skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am an engineer who builds with a computer. And when I see such things as this, I sometimes spend a minute or so marveling and thinking about the complexity of building and orchestrating such a launch. In fact, I really cannot comprehend how something like this can be successfully done, given how so many things could go wrong. Yes, I understand the idea of redundancy, I understand gravity, I understand that physics and chemistry goes into this, but still, the engineer in me wonders how on earth can we make all of this work together. Really, kudos to spaceX, kudos to NASA, and and kudos to those who believe in science.
If you plan to FIRE, you can focus on increasing your income and/or decreasing your spending. Of the two, decreasing your spending is more powerful:

1. You save more.

2. You can live on less should your income drop (for example, you retire).

This is born out mathematically: a permanent $1k drop in spending is way more powerful than a $1k increase in income over your earning years. Cultivating a lean lifestyle seems like a good general skill.
Agree with this. Unless you're frequently traveling for business or making big work-related purchases, I'm finding it hard to believe that you could provide a compelling argument to the IRS that you have $13k in expenses. "Meals" is not a deductible expense, that's a personal expense and the IRS will nail you for it.
Anyone got a link yet to bypass the Adblock at Popular Science?
The Mac was too expensive for "the rest of us". In terms of 2018 dollars, it cost about $6000 without a LaserWriter. Very few people could afford one, no matter how easy it was to use, which is why the Commodore 64 and Apple 2 far outsold it. 17 million Commodore 64's were sold. About 5 million Amigas. These were mostly sold to consumers, not schools. Sales for the original Mac128/Plus/SE/512 are hard to come buy, but looking at yearly estimates (about 70k Mac128k sold in 1984, and about 3x that every year after), the Mac never had any significant installed base of ordinary home users compared to the 8-bit or 16-bit competitors.
When you're "facing" a storm, it is one visible on the horizon. The term implies forward-looking (and therefore uncertain) predictions.

Subheads also work rather bad as click-bait, considering you only get to read them after clicking the link.
Cool, how is it implemented ? Did you customize the news app from the arc repository or have you implemented it from scratch ?
> As a result, children too young to make their own accounts on the platforms are being turned into tastemakers.

It still is. There are ways around these rules if you're greedy, as they've proven.
This is great! Thank you for the work and information on how to use it.

Have you been able to get musl-libc to compile on and for Mac OSX/iOS, along with a supported musl-gcc-wrapper? The thought of a completely statically linked, self contained binary/library for Mac/iOS is salivating
My parents moved a lot. Every couple years. They were some sort of diplomatic staff. But just exactly what they did was never very clear to me.

But anyway, I was always the new foreign kid. Some times were good, and some were bad. But stuff didn't follow me from one place to another.

I wonder how that would work out now.
Can anyone comment on how Octave compares specifically to Mathematica, in terms of features and ease of use?
I wonder how many modern bloggers where inspired by pg (me included)? E.g: SSCodex
It happened around 1962-1964. It was a smallpox vaccine. My mother ended up with Nephritis and had to battle it for years while my uncle ended up with his hands and legs being paralyzed and had to get a surgery.
if your product is a website, the average time on page is 4.6 seconds [1] (a lot of people bounce immediately, lowering the average)

the first 10 seconds of ux is extremely important, since it's basically the top of your funnel.

[1] https://www.weidert.com/whole_brain_marketing_blog/bid/11696...
> What phone manufacturer are you worried about going out of business?

Every single one of them could go out of business in the future.

It happens all the time to companies you'd think were "too big to fail":

MCI
Sears
Montgomery Wards
Mervyn's
Gemco
Best
Pioneer Chicken
Radio Shack
Sierra Online
Pan Am
Atari
Commodore

I haven't even mentioned the number of car companies that have bit the dust, that people never thought they'd go away.

All of these can go away - and likely will go away.

It's quite possible that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and many others might go away.

I'm honestly surprised that IBM is still around. Sun Microsystems is gone (more or less - they are part of Oracle now, mainly as a name - you might know about the language they developed called "Java"); so is Silicon Graphics...

Apple of course still exists - but it wasn't that long ago that Microsoft had to pump some cash into them just to keep them going so that they wouldn't be accused of being a monopoly (or something of that nature). It's kinda funny, given where Apple is today - and where Microsoft is as well...

Yeah - any and all of these companies can go away - and in fact are likely to.

That's just the way the world is.
Amazon’s latest program to curb emissions? One delivery day per house, per week
Exactly my thoughts. I have made the edits in my local copy. Copied E3 into E1, and marked other cells in the row as 'see E1'.
Yeah they don't have years because they update them all the time, incrementally. They still are each made in a certain year. If you drove it a couple years back, things have moved forward since your conclusions were locked in your mind.
With wal-e, wal-g and pghoard its getting really difficult choosing a solution, they are so comparable
Try it and let us know!
Can you open account with US dollars as a currency and transfer money there without any conversions, then withdraw and exchange locally?
This feels a bit overly specialised, and the average article is hard. I’m sure a maths researcher can handle it and all but it does seem rather taxing.

I think for something like HN to be broadly interesting it needs volume and variety, because people’s interests are a long tail phenomena. I imagine that is probably true for maths too.
This is actually a good intro to Spring Data Rest. Thanks
I think this is great, and actually likely to be particularly convenient to many.
PHP from total scratch, I'm actually thinking of open sourcing the project
I would very much love to learn about the educated viewpoints you mentioned here. What are the new facts that make people feel like Orwell is outdated?

I definitely do not have great sources of information for life inside China. I am just a developer that has grown interested in china since the 'trade wars' started. But I would like to learn more. My hope was if I could foster discussion here, and I might learn more along the way.

Do you have any suggestions for better sources?
"monthly subscriptions like Netflix and Spotify" ... I can see a problem right there. Somehow I have managed to live my life without either of those things, and I still manage to watch series, films and listen to tons of music.
Vanguard ETFs are my jam: VOO, VXF, VGT, VTI, etc.
The main reason middle managers hire ineffective developers in Germany and elsewhere is that the job market is in a state of permanent crisis: the demand is so high that now everyone calls "senior" the people who cannot even estimate the performance of an algorithm or didn't bother to learn something new in the last 5 years. This applies both to developers and to managers and is complicated by the fact, that large and medium corporations usually don't speak English (so cannot benefit from European open labor market) and thus cannot easily import talent from abroad.

Another part of the problem is that in many industries there's a strong lobby of local companies which like medieval guilds block any new competitors from entering the markets. APIs and open standards still barely exist - you cannot simply plug in your new fancy service into an enterprise environment, but you have to pay plenty of money to some Verband to get some crazy XML specification for file exchange. After all I've seen in IT in Eastern Europe (most of all in Russia) and USA, I'm feeling like I'm still in XX century.
I wasn't asking, but thanks. Was more making a point about the shitty readme.
You can get intellisense in neovim with coc.nvim[0], which supports the full language server protocol. I've got it running with several VSCode extensions ported over to coc extensions, as well as the Microsoft Python Language Server.

[0]: https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
If you can cut a pilot version, but never ship quality code, are you (am I) the idea guy?
My anxiety disorder kicked off around the age I realized I was too old to be that shy - about 7th grade in early 90s.

I don’t know what I would have done if reality back then was anything like the second half of the story and not the first. I’m grateful it wasn’t at least.
For Maps "Here Maps" is a great alternative IMO
I don’t think it’s meant to be, there are definite edge cases that are very hard to solve, such as when manufacturers decided to alter android behavior. I also think that the ecosystem has far more iOS engineers than it does android, which leads to an imbalance in support.

Disclaimer: am contributor to react-native & iOS dev.
Yeah, which areas?
Europe tried having a Telia route throw away Amazon traffic a few years ago. The Internet basically stops working if AWS is down.
I've not used Mathematica, so my views would be as useless here.
Octave can be greatly compared to MATLAB. It actually tries its best to be as compatible with MATLAB as possible.

So, one can say it is as closed to Mathematica as MATLAB is.
They are both bad, but the situation in the West are a lot less bad because one cannot easily opt out of a government and the government doesn’t have competitors that constantly tries to undermine tracking by offering various privcy tools as companies like Apple, Mozilla and Duckduckgo do.
This definitely happens, but that’s also a bad coach.

Good coaches will develop kids across the entire range of skill levels, and will consistently give them tasks that they can succeed in (at least in practice). In the US, most little league teams have “must-play” requirements, so both coaches have to play their weakest players optimally.
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Same here. Watching rockets land from orbit will maybe never get old.

Awesome job to everyone at SpaceX! Godspeed for the rest of the mission!
There are quite a few good German developers who know enough about the car industry to stay far away from it because it's so broken. As a lowly developer, you can't fix it - you'll just get chewed up.
The academic side of things? :)
> You realize that actually having a work is quite nice and being retired for extended time periods is boring

Have you actually done this? I have and that was not my experience. I took a year off and it was great, I was never bored and the only reason I returned to work is because I need more saved before I could afford to make it permanent.
That is what it means. We are also doing this! It is worth it if you ship only iOS imo.
Sounds great! I can't find the product manager position, can you give me a hint?
Is anyone making serious money on Etsy?
In the 90s, how many updates were there, especially introducing new features?

I guess the problem is, if you introduce a new feature in a web app, it can be hidden by the customized design of users. Or it would just appear at a random place in the UI, forcing the user to re customize around that new feature.
I also live by this rule. And as a manager even more so. The more I put my coworkers in a situation where they can work and I become useless the better I am being as a manager.

Forgive the super generalization, but The manager role is to facilitate and not to strictly give orders. At least it shouldn’t be in the knowledge work space.

Organize and facilitate. Become useless.
Just visit London once and see what people do at 6 p.m. Then you know how important pubs are in this society.
I believe you are referring to dividend investing? Investing in a portfolio of stocks that pay higher than average dividends. I'm not an expert in this, but dividend stocks don't normally have as high of a growth potential so the math may be different. Usually when the FIRE community refers to investing, they usually refer to an index fund that includes either the S&P500 or global stock index so you can track the movement of the broader economy and count on the economy growing year over year.

With dividend investing, it's not really the same thing and the math likely won't work out the same.
> In an engineering setting, MatLab has more mindshare, but that may be changing.

This has definitely been changing for a while. All engineering studies of my old university except for computer science and mathematics have switched from Java+Matlab to Python over the last years. I've already seen this have an effect on workplaces, where new students prefer to use Python and are generally allowed to.
I'm always amazed when others are astonished of the "ridiculousness" of restaurant tipping in the U.S. It's a well understood social convention that everyone follows, creates an incentive for waiters to treat guests well, and creates a more direct connection between a patron and server.

There have been many cases of restaurants that have removed tipping, only to go back at the behest of their staff because waiters made more money from tips than from a higher hourly salary. This makes sense too, if a waiter is incentivized for tips, they will quickly learn how to nudge customers into getting more.

So waiters make more tipping, and U.S. customers accept it as a social norm. What's the problem?

The problem is that it opens restaurant employees up to abuse and discrimination. In most companies, if a client starts abusing an employee, managers can offer some level of protection and insulation, either by inserting themselves or in extreme cases, dropping the client. A restaurant offers far less insulation to waiters/waitresses, which makes it harder to combat entrenched discrimination. This abdication of responsibility arguably reinforces such discrimination, which can have wider effects than just in a restaurant.

This is a problem that needs fixing, but given that waiters/waitresses are often towards the bottom of the economic totem pole, and plenty of other of areas need fixing too, forcing unwanted change on them for some greater moral good before others seems wrong in itself.
Some, yes. All, no.

Some accounts start off being anonymous, then they reveal themselves somehow.

Your typical bully is not exactly long on perceiving how they will be seen (or caught). Throw in the perceived invincibility of teenagers, then you just end up with some fantastically traceable abuse.
Upgrading from an iPhone SE to an XR
The research mathematics community on the internet is fairly small, and a lot of them are over at MathOverflow, math.SE, and personal blogs. What does this site offer that would lure people away from them?
Scripting with Kotlin and Gradle
But AWS will get cheaper in the future, if historical trends continue. To the best of my knowledge, Amazon has never increased pricing on a service. They do, however, routinely (but unpredictably) drop prices, either directly (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/price-reduction) or indirectly (every new generation of EC2 instance is marginally cheaper and/or marginally more performant than the previous generation).

The “whims” of Amazon’s pricing are no more unpredictable than the pricing “mood” of your colo or your hardware vendor.
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How much is a pint of beer? Pubs here in Singapore is not affordable at all. Going to one everyday after work will really land you in the poor house.
I used Octave in Uni when my assignments had to be done in (commercial) MATLAB. I could get most of the code working at home, and then port. Matlab compatibility was the key benefit, even though the MATLAB language is a bit stupid.

And that was before numerical python existed. Now, MATLAB compatibility is about the only reason to use Octave. But a better idea is to get out of the MATLABiverse altogether.

As for reasons to use Matlab:

Matlab comes with XYZ toolkit: This isactually a good reason if you know that XYZ toolkit is your core business. In general though, the Python ecosystem is far bigger that Matlab's one.

Easy for scientist: Trap. Every MATLAB using scientist I know ends up with a code base that is too complex (~1000-5000 lines of code) for the language, but is perfect for Python. (Exactly like how programmers start projects with Python that then grow too big for that language).

Admittedly falling into the trap once might be cheaper than learning Python, assuming you never need to program anything again in your life.

Vector/matrix math: Numpy has all the same vector/matrix stuff including a class which does matrix-multiply under that '* ' operator like MATLAB. But that tMatlabhat operator is a trap: '.* ' is far more common in MATLAB code and accidentally using '* ' is a common bug. This is effortlessly avoided in Numpy standard classes.
Kudos to the entire team of SpaceX, Nasa and Ripley (dummy) for this mission. This takes a great amount of co-ordination and integration to make this complex mission successful. Living in great era of innovation and advancement in space.
I'm new to HK - just read the guidelines. I clicked this post because the title screamed scam( to me and I was curious. I was happily surprised to see a post that makes sense.

I've never heard of FIRE. I'm always skeptical of things with names like that - and some of the rules may or may not be ideal - but the conc3ept behind it is fantastic. I'm old and tried living this way way back in my 20's - then i got a family. Without a wife with the same ideals - forget it.

But* - if it could be gamified ... I always want to design something :-)
I find that I'm more productive prototyping algorithms in Matlab than in Python. In fact, I tend to write it first in Matlab, port it to Python, and finally port it to C (to run on an embedded device)!

As for Octave, I've used it a couple times in the past but found the environment underwhelming (especially so when creating plots). I also tend to run into various compatibility problems when running scripts developed in Matlab.
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I imagine the main differentiator would be open-ended discussion that's not necessarily trying to answer a well-defined question (or any question at all for that matter). Stack Exchange and MathOverflow are both fairly bad at supporting this at best and openly hostile towards it at worst.
> All engineering studies of my old university except for computer science and mathematics have switched from Java+Matlab to Python over the last years

I'd love to witness this. I used Matlab heavily as an engineering student, and now mostly work in Python. Python is definitely better for complex programming, but where the program is simple and the math is hard, Matlab seems like a great tool.

I'm curious what tools/libraries python users now use that brings Python up to the usability of matlab?
For someone who's never heard of the system it's good enough to get me interested. I'd love to see one with your history though. Great point.
> The FIRE movement, it seems, is only for those who have a reliable and predictable monthly income, or for those who can assume somewhat 100% employment till 40. If you're an entrepreneur, this arbitrary 50% saving of income won't work. You're more likely already forced to save for the next 3 months's just for wages and electric bills.

I don't think you're viewing this quite right. There's no reason you have to hit a magical 50%. Having a regular income just makes it easier to predict when you can retire / when you become financially independent.
Remember the "maker movement"? "Maker Spaces?" That was supposed to help restart hardware prototyping in the US. It didn't.

The original TechShop in Silicon Valley was kind of like that. People were making rocket components for the X-Prize. But over time, it turned into a factory for Etsy junk. The concept of "hand made" items made on a CNC laser cutter was a bit much, but it kept about eight laser cutters busy at the San Francisco TechShop. Then Etsy dropped the requirement that you had to make it yourself, and allowed outsourcing. The successor to the bankrupt TechShop has most of the same laser cutters, but they're mostly idle or broken.

People made Burning Man stuff, repaired bicycles, and made furniture. OK hobbies, but not going to change the world or even create a manufacturable product.

I don't know of a single maker space in Silicon Valley with decent electronics prototyping tools. Ardunio hacking, yes. Surface mount soldering and pick and place, no. The commercial maker space in San Jose and San Franciso has cast-off CRT oscilloscopes. About half the right stuff is there, half-broken and gathering dust. I'm waiting to see if the new nonprofits starting up can get their act together and actually open.

What's left of "maker spaces" has turned into "STEM" programs that parents push their kids through so they can improve their resume for college.
Why the downvote? I know of multiple companies that went that route.
In London? Really expensive these days. Over £5 in some places.
I think there are two unethical aspects to this: Firstly, less money spent will harm the economy, and, secondly, if lots of people do it, the system will adjust to lower salaries until it is not feasible anymore, i.e. this cheatcode depends on most other people still working their entire lives and constantly spending lots of their incomes.
All these Tesla competitors ... they are not really competitors unless they offer access to the Super Charger Network or provide something similar. More than anything the Super Charger is a game changer. Even though I very very rarely uses it, it enables the occasional long distance trip, making it practical to own just an EV and not need a 2nd car (or rent one)
This is why it's often said you should build the life you want, then save for it.
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I am 180+ miles South from the pad and it is visible from here! I love watching them.