skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also think this comparison is made by people that have never been involved in construction projects. Even something reasonably small in scope like rebuilding a house is still an exploratory process. Redoing ours we found the frame was no good and had to go back to get planning permission to build a new top structure. Even now we're getting our lower outer wall repaired (basically the only part of the structure that's actually original now) and the initial cleaning showed there was more work involved. So we renegotiated the cost with the builder.

Then you look at big civil engineering projects that seem to always be over-time and over-budget.

The treatment of estimates in project management for software is way more like the assumption we have an assembly line where even if there are issues these are routine enough that they can be padded in. The problem is that software is an exploratory process and not an assembly line.

It's even worse the more creative the project is. I've worked in games for fifteen years and I don't think it's possible to estimate when a game will be 'good'. Making one is a process that requires a lot of feedback, iteration and scope management. It's part of why we see so much reflexive crunch as the reality of making a game hits poor project management strategy based on this assembly line thinking.

The words Gantt chart make me shudder.
FUD against a company is directly correlated to the amount of short positions against them.

> Question is If these misleading articles/statements are ethical?

The worlds media are quite unburdened by ethics.
Photo Card Act 2005, Section 13B Use of digital Photo Card

"Despite any other provision of this section, a person who displays or purports to display a digital driver licence is not required to give or hand over, to the person who is requiring the driver licence to be produced or handed over, the mobile phone or other electronic device on which the digital driver licence is displayed or purported to be displayed."

https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/view/act/2005/20/part2a/sec...
For people outside the US:
https://mega.nz/#!kUwS0ITK!mFIgo2dnLyVyfQ5szR4NG-C-rY6xnEPyv...

Probably limited, so download and share if you're nice.
Since their iOS and Android apps are different, and the iOS one is built using React, I just assumed the Android one is native. Why would they build two different React apps? Isn't the entire point that you can share the code?
Some people really do need to have the difference between an estimate and a commitment explained to them very carefully.
Ahhh the simple TXT days of gopher. I always appreciated gopher and hate more wasn't done with it. Thank you for this!
SGML isn't that complex. If you know the XML subset of SGML, there are only a few additional concepts to learn (mostly markup minimization which is designed to greatly simplify the directly authored form of a text document such that you can write markdown-like syntax, with the canonical/internal form being exactly the same as an XML parser would see it). I'll give you that the official ISO standard spec sucks to the point of being incomprehensible; but then most markup-related specs, including the HTML 5 spec, do. This is what Eliot Kimber (or was it another HyTime editor?) has to say about it (on an admittedly not so well-known topic even by markup standards):

> Why can't people understand the SGML Extended Facilities as written and as standardized by the ISO?

> ISO standards are very hard to understand because they describe very technical things in an abstruse techno-legal vocabulary and reduced-redundancy style. In short, despite having great things to say, even the deathless prose of the HyTime standard tends to be unreadable and, quite frankly, to suck as informative literature. (I'm a co-editor of it; may God have mercy on us.)
Because they built a huge number of reactors with state subsidy and then stopped?

France is also having trouble with life extension due to cracked reactor vessels, and is unable to build new capacity cheaply - Flamanville is in project management trouble, like Hinkley Point C, and is projected to have higher energy costs than the existing reactors.

And nuclear power is ironically suffering its own climate change effects, it's dependent on cool water: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-electricity-heatwa...
Would you watch an employee closely if their performance dipped after they started a hobby game development project? Or night classes? How about if they just had a new born?

Do you also acknowledge the weeks their performance is better than average? Do you compensate them for it, or is it just a given?

You have the right to be concerned about someone's time but only while they are at work. Your employees get to do what they want outside of work hours.

I'd wager those X hours a week in the office are often not the most important part of your life, why should it be for them?
Nissan Leaf, Chevy Bolt, Hyundai Ioniq, Hyundai Kona, BMW i3, VW e-Golf, Audi e-Tron, Mercedes EQC, Renault Zoe, Jaguar i-Pace etc.

Are they not mass market cars ?

Hyundai Kona is outselling every Tesla model combined in some EU countries so I would consider them mass market.
Get Started with Blazor
I take it you're one of those lucky people who don't need to have the NATO phonetic alphabet rendering of their first, middle and last names memorized, because otherwise nobody will get them right.
Marine larvae have legs with strong claws and chaetas and secrete several natural cements. They could just displace or peel the air bubble. Moreover, having tiny pores would grant a stronger grip to the hull against being washed by sea currents and cleaning hoses.
Money Is Minted Certainly
Twotter asked for my phone for “security” then started texting things like it was someone’s birthday so I quickly removed it.

Never again twattrr
I did not have a great experience with that approach. The now (in)famous DropBox article describes why way better than I ever could: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2019/08/the-not-so-hidden-cos...
My biggest pain points were tooling. For all of Xcode’s faults, C++ and Objective-C debugging and intermingling wasn’t one of them. Android, though, was another story.
Yeah, feels like we're getting there. But then again, you need ID for more than just interactions with government officials and law enforcement.
For that I am using the compiler which allows C#, Go, Swift code to mixed. It’s really great. So with some work you could use existing C# code even in your mobile apps. I am liking it so far :)
It's a reasonable fraction of total roof area, I believe.

But the real problem with the UK and solar is not nighttime but seasonality. No, we need to keep going with the wind buildout and not drop the tidal energy programme.

We're getting there: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jun/21/zero-carbon...
How do you achieve this? Are you using some framework like Qt? Or is it custom?
Manufacturers are playing from behind & are worried about it. I'm aware of at least one (I won't mention who it is, but it's not particularly hard to guess) who is funding a number of studies on how to capture market share in this segment as a late entrant.

You're also starting to see a lot of concern about the economic/social impact that electrification is going to have - it's mentioned in the linked article, but electric vehicles require a lot less labor to manufacture. Assuming that the traditional players in this industry even survive the switch to electric vehicles, you're going to see a lot of layoffs as all of this plays out.
Show HN: Price per unit analysis on Amazon listings
Really good stuff, is that talk uploaded anywhere?
Also the organizations involved. Of course in this case you might be trading one shitty dealer dinosaur experience for a new, shiny, curated, walled garden.
Reminds me Adobe CS4
>It consists of a period of abstention from earthy delights like sex, drugs, and, in some extreme cases, talking to other people, for 24 hours or more. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb5qb9/dopamine-fasting-i...

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vow_of_silence

>In many monasteries it is the custom to begin the "Great Silence" after Compline, during which the whole community, including guests, observes silence throughout the night until the morning service the next day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compline
Of course not... that's the craziest thing I ever heard.

I text myself.
I have made calls between France and the UK and not noticed a problem.
I developed https://unitprice.org for a number of reasons. I like aggregating and parsing data, I like shopping at Amazon, and I like finding the best deal. I also wanted an excuse to experiment with static website generators (specifically Jekyll). And so here we are!

When purchasing pacifiers for my son (and despite my new-dad stupor), I realized that the greater quantity pack cost more per pacifier than the smaller quantity pack! This has continued to nag at me. Have I been missing out on some savings per unit for other products too? Is the giant quantity diaper box always the best choice? How can I grow my son's collection of Duplo bricks with the least cost per brick? These questions were the catalyst that led to the creation of this website.

I'd love to hear any helpful feedback you have to share. Specifically, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the information that I'm offering, the organization of the website, and the products that I'm analyzing. For that last one, please share any additions that you'd like to see! Ideas on how I can grow and expand this concept would be greatly appreciated as well.
Are there any well known "starter" open source projects? By this I mean "projects who have a good reputation and good documentation which will help induct and develop the confidence, knowledge and skills of new contributors?".

We have lots of projects which are open to contributions and many which have very mature mechanisms for incorporating changes from a number of sources, however I can't think of any 'go-to' projects to recommend for the often asked question of "I'm new to programming/open source, where do I begin?".

In contrast, there seem to be an increasing number of communities and resources around getting people inducted and migrated to Linux, a multitude that are trying to "teach people to code" and plenty that will instill the virtues of FOSS, but not as many which are actively encouraging and coaching people to contribute to established projects.
> The NSW Digital Driver Licence is accepted by most pubs and clubs

How to get user acceptance 101
Actually you can spec and order a Porsche online just like a Tesla.
It is weighted by number of new registrations: https://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/average-co2-emissions-f...

If a car manufacturer actually makes and registers low-emission cars just to keep the average of their fleet down, there's not really a point in just having them sit around collecting dust, so they might as well sell them.
It's back online now. sorry NoNameNo!
The official W3C validator site seems to agree with me. Did you misunderstand what I said or can show me wrong. Just feed to it any widely used webpage, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/ and it will not pass.

Just be be clear, just because there are still uses for SGML does not make it relevant in the big picture. Your use case seems to be the exception.
Not only have I have read the original article written by Russ Mitchell mind you (Reuters's version is just a rehash).

I also dug more into this and the Twitter thread contains the most factual info instead of speculation.
So.. is "plasticity" a good or bad thing?
Same in Italy, electric car sharing is exclusively using Zoe's.
A few years ago our city had introduced electric buses. These were quite awesome and significantly reduced noise pollution. Most noise actually comes from tires instead of motors nowadays with the exception of slow speed acceleration, where buses can be extremely loud. Recently electric buses seem to have vanished again.

I think that was due to a fire that happened and the reliability was lower than their diesel counterparts (I think it was 90%, compared to 98%). Very sad about that they are gone again.

We see a lot of Teslas here. It was pretty hyped and you had to wait a long time to get one. I don't believe that the unilateral market dominance of Tesla will be kept on the current level to be honest.

In recent days you see more and more smaller city cars.
The point of React Native is being cross-platform, yes. But you said Android had a native app.
I made a parody account of Trump (everyone was doing it, it's passe now) and then I had my main account suspended. I was willing to give us the Trump account, but it turns out there is no way of telling Twitter this and when I asked for a review, they did absolutely nothing.

Turns out, it was one of the best things Twitter every did for me. My life is way better without it. It's not actually sour grapes, after seeing what Twitter is doing and what people are using Twitter for - any good is definitely way outweighed by the bad of the platform.
Flashlight - Spotlight Plugin System
Good job. The website looks good but its not really something I would recommend. One can reverse engineer passwords (suggested by smartis2812).

There is a bug though. If I click generate password. It asks for 3 answers. But If I answer 2 question it shows response without the generated password.
To be honest that's not it - as in my sibling comment it's just attaching the blog onto the site was the fastest way to go, given that I wanted to keep it on the same domain. The product just happens to be built on kubernetes already, use of kube is definitely not for the blog. I'm actually pretty surprised that nginx couldn't handle the traffic to be honest. Even with the fairly low resources I'd allocated it. It's just cached static content served right from nginx you're seeing there. Now I've seen that this setup isn't really appropriate (at least without being very expensive!), I'll spend the time to put it onto a CDN
This looks like a novel and not immediately intuitive way of trapping air in a narrow space between two plates of metal. Neat.

There are other ways of trapping air between two pieces of metal.

I wonder how this compares against a sandwich of metal-bubble-wrap-metal. Or with styrofoam, or an injectable foam. It would also float. It would also withstand multiple punctures. I imagine it is cheaper than etching metal.
That's Jason Scott for you. He does great work, but he's an awful, awful person to work or generally communicate with.
To be fair though, how do you even pronounce the name, "9nGQluzmnq3M"? ;-)
“The Vue.js community is one of Vue’s biggest selling points” – Marina Mosti
Dopamine Fasting 2.0 – Dr Cameron Sepah
Yes. I email myself almost everyday. I've even made a browser extension for it - https://www.emailthis.me
The [back] button.
what is it about nihlism?
At this time blaming the partner is not the solution. You start to fight with your partner. Your trust in your partner vanishes. The bond of love gets broken. This is where marriage comes to an end.

https://www.quranicpowers.com/dua-for-hardship-in-marriage/
It depends on how much the range difference is at the end of the day, and if you trust Tesla or Porsche more to deliver on future battery tech (not talking about a Tacyan vs. Model S comparison, but a company vs. company comparison).

Tesla has a large advantage in this that is at least partially in house (judging from their willingness to expand production from Panasonic to LG and now CATL).
Yes but why not simply a metal honeycomb structure, with air bubbles trapped permanently inside?

Also, an "unsinkable flotation device" can be made out of styrofoam?
Ask HN: What is your go to stack for REST API?
>> Intangibles like brand, design, experience, feeling, handling etc are often just as if not more important.

I think that's why the incumbents are having a hard time. They want to make an electric version of what they already have. It's probably easier to produce an EV that was designed to be electric from the start. If that's the case, the problem may be one of commitment. Tesla is committed - they only make electric cars.
> SGML isn't that complex.

It's unnecessarily complex. The complexity and the features it has have no purpose once you step away and look at the big picture. People don't want to use it. It's easier to write your own dataformat than use and learn SGML. XML was a move away. HTML5 was move away. Heck, just microXML is enough https://blog.jclark.com/2010/12/more-on-microxml.html

Starting from scratch something like s-expressions or JSON would have been better starting point than SGML/XML/HTML.
In 'Road to Wigan Pier', George Orwell found that many working class people saw their teeth as an inconvenience to get rid of as soon as possible.

> Several dentists have told me that in
industrial districts a person over thirty with any of his or her own teeth
is coming to be an abnormality. In Wigan various people gave me their
opinion that it is best to get shut of your teeth as early in life as
possible. 'Teeth is just a misery,' one woman said to me. In one house
where I stayed there were, apart from myself, five people, the oldest being
forty-three and the youngest a boy of fifteen. Of these the boy was the
only one who possessed a single tooth of his own, and his teeth were
obviously not going to last long.

http://www.george-orwell.org/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/5.html
> electric vehicles require a lot less labor to manufacture

That's awesome!

But I'm confused...

why do Tesla's cars take so much more man hours to manufacture than other cars then? If electric cars take less labor and everybody knows that Tesla is lightyears ahead of all those dinosaur traditional manufacturers, wtf are Tesla's employees spending their time on?
The two oldest pieces of software I currently use (Emacs and Postgres) manage changes pretty well and somehow, they now scale at a ratio of features, speed, and size that's pretty decent.

They probably evolve slower than newer younger players because of their stability (and baggage).

I'd be interested in knowing what they do right.
> However, propaganda over sensitive topics should be stopped by all means.

Like disconnecting the internet entirely?
All Excel files directly connected to Brains, we change one line in our thoughts, and we get output to someone's brain directly.
AutoStamper
And the Kona would be selling more if they could make it faster.

How do I know this? Because I would have bought one (so technically they've have sold at least one more!) but it's a 12 month lead time right now. They even briefly removed the option a few months ago to order from their website - it may be back now but I think it doesn't mention the delay in getting the car.

The turning point really is here for a lot of us with driveways.

EDIT - nope it's still un-orderable. Just the link to join the waiting list.
Check out Ballerina. Interesting cloud based language https://ballerina.io/
probably it's because developers tend to estimate the technical part first and foremost. then comes prouctization, then comes integration.

if the estimate is consistently between 3x and 6x, that's what's likely missing.
Verenitti: OS for Gamers and Professionals
1. Porsche Taycan charges significantly faster than any Tesla so batteries/range isn't as useful an advantage.

2. You completely missed the point. Porsche drivers aren't looking for an economical car just as Hyundai drivers probably won't find much use for a dash stopwatch.
As the previous poster mentioned, the UI is all native and written separately for each platform. To populate UI elements you call native calls so there's no UI framework like Qt needed.

We used C++14 which has a pretty good standard library and plugged the holes with some parts of Boost and then standalone libraries like SQLite, json11 and others to provide missing functionality.
I loved Purple Motions music back then. He's still awesome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonne_Valtonen
Like the old Moore's Law of "don't do anything, your software will run faster in 1 year time", we could nearly apply this to software itself "don't touch anything and, by comparison, in 1 year time it will be awesomer than it is now".
That is an excellent question, because this is indeed how it works on many sites. However, it is actually wrong. The proper way would be to have users opt-in.

This was even reinforced with a court decision recently: https://www.technologylawdispatch.com/2019/10/cookies-tracki...
It's not going to, but they don't need to maintain their position. Tesla's advantage over everyone else is their ability to mass-manufacture quality battery packs. As long as they can be the first company to integrate advancements in range/reliability (and don't have to worry about manufacturing capacity constraints), they can walk into pretty much any segment they want.
Why do think that users with usernames like that have turned the site into trash? In my experience, Twitteer's problems seem more systematic, and related to their attempts to maximize your time on site, and thus ads viewed.
The back button is too late. You already gave them a visit, a cookie might have been placed and your IP address was provided.
Yeah, I don't know what's up with all the misinformation. NHTSA isn't performing an "investigation". They are simply investigating claims that Tesla's catch on fire all the fucking time and following their common investigation protocols. It's totally normal.
Next step is to serve ads directly into people's brains. Suddenly I dread the future.
The big thing the Dropbox article does not mention is the fact that they never really ported the Dropbox core functionality to C++ so they never reaped the benefits of sharing code in their most complex and most business logic heavy part of codebase.

We actually used their own Djinni library on one of the projects and it worked well - but even at that time the Dropbox team wasn't maintaining it at all since they never used this approach beyond the short-lived Carousel app.
I'm not familiar with rust futures stuff, but having researched similar problems in C++, the important part is giving the control of allocation (when and how) to the application.
Uber's self-driving car hit and killed a person because
Superconductivity at 161 K in thorium hydride ThH10: Synthesis and properties
From their open job positions - it looks like the Android app is indeed native (mostly Kotlin + heavy use of RxJava).

And only iOS + web (+ desktop?) are mentioned in the post.

I'd imagine the reason they didn't use RN on Android is because historically it's always had much worse performance on that platform. iOS RN performance is usually acceptable, but Android has always been a bit of a 2nd-class citizen.
Why Are Pigeons’ Feet So Fucked Up?
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/electric-vehicles-pos...

Think component suppliers. Electric cars require a lot less parts, which is going to hurt component suppliers & the people who work for them a lot.
I’ve been running Navicat 11 and 12 side by side for almost a year because of missing features and a wrecked UI, with the newer version supporting newer MariaDB features.

I just received a new work laptop and the license for 11 refused to deactivate, so I can’t activate it on my new Laptop.

Usually IT or whoever would contact support but with a couple buyouts under us it was licensed to a company that no longer exists.

Trying to talk IT into getting me a new expensive license for an outdated piece of software I’m not even sure they’ll sell you so I can have a couple convenience features is out of the question.

I’m very frustrated.
Well, I do pay a lot of attention to price and range - unless you can get a decent sized car (at least by UK standards) for less than £25K and with a range of at least 300 miles I'm not going to buy one!
The future's bright... the future's Orange.
I don't understand how hn can praise tesla for selling cars on one hand and then condemn uber for being unprofitable on the other... neither of them have any evidence of doing anything other than funneling investor money into the hands of their customers.