skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair, but it would be really interesting to pit an avid MATLAB person against an avid numerical Python person in a data analysis race.

I've found that you can generally do most things you can do with MATLAB in Python, but the experience in MATLAB is buttery smooth while the experience with numerical Python is clunky and obnoxious (whether it be all the useless textual noise in the code itself, the inferior quality of the plotting and visualization capabilities or the fact the Python scientific computing library ecosystem is so disjoint (this thing can handle pandas frames, this other thing needs numpy vectors, this other thing expects Python lists, whatever).

I had high hopes for Julia, I have a test for it. How annoying is it to plot(sin(0:0.01:6*pi)) out of the box? For the extreme challenge question, how annoying is it to also open a new plot window and plot(cos(0:0.01:6:pi)) alongside it. I want to be able to pan around and inspect these complicated functions.

So far, it has not yet passed the qualifiers.
Why doesn't Cowen fund this through the usual deep pockets Mercatus & GMU donor, the Koch brothers?
Sure, alternatives popped up, but wit the friction of finding something free and reliable, in my case at least, it resulted in abandoning my rss sources.
What are you talking about man? You can easily turn it off in "configure inbox" section.
Aren't there cases where low barrier to entry is a liability, not an asset?
Microbes really take advantage of being on the surface of plastics
This isn't a fair assessment.

Startups can't pay BigCo wages because they don't have the money to. They have to leverage other, harder-to-value benefits which BigCo generally can't offer.

Increased responsibility, fewer "rules" on how to execute, more tightly focused mission are a few.

Naturally this differs company to company and there are always bad actors.

The compensation equation works out differently for each individual. Not everyone should work at a startup.
That sounds like how Uber would operate.
I lived under Soviet occupation (in the GDR) for 14 years, thank you very much. It was a relatively good time, compared to, let's say, the stone age.
Hmm, maybe I phrased my original comment incorrectly. I'm not trying to say that self-sufficiency is bad, but rather that loneliness is not entirely bad, and indeed a little neediness maybe appreciated by people close to you. I think at least low levels of this need are present in almost everybody, even many HN stoic types who've come to believe that true self-sufficiency is a worthy goal. Especially for those people, I think paying attention to that kind of loneliness can actually be good.
Yep notes and tasks are part of Gmail's new look (hiding on the right navbar).
Remember, Netflix could always have their clients sent back a bunch of random garbage data to make the peering balanced.

So it doesn't really make sense to argue that they should pay because of the ratio.

It's the end users that are responsible for the Netflix traffic, they're requesting every byte.
How do you recommend that I should think about famines and poverty?

I care about a lot of things. I don't care about everything.

In all, I am probably neutral on way more things than I favor or oppose.

I certainly don't care about efficiency for efficiency's sake. There may be some cases where I am pro-efficiency, and some where I am not.

I would not agree that "Efficiency is better full stop". There is nothing that is "full stop". There is always a dark side.

My grandmother's neighbor being allowed to install a 1000-head livestock operation 1 km from her house would have been more efficient than what she fought for and ended up compromising on with them. That less efficient compromise may have even contributed to greater poverty and possibly some future famine for all I know.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'd be curious to know if something like this has any performance gains over running full Node.js in a microservice architecture under high load.

Feels like if you've got a Node service running in Docker, whether using low.js can reduce the footprint.
It does, but it’s a separate list to the right of email. It’s easy to forget about it. The way Inbox made tasks no different than email was something special. Hit T, type the task out, enter, and it’s now impossible to ignore.
GOOD ARTICLE, THANKS FOR POSTING IT
In the last US census less than 1% reported were farmers. Huge change in demographics in 100 years. A lot of that has been made possible by large agribusinesses. The small guys day's have over for a while.
Music playback from local storage uses a minuscule amount of battery - if you listen all day, you’re going to lose only an hour or so of standby on a modern phone.

You’d be better off spending the same money to buy a battery pack to recharge your phone when it runs low.
Not sure I understand the disagreement here; I think you're right on. I had an mp3 player before the iPod came out; it's not like iPod was the first mp3 player. The iPod had a nice external "look" and great marketing, but functionally it was much more difficult to use than other mp3 players that were available at that time. I was told iTunes worked better on the mac, but my experience using it on the PC was nothing short of painful. Other mp3 players had the capability of of using simple drag-and-drop functionality to move your mp3's over to the player, without the need to learn a new program and without forcing a different idea of music library management on the user.
I read something recently that a doctor researching causes of treatment resistant depression found there were metabolic abnormalities that show up in cerebrospinal fluid but not in blood tests. Unfortunately, blood tests are easier, so that's what is done.
You said 'arbitrarily censored'. Of course you don't think it was for a good reason. My comments are never downvoted for any good reason. :-) In my limited experience, people develop that evil-conspiracy tone you have by assuming it's what they said that wasn't wanted here, not how they said it, which is usually the problem. I'd like to see examples of that. Well, like is too strong. But provide evidence for your claim please, if you can. P.s. So why on earth are you still here on a forum where your comments have been censored many times?!
CA City Blocks 5G Cell Tower Implementation Over Claims That It Can Cause Cancer
Not sure that webpack still depends on `is-odd` (at least not directly). Note that `is-odd` depends on `is-number` facepalm. Some people in this world seem to think their purpose is to create as many JS modules as possible.
If you've worked in large orgs it makes sense.

They had a strategic priority a while back to 'make mail good on mobile' ... whereas now they are folding it all back into the gmail umbrella because the overall strategic impetus would be to be gmail founded.

So, short term strategy now important with the longer term issues of product portfolio. Collapse the 'good bits' of inbox into Gmail and move forward.

You have to consider it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to have two email products at the same time.

The real problem is the new Gmail is not very good.

It still blows my mind how companies with billions of dollars to burn get UI wrong. Like the first Windows 10.
Inbox has a couple of unique and valuable features that exists in no other clients. Sadly the ones I depend on the most.
I don’t have to wear a smartphone on my face.
I think they are highly overrated and underrated at the same time. I think that useful opinions based on the practical experience of making stuff work, are extremely undervalued.

A lot of opinions aren’t bought by experience though. Opinions on the best x, are largely useless in my eyes, and easy to come by. You’ll see it in almost any HN discussion on a specific tech these days. I mean, when is the last time you saw a HN thread about JavaScript where half of it wasn’t a debate on why JS is good/shit and how WASM is the next Jesus?

I wouldn’t call all of those opinions undervalued, because they have no real use and serve no purpose. X is typically terrible and unproductive, but it’s also lovable and very productive. With almost everything there are pros and cons, and the only truly valuable opinions on anything are from people who make it work or crashed trying and then succeeded by doing something else.

I think this world needs a whole lot of “talk is cheap, show me the code”, but once someone actually does the work, I think we should learn from their experience. I think HN has been great at sharing the useful opinions, at least so far.

This was a semi-useless opinion by the way.
One DNA test said he was likely to get Alzheimer’s, the other said he wasn’t
I see some of you commenting about being introvert and liking to be alone, but still feeling the sting of loneliness. I just wanted to share an excerpt from the abstract of Robert Burton's wonderful Anatomy of Melancholy published in 1621. I think the alternating allure of solitude is at the base of being human.

Friends and companions get you gone,
'Tis my desire to be alone;
Ne'er well but when my thoughts and I
Do domineer in privacy.
No Gem, no treasure like to this,
'Tis my delight, my crown, my bliss.
All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as melancholy.

'Tis my sole plague to be alone,
I am a beast, a monster grown,
I will no light nor company,
I find it now my misery.
The scene is turn'd, my joys are gone,
Fear, discontent, and sorrows come.
All my griefs to this are jolly,
Naught so fierce as melancholy.
Most farmers and their direct consumers will buy/sell a portion of their harvest in advance in the form of commodity grain futures. This protects the farmer from dropping prices and their consumer from rising prices. It's one of the reasons why prices don't shift around a ton from winter to summer anymore.

You can also hedge risk against changes in production cost by using instruments that track the difference between raw grains and their immediate products (e.g. Soybean Crush). But that's not really a game the farmer might play.

These systems have their limits, and are really there to protect all parties against sudden shifts caused by external events like drought and international trade. When the trend is long and smooth in one direction there's very little the farmer can do to fix their situation via purely financial means. No baker is going to pre-purchase their wheat at old prices when the market price has been slowly declining for a decade.
As a grain farmer in Canada, I see this year as being one of the better years for commodity prices.

Wheat was back to levels we haven't seen in a long time. Corn has held a little above average. Soybeans have taken a big hit in the last couple of months, but there were some good marketing opportunities earlier in the year. Unless harvest is a complete failure, there doesn't seem to be much to worry about. A welcome change from the last few years when the price was lower.

Not being in the US, I don't necessarily see the effects of the trade war like the US farmer is seeing, so I am unable to comment about that. But as far as the regular market price goes, which the article also raised concern about, I really don't see the issue. The grain farmers should be positioned fairly well right now.
A significant amount of Earth is already made out of neutron star debris. Outside of the extremely high pressure environment it decays to ordinary atomic matter.
I'd be interested in seeing that. Maybe make a table top book full of beautiful photographs?
He has captured the attention of a lot of people.
It would be nice to rename this to "Improvised Firearms" (the article's actual title), as the current title contains an ethnic slur
> Apple cannot know the size of the small iOS device market

What are you talking about, Apple knows this more than anyone. Why do you think they abandoned the SE?
Except for those who got shot when they tried to leave the country.
How many times are you going to post this on different accounts?
I see the multi-generational family farm being doomed as anything more than a niche boutique to make premium-priced organic produce in the next few decades.

The reason for this is automation, though it isn't really touched on by this article. At some point in the near future robots will not only be able to construct greenhouses for growing crops with hydroponics but they'll also be able to do most of the work too.

Look at these examples of hydroponic (vs soil) yields [1]. Hydroponic yields are in typically in the order of 3-10+ tims that of soil. In greenhouses you can control temperature, grow year-round and not have your crop wiped out by inclement weather (barring hurricanes/tornadoes, which may destroy your greenhouses but this is less of an issue than a frost or snowstorm destroying your crop).

When human labour is only minimally required to construct a greenhouse or man it you'll see (IMHO) the biggest change to human food production since the advent of agriculture.

It's also why I'm not particularly worried about the ability of the planet to feed itself. If food were produced this way, Earth could easily support a population of 50-100 billion.

The article mentions that two bad years can lose the farm. The only way to counter such risks is scale. That's why mega-farms are becoming and will become the norm.

Of course along the way I fully expect massive increases in government subsidies because of the political power of farmers (in the US and EU) but you just can't turn back time.

[1] http://uponics.com/hydroponics-yield/
Apple wasn't the first to create the notch. It was Sharp, followed by Essential, followed by Apple. [1]

[1]: https://www.phonearena.com/news/First-notch-phone-Sharp-not-...
In the US, the subprime mortgage lending crisis was caused by good borrowers over leveraging the cheap mortgage rates they could get and buying extra homes to flip. When the money dried up and there was no one to flip to, they went under en mass. If farmers have been over leveraging on farm land, then something similar to a crash makes sense especially if yields are down or prices fall because of surplus.
Also, people gave similar dismissals about the Apple Watch.
Well, this comments starts with "I feel happy..."
Sorry.
A gallon in the stores costs $4-5
I've looked at that too, but to be honest I find it confusing. :/
That was an economic issue - or at least perceived as such contemporarily. This is all second hand recollections so don't take me as an expert or anything. From what I recall of Revelations interpretation much of it was coded political satire like remarks about famine but plenty of wine. Essentially prolonged war harmed citizen-soldier farmers and there was a glut of slaves from their victory over Carthage. That meant the wealthy could benefit from buying up poorly maintained farms and they made more profit from growing grapes for wine than growing grain.

Inequality essentially lead to the famine indirectly. If the major buyers were the people enmasse wine would be less prioritized. Grain shipments would still happen given relative advantage in trade but it wouldn't have had such a dysfunction as food demand would have the proper 'clout'.

I recall hearing about one further irony later in history. One reform that made things even worse for equality was having state supplied armaments instead of citizens being expected to provide their own. It has long been essentially common sense and the way a military seems like it should work. One would think that would be better for equality by allowing rich and poor to fight and advance in status but it helped set up a proto-generalismo situation by having the power derived by the state instead of citizens.
My company switched from AWS to Azure without considering Google's Cloud at all, and the loss of trust is the reason.
So, could you write more than 1/2 a line about that? Like 1/2 a page? I'd be very interested in reading that. Try to sound calm and restrained; it's how you say it rather than what that mostly gets downvotes, it seems to me. And your comment seems like a throwaway, low-effort, pill of resentment. Edit carefully, make every word count. If you're 'the enemy', (I assume you have fallen victim to the 'specific ideology', not sure if that's right) you have to try so much harder than everyone else just to be heard.
>I had high hopes for Julia, I have a test for it. How annoying is it to plot(sin(0:0.01:6*pi)) out of the box? For the extreme challenge question, how annoying is it to also open a new plot window and plot(cos(0:0.01:6:pi)) alongside it. I want to be able to pan around and inspect these complicated functions.

Just use the plot command in Makie.jl? This is a nice first few commands to check the install.
Zip guns

Where's... uh, where's the ethnic slur, precisely?
The term “zip gun” predates the slur. “Zip” means “fast”. As in, “I need a gun now, and can’t wait until I can buy one”.
I never bothered with Inbox because I figured Google would cancel it some day. I understands user's disappointment, but it can't be a surprise. This is what Google does.

It's amazing to me that a company with close to 90 000 employees and that attracts top talent can't find a way to support their services longer than a few years. How much does a handfull of indian engineers and space in their own datacenter cost?
Mysterious new brain cell found in people
Yea but disables other things as well. Like the ability to snooze
> useful opinions based on the practical experience of making stuff work

A kind of opinions from people who are far from being established experts in a particular area are called "a fresh look" and may occasionally happen to be useful too as well as opinions of people who are more of generalists and theorists than specialists and practics. Opinions from skilled experts may occasionally happen to be a way too biased.

> Opinions on the best x are largely useless... half of it wasn’t a debate on why JS is good/shit and how WASM is the next Jesus?

If they uncover a lot about why and do it concisely I would not consider them useless.

That's my opinion :-)
I thought that usually worked out the opposite for farmers. Usually they get land where it is cheap and then once city starts to encroach get the payout. Granted then they aren't farmers anymore unless they buy cheaper land elsewhere.
I have used protonmail for a long time but have now switched to tutanora. The recent 100% rebuild of the webapp is really nice and fast. Android app is also 100% open source on fdroid
I can’t reply to your other comment, but that’s the idea. I’m working on tracking down some of the ones local to me, and have the skill and equipment to take good photos.
The problem is, in companies with billions to burn the design is largely decided upon by people that have no business doing any design.
See https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/ for a good list.
I was a fan boy for a while due to the general Unix geekdom impedance match, and I disliked the Apple ecosystem due to being led by big-ego designers, but I still gotta admit, Apple's incentives are better aligned with the little people's (the end users') interest. In the case of Google the users are the advertisers and you get what you get. I see the decisions play out internally at the adtech company I work for, and it's really nothing sinister, but revenue has a huge influence on decisions and the end user often loses.
I am extremely surprised to have never heard of it before... Maybe I thought it was part of Gmail, I dunno.

I still miss Reader, it had all my favorite websites back in the day.
I've heard the main thing is input lag; dasung it's tolerable for typing but onyx boox it isn't. That video basically doesn't measure it.
I'm the same! I had the very first Android phone, the G1, and countless Android phones after that. I was a huge promoter when Android first came out. I pay for Gmail, Google drive, Google Fi, and use Google voice.

- I've decided I'm going to switch back to FireFox.

- I switch to an iPhone for the first time ever this year.

- I've looked hard into switching to https://www.fastmail.com. I've gone as far as backing up all my emails. (Funnily enough, I was looking into switching to Inbox.)

- I switched over to Dropbox.

- I literally only talk to one person on hangouts now.

- I primarily use Dialpad now. (from the makers of Uber Conference)

- I've been using duckduckgo.com more and more. I tried it
as a daily driver for a bit but eventually went back.
What I mean is that businesses, even small companies, will have a lot more money than any consumer, as any money being paid as wage is decimated to such a large degree.

Spotify, Skype etc are addressing an international market, so the exact situation in Sweden wouldn't affect that much, and also I don't know if e.g. Spotify is even really making that much money yet from customers.
Mutually Assured Destruction saved us all, multiple times.
My time on site went to zero. When I saw this coming after it took forever for Inbox to update for the iPhonex, I moved to Mail.app.

Another annoying side note. Google recently forced the switch from hangouts to meet, and meet video chat doesn’t work in Safari.
Are zip files racist too?

What about zippers, like on your clothes?
> Google's shutdown of products and APIs seems to have led to critical level of trust loss amongst developers and influencers.

Some companies have to care what developers think. (Few, to be frank; developers overestimate their importance.) Many companies have to care what "influencers" think.

But not all, and Google is not part of that "most". Google doesn't have to give a shit because everyone uses Google. They are literally market-saturated at this point. They have no competition and the only material threat in the medium run is a powerful country with a salty antitrust division.

And on your other point, the idea that a company like Google should care about the rounding error of people who care about some B2C thing like Reader shutting down (while many totally-fine alternatives exist) being so personally put out that that colors their analysis of B2B offerings is more than a little silly. If you decide on GCP based frustrations over Google Reader or Google Inbox, you probably aren't clear-headed enough to be making decisions for your company and it's probably a good thing that you are a rounding error besides.

(I use some Google services; I don't use GCP for a variety of reasons completely unrelated to babyraging over a B2C shutdown.)
You can always use an IMAP client and never look back heh
Now that Chrome is moving towards strict site isolation in the wake of Spectre, that advice is probably obsolete -- Chrome will always create a new process for the new tab even if you keep the opener reference.
I believe it may also be related to the sound the bullets make too. Usually you'd be using lower powered ammo and get less of a bang.

See noun form of zip, first definition https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/zip#English
I don’t know, they lost me with this one. They were on their initiation to join the ranks of the evil the last few years, but they’ve really stepped up their game this year and become a full fledged member.

I used to be a 100% Google products user, but my faith that it is fundamentally a good and ethical company has been systematically destroyed in the past years.
They lost my trust with reader. The data collection stuff only confirmed it. I began to self-host my mail, and it's working out really well. I used SOGo, which does contacts and calendar too. For files I used Nextcloud. I use the Nextcloud News app as my reader. All authenticate to my home's LDAP servers, so same username and password, two-factor etc.