skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's such a solid car. Over engineered I dare say but such a lovely thing to drive. And personally, I still think it looks quite contemporary amongst cars of today. My father had a 900 and I feel that was my gateway Saab as I adored that thing. In a way I don't really feel for any other cars. I like cars, but often can give or take. Saabs make me feel all funny. Perhaps I should see someone about it... Must admit, I've never had any issues with the balance chain. After a head gasket (that was skimmed, fixed and happy for another 80k) I had a heater matrix go and a radiator, then water pump but I put all these down to the gasket going. Another brilliant thing with the ones of my era, is they are designed to be worked on. No job was ever that much of a pain.
> I've heard the point made that the Democrat's identity politics caused the Trumpian identity politics as a backslash.

Well, it's true that white identity politics in the US was a response to abolitionism and the upswing since the mid-20th century a response to the civil Rights movement, and the Republican Partt embrace of white identity politics a direct response to LBJs embrace of civil rights, so there's a long term historical sense where (accounting for the flip in party positions over history) that's true.

More immediately, Trumpian identity politics is more a direct reaction to neoliberal globalism with a rhetorical veneer directed at Democratic identity politics.

On the other hand, Democratic identity politics are currently the major distraction from the fact that the dominant Democratic faction is dedicated primarily to neoliberal globalism, so there is that.
Reaping the Benefits of an Aging Work Force
Betraying the BIOS: Where the Guardians of the BiOS Are Failing
Convenience is just another word for removing waste. Wasted movement, or time.
Phones aren't PCs. They are crippled and locked-down devices. Of the ones that are capable of running a full Linux distro, I don't believe any are even close to the size of Noodle Pi.

I'm not aware of any Linux wristwatch or any other computer that's in production and available to buy that is smaller than Noodle Pi. If you know of a Linux wristwatch that's for sale commercially I'd love to know about it.

The only Linux wristwatches I see in a quick online search are two prototype devices, one made by Steve Mann and the other by IBM. Neither of those devices were actually usable as a PC, or available commercially. Mann's actually relied on a second hidden wearable computer to provide the actual processing power.
Ask HN: What are your daily (or weekly) routines?
Just recently discovered meditation and fasting, and while I've only been doing them for a few weeks, they've had a big effect on me. I'd like to see what other helpful routines are there. How do you go about your days?
They get tested against the standards that were in place, that's alright. They tax and/or disallow the whole standard. There are several different measures for different things, e.g. a green/yellow/red plaquette with a number that straight up disallows old cars from accessing some central areas of cities. Then there's the Euro1-whatever rating on which the calculation of ecological tax is based.
I have heard credible similar stories (from an employee) of airship industry's at cardington putting one of the spare 3/4 race Porsche engines (used in the airship) into a Volvo they used as a chase car.
You are reading much too deeply into my comment and thereby missing the point entirely. Dozzie's reply covers my intended point very well. Mine was not a post saying "things should be a certain way" or even "our society's values are misaligned". No, I just observed that if we want a certain standard of living in a certain location then the path for us is all but predetermined and that this is a bummer.
While it is owned by Norway's state oil company, it supplies the UK National Grid and receives UK government subsidies.
Wait, why is a washing machine cheaper than hand-washing?
A rebuttal to a stackoverflow answer: Palindromes
I have a hard time understanding why anyone thinks outrage is an inappropriate reaction to Harvey Wienstein. Guess people have different thresholds for empathy.
I'm a bit surprised that there isn't a Rust-like interface to call Javascript:

callJS :: JSFunction -> (JSObject | JSException)

Or however you spell it in Elm.

Admittedly, if Elm is lazy like Haskell, you need some way to deal with the fact that Javascript functions are impure.
Originally region locking was more a byproduct of TV's having different output standards (NTSC vs PAL). But we're talking back in the 8bit era (and to a lesser degree, 16bit as well).

Which might explain why most handhelds were never region locked.
If one assumes a fair and rational basis for the standard deductions, it's that people are driving their personal cars for business purposes. Those cars weren't purchased specifically to drive for business and they may not be optimized for economy. And, as you say, many people who put a lot of miles on their personal cars for business are probably average to the lower end of the income scale.

The 30 cents a mile in this study seems reasonable for a modest Prius or Camry assuming that driving empty to pick up passengers isn't a big portion of the total driving. It's probably close to the low-end though for acceptable vehicles.
You can definitely do all those things with JMeter, although the user experience is pretty naf, Gatling[3] is definitely much better at that front if you're comfortable writing Scala.

When it comes to Protocol Level Testing, those two tools are still pretty much the best bang for buck, and by far the most popular open source load generators.

If the target you're hitting is a web app and you want to create a more realistic load scenario without crafting individual requests, check out a tool called Flood Chrome, which uses thousands of instances of Google Chrome[1] to generate load. It uses the same scripting language as SeleniumJS, so it's quite easy to learn.

Also on the topic of Flood [2], they're a very good platform for abstracting away the server orchestration and results collection you'll face when you try to scale up from 1 to N servers running either Gatling or JMeter.

[1]: https://chrome.flood.io/

[2]: https://flood.io/

[3]: https://gatling.io/
opportunity cost - most people can make more money using a washing machine than they'd save hand washing.
There's something special about social media driven outrage. You just need a few tens of people to get offended for it to be national news.
Less water, less detergent, less time.
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> Renting vhs/beta/laserdisc/bluray/hd etc has long been preferable to watching something littered with advertisements every 12-15 minutes - leaving aside the frequent censorship, lower quality audio or video, the inability to pause or rewind at will. The phrase 'streaming television' just seems wrong.

Netflix?
One Cannot Not Design
First of all, please let me apologise if my previous comment came across as unnecessarily aggressive. Looking over the thread today, it could be read as quite hostile, which wasn't my intent.

My concern here is that in this discussion (and indeed in other recent HN discussions around the GDPR), you have on several occasions relied on your role as a consultant to support statements that various actions weren't necessary because of the GDPR, and to dismiss some of the potential legal arguments/concerns that several of us have raised suggesting otherwise as if they are some sort of legal trickery and EU courts/legal systems would not like them.

I claim no special qualifications in this area. I'm just a guy who is running businesses that might be affected by the new law and wants them to do the right thing, but wants that right thing to be practical and to know that we're on safe legal ground with it. Naturally I also talk to others in a similar position from time to time, and occasionally with consultants or lawyers active in the field, and so I know that many others share similar concerns and are asking the same sorts of questions.

What I'm seeing is that most of the experts are arguing for things like a "risk-based approach", which is the standard CYA consultant/lawyer answer to almost anything where they can't say "We don't actually know either, but you'll probably get away with it if you don't rock the boat". My point is that this is not good enough. The EU and member state authorities have form, as I've written about elsewhere, for introducing overly broad laws with insufficient safeguards and insufficient consideration for small businesses, and for then causing real and sometimes very serious damage to those smaller businesses in practice afterwards.

This is why I'm arguing that the GDPR as it stands is a bad law. This is why I want to see clear, concise, unambiguous answers from authoritative sources on issues around backups, log/journal-based records, and the like. And this is why I'm asking what your own qualifications are and what you know that we don't, given that just a couple of comments up you have casually dismissed concerns that many of us seem to have as being "silly", when those concerns are based on reading what the GDPR actually says and the ambiguity that we're hearing from other experts who don't seem to share your clear view of the subject.
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Bolt – Real-time file sync for teams, that works with your existing tools
Are you certain your profit numbers include an accurate assessment of the long term maintenance costs and reduction in vehicle resale value you are incurring in connection with the miles driven? If not, as the original paper described, then you are unknowingly taking out a series of small loans on the value of your car.
It literally says this:

"in the US, copyright protection for works published prior to 1978 is based on the number of years since publication. "

Did they edit the page since you posted your comment 18 hours ago?
We are constantly sampling outliers.

We need some way of getting real polling data into the hands of the public so we don't get diverted by the most vocal minority.
It's probably cheaper if you factor in time spent washing clothes by hand. I could see people washing clothes more often and taking worse care with them given the convenience though.

And of course there might be some sort of marginal environmental or other cost between the two as well.
Hi guys!

As a developer, I've always felt annoyed when it came to live collaborative development with other people, due to all the hassle around the process.

Either I have to repetitively use git add, commit, push, pull (after all VCS like git are meant more for version control, not sync) or the tools that I already work with don't natively support live, collaborative development (making me use unfamiliar, web-based IDEs that do support live collaboration).

So, over the weekend, I hacked up Bolt: real-time file sync for teams, that automagically works with the tools that you already use.

For example, if you use Sublime or Eclipse, you can simply "bolt" your project via the terminal, and you'll instantly be able to interactively code together with your team members (and see their code live), in real-time, while each of you can use your own tools.

So, I built this because I thought this would make it easier for me to work on team projects together.

I would love to hear your feedback on this! Thanks a lot guys!
I live next to U Line in South Korea. It is driverless. Completely.
And that corresponds to using the supreme Court to legislate. Much easier to convince 9 lawyers than thousands of fellow citizens and representatives.
That's a good question -- I'm struggling to find a well researched summary of the situation.

The biggest external cost with machine washing is the hot water, but most detergents now are optimised for cold / room temperature wash.

The biggest actual cost for hand washing is the time consumed - you may call it opportunity cost. Historically the societal benefits of the shift from having someone (typically 'the woman' of the household) spending 10-20 hours a week attending to laundry, to requiring perhaps a half hour of someone's time, have been better studied.
Do you still have to download their builds on shady servers?
First Thing That a Programmer Should Learn
And those people are exactly the reason why Linux will never be the OS of choice on desktop for the vast majority of people. Which it should be, because it's a great piece of software, underneath the horrible UX.
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I have lots of problems with this article's arguments. He uses several simplified examples to show the "cost" of convenience.

> When you can skip the line and buy concert tickets on your phone, waiting in line to vote in an election is irritating. This is especially true for those who have never had to wait in lines (which may help explain the low rate at which young people vote).

The youth vote has been on decline since the 1980's, long before Ticketmaster ever came along (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_vote_in_the_United_State...).

> We are willing to pay a premium for convenience, of course — more than we often realize we are willing to pay. During the late 1990s, for example, technologies of music distribution like Napster made it possible to get music online at no cost, and lots of people availed themselves of the option. But though it remains easy to get music free, no one really does it anymore. Why? Because the introduction of the iTunes store in 2003 made buying music even more convenient than illegally downloading it. Convenient beat out free.

This argument blows my mind how simplified it is. There are plenty of reasons someone would prefer iTunes over Napster, not illegal and more user friendly to name the two biggest. Why not use the example of a record store versus iTunes or even Napster? To show how conveniency can beat in human experiences or make you bend your morals to steal music?

> Americans say they prize competition, a proliferation of choices, the little guy. Yet our taste for convenience begets more convenience, through a combination of the economics of scale and the power of habit. The easier it is to use Amazon, the more powerful Amazon becomes — and thus the easier it becomes to use Amazon. Convenience and monopoly seem to be natural bedfellows.

This argument totally neglects that Amazon was ever a "little guy." Amazon's growth is the embodiment of American's prizing competition. Without competition, Amazon would never have been able to steal customers from Barnes and Noble, Walmart, Kroger, etc. Also, Amazon's framework allows for "little guy" shops to start up with low cost.

> However mundane it seems now, convenience, the great liberator of humankind from labor, was a utopian ideal. By saving time and eliminating drudgery, it would create the possibility of leisure. And with leisure would come the possibility of devoting time to learning, hobbies or whatever else might really matter to us.

If this was a "utopian ideal", then we would not be able to read this article on the internet. There is a reason that only the wealthy elites were scientists in the past. It's because they didn't have to spend their majority of the day doing laborious tasks. Without conveniency, there would be a lot less engineers, scientists, writers, artists, gamers, etc.

This article has no leg to stand on. You can swap out the word conveniency for innovation at many points, which is completely counter-intuitive to human philosophy. I understand that the writer is saying it's nice to take things slow. To not multi-task your brain to death. What he should be arguing for is to practice patience not to wash your clothes by hand.
>Part of this is that the Overton Window has shifted so far right that "left wing" in the mainstream now means "center",

I'm sure it seems that way to you.
Android phones and tablets don't count as handhelds? ;)
Well, I wasn't trying to one-up the author, or anything like that. I'm pretty sure his experience had plenty of stresses that mine didn't. Not having to deal with immigration alone is great. I was only referring to those daily routines.
> I prefer to brew my coffee, but Starbucks instant is so convenient I hardly ever do what I “prefer.”

How is this even remotely true? I always wait on spirit crushing lines at Starbucks. I guess you can order ahead, but the "planning factor" does take away some convenience.
> Isn't there a defence?

There is, but it's a resource battle. Governments and large corporations can spend a hundred times more hours on something than regular individuals and small nonprofits. If they both had the same resources there might be a 90% chance the defendant wins, but create a large enough resource asymmetry and it flips the other way.

This is one of the main reasons for the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard in criminal cases, but that doesn't apply to civil cases even when the plaintiff is 10,000 times the size of the defendant, and isn't enough in criminal cases where the defendant is relying on a criminally over-worked public defender and everything is greased to mass-produce guilty pleas and discourage trials.

> I also don't believe the court would like to find out that the prosecutor lied.

It isn't strictly lying, it's just not pointing out inconvenient facts.

Prosecutors can get into trouble for this when it's really damning, like not disclosing a witness who says it was somebody else, but that's separate from all the banality like the number of man hours they spent investigating you without finding anything before they could come up with what they're presenting.
Any likelihood of this vehicles being at times(say on the highway) autonomous and at times remotely driven ? Does this work technically , and maybe legally ?
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Mirroring_How-To
Vim is better
So then, the suggested policy is to not offer novel solutions to catching criminals if the victim is a large corporation, unless they pay for it out of pocket?
It might make sense to separate key social issue from the rest. The way the media frames matters of divorce, race, LGBTQ and gender have all moved leftward to varying degrees.

But on issues like labor and capital the media definitely moved rightward. On foreign policy, the press definitely seems to favor conflict escalation over diplomacy, which can be viewed as a leftward or rightward bias depending on the situation.

So today, the "center" in media is the socially-permissive, global intervention, capitalist perspective.
This isn't a stand-alone article. It's the introduction to The Economist's "Reinventing wheels" special report issue. There's no timeline given for "around the corner" in the headline. Instead:

> This special report will assume that the technological hurdles to full autonomy can be overcome. It will consider the implications of autonomous vehicles (AVs) for personal mobility, car ownership and carmaking, but will also look at the wider economic, social and cultural knock-on effects. How will everyday activities be transformed? How could AVs reshape cities? And what lessons does the rise of the car in the 20th century hold for driverless vehicles in the 21st?
"The Tyranny of Convenience" reminds me of a book I read called "The Paradox of Choice."

Basically, these things that modern technology and optimization have wrought tend to be burdens to those of us who tend to think more deeply about things.

It's good to stay aware of the pitfalls of modern life. However there can be no doubt that overall, the changes that bring about increases in convenience and choice are good for most people. Their effect on society is a little more nuanced.
How can we praise the Nintendo Switch?

It is a computer we cannot freely write a program of. It's evil, like the most of DRM protected gaming consoles.
This is a real trade-off, but the "convenient" choice is not always bad if you have control over the situation.

As a transportation cyclist, some people I know think I must have superhuman willpower. But the reality is that I don't own a car, don't like the bus, and live too far away for walking regularly to be practical. I structured my life so that cycling is the most convenient option. I do this to save money and stay in shape. (It's good for the environment too but that's not as convincing to me. My pollution is a drop in the bucket, cycling or not.)

Here's an example most would consider less extreme: Switching to a "feature phone" or not using a cell phone at all. In that case, calling from a feature or landline phone becomes the most convenient option.

Few would be surprised by the general principle: When possible, structure your life so that doing what you believe is right comes naturally.

What seems more surprising are the specific applications, perhaps because they often are personal and consequently not applicable to others.
>What social media has done is ensure you hear more from groups that previously didn’t get a voice.

Not really. Those voices are shadow banned at -15 karma. Social media ensures you hear the voices you want to hear.
Here’s the thing. (1) Uber is not a full time job for a lot of people. They have a couple of hours here or there that fits within their existing schedule. I don’t doubt that it’s helped put food on the table for a lot of families. Unfortunately In a few years driverless cars will take this opportunity away (2) Uber drovers are rational market participants. If they were really averaging less than $4/hour then this wouldn’t be attractive to driver given our current low unemployment rate.
Browserless seems awesome. Thanks for sharing your project!
Hello World or Καλημέρα κόσμε or こんにちは 世界 (1993)
Yes. Western Europe actually has more cars per capita than the US: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/it...

That said, I know many people who only use them occasionally. Gas is expensive here.
Packaging Node.js Apps the Easy Way
+1. Our team also uses Locust.
Yeah. Definitely a good idea. I'm told the clues are a bit cryptic as they are. It would be nice to have another if you're really stuck.
IMHO, we seek models explaining certain observed cosmological behavior.
As long as plausible models for dark matter range from WIMPs to primordial black holes or axions and what not, I consider it unreasonable to claim that we know what dark matter is, and all it’s properties.

Eg: if all dark matter experiments (direct and indirect detection) returned null results over the next several decades, then dark matter would still be an open puzzle.

With regards to “we”, I think it applies equally well to any group as small as physicists working on DM, to all scientists, or everyone discussing the subject. I expect most particle/astro physicists I’ve interacted with to find those statements very reasonable.
How to Write a First-Class Paper
Could this be done in android too? I use emacs in android through termux and I like it.
> Wait, why is a washing machine cheaper than hand-washing?

It's cheaper in regard to what alternatives are sacrificed for each unit of clothing cleaned.
This is a thought-provoking but ultimately unsatisfying essay.

Its exhortation to "resist the stupefying power of convenience" is unlikely to work, because convenience, which I would define as "getting what you need or want with less effort," gives rise to economic incentives: Between any two otherwise equal options, the more convenient one requires a lower investment of time and work from you and is therefore, in the end, cheaper.

Exhortations against economic incentives rarely if ever work.
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DACA recipients, Dreamers shut out of professional licenses in Indiana
Okay, next weekend...

let's do nano-everywhere!