skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> production cost is one of the metrics customers use to decide if a price is fair or not

only approximately, and only if the consumer really knows the cost.

Think jewlery (like diamonds), or expensive brand name goods like designer clothing. The production cost for those goods is "low", but the charge is in marketing and status symbol representation (which is modified via marketing).
Oh yeah, "jeune homme". I got that one too. It usually came from people in their late 30s or more and always felt condescending.

And I've heard it said to older people like you did.
Yeah. Chances are your parents were between 20 and 35 when they had you. So when you're 45, your parents are between 65 and 80. You see lots of obits of famous people who passed in that range.

Also you start to hear about people in your own generation who passed early. Distant, if you’re lucky, but close enough that you will hear about it.

And your kids will make you feel old each morning at 5am.
Friendlier with humans, but foxes tend to be destructive with furniture. Is in its nature to recolocate things, tear apart carpets and dig lairs in the sofa.
I am doing initial stone offering in my backyard. Starting in two days, supply is limited so value can only go up, bring your friends so they don't miss opportunity as well!
Atomic process heat is near ideal for water desalination.

Granted, investments in atomic energy eliminates a lot of the need for storage...
This is why us 40 somethings all take up road cycling. Less stress on the body but the gear and exhilaration is still there. MTB is still very tempting but the falls are more frequent.
but how can I run a company if I have no time after my full-time job?
Apple Isn't the First Stock to Take a Shot at $1 Trillion
> if you need them for your career.

if you need 'em for your career, then make the person providing your career pay for it.

if you're self-employed, then use an open alternative.
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Are you comparing a $100k Tesla to a $100k GM car?
Next idea is to have the government exert more control on the health care providers; their rates are many times higher than that of e.g. Canada, for example. Why is that? Because they get away with it. That's the other problem to tackle.

There's plenty of money to make it happen, it just has to be taken from the 60% of the total budget currently being spent on the military - military which doesn't help the country itself at the moment.
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I would disagree with point 8. I tend to go for superficial friendships over close ones (by choice), and it works out to be a better deal. One thing is that you get a lot more diverse set of friends when you are not going that deep. Secondly, deep friendships kind of lock you in, and I do not like that. Thirdly, having a large set of friends, exposes you to more interesting opportunities and new friends that having a few close friends doesn't. Moreover, a lot of pathologies like jealousies etc don't show up with casual friends. They often come up in ugly ways with close ones.
Setting up an iPad for coding is my greatest feat as a computer user
Do you expect a Ford from 15+ years ago to perform like a car built today that costs 3x as much?
That's a good point. Closing the loop probably did more for the advancement of space travel than anything else because it allows you to find out what almost failed.
The stackful coroutine route is ideal on paper, but in practice it tends to perform poorly if you retrofit existing code -- because quite often, that existing code depends on blocking i/o or relatively long computations; e.g. opening a file, reading data from a database, or waiting for a TCP connection on the other side of the world to yield data.

It is, of course, possible to wrap all of them in a stackful coroutine interface - but that is no longer "retrofitting existing code without change". My impression is that the cumulative experience is to go either with event driven (in C / C++ / Python) or Stackless (in Python / JavaScript) or threaded (in Java), but stackful coroutines very rarely deliver on their promise.
try searching for football (soccer) articles
Free-speech warriors mistake student protest for censorship
Everything Elon says or does is "refreshing" around here.

The contractor situation is so out of control at Tesla that they have to do an absurd mass-firing and people describe that as "refreshing". Literally friends and peers have to justify their jobs or hit the streets. We are officially in bizarro world.

What happened to being the global leader in auto manufacturing efficiency?
But this could help against reckless and irresponsible people.
Just realised 'viral meme' is a redundant phrase.
It's ok facts don't matter
VNF Performance Benchmarking and Analysis and Common Information Models (CIM)
> I find stackful coroutines (ie, Go, Rust, Python Async, etc.) quite useful,they don't behave differently to normal functions

Python Async is "stackless coroutine", not "stackful" according to the taxonomy given by GP. They also behave quite differently from normal functions.
How Amazon Plans to Dominate the Private Label Market
Ask HN: How do you organise your notes?
As per the title, are you still maintaining paper notes OR is there a better digital way of doing it ?

I have been experimenting with OneNote and seems to be working. (I can search hand written notes)

But just asking here in case there may be a better way ?
I wonder the same. Related to this, I also often wonder if there is such a thing as a completely "sane" person. Pick anyone you know well, think of their peculiar habits and sayings, and reflect on whether a "sane" person would be like that.
That's the crooked part about the US retirement system, as far as I could gather it.

On my side of the pond, your employer deposits an X amount per month / paycheck into your retirement fund. That fund will play with it, invest it to get interest and make sure it keeps its value over time despite inflation.

When you quit your job, that retirement fund will continue to manage your money. When you get a new job, either the fund continues or it's done in another pension fund - you are given the option to either have what's in the old fund paid out, or transferred to your new one.

When you are fired before your retirement, no worries - the retirement fund is yours, not your employer's.

And TBF everyone should fight for that. There's nobody that will hire anyone until they retire anymore. US employment laws are too lax to enforce that. And if your retirement is directly linked to you having a job at age 65 or whatever the age is, you'll get fucked over one way or another.
I just took that image (which is 3300 x 2200), resized it to 50% and got 1.05 MiB, instead of 5.85. Threw it through JPEGMini (a paid product, mind you) and got 729 KiB.

Guetzli is nice, but it's slow as balls. JPEGMini is a decent alternative. (I'm a happy customer of JPEGMini, BTW. No other affiliations.)
A hacker's review of DJI Spark quadcopter drone
I honestly thought Sublime Text went to join Textmate in the editor afterlife.
> A government in its own currency can never go bankrupt.

Argentina defaults about once a decade.

I wonder what would move you to make such an obviously false statement.
This is about setting a standard, if the most sensitive persons set the standard we are all in troubles (and the other way around)

The standard should be assertiveness.
Is it just me, or the link is actually dead ?

Edit: I'm sorry, it's fine.
When you see how much people in the tech industry are earning in their 20's, or that there are some people that become millionaires / billionaires before their 30's, you start thinking differently about your future. Why wait until you're a senior citizen to do what you've always wanted? Working your ass off for 10-15 years and still able to do it, then retiring for the rest of your life to do the fun things sounds like an idea.

Okay, it's not for me either, but I wouldn't mind the ability to choose to work, instead of depend on it. Take some time off from time to time to work on private projects, take long vacations, that kinda thing.
What are you using? I've always felt that Sublime Text has had a pretty decent update schedule. I like it myself, but if there are any better editors out there (besides the usual Vim, Emacs, Nano, &c...), I'd definitely appreciate a recommendation : )
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I had a few problems with people not getting the double-suffix on my domain "steve.org.uk", but I think that problem has disappeared over the past few years.

Since moving to Finland I checked on steve.fi, on a whim, and saw that it was due to expire in a couple of months, so I registered that when it became available and now prefer it.

I have a few org,net,com,io domains, but I'd probably avoid any of the smaller ones - partly due to potential cost-hikes in the future, and partly because some of the smaller TLDs seem less reliable.
My concern is that we are experimenting with a precious and unique system.
With the wealth of high quality and extremely portable code editors out there I never understood how one could justify using a proprietary closed source editor. Want to code on NetBSD? Woops. Oh the devs moved on and do not offer support anymore, nor will they publish the source? Well better trash 10 years of scripts and muscle memory and move on to something else then. Or maybe you'd just like to be able to fork it to tweak something?

Closed source IDEs I sort of understand because they're generally tied to a certain environment and can offer functionality not easily emulated in open source offerings. For simple code editors I really don't see the point though, especially since the feature list doesn't seem to offer anything significant that's not already available (sometimes for decades) in open source alternatives. What am I missing?
I use this for making notes while working on multiple projects.
https://github.com/int3rlop3r/jot
> If there was a way to pay, say $20 per month, and have a set of credits that I could redeem at Washington Post, The Economist, New York Times, Bloomberg, etc, on a per-article basis

i think this model doesn't work (but i'm willing to be pleasantly surprised). Imagine you read 10 articles a day, 30 days a month. That's 300 articles - that's about 6.6 cents an article, spread across many different organizations.

Those articles will need a readership in the 10,000's per article for any sort of return on investment with those sort of prices. Granted, a high quality article is going to be able to reach that, but there's limited time per person to read, and that 10 articles per day read is on the high end - most people read much less than that.
Or look into other options, such as building taller or re-furbishing and expanding the existing building to meet their needs instead of tearing it down to rebuild.
Unfortunately I've moved on, took far too long for this to come out
These are some great improvements and I'm glad to see features being released more often now.
Is that in Aussie mate?
I loved Bogotá, it's the largest city I've ever spent time in but it didn't feel at all like that. At the time it wasn't the safest place to be in, it should be much better today.
If you're going to cite anything, cite the original letter, which was featured in a relatively high impact journal: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/6/10/4472

I've not had time to review it yet.
Waymo involved in Chandler crash
Link works for me.
Polaroid Originals were originally called 'The Impossible Project' and was a kickstarter campaign based around recreating the original Polaroid Instant film.

It ended up being so successful, that they managed to acquire the brand name and IP of Polaroids Instant Camera technology.

I'd link to a source, but it seems that https://www.impossible-project.com now just redirects to Polaroid Originals.
I paid for Sublime Text, but started using VS Code, and haven't looked back since.
VS Code is what most people have moved on to in my experience
macOS is no better. It's getting worse too, High Sierra has been a clusterfuck all around.
Ask HN: What is the best Linux Laptop for 2018?
What is the best laptop for Linux in 2018?
If you like youtube-dl you should have a look at https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix !! (:
I may go there to view a video, but that does not mean i want it to start playing the moment the page starts loading.
Ligature support looks nice. What are some good programming fonts that provide good ligatures?
How to make replication the norm
Glad that they have a lot of HiDPI fixes, but it still unusable on linux... [0]

[0]: https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/2028
> data takeout APIs

the data will be useless other than as a source of information. If you have data for an online vector editor, the vector data can be legally taken out via a common format (such as json), but there'll be no importers for this shape of data.

Any business can easily construe a common machine readable format that's also completely custom, and unimportable anywhere else, to satisfy the letter of the law.
How to Become a React Native Developer
I wail.

The simple narrative these days is the blank & white story of two camps, waterfall and Agile.

Seemingly anything which isn't 100% waterfall is "Agile".

This is lousy because those aren't even two ends of a single spectrum.

Let's take this paragraph:

> Agile uses six main deliverables to create the product and to track progress. They are the product vision statement, the product roadmap, the product backlog, the release plan, the Sprint backlog, and Increment. It also uses visual tools such as a Kanban board and a burndown chart to help with the progress tracking and to keep within deadlines.

Boehm's spiral model and Martin's RAD approach both predate Agile. They are definitely not waterfall.

By the above definition, they are not Agile, because they don't have those six main deliverables.

If they are not waterfall and not Agile, then what are they?

I expect that many will correctly point out that Agile is a further iteration of those earlier models, adding new best practices.

But then I'll point out the earlier paragraph:

> Emerging from the values and principles of the Agile Manifesto, it was created as a response to the shortfalls of the Waterfall method. Developers realized they needed something different to the linear, sequential approach of the traditional methods of Waterfall in order to keep up with the improving and innovative culture of the constantly-developing software industry.

My wailing is because the term "Agile" obscures the much longer history of "rapid application development" doing exactly the same thing. Quoting now from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_application_development

> Rapid application development was a response to plan-driven waterfall processes, developed in the 1970s and 1980s, such as the Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method (SSADM).

I'll end with some questions rather than this more personal tilting at windmills.

Is CPython development Agile or Waterfall?

Is PyPy development Agile or Waterfall?

If they are both Agile, does it make sense to have some way to distinguish between their quite different development approaches?
I have an older close friend who, after a college reunion, said to me, “Some people stayed the same age they were when they graduated, some people stopped at 40, some people just kept growing.”

I’m not 100% sure what he meant by that, but I find that every few months the way I see the world almost completely changes. I’m more accepting, calmer, less inclined to get into heated debates over opinions, when people exhibit “crazy” behavior I actually kind of understand where they’re coming from. I hope that’s growth, and I hope that never stops.

But yeah, I’m 32 now, and I’m like damn some people are raising children at this age now. My uncle was in his early 30s when he adopted me and we fought a lot. Now I get it, because at this point in my life I feel like I couldn’t possibly raise a child with wisdom and assertiveness and patience.
Well...and the West has gold backing (a part of) its currencies that is also too heavy to move.
youtube-dl, get_iplayer.

I used to enjoy "orpheus", and MP3 player. That's ncurses, which I think counts. http://thekonst.net/orpheus
> what the market will bear defines prices.

only if there's no competition, or there are substantial barriers to entry (such as regulation).
The common strategies are delta heding, gamma hedging and gamma scalping for market neutral trades.
Yes, exactly that and the reason I turned to the guitar after turning 50. I'm hoping it will help to keep my heart young, without the added physical risks!
Analysis vs Algebra predicts eating corn? (2010)
jq - amazingly useful for processing JSON
https://www.xkcd.com/1070/
I actually have the opposite reaction. I'm 31, in Portugal, and I get mildly annoyed when people call me "jovem" rather than "senhor". And I get super annoyed when they use "tu" (happens mostly in bars).
We look down mainstream economists (macro) because their level of knowledge is more similar to alchemy than to physics, and because they never change their theories never mind what happens in the real world.

For instance (and there are more examples), here(1) is an explanation of how commercial bank loan funds. This explanation comes from the Bank of England, who, I suppose, know a few things about the subject. This explanation, of how reality works, have nothing to do with what a mainstream macroeconomics book explain. How is that possible?

Can you find some physics book that explain something that the engineers say it's not true?

My personal opinion is that, at the end of the day, the problem is that economics is a political subject. Maybe the only political subject that matters, because it's about who does the work and who keep the results. So, it's not incompetence what we are dealing here, but too many different interests trying to control the narrative.

(1). https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2015/banks-are...
I switched from Sublime Text to Visual Studio Code[1]. It doesn’t feel as snappy as Sublime Text but the features and extensions make up for it.

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com
Because as software developer I want the developers of my tools to be able to pay for their needs, just like I want my customers to pay for my software.

And no one can pay a mortgage or their kids school just from donations.
When developers don't want to pay for their tools that is usually what happens.
what's not nonsense is to view humans as rational beings, and the free market as the perfect system.

What it says is that economists should include more psychology and less mathematics in their theories.
Treating workers fairly at Rent the Runway
How the University of New Hampshire spun blowing a frugal librarian's donation
Most places are rather prudent about that stuff.

In Indiana, for example, you don't have to upgrade the electrical system if you are adding insulation, replacing windows, or replacing the roof.

You may or may not need to upgrade your electric to replace a plug, mostly because some older systems aren't grounded. It is possible to rewire a single room without upgrading the entire house.

You don't need to upgrade the plumbing while you upgrade the electrical, just like you don't need to upgrade the electrical if you are treating the asbestos (a problem my parents had with an old house built in 1918). Most times, whatever you are fixing needs to be up to code but not everything. If it weren't reasonable, it wouldn't be prudent to buy an old house without detailed upkeep and upgrade records.
Pasting into a terminal is interpreted literally, meaning an attacker can hide ;sudo do $really_evil_thing; in innocent looking, pasteable HTML with CSS trickery

TBH the fact that you can't tell what the fuck you are selecting in a web browser, is more of a UX bug of web browser than a problem with user behaviour or with applications receiving stuff from browsers.

That we are addressing this bug in terms of user education and workarounds in terminal emulators mostly says that we, as a community, have given up on web browsers ever making sense.
Closed source projects tend to be more stable.

Not in the literal doesn't crash sense, but in the sense that they're less likely to be distracted by flavour-of-the-month features and have a consistent vision of what they want from an editor.

I've been using sublime for many years and I've never had to re-learn what I'm doing.
You should learn more about science. Things like experiments and randomized trials make a big difference.
Are you really dissing the tremendous efforts put forward by the Sublime Text developer?

Editors such as Visual Studio Code have largely caught up feature wise yet ST still represents something rather unique as a super fast, easily customisable and aesthetically pleasing text editor, with multi selection editing, fuzzy search command lookups and json configs - for a long time it was heads and shoulders above most others.

Now others have copied ST's main innovations, but it doesn't change the fact that Skinner got there first.

I went from Textpad straight to ST, skipping Eclipse etc as being too slow and ungainly. These days I use Visual Studio 2017 for Resharper and NCrunch, but I've still defined a macro to open for editing in ST when I just want a lot of changes done.
I can understand where this is coming from tbf, I used to be the same. I was lucky though, with life and experience and such, the social interaction side became more natural and fluent, and getting interrupted by whatever reason doesn't produce the same response anymore.

Mind you, what I do that requires focus isn't the most exciting or difficult thing anymore either, so that might also be a factor.

Third, I work in much less dickish environment. Nobody will come up at you and start yelling, that's just unprofessional. With that in mind, I don't know what I'd do if that were to happen. Depends on the situation / reason / person / etc.
I'm happy to see that many people here already suggested that this behaviour is NOT PREDICTABLE. In my view thats a must for any device or tool, including software/computers.
> what's not nonsense is to view humans as rational beings, and the free market as the perfect system.

> What it says is that economists should include more psychology and less mathematics in their theories.

Those are some really groundbreaking ideas, I can't believe no one has thought of that before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics
Just goes to show that its way easier to change technology than culture. Even Congresscritters are still thinking they're calling the shots. If NASA doesn't want to use SpaceX, they're free to do so. They can go with Boeing (some of the very people pointing fingers) or the Russians.

The "culture of safety" at NASA had more to do with a "culture of protecting funding lines" by ensuring that parts of the shuttle were done in important congressional districts.
If it's a one-off, why is there a huge battle plan / mental preparation thing being laid out?
- grow more vegetables and fruits nearby (lots of unused space)

eat them

- gather local material as much as possible

use them with creativity (see the wood based buildings for instance)

I don't accept the "world status" anymore
It already is abused. I don't know anyone who used "Direct carrier billing" on-purpose, it is only used by scammers.
Could you give an example of a flavour-of-the-month feature in code editors?
You can reuse your muscle memory from the early seventies if you Emacs or Vim.