skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an economic standpoint, investing in fast mass-transit (e.g. high speed rail) would probably result in a larger net positive than self driving cars. Why?

1. I would theorize that the economic benefits of transportation are directly proportional to how fast the service is, and how much people it can move. As an estimation, I'd say cars are limited to 60 mph while high speed rail would be limited to 200 mph.

2. With fixed-path mass transit, the problem of traffic is greatly simplified. Self driving cars may solve a labor issue but they won't solve the traffic problem: cars routing themselves selfishly will not result in the lowest travel time possible. You can argue that a central coordinator can exist to coordinate routes, but if there's an incentive for a person (not necessarily a driver) to deviate from their set path, why wouldn't they take it?
I grew up LDS and remember a church youth speaker saying something like "It's OK to pull the ox out of the mire on Sunday as long as you didn't push him in on Saturday." :)
I bought one of these when they came out, and my first weekend with it I just couldn't stop typing, it was so much fun.

The only misdesign I can think of is that the DEL key should be bigger. (The ESC key is huge and hard to miss, which is fantastic).
Xonsh is awesome! Execute Python directly on the command line?! Sign me up!

Sadly it doesn't play well with all of my three thousand various vim plugins, so I still haven't been able to use it as my daily shell. Hopefully someday!
Sears CEO blames pension obligations for company struggles
You do realize location tracking via wifi broadcasts (not even AP association!) is a thing, right?

http://digitalmortar.com/overview-in-store-tracking-technolo...

You'll be part of the system as long as you have a phone.

(...and as long as you have a face, if projections are to be believed.)
Wouldn't this be the same as naming loggers? Many logging frameworks allow you to name a logger and just reference that. From there, you can enable or disable named loggers, and get this same "apect" that you talk about.
That's what I was referring to. It'd be a great feature. Apple would just nail the design and execution, give it a trademark name, and go to town with it.
Ask HN: Immigrate from US to EU?
There was a thread asking the reverse. Since US is still the number one destination for immigrants, there is a lot of documentation and help available (though the rules keep changing often and are unclear to begin with).

What about the reverse? Has anyone moved from US to EU (or from other places to EU)? If yes, where in EU? Can you talk about your experience?
I think forcing people to be prepared for a day each week without any services (grocery, gas stations) would lead to better emergency preparedness in general. And better planning. (I still remember when people needed to withdraw cash during bank hours and thus had to plan ahead.)

I'd also be curious what the Sabbath would be. Sundown Friday to sundown Saturday? Saturday only? I believe the Christian conflation of church day with the Sabbath is a misapprehension of scripture, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nope, just moved here a couple years ago from the states.

Most people I know here seem to think it's annoying, but I work at Google, so we got people from all over, I don't think Germans are even a majority of the devs.

edit: apparently 61% of Germans think stores should be able to decide themselves whether to open on Sundays: http://m.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/einzelhandel-mehrheit...
>where it's in everyone's immediate individual interest to work just a little bit longer, but the end result is that everyone has to work more for the same reward

If everyone is working more, more value is being created in total. So it's not zero-sum. You might then say "Yes, sure, but is working more hours to buy more things really better than a culture where we work less and spend more time eating dinner with our families?", which I would agree with, but is more of a cultural comment than an economic comment.
People can make up stories on the witness stand, too. Testimony is still evidence, it just that it needs to be weighed in context by a jury (along with all the other evidence).

In the future, when humans just upload data directly to brains, and nobody remembers what a school is, then Harry Potter absolutely could be used as historical evidence that schools existed and that children went to them. The fantastical bit about learning to be a wizard may be discarded by other evidence (or lack thereof).
I used an MS ergonomic natural 4000 for a long time. I switched to a kinesis advantage a few years back and I will never go back.

Not all mechanical keyboard switches have the same feel. The advantage uses cherry brown, which is quiet and requires relatively low force.
This is really all I want. I don't want a smaller form factor. I don't want a bigger form factor. I want this form factor, and since everything keeps getting smaller, that's more room for a battery or whatever.
He orders it in terms of relevance too. Note that the last two levels he states are Trace and Fatal. He talks about how Trace may not always be enabled, or how Fatal doesn't necessarily make sense if such an error needs to be handled manually anyways.
Just don't set it up. You can select the option to skip/setup later and just never do it. Of course you are then limited to using a PIN as there is no other biometric option on the X/Xs sadly.
"Empirical Study of Power Consumption of x86-64 Instruction Decoder"

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/cooldc16/cool...

From the conclusion:

"The result demonstrates that the decoders consume between 3% and 10% of the total processor package power in our benchmarks. The power consumed by the decoders is small compared with other components such as the L2 cache, which consumed 22% of package power in benchmark #1. We conclude that switching to a different instruction set would save only a small amount of power since the instruction decoder
cannot be eliminated completely in modern processors."
The N-Gage was my first 'smart' phone. Back then, just like now, I did not use phones so much to call people so the 'taco to your ear' pose did not bother me. I'm no gamer either, I just got the N-Gage because it was the cheapest freely programmable phone at the time. It also had good sound and doubled as a media player. In reality it was quite a usable device, all that was really missing was WiFi.
In cases like this, I rarely see the code being shared open source. Is it because it’s worthless, or because investors sell it to recuperate some costs?
so it seems like Drones is one of the first big nascent industries, SV utterly lost to China b/c of their dominance of manufacturing?
I don't know why you're blaming your generation specifically.
All ages and walks of life believe this.
It's called Conservatism/Libertarianism.
The don't believe that if you live in a society you should have to contribute towards the betterment of society through taxes.
This is starting to happen I think. The economics are starting to make sense, for some companies, due to insane rent and cost of employees.
I got a Nokia 6.1 (new model) and it's absurdly good for the money and I truly love the design.

The black and copper looks premium against my GF's iPhone 8, It's easy to hold, it's milled out of aluminium and strongly built, it's smooth, fast (Android One is great).

And it cost a fifth of what an iPhoneX costs here.

I even liked their cheeky piss take of the Johnny Ive videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=qmJitfThItk
Meanwhile, the remnants of the Lost Amiga Civilization snicker, and mutter something about 68k instructions, their many address modes, and custom chips between coughs.
> ini is an underrated config format.

I agree, but the problem with ini is that it isn't a format in the sense that it hasn't been formally defined in a consensual way. Thus the monumental success of TOML as it fills the void that ini left unfilled for decades.
The iPhone XS has a total 6.3" diagonal, with 5.8" display. The SE has a total 5.4" diagonal. If you gave it an edge-to-edge display, you could get a 5" diagonal screen on it, which is bigger than the iPhone 7 screen size (4.7" display, total diagonal is 6.05").

So a maxed out screen size on an SE body would give you a better screen than the 7, but in a smaller phone. How is this not an obvious direction? Lag the other hardware by 1-2 years to keep costs down a bit and avoid directly competing against the XS. I'd still buy it.
Yeah, I had high hopes for the keyboard.io, but it turned out to be an ergonomic disaster. After a couple of weeks trying to transition, I just gave up. It's a shame.

I'd buy a keyboard from keyboard.io with a less radically different layout. I don't think I could reprogram the existing one to the point where I could retain my current typing speed.
I love the SE because of the form factor. Would have bought the next one.

But I have to imagine a lot of SE buyers were doing so based on price rather than because it has an awesome form factor. Apple is now serving the cheap side of the market with the 7, which will probably make the cheap buyers a lot happier than the SE.
Perhaps the social taboo needs to be against the continual enrichment of the ownership class with that additional value being created by everyone working more?
Yes, but on first glance (without a lot of digging) at the links here, only Pastery seems to be open source (ix.io says it will be...someday), and Pastery (as nice as it is--thanks for that link) is for a different purpose (exchange of code snippets).

Rwtxt looks like a nice, simple, markdown-based, easily self-hostable, open-source, personal notes wiki. Nice work! If there are others that more or less match this description (self-hosted, open-source, private notes repository), I'd be interested.
Uh, it's technically interesting. If HN consisted of just articles like this, it would be a better site.
Hey, same here! Your articles are what inspired me to go into chip design /computer engineering. Still have my signed copy of Inside the Machine on my bookshelf :)

Thanks a ton!
Not to mention the drivers who are offended by the simple act of spending a dollar on someone who is not them.
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In an enterprise setting, treating one level of logs as actionable, as GP mentions, is a very important for clarifying responsibilities.

If it takes the right pair of eyes on the logs to see a problem for what it is, the whole process slows down and doesn't scale as high. All errors and very chatty warnings should induce me to ask someone what's going on, to make sure it hasn't slipped through the cracks. And they should thank me for pointing it out. Otherwise you reinforce some bad patterns.
I'd recommend learning theory concepts removed from the guitar, at least initially.

https://www.musictheory.net/lessons will pretty much teach you what you'd learn in two years at university. Honestly, I find it the best resource to get up to speed on common practice period music theory.
to have it transfer between different computers i would assume.
I love the SE, but this is my biggest gripe - apps don't consistently work well on them, which IMO is one of the features of the Apple ecosystem (compared to Android, which is a shitshow of different device sizes/landscapes).
I bought an iPhone SE last night.

The smartphone industry's decision making in the last few years has been... bizarre. I've been an Android user up to this point because I appreciated the vast feature set, open architecture and diversity of hardware that I could find. That initially meant settling for a lot of the quirks and general cheapness of early Android phones - Apple had them all so thoroughly beat on polish. With the advent of really good high-end phones from Samsung and others, and the great advancements in Android's software, it seemed to me that we were getting to the point that there was no particular reason why anyone should prefer an Apple smartphone over any of the other high-end options.

The phablet craze and the ridiculous explosion in screen size should have tipped me off that something was very wrong with the industry. It didn't make sense to me that literally no-one would offer a phone that was small enough for one-handed use. And then they started eliminating the headphone jacks. And then... the notch. Multi-billion dollar development teams started chasing each other down degenerate design paths. The modern smartphone is this weird art project that's uncomfortable to interact with, and doesn't have a lot of basic features I use. Swappable battery? Expansion slot for microsd? Rare, and getting rarer.

Worse, Google seems to have totally abandoned the initial premise behind Android, and every handset manufacturer has erected a walled garden filled with bloatware and with no expectation of any future support. If I'm going to live in a walled garden, I would rather live in a nice one.

I won't put the iPhone SE on a pedestal. It's older hardware, and you're definitely sacrificing some battery life and camera quality (two of the few positives of these modern phablets). But I can reach across the whole screen with my thumb, and I can listen with any set of headphones I want, and it's really very pleasant to use - after only half a day of use, it has just seamlessly disappeared into my life. Exactly as it should.
Premise:
> In North America (perhaps elsewhere) you are required to have at least a Master's degree to practise Psychology and you should have a doctorate if you want any mobility with your practise.

Conclusion:
> This leads people who have no interest in academia having to find a way to convince people they've discovered something new and novel so that they can go apply what has already been discovered.

I'm not rejecting the premise, I'm saying the conclusion is not supported by this article. None of the figures mentioned in the article (Daryl Bem, John Bargh, Susan Fiske, Brian Wansink, Amy Cuddy, Simine Vazire, etc) are clinical psychologists. None of the research described in the article is clinical psychology, or even appears to have been performed for clinical psychology.

Maybe clinical psychology has a replication crisis, I don't know, but there is no evidence here for the idea that clinical psychology degree candidates are causing the replication crisis in social psychology.
Windows Phone.
Not programmable. Programmability isn't something I care for in a keyboard.

I understand it's a must for some people though, it's a good thing that there's plenty of choice these days.
Isn't Elon sending any metal tubes on standby for the opportunity to save any of the potentially submerged?
It's also Dorian and Phrygian without the 2 and 6. Plus you can use it in other keys, the A Pentatonic in the key of Bb is lydian, in G it's dorian, in C it's major, etc..
I believe they are everywhere, I've used rover and I'm not in NY or CA or even main city.
I guess Apple strategy for this is: if you need secondary device for situations where it is uncomfortable to use your primary big screen iPhone - buy Apple Watch cellular, if you just want cheap entry to iOS - there is older gen phones (iPhone 7 for this year). Probably those who just want a small primary phone is a niche (and not very profitable) market.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17983890, and several other submissions.
Profit, pure and simple. Just because they're profitable, does not mean they will not seek other avenues of revenue. I won't pretend to be able to predict the future, but markets shift, and should Apple find themselves in less favorable position than the one they're in today, I'd have a hard time believing they wouldn't sell user data.

Google was once the "don't be evil" company.
I see a lot of websites that should have graceful failures do the same... can't log into one of my banks, and make a car payment without disabling uBlock (chrome/desktop) or Brave (android).

With the more recent changes in Firefox, I find the UX acceptable and may go through switching back... I've got a few things on google but may migrate out.
And of course the Sabbath did not actually originate with the Jews. The tradition goes back to at least the Bronze Age if not earlier.

If people are interested in a rigorous treatment of ancient economics and their surprising modern relevance consider they should really look into Hudson [1].

[1] https://michael-hudson.com/2018/08/and-forgive-them-their-de...
What happens when we ask a philosopher for advice?
As an Orthodox Jew who observes the Sabbath every week, while sometimes finishing up work and preparations beforehand can be stressful at times, there's no feeling like turning off all phones/laptops/etc Friday evening and leaving it all behind. There's a supreme serenity that comes with the knowledge of "I can't do anything about it, so there's no point in worrying". As soon as Sabbath starts I'm totally focused on the now -- I can't do anything to prepare for what comes after, and due to the restrictions of the day I've done all my preparations for Sabbath before it begins. There's a saying in Judaism that Sabbath is "me'ein olam haba", meaning "of the next world", and it rings true every week when I can't wait for it to begin and feel sadness when it ends and I have to return to the mundaneness of work and logistics and emails. It's just the right amount of a great thing.
It's the competitive/capitalism culture - we go to the best college we can, and then to pay that off we have to get the best job we, the CEOs have to compete too so wages are pressed down and layoffs happen, and this means the labor has to job hop to make ends meet, and new job generally means relocation again ... in other words total destruction of communities. The laws of power aren't optional and neither is competition.
Using Blockchain to Prevent and Detect Fraud in the Payment-Processing Services
Sure that's true if you're a code monkey stamping out CRUD apps all week long, if you're trying to push yourself to the limit. Imagine you're writing an exam in something you really really pushed yourself to learn in a highly competitive field, would you feel your tuition money would have to be well spent if you had to write said exam in an open office solution shared with loud sales people?
Doesn't the car have a built-in GPS tracker anyway?
Lots of (smaller) towns in Europe are still like this. It's very difficult to find stores open on Sunday, usually the only ones that are open are the large chain grocery stores.
> I do wish, though, that the article fully grappled with the issue of the 'shabbos goy.' It praises the virtues of having everyone able to participate in a time of separation from work, but then there's this practice where the conveniences of life are still indulged in by having an outsider labor for you.

I'd say the traditional Christian concept of the sabbath is looser and doesn't really require this kind of thing.

In effect I'd say that it is an attitude more concerned with the spirit and less with the letter of the law (so, for instance, I don't think turning on the light is an issue, and putting money on the table for someone to take isn't actually adhering to the prohibition on commerce).
Though a sub 3 mile commute is also easy to serve with transit.

I have a 12 mile bike commute. The bus is an option, but it only runs once an hour.
Yeap! Views are also done by promoters and detractors. Assuming one view per person you could get number of passives as: passives = views - promoters - detractors. Once you have passives, you can compute the NPS.
I recently stumbled upon GAFAM [0] which is a french acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft and google translate auto-translated the page really well. I even went off to some the french sources and google translate handled them all amazingly well.

[0]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
No, I confirm what jbob2000 said: in my country (which is probably different from his), the local taxes (and the state subsidies) go up as density goes up. Those are per inhabitant (and they don't comprise funding for regional equipments, just for the use of the municipality). I think they are a very good proxy for public infrastructure cost.

They are lowest in rural municipalities, then they are small towns, then it gradually grows as you go closer to the centre of a metropolis through the suburbs.

Every single infrastructure work costs a lot more in a dense area. It also needs to be fixed a lot more often, it degrades faster. It also affects negatively more people and businesses. It also cannot be upgraded so easily when population grows (the streets cannot be made larger, or for example at my place I cannot use water any more between 7 and 8 am because there is not enough pressure when everyone pulls water in the morning since every year the neighbourhood gets denser).

Empirically it seems the cost of infrastructure (construction, maintenance, upgrade) grows faster than the number of inhabitants it supports, contrarily to the theory.

And furthermore they are often less efficient: if you compare the speed of transportation in a dense city and in a small city or between small cities, it is night and day. Walking is slower in a dense city, cycling is slower, driving is slower, public transportation is slower... It barely gets compensated by the reduction in distances between origins and destinations. I mean, it often takes close to one hour to do less than 10 km in a dense city or its close suburb by public transportation. You'd do 40-50 km by country bus, or 75 km by car, or 120 km in train in the same time across the countryside. Small cities also barely know about traffic congestion.

I mean, I used to believe that density was a magic bullet since you could pack proportionality more people on the same resource. But the observation showed me otherwise, so I changed my mind.
I started out in the early 80's as a COBOL programmer, learned COBOL at college and JSP (Jackson Structured Programming) which entailed never using GOTO and how to code as such, even how to handle exceptions.

But no, real world my first program was ripped to bits, rewrote and I was shown the error of my ways and why I should use GOTO as it was how everything else was written and others will need to maintain and modify the program throughout it's life. Hence was the company standard. Even had a system engineer point out how much more efficient GOTO was for error handling and efficiency ruled the waves.

So the spaghetti code today may seem silly, but there will be so many historical reasons for the way it is. Alas companies are not keen to refactor old code a bit at a time for something more readable. They all live the dream that one day they will replace the whole system overnight and the angels will sing their praise. But that rarely goes to plan due to legacy factors and how intertwined so many aspects of the various systems are. This and it works, the hardware is fault tolerant. Then the horror stories of failures of others doing as such spread further than any success story.

So you end up at best in many cases seeing some aspects farmed out to a data warehouse running on some x86 server to plicate the increasing demands for marketing and sales statistics and provide them the tools to play away without impacting and stealing the pool of resources they have to keep the existing system just ticking along.

But the likes of CIC's and MQ interfacing make peeling of some layers much easier and was one of the sain approaches when I last was involved in such matters over a decade ago.

Be interested how people migrate such systems today as encountered many a software house who will promise all the tick box's management want to see and fail so very badly.
Quite an article for providing 0 details about what those differing views and cultures actually amounted to.