skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, I think that economics has some very bizarre notions. The over-use of aggregates such as GDP, inflation, and Dow Jones levels frustrates me. It would be nice to have charts that show distributions of these types of measures rather than averages or weighted averages.
Go fullstack with only XML; horror from the XML boom years
When I was your age I thought I'd always play the guitar. It was inconceivable that I would ever not play the guitar. While I wouldn't go so far as to say I don't play anymore, 23 year old me would be appalled at how little I play.

This is just a small example to demonstrate that the things you value now will change. You can't predict how or what will change, but they will :)
Renewables are already cheaper than all other energy sources. No one can provide a waste free nuclear generation strategy.

> Xcel Resource Planning Executive: We Can Buy New Renewables Cheaper Than Existing Fossil Fuels

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/an-interview-wi...
Thanks!

A very interesting read.
It may be money for Castro, but we're talking about identifying an actor using MICE. The original poster was correct, the actor was being coerced. Don't over think it.
> Everyone burned like you and me does this. We own it, because that's the right thing to do. It's the ones who made out like bandits who don't and won't own up to the damage they caused.

Same. Painful, expensive lesson that I own up to for my part (mostly, blissful ignorance…)
Uber's disruption subverted the artificial scarcity of for-hire vehicles.

Lime's disruption did not change the artificial scarcity of public space that isn't dedicated to cars.

Public space in the NY metro area is largely devoted to car driving and car parking. An Uber car can tap into this vast resource, but a Lime bike cannot. Things that are not cars are forced to compete for the scarce non-car space. This includes pedestrians, Lime bikes, and garbage bins. Note that Uber is only significantly controversial in places like Manhattan, where car-dedicated space is most scarce.

I think this is part of why these two types of companies have (mostly) fallen on opposite sides of public opinion.
It looks like they meant to change a default setting, which users expect, but instead overrode settings, which should only be used to fix bugs.
They're able to push a new OS. How can they do that without being able to change your settings?
Exploring an Abandoned Toys “R” Us
It shows that your idea of the 'American Dream' is nearly completely dead and a thing of history. The 'American' Dream exists in other first world countries far more than it does here.

If you need another source that social mobility is 'poor' in the USA [1]

[1] http://www.poverty.ac.uk/report-usa-inequality-social-mobili...
DDG is known to be backed by Yandex search engine.
This means that your request's metadata is already reported to Russian government services.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-partnership-between-Yande...
https://duck.co/forum/thread/2725/yandex-partnership
In February my daily driver machine for development, VMs, "normal work", etc. will begin it's tenth year.

It's a 2009 Mac Pro. I don't notice any slowness or issues. Have not needed to replace anything. Have not upgraded beyond the original 8GB of RAM.

I just loaded El Cap on it this past year (latest OSX release it will take without a firmware upgrade) and plan to continue using it for years ...
I worked somewhere that did 9 hour days with every other Friday off. It basically made Fridays unproductive because half the company was off every Friday and it seemed like you always ended up needing to talk to someone who was off that Friday in order to make progress.

I certainly liked the Fridays off. But, I'd say the 9 hours part was not optimal. Salaried employees typically already put in that much time so it didn't affect them. Hourly employees didn't seem to be that much more productive. They were just there longer and probably took slightly longer lunches...

I feel like just instilling a hard working culture and giving the whole company every other Friday off would have been better for productivity.
> I believe that each org filters down their group to a certain mix of personalities that are tolerable (cultural fit). The more critical someone is, the slightly more that people will tolerate in exchange for what they contribute.

While I think that's true, I don't think it's scalable. You can get a startup off the ground with a team of 20 and a serious bro culture. But the bigger you get and the more touchpoints you have with the outside world, the more an inclusive company culture becomes an advantage.

It's not as simple as saying inclusivity is necessary. It obviously isn't. After all, you can build large systems on architectures that scale poorly, too. But I do believe it's a long-term advantage.
Al Pendray in the documentary also wrote a book about Wootz and explained why he believes the technique was 'lost to history':

> The smiths that produced the high-quality blades would most likely have kept the process for making these blades a closely guarded secret to be passed on only to their apprentices. The smiths would be able to teach the apprentices the second and third points listed, but point one is something they would not have known. There is no difference in physical appearance between an ingot with the proper minor elements present and one without. Suppose that during several generations all of the ingots from India were coming from an ore body with the proper amount of minor elements present, and blades with good patterns were being produced. Then, after a few centuries, the ore source may have been exhausted or become inaccessible to the smithing community; therefore, the technique no longer worked. With time, the smiths who knew about the technique died out without passing it on to their apprentices (since it no longer worked), so even if a similar source was later found, the knowledge was no longer around to exploit it. The possible validity of this theory could be examined if data were available on the level of carbide-forming elements in the various ore deposits in India used to produce wootz steel.

http://www.thetruthaboutknives.com/2017/06/knifemaking-legen...
A tentpole feature of iOS 12 was to improve performance regressions from earlier versions of iOS.
This is the type of task that can be positively gamified.

Give yourself a reward for accomplishing these, if you have a roomate/SO, try to compete in a light way, on doing certain things, such as race to see who can do similarly sized tasks first/best/best-outcome etc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000698
Because most employers can get 9/10x5
Once people's faith in video starts to crumble we may actually see some positive change in that area.
Though do keep in mind, you can lead a horse to water, but can you make them drink?
Unless you founded a non-profit isn't your end goal to "extract money". Your employees should be in it for love though?

I think what you're really talking about is short vs long term gains.

Unless you give your employees the option to achieve long term gains that out weigh the short term gains, they'd be kinda dumb not to focus on short term gains right?

Of course, you'll still get people who focus on short term gains even if long term gains are better, because they might think it's more likely they can find better success moving on to their own version of long term gains, or they think they'll get screwed over if they put all their eggs in your basket.
Nah, we have decades of experience of doing this. And it doesn't really affect size or price either, that was evident back when you had a choice in the matter. It's just that manufacturers would rather sell you a new phone than a new battery.

Shocking, I know...
>> JP: Correct. Formally, Bayesian networks are just efficient
evidence-to-hypothesis inference machines. However, in retrospect, their
success emanated from their ability to “secretly” represent causal knowledge.
In other words, they were almost always constructed with their arrows pointing
from causes to effect, thus achieving modularity. It is only due to our
current understanding of causality that we can reflect back and speculate on
why they were successful; we did not know it then.

Hang on a sec. If Bayesian networks are perfectly capable of representing
causality relations, and in fact they've been doing just that all along
(albeit "secretely") then why the hell do we need a different formalism to
represent causality?

To give an analogy - if we can represent context-free langugaes with regular
automata, then what's the point of context-free languages? Instead, we
classify languages that can be represented by both regular automata and
pushdown automata as regular, and reserve the context-free designation for
languages that cannot be represented by regular (or finite) automata.

In the same way, if causality relations can be represented by Bayesian
networks, then higher-order representations are not really needed, or must be
reserved for some object that Bayesian networks can't represent.

In any case, this is just a huge piece of ret-con. Bayesian networks always
represented causality relations, only they did so "secretly"! That's up there
with the original Klingon's flat heads being the result of a virus infection;
or how Jean Grey didn't really die and it was the Phoenix Force that had taken
her form.
> The likes of Zuckerberg and Bezos have far more power, influence and money than they could ever get by being president

No way. Being President gives you the supreme power. He can launch new policies; which can have a huge impact on your business. His one tweet can send your stock up or down by a good amount
That's pretty awesome, one of my favorite features of Google Finance was how it would show the top daily gainers and losers (but ONLY of companies with market cap >= $1B) It looks like you have it at $100M on the homepage.

Any way you could make a easy to access URL that does the same thing but for market caps >= $1B?

Maybe:

https://bravos.co/gainerslosers/1B
Oh, I'm not going to take a position on Objective-C vice Java (I have some residual fondness for the former, from back in the 90s, but never really used it in anger) — only on the fact (well, in my opinion it's a fact) that Java is in bad taste.
Both sides on the gun debate lie.
I'm pretty sure the parent comment wanted you to talk about Android, where vendors ending software support and updates before the phone is even bought is the norm.
> Why don't victims of domestic abuse leave immediately but stay for years?

Yeah never understood that one either if i'm honest.
But I mean, they write the software on it. Something is going to change every release.

People seem mad that it was a configuration change and not a change in the image that is installed on the device, but I don't see the difference.
I believe this is very person-specific. I can work 10 hours day without any problem. I'd MUCH prefer to work 10 hours a few days and take a day off, or work only in the morning and take afternoon to myself. For me, most weekdays are "lost" days since I work 9:30 to 5:30 then I work out until 7:30 or 8pm. I love cooking elaborate meals so dinner takes me until 9 to 10pm. I like sleeping 7.5 to 8 hours so I have only 2 hours to socialize/chill/read/play a game/watch youtube, which is usually not enough "cooling" time for me. I'd prefer if I worked 9 to 7 instead, then work out, then eat dinner, then sleep but take one more day off for socialization/entertainment I'd enjoy my life better, I think. I don't care that much though, I'm fairly content with my current schedule.
... which Microsoft copied from Motif

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)

Both Windows 3.1 and Amiga OS (Workbench) 2.0 copied the look in 1990.
This version of history doesn't account for the first dotcom boom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
No problem with that - it's a legitimate marketing channel, which in this day and age of digital proliferation, cannot be ignored. No one forced anyone else to read it, but people are obviously searching in a similar fashion and these answers are getting read.
Even though I hate things made out of plastic, plastic IS the right material for building a phone. Plastic is hard to scratch, has grip, is lightweight, and is hard to break.
Feedly still works. I wouldn't be able to follow as many blogs as I do without it.
2005 was still a period of massive hangover for tech startups after the .com collapse. To say that startups as a concept weren't a thing, is misunderstanding the situation. Like the rest of the tech industry, the startup scene has matured and grown.
> But what unpatched security flaws have been reported in older versions of iOS that would allow an attacker to install a keylogger or otherwise exfiltrate user data?

…a jailbreak?
I think life becomes less stressful when you just bang those things out on demand.

How long is it really going to take to glance through those 15 unread tabs? Chances are you'll do a legit sweep of them in 45 seconds and then maybe 1 or 2 things will be worth reading. Before you know it, you just knocked it off your list in 5-10 minutes.

The same can be said for painting that spot on the wall, 10 real minutes end to end and you're done.

Now they are out of your mind instead of piling up between those clean up days where all you think about is "I wish I had time to do all of these things!". I know personally I'm the most happy when my queue is nearly empty.
I'm certain that at least 95% of our code would be safe if you replaced === with ==. We likely have some edge cases that would blow up, but by and large, we don't really depend on the type checking of identity. We write code as if you explicitly declare type on JS.

I don't think using equality is inherently bad. I think that it can lead to a lot of bad habits for junior devs who don't understand some basics about types. I'm not against weak/implicit typing systems, but my experience has taught me that junior devs (and student alike) are prone to errors extending from the type system.
Hand counting of paper ballots is a highly parallel process that can be done quickly at any scale. The only reason to introduce counting machines is so that someone can extract money from it.
Create awesome iOS UI with this GitHub project
It's not for no reason HQ2 will be in the Washington DC area.
AUTOFAC by Philip K. Dick
Well, form the docs there I think there is no on device training but you never know until the new os and hardware is in your hands.
Unfortunately it seems at least one of the people (Cathy Cox) responsible for this system is no longer in a place to be held accountable. She should be tried for negligence, along with the other administrators/politicians that drove deployment of this system.
And this is another angle to the problem. Even if everything was on the level, just the perception of corruption increases cynicism and decreases political engagement.
In Minnesota, we allow on-site observers. They have to follow the rules, but they can watch, and have certain privileges (such as being able to challenge a voter's registration, turning their ballot into a provisional one).
I'd say that isn't the gentrification, but the fact that a wealth individual can "redevelop" a neighborhood, raising the rents of many less fortunate people who have lived there their entire lives.

Rent Stab/Control exists for a reason, had those generations of people not been there, NYC wouldn't be what it is today. But when the entire neighborhood becomes too expensive because of landlords preferring to run hotels, and the only apartment stock that is affordable is the failing NYCHA properties, then I would consider this a gentrification.
> Except he did exactly this, repeatedly and publicly, in his writing, speeches, and policy.

Sure. He pointed a hell of a lot of fingers. He had a special hatred for Jews, yes. He said it publicly, but my point was that it he didn't come to power by solely blaming Jews for everything. The "humiliation" that he felt Germany suffered due to the end of WWI generally played much better.
Chip factory spending to hit all-time high of $67.5B in 2019
The issue is not that the employee is being underpaid (although that is a problem), it's that the underpayment is only possible because the government (i.e. taxpayers) is also giving money to that employee. If that safety net weren't in place then Amazon wouldn't be able to employee these people at these rates since it wouldn't be enough for people to survive on. Essentially, the government is subsidizing Amazon.

Also I'm not sure that someone accepting a specific salary or hourly wage is evidence that they thought it was fair. Employers (especially ones as large as Amazon) can afford to wait far longer for employees than most employees can afford to wait for an employer. I certainly don't think getting paid $20k a year to be a programmer would be fair, but if there no other jobs available to me at that rate then I would be forced to accept it, since I wouldn't survive otherwise.

And if I made $7.25 an hour, I highly doubt I would be able to build up a financial cushion large enough to allow me to quit a job because it didn't pay enough. Even a couple weeks without working probably isn't feasible for somebody trying to support children on $7.25. Leaving a job because it's underpaid and taking the time to find a better one is feasible for professionals, but almost definitely not for many service workers.
France heavily relies on nuclear that's true, but it is trying to find an alternative as old centrals are more expensive to maintain.
Keep a strict routine of exercise and/or aerobic, even at most stressful times. If you fail to keep the routine, use it as a warning sign that the stress level is out control.
Greenspans vulgar comments on labor to congress [1]. First labor is unique, you can't create value or wealth without labor and for the last 40 years policy has been systematically privileging capital above everything else and wages have stagnated.

But either they get their fair equity or someone else is going to have to pay for housing, education, medicare and more, if Bezos and Waltons don't its you or us who are going to be stranded with the bill.

So the middle class already paying a huge chunk of income to renteers and asset inflation by the financial class when not bailing them out them out also have to bankroll poorly paid labor by 'wealth creators' like Bezos and Waltons.

If your grand plan is feudalism and a new class of serfs this is exactly how you would go about creating it. And there are other consequences of a narrow view of wealth and society.

If people are poorly paid then demand is going to tank hence the sudden fascination for UBI by neoliberals and libertarians. And when people are not stable you have an unstable society, things like marriage and stable families goes out of the window, fewer are vested in the future, the pipeline of new workers comes to a standstill and at this point either you start subsidizing families or import labor. May you live in interesting times.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/hh/1997/february/te...
You just shifted the goal posts from power inputs to raw materials, but whatever. Let's have a discussion about production of rare earth elements vs. in-situ leaching of uranium.
Amazon Launches Storefronts Selling Products Only from U.S. SMBs
Unfortunately not available in US iOS app store, though. Wish they would provide it everywhere.
What do you do on the train? Stare off into space?

A lot of people use it as a time for reading, and your phone is the logical thing to use for that purpose.
I'd like to think that branding is extremely important in a business. However, I think the value of branding varies depending on the area of business you're in. Like, a social network is going to rely more on branding than a small paper sales company.
> We should be able to build plants much more cheaply than 50 years ago.

Negatory- access to heavy industry is far more constrained in the US than it used to be. Nuclear plants require huge forges, which are now nearly unavailable in the US. The ones that still exist[1] are used for aircraft and military purposes. In short the increasing size, popularity and profit in large/high performance (fighter jet spars) aircraft has driven the price of the heaviest industry up much higher in the US.

It's a double whammy because heavy industry abroad is also kind of meh, and the complications of shipping cause month or year delays in construction that are incredibly expensive.

IMO the best way to combat this is with small modular reactors, but advanced nuclear is not that. Still, it is better in a number of ways.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Press_Program
Taking more space, yes. Being fragile, really not.

If Apple wants to make resilient devices they'd start by using materials not as fragile as glass or thin aluminium. Say, differentially hardened steel (incl. plated) or advanced composites. Just like watches.

Then, the only problem is extra space for the battery connector. They could even sell users a prismatic pouch with no plastic shell as the battery.

The actual tricky part is that integrated battery allows better cooling by use of messy thermal compound. You could have a foam thermal pad instead below the battery cover.
> I really hate how electronic voting machines instant tally elections.

I understand the sentiment, but I dont think entertainment should be any kind of factor in this decision.

> I shouldn't have to trust people.

Verification systems are great (I fully endorse the electronic-for-convenience-backed-by-paper system), but ALL systems require that you trust people. The key is to have sufficient verification, both instant and later, to make fraud difficult, detectable, and provable.
If you have a business in a country and cannot afford to pay your workers high enough wages that they can afford to live without society subsidizing them. Then you cannot afford to run your business and are stealing money from the society you are in.

This concept that people are welfare bums when they are working is incorrect. Their employers are the welfare bums.

If you want to use the infrastructure to run a business pay your people enough to live.
"The new page will feature over 1 million products from almost 20,000 companies, along with curated collections, deals, videos, and stories highlighting individual companies. Each week, there will be a featured “Storefront of the Week” for a specific company selling on Amazon, along with a series of “Meet the Business Owner” profiles...

The definition of what Amazon considers a “US small and medium-sized business” also seems pretty flexible. There’s the Little Flower Soap Company, which is set to be the subject of Amazon’s “first-ever national television commercial featuring real businesses that sell on Amazon” (an incredibly specific milestone that essentially means nothing to anyone who doesn’t work at Amazon). But the storefront also features wholly digital products like Kindle Unlimited books that are only debatably a “US-based business” and major tech products like the Eero mesh Wi-Fi router, the ChefSteps Joule, and the Essential Phone. Those probably not what most people have in mind when they think of homegrown American small business."
I'm assuming that at some point, there will be very few new features to get people to upgrade. I think we're already seeing a slowdown.
not the greatest source but still informative

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150220083916.h...
Is the customer at the centre of your current development project?
I think a company or a maker does have the right to measure how many people are using their product. As long as they constrain their collection to that, I think it's reasonable.

The payload (sent via query param) seems to include locale, OS and browser (among with a couple other pieces of info that may or may not be related to the user vs. the page).