skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disney+ Will Allow Unlimited Downloads and Up to 4 Simultaneous Viewers
They are already doing this. And building cities out so people down have to travel as far or come downtown. The busses are the main cities are mainly electric and more and more cities are betting metro lines.

Most people use bikes or electric bikes to get to the metro or for short journies (probably at a ratio of 2 to 1) but people still want cars.

In Shanghai and Beijing, you can get an EV instantly but there is a quota for how many new ICE cars are added each month which means you go on a waiting list.
Rail line in Hampshire is world's first to be powered by solar farm
The app works for 1) arXiv papers 2) any url of a paper obtainable from the address bar of your phone.

If you copy-paste, or copy and use the clipboard button, it will try to identify the arXiv identifier from the url, and then show you the title + abstract. Then you have to download the PDF, preview the transformed copy (copy stays in the cloud for 24h), and finally request a fully reflowed copy. The reflow is limited to about 30s via AWS Lambda, so this is not for dissertations -- this is for 2-20 page papers you can reasonably read on your phone. Nevertheless, there is a progress bar at the top of the screen to show you it's working, at that stage. These steps are pretty much reproduced in the app store images.

For a non-arXiv link, the only difference is that there is no abstract. But note, the link can't just be to the journal page, you've got to get a PDF mime-type when it's requested.

There are some things I should change, but it's very useful to me, and I just verified it works for both arXiv and non-arXiv. If it's not working for you, I would suggest deleting and reinstalling (sorry!).
My female friends complain they are hit on by taxi drivers or waiters and acknowledged that sometimes they've reacted pretty badly to their advances and based on what i gathered from their talks, they want a financially well off guy who looks average or slightly better but these are women in their 30s.

While I've some other female friends much younger, they've acknowledged they've rediculed or even got restraining order against few guys who looked bad and their approach came across as hostile based on their looks not behaviour. They often tell me that guys chasing money and career are pretty boring to them and they want more adventurous guys who doesn't care much about money. In short, what I've understood they want very good looking men.

Tho I am from East Asia but I look middle eastern and girls told me I look pretty evil and terrorist. And most girls I been with only liked blonde with blue eye dude with long hair. And money didn't even make it easy for me to attract good girls who want long term relationship.

I did attract the ones who I didn't want to attract and it caused me a lot of problem in life but nevermind, I've moved on and now I've a stable relationship.
Bazel is the open source version of googles interns build tooling. It’s not new, but using it outside of google is. It’s also not JavaScript specific, it’s completely language agnostic. You define the rules for building, and bazel will execute it. You can run your entire companies build system off of it.
Uber didn't get lost. It simply was never the kind of company that could acquire a monopoly big enough and fast enough to justify a multi-billion dollar valuation.

I'm starting to think that many of the most successful tech companies of the past decade are not real monopolies but succeeded purely because the centralization of capital made it difficult for alternative projects to compete for a limited period of time. Even projects with strong network effects are unlikely to last forever.

The reason why all these dominant companies won't last forever is simply because every new generation of ambitious workers needs a way to legally take ownership of the capital which was accumulated by the previous generation. People who inherit free capital from their parents or relatives will never be as smart, hard working, determined or as capable as those who've had to struggle all their lives; especially now with an internet where essentially all knowledge is in the public domain. As monopolies get bigger and stronger, smart and ambitious people will adapt to the environment in extreme ways and find legal ways to subvert them.

When you see extremely high valuations which assume that the company will have a monopoly in 20 years, it's a red flag because in 20 years' time, political and economic control will have already been passed on to the next generation; a generation which will have no skin in the game and 0 interest in seeing that company succeed.
On the one hand, it's a historical occasion, and it's generally good for historical occasions to be documented. On the other, no one wants a deeply personal matter to end up in history books.
Very well put. lol
> I don't know how effective they are in practice. If retail workers tried to unionize what is to prevent the millions of people who are equally qualified from replacing the entire union?

See the strike of grocery workers at Stop and Shop earlier this year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Stop_%26_Shop_strike

They are effective in practice.

(Some possible first-principles reasons why this might be true: training replacement workers is hard and the labor market is not quite that liquid; new workers will want union representation too; new workers will want good wages too; the fact that the Teamsters respected the strike and union truckers refused to deliver across picket lines meant they'd have to find replacement non-union truck drivers too.)
>Do you know what this technology is called?

Ultrasonic atomization. It's used widely in manufacturing for applying thin-film coatings, because it provides a very consistent and controllable spray of very fine droplets. The technology has been applied to vaping by Usonicig, but it's not hugely popular - most people prefer warm vapour.
Also, the article doesn't back up the claim that Switzerland's policy was a failure. To me it seems that things would have gotten even worse without negative interest rates on foreign capital.
> the oldest known board game is an Egyptian game that dates back to 3100 BCE called Senet. “We almost never have the rules for these early games,” Browne said. “The rules have never been recorded, so our knowledge is largely based on historian’s reconstructions.”

I live near the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, CA. The group behind it owns the whole square city block, so besides the museum itself there's also a research library, other related buildings, and a nice park area all around.

Included in the park space is a reconstruction of the Senet game, along with an approximate reconstruction of the rules; it's explained that the rules are an approximation with a rough reason as to why.

Whether the rules were simply "lost to time" or due to a subset of this as "they were never written down because everyone knew them" I'm not sure, but it was nice to see the game available in person.
> it is utterly hopeless to try to be "good people" without the intervention of the Holy Spirit.

Especially if the people inventing such nonsense get prime real estate locations and a carefree life.
VMware VSAN HCL Checks with Runecast Analyzer 3.0
Love it. That short page is absolutely filled with "gems" (for lack of a better word).
> ...is very unlike any non-contract second job you could get.

I suspect there is a business opportunity lurking here. Setting up the financial, legal, and political infrastructure to stand up this kind of "non-contract second job" structure in as many jurisdictions and as consistently as Uber did is a gargantuan accomplishment. Uber is only monetizing it in a few, narrow, specific ways. This overall platform is useful in many other contexts that other businesses would use, but Uber hasn't opened up to them, AWS-like. There are plenty of other competitors that are trying to reproduce Uber's technical and non-technical infrastructure for other verticals, but I don't see recognition of the value of delivering the infrastructure itself for ad hoc, rapid, emergent workforce for general utilization by other smaller enterprises.

Prosaically for example, if a utility company that hasn't yet switched to entirely-Net-based meter reading yet could distribute their meter reading activity using Uber's infrastructure, then it would save tremendous wear and tear on the centralized meter reading teams' capital equipment and let them transition into more supervisory, QA, and customer support management roles. Uber worked out the logistical details of background checking, badging, etc. and leverages the same experience to apply to the new, distributed meter reading workforce.
Article is unrelated. The overhead for Wasm is from copying structs into and out of the Wasm's linear memory. Wasm only has ints and floats at the boundary, so you have to copy everything into structures it can understand.

Note that there is work to improve this (interface types, anyref, etc), but we're not there yet.
Anti-Disinformation Initiatives [pdf]
>JS of the past was the wild west. You want to add a bookmark? Go for it! You want to trigger a print dialogue? Why not!

Yeah. People forget that in the bad old days you could even do things like redefine the global Array constructor[0].

[0]https://johnresig.com/blog/re-securing-json/
The Enterprise Architect's job is rather more like that of an Urban Renewal Planner than an architect. There are many pre-existing structures, many interested parties with varying degrees of control, and many economic and technical constraints to be satisfied within a larger political system.
The only doctrine I believe anymore is that of original sin. I've spent too much time among humans to imagine there are any who aren't broken.
I have goals. They pay me six figures, but I'm not on track to own a home within biking distance of the office,

I have goals, earn six figures and had a 3100 square foot house built in the burbs within a 30 minute commute of where I work less than three years ago. I’m also “in tech” and probably, my six figure salary is a lot lower than yours.

and as an individual, and from where I don't get to control who owns my tech company, which means I don't get to decide what our superordinate goals are.

The last company I worked for decided to move their offices to a place in the metro area that wouldn’t have been the commute I desired. “I changed my office location” by calling up the many external recruiters in my network and had them find my a job closer to where I live.

I don't get to decide who our customers are. I don't get to decide the extent to which we participate in the Military-Industrial Complex, or the Prison-Industrial Complex, each of which threatened to destroy people like me.

I decide that all of the time by choosing the company I work for. I got to make all of the other decisions by choosing to live in another part of the country where the cost of living versus what I could make as a software developer was a lot more in sync with my goals. My last three jobs have been in the healthcare industry.
Owning a car is a luxury, and part of the psychology of a luxury good is its exclusivity. Obviously, a “production” sports car limited to 25 examples is one kind of exclusivity, but a car that is exclusively for your personal use is another kind of luxury.

And with that exclusivity comes the right to personalize your experience, from features to things for your kids to bumper stickers to blasting your music rather than having to ask the driver for another station or listen to your music on air pods.

The luxury of owning your own car may not appeal to everyone, but I do not see car shares and ride shares replacing cars for everyone at this time, it would take a major cultural shift and then several generations to age out of the market and die off before it ceases to be an economic factor.
Wow, we really took for granted having Carl Sagan on tap for this kind of thing.
I got a fake SS in Spain when I was 7 or something.

It was like a 50, but with two tanks.

I was the coolest kid when I brought this MF back to Germany, haha
Good article, but you forgot one more thing: Readability.

Given that there are zero comments in the code, you are giving the impression of "The code is the documentation" attitude which forces the programmer to infer via the function signatures only, which compromises clean-code and maintainability. It is important to explain what these functions and one-liners do, as a different set of eyes might not easily understand what it is.

If a candidate did this in a pair-programming session, I'm afraid that I would not accept this solution unless a reasonable amount of documentation in the function signatures like JSDoc is present.
singlefileZ on chrome is good too
Go is self-hosting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(compilers)) and not that old, so the source of the go compiler and its tools (https://go.googlesource.com/go) should be good examples (possibly not of all language features)
There are a lot more states than California....
Snus addicts in Sweden seem to counteract the idea that MAOIs have such a big role.
Ludii was presented at 2019 IEEE Conference on Games this past week in London. Lot's more interesting stuff in the rest of the conference program ;)

http://ieee-cog.org/assets/program-full.pdf
Lmao OF COURSE there's a highly upvoted comment on a tech website saying this is terrible advice.

It's literally how it's done. Tbh if she's into you it doesn't really matter what you say.

Let me put this into an if else statement for you knuckleheads to understand:

print("Wow this is a really long line!")

if response == "Girl turns toward you, looks excited and tries to continue conversation":
keep talking and see where it goes
else if == "Girl continues the conversation but it's difficult to see if she's interested":
keep talking and see where it goes
else if == "Girl doesn't respond or responds without looking at you, or looks away from you":
stop talking, she's not interested
Sad to see it go like that.

Yet another example how ungrateful many people are towards free software.

The only difference to piracy, is that not only do they not give back anything, they feel entitled to all kind of requests.

So the result ends always being the same, moving to something else.
P99: Preprocessor Macros and Functions for C99 and C11 (2012)
I'm having a hard time feeling charitable toward you when you are missing things that are blindingly obvious.

You are demanding an economic analysis to tell you that a much larger, much more complex piece of equipment, made from more exotic materials, is going to be more expensive than a much smaller, much less complex one? This is screaming passive-aggressive denial. It is very simple to understand that point, if you just allow yourself to think about it.

The CO2 point would be worthwhile if fusion were competing just with fossil fuels. But it fails against fission (for the simple reasons Lidsky explained), and fission now fails against renewables.
Yes, those societys still having polygamy are doing fine, down at the bottom of the UN-Report barrels.
sure buddy. and all the brains the US is importing every year are also just for knowledge transfer.
God that kind of articles are awful. Don't tell me an effing child fable, just lay the facts.
Its heartbreaking to learn that my prized gshock was designed by a 5ft manlet. I wish i could unsee this
Great points.

Re: "Keep in mind there's a review process though" - My experience of this is that Shopify wouldn't approve my App because there were existing Apps in their store which they thought were too similar.

So make sure it's sufficiently differentiable to existing Apps (no, I don't know what that means either!)
> what people consider an
> authentic San Francisco
> experience in 2019

(U+1F4A9) &#x1f4a9;

(HN isn't compatible with the authentic San Francisco experience...)
The question was about "research" in the meaning of quantitative scientific evidence that these proposed techniques make software delivery better in real-world conditions, not "research" in the sense of new ideas from academics. As a professional, I don't want UML because I've seen no evidence it actually helps. Show me relevant studies that it does and I will absolutely change my mind.

(And there are plenty of things that industry does respect that came from academic research in the sense of new ideas. Rust, stereotypically the language of the trend-prone, draws on everything from Ada to functional programming. But unlike those it actually and demonstrably meets the needs of general-purpose programming in industry.)
I'm the original author of the post.

I was talking about Parse.ly's analytics engine, where most of the data we provide to our customers on first-party analytics around their audience stems from some lightweight JavaScript code they embed in their websites. It's now installed on thousands of high-traffic sites[1] and provides analytics on over a billion web/mobile browsers per month (as described in this Strata talk[2], for example).

I wrote a little bit about my experience writing that code in this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10206956#10207998

It was a fascinating piece of code to work on because not only did it have to be lightweight and fast across all browsers, but it also had to be tiny to embed, and it needed to be x-browser tested all the way back to IE6 and strange mobile browsers. Plus, at the time it was originally written (2010-2012), there were hardly any good JS build tools outside of early versions of uglifyjs.

Over the years, other engineers have improved the performance even further, while retaining the kernel of the code. We even did a change last year which improved client-side performance through a number of clever build/CDN tricks. We've also had to hold our ground firmly on privacy, which it turns out is one of the key areas third-party JavaScript started to take a turn in the wrong direction, especially in the adtech universe. (We are a content analytics company, with a similar SaaS business model to MixPanel for product analytics and NewRelic for performance analytics. So, for us, privacy is paramount.) I wrote about this here: https://blog.parse.ly/post/3394/analytics-privacy-without-co...

[1]: https://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Parse.ly

[2]: https://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/strata-ny-2018/public...
> The (thermal power)/(reactor volume) for ITER is about 0.05 MW/m^3.

https://www.f4e.europa.eu/understandingfusion/iterdevice.asp...

500/800 = 0.625 (plasma volume, not reactor volume)

In an interview with the Omega Tau podcast a while back, it was mentioned by ITER personnel that the DEMO plant that would be the successor to ITER was probably going to be designed as a 2000 MW reactor. Since the plasma is in shape of a torus, that volume increases pretty quickly with the size of the confinement vessel.

Also, per unit mass of fuel, magnetic confinement fusion is still posited to be thousands of times more efficient than fission power.
> The only doctrine I believe anymore is that of original sin. I've spent too much time among humans to imagine there are any who aren't broken.

But your belief is that we are born broken, and not that it is the world that breaks us?
I suspect this is the issue. When you submit shortly after another submission, it gets turned into an upvote. Or of the other submission makes it to the front post, it gets all the attention, and nobody will vote for a duplicate or want to discuss the matter again.

What it takes for this to happen is a second submission some time after the first, when the first didn’t attract attention. This gives the article a “second chance,” and HN is actually interested in good articles getting second chances.
I agree. These theories should either be based on empirical evidence, simulations or built up from first principles in a rigorous manner. Otherwise they are about as concrete as philosophical treatises. Which is to say, not very concrete at all.
What is the best marketing automation tool for a B2C e-commerce business?
It's easy to compete with the company, but hard to compete with the VC money Uber pulls in. Uber's only competitive advantage is the $24b they were given to keep them alive.

If VCs keep funding Uber, Uber is unstoppable. But as soon as that money runs out, they're just another taxi company. Except they're a taxi company who loses $350 million dollars every month. That's not hard to compete against.
Totally agree with you. Now the real question, do you need to implement PNG decoder and PDF viewer? Or you need to design alternatives that are far more safe to implement?
Hey awesome suggestions. Lets say I want to put some of this knowledge to work and get into the contract manufacturing businesss. How hard or impossible is it in the current climate or in general ?
Have you read "Cheats, Charlatans, and Chicanery: More Outrageous Tales of Skulduggery" by Andreas Schroeder?

I don't know how well that book has stood the test of time. But I really liked it back when it came out.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/284448.Cheats_Charlatans...
I can see 'before' and 'after' code in their books.

How do I know the 'after' code is any better in practice?
You need to not only pay Google’s cut, you need to pay what the publisher makes. Then it has to be multiplied to make up for the people who do not opt in to the system. Just a rough guess, you might be looking at several thousand dollars per year per participant depending on what the ad value of the content was.

To make it a mandatory system is a whole other issue.
There are many women who would take the trade off of being loved by a man who loves multiple women over never being loved.

The reverse is not so true though.
Not exactly what you're asking, and not meant as an endorsement, but I've heard the following theory, which at least seems plausible.

The theory goes that when the multitude followed Jesus into the wilderness, each individual brought his own bread, but kept it secret, not wanting to share it. Jesus knew that each man had his own bread but that no-one wanted to share it. So according to this theory, it was actually sarcasm when Jesus said: "I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way." (Matthew 15:32) Knowing the people had secret bread, Jesus took His disciples' paltry seven loaves of bread, blessed and broke them, and instructed the disciples to distribute them.

Each person was so ashamed then (according to the theory) that he ate his own bread, rather than take the portion of the disciples' bread that came around. Some were even so ashamed of their greed, that they added some of their own bread to the disciples', so that: "They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. A total of four thousand men were fed, in addition to women and children." (15:37-38)
You're right. Still, it doesn't make you want to buy one now, does it? Because it's just a matter of tine until they'll be heavily taxed.
awful comparison because the chance is pretty high that these people have health insurance and are regularly employed.

When it comes to companies that try to avoid the social obligations that employers in my country traditionally have or that try to win by monopolizing markets then yes I make the decision to not use them. This includes Uber, Amazon and a few others.
There's a bizarre, naive belief that all programming is web programming.

It's patronising and inaccurate, but it's common among people who think Javascript is a serious language.
Not to mention D+T has 2500 times higher power density than p+B11.