skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I decided to take a break from society last year. I'm fortunate enough where I am that it's eminently reasonable to do.

I found some Mennonites that build small 14 * 28 foot cabins with two sleeping lofts. It costs about 8k, and that includes delivery to your land. They come with the exterior/roof finished, but the interior is up to you.

Your personal asceticism modulates the cost. My shower is actuated by a ball valve. I set the temperature at the inline gas water heater to perfection, so I don't need hot and cold!
I was surprised to learn how cheap the insulation, carpet, sheetrock, mud and paint were.

Rural land here is about 2k per acre. Many plots already have wells dug, but if not It'll cost about 4-6k to get one drilled, and 500-1000$ for a well pump.

Septic tanks are a few grand. A trenching shovel is cheaper, but that option depends on the topology of your land and your heart.

I get my electricity from solar. If you do that, you need some panels, an inverter, charge controller and batteries. My system is pretty modest. 10 deep cycle batteries. I've lost track of how many panels we've got. Most of them we soldered the cells together so it kind of all blurs together. The whole of it probably cost about 1700$. It's enough to run our super efficient 12 volt fridge, the pump and a few laptops.. except when we go a week without sun during the winter.

Next consulting gig I get, I'll probably get a wind generator as well.

When it's oppressively cloudy, I use a small gasoline generator to power all the stuff. It also will kick on a battery charger that'll top the batteries off.

This winter I used a propane heater. I've come to realize liquid propane is somewhat money inefficient compared to a wood stove. I'll have the wood stove installed by next winter. I'll probably keep using the propane oven.

Leading up to me dropping out of society, I came to resent paying rent.. I resented the thought of office power games having survival consequences for my life. I didn't have to off-grid like I have.. There are power lines. It's just such a great feeling to cut out monthly subscription costs from my life. The serenity it brings is maximum. Mother gaia gives me my water and sol my electrons.

I still do consulting work as it comes to me. Blissfully, I no longer feel desperation and anxiety between contracts.
I don't get it. I just tried a few online "cheap glasses" places. I want single vision, prescription (relatively low strength, nothing exotic), polarized sunglasses. Fashion doesn't really matter, it is just for driving.

zenni: $25 frames, cheapest polarization option: $67.89

eyebuydirect.com: $42 frames (malibu), plus polarization: $92

39dollarglasses.com: $39 frames (houston), cheapest polarization option +69, total $108 (more if I want anti-glare)

While these prices are better than my optometrist, where are people finding these "I got three pairs of prescription sunglasses for $50" stories?
If parent poster's numbers are even in the right ballpark, we could just directly subsidize the small businesses that are disrupted and still come out money ahead.
Looks like a port of this Basic one-liner: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2012/11/compu...
Not to mention https://www.gitkraken.com/
Why?

Most compilers give no guarantees in which order they lay out the data. I love deterministic processes as much as everyone. But randomized approaches have their advantages too. And if a compiler has reasons to randomize output e.g. for speed than it’s a trade off to consider.
> so people could freely move to the government that best fit their needs.

That requires a certain level of callousness. If New York State got universal health care (for instance), I'd be happy—but I would still push for it to be supported at a national level, so that people in other states could benefit.
I recently moved and found out about this when I signed up for the change of address and mail forwarding. It works well for me. I get daily emails with photos of what's coming. The image sizes are small but still clear - which is good because that keeps the email size to a very small level, even on days with a lot of mail. There's some things that don't have images for some unknown reason, but overall it works well for me and I'm impressed with the service.
That comparison is very enlightening. The Windows version is very sharp, but the letter forms are completely distorted and it looks like it’s switching typeface as the point size changes, or even within the same sample. Look at the horizontal lines in the “z” in the larger sizes, they are very clearly too thin and don’t harmonize with the surrounding letters. Look at the relationship between the top of the “u” and “a” in “quartz”. The straight lines in the “u” serifs end at the exact same height as the curved top of the “a”, making the “u” appear, visually, to extend higher. You can clearly see in the Mac sample that there is some antialiasing on the “a” to fix this issue.

I can understand how years of Windows will make the Mac sample look fuzzy, but I’m convinced the correct and harmonious word shapes on the Mac are much more important for reading flow.
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That what I was thinking, but they feature ones created by DO there and even label as new for instance for WordPress, so was wondering what was new about the WordPress one click option for instance since already exists.
"It is well known that I prefer code that has few comments. I code by the principle that good code does not require many comments. Indeed, I have often suggested that every comment represents a failure to make the code self explanatory. I have advised programmers to consider comments as a last resort."

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/02/23/NecessaryCo...

I tend to prefer no comments, but more descriptive methods. There may be occasional exceptions.
While I agree that the attitude shown in the quote is undesirable, I think it's more a symptom of the problem, not the underlying problem itself. He's essentially right. Infrastructure projects are constantly shot down because of cost concerns, yet we have crumbling infrastructure that needs to be replaced. If estimates became higher, approvals would decrease.

One other piece I haven't seen mentioned yet: large construction projects that take years to complete are incredibly hard to estimate accurately, because unpredictable economic swings can cause the cost of items to vary quite a bit between when the estimate was produced, and when the work was actually being performed and purchased.

This was one of the reasons why the Big Dig's estimates were so far off. Although there are a dozen other factors with that particular case as well.
Ah okay, thanks. From what I've seen XPS 9350 was the first thing to support Thunderbolt so maybe it's the teething problems of first gen hardware ;)
Warby Parkers are cheaply designed: nose pads are not affixed with screws, and thus are prone to being lost. Most (all?) hinges are rigid, without spring suspension. It’s kind of ridiculous for these prices (compare with Zenni and Costco).
What would be a good text book about language theory, type systems etc.?
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Yeah, it's the same in Chile. Cheap hotels go by names that generally translate to "inn".
The package sklearn-porter supports the separation between inference (code) and model data (parameters) by passing `export_data=True` while transpiling the trained estimator.
I agree that whiteboarding is terrible but this doesn't seem like much of a fix.

The issue with whiteboarding (or pen and paper) is that programmers use editors or IDEs. We had good luck just moving interviews into a clean slate editor - candidates felt more at ease with more normal tooling.
Think of accepting misused exponentiallys, decimateds, literallys, etc., as obedience to Postel's Law: Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send. Stretch your brain to comprehend around malapropisms while striving to avoid them yourself.

Of course if one of the things that you comprehend is that the speaker is not well spoken there's no need to discard that datum.
IMO the problem with most of these approaches is that it's incredibly hard to measure certain important things, and making decisions purely based on what you can measure is risky if you're not aware of what you're leaving out of those decisions.

Consider the team that spends 2 months implementing a feature twice or more because one product person specs out one thing, their VP boss sees it a month later and says "no, redo it this other way," and then a month after that another VP sees the result and says "no, you have to go back to the first version!" But maybe they hit their sprint velocity targets every sprint along the way.

Consider the team working on the "elegant," "clever" codebase that solved yesterday's problem extremely neatly but wasn't extensible at all to the new feature, requiring a ton of effort to work around the old assumptions in the code. This team could similarly be "crushing it" according to their story points and burndown."

Consider the team with high SLAs and a lot of old domain knowledge that now gets a critical new project while still having 70% of their time sucked up by being the experts on the old system, and never given priority to operationalize/automate some of that old work. How often do you get those wasted hours measured in a way that convinces someone to give the team the help they need?

This isn't just a non-technical thing. I've seen (and been guilty of) devs lobby for rewrites of messy legacy systems, only to end up months later with a system no more extensible than the one before, without any improvement in the ability to delivery business results rapidly. I think it comes down the company environment in the end - if you are in a place where you get good results from trusting each other, you can find beneficial trade-offs and good-faith "here's how refactoring this is gonna help you out later, product person; and in exchange for prioritizing it we'll squeeze in this extra high-priority short-term thing too" dealings. But if not, it's a prisoner's dilemma sort of situation.
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Is Elixir/Erlang considered superior to Go for writing high concurrency web servers?
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The Edge TPU devices that Google has been promising since last year is now available under a new company called Coral. Would love to get one to compare to my Jetson TX2. The downside is that the unit can only use Tensorflow Lite.

E: Hah, seems like my topic got merged with this one. Interesting how I was short from OPs post by like a minute a two. Such a coincidence!
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In my limited semi-personal experience, (some) European countries have stronger labor laws but a much less adversarial model of union & management collaboration, which can include creative ways of reducing costs (so long as the benefit of same is distributed equitably).
I haven't used Spidermon yet, but Scrapinghub has a Scrapy plugin called Splash which can be used to render JS pages within a Scrapy spider.
Could you make a screenshot? But if the system is very old it is possible the bug is not present yet, the author mentioned it is caused by modern changes colliding with the hardcoded assumptions about the grid placement. If those are still current on your system it might just still work like it was supposed to.
It solves the problem of wasted energy delivering mail people don't want, like junk mail/spam. I'd be very interested to see how much wasted paper and gas goes into producing and delivering junk mail. Mail processing centers already use computer vision to see where a parcel's going instead of manually sorting, so this is a logical step forward.
No, it does not do it to best standards and simplicity. Hapi itself is also incredibly convoluted and bloated.
Seems like it should be more useful than it is. I unsubbed after 3 months. Seeing an envelope didn't really give me much info as a consumer. Perhaps on a long trip or something, it would be more useful.

Now, if I could have selected things to trash immediately to reduce the waste, or if the entire message could have been digitized... well, that would be helpful. Companies have come and gone offering services like this, but no one has gotten it quite right for now.
That's great for us, thanks for sharing! :)
They do not, however, charge for the service.
> leaving your junk behind for them to deal with

This assumes the spam through mail is yours... it is the company's.
Right, that's not a bit for bit reproducible builds.

Think of it as absent a cache I should get bit for bit identical out (perhaps ignoring logs and such).
I have worked in the tunneling industry for nearly a decade designing, building, and procuring these jobs. Tunnels are generally the last option chosen when third parties are the concern. They are the most expensive option, by far, unless other factors (environmental, public impact, political perception, etc.) are considered. Therefore, once you arrive at the decision to use a tunnel, it becomes clear that third party impacts are a driver.

From that point it becomes a battle of easement/property acquisition during procurement and with each easement or third party agreement comes promises that must be made to that third party. This translates into design mandates which need to be held and designed around which translates into additional design costs and then additional construction costs. If we don't hold to these agreements then litigation ensues, and so we would rather overdesign to reduce the risk profile and position the project better for the inevitable lawsuit.

Other countries do not have similar litigation risks. Or at least, that's what my European contemporaries tell me when they come to work in America.
Just a heads up, on your Product page (https://tonic.ai/product) you have the same description under both "Point-and-click" and "Built-in Statistics."
Sounds like I might not be a good judge of quality frames then!

Might have to give Zenni a shot next time I need a new pair.
Its unclear how many of those are anything more than dipping their toes in the water.

Theres a lack of product range, and don't forget the scale, these manufacturers are currently producing 1000s of evs, they need to scale to millions.

VW seem to sound most serious, aiming for 50 models by 2025, but what do they have now?

And don't forget lead times. They will be starting to design those 2025 cars right about now. Are they ready for that?
So 31 is the new "elderly"?
In my country (Poland), the majority of people who are interested in buying a house just buy the lot and contract a company to build the house for them. This way, you get to live in a house that's exactly right for you. Of course, the flip side is that the whole process takes a year or longer - but here most people live in flats, and those who decide (and can afford) to own a house, treat it as a part of settling in the area for a longer period of time.
Maybe the shops in that part of town have better stuff.
That's very cool. I wish there was a Commodore 64 version. Running an emulator on a laptop isn't quite right because of keyboard differences. Plus there's the whole joystick port thing.
Thread finishes work

grabs lock

writes to file

writes to index

releases lock

That's not a race condition. The output order doesn't matter, but it is nondeterministic.
Why would anyone want to use this over Dragonfly, which seems to have way more battle testing? Is this another case of NIH?
I must be a bit dense today, what irony?
I'm chuckling inside thinking about how many people go and install/use this versus how many people actually work at a scale that they need to use this.
How much kWh does such a battery store?
I’ll probably be downvoted to the ground for being so politically incorrect, but... no.

This isn’t a “celebration of diversity” kind-of-thing. It’s an oh-fuck-look-how-this-broke kind of tragedy (particularly if you read the references posted in the commentary that indicate an amputation).

Celebrating diversity has a place. This is not it. Genetic machinery glitched majorly and these two children will have a difficult time ahead of them. Yes, we’ll get interesting one-off scientific observations, but that’s hardly a total reward.
> TBH, those vendors sound seriously sketchy absent some credible explanation for why they think they need to charge more for a wedding.

I mean, you can just ask why if you're curious. Most of them are sole proprietorships. It's not like you're dealing with a large corporation where pricing is set by a corporate office.

Re: bailing, honestly I think most of them just react negatively to being lied to because there's some element of a personal relationship involved in this kind of service. I'd similarly be pretty pissed if my boss lied to me intentionally about what I was working on.
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That's horrible, isn't it? The author does have a valid bug there that really is a big issue if you care about this sort of thing (some people just don't care how fonts look and can't notice kerning issues), but the whole comment thread is discussing very subjective rendering differences between Windows, Linux and OSX, where Linux isn't even bad. Though I think the author did himself no favor with not leading with that bug.
I think you’re confused about what these projects really are. They are not construction projects they are job creation programs. Both the unions and politicians use them as such to bolster their own interests.
My point is related but not exactly the same as his section 8. Litigation in America is what has driven defensive design and construction because we are ALWAYS positioning for claims, especially from third parties. The author is zeroing in on politicians and their lack of a need to take a project from "cradle to grave" and/or answer for cost overruns. This is a symptom of the problem, in my opinion.
Also, the post encourages comments saying “TODO”. I’ve yet to see a codebase where that helps anything.
I definitely understand the merit of making it super easy to verify, by simply hashing the build ISO. But that also shifts the burden of forcing deterministic results to the build process. I wonder if for a little more complexity in verification, if a lot less complexity would be needed on the build side?

For example the ISO file system, typically ISO 9660 or UDF, will have a volume UUID from a random number. Sure you can code a flag for mkfs to specify a fixed number, that's easy. But then next that ISO typically contains a payload in the form of a squashfs file. And quite a bit of work on squashfs has happened to make sure file timestamps can be set to a known value. However, if one build process uses xz level 3 compression, and another build process uses xz level 7 compression - hashing will of course fail. The point is, be it inode UUIDs and timestamps and compression levels, there's a lot being measured that we don't really care about, just to have a simple verification method at the back end.
Grandpa brogrammer.
As far as from my tests and what I've seen reported online, Go and Rust have a substantial lead (20% ish) over Erlang for high throughput servers.

EDIT: I believe this is partially due to Go being a lot more CPU efficient overall than Erlang (see below). So for simple servers, Go and Erlang will match performance, but for slightly more complex web servers that need to crunch some data, Go [and Rust] will outperform the Erlang VM. https://stressgrid.com/blog/benchmarking_go_vs_node_vs_elixi...
I saw this about a year ago, since I was curious if there were any editors outside of the Vi(m) family to embrace modal editing. I installed it and then forgot about it.

Sadly, even though this looks amazing, I don't see myself using it until most of the plugins I use for Vim have been ported over. Does anyone here use Kakoune as their daily driver? Do you feel it's worth the switch from Vim?
Is this based on the same JS code editor as VS Code?
Maybe that reflects better what is the reality for most people in office jobs: some predictable with many unpredictable tasks, many possible distractions (email!) and the most manageable gain is simply by forcing short-term focus?

Or also that pomodoro can be used with a variety of tasks.

Cal's ideas (which also appear in many forms in other books) aren't really much/always applicable to my and I assume many other people's lives.
I haven't asked a whiteboarding question to candidates in years. In fact, the only questions I ask are based on real-world problems I ran into that can be solved (or at least started) in an hour and can evolve over time.

One way to source these questions is to observe whenever you have a small product ticket that requires some algorithmic or systems design complexity. Strip away all of the proprietary data and IP and see if you can create a problem around the real-world thing you experienced. If you can constrain it to a solution in 10-25 lines that takes less than an hour to create, you can feel good knowing you've got a real problem with a real solution to give to your candidates.

Also: let them use Stack Overflow/MDN/Google. We use it everyday at work, why should you hold that back from your candidates?
Thanks, I'm coming over from R and will certainly check that out!
Hi, can you share your email-id? or anyway for you to refer?
If the corporation can’t deduct it, does that mean it’s a taxable benefit for the employee?

If not, corporate taxes are less than personal (usually), so it still makes sense for the Corp to provide it even if they can’t deduct it.

(Assuming they get équivalent pricing to what consumers get (probably false)).
People start reading bridal magazines years before they get married. They are treated to splendid weddings of celebrities and in the movies. They've seen the best and worst of wedding events. In addition to magazines, there are wedding industry shows in every town, where vendors show off their wares.

Disclaimer: My spouse and I also missed out on a hollywood wedding -- we were in grad school at the time, and didn't want to spend any of our families' money. And I am now in the wedding industry, as a musician playing in what I would call "low budget" bands, typically for people who are on their second wedding.
It's easily forgotten that Google has to censor worldwide based on US law.
Java was able to that for the longest time. I remember seeing async io based servers doing 500K or 1M connections per machine in the last ten years. In all cases they needed to reconfigure the OS kernel since that's where the bottleneck was.
HN is not really that mainstream at all.

NYT is a quality journalism outlet, obviously not every article is amazing, but if enough people upvote it, it gets to the front page. It's not some big conspiracy.
tldr: the author told you so in a previous article
Blogspam - just quotes from the source article [1] and saying, "see, I told you so!"

[1]: https://nypost.com/2019/03/03/appless-hollywood-venture-marr...
Not really sure how it shows that at. Sexual differentiation is not exactly diverse at all. Genetics are complicated I'd give you that and pretty amazing that it works as it does. Though there can be complications as in this case.