jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Webster's basically says without delay.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/speedy

The entire gloss is "marked by swiftness of motion or action. Also: prompt sense 2".

Prompt 2 is "performed readily or immediately". We can reasonably interpret "immediately" as "without delay", but we then run into the problem that that is explicitly one of two options.
I feel like the answer is obvious? Uber should create a new full time driver position which pays a fixed hourly rate.

So there would now be two classes of drivers. Those fully employed by Uber, with all the benefits normal full time work in the US entails (i.e. health insurance) and the downside being, their income is capped. The other class would be those who drive on their own schedule like it is now, with the main benefit being their income is potentially uncapped. Uber's actually in a pretty advantageous position to hire for the new position since they have data on the best drivers.

I am sure I am missing a lot here tho, like what prevents Uber from giving the most profitable rides to itself? Or how do they avoid churn in the full time work force?
My number was leaked (checked the dump myself) but I don't show up on this site. Seems like there are some bugs to work out
Within 70 days or so is pretty average as far as I know. I think we're most concerned with defendants in custody.
Damn! That's certainly novel.

Nice work.
This should be the plot for the next season of "True Detective" starring Danny DeVito as Marcos Quinones.
Side note: A couple of years ago I found myself working with a Welsh engineer who told me he learned English first as a teenager. Still almost can't believe it but he was very serious about it.
The one on the left is better
I almost get a kick out of the cries of "science" debunking the Pono player.

Yes, a 192k playback sampling rate is a joke and maybe even superstitious. There's not much of a reason for anything to play back at over 96k and many argue 41k is sufficient for mixed/mastered material. Point granted.

However good engineering is most definitely not a joke. Using higher quality DAC's (digital-to-analog converters) and better designed circuitry, spending the extra few pennies and dollars here and there to get the parts with lower tolerances, designing the shape of the product around the circuits instead of cramming circuits into the shape of the product, these are the exact things I would expect to see in a better music player.
> Would you hold some apple stock anonymously? Probably not. You want the dividend.

Oh, that is nearly trivial with some of these systems. Dividends can be spent to the same scriptPubKey (or other mechanism) that controls spending the stock itself. I mean, in a system where there is apparently a "stock" asset, naturally.
How is HMAC more complicated than encryption?
Coming from a print design background, I've actually had a really hard time developing effective user interfaces because I've been stuck in the "print" mindset.

Left-aligned text certainly looks good on print, but in UI design, it doesn't make sense a lot of the time. Transitioning from skeuomorphic UIs to flat UIs has been especially challenging for me because the paradigms and precedents set by the reference objects and industrial design don't exist.
In Figure 5, you'll note that the UPS Louisville hub is closer to the author's optimal "Point H" than the FedEx hub in Memphis.
Google Hooverville
Nonsense, of course it is. I'm raising bilingual children and every one of them has developmental delays. Of course the plural of anecdote is not data, but as a result I've been quite motivated to keep up with the research. My family is not exceptional among bilingual families. Developmental delays are common, as are poor performance in elementary school as multi-lingual children struggle to integrate disjoint systems of knowledge.

Of course I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think it was absolutely worth it, but the idea the children are sponges that pick up language without trouble at all is a myth that needs to die. Children do learn languages faster and better than adults, but IMHO that is mostly due to (a) time, (b) motivation, and (c) adult learners rationalizing their failures rather than actually trying to learn.

EDIT: But to be clear, although it is not my place to tell anybody what to do, I do wish speakers of dying languages would pass on their words and culture to their children. It's hard, but worthwhile IMHO.
Closure/ Promises.

I am surprised by how many js developers that I personally know are unaware of them.
saying pixel Qi "displays" were around or available is an overstatement. For a short while you could pick up the screen as a hacker kit. Just the glass and ribbon cable. It wouldn't be clear to build a housing and then make it run via USB, which is really the best way to use as a portable secondary monitor if you think about it. That and the screen quality was never really good. Dark mode was really silvery. I had the OLPC with the pixel qi screen and it was neither good as either screen, lit or not. Sadly they never became anything for the consumer. I'm not sure why either because they claimed they were in this great niche where they could pump out a lot of product because their build process was right inline with LCDs except for minor tweaks.

If you want to say they've existed you they have since maybe 2005 / 2006. Doesn't mean they have been accessible to anyone for mainstream use. This chnese e-ink display could get traction but they need to cut the price in half. the best innovation on e-ink lately is the yotaphone. Makes the most sense, solves problems and is accessible in price.
I don't really follow the current thread this article seems to. It just sounds like the cool CS kids lamenting how the web used to be cool. The masses have discovered it and are contributing to it now. Wasn't that kinda the goal?
Shopify is really terrible when it comes to partner support. The documentation is terrible and if you want to use their API, be prepared to bang your hand against the wall for their design choices. Partners are not Shopify's actual customers of course, but Shopify wants partners to make up for all the shortcomings of the platform without making appropriate tools and support available.

In your particular case, if I understand correctly, Shopify wants you to bill customers for App store purchases through their platform. I don't think that's wrong - most marketplaces expect a cut of the revenue you make off their platform.
You don't need all industries to see 10 OM improvements to see a >8 OM improvement in total economic productivity. I imagine it's enough to improve how people coordinate resource usage by something like 10 OM to see that kind of improvement.

Ride-sharing, house-sharing, computerized car-navigation, self-driving cars, online banking, online shopping, Wikipedia, online directories of product/service providers, etc are all existing or emerging technologies that didn't exist 30 years and massively increase how effectively people can collectively utilize existing resources.
Historically, friendly competition was seen as a chance for inspiration from each others.
your stonks liquidity is dependent on constant injection, so your "making" more than $60k may be temporary
Others severely overestimate inflation. Healthcare, for one - there are lifesaving treatments that are available at some price today that weren't available at any price in the year 2000. Per the textbook definitions, this is infinite deflation. Consumer electronics also arguably fits into this category.

Fundamentally, though, the problem is that CPI does not track changes in the perceived minimal acceptable quality of the various baskets of goods. If the house you "need" to fulfill a specific lifestyle is twice as big and twice as expensive, this has zero impact on CPI. Same with healthcare quality - if your insulin works 10% better and costs 10% more, the CPI-centric view says that people are simply using more real dollars to buy a higher quality of life. Education has a similar problem, where job requirements shifts from high-school diplomas to undergrad degrees simply do not show up in any way in the CPI; we're just choosing to be better educated to end up working the same jobs.

I think this all boils down to the CPI measuring things as if all goods were absolute goods, while nominal GDP per capita would be the appropriate measure if all goods were positional. I don't know what fraction of spending is on each, though, but you can reasonably put the "real" inflation number somewhere between the two.
Does it have the chat feature as well?
Tried reading through http://erlang.org/eeps/eep-0053.html but couldn't grok it...

The EEP dives right into the problem of "late replies" with little detail explaining the concept. I haven't ran into the problem the EEP is trying to solve but I am interested in understanding it. Can anyone provide more details on how a late reply emerges during gen_server client/server message passing and how an alias is intended to solve the issue? Is this only a problem with distributed messages?

It looks like "late replies" are a problem under an additional constraint that's mentioned in the Motivation section,

"When the author of the client code has full control over the client process such late replies can be handled without a proxy since the code can be aware of these potential stray messages and drop them when received."

So.. you have a server sending messages over distributed erlang to a client that the author doesn't control which can risk receiving late messages if a connection is lost? Ugh.. what?

I tried thinking about this from the proxy process angle as a solution to this mysterious problem,

"Since the proxy process is not alive, a reply will be silently dropped and no stray message will reach the previous client of the request."

But, if a "connection lost" event occurs, why would a message make it to the client to begin with? Why is the client still alive? If the connection is re-establish, then why drop the message?

Wish the EEP more clearly articulated the class of bugs / issues its intending to address and when they occur.
I realise this is a joke but there are economic reasons to expect stocks to go up in real terms on average in the long term. Investing in the long term is not a zero sum game.
> Half the US population don’t wear masks as a political statement

This is just wrong and a sloppy way to insult "half the US population". This sort of attitude contributes to the tribalism that is creating so much division.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201022/mask-use-by-america...
Cash will help some homeless people like me. I have endured five years homeless in Los Angeles. Still here, somehow, despite covid, curfews, looters, lack of police, being shot at twice and attacked more than a dozen times.

I managed to setup my hn login last month but have yet to figure out how to follow the comment threads effectively from my phone.

Yes Los Angeles. Some call it ground zero of the US homeless problem.

It started on a Friday morning in December 2015 when my roommate/landlord rushed me from behind with a knife at 8 am in Santa Monica California. Long story short, police believed my white assailant when he lied and said I made it all up. They put his lie down on the report and lied further saying I was agitated and looked crazy (i was in shock because the attack was a huge surprise, and had I not sensed the attack in time it would have been a 7" henkl straight through the heart from behind). I left next day, homeless day#1, but filled with hope for a better tomorrow with no further unprovoked attacks from behind.

I got a job at McD and worked min wage living out of an old chevy cavalier i bought off craigslist for $300. And it took a full year to save up enough to rent a small room. Just as I was calling the first ads, in Feb 2017, an armed forces veteran rear ended me in broad daylight breaking my neck and totaling my cavalier. He told me it was his second accident in two months. Hmmm so i guess he fuct up someones Christmas before messing up my Valentines day.

I went to an accident attorney who sent me to a chiropractor who broke my neck further and also broke my back. I was expecting therapy, just as any of you might expect. But I was served pain instead, essentially giving me a replay of the original knife attack trauma.

So I was not happy when they next recommended I now needed surgery. It was just to use me as meat to bid up the price of an insurance settlement. The surgeon they sent me to wore makeup. As easy as it sounds now to say no to that...it was hard to say no because I have been in constant pain every hour of every day since that car accident.

Arg this is too tiring to type this much with thumbs. From my meager start on hn a part of me feels like it isnt even worth sharing the rest of my story. But I am a social creature and I do not want to be homeless until death which is what the Santa Monica police want at this rate.

So consider experimenting more please, and you are welcome to start with me.
but isn't the best team to have one of each of the shapes? Why do we have to choose which shape is the best?
Shipping for a while doesn’t mean much when technology has moved on.

I doubt McKinsey would stand behind that definition now. If they did, it wouldn’t do them credit.

Others are shipping 5nm. I mean I’m typing on a laptop that has a 5nm process cpu right now, and Intel is nowhere inside.

Intel is even having trouble with 7nm.
A lot of meaning making is from understanding context. If you are familiar with a situation you can have near perfect comprehension where you only understand completely 80 of the words.
Might be a great car to drive but I've lost count of the times I've cursed a 300D in front of me for fouling the air I'm breathing. They're just awful to follow in traffic.
This so-called "smog" is a real thing and it's the number one pollution problem in California. It's not environmentalists that have a problem with smog. It's most people that live in California.
If you're worried about paging, you could always just pipe it to less, or if you still wanted colors you could swap out diff for vimdiff. Nice tool, though.
It'd be neat if there was a modern app for desktop/mobile that leveraged IRC fully as well. Then you'd have a killer.
Not having grown up in the U.S. I can say that diesel left this same impression for a very long time in the international markets. Only in the past 15 years or so has diesel been tamed for the consumer to not be as noisy and smelly.
That’s just you getting old, I think? Also, I’m not really sure what the medium has to do with that.
They have. For the last 5 years or so ULSD (ultra low sulfur diesel) has been mandatory for all new "highway" diesel engines, is required for the urea-catalytic emissions controls ("Blutec") on modern diesels, and it's what you will find at fuel stations, unless you specifically seek out off-road diesel.

Europe's standard may still be higher, but it has improved here also.
The output mix won't have an enormous impact on the amount of energy extracted from a barrel.

US refineries operate crackers to increase the amount of gasoline in their output:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_catalytic_cracking
You can address most of those concerns with algebra, some light research, and Fermi estimates.

This is not a problem where you need precision, just a reasonable level of accuracy and a well-presented argument.
2 weeks' work in 2 hours seems borderline unbelievable. Do you just radically overestimate the amount of effort every ticket will take? How do your coworkers/manager not push back?

I can see accomplishing that much work in 1/2 the time, or maybe even less, but you're talking about spending 1/40 the amount of time as estimated.

Many people here debate the existence of the 10x developer, and you're claiming to be a 40x developer.
I don't find that second statistic believable. As someone who though almost every day about leaving a past job, even I didn't spend 30 minutes per day looking at job listings. In fact for a while I had to force myself to spend 20 minutes a day on that activity.
> C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript

3 of those are not like the rest.

Rust evangelists rarely go (or at least do it less) after C#, Java or even Javascript threads. 10 points if you guess why.

The overaching commonality of Rust evangelism is to target C/C++. And they're probably right :-)
> The fact that schools do not teach makes it crazy too.

I'm in the US, and I was a high school math teacher for 20 years. I tried teaching everyone how to do taxes, and people hated it because if you make people do fake taxes it's incredibly boring. Then I developed a "financial literacy" unit where students could choose a focus, such as analyzing investments, analyzing credit card policies, analyzing loans, or doing taxes.

About half the class chose taxes each year; making things like this optional significantly increases engagement, because many people end up recognizing they really would like to understand how to do their own taxes. It was also eye-opening for many who were surprised what impact things like "tax brackets" would have on their income. It cut through so much propaganda that's shouted about taxes in the US.
I’m still hoping that Element (of the Matrix network) would gain more users and become as popular as email is, with several providers around the world that make it easy to sign up and use.

Funding for the infrastructure and running costs is going to be an issue for all these platforms. Only donations and grants seem to be viable to some extent (and maybe ads again), not payments or subscriptions from end users.
It's the main reason for me too, but in an increasing number of modern contexts I think making SELECT * work well is part of application reliability. I've encountered quite a few users who add new columns all the time (or consume data from a dozen other groups who add new columns semi-frequently), so if we don't enable them to use SELECT * that just means they have to constantly rebuild and redeploy their data processing code.
You just explained the appeal of Trump in one line.
Court documents show FBI may have tool to access private Signal messages on locked iPhones

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/fbi-tool-access-priva...
Wouldn't the US need to at least follow WTO findings if they wanted to use the WTO for that or risk China just ignoring it.
"Good performance": Within a factor of ~2 to ~4 of native C.

No one said idiomatic Lisp was performant. They said Lisp was performant. Seriously, it's not even difficult. It's not like it's a situation where it's easy to accidentally kill your performance by writing elegant code while having no idea why it's slow.

Optimizing a Lisp codebase is a straightforward exercise, no more difficult than optimizing a Lua or Javascript codebase.

If someone hasn't shipped more than a toy program with Lisp, it's easy to believe the opposite. But if you try it, you'll see that it's true.
The closest thing to what you're asking about is Pixie [1], which is a Clojure-like language implemented in Pypy's RPython.

[1] https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie

It'd be possible to implement a Clojure in Nim, you'd just have to port the datastructures and enough primitives to bootstrap the language core (see core.clj, Clojurescript's core.clj, Pixie's stdlib.pxi).
Can someone summarize the secrets to me? I noticed the article was 11 pages long.
>> Bitcoins have never crashed to 50%

Are you sure (see http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2013/04/11/an-illustr...) plenty of examples. Maybe not over 24 hours, but certainly over short time periods.

I agree volitile isn't worthless. But it limits the mass adoption I have about 3BTC and I saw them be worth $600 and now $300. Had I been an ordinary 'risk averse' person, and I paid $600 for them I'd be pretty cheesed off (aka pissed).

>> Also, no currency has any intrinsic worth anymore.

Yes! This can be generalized to "nothing has ever had, has, or will have any intrinsic worth", which I agree with. A dead cow is worth more than a bar of gold on a desert island, but vice-versa in the 'normal world'.

>> The biggest difference with bitcoins is that nobody can create them out of thin air due to whim like they can with USD.

Yes BTC is more like Gold in that respect, although ironically the intended use case is a currency not an investment. Fiat currencies are the best confidence trick. Even if you know you are being conned, you still have to play along!
Why couldn't Hawaii just growtheir own marijuana? Why does it need to be shipped? Even the islands in Alaska could grow marijuana indoors.
Or maybe the simpler example is that simulations do indeed provide some pretty good experience for at least some parts of the real thing, lol.
FPV Drone Racing is a good contender I'd say. DRL uses the simulations as qualifiers for real life events.
I was unaware of that. Just frustrated it added an annoying “zoom” icon to my touch bar without my permission. I feel like this is “IE4 Toolbar” level crap.
I work with a few thousand local government entities, and they rarely have concerns with cloud hosting. They do have concerns with regulatory compliance, which means 100% accessibility on anything they publish. They also need to meet any public records laws in their jurisdiction. This tool seems to be fine for accessibility, and Netlify has a history of deployments so they have an audit trail of the public content... so I don't see anything here that would be problematic.
I don't think the lack of pandemics on the scale of the coronavirus/spanish flu for the last 100 years has been a lack of connectivity. The coronavirus would have played out the same in the 40s as today, except it probably would have been worse in the 1940's. The reasons we haven't had one in 100 years is we haven't had the right virus.

Now will we have another in the next 100 years? I don't think anyone knows what the base rate for 1918/coronavirus style viruses are, but there is no reason to think it will happen more frequently than the last 100.