skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short version: They never had a cash problem. They invested the money they had into developing a car. Turned it into a success. Then invested even more into the next car. Turned it into an even greater success. And so on.

I wonder how profitable this type of 'short opinion piece' journalism is. How much does a journalist get paid to write something like this?

Running some content websites myself which make like $0.001 per visitor, I am surprised this can be sustainable.
For us, a few weeks ago Azure DevOps randomly stopped processing GitHub webhooks, so merge commits didn't trigger builds anymore (and we're not the only ones, see https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/...). A fix for this issue still isn't deployed.

Just a few days ago the service connection to Azure suddenly stopped working with "401 CouldNotFetchAccessTokenForAzureStatusCode" which appeared when deploying to Azure AppService. We had to recreate the service connection to get it working again.

Recently we also wanted to move our Android builds to Azure DevOps but in the end the documentation was so confusing that we just used Bitrise instead.
But the shooter knew that death was a possible outcome as well. He isn't resolved of culpability just because he didn't bother to work out whether shooting was appropriate.
Berlin is going nuts in recent times, it's unbearable. There are literally billboards around the city agitating against Facebook and Google (sic!).

Somehow, the same activists with dubious motivations don't mind domestic entities like infamous credit rating agency or the debt collection agency collecting the public media fee. The public media debt collection agency has the most complete database of who lives where and with whom in the whole country, probably the most comprehensive database on domestic households that exists in the world, certainly in the EU. What about it, fraudulent privacy zealots?
Abelson on Computer Science
The Fable of the Bees
This is a timely post, considering the 2018 Best Illusion of the Year Contest has just posted http://illusionoftheyear.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2018/ .
I don't see it as all the different than a software developer automating a repetitive build/config task, or a test engineer automating some basic functional tests.

Yes, the lawyer bills by the hour. But, a good lawyer will have enough work either way - so they may as well automate the easy stuff, take a reduced rate for that, and still have a full-plate of interesting work at their full hourly rate.
I was impressed first by the fact that whoever designed this particular Lisp system cared about efficiency.

This isn't a particularly unusual approach. Common Lisp, a contemporary Lisp dialect, was designed with efficiency in mind. The approach of "Lisp = slow + inefficient + spending 80% of time on garbage collection" is a myth.
Hello, Community Advocate from GitLab here! I'm happy to hear that your former employer is happy with our product!

If you have more feedback on the things that could be better, we would love to hear more!
I'd say "well that explains everything" after I spent most of my time before a monitor since I was ten.

But I'm not myopic, but astigmatic.
Really? This is a gross generalization, but in any large US city there are places open 24/7 for the most part.
Yes - "Compilerbau" from German is literally "building compilers".
I have decided to not wait until retirement to do things that I want. I don't know if I will have health and money to do things when I retire. I have a full time job and I try to manage my time well so that I have free time and time to pursue hobbies. As a result my career will most likely suffer and overall I will make less money but I am OK with that trade off. I am happier, less stressed out, get time to pursue my hobbies, have more time with family. I think that's a good deal.
Ethereum’s “Difficulty Bomb” Delays
Does this fact that not all cpu cores / processing cores are equal anymore bring back a reason to implement the hardware scheduling mechanisms built into x86 and x64 architecture ? Or is there still a good argument not too use that and to stick with the software method>? (in some hypothetical new operating system)
To add to this - this means it could be enabled in focus/klar nightlies, except they don't have an about:config page. You can build it from source, though!

It's very early days currently so you're not missing anything, but as it gets more stable I'm sure it'll be easier to try out.
Oh, my sweet, summer child.

This could just be the embrace phase.
> CPUs aren't just beefy microcontrollers and they require some extra onchip hardware, but no one has done that yet for some reason

For example, Graphics, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, modem, are all heavily encumbered with patents. Very complex subsystems. Even components that have expired patents or no patents, such as an MMU, are non-trivial to create and take time. I suspect it'll take time before FOSS implementations appear.
I'm rather disappointed that he pirated some software for this. I thought this would be a how-to to help people in the future.

>You can find a copy of the BDFix Pro installer and a keygen here.
Not OP, but is there a way to preview Markdown when writing up your project's Wiki as you are typing?

Alongside this, is there also a way to change the order of Wiki Pages?
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc, are super focused on adding new users and creating an addiction on a massive scale never seen before. Of course it's bad for kids.

Social media, smartphones, and tablets, are the new smoking.
I am a transactional lawyer and I definitely would find value in an application that could issue spot an agreement in seconds. That said, just yesterday I spoke on a panel on the topic of how things can go wrong in a contract. We spent the majority of time talking about the dynamics and challenges that exist outside the agreement in the process of trying to memorialize the parties’ intent in a clear, concise, precise and reasonably complete manner. There are often significant challenges in terms of clearly obtaining the intent and relevant issues from the various stakeholders. And there are dynamics like relative negotiating leverage and psychology or other issues that can drive what the deal will look like regardless of pure legal issues. Also, since one never starts with a blank page, there is the contract template one starts with that must be evaluated against all this – what stays, what goes, what must change and how. Navigating these requires intangible skills, instincts, sensitivity to human dynamics, etc. It’s very much a human endeavor. So a key question is to what extent AI could help with all of these external issues. I have to think that’s much farther down the road. But having help assessing purely legal issues within the document would be a great supplement.

For a good thread on training to be a lawyer through apprenticeship, see this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16255023
If you spoke to someone 1000 years ago, they would also believe the earth is flat, diseases are caused by humors and bloodletting could cure the cold, and that it was ok to burn heretics at the stake. You might have heard but we have progressed a little in the last 1000 years, maybe taking their advice about science based decisions isn't a good plan?
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Serious question, and I'm not a Tesla hater either:

Why does anyone spend $35,000 - $50,000 on a car? It just feels like a number that is at least 5x too high.

A used car from a fairly reputable source can be had for between $3,000 - $6,000, depending on mileage and cosmetic appearance. My 2005 Ford Focus sedan was $3,000 and should last me about 3 years before I need to make a decision about major repairs, so that's less than $100 a month in ammortized costs.

Are there really hundreds of thousands of people who are making $5,000+ a month necessary to justify the purchase of such an expensive vehicle? I'm not far from that number and most of my money still goes to food and rent.
Can you be more specific? “Not having enough money to buy something” sounds like a pretty important factor to miss.
So, you learned it before moocs were invented? The internet was a very different place 15 yrs ago.

I admit that it's easy to just use screen time for distractions. But not everyone does and there is an increasing quantity of learning material available nowadays.

It's actually become hard to find quality material because of the quantity available.

Also: taking notes with a pen takes ages. typing is quicker and needs less attention
Sure, so then stop for a minute and think before voting for, e.g., low density zoning.
I was mainly proposing using paths and added URLs as an interesting tidbit but if you check the Dhall Readme I linked there is an example with content integrity (sha256 checksum). As for versioning: use different URL for different version! Even simple /v1 and /v2 would work.
Is there supposed to be no margin on the right side, or is my phone being an ass?
> Her older son, who has A.D.H.D., would get angry when the screen had to be turned off, she said, which worried her.

Completely anecdotal, but I was chatting with a teacher a couple of months ago, and she said it's actually a common thing with young children that have been raised on screens. They are addicted to their devices and have poor socialization skills, so they tend to throw tantrums when asked to put the devices away to focus on the class itself.
I think you might be interpreting the figure of speech wrong: You can "give someone shit" in a joking or less serious way. It doesn't necessarily end with personal internal crisis. I used to give my buddy shit for being an investment banking associate, "you're helping to cause Wall Street to take over the world, duuuuude!" over a couple of beers.
Montastic. Simple. $5.
> the same activists with dubious motivations don't mind domestic entities

[citation needed]. The examples you mention are widely disliked and fought too. + of course conflating privacy activists and those protesting Google here likely is not very accurate.
> There is a looming issue Ms. Stecher sees in the future: Her husband, who is 39, loves video games and thinks they can be educational and entertaining. She does not.

I'm still peeved so many people hate video games categorically. Age of Empires & Civilization got me into history as a kid and I checked out dozens of books as a result. Plus, the reason I ended up wanting to learn more about computers was to make games myself.
51-156 minutes is crazy to review an NDA. If an NDA is well drafted, I can do it in about 10 minutes. If it's a bit of a mess, maybe 30 min. If it's worse than that, I can assess that in about 5 minutes and propose using a better form.
The posts about how doomed they were did seem a bit severe to me. But on the other hand Musk acts like such a dingus these days it can be hard to know what to think.
Culture is a way for humans to identify themselves in groups and, on a societal level, agree on how to exist. Without some sort of mutual ground in which to meet, it would be difficult to build a society. Cultural appropriation occurs when one culture has taken aspects of another culture without citing their sources, and often occurs in context of the second culture being treated as a lesser culture by the first. This is one of the ways multiple cultures can conflict with each other.

There's nothing wrong with adding your own spin to cultural artifacts so long as there's respect for the people it came from. The lack of respect is where appropriation comes in.

That is to say, there's no truth in culture; it's not a lie, either. It's completely on a different paradigm than can be assumed as objectively true or false. Therefore the negotiations between cultures also function on different paradigms. This black and white thinking is too narrow to appropriately incorporate the nuances of human social dynamics.
He said that the cart page of the software website was blank, the last version of the software was from 2012 and the web page was last updated in 2014, so he had no other option.
>That ship has sailed long long ago...like, 1890 long ago.

In California, at least, that is still the only way become a lawyer without a law degree (called the "Law Office Study Program"). If you forgo law school, you are required to do an apprenticeship in a practicing attorney's office for 4 continuous years (18 hours/week, 48 weeks/year), along with taking various exams and reporting your study progress.

Details here: https://california.lawi.us/law-office-study-program/

California Bar (Section 4.29): https://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/rules/Rules_Ti...
> 90ms is a 90th percentile response time on The Outline. Our post page route is even faster! We got this performance out of the box

That's one of the features you get when using BEAM VM -- your code will likely be scalable out of the box as it's already built out of isolated independent small processes. If you want to handle more requests just run on a bigger machine.

> The Community is wonderful!

I use Erlang mostly but one major thing I admire about Elixir is it's community. Jose and team did a great job there. So it really has both - the great technical stuff, built on BEAM VM which was battle tested for decades, and the great community and tooling.

> As soon as you get data from the external world, cast it into a well known shape.

Good advice. Have sane validation at the edges and then convert data to some internal format that's easy to handle. As opposed to defensively sprinkling validation conditionals everywhere in the core code. That's makes the code cleaner and easier to reason about.
I will wait until Matt Levine analyzes what happened.
Shouldn't we wait for the fully audited FY2018 results before making these bold claims? I feel with Tesla it is always swinging to the extremes.

You could do a lot of accounting magic to make one quarter appear great, but it will show up in the full year's numbers. We have to remember that they have a lot of churn in the financial department, for example the CFO left in April (see https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/elon-mus... )
So you involved yourself in a faction war because of... some things some interviewers said? Please, spare us next time.
It is a globally shared variable.

Really either react notifies or registers the component to the module to exports useState, or more likely useState goes to some react internal api and retrieves the currently running component.

It's as much a global variable as the singleton pattern.
> Another reason is if a thing has been there around for the longest, more people have thought about it. Both quality and quantity of literature of it are higher than others.

Being older doesn’t necessarily mean either quantity or quality of literature will be greater. MUMPS has been around for much longer than Go, for example.
Certainly, you're not suggesting we need a study on whether poverty is stressful or not.

You didn't ask us to imagine if "poverty is stressful"; you made a different claim entirely.
I think the recommended pattern if you need a "conditional effect" would be to just move the `if (expanded)` inside the effect instead of wrapping it.
I'm not saying that he is (though he might be), but the situation is different and the intent given the context of what the person is trying to do is different. These things matter in law.
The World's Smallest Optical Gyroscope
I guess "ycombinator" (a LISP idiom/macro) as subdomain, and the fact that the site code was originally written in LISP, attracts lots of LISPers. I'm personally not a big fan of LISP, much less of the frequent hijacking of threads to degenerate into discussions about sexprs supremacy and other holier-than-though topics.
Because digging trenches with spoons is not a sign of leet skillz, it is a sign of bad resource allocation.
This seems like a good breakdown - but it's also that Tesla (like SpaceX) runs really really close to the edge every time they do a product launch. How many people doubted SpaceX until the Falcon 9 flew? How many until the Falcon 9 landed on land? How many until Falcon 9 Heavy launched? How many are still doubting until Falcon 9 completes it's first manned mission? How many doubted Tesla until the Roadster shipped? The S, the X? The 3? The low cost 3?

It's still a startup - but Elon's companies move fast and take a toll on everyone.... then one day you look up and rockets are landing on barges, and 60% of world wide lithium battery capacity has been grabbed by Tesla, and Tesla suddenly selling the top sedan by revenue, and the fifth by number of units in the US.

Then competitors have to start working and playing like Tesla and SpaceX - the companies have to become more startup like. You can see this in how ArianneSpace and ULA are trying to get to their next generation of vehicles (which won't be competitive in terms of re-usability) and by the increasingly hyperbolic VW statements about "delivering a car as good as any Tesla at half the cost" this morning....

Tesla and SpaceX have multi-year advantages - they have the super charger networks, they have the only facility capable of cranking out the amount of batteries that electric cars need, reusable rockets, dominating market share over all other luxury cars in the wealthiest market in the world, which happens to show signs of becoming more "European", as in much larger luxury market segment then there is in the United States..

It's definitely taken a hit on people's sanity - but you suddenly look up, and the competitive grounds have changed dramatically.
Isn't the derivate relatively easy in C?

#include <stdio.h>

const double delta = 1.0e-6;
double cube(double x) { return x * x * x; }
double deriv(double (*f)(double), double x) { return (f(x+delta) - f(x)) / delta; }

int main()
{
printf("%f", deriv(&cube, 2));
return 0;
}

Am I missing something?
You make it sound so ominous, and the result would in fact be a large positive, rather than a negative.

I mean sure, this would require some metrics as to which links are actually followed versus which ones won't, but there's no need for "pervasive tracking". Google could just get these from it's own employees, or indeed try to extract some of these metrics from 8.8.8.8 (ie. from volunteers)

Given how big Google is, I'm sure the answer is "all of the above", but the end result is: Google places the page where you eventually end up finding what you want high on the search results page. And it does this by getting tiny amounts of help for you from millions of others, anonymously.

So we have no reason to assume any of the methods are nefarious, and the end result of it is definitely useful. More of this, please !
If nobody buys $35,000 cars, where does the supply of reliable 10-year-old $5000 cars come from?
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Maslow's hierarchy has no supporting evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs#Cr...

Individuals can absolutely worry about more than one thing and different needs can change "ranks" daily depending on life circumstances.
> Yet OpenGL doesn't make them support Linux any better.

> So support or not for Metal is not the real reason why they don't want to focus on the Mac.

"But they don't care enough to finish out the QA, or put in any work to make the game actually shippable on that platform.". Mac was a fixed platform, and you used to be able to justify the engineering because the work ultimately helped make your Windows port better ("the end user will have a way out if there's a bunch in their DirectX drivers"), and let your artists do all the work on the tools they were used to. Then if you're running your tooling on Mac, you've been supporting it the whole time and there's very little QA overhead for release since it's a relatively fixed platform. That last part doesn't apply to Linux. This whole time I've been saying it's not just OpenGL->Metal, it's a Nexus of several things all coming together to break the camel's back.

> As for games, Nascar Heat 3, for example.

You know that a game that's less than $50 at release isn't a AAA game, right?
It's always the same everywhere I go, "artists" invading our nice clean spaces, begging for handouts(heroin money). I live near a "creative space" and it's just gross white people puking on each other. I'm going to start calling the police on them and laugh as they are beaten and hopefully shot.
Europe’s parliament calls for full audit of Facebook in wake of breach scandal
The Architecture of Git (2012)
All I can say is that it doesn't cause much friction with our users, or else I would be pushing to change the policy. Can't imagine what you'd be doing for our company that would require all this access. Maybe you're just entitled?
Because someone wants a nice car. You are spending a couple hours a day in your car so if it small, cramped, slow, vibrates a lot why would you subject your self to that especially if you have disposable income.
It's not about whether or not people _should_, it's just that our debt-driven society encourages it. Almost everyone these days seems to get a loan so that they can buy a vehicle they don't have the money for. This is one socially acceptable way to burn a huge chunk of your money.
I'm not a fan of electric cars, but I could see myself putting down such a sum of money for an old Mustang if I had the spending money. For people who spend such a sum of money, it's less about having a transport and it's more about hobbying with it.
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We already have vehicle mileage tracking devices: odometers.

Just have vehicles report their mileage each year when they renew their registration and base the registration tax on that and a multiplier based on vehicle type. To keep people honest, randomly inspect the VIN and mileage at renewal time with big fines for lying.
Dream on
I am equally baffled by people's love of throwing money at cars. When I needed a "new" car two years ago, I asked my mechanic what sort of car they would want from a reliability/value standpoint. I was told Subarus or Toyotas not later than about 2007 were very nice. I spent 3 months watching used listings and wound up with a very low mileage 2006 Rav4 (for ~$10k) and it has been wonderful.
"Want" vs "Need" problem mostly.

There might be comfort features in a more expensive car someone wants, also, new cars come with warranties. Or even certified used tend to be more recent cars with warranties. Car repair can be one of the more expensive unexpected expenses. Not to mention depending on your commute and job detrimental to your life.

Do you live in an expensive area? Seems likes spending most of your income on food and rent at that income level is high.
Show HN: Interview Vetting Platform/Marketplace
https://gatekeeper-frontend.herokuapp.com/

MAde this as a marketplace for people to sell their skills to interview candidates for specific roles. Compared to recruitment agencies/headhunters, the cost is much lower (they charge 10% of salary) and they go through their own filter pool when you might have found your own potitiential candidate and just need a quick "background check"
For the same reason people spend $1200 on a new phone to replace the $800 phone they bought a year ago.
If you're going to presume to take another person's life, you better be completely sure that you're doing the right thing.