skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a common joke to say that if you just shorter names in C, your program might run faster. It's not true of course, but it Python, it might. All those names are used in hash computations and look ups, and you may shave a few micro seconds if you make your program unmaintable.
Prototyping Progressive Web Applications
Do you know which are the best prototyping tools to show a progressive web app to potentials customers? The UX designer uses Invision to design, but it is not interactive enough to get real feedback from the customer, see their behaviour when they use the product etc. Is there some tools integrated with invision but more suitable for customers?

Thank you in advance for the answer!
TL;DR

I could not find the answer directly in the article but in spotted it in the URL: elon-musk-is-really-really-excited-about-his-starship

Edit: typo
Nope. The average consumer simply does not care. This is a mobile device, not an audiophile device. And more and more devices are wireless now.
It's very simplified compared to 3.5 or pathfinder and arguably gives players less customisation options - also some classes have been nerfed (rangers for example) look at how Laura Baily has to expend a lot of effort to protect Trinket
Cooking is a great suggestion. Especially if you live with someone else (family, spouse, housemates). Making something delicious for other people to eat brings a great sense of accomplishment. If you have kids and you can make food that they love (that is still healthy), then this feeling of accomplishment will put you in the clouds.

You will also be able to set yourself challenges in the kitchen that are not unlike some "itches scratched" by programming. i.e.

- How can I make this dish in a simpler way and still have it taste great?

- What delicious thing can I make using only the ingredients I happen to have laying around?

- What is the most delicious thing i can make with the fewest ingredients?

=)
Except the school only gets the money of people who attend the school.

And the school is not incentivized to sell worthless degrees because it won't get paid when it does.
look at all of his arguments as a framing of neoclassical (math/calculus-based econ) vs. austrian (non-continuous/messy/favoring nature/functions too complex to be described and calculated econ)

1. author argues that Rothbard's austrian "value scale" approach is unable to derive the key income and substitution effects used in neoclassical modeling, but that Rothbard adds them into his framework ad hoc without properly deriving them

this has nothing to do with the reality of modeling the utility of potatoes for individuals vs. shopping malls for society, rather deriving key properties that are used in logical predictive modeling (eg my wages increase ∴ consumption curve shifts right BY income effect)

2. yeah, not related to any precepts of austrian or neoclassical economics, more of a philosophical discussion of how preferences must be revealed by action in econ rather than introspection, freezing time, or flipping a coin every time you're indifferent. he's rejecting both of their rejections of an implication of neoclassical theory, but it's not practically important, just a reflection of caplan's beliefs

3. rothbard and mises reject the notion that preferences are continuous, which means they can't be neatly drawn on 2D graphs and used in calculus. Rothbard continues to use diagrams and calculus somewhat hypocritically, while Mises doesn't use diagrams. author thinks (as do most economists) that graphing utility and preference functions as continuous and therefore being able to do useful things such as find their intersections, take their derivatives, etc. far outweighs the utility of describing them in non-continuous terms

author thinks all austrian economists reject continuous micro functions, which is untrue (just Rothbard and Mises) but supports his larger theory that austrian economics is not as useful/actionable as neoclassical

4. author is defending the principle of pareto efficiency, another fundamental neoclassical principle which allows economists to measure how free market distortions such as communism and rent control effect different groups within the economy. author is criticizing rothbard's framework which only allows one to call acts of government welfare "indeterminate" and thus be unable to measure their effect and get things done

5. defending the technical definition of "efficiency" again because the technical definition is needed to construct proofs and get things done

basically author is saying neoclassical is much more useful for getting things done with economics, and that rothbard and mises (who he takes to represent the whole school of austrian econ) didn't provide many useful tools from which others could predict/model/build off
The answer is “because SpaceX is actually building a stainless-steel starship, with first test flights planned for March”.
What does that have to do with the Beatles?
> it's kinda fun: GPS and altimeter

With 5G on the horizon, it might be time to re-launch such a product. Having the ski route traced out in front of you is not only helpful safety-wise, but could add a social dimension if key stats could be shared live--and visually, calling to mind a video game--between friends (or broader).
>you can only pay sub minimum wage for so long before people say fuck it and walk away flipping you off.

Not if your other palls in different industries and politics help deprive them of better options...
So you changed, is that normal? Normal or not normal it does not matter, it's just that life is happening and do you want to explore it or just pass through? If you want to explore changes are inevitable. If you see changes it's a good sign, it means something is happening :)
What kind of abuse?
I think it's always been around, but it's only recently, thanks to the internet and good economic prospects and people with a lot of expendable income, that these breweries have become viable again. Previously, only the bigger breweries with the bigger distribution networks were viable. And before that, before the distribution networks and marketing campaigns, it was back down to local breweries.

Prohibition also had a big impact on the alcohol business in the US.
It is 'experimentable' - policies are tested and piloted all the time.
A content-free article.

Just some ramblings of a writer about SpaceX, no new information, no answer to the question in the title.
And the players are so well behaved :-) I have found that watching CR has changed the way I Dm and play as a character.
In Poland there were Krzyształy Czasu (Crystals of Time) - a generic high fantasy system made by people from Magia i Miecz magazine (pioneering magazine about RPGS in Poland - it was the only such press for decades). There was also "Wiedźmin - Gra Wyobraźni" - an RPG based on Witcher franchise and targetting new players reoughly at the time that Witcher was first adapted as movie and TV series. It wasn't very good mechanically, but got some people in the hobby.

There was also Dzikie Pola (based on Polish 16-18th century - inspired by books of Henryk Sienkiewicz - Polish Dumas). If you've seen "Deluge" or "With Fire and Sword" movies you know the setting. Sabres, flintlocks, Polish nobility, Ottomans, Muscovites, Cossacs, and wide steppes of modern Ukraine :)

On sci-fi side there is Neuroshima - fallout-like setting with some quirks. It was popular a few years ago but I don't hear about it much anymore.

But the most popular was (and still is) fantasy Warhammer RPG. The first Polish edition was the first time an RPG system was marketed in Poland and it was a big deal, almost everybody to this day started playing RPG with first or second edition of that.

Apart from that the most popular is Call of Cthulhu I think? Or maybe Vampire:the Masquerade and related systems, but that's losing popularity recently I think.

D&D was never very popular, that slowly changes recently.
Yes, but taobility was wondering whether China had such a large impact on Apple's sales, not why.
You can blame all sorts things but when I just look to my own experience of if/when I update my iPhone it's quite simple.

This year was the least different AND most expensive iPhone so far. So I didn't upgrade, and lots of other people didn't either.
Tactile dice don't seem too difficult a thing to make: https://www.geeknative.com/53239/braille-dice-d20-style/

Plus, you don't even have to use dice—anything that gives a uniformly random outcome is alright. (E.g. local “Choose your adventure”-clone books had dice sides printed on each page.)

Now, tracking the character sheet and consulting the rules are probably more of a nuisance to the person.
"It’s not attention to detail, it’s vision."

Right, it's all iterative. Where's the next $100Bn product?

The only genuinely new product that Cook has brought to market is the iwatch (although they seem to have been working on self driving cars)
With Steve, you could draw a straight line from the original Mac to the iPad. You could see one relentless mission to tame unusable hardware into a friendly machine through software. You could imagine Steve wanting something like an iPad even with the original Mac.

Well yeah, they were both imagined (and the Mac, more than imagined - most of the parts invented/built) in the early 70s at Xerox PARC, Jobs heard about/saw them there. Sorry, maybe you know that, but it didn't sound like it.
Historically, actually having a relic of a saint is very poorly correlated with claiming to have a relic of a saint, even when people aren't explicitly trying to con people.
Its reached a plateau technologically, there isn't much else they can do to excite consumers to entice them to replace what they already have, and most people have a phone as well.

Chinese people also have a higher rate of fixing things when they break and they have specialist repair shops everywhere that can replace any component of the phone, so its a different market.

You can't just look at a market and say "oh, its going down for no reason whatsoever" there is always a reason. Its just a question whether the lack of growth will cause a crash in the overall market now.
> I wish more articles had such good introductions

Check out the Financial Times. Major motivation behind my subscription is their to-the-point writing style.
Eat eggs and bacon for breakfast and it's type 1 fun.

Have some porridge and you'll feel great entire morning :)
Summarizing content from someone's Twitter posts so that I don't have to actually, you know, use Twitter, is certainly valuable content from my point of view. The bulleted list of facts about the Starship, including information about construction materials and cooling solutions, is certainly content, too.
they got quite a beating from regulatory agencies

Not really, the British regulators and courts keep finding against them but there’s zero enforcement, Uber continue operating as normal. The Mayor Of London is weak.
Why would you want to share your real time location anyway?
I can’t for the world of me figure out how that is supposed to work! It runs counter to all my intuition regarding electromagnetism.
Is that really true?

I mean, it might well be true that most people could live an extra 20 years with a suitable change of diet and lifestyle.

But even if that's the case, isn't everyone going to die of cancer or heart failure at the end of those extra 20 years?
Except Google Analytics cannot be a "legitimate interest".

A legitimate interest is one that prevents the service from operating. E.g. if you're a pizza delivery service, you need to use the customer's address, since it's implicit in what the service does and the customer expects you to use their address for the purpose of home delivery.

If you block Google Analytics however, in what way will the service be impacted from the perspective of the user experience? There is no impact, even if this costs the business optimization opportunities or money. You can argue that the inability to use Google Analytics can have a long term impact on user experience, but that's not how legitimate interests work.

In general, "making more money" or "becoming more popular" are invalid reasons for stating a legitimate interest.
> It's not confusing or unintuitive. Alcohol helps us relax. That's all it does!

Alcohol can also carry many flavors and dissolve oils in suspension (it is a solvent, after all). This is one of the reasons whiskies have such diverse flavors. Many vanilla extracts are also around 35-40% abv (alcohol free versions use glycerin?... I think?).

Alcohol (wines for example) can also useful in cooking, where the alcohol is boiled off and some of the flavors and oils are left behind.
The "citation needed" type of response is also antagonistic in what is a discussion site rather than an academic paper.
This is still very confusing to me. The total amount that the bettors could gain was 500,000 (or just over). This must have been much less than the total value of the bonds, since otherwise the bonds would not have been worthless. So it's not possible for Voltaire and his friends to have made more money than they originally lost by being owners of bonds that became worthless. How did this make Voltaire rich?

(Also, the discount that the syndicate got on the tickets should be irrelevant. That money is going into the pool so they're getting it back either way.)

EDIT: Aha! Maybe the way it worked it that there was actually another rule.

(7) There are only a limited number of tickets available. Many fewer than 1000 times the number of bondholders.

Then Voltaire and his friends can profit by buying up all the tickets, since they don't hold all the bonds. Even though 500,000 was a negligible fraction of the total value of the bonds, it was a huge multiple of the value of the bonds held by Voltaire and his friends.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/26/bacon-ham-sa...
Alcohol helps us relax. That's all it does!

That's just silly. (I'd go into detail but I think it's sufficiently obvious.) Have you ever tried it?
Unless they have quietly invented warp drive, no they aren’t.
IIRC, the compensation for firing someone is 0.25 months of salary per worked year (first ten years, after that it's 0.33 months). It's not that much, and if he has enough work to take on extra staff he probably could put away that money in the case of a firing. If the company is going down because of end-of-contract compensations, the company would be going down anyways. Also, temporary contracts exist if he just wants extra help during specific times, and those do not have any compensation at the end of the contract.

In other words, the compensation for end-of-contract is just 2% of the salary of the worker per month. If the benefits of having a worker is more than 2% of their salary, it's worth it.

But to avoid deviating from the topic: the gig economy is not about small family businesses. Gig economy is a buzzword used by companies that could pay decent salaries and worker protections but are too dominated by greed to do it.
JavaScript will always convert a value to a type. It's dynamic, but very strongly typed. JavaScript engines do not care about type annotations, only TypeScript does. You might have annotated something as a number, but the JavaScript engine might chose to convert it to a string ... I think type annotations is a unnecessary chore, and that types should be inferred.
If you are asked that question this is the sort of answer you give:

"I was given an opportunity to lead a product I was very excited about, and I took it. It was a great experience, and I learned a lot, but ultimately now I'm glad to be moving back into a developer role."

If you can truthfully say that, you're conveying not indecision, but rather showing the flow of your career path. That is something that is expected to take a few twists like this, and that's even a sign that you're someone with flexibility and a variety of skills, as opposed to being inflexible and unwilling to do things that are "outside the box".
You're so missing the bigger picture. 'Healthcare' is just a subset of 'health'. Go back to first principles:

#1 people have always cared about their personal health and have always been willing to spend a lot of time and money to improve it, and individuals are ultimately the ones responsible for their health.

#2 Apple is a computer company, and computers are the primary means of personal empowerment that exists today. What you pay attention to, how you organize your thoughts, and what you do is increasingly influenced and mediated by computer interfaces and data.

Combine #1 and #2 and you get an increasingly powerful personal health market that is on a collision course with the healthcare market. Ask any doctor - patients are more informed than ever, and how medicine is practiced is changing as a result. This isn't news.

The other dynamics you're not considering are that healthcare is much much larger than whatever enterprise tech deployments exist today. Sure, Apple isn't going to sign a service contract to customize an EMR for some hospital's specific needs, but that's such a tiny part of what Health and Healthcare are.
This is nothing like postgrest :)
In postgrest the query is mostly determined by the the user calling the API, in SQLer the query is hardcoded by the api developer, the user just supplies the parameters to the query.
I haven't used BSD much so I can't make any claims as to the typical user directory layout.

> particularly ones not based on Chromium / Blink - don't follow that convention

To be fair, browsers with small market share are not the ones who decide what informal standards are considered.

> When you consider that there are as many - if not more - exceptions as there are instances that follow that convention, it really becomes hard to even call this a de facto standard;

Again, this boils down to how you believe informal standards should be considered. No doubt you can say there are more exceptions to the rule when anyone with two hands can make their own browser. But should we be considering those browsers, or just the ones with overwhelming market share? That's kind of the point of standards: Cover the typical use cases.

> Microsoft created as an OS standard which browsers were forced into adopting.

That's just not true. Microsoft forced neither Mozilla nor Google to implement this standard. No one was forced to do anything, it just seemed like a sensible idea and caught on.

This is why I keep pushing back when you say "standard". It isn't. It's not standardised and it's not even de facto.

Again, I need to point out that it doesn't need to be an ISO standard to be considered an informal standard. Informal standards are created organically, not intentionally.

> just passing the buck

Lol no. It's called not repeating work. It's a core tenant of the open software community. Don't do someone else's work if you don't have to. Why should each single program onboard the user to a directory which is informally standard on most popular operating systems? It's not passing the buck, it's being DRY.

> You wouldn't blame the oven for cooking a bad meal if someone misread the instructions in a cook book.

Bad analogy. The cookbook doesn't offer instructions on how to use your oven. The oven manual does. If you use an oven without reading the oven manual and expect to learn every safety tip from a random cookbook or internet recipe, then you're not operating your oven correctly. At least a computer won't explode on you.

> you are just reiterating the argument I opened this tangent with.

Only if you strawman me.

This isn't a chance for either of us to come out superior. This is just a conversation about UX. So put the compulsive need to batter down every point I make on ice and look at things for what they are.
Blacksmith. If it was possible to go back in time, I would be a blacksmith. This is my conclusion after working several years as consultant. The last project was horrible, hundreds of thousands of lines in C++ wrote by monkeys in ten years, layers of layers of crap. When I say layers I'm not speaking about architectural layers, but geological layers, like the sedimentation that trap the skeletons of dinosaurs. They introduced control version systems 3 years ago: before they preserved all the revision as comments, into the source files ! Every ten lines of source code, twenty lines of commented old code with the description of who, when and why the code was disabled. That was the time I really desired to die. Honestly, I enjoy myself only with my stuff, rarely at work.
It might also be related to the peak-end rule[1]. The most intense feeling of a hike can come in many places, probably at the end if the goal is to get somewhere in particular or to complete a specific goal. Although it might be mostly bad/hard, you remember the end (satisfying) and the peak emotion which is the good feeling.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak–end_rule
This looks cool. Looking forward to give it a try.

For years I've been using Deckset[0] for all my presentations. Being able to just edit a text file to write and update slides is a massive advantage.
I usually export them as pdf, which 99% of conferences are happy with.

A big bonus is that you can now version control your slides, allow them to get forked, etc.

If you're curious to see what those slides look like, check any of my previous talks [1].

[0]: https://www.deckset.com/

[1]: http://jobv.gitlab.io/talks/
Yes, "facts" are in fact seldom facts as much as beliefs. Belief may indeed be the most factual thing we have. One derived lesson being; believe in yourself, view any evidence to the contrary with extreme skepticism.
I've been coding for 37 years now, counting what I did in childhood. I can remember getting a real charge out of doing it. It was a real thrill to be able to tell the machine what to do and see things happen on the screen.

But I don't feel that thrill any more. I know I can build things; I've done so many times before. And frankly, figuring out how to fit new functionality into messy legacy systems isn't much fun. Occasionally, when I manage something very clever, I feel a glimmer of the old thrill of creation, but that's a rare thing.

These days, I'd prefer to do higher-level design and leadership work.
having a tethered computer/SoC is a pretty obvious choice, given you can't shrink it to fit inside the frame. Doubt that's patentable
Maybe you should try:

- switching from back-end to front-end coding or vice versa?

- switching from plumbing/glueing libraries to applied algorithms research?

- switching from basic administrative software to numerical/scientific computing?

- trying out a new field like machine learning?

- try embedded programming or robotics?

- switch languages, and try something completely different like Haskell?
If it were me hiring I would probably see this as a positive thing - not only are you an experienced developer but now you also have some experience of doing product management as well. That gives you a different perspective to most developers, and means that you'll likely be better at working with the product team to define what you can/should be doing.
Someone not studying with taxpayer money.
Nim in 2018: A short recap
I enjoy the craft aspect of software development, trading off between various factors to make maintainable, efficient code.

I've recently joined a project in a language (to be left nameless) with limited abstraction, and thus limited means to perform these trade offs, with the result being noisy code.

My interest has consequently waned.
Generating Actionable Understanding of Real-World Phenomena with AI
Ask HN: How to get 'unstuck' during programming
I have lost days in my life because of:

* being on the wrong branch
* being in the wrong directory
* using the wrong server
* using the wrong version
* needing to clear the cache
* editing the wrong file

And similar things. What are good strategies to either not come into these kinds of situations or to quickly get out of them?