skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others have mentioned various reasons. Here's yet another reason:

Shorter instructions.

Let's say you have an 8-bit machine, like a 6502 or an 8080 (the architectural predecessor to the x86). Let's say everything goes thru the ACCumulator.

Then you can have 1 byte opcodes to do things such as:

clear accumulator
shift left everything in ACC by 1 bit
rotate left everything in ACC by 1 bit

etc.

You can also have 2 byte opcodes to do things such as:

add an 8 bit immediate to the ACC
8 bit opcode plus 8 bit data

exclusive or an 8 bit immediate to the ACC
8 bit opcode plus 8 bit data

etc.

Those early microprocessors used a lot of 8 bit and 16 bit instructions. Why? Cost and chip count.

Early EPROMs (equivalent of today's flash but could only be erased by shining UV light on them), like the Intel 1702A, were 256 bytes. That's it. 2048 bits of memory in a chip. It was great when the Intel 2708 became reasonably priced. That got you an entire 1024 bytes of ROM in a single chip.

Early RAMs, like the 2102, were 1024 words by 1 bit. Put 8 chips together and you got 1024 bytes of memory.

So, yeah, shorter instructions were a big big deal in "the old days", i.e. the mid 1970s.
I would pay at least 10$ for this, considering how much time it can potentially save me a year. You should consider to raise the price!
Third party trust has been the best solution in the past to establish trust. Blockchain tech has introduced a new solution that has been proven. As a business, if you have to choose between using a third party for trust or using a distributed trust-less system, and both are comparable in cost, what would you do?
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Indeed, I'd actually expect exotics of all cars to have 4-wheel speed sensors for traction control, launch control, etc.

I'd expect to use this 4-wheel sensor data along with the multi-axis acceleration data to calibrate the GPS, not the other way around.
I thought Tesla also used wheel torque data? https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/how-does-autopilot-s...

> One method is to detect torque on the steering wheel, hinted Musk. “So we might issue a visual and auditory alert to make sure you’re okay.”
Will that be a possibility for people who are not from USA?

I had deleted (not deactivated) my account ~4 months ago and they were supposed to delete everything after 14 days but I have a feeling they didn't.
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Right now I'm going very low tech for recipe management...I send a DM to my SO on slack. That's most of what we use the DM for, an archive of things we've made. We mostly need a bigger screen in the kitchen that stays on while making a recipe. A Microsoft Surface we have laying around will be used for that.

I'd like to do a database of products purchase, purchase date, price paid, scan a barcode and mark it as consumed, and calculate typical consumption rate of the products.

I will keep things pretty simple, either a sqlite database that stays local or a LAMP setup so I've got access to an inventory list at the store along with "price check" functionality.
I was referring to marketing, sales, and PR as activities moreso than the people who work in those fields. I can't speak for all stem people, of course, but I, personally, have a strong aversion to those activities.
Oh, another thing I just thought of. They didn't just give you access within the hour, like the article suggested. Within the hour may have been the guarantee, but typically, it was instantaneous. New machines would have a default password. When a customer bought a machine, a script would log in, change the password to the customer's, and notify them of their new machine's IP.
> focus on get rich quick schemes

Sorry, but the whole finance (and VC) world is about getting rich quickly. Cryptos, while being more scammy due to newness and lack of regulations, are not fundamentally special in this regard.
Not so, I bought the cheapest washing machine I could get. I dropped about $1200 cash on a speed queen that'll last me maybe 20 years. Joe 6 pack finances a new LG every three years at 29.99% credit card interest for $600 and thinks I'm getting ripped off.

Its just like the situation with hiking boots, I can only afford the $250 boots that last many years, I'm not rich enough to afford the $100 boots that only last one year before falling apart. I can't afford to spend $100, I have to spend $250. Richer people than I, can buy themselves the $100 boots.

Also at some big box stores I've seen some masterful post sale salesmanship. New washer hoses cost $19 on the shelf but as part of the installation package they'll prevent your basement from being flooded for only $50 installed by our professionals (usually lower quality hoses too). Installation "only" costs $99 but you need the new hoses for $50 and fuel prices went up a decade ago so we still have our temporary $19.99 fuel surcharge on our deliveries. Oh you want the old washer hauled away, thats only $50 and they totally take care of the problem for you. Technically according to google search you can buy a box containing a LG top loader thats normally $770 for a mere $650, but unless you have time, skills, and a large vehicle that box of machinery won't wash any clothes for $650, add something like $220 worth of installation... Oh and thats 18 months financing but it only has a one year guarantee for parts and labor, which is comical... for a mere $150 you can get a five year guarantee which is about a quarter the lifespan of my speed queen, if and only if you also purchase installation services. Suddenly that "cheap" $650 washer is going to hit the credit card for over a kilobuck and its only going to last five years at best while providing plenty of repair work headaches. So figure twenty years of clothes washing costs $1200 with a speed queen or over $4000 with LG products... I'm not wealthy enough to buy $650 washers I can only afford the $1200 washers.
But there's only 3-4 DOM elements. I'm pretty sure doing this in canvas is not as trivial as this.
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> A real equivalency is stealing from walmart "because they can afford it"

That's not a real equivalent at all. Walmart could press charges and recoup their loss through legal action. Stealing from Walmart is illegal.

Defaulting on a contract is not illegal. That's precisely why we have contracts in the first place. It spells out what would happen in a default, and both parties voluntarily enter into the agreement. If one party is not happy with the terms of default then they shouldn't sign the contract.

In a no recourse default, it is literally spelled out in the contract: "If you default, the lender will not be come after your other assets".
If you're telling me that eventually software engineers won't be needed then I'll see you in line at the unemployment office because the last two jobs to be made obsolete are software engineers and youtube personalities

lol, love that! I'm not afraid, if it is to be, so be it, I'll just work on how to grow my own twinkies from a personal garden.
The article does mention this as a special case, though. Owning property is a perfectly good way to store value, because property crashes don't always track market crashes and because property values recover even from heavy declines.

Notably, all the people you're listing got wealthy, then bought property to diversity their investments. It's a very different situation than buying property in hopes of gaining wealth.
I use the Amiga Forever package to run AmigaOS on my Windows 10 computer. Installation is quick and works flawlessly. I'm even able to remote in using Remote Desktop and access my AmigaOS from my laptop.
There are 3 different versions with varying prices. (http://www.amigaforever.com/)

It uses the WinUAE emulator, which you can download for free. (http://www.winuae.net/) You would need to purchase roms to go with this though. The Amiga Forever distro includes roms.

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I also work with some of the big ones and their customers and partners. I don't understand how case studies like that are shown and believed without question, and not just in blockchain but other tech or processes too. Baffles me, really disappoints me. In college I expected high up business people to be discerning and no-bs but they will buy anything without thinking critically about the pitch! I don't understand it.
The early history of redundant function pointer casts: MakeProcInstance
A user stylesheet can also be a content blocker, and it doesn't require a third-party extension, and it works across all domains (Wikipedia languages): https://github.com/kengruven/config/blob/master/.calm.css#L2...

It's frustrating that every popular webpage nowadays is so full of distractions that I can't use the web without blocking a lot of it.
How complete is this data? Does it include content like comments?

It'd be nice to download my data and import it into a competing social network.
It does, in these hypotheticals we assume a mature blockchain, and the 'third parties' in this case is the network itself. In non-PoW implementations, there is no more waste than traditional means.
I think SQL can also benefit from some of the progress around making things that "feel like" ML easier. For instance, dplyr is a refreshing change to the way you write operations that manipulate data in a table/column structure, even though it uses mostly the same verbs and language constructs as SQL.
If possible can you share the link to your lectures? (:
You can do some types of ML with SQL all the main sql databases are Turing complete.

Not sure if its going to be efficient for clustering and entity extraction at scale tho
Yeah, that's fairly bad luck. I've flown about 100 timesover the 4 years, some short haul and some long haul, and in that time frame I've had about 10 flights delayed by > 2 hours. One of those was the volcano incident, and another was the beast from the east a few weeks ago.
Not at all. If my neighbor breaks his bathroom, he's welcome to use mine. But after a month, when his whole family is now frequently coming over, I will ask him to get a plumber. If he won't, I'll do it and lock my door.

For many countries sending people to prime immigration target countries, the only visible fix is running their countries for them.

Instead, the UN and other groups do the opposite. They run around singing about human rights, enabling lawlessness and crime to go on unchecked while decent citizens become frustrated, some of them escaping and contributing to immigration.

In particular, Central America. I know many people that would be 100% onboard with defending and cleaning up their country. Instead, they all tell me they don't even carry a weapon, because using it will get them jailed with a short life expectancy.

Meanwhile, pretty much every Guatemalan I speak with pines for the days of Rios Montt which kept things safe and clean. Yet is decried by the international community which doesn't have to live with the result of their choices.

Fix the source, take a heavy hand. There's no need for the West to babysit people.

Letting a tiny amount of people in to your own countries will accomplish little to actually relieve suffering. It's pointless and costly and not a real solution.
$2000 mortgage
$140 lawn care
$58 warranty

Instead of paying the $1,800/month, you are now paying $2,200/month.
I tried JupyterLab out. Definitely an upgrade.
> The russians may be somewhat evil

It's sad to see such xenophobic comments on HN. Please stop blaming every Russian for what Putin and his friends do.
Love this!

I was thinking of something similar, but mostly as an inventory + expiration tracking system, because we often forget what we have in the fridge and cabinets. I love the integration with Wunderlist for adding to the shopping list as well!
I'd be curious to hear a proposal on how Apple could implement an E2E encrypted messaging service in a way that it would be impossible for them to circumvent it in the future via a software update. I suspect it's not possible, and therefore, either you accept some trust in Apple and take their model as "good enough" or you don't trust them at all (meaning you don't use iOS or macOS). There are, of course, lots of people that do that. But for most the population of iOS users, I think the iMessage model is very much good enough.
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People written SQL scripts that check for scenarios, and even potentially action / repair them is a form of intelligence. It's not artificial, either.

Thinking back to successful ERP implementations, little was more useful during go-live or an ongoing basis than a script that ran every hour/day/week/month to look for a condition and report it.

In one case, over a 3 year period where the organization grew from 0 to 60 million per year, every data issue was logged as a ticket, investigated, where needed, a Sql script written to monitor other occurrences, and ultimately, if there was a need to action, it would be forwarded to the right destination with a link to instructions on how to resolve or investigate if a decision could not be programmatically made.

The power of this was users received direct and immediate feedback anytime they wanted if their work was good and compliant with the system and process.

How did the list of scripts to build get made? Every time the system behaved correctly or incorrectly, and needed attention, whether due to data being incomplete, mis-entered, or correct and ready for the next step, the technology was busy working for the users.

Scripts reduced concerns that issues were being missed. Once something had happened and it was important enough, a custom insight could be built. It helped build a data driven culture instead of hoping the computer picked the right thing.

Sql scripts could one day feed into or fit with AI/ML. I don't see that day here in the short term.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the pageviews are bots/crawlers. They don't hover over links.
I agree; this is the real most serious problem with the EU and various parts of the centre-right consensus. The insistence that the books be made to balance regardless of the human cost.
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Just some of the ways Google collects data [1]:

Google Search, Google Fiber, Google Recaptcha, Google Translate, Google Adsense, Google Chrome (Safe Browsing checks etc.), Google DNS (8.8.4.4 etc.), Google Mail, Android Integrations, Google GSuite (Sheets, Docs, etc.), Google Drive, Google Analytics, Google AMP, YouTube

So on and so forth. Of course, Google keeps most of this data to themselves to improve products and sell ads, but it's scary how much they have especially since they broke down the firewall between services. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

[2] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy...
Sure, but the landlord can also lose his/her shirt if the market is in a valley at the time they need to sell. Your comment ignores the fact that there is market risk for property owners.
I have no clue, as I don't use it. I imagine most people use it for sharing pictures and use other apps for chatting.
I wouldn't call it extending the SMS protocol when it uses your data plan[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/PCh-qRYMAKk?t=3m39s
yes. some people (including me) would argue that they chose that name in part to cause deliberate confusion.
I think Google is a lot less creepy than Facebook. Yes, they vacuum a lot of data, but I do get directly related benefits from it, as well as controls that I trust.

Example: Location history. It is turned off by default. I chose to turn it on, so I can know places I’ve been to previously (if I forget the name). It’s like a journal that writes itself.

Google has its privacy issues, but on a whole I voluntarily choose to give them permission to collect my data, because I get direct value from it.
I was pretty amazed to recently read that Iowa is getting ~35-40% of its electricity from wind energy. They're up over 7,000 MW of capacity (4,000 turbines) now for just three million people.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Iowa may have among the highest wind energy capacity per capita on earth, at 2.2 MW per thousand people. Denmark, which is perhaps the highest for a nation, is at half that rate (5,476 MW capacity for 5.7m people).
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No, nobody does. The point is that nobody should tolerate and import values which would lead to an erosion of that very same tolerance.

The culture I live in isn't perfect, but lets try and make sure any changes we make are in the right direction.
Really? In UK it's not unusual to get approved with as little as 5%.
This is an excellent article and has actually helped me to redraw my own boundaries with regards to the matter of substance that it covers. I have one nagging boundary issue that remains however and that is with regards to where the boundary be drawn when applying such an effective therapy to minors.
Prices are not set to guarantee profits for landlords. If it's a cold rental market, the owner of the property still would prefer to lose only a small amount, rather than having the unit sit empty and losing all of the fixed costs.
This is something that I have experienced. I'm white and I worked summers doing construction-related work. I was often questioned by police if they saw me sitting in my personal vehicle before work started in a black neighborhood.
I was just thinking about the 'full circle' today.

OSes of the past: Windows, Variations of Unix's,

OSes of 2018: Android, IOS, All Varations of Browsers, plus all the old ones

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Cross platform (cross-os) development of the past: nasty (Widget libraries (wxWindows, QT, ... ), os-abstraction libs )

Cross platform development of 2018: nasty still (react-native, xamarin, etc .. )

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Development pipeline tools of the past: Automake/cmake, make, linker

Development pipeline tools of 2018: npm, webpack

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Compiler front ends of the past (things that produce assembler or low-level C or stack-machine codes): various C++ front ends, Eifel, etc

Compiler front ends of 2018 (things that spit out javascript): babel (more like macro-assembler), Clojurescript, ReasonML, Fay, Nim .. ,etc

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In current times, we also added Wireframe/Styling tools into our development pipeline (I do not think we had it in the past). Eg Bootstrap and other styling (that are not integrated into 'compile-time-verification' stage of the modern Front-end languages.

I realize that above is somewhat front-end-dev oriented, but I think the desire to share 'same language' for front and backend development, causes the blur.

I also would add that for data crunching and data distribution (eg CORBA, DRPC) of the past -- we have gained more options, higher quality and free. So I would say this is a material advance for our productivity.
Most of this article I agree with, such as the need for BOTH unit and integration testing, the need to focus on automation, and the need to turn regressions (bugs) into new tests.

I also agree that "Paying excessive attention to test coverage" is not good. However, I completely disagree with much of its supporting text. If your test code coverage is only 20%, then by DEFINITION your tests are awful. That would mean that 80% of your code is completely untested. I agree that for many programs 100% code coverage is not worth the effort, because those last few percentages cost more than their benefit, but that doesn't mean that such low coverage makes sense. Most organizations I've worked with recommend at least 80% statement coverage, as a rule of thumb. I haven't seen any studies justifying this, but this essay doesn't cite anything to justify its claims either :-). You'd want much higher statement coverage, and also measure branch coverage, if software errors are serious (e.g., if someone could be physically harmed by an error). You should focus on creating good bang-for-buck tests first; code coverage is then a useful tool to help identify "code that isn't getting well-tested at all." It's also useful as a warning: 100% coverage may still be poorly tested, but low coverage (say less than 70%) means the program definitely has a terrible test suite.

This statement is misleading: "You can have a project with 100% code coverage that still has bugs and problems." That's true for ANY program, regardless of its testing regime, because any testing regime can only test an astronomically small fraction of the possible input space. A program that just adds 2 64-bit numbers has 2^128 possible inputs; real programs have more.
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The more one knows, the lesser they are inclined to do anything about it, because they get a premature picture of where it leads to, and will be afraid to take the first step.

Less knowledge and "thinking small" is a definitive advantage when it comes to entrepreneurship and risk taking.
Is this something that users will have to opt in to to use or will it be a seamless integration with existing applications? i.e., will it require the download of a new app or will it just be something that extends Android's existing messaging app?
I think they meant that the myth has been caused by selection bias, not that the study is prone to it.
When you have a public transparent record of the kinds of financial shenanigans that were going on, it can be audited very easily and put a stop to. The financial crisis was not avoided because all of the sketchy activity was hidden from sight.
I laughed real hard at this phrasing:
> Alacritty is the fastest terminal emulator in existence.

Bold.
I was thinking about something similar. Making the webpack configuration accessible using a drag‘n‘drop editor, where you can define environments (prod, test, etc) and build configuration per environment using building blocks. JavaScript generation, JSON export (for imports), sharing, etc.

Never had the time to actually start it, though.
The difference being that Make is actually usable.

For the silent down-voters: Tell me why the above statement is not true.
> That's not how things work. Banks give out mortgages based upon the repayment ability and credit-worthiness of each borrower. The mortgage amount won't be too far out of line of comparables.

The banks most trusted debtor is itself: if buying up property were so fruitful with no labor and above rent the bank would not need to invest a single dime into offering mortgages and would just buy the houses itself.

> Who says so? Even one tenant in a multi-family home can pay for the entirety of the mortgage.

Its just logical: if money is cheaper to borrow than to pay rent, then nobody pays rent and all borrow money. Fundamentally the one that can do this the most is the bank.

What is often not taken into account in terms of landlorship is that you have occupancy rates, brokers that have to find you clients, communication with tenants, etc etc. But even accounting for moderate work, if the mortgage had a lower rate than the cost of rent, and no cost of acquisition, there would be no renters.
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> controls that I trust.

I think this trust might be misplaced.

> Example: Location history. It is turned off by default.

Displaying your location history to you is turned off by default. Google's own recording of your location, for their purposes, cannot be turned off.
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I started out talking about “typical driving habits,” and 50 miles is still just fine in a decent EV.