skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes a lot of sense for a flight training business, because most flights are only 1 to 1.5 hour and stay close to the airport. The biggest cost component in an hour of flight training is the cost of fuel and engine in a traditional plane like a 172.

The price is 350k per plane, but they're buying twice the fleetsize. Let's assume that's half because of charging time (takes longer than refueling between students) and half because they expect to grow by offering lower cost training. Then the price of 1.5 of these vs 1 traditional is 1.5 x 350 = 525k vs about 400k for the 172. To make up the 125k price difference you need to fly 1562 hours at a 80 dollar/hour cost saving (this works in Norway because electricity is lower cost there than in most of Europe, and aviation fuel prices are high). That's 2 to 3 years for break even in normal flightschool operations (500 to 750 hours / plane / year). Planes in flight school operations last at least 10 years and in some cases many times that.

So expect many more training operations to make the switch in the coming years. Especially if the maintenance cost of electric planes are somewhat proven.
When I worked managing a machine learning team I really relied on org-mode to keep myself organized. I didn't have a multiple device problem because I just had org setup on my work laptop.

When I 'retired' a few weeks ago I tried org-mode in a dropbox folder. Works great from my Linux and macOS laptops but iOS is a nuisance: I can read notes from the dropbox app and edit them with Textastic, but this is not 'ready at hand' tooling.

Since I 'retired' I am doing much more of my personal coding in Common Lisp and Haskell which means more Emacs use (although I also have VSCode set up for fantastic Haskell and Python dev experiences).

I need to take another look at Magit. I replaced org-mode with all-in use of G Suite (really enjoying functionality, high productivity, and security, cringing a little on privacy issues).
An example project from JUXT demonstrating a complete Clojure application
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I think you may be mixing me up with the original poster of this comment chain. I have only said that linking chaos/order to femininity/masculinity appears to have no point or meaning, not that I’m personally offended by it. In fact I don’t believe the original poster was offended either, and only said that some people are offended. You still haven’t managed to explain, at least to my satisfaction, what the point IS rather than harping on about “offence” you imagine I’ve taken. If your whole argument is that Peterson says they’re linked ‘because that’s how things are most of the time’, that is fine; I just don’t think that in itself is an interesting, original, worthwhile, or entirely correct observation, especially not when his aims are a) to provide self-help and advice or b) to provide a dull “truth is in the middle” argument. It appears, as your comments focus on, to provide much more fruitful grounds for claiming or decrying offence, rather than showing anything interesting about men, women, chaos, order, or anything else. Cheers.
Yeah... everyone I talked at the time to said austerity is the wrong tactic.
Well now it's 128MB for something that did not exist.
Yes. It might surprise you, but people work for money and people go into development for money. Not for the love of the art or challenge.

Thinking otherwise is why gullible developers will work 60+ hours per week while the owners get rich.
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Do you use elpy for python? It's pretty good.
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The fact that there’s a need to restate this obvious point is a signal of the absurd times we live in.
...but does it work on Wayland? ;]
Why a timely nudge might help us save money
Finding Long Synchronous Operations in Node.js with Async Hooks
If you wonder about linux: gcolor2 (http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/) does the job.

And for size fetishists: it weights 42KB.
User experience, scala.js, cats-effect, IO
Are you saying Germany succeeded in economics where war had failed?
They have stepped up without a concience.

Loaning money for Goodwill has always been something.

But loaning money, doing the work with your own employees, suggesting infrastructure that they can hardly afford ( and definitely not maintain), burying the country in debt is something new.

Oh yeah, in the contract ofc, they suggest what can be done if they can't pay back ofc.

= Give infrastructure, natural resources and land
It's funny how many people don't seem to understand that coyotes, owls, hawks, and other predators live in cities. I had a cat taken by a coyote last year, and I live in the middle of Houston. I've had multiple cats taken by owls over the years, as well.
I'd like for people to drop the whole 'x is cancer' thing since aside from the actual fuckery of cancer most things aren't that bad. A little too flippant imo :)
Why is it either or? Yes I work for the money first and foremost. I don’t learn anything that isn’t going to either make me more money by being better at my job, keep me competitive in the market, or make more money in the future.

Yes I started programming in the mid 80s in my bedroom. But I keep up to date strictly for the money.
Seriously there was no existing color picker app for Windows alraady?
Not working, it says limited to 5000 requests.
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Apple Pay has been backed by whatever credit card you want for years now, this isn't any different. The bank still has to approve you, it's not automatic. I guess I just don't see what's so special about this other than the fancy app.
Improperly conceived is more accurate. A strong political union is important for a common currency. They should have stuck with free trade and visa free movement ( not permanent relocation) for the level of political union they have.
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My 2015 Toyota Corolla has a screen for the backup camera, but it also has physical buttons. The digital and physical interfaces are pretty good. Because it's a Toyota, it will probably be reliable for a very long time, and because it's a Corolla, there will probably always be parts available.

If for some reason you get a trim level that does not have cruise control, it's easy to add: drill a hole in the steering console, mount the lever, and plug it in. The car is already programmed with the feature.
Been using GColor2 forever on Linux. And I believe there are others.

Don't really see how this improves it. I use Mac OS as well but I don't miss the color picker from Mac OS when I'm using Linux, not sure what his problem is. Or the attitude in general, I wouldn't want to be running something showing at all times such a cute name on screen. No thanks.
In the words of Jeff Atwood, "Give me parameterized SQL, or give me death" - and HTML escaping is little different. My fellow "software engineers" are human. They will screw up. That's simply a matter of human nature and statistics. Even if we only employ godlings, we'll eventually hire a human intern.

"It happens to be safe for the moment because it's a constant" isn't a high enough bar. I've refactored plenty of string constants to new locations, and then to dynamic strings. If that's the bar you're using, every such refactoring is now a security critical change that requires a thorough security audit.

There are uses of innerHTML, but the post you're replying to acknowledges that - "almost never". If you're building the APIs that enable safe DOM manipulation, you have some use cases. If you're serving HTML fragments directly from the server, you have some use cases - although I'd hope you're using safe APIs serverside if it's dynamic, instead of hand-building HTML in code!
Simple. How much would it cost you to pay someone to replace them at market rates and then add the amount it would cost you to give them time to ramp up on the institutional knowledge and codebase.
But also learn one or two languages that fit your domain of work, really really well. I have seen too many programmers that justify their lack of skills in their main language they are supposed to know by bragging about their knowledge of some hipster language they rarely use. "my code is way too slow, but hey I know the syntax of dependent types in Agda..."
I was going to say "none, because the straw is made of a bunch of atoms", but he actually addresses this.
You know, I am the drummer (besides other things).
Well, yes. It's happening. That's why there's a report about it.
A straw is a lanky donut (What did you just call me?)
I actually wrote a DHT that operated over WebRTC itself with in-band signalling for my undergrad thesis, in the application/js layer. Total PITA, but a ... "good?" learning experience.
Let me just remind you of what the GP post said:

> Beyond a certain level of codebase complexity, there is simply no way to do the job with a text editor

An absurd claim. How can you interpret my post as a "get off my lawn" type thing?
Wow, this is waaaay too big for my taste.

I'm absolutely sure it is possible to write the same cross-platform app for less than 500KBytes and no dependencies.
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A blog post listed some Delphi apps: https://jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/famous-s...

On that list, I use WinRAR and BeyondCompare every day. I also see Skype but I think the client was rewritten in Electron/Javascript to be cross-platform Windows/Mac/Linux.

Not on that list is AcrylicDNS which I use as a DNS "firewall". The author provides Delphi source code for it: (https://mayakron.altervista.org/wikibase/show.php?id=Acrylic...)
PyCharm contains all functionality of WebStom
Please be more careful when interpreting the Stack Overflow Developer Survey
London might be doing great, but the rest of the UK has been left behind decades ago..
How Climate-Friendly Would Flying Cars Be?
The first 25 seconds of this video actually does not have sound. The 25 seconds after he begins talking is him talking about Einstein and history.

Unless I'm misunderstanding your intentions and you just meant that as a condescending insult?
I use Pixie[1], which works really well even on Windows 7 and 10. It's an 11kB portable app.

[1] http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.php
Emissions fall in Madrid city center thanks to new traffic restrictions
Which platform supported by Electron does not have existing color picker applications?
This was the genius (or good luck) of Hamilton. Taking on the debts of the US states at the federal level prevented this problem when switching to a common currency at the formation of the US.
Amazon Job Ad by Jeff Bezos – “Startup Seeks Unix Developers” (1994)
Is it actually faster to develop in Electron than with QT and C++?

It has been over a decade, but I remember it being both straight-forward and pleasant to support Linux, Windows, and MacOS. I vaguely recall supporting Solaris too.
The Buddhists were on to this concept 3,000 years ago.
I called the dev and asked him to wash his mouth with soap!!111
Still looking through the various elements of this, but this is really impressive.

Would taxes be incorporated in the "annual costs" box?
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Of course there are many, but bashing Windows is free. After 10 seconds on google:

http://colorcop.net/

http://www.iconico.com/download.aspx?app=ColorPic&type=free

http://www.youngsmarts.com/download.htm

... and so on.
What is its memory footprint?
For some reason, a subset of Rails community feels compelled to boost it by knocking whatever is more popular, e.g. Java in the old days, JavaScript these days. Rails is fine, but that aspect of the community is unnecessary and immature.
Thanks! Yeah — you can incorporate taxes into either "One-off costs" or "Annual costs". Specific tax stuff depends on where you live, so we wanted to keep it a bit more general.
One good option for Windows is COPI, 88 KB .exe: https://www.heise.de/download/product/copi-colorpicker-65782
lol living life in reverse :)
After I watched The Great Beauty (La grande bellezza) my perception of Italy as a relatively poor country was completely transformed.
Is the $80/h cost saving also including maintenance? It seems like a 20kg electric motor with basically 1 moving part should be a lot cheaper to maintain than the engine of the 172.
I’d personally question the integrity and culture of a company that requires it.

It could prove to be a fairly useful “Brown M&Ms” test.
For me it takes 1 second to hit alt+print screen and then open ms paint with my shortcut ctrl + alt + P.
I think the bottom line is that most of the time you see an electron app, just say to yourself, "this wouldn't exist if electron didn't exist."

It isn't replacing app dev. It's adding more app developers.
> low productivity at Italy's many small enterprises.

Just as an example the Italian white-goods industry used to be world class but it got almost obliterated first by Turkish competition and then by the Chinese and the Koreans (which probably also manufacture most of their stuff in China).

I’ll also whant to add a mention about Italy’s car industry (which was not small, I agree). The Germans somehow managed to keep their brands and most of their car manufacture going while the car industry in Italy is about to dissapear completely. I’m not exactly sure of the reasons of why that happened (as late as the 1990s the Fiat Punto was still the best sold model in Europe) but this has also had a very adverse effect on Italy’s lack of growth. Afaik the German car industry is responsible for almost 10% of its GDP, Italy wouldn’t have been in a as dire a situation as the current one if it still had a well-established car industry on its own.
how does that justify not getting the social security that was paid into?

You come here, you work, and you pay social security. That’s how it works.

You have the odd assumption everyone is entitled to the social security they pay.

If people don’t like the rules they can find another country to work in.
What's the capacity of the battery on the Bye aircraft? The company website did not have specifications. In any case it's amazing how quickly this has progressed.
What planet are you people living on? It's like you just whack the word "modern" on the front, stick your hands up and say "haha, you couldn't understand, grandad". Programmers have been doing these things since the beginning of time.
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Well seeing that I’ve been developing for over 20+ years and really only started switching jobs at 35. I’ve had no trouble finding jobs.
I can launch AAA game, virtual machine with database inside, Intellij Idea, Android Studio, tomcat with my web app, Android Emulator, browser with bunch of tabs and other insignificant software and I have enough free memory from my 16GB. I have no idea how could you exhaust 16 GB with Webstorm and browser alone.

It's not a slim software, sure, but 16 GB?
Calculus with Python: Derivatives
That does make sense in a way, but I don't think that would feel natural to any native Japanese speaker. I'm not native and even I would find that ordering very odd.

At the very least, it would make the sorting algorithm a lot more complex if you had to look ahead at later characters in order to sort the current prefix.
Depending on where you live new cars might well be required to have ‘safety’/tracking features so emergency services can be automatically reached if you are in an accident. Or if the police want to effortlessly and invisibly track you, of course.
Much of what we build at AWS is based on listening to customers. It’s critical to ask customers what they want,
listen carefully to their answers, and figure out a plan to provide it thoughtfully and quickly (speed matters in
business!). No business could thrive without that kind of customer obsession. But it’s also not enough. The
biggest needle movers will be things that customers don’t know to ask for. We must invent on their behalf. We
have to tap into our own inner imagination about what’s possible.

AWS itself – as a whole – is an example. No one asked for AWS. No one. Turns out the world was in fact ready and
hungry for an offering like AWS but didn’t know it. We had a hunch, followed our curiosity, took the necessary
financial risks, and began building – reworking, experimenting, and iterating countless times as we proceeded.
> Jupyter notebooks (org mode can do you better)

That seems pretty far-fetched. Very few of the things I use Jupyter notebooks for seem possible in org mode.
I actually used that example because they had this exact problem in the past, here's the link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/todays-outage-post-mortem-82515/
A color picker using Electron. The epitome of resource waste.
Would it be possible to upgrade GPS satellites so the signal would contain digital signatures, while retaining backwards compatibility? GPS uses NMEA data messages, which are plaintext.

Perhaps there is some reserved field, or usually ignored message, that can be used to insert digital signatures. The DoD will keep the master key, so the signatures could be easily verified, but spoofing them would be nearly impossible.
It’s about 100 acres.

I’d like to cap around 150 people.

Thanks for the insight!
Of course there was, even open source Electron ones[1], but that wouldn't be a blog post and a chance to "promote" yourself.

Also, opening up Photoshop for the color picker? Paint opens faster than I can blink and has a color picker.

[1] https://electronjs.org/apps/colorpicker
The move makes sense, the price doesn't. Many modern light planes have a cost starting at $100,000 and it can be as low as $60,000 without the engine (based on Rotax engine price and full price of the plane). The electric engines are by comparison much cheaper, I expect less than $5,000 and the batteries are ... well, Tesla tells how cheap, let's say $20,000 (that is 3 times a Tesla 3, which I seriously doubt). My math goes to ~ $85,000 for the base model, if you add full glass cockpit, leather chairs and even retractable landing gear you get to $120-150,000 price tag.
I am not comparing with a 172 because most of the flying school is done in 2 seaters like the 152. It does not make a lot of sense to use a 4 seater for that.
> Another way would be to remove the head unit from a vehicle, but I'm not wealthy enough to void the warranty on a car

Taking something apart does not void the warranty!

In fact it is illegal in the US for companies to arbitrarily deny the warranty unless they can prove that the user actually broke the item, taking apart ≠ breaking.

Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act (P.L. 93-637)
I think there's a bit of a threshold with language learning. When you know a handful (or just theo necessary ones for your job), there is probably a bit of tendency to be religious about your "stack". When you know a few more than you need, then you're driven to pick between them for any given thing. Then, you start picking languages you don't know and learning them to do some thing you need done, and so on.

I wrote some data automations recently for a client. Here are the languages and DSLs that ended up in the mix: cron, Makefile, bash, sed, regex, jq query, python, R, sql, nginx conf.

I think especially if you're a vertically scaling kind of gal, and you have a fondness for conciseness, parsimony and efficiency; you'll just end up attracted to many language solutions. I just think there is no better way to write less code or keep the semantics of your language more relevant to the task in hand.
>Your incentive would be that your product is better and sells more

I'm curious if you ever tried to sell anything in large volumes. You can invent a brilliant thing but still have hard times selling it because of a lack of resources for marketing and a lack of established sales channels. At the same time, big resourceful corporations just steal you invention and resell it to existing customer base, use huge marketing resources, benefit from brand awareness, etc.

Inventing something better doesn't automatically guarantee you a solid revenue stream. Monetizing good inventions for a small company is a way less trivial task than it might seem.
It uses Electron, so… abominable.
Aren't military drones using the military GPS profile with encrypted messages? Those cannot be easily spoofed, AFAIK.
I don't know about QT and C++, but a while ago I wanted to try out Electron and I just could not figure out how to build anything with it.
Didn't know about Color Cop, it's great!
Electric scooters may not be around for long
xmag comes by default on most Linux distros
Web developers using Electron probably count in the time to learn C++ vs the fact that they already know web stack. ;)
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It adds up fast. I spend 100 euro on all my news subscriptions (and i still don't have the NYT or the WP). I can totally appreciate that others may not subscribe as much, or to the same set of services.

Spotify for news would be super good, though.
I’m a bog standard “Enterprise Development”. I found jobs within less than a month at 34,38,42 and 44.
Thwart GPS Spoofer using $10 (RTLSDR) - https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170090006A1/en
Good thing for who? Framed in another way, you’re simply talking about brain drain, which clearly isn’t a good thing for the source country.
Even with Spanish and English, the US has a few issues. The EU has 23. Out of interest, after these 'multiple human generations' how many languages do you think the single nation will be speaking? You have an opinion. Fair enough but will it be a democratic decision to make the transition? One thinks of 2005, when on a turnout of 69% of French votes, 55% rejected the EU Treaty. It was accepted nevertheless.
The Dolphin emulator which is on the list is written in c++. Perhaps there once was a frontend in Delphi.
The worst embedded dev board I have seen this year
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The solution is federalism.
KDE/Plasma actually comes with a built-in color picker which I use on a daily basis:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.5/plasma-5.5-colorpic...

https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/ColorPicker
That's a good comparison, and I think I should qualify my statement. It's the fastest way to develop cross-platform apps when you already know web development. I've only done some trivial apps with QT and Python, and it was pretty straight forward. The UI didn't look as nice as it does with Electron. I'd be interested to hear someone's opinion who has real experience with both.

edit: u/781 has some experience with both and says Electron was faster to develop, his comment is below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19652691
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I had become so used to just grabbing color values from any old pixel on the screen..., but on Windows the best way I came up with was to take a screenshot, wait for Photoshop to open, then get the color value through the PS eyedropper tool. That took probably 30 seconds to get a single color, since Adobe software is somehow still dog slow on brand new hardware.

You can do the same thing in MS Paint and save yourself 15 seconds.
Also, xmag, you already have it installed if you use the X Window System. It's 41kb, extremely lightweight (always starts instantly) and also magnifies a screen portion which is helpful for picking colours.
Don't bother, you'll forget it.