skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to say what their real capital efficiency is without detailed (and probably proprietary) breakdowns of their numbers.

Presumably they are accounting for promotional pricing as part of customer aquisition and then balancing that against the lifetime value of those customers.

There are likely lots of assumptions going into their numbers, but it's likely the numbers look really good or they wouldn't be able to raise as much capital as they have.

Although, it's also highly likely the VCs are keeping their own special set of books where return on capital is also taking into account the estimated future value of the shares in an overhyped IPO.

Maybe the true capital efficiency doesn't look that great until you factor in that VC/PR/Hype/Dumb Money multiplier.
Haha, thanks for sharing this. It's been a while since I wrote that!

You're right to mention it because in the 2nd step "Centering", I use the same technique: adding a max-width and using auto margins for the left and right sides.

On a side note, this reminds of the "Doing it more vs. doing it better" thread that was here on HN yesterday [1], and how the JS code of "Web Design in 4 minutes" is quite bad… I just wrote those 50 lines directly in the HTML, at the end of the page, and tested it manually a few times. As a result, it is tightly coupled to the markup, and still has lots of bugs. But I imagine that if I had focused on writing "beautiful" code instead, I probably wouldn't have shipped the project in the first place.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19600440
Perhaps NNTP service
I don't want to sideline a thread on a single point, but I do think there is a difference between the unlit black ink on white paper of years passed, and the modern backlit monitor shining like a bright a flash light in your eyes.

I don't think "dark theme" is always the right answer, but I think with a new medium, a new basic is worth considering.
These were my sentiments exactly while exploring other peoples personal websites before making mine! Thank you.
I think the endgame ends up very close to same everytime this sort of thing happens.
corp gets good people like it, then they get rich and take on investors. when stocks and investors get involved, then there is an expectation of an ever increasing >RATE< of profit. if that rate decrases then stocks are dropped, and if this goes on long enough, the corp is so interested in maximum profits over a shrinking timeslice that it basically takes all and gives nothing in return, that is the point when it is no longer a service, and exodus begins. [myspace]
it was hard to find a point here. it seems to boil down to "hey, don't forget about capital efficiency!", which is not so helpful.

the importance of captial efficiency is already highly scrutinized because startup success is most sensitive to growth rate (of profit, aka income minus expenses). the challenge is that many early stage startups can't be measured on profit, so proxy metrics (like user growth) are used to forecast future profit and growth instead.

even revenue-oriented startups try to be measured on proxy metrics because investors so easily misconstrue early capital efficiency metrics as characteristic of future performance (this happened to my startup, on very early unit economics).
Sunday Strategist: Tesla Engineered the Perfect Demand Curve
I'd almost be okay with the COSTS of the tech being borne by the families, Even with a reasonable profit to the company, but the extra kickback to the jail gives a very perverse incentive to raise rates over and over, to bring in more fees.

It also means someone with a competing product, that is better, and cheaper, won't be looked at seriously, if it doesn't include kickbacks.. (or do we call it something else now?)
Try your hardest to not go to jail and if you or a family member does don't contact them? There's no good options…
What would you do with an API that can't already be done? I understand the hesitancy of giving a third party such as Plaid your bank credentials, however an exposed API to your bank seems to be a rather niche need.

As an example, Monzo was quite outspoken about their API at first, but it has since taken a backseat, presumably because they didn't see a huge need for it.
"The US has an image problem"

If that's true, then you could probably state that Twitter has a problem 1000 times that size.
As noted in another comment of mine, they didn't blame murder on him, but instead prosecuted more technical, less interpretable crimes.

I agree that murder may be an excessive charge given lack of intent, yet in the United States murder is often broadened to include committing a serious crime (felony) where there is a clear danger of killing someone, and it resulted in death. Then again, I would argue that this goes well beyond just a 'prank call' in that there is intent to specifically victimise someone by deceiving armed agents.
Permanent Magnetic Materials Without Rare Earth Metals
Having grown up in East Lansing, having family that have graduated from Michigan State, and currently work there, they do prioritize legacy. It’s even asks on the admissions form. This is a country and world of competition. This includes students but also thriving schools. The best way to create a successful business is loyalty, which bring value to your asset. Ivy League schools would not be what they are today (Ivy League) without legacy. Sorry, but you can’t have both capitalism and socialism.
They've tried to build a sustainable future? The majority of their economy has for decades been built around enabling the rest of the world to burn fossil fuels. Now, much later, with large and well-managed cash reserves from said activities, they're exporting less oil than physically possible. Thanks Norway.
18F is great and I hope they end up "fixing" all of the government's websites.
I also found for Code, https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/

however when I try to install it on Mac OSX, I get

Couldn't find a compatible version of Visual Studio Intellicode - Preview with this version of Code
One factor is that the price of gas is about $1.6/L (~$6/gallon), while electricity still is very cheap. Most people also don't generally need to drive all that far, so a shorter-range electric car is perfect for daily driving. There are TONS of Nissan Leafs out here in the suburbs where I live. In 2018 the Nissan Leaf was the most sold car in Norway.

Buying an electric car in Norway also gives you much more than just tax savings (but they do have a lot of those). You don't have to pay road tolls, you can use the highway lane reserved for taxis and busses, you can park and charge for free in government provided parking spaces, you have 50% off tickets for ferries, cheaper mandatory yearly road insurance, and some shopping centres previously had free charging while you shop.

The right to drive in the bus-lanes was changed to only with at least one passenger during rush-hour, as they became so clogged that busses were stuck in traffic as well. The free road toll will be changed to 50% off this year, and the exemption from sales-tax is up for review in 2020. The free charging on government provided parking will be limited to 4 hours this year, and a fee per hour will be introduced. You can still park for free though, but those spots with charging stations are too popular.
Is it just me or is the kerning in "typeface" a bit off? It looks like ty-peface. (Chrome,Mac)
Once the text goes to gray, it is objectively harder to read.
There is this background color named 'snow'. It looks great and it's just four letters. In HEX it is #FFFAFA (I don't think many CSS minifiers consider #FFFAFA -> snow).
Interactive visualisation of 737 Max MCAS system
The Forest Service worked with 18F on this Open Forest project to enable people to buy Christmas tree permits online, which uses United States Web Design System components: https://openforest.fs.usda.gov/christmas-trees/forests

You can learn more about that project here, including the open source code: https://18f.gsa.gov/what-we-deliver/forest-service/ - and a few blog posts about it: https://18f.gsa.gov/tags/forest-service/

Both that Forest Service project and Federalist run on cloud.gov, which is a Platform as a Service operated by 18F.

(I work for 18F but don't officially represent it here.)
I'm collecting "spartan" websites via reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpartanWeb
I'm a muslim/arab.

You can have multiple wives even if you are not rich or just look average. I would say the majority of men stick to monogamy (90% probably). Having more than one wife comes with a lot of restrictions such as:

- All your wives have an automatic stake in your inheretence. In islam you can't choose who inherits what, its already set in place for you.

- All your wives need to be provided for by yourself. Even if they are rich. You as a male are required to provide for your wife and Children

- Be just between you wives. You bought a house for one? buy the same for the others. You took your first wife on holidays? same for the others. The quran state that you need to be just, but argues that you might not be able to achieve justice all the time.

Most people I know who have a second wife have specific reasons for doing so. For example a guy in my family had his wife choose his second wife for him. She couldn't have any babies and he was adamant to have kids. She agreed to stay with him, but only if she was involved in choosing his second wife for him. They have two houses one next to the other, and the kids play more with his first wife than with their mum.

For monogamy in general, arab men have it really somehow easy to get married. You just need to have a job and look somehow acceptable. There is no dating culture as in the west. You wouldn't find a man and his girlfriend living together and trying things out for a few years before deciding to marry. You get to know your future wife and meet with her (between a few months to a year most likely) and then decide to get married.

Having sex before marriage is frowned upon, but doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Most women in the muslim/arab world are actually looking to build a family and have kids. Not all of them agree to you having a second wife.
I'm sure many factors go into the life span of a capacitor. The fix for old VW dashboard clocks (at least in our '81 Vanagon): replace the two capacitors. Now, our VW is 37 years old, but it seems to me a clock should be a pretty low-stress environment. Or maybe I'm wrong, I dunno. Why are 40 year old computers still running on original caps, but a 12VDC clock fails in about the same timespan?
No, I was agreeing with the parent comment and offered an example. Within this context, I'm not trying to make any left vs right, or vice versa, political arguments.

This person self-identified as liberal. However, they only recognized liberal views within the contexts they had been pre-familiarized with. In fact, this person read, regurgitated, and lauded conservative views for years while beleiving them to be liberal views. This is a particularly hyper-educated person (though in a non-technical field completely removed from economics, politics).
On that note, what do you think deliberate practice looks like for programming and software engineering?
A tourist’s guide through the mobile app that won us at a hackathon
I just did a Surprise Me! search on Wiby. This is what it came back with ;-)

http://www.zackssnakes.50megs.com/index.html
uhh, Germany has been the center of the chemicals industry since the late 19th century
Brushing your teeth?
That seems to be based on the same idea as the Linnstrument[0], which is fairly widely available now, and sends MIDI data in the standard way over USB or DIN ports without requiring a client application. Its creators Roger Linn and Geert Bevin (programmer) were some of the original drivers of the Midi Polyphonic Expression standard alongside Roli. It's quite funny, but it seems that Geert is also behind a lot of other MPE-compatible software now, including Moog's iOS apps. His YouTube channel is a treasure trove of current and near-future music tech[1].

I have one, and it's great for learning how to play music, because the silicone pads light up according to the configured musical scale. Really well thought out as an instrument, and I believe it's also open source if you want to hack around with the Arduino microcontroller inside.

[0]: http://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument.html
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJyEknT0SnyUr4wdvmObWHQ
My grad school experience was very positive wrt my PI, and the same was true for the vast majority of my peers with whom I interacted. That's not to minimize the problem of PI's who mistreat their underlings, but to point out that in internet discussions, mostly it's unhappy people who are motivated to share their experiences, and that can create a distorted perception of [insert topic] as a whole.
I appreciate the tailed 'l'.
Building models for natural language _and_ code for either NL/intent-based code search or automatically annotating code is indeed another hot research area!

I'd argue Aroma solves a different problem in that it surfaces more idiomatic patterns based on the code you already have. This also can be important especially in production environment, when you need to do things "the right way".
I don't really understand conversations about reuse in react, since the one-way data flow model it uses allows almost any functionality to be extracted into a composable single-purpose component. If the view components are kept pure I'm not sure I can think of an instance where code wouldn't be easily reusable except slight variations in the design, which is a problem no matter what framework you use (or none at all).

Edit: whoops, didn't realize you were talking about styling, not functionality.
The ESR meter is like magic!

I have fixed a ton of discarded electronics by replacing bad capacitors I found with my ESR meter. Several years back I bought a whole lot of broken test equipment dirt cheap and fixed about 75% of it and resold for a nice profit. Almost everything was fixed with new capacitors.

A few years back my oven died suddenly. I popped open the cover and went through all the electrolytics with my ESR meter and found a bad one. I had exactly that value in my parts bin, replaced it and the oven worked like new. The total cost of the repair was less than $1.
If the idea to revoke the eighth-inch headphone jack is such a great idea, why not make it USB-C like the rest of the donglegate devices?
Thunderbolt is PCIe.

I have fixed my post to not imply it's only a single chip. It being multiple important chips should cause the opposite of amazement. It means that the product wasn't important enough to get a dedicated chip, which is probably the main reason it costs $29 instead of also being $9.
> Google's "Hummingbird"

I had assumed that Google search had gone downhill because it started trying to "personalize" my search results. That wasn't a great explanation though, as I don't use a Google account.

Hummingbird seems a much more likely explanation.
Similar experience in film/tv industrial lighting ballasts and heads. Had old techs evangelize that kind of thing. A lot of wacky people in that field.

I wouldn’t trust a screwdriver to be safe enough in many of those cases. Some of the caps in those things are massive and hold a charge for ages.

I almost killed myself on one thinking there’s no way there would be any charge left after years being stored in an old uninsulated tractor trailer outside. Boy was I wrong.

We were demoing some old ballasts—essentially crumpling them before recycling to prevent raiders from seizing the equipment (it happened).

Well one coincidentally-aligned swing of the sledge caved the steel chassis in just enough to short a monster cap. The thing exploded on contact. Thankfully those old steel ballasts were tanks and nothing happened. I was sure glad I was insulated at that moment.

Kids, am I right? ;P

Just want to second what others are saying: don’t toy with those things, and don’t make uninformed assumptions!
If you discover a better pattern, it might be easier to convert across the application if the same pattern is followed everywhere. So you might consider this a win.
There have been drugs that have been approved in Europe, yet take more than a decade to get FDA approval. The FDA may be more stringent, but it certainly can be argued it is too slow to approve drugs. Even sunscreen is better in Europe due to the FDA.
Does anyone outside the company know how DDG works? IIRC a job description hinted at their backend being in Perl, but little else has trickled out. It's easier to find out how Google works, through patents, presentations, the Percolator paper, etc.

Saying that Bing is one of hundreds of sources is like saying that PageRank was just one of Google's 200 signals. Or that Google was just one of hundreds during Bing's hiybbprqag brouhaha.
Thanks for shipping it!

Last year I started to build a web app without knowing how to code -- I started not knowing the difference between CSS and JS. You can imagine how confusing the current ecosystem is to beginners. (My co-founder and I taught ourselves to be the technical co-founders). Your tutorial really helped, and I'm using Bulma :).
> We're willing to devote a lot of time and effort to solving hard technical problems, we should be at least as willing to use some of that energy to solve the associated social problems as well.

Here's the thing: technological expertise in no way implies social expertise. In fact anecdotally they are inversely correlated. Technologists would benefit from moving in the humility direction outside of their chosen field, they are already hubristic enough as is.

For what it's worth, this phenomenon is widespread beyond technologists. It's easy to think that because you're really good in one field, that you must be really good in other fields too. But sadly it generally isn't so.
Most Castlevania games since playstation era:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ljSD1rZzUE

Pieces of Sonic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0g79mTyjE0

Bits of Xenoblade Chronicles (esp gaur plains):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8xfT4l2Gnw

UMN / cities in various Xenosaga installments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cj8yrPSo_Q
UX stupidity is just as big a problem. Some users are 'stupid' (because they're mere mortals, lacking the towering IQ's of HN posters). Some UX designers and stupid and lazy, and have zero empathy for the way their UX choices enrage and frustrate their end users.
Samsung Galaxy S10 fingerprint sensor defeated by a $450 3D printer
Right. Their README specifies the exact same license as the upstream font https://github.com/impallari/Libre-Franklin
I think this is really beautiful.
Even if your site is perfect according to Search Console/Webmaster Tools, that won't get you listed on Google Search.
Your higher-order while construct certainly mimics the normal first-order while one. But that's not really the point.
This page doesn't talk about it, but what I recall is that the stage was set for this by a move away from a fire retardant (containing bromine) that was linked to developmental disorders. To eliminate the fire retardant, they also moved to a new capacitor chemistry.

That would represent a pretty big spike in demand from manufacturers. New product, possibly new partnerships.
>But in reality, the services that really need security are going over TLS, where at least the connection itself is secure.

I think other considerations include whether or not the sites that you visit implement HSTS. While many sites do support HTTPS-only logins, several webservices are actually quite vulnerable to software such as SSLstrip[1], which redirects hijacked users to plaintext HTTP pages whenever feasible.

While many sites implement TLS, several sites don't implement HSTS. I am not sure about the HSTS policies of the top 3000 sites so I will not comment on that.

[1]https://moxie.org/software/sslstrip/
You're more than welcome to post here as a “Show HN”, but first it has to be available to the community to try out. Can you post again when that's possible?
Blue zones are the 7 areas of the world that disproportionally produce centenarians.

Studies of their diets indicate that almost all of them are primarily vegetarian and they receive the majority of their calories from carbs. Feel free to look into them. Note that the blue zone in Sardenia is a big outlier even within the group.
Aroma would only surface what it thinks is "idiomatic" coding patterns. So if you have many instances of incorrect code, you might already be in trouble :)
Sure, it's not a bad DAC and I'm happy with the sound on wired IEMs. It's just that I could drive my high impedance headphones straight from an iPhone SE and I can't with an iPhone 8. I lost functionality.
And Firewire is not related to PCIe at all, so the adapter clearly is not just a repeater. If you want to say something along the lines of"it's just a Firewire host adapter chip + some conversion, doesn't have to be expensive", then say that.
Are you sure you don't have the meanings reversed? REM is the one that ignores nesting. EM doesn't, so on a simple site it's easier to use correctly.
"Works on my machine, in this viewport size."
I don't know what rasterizers you refer to with:

"CPU rasterization is always O(N) complex (where N is number of pixels on screen)"

But this is definitely not the Blend2D case. I think you will not find rasterizers in production with such properties in software-based 2D rendering as that would be really inefficient. Path boundary matters and that is often the worst case scenario, but Blend2D does much better than this, for example.

I see no problem with multithreading, because it doesn't mean that all CPU cores will be busy with rendering, it means that the total time required to render a frame will be much lower while utilizing CPU power in a more distributed way instead of stressing a single core. You can use 2-4 threads on 8 core machine, for example, leaving the rest for other real-time tasks if required. Applications that use GPU for 2D rendering also use the full power of the GPU, if available.

Single core performance is stagnating while the number of CPU cores is increasing, so it's simply practical to design software to take advantage of that.
This article is from Oct 2018. In Feb '19, the German commission set a deadline to shutdown all of Germany's coal power plants.

https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-coal-powe...

There is some interest in trying to create pumped storage systems, new or out of former coal mines, giving at least some jobs to those in the mining industry, but in the Feb '19 vote a more explicit program to transition workers in the industry was rejected.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-12-11/germany-miners-and-ot...
It's shoveling bits through basically unchanged. It's a repeater with a different electrical standard on each side. 90% of the effort is in the transceivers.
Either not flossing enough or using bad technique.

I'm not a big flosser, so my gums always bleed a bit when I do it myself, but my dental hygienist always flosses me after a cleaning and she never makes the gums bleed.
that is typical of oil paint, due to the way linseed polymerizes.
The web has been more or less mainstream for going on 25 years now - before that, the dominant mainstream mass communication medium was television. Television was, and still is, subject to government censorship and regulation based on very tenuous legal arguments (viciously supported by pearl-clutching moral panicking puritans), and we've seen what it becomes: mindless, thoughtless, brainless, and above-all only "offensive" or thought-provoking in very specifically constrained ways. As soon as the web started to become well known, I was idly curious how long it would take to become television - to be honest, it's taken longer than I realistically expected, mostly because world governments can't quite seem to agree on exactly how they should oppress us, but believe me, it's coming. And when it does, there really won't be many of us that see it as a negative.