skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good point — this is something we need to address. Our most popular products (browser plugin and iOS app) both have free trials so that people can see how much they like to read with BeeLine. The iOS app actually has very significant free functionality, so if you just want to use it as a reading list (like Pocket/Instapaper) you can do so for free via the Share Extension, which populates an offline reading list.

Things get more complicated, as the browser plugins are subscription ($2/mo or $22/yr) and the iOS app is one-time IAPs (mostly a few bucks, but more for the Kindle feature). I'm not sure how to succinctly communicate this, but you and other commenters make clear that we need to have some info here.

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts!
> Why do we feel the need to hard-code educational paths?

Because we have some idea of what the reliable paths to a stable career are. It's not a perfect understanding, but I'm confident that college is a better default choice than "found a startup."

> If someone coming out of high school would like to pursue a startup idea now and attend university after that, I don't see a problem with that.

Where are these high-school graduates going to get the money for a startup? "Found a startup" is an option chiefly for kids with connections to disposable wealth. Taking on real debt for such foolishness is an even worse idea than loading up on student loans to go to college.
I have been hopeful for this for a long time - it's not so much that I expect it to stop the need for a developer, but rather that it will allow a developer and domain expert to work together more efficiently.

The ideal case, in my mind, is a case where apps can scale. A user needs a simple tool, so they build it in a UX-friendly way, which has limitations but can reach some basic data sources and can do some basic CRUD.

Then, the user starts reaching a point where they need to scale. Then, something like VBA can be written by the user or by some developer, and tied into the UX. Indices can be added to the database, and to a DBA it looks like any other CRUD app. Views and materialized views can be used to add information from other parts of the database.

If there's one difficult part, the system can call a service that has access to the database and can do computing more directly, communicating through a standardized JSON system. (Perhaps something like JSON API.)

Then, the tool starts getting popular, and is straining at the seams. Instead of having to create an entirely new project, the project can be exported using a translation layer to a pure programming language, with tests built automatically. Developers can then take it in any direction necessary.

The biggest problem is that it's hard to progressively scale small apps - every time a small tool created outside IT gets created, it expands until it starts being dangerous - excel anyone? - and then IT is brought in to build a full scale system that solves all the problems. IT then gets angry at the users for creating a useful tool instead of getting dragged out into the funding-design-create-test-bugfix process.

And that's why the No Code sounds so appealing. It's a structural PITA to scratch your own itch.
Research shows that people are really bad at estimating and comparing angles instead of bars.

Don't use pie/circle diagrams.

Sorry I don't have a link to the pieces of research.
But what's to point? You will get a lot of applicants from non-cs backgrounds. Not only will they be unprepared for the job but also most likely very unhappy with their tasks.
Finally if found the CSS files of News.YCombinator.com
Enable js ?, Or if you are logged, must turn it on
OK, I don't understand this.

Forking BTC was one thing, because speculators and miners and all. There was bound to be some interest in a second version of BTC because everyone got free money, right?

But forking filecoin? I don't understand how this works. Please explain. Who would be into this, why would they mine a second filecoin? How does the community survive half a dozen forks (and having to specify which fork your precious.jpg is on?)
Countries that had nothing whatsoever to do with Sykes-Picot or the Middle East also feel compelled to import huge numbers of people, so that is not the most parsimonious explanation, unless you think e.g. contemporary Sweden & Norway are somehow responsible for the actions of the UK & France 100 years ago.
When comparing asset classes, you should consider the returns of the underlying asset class independently, and then compare the potential returns with leverage. And also remember that leverage has a downside

In this example, stocks outperform real estate (not saying this is true, just referencing the article). So for buying a home with a mortgage to be better than buying stocks, the cost of debt must be significantly lower. Which is sort of counter intuitive -- if an asset gets better returns, shouldn't you be able to borrow against it more easily? -- but it may be the case

But the second point -- that leverage has a downside -- can hurt you here. If the distribution of housing returns is a bell curve with expected return equal to inflation, you have just as much chance of leveraging hurting you as helping you. Lots of people lost their homes in the recession, and in a lot of cases leverage made it way worse

So if you believe the numbers in the article, you shouldn't be over-leveraging your home compared to your income, and you should diversify your assets (another benefit of investing in things other than homes)
>> are pressing for a common strategy to handle China’s relentless advance into Europe...

I guess I missed something. When exactly did we decide that China advancing on Europe was a bad thing? Was that before or after the trade deals? Was it before or after every world leader went to china begging for them to invest in western economies? If we are going to have some grand plan to deal with something, we need to first decide whether the thing is good or bad. We haven't done that. Do we want to limit China's spread or not? I have my opinion, but my opinion is not consensus. Before we move to limit China's growth, I want to see the open statement as to why that growth is a bad thing.

At the moment stories like this seems to take for granted that the reader will understand it as some nebulous evil that must be addressed. I worry that that assumption relies upon fears that we dare not express openly. Gut feeling and "smell tests" are too often cover for darker motivations. Few complain about middle eastern or american companies buying up europe. What exactly is so different about China?
This is disappointing from WSJ. Google's data collection is a good story but pulling Facebook in and then devolving into what-about-ism is not. This is toeing the what-about-Google/twitter stance Facebook took in it's release.

> Google gathers more personal data than Facebook does, by almost every measure—so why aren’t we talking about it?

Because one problem at a time. If we are going down this path, how about,

> Many people die of hunger every year more than Facebook, by almost every measure—so why aren’t we talking about it?
I'm sorry, stupid question, but exacly how much power do those big ones generate? 20 times more than what? This actually most crucial tidbit isn't even covered in that article, or am I blind?
If you have enough land for the cow to eat grass (note we are carefully not counting the cost of this land) you can milk the cow by hand: the only equipment needed is what you probably already have in your kitchen anyway, and a few bottles of "cow lotions" (some are cleaners but in any case cheap).

Running a dairy farm with 3000 cows has a lot of economy of scale but that is mostly time. And happy cows - cows much prefer their comfortable barn year round to being outside in the weather.
But why would I want to use Node JS?
Insofar as we have limited options on mobile phones: Currently between a company built around profiting from data collection and a company built around profiting from selling hardware, the latter is the best possible choice.

(Android is mostly a lost cause even if you try and strip Google out of it, and doing so in an even mildly secure fashion is beyond most people's competency. Most other OSes are more or less toys without even basic ability to replace a modern smartphone.)
I once asked Michael how he translated the list of imaginary things beginning with 'N' destroyed by Trurl's machine in the process of making 'nothing.'

His answer: 'I made it up.'
>> "Given the ridiculous amount of investment in the blockchain/cryptocurrency space these past years how long do we have to wait until we see the actual results?"

This kind of thing is obviously extremely hard to say without any sort of accuracy, but my best guess, within a year or two. Specifically, you will start to see scaling solutions finally launch (lightning network, the numerous ETH initiatives, etc.), and you will start to see some dapps gain actual usage or traction (DEXs, collectibles, etc.).

>> "It's a lie. The internet is fundamentally decentralized, the centralization is a relatively new phenomenon that started in the early '00s."

Yes, obviously there is nothing _technically_ stopping the Internet from being decentralized. But I think what you are missing is the incentive structures and the realities. Here is an interesting post from Chris Dixon arguing that what's unique about cryptocurrencies is that they provide an alternative structure that will encourage decentralized protocols to flourish: https://medium.com/@cdixon/why-decentralization-matters-5e3f.... It's not that Twitter can't be coded to be more decentralized without blockchains. It's that in reality, the economic reality is that such a service eventually closes off its API, bait-and-switching users into their walled garden. Like open source software, cryptocurrencies may be a means of aligning people to work towards a different paradigm.
Maybe we could all just agree that AI and ML have their use cases, but they are not necesarily a good fit to any and all computing problems indiscriminately?
This is Terry Pratchett's "Boots theory of wealth", placed in the mouth of Sam Vimes. Rock on.
I really can't even figure out what posessed the writer to put that line in there. It has absolutely nothing to do with the story, and kind of comes out of nowhere.
I was introduced to this phenomenon through Kurzweil's book "How to create a mind". He claims that the brain is massively parallelized pattern recognition machine, with consciousness being a censor that filters results. While in hypnagogia, this censoring function is suppressed and you are able to make "unthinkable" connections between ideas you normally think are unrelated. Of course, you should just take notes of these connections and later evaluate them rationally to see if they have any merit. It's very exciting that technology might be able to prolong and enhance this creative state of mind.
NASA’s new planet finder is in space. Now what?
Isn't the number 80-90% based on electricity price?
This. Being able to work on code that you (or the person sitting next to you) didn't write is fundamental but often ignored in university courses.
That's true when you have more than the ratio between two things. But IMHO just a ratio or percentage is perfectly fine.
GitHub keyboard shortcuts
Why our engineering leaders focus on product over process
I suspect goo.gl sounds too much as a 'validated' Google link. Like the Amazon examples elsewhere in this thread. So users think falsely they can trust these links.

If true its actually surprising they kept the service going this long.
Me too. I absolutely love Objective-C and its syntax. Admittedly it takes some time to get use to and understand, but once you do, its beautiful.
It's just been far too long for me to remember NUMMI that well, but as far as I remember, it was a pretty automated plant. At Tesla, I saw tons of forklifts being driven around manually, occasionally bumping into things, one with a broken piece of pallet stuck under a wheel, people hand-polishing parts, etc. Workers with boomboxes setup in their desk area on the factory floor, fun stuff like that. I don't begrudge them this, as they have tons of space and are building a car company from scratch; it won't be as automated on day or week or even decade 1 as an existing established manufacturer. But when you compare to BMW, where virtually every operation is highly automated, it's quite a change.

Of course, there's also the matter of what the manufacturer is willing to show you (perhaps we didn't visit the forklift floor at BMW!), and also BMW is highly space constrained building cars right in the heart of Munich.
My gripe was always having a terminal not blend in with the editor which makes this nice but vscode essentially does that out of the box for me. Now if I ever need the terminal and I'm not looking to code anything, I just use the native terminal. I can see why some people might like this if they are using sublime, atom, etc other editors that don't have terminal included but that was the only void this somewhat filed. (And yes, you can edit up the native terminal but you still get a different looking top bar).
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Do we need digital signing on every image/video in the news?
Exactly. Apple is also one of the participants in the NSA's PRISM [1] domestic surveillance program. Their participation shows at least some disregard for the privacy of their customers in and of itself, but more tellingly it's also indicative of the NSA's appreciation for the amount and quality of unique and identifiable data that Apple has or can readily obtain on their users.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...
Completely forgot to finish my thought, which is that a few hundred dollars for an emergency beacon is a pretty small deal and I can't imagine UPAC would decline it. They could probably get several.

With the $54.13 per student and an undergraduate population of roughly 46,000 on main campus, UPAC is allocating a budget of nearly $2.5 million per year.

https://www.rei.com/product/843146/ for example. Buoyant, waterproof, and transmits a GPS location (some don't, and are only triangulated to a few km by the receiving satellites). Costs $270.
In 1995, I rented an apartment and kept it for 10 years at about $1000 per month. Total invested: $120,000.

Had I purchased in about 1998 or '99 when I was single, making good money doing hourly contracting, my then-$200K property would have risen to $500K by 1995 (in the area that I was house hunting). By today it would be $700K or more.

I was ill-advised by parents to not buy ("Not a good investment and you don't know where you'll be in five years") and I foolishly listened to them.

Now I own a couple of houses but with a lot of years left on the mortgages. Oh, how I wish I'd listened to my gut instead of lazily putting off purchasing! Today I'd have a positive net worth of probably over $1 million, instead of probably half or one third of that.

To young people in their 20s-30s, I strongly recommend getting some property. Buy the least expensive condo in the best neighborhood you can find, preferably with great schools (whether you have children yet is irrelevant). Live in it a while, then try to buy a standalone house with a bit of land--either trade up or, preferably, hang onto the condo and rent it out. There are cycles in real estate, but over the long haul, prices go up.

The best time to buy a house is 20 years ago. The second best time is today. Words of wisdom that are as true now as they were 50 or 100 years ago.
I said no such thing as you claim in your first sentence.
Haven't read the article because it is behind paywall, but it is not that hard to stay away from Google if you really care for it.

Search - Use DuckDuckGo or startpage.

Use Fastmail or any other email provider that is not Google.

Watch Youtube videos without creating an account and clear out cookies regularly.

Use Vimeo or some other service to host your videos for private use.

Use Google Translate without a Google Account, and make sure you're not logged into a Google account in another tab or even the same browser.

Use Firefox instead of Google Chrome.

Google Adsense - Block ads using adblocker, Ghostery, and if you're up for it, use Adnauseum. Again, make sure to not leave a trace of a Google account in that browser.

Google DNS - Use your carrier's DNS or even better something like Quad9 instead. Keep changing it among the open ones if you dont want a single DNS provider getting all your history.

Android Integrations - Use iPhone :-) But, if you have something against Apple or dont like it, Use as plain Android as possible. Check if you can live without the Play store. Rooting?

GSuite - Use local Office programs with files living in Nextcloud or something.

Google Drive - Use Nextcloud instead.

Google Analytics - Adblock/Ghostery it.

Google AMP - Note sure what you reveal if you can avoid a Google account. Clear out cookies frequently.

The point being, do NOT use a Google account in the browser, clear out cookies as often as reasonable.
This article is classic example of misusing math to make an exact counter point. It ignores the fact that,

- rents always keeps increasing for renter staying at same location

- there are significant tax advantages for high income earners

- people are not usually qualified to make investment decisions that would consistently outperforme real estate

- you build significant credit worthiness

- you get almost 2X or more living space for same or lower expenses

- in hard times, you can sublet extra room typically generating more income than investment dividends

- you get great free public schools, saving tons of money in private schools

- you have a say in how your neighborhood develops and evolves
Definitely not. I can't stand the Swift syntax or how it behaves.
It’s a VM language and therefore “pass by value” and “pass by reference” don’t make sense in this context. But people love to subdivide everything into two groups so have at it, who am I to rain on your party.
I think orthogonal (at least from its usage in math-related contexts) means the two don't have anything to do with each other.
Maybe, but those 1% remaining (thousands of articles) about physics, engineering, and so on are a goldmine if you are stranded without anything else.

It would be dumb no to take it as the complete dump is < 1Tb
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a sort of "Spring Boot" [1] approach for Webpack, whereby a dependency like React (or a "webpack-react-starter") can list the features it needs to have enabled and Webpack can then automatically enable features based on that?

Tooling like this seems a bit backward, in the sense that you're now creating a tool to create configuration for a tool that runs other tools that~~stack overflow

[1] https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/ht...
That's a 9.5MW unit that burned up. I don't like Vestas, they still use a gearbox which is a huge amount of extra complexity.
Also when writing about facebook/cambridge analytica story, you can easily add a few lines about the election, which makes the story more shared, generating more clicks (~engagement), so the story is much more talked about.

If the cambridge analytica story was about selling cars or home appliance, it would have been forgotten in a few days.

Edit: And perhaps it's a good thing that it was about the elections? It would mean that it might force a change on first Facebook, then maybe other internet companies
Sometimes the cause is a loss of employment at a large local employer, and the effect is a drop in the local housing market as former employees try to sell and move to places with a better job outlook.
Report the cause and not the symptoms
Sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_and_oranges
Aliens on 'Super-Earth' Planets May Be Trapped by Gravity
> As I've said numerous times before, saying one language is faster than another is pointless.

Never thought about it this way but you're right. I could very well write an interpreter for C that's slow as molasses and I'd be willing to be that no one will try it and say "C is slow."

It doesn't seem like languages that are already interpreted get that courtesy, though. V8 isn't the only JS engine, after all.
Ish. I left. Also, "very senior"... only among the women in PE. Otherwise, not particularly. I just barely broke into the upper echelons, and that was back in 2015. I couldn't make it past that point.
That in fact is all the things I don't like about Swift. I actually fine its way less expressive than Objective-C.
So do buildings.
Uses weird window decoration, uses a weird type face, doesn't support tabs ...
And hell, it's Electron. I'll stay with the few-kb, vala[C]/gtk elementary terminal.
Your wife is a smart woman. We'd all be better off if we were like her.
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Most of the developing world doesn't have a grid today. Building microgrids powered by small clean energy resources is much cheaper than building a grid. Now this is only true at modest per-capita electricity consumption amounts, but that matches the wealth available in a lot of places.

On a very small scale, that's why you see solar-powered flashlights being so popular in rural areas of the developing world. And my favorite charity (kickstart.org) is currently designing a solar-powered water pump, as a step up from their current human-powered water pumps.
Can you please define doesn’t scale well? I work in this industry, wind farms have gone from <50MW, to 200-300MW to 1.2GW in the last 10yrs, with 1.8-2.4GW in the very near pipeline, all whilst going from huge subsidies to the latest auction (in the Netherlands) being awarded to a zero subsidy bid, with rumour of their being negative auctions for for future rounds...

For reference the new nuclear in the UK (Hinkley 3.2gw) is receiving a £93/mwh subsidy, offshore wind uk project Hornsea two (1.8gw)is going to get £72mwh, and the Netherlands projects are receiving a zero subsidy for ~750mw projects.

It is not going to solve our energy crisis but there are virtually no negatives to building them now, if you have a coastline you can have zero subsidy clean energy in the next 5-10yrs.
> If they don't, I'll be entitled to be a part of any class-action.

I am absolutely shocked to discover that Facebook doesn't have a class action waiver in their terms.
Messages is their second attempt at an SMS app too.
So? If you want a lightweight app, both JavaFX and Electron are bad.
This is the correct goal. But work on reducing the existing underclass is frequently undercut by importing another. Seeking not to make the problem larger, and assessing realistically how fast your solutions are working, seems like a rational course of action.

For example, the best thing that could happen to the US underclass is for unskilled labour to become expensive. If slaughterhouses and gardening firms and nail salons had to all bid for the same supply of local labour, they would bid the price up. But instead these industries are heavily reliant on imported labour. (Their owners will speak of a shortage but, as HN well knows when it's programming jobs, they mean a shortage at the price and docility to which they are accustomed.)
Couldn't have summed it up better
I believe the parent meant that the alternating current creates an electric field which is then absorbed by the water, leading to energy loss. This happens to some extent to all AC transmission, but I don't know enough to say if seawater+AC is a particularly bad combination. It would make sense though, because it's more conductive.

EDIT: brandmeyer's comment explains it well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16903431