skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, fracking has done in vertical wells for six decades. It when it was combined with precision horizontal drilling and applied to previously overlooked shales, that oil production really took off.

Second, not paying $100s of billions for oil imports has had a huge stimulus on the US economy, larger than Obamas TARP and Trumps tax cuts. That is partly why the US economy continues to boom in its longest expansion ever.

Third, the fracking moguls made almost as much money as Rockefeller and Getty, Gates and Bezos, but are not celebrated in the financial memoirs. I wonder why?
check this one:
https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3
Wow I wish every major technical project from that early preinternet era had such a thorough and well documented archival website.

Kudos to the people who put the effort into doing this.

There was a post earlier about the Windows 95 UI development that referenced and old site written by original employees on the project talking about the development process. But the site was offline and didn’t get picked up by the archives.

There’s so many of those major contributions like Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, all of the mainframe people and early PC companies, etc who probably have a thousand small stories that the world would benefit from collecting.

Digital archival and documentation is a noble and valuable philanthropic cause IMO, which I hope continues to grow. Especially as all of us “early” programmers start getting older and history starts repeating itself at a faster rate.
> Jetbrains IDEs

The Community Edition of IntelliJ, at least, from which all the others derive (I believe) is open source.

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
Which editor/IDE does Bisqwit use? Answers and some history
I look at it and don't see what is the problem. I think in fact is a very sensible progression of structures?
About 25% and 20%. Also structured time from individual hours to bigger time block commitments, and I invoice in advance rather than at the end of the month.
Sure, today. But what happens when Sonos decides they "don't want to support your Play:1"? Maybe because it's a "security issue" and they place your Play:1 in "recycle" mode for you and give you so many months to replace it? Think about this from a longer term point of view - this is just an A/B test by Sonos. They can brick your device from remote, so there's no guarantee that at some point they won't.
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Earlier this year I discovered Xenko [1]. I didn't test it personally, but I was quite impressed with the features provided, and the game editor looks like a mix between Unity and Unreal Engine. The 3D engine seems a little bit better than Godot, from what I've seen. Though there is no support for Linux/MacOS yet, and mobile is done through Xamarin, that may come with its own ball of bugs.

[1] http://xenko.com/
The Intercept and Democracy Now cover South America quite a bit.

Particularly politics and environmental issues, for example Glenn Greenwald lives and has been reporting in Brazil.

Some good advice someone gave me awhile ago was to follow journalists themselves instead of news outlets
One of the wildest things I found while working on Wall Street was that ad blockers are wholesale selling data to analysts and funds. For example, I reached out to Ghostery asking if they had data about the data analytics tech / ad tech vendors used by industry, website, etc. to estimate market share and they responded back with a sales person telling me I could buy that data from them for five figures per year and that a number of my peers and clients were doing the same.
For a physical device (ie featured-locked upon shipping), “support” amounts to paying the server bill, which is likely negligible.
It correlates strongly with education, reasonably well with income, and only little with wealth.
Just to expand on the "build from source" bit, apt-get can not only download packages in source form but also build binary packages in literally one single command.

This makes the cases where you want the full Debian build but with a patch or just stepping the version easy. That's useful when you need to patch a package or can't wait for an upstream security fix.

Too often I see people building upstream packages "by hand" in those cases. The packaging tools are great and any Linux user is greatly helped by taking a few minutes and learning the basics of apt preference files, package selection and source packages.
I actually think it's important for LOC to be considered as a key performance metric, because it makes it much easier for me to outsource my work to a team of these delightful little fellows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird
The point is that you don't have to trust anyone outside the source given by the official project you are downloading.

The fact that you can't achieve the ideal does not mean we should claim defeat.
Article is paywalled, so I can't dig into what they're saying, but the truth is ghost/commissary kitchens are going to be hugely impactful. For decades, commissary kitchens were used for high-density cities like NYC & Chicago, since real estate is a premium and it's easier to do food prep somewhere cheaper beforehand and then have workers just assemble meals day of.

Deliveroo is ahead of the curve on this in EU. Obviously, like people mentioned, a lot of tough problems to solve at scale (health issues, namely), but if they do it well they might be able to build a similar model in the US or elsewhere. Uber is also investing strongly in commissary kitchens, as well as Travis building Cloud Kitchens.

The efficiencies gained from commissary kitchens are very similar to efficiencies you see from hawker stalls & local markets around East, Southeast, and South Asia. There you can get great food at a fraction of the cost you'd pay elsewhere. It's so cheap that some people never cook (this is esp. common in China, I believe). Or, they buy mostly-assembled foods, and then do just enough prep to serve it at home.

Ultimately, the food that we'd get would be better, because restaurants will stop caring about running a retail location and just care about making great food. Restaurant branding/marketing will become more important too.
I worked on a quant research team at a well known fund. Without going more into details, I grew up around people making 20 million a year at funds. The real money is made when a ceo tells you how the new company innovations and business lines are coming along. The long term bets on companies is where big money is made. Flipping stocks all day at the alt data/quant funds is overrated and a race to the bottom. When everyone has the same data it’s worth nothing. These places are doing well now because markets are booming, even a turkey can fly in a tornado. Don’t get confused
(1) Cost of software is relatively small compared with the cost of employing the people who use it.

(2) Cost of software is relatively small compared with the cost of retraining staff and changing business workflows and processes to cope with different software.

(3) Changing to new software is relatively simple compared with the problems of making all your staff, your contractors and your suppliers change to new software.

(4) Even if changing to new software was relatively simple and cheap, there would be massive risks in doing it. If you are designing nuclear power stations, nuclear submarines, skyscrapers, bridges or whatever, the cost of mistakes can run into the billions, or be fatal for a significant number of people.

(5) Bonus point: making this kind of switch could take a decade and could end up not saving you any money (cf Munich trying to switch to open source). Not many CEOs will attempt it because they are more focused on the next quarter's results. Anyway, in many if not most companies, the benefits -- if any -- would accrue to whoever the-next-CEO-after-the-next-CEO happens to be. And who really cares about that?

It's hard enough to get most people to change their email client or their text editor or whatever when the alternatives are free and the real-world risks are negligible. Getting them to change the software on which their whole business survival is based is another matter.

Moral: changing business software is not as simple as it seems if you only look at the software and don't look at the whole business plus the whole industry infrastructure of related businesses. It's never as simple as people think.
I'm a big fan of NHK. This is their news, but they have some other programming thats kinda similar to PBS
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/
no disagreement that there is a huge long tail of small successful quant groups out there.

However, specifically in the realm of sourcing and processing novel raw unstructured datasets and creating signals that other firms don't have, as far as I know the big firms (some others in addition to the 2 I mentioned) dominate this area, as its too expensive and time consuming for smaller groups to do.
Indeed they don't. Most of their items are directly available as-is on shelves, and you just get one big plastic bag at the cashier to bring them back home.
Wow! I'm not sure how to call this moment - so I was randomly browsing the implementations, wondering what Phix is - but it really looks like lua+iup - https://bitbucket.org/petelomax/phix/src/default/demo/rosett... from here -> https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/implementations
My oldest child is currently a senior in college. The school is full of kids who think nothing of racking up student debt, and all of them seem to have nice phones, cars and clothes.

It's madness. They'll be paying for that 4-year vacation for the rest of their lives.

And I will be mad as a wet hen if some politician forgives student debts. It's not right that everybody else has to pay for this frivolity. (It's also not right for those kids who don't go on to college-- they miss the free vacation and they are disadvantaged in the workplace.)
> I assume Apple and other companies sell the used products to liquidators who refurbish and resell them. Is that not true?

For high brand value goods, generally no. Goods are crushed to become unserviceable. It's important to do that to maintain brand image, otherwise floods of not-very-old iPhones end up on ebay for $10, and the image of an iPhone as something that lasts and has resale value is shattered.

High end clothing manufacturers will even destroy brand new, never worn clothes to maintain brand image, because they don't want them sitting in the bargain bin looking 'cheap'.

It isn't as bad for the environment as it sounds - the vast majority of the costs in a $1000 iPhone are engineering, IP, licensing, manufacturing, capital and marketing costs. The actual metal and plastic is worth hardly anything, so destroying it isn't a big loss. Even the manufacturing cost is near zero because after launch day of a specific model, the marginal cost to produce one more phone is pretty much zero because production lines are rarely still at capacity.
They seem to be one of the few brands that give good audio quality and modern convenience at the same time.

For example, I was looking for a device that would (1) be placeable on my living room furniture[1], and let me use a couple of trusty Monitor Audio speakers both (2) for playing music (e.g. from my phone, computer or streaming sources like Spotify) and (3) for TV audio, as those speakers sound much better than a modern soundbar. And that (4) could be expandable to surround sound in the future.

I painstakingly examined alternatives in the market. There were many devices that covered the three latter points but the overwhelming majority were AV receivers, which looked great from the audio and flexibility standpoint but were at least 30 cm deep. Not useful for me, as the furniture in my living room is 28 cm deep (wasn't the point of flat screen TVs to no longer need deep furniture taking lots of space in the living room?). I found like 5 or 6 devices that would physically fit. But most of them had no flexibility for surround expansion AND no WiFi, only Bluetooth playback.

Finally, only two devices ticked my boxes and physically fit: HEOS AVR (around €1000, 27.4 cm deep) and Sonos Amp (around €600, 21.69 cm deep) which wasn't even out yet.

Since 27.4 cm deep was still quite dubious for my 28-cm-deep furniture, I finally waited for the Sonos to come out and bought it. Sonos wasn't especially on my radar, as a relatively traditional audio amateur it's not a brand I trusted, but there they were, the only ones offering the product I wanted. And indeed, it works well, it powers my speakers nicely enough and it's very convenient. I'm watching the TV, want to stream something from Spotify: TV audio is automatically muted. I stop listening to Spotify: TV audio comes back.

Why no one else has made a device that can provide good TV audio and good music playback in a shallow form factor still escapes me. I don't think my requirements were so weird, in freaking 2018.

[1] Sorry, I'm missing the specific English word for the specific piece of furniture in the living room where one has a bunch of books, CDs, mixed souvenirs and the TV, so I'll just call it "the living room furniture".
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Guido van Rossum Exits Python Steering Council
Conscientiousness is a huge factor too, but almost all of a person's attributes that would increase their earning potential also increase their chances of getting into college.
True, the default semantics of R's data structures are somewhat arcane (of course as they're based on S [1] from the 70's). And the current support for e.g. 64bit integers leaves something to be desired.

But behind the scenes, R is just a lisp with some data structures that are adapted to statistics and data science.

All base data structures are by default immutable. And e.g. the vector type is extremely performant as it's just a thinly wrapped C Array. In Python you need to reach for Numpy for anything similar, and you do feel some pain when converting between native python types and Numpy types for various functions which support one or the other.

The data frame is immensely powerful. And has excellent performance characteristics as it's built upon vectors. A list of objects, like you'd make in python is just a lot slower and more unwieldy to deal with. And much harder to make generalizable functions upon.

Hadley Wickham's Tidyverse[2] is exactly an attempt to hide away the arcane details and create a modern, coherent and consistent language on top of R, keeping the power of all the great statistics R libraries. The fact that R behind the scenes is a Lisp, with support for macros, makes this possible. For doing data-transformations and statistics, I can't think of anything currently as powerful as CRAN + Tidyverse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(programming_language)

[2] https://www.tidyverse.org/
> Time spent on anti-descrimination policies is inherently time not spent on economic issues.

Can you give anything close to a concrete example of this?

Even ignoring the indivisibility of the economic and social spheres (ask a black person if the CRA was an "economic issue" - ask a trans person if whether they can safely pee at work is an "economic issue"), and that it's not a zero-sum game (for example, the heightened scrutiny required by transphobia tends to cost more resources), I can't imagine there's enough meaningful work to "saturate" 100% of some candidate's time with economic issues. And as mentioned, the people who are furthest left and most vocal on economic issues are often the people furthest left and most vocal on civil rights. Conversely, people who spend a lot of time talking about how social issues should not be such a big deal (Peter Thiel, for instance - Paul Graham also, albeit with a much smaller platform) are the same who lean right economically.

How many examples do you need to see this is a false dichotomy? How many examples did you see to convince yourself it was a dichotomy at all?

> I can totally understand why working class people in the heartland who have never met any LGBT person, let alone someone trans or someone non-binary

I am not sure you know what those words mean ("any ... T person, let alone someone trans" is nonsense), but also, we're talking about people who live in Nebraska or Ohio, not hermits. We are long past any plausibly deniability to not even know a gay person - if you don't know any, it's because you're actively trying to avoid them.
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Our workstations in 2019 to look at in 2040
I think this was a sarcastic comment. Obviously "reproducing the ultrasonics" don't actually matter for music reproduction....
So turns out, Phix is a language on its own (sorry about that), it just looked like lua (without noticing that it's not actually).
People still steal smartphones, despite them being locked down with thumb and face scanners along with being traceable. It seems to be a hard market to kill.
So Hard as a “Server”
It’s definitely possible to work 80 hrs of real work per week. I’ve done it myself. Your mistake is probably underestimating how diverse people’s values are. If you have a strong enough reason why, working non stop is fulfilling (especially when it becomes habit).
Ubiquiti is hardly a common CPE, pro/enterprise grade WiFi equipment client management is a whole other story they balance based on anything from spectrum congestion to usage congestion on individual APs and the handover protocol between APs doesn’t use deauth unless it’s a very crude implementation.

There is roaming support in management frames and for signal strengths clients usually do their own roaming if you have 2 APs on different channels for the same SSID your client would select the best on and roam if necessary as the signal strength changes.
I've heard several video pros swear by Blender that it works wonders as a video editor, but I don't have experience in that area.
As I said, despite his actions. It’s not like putting 100k political opponents in prison is a boost to the economy. (And to teleforce, ad hominem? Really? Someone is hot for autocrats. That is how you do an ad hominem.)
Not sure about bananas, but in general products are individually wrapped due to the high humidity in Japan.
Did you read the twitter thread? Recycle mode bricks the device without communicating clearly to customer it's a kill switch for perfectly functioning hardware.
Unless you have an edge over others, the car has already been priced to 'be fixed up.' Nevermind that at least a third of used cars are for sale because they are 'upside down' in repairs. I.e. they are worth less than a mechanic would charge to fix it. If you can outdiagnose, source cheaper parts, and not value your time, you can make a reliable profit.

Number one tip: know your niche and stick to it. Pick a single model/generation/platform and dive deep. Forums exist for every car, boat, tractor, and hot air baloon made. The common issues, fixes, and prices will already be in your mind when you evaluate one to buy. Money pits are always just things you don't know well enough to make sound financial decisions about.
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yah, i had to stop updating the sonos app on my phone so i wouldn't be forced to create a sonos account to use my play:1. i mistakenly updated the app on my ipad, so my ipad can no longer control the play:1.

i won't ever buy another sonos device (even the ikea speakers, which i like otherwise) because of that.
The US inmates billed per night in jail
Which is different from the lawyers who know exactly where it went wrong.
Founder/maker here - I'm happy to discuss and answer questions.
A lock prevents you from opening it to edit in the first place, without warnings that "so and so user is currently editing this, are you sure you want to open this as read-only?". This reduces accidental time waste (and computer systems shouldn't try to protect people from deliberately wasting their own time, because they probably aren't).
> I follow (NYTimes, Wash Post, Guardian, BBC, FT, WSJ etc)

What's the point? They are all essentially the same news company. They push the same narrative and agenda. Just pick one and move on with your day.

The problem is that a lot of african, asian and south american news companies are created by, owned by or run by by westerners. And most of them, like the SCMP, were created by the west to push western propaganda. So essentially, you aren't getting african, asian and south american news. You are getting western propaganda about african, asian and south american news.

Also, africa, asia and south america are huge continents. I don't think there is such a thing called "african, asian and south american" news.

For geopolitical news, xinhua/cgtn for china, rt for russia, al jazeera, etc. They are all biased propaganda, just like the (NYTimes, Wash Post, Guardian, BBC, FT, WSJ etc), but you get a different biased perspective. I find that they are generally good at pointing each others lies.

> What news websites do you guys know/recommend to follow for news in these countries? Language would preferably be in English.

Why not just follow vlogs of countries you are interested? Or visit the countries you are interested in? Or find some forums/irc/etc of the countries you are interested in and talk directly to the people?

News, by and large, is a great waste of time. Most of it is toxic nonsense written by people who know nothing about the subject they are covering.
That's exactly how I read it.

I cannot recall ever seeing Apple promoting non-ANF format, and publishers who used RSS instead of ANF were not permitted to get analytics on their product... so I guess it was just a matter of time.
There is also ”Advanced R” by Wickham, that goes into more technical details on how the language itself works (and datastructures, etc).

It is also available for free.
I’ll say it again because it always needs to be said. “Go small, go simple, go now” - Larry Pardey
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_and_Larry_Pardey
Turkey has its own home grown aerospace industry that is an order of magnitude complexity than building a CAR [1]. IMHO they will do fine me think.

[1]https://www.tusas.com/en
The point of the tweetstorm is that Reuse > Recycling, and by rendering them functionally useless is a waste of resources.
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My current startup is sort of struggling with something similar.

The recent YC batch was really focused on growth and your primary milestone.

I agree with this to a certain degree but I think if you're too early it's not worth it.

What I'm focused on is actually building a product that people care about. I'm building our VALUE and not focused on growth.

Once I have a KILLER product the growth will be easy.

I already have enough users/customers go get feedback on what the market wants. It's irrational for me to spend a massive amount of time trying to get other people to use it vs just building a killer product that people love.

What these companies are doing is trying to fake product/market fit by giving away "money" when they should be using that to try to understand why users don't like their product.

If you have something amazing people will use it. You won't need these gimmicks.
I used R when I took an online course on Data Analysis. I didn't like it at all. Its syntax is weird and painful to read. The only nice things about R are Tidyverse and ggplot. I found Python to be a better alternative. You can use Pandas for data analysis y EDA. Matplotlib and
Seaborn for plotting. Scikit-learn for training your models. An additional benefit is that Python is a general purpose language that you can use to build a complete application.
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