skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically enough, case windows were created so people could show off the components inside, but now they're only showing off the covers on them.
There's little doubt that electric cars will displace ICE cars in an S curve fashion. First because it's just a much better technology, second because it's cheaper and third because it's low carbon.

The same is likely true for trucks of all familiar kinds.

It's less clear that the same holds for shipping and air travel. Air travel for flights under 400 miles (due to much reduced maintenance costs) are likely to electrify but the others would probably require the push of regulation.

Heat and air conditioning will very possibly electrify only because the combined costs of wind and solar have been dropping so consistently.

On balance, it really doesn't look half bad for S curve substitution for, say, 80% of the fossil fuel industry over the next 20 years.

EDIT: a few typos
Except in summer holidays, nobody does that.
My calligraphy is awful, but I've dipped a toe in fountain pen related items to attempt get into a ritual of writing. It's been fun so far, the usage of fountain pens have improved my chicken scratch for sure. I've got the entry level starter kit of a Pilot Metropolitan and a Bullet Journal.
I own shares of Facebook and even I see that 'amount of advertising you CAN show' is not the amount of advertising people will be okay with, we're getting close to saturation before people realize they're being exposed to constant bullshit. At this point, I am so frustrated with ads that I'm willing to pay $10/mo for ad-free social media.
> How is it pertinent info

It’s an observation. You colored it with a value judgement. I’ve had many a “huh” moment because of such randomly-scattered details.
you can however use

void foo(char data[static 0], int len)

with 0 or 1 to signal at least zero/one elements are required (for example), and the pointer must be non-null.
what's with all the bézier stuff, lately? :D
Millennial women are working more
Outline doesn’t pay the journalist. If partial paywalls fail, full paywalls à la the FT or ad-driven models must succeed. I’m okay with Archive.org links. But a private company replicating somebody else’s work without compensation nudges the world towards rich people consuming via subscription and the rest of us through tracking and ads.
Thanks, I'll take a look. Yup, I'm aware of Maven. The one most commonly in use now is named Quackle, which uses the same techniques as Maven but has a slightly better initial evaluation function. But the evaluation function is very simple and just keeps into account score and leave. This doesn't suffice often.
How do you feel about Overload?

(For those who haven't heard of it https://playoverload.com/ , it's a well-regarded spiritual successor to Descent from the original Descent creators.)
I was the same, I always did my work in ink and crossed errors out with single lines. Surprised that physics would prefer pencil over ink, most science classes require pen for lab notebooks just to get people in the habit.
Not trying to start a flamewar over systemd (I'm definitely more of a BSD guy so it doesn't matter much to me other than hoping Linux stays healthy), but just reading through this description of all the stuff systemd does made my eyes water. There's always tension between simplicity and necessary complexity, but a lot of this strikes me as being unnecessary complexity to achieve simplicity in the wrong place.
How could that possibly affect longevity? In the way life expectancy is defined it doesn't seem possible.
No citations from you either. How about some peer-reviewed studies proving their long-term safety rather than ad hominem attacks on an author pointing out scientific studies proving actual harms? I’ll say it to you, too: Read the damn citations and get back to me with your own.

And now having written a book about a subject which you are knowledgeable about and writing about that subject online together form a “conflict of interest”? Sure, but trusting studies funded by the food industry stating food industry products are safe for consumption by the entire population with absolutely zero long-term safety studies is completely sensible.
The demographics are the least of it. The whole article reeks of a kind of superficiality and condescension: "...who had the handsomeness of a 1950s young dad, thick hair like mink, broad shoulders, a warm handshake."

I do wish that when newspapers describe a trend, they would stop trying to write literature and simply provide the information. If I want more detail with off-topic asides, I'll subscribe to a magazine or read blog posts.
But not where they should- in the kitchen
Okay, in python this is:

print "first"
print "second"

I mean...imagine explaining your example to somebody. That's difficult for some programmers to fully understand.
I feel like this was a big missed opportunity to link to your exploratory pricing guesstimate.
BBC News Labs – 2018 Year in Review
The article could have definitely been more specific. Good thing there are citations with all the specifics you could ask for...
Finally, I know the workings of the mythical exposure.

I'm so happy now for all the people who made the hundreds of films I've watched for free on the web.
First, this isn't designed as a programming font. It's designed as a UI font.

Second, they have a toggle for that, it's on the linked page.
>There's no sign that this model could work at scale for a large corporation.

Why should it? Most of the content people are now enjoying day to day isn't coming from large corporations. What we're witnessing now is the infancy of a shift away from the centralization of entertainment started by the industrial revolution (with access to printing presses, radio broadcasting, etc being relatively limited by economies of scale or similar reasons) back to a more community focused model that provides greater diversity in content. Most are welcoming this change as it brings them access to media of the sort they've never before had access to, as well as closer two-way relationships with the producers of that content.

This isn't limited to youtube/video content either by the way, it's happening in music and other forms of art/entertainment as well. The platforms used to provide the distribution of content and used to collect payment will prove to be interchangeable; they aren't the part of the picture that matters. What matters is the relationships creators and their patrons can now cultivate. Now that people know this model is possible, the cat's not going back into the bag. Even if youtube or patreon were to close up shop, the demand would still be there and new platforms would be adopted or created if necessary because now people have seen a glimpse of what's possible and don't want to go back.
I’m not sure in this case, but it could be defined as the age expected to be achieved of the people currently alive. So if the population was entirely 80 year olds, the life expectancy would be around 90.
> It's really brutal. Google can effectively capture all profit margin from every web business in the world. That's what is happening.

Lots of companies make a lot of money on the web. Google doesn't have a monopoly of profit.
I doubt it has anything to do with repair. When you’ve got a 18 or so layer PCB, probably with microvias (invisible if they’re in pads), and very closely spaced QFN and BGA-packaged parts everywhere, soldermask colour is the least of your problems. So much of the design is on internal layers inside the board and so much interconnection to internal layers in pads (if using microvias) and under BGAs that being able to easily see the top and bottom layer traces easily would give you very little to go on. You’d really need design files to do anything more than just reflowing the odd part...

It probably is a lot to do with fashion though. It’s literally one of the only reasons that I always specify blue or black soldermask at work - just looks a lot cooler. Green boards just have that late-90’s electronics look.
I like the idea of the article but wish it showed HOW. Given 100 commits where each one is randomly one of the categories discussed what git Fu should I use to split it into 3 pull requests that cleanly adhere to the articles points?
Here's one example of where I've used this:

void wlr_matrix_multiply(float mat[static 9], const float a[static 9],
const float b[static 9]);
...uses the 0.999... = 1.0... shenanigan...

Why is this a shenanigan? Do you dispute that 0.9999....=1? One easy way to see this is that there are no decimals between 0.9999..... and 1 and thus the two numbers are the same. A property of the real number system is that between any two distinct numbers is another distinct number.

Maybe I'm missing the intent of your statement.
Growing up my stepdad would pay me allowance for chores. At one point I accumulated a lot of backowed money to the point where he just gave up and did not pay what he owed me. Frankly, I would have done the chores for free and it was not my idea, but the sole act of not paying what was owed made me resent him for a long time. Don’t make promises you can’t keep.
I get a big blank page when js is disabled. If your web design is that lazy it doesn't speak well about your product.
Pay me and I'll lie to you about what Google will do if that's what will make you happy. No sillier than paying Google given their credibility is zero and there are so consequences to them for lying.
> I'd really like an explanation of why this is happening.

Some people just like being bigots. If they weren’t picking on the Tesla owners they’d find some other easily identifiable minority to pick on.
This is a bubble which will not burst because we are speaking of Google. If (theoretical) Google will be valued by it's real profits and downgraded by ads profit the WHOLE online ad industry will go bankrupt. But this is really unlikely because ads pricing is not the same as stocks on an a stock exchange.
Not at all, and I did not intend to give that impression. But that “list of hard problems” contains things which are MORE LIKELY THAN NOT to kill us all. Climate change, in particular.

I don’t advise inaction. But I’d be a hypocrite if I said I’m personally doing anything to change it. I’m just trying to live my life and get by. Problem is, that’s EVERYONE.

So if we’re headed off a cliff, and nobody is grabbing the wheel... Where’s the hope? Why would humanity have a sudden change of heart, come together, solve our shared problems, and move forward with a plan that could actually prevent climate change? How would we get everyone to do that simultaneously?

Because if anyone can answer that question, they’ve just saved the world. And if nobody can...
I’m struck at how often American culture needs scientific evidence to prove common sense, in this case: intrinsic rewards work better than extrinsic rewards.

What I’ve done with my kids, and my teams, is to point out (or lead them to point out themselves) how doing a chore made them feel: before and after. Chores feel painful before doing them. Completed chores — or more precisely the new state of the world post-chore — feels great.

Both children and adults have problems enduring short-term pain for delayed rewards. This isn’t a novel concept. What would be novel is an understanding of how to rewire a brain that still assumes we only need to think about the present moment and that the uncertain future will take care of itself.

Ironically, the best way to take action for the long-term seems to involve taking care of the present first. Once everything that needs to be done now is complete, and our lives and environment are stable and ordered, it seems that our restless minds have only one recourse: to work on tomorrow.
I'm a lefty and while I avoid writing, a fountain pen with fast drying ink and a BOLD tip is very lefty usable.

The trick to lefty pens is to get BOLD tips!

When you have a thin needle-like tip, as you know, you end up stabbing or scratching the paper. But if the tip is either a big round rolling ball or nib, then it glides across the paper on its roundy edge.

I can definitely recommend the Lamy Safari with a 1.0 bold tip, or any Pilot ballpoint pen with a 1.0 bold tip. (I carry a Pilot Precision 1.0 Bold ballpoint pen with me at all times.)
It's been a very bézi week.

(One of the advantages of being banned is to make puns.)
Google controls search, Android, the Play store and Chrome. The most popular search engine, the most popular mobile OS, the most popular app store and the most popular browser.

No, its profit can't be easily cut off. They control the environment in all regards and have the leverage to dictate terms to nearly everyone. That's why they'll do ~$130 billion in sales this year, despite the popularity of ad blockers.

A tiny percentage of users will evade Google's moves to ensure its advertising survival? Sure, and it won't matter in the least.
Almost looks like it could be used in education, teaching stats?
No surprise there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect My guess is that systemd was developed in order to solve some very real but fairly specific issues, and that ultimately the community will get around to replacing it with something more sensible. It's just not a huge priority at the moment.
>however ui development is inheritly an object oriented problem due to the IO loop

There's nothing OO about the IO loop. The main thing that calls for some OO in UIs is the widget hierarchy.
I still scracth my head as to why doing a kernel update of Ubuntu running under Hyper-V on a spinning disk is so horrifically slow.

Define slow please.

For a laugh I picked a random VM (VMWare) at work and ran (I did apt update first):

# time apt upgrade
...
82 to upgrade, 5 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade
...
real 6m16.015s
user 2m38.936s
sys 0m55.216s

The updates included two client server DB engines (Clickhouse and Postgresql) the fileserving thingie (Samba) and a few other bits. The reboot takes about 90 seconds before the webby interface appears for rspamd.
Flip it around. Under what circumstances would you allow another person to freeload off of you for 18 years? Take up space in your house, eat your food, require you to drive them around, need money for their activities and fun time, use your TV, dirty up the house but not clean it, never cook a dinner or wash a dish, and in general have a good old time until they decide to move out.

"I didn't have a choice in being here" as a response to "Do your Chores" makes it sound like the parents went off into some land of nirvana and kidnapped a blissful native for the sole purpose of enslaving them to their will. Having children is how our species procreates. It's the only option if we want to continue as a species. Requiring that everyone living together pitch in and do a little bit of work to keep the household running smoothly is far, far from an onerous requirement.
This site is geo blocked in Europe.
Hey this is super cool, looking forward to your future tools to complement guesstimate.

I'd imagine an Excel plugin to do something similar would be valuable.
You're absolutely right that Python has also become more and more complex and often not for the best.

As for Python performance, on the contrary, I think there was a large portion of the Python community that did care during my years with it. I think 3.x adoption was hurt a lot by being slower than 2.7.x. I think a lot of the community jumped ship to Golang or similar, for both performance and complexity reasons.

I would absolutely love for C++ to tackle C UB or make incompatible insecure C. Instead, we get stuff like Ranges, time and again. I'm struggling to understand what complexities you are finding it covers that are worth supporting forever, committing gray matter, committing productivity loss, committing debug travesties, &c. Say I'm a musician that can hold complete compositions in my head; why should I commit this feature and its baggage to memory?
We don't know that it's a nation state at all. Or that they were specifically targeting newspapers. So it seems a bit early to speculate on who it isn't.
There's never an actual shortage of anything in this economy. If there's a supply problem then they're not getting paid enough. Unless of course this is some sort of propaganda piece.
My point is that we can deploy more aerosols. See the first link
What is the practical difference between 1 and 3?

Like, support aside, what's the difference between "pay a premium to access professional services from the dev team" and "pay a premium to access a service already professionally-built by the dev team"?
Crypto-Junkies. It's a fun rabbit hole.
> There is zero reason to think that a tech company can create content better than anyone else — which is the only way anyone knows of to capture any future ad growth. They have zero advantage over Disney. They are coming from a position of weakness — Disney already has significant TV ad revenue, and extensive experience in making content we love.

totally agree. and, in November, we had this crazy agreement between Google and Disney for online digital ads: https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/disney-google-digital-...

I gotta wonder what kind of terms Disney squeezed out of Google for this.
Every time I see an allowance and chores related discussion pop up, I get the feeling that a lot of parents are unbelievably uncomfortable with the concept of discipline, consequences, and instilling responsibility. Like asking their kid to wash the dishes twice a week, and applying appropriate punishment until the chores are done is ruining some golden childhood or something.
Interesting. I wonder how it manages the threading with the GIL and all that.
>The populations of developed countries don't understand how much it would hurt their quality of life if they do what it takes to solve this problem

Then they will eventually learn how the problem itself would hurt their quality of life way worse, plus kill tons of them.
U.S., China Fleshing Out Trade Deal
I'm in my mid 30's and have been collecting fountain pens for a few years now. Not a a lot of vintage but I have a few rare limited editions and high end stuff not because of status or collectibility but because I love the materials and look and feel. To be honest, it's the tactility of it. Being all digital all the time makes me miss the closeness to the words when I'm actually writing with a pen and paper. And when you have this wonderful somewhat piece of art of pen and ink to write with it makes writing different - more emotive somehow. There are plenty of pens now that suit any particular style and budget which is great. It's a great hobby to be honest.
The article talks about people companies and factories, and I think it is calling a tech company a people company. Lawyers and engineers are not the same in the sense that lawyers have to spend hours of time to bill clients (in theory at least). With a software company, if all the engineers walk out, the company can still go on serving the same product (in theory at least). Once software is made you can make as many copies as you want essentially for free. And there is a huge barrier to entry for something like Google or Apple, or any large software product, so it is difficult to replace these companies. So I think they deserve to be in a different multiples category.

But this isn't the only reason someone like Google can have such a large multiple. I think there is the possibility of transformation into a new market, not just dominance of its existing market. You could call Google an AI company instead of an advertising company. There might be some big economic potential for AI and that is what the large multiple can capture. The same applies for Amazon in that they could become a strong player in everything that is purchased, not just in online shopping. And they seem to have a real chance of moving in this direction. And, to underscore the fact that they are trying to do this, they are taking a very small profit right not to try to build their presence, and then they will start pulling profit later when they have a more dominant position.
I wonder if the afternoon sleep/siesta culture has any bearing as well. People didnt evolve for 8-10 hour work days. Afternoon naps were common in early human life, from what Ive read.
The linked post notes that, even on a default Windows install, you already have a sizable stack of filter drivers active. Not sure whether that only applies to the C: volume or to other ones as well.
To me it looks almost the exact same, but there's some small differences. These two fonts are exceedingly similar.
Qt includes JavaScript bindings. Python has commercial support. Java used to.

Electron is good for an MVP if you have or need a web app. Companies keep using it afterward because it commodifies developers and externalizes costs.
Yup, climate change is real - it's evident from computing average temperatures. No point in debating that.

I completely agree that smog is terrible and essentially kills people. My point was the really bad consequences of warming (mass migrations from deserted areas and subsequent refugee crises, wars over farmable land, exodus from flooded areas) can be avoided via aerosols.
>While audience data is valuable for marketing existing shows, it currently has almost no value for creating new shows.

Netflix's success story entirely contradicts this. Netflix's whole strategy with their originals is to create lowish cost things that appeal to market segments that they know exist but currently don't have shows anywhere (one of their big bets here is international/non english audiences).
I started using fountain pens a couple of years ago, and still do for my daily writing.

I write rather a lot; I don't bring my laptop into meetings unless I need to. Combine that with my handwriting being relatively neat, small, and stylized, and I needed something with a sufficiently fine nib, and ink that would flow well through it.

It turned into a fascinating optimization problem, during which I ended up down the rabbit hole of nib sizing (European nibs tend to run wider than Japanese nibs), notebook paper (there are plenty of good notebooks that are fountain-pen friendly, and that Moleskine notebooks are both comparatively expensive and the paper just isn't great), and different types of ink (which brands run "wet" or "dry", etc.)... and all of this is before getting into eyedropper-conversions, nib repair, and all of the other craft-related things one can get into.

I started with (and still have) a Pilot Metropolitan and a Platinum Preppy that still see use, although I've gone over to a Kaweco Special FP and a Pilot Vanishing Point (both with extra-fine nibs) for daily writers.

The current "daily writer" tuples are:

1) Pilot Vanishing Point (extra-fine nib), Pilot black cartridge ink.

2) Kaweco Special FP (extra-fine nib), Faber-Castell Carbon Black ink.

...preferred notebook is the Kokuyo Campus High Grade MIO notebook (A5 paper, 80 sheets, ~$6.50 each).

That all being said, I still use ballpoint pens on airplanes; the Pentel BK77 Superb (fine point, black) works just fine.
The simple answer is that these days I go where the muse takes me. I'm basically on a year-long sabbatical after leaving Google this summer, where I'm not particularly worrying about making money. I did my PhD on tools for interactive curve design, and I was frustrated while I was at Google because IP issues made working on curves complicated. So when I had some new ideas, it was like the dam bursting, and I've been enjoying lots of motivation and creativity. I started the codebase for kurbo on Christmas and wrote 1300 lines of code that day. I'll keep doing it while it's fun.
I think it's more likely that some commonly-owned group of newspaper syndicate has been hit by a variety of cryptolocker taking out their windows XP/Vista/7/10 PCs, due to poor network security practices, than they've been maliciously attacked.
Most people in Spain don’t sleep a siesta / nap anymore. Most of us work for multinationals with the normal 8/9 to 6/7 schedule. However, we do have a 1 hour lunch break where we can eat a 2 course meal calmly.