jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Ditto for Uber... it's possible to operate a taxi company profitably, and has been for a hundred years. Shouldn't Uber have basically the same economics / cost per mile as a traditional taxi company, except be more efficient thanks to top-notch demand prediction that no local taxi company could ever build?

Owning taxi medallions was a pretty profitable business. Driving? Not so much.

Basically the medallions were often rented to middlemen who would also maintain cars and then rent them for the day (or night, a lot of these cabs were on the road 24/7). All paid upfront each night by the driver who then had 12 hours to try to break even and get a profit. No guaranteed minimum wage here.
Hard and soft real time depend entirely on the context. An example of hard real time is flight control. The whole sensor - actuator - decision process must happen within the given threshold.
There's a kind of process-fetishism that runs through every branch of creative craft.

For example some writers like Neil Gaiman love their fountain pens:

https://www.notebookstories.com/2020/02/20/neil-gaiman-on-no...
It's easy to do with a smartphone and you usually don't even need a calibration object. A software like Metashape or Meshroom can infer the lens transform and position of the camera from enough photos of the same object from different angles. The small smartphone optics actually help you by giving you a deeper DoF.

Not the best example but this http://koanlabs.org/vignettes.html rock is ~5 cm tall and my best guess is the minimum detectable feature size is about 10 microns.

EDIT: Sorry to be clear the definition of easy here is "as easy as most photogrammetry", to get good results you will universally do a lot of knob twiddling, waiting and cleaning up broken bits of mesh unless all you do is scan rocks. Scanning rocks is easy.
This is obviously wrong. The best way to remedy this is probably to contact TI as a (potential) investor, not complain here.

Link: https://investor.ti.com/resources/contact-us
Does the IRS care? As long as tax is paid on those invoices...
As for geopolitical differences - how about Estonia/Lithuania/Ukraine? I’m not sure how the went about with their provatisation in 1990s.
Last time I had to find in-depth documentation on a fairly common and new SONY image sensor, there was nothing available officially, found it in some chinese file sharing site though. Seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot by not opening it.
My ex-roommate works at Google and this was her approach to work even pre-pandemic.
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Based in NZ, I would not mind working for Australia (West Island as we say ;)) and/or the US as the timezones are friendly if the working hours are flexible. Can also work for an EU based company but time difference (+10 at the moment) might be a problem :).

Ideally a working environment with excellent communications patterns and where people are keen to share and learn. Finally, I want to keep working with AWS technologies - ideally the serverless ones.
> Every day I would just contemplate the list of pending items in my amazing project for hours, I entered in a spiral of indecision and procastrination that burned me out.

This almost happened to me.

I switched to using Emacs org mode to track my personal projects. It lets me do the contemplating in a written form, and I gradually refine high-level targets into sub-tasks until one of them is small enough to implement (at which point I implement it).

It also means that if I am blocked (can't think of a good solution) on a project, I just switch o the next one and edit that org file instead.

It's worked out really well for me. My projects are still mostly unfinished, but at least now I have time-tracked against what has been done and have clear goals written down so I know where to pick up again. This means that I have actual visual feedback of progress!
Check out NDB Cluster (Rondb) and the blog of the creator, example of a thread pipeline to be more efficient than Redis/ScyllaDB per-core sharding: http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2021/03/designing-thread-...
> My experience of Gradle is Gradle projects require a PhD in Gradle AND intimate familiarity with the tastes of whoever implemented that particular project .gradle files likes to use it.

In the C++ world we have exactly the same problem with CMake.
It 'doesn't not' show dust storms So that means it does show them?
To the child sub comment.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...

867 is either implying that because something you know is good you judge the rest likely to be good.

Alternatively they are being sarcastic because they think The Economist's tech section is poor.
There needs to be a free service that protects the right to expression of those people that have an earnest desire to improve the world even if their views might clash with large companies that buy the ads on free platforms, any local jurisdiction, or with the state that controls most payments in the world.

And where "improve the world" at the same time doesn't involve supporting maniacal & genocidal Nazis, Islamist terrorists, supremacists and laissez faire billionaires that don't give a s**t about anything or anybody but themselves.

A service like this might be too much to hope for in the near future, but nonetheless something I feel we need to be on the lookout for. Many maybe thought that the internet itself was such a service (admittedly many years ago now). This service doesn't seem to haul in that direction either, given the "all or nothing" philosophy that ultimately and unavoidably ends up promoting all of the above mentioned sewage.
You'd need a dump truck to carry the irony. People suffering from anxiety? You don't say. The Guardian, BBC, and other MSM propaganda factories are in fact the primary purveyors of such, because they are beating the panic drum over an unremarkable seasonal illness. Increased substance abuse? Of course there is, considering the social distancing and lockdowns that the media itself has relentlessly advocated and supported. Dementia? The vast majority of those who had difficulties with this illness are elderly, a fact that the MSM consistently under-reports. This is the MSM pumping fear. If its stated, official goal were to "demoralize the populace", I can't think what they'd do differently.
>Your boss or project maintainer in an open source project starts spreading conspiracy theories on the internet (Q, Flat Earth, whatever), to the point he becomes a public embarassment. Do you want to continue working with him?

Say I created an open source library and you are a contributor, now you find out that I am a pro-life (or communist or watch dubious japanese adult content), you are free to stop contributing sure, but why should you try to steal my job and project because you don;t like my opinions? You probably will say that is bad PR for my library and my library is very important for the community so you should spread a lot of missinformation about me to force me out and free the library using mod tactics.
Exactly, I'm not so much cool with the policy here, but absolutely we should think about what we want and take appropriate actions like you did if we want to avoid it.
I agree with you that that's the part that made it "look bad," but it sounds as if he truly did everything he could to give it to other people first, gave it to her only as a very last resort with minutes to go, and she was eligible anyway.

If he wanted to cover-his-ass, he shouldn't have given it to her. If he wanted to actually do the right thing, he was doing the right thing.
Canonical has had PR problems with privacy before: submitting desktop searches to external services by default, including Amazon results, etc. At the end of the day they're trying to monetize Linux and they seem less focused on traditional enterprise relationships than Red Hat or SUSE.
I'm not using that tool, I've got my own, but thanks for the tip.
As I said in my reply to dudul, I'm far from being alone in my criticism of the Nobel system (see links to my references there).

I'm not wedded to my alternative proposal, as I'm sure there are many other alternatives that would be suitable. My key point is about the sheer unfairness of the system. Your comment about the Higgs also illustrates the point.

Yes, there are other awards and prizes but usually they're only known by those who are in the fields for which the award is given - thus, unfortunately, the general public is unaware of the achievements of these people. The trouble with the Nobel Prizes is their universal notoriety, this is troubling when many of its awards seem unduly unfair.

I'll confine myself to the sciences for the moment. There's any number of great scientists that students have never heard of; they study the discovery - the physics etc. - but they haven't a clue who articulated the science or even when the discovery was made - or even the context of the discovery. This lack of context is very troubling for many reasons I've not time to go into here.

Not only do the Nobel Prizes exacerbate this problem but also they create stereotypes and cult figures at the expense of others. I firmly believe that it is not in the best interests of any field of endeavor for a prize to be given and cocontributors to not also be acknowledged.

For example, just about everyone on the planet knows the name Einstein but how many know of Hermann Minkowski? Sure, if you're a physicist you will have and also you'll be aware of how important his work was to Einstein, same with David Hilbert and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro but their names are almost completely unknown in the wider world.

Even here with Einstein we couldn't have a better example of Nobel Prize committee incompetence - as Einstein wasn't given its gong for either Special or General Relativity. If ever there was an oversight by the Nobel mob then this has to be it!

The Nobel Prizes idealize a few at the expense of many and in today's world this is turning out not to be an especially noble endeavor.

This is a long and involved matter and thus difficult to précis here, so I'm not a bit surprised I've ruffled feathers by touching on something that in some circles has become 'sacred'. And I'm sure anyone who is a potential recipient of a Nobel wouldn't like to hear what I've had to say.

It's worth remembering that in ways Nobel wasn't the most noble of people and that his Prizes were his way of cleansing his name into perpetuity - and to date his efforts have paid off par excellence.

BTW, let me assure you beyond doubt that I've never considered myself in line for one, so my comments are not just a case of sour grapes.
I found this line in the article more interesting (and more disturbing) than the headline: "The number of skills employers are looking for has risen dramatically — our analysis shows that companies listed about 33% more skills on job ads in 2020 than they did in 2017."

Three years ago there was already an issue with employers being overly specific in their job ads and making it look like basically no one (except maybe the person who just quit) is fully qualified for their position. This just gives even more room for companies to claim there's no qualified individuals and they have 'no choice' but to pursue H-1Bs or contract work (who also will in no way fully match the giant laundry list, but at that point they always seem to be less picky).
That's not the kernel. I mean, it's the kernel, but not the kernel that the machine boots from.

The built-in bootloader actually boots iBoot2 from /System/Volumes/Preboot/(UUID)/boot/(long hash)/usr/standalone/firmware/iBoot.img4, and that then loads the Darwin kernel from /System/Volumes/Preboot/(UUID)/boot/(long hash)/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches/kernelcache.

However, the system firmware can only boot this from the internal SSD, not from any external storage. When you choose an external disk to boot from (the "bless" thing), those files get copied to the internal SSD, and it boots from that instead.
> Office decreases speed of communication

Does it though? I have some coworkers who I used to be able to just walk next door and talk to. Now I ping them on Teams and they might not respond for hours.
In the US, is it cheaper to live rurally?

Tremendously so, if you are prepared to live that way. Rural houses are generally very cheap.

You've got to live a bit dirtier, perhaps with an outhouse and a well and some chickens, and you have to figure out what you are doing for a living. But in the US, if you are too poor for wherever you are living, I'm pretty sure you can just move further away from the city.

A huge chunk of the US looks like this:

http://www.culinaryanthropologist.org/photos/Smtanya0001.JPG

http://nebula.wsimg.com/98a9d952e9d4c36a0af32e562e73701e?Acc...

http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/12_01_2011/bfv2YmkXXS_12_01_2...

I don't know all the zoning rules, but when you are 200 miles from the nearest sheriff, I don't think people get too picky.
Are the names supposed to be ironic? Because what you said isn't the impression I got from reading them.

We have similar leadership principles with nicer names, although we don't use them to the point of bringing them up at meetings.
"To be fair," there are norms about how intelligence services behave. That we, the proletariat, aren't aware of them doesn't make them any less real. That they've either changed or that we've only just discovered what they are doesn't say anything about what they are or used to be.

"Norms" don't necessarily make things objectively or even subjectively better. They just make them standard. Asking for norms will get you absolutely nothing, even if you get what you ask for: They'll just establish what they're already doing as normal, and continue to not tell you about the new things they start doing. Because that's what intelligence is; if they told people what they were doing, for better or worse, people would make it harder for them to do.
Which again, a robot has no need or ability to be.
Sounds almost like San Francisco.
I like it. I'm awfull at remembering hex colors, so this is fun and learning.
Expect more of this pushing competitors out as Apple transitions further into the 'services' business model by monetizing their vast trove of user data.

MSFT and GOOG have been doing this too for years ofcourse.

While GOOG has had to be content only with what they can read from emails/calendars, texts, web searches, calls/voicemail, maps/location data and anything else that they can scrape from an Android device.

MSFT has had all of that a much, much more since they own the whole OS for workstation/server class devices where actual work gets done. MSFT will claim that all that data is for quality control and now security services but ofcourse they are going to squeeze every last drop of money they can from it. To expect otherwise would be like asking an alcoholic to guard a brewery and never sample the product, completely ridiculous. The US has no serious legal repercussions for doing so. Probably because the US intelligence community depends on that data since IT is forbidden from collecting it from Americans on its own.

Gee, I wonder why...
Yogurt have been eaten from Greece to India for 5000 years, way before Turkish invasions, so why would anyone say that it is exclusively Turkish?
See for example, the LA governor’s recent use of the phrase towards Trump who had supported his opponent unsuccessfully in the elections
I think the author's take would be that the working class can radicalize all they want, but it probably won't change anything without the support of a significant part of the 10%-0.1%. I wish he had gone into detail on why he thinks the upper-middle class is required to effect political change. Is it because they have just enough capital? Or maybe they are closer to and more familiar with institutional power?
It should be mentioned that software foundations is basically a videogame that you can play in your coq interpreter. Short is less relevant than fun, imo.
Sure, and when you get down to it, there is no single prototypical average consumer that it's profitable to market to. Publications create their own average consumer. Fair to say though that the Times's own 'average' has definitely shifted over the last decade.
We use this approach at MixRadio, you can read about it on our blog: http://dev.mixrad.io/blog/2014/10/31/How-we-deploy-at-MixRad...

There is also a video of a talk about it: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6057-herding-cattle-wit...

We based our approach on Netflix but ended up building our own tools which we've now open sourced.
> but I assure you that if you actually used it, you would have found what you suggested even uglier.

It's not fair to make that judgment for someone, particularly because people using Rust at the time weren't complaining much about how ugly it was. At the time it was questioned whether the change was desirable and that very blog post braces for opposition under Wait, doesn’t this make it hard to know what your program does?

Fwiw, that's one instance where unnecessary information/features were removed I would rather had been preserved.
The real issue is that a jacuzzi full of water weights a lot. The bridge is not designed for holding such a large load on the edge. A helmet won't help you for this, and a harness and rope attached to the bridge at the same point as the jacuzzi may not either.
That's an issue with the filter lists you choose, not uBlock. Also uBlock does allow you to disable on a domain or subdomain, so this is easily worked around.

uBlock is a bit more of a power user blocker than AdBlock and its variants, but I find it to be far better, both in customisability of filters, and resource utilisation.
It's also worth noting that many of the changes required when switching out the display server (moving stuff out of X and into the kernel, adding features to drivers) was done while developing Wayland. Mir doesn't have to worry about this stuff, so they should be able to do it much quicker than the time it has taken Wayland to mature.
> Linear algebra got a lot easier for me when I realised that matrices are just linear functions, and matrix multiplication is function composition.

As my former exercise instructor for linear algebra told to the math students at the beginning of the second semester: Those people who have not yet understood that matrices are more than a box of numbers are definitely at the wrong place here.
I thought this was one of those "used it for <x> <y>s and everything is super duper" and wanted to add my "+1". Anyway, I've been using it for 1-2 months and it's been smooth sailing so far. Faster than AdBlock and 99.9% of the coverage coverage (usually some obscure popup ads usually – they did get fixed pretty fast though). And no false positives for me at all.
Is there any way to fly without supplying your date of birth these days?
Plus it's infeasible to retrofit all planes in service now (going back 30 years or so? I vaguely recall that planes are kept in service for that long) with weight measuring systems.

But that's probably the issue here as well, compatibility with software systems going back 30, probably more years.
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After the huge community backlash, they still push forward with this? Why is modern software development so increasingly user-hostile?
And the worst part is that you may spread it to somebody (or several somebodies) who winds up with severe illness.
Interesting read here: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/55845.html ("Making hibernation work under Linux Lockdown")

Discussed in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285683
(113 points, 39 days ago, 64 comments)
I'm assuming you want non-trivial examples of non-bijective homomorphisms, but you can create a trivial one using the <= relation:
Consider the two element set {0, 1} and the function f from {0,1} to {0,1} so that f(0) = f(1) = 0. f preserves the <= relationship but is not a bijection.
Chaos Communication Congress videos: http://media.ccc.de/
Did it bother anyone else that their anchor tags included the space following the words?
Like the money I made in a foreign country last year, the gov will ask you to convert it to USD and use that to file you taxes. Income is income in whatever denomination it's in.
I definitely suffer from falling in love with names. I had the perfect name but I sat on my idea too long and it got taken (but isn't being used which just sucks). I had finally moved on and came to the current one I want.

I checked the whois records and the domain expires (very) soon. I doubt the owner will let it go but if he did, what's the best way to get it? Does backordering it on GoDaddy alert the owner that someone wants to buy it?

I will look into Escrow.
I imagine its he same design constraints as designing military aircraft electronics to survive Nuke EMF or even spacecraft electronics..using different layered materials to act as barriers to gamma, alpha and beta particles..
Even if it was, I can't say I've ever understood the people for whom blocking ads was so paramount they'd rather have a page load slower so the ads would never even be glanced, versus a page that loads fast and hides them afterwards.

It all seems a bit backwards, to me.
Well it did. Double negative aside, saying it will be fixed happen if I change my old iPhone scrolling behavior doesn't help either.
Congrats again to Dan + David. We're excited about their product - a real game changer.
Whether they own the store or not has nothing to do with it. It's a straightforward legal claim. They have sent the same kinds of notices to app developers for other trademark owners. It's especially straightforward because they have published their own app with that name, so it's not just a matter of over-zealous trademark protection.
Getting tenure at a top university is orders of magnitude more difficult than simply getting a PhD.
Do android phones have multi-touch, or do apple patents prevent this?

I'm working on UI trees that can be rearranged with the mouse. It works OK, though a little awkward. I think with a touch screen, it would be incredibly intutive - like rearranging physical blocks.
Everyone seems to think that Android will eventually dominate the market because "the products are going to continually improve". Guess what, so is iPhone. Apple have made it clear that this is their primary business. They're in it to win it. This is not Google's primary business--it is a loss leader to support that business. I think it's far from inevitable that Android will win out (pettiness of the Apple vs. Google battle aside).
If there was anything that we learned from the pandemic is people are not in any way considerate of others needs.
The article seems to have been written by:

> a 15 year old student who likes to code and blog

for some perspective :)