skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is popularity correlated with high costs? Looking at this list https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_univer... do College Station, Orlando, Columbus, Miami, Gainesville and Minneapolis carry significant premium as far as cost of living?

Miami might, but it seems like it’s more due to the beach proximity and tourism industry than FIU.
I thought the Diapers.com problem was that Amazon just had a lower cost and could drive it even lower, not that they were selling below cost.

Beside, there after plenty of instances in which companies sell below cost in a single to drive sales in another. Eg loss leaders.
> Also, Tarsnap has had a long-standing bug bounty program, which is another reason to trust it.

This is not necessarily a reason to trust Tarsnap. It is just an (rather weak) indication of the security-oriented process and nothing more. Probably you would want to say security track records (inferred from the bug bounty program), which would be a good reason to trust it.
Thank you for this.

I homeschooled my twice exceptional sons for years and did some volunteer work with an educational organization to support that.

I pulled my sons out of school in part because they didn't want to work with me or my sons. One son was a straight A student whose writing was below grade level. Rather than acknowledge that he had a disability, they pointed to his gifted status and chalked up this one weak area to laziness. Meanwhile, the teacher was unwilling to meet me for a couple of minutes at the end of the day to help me help him stay on track.

There are many wonderful and dedicated teachers. But they aren't all wonderful and dedicated (among other things).
Bezos. There are very few of him is the biggest barrier to entry. He has just run Amazon extremely well.
I don't consider the items you mention as "laughably anachronistic". Many of the things you mention can be social items that come and go with the times.

One example is my visits to Mystic Seaport, specifically the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan. Inside the museum, you could type in your name and receive a printout of the ship's crew manifest with your name included, all the names written in cursive as if you were there 150 years ago. "But computers murder cursive!" ... well maybe, but I was still there enjoying the experience. "But computers have nothing to do with connecting humans with there past!" ... and yet there I was tapping on a touchscreen and receiving a printout of a "150 year old manifest" of the ship I just walked through with my name on it.

Yes that smoking in a spaceship while you hunch over your portable typewriter the size of a suitcase is outdated, but people still have flexible imaginations which accommodate such things. I don't see the problem.
I'll have to do a deep dive for this article I read out of the WSJ about how the average credit score for GSE loans is significantly higher than before. I think a lot of people are more educated and better managing their credit score than before as well as tightening of standards. I've always found it annoying how demonized MBS are because they serve a very useful purpose. When it gets into shit like synthetic CDO's and stuff that is kinda wack but whatever who am I to tell people how to use their money. MSBs only suck when the underwriting is bad or fraudulent which it was.
The BSD system tools aren’t always 100% compatible with the equivalent GNU tools, and vice versa. If you replace something built into the system with something else, then anything that’s properly written to deal with macOS might break. It might make some other immediate issue easier to deal with in some way, but it becomes a time bomb that will almost certainly break something else in the future.

I’m specifically talking about (for example) overwriting /bin/ls with GNU ls. If someone simply prefers a GNU equivalent, they can trivially install GNU ls somewhere else on the system and use it all they want without blowing away part of the OS.
How is that relevant? Are old things automatically ethical?
https://watchandcode.com/

Watch and code is from an exgoogler. I wouldn't say its a "Javascript the good parts".

Its closer to Uncle Bobs "Clean Code" with a todomvc tutorial mixed in, with some overlap of YDKJS.

I wrote a short review here. http://vincentmtang.com/2018/05/23/my-review-on-watch-and-co...
Those are abstract concepts, which are considered to not be real by definition. I think you should find another fight to pick with someone else.
Isn’t browsing rental listings for one’s target university an incentive already?
Government's primary job is to protect liberty, so I would be in favor of legislation that is strictly anti-censorship (such as Social Media Anti-Censorship Act, check #SMACA on Twitter for the outline).
The comment you’re replying to doesn’t say anything about outsourcing design.
Have been using xsv (in combination with any-json, and jq) for a few months wrangling big csv files at work. Found it to be a better / faster process than rolling my own code.
just realized i replied to the wrong comment, apologies
The Spotify cofounders themselves expressed doubts about the viability of Stockholm for startups though.[1]

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2016/04/13/news/companies/spotify-swed...
KDE Plasma should be a heaven for modders
Also I would strongly disagree with “some switches are different” being a problem, any more than FreeBSD not being Ubuntu is a problem. It’s a different OS so it should be treated as one. See also people going onto Linux forums and complaining about how there’s no Start button. Like, I get it, but that’s a problem with user expectations, not a problem with Linux.
Do you also pine for your missing floppy drive?

I’ve used wired headphones maybe twice in the 18 months since I got my AirPods. In ten years almost no phones will have analog audio jacks and (almost) no one will care.
> This has literally been his standard MO for decades: plant fake stories and weaponize the press for his own use.

Trump's history of planting fake stories involves positive stories about his sexual prowess and popularity - "an anonymous source says Trump is great with the ladies" sort of stuff.

Planting highly negative stories about himself would be a massive shift in MO.
>“What you are seeing in a number of systems, other developmental systems, is that the sex differences are shrinking,” Swan told me. Men are producing less sperm. They're also becoming less male.

Is it possible that these phenomena relate to the seemingly explosive rise in transgenderism? Particularly MtF, which is much more common than the reverse. Perhaps for those with already low male:female hormone ratios, if they are tipped further by these endocrine disruptors, especially during development, they might really have a brain that feels more female.
works great unless the person is alone. then they die.
> Languages like Rust and Go are just really easy to cross-compile compared to working with lower level OS-dependent APIs in C or something.

You make it seem like C has no standard library. C is really easy to cross compile: you just add a -arch flag to your compiler frontend and, provided you're staying inside POSIX (which you should!) it should "just work".
Also, I don't really care about a claim that says you could write it faster. That's borderline meaningless in my work unless you're talking about an order of magnitude difference, and I sincerely doubt that.

Ah, fair point. If there is no benefit to writing software faster, then yes, the discussion is moot.

Apologies if it sounded like I was being a dick. I meant to come across as a “player 2 has entered the game,” but it probably just sounded annoying.

I’ve been reimplementing some C projects in LuaJIT (more specifically, a dialect of Lisp that compiles to LuaJIT), and it certainly feels an order of magnitude less overhead to get work done. Perhaps it would be interesting to bind the CSV crate to LuaJIT, and then do a direct translation of XSV. The original discussion was about CLI tools, which is one area that scripting languages excel in, and isn’t necessarily enhanced by the benefits of static typing.

Creationix has done a lot of excellent work in popularizing LuaJIT’s benefits: https://github.com/luvit/luvit
I’d like to see a comparison done against Bob Woodward’s work. As you say, 140 char micro logs are a horrible training set for analyzing a long form essay.
> This can't be a bug... can it?

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

(Hanlon's razor)
This submission was made by a 5-year HN user with 14000 karma. Although I don't know if you've been more active with a different handle, which is certainly very possible, the account whose submission you're complaining about has been active 27 times as long as yours and has 91 times as much karma as yours... suggesting a history of reasonably good-faith contribution to HN.

Edit: it's true that his submissions aren't primarily about IT topics, but people continue to find them interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pmcpinto
Any other reliable sources on this beyond GQ?
Especially since GDPR
The smart thing to do is liquidate your investments and keep a nice pile of cash ready to reinvest when there is a bailout. And I guarantee you there will be a bailout.

Usually you will hear news of a bailout and the president will come out and tell people everything is okay so buy buy buy!

That's what Bush said a few weeks after the 9/11. That's what Obama said on the first friday of March 2009. Before the president speaks, the FED chair will give hints as well. I'm too young to remember what happened during the savings and loan crisis of the early 90s but I'm told something similar happened.

Just buy and hold and hold and hold. Crashes tend to be short lived. Recoveries take years and years.

Of course if you are greedy/ambitious, you could try to make money on the way down as well by shorting the market. But that's for the degenerate gamblers. Don't do it as it's nigh impossible to predict when the markets will crash and you may go broke betting against the market.
> One thing about heroin is that it's pretty much impossible to use regularly without becoming addicted.

I'm happy to hear that your treatment is going well -- opioids can be incredibly hard to kick. On the other hand, you might be interested in some of the newer science of what drives addiction:

https://theoutline.com/post/2205/this-38-year-old-study-is-s...
That article is from August 22 - I just checked in the MAS and the most recent Airmail update was the 25th and the changes specifically mention a URL security fix, so they may have addressed this already.

I've also used Airmail on and off for years and quite like it, on both Mac and iOS. Mail.app isn't bad, but I've used labels heavily for years, including multiple labels on emails, and Mail doesn't seem to handle that scenario very well.
I had a similar goal I guess: make my dotfiles, scripts and workflow the same across macOS and Linux. :)
This is not useful to me because it creates multiple windows. I don't want that separation. I want what I have now. It was very good.
You’re missing the point on SUVs. I’m 6’5” and have 3 kids. I need a full size car that can accommodate the legally mandated safety requirements for my kids.

No sedan meets that requirement. I have to buy a midsize+ SUV or minivan, period.

Even for my personal use, cars are uncomfortable and painful for me to use. I drove a 1999 Accord until recently as a commuter. The 2018 Accord was too low for me (to meet the CAFE targets) and most midsize sedans has similar challenges. I ended up choosing between a Honda Fit, a Honda Pilot, BMW X3 or Chevy Tahoe. I ended up with the Pilot as a trade off between comfort/efficiency/cost.

The fetishization of ridesharing in the Valley and on HN reveals the blind spot of the culture of tech — family. Try using Uber to move two adults and 2-3 kids.
I do the same - I use Safari for Google services (since Apple is unlikely to collude with Google), I use Chrome to browse Facebook (since Google is unlikely to collude with Facebook), and I use Firefox for actually browsing the web.
There isn't one. Existing cars aren't personalized by the factory. Some people personalize their own after the fact.

Other examples of personalized things: A caricature of you drawn at a carnival, the local chef who knows just how you like your meal, that thing your nephew made you in shop class, etc.

In tech it usually means using the surveillance the company has conducted on you to make search suggestions and things like that. But people are increasingly finding that creepy and invasive, so it's not clear more of that is going to be a winner in the transportation market. Even historically it has been mostly backfill to rationalize the surveillance. Having some cloud surveillance technology literally following you around and recording your whereabouts isn't exactly the same kind of warm feeling you get from your favorite chef knowing how you like your dinner.
I dig the concept. Would I be able to import my calendar from google calendar or whatever nightmare Samsung calls it's calendar application? (Only asking because I didn't specifically see it mentioned.)
> Electron runs on (at least) Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.

Take a look at the issues opened for porting Visual Studio Code to not-Linux/not-MacOS/not-Windows. It's non-trivial in large part because Electron is a mess and not officially supported beyond Linux/Mac/Windows.
PSA, the comments are already better than the article, which is entirely fluff IMO.
> followed by the bit about men becoming less male.

This is pretty obvious without any research (papers). The difference between my generation and our children is already staggering in this regard. Not sure if that's just change in culture or physiological though; maybe a bit of both?
I’ve missed it on occasion, but once I added a Bluetooth adaptor [1] to my old QC15s I haven’t given it a second thought. And now my QC15s also pair to the Apple TV which is great for watching late night Netflix while the family is sleeping.

But my point isn’t at all that you have to agree with every outward design decision. My point is that the internals reveal an incredible amount of engineering prowess of their own right. The stacked circuit boards in the X, along with the FaceID suite of sensors, and I’m particularly fond of how well it all integrates with the secure element, for example.

Also have to mention the camera — the “portrait” mode pictures are so beautiful and easy — all my favorite photos were shot on iPhone while my EOS collects dust.

Edit: I should add — it was removing the Home button which actually is my favorite part of the X. I love swiping all around the phone and not having that clunky button to click, or worse, double click.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0786VF6PS/
Yeah I forgot (intentionally?) about the Gtk bindings. I've never been much a fan of Gtk (OO on C seems... wrong among other quibbles), but yeah the Gtk bindings occupy that better-than-nothing space but aren't something I'm hugely enthuastic about. They're not a multi-process client-server mess like Electron but they're also just wrappers around a big C library.
It's not a problem! But I am constantly switching between macOS and Linux, so being able to share dotfiles and scripts and not have to learn the differences and inconsistencies between CLI tools is nice. That was my main motivation, and I think other people feel the same way.
Same here but I use Firefox Containers. Lastpass for password, which is not container dependent so I can auto-login in whichever profile I am on.
That sounds like something Phillip Dick would write. Closest that I can think of off the top of my head is Ubik, where the protagonist runs an anti-psychic agency that companies hire for security purposes.
This has been around for a long time. You’ve only just noticed it. It’s time you accept that Chrome is spyware and start using Firefox instead.
wife, example, data, service, github, phone, bit, sort, hah, area

I should show this to my wife (:
Specifically how does macOS break by replacing ls with GNU's?
You are looking for Firefox Containers. Single window, multiple profiles separated by colors in the tabs.
Something like this came up the other day. Perhaps setting "gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque" to true in about:config as suggested by pcwalton might help you until this bug is properly fixed?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17934764
I stopped using Chrome entirely six months ago. Firefox it is!
Ted Kaczynskis writings were probably influenced a great deal by his mental illness, which would make him an outlier. In contrast, those in bureaucracies will likely tend towards milquetoast language over time, making recognition more difficult.
> Should CEO's have to hide their recreational drug (of which alcohol is a subset) use?

It’s not even about the drug use. Just a general lack of professionalism. Like if he showed up for this interview and ate 3 gallons of ice cream. Why is he participating in such stupid bits for a radio show?

The galaxy brain take is that Elon has always been doing this, and his dumb flamethrower thing is what should get people mad. Don’t tweet about lack of sleep while wasting your time on dumb jokes

I mean people are allowed to have fun , but a bit less so when the company they’re supposed to be running is supposedly falling apart
I disagree that this is not novel. It's an immediately dissolvable buprenorphine. I discussed this in my top level comment, but subutex has been abused because it does take some time to dissolve, so patients will sometimes take it out of their mouth when the healthcare provider is not looking in order to inject later. This version avoids that to some extent, which is novel enough to be patentable.
How is 3.5+ bleeding edge? It's been out for more than 3 years, and is installed by default on most current OS releases.

I personally only support the latest stable release, so I only support 3.7.

Python is extremely backwards-compatible so there's never been any breakages for me, from 3.4 to 3.5 to 3.6 to 3.7.
An introduction to distributed systems using bullet points
Why do the consumers deserve government subsidy to protect them against negative effects of monopolies, but not employees or small business owners?
I'm interested, can you elaborate on how your shell scripts now make fewer assumptions?

And why do you prefer GNU make specifically?
The "should be able to just return its argument" part is wrong; the types pretty clearly don't match, yeah? It is true that there is a unique function of type `Void -> a` for each `a`, but that isn't it.
I just tried to order the book he mentioned on my kindle - The Printing Press as an Agent of Change - and it doesn’t exist! (Well, it’s in paperback...published in 1980).
Right, which makes technology that can reliably take dictation, but can't delete a word without whiteout extra hard to believe.
Firefox is most straight forward answer!
You're an expert at everything!
Eh. Bupe isn’t that abusable, so you very quickly get a couple weeks of take-home doses. So if you’re going to IV it, this new patent makes zero difference.
I read First and Last Men after listening to the bartender in Hong Kong wax poetical to JC Denton about nanotechnology bringing about the Second Man.

It was, indeed, a real slog.
Also, last time I checked the Firefox UI uses more screen real estate, leaving a little less space for the content. The difference with chrome is small, but clearly noticeable. If Mozilla fixes this, then they have an additional user ;)
Google continues the war against their own users.
haha I wish
Eh, it was posted yesterday too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17938276

And a few other times over the past week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gq.com
(2016) Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t
I get how you and many other women might reject this idea. If I were a woman, I certainly would. And I'm sad that you didn't get better responses. So I'll attempt one.

Bottom line, notwithstanding ham-fisted commentary by the author, and some here, this paper is not about men exhibiting greater variability in reproductive fitness, or whatever, than women do. It's about gender differences generally among sexually dimorphic species. And given how remarkably humans are unconstrained by biological hardware, it's totally unclear how this work is relevant for us.

Also, this paper reports no observations. It's not even a review. It does list many studies and reviews, but without any substantial critique or discussion. It just presents results of some simple mathematical modeling.

And yes, perhaps the remaining author does display an agenda. But even so, the models presented are either interesting or not, regardless of the agenda. And from my reading of the history, it's arguable that the initial paper would have displayed far less agenda than the somewhat bitter version that ended up on https://arxiv.org/ .
Study shows embracing inexperience increase your programming velocity as a team [pdf]
Well for one, the government isnt subsidizing anything. They are instead allowing customers to do what they want with their money.

And 2, I don't care what happens to business owners. They are wealthy enough to handle themselves. (Yes, if you are even a small business owner, that still counts as "wealthy" in my book. Most people don't own much of anything)

And 3, we are talking about a product monopoly, and not an employment monopoly. Nobody has shown any evidence that Amazon has any sort of monopoly on hiring people. People are instead arguing that they have a monopoly on the markets that they sell in.

Consumers deserve the protections because they are much less well off than either large or small companies.
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No trust model is going to be perfect, but this type of solution has already seen widespread success with: drivers licenses, event tickets, username+password, etc.
Another example that's strangely funny in retrospect because of how far it is off the mark despite simultaneously predicting actual advances: the Sector General series (started in 1962, last book published 1999) starts out with universal translator earbuds that are remotely driven by a central computer system, but the characters have to go to a wall phone to contact someone.

The series also has some unfortunate anachronism in treatment of gender (a future galactic society, but of course women can't be doctors, only nurses), though the author did piece-by-piece retcon that out into more egalitarian social standards as he wrote the sequel books.
Python is not hard to package into an exe, but most Python programs aren't packaged like that.

C and C++ are very cross-platform, if you only use cross-platform dependencies and if you are careful to write portable code. Most C and C++ applications don't do that.