skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend's brother owned a construction and landscape company. One of their key philosophies was "You have to know how to write a bill."
A wide range of equipment types, each with different hourly rates, can be used on any one job. Different procedures can be used. Figuring out the combinations that create the greatest "defensible" profit was a widely acknowledged goal of most companies in the space. I am also aware of training companies that do something similar.

It's a common business mindset, unfortunately.
Thirteen years ago, I ripped all my CDs to mp3 onto a new HD. Allowing me to eliminate a cubic yard of jewel-boxes. The HD was later copied to another, then stowed in a carboard box (kept indoors).

Twelve years later, I put the drive into a USB enclosure and copied the contents. The startup and copy went without a hitch, and so far no (audible) decay.

That might work for a large pictures collection. Certainly more trustworthy than existing physical media. (Although CDs I cut in that era are -mostly- still readable.
Such a website would be really interesting and would probably rise some interesting questions and answers and may well be a good idea. However, being a fierce capitalist, I want to draw out the problems this line of thinking has if it is carried to its logical conclusions.

1) At some point people will stop buying coffee due to its price. Where is that point and how do we find it if it is not the one determined by the cafes and customers as is currently the case? If we can double wages and prices are still 'reasonable', why can't we double them again and again? When do we know we've hit 'reasonable'? Who controls what that word means?

2) You've divided a large number (double wages) by a large number (drinks/hr) and come up with a small number. The maths is fine, but the maths is obscuring the fact that the changes are large. I dunno what you are being charged for a coffee, but $0.31 is ~3% of $10 and that is quite large. Anyone who is on a disciplined budget would buy less coffee if coffee is coming out of their discretionary spending.

The argument here might be that coffee is a tiny percent of someone's expenses, but the issue is that the 'only $0.31' thinking doesn't scale. If a bunch of things rise in price by 3% in real terms, consumers with no savings (ie, most consumers) DO have to cut back on something with mathematical certainty.
> In practice, given a person who wants to get clean, what works better than a 12-step program?

For some people, it's fixing whatever drove them to a situation where shooting heroin into their arm is a better decision then not shooting heroin their your arm.

For other people, it's switching a dependency on a street drug to a dependency on a prescription drug.

Telling people that they have zero agency in their lives, and that only Jesus can magically cure them - definitely works for some people, but not for everyone.

AA has a success rate of, depending on which study you cite, between 5% and 25%, over doing nothing.
Advertising, without tracking.
It's a chicken-and-egg problem, no clients to support it because currently it'd be only a client for Fastmail, no servers for it as there are no clients.
How Slack Is Replacing Email in the Workplace
> How so? If that were true, we'd see factory farms lobbying for stronger laws against animal cruelty

Right. And instead they throw their weight behind ag-gag laws, which criminalize whistleblowing on factory farms.

I think that way more people outside than inside do care, it’s just that you have to go seeking this information yourself to find out much, and it’s highly disturbing stuff. So without loud voices pushing people to confront the issue,it’s easy to remain willfully ignorant.
I think much of this technophobia is limited to Germany, same with the banning of neo-Nazis.
Duly noted and that will certainly help me in the future, but I have to point out that plugging in 3.5mm headphones never required knowledge of a super-secret shortcut. You just simply had to plug them in. And even that takes less time than the 3d-touch-media-tray method.
Thank you! I didn't know that.

Tomorrow I'll be flying to NYC and sell all my bitcoin.

I don't want such a risk like kidnapping etc...

I didn't know about these risks before.
Marijuana policy is the epitome of broken American politics. Obsession with money and morality, racism and ignorance driving policy, a tiny minority out-of-touch with what they’re regulating writing the legislation, business regulations that are designed for business not people, and on and on.
And another (in Erlang, 128-bits, but uses the MAC address): https://github.com/boundary/flake
Anyone with any sense of these games work would see that modern games like Fortnite or Overwatch take more skill than typical arena shooters. You still need to have the raw mechanical aim skill, but now there are a host of other mechanical, tactical and cooperative skills to master on top of that.
Interesting. I don't work in the airline space, but I wouldn't be surprised if other sectors had similar laws. So I guess the suggestion is moot.
The UE Marketplace is targeted at developers only and sells assets and such for use in UE games. I was not aware that Steam is competing in that area at all and a cursory search didn't yield any such results.

Of course other marketplaces selling assets exist, but I am not aware that one has a dominant market position that Epic are trying hard to surpass. Please do let me know if that is, in fact, the case.

Or are you implying that better rates in the Marketplace will also make it more likely for developers to publish their games on the Epic Store (disregarding the better rates there)?
I wouldn't want those near where I live, it would a) stink and b) become permanent (no such thing as a temporary government measure).

A better solution would be the German solution: actual pay toilets, where somebody is on premise to ensure cleanliness and that nobody takes drugs there.

The last and most expensive German toilets I have used were about 50 cents a visit, so within pay range of homeless persons. Also, and I can't emphasizes this enough, they were nice, clean and safe.

But America hates pay toilets, so instead there are no toilets.
How can they send authenticated requests if they can't access your cookies and your backend ignores the cookie header?
It's not a gimmick. It's where I see the only chance for arena shooters. Maybe Bethesda treated it that way, but I genuinely believe that's the only hope there is considering how popular MOBAs are.
How is Netflix a cancer though?
It was not possible to increase speed by getting more powerful compute?
I've heard that exact sentence for the past year plus. I'm sure it IS better, but I'm also sure it's still a mess.
I'm pretty sure Google's Spanner uses something like Paxos, but you should fact check that, it might just be for replication.
If these tokens are truly regulated by the state and the ledger is editable by the courts, then there's nothing decentralized about it and it provides no advantages over the current system. All of this talk about decentralization and cutting out the middleman is a mirage.
Really impressed with this project and that it is still going.

What do people use Haiku OS for in the real world (i.e. something more specific than "personal computing")? Or is it just a toy?
Do you see a way to make a fair decentralized social credit score? The rules on which participants are scored should be agreed upon. The system should be tamper-proof. A court is needed too.
What's the TCO difference between Qt and Electron?
Just pointing out that the GP is referring to Canada, not the US.
Attended this talk. I especially liked the fact they try to make it process-independent.
I wonder how much of the next century will be about energy efficiency at all society levels, including everybody
Read Enlightenment Now by Pinker!
soon we'll have libreworld
Perl had this years ago.
Unfortunately no, but some (many?) REST APIs turn the problem on its head by using private autoincrement IDs in the database and public UUIDs with either a direct 1:1 mapping between the two or a mapping that is unique to each user. This is mostly done for security reasons but I'm not sure if it's considered a best practice because it can introduce additional complexity at the sharding and caching levels (among others):

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3714...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15360245/when-using-uuid...

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1394...

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3469...
This is why “build one to throw away” is an anti-pattern. No one ever throws it away, so building it like it’s a prototype means prototype code eventually makes it to production.
Yeah, I'm not sure either. Maybe an RFC or internals discussion.

Thanks for caring about this <3
That doesn't account for all of the people moving into the city from other parts of the State or Country.

Also if they are moving within the city and the previous location is rent controlled, then the landlord will likely raise the rent for the next tenant.
Sorry, all essential* amino acids come from plants or microbes. Beans, e.g. pinto, do have methionine, but corn has even less, so I don't see your point.

Besides, you probably don't want a lot of methionine in your diet (it's linked to feeding cancer) [1..7].

Further, you're recycling the tired myth that "protein comibing" is necessary. Our body maintains pools of free amino acids by dumping protein into the digestive tract, which are broken down and reassembled, i.e. it does the protein combining for us, it's not necessary to explicitly do it through meals if you're otherwise eating a varied diet that sufficient in calories.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22171665
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18789600
[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15955547
[4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18252204
[5] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22342103
[6] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11603655
[7] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14585259
Ah the classic baptists and bootleggers connection - making things worse for everyone except them.
As mentioned in the proposal, many languages already have this feature. They influenced the design of Swift’s implementation.
[IANAL] if my city and all the others around prohibit such stores it is de-facto equivalent to Prohibition in that area while the state level amendment granted that right to all the people in the state, and no local government has the power to exclude it own particular local area from the amendment.

The same principle as with for example right to vote with no voting place in N (for sufficiently large N) miles radius.
This is already an active discussion, yep. We'll see...
I'm talking about what is the case, not what should be.

At the moment people with programming skills are much rarer than demand for programmers. No doubt if and when that crosses over we'll see the bottom fall out of programmer pay.
Advertising doesn't have to be intrusive or based on surveillance of users. Maybe one answer is that people running websites shouldn't be trying to maximize and optimize advertising to the nth degree when a plain old ad will make some money, even if not as much as the latest ad-tech tracker-based in-your-face pop-up take-over ads.
> On top of that, most of that water is excreted again

This seems pretty important in discussions of resource use : how the waste is handled / recycled etc.
Hunger Games is pretty clear about what its influences are: Ancient Rome and Reality TV. Some people will claim Collins stole the idea from Battle Royale, but it is more likely the two authors had the idea independently.
Isn't this largely how society plays out already, albeit less explicitly? From what little I know of our legal system (I'm in the US), it isn't too hard to buy yourself a great lawyer and get out of significant legal trouble.
I expect price-wise they're much closer to the competition there, but given they're still getting launches they can't be completely uncompetitive.

That said, remember they could potentially be using a rocket that's flown twice before (and AFAIK three launches is the most they've done so far), and as such may view the rocket as largely expendable anyway (they lose the ability to use it for re-entry experiments and to pull it down after the launch, but nothing else).
It’s worth noting that, since the ID in the same millisecond is incremented, it may suffer with enumerate attack. So it should not be used to generate one time token or object ID used in url address.
> I'm far more interested now in hearing whatever some weird new electronic artist is coming up with

Who in electronic music is pushing any of the genres forward right now? Trap and festival house took over festivals and stopped innovating. dubstep seems to be on life support, same with electro house. Trance hasn't moved forward and if anything wants to go back to the 90s sound. House never seemed to get ambitious
I can third that. Though I think we also need to include the social aspect into it as well. Exercise and nutrients are needed, but I do think social interaction is also needed. In fact, I've almost made it a point to never turn down any invite simply because it generally makes me feel better, even when I'm not in a depression period.
The numbers are close enough to be meaningless, as is the benchmark. Your users won't be able to read 10 rows in the difference in time it is from react to vue's rendered rows, much less 10,000...
Latest version of this post [2017] is found at http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/abcd/session-implementations.html
The point of advertisements is to occupy your brain-space with their product, so that you think about them the next time you're trying to buy xyz. I don't know what kind of money they give to websites, but the goal is the replace some of it.

Potential methods I see:

- Offering users something that's actually worth viewing ads for, such as not only original words, but original artwork (I'd enjoy seeing a Paint rendition created by the writer, even if it's no-good).

- Making ads more subtle and less offensive (thoughtful artwork, interesting games that describe the product, other valuable media)

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- Could create a third party 'guild' of sorts, where members would offer simple but free assistance to the webpage clients. Within the guild you could say members earn points based on the work they do, and points are rewarded with things like stickers (more advertising), moderator access and controls, easy or less impacting content creation, etc.

- Allowing the website to accept donations in other forms besides money, as in a trade offer of some kind. Such as content creation, editorial help, comment moderating help, or something even less impacting such as general tips to the real employees.

- Here's something fun: imagine an Ars/other article printed out on real paper and posted on bulletin boards. Coupled with a ref.number, the poster could get online points.

- If I got a personal phone call from someone working at a website like this, and they said "Hey friend, thanks for viewing, would you mind telling someone about our website?", I'd probably tell many people about it.
Both professional and personal cooking vary widely depending on who’s doing the work. I’ve seen careful and careless practices in both.

You might be surprised though how leftovers are recombined to form new dishes, even in large scale operations. Working with what you got can be just as important as food safety, foundational knowledge or technique.

It helps to have a few go-to recipes that can accept a wide variety of ingredients in small portions. For me, I usually go to either omelettes, veggie burgers or fried rice / stir fry.

Donating is the hardest one for sure due to laws and logistics. I’ve taken to giving out my extra sourdough bread or cinnamon rolls to friends and neighbors, or have my wife take them to the office; there’s always one or two that we know we won’t get to before they go bad (if we want to maintain our physiques anyways).
Any PHP devs here? what IDEs are you using currently. Is netbeans considered crummy for modern development?

People keep making offhand comments about it lately, and i wondered if there is a much better(and free) alternative I am overlooking.
Do you need a ride from the airport? :)
My personal issue with how legal pot has played out is I have no interest in becoming a patron of these lifestyle shops for a variety of reasons.

I also don't want my ID to be scanned for buying something still federally illegal.

If I could occasionally buy marijuana products at the grocery store as part of my normal shopping, no different than my occasional purchase of whiskey or wine, then I would have at least bought legal weed a few times since it was legalized here in CA. Even if it were relatively expensive.

Instead, today I'm far more likely to either not acquire any marijuana products at all (it's been years already) or buy some from the guy on the street who might also have shrooms.
I talked to someone who worked at a shelter about this. He was able to provide several cases of someone calling the shelter from another city informing them someone else was on a bus on on their way to SF and that they needed a bed. He had to inform them that a person had to be present that day to request a bed, and the other person on the phone going, "Whatever, they are your city's problem now."

So it does happen, but they don't want to publish it out of fear that it will just legitimize the practice for other cities.
Come to the Midwest. I started learning jazz in the late 70s, and have been performing in public for about 25 years. About half of the players I work with have music degrees, the rest are dedicated amateurs like myself.

The multiple comments I'm reading here, about jazz being rigid, traditionalist, and stuffy, are foreign to me. Even many of the lower profile performances of classical and chamber music are pretty laid back.

It could be that the atmosphere of jazz performances reflects the local culture, rather than being driven by jazz itself.
Seems like mostly just painting the history of scientific progress, instead of trying to make a point about it. If the author was trying to make a point, it's not supported by anything in the article.
> but it blows the success of PUBG out of the water at this point

That's really downplaying the success of PUBG though. It was the #1 most watched game on Twitch before Fortnite overtook it. Sure, Fortnite is more popular now, but PUBG was literally the most popular game at the reveleant time.
I agree that it isn't absolute proof. It is possible that an effect like the one you described took place. But it isn't the only evidence. I'd direct you again to people like Alex Jones. I think it's extremely hard to argue that Alex Jones and his toxic brand of disinformation didn't benefit enormously from access to platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. I think you'd be extremely hard pressed to argue that his reach has increased as a result of being de-platformed. You may be able to make the case that it has retrenched the support of his hardcore followers, but that is not the same thing as signal boosting his message in society at large.
I think there's two issues contributing to this in the US. The first is, obviously, as you mentioned, health care costs and insurance. But I think the bigger issue is stigma. Everyone talks about how it should be acceptable to go get mental healthcare, but it still isn't. A lot of it has to do with the culture of individuality and consumerism that has been forced down Americans throats since birth. I think it's especially bad for men (and I am not saying it's not bad for women, but I can only comment on my male perspective), as there's the thought that we should be able to hide our emotions and do it alone; that we should be able to overcome everything through sheer willpower. Basically, the Protestant mentality is driving us all insane. Sadly, I don't really know of any good way to go about changing social norms in this regard.
Detroit News Vehicle of the Year is a Tesla
That doc waits until the very end to say how to sign up, which directs to https://www.ultraworking.com/work-marathon, which says it is $100 to sign up.

I might actually do this, just for the new experience, could boost my entire output over my career!
I'm not sure if this is genuinely good advice. I've tried to teach a few people how to code and while they've had a great time and also managed to solve a few "homework" tasks which I gave them, I doubt they would have reached a level in only a few months time where they would have been able to build a first version of a product.

Most software needs to do at least some basic data crud, integrating with some third party APIs (auth, some social media platforms, other 3rd party services, etc.) and also do some ops related work to get their first version shipped to some cheap hosting. I doubt that someone without any technical background can learn all these skills in only a few months time and then also build the first version of their product.

It's likely going to be a time sink and one year later they know perhaps some basic programming skill but will have no product at all. To me this would be a sign of bad entrepreneurism, focusing on the wrong stuff at the wrong time. Nowadays you can always hire someone or easily outsource the first version to some company in India or elsewhere. It's not going to be perfect, but much faster than learning and doing it yourself and probably still better.

I also doubt that you have to have some engineering skills in order to be a successful business owner of a software company. Even the most talented developer will not benefit much from his engineering skills, because they will not get the time to make any low level decisions. Surround yourself with people who you can trust and who you can delegate responsibility and you'll be much better off IMHO.
My guess would be that they don't actually know. The $3 billion figure itself seems to be an estimate; there are no references to what the figure was last year. Additionally, Epic makes more stuff than just Fortnite, and the article didn't bother to even try to attribute income to anything other than Fortnite.

I had to read the article twice, because at first I was also confused as to whether they were referring to operating income or net income. Epic is a private company so they aren't making their income statements public.
This.

Jazz is difficult to play, and what makes it interesting is that it requires musicians with the talent and dedication to master their instruments, but also open-mindedness to play new things.

There are forces at work (i.e. Wynton Marsalis) trying to canonize a certain era of jazz as an essentially classical art form while expelling other musicians from the genre. These influences are present in jazz education-- teaching musicians what is jazz and what is not jazz.

Fortunately for all of us, the likes of Snarky Puppy, Kamasi Washington, Esperanza Spalding, John Medeski, and Robert Glasper are still making new music.

Ignore the critics. Listen to something you haven't tried before. You just might like it.
I like Haiku. In my experience, it has most responsive window manager for any operating system that runs on 90s-00s hardware. I think it has a lot of potential, but presently, I’d describe it as an alternative to something like Chrome OS. I wish the web browser situation was comparable to Linux, macOS, and Windows.

I should admit that I have an academic interest in operating systems and Haiku, for a variety of reasons, is exciting (e.g. it’s a functional open source operating system that isn’t strictly POSIX).