skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're overlooking Borland, Metrowerks, Micro Focus, etc.

If you're thinking of companies that are still making shit-tons of money productizing programming languages/environments today, Microsoft is the major player, but it's a battle even they are losing. They just open-sourced .NET, their programming bread and butter.
For differing values of configuration, yes you do, via scripts you rely on. Your build process based on others' scripts is the same philosophy.
Interesting and related note; the link between energy and GDP has been steadily decoupling at a brisk pace since 1970 [1]. I might be mis-remembering, but I ran the numbers on this and I recall the trend being fairly steady up to about 1970.

There are two ways to spin that; the first and usual way is that we've entered an enlightened new era of services and efficiency where we do not need energy to achieve desired outcomes. The negative spin is that from 1970 GDP growth ceased to be a strong indicator of real improvements.

Maybe the difference is made up in embedded energy in imports; but the US population isn't behaving like a group experiencing exponential growth. Given the industrial base currently in existence, even 2% growth should be crazy improvements on quality of life. Like, for everything an ordinary person had 10 years ago they should have 1.2 things now. Instead the situation could be interpreted as a slow-burn voter revolt brewing against the establishment who run the country. Or I could be clueless.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=10191
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> Look around, and you can see the lingering effects of the financial crisis just about everywhere — everywhere, that is, except in the most commonly cited economic statistics. So who are you going to believe: Those statistics, or your own eyes?

Not an auspicious start, David. People believe lots of things that aren't true, for example that crime is going up. That's why reliance on objective measures is crucial.

Of course, the larger point about using the right measures is well taken. But switching to new measures to validate your preconceived gut feeling is fraught with peril. For example, labor force participation rate, which measures the non-institutional population 16 and older, is down to 62% from a peak of 67% in 2000: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2016/article/labor-force-partic... (from 67% to 62%). Is it because discouraged workers are leaving the workforce? Not really--the labor force participation rate of high-school and college-aged people (ages 16-24) is down dramatically. But the rate among those aged 25-55 is down just a few points.
>As if, if the same person was murdered with a gun, the message would be lost?

Yes, because any criminal organization can easily obtain a gun, whereas novichok is much more difficult to obtain.

>but still be able to deny doing anything and avoid all the BS hoopla going on now.

They don't want to avoid all the "BS hoopla". This is a deliberate provocation.
being forced into strangers’ armpits is not the kind of interaction I am looking forward to. Of course, “happens only during rush hours”. Sorry, but I actually lived in an Eastern European city and had to commute like that to work.
I think that's okay, because those large, multi-person codebases are precisely the ones which pay a huge cost for premature abstraction.

Too much copy-pasta is a great reason to refactor.
There are sooo many things that you need to do to make cycling in winter possible; snow must be cleared, you need special tires, you need extra warm weather gear, you need to wait for the blizzard to end, etc. etc.

Or I could just get in my car with a light jacket and blast the heat. Rain, shine, snow, blizzard, whatever. I'm good.
i knew an 80 year old who cycled a fair bit every day, and this guy was not exactly in great shape. he just had a nice little bike with a lot of gears so he could ride it at a comfortable pace
Very cool work, this reminds me of the nano engineer's workstations in Stephenson's Diamond Age.

I really think these sort of tools will get exponentially more powerful with some sort of force feedback. Imagine if you were able to feel the repulsive and attractive forces of the atoms while designing. Allowing the human mind to interact so directly with this world will enable molecule designers an intuition that I think is just not possible today.
I've got a foldable Bluetooth keyboard and my phone supports Miracast, and for brief moments at a time I can pretend I have a weirdly small laptop.

It's a "present"/"past-future" that Microsoft envisioned years back that we have all the technical solutions, just not all the practical solutions. Android is too fragmented to sell such a vision wholesale across the platform, and Apple too disinterested, too invested/stuck in keeping devices to specific niches (because it sells more devices).
I really like the page. I really enjoyed going through the list. One suggestion would be to add python/javascript generator functions to the list.
We should talk more about the frame in which this "economy" is having ups and downs. That frame is cheap fossile energy. It's about to collapse.
Of course, that narrative is a farce. But it plays on "look at how the western world is evil" and other forms of "white guilt".

No wonder Stockholm Syndrome is a western thing.

Sadists don't need a reason, they just need a "reasoning"
> You can be doing everything right and, whoops, your house just gets blown up out of nowhere.

Yes, but this idea of "right" and insulation or exemption from problems is derived from a protestant belief system which is a major part of American culture.

Although the concept can be helpful in navigating life, it is totally unrelated to reality.

I think recognizing how this notion came to be can help with the cognitive dissonance and move you closer to acceptance.
At least here in Germany you also get tax breaks for long commutes. Something like 30 cents per kilometer per day iirc. We also subsidize parking spots in cities. Often they are free and if they aren't they are much cheaper than the space they consume.
Do you have Yeti/Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Harry and the Henderson's type bike? Or skinny tires and determination? The commute is about 45 minutes in the summer, so in the winter that's a long time to be cold.
9/11 didn't really spawn ISIL either.

ISIL is really a function of the Arab spring, spawned by a general popular Arab uprising, which was spawned by a singular uprising in Tunisia, spawned by a single man committing suicide, spawned by Manning's blind cable releases.

The financial crises was global, and nearly brought the American economic system down, I don't think people realize how close we came to serious disaster. The President handed out 1 Trillion dollars in 'magic dollars' to quelch the system it was crazy. It affected everyone in the world. Almost every American was directly affected.

9/11 surely the biggest geopolitical event.
Funny enough, the proposals here remind me an article on site metrics I read recently. To rephrase the relevant bit, "99.9..% uptime is highly misleading if a small number of your customers are simply down all the time."

Unemployment has a long-known flaw cited in the article, especially relevant in this economy: the significant number of adults who have simply given up looking for work, considering it hopeless, and who are therefore not counted in the unemployment statistics.

Any metric gives you just a tiny, keyhole-like view on the world. A big part of the battle is then to understand what your metrics are blinding you to.
Personally, I actually commute to work by motorcycle (not sure why it isn’t more popular in CA). But, of course, like a bicycle, it is not for everyone.
You act like Millenials don't already have children, when the oldest members of that cohort are 37.
It would be nice to have a sectioin with things that work differently in both languages. For example in python `if []:` evaluates to False while in javascript `if ([]) {` evaluates to True.
You keep returning to the fundamental fallacy of thinking of money as a fixed natural resource with its own intrinsic value.

That 5c you give doesn't accomplish anything by itself. If the recipient uses it to buy a slice of bread, the merchant could have just given the slice to him for free. Now you'll say, "The merchant needs the 5c more than I do", but again, no: no-one eats nickels. If the merchant 'needs' the 5c to buy his baby son some milk, again, the dairy could give him the milk for free.

Money is a tool for convincing people to do things. Bezos could use his fortune to convince people to do nice actions to each other, but if he doesn't, those people could still do those nice actions to each other anyway. The surgeon does not literally need the money as if he was going to use the dollar bills as a suture (lol). Paradoxically, by saying Bezos has an obligation to donate money, you're essentially saying Bezos has an obligation to dictate how people should act. Somehow I doubt that was your intention!
Sure, Apple just slows down the whole OS instead.
There’s a whole show hn tab
Isn't that pretty much the standard in economics? Whatever I read about economics they all seem give data their own convenient spin instead of admitting "I don't know".
Not in the U.K., it would seem. The article gives the impression that CBT for insomnia is relatively new there.
I'm switching back to iPhone as soon as the new ones come out in part because of their pro-privacy stance.
Agreed. The value isn’t in it being a tutorial, it’s in it being a quick overview of a language’s idioms as they apply to common tasks.
How to piss off an academic 101.
Yes, lengthening of commute distances, I’d venture are a factor. Weather might also factor in, depending on weather conditions (temps, precip, etc).
The problem here now we have a choice between a bit open phones tracking all your activities and a more closed platform that values privacy more. That's very far from ideal and a new player could bring a lot of fresh air here.
They decided that battery life was more important than performance to most people. I suspect they are right about this.
That's pretty rude.
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Sounds like he may not be suited for remote work.
I've been working remotely full-time for 10+ years now. I'm convinced some personalities just don't do well working remotely. That's not to say they're "bad", just different and would thrive in an office setting. Whereas I seem to thrive working remotely.
Via video game, no less. Well, simulation-y video game. Sort of.
> 1) How am I supposed ro go to the beach with two kids, stuff for picnic and surfboards on a bike

Easy. With a trailer. My wife and I have two bike trailers for our 3 kids. The oldest will often ride her own bike (she is 5) and then when she gets tired, you can throw it in the back and she climbs in.

Another friend of mine has one of those stretched out e-bikes where he hauls his two kids around. Oh, and he sold his car in order to buy it.

> It should be a healthy, safe mix of both.
This is true, but we are no where near the point of a "people jam" (or bike jam) in much of the US/Canada.
nobody has mentioned the other popular cheatsheet called github desktop?
I was thinking it was more like they just announced new iPhones and now they're giving people a reason to upgrade.
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> Either you choose a somewhat open platform, or you choose privacy

Huh? Isn't Linux (the original one, not derivates like Android) relatively private, while being completely open?
"Houston has no zoning laws" is a very misleading meme. It doesn't define zones with strict segregation of residential and commercial use as is typical of most cities' zoning regulations, but it does have laws that impose most of the other restrictions that usually come along zoning and also gives an unusually high level of power to private land use covenants, so they do have de facto zoning if not de jure zoning[1].

[1] https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-h...
I would say that losing a job is better than being bombed (in reference to the wars mentioned by the parent). Naturally, it all depends on your perspective. If you were in a safe nation, then losing a job is a big deal. Of course, the financial criss was a financial crisis because all of the money poured into tech and commodities and not much else. Given the tech-focused nature of this site, our perspective is going to be skewed by that time being one of the most prosperous periods ever (the late 90s probably has it beat).
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This is great, I wanted to able to edit hastebin/pastebin without login and it solves this exact problem. Since the link is not that easily guessable, content integrity should not be a problem.
> Back when I was in middle school (decades ago) my parents got lectured by the school about how they were raising me because I kept getting in trouble for using pads of sticky notes to make short animations of car crashes, explosions, and other typical action movie stuff.

You have to admit they were on to something though, here you are writing stuff on a forum for scary hackers.
Spot on. I have followed a very similar path. Backpacking through SEA for 6 months, then creating a remote work environment back home. But all of it was lonely.

Joining a makerspace and yoga are my favorite things to keep me busy.
"low quality" by what standard? Someone bought them, so they must have met the standard of the purchaser.

Sure, externalities are a problem, but the ability of the market to deliver quality doesn't seem to be.
At the start of my career (when I haven't been earning that much money) Android phones were easier to access, because they were cheaper. At first it baffled my mind at which scale Google is able to provide services for free, but the more experience I personally gained, the more I realised at which cost, my privacy.

Answers to my questions why apple products are way more expensive, even compared to devices with similar features and hardware specs, remained pretty superficial "it's that way" or "apple is just better" weren't obviously satisfying. Blinded by my own conclusion that apple products just sell because of apple fanboyism I remained with google.

Now, in the year of 2018 were everyone is interested in your data im still pretty wishy-washy of getting an iPhone but recent news drive me towards it. But in the end it might be a decision between pest or cholera.
I like that I can put my IPhone in low power mode even if it is at 100 percent. I also like that I can turn off all notifications in one central place. This has helped me lower distractions from the phone. Previously I was on a Nexus 5. Upgrading to newer versions of Android always came with the possibility that my wifi would not work or my cell signal degraded etc.
Heck -- label it Bier for real beer, and Beer for beer with extra crap.

(Disclaimer: I pretty much dislike all beers I've tried, so I don't have a horse in the race)
It matters in terms of understanding how much of the gap in lifespan could be addressed specifically by solely addressing issues on reservations.
That's because it's a known trend:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/josephcoughlin/2018/06/11/mille...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/singletons/201804/sh...

https://www.parents.com/parents-magazine/parents-perspective...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/upshot/americans-are-havi...
Terence Tao is so incredibly interesting and unpretentious. I've often found that math "geniuses" seem to be the least pretentious of the genius level people in academia/stem and I slightly wonder if that's actually true and if so, why?
Except for the warm clothes the same is true for cars. Snow must be cleared, you need special tires, you shouldn't drive during a blizzard. It's just that you've normalized those things when it comes to cars.

When the snow is cleared you are generally fine with normal tires on bikes btw, because you can just go a little slower.
I'm a natural recluse who loves living alone and loves working remotely. I've always been this way. This article didn't resonate with me; I don't get lonely and generally don't desire many social connections or interactions.

My key issue when working from home is staying focused and avoiding distractions. Still haven't found a good solution (I only end up using website blockers a few times before my hedonistic side takes over and just stops using them).

I can be very productive and effective when I'm able to stay concentrated for extended periods of time, but it's tough. I disliked working in an open-ish office, but knowing people could see my screen often pressured me into being productive.
Me too. On any given day, I can be using any of a half dozen languages (C#, powershell, javascript, bash, perl, python, c++, java - our codebase is all over the place). It gets hard to keep the syntax straight on all of them.
What changed between the few-gene era and the polygene era is that we got sequencers that could read the genomes of an entire experimental cohort at reasonable cost. Likewise, when we have the capability to do single-cell profiling of the epigenetic signature of an array of relevant cell types, for every member of your cohort, there’s decent odds biologists will think it ludicrous that we hoped to get meaningful results out of lone, unannotated, out-of-context genomes.

EDIT: I would specify that I'm not saying that experimental biology "doesn't work" or doesn't get meaningful results before the bigger new technology arrives. I think the Slate Star Codex article overstates the helplessness of single-gene theories, which did explain a bunch of diseases and simple attributes, and had significant medical impacts in understanding things like cancer and chemotherapy effectiveness. It just failed to accomplish a set of other things that people wanted, like explaining intelligence or height. Each new advance (cheap genome sequencing, epigenetic readouts, hugely longitudinal metabolomics, molecule-level microscopy, and the hundred-plus advances in this direction we haven't even conceived of yet) expands the territory of what we can address through molecular biology.

Scientists are often really optimistic about whether topics of interest lie inside or without this territory at a given moment, which I think has to do more with the incentives of grant writing than anything else.
In America the "poor" inner cities often produce a tax surplus, which often subsidizes the "rich" suburbs infrastructure. Economic activity per public dollar needs to be a measure that we judge our cities by, not just total output.
The same goes for driving (well, driving safely at least). You need winter tires, you need an ice scraper, probably a snow shovel and other gear. You probably also shouldn't be driving around in a blizzard, either.

Come to Copenhagen or Amsterdam. We bike in all kinds of weather, backed up by great public transport.
I recently saw a presentation that modeled floating point error using Monte Carlo simulation. Any time you introduce uncertainty (such as the sub-ULP rounding error in every operation), you can insert random variation and find which bits end up being stable to find out how good your answer is. While the point was modelling floating point error, it's not hard to extend the idea to modelling the input measurement error in the first place.
The numbers were already inflation-adjusted. Even given my percent-vs-times goof (my bad), the Chinese economy is 130 times more productive than it was 60 years ago.

People are assuming the numbers weren't inflation-adjusted because it's so hard to believe. But it's true.
Same here. Whenever I get caught up in some religious phone OS war I say I chose the platform I hate the least. I wish I could love my iPhone, but there are so many things wrong with it which could easily be solved without compromising anything product wise.
Have you looked into CopperheadOS[1]? I would like to hear your thoughts on it. They even have a store where you can buy Pixel phones flashed with CopperheadOS. They're a bit pricey though ($1000+). I personally would rather flash it myself to save some money.

[1] https://copperhead.co
agreed, but i'd say that mental health IS physical health. if you have depression, you are more likely to get all kinds of cardiovascular diseases, and your likelihood of death -- from any cause -- is vastly increased. it isn't acceptable to suck it up and suffer through mental health episodes like it's seasonal allergies or something. these mental health problems are left unaddressed due to the need to do work -- or more likely, BECAUSE of work -- and that causes people to die younger and live in more misery.
Mind asking, how is life without Play services?
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They actually don't do any of that. Can you link me to 1 article that matches all of your own criteria? Bonus points for that article withstanding the test of time.
Disclaimer, not an economist but work with a bunch of them. Of course, economists are already hyper-aware of focusing on a single measure and of all these issues with specific indicators, and surprise surprise, we have a wealth of alternatives that are published and are freely accessible all the time:

e.g. the BLS already releases all manner of alternative unemployment statistics (see "discouraged workers"): https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

e.g. for income inequality, a crude but well known measure is the Gini index which measures how dispersed incomes are in a population:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINIUSA#0

e.g. Consumer price index is another approach measuring access to basic goods: https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...

Household net worth is another one that the article mentions.

The matter of which number is chosen as the official measure of "goodness" is the real issue and that is a political matter, and because depth of public (and shockingly often policymaker!) discourse on the matter is stuck at "did the thing go up or down". I'm dubious that switching to a different indicator will solve the problem per se - perhaps make it harder to game.
I've always wondered: Why not incorporate search into fundamental internet architecture, like DNS?

Web servers could index everything they serve, and clients could use a standardized protocol to query their neighbors (and their neighbors and so on) to look for all instances of a phrase or image.

Throw in some distributed machine learning into the mix to make everything sound cutting-edge.
9/11 main impact is cementing USA image as unlikable, cowardly, irrational jerk of a country that can happily ignore international community and start two wars (three, if you count fake "war on terrorism") because of one random act of vioilent human stupidity.

Global cultural impact of 9/11 and what followed is huge.

And crisis... You can always make more money.
Calling for better US gov infrastructure still doesn't solve this problem for them. Nor will American or Chinese tech companies. In the meantime I'll take driverless electric cars who are actually making progress pls.

Instead of fantasizing about the day modern nation states are marginally functional at delivering services, like they were half a century ago. Basically everything they touch, especially under the false guise of 'private' partnerships ends up a decade late and 2-4x the cost (in billions). And often delivering only half of what was originally planned.

The less we gamble on such a trainwreck the better IMO. Unless, of course, something changes. But every year and every election it seems to get worse.
Just use FHA mortgage lending rules the same way that they did when they caused zoning rules to be imposed in the first place. Cut off all federal backing of mortgages in cities that have zoning laws.
You already have 'your own' regulator. And it will be as good or better than anything that you are likely to install yourself. Also, having two regulators in series will kill your flow, they need a delta to work with.