skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Garbage collectors are not always very portable. e.g. conservative stack scanning is not possible in WASM.
I don't understand. Why does Location matter? Does it matter if have 10 kids, or a lease on a Porsche, or 2 alimonies, or live in a McMansion, or my kid has cancer? Are those factors relevant? What makes Location special?
So even when someone treats you like shit (your words) you still give them more than you owe? Why?
A while back a political ad ran that was supposed to take place in Beijing in 2030. There was some discussion about the students and whether they looked believable given expected improvements in nutrition and dental care given the PRC's current trajectory. I thought the discussion was silly — the students were obviously Americans because of the way they chuckled. IIRC the people who did the casting call for it put ads for Asians around a community college in the DC area and offered free food.

Mannerisms can be very noticeable if you're attuned to them.

Students chuckling: https://youtu.be/4LUumD0MwL8?t=48s
Java bytecode doesn't make a good compilation target for compiled languages; wasm specifically aims to provide a good target for such languages. LLVM IR by itself doesn't provide appropriate sandboxing for the web; wasm has security and sandboxing as a fundamental part of its design. The CLR shares many of the same problems Java has, and would also fail to provide a vendor-neutral, unencumbered solution.
Yeah, the author seems a little crazy about web components being approved. React and JSX are still good and they're not instantly disappearing or anything.

> Shadow DOM makes it hard to theme your app

The styling is a little different from normal but not too bad after getting the hang of it. There's usually a few components for colors, fonts, and common app styles (see paper-styles [1]). A few other components can provide CSS helper classes (e.g. Polymer's spin on flexbox [2]). CSS properties make tweaking component styles pretty easy, which makes the components more reusable. There are probably other styling tricks that'll pop up over time too.

(you don't have to use Polymer, I picked it because it's what I'm most familiar with)

[1] https://www.webcomponents.org/element/PolymerElements/paper-...

[2] https://www.webcomponents.org/element/PolymerElements/iron-f...
If you think asymmetric warfare applied to any war where it was the us vs germany you do not understand asymmetric warfare
Przybylski’s Star I: What’s that?
Uber asks for the destination but doesn't share it with the driver until they pick you up.
Great idea - if I could change the style and some additional customizations, I would probably pay a couple bucks a month. Actually looking to start up a blog soon and starting to look around at the options.
> Everyday I'm holding onto the shares is the same as if I made the decision to buy that many shares on that day

While I'm not a banker, I find with this method looking at investments highly disagreeable. The price of the stock at the time of purchase is the projected future profits discounted to present day. In other words, it is the fundamental value of the firm, which is invariant of its day-to-day fluctuations.

If you have to be watching for the daily upticks, it's a sign the company is either incompetent or is operating in a highly unfavorable environment.

I don't see how any good can be gained from envisaging a purchase price other than your lock-in price.
If Americans would stop tipping then the current wages would become untenable and the restaurants and bars would lose staff. They would need to increase wages (and prices) accordingly. This is something the American people have the power to change without legislation.
Llvm ir isn't cross platform, for starters.
It sounds like the current rates aren't sustainable and uber needs to charge more.
Color vision deficiencies (specifically dichromacy and monochromacy) need to be taken into account; the more important it is to convey (hazards) the more necessary it needs consideration.
Then Uber should be charging more. Sorry about that.
Java bytecode and CLR are not great targets for compiling C++ to and implementing performant VMs for them is much more difficult than a WASM JIT.

The WASM FAQ has an entry about LLVM IR: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#why...
The bay area is unlike any other place I've ever visited or lived in America. Every aspect of life is more crowded.
The Chevrolet Bolt is available now in the US and has similar range to the Tesla and has a dealer network to support it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Bolt

It doesn't have self-driving technology. But that will come to Chevrolet or some other manufacturer.

Apple and Google were smart to stay out of the car making business. The established players are experienced and the margins are low and it's tough to compete. Partnering to make software and systems for the car industry is a better place to be.
Ask HN: How to find a technical co-founder
I own a business that is bootstrapped profitable and proud, currently just <$1m in revenue. It's an online coffee subscription, and we've basically done what we can without the need of heavy tech. In order to grow, it's time to get a tech co-founder involved and progress the business. How do I go about finding someone suitable? Is equity with a company this small attractive?
World's biggest fund manager threatens to oust bosses who ignore climate change
There is no way that Genius ever can, nor ever will, achieve their vision. This is a money pit funding overgrown children from day one, and nothing else. This is throwing money at an idea before it's proven, and trying to force an idea no one wants on people. It's an embarrassment of the valley.
Am I the only one to cry out bullshit! The guy is a terrorist, period. He deserves to pay for what he did. I survived a genocide and you don't see me go around and kill people.
Java and the CLR are pretty similar (legal issues aside). Both are great, but neither is ideal as a general-purpose VM for arbitrary programming languages. Neither is a good target for C and C++. (The CLR has "managed C++" but I don't think that's widely used.)

What is WebAssembly going to be used for that isn't already handled well by Javascript? High-end video games is an important example. Those are almost exclusively written in C++. Lots of indie games are written in C# using Unity, but the Unity runtime library itself is C++.

So why not LLVM? The LLVM isn't actually well-defined, stable, or even platform-independent. That hasn't stopped both Google and Apple trying to use it for this kind of thing (PNaCl and Bitcode respectively). PNaCl failed to catch on, Bitcode is helped by the fact that Apple has complete control over their own platform.

Edit to add: from a game developer's point of view, a good question is why we need both this and the new "SPIR-V" thing in Vulkan...!
I guess I'd like to see some evidence the other way. The comments above are just denials, as in negative allegations or opinions with no support. I think I made my case very strongly, with much more evidence than 99% of comments on HN.
Make sure you give a low rating and explain exactly why you did to the uber customer support, have always had refunds when dealing with this
I've lived in the US for almost half my life. I went back to visit my home country in West Africa for less than a week just a few years back ... I was so stressed out by everything there that I fell sick for almost two days. Then I moved my departure date up by a day just to get out early.

No credit card machines, nothing resembling customer service (I'm talking actively rude or disinterested store attendants), Nightmarish traffic since traffic signals and lanes are just a suggestion and not enforced by police, Hyper religiosity, rampant and casual homophobia (they're all convinced America is going directly to hell because of gay sex), truly shit roads, with cars that shouldn't be on the road EVERYWHERE, right beside Lamborghinis and Mercedes, barely-there running water, internet and most importantly, unpredictable electricity supply and the ever present drone of diesel generators that supply power to individual houses because the electricity supply is so useless.

It was too much. I've never been so happy to see a starbucks in my life.
Maybe you can explain something that I've never understood. I see drivers saying "driving for Uber is terrible and a waste of money". I see them saying "after expenses I'm basically working for free." But they keep doing it. They keep driving for Uber even though they know that they're basically just working for free, in order to make money for Uber. If you take vehicle depreciation into account, you're probably not even breaking even.

Why? Why do that? My guess is that it's easy work to get and it gives you some immediate cash, and so it's more appealing than spending the time hunting for a 'real' job, but I've never heard an Uber driver actually admit that.
Why even keep it as a service charge.. just put it into the price
Really ? I was looking at 40$ phones at retail. Night be even cheaper in bulk.

But you're the expert obviously.
> because after I drive for a while sometimes I need to drive a long way back as well on my own dime

It seems like this is something they could help with. Can't they mark your home territory and try to schedule you rides that take you the right direction? If not immediately, maybe after a few rides in that area that don't take you too much farther away? It seems like this should be one of the main points of using Uber or Lyft, smart driver scheduling in areas where there's enough demand..
Living in Switzerland for a year, and then returning to San Francisco, I had a feeling of disaffection and disappointment for about a year afterward. It took me all of the that time to again be able to enjoy the things around me -- SF restaurants, the weather, &c -- in the way that I did before I left.
What's the benefit of JVM in wasm over compiling JVM langs to js?
You don't really need proto3, though. Proto2 is compatible and proto3 mostly only removes features.
I imagine the rating system would handle this effectively. I would really be annoyed if the driver was pulling the same stunts that was listed in the article.
La Paz adapts to a world without water
But how are they going to get that 50b valuation if they don't squeeze their drivers?
Ridesharing apps don't reveal destination to the driver until they arrive at the pickup. This is to prevent drivers from only picking good rides and leaving riders in the lurch. One of the main selling point of Uber in some cities is that they would get you to places taxis refused to go.
I'm going to hazard a guess that you didn't read the linked PDF at all to understand what makes DragonFlyBSD's network stack different.
That explains too much... why aren't high-margin products in other developed nations' grocery stores treated the same way? Or, if they are, why isn't breakfast cereal one of them? Perhaps because Americans really love breakfast cereal?
Technical - Hacker's Delight by Henry Warren

Fiction - The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
The Penrose Institute
In America (well, at least in Florida), policy at some restaurants dictates that servers "tip out" some percentage of their tips to the cook and ancillary staff. It's most certainly not illegal here.
I don't really keep a list of the studies I read, but Examine.com is a great resource for people without the scientific background and training in reading the research literature.

These two links are great starting points, and link to the studies if you feel like reading them:

https://examine.com/nutrition/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-l...

https://examine.com/nutrition/does-metabolism-vary-between-t...
If you tip nothing, they might think you forgot.
At my credit union they've moved to using thumbprints on a reader for regular visitors so the staff doesn't have to go through checking signatures, etc.

I'm executor for my aunt. She has a safe deposit box at a bank to which I have her key but I'm not on the list of people allowed access. They would have allowed me to open the box and remove a copy of the will if that was the only place it existed (that was also the situation with my dad) but otherwise I would not be allowed access.

Interestingly the agreements I've signed specifically disclaim any responsibility for gold, silver, cash and similar items.
Shadow DOM encapsulates the web components sufficiently so that VDOM or other frameworks don't see the inner HTML changes.
That's why I always pay 15% tip at restaurants regardless of the service. I disagree with tipping (an after-the-fact unilateral contract), but we know that restaurants don't pay fair wages.

EDIT: Following some comments here, I feel I need to add that I'm in Canada where 15% is considered "normal".
It's the gitlab vs github stand - self hosted vs hosted saas.

Gitlab is incredible... but I really cant host right now. Same for mattermost.

I do believe that the ability to run a fairly large hosted system at scale and with incredible performance is what the gitter guys bring to the table.
I test-drove an AP2 car. After a disastrous ride in which it tried to hit two parked cars and a trashcan and wanted to drive off the road entirely, the sales person said, with a straight face, that it was great for stop and go traffic on 101. I'm a bit amazed they can currently sell cars.
Email a local college. They'll be happy to forward your request to all the students in the college. College students will also be happy to work for pretty much anything above minimum wage.

They might not be the top 1%, 10x value developer you need right now, but in 1 to 2 years they will be.
After I switched to Lyft in the wake of the Susan Fowler thing, I discovered that they give you the option to tip. It made me realize that the pain point of tipping is actually feeling pressured to tip the moment the service ends. With the Lyft app I can tip (or not) later on, and I almost always do. It's not tipping that I don't like; in fact I really like tipping. With their strict no-tipping policy, it turns out that Uber missed the mark here, at least for me.
I'd love if an economist of somebody with a better financial background could comment on this:

When you're giving a tip, you're effectively giving money to the people who own the company (or participate in profit sharing). Tips allow employers to pay their employees under market rate. By paying enough tip to bring the employee's wage up to the market rate, you are subsidizing the company's profit, not the employees profit.

Tips are bad for employees because they are inconsistent, bad for consumers because the price of goods are not well-indicated, and good for employers because it allows them to offset their labor cost by hiding it in tips, which they have convinced consumers are going to the employees as a perk.

So I don't know that I agree that the Uber app should implement tips (from a consumer or an employee standpoint). They should charge me more money (or rather, charge me the same as I am paying now, just make it more consistent), and pay their employees more money.

I wish they would do both of these things.
In practice it's any sort of delivery job that you personally interact with the worker. It's pretty uncanny actually. Taxis, waiters, bartenders, some couriers & porters. People who have worked those jobs feel strongly about tips. People who were left out of the tipped class feel like it was bullshit.

A bunch of others expand with a communal tip jar, but it's very rare for anyone to care about putting something in the jar. You don't tip cafe workers, convenience store workers, retail workers and so on even though they get paid the same minimum wage.
"Are you not entertained?" he must wonder.
Can you explain how Discord makes privacy hard to set up? Servers by default are private (No one can join or even see the server unless they are invited to it). You can disable people's ability to create invites with a 3 clicks.

(disclaimer: work at Discord & fishing for feedback about how we can make this easier)
> You are subsidizing their wages and making it seem ok for their employer to pay them peanuts.

You're going to end up paying for it either way. But yes, I agree - I'd rather get rid of the culture of tipping and just pay a reasonable price for a service.

The thing that really sucks though, is per federal law an employer paying the 'tipping minimum wage' is required to make up the difference if an employee makes below the normal minimum wage - they almost never do from what I can tell. By choosing to not tip not only am I just being an asshole, but the employer won't change anything either because the chance of them being caught being a douchebag is slim.
Go YAML file to map utility
You take the best of both worlds, so no I don't mind it as much anymore.

But it makes you think of the all the shenanigans of borders, citizenships and all the time we use on discussing who belongs where, and why.
Introducing New Glenn
Well that made me laugh since I actually build and operate wireless networks. Few things you should know:

1. When unlicensed wireless gear vendors talk about throughput, you can typically divide that number by 4 to get a real, achievable full-duplex throughput (because the radios are half-duplex and encoding and packet overhead accounts for roughly another factor of 2). So 750 becomes 150 which is an order of magnitude less than 1GBit.

2. That product has a range of roughly....not very far. You can do the path math yourself from their specs, but let's say it will work at full speed over 1Km. Not 10 miles.

3. To achieve the 750MBits they advertise you need to use 80MHz of contiguous spectrum in the 5GHz unlicensed bands. I will eat my keyboard if you can find a location with a water tower where that much usable spectrum is available.

To push 1GBit FD over 10 miles today needs licensed spectrum and 3' dishes with the associated high cost.

And this is before you have found an ISP willing to give you microwave access to their water tower POP (which they will not do since spectrum is so tight and they are using that tower for their own long-haul P2P links), and willing to sell you 1GBit transit for anything less than a fortune.
It's because I can drive for like an hour at 9 PM when the traffic isn't bad anymore and I can make $10 an hour and I can decide when to clock out.
Sure he was, but his skills are astounding and imposing compared to most of us today. That makes watching his work such a thrill.
> Maybe Uber should just pay you more and we can not encourage the antiquated custom of tipping.

they can't advertise higher rates than Lyft or they'll lose the price war
I drive for Uber part time even though it pays literally 8x less than my day job. It's relaxing and gives me an excuse to drive my car while someone else pays for the gas and mileage.
> I'm consistently amazed at how many people I end up giving sub-five star ratings

That in itself is possibly a contributing problem. Incentives go all wonky when four-star ratings essentially don't exist. Five-star ratings should be reserved for exceptional service, and three-star ratings should be for average service, not "I'm unhappy with this but not enough that I won't feel bad giving a negative review, so I'll give it three stars." People don't know how to rate, and it makes all our rating systems much less accurate.
Separation of concerns, fungibility, limited exposure, a lower bar on future legal entanglements … I could go on
Personally, I am more excited about the possibility of Go supporting WASM as a target: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892

I already write backends in Go, the hope of writing frontend code in Go is really exciting. All the JS people are going to say, "with node JS is already there", but this misses that I (and a vast number of other developers) hate JS with a burning fiery passion.
Is good service and hospitably an antiquated notion?

I'll happily give a bartender, server or a driver an extra buck or two when they make the experience pleasant/informative/friendly because, far too many people treat their jobs not as a privileged but a chore.

Without tipping far too many would take your money for granted and the quality of service would decline across the board because there is zero incentive to provide anything better.
>austerity for most, government handouts for the wealthy.

It hasn't been austerity for most. I thought we just established that there has been a massive increase in social welfare spending.

>So what's your point.

My point is that wage growth has tracked productivity growth. Middle class wages have mostly tracked productivity growth. There has been a slowdown in wage growth, and this can be mostly attributed to a decrease in labour productivity growth.

Other factors have played a role in the slowdown in middle class wage growth, but they are far outsized by the effect of slowing labour productivity growth. Those 'other factors' relate to government intervention, not to any mythical "neoliberalism" that the socialist consensus always harps on about as it further pushes the US into socialism.
The most popular language that you can't compile into wasm is Javascript?

This issue was closed 12 hours ago: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/219

I know it's cliche and been written about ad nauseum, but this really does feel like the trojan horse threat to MS, Apple and Android.
> Can't they mark your home territory and try to schedule you rides that take you the right direction?

they had this feature

unfortunately, NOBODY LEAVES SAN FRANCISCO so it's pointless, you'll be waiting for someone to want a ride south for a very long time

they've since removed that feature because it hurts your bottom line to use it
We are hurtling faster and faster towards this talk every day https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Cool. I'm always game for a good discussion of DSL's and Lisp (Racket).

But what struck me immediately was the quality of the "Why Lisp Why Racket" essay. This is probably the most compelling that I've seen as it gets specific and cites near-term benefits – not just the elitist "it's good for you" or "it'll make you smarter" stuff. Nicely done.
Might be using non-standard notation, I just followed what I saw used here: http://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/

The values after the / are the output values associated with the transition.

Weighted finite state transducers are not supported.
I'm not really going to keep driving until they do that. I drive during football games in Santa Clara, though, since the rates are much higher.
> Many drivers seem to act as if they are driving their friends around as opposed to driving their clients around.

Maybe they're just confused by everyone calling it "ride sharing."
I strongly disagree with this approach. A good technical co-founder needs lots of experience, ideally in both software and business. College students have neither.

Good places to look are local startup hubs and AngelList.

Honestly, this is a hard problem that lots of people face. There's no silver bullet. They'll solve the problem more quickly if they're willing to part with more equity, though.
No tipping has been a big driver of success for Uber. Americans dont realise they are the only people who in the world who "tip" for completely average service/just doing your job.
I don't mind tipping in principle, but I really hate the payment terminals that are preconfigured with outrageous options, so it prompts you to pick 20%, 25%, 30%, "other", so you feel like a total sleaze giving a normal 10-15% tip.

It's the worst when I'm picking up takeout from a restaurant that also has tables. Like, am I supposed to tip in this scenario? Do I have to go into "other" to tip less than 20% for being handed a brown bag?
Are you making enough to pay for the new car you'll need after this one wears out?
I-can-only-find-chain-restaurants-in-flyover-country

Look harder, and expand your search to more than three blocks from the highway exits.