skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah probably impossible IMO

but it would be fun to hack into and see how much can be trimmed
Ok, to be fair, the “many times” is counting online interactions (including w/fellow devs). So it was misleading in that sense. I should have mentioned it. But it’s also happened in life with coworkers (several times) and even with my own family (a big source of discord). I can even tell you the context of some of the recent interactions: discounting political candidates because they’re “just another white male”. Probably, you will argue that’s not an insult, but can you imagine someone saying they weren’t hiring a woman because she’s “just another woman”.

And it’s usually in the form of “men” and “white men” and not “white males” although people have used those terms, too, in front of me.

As I’m sure you know, this is in the US. I’ve lived overseas in several European countries and never gotten anything like this. It’s also a recent phenomenon, within the past 5 years or so.

But the fact that you asked that question has made me reflect on how I made that assertion (in an exaggerated/misleading manner, since the “many” includes online interactions). If I could, I’d edit it. I’ll be more careful in the future when discussing this.
compare this proposal to the pattern matching you get from Haskell or OCaml and weep.

for example (OCaml):

let imply = function
| (true,false) -> false
| _ -> true
> Electric cars become the norm. All cars are fully autonomous on highways.

I don't believe this (not to pick on you specifically). A lot of people forget about the rest of the USA, in towns with a population of <20k people. I hadn't seen a Tesla on the road in my town until this year. I have never seen a self-driving car. We didn't have a consistent stream of Uber drivers until maybe last year.

I think that your prediction is certainly applicable to major urban centers. But for the rest of the USA, it will probably be longer than a decade before that stuff starts becoming the norm.
The Great Animation Strike
> 8 years later and no company has managed to come up with a car that seriously competes with the 2012 Model S.

Elon tweeted something to this effect earlier in 2019, and people have sort of lapped that up as an irrefutable statement. It's not.

The statement only makes sense if your only dimension for evaluating competitiveness is raw range, perhaps indexed by price. This is only because no reputable long-range EV manufacturer is exposing the full battery capacity to the consumer. Tesla throws power tools out to the general public and says, "If you use it wrong, it's on you. Don't suck." Other manufacturers take a more conservative approach.

The result? Sometimes habitually overcharged Tesla battery packs take a nose dive. Sometimes people Smart Summon their cars into posts. Sometimes people on AP smash into fire trucks. "Well, you're holding it wrong" is Tesla's answer when that happens, absolving themselves of responsibility for inducing or encouraging those behaviors in perniciously subtle ways. This is not something to celebrate.

Raw range aside (achieved by said battery capacity exposure), the Taycan's drivetrain puts out more power, both one-time and on a repeated basis, than any Tesla drivetrain. The 2019 I-PACE offers a luxury interior and more range than an equivalently-priced 2019 Model X, along with CarPlay and Android Auto. The 2019 e-tron (given its ~20% battery buffer held back) is only about 10% less efficient than a 2019 Model X, but it also has a superior interior as well as excellent road noise isolation.

In 2019 Electrify America has averaged a new site a day. Non-Tesla EVs can now use that charging network to get pretty much anywhere a Tesla EV can get using their proprietary supercharging network.

The rest of the market is not as far behind Tesla as a lot of pundits would have you believe, and in many ways competitors are actually ahead. Continuing with the iPhone analogy, in ten years we could very well find the EV industry looking like the smartphone industry today, where Apple still makes very good smartphones with a respectable user base while a variety of Android phones command the bulk of the market share.
You need a special license for mopeds in many jurisdictions, they weigh 100+ pounds, double what an e-bike weighs, and because of the fuel system you can't really just carry it up the stairs and leave it in your kitchen at night.
If self driving cabs happen within those 10 years, I don’t think anything can stop them.

If that doesn’t come to pass, Tesla has a tougher road. They will face competition. But from where? Companies still selling a large % of ICE vehicles can’t market their EVs effectively. So realistically Tesla won’t start getting competition until the petroleum tipping point in the auto industry. I don’t know when that will be. Not next year!

And that’s the starting gun for Tesla’s competitors. Tesla has already been building factories, flat out, for a decade.

So, I would say “impossible” is too strong a word.
Free just means "given away without demanding money".

Demanding (or asking) and needing/appreciating are two different things.

So "given away without demanding money" does not necessarily imply "and it's a decent behaviour to leverage that free source, make millions off of it, and never give anything back". It only implies that it's perfectly legal.
I ride a motorcycle to work almost everyday (today's 47 degree ride was a bit brisk) and i have to say, drivers don't look out for bikes, and this is a major city (San Antonio).

My big issues with motorized bicycles are lanes to ride and rules of the road. I see people riding them on sidewalks, in streets, and in bike lanes. It is almost like people on motorcycles who ride in the break down lane or lane split (both of which are illegal in Texas).

We already had/have a HUGE problem with the escooters, people getting run down by kids on the sidewalks and riding them in traffic downtown.

I am for this 100%, but please put down infrastructure and some sort of rules of the road and enforce it.
Sure with a 250w ebike and no cars go nuts.

I have a 1500w motor and share a road with semi trucks
I'm a big fan of async/await and I can appreciate what it achieves in terms of helping to prevent coding errors. I've rewritten an entire open source WebSocket framework in async/await, so I know exactly what the benefits are. But in spite of that, in the grand scheme of things, I still think it doesn't really matter. The architecture of the project is much more important.

I had been working on that project for 3 years but migrating it to async/await only took me about 2 months of casual after hours work. The reason it was so easy to migrate and that I didn't have to write the project again from scratch is precisely because the architecture was correct to begin with.

When you think about code quality in terms of how much (or rather, how little) time it takes to maintain it to adapt to industry trends, architecture is by far the most important factor. Because even if everything changes from underneath you, a good architecture will survive the test of time. Any other metric to measure code quality is arbitrary and meaningless IMO.

It's mind boggling that my previous comment received downvotes. I guess it reinforces the point that the author of the article is making. The average developer is incapable of understanding what is important. If people can't articulate what their goal is and they don't know what is important in order to achieve this goal, then there is zero chance that they will be able to make the right tradeoffs. Because there is no free lunch, every decision is a tradeoff. If, like for the vast majority of projects, there is a good chance that the requirements will change significantly in a year or two, then you need to know what really counts and architecture is one of those things that can stick if done correctly.
I've sat in cube farms where others were vaping. I wouldn't say it "stunk up the place" but it was perceptible.
There's many stake holders who's ok is required to implement something like this at such a big company. I'm sure there's people who like it for the health saving, some people who like it for the time savings.

As someone else said, the health insurance is probably the most reliable dollar figure they can point to as a justification and big business decisions like this don't get made without being able to quantitatively justify them.
Ah, I figured it was all Python. Now it makes sense why tensor objects are such a pain to work with.

C++ 60.6%
Python 30.6%
Wonder what the Butterfly effect of this will be. We all know the chaos theory butterfly effect of if a butterfly flaps its wings, well. Certainly less chaos at play with a large fire on this scale and its global impact.

Which makes you wish Gerry Anderson's vision of International Rescue was real. Alas we still have a legacy response World with a focus upon combat armies over medical/disaster response armies.

Climate change affects us all and I can't recall a year without some disaster of fire/flooding/eruptions or other weather/climate related effect of extreme that indirectly affects us all. The climate does not know about country borders, and any solution equally needs to be a borderless appraoch by all.

I know we have the UN, but its remit is so broad in many respects and the political beuracracy that entails, slows and distracts from issues like this that any response is never timely or as you would expect.

Imagine if globally we didn't have country pride and ego's in the way when it came to dealing with such disasters. After all, whilst this is a fire in Australia, the effects will in various forms, be felt by all across the globe. Alas not as directly accountable as people like and hard to measure, but it will have an impact.

After all, if a butterfly wing flap can cause a storm across the other side of the globe - then I'd say a fire the size of a small country is going to have a much larger impact and with less chaotic uncertainty about it.

Sad thing is, if the climate was a weapon owned by one country, you can bet the rest of the World would of got its act together. After all, we have NATO for dealing with a far lower threat, indeed, if firefighting had a military sized budget - there would be no fires.
A philosophy professor writes how robot priests could change human spirituality
Are Belgians really doing 28 MPH on a regular basis?
This is probably unpopular but I think domains should just cost more. We don't all need our own name as a domain. Make them cost $500 or $1000 a year. [This money goes to ICANN, W3C, etc.] That is nothing for a business but would make scammers and link farms (more) unprofitable. You could still make .org free but it requires sending 501c3 (or similar) documentation to the registrar.

If you want a phone line you have certain fees for 911 and other regulations to help pay for the infrastructure and this is very similar in terms of a naming and communication service.
In my opinion a very important skill to have as a freelancer is to have an understanding of the whole picture. Clients hire you to solve their problems. How you do that and which tools you use is mostly irrelevant.

I suggest a backend language (Python, Rails, etc), then Linux system administration & networking skills (play around with some bare metal servers & hardware, see if you can turn an old desktop into a router, etc - that's how I got started) and then potentially a native mobile language like Swift or Java or Kotlin. These few solid basics will last you for decades without having to "keep up with the Joneses" learning every day's new Javascript framework.

The main marketable thing is your portfolio/resume and client testimonials, if any. Approaching it from a language/stack perspective instead of a solution perspective is IMO wrong unless you want to limit yourself to being a "code monkey" for hire.
I just use ctrl-p/n for back/forward in history? Does that not work pretty much everywhere?
I'm sure some/most of the stats are cherry-picked, but several of them seem somewhat comprehensive- like the stats on drug use, suicide, and all-cause mortality. Seems like men struggle far, far more than women do with these issues for at least the first half of their life.

At the same time, some of this is misleading. All the autism stats are probably going to be due to how differently autism presents in women, most notably because it seems like either women don't "get autism 'as bad'" as men (sorry for all the quotes, I know it's not very PC and that ASD is a spectrum, but this is terse and you know what I mean), or they can still appear "normal" even when they have "worse" autism.
You missed the -
Does the D language have pattern matching?
That's a mildly persuasive theoretical argument.

I don't think empirical data are especially kind to it.

It also ignores the fact that monopolies have no incentive to produce high quality and ever improving product. They tend to get focused on maximize staff comfort over customer satisfaction.
I heard of a Tibetan legend, of the founding of the Tibetan people came when a monkey met an ogress.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/teaching-e...

Perhaps there is a seed of truth to that after all.
Seems like it would take an obscene amount of fuel to heat a planet, and taking a detour through kinetic energy shouldn't change that fact.
Self-Driving Cars Roll Up Slowly
Now that the Atari ST part of the article is out as well, I'll add some corrections regarding ST graphics format. The article states that "There are no bitplanes here like on the Amiga we saw in the previous entry." This is slightly inaccurate. ST does have bitplanes, but the organization is interleaved to 16 bit words, unlike on Amiga where the bitplanes are stored as separate memory regions.

So in 1 bpp hires mode, there's just a single bitplane (and the memory layout is identical when comparing to Amiga 640x400 interlaced hi-res 1 bpp screen mode). In 2 bpp medium res (640x200, 4 colors), there are two bitplanes, alternating bitplanes for every 16-bit word. So 16 bits of bitplane 0 for the first word, then 16 bits of bitplane 1 for the second word (these together form the first 16 pixels), and so on. In the 320x200 low res mode there are four bitplanes interleaved in the same way.

What this means from the programmer's perspective is that you can do similar bitplane tricks as with Amiga, e.g. modify just one of the bitplanes independent of the others. For instance effects where car headlights change the background image colors can be done the same way on both machines: render to just one bitplane and use the palette to achieve the change in colors.

However, when with Amiga it's trivial to modify bitplane pointers independent of each other to scroll graphics around, on Atari ST all bitplanes are tied to the same base pointer (because they are interleaved in the memory). (And to make things like full-screen scrolling even more difficult, this base pointer is aligned to 256 bytes, i.e. the low byte of the video memory base address is always 0 on Atari ST - on STE this is programmable.)

There are some cases where the interleaved bitplane format gives benefits: while neither of the machines are good for writing texture mappers (or other effects that require manipulation of single pixels), it's slightly more efficient on Atari ST because the layout allows some tricks (e.g. using MOVEP instruction to write 8 pixels to all 4 bitplanes at once from a single 32-bit register).

From the point of view of a game like Another World, the bitplane arrangement of Atari ST doesn't really cause additional problems when comparing to the Amiga. The issue is the lack of blitter (and STE blitter isn't that great improvement, it doesn't have the line drawing capabilities of Amiga blitter and has less flexible src/dst mechanism, so no wonder it isn't utilized by the game).
Hard and Soft Modularity
I do not understand the value in pitting one social group against another in these comparisons of who has it the worst. We are all humans, we all face challenges, tragedy, and unfairness in our lives. Quibbling over who has it worst does nothing to help solve anyone's problems. It comes off as childish and selfish to me.
There's a lot of assumptions that people who don't drive Teslas (and EVs, depending) have, that just don't translate very well.

"Fill up time" is one, EVs don't regularly "fill up".

Tactile controls is another. Between auto settings (lights, wipers, etc), voice (you can now turn the vents with your voice) and the streering wheel knobs (volume, etc), asking for "tactile controls" is like asking the wrong question.
Answer: of course, yes.

When I visited Fry's in the DFW area last year (Irving Store off of LBJ freeway) I was shocked at how low energy and sad the place was. It was just one big pile of despair. Just a handful of people were shuffling in and out. They shelves were in complete disrepair, and there were areas where there was no stock on shelves. Computers on display were broken, twisted wrecks. The home theater areas had older model sets and speakers strewn about.

It was nothing like the late 90's when the place was an absolute zoo, and you could be guaranteed to have every gadget known to man on display. Christmas time at Frys was waiting in a checkout line 100's deep. It was a fun time.

That last time I visited is the last time I'll ever visit. It's clear Amazon and online retailing has decimated them.
8th gen i3 chrome book for $450. Stunning how many people hold incorrect beliefs on pricing for chrome books. 2013 was probably 4th gen, so you get a massive upgrade. 69 seconds of googling found this -

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-2-in-1-14-touch-screen-chrom...
The one in the Bay Area (Santa Clara Mercado) closed years ago and became a Walmart.

As far as I know, there's only one in SoCal still open (Tustin).
This reminds me: I was just in Washington, D.C. over New Year's to visit the museums. I noticed advertisements on bus shelters for https://www.fatherhood.gov telling men how to be better fathers. motherhood.gov is not registered. Are bad fathers such a bigger problem?
I'm impressed. Not one single person mentions blockchain seriously in this thread.

I think micropayments are going to take off in a tremendous way. This will enable new applications and disrupt the advertising and content creation systems in place today.

Stablecoins will be required, and will probably begin to take off once the next generation of blockchains launch successfully.

Payments in general will move over to blockchain - specifically layer two payment systems. We are close but it will likely be another year before the potential is obvious.

Other applications in blockchain will take hold too, but the ones above are the first real killer apps. Later it'll be peer-to-peer lending and a move to decentralized gig apps (like TaskRabbit or Uber on a blockchain).
Talk therapy is expensive. $150/HR is about the base rate for my city. An average treatment regimen is 3x1hr/wk or $1,800USD/mo. That's 68% the 2016 individual median equivalent annual income. Therapists qualified and stable enough to treat severe illnesses are exceptionally rare. Rare enough that they can charge a multiple of the rate I quoted, while maintaining a calender as full as they like and a waiting list of willing clients, and can choose to accept or refuse insurance on a whim.

It's amazing how many people casually bring up the wonders of talk therapy without noting any of the confounding factors the patient must watch for while they pay out the nose for therapy that may end up having detrimental effects. An average or worse therapist for anything but textbook cases are liable to cause more harm than good.
It makes me wonder, if the Second Amendment can be expanded to include modern weaponry, could the Eighth be expanded to include modern forms of communication, eg. make access to internet a Constitutional issue.
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> Try working with lazy immutable data structures in Rust, for one.

Why is that an issue?
That’s a pixelbook, the MacBook Pro of chromebooks. Like others have said, you can get a new chrome book for <$150.
I strongly disagree with the author. I've introduced tens (maybe hundreds) of people to code and starting with code (instead of a GUI) and preferably lower level (like C or VB) code is the best way to keep people motivated. What I've found is that people tend to settle in the less difficult path. After teaching python, no one cared to learn C, after teaching things like dreamweaver, no one cared about html. Even when they realised the benefits, they already had a tool that was good enough. If your objective is to simply make people more maker, ok, but I yet have to meet someone that would follow the described path.
There are some good EVs that can compete with Tesla's range. The Hyundai Kona has a range of 258 miles and the Chevy Bolt has a range of 238-258, depending on if you get the 2019 or 2020 model.

I own a Bolt in Maine and absolutely love it.
- No driverless on most roads, but we will see certain routes accessible to uber/trucks become driverless only.

- Second worlds get much better (fortnite etc), will see advertisement model take off.

- Nations finally start taking climate seriously.

- Bitcoin sees more adoption as the best performing savings system. Ethereum and blockchain hype dies down and serves only a niche.

- major advancements in "biobags"(ectogenesis) for humans.

- China starts abusing CRISPR. the iatrogenics leads to some epidemic.

- we don't live on mars yet. satellite internet becomes common.
It means that information to the left is always the important part. Right now you have to find the '/', evaluate the components leftwards, return to the '/' and evaluate components rightwards.

Given that finding the '/' is not always trivial (broken screen example in the article) and doing this requires you to think a lot of people won't do it.
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Migrant labor, agricultural subsidies, petro-chemical subsidies, and transportation subsidies (socialized roads) have resulted in the current state of affairs.

The rural poor in the US still grow much of their own food. Even the not-so-poor. City dwellers need this super cheap, industrialized food, not the rest of us.
Could you run this as an instance with a HTTP API to perform actions? Then I could use this with Python.
Thanks, just what I needed. Your use of those two paragraphs was very effective.
France manages a reasonable standard of living at 4.5T/capita/year (albeit with a LOT of nuclear, which may be politically and economically difficult to reproduce elsewhere). EU as a whole is 6.3T. So not really an order of magnitude, necessarily. The US is an outlier, granted, but mostly for fixable reasons (in particular, over dependence on cars due to poor public transport).

2T/capita is extremely ambitious, but not inconceivable.

EDIT: By the way, it is notable that even before climate was a concern, CO2 emissions in developed countries were largely falling, since the 70s. This was a result of the oil crisis and other energy security issues pushing greater efficiency, plus the replacement of coal with gas for air quality and economic reasons.
a direct drive motor weighs 8-10kg so hanging that off the front of the fork will increase all forces, not just the ones by the motor.
Interest rates will continue to fall.

US government bonds with a duration of 10 years and up will have a negative yield.

Some US corporate debt will have a negative yield.

Some banks will further lower the account balance limit over which depositors pay negative interest on their deposits.

As interest rates continue to fall, house and stock prices will continue to rise.