skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience in San Francisco (before all the scooters were taken off the streets last weekend), going ~3 miles on a scooter was much easier, more practical, and more fun than I expected. (And affordable.) I agree that 0.7m is right on the edge of whether it's worth walking versus grabbing a scooter. But 3 miles is a nice sweet spot. ~20 minutes on the scooter. ~25 minutes on the bus. ~50 minutes walking. Scooter and bus are about the same cost. And our hills make part of almost any 3 mile walk a pretty strenuous activity.
The designing for load following does not directly cost that much more, but it quickly pushes up average kWh costs through the roof while adding a lot of thermal stress.
I don't know about you, but I prefer to not to reply to concern-trolling posts - just ignore stevievee.
Hey I saw on TV that they "re-established" themselves in 2018. Seems legit. /s
Easy: web components have not implemented a single part of the original promise [1].

It's not Web Components that are happening, it's the dozens of frameworks required to make them work that are happening.

Even mixpanel's library "does so by providing an easy-to-use state management and rendering layer built on Virtual DOM (the basis of the core rendering technology of React). Through use of the Snabbdom Virtual DOM library and first-class support for multiple templating formats" [2]

Web Components are a very low-level extremely limited crummy DOM-based API that no one in their right mind wants to use. They are not happening.

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[1] https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/web-components-an...

[2] https://github.com/mixpanel/panel
None of that equals "having control of the web".

> What if web becomes a walled garden ?

That, again, doesn't even make sense.

A walled garden isn't "you need to pay to access my content". A walled garden is "you can only access my content".

Apple is a walled garden. Facebook is a walled garden. The web, by definition, isn't a walled garden.

And that's why Apple and Facebook kinda hate the web.
Vice was a print skateboard magazine before its current incarnation.
The trouble is that talk therapy is already too expensive for most patients, and unless you plan to have people tripping with a therapist who is a complete stranger (not advised!) you're going to need to charge for some preliminary sessions. If a typical therapist charges $100 per hour -- and that's optimistic, in fact I've never paid less than $125 -- then the cost of treatment quickly runs into four figures.

That's already more expensive than a year on SSRIs, as crazy as that might sound. Human interaction is shockingly expensive.
Hmm yeah, shadowban this account then I won't post anymore, at all. I'd be really grateful, too.
Tanenbaum is criticising Linux for not being designed for portability - yet it was ported to DEC Alpha and SUN Sparc (a RISC processor) already in 1995. And (almost) all these smartphone RISC CPUs are indeed running a Linux kernel today.

As someone else remarked, this is a pretty clean-cut showcase of the friction between computer science and computer engineering. Tanenbaum is theoretically right, but Linus built a platform that powered a revolution.
No one considers Elon Musks Twitter to be unbiased, real news. Stop trolling with false dichotomies.
1.4 What sort of problems is Erlang not particularly suitable for?

"Most (all?) large systems developed using Erlang make heavy use of C for low-level code, leaving Erlang to manage the parts which tend to be complex in other languages, like controlling systems spread across several machines and implementing complex protocol logic."
There was AlterNIC, it didn’t have a lot of success.
the Saturn V developed by Boeing/NAA/Douglas in the 1960s could hurl three times as much weight to the moon as the Falcon Heavy

True. At more than an order of magnitude higher cost.
I’m from the home town of Home Depot and never seen the AC guy or Tesla guy. The only place I’ve seen what you describe is in Costco?

Where are these people positioned in Home Depot to make it effective? Costco’s one entrance and one exit make it ideal for this kind of badgering.
Then factor that in as well. The divide between $60K/25% and $40K/5% will still be substantial.
For namecoin, the blockchain doesn’t need to be involved with grabbing the data, just creating a public record of intent.

Right now, accurate propagation of settings throughout DNS kind of assumes a lot. I don’t think Namecoin captures incentives properly either, but I can imagine some blochchain system connecting the dots.
If there's no moat, there's no reason to challenge the current companies until it's proven that profit is possible.
> and Linux provided that home on the best dollar-for-dollar processors on the planet.

FreeBSD was very competitive. They both were launched around the same time, first version of Linux released in 1991, 386BSD in 1992. They share a lot of features, i386 target, posix compatibility. BSD pioneered some very important technologies, kqueue (epoll was couple years later in Linux), jail (docker was a decade later), etc.

I still don’t understand why everyone uses Linux now, but BSD only stayed in very niche markets.
If we could read the coordinates of any physical object to infinite precision, we could only influence the higher digits by moving the object very carefully, beyond the digits which we have some influence over, the infinite tail of the real numbers digits must be completely random.
New Mac App Store Is Huge Opportunity for Devs, Companies
Morality =/= Quality.

Working for a company that produces bad products is way better than a company whose product prey on the weak.
My favorites are the ones that never knew Google Reader existed, but use it as a martyr every chance they get.

>My fear is this -- once Google has control of the web, they can turn off huge parts of it for whatever reason, however thoughtless, and without disclosing why.

This person has either been watching too many movies that depict the web as a place where IP's can be traced by writing Visual Basic GUI's or doesn't understand how the Internet works.
Peaker plants are now more [1] expensive than solar+battery storage. And battery storage that without solar (ie, soaking up night time base-load) are even cheaper.

[1] https://electrek.co/2017/12/13/solar-batteries-to-take-10gw-...
Isn't this the guy that got a bone-on about https ranking higher on Google Search?

Edit: Yes, yes it is http://scripting.com/2014/08/08/myBlogDoesntNeedHttps.html
The Science of Consciousness Conference – Has Consciousness Lost Its Mind?
And - Musk said something about allowing them to move to other groups.
mine the miners
> No. Some of it is just rude.

If you make it your point to intentionally ignore context and cherry-pick the hell out of the man's decades-long archive of public emails... Well, I guess you can find something that twiddles your feelings.

But, again, you need to ignore the context, his work, his achievements, and everything he built, helped build, and continuously work on building.

But hey, let's focus on your feelings.
Hi lazypenguin -- in case you're still interested in Python 3 support on App Engine -- we're working on it. If you'd like to be included in a private alpha test, please complete this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLXViTUmtY6Ed_Gm9H...
Sorry to hear that, man. You going to be alright?
Imagine submitting that and everyone will be talking about a different article.
Ask HN: Best books on meeting new people
As a programmer, it's easy to hide behind a computer. Just wondering what books other people in the industry have read about forming new relationships, making new friends, etc.
Just started using Vue.js and the components approach makes a lot of sense. Web Components is a not-quite-ready pure JS approach? Vue, polymer, react native... I feel confused every time I read "Web Components" because it means something different depending on context.
It is failing for me because of the content security policy, which is a different thing.
I'm not getting your point. The thing about global trends is that they are global, which means that they'll apply to all of the large cities. Some large cities might have other trends that might hide the signal, like falling into the ocean, but the point is the global mass migration.
The main dashboard for planning work and increasing productivity-iSmartLife demo
Then I'm sure you'll have no problem finding people willing to pay to subscribe to your content.

Take a look at the finances of content providers over the past 20 years. How many publishers, newspapers, studios, etc. shut down? Why do you think that is?
i use stenciljs web component compiler. it is not a framework... it is great as it lets you do things without having to worry about browser support.
There hasn't really been any big changes in 3d modelling software for decades now (the video in the link shows tools available in blender, zbrush, sculptris etc). The only thing left to fight over is the user interface; the more streamlined the process, the quicker you can go from idea in your head to something resembling it on screen.

Most people swear on Blender because that's what they started with, others like 3ds Max,or Maya, or Mudbox, and so on. Again it all comes down to how efficient the tool makes the whole process.
Insight timer may not be as good but it does have a free option. After following a meditation course I find it plenty good enough.
> in expectation earn at least the same as they would at a public company

No, it should be multiples. Otherwise why is the employee taking on that risk?
The submitted article is from Electrek, which is a Tesla-friendly blog.

In the actual email, Musk says this:

> As part of this effort, and the need to reduce costs and become profitable, we have made the difficult decision to let go of approximately 9% of our colleagues across the company

How is that not related to “financial trouble”?
> Tanenbaum reminds me of those "smart people" Art Williams was talking about in his 1987 "Just Do It" speech. Good to learn of another example of "more smart" not being "more successful".

There is essentially no definition of "unsuccessful" that applies to Andrew Tanenbaum's career. He spent the last few decades doing the sorts of things you'd expect a CS professor to do, and he did them really well. He conducted research projects, graduated PhDs, and the CS textbooks he authored are almost all extremely good.
acting as if you actually give a... promote... our startup.
This is hilarious because i'm seeing Moodle installations around the UK that are 4 years old with no patches.

My partner works in higher education and they give her blank stares when she mentions how out of date they are. It's a culmination of "Not my problem" and "It works so why fix it?"
I read through most of the paper we are all nominally talking about. He doesn't use normal numbers as you say. He is talking about computable numbers as you say. My apologies.

But a normal number has "random" digits in the sense that all finite sequences of digits (in a given base) occurs uniformly in the expansion. What other notion of random can one meaningfully give for an expansion of a number's digits? Without getting into too much philosophy.

From [1]: We call a real number b-normal if, qualitatively speaking, its base-b digits are “truly
random.

My expertise is in commutative algebra so I'm outside of my comfort zone.

[1]: https://www.davidhbailey.com/dhbpapers/bcnormal.pdf
Strongman also provides a fun mix (high strength demands, but with cardio). Eg Húsafell / shield carries, frame carries, farmers, farmer medleys, etc. A 400lb pick isn't much, but carry it 300 feet and oof.
Oh for sure.
China is currently 2% nuclear - the same ballpark that leads people in this discussion to poo-poo solar as miniscule and irrelevant.

I'd bet real money that the US reaches 6% solar/wind long before China reaches its target of 6% nuclear.
(PM on the team) To be able to deliver Node.js on App Engine Standard, we had to develop an entirely new sandbox environment. You can learn more about it by watching this I/O talk (starting at 15min): https://youtu.be/ogexnfng_hE?t=14m48s
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In most of these cases, they're not working on it full time. Their company uses an open source project as part of something else, and the developer fixes bugs or adds features as the company needs those changes.

There's a much smaller contingent where the open source project is the core of a closed-source project (e.g. Red Hat employees contributing to the Linux kernel or Fedora) or where a company runs an open source project and charges for support contracts (e.g. MongoDB).
Perhaps you should be making plans to be multiplatformable now?
Africa’s most famous trees are dying, and scientists suspect a changing climate
> This makes it reasonable to mix scooters with pedestrian traffic provided that the sidewalk is wide enough.

Respectfully, please no no no no no. People were riding scooters on the sidewalk all over San Francisco and it definitely did not feel safe to be a pedestrian. In my opinion (no data, just individual experience), no city that I've ever visited has typical sidewalks that are wide enough to mix walking traffic with ~10mph, not very maneuverable, wheeled vehicles.
They also are rolling out an ASIC competitor to Google TPU. Bitmain is poised to be be the Nvidia of the custom compute world.
If it was purely civil, I would have said that. It's not.
you should probably start using zalando/patroni on a k8s cluster. and scale the db in k8s and maybe use a lb on the outside of k8s with ingress/lb. it's way simplier than repmgr, etc.
As of the end of April 2018, we've had 400 consecutive months where the world's temperature was hotter than average for that month, yet a whole lot of politician say that's just due to random variation.

I bet they could take a long run of heads in stride without thinking that maybe they have a biased coin.
This complaint of software eating up all the gains made by hardware has been noted since the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

Which is to say there's not going to be any sort of "victory" industry-wide here. Still, ranting is fun. My favorite recent-ish writing is linked from https://twitter.com/CarloPescio/status/903603552890834947 Programming as if the Domain (and Performance) Mattered

You can learn new things by keeping up with rants too. The best algorithm depends not only on the broad architecture but even the microarchitecture. Newer generations of Intel CPUs for instance throw many older optimizations out the window, but you'll still get the occasional suggestions for those optimizations from people who haven't kept up to date.

I'm not sure Ruby counts as a dynamic language du jour given how old it is, but I wish more dynamic languages followed the Lisp tradition instead of the interpreted Basic tradition, especially with capabilities that let you optimize dynamically as needed.

* (defun add-opt (x y)
(declare (optimize (speed 3) (space 3) (safety 0) (debug 0)) ; not all these matter in this example, just showing options
(type fixnum x y))
(the fixnum (+ x y)))

ADD-OPT
* (disassemble 'add-opt)

; disassembly for ADD-OPT
; Size: 9 bytes
; 02D0C2FF: 4801FA ADD RDX, RDI ; no-arg-parsing entry point
; 302: 488BE5 MOV RSP, RBP
; 305: F8 CLC
; 306: 5D POP RBP
; 307: C3 RET
> It's also possible that they're just selling the BTC as they go and hoping for a short payback period

Sequoia's China team is has more bankers than Sequoia's U.S. team. The investment may have been made with cash-yielding convertible debt.
I could understand them wanting to mark their differences from Serbia, but Bulgaria was the reference point for the emergence of Macedonian nationalism when the Ottomans were pushed out. Do you have references for such anti-Bulgarian sentiment?
"d͡ʒoʊ".
Apple Books, all new for iPhone and iPad, celebrates reading
Unfortunately, even in rural areas you must convince the local government to bless your proposed property development. This puts the brakes on many ideas in the embryonic stage.
Achieving an order of magnitude cost reduction for proven technology is impressive, even given the intervening half century of progress. But similar achievements are routinely made in other industries. It doesn’t justify the breathless fanboyism Space X engenders.
If you are hitting the paywall, the same article can be found here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/msn/africa’s-most-famous-tree...
Does it matter? That's missing the forest for the trees a bit, isn't it?
I guess we see things differently.

Contractors are not some naturally occurring mineral, a side effect of some budget. They are companies, people. At present, they are companies comfortably using their existing operations to keep doing what they've been doing since the 70s. I think that it matters who that company is, what their future strategy is. It matters that they care about reusability, creating technology that scales to larger missions... basically, people matter.

In any case, I don't think you can compare Nissan to Tesla. You can always reduce things to parity along some metric, but in this case I just don't think 2018 sales volume is most of the story.

Thanks for the answer though.
> rather program in Node than JS

Node is JS, of course (with a different standard library). Did you perhaps mean to compare Node to python or something?
Well if a father wants to have unassailable parental rights over his children, he still ought to be married. If he's okay being beholden to the mother's whims, then there's no need for marriage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

Ten years, man...
"God (sic) created the integers, the rest, was left to people."

Can't remember.

"If it cannot be done with integers, it cannot be done"

Von Neumann
I was thinking Feaux or Phở
I have been to Northern Greece. I have friends from Macedonia. This is the stupidest international dispute I think our reality can support.
Blockchain Based Voting Platforms Face a Familiar Problem--Getting Out the Vote
I'm not sure I trust the state any more than any other website wrt archival. "Be done with it" if you mean the legislation sure...but the implementation is where the fear lies, there is no "be done with it", it's now just another interminably maintained government resource. Maybe there's a middle ground or what will likely occur is there will be a clearing house middleman that will solve challenges of uploading to each government's mandated site if this approach becomes more pervasive.
Africa's Oldest Trees Are Dying, and Scientists Are Stumped
>"I have an illness on the schizophrenia spectrum that works in a way requiring me to thoroughly examine fundamental aspects of reality. It is utterly exhausting."

Being forced to do anything will be exhausting, it is totally different from having the ability to do so if you so choose.
Maybe they can't get OTA updates?
The lib "does so by providing an easy-to-use state management and rendering layer built on Virtual DOM (the basis of the core rendering technology of React). Through use of the Snabbdom Virtual DOM library and first-class support for multiple templating formats".

How is this "making web components work" any different from making DOM work via snabbdom or React?
Isn't this entire site dedicated to discussing things 'nobody' has heard about?
Go type assertions are quite safe on the other hand, unlike C type casts. The only thing generics will do is to avoid that extra assertion step and the bit of overhead that's involved in that. You could argue wether it will actually increase readability of your code.
Nuclear construction is great for energy supply throughput, terrible for latency.

Today its far easier to mass produce and scale. Modern reactors are better design for this.

This is not supported empirically. France's Generation III reactor design, the EPR, is proving slower to build than Generation II reactors in the 1970s. The first French EPR, Flamanville 3, is currently on month 102 of construction, when it was originally supposed to be complete after 54 months.

The two Generation III AP1000 reactors under construction in the USA are now expected to be completed in 2021 and 2022 after 9 years of construction. They were originally supposed to be completed in 2016 and 2017. Two others were cancelled after years and billions of dollars were spent because they could not meet schedules.

Note that EPR and AP1000 reactors are also under construction in China and they are years late there too. These dreadful mis-estimates can't be laid solely on Western laws or environmental activists.

Before construction actually started on EPR and AP1000 reactors in the West, project boosters were claiming that Generation III reactors would be safer, have predictable construction schedules, and be affordable. None of those boasts have been affirmed yet. Nuclear boosters sometimes excuse this with "the first of a kind is always slow." But then talk of "fast" nuclear construction is even less realistic. It takes a decade to build the first of a kind. Then if the debugged construction process gets down to a brisk 4.5 years per reactor, like China has managed, it's about 15 years before you see any kind of fast decarbonization progress from a commitment to build a new generation of nuclear reactors.

I think that the US should keep reactor construction alive so that the know-how isn't entirely lost again, and certainly should not shut down already-built reactors that are still in good working order. But that still wouldn't be a fast fix for cutting emissions.
You think "financial trouble" in this case because there is plenty of it. Tesla is a company with 6 months to either get cash or become insolvent.

Elon Musk is an amazing innovator and amazing PR guy. Few people can turn an idea into reality as well. But... he's running a high risk business whose rich valuation can go poof at any time. Because his personal name is inseparable from the firm, he's going to get heat for it.

The financial press has an obligation to talk about this stuff. Investors deserve to be informed.
I remember the first time I saw a Vice magazine, back in Vancouver just sitting on the ground in a pile right past the Burrard Street Bridge.

Best media magazine then now an empire.

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> This goes to show that fundamental research in biochemistry is still needed and we are nowhere near having "cracked the code", genomics notwithstanding.

Personalized medicine is the future. You will find medication that is tweaked slightly at the molecular level to optimize therapeutic effects for the individual as opposed to a population of individuals.
Do you just take cars that haven't been driven in a week? Why would a scooter be any different?
Or Ge?
Are there three other "Massachusetts"-named states bordering the current Massachusetts? [edit] Maine is not called "North Massachusetts".

As for your belief that European borders are unrelated to ethnic/cultural distinctions, do you know much about Europe? [edit: blocked from replying] Were there truly no pre-19th century differences between the peoples and cultures in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia? and no-pre 19th century differences between the languages and cultures of France, Spain, and Italy? [edit2] yes, being unable to quickly "reply" makes it difficult to converse in HN :-). [edit3] France is named after the Franks. Sweden (Sverige) after the Svea people. Finland/Suomi after the Finns. Russia after the Rus. Etc. Each of these has an ethnic, linguistic, and cultural core predating the 19th-century nation states.