skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My strategy has always been to just plan on refilling around a half tank, and at that point I just fill up the next time I'm near one of the gas stations that I know to have cheap gas. Gives me a little cushion if it's a holiday weekend or something (which always have higher prices) and I avoid driving way out of my way just to save $0.10 per gallon for gas. If it's real insane, you put $10 in the tank to hold you over until prices drop or you can get somewhere cheaper.

Thought that was how most people did it, but I guess my gasoline-investment strategies may not be as savvy as I thought. Gotta pump up those numbers! /s

(it's a bad idea anyway to drive on less than half a tank - during the summer you can overheat your fuel pump, and during the winter you will tend to pick up water in the tank)

Long term you don't really have a choice about not buying gas, it just is what it is. It's funny how people obsess over it, or will go way out of their way for cheaper gas, when most of the time you're talking about a full tank costing you an extra buck or two, and you burn maybe a tank a week. The greedy strategies (fill up when you need it, with a slight preference to cheaper gas when you can get it) are going to produce pretty optimal results so why obsess about it?
You can look at the Boeing vs Airbus trade case to see how far folks are willing to go when adding up "subsidies" -- into the weeds.
youtube is great for building an audience, but not nessesarily good for keeping it. A lot of niches have great success with patreon, but great trouble with keeping their videos on youtube (and in some cases keeping them in their subscribers feeds even when they are not taken down). The issues range from youtube's automatic enforcement of content guidelines (which appears more or less random), their ever increasing strictness (explosions are suddenly bad?) to their aweful copyright system that enables serious abuse of false copyright claims.

I suspect most content creators will stay on youtube for the audience, but there is lots of potential for backup channels to move off of youtube to some other, better provider. And as enough content is mirrored (and eventually vanishes from youtube as it gets taken down), the decentralized service becomes gradually more interesting to viewers.
"Hyper" in the name?
See my reply to lfam. In short, what I wrote after the "but" does not contradict what I wrote before it. e.g. "I went to the store but I didn't have any money."
> The subset of native (for example, x86) assembly that is equivalent to webassembly is already perfectly secure. You just limit the native assembly to pure computations without any system calls.

Defining a subset of x86 that is well defined, secure, and doesn't subject your vendors to the AMD/Intel licencing duopoly, is worse than starting over with anything else.. There was even a bug quite recently about everyone misunderstanding the normal boot sequence instructions since 1980 (or so?) Then the other question is: why did you make it run so poorly on the newer mobile architectures?

It certainly seems like one could have chosen from among the existing llvm-ir RISC hardware targets and then made everyone implement an emulator.. But making a JS compatible target is accessing pre-existing emulators available on anything meant for an end user.

As a JS programmer, I don't really look forward to encountering wasm from others on sites. But I do like that I can try out any llvm language that I might be experimenting with in the web environment that I'm already familiar with.

I would never do wasm on a normal website, but it could make a lot of sense in an electron like setup. That might be a bit insane, but no more than using the Java VM was 10 years back, and without as much risk of lock in and extortion from a company like Oracle in another 10 years.

Even without other languages, it is a matter of time before my transpiler chooses wasm for me, as it is now a subset to be prioritized for optimizations across browsers..
> They can allow something on their platform without endorsing it. Permitting something and endorsing it are absolutely not synonymous.

Hey guys, I'm not endorsing the extermination of muslims in Myanmar, I just have a bunch of signs up in my yard with messages from people who want them dead. Permitting anti-muslim propaganda in my front yard and endorsing it are absolutely not synonymous.
We used a balloon to lift Felix Baumgartner 135,000 feet for his record jump [1]. Could this be scaled up for larger payloads?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner
Reeder is the best right now, but author disappears for a long stretch of time without updates, then large release, few bug-fix releases and then again quiet time. Despite the fact he promised more frequent updates recently — he's been silent for a long time to think Reeder is dead. It's been crashing a lot lately, so not sure what to expect.
Retirement planning for U.S. startups
For what it is worth, this is how I use Todoist integration with my mail clients. I made categories according to GTD and assign emails to the right category. I tag them with my tags like "read/review", "reply", and other tags useful to me.

Next to that I use Todoist for regular task management. Works quite well for me. Made all these additions to email clients like "snooze" redundant.

P.s. key is to have the task management app with proper functionality which is available on your phones email clients as well as you read quite a lot of them there. This is why I chose Todoist as it integrates with my Newton email app which I use for my work mail.
PR. PR drives the news cycle for tech companies. Hell. If you pop the hood and start to dig into most stories, lots of journalists dont even write them. They’re just written by agencies who pitch and pass on pre-drafted content
Alcohol: Maybe 6-10 drinks a month. Generally just the occasional post-work drink with friends & colleagues (office happy hour, etc.), or maybe something if I go out to dinner or events.

Coffee: 2-3 cups of coffee or shots of espresso per work day; weekends I drink less. Whenever possible I prefer to get a medium or 'grande' Americano (2 shots) and grab a cup if I'm lagging later in the day -- trying to keep the caffeine levels dialed in.

Marijuana: It's legal in my state and I've become a fan of edibles. Still an irregular thing but lately I've been thinking about quitting alcohol entirely in favor of occasional weed tokes. Tbh the only thing keeping me drinking is the social/going-out aspect of it.
> What the people who want decentralized services don't realize is that the content creators want centralized services (whether they realize it or not).

I agree. The current Youtube creators have built their models on advertisement, clicks, favorites, etc. etc. PeerTube will never be for them. There's simply no money in PeerTube right now.

That's fine however. There's a large section of creators, such as Blender, Education (think OpenCourseWare / MIT), Linux Conference publishers who will benefit from PeerTube.

In these cases, people don't want to make money. They want to publish videos and foster a community. Youtube is no longer compatible with the OSS values, due to advertisements, copyright takedowns and such. You never know when someone's ringtone happens to be a copyright violation which takes down a 60-minute talk about C++ or something stupid.
I don’t know man - the Internet is distributed and last I checked it was doing great.
Also this:

System Preferences > General > Show scroll bars: Always
Automating Bagel Bliss with the Twilio API
Generally, if you come from a Twitter link, WSJ doesn't show the paywall. So you just search for the headline on Twitter...
And this is also why the establishment rightfully fears disruption: because they could have done marginal improvements for a long time: they chose not to for valid strategic reasons. But then there is a competitor which leapfrogs all that and who threatens to just wipe them out!

Once it happens, as usual, the establishment begs/lobbies for political protection (think about jobs!) which will often be granted. But political favors can just at best slow their demise.

Reusable spacex rockets will be to the EU spatial industry what uber was to its taxis: turning them immediately irrelevant, and unsavageable as an industry.

A better example might be the high administrative costs of the US healthcare system. Obamacare couldn't cut all these jobs during a downturn, so they were preserved. But even now, for a lot of people it makes more sense to opt out of that craziness and just get healthcare abroad. This sector is ripe for disruption. Maybe not now, but in 10 years even more so.
It's really phenomenal to think about how many people died in WW2. It's literally difficult to even imagine. And your numbers there are a bit off. Estimates tend to start more around 70 million. And I think that's leading to you low ball the potential death toll in future wars. In 1945 the entire world's population was around 2.4 billion. Nearly 3% of the world was killed or died as a result of WW2. The world's population today is 7.6 billion. A war of the same effect would have an expected death toll of around 222 million people. And that's probably substantially lowballing it as we have far greater ways of killing each other now a days, even if we take nukes out of the picture.

Even just back to those 70 million, let's say 73 million as that's where Wiki starts and it seems reasonable. Just imagine that. That's a 9/11 scale of death every single day for 24,366 days. Or a 9/11 scale event every single day for 67 years. That's again difficult to even imagine. And all of that death, with a population 1/3rd of ours today, was compressed into 6 years. Such lessons should never be forgotten, but in a way it's difficult to learn from such things when we really cannot even imagine death and destruction on this scale now a days.
This is nice to have, but I don't think that's what she meant. Credit cards are a terrible emergency fund - the interest rates are too high.

She meant you should get approved for a business/personal line of credit now while credit is still being approved. Rates on those are low enough that they can be useful in a cash crunch.
OpenAI Playing Sonic
I share your concerns. It was a dinky little text-based Visual Basic game at a summer camp computer area that got me into programming in the first place. By the next summer I was teaching C++ to Ken Levine’s (creator of Bioshock, nice guy) nephew. True story.

All I’ve ever really wanted to do is make video games. I have always been fascinated with the ways an interactive narrative can evoke emotions in ways that prior forms of art could never do. Fans of Spec Ops: The Line will know exactly what I mean.

But every story of games development sounds more depressing and horrific than the next. Hours are long, pressures are high, fans are ruthless, and keeping a job depends on your game selling enough to justify a sequel (RIP, Mass Effect. You deserved better).

I always hold out the hope that development in game making frameworks will allow bedroom programmers to eventually create games on par with the big budget productions we have today, but games development is so talent-driven and expensive, I have never felt that that time is near in the way we have been lead to believe about other futuristic technologies like self-driving cars.

I agree that much of the games industry is a zombie these days. How I long for the halcyon days of the Playstation 2...
That and assassinations.
You'd be correct if aerospace companies from other countries had as much of a right to rent the pad as SpaceX, but that's not the case.

The US with ITAR and other "national security" restrictions sets up a lot of economic moats around their aerospace companies, and the government gets to pick domestic winners over foreign competition. That's a subsidy.

Everyone plays this game when it comes to aerospace, it's why there's constant lawsuits between the likes of Boeing and Airbus on at the WTO.
Your Uber Driver Can Secretly Report You on the App for Weed
Thank you!

Yeah, I’m using Flutter. I’m the person who made Flutter so I have a lot of them. I used to have bluetooth control from iPhone but I wanted a physical interface. Any remote is trivially easy to add though - the remote is a standalone python program that sends GRPC commands to the motors. I recently got a PS4 remote and may add support for that!
> But not strongly enough, apparently, to get that statement any higher than the fourth paragraph of your comment. Which tells me you're more interesting in flogging the bad game and its developers than you are in instances of actual, real-world harrassment.

You're making a big reach there. The parent comment is responding to the article, which is towing the developer line that the release wasn't that bad, they hit their expectations, it was just stuff like missing butterflies - none of which is true. The harassment issue is a problem, but I see nothing wrong with a comment correcting core problems with the article first.
To be honest I like books and was curious about the quality of Stripe Press bookbinding, etc. so I'll be fine.
Meta: Can the link be changed? The one right now is:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/n...

It looks like a (AMP) copy of a (AMP) copy of a web page. Just https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/news/apple-fans-return... or https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/apple-fans-returning-macb... would work.
Artificial Intelligence predictions
Well they probably can't because of the Taxi cartel. In most place, they need to be a licensed Taxi driver in a licensed Taxi car to be able to be hailed.
Why is history always about humans?
Rockets or balloons can get to that altitude fairly easily. You could even build a second elevator that gets to 100,000 feet hanging off a balloons.

But, really it's just a security precaution to prevent terrorists or whatnot just flying into the thing.
Podcasts are, for the most part, decentralized and seem to be still booming in popularity. I don’t see why a decentralized video platform couldn’t work too.
Nassim Taleb makes an interesting argument in Antifragile that the natural stuff is still better assuming it’s been in use longer, since new stuff could have disastrous effect we don’t know about yet, and won’t know about for 50+ years. In the same way that some option investments look safe until they blow up.
demonitized -> demonized is a great freudian slip.
It's like a free CDN. /s
So did I! Although my country, Ireland, isn't explicitly listed.

Looks like it takes "territory" (+40%) as a major input. Russia, China and Mongolia are big countries by land area which have a good understanding with Serbia, but nothing special with EU states. Guessing most Europeans will also hit Serbia. What's the actual most useful second passport to an Irish person? Probably American.
Until it became a cause celebre for progressives, Feinstein, Obama, Clinton, gov Brown, all spoke against illegal immigration.

Could you please point to any of them speaking positively about illegal immigration, vs. speaking against Trump’s racism and practices such as separating young children from their parents at the border?
> Your neighbors don't really have a choice as to whether or not they enjoy "hearing its V8 roar..."

You're right, they don't - but since many of them have a truck, it really isn't an issue. I'm honestly not a 'truck enthusiast', but I'd wanted one for the longest time and I'm happy with my choice. It makes trips to Home Depot / Lowes / etc a dream. Going to the mountains on vacation with it has been great as well - having gone up the side of a mountain up a single lane dirt road to a house we rented a couple of years ago (you never know what kind of infrastructure exists when you rent a place on VRBO/HomeAway/etc.) in our minivan was an experience let me tell you. This year we rented another place up in the mountains and having a truck was a godsend.

I don't remote start my truck at night (because I'd like to think I'm not an inconsiderate A-hole) - I only start the truck remotely during the day for a few minutes to get the A/C started since it's over 100 degrees (F) in summertime here. I let my non-truck owning neighbors/friend borrow my truck when they need it - so on the contrary, our neighbors love us.

Personally my experiences living in a city have been far louder and had much ruder neighbors than I could dream of than in our current situation (people blaring music at all hours of the night and early morning, driving cars with seemingly no mufflers or motorcyclists whose sole purpose seems to be to irritate everyone sleeping, domestic disputes between deaf people (otherwise why would I have been able to hear them from several houses over, etc.)
Getting into space isn't hard. It's STAYING there that's difficult.

Relevant XKCD What If: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/
A Google-AMP version of a story published on Yahoo Finance syndicated from Business Insider about a Reddit thread, no less. Turtles all the way down.
Some might argue that web scraping to export data from non-participating services has been normalized for a significant amount of time. This has been a common practice for decades!

Further, it's perhaps possible that copy semantics comprise a very useful operational primitive when coupled with the existing delete primitives. With copy and delete actions available to them, users can choose to share, move, and delete data as they see fit. With only move actions available, users do not get to make their own choices and are limited to the choices prescribed for them.

There is *substantial( merit in calling for more directly useful primitives, but this could perhaps be done in a context that is informed by knowledge of extant primitives.
> I always used to mis-use Jealousy, when I meant Envy. you mean Envy. The lord God is a Jealous God. He's not envious.

Wait, my dictionary (the Apple dictionary) defines "jealousy, adj. 1. Feeling or showing envy of someone or their achievements and advantages." What's the difference?
> WebAssembly sits at the crux of directly opposing forces [...] No amount of hard work is going to magically fix these because they are directly opposed.

I'm not sure they are directly opposed. I think that they can coexist reasonably. Specifically, keep the instruction set reasonably minimal, ask compilers to do the optimization while trying to avoid impedance mismatch between the insn set and CPU archs, add the rare high-level feature that is hard to implement without exposing lots of context (e.g. GC), don't act like features not used 100% of the time are "deadweight", and leave complications like strings to libraries/ecosystem. I.e. WASM abstracts the host and CPU, libraries abstract the logic on top.

I think, looking at the proposals, they are doing a good job with the tradeoffs. For all of your bullet points, I think they are reasonably addressed now or in the future. I am glad they are not tackling things that can be done just as well in libs (e.g. strings) while properly tackling things that cannot (e.g. GC, threads, etc).

What I really hope is that Rossberg et al remain true to their convictions, relish their BDFL-ish role, and don't get too beat down by people saying the higher level things they have on the road map are too high and/or the lack of other ones make the level too low.
Just happen to watch rubber band-powered planes video. Penny planes are 3.5 grams and Peanut planes are 8 grams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y22mV2smkA
I don’t know if it’s a language option, but a Simple English version of Wikipedia does exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia
Distributed =/= decentralized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_root_zone
> [...] People are literally being kidnapped or killed or starving and you're complaining about online harrassment. [...]

In the context of this discussion, about an article about online harassment, this is a very disingenuous straw man. Yes, there are other problems in the world, but this isn't the forum to debate them.
>No I mean single quote, double quote, triple double quotes, r prefix, u prefix, f prefix, combinations, etc

These are all extremely helpful, though. All of those quote combinations are equivalent, and can be used to prevent having to escape quotes within the string. The u prefix is gone from Python 3, r is a raw string (which many other languages have, like C#'s @ prefix), and f is a new feature which generated a lot of debate but basically allows interpolation similar to Ruby and ES6.

>The one I have in mind is the os library, which I use a lot (like why st_mtime?).

That's the one I thought you were going to bring up. I agree the naming conventions in the os module have a lot of warts. The function names could use a refresh.
Only other mention i found was here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/c85R7G...
Even when adding "over the real number", the claim in the article is wrong: R(x), the algebra of rational functions of one variable with real coefficients is a field, and a module over R containing a isomorphic image of R as a subfield.

You really do need the additional constraint of the Hurwitz form to restrict the possibilities to R, C, H, O ...

(Of course this has nothing to do with the work of Furey - I'm just seconding that the claim in the article is incomplete and inexact as worded.)
It was more like they laid off 50-100% of the company.
Interesting :D

Would be nice if you could post a list of your resources :)
I believe the people behind peertube know about that. That is why Peertube is so much on federation with ActivityPub. If done properly this would allow anyone with an account on a website using ActivityPub (like Mastodon) to interact with the author of a Peertube video.

Granted this a both a technical problem (that I believe solvable) and a financing problem. It is hard to compete with the GAFAM and their advertising departments.
You don't tell your current employer you have the offer, or tell them that you are leaving for another offer; You can use it as a way to learn and emphasize competitive forces.

Ie: "Based off of LinkedIn/GlassDoor/HackerNew/Friends In Industry/Networking events/Recruiters, I feel like my salary could be more competitive with the marketer"

Basically, you're threatening less so of leaving right now, but that you like your current job, but your mental attachment is already weakening because you are worried about a competitive salary (as opposed to not having to worry about it).
> Which tells me you're more interesting in flogging the bad game and its developers than you are in instances of actual, real-world harrassment.

Yea, no, sorry. The fact that he put that eight sentences in tells you absolutely nothing.

If you can find real fault with what he said, go ahead, but this is just nonsense. You're condemning someone who agrees with you.
Cool idea, I would like to challenge his $12/month price point.

Subscriptions I could get cheaper than $12 a month:

Netflix

Youtube Red

Amazon Prime

Dollar Shave Club

All of which provide higher value than reorganizing email. I think he should price in relation to other subscription services that exist.
Again and again AMEN.

I would accept a PCOE with lifetime appointments and confirmation by core contributors but turning it to a full democracy seems likely to change the things I love most about the language