skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Godot might be a special case because it's so well made by some Brazilian industry veteran (gaming is kind of a spartan environment, especially on consoles) and is very polished and kinda well funded FOSS project, it's like a crown jewel.

I remember (I hope I'm not misremembering, I can't find it now) that Firefox took more than 4 GBs of RAM when being linked which ironically made it so the 32 bit version was being built in a 64 bit environment. Then again - who builds regularly rebuilds Firefox on their laptop (yes, the devs, by definition, do, but that's a very small subset of the population).

C++ has shortcomings with regards to build times, small change triggering a rebuild and linking time blowing up and so on but it's clearly the only one that fits the niche it sits in (maybe C can compete but it's a bit too spartan for some people, and maybe Rust in the future) but there are mitigations (like pimpl, forward declarations, etc.) and some of the criticism is just goofy to me.

E.g. there was story[0] of a hell like project with more managers than programmers, no working coffee machines nor toilets, crazy turn around of employees, employees not knowing how to code properly, changing version tracking software a few times and throwing away the entire history each time, simple operations taking seconds or minutes, physical paperwork to apply to edit a file, entire thing was bordering on a scam, etc. Main takeaway of the author that he reiterated in 2018: C++ is bad.

I mean, I guess you can dislike it for all its warts (and it has plenty), but would everything be fixed if this was a Rust, Python or C# project and all of the other craziness remained?

Maybe I'm just biased because I know C++ pretty well inside and out and even kinda like it but also never got forced to work on a bad legacy project made in it (but than again any crazy legacy code is bad, regardless of the language..) but lots of people are just bashing C++ so mercilessly, even here on HN people go and say that it's impossible to write in it (using a web browser that's certainly in C++ and relying daily on compilers, OSes and runtimes made in C or C++ that host their language, unless they're all Free Pascal developers or something (FPC is self hosting) and the joke is on us for not using Free Pascal).

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16793884
> They are under concerted attack by Russia,

oh, come on, this is ridiculous. The russians may be somewhat evil, I concede, but the problems that we europeans have are not their fault, but ours.
>"Thought experiment: if after 5/25, I download my data, then revoke consent and delete my account, then a while later reactivate my account and log back in ..."

If you actually delete your account you won't be able to reactivate it. There is an option to deactivate it but then all of your personal data is preserved anyway.
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Many of her posts are about teaching or communicating issues like this to others. In other words, there is no reason to give a class like this if she doesn’t actually know more than the interns.
Because for any sufficiently large company, they won't be the only entity in their inventory's supply chain. Sharing data throughout the supply chain accurately and reliably is an extremely hard problem that has yet to be solved sufficiently.

So specifically, blockchain offers a totally accurate, reliable, secure way to track and exchange data across a multitude of distinct businesses with little opportunity for corruption. I'd say that's very valuable, and NOT something that can be done with a central database.
The decision was so poorly communicated that even A Google Product like the campaign url builder no longer works. And I didn’t really understand why I’d use Firebase for shortening an url and after clicking on the page I’m more confused than ever. So... back to bit.ly ...
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Helped with which of those countries? With which borders?

The top of the divided list is Serbia, which has still not fully healed from its own civil war. Then you have Italy, whose problems probably mostly relate to the financial crisis fallout.

Next is Hungary, which is on the classic path of fascism by rallying against external and internal percieved enemies and anti-semitism: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/12/george-soros-u...

The UK being divided over Europe is hardly new, but the salience of the issue has been driven up by the press systematically misreporting it. There are also questions of the centralisation of power which aren't going away.

Poland has an ongoing constitutional crisis which seems to be a straightforward concentration of power by the right: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/11/2...

Spain is also a victim of the financial crisis, but the important issue there is Catalonia.
Didn't work in Firefox for me, maybe I have something disabled.

Reminds me of Escape from New York a bit :-)
It was one of many DARPA projects to see what can be done with the table scraps of open/unclassified data available. The ship beaconing data was in that category. As was uber sample data, backpage data, darkweb ecommerce, blockchain ledgers. We looked at ALL kinds of data, and tried fusing where we could. One target was human trafficking. https://www.google.com/search?q=memex+human+trafficking
And that's a great choice. They're door-to-door (if you have the car dropped off at home), and costs are easily understood too - cost of hiring the car and cost of the petrol. This can be as low as 10p/mile, plus say £60 for the car for the day

The downsides of hiring the car

- time isn't very useful while you're driving (compared to on a train/plane where you can work, or read, or watch netflix)

- usually slower - especially with city centre to city centre

- parking stress

- Driving is tiring, and more dangerous. A 3 hour drive, then an 8 hour day, then another 3 hour drive.

Choice is wonderful.

Ideally I'd have something that costs 5p per mile, runs every 5 minutes, is is door to door, and I travel on my own sofa with 300mbit wifi, power, and waiter service.

However as that's not possible I, as a consumer, can choose what's important for me for a given journey. Sometimes that's the train, sometimes it's the plane, sometimes it's a coach, sometimes I'll drive
> You should make it opt in by default. Or stop doing it!

What? Can you post some examples of sites that already do this? Everybody has analytics on their landing pages, and I don't think I've ever personally seen an opt-in.

What you can find are thousands of examples of site policy pages that say something like: "by choosing to visit our site, you are sharing information with us that we log for the purposes of improving our customer experience. By using our service, you agree to this logging. If you don't want to be logged, then please don't use our service."
Well, last time they tried that (EU constitution) it was shot down by the same people that complain that the EU isn't democratic enough.
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Thank you for the kind words! I will echo slig and say that I have been really happy with the Rigol DS1054Z so far. I love that you can build a really capable electronics lab at home in 2018 for less than $500.
Which is a huge sample size
Well, not very surprising
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We can certainly debate the financial benefits of owning vs. renting. It's an important angle to consider and this article is simply challenging the automatic assumption that ownership is financially always the sounder choice.

However, we might want to also consider other dimensions, like the social benefits of owning vs. renting. Is it really good for us as individuals and for society in general when property is concentrated in the hands of relatively few people? It's one thing to have a relatively large number of property owners who both rent their properties out and rent their own living space. It's a totally different thing when, say, several moguls and the government own 75% of the apartments in a city.

Also, while mobility is important for some, others form communities, and still others don't have that option or desire to move around. When you don't own, you don't really have skin in the game. If something sucks, you leave. When you own, you've put in your chips. You've bought a stake in the community. You're going to care more about both the property you live in and the neighborhood. If the market takes a turn locally, there will exist a greater incentive to make the changes necessary to buck the turn instead of just moving. If the schools suck, and you care about education, ownership is more likely to create the incentive to improve them. If you rent, you move to another district. For some, that move makes sense. But for many, it makes greater sense to improve what's around them.

In other words, the assumption that owning a house is primarily or solely an investment can be challenged as a narrow view of ownership.
Seems pretty reasonable to me, but then I am also of the opinion that 0 immigration should be the starting point in discussions of immigration (rather than “as much as possible”, which seems to have somehow become the default position).
Immigration is just a wedge issue-- a means to an end.

The point is to use propaganda to pit half of the population against the other half. Divisive politics in a nutshell! As the saying goes, "divide and conquer."
I own an old house and $1K/month is a pretty good guesstimate. I probably spend more than that but around $1K/month is probably around the point where, if I spent a lot less than that, I'd be going into maintenance debt.

I agree with your point that owning a house is a lot about lifestyle. I have a lot of sports gear, like canoes, that would be more difficult in an apartment setting. Yes, you can rent storage units but you definitely have to make compromises.
> Some restrictions pertaining to integration would help.

Again, on which immigrants are we talking about here? Could you be specific?
Unfortunately the capacity of these dams in most areas is far from enough to compensate all fluctuation in renewable energy production.
> The very notion of all men being permanent suspects of a crime would rightly be considered abhorrent. And so it is here with people of colour.

Thank you for these extremely well-reasoned comments.
Indeed. Also no three.js [1]. Only some d3 [2] bits.

[1] https://threejs.org/
[2] https://github.com/d3/d3-scale
their is an acceptable third person pronoun. its been in use for centuries in English. some 19th century grammarians may have tried to intervene. it is my preferred usuage.

"her" doesn't bother me at all, or at least no more than "his". but, i guess, some people see the former as political or agenda driven, and the latter as neither. but i suppose that a white person's policy of always addressing a black man with the same honorifics as they would have addressed a white person, might have been considered agenda-driven and ideological by their peers.
Because not all cultures are equal.
No. Searching "solar in developing countries" suggests it is an ongoing process.
> Meanwhile as far as I can see the only practical use cases of cryptocurrencies and even "the blockchain" at large is unbridled speculation, pyramid schemes and buying illegal stuff online.

You aren't looking very hard, then!
Maybe I'm completely missing the point here, but I thought the use case for AI/ML was to find the cause, not the effect. For example:

>> If a person tries to checkout with 3 different cards at the same time and they all bounced, something funny is happening. Block their account temporary for a while.

That assumes you know that 3 different cards were used and they bounced. Sure, the SQL can answer the question, but you have to know the question first.

I'm happy to be corrected here.
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That's exactly why, as a family man, I hate renting. You end up changing neighborhoods every few years, and none of your friends are permanent.
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.” (Scott Adams)
Can you really look at human history and think that, upon creating an underclass with a different religion and different phenotypic traits, somehow things will go well?
What's your threshold for wealthy? I know plenty of younger millionaires (via tech) who don't have real estate other than perhaps REITs.
And how is that working out?

I agree that it doesn't seem useful outside of money, but when it comes to money, feel free to trust this. I don't:
https://global.spdrs.com/content/dam/spdrs/etf-blogs-images/...
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Yeah I guess so. What do I know.
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You didnt really process all the information in the parent post properly.

At no point did she claim it was a default approach
But i will bite...why not? Tech changes tend to be adverse to change in many organizations, why not policy?
Isn't there insurance for this exact kind of thing?
Is there another example of something that is only sold to accredited investors as an investment but isn't a security?
Not true. Bartering in this sense meaning suggesting that the reward is at a level consistent with a non-critical bug while this is. Not "Pay me more or I'll release it".
Sure ok. I don't know. Just making stuff up.
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Try to read today's Featured Article in a text-to-speech program. The markup is so mangled it can't even read a complete sentence because it breaks anytime the text links out.
Because football is a profit center and is already handled by actuarial analysis for insurance purposes. Clubs on the other hand are risky non-profit centers that are notoriously hard to insure. Just ask any council member for the Boy Scouts of America about insurance...
Yep, there have been several studies done, ranging from media to education to optometric.

• CNET found that readers were 35% more likely to finish reading an article if they were reading with BeeLine turned on. See more on the CNET study in this article in The Atlantic [1].

• An optometric study using eye-tracking glasses found that BeeLine reduced the number of regressions and/or skipped lines for the vast majority of participants.

• Various educator-led studies (some more rigorous than others, and none as informal as the "case studies" that are unfortunately common in edtech) have found strong gains in reading fluency and/or comprehension.

I totally appreciate your skepticism, which is especially reasonable for someone who does not personally see a benefit from the tech.

The response from doctors who work in vision has been very positive, and our tools are recommended by doctors at Stanford Med School and UC Berkeley School of Optometry.

We even got featured by the American Optometric Association. The AOA committee that evaluated our technology said that this was the first time they'd ever had a unanimous vote in favor of anything. Apparently to them, it was quite obvious that this has beneficial effects (without having run any formal studies on it themselves).

To your point about colorblindness, I would note that I regularly come across people with red/green colorblindness who love/use our product. You can change the colors to be whatever you want, or use it in grayscale.

We are talking with publishers, but mostly on the digital side. Thanks for the input and questions!

1: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/a-bett...
FYI this requires a data plan[1] which is going to be really frustrating for those using prepaid/gophone/low income cheap plans with out a contract.

[1] https://youtu.be/PCh-qRYMAKk?t=3m39s
S&P 500 return was about 22% in 2017. On paper, I made a lot, although I have no plans to touch any of it for a long time.
No one wants a power plant next door (especially nuclear!) and transmission is an issue for everything other than solar panels on your own roof.
You dad (or, more likely: you) is full of shit. Penalties don’t work like a tax on misbehavior. If you are constantly being fined, you would face the loss of your license to operate.
That assumes that they collect such finger prints
Previous discussions about this study:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16794228 (241 points, 13 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16808737 (93 points, 12 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16901184 (29 points, 7 hours ago)
The EU is democratic: it empowers the democratically-elected governments of 27 states to collectively make policy (most of the time by unanimous voting, traditionally), and then empowers the population at large, as directly represented in EuroParliament through proportional methods, to amend or reject such policy.

The Commission is not instated by God Almighty or by hereditary laws: it is nominated by democratically-elected national governments. The Council does not spring fully-formed from the head of Zeus: it is made of democratically-elected governments. The European Court of Justice was not created by the Pope 1000 years ago: it was created by democratically-elected governments through treaties. And so on and so forth.

The fact that such governments are then able to sustain the fiction that they have no say in EU matters, is more a reflection of the poor state of critical thinking in voters across the continent than an indictment of EU's "democracy level", whatever that might mean... unless we assume that a process is democratic when it agrees with one's opinions, and completely tyrannical when it doesn't.
It depends on the market.

The SF Bay Area has many places where a case can be made that renting forever wins:

https://medium.com/@usaar33/why-you-shouldnt-buy-a-home-in-t...
Visiting, or living.... there's a different standard applied to guests than to neighbours.
The irony in all this is that NYC is actually more affordable than SF now.

I live in midtown Manhattan in a renovated studio on the 30th floor. I pay less than my coworker who is renting a 1bed apartment in Mountain View on a job rotation there.

Bay Area cities may have avoided turning into Manhattan but they have Manhattan-level rent prices. Congratulations people.
Utilities costs are almost always variable, so it would still require manually entering them in.
The Volt behaves in a similar way to protect against degradation, by design. I wonder if the 90% tesla s claim holds for their largest capacity cars as well.
Programming doesn't scale well.

My experience is Javascript and even PHP scale better than C++. I do a lot of type checking and I don't use OOP features.
Scope Hoisting is already part of "production" mode now which enables this and other optimizations automatically.
Also, DefinePlugin is superseded by EnvironmentPlugin: https://webpack.js.org/plugins/environment-plugin/
Yes and no. AI/ML is real stuff that can do useful things; I worked at a government contracting firm and we made a lot of that stuff work. But as I recall, before anything landed in AI algos, we'd always have pages and pages of code handcrafted by SMEs to prep it. It's not hard to see that, for many cases, all the prep work gets you pretty close to the answer without any training.

I think the issue the article hints at is there are way too many contractors willing to burn your cash on AI/ML.

Contracting has a serious principal agent problem; there was a discussion I recall over how to implement a quick search feature in a system we maintained. I floated the idea of sampling the data to get approximate results, but that was instantly shot down in favor of buying a ton more hardware. There are serious arguments against sampling, it's very tricky to get right, but if we had been spending our own money I think it would have gotten a more careful hearing.
I'm afraid I didn't, and neither did I give the option to pay me for reclining. I wouldn't really know how much to ask.
Thank you very much! I'd love to hear about what you come up with for recipe management.
SO's hot network questions was so bad that I enabled my ad-blocker on SO and added a custom rule to hide that part of the page. At least now when I go to find an answer on SO without falling in a 30-60 min rabbit hole.
It's more that batteries are expensive. Especially in places where there is a law saying that the power company has to pay a nice rate for power fed back to the grid.
the problem is that this EU is a tyrannical democracy. it's too easy to strong-arm some states into swallowing some policy that benefits everyone but them, like Dublin III, like production quotas, like fishing rights... this leaves basically everyone discontent about something everywhere.
If you're an Italian guy and we meet on the street and I don't speak Italian, how would you know if I'm visiting or living?

EDIT: Before you respond that "immigration policy etc etc", notice that the post I was responding to was talking about interations between individuals (using phrases like "ideally people wouldn't mind hearing a different language"), not policy.
Yup, the Model 3 uses their new 2170 cells, which are definitely lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide [1]

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/inside-tesla-model-3-2170-lithium-...
Bloomberg isn't a tech blog.
Execute, execute, execute!
Don't forget to turn on the captions/subtitles.
Implementing good testing is not an overhaul of your entire business.
Remember when people were saying that it's crazy to invest in Facebook because there is no way Facebook will ever be profitable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719975

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5145817
Thank you - pretty much what I wanted to hear ;)

Edit: I'm not sure why your answer has been down-voted. I think your general message is highlight your positives rather than their negatives, which sort of seems okay to me. But I'd be interested to hear more opinions from the down voters.
>These VCs and their lawyers are not morons

Of course not, they're smart people trying to finagle exceptions to the regulations to enrich themselves.

>Also, I don't disagree that a ham-fisted SEC regulator could easily argue that Filecoin post-launch is a security

"ham-fisted" meaning properly applying long-established standards to what are clearly, without question, securities. The only people arguing otherwise are the wealthy investors who stand to gain from an alternate ruling.
Uber- 30 years- Travis Kalanick Twiter- 30 years -Jack Dorsey.
So i guess 30 is upper limit.
“We thought the floating pop-up billboard showing you a preview of what’s inside when you glance at a building was a great feature as you walk down times square”

— bad UX designers in 2070
"itself becoming an expert through training"

One issue this runs into: the machine becomes an expert at something that matches what it was exposed to during training. The research on adversarial examples shows that the thing being learned != what the expert learns, frequently to an extreme degree.
Leverage still outperforms fixed interest payments. Rising home prices compound on previous years’ appreciation. Your leverage rides on the back of this compounding. In contrast, your interest payments are fixed on the value of the dollars the year the loan was written.
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There's a lot of white space.
In your example you cite when you get to retirement and have 'nothing', what you should have is a diversified portfolio of investments that would have given you a less risky place to put the money that you haven't put into property.

The best argument I've heard is that one thing owning property does do is focus you on saving towards something in a way that saving towards 'the future' doesn't.