skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The problem is really simple: China lacks a property tax, so housing is seen as a speculative investment rather than just a place to live in.

The government should read Henry George. Well, everyone should read Henry George.
I was selling homemade games on floppy discs then, so I wouldn't sell short the experiences you can pick up at a young age.
You can business expense just about anything. Also 50% of your Medicare and ss contributions if I remember correctly. Insurance premiums also 100% deductible.
Spacemacs looks beautiful tough, and has some pretty nice defaults (for example, it automatically adds a layer for each language you're using, so you have good IDE-like features without fuzzing with packages).
If there is video sure, but the rest is literally “I saw a guy who looked similar in a park” and “the GPS said this guy was in the park a few times before the event occurred”

It is the UK though, so idk, but even in the US people get convicted on less. Just seems open to reasonable doubt
“Humans are a stupid species”

I was just now in a little farm watching animals being fed as a group (goats, llamas etc). They all fought each other over the food despite the fact there were enough for all of them, and this event happens multiple times a day. They can’t learn not to spend energy fighting based on past experience.

One week ago I flew 11 hours in a plane on high altitude and arrived safely in my destination.

My point is, let’s give some credit to our species. We’re trying and life is hard.
Whiteboard Design Challenge – as part of the design interview process
Carbon emissions and costs of subsidizing New York nuclear vs renewables
the linked iPhone SE is already sold out, despite it just being an hour since this article was posted

Hopefully that's a strong enough signal to be noticed at a meeting inside Apple.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
> Abstract: "We compare the cost of maintaining a proposed subsidy for New York's three upstate nuclear power plants with the cost of replacing the plants with renewable technologies from 2016 to 2050. Keeping nuclear operating with subsidy until 2050 is the most expensive option, costing $32.4 billion (2014 USD) over that period in the base business as usual case. The least expensive option is to shut down nuclear today and replace it with onshore wind, saving $7.9 billion. All analyzed renewable scenarios lead to 20.1 to 27.4 Mt CO2 greater life-cycle emission reductions. In addition, re-investing the cost savings of the renewable scenarios into additional onshore wind increase CO2 savings up to 32.5 Mt."
I wouldn't call it a dead philosophy, just a marginalized one. There are still plenty of people around who treat their phone as a means to an end. Frankly, the new philosophy of hardware makers trying to get phones to take over people's lives is a morally bankrupt one.

I'm reminded of Star Trek and the way technology is depicted on the show. Most episodes are about people (human or alien) and their relationships to one another. Technology is only a means to an end on Star Trek.

One episode stands out, however: The Game [1]. In this episode, nearly the entire Enterprise comes under the thrall of an addictive video game. The ship would've been lost if not for the efforts of an intrepid pair of youngsters. It's an interesting inversion of the usual trope that the older generation is the one warning against the dangers of a new form of entertainment.

But I digress. I brought up Star Trek because I think the show makes a very important point: humans matter, technology is just a tool. When technology starts to matter too much, humans suffer.

[1] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/The_Game_(episode)
(I'm obviously biased as being the author of ocaml-torch)
Using functional programming is not of much help for size mismatches, the current bindings don't even use the type system to check the number of dimensions - although that should be reasonably easy to add. Maybe a better approach to help with this would be tensors with named dimensions http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/NamedTensor It's possible that a strong type system would help here but I don't think there have been much attempts.

However when using the Python api I often have errors because of:
- Unused variables when refactoring my code, which are just me forgetting to use some parameters.
- Comparing things of different types (and Python does not report any error and just return that they are different).
- Making changes to some helper functions without adapting all the projects where I'm using them.
Using a good Python linter probably helps with these, but that's a place where languages like ocaml naturally shine.
In a word sorta, but if you are on HN you are probably overthinking it. A guy I work with looks for bad small business sites on the side then he tries to convince them to let him "redesign" the site. He then moves their site to WIX and loads a default template that they like. He charges $3000 USD for this. 99% of the work is non technical.
Yep. To repeat Dan Abramov's standard reply:

> The set of dependencies that Create-React-App uses includes:

> A compiler. a bundler/linker, an optimizing minifier, a linter, a development server with live reloading, and a test runner

All of those are isolated and scoped to that one project, and they are all build-time dependencies only. It's also important to understand that Javascript packages are effectively distributed as source, which affects the number of files on disk. (Granted, many NPM packages do include unnecessary files in the published artifacts, but Javascript itself is a major factor there.)

As you said, a full-blown IDE like XCode or Visual Studio is easily multiple gigs, and if you were to look at the actual file size on disk of any C++ compiler toolchain, that would be a minimum of dozens of MB - those are just usually preinstalled on Linux or Mac systems.

So, context is pretty important here. A couple hundred MB for a complete JS build toolchain is understandable. I don't think it's necessarily _good_, and I think it can be improved a lot (especially with upcoming tooling like NPM Tink and Yarn PnP), but it's not the catastrophe many make it out to be.
This is exactly how the Autobahn works today and it is indeed fine.
Find which ICE agent you most resemble
Using a Motorola G3 since something like 4 years (maybe 5? not sure). I paid less than 200 euros for it (150 iirc) and with a factory reset just today, it runs great. It is acceptably small (5") and seems unbreakable: never had a cover and drop it sometimes like a normal person, yet not a sign of a crack on the screen.

So yes, you can buy an android that isn't garbage. Some are, definitely, but with just a bit of research you'll find good phones.
What, am I supposed to karma whore under a single user name, like you?
Taking the complex and making it simple: what is DSL, and why you need a new
Please make sure it ends up in a museum eventually.
Self-plug: passhole is a keepass CLI password manager that has this feature built in.

http://github.com/evidlo/passhole
You remember her from one thing (which you're possibly misremembering, given that there's been more between her and Make than "she's mad she didn't get featured") and that gives you enough knowledge to have a useful opinion on what happened in the mean time, and what her motivations are?
By around that age I'd learned BASIC, Pascal, and 68k assembler, was participating in BBSs and swapping software and that sort of thing. I wouldn't (and don't) say I was a professional coder then, and I still had a lot to learn, but I was well on my way and it seems reasonable to count it as a starting point. If the author followed a similar path then I don't see a problem with it.
How long did you spend looking?
This has not been the case for me. One of my best clients is a small agency that does not have an in house UX designer. They pass 100% of their UX work to me at the full price I decide. I had a very candid conversation with the owner and he was adamant about paying whatever to make me happy about the work to stay long term. It has been a win win relationship with them over the years. I charge a premium they are happy to pay and the work brings major wins for their clients which allows the agency to get even better and bigger contracts.
people involved in cold calling and selling expensive services to reluctant buyers who will tell you to f off should ideally develop a thick skin with regards to minor online snark -- take it as a skill-building exercise
Founder of a YC non-profit, SIRUM, here. We and most of the other non-profits that have gone through YC all have open sourced our software development.

It's a small group of tech focused startups (we have all mostly done fastforward.org and DRK Foundation as well) so we all know each other well and you really can't go wrong, just pick one where you like the mission and shoot them an email.

Good luck. The world needs more people like you!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10575963
I can't speak for all HNers but I recently bought a 128gb iPhone SE from someone on Gumtree after having used Android phones for 5 years (I'm an Android developer). I could not find any modern 4" phones. I really like being able to comfortably read the entire screen with one thumb, and the form of the phone just feels comfortable and functional. It's also one of the last modern iPhones with a headphone jack.

I do still prefer Android as an OS, though I am still getting used to iOS's quirks. I'm very happy with my purchase, though.
Big deal. Flag me some more.
Does the "replacement" cost include all decommissioning and environmental remediation costs?
I'd was recruited by a CEO to take a role that they'd had difficulty filling for over a year. It was a low level management role with about 50% individual contribution expectation.

I found I was constantly being asked "how" I got a job at the company I joined after consulting part time for many years. Not “you're so incompetent, how did you get a job here?” but from the day I started a constant peppering of questions from people who I came to realize felt I was a threat to their roles.

I hadn't been particularly looking to return to full time work but the CEO was a friend and the regular income was welcome after years of chasing clients.

But…the constant questioning undercut what little authority I had either as a manager or individual contributor.

And I pretty much set myself up for getting …nudged out. Not fired. Just…we're moving offices but regrettably you will not have a desk in the new office. So sorry.

So all I have are antipatterns…be alert for people questioning your background or experience and making it a thing even if it has no bearing on whatever the technical or business issue is. Be wary of people judging the hours you put in (I typically worked in the office 8:30-5:00 and was criticized for going home "early" even though I typically put in another hour or more at home).
I haven't read the entire paper, so I can't answer if the paper addresses that. Note that work (decommissioning and environmental remediation) needs to be done regardless when those nuclear generators reach end of life. In similar fashion, renewables are less expensive than continuing to run existing coal generation facilities in several markets, and those coal plants will need to be decommissioned regardless of ongoing cost comparison.

The cost of remediating all of this legacy generation is going to be eye watering, every nuclear and coal power plant a Superfund site.
When there's a 80 km/hr speed difference (or even 200 km/hr) between the lanes, it's the only way to be safe.

https://youtu.be/ys7HutH54No?t=111

Again, this is normal for the Autobahn. All the bad behaviors you see on US roads (left-lane hogging, passing on the right) will get you an expensive ticket there.
I love Julia Reda. I hope there are more pirate party members like her elected.
Surge suppression isn't all it's cracked up to be. I work in an MSP and the number of electrically fried components behind Enterprise grade UPSs is pretty astounding.

I'm not saying it's worthless, but it's not silver bullet. You must plan for failure.
My first reaction was similar to the GP - not sure you can throw out the word "officially" when it refers to something you say you did at 11 years old, unless it's documented or there is some sort of record. When the overall post is how you have nothing to show for it, that's kind of the opposite of official.

Don't really care if people want to measure differently, but IMO what you've done in the past 2 years is way more important than how long you've been doing it. The 15 year old genius I went to university with is now 33 and doing the same mundane things as most salary devs.
Hmm this is totally disappeared off the Ask list after only 3 hours..(or less, I didnt check until now) No idea why. There are other things 1 day old with 1 point and no comments, still on the list.
How important is doing all of this locally? Meeting clients face to face? I assume businesses of this type would have to be totally readjusted for one living in a very small low tech isolated American town?
Driverless Cars Tap the Brakes After Years of Hype
And how, might I ask, are you going to write your runtime for all these safe languages?
I’m not sure what I’d want honestly. Maybe more penguin stories?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrhvZhPaxQ4&t
iPhone 5 cannot run iOS 12.
One huge issue with HandBrake is the very deep 8bit pipeline limitation, which is showing its age and lack of forward thinking. HandBrake is incapable of properly encoding 10bit streams. Until that is fixed, I had no choice but to find an alternative.
> If the precision of your estimation is not a direct function of the standard deviation, but is a "hidden property of the process that obtained" it

I think you're confusing different types of error. There is error between measurements and an inherent error to the device you use to measure. There's also a difference between precision and accuracy.

Standard deviation is the difference in multiple measurements. For example if you measure something 10 times to be 51mm, then your standard deviation is 0.

But that doesn't mean you have no error.

The "property of the process that obtained it" is not hidden. A simple case is a ruler. You have lines on the ruler that tell you certain intervals. If the smallest interval on your ruler is 1mm, then all your calculations can be made to +/- 1mm (that is, up to 30.5cm on a standard 12in ruler). There is nothing hidden about this. All that is being said here is that your measuring device is not perfect.

So using the two errors, we have a measurement of 51mm +/- 1mm (or frequently in a short hand you'd just say 51mm). It would in fact be deceptive to say that your measurement was 51.0mm, because that implies that you have more precision than you actually have (implying that you have on the order of +/- 0.1mm precision).
I recently bought an iPhone SE and you've articulated why I bought it far better than I could. Well done!

I know a simple upvote would suffice but just wanted to tell you that, on my iPhone SE, of course :)
Yet another way the market is rigged against the main street investor. Successful founders of this vintage love to build their company on public money, then use their considerable leverage to take the company private after dramatic growth. I wonder if Dell will live long enough to repeat the entire process...
Hackers target African banks using North Korean tactics
I see some terrible backup strategies here.

1. Backups should not be on a single drive.
2. Backups without checksums will result in corruption.
3. Offsite is a must.
4. Unencrypted off site backup means someone already copied your data.
5. Encrypted offsite backups should have forward secrecy. So different keys for each file and keys file gets backed up encrypted.

My backup strategy:
File server runs zfs raidz with Daily/weekly/monthly snapshots on disk.

Snapshots get copied to 2 external drives, zfs mirrored.

Files get encrypted and uploaded to backblaze using my custom software. Nothing fancy, just standard authenticated encryption (chacha20poly-poly1306) but with per file key management and argon2.
Maybe some of us tend to mix up "a life lived" with overachieving. In other words, we only feel it worth if we produce something truly outstanding.
DASK
Reahl – A Python-only web framework
None looks further than your last work experience when they are hiring you. That's true.
Yes, but beware that those encoders don't come close to providing the same quality at given bitrate. Unless you're in a huge hurry, you should stick to x264 which will generate a significantly better looking video at the same filesize.
‘Please, listen to us’: Being female at America’s biggest economic conference
I think you understand the statement as "officially coding", but the author's point is probably "it is official that I have been coding for 25 years". Thus the confusion. He says nothing about the quality or consequences of his coding. I've started coding at 14, so yes, I have been coding since then (and I can "officialy" make this statement).
What Drove Jack Bogle to Upend Investing
Say yes and then if the salary is too low say this is not what you said yes to. Then tell them the salary you agreed to accept.

Really any company that is this stupid you probably don't want to work for unless you are overpaid.
Maybe in another year.
Yeah, it is completely missing me how web application dependency libraries relate in any way to an IDE for building applications. I don't get this argument and it doesn't seem to me like it makes sense. Perhaps I'm wrong and there's a connection I'm not seeing. Can anyone clarify this?
Affectation.
Octave checks for matrix mismatch, I believe.
Not sure if it is integrated with pytorch.
Huawei’s Mysterious Founder Denies Spying for China
I’m glad you had a long career and continue to do so. You sound similar to engineers I’ve interviewed with 1 year of experience for 15 years. Good luck on your journey.
Even the Xperia compact phones are now pretty big. The previous Xperia X compact is now sold out in most reputable stores. I would love a small phone.
I re-read the article twice and didn’t see him mention he didn’t have a surge suppressor. Did I miss it or are you assuming that he didn’t have a surge suppressor?

As others have said, electronics can get fried by power surges while plugged into even commercial grade surge suppressors. Home grade surge suppressors provide even less protection.
Your Bowie Is No Good Here (Emergence of Local Currencies)
Atari makes $12.7M in 6 months, VCS on track for 2019 (2018)
I also updated my TC Electronic Nova System via MIDI as well. It is a common feature across other MIDI devices.
I can’t enjoy my leisure when there is so much injustice around me
>People who want a smaller phone in 2019 are a very small yet very vocal minority.

Really?

Here in Japan, there are a lot of ladies with small hands, not particularly vocal on HN, and they seem to find small phones more comfortable to hold.
how does he convince the business to spend money just to redesign it and how big are his clients(10+ employees)? I was able to convince a client(3 person company) that he should have a website, but he just did it himself. Now he wants me to do seo and get more conversions which feels more like an art rather than science to me.
its like taking a low resolution photography of 23 chromosomes and X and Y plus the circular mitochondrial genome. The higher the resolution the more expensive it is and more data and more difficult to interpret. If the feature you interested in is large and unique then a blurry picture may be good enough for example recognize a human body from few yards away, as the features become more refined and more diverse like a face, you can still have little blurr but you need to recognize the facial dimensions extensively to be useful. And if you want to see skin lesions then you want a high resolution pictures to distinguish which type it is...

sampling is a high resolution photo with large holes in it, a full sequencing is a full photograph with varying resolution and quality etc. There are still some areas of the genome that are inaccessible even with full sequencing. Improvements are being made with long read sequencing.
Why Do People Fall for Fake News?
It should be mentioned on this list but because Angular has positioned itself as the enterprise solution to web frontend it scares away novices. Great solution tho, I work with it fulltime
> CSS grid

> If you’re still using heavy-weight grid frameworks from UI toolkits like Bootstrap or Foundation, you are falling behind.

This is a pretty sensationalist way to word this and honestly an absurd statement as a whole. If you have a public-facing site, ignoring everything that isn't up-to-date is a luxury you can't afford and blunt statements like these show ignorance in that regard.
Sure, you can find extremists on both sides: the "nationalize Facebook" people, and the "nothing on the internet should ever be regulated" folks. Not having read the book under review ("Surveillance Capitalism"), I can't say whether the author is all the way over in the "nationalize" camp.

But currently, we need more regulation, not less, on internet companies whose business model is based on selling your attention to persuaders at a time when you are most vulnerable to persuasion. So although I don't favor nationalization, and I don't begrudge Zuckerberg his vast wealth, I want to see things move in the direction of more regulation, not less.

There is a slippery slope no matter where you stand, but yet, you have to stand somewhere.
Came to say the same thing. Or flood, tornado, earthquake, etc...
Do you have a blog? Would love to hear war stories :)
4 disk RAID what? 4 disk RAID 1 or RAID 10 or... It'd make a difference.
You forgot to mention millions of dollars of value created for other people.
> It's a 2016 model, so it should remain supported until at least 2021.

According to [1], customers "may obtain service and parts from Apple or Apple service providers for 5 years after the product is no longer manufactured" -- not from when the model was first manufactured.

The 32/128 GB models were manufactured from 2017-2018, so these should be supported until 2023.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624
Hi — that’s what we’re working on! Retool (https://tryretool.com) is similar to Excel, except the cells are themselves React components. And you can refer to other components inside the props for each component. You can pull in data either via SQL, APIs, or any other data source we support. Everything inside Retool is also JavaScript, so it’s pretty hackable.

If you’ve got any feedback, please let me know! I’m david@. Thanks!
The point is that build tools take up disk space, and need to be installed. IDEs like XCode and Visual Studio bring along large quantities of libraries, headers, and other aspects of a C++ / C# / Swift / $LANG build toolchain.

Front-end web dev now consists in large part of building highly interactive applications, not just static sites. That requires tooling. Therefore, it's not unreasonable to expect that the necessary tools will take up space, and there's plenty of prior precedent from other languages.
There is a fundamental asymmetry where it's much harder to repeal a law that harms a bunch of people a little bit to benefit a few. The few can afford to invest resources in defense and have a much bigger stake than the many, who individually have no real reason to care.

Public outrage works like a line in the sand, where the many get upset far out of proportion to what their stake is, to prevent death by a thousand cuts. But once you cross it, the defense crumbles. There's no model where seesawing back and forth between less and more copyright works: the many just can't organize as well as the few. That's why lobbyists only have to win once.