skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like what specifically?

Owning an electric vehicle. I'm currently starting a house remodel, if I could afford the solar roof, I would get one. I still may get the power wall as an energy backup. The price points of these are all high, but the assumption is that as the tech and supply improve, the price drops.

> Concentration of wealth to him personally at the expense of my tax dollars

Agree Elon has accumulated a lot of wealth but he also invests a lot of his wealth into businesses and takes risks with his money. Capitalism rewards people with more wealth if they are good at what they do, I don't mind that. I also don't think he hoards it in the same way as other billionaires. RE Subsidies - other energy companies also receive large subsidies. I may not agree with subsidizing these companies but I prefer to subsidize clean energy ventures vs coal.

> Tesla is questionably a sustainable company.

We should all find out in the next year or two, will be fun to watch.

> I think Musk is a visionary from a product/market perspective, but his operating capabilities are questionable.

If first part is true, does second part matter? Not to me.

> You don't need cheerleaders for a more sustainable environment, you need paying customers of environmentally friendly products/services and operators who are fiscally responsible to deliver those goods. I would be cheering like you if he spent more time figuring out how to make his supply chain sustainable and less time touting himself on twitter and attacking his perceived enemies.

Totally agree with you on this part.

> I grew up watching Michael Jordan and was a huge fan of what MJ did for the game of basketball. As I grew older, I learned he has a huge gambling problem (that got him into a lot of trouble), he regularly bullied players (teammates and friendly opponents) and is generally not a likable person.

Good points. I think Elon should give his teams more credit and I've read stories he can be an asshole- I'm not a supporter of the Steve Jobs bullying mindset and believe you can succeed while being nice. Maybe this is one of his biggest areas for improvement. But I've also seen a lot of interviews where Elon seems sensitive, kind of misunderstood and like he really cares about doing a good job and doing the right thing. He's definitely not perfect and I think people expect him to be which has got to be tough.
That's a lot of sets. I've have you tried out deep-model? I've had varying success with this, essentially it creates a proxy object that wraps, its a computed property on your component. If vuex is too much for your application, but you're using that many $sets for whatever reason, maybe it would help?
I wrote my own system for capturing and organizing information (https://lobste.rs/s/ord0rg/does_anyone_else_keep_their_own_k...), so I understand the desire to fiddle with your own system.

That said, the list of literally 20 different ways of storing your Tiddlywiki data is user-hostile. Don't tell me that you have a Node server and a PHP server, just give me the easiest way to self-host, how to use Dropbox/Google Drive, or perhaps one more option. You can include a link to "other options", but don't put them front and center.

Even open-source tools that appeal to us nerds need some attention to marketing.
Sounds like a classic case of "not thinking things through properly at the beginning".

I wonder how freeBSD engineered this...Linux appears to grow organically at times.
That’s presuming individual private ownership of those vehicles. Detroit seems convinced that a fleet approach (think Uber without the driver) is the most likely outcome. In this case, the fleet moves around as needs require, generating revenue as riders are hailing then moving to an inexpensive staging area when demand decreases.
On our side of the pond you only get paid the corresponding of your full salary based on what you discount for social security. In your example, if he's getting 40m a year, then he's also paying the corresponding social security for a 40m/y income.
If you write your docs in RST or Markdown, readthedocs is also a great choice. With a GitHub webhook they'll automatically build and publish your docs. Point your own domain at it and it couldn't be easier.
I'm curious about where the story happens? I've played a rogue-like (Pixel Dungeon), while I found it fun, I didn't think it had much of a story. Are others better?
I learned this painful lesson 8 years ago indirectly, working a mobile app studio. The app store, like games and music are superstar markets and the vast majority will fail, even if you've spent 3000 hours on it.

That what makes stardew valley so crazy, because the %99 outcome of someone who works like him is failure and wasting 3-4 years of your life.

At this point, I would do the 'test if there is demand method' before seriously making a game. You make a MVP of a game, as a hobby, promote it a bit and then commence with marketing it with a kickstarter or patreon. If it gains enough traction, then you commence working on it seriously, otherwise stop or keep it as a pure hobby. Once your done release the full version for free or a nominal price. Add time release tiers for early access and so on to incentivize subscribing and supporting.

This probably means for games you need to do a whole bunch of art first more than programming.
The history of the canal itself is pretty interesting. It was an effort started by the French, who lost too many workers to tropical diseases (specifically malaria). Then the Americans took over, and one of the reasons they succeeded was they made sure to take preventative measures to protect workers from malaria.
I'm sure the convention will be scrapped once climate change starts to really bite and tens of millions from impoverished countries start heading towards rich countries.

Already Europe is letting thousands drown in the Mediterranean.
It's not about gaming the metric, it's just that the metric doesn't mean very much in the first place. Running a coverage tool during tests won't show you edge cases you forgot to handle in the code under test, it will show you code that's not tested at all. That can sometimes be useful for pointing out blind spots, but you shouldn't derive any confidence in the tests from a high coverage score, even if the people who worked on the project had the best intentions.

Coverage tools could only measure quality of a test suite if you're assuming that either the code is perfect or that the existing tests cover (logically) everything about what they test. Without either of those guarantees, it doesn't tell you anything very meaningful, as you discovered.
Isn't mean probably very, very skewed for this?

Median would be much more interesting.
I also have the same issue. I don't know what to do to resolve it. It's not a deal breaker but it would be nice to have it unwind the stack a little bit.
Why should I pay you, whom will inevitably take a cut on top of the payment processing cut, when I can donate to the developer directly where only the payment processing cut exists? I.e. you arbitrarily have `jq` listed for 2.99 .. why?
I appreciate the idea of allowing utility CLI programs to be monetised by their authors. But it does look at the moment like the site is charging for git, pandoc, etc.

Is any of that money going to the authors?

Of course it is technically legal to charge for these things. But it is unlikely to endear you to the community.
The shielding is bullet-resistant not bullet-proof. They can push a little further than without the ideology but even then there is a limit.
On the other hand, sometimes it's very much not chance. Take stardew valley. It's not like Barone hit some sort of jackpot with his game. It really is head and shoulders above the competition, and that appears to be entirely due to his hard work on it. My evidence for this is that after I played Stardew Valley I was thirsty for more similar farming games, so I played or looked at every single one on steam (there's only about a dozen or so that qualify) and none of them are half the game that stardew valley is. If there were some diamond in the rough, stardew valley-quality game out there that through happenstance never went viral I would have hoped to find it, but no, there really isn't.
Days after posting about the need for cloudflare (and others) to decentralize / split up; and there is this article in the Guardian for the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/30/we-can...

Equating cloudflare tech with nazi bouncers, and killing. Needing to be used to shutdown sites.

with things like this:
>> Cloudflare has built “edge servers” – data centres that store content locally. There are 30 in Europe, including one in London and one in Manchester. The British government cannot regulate the worldwide web, but it could enforce the law in Britain. The anti-fascists at Hope not Hate begged ministers to make Cloudflare’s British operations comply with anti-Nazi legislation.

>> Cloudflare, by contrast, is enabling men who want to kill, not argue.

There was a time when the tech was not easily understood, and the argument of dumb pipes was kind of legit. It seems that time is over, in no small part because tech has not been sticking to their principals (imho).
I can see why they haven't come up with a catchy name for it yet.
The problem now is that all the people using that thought process are producing games that look and feel the same, and use the same ideas, because there are only a handful of prominent markets and sets of needs. (For example, why does almost every popular need to use the same oversaturated color palette?) You're discouraging the kind of artistry that indie dev needs to truly succeed.
Supposedly:

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Apple recently launched MapKitJS: https://developer.apple.com/maps/mapkitjs/
Why not host reproductions in arXiv to build up a name, similar to how devs use github to build a profile.
If it's Pareto-distributed market winning then a lot of the same logic as to why you should do a startup – either do it because it needs to be done, or do it because you want to do it AND can endure all of the hardships, possibly because of how much you want it – should apply. Not everyone can or should do startups.
We're thinking about the problem all wrong. Clearly the way to close the wage gap is to get women to stop having kids.

Of course I'm not serious, but then I personally don't care if there is a wage gap as long as it is not being caused by workplace discrimination against women.

If instead it's the case that the wage gap is caused by women (disproportionately to men) making an informed choice to de-prioritize work in order to prioritize childcare, then I am totally alright with that.

Maybe the impact of the wage gap is too big even if it's caused by women making informed choices. We could choose to offset it directly, for example by subsidizing children -- kind of like a basic income just for kids. By doing it that way we could make the system largely agnostic about whether it's a father or a mother deciding to prioritize childcare over work in any particular case.
> 11b people around 2100

Color me skeptical. If previous prognostications are and indicator, humanity in general cannot predict the future more than 5-10 years out with reasonable accuracy.

Another way of saying this is that the confidence interval on global population estimates 80 years into the future is most likely large enough to render the estimate meaningless.
I have recently started using a MapTiler which has a great features for a reasonable prices. And also as an osm-based alternative i have to say it has really nice UX.
https://www.maptiler.com
Speed of light is a universal physical constant. What you referring is that the space the light has to travel in the optic cable is way bigger then what it would be with straight line of sight between MW towers.
Notion – All-in-one workspace
Looks similar to the Philips Lumify: https://www.lumify.philips.com/web/
Dividing by the number of years is wrong in the other direction: most games will sell far more copies in year 1 than year 10. Restricting each to first-year sales would be a much more realistic adjustment.
Fun questions. I have often considered that there could be life forms coexisting in our space that are completely undetectable to us at our current level of technology. They would not even have to be made of dark matter.
Many creatives likely lean left, IMHO.
It's really not clear how that works. If people keep commuting on a regular schedule, most of the demand is at certain times of day. Now, it's reasonable to ask whether this might not be a forcing function for more varied work schedules as pricing would presumably favor off-peak commuting. But, then, one is inclined to ask, why not the obvious next step--at least part-time work from home--which we can (and many do) today?
You might find this interesting: https://unhosted.org/
Very excited for this, I try to use bedside US daily in my hospitalist work but the portable US in my hospital is on a heavy cart and having to use elevator vs stairs makes it not worth it.

Also, the article makes the common typo writing HIPPA instead of HIPAA. Otherwise great article.
I have been developing new WPF applications during the last couple of years.

Those customers were now thinking of eventually start moving into UWP after the Windows 10 migration was complete, so given this, they will continue using WPF.

Also Forms, WPF and EF 6 support are the major roadmap items for .NET Core 3.0

Node is no match against .NET or Java for those that care about performance.
I used Waze just yesterday, after a couple of years of only using Apple Maps, and was kinda surprised about how weird it was.

The map detail is quite low. It doesn't understand U-turns (turn left, then turn left), it doesn't give lane guidance.

The "watch out" warnings are quite useful though, I suppose.
> 32 bits is suitable for things that can only happen once a frame - (2^32/60) seconds = 2.26 years

What do you mean by a 'frame' and how does 2.26 years relate to a frame?
Note: from 2016.

Discussion from back then, if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12626314
It's not really the fibre that slows down the signal as much as the opto-electrical repeaters that relay the signal many times as it travels vast distances.

Light can only go a few km before it needs to be boosted
In the UK at least, Bing Maps is also excellent; it provides free access to Ordnance Survey 1:25000 and 1:50000 mapping, which is top quality. The OS maps are orthorectified for the Bing projection, so route plans line up properly.
Market, marketing and basic UED on the site are all issues here.

1. why would I pay 7 bucks for this, when something like PUBG is ostensibly free? There is no easy "trial" download (Do I even down load this?) Does it work on my phone (a lot of the low end game market went there.

2. Selling things is hard when your up against free. I dont like the freemium model but free stuff with ad's makes money - give it away and monetize on the back end.

3. Every one pays for customers. Marketing matters and especially in a competitive market. Your going to need to spend money to make money in todays age.
Wasn't Stardew Valley basically built from the earlier game Starbound?
Can be, but .. if you consider the rate of loss of phones amongst people who know and understand 2FA, is it, or is it not better than single factor login?

The absolute loss rate of phones has to be contextually understood.

Also: what do people do when they lose their phones? They notice, and they rapidly cancel them out. So.. if you didn't keep the backup codes you are SoL but if you did.. the 2nd factor can't be abused.
I guess the MS org chart is still accurate:

http://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big-...
Does anyone know how things are leaning as to whether useful quantum computing is even possible/scalable? I recall reading somewhere that it’s an unanswered question, and that people are optimistic but it may be that there’s some undiscovered law of information that forbids it.
This is also why it's impossible to make money in the industry (to a first approximation). Because so many people are willing to do the work for free.
I doubt that is true, do you have numbers for this claim? I see many companies founding limited structures (UG or GmbH) to have avoid maximum personal risk. It can be done with just 1€ of capital.
The problem isn't literally hosting the reproduction study result PDF files when you're done - you could do that on GitHub or anywhere else nobody cares.

The problem is funding the time and resources needed to do the reproduction studies themselves.

> The problem I can see right now with scientific community is that, no one pays you to re-implement the same idea just to confirm that it is correct.
i personally think it would be best to get away from having to have a verb that matches the search engine name.

there are quite a few search options out there these days so telling someone they should specifically search with X when their favourite is Y is being a bit too pushy for my liking. (i still mention ddg sometimes if i think they are using google or something similar)

the other thing is that DuckDuckGo might not always be around or might not always be the best. some new shiney search engine might come along in a few years that is miles better but then everyone would have to start using a different verb when they were only just getting the hang of the last one.

with the old reliable "look it up" or "search for it" you dont have to worry about these problems.

and anyway, did google become the best search engine because it had a good noun or was it because of other reasons? i would personally just like to see DuckDuckGo just focus on making the best search engine they can. that way we wont have to rely on a noun being the only thing stopping it from succeeding. if its one the best people will find it regardless
Thanks for counting, if you'd read them you'd see that I've addressed your points already and you aren't moving the debate on. To reiterate though, supporting parents with a holiday is not the same as supporting children. My dad taking time off doesn't make me healthy, well nourished or smart. Healthy is healthcare, well nourished is money and only god can do smart. Immigration is an alternative to domestic population growth. Domestic population growth or even maintenance is not a positive or necessary outcome. There are alternative approaches such as state-funded childcare or a generally different work culture that would be more effective and fairer to help native-born children.

Hypotheticals aren't a silly debating tactic, they're an important component of logic and reason, see the discovery of SR.

You clearly do not understand the concept of the tyranny of the majority, it's not what this thread is about but since you asked...

The tyranny of the majority refers to the problem with voting systems where anything that 51% agrees to, no matter how unjust, will pass, especially where it harms the 10%. The reason why it does not apply to western democratic systems:
Major changes can require supermajorities.
Constutions and rights laws restrict the range of possible laws that can be passed.
Citizens do not vote directly on outcomes but elect a representative who is expected to consider things more deeply on their behalf.
20 questions game: So yes-or-no binary signal of state.

and the sentence proof of concept
They're completely different games from different teams on the same publisher. I think Starbound released later too.
Kaiser can be very cost effective, but they're no better than anyone else in terms of pushing people out of their cost centers (errr... hospitals). My experience has been that prescription and OTC drugs (even if you're not an active Kaiser member) are especially cheap through Kaiser pharmacies.
You obviously don't want children to be born for some reason. This change is still tangential to your goals. What is is doing is adding an interface of IParent to both men and women so that when companies do their cost benefit analysis men and women are treated equally.

That is the whole change, full stop. If you want to get rid of parental leave so that you don't have to pay a dollar to maintain society, that is a different situation that has nothing to do with this
> [1] first ed. of https://ksiegarnia.pwn.pl/Algorytmy-struktury-danych-i-techn....

ah, instant nostalgia. I loved that one as much as "Writing Computer viruses" :]
> In the group that installed an ad blocker, we find significant increases in both active time spent in the browser (+28% over control) and the number of pages viewed (+15% over control), while seeing no change in the number of searches.

I'm struck by the almost numerical identity of their adblock correlate on page views with the long-term causaleffect on total site traffic I estimated in my banner ad A/B test ( https://www.gwern.net/Ads ) of (15% vs my 14%, 13-16% CI). The unit of analysis isn't the same but they're arguably equivalent.

This is also interestingly parallel to Pandora's giant A/B test: Huang et al 2018's https://davidreiley.com/papers/PandoraListenerDemandCurve.pd... "Measuring Consumer Sensitivity to Audio Advertising: A Field Experiment on Pandora Internet Radio".
Because I’m bored- Googling “cost to desalinate water” gives $2k per family of five, and googling “population of California” gives roughly a population of 40 million. 40mil/5 * 2k == 16 billion (if I’m counting zeroes right.)

So it’s in the ballpark of a percent of California’s total GDP (which is roughly 2 trillion, IIRC) for non-industrial uses. (But industry, including agriculture, is responsible for that GDP- how easily a “dry” Californian economy could support desalination can’t be inferred from these numbers!)
Weird that the example they chose to show is a text editor
Most of the programs that you're publishing on your "app store" have independent monetization channels, including direct donations from their users via accounts that they control. They might be surprised (and annoyed) to discover that you're charging for their work, even if the majority of that money ultimately makes it to them.

As others have pointed out, you probably have the legal right to run this sort of store. However, you should strongly consider consulting each project before listing them -- you might find that many are hostile to this sort of platform, and would prefer not to be hosted on it.
You don't need atonomous vehicles to make this work. A good public transit system within the city, decent bike lanes and some park and ride options for getting in from the outskirts could be enough to make up for the reduced parking options.
Ask your friend to add it ;-)

But more seriously the idea is that if enough people start contributing to the map, there's no reason it can't be as good as Gmaps.

It's already quite good, depending on your area. In some places the government has supplied the data, which is part of the reason some cities or countries are very detailed, while others much less so.
I was asking about open source apps that they are selling on the store without the copyright holders' knowledge or permission. (On the basis that neither knowledge or permission is legally required.)