skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm amazed they sell all that info for just $150,000. I figure there's around ~125 major automakers in the world, maybe a dozen or two or so big enough to own their own labs. For each 23,000 page document, we're only taking ~15M, max. For a team of manufacturing experts, this just isn't that much cash.

I suspect a majority of their cash flow comes from those training seminars, and the $150K book is just to get you in the door and interested.

I would love to see a breakdown of their revenue.
Greater Good in Action
Uber vs Waymo: Opening Arguments Decks
Did you mean inflation rates? Because the interest rates control the cost of new money, while inflation reflects the change in value.
People take stock of their lives in many different ways: using happiness as the unit of measurement is called hedonism. Pursuing hedonism is a defensible position to take but I'm alarmed by its rise as the default system of value in the educated/cosmopolitan world that most HN readers presumably inhabit.

Things like raising children well, championing unfashionable but important positions, fighting injustice and poverty - the really worthwhile things in life - are often extraordinarily difficult and can cause more despair than pleasure. But I choose to believe that they are nonetheless important, and not only because there is the promise of the glow of contentment in the case of a possible future triumph.

Many in the tech industry achieve extraordinary success in modern society. But when someone rises to that position, the single-minded pursuit of stimulating one's own reward circuits can look quite callous in the eyes of those who haven't been able to rise to wealth and power. In the days of the hereditary aristocracy, there existed the idea of "noblesse oblige", or the obligation of the upper classes to be a positive force for all those who lived in their society. It might do us some good to revive that idea.
None of those are examples of the real estate economy failing though... Let alone failing because it became too profitable. And even if they were, you're pushing the definition of a profitable real estate economy in the first place.
Make's been around since the '70s. Bell Labs cranked it out right after inventing C.
If anyone wants to play around with an implementation of PIVOT without installing anything, check out data.world (supports PIVOT and UNPIVOT). Check out https://docs.data.world/documentation/sql/concepts/advanced/...
(Disclosure: I'm an employee at data.world)
cryto = cryptocurrency now... the masses say so.

You can start using the full term "cryptographic encryption" instead.
Sci-Hub should host an IPFS node with all their contents. Once owner sets-up IPFS directory, owner can update it (it's not static like torrents), other nodes will download changes, it will be distributed, censorship-resistant and shared between community of people who pin directories on their PCs and ARM computers.

Another similar solution would be to setup ResilioSync or LibreVault repositories, again makes it decentralized by P2P, there are public repositories so anyone can join and leach/seed files, owner can update files.

I'm surprised they're not doing it already.
Last time I heard a lot of people saying "the fundamentals of our economy are still strong" was fall 2008. They are not bad, but you need to recall that the nominal full employment comes with far less financial security than in previous cycles as much of it is in part-time jobs, the gig economy etc., and demand is thus considerably more elastic than in an economy dominated by full-time jobs.
Well, you can either live controlled by your fears, obeying them, or stand up to them 'like a boss' and overcome them one-by-one. No different to other unjust, unfair would-be-controllers in life - bullies, bad parents, bad political systems, sociopathic acquaintances etc etc. Cowering helplessly vs 'standing up' to the problem. Saying no! takes courage, but there can be no self-respect without it.

I'm not sure why this is puzzling for you; maybe you are imagining important/useful fears like a pedestrian's fear of being hit by a car.

I don't remember hearing the "pick the harder solution" version before. But Bob Brown (inspirational Australian environmentalist/politician) said "...if ever you are faced with two options, choose the most adventurous." - which makes a lot of sense to me, and maybe is what they meant. Just doing the harder option for no particular reason doesn't make a lot of sense.
>The moon in front of clouds... that is all you need to know right there.

Well that is entirely possible. I would say that's the least of the problems with the picture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdojiTkJi_4
Many of us remote/home office workers do not. I'd like to keep it that way.
Oh man! Munro is brutally honest in his assessment of manufacturing excellence :) The contrast makes me chuckle.
> ...how'd they all end up in a grave?

Alfred the Great?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdojiTkJi_4
I don't think iOS has ever been a half decent operating system, but that's an example of how a lot of the discussion in this thread might be subjective.

A glimpse into what's going on in my opinion can be seen in the long awaited new Pro line of Macbooks. Many point out these were not Pro, they are (exceedingly) under powered overpriced shiny Macbooks. Machines which are still outperformed by their predecessors. Apple has stopped focusing on the tech community because we are expensive hard to please customers.

So they focus their efforts making products for regular people, who might use the product once in a while. And by focus their efforts I mean they make products people want to buy but that aren't necessarily great. Software is one aspect of that. If you are not a power user you'll likely never run into any of the issues you mention.

e: Oh boo hoo
So you're saying that, unlike me, if they try to put it all back together, no parts will be left lying around at the end?
For groceries that don't keep, you are obliged to buy when you need them, although because humans are omnivores you _can_ choose to eat steak only when steak is cheap or eat raspberries only when raspberries are cheap and save quite a bit that way.

However most peoples' grocery shopping includes staples that have a relatively long shelf life if stored sensibly. Those who aren't dirt poor can and should purchase larger volumes of these products at lower prices if they know lower prices are not always available.

This is one of many ways that being poor is expensive, your financial status makes it impossible to invest up front on bulk items that would be cheaper over the medium term.
Please tell me you're being sarcastic.
But the PRC can prevent them from selling in China. Shareholders care about the quarterly results. Nobody cares about the company a few years on.

The Chinese have a long view on this stuff. If you put out an engineering RFP, you can be sure that Chinese companies and government are probably the biggest web consumers of your content.
One of those companies is a multi-million dollar client for them, and one is not.
Do I see a Sierpinski triangle on page 9? It's the code that, according to the description, changes the value of the AL register.
> Basic shelter needs increase in price roughly 8% per year.

Again, source?

Housing (urban, at least) has less than 1% quarterly inflation recently:

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SAH?output_view=pct_...
Interestingly, vacuum-backed mylar has been used for light 'DIY parabolic mirror' duties. Here's one made out of a trashcan lid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8sd9UgjXLE

I'm sure that durabililty would be an issue, and the vacuum would probably leak over time without some significant effort, and it probably wouldn't be very stable under environmental changes, but it's a cool lateral solution.
For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
I highly doubt the halt will be very temporary. SVXY and XIV are undergoing forced unwinds after-hours and will very likely be terminated. XIV in particular terminates at an 80% position loss, per its prospectus.
Cost to Replace Alexa with Anthony Hopkins
Let's say you're a smart investor, and you think a big crash is coming. Right now everything you have is in stocks.

What do you move it to to hedge your risk?\\

Edit: To clarify, I don't have everything in stocks. I'm just looking for good advice on how to further diversify. I'm aware that timing the market is a fool's errand. :)
The point is there is a gender disparity between professions, and so my argument is that this isn't entirely surprising.
Last I checked, hundred billion dollar companies were getting "record fines" of a couple million dollars for multi-year privacy violations. So those policymakers are either clueless or lying.
South Australia, Tesla Building Massive Virtual Power Plant
> I think most should just pick the best tool for the job and stop rebuilding things that don't need to.

I think you just contradicted yourself. Sometimes the best tool for the job is something new, something improved over what already exists.

I don't think the author intends to "replace all the old working stuff". But if this tool is better for new projects, then why not? I don't get all the negativity... do people here really love XML/JSON/YAML that much? There's a whole lot to complain about in all of those!!
I can't speak for Hyde, but Jekyll requires you to edit text files which makes it unaccessible for non-technical people.
VIX rolled off ~75%. It's insane.
Munro & Associates wants to sell these automobile tear-down reports to China so much that they even translated their marketing materials into Chinese :)

http://leandesign.com/bmwi3-videos-chinese/
After reading this, I am as bullish as ever on real coins, and hope this is a wake up call to those ECR20 tokens that are clearly unregistered securities.

You won't ever be using an ECR20 token as a currency, its such an absurd concept -- Why wouldn't you just use the native ETH if you wanted to pay with coin?

Look to projects that did not raise money via ICO, look to projects that are global building payment infrastructure.

More power to you SEC, may your elite cyber division put all the bad money guys out of business.
What a bleak perspective.

What are the odds of being neighbors with a child predator? I'd bet they are incredibly small.

If a neighbor is nice, friendly, and you get to know them over a little bit of time, I'm betting problems arising from having them watch your kids is right around 0%.
I'm interested in how this affects dating for any species with a diet of fish
I suspected that as well - but any hints of evidence?

To be fair though, Tesla's manufacturing quality does indeed falling behind their targeted segment majorly. Like Munro said, even Kia makes better assembly these days (without uneven gaps etc.) But yes, have a paid contract for product promotion doesn't hurt
They don't just sell to major auto makers. Governments are a huge customer. OEM suppliers are another big one, they don't buy the comprehensive reports, just component reports.

I heard the owner/chief engineer give a talk a while ago, specifically about the i3, and he said the report was originally priced at $500k for the full thing. So it's possible that the price of these reports drop with age.

Edit: they also do perform costing on a contract basis. So an OEM will actually pay them to tear down a competitor vehicle, and Munro reserves the rights to sell that report too.
They are already in the 3D printer market, see https://youtu.be/F2fIOBtdojY from 2016. Research and development go way back of course.
The new thing is the color.

Disclaimer: I worked at HP in the past.
If you think a big crash is coming, you basically want to avoid high-volatility assets, right? So IIUC, you'd just want to move into lower-volatility assets: bonds, money-market funds, or TIPS if you want inflation protection.
So how can I use this to hack FBI, CIA or FSB
That's one interpretation.

What if you or other neighbors had been even friendlier, sooner. You may have found out about it sooner and been able to help stop it.
The question is to what degree fickle investors will return without the perceived Buffett magic.
If your time horizon is long enough, Bogle would suggest that you don't try to time the market. Buffet obviously held some amount of cash so he could deploy it during extraordinary opportunities (such as the 2008/2009 crash).
A smart investor will always have a set of numbers in mind - say 60% stocks and 40% bonds - and every 6 months will rebalance the portfolio to that.

Over decades this will return better returns at dramatically less stress than any other approach.
> If an action is "wrong" but not illegal you can't actually be sanctioned for it. See: pretty much any large company in the news over some kind of outrage that will ultimately go unpunished.

Law is subject to human interpretation, evaluation of intent, and error correction. Every case has a number of unknowns that judges and juries are supposed to clarify. This is a feature, not a bug.

Code does not. The source for any non-trivial program encodes an uncountable number of unknowns that frequently lead us to absurd conclusions, with no ability to sanity check or correct them.
I haven't heard this side of the argument, do you have a source on that data?
Well, interest rates are the yield an on alternative investment to stocks, so they make sense as a comparator, too.
> I'd see a photo of a cool bird in an awesome tree and wonder how long the photographer had to wander around the woods to get close enough to a bird to photograph it that well. Then I learned the trick was to cut off a branch from a nice tree and put in on a tripod near a bird feeder with another large photo as the background.

I have never heard of any photographer ever needing to do that. Could you please elaborate? I, as an amateur photographer (like really really amateur) can easily manage to shoot birds super close up.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/hIhzs4WDhiBM0smE2
That website is run by a private company. A lot of the information on that website is wrong.

Here is a correct explanation in English of GDPR from the Irish regulator: http://gdprandyou.ie/

Also the UK regulator: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
it's actually much easier than that: https://github.com/kahing/bin/blob/master/cleancache.c
You miss the second part for France: "Children born to foreign parents may request citizenship depending on their age and length of residence."

The rule is as complex as the French law can be... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_nationality_law#French_...

But basically, children born to foreign parents become French at their majority if they lived most of their childhood in France.
As if it that wasn't enough, HP also actively promotes apartheid and colonialism [0].

[0] https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp
I've often wondered about the megatons of soot blowing over the north polar region from China.

As someone who has lived with winter 6 months of the year for 50 years, I thought it was pretty obvious to everyone that by far the largest determinant of snow melt was albedo change due to soil contamination.
Maybe I haven't understood the article fully but I don't understand the use case here. Showing data in columns vs rows is purely about representation of the data as opposed to how it is stored in a database. The first query with one value per row seems like a perfect way of representing the data in the database.

In addition, the author claims that very poor performance comes from using an EAV model due to joins. In reality with the right indexes, joins can be very high performance and an EAV model can give you better performance than de-normalised tables. Performance degradation often comes from attempting to pivot the data into a de-normalised structure.

Take the example the author uses where the attributes are name, email and website. The proper EAV normalised structure would have three tables, one for name, one for email and one for website. With the three tables you can enforce the constraint of one value per entity so you don't have to use the MAX hack and the joins between the tables will be more performant than joins on a single table. With this database structure, lots of operations are more performant than using the de-normalised table. For a given submission ID we can get the name, email, website (if they exist) faster by using three queries in parallel. Each individual query will operate faster because the index for each table will be smaller than the index for the de-normalised table.
what about software? I'm reminded of what farmers have to go through with John Deere tractors [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JCh0owT4w]. Isn't that going to start happening with cars (I thought this was already happening). Are they going to reverse engineer that too?
Niagara Falls has seen steady growth in terms of tourism revenue and annual visitors for at least close to 30 years (that's as far back as I could find)... And current revenue numbers are (obviously) all time records... So... I'm not really sure what you're talking about.
I'm not all that thrilled about them because the make me complete captchas all the dame time just because I like to route my browsing through Tor. I'd understand if I was running scrapers or other high-intensity requests through tor exit nodes, but usually I'm just loading pages at slow intervals to actually read the content. I guess it's like news sites that piss and moan about my adblocker on my very first visit before I've had a chance to actually evaluate any of their content (and I do whitelist sites I visit even semi-regularly).
The histogram on the last page counts the occurrences of each character in the paper (all of them printable, of course). But because the histogram's counts are made of characters too, the author had to add a few extra numbers to make the histogram "converge". Brilliant.
You can see in the conversation screenshot that she uploaded code on Google drive at my request - my only intention was to review the code.
Yes she trusted me that much - in fact there are a lot of peoples code I have reviewed and fixed.

The code is too complicated for a beginner to have written.
There are generator expressions, lambdas and what not in there.

I could go ahead and post the previous conversations where I was struggling to get basic programming concepts into her head, but shes already gone rabid in trying to discredit me. More material from my side will make her react even more extremely.

My biggest question and open challenge to her is this:

If she wrote all of it -

1) Show us the git log

2) If she insists aviral corrected and merged the code himself, show us the original fragments of code she sent, or show us the mails containing fragments of code if she emailed it to him.

If aviral was really a mentor, why would he use this crude method of collaboration, he'd explain how to use git and github to her to raise pull requests, commit code and so on.

Even the most pleb developer uses github and manages to commit code and so forth to it in a few days. Just look at the number of git repos with hello world like code in them.

I'm sure she'll come up with some excuse why the above is impossible like "we deleted intermediate stuff and mails", or "I dont know how to use git", or whatever hamstering.

I saw bullshit I called it.
The burden of proof is on her.
I have much more to lose by lying than she does.
I have a life, a career and people will surely take the word of a teenage girl over a man in his 30s.
She could instantly destroy all my credibility and reputation by showing proof.

In the unlikely event that she can provide proof that can convince without doubt, then I'll eat my words.
If she can't then its her word against mine - I have nothing to lose or gain by her rise or fall, I don't even own Macs, iPhones or do mobile development.

I have no motivation to lie. I've built apps all my life.
She has every motivation to - this is her ticket to getting into the USA.

Also what about the guy who was told directly by aviral that aviral developed the app for a small sum of money under an NDA?

Aviral has even tweeted something to the effect of "I lost respect for this guy who made a private conversation public". That's damning evidence.
Canned goods and shotgun shells?

Commodities possibly I guess.

It's a hard one when the stock market has been the only game in town for about a decade.
As a long time fan of CRPGs I look forward to reading your book. I don't mean to belittle the accomplishment but calling it, "The CRPG Book Project" is kind of like naming a pet, "The Dog Ownership Project". I mean, for all intents and purposes it seems like you've outright accomplished writing a book at this point and it deserves a sassier title than, "Book Project". Just sayin'.
A broad market ETF.

Over time, it's nearly impossible to beat a diversified index fund with any other strategy.

Market timing is bad for your money and your sanity.
I'm sorry but the title itself is fundamentally illogical and scientifically invalid. I haven't clicked the link so maybe it's just a bad title...

Environmental factors can never truly be accounted for or dismissed, and we will never have a fully controlled study of people to where we can separate nature and nurture.
Sure it sounds suspicious, but maybe that's intentional (with management approval) to speed up the line?
Credit Suisse is not obligated too, but it's likely they will.
The myths about engineering management
That is not guilt tripping. I am programmer. The flexible work is seen as a right and company that does not provide it as overly controlling and bad place for work - that is quite universal in both real life and online. And it is not just that, occasional work from home is also seen as basic perk you totally expect. And my colleges are using that right - and that is not blame, just a statement of fact.

The fact is, majority of female dominated jobs are on the opposite of the spectrum. And those jobs are even thrown into every damm discussion about men/women differences while also the very same discussion talk about women having more flexibility. Because women are supposed to be primary care giver and primary care giver is supposed to want flexibility.

It just so happen that wanting something does not necessary gives you that.

My point is not that programmer should feel guilty. My point is that arguing that women=flexible hours is wrong, faulty argument based on some romantic idealized dream. The argument completely ignores the kind of work women do.
>Anyone wishing to repeat what Lik claims to have done in a single shot is destined for disappointment.

Well, getting the right conditions with the right kind of cloud cover and light is equally improbable. Also, personally, I don't think that this shot is particularly difficult to achieve. Not identical, but very close is entirely possible.
I think the distinction between Pro and Consumer is a red herring in relation to software quality. Both groups want software that just works, reliably.

I agree with you that Apple's Pro products are lacking, but I think they're lacking for different reasons to different people. I couldn't care less about my next MBP having a faster CPU. Others need that. I'd prefer software that works, no Touch Bar, FaceID, a fantastic keyboard, and much longer battery life. Or a surprise benefit from Apple--I shouldn't have to come up with what I want. Apple's design/r&d team should make me gawk at it. That's their job, and they're failing.
In a small but thorough study of mine (N=1) results are so far negative. If anything the subject gets balder over time despite exposure to McDonald’s fries.
Since you both seem to know the spec: how would you encode key/value pairs? Or would you have to have a list of nested lists, like

(my_dict (key value) (key value) (key value))

Un-ordered qualities for data can be useful (e.g. they allow you to reorder data to stream "important" stuff first), but I don't see it anywhere in here.