companies stay away from risky investments; even when the aim is for some purpose directly related to their core business things can go sideways fast. See, for example, Southwest and their fuel hedges, which were great when oil was going up huge back in 2007 but not so much anymore:

https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/07/25/southwest-airlines...
Disagreeing with you and agreeing with the parent, it sounds like a lost art... Numpy doesn't pack and unpack python data structures, it just uses C structures. Python extensions I've written just use C/C++ data types and only occasionally passes python native types back to python. Python is amazing for developer productivity, but the methods are a bit opaque.
"More people" implies increasing amount, not entire workforce.
I would argue that performance always matters, and that Python is never the right tool for the job in an absolute sense.

Python may be the right tool for the job given the options we have today but there is no reason we cannot have a language exactly as nice to use as Python is, but that also provides good performance. Languages like Nim or F# approximate that ideal, for instance. And while I realize there are high perf variants of Python, these should be the primary standard, and only path. The slow path shouldn't exist.

It is a failure of our community that we allow languages to proliferate while remaining slow. This is bad because allowing slow tools to become popular means people create slow things, which wastes other peoples time and energy.

Electron becoming a standard way to make cross platform desktop apps is another example. Someone is not wrong to choose electron for that job, but we the software community are wrong to have let something that inefficient become the easiest way to do that job.

You cannot simply dismiss this issue by saying "Well don't use the slow software you don't like then" as many of these things become de-facto standards that you cannot avoid. Your place of work may require Microsoft Teams as the chat software, and now you are using a huge % of your laptops ram and battery for simple text transmission. Atom becomes the popular target for language plugins and ends up the only usable way to get good IDE features for your language, and you suffer the performance hit for it.

We can do better!
Well, not so sure this is a virtue of the regulatory system -- mind you at the time there were a ton of regulations contributing to system instability (like laws preventing interstate banking). Can also be said about this crisis: Had regulators not been so thoroughly captured, there's an argument to be made that banks would be a lot more alert to these sorts of systemic risks.
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Adding to this, include the “supporting pdf” that comes with so many audiobooks inside the app instead of having to download on desktop through the actual Audible website.
> Compare it to other GUIs at the time, like CDE, IBM's Presentation Manager, or even Mac OS 8 and there's no comparison.

Well, I agree that there was no comparison with System 8, but not in the sense you mean. I think that the Mac back then was head-and-shoulders a better system than Windows. It might still be, but they're both so painful to use now that it's very difficult to pick a winner.

The Macintosh system was very understandable, very clean. Extensions were an easy-to-understand way to extend one's system, and easy-to-disable too. The window system itself was better-thought-out and less-confusing than Windows's was. The Finder was much more straightforward than the Windows equivalent (was it called the File Explorer back then?). The way that the Mac associated programmes to files (with an application code & a file code) was much better than the extension-based naming of Windows. The way that the Mac used its files' resource fork was great.

Programming a Mac back then was very clean & straightforward. I don't think there's anything today as nice, except maybe Cocoa, maybe. Certainly not the Windows 95 API!
That story is odd to me because we still have a 2012 iPad 2 that is still going strong.
I agree that this is one of the winner take it all markets, but i think the title makes it seem more dire than it is. Wonder other than BTC, ETH which are the players that will survive
Vegetarian and vegan: A quarter of UK dinners have no meat or fish
That and high DPI inconsistencies make the Windows 10 experience pretty rough.
Maybe. Asteroid mining would be tremendously profitable, but not without a huge initial capital investment, the likes of which humanity has likely never seen (not hyperbole).

But like the age old adage, you get rich by selling the pick axes, not by mining for gold. Elon probably figures that launches are where the money is, not the actual mining itself.
It was coal, no one uses wood or kerosene to keep warm, but almost everyone was using coal in the villages.
i agree high price brands are often not worth it.

i meant high quality independent of price. lots of brands let you “try before you buy” nowadays. if i’m shopping for a new t-shirt, i’ll get a bunch of them and return what i wouldn’t want to wear every day. (i’ll return all of them if i have to!)
Not if you wear nothing ;)
I believe that was in reference to the Falcon Heavy, not the F9. The F9 is expected to be man-rated for NASA's commercial crew program.
I still wish it was slightly more than that. If I could read my emails on that thing instead of my violet screen, I'd consider it for work.
Please remember that SNMP is a Star Wars Network Management Protocol. That's how R2D2 managed to control everything.
If you sell physical goods, maybe not. If you’re a middleman or you sell digital goods, you still can do business with people living in the US.
#2 is only a problem on iOS devices, Android users have been able to purchase books in the Audible app for as long as the app has existed.
You asked for possible reasons for why you are being downvoted for your reply to the following comment by woolvalley: "It has been for the longest time been a closed source MSFT only thing. It wasn't open source and running on linux was a second class citizen. Not sure if it is still a second class citizen."

Your reply was: "Why do you think it's been closed source with minimal cross platform effort?"

I don't think you can argue that I'm shifting the claim to the topic of being insufficiently permissive when that was part of the original thread.

The license[1] that you pointed to is not open source. It says "You may not use or distribute this Software or any derivative works in any form for commercial purposes".

Again, just because the source code is available, that doesn't mean it's open source. There are few that would agree with you that the early Microsoft licenses you pointed to meet the usual criteria for "Open Source" as it's used in the industry.

Your argument seems to be that things have changed and we should forget about the history. As woolvalley's comments were made in the past tense ("wasn't open source", "was a second class citizen"), I think you could have made a better reply along the lines of "a lot has changed since you last looked into C#", rather than the more accusative approach you did which challenges a viewpoint which seems to be historically justified.

I find the idea that "4 years is a very long time in software" to be laughable.

I've been using Python since the late 1990s, and am still going through the Python 2->3 upgrade cycle. My primary development environment of a Unix-like terminal environment and emacs would be recognizable to people in the 1980s. I've been developing and selling my software product for 8 years, with essentially the same core codebase.

Or, going down that rabbit hole, Alan Kay is famous for arguing that there is little in the way of significant new inventions in computing since 1980. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-i... .
The quoted argument that "easy to write but slow languages are better because programmer time is far more costly than CPU speed" was pretty common, and I honestly think correct, 10-15 years ago. But things have changed.

CPU performance long ago hit physical limits, and more and more we are scaling out applications across hundreds, thousands, or millions of servers. We've passed the inflection point where CPU speed really is more expensive than programmer time, if you are running that code at a big enough scale.

Add in containerization and cloud VM platforms where the tradeoffs of space and performance versus money start to become very clear. Add in better, safer languages like Rust and Go for writing high-performance code. And today if you can spend three times the programming time writing in a faster and more efficient language, and it runs 100x as fast in a tenth the memory footprint, you are talking about massive overall cost savings.
I ordered one for a sound bar for the Apple TV. I originally ordered two, but after reading the syncing won't be available until AirPlay 2, I cancelled one and will order the second once AirPlay 2 comes out (and assuming I like it).

The private issues are concerning, but the way Apple approaches privacy, it's less concerning to me. That may be foolish of me, but Apple seems to be the most interested in security (and has the least to gain from taking your data).

FWIW, I bought a Bose sound bar (the wide one) and wasn't overly impressed with it, particularly at $500. I'm hoping the "radar" technology of the HomePod will deliver a better single point surround sound. The technology sounds compelling.
So you would do sentiment analysis on a person's tweets (and whatever else) and give them their opinion on certain topics?

Sounds cool, but more like one of those "who are your 5 best friends" kind of apps than perhaps a person tries once, something I would personally not use on a regular basis (or somewhat regularly).

The tech's out there for this - sentiment analysis is a pretty standard Naive Bayes tutorial subject and I am certain there are some learned models already out there. And to identify subjects you could maybe use something like MIT Entity Identification.
Fine, I’ll be that guy: CITATION NEEDED. “More people” in your office says nothing except that more people in YOUR OFFICE are remote. I don’t understand how people who bill themselves as so smart can continue to fall for these basic errors in reasoning.

> More people are working from home several days a week, so nobody cares how you're dressed.

Says who? Where is this data? Is it from a survey? A study? Or something you’ve decided is true for everyone because you see it at your own office once in a while and decided to build up an entire belief system around it?
Maybe it's just me, but this reads like an attempt to say they recently received another national security letter.
This seems likely for Bitcoin and its derivatives (LiteCoin and any other platforms that don’t plan to move away from Proof of Work or have no real utility).

However, I don’t see any long term risk with ETH or Monero. Hopefully this teaches clueless investors how much hype and not accounting for exposure can hurt...
Whts different now is that with rising rates the risk free rate is finally non-zero.

If the average book time is M months in advance of payout, they’re running S in sales, and interest rates are at Y%, then this would generate S x Y x M / 12. With Y even at just 1% that’s some legit money at their scale.
I live in a 900sqft apartment. I could not see having a $350 that doesn't integrate with a a TV because my space is only really big enough for one audio source.

Am I alone in this? How much space does a home need before it has multiple rooms where an expensive audio setup makes sense? Wouldn't the single user limitation be an issue at that sized home?
He would probably have someone print it for him, similar to his email queue. I email him from time to time and his disclaimer says this.
Not sure if overshot is the right word, I read the final burn was programmed to just empty the tanks, and they would get however far they could.
Propaganda like this is often useful as a short term contrarian trading signal. This isn’t new news but is inauspiciously timed.
Female Uber drivers earn $1.24 per hour less than men
Thanks for the links! What do you use it for; to write or to draw?
> still internally consistent

The most internally consistent design was that of NT 3.1 - it was a true classic in many respects. As far as general usefulness, performance, and versatility nothing can compare with Windows 10 (except Linux, of course).
It's still true for the overall US workforce.

{CITATION} http://globalworkplaceanalytics.com/telecommuting-statistics
(2005-2015 American Community Survey)
Regular work-at-home, among the non-self-employed population, has grown by 115% since 2005, nearly 10x faster than the rest of the workforce.
3.7 million employees (2.8% of the workforce) now work from home at least half the time.
The employee population as a whole grew by 1.9% from 2013 to 2014, while employees who telecommuter population grew 5.6%.

PS: Culture is shared, so personal experiences generalizes more than you might think.
I wonder if changes in washing machines are an issue, actually. America was really keen on top-loaders for a long time, and those damage clothes far more than front-loaders. As the US finally adopts front-loaders (and high-efficiency top-loaders, which use a different mechanism to the old ones), clothes will last longer.
Speak for yourself. Spaces in macOS is one of the best window management features I've encountered. Of course, it's been common in Linux window managers, but since I use a Mac for work, its a godsend that spaces and multiple desktops is implemented. I'm a developer, and being able to organize my windows and split them (fullscreen isn't limited to one app per screen anymore) is so freaking useful that I feel lost whenever I try to use Windows again.
Prepay is especially common in Beijing...nothing like the hot water expiring during a shower!

In Beijing, though, it isn’t that bad price wise, and heating is central (and vastly shaded, since the whole apartment buildings are heated).
HP’s new EliteBooks have a built-in webcam cover for privacy
ETH will surely survive in some capacity since nearly all “tokenized” assets are built on top of ETH.

However, I don’t think the picture is nearly as rosy for bitcoin. Hopefully this market event (yes, not a correction) will cull some of the less informed to actually learn something, more so that crypto is incredibly risky.
Yes. Are you implying they are not?
As with Python, the fast libraries written for R are usually implemented with something else under the hood. Take the data.table library, for example:

https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table

It's wicked fast for many kinds of tasks, but its R API is just a thin layer on top of C.
Scope and namespace that make sense all the time?

for foo in bar:
pass
# Why is "foo" in scope here???
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Yes, it has. However, the first stable v1.0 version was in 2015.
Probably cause he works there?
Earth does not really have a shortage of most things, so I don't think there is much use for Asteroid mining in the next 10,000 years unless people are also moving into space.

EX: Just the worlds oceans has 5 lb of gold per person on the planet. It's far more abundant on land, but we really don't have a lot of need for gold.
Haha, damn ok, it's been so long since I've had to do this, I didn't realize it is now possible (I used to want this all the time and was the bane of my existence in the late 90s early 2000s when using Mac). You still can't seem to move files into sibling directories, though, only to directory links in the sidebar. Anyway, I LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY (about macOS dialogues and about testing things before I open my mouth).

++edited to clarify language.++
The Libby app has free, unlimited audiobooks.

I read a few commenters here talk about how expensive Audible is. Not only does this eliminate the cost, but I’ve found that when I have unlimited access, it leads me to try audiobooks I never would have considered before.

The one possible downside is that you need to walk into your library for a moment and get a library card. But it’s easy.

And if you don’t live in the US it might not be available, which is always painful
Yes, and yes. The less time you're in the air, the less fuel needed to counter gravity's continual pull, so the most efficient landing burn is basically the highest acceleration you can handle without coming apart such that your velocity hits 0 as your altitude does.
as if above never happens to traditional markets. FYI --2008 where the financial markets almost collapsed and has destroyed lives of millions of individuals.
This is true. The engines overperformed and they're going a lot further than they meant to. This is better than anticipated news.

It's only bad if you're REALLY focused on the Tesla "going to Mars", which it was never really going to do, because it would need to slow down once it got to Mars to stay in orbit around it. What we've done is prove capability. Getting to Mars is 100% possible, and we've also proven fault tolerance ... that is, we have enough fuel to spare that we can make correction-burns if necessary during the trip to Mars.
I've actually been working on something of this sort with a battery-powered Raspberry PI running Debian and a Pervasive 7-inch e-Paper display. I whipped up a pretty decent prototype that had a terminal (so, Emacs, w3m, newsbeuter, etc.), PDF reader, and rough support for keyboard-driven X apps, but then my little girl got to the wiring with scissors, and my momentum died. (It also had a small character LED display to show rapid feedback while typing.)

The last few days I've been working on a new version of the software, and I think I'll wire it back up. If I get it clean enough for others to use, I'll write it up.
There can well be a serious logical error somewhere, but I think it most likely to be the authors fixation on speed rather than the interesting quantity in all examples: time.

If the newest build of the game loads in one tenth of the time it took an older build, I've eliminated 90% of the previous wait time and it is completely coherent to call the new build 90% faster (in wall time to be pedantic).

I think that fundamentally the author insists that "faster" can only mean "higher speed" and not "shorter time", so that when even when what he reports is a reduction in render time he only does it indirectly: by stating the change in speed...
>/r/fi: mutual funds

*low cost ETFs
>Apparel is being displaced by travel, eating out and activities—what’s routinely lumped together as “experiences”

Am I the only one who's coming to a different conclusion from looking at the graph? It looks like the decline in apparel is directly correlated with the rise in tech.
I love the clothing by Rapha - while they are known for their high quality athletic cycle wear, they also have a city range, that looks exceptional off the bike. I'd categorize it as fucntional fashion and due to their athletic roots it will fit very well for slim bodies. [1]

Another alternative is Outlier - a small brand that focuses on high quality, durable fashion. [2]

For more afforadable basics I like Uniqlo - say what you want, but I think it's very worthwhile clothing for the price. [3]

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[1] https://www.rapha.cc/us/en_US/

[2] https://outlier.nyc/

[3] https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/home/
I've been "premature optimization is the root of all evil"ed in more code reviews than I can count - yet when people complain about software, they first complain that it's ugly and then they complain that it's slow. Users don't care what it's written in.
Americans are increasingly buying experiences instead of things. That’s great
Somewhat related, but I went to Europe (I'm American)for the first time in December (Prague, Zurich, Munich, Florence, Rome) and kept noticing how much more well dressed people were on average compared to Americans. Not to suggest everyone was balling out of control in designer wear, just more "put together", so to speak.

I considered the fact that I was visiting major cosmopolitan cities, but it was true even in the airports and train stations, where you tend to see a more general slice of the population.
Artistry of the mentally ill by Hans Prinzhorn is an incredible work of narrative art criticism. It changed my whole idea of what Art is.

The collection itself can be viewed in Heidelberg and is worth a visit if one is nearby.
Pomodoro technique is for time management, not managing all the distractions you likely have on your iPad. From notifications to being able to "alt-tab" into your vices like HN.