skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comparison of the Model T to horses is flawed. It wasn't the first automobile, but rather the first automobile produced on a moving assembly line. In other words, Ford had found a method to make cars, previously expensive and unreliable, into a viable mass market product. It was an improvement on prior automotive manufacturing technology.

What you're missing is that the Model T wasn't competing with horses, considering that production automobiles had been around for decades. It was competing with more expensive, heavier, less user friendly automobiles. The Buick Model 10 cost more, weighed more, and was mechanically inferior with its exposed clutch and user-oiled valve train. It, too, never got sick and puked on the side of the road. The market wasn't "Horse vs Model T", just like it's not "broom vs Roomba" today.

I don't get why it matters that your friend is Filipino or that her relatives have maids. We all know that some people have live-in maids. The question is, at what price point can comparably utile cleaning robots come to market? There will come a time when it costs less to have a robot (and hire an uber to drive the kids) than to have a person doing the same job.

When the technology brings that price point to a competitive level, the business opportunity will be obvious and there will be more investment. And that investment will bring the price down even further due to broader scale and more research money. Just as has happened with cars.

I think anyone who says robot design and manufacture are not going to encounter the quantum leaps that have graced every other technology known to man, is suffering from a lack of imagination and an inability to examine history. Imagine a group of cavemen arguing that stone tools are cheaper and better and more accessible than bronze because metals are too complicated to dig up and refine, fire is hard to deal with, and as a result the accessible bronze tools of the era are defective and poorly forged. They have a point but they are wrong in the long term. Technology advances and becomes cheaper as people find clever new ways to tackle old problems.

Meanwhile, there are always a bunch of uncreative naysayers standing on the sidelines. Obviously, people who say "this idea will never, ever be viable" are not going to be the ones who innovate and make money. For every Thomas Edison, there are a thousand less productive engineers who get frustrated and say "let's just stick to candles and gas lamps."

> human labor is relatively cheap compared to half a million dollars of machine.

Ask a laid off factory worker what he thinks about this.
Maybe that's what attracted the buyer, that this is an early work of AI art.
Accurate. A large portion of internal tooling is developed in Cape Town as well.
Depends on how fast you need to spin it. If you had a reasonably long period, the lighting of the engines and the cancellation of the angular velocity could occur fast enough that the engines would act like they were consistently pointed in one direction.

I think a bigger issue might be that all the mass is at the engines, so the engines would stay nearly fixed with the other end of the rocket rotating rapidly, and pretty much all the propellant would go to the wrong end of the rocket.
Isn't soyuz better than space shuttle on this metric?
that's sketchy and means you are violating your own license.

and since there is no dual licensing or anything that says that the mongodb inc does not do what the license says...
That's a really great overview of the situation. I much preferred this to the Vice article that's also on the HN frontpage.
Algorithm art fetches $432,500 at NY auction: Christie's
My variant is called "combined subtype". It essentially means that while I do distract very easily, I also can become insanely focused on the task with the least path of mental resistance. For example, I am writing this comment when I intended to only read the top stories on HN. I just realized that I was distracted from my original task and that I have spent five minutes describing ADHD. Phew!

Anyways, the CDC article[1] is really good about the symptoms of all three types. Pay attention to the DSM-5 spec if you decide to research further. The old DSM-4 spec from the early 1990s is still quoted sometimes even though it's horribly out of date.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/diagnosis.html
is that what produces the citrusy and/or piney scents? god i love that smell, when you open up the jar...i literally salivate from it.....sooooo good.
Regular meditation. Specifically, transcendental meditation in my case. I'm sure other forms can offer equivalent benefits. I committed to twenty minutes, twice a day. It made no demands on me besides the time, and so I could just sit down and do it no matter how my mind or body were feeling. Some days I sink deeply into it, some days less so. But with the regularity and commitment, I never needed to be anxious about which day would go which way.

It became an anchored daily practice that I could start hanging other practices on. If I wanted to develop some other focus or habit, I could just plan to do it before or after a meditation session. And that regularity gave me space for really intentional skills building and habit development, which I had always struggled with.

It also meant I had two anchors in my day where my mood and mind and body could find some kind of center. Again, the precise impact wasn't the same everyday, but it provided a check against things spiraling away like they sometimes can.

And then the other lovely benefit is that it left me needing less sleep at night. I don't nap during my meditations (or very rarely, anyway) but they seem to provide an early down payment against my sleep needs, and so I ended up ahead on total waking time. For 40 minutes of meditation spread throughout the day, my night time sleep needs dropped by an hour or two. It took me a while to realize this had happened, but it did and research seems to confirm the phenomenon. I'm not a Type-A Go Go Go person, but it's nice to have a little extra time in my days!
Perhaps more time is spent driving kids to activities, but a counterpoint is that kids have never had more video games or TV than the present.
My friend, there is a murder epidemic right nearby Cape Town and there is plenty of crime there, I would say more even than Gauteng (Pretoria and Johannesburg)
Zentail (YC S12) Is Hiring – Make Ecommerce Simple (Columbia, MD)
I hate to break it to you, but that's about every manufacturer now. Imagine how it's going to be once "drive-by-wire" becomes the standard. I'm right there with you though, wishing stuff stayed a little more repairable and maintainable.
To be honest, I'd say WooCommerce is probably one of the easiest to use solutions for eCommerce. I mean, Magento is complicated enough that whole companies exist around it and where anything less than a VPS is probably not gonna handle it well, and OpenCart is a bit of a car crash when it comes to figuring out where to get support/decent plugins/documentation. Given those types of alternatives, well, at least WooCommerce is simple enough to pick up for someone who's used WordPress before, and doesn't require learning a whole second overly bloated/complicated CMS system to set up.

What is the best solution for a decent shop nowadays? At least if you want to host it yourself and not rely on a service like Shopify?
And you can do that for $2000, which is $430000 cheaper than that one painting.
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Depends on who knew about it, and what it means to them. Once its out, its out. Even if its a friend, he’ll have to accept certain consequences lest you reap greater retribution.

But because its a friend, you can lighten the burden. The golden parachute, not pursuing the case beyond the minimum, not bringing it up in hiring recommendations, etc.

If its already beyond his friend circle, then some kind of punishment is required; but only just enough to get everyone to shut up about it.
One personal example was pointing out that referring to "white brogrammer culture" is sexist, racist, and insulting. I didn't get fired, but I had to talk to a few people in HR because of it.

Here's a tech CEO claiming: "In today’s climate, failure to express a progressive stance on diversity can make you a professional pariah" https://www.fastcompany.com/40524955/i-accidentally-built-a-...

Being so sure my claim isn't true, can you cite examples of someone criticizing intersectionality in tech, and it not leading to controversy?
This is what the future of food will look like
>FOSTA has slaughtered many avenues of sourcing research chemicals

FOSTA was the "Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act," and the bill seemed solely focused on that topic. I'm also not seeing any other bill that would obviously lead to that happening, but I only looked at the titles.
>you didn’t want to put the small bit of extra effort required to make money off the thing

I agree with you, except for the words "small bit". As an inventor, with a few issued and pending patents under my belt, I can assure you that bringing an invention (software or hardware) to market is no small feat.

For me, concieving of crafty algorithms or a new device is the easy part. Even writing a patent, whild time consuming, is straight forward. However, getting people to buy said inventions and establishing an efficient "supply chain", for me, is the excrutiatingly hard part. For some, this part comes naturally, and it's the act of invention that is tough. For a lucky select few, they are talented at both. Still, the requisite investment of time and money is generally not small.
My laptop (~99% work only) setup is ZFS root + Gentoo on XPS15: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dell_XPS_15_9560 ... but switched from Mac (vs. Windows) after yet another stupid hardware error and Apple quoting more than the price of the thing to fix it. Haven't used Windows personally in over a decade. Manage to game a bit, but in general don't have time anymore. However, just specced a couple of Ryzen workstations at work, and they will run Windows. More expensive than I expected. I don't built machines that often anymore. Since when did you need 700W of power and a dedicated graphics card because CPU doesn't support built-in graphics chip? This is truly a new world. :)
This is interesting.

With Serverless Function and Serverless Database (Dynamo,Cloud Datastore etc..) setting up something like this would basically take a few minutes.

The biggest value rely lies in the UI and the UX and all the extra stuff that comes with it , like having pretty Analytics .
I wonder if the person who bought it will sue for damages when the AI program is inevitably used to spit out millions of similar portraits on demand.
Vice is trash
Intel Q3 profit jumps 42%, beats estimates
You don't need Javascript to implement a switch that changes from light mode to dark mode. That can be easily done in CSS. I've done it on web sites to switch to a high-contrast color scheme for people with vision difficulties.
Large swathes of the Western Cape have very reliable electricity, and I would assume that these areas are being targeted for availability zones
I would point out that you may be getting downvoted not by Google fans, but for suggesting Sundar could do something, or even, isn't part of the problem. Google's misconduct goes all the way to the top, above him.

Larry Page (Sundar's boss) has been involved in this and other coverups of executive misconduct, having made the decision to give people like Andy Rubin and Amit Singhal large severances and allow them to "move on" to other things.

Sergey Brin (also Sundar's boss) stated that the whole purpose of having female employees at Google was so he could sleep with them. While working on Google Glass, he had an affair with a member of the Glass team that was fairly publicized at the time.

Eric Schmidt (recently chairman of Alphabet's board, over Google) put his mistress on payroll once as a consultant. Supposedly, he was the "adult in the room" of this organization.

David Drummond (chief legal officer of Alphabet, also over Google) had an affair with an underling, and only admitted it in accordance with company policy after she had his kids. She lost her job because of it.

It's likely the only way to clean house at Alphabet/Google is to break it up and sell it off, ideally in a manner that doesn't make the very people responsible for these transgressions even more rich.
Expedia Buys Pillow and ApartmentJet, Moves More into Airbnb’s Turf
This is where I'm falling on it. What started as initial excitement over a lens-like addition started to feel more like black magic once I realized that it relies _a lot_ on implicit ordering just to preserve a seemingly simple usage pattern.

While it may _look_ nice to be able to just call `useEffect` and have it infer the rest, it just ends up masking the flow of a hidden parameter into that component, and convolutes the user's understanding of what React is actually doing.
This Rubin story isn't about sexual harassment. Some woman dated him and then decided she was "coerced" (how?) into doing something she late regretted. Given the modern notion some women have developed that they can change their mind about whether an act was consensual at any time, even retroactively, it's not at all clear Rubin did anything wrong beyond adultery. After all have only this woman's word for it.
That is interesting. I confirmed those numbers looking at the actual census data. The changes you mention are much less pronounced if you remove no-income households from the data though. Perhaps no-income households should be included in the 2 or more stat - since one could make a case for that category being the people who "gave up" because they couldn't keep up with expenses. I wonder what other things might be unaccounted for that could make the data "seem" this way - or perhaps my anecdata is just wrong. Also, the data doesn't go back further than 1980. I wonder what it would show if we had it back to 1970.

[Edit] Just another thought - that data does not break down the households into percentiles for total household income. I would expect that the fraction of multi and no income households w.r.t. total households has increased more on the lower income side of the spectrum than the middle/upper end. It also doesn't account for how much each earner brings in - which is related to the weekly hours stat in your source - I'd expect this to be even more influenced by accounting for income quintiles (or quartiles).
As a burner myself this makes me really sad that this is what people are going to think of Burning Man. Many people absolutely do bring their mother and wear whatever they want to the burn. It’s sad to consider those were done as guarding measures in this case.

There is a movement to get “Consent” ratified as the 11th principle, and I have to image for most of the people who aren’t for it, it’s because they don’t see the image problem the event has from stories like this, and wonder why people need to be reminded of something as basic as “Consent”. Well, here is why.
I absolutely do not want this event I have fallen in love with to be associated with executives hitting on people and pushing drugs.
Two-word comment: "Thank you"
fornicating

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think in cases like this they mean "programming" in the same way we use "cooking". Almost everyone can 'cook' at least a few things but only a few people are actual "cooks".

You could buy a commercial product to do what's fairly trivial (write to a couple of HW registers) that only support select models (because they all have their own registers/addresses). You could also just learn what HW registers are and some general techniques to change them and figure it out for any model that rolls in the shop as you need it. The better mechanics can even extrapolate fixes to completely new but related issues.
Google CEO memo says 48 fired for sexual misconduct
Original title: "Google CEO admits company had a sexual harassment problem — says it has fired 48 employees for sexual misconduct" (32 characters too long)
are there any crowd funded equity raise out there? whats the overall process like compared to traditional money raise?

because i feel like that is the best alternative to this 2013 article, it lets you bypass the whole problem of having to know an investor, mind you, is not necessarily a rewarding experience.

the fact is any one that has managed a small portfolio with or without wins is tough to tell apart from each other. when you have certain amount of money it buys you a comfortable cushion to fall back on despite your failures and still come across as successful, but in fact you are a horrible fucking money manager/investor who happened to get lucky in the 90s through ultimately being exposed to an environment where wealth and poverty divide is particularly wide in a massive city.

a crowd source equity fund raise, not much different from an ICO apart the added rigor (one ICO had some Russian dude in a drag posing as HR, switching gender and hair color for different roles filled by the same person, exit scammed with an anti-semetic pepe meme), equalizes the power balance between investor and innovator from what was a master-slave relationship to many masters-slave that is supposed to be more democratic yet fragility is questionable. ex. FUD, fake news causing run on bank vs one investor weathering it out because of #faith

im still not sure what the legality of crowd equity raising is in canada but this is what i decided to pursue now.
React was never a view-only library.

Pete Hunt always said he saw React components as mini MVC modules.

it's even less true nowadays with features like Context or suspense to supplement the component states. Redux was kind of a temporary hack.
Rent is not in the CPI. That's what made Shiller's work useful (comparing housing costs and CPI).

Edit: Shiller was wrong (I asked him about this point after a lecture about his work on historical housing prices).
If I don't manage my sleep schedule at all, it tends to become really irregular, and that can make it hard to make early morning or late evening plans.

But I do feel better waking up without an alarm, so I got into a habit of setting one as a failsafe rather than as a trigger to wake. I usually wake up well before it and just turn it off, but once in a while I sleep in until it goes off. By making sure I never sleep past the failsafe time, I avoid having my schedule careen into its extremes.

I find it's a nice sort of compromise between keeping an alarm and not.
Bizarre Particles Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice Might Shatter Modern Physics
This is great news for companies operating in South Africa that often face unreasonable latencies or costs of maintaining data centers here. Protectionist laws wrt electronics and lack of competition have led to high prices for smaller companies. Excited to see what this does for the startup scene here.
Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Results
It seems like it would take a very long time for a small number of residents to produce enough bricks to build anything via this method. Then again, it could still be more practical than utilizing local materials, particularly in the very early stages of colonization.
Well, what YC actually says is "not now, but please do apply again twice a year and you might get in eventually". I don't believe there's any point where they'll say you shouldn't bother applying again later.

This is actually quite similar to your description of other VCs.

I mean, if you had to describe how a standard VC firm with the one difference is that they work in batches would reject someone, this is exactly what you'd predict - not right now, but feel free to apply again later. You can even apply in between batches although this isn't encouraged as much. They don't ever want to discourage you from giving them another shot to invest.
> Google has a codified policy

Google has a policy which they don't follow all the time because there are situations where they don't feel it properly addresses the situations to the satisfaction of all parties. That is a policy that doesn't work. I don't disagree with a lot of your points here. I'm just pointing out that people are trying to make what is a very complex issue sound simple. If it was simple the same problem wouldn't keep coming up.

> There are seven billion people on Earth. Executives can find someone outside of their reporting structure to fall in love with. This isn't hard.

And yet you don't control who you fall in love with. And everything we know tells us that you are far more likely to see 1-200 of those 7 billion people every day. And incredibly more likely to have things in common with and fall in love with someone in that much smaller group.

I think the problem here is that people are still people whether they are rich/successful or not. My policy is I don't date coworkers superior, inferior, or otherwise. But I think it's foolish to think that's a policy that everyone can and will adhere to. And that is really the only policy properly addresses all the issue with office romances.
Amazon Q3 Sales up 29% to $56.6b
Right, but you aren't going to raise hell if someone makes more money on your work than you did. That's not the attitude of a craftsman, but business folks think in terms of lost potential revenue and junk like that and thus are not above such things.
> Even mithril.js isn't completely dead.

That's a rather un-generous description of a framework under active development with an active community.
the only naivete I can find in those links is that of the airport workers thinking a light up nametag is a bomb. About as ridiculous as the time boston shut down over some light up LED signs [1]. Something has wires and LED lights? Must be a bomb, no other explanation possible

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic
It sounds to me like he benefited more from this being made public than if things kept quiet. His new startup received 800 million in investment dollars from Google.
And Polish or Hindi or a dozen other languages will give you insights in the UK.

Looking at https://blog.udemy.com/how-many-countries-speak-spanish/ tells me that outside of the Americas, I can use Spanish in

Spain
Gibraltar (which is painfully British)
Andorra

It makes sense for Americans to take Spanish as a second language, but for Europe; Arabic and Russian are in countries that are far closer, French and German are more widely spoken in Europe. Spanish is only useful if you go to Spain on holiday, and then not in the normal resorts.
Oh great. Another React feature that relies on creating anonymous functions every time your component renders.

I presume this is now adequately fast in the various JITs in use, because I seem to remember this being one of the major bottlenecks React developers were instructed to avoid doing at all costs.
Fast Vector Broadcasting in Clojure, Java, CPU and CUDA