skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely second that as a German as well. Disruption is desperately needed and I am glad that a 16 year old company kicks the German complacency out of business.

Reinvention? What sort of? They don't get software, they don't get new business models. That's why they stick to politics who should save their models - which is protectionism.

Germany's car makers were never customer first. What kind of innovation did Germany establish besides ABS? The cars still drive forward, backwards and can turn around - AWESOME! This has been done for almost 100 years.

Germany's car makers are great at marketing. "Drive a M5 and feel the power of 500+ horsepower on the Autobahn" - that's exactly why they are struggling with the idea of autonomous driving: how can you reinvent the story from being an Autobahn race car driver to calmness in your car with millions of other people? Same goes for Porsche: "Reinventing the classic" It still has enough HP to accelerate you from 0 to 100 km/h in roughly 4,2 seconds - and then comes Tesla and beats the sh*t out of Porsche without even hard work.

Germany's car industry is like the National Rifle Association. They won't change without hard disruption. And in Germany it finally arrived.
Octave and Matlab focus on numerical computing, while Mathematica focusses on symbolic computing. The first means working with arrays (and higher dimensional arrays) of (mostly) floating point numbers, while the later means working with abstract syntax trees of mathematical expressions.
Not Octave, but the other Matlab-clone Scilab has a package called Xcos which is similar to Simulink.
Let me explain where parent poster is coming from. Hyder and Tipu were muslim rulers. Thanks to the patronage of the religious right leaning government, there is a concerted effort going on to remove traces of islam in india's history. Diminishing Tipu and Hyder Ali's role is just a part of the package
A representative of the government can't actually confiscate property without due process of law. You also can't consent by going somewhere where for all practical purposes you are legally compelled to go.

This is so trivially obvious I presume you are merely unaware that this doesn't actually work this way. The second the parent shows up the property must be returned.
No, it doesn't look like that to me at all. Bank statements do not usually contain nearly enough information on what was purchased. They are proof of payment. That's why they are listed on that page among other supporting documents like invoices.
Do you sponsor work visa?
uncool? I did it exactly twice. Both companies failed to respond after several months. Companies fishing for CV's and not getting back while asking for more CV's on HN is the problem, not me calling them out!
Sure, and that's exactly what re2c does too. It lets you do a match on multiple regexes:

regex1 { code that executes if regex1 matches }
regex2 { code that executes if regex2 matches }
regex3 { code that executes if regex3 matches }
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I was going to suggest that English has a lot of postpositions if you count some of the suffixes such as -side and -wise. ie. fireside or lengthwise

After attempting to double check this, it looks like the siffix is not considered a postposition and the suffixed words are simply prepositions themselves. ie fireside chat.
Feature sets of all the recent backup and restore systems are becoming more and more alike, but when we started working on PGHoard there were no good options that were built to efficiently utilize different cloud object stores (S3 + GCS, Azure, Swift, etc.)

Our original announcement of PGHoard at https://aiven.io/blog/postgresql-cloud-backups-with-pghoard/ lists some of the reasons we had for building a new system from scratch.

Nowadays there are many good options for handling basebackups and WAL, and one of the largest remaining issues is the lack of parallel WAL apply in PostgreSQL itself, which limits restore throughput quite severely.
It would be good for the PG community to consolidate some of these projects (wall-e, wall-g, pghoard, pgbackrest, barman, etc) into the core functionality at this point.
> Hardware standardization is pretty much always superior to fragmentation.

I think this is changing with the death of Moore's law. In the past, it was almost always better to follow conventional hardware standards because chips kept on getting better extremely quickly. In the 18 months or so it would take an engineering team to come up with some custom hardware, the general purpose Intel hardware would improve so much that it made more sense to wait than to make something custom.

However now, Moore's law is pretty much dead. Processor performance is improving, but it's no longer on an exponential. Today, to gain an extra X% of performance, your best bet is often build your own hardware or ASIC customized to your particular use case. We see this everywhere now, with Apple building their own chips, folks making custom chips for AI and blockchain, and ARM's comparatively customizable architecture beating out Intel's relatively closed one.

With the death of Moore's law, coupled with the unceasing desire to suck out more performance from similar hardware, we're now seeing far more fragmentation than we did in the 90s, 00s, or early 10s.
That does sound like him.

Posner is probably best known for (a) suggesting an open market for babies, and (b) being one of the smartest humans of our era.

He's a Chicago School market-mechanisms fetishist, but a reasonable one believing in the necessity of regulations to tackle externalities and anti-trust.

His writings sit in that perfect spot where I instantly notice the author is way smarter than me, but can still understand the jokes.
Pretty sure that’s the guy that scaled a small building to show me the MIT apartment he wanted me to rent with him about 15 years ago. Deja-vu moment. Cool guy; couldn’t find a third.

Do most of these ‘factory’ startups make a profit? How do they get investment? It seems like this is only possible in an export-driven economy.
Loved this article!

It seems like the validation step was flawed, here are some hypothesis:

- they didn’t validate enough to understand the real requirements
- they misinterpreted the segment
- they charge too late
- they hit a behavior wall

The biggest takeaway I get from this reading is that it’s really easy to fool yourself with customer feedback (even if you are a serial entrepreneur - Josh has founded so many businesses before!). Even when your customers say that your idea is fantastic it doesn’t mean that it’s true or that you should build it. i.e. Reading the customers, thus the market is the hardest part of our job.
VW is trying to reconstitutes their entire fleet onto a 'single platform' or at least something resembling that. This is a core part of their long term strategy that's oft not talked about [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group_MLB_platform
If so the rules seem to enable players that ignore not only common decency but what is (at least in Europe) now law. I guess I will never know how long they keep my CV on file either.
Show HN: Q&A platform which rewards crypto-incentives for good answers/votes
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Still prefer libressl. A shame that openssl's history of failing at security is rewarded with donations and use, rather than shunned.
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The documentation specifies that that is a possible end state:

> The "1" at the end of the name for the json1 extension is deliberate. The designers anticipate that there will be future incompatible JSON extensions building upon the lessons learned from json1. Once sufficient experience is gained, some kind of JSON extension might be folded into the SQLite core. For now, JSON support remains an extension.
Lambda the ultimate? http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
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Yes, fully agree.

However, as people start to actually use the site, I think they care a lot less about a lot of cosmetic things.
Reminds me of elementary when someone pulled out the word Disestablishmentarianism.
Not quite. For one thing, that +/- 200k matters a lot. Start out making $100k out of college. Get a 10% raise per year. Save half of everything you make over that initial $100k—like pretending you only got a 5% raise. You’ll be able to retire with $10M in the bank in your early 50s. At 40, you’ll have a couple million in the bank, kids in school, and be able to take modest family vacations without worrying about it. You can absorb health problems, needs for therapy of various sorts—give your kids a great launch.

The trick is finding ways to keep that compensation number moving up 10%/year. The first decade is easy. The second... can be done. Past that, I dunno.
well they do, just with another brandname https://ionity.eu/en/about.html, BMW,Daimler,VW,Ford sharing resources on this just makes sense
I've heard this type of thing before but it seems to set up something of a false dichotomy to me. Not having to work a full time job doesn't mean doing nothing, it means financial independence to pursue whatever projects are meaningful to you. I don't really resonate with the approach described in the article because for me those projects tend to require a bit more than a subsistence level of income. There are endless interesting projects to pursue that aren't the most viable options when you have to worry about paying the bills however.
Hn succeeded in spite of his CMS not because of it
> I'm curious what tools/libraries python users now use that brings Python up to the usability of matlab?

95% SciPy, NumPy and Spyder. I'm sure the massive savings on license costs also make it attractive.
Pg essay reference?
> they all carry sexual innuendo

They don't. Your teacher was a pervert. :)
I think we actually did a pretty good job at 6wunderkinder with wunderlist.
I hope you are able to locate $35k model 3 now :-)
Can you prove it?
In our local IT community chat, we have a funny tradition of posting bathroom review videos from different IT companies. From what I've seen, turns out that your assumption is totally true.
I’ll agree that people never do anything without a reason, with the caveat that “It’s my boss’s pet project and he signs my paycheck” is often a good enough reason to do something.
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
Your complaints about capitalism can mostly be handled without giving up all the benefits. Poverty exists everywhere, especially under communism, but right now a good deal of the source is competition from immigrants and outsourcing, both of which can simply be restricted. The fact that corporate profits skyrocket isn't something for most people to directly care about (jealousy is a nasty emotion) but FWIW this goes away if anti-monopoly laws are enforced and if corporations are prohibited from becoming huge.

Before you blame climate change on capitalism, please note the coal mines in North Korea and in China.

Nothing could be more equitable than people keeping whatever share of the pie they have earned.

I also truly do not give a fuck about start up founders... but if they aren't well-rewarded then they won't bother. What replaces them? Do you think that instead the government would operate all businesses? Without the possibility of bankruptcy, bad businesses (operating as government agencies) will continue sucking up subsidies. New ones will not be created unless the dictator is convinced that they would be useful to him.

The corruption problem we now have with politicians is indeed bad, but clearly this hasn't become universal throughout our culture. In a communist society, one might pay the store clerk a bit of extra cash to have him hide a bit of meat in order to save it for you. It all becomes totally habitual with all of the ordinary people you interact with every day. It's not just a matter of politicians.

I agree that the situation in the Scandanavian countries is unsustainable. Freeloaders are an increasing problem. The workload (taxes) have reduced the birthrate, and the low birthrate means that fewer workers will be sharing the load of supporting the old, each problem leading to the other problem and thus these countries are in a death spiral.
To help you with not feeling overwhelmed - they are doing it since May 6, 2002. It has taken a lot of time, of a lot of people to get here. There was a lot of failures also, along the way.
Here's a breakdown:

- After taxes that $700k turns into $450k.

- NYC 3br apartment in a good neighborhood costs ~$3M, which roughly translates into $200k/yr

- If you have 3 kids, childcare and/or private school costs $30-50k/kid, say $120k/yr, this will be much higher when they go to college

- Good healthcare for a family of 5 (you're not working, so you need to buy it), costs roughly $40k/yr

- Basic living expenses of food, clothing, utilities, is another $40k.

That leaves about $50k leftover that you can use for vacations, further savings, luxury items, etc. At this rate, you're living very well with a very nice life, but definitely not a like a king.
> and eating a Tesco meal deal for lunch (£3) [$4]. I know I should be preparing my own lunches to save an extra bit of cash, but the effort required to save an extra dollar a day doesn't quite cut it for me

This for me is a wonderful little example of how costs build up.

If you're not familiar with a "meal deal" in the UK, they're a sandwich/snack/drink combo. They are almost universally pretty poor.

The author talks of the effort to prepare lunch, when compared to a basic sandwich and thinks this would still cost about £2 per day.

If they could cut the lunch cost in half it'd be equivalent to them getting a £500/year payrise.

Edit - oh, the meal deal was them trying to save money. Then making at home you can have something a lot better and cheaper and if they were spending 5-6 per day before (easy to do) it may be worth £2k/year in salary, up to 2500 of they have a student loan too.

> As I spend my lunch break stolidly working my way through a seventh straight chicken sandwich,

But you weren't limited to that sandwich, and the sandwich wasn't part of your savings!

As usual, it's a fairly lazy look at the concept. Take a moderate salary in a high cost of living place and try vaguely to cut it drastically, then sum up by saying you might die anyway so why bother.

Here's a quick simpler rundown:

Keep track of what you're spending, it's a simple habit that can pay off well.

Spend less on things that don't improve your life.

Spend more on the things that do.

If one of the things that would improve your life is more financial safety or being able to not have to work, spend some of your money on that.

Other than "earn more money if it's worth the change in job satisfaction" that's a recipe for making your life better whether you want to retire early or not.
I think this may be misleading, because if there are clear rules, and all words follow them, then a lot of things become easier. English has of/for/with etc in the place of these.

Here's Armenian (western).

Singular: (շուն: shoun)

շուն շունս շունդ շունը
շունի շունիս շունիդ շունին
շունԷ շունԷս շունԷդ շունԷն
շունով շունովս շունովդ շունովը

Plural: (շուներ: shouner)

շուներ շուներս շուներդ շուները
շուներու շուներուս շուներուդ շուներուն
շուներԷ շուներԷս շուներԷդ շուներԷն
շուներով շուներովս շուներովդ շուներովը

Technically, there are 16 more, but they have the same form as the first eight of each.
It is about mobility. Why limit yourself to cars? Why not offer e scooters, bikes? The whole concept of owning a car is wrong. With German cities becoming more and more like megacities, it is important to focus on mobility and not on selling cars.
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Specifically, the one "equivalent" to Mathematica is Maxima [0], I remember using it for symbolic computation on my linux machine. Especialy coupled with Wx GUI [1].

[0]: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
[1]: https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/
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Mathematica does so much more than Octave that it's not even remotely comparable. In terms of features, Octave inherited Matlab's matrix-centric mindset by having the \ operator solve linear systems whereas in Mathematica it's slightly longer (LinearSolve[m,b] or just Inverse[m].b for non-numeric ones). But Mathematica offers symbolic computing as well, and you can very easily go from "solving this equation with machine-precision numbers" to "solve this equation with arbitrary precision algebraic numbers" to "solving this equation with an unknown parameter with conditions" in a seamless way. There are whole areas of mathematics, pure and applied, that can be done in Mathematica but not in Octave. In terms of ease of use, Mathematica also excels here; both data and code share a uniform notation that is very similar to lisp, and functional programming ideas carry over very seamlessly.

I'd say if you are someone who's even remotely mathematically minded, learning to use Mathematica is an extremely useful experience. As an example that recently happened to me, while doing front end work I needed to construct certain geometric figures as an SVG polygon; I used Mathematica's built in graphics primitives combined with its plotting capabilities to find the polygon in no time. Even though the end result is a piece of JavaScript, Mathematica gives me a way to prototype the whole thing in an environment that's "batteries included" and well-polished.
Looks funny in light of Lyft's upcoming IPO.
Volkswagen owns Electrify America and Electrify Canada:

https://www.electrifyamerica.com/

https://www.electrify-canada.ca/

And as another poster mentioned they co-own the Ionity network in Europe with other car manufacturers.

The Porsche Taycan can make use of 350 kW chargers for 80% charge in about 15 minutes:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/28/porsche-taycan-owners-will...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/a21239...
Exactly. "Returning" an internet mattress is a lot like when a bookstore "returns" unsold inventory by tearing off the covers and dumping the rest.
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Would love to read something great for inspiration.

Thank you in advance!
The usage pattern is somewhat different. The primary problem with null references in languages such as Java is that they are not opt-in, and they're not even opt-out! That is to say, you don't even have an option (heh!) to encode in the type system the fact that a reference is never null. What's worse, references tend to get passed around a lot, and stored inside objects, and programmers are lazy and don't assert or even think about preconditions, so the root cause of an unexpected NPE can be far removed from the code that finally triggers it.

With code that indexes slices, the index computation is usually much more proximate to the actual indexing operation. If ensuring the validity of the index is about upholding an invariant internal to the module, it makes no sense to return an "sorry, I have a bug" error to the caller if that invariant fails to hold. What would the caller do about that?
Well, I know of at least one highly effective development company that twice erred on the side of introducing a new management layer too late because nobody particularly wanted another layer.
> What kind of innovation did Germany establish besides ABS?

Not sure why you got downvoted, afaik the most important technological
breakthroughs when it came to cars in Europe were made by the Italians (Fiat, mostly, but Alfa Romeo too), the French (the Citroen DS is one of the best technological products ever) and the Swedes (Volvo and its emphasis on security). Somehow the Germans navigated the ‘90s and early 2000s a little better, not sure exactly why (maybe because they invested in China earlier?), and that’s why right now they’re seen as the car companies to beat.
> I'm sure the massive savings on license costs also make it attractive.

I remember shelling out $60 for a true license of Matlab while in college. I remember thinking, "well you're an engineer now, and this cost is part of that", even thugh it felt like a small fortune. But official licensed version required you to insert the CD into the computer every time you used it, so I gave up a got the pirated version instead.
I guess. But if a human can't be bothered to record it, why should I be bothered to read it?
Asshole climate change denier
Why is this problem not legislated out of existence?
Are neural networks (for example from TensorFlow) considered data structures?

They store data, so maybe it would have been nice to mention them in the paper even if it's to put them out of scope for X reasons.
To counter your point, you might remember the React team's about face when probably their largest benefactor in terms of free goodwill, Wordpress, threatened to drop ReactJS for its ambiguous license. I would think it matters a lot to FB right now that they don't do anything remotely annoying to the community.

I would be willing to bet that if Facebook adopted an attitude of "screw it, lets just stop responding to these idiots" that will make even fewer people want to work at Facebook right now, given all the bad press these days. I bet if you ask people why they are still continuing at Facebook these days, a fair number would say something like "Yeah, at least I can work on open source projects".

If anyone at Facebook reading this wants to go for a dare, why don't you try dropping support for a high profile open source project like ReactJS and see if that affects the candidates entering your pipeline.