skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> EVs will never reach the price points it would take to fully 100% replace ICE cars in the private/personal market

The Chevy Bolt and to a lesser extent the Model 3 have already hit the "Corolla/Civic/Sonata/et al" sedan sweet spot for new sales. The mean in new car sales has always been around and just above $30k. Certainly the mean in total car sales is closer to $20k, but that hugely because of the secondary market and fast depreciation (used car sales). It's still too early to tell what sort of impact models like the Bolt and Model 3 may have on used sales (and obviously production numbers are still a factor, especially with Tesla's production and delivery woes).

Chinese manufacturers have been exploring the "bottom" of the EV market much more effectively than the US and EU markets simply because they don't need the carrot of luxury to attract early adopters in quite the same way. If Chinese EV companies are to be believed, hitting below that magic USD$20k mean is possible with new car sales alone due to EV supply chain efficiencies that ICE supply chains can't match.

> self driving makes this a nirvana

I feel self-driving is a red herring/impossible goal like the 60s AI boom all over again, and we're all going to look back on this in a decade or so and wonder what everyone was thinking.

Also, ride sharing isn't likely the answer in current America. It's enough of a culture shift to get gas-lovers/petrolheads to enjoy/love/trust EVs. It's even more of an ask to remove ownership from the question and to force them to only ever rent a car. We might not have time to take only one hurdle at a time, but we may have to.
North Korea Billed US $2M for Otto Warmbier Medical Expenses
A number crunching benchmark? Seriously?

Any more experienced language user could trim down the execution time by applying known rules for any given language.

Sorry, but this is not serious!
Also lots of people aren't paying attention to that stuff.
The puritans were a tiny group of people who lived in basically one corner of one state. I know it is thrown around a lot(e.g. "Why is America so conservative on sex? Puritans"), but I'm fairly sure the 98+% of non-puritans who emigrated to the US had a bigger impact on our culture than the puritans.
Or Guyball: https://youtu.be/nYeCUT7jNkM
What if bees transfer these genes to your field next to customer that bought those special seeds? Should you worry about using seeds from your field due to possible legal issues?
I bet a big part of the success of Baremetrics is their live demo with real data. It's much easier to convince someone if you're willing to bare your inner workings to the point of sharing revenue data. I guess it applies at many levels.
VW study: e-cars are more climate-friendly than burners
I am surprised PyPy has such a huge lead over Python.

$ time python pyrb.py

real 348m35.965s
user 345m51.776s
sys 0m22.880s

$ time pypy pyrb.py

real 14m2.406s
user 13m55.292s
sys 0m1.416s
Is it not the case that energy has mass? Why wouldn’t this be equivalent to a uniform mass distribution?
HN intentionally flags and removes controversial comments and posts, with the intention to prevent trolling, flame wars, and other detrimental behavior patterns. This is considered a feature, not a bug [0].

This ensures that HN provides a semi-curated discussion weighted towards technical and scientific issues, and against geopolitical or socioeconomic topics, for example.

That isn't a statement that these topics shouldn't be discussed, just that they aren't necessarily appropriate for discussion here.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The intersection of high fashion, cutting-edge technology, political commentary, and the eternal war for human rights is an incredible thing.

Does anyone know of any other such projects in the same vein?
That movie was made in the 90s, right? I think that culture has shifted some since then and people are less obsessed with brand names. But maybe that obsession has been replaced with looking good on social media?
Patent would run out in 20 years. But, that’s a novel way to use the justice system to screen spouses for your kids!
Yes. I understand how neural networks work. In my example language-embed and sentiment are provided by layer. This allows layer to provide compatible modules. If two modules which are incompatible are used together they might provide junk output. That is true for any combination of command line utitilies. If I cat a .jpg I'm going to have a hard time using that output with sed.
This is how I interpret his statement “Statement 1 reflects a liberal ideological bias against religion. Is reliance upon scientific authorities, for example, close-minded?”

And in fact it’s a false dichotomy as the term “authority” in religious contexts (catholic and Protestant Christianity, non-orthodox Judaism, hinduism, Islam and Buddhism at least and likely others)has an assertive meaning utterly different from the same term used for scientists (not that such a term is particularly used in the sciences anyway)

I don’t know enough to say whether dropping his contract might be legit or not, I was simply answering the op question.

Given how conservative his employer is, there are quite likely more problems than he alluded to.
Sounds like an interesting way to make developers (or ops) life hell. Just point a traffic cannon at the status page and bingo bango non-critical page.
It's really dystopian to me that somehow the people at the bottom of society are reflexively regarded as at fault, "they're lazy, dumb etc", rather than just a corporation looking to increase profits by scare tactics. They're truly second class citizens. This practice would not just be illegal here, it would also cause "obvious exploitation" outrage.

Peoples worth as humans - which should include being able to sustain a livelihood and a decent life - is now more or less directly correlated to their worth in the marketplace. Unless they're able to prove their worth in the marketplace, hat in hand, no one cares about them, and they're discarded as trash.

Just look how casually people accept workers loosing their livelihoods here, all from some sort subconscious idea of the ultimate fairness of the current supreme deity, the Market.
The article says that the farmers had either bought the seed from other farmers who had grown the crop before and held some seeds or that they had themselves held back seed from growing the crop.

The case seems to revolve around whether they are allowed to do under Indian law.
Because they're not suffering with their product strategy, software quality, privacy issues, or executive retention.

Don't believe what you read in the news.
People are obsessed with social status of various forms. How that is expressed may have changed, but I don't think the underlying motivation has.
Soaring Healthcare Costs Jeopardize Retirement in America
Ask HN: Why some websites still use OR based search?
Why some search systems include all results matching any of the given keywords?

e.g. Search query "chrome desktop" on docker hub https://hub.docker.com/search?q=chrome%20desktop&type=image returns ~5000 results.

There were a few more sites which do the same thing that I can not remember right now.

Instead of narrowing down with more keywords, this increases the search results exponentially. How is this beneficial, specially when no way to reduce the results is provided?
Illegals aren't doing anything to help American stress levels (unless you're wealthy enough to employ illegals and enjoy the cost savings over Americans). When I try to find parking in a sanctuary city or sit in traffic in a sanctuary city, I wonder how many of those problems would go away if we cleaned house of illegals. If you're an American and traffic, crime, and low wages have you stressed, getting rid of illegals is sure to help.

I don't see what's hard to comprehend - scabs stress out unions, illegals stress out Americans
They are just biological, programmable robots. Why would anyone think this impossible?
People through history have always had an outraged culture, it is just that the goalposts of that outrage move, and occasionally rear up en-madd like a tidal wave over what for many is innocuous unless edge-case contextualized - which is often the case in outrage cultures.

There was a time in which people would be outraged at other people not wearing a hat, times change, yet the ability to be upset and project that upon others soldiers on regardless. Just today's outrage culture has a more accessible platform to artificially embellish their outrage and societies ability to see 1% vocaly upset with outrage and presume the other 99% agree is a path that sadly still plays out from time to time.

But let's not confuse outraged issues with real issues that don't need to be blown up out of proportions to gain attention. That is the worrying issue today, that so many times a small event gets recontextualized to fulfil a narrative of outrage and promoted as such. Downing out real issues that fester without vocal champions.
If I need to feed my family and your $1/day offer is the best I get, then I'll have to take that $1/day offer. So yes, it's exploitative.

My refusal of your $1/day offer may also disqualify me from welfare or other benefits. So just by making the offer you may put somebody into a lose-lose situation.
There is no sense in which MS-DOS died in 2000.
> Should that result be protectable?

No, because living organisms should not be patentable/protectable.
The C# implementation looks flawed (uses reference types for vectors etc). Using value types and .NET Core should give a much better result than that. Will try to remember doing a PR.
All these conveniences mount up, I sincerely think they are in aggregate a significant selling point for most people.

Electric has nothing to do with “smart”.

This is the same mistake big automakers are still making. Electric is the future, it is also radically simpler, allows for automated recharges etc. It's be very hard to build an autonomous gas car.
I know a lot of senior data people (read: high demand tech people) applying there right now. A few things:

1. People who work there are generally happy. Interesting problems to work on, a company where tech is respected, etc.

2. A lot of those issues you list are common in big tech, see Google. The people I know who are looking at Facebook may want to work at a bigger, more stable company.

3. As everyone else mentions, $$$. That said, Finance also pays similar rates but I don't see a lot of people fighting for those roles, so that doesn't fully explain it IMO.
> there is another called KBC - that one is more like a classical bytecode, it is currently in development

I haven't heard of this. Why another bytecode version? Increased performance?
Computational layers of lipstick. And rip-offs of stuff that's been around for decades, that Adobe didn't invent (like tabbed windows, which Adobe patented and sued Macromedia over, in spite of all the prior art).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface)#Patent_dispute

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/emacs/to.jag.txt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(interface)#/media/File:Hy...

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-shape-of-psiber-space-oct...

Around 1990, Glenn Reid wrote a delightful original "Font Appreciation" app for NeXT called TouchType, which decades later only recently somehow found its way into Illustrator. Adobe even CALLED it the "Touch Type Tool", but didn't give him any credit or royalty. The only difference in Adobe's version of TouchType is that there's a space between "Touch" and "Type" (which TouchType made really easy to do), and that it came decades later!

Illustrator tutorial: Using the Touch Type tool | lynda.com:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUkE3XLw_EA

SUMMARY OF BaNG MEETING #4, July 18, 1990:
https://ftp.nice.ch/peanuts/GeneralData/Usenet/news/1990/_CS...

TOUCHTYPE
Glenn Reid, Independent NeXT Developer

The next talk was given by Glenn Reid, who previously worked at both
NeXT and Adobe. He demonstrated the use of his TouchType application,
which should prove to be an enormous boon to people with serious
typesetting needs.

TouchType is unlike any other text-manipulation program to date. It
takes the traditional "draw program" metaphor used by programs like
TopDraw and Adobe Illustrator and extends it to encompass selective
editing of individual characters of a text object. To TouchType, text
objects are not grouped as sequences of characters, but as
individually movable letters. For instance, the "a" in "BaNG" can be
moved independently of the rest of the word, yet TouchType still
remembers that the "a" is associated with the other three letters.

Perhaps the best feature of this program is the ability to do very
accurate and precise kerning (the ability to place characters closer
together to create a more natural effect). TouchType supports
intelligent automatic kerning and very intuitive, manual kerning done
with a horizontal slider or by direct character manipulation. It also
incorporates useful features such as sliders to change font sizes,
character leading, and character widths, and an option which returns
characters to a single base line.

TouchType, only six weeks in development, should be available in early
August, with a tentative price of $249. BaNG members were given the
opportunity to purchase the software for $150.
The same types of things can be said for all presidents. My premiums doubled under the ACA (which Trump hasn't dismantled yet) for instance.

Improved diplomatic relations with North Korea in particular seems like a big win, no?

There really hasn't been any radical change compared to all other presidents of my lifetime. Personally, the ACA is pretty much the only thing a president has done that's had a major noticeable (and for me negative) influence in the past 50 or so years.
> Just to play devils advocate. What if you spent 10 years breeding an onion that always grows to 10lbs. You breed them over and over, using science and hard work and suddenly you have this superior thing that wouldn't exist without your work. Is it ok if someone were to take your onions and begin growing them without discourse?

Imagine if you spent the last ten years discovering pennicillin, and then, by virtue of not encumbering your discovery with patents, saved anywhere between 80 and 200 million lives.
Huh. I mean, all the podcasts my friends recommend me always seem to be information-dump type ones, whether on politics or design or whatever. Kind of like audio New Yorker articles or mini-documentaries. I listed to the first few hours of Serial and it sure felt like a documentary to me too -- I didn't notice any interaction between the hosts. So I'd just prefer to read.

But to answer your question, no. But maybe that's the difference -- I'd rather "interact" with my friends directly where it's a 2-way street, that just listen to hosts interact with each other. But I guess if I were feeling lonely/bored that could make a lot more sense to put on a podcast, if I couldn't put on a TV show (e.g. because driving)...
As far as I understood, this project emits CIL (MSIL), and does not rely on PInvoke.

As such I don't see how it wouldn't play nice, unlike PInvoke/COM stuff, which is native code doing whatever native code feels like.
I believe the more general term is "Protestant Work Ethic", which encompasses a much larger swath of people.
That’s like saying “most of the people in South America weren’t from Spain, why should 16th century Spanish culture have an impact on South America?” It kind of makes sense until you start counting how many people speak Spanish!

The puritans are part of the founding myth of America. Ask any school child who founded the colonies and they’ll tell you the pilgrims. That kind of impact lingers. Nobody ever mentions Dutch settlers in what’s now New York or the Spanish in what’s now Florida. That doesn’t mean we’re literally puritans (which wasn’t my claim anyways), but that does mean that the echoes of their culture still have an impact on us today.

And, as others have kindly pointed out, “Protestant work ethic” is considered a valid term for the same historical/social trends by academics.
It's definitely carried like a badge of honor, as they make it sound as if nobody will have a Christmas unless they come through - It's a time to spend time with friends and family, it's not about the gifts or the dinner, many would be happy with just a pizza and good company.

I do miss the amazing Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Markets) in Germany. There are various incarnations of it in North America but none compare to theirs.
It's not just income, it's disposable income + savings rate. If you're in an Asian country like China or Japan you're probably saving 30-40% of your income even if you're "middle class". Here in the US it's more like 7%. In the EU, even when incomes are decent, disposable income is often significantly lower than in the US [1] due to higher taxes, more expensive daily services, etc. The combination means that people have less disposable income and spend a smaller portion of that disposable income on frivolous things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
Tesla produces vehicles in batches based on order statistics.
Vehicles are then matched with customers based on their selected options. Vehicles may be awaiting matching, or vehicles may be awaiting transport. International transport across the ocean happens when they can fill an entire ship to capacity.
Non-Photorealistic Rendering Using a Painting Robot [pdf]
From an economic perspective, the "Puritan work ethic" as coined by Max Weber and described as the impetus for economic development in post-Reformation cultures has been largely abandoned by economists. From a theological perspective, the "Protestant work ethic" refers to the idea that God does not favor clerical occupations over non-clerical occupations thus elevating the value of the work of the blacksmith, farmer, etc. to the same level as that of the priest, monk, etc. Neither support the idea that busyness or overwork are virtuous.
hmm not sure the burden is on me here buddy, you opened with the classic 'middlebrow dismissal'.

The people are:

- drowning in debt

- dying of preventable diseases because they cannot afford healthcare

- working for a fraction of the true value of their labour, a fraction that gets smaller every year

- losing more workers rights every year. The 'gig' economy was a master stroke of misdirection that destroyed basic protections like minimum wage and an 8 hour day that our predecessors fought so hard for

- not getting nearly enough sleep

... shall I go on?

But yeah, I'm sure none of that really bothers them and what they're ACTUALLY concerned about is that we can't make up our mind whether the sky is falling or not. Right.
While I admire the effort, the music sounds quite unpleasant...

Jukedeck has significantly better AI generated music but since I have not found a description of how their model works, it is hard to compare it to this.
Why the downvote? I should be able to express my viewpoint without being penalized.
Because of money obviously. If someone is out of a job for a month, especially if they don't have "deep" savings, they'll take the first or highest offer they get.

Also, how do you know they aren't having a harder time hiring?
Add -site:pinterest.com to your searches.
Adding my 2c (of anecdote) to this thread:

Andy Brice of successfulsoftware.net has a long-time product, Perfect Table Plan (computes seating plan for weddings, given various inputs) that used Qt (and C++), I've read, on his blog. PTP has been there for years now. Seems to be doing well, based on what he says about it. Don't know how good the Windows vs. Mac versions are, but at least they are there. His newer product HyperPlan may also be on the same stack.

https://www.perfecttableplan.com/html/about_us.html

No connection, just have followed the blog for long.
So why ProtonMail over any other email provider, besides GMail? Would you be willing to pay for email?
Wonder who their target demographic is. People balk at paying for email from a known provider, let alone buy a box to run it out of their own home for $100. You’d have to have a lot of motivation to do so, and it feels like the Venn diagram of people who are savvy and motivated enough to care about digital privacy, intersected with those with technical skills feels like nearly 90% overlap. And I’m not so sure the privacy group is so sizable. I’d probably be in this camp but I really don’t want to have to worry about spam filters, triggering them in others by sending from my home ISP, nor dealing with backup or corrupted databases. Wonder what their plan is there...

The average person who wants this without being their own sysadmin should probably just use Apple products. I work for Apple and can attest that privacy isn’t just marketing — it permeates all decision making in every discussion I’ve been a part of... sometimes making it harder or impossible to create the things we’d like to have (privacy wins). I know many on HN will want their “freedom” as in “freedom box,” but the average user massively benefits from an ecosystem designed to make things as easy, desirable, and supported as possible.
Are Local Politics as Polarized as National? Depends on the Issue
A lot of the issues are perceived to be overblown - and in more cases than HN would like to admit, they indeed are overblown.

Quite a few double standards are being applied to Facebook by the media-industrial complex and the uninformed. On the other hand, Facebook has stumbled a lot on their own and deserve a significant portion of the criticism they get. It's a nuanced topic and isn't as simple as "FB bad, pls delete".

Facebook also has an extremely talented employee base and they pay industry-high salaries while also doing cutting edge work.

Smart people want to work with other smart people on interesting large-scale problems.
You made up the “which is not related to this particular incident” part (which is why you couldn’t quote it). They said they couldn’t point to an “obvious” cause in this case, which you eagerly mischaracterized as meaning “it has nothing to do with global warming.” But that’s not what they said. They said they didn’t deeply study and understand the cause in this case. But we know with great certainty that sea ice is on a rapid decline due to climate change, just half of what it was in the 80s.[1] Thus the article notes studies that project this event will happen with greater frequency due to climate change, ultimately killing off more than half this species by century's end.
Just an external, corroborating data point. That’s all.
Wait, are people applying for jobs after only doing an online nanodegree? I wouldn't employ those people either.
A short squeeze is a temporary phenomenon. Short sellers expect the company to do worse than it does, they turn out to be wrong and then many try to buy the stock and close their positions at once before the stock goes even higher (and so that they can stop paying interest), which requires them to buy the stock for a premium from people who aren't particularly inclined to sell it just then.

That only lasts as long as the lack of liquidity, which can be a little while but the events you're referring to were six years ago.
Tested this on the same machine with Ubuntu for Windows + old .NET Core 1.0. 3 min 20 seconds.
You're being a little pendantic. I think the original commenter clearly meant the better known phrase "protestant work ethic" rather than puritan - and protestant influence was indeed very significant to the formation of US culture.
10-100x speedup seems normal for CPython vs well compiled code. I don't have experience with PyPy though, so in this specific case I'm not sure.
These home server boxes never include self-hosting email. Is it because anyone running their own SMTP is assumed to be a spammer?

It's annoying because hosted email services are strangely expensive. Oh, they'll let you have multiple email addresses for a low rate, but as soon as you want multiple mailboxes (which is just a separate directory as far as the server is concerned), suddenly I'm paying way way more.