skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point was that the microchip industry is a critical part for the developing economy. Today the Bay Area (not California) has 1/2 the GDP of all of Russia! I realize there are lots of industries in the Bay Area besides hardware and software engineering, but that's a pretty stark contrast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose%E2%80%93San_Francisco...

https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp

Obviously there were lots of reasons the Soviet Union collapsed (Chernobyl, for instance). But ignoring the importance of the computer industry in the information era seems like a big oversight.
I love DDG. In my experience, Google still usually does a better job but DDG is good enough 90% of the time and bang searches make it trivial to handle that remaining 10%.

I recognize that there is still room to improve DDG's search quality. However, I wonder if DDG or any competitor can ever get as good as Google without collecting user data and using that to contextualize searches.
I cancelled a NYT subscription over their continued employment of folks like Bret Stephens (https://www.vox.com/2019/8/27/20834957/bret-stephens-bedbug-...) and Bari Weiss (https://theintercept.com/2017/08/31/nyts-newest-op-ed-hire-b...). It wouldn't be shocking for someone to do so over Taboola.
Some people smoke cigarettes every day without being addicted to them, and I'm sure some people can smoke opium every day without being addicted to it (probably can't say the same for injecting heroin).

Doesn't mean it's good for you (neither is drinking every day).
The powers that be in Australia are very, very, very friendly (read: in bed with) the coal industry. For the last 5 years they have been doing everything possible to discredit renewables, and there is a lot of money at stake.

It's a fascinating view into what happens when a few very rich and powerful people control essentially all the media in an entire country.
Show HN: Fitloop – Calisthenics / Bodyweight Fitness Training App
One thing I like doing with podcasts is pausing them often to consider my own position. Form my own argument- given the new information I've just obtained.

Often times the wheels just keep turning and I'll forget I was even listening to a podcast, and spend the majority of the time listening to myself think.

I absolutely agree with the argument you mentioned with short term tasks like vacuuming, dishes, etc. If you don't have time to get fully invested (over an hour) it's much better to just listen to your own thoughts.
Anybody can ELI5 me why it's such a huge deal? I mean .org does not have any special meaning for a while now. Anybody can have a .org. Most commercial entities don't do that because .org kinda implies "not business" which is contrary to the impression most businesses want, but there's no limitation on that if any commercial entity wants to have a .org, they can.

TLDs are virtually unrestricted now (not entirely but close to it), so you can have me.sexy and spaghetti-monster.church if you wanted to. I know there were price caps on .org, but frankly unless you're in heavy SEO/marketing game - which most nonprofits aren't - domain name costs aren't that major expense even for commercial companies. And dozens, now hundreds of TLDs are being managed by commercial entities without Internet descending into chaos and ruin. So why does the Internet world "despair" about this thing?
As a counter-anecdote, NSAIDs like Ibuprofen cause GI tract bleeding in me (a haemophilia patient) and have put me in hospital twice, once in the ICCU with my family called to say their goodbyes etc.

If I have a severely painful joint bleed (common in my condition) or surgery, I'm taking the opioids.
I didn't say it "describes the entire history of labor struggle." But you were responding to someone who listed his views on the bad things about his experience with unions. Discussions of the merits of unions in the U.S. are incomplete without mentioning their ties to organized crime. (And I strongly suspect that, if those links hadn't existed, unions would be stronger in the U.S. today, as they are in Europe.)
When this was first announced, they used the word “blockchain” a lot. It’s funny that this is now deleted, as they’ve learned the word is credibility poison.
> The scenario we want to avoid is that a faulty commit makes it to the main branch.

Close. The scenario we want to minimize is faulty code on the main branch. As your team grows, as the number of commits go up, it becomes a game of chance. Sooner or later something will get through. The more new teammates you have, the more often that will happens.

This is an inescapable cost of growth. The cost of promoting people to management. The cost of starting new projects. Occasionally you can avoid it as a cost of turnover, but you will have turnover at some point.

What matters most is how long the code is "broken" (including false positives) before it is identified, mitigated, and fully corrected. The amount of work you can do to keep these number relatively stable in the face of change is profound.

If you insist on no errors on master ever you will kill throughput. You will create situations where the only failures are big, which is neck deep in the philosophy that CI rejects: that problems are to be avoided instead of embraced and conquered.
The winner is decided in the details. It’s not obvious at 30,000 feet, but changing tariffs before and after a war can make a clear winner in these situations. At the extreme end involving actual fighting, the opium wars where actually about trade with China.
Niche Facebook groups are a great way to launch your product as well.
Most subscriptions are on credit cards, and having available credit implies a stable cashflow (even if you are operating at a loss).
Hi HN,

I've been working on this bodyweight fitness platform for the past few years, and I recently took time away from a job for a few months to travel + work on a mobile app. Here's the initial (++ fixed some bugs) version. It's free to use, however the logging functionality / community is a paid feature.

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Bodyweight Fitness workouts don't use weights, so you can do them with minimal equipment. The reddit community /r/bodyweightfitness has created a routine for beginner-intermediate, called the "Recommended Routine". This routine is built on progressions, which means that you swap out the exercise to increase the load, instead of adding more weight.

For example:

1. Incline Pushups (Easy)
2. Pushup (Harder)
3. Diamond Pushup (Harder yet)
... and so on.

This is the meat and bones of this app, that it supports progression in a way that other apps don't.

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Tech: Backend was built in Meteor years ago, now I've migrated most parts of it to more modern technologies. In particular, the API is mostly a GraphQL/Apollo layer, which has made development much easier because of the connected data.

The app itself is built with React Native. I evaluated Flutter briefly, but decided against it due to my existing knowledge of JS/React, and the amount of documentation and community around RN.

Hope you enjoy, and I welcome any feedback!

- Shridhar
Had forgotten about that. I worked at the Rockwell science center at that time and went into their clean room once and had to put on a “bunny suit” to work on some computers inside it. They had a gallium chip product of some sort.
If the floors are tile rather than vinyl and all the furniture is solid wood rather than veneered chipboard they almost the only outgasing will be from the products sold in store. Even in a new Apple store outgasing should generally be minimal. If you’ve been in a new store that stinks of formaldehyde I bow to your experience.
The problem here is the fluctuations in supply: you still need that coal & gas power for when renewables aren't producing. And the specific problem is that coal plants are not good at starting up and spinning down rapidly.

Gas plants, however, are quite fast, so if this leads to coal plants becoming obsolete, that's win all around even if it requires more gas power in the interim.
Sure, the implication though is that if you've got the fab design rules it's not that hard to make the EDA tools. It's not 1982 anymore where the DoD is spending obscene amounts of money to run this on a 10Mhz mainframe.
Subscriptions for SaaS are essentially a lease, and leases are almost always preferable to sales for the one doing the leasing. See e.g. IBM[1]

[edit]

Software (and other media with a high development cost, but low marginal cost such as films) are particularly valuable to lease, because you remove the secondary market, which can cannibalize sales.

1: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40751117?seq=1
It makes sense when your view is that morals correlate to development which is time invariant. Developing nations steal IP to establish orphan industries, burn cheap and dirty coal to rapidly build industrial base, repress minorities to establish stable cultural hegemony. There are no other proven models to development, especially one on large country scales, and pretending it can be done ethically and insisting on those standards are possible when it has yet to be demonstrated is just ladder kicking hypocrisy. At some point we just have to accept that development is a dirty business full of hard moral calculus and judge progress and methods accordingly.
That may have been what search engines were for, but Google changed that. Very few people have the patience any more to try multiple queries to get an answer. When DDG fails, as it inevitably does, I don't spend time refining my query: I repeat the search on Google and get my answer.
> it's frankly insulting to others when you claim such outrageous and wrong nonsense on the internet. You deserve sarcasm and negativity if you bring idiocy to a reasonable conversation.

I think you're replying to a different person than you think you are. I'm not nverno nor not_a_moth; I've made no radical claims about fasting. It's insulting to me to … claim such outrageous and wrong nonsense, to put it in your words.

Finally, one suggestion. If you find yourself writing, "You deserve sarcasm and negativity," click the X, take a break, and go for a walk to clear your head. That's just not really appropriate or useful anywhere.
This is amazing to me. Outside of FAANG people make $80k-$100k as a new grad, and generally cap out at $160k after 5 years of experience (and good luck getting beyond that). At FAANG people seem to start at $100k as a new gead and after 5 years they're above $200k and they're just starting their upward trend.

Is this reality or just my perception?

Are FAANG companies really capturing that much more wealth per employee that they can afford to pay people like this?
If you are arguing with the goal of changing your opponent’s mind, you’re already doing argument wrong. These techniques will not make you better.
How do you know the quantum simulation will match the actual phenomenon. There seems to be a leap of logic there.
The fixtures at my Apple store use copious amounts of wood glue. I woodwork on the side and am well aware of the kinds of techniques used.
They skimp on toilets too. They tend to skimp on anything they can legally get away with - "frugality" is a company mantra, after all.

And you're right, they could afford to be more flexible with employee time and productivity might rise, but that's just not their culture. Their culture is that employees are responsible for meeting expectations, no excuses. If they want productivity to rise, they just raise quotas and crack down on time off task. They complain about the cost of the pain medication employees use from the dispensary. They abuse trialware because they don't want to pay for the licenses. That's just who they are.

This is a company that will assign you to indefinite six day, twelve hour weeks if business needs call for it, but will complain if you're a minute late from break. It's possible that bad press or not wanting to be the Democrats' straw villain in 2020 might cause policies to drift in a more progressive direction, though.

>It's easy to pick on Amazon but your run of the mill warehouse job is always worse and pays half as much

That's true. To be fair, the base wage is extremely competitive in most markets for entry level work, and the health insurance is really good, and most people aren't peeing in bottles and the like. But even then, "it's not literally the worst possible job" is kind of damning with faint praise.
Disrupting the Cow
Senior Software Developer Jobs in Vancouver
Ignorant question: What is a pound in this case? It isn't actually a pound of silver in weight, right? I get really confused with modern British currency and what silver the system was based on in the past, etc.

If I see that something is 20 shillings, does that mean it cost me a pound of silver by weight out of the ground to buy?
It is well known. VEF, Eletrotehnika, Tondi Elektroonika and others. Also big biotech hub in Soviet times. AFAIK. Even the first soviet atomic bomb was partly build there ("Sillamäe").

I spare you the details for the Czech republic since this should be well known. They were always an industrial and manufacturing hub, even during German occupation in WW2. Airplanes, Tanks, guns, cars (Skoda!), machinery etc. Don't forget, they are a comparably small country.
I missed the statement on the Mate 30. I guess the chart combined with other parts of the article threw me off.
Corruption in global health: the open secret
I would get a Huawei Matebook except that it would
really rock the boat at my work, and that's not
something I want to do.

Is this really a thing in American (I'm assuming here) workplaces?
Are all Huawei products persona non grata or just some ? I thought it was just the P30 Pro phone and some enterprise stuff that were explicitly barred.

Could you elaborate on where things stand as of this writing, and if they are ever likely to improve, post-trade war?
> You can make subscriptions work if your intentions are good

I am afraid investors only care about growth. First they are going to grow untill no more subscribers. Preferably the company will have monopolistic position by that time. Then they will start increasing rates up to "what market will bear". Then they will start tweaking "personalizing" experience with microtransactions etc trying to squeeze more. Add regulatory capture to this. This rent-seeking won't stop.
In what way is the Mate 30 inferior?
You're still talking about squatting, the legal term of art.
Good discussion of SiC vs GaN for EV applications:

https://chargedevs.com/features/opinion-sic-vs-gan-semicondu...
Micro Front Ends 助理 AI 落地化
How does "produce less stuff" not harm the economy as a whole? What is the economy as a whole, if not the sum of the stuff that's produced?

You seem to have completely ignored the point of the comment you replied to, which is: If the investor doesn't get part of the profits of the company, then nobody will invest in a company. Any company that needs outside investment to buy tools to increase efficiency therefore will not be able to do so. That loss of efficiency impacts the economy as a whole, not just the "bankers and barons".

Is there any step of that logic which you can actually refute?
I have seen people who dislike the democratic party in the US on both the left and the right adopt this stance in the context of the Trump-Russia question.

The argument goes that all the former Soviet, but current NATO/EU states (and states with factions who might want to join, like Ukraine) never wanted to leave Russian control.

I disagree with this, but I would note that it's too simple to say something is simply good/bad here. The Soviet Union despite its problems did have some notable accomplishments.
Ok, sounds like a problem with Python’s startup speed. They have been improving it little by little but not sure how far they’ll get.
Proji: Fast and simple terminal-based project creator and manager written in go
Date ‘em in the future. You’ll have daily posts, and yet you will be able to take a few days to not write something every day if neither a topic nor the energy to write presents itself. Or if something else suddenly takes priority.
It's not that it can't be done, it's that the Nullarbor is 1,100 km of absolutely nothing. More broadly, it's ~3000 km from Perth to Adelaide, vs ~4000 km for the continental US.

Also, the last Mad Max was mostly filmed in Namibia. The older ones were filmed in Australia, notably Coober Pedy, which is north of Adelaide and not near the Nullarbor.
US plug prongs can usually survive being bent and re-bent a number of times.

It's quite quite common for people to manage to bend the prongs on their vacuum cleaner dozens of times. Those pull more amps than almost anything else you plug in regularly, and they do just fine. Just go slow.
I hated it, too. Also, OpenWRT, what a nightmare to build against. Now if netbsd was ported to the zipit z2, I would switch in no time.
Teachers quitting by the droves because of terrible working conditions and inability to make ends meet also hampers children’s education. Be thankful they still care enough to go on strike.
No, I'm plenty aware of the applications. My complaint is that this article hardly mentioned them! What's the point of an article explaining a theory without motivating why it exist?
Tweets do show up in search though
Open source software packages from NASA
Open source thought they could sell consulting and hosting services to fatigued devs, if they fatigued them enough. All those single project focuses left the door wide open for multi-clouds to "just add glue" between disparate open source projects and actually aim to be easy.

We now await to see if compute will become a commodity or just priced that way to prevent it becoming so. Is any challenger bold enough to bite off more of the pie than they can chew?
We still had ha’pennies after decimalisation. Even before, the pennies weren’t worth what they used to be. In parts of the nineteenth century a penny would be worth something on the order of what 50p is worth today.

I guess with money stored largely in bank accounts and financial instruments, inflation becomes a more reasonable thing and the fact that it’s annoying to buy things with physical money matters less. Yet even at the start of the twentieth century banknotes could be worth a lot more than anything today (in the U.K. you only go up to £20 normally. Compare to the us where $100 isn’t abnormal, or to 1900 when 100 £20 notes could buy a moderately sized house (but there were also £100, £200 notes, and higher denominations though I doubt they were used much). I think the U.K. should remove every coin less than 10p (ideally I would get rid of everything less than 50p but perhaps there should be a 50p and 25p coin for some time) from circulation and issue some new banknotes (at least a £50 note that shops accept, so maybe a £100 note should exist too). But I guess that isn’t going to happen because no one really cares about cash.
An Introduction to Theories of Personality by Robert B Ewen

It's a textbook. For a very good overview of Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney, Sullivan, Erickson, Maslow, etc. In each section, it feels like you found a theory of personality you like best, then it gets better. Each time, they recommend further reading. For example, one good one is Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis by Karen Horney.

Also, Personality Theories: Journeys Into Self by Williard and Patricia Frick is an interesting workbook. You don't have to fill it out, it's helpful read what it's asking and think on it, then also think of those questions when understanding people.

Attachment Theory: Attachment in Adulthood, Second Edition: Structure, Dynamics, and Change by Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver. For an easier read, Bad Boyfriends: Using Attachment Theory to Avoid Mr. (or Ms.) Wrong and Make You a Better Partner by Jeb Kinnison is on Audible and Kindle and despite the title is very canon to modern adult attachment theory.
Yes, I received at least of one theme as well. Very tricky since it is a real invoice from paypal.
Wow, what a great distraction for students to have during finals season! ;)
For SaaS I agree but subscriptions for stationary bike, for food, for printer ink, for traktors, etc.
Every character actor behind a desk in a Coen Brothers film
I've said to myself that I do my best work in the bathroom. Whether sitting on the toilet (sorry) or standing in the shower, it seems that enforced brain idle time can be more productive than "trying".

I wonder if there's also a relation to the 'doorway = change of context' in there somewhere? It literally gets you thinking outside the box.
Is it really free when China had much greater tariffs on US goods than Chinese goods had come into the US? Is it really free when Chinese entities get to enjoy massive subsidies to dump products while foreign companies face nonmarket barriers?

Fundamentally it's time to wake to the fact that the CCP views the very existence of Liberal Democracies as a threat to itself [1]. It will work to undermind or extinguish then where ever it can. Facing the Soviet Union had a cost. Facing Nazi Germany had a cost. And facing the CCP will have a cost.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Number_Nine
The Evolution of Version Control System Internals – SCCS, RCS, CVS, SVN, Git, Hg
Totally reasonable! It seems I was that kind of pedant anyway. I'm sorry. :-)
Safety, testing, and labor protections are so last millenium. Profit seeking at the cost of the natural environment and human lives is now back in fashion. Nobody cares if the $10 trinket they brought from A----- blows up and burns their house down with their children inside. Today's hyper-informed and connected consumer can't be bothered with such considerations! That's why you can't find Made in USA or Made in Japan anywhere you look anymore. The USA is just Finished. We just can't compete anymore. Look at our broken economy! Japan needs immigrants to survive. C----'s star is rising, man, get with the times already.
Self promotion, but as this is my first year doing advent of code I'm solving all of the problems using awk[1], the solutions will be published here[2]

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/awk

[2]: https://jo.ie/advent-of-awk-2019.html
> Of course nothing is documented, and

This is plain wrong. There is a whole bunch of manuals https://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/

And there are several books https://www.yoctoproject.org/learn/books/

Without understanding the philosophy behind the whole system and the recipe language just trying to "discover" something seems indeed mission impossible to me. Yes, the learning curve is steep. The recipe language is not always the least surprise if you don't understand it. On the other side, there is a lot of magic support in the system. If you know what you are doing writing recipes for new packages does not require much code.
Yes! We did the pretty vanilla Inca Trail -- 5 days, 4 nights.

The day before, we stopped at Winay Wayna[1], which was the highlight of our trip. Not sure how true it is, but some say that this was a research site where the Incas would acclimatize plants to different altitudes.

More importantly, it's completely desolate and has no crowds, so you get the place to yourself... At least we did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi%C3%B1ay_Wayna)