skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think of him in that terms, sure. I think much of the disappointment people have here is that they were expecting a man vs nature story and instead read about a thief who lived off the fat of the modern world. The responses in this thread differ from those from the earlier discussion [0] oska linked. I suspect it's due to the different titles and resulting expectations.

Personally, I didn't know about original thread when it was posted, and your original comment actually prompted me to find the GQ story and read it under the expectation that I was going to learn about a societal mooch.

What ended up making an impression was Christopher Knight's unique writing style, his observations on everyday interactions we take for granted ("I’m not used to seeing people’s faces," he said. "There’s too much information there. Aren’t you aware of it? Too much, too fast."), and how he survived those winters.

And yes, I get it, he stole. He used stolen propane tanks to fire up the stolen Coleman to melt snow in a stolen pot to drink water. But still, he fattened himself up for winter and camped in the winter months of Maine while not leaving behind footprints for 25 years. I was impressed. Yes it's not Primitive Technology [0] ingenuity, but Mr Knight is still an outlier and shared an experience I don't encounter every day.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205993
[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
I think psychological abuse is an incredibly difficult to solve problem for precisely those reasons. But I also believe psych abuse causes far, far more suffering in children (and society) than physical or sexual abuse. Fair enforcement is bound to be a difficult, perhaps intractable problem. But I stand by my view that BPD people simply shouldn't raise kids, with or without gov. enforcement.
I've heard just such rumblings from large banks who specialize in auto loans.
Things want to work, not punish errors
That's exactly what he said he did my man.
How would this help? They still allow sharing links even for free accounts. It's just that it's not direct linking and instead you're forced to go to a Dropbox page.

No, it probably has to do with making downloaders go to Dropbox and tempt them to subscribe.
Also evidenced by the fact that they were initially called Rap Genius
I literally just said I stopped using them because I didn't care for the way they operated. I don't understand what you are trying to say.
With Uber increasingly squeezing profits out of their drivers, this was 100% bound to happen. I am more surprised that Uber allows drivers that request tips to continue driving with them. If they really want that extra cash, then they should just go full-time on Lyft, especially now with all of the drama they're going through.
Actually, protracted wars against entrenched insurgent populations have been won, both historically and recently.

The Huks in the Philippines in the 1950 for one.

The Tamil Tigers, inventors of the sucide belt, holders of the world record for killing heads of state, and pioneers in crashing civilian aircraft into government targets, were put down in 2009 after thirty years of war.

There's nothing magic about an insurgeny - most die stillborn. There's a whole lot of survivorship bias when looking at this. Defeated insurgencies don't make the news.
Everything both you and parent poster said boils down to "run away from the question because I don't like either of the answers." Which is a very human response, but you then throw the baby out with the bath water.

To be really useful, you need to consider these thought experiments in the least convenient world - assume that there is explicitly no way to avoid the central point (http://lesswrong.com/lw/2k/the_least_convenient_possible_wor... for further reading). So in this case, it doesn't matter 'whose fault' the predicament is. You don't know anything about the individuals involved except the number killed by each of two choices. "Optimise net lives saved" is indeed a horrible strategy, but under the least convenient possible circumstances can you come up with a better one?

Your comment on intuition failing on hypothetical scenarios is on the mark, and that's the point of this kind of scenario - to see in what way intuition fails, and how it will fail in different directions based on presentation (eg. we'll passively let 5 people die rather than actively killing one, but we'll save 5 people even if it involves indirectly killing one.)
Service industries. It's pretty simple. Any job where the worker is unlikely to be appreciated by their boss for going above and beyond but it makes a big difference to me.
Pariah is not the word you're looking for, but either way I'd say the answer is certainly not. Making a few very expensive rockets and luxury cars is not anything like mass producing vehicles on a scale like VW/Toyota/GM/Ford/etc.

I'd say a company like Foxconn is probably a much better example. They are able to mass produce millions of widgets with astonishingly few defects and even begin doing it in secret. Very impressive logistics. If just one component of the iPhone isn't ready the whole line grinds to a halt.
In my reading of the law they clearly broke fair use. According to the letter of the law, factors in consideration of fair use include:

1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. (https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107)

Rap genius was/is a for profit corp and they reproduced the copyrighted work in full, on their own servers. I don't see how they could argue fair use. In addition, their use is arguably non transformative, in that they leave the original intact.

The writing was on the wall, Sony deal or not. It was just a question of copyright holders noticing/acting on the violation. The initial round with Anderssen Horowitz for 15 million in 2014 prompted swift response.
I'm not sure that the garbage collector in Ruby, Python, Node.js or Perl is going to be radically different. They all have their own implementations for historical reasons, not because they have such wildly different concerns.

Java has a strange way of handling object lifetimes that complcates things, but it's not the norm.
I do feel the same way! But Uber's relentless fare-cutting has made it such a bad deal for drivers that I feel the awkwardness has come right back, since I'd pretty much have to tip in order to not feel like I'm taking advantage of the driver.
Show HN: Noty – Uptime monitoring with SMS/Phone call alert
" I hear a lot of unpleasant anecdotes, but very little data."

Question was asked in the article, ("Where are the numbers?"). [0] For all the posturing on how good SV is at data, the question has to be asked, "Why can't tech companies collect and show data on staff?" [1] The only conclusion I can make is SV tech companies do not see this as an ^authentic^ problem.

Reference

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13880515

[1] Staff numbers, pay, diversity, disciplinary actions taken, reported, etc.
Video conferencing? Downloading large files (IDE and various other software updates, VM images)?

I mean you don't need that stuff every day. But you need it often enough that it's a PITA not to have.
No one (including my parent comment) equated the private YouTube videos with the iTunes videos.
noty is a my side project that I have been working on three month. It's an uptime monitoring system, like pingdom or Apex Ping. I'm in a very early stage and lots of feature is still missing.

I build it because I cannot found any service that will SMS/Call me when site is down/slow, and have a simple to use interface. Apex is what I found that's very cool, but it lacks of SMS/Phone alerting when I tried.

I also open source it because of working as a DevOps, I feel the pain of all monitoring tool. Nagios, Icinga, Sensu all rely on a third party to do SMS/Phone alert such as PagerDuty.
So I build this to help everyone who don't want to pay for my service can install the whole thing and run it themselves. It lacks of document now, but that'll on my roadmap for next month.

A long the way, I realize I need more than that such as monitoring worker/cron/security(check if open MongoDB/Redis port accidently, alert when user SSH into server). I also want to monitor uptime for internal service(inside a VPC or behind a firewall) as well. Those are thing on my next list, and seamless bot intergration so you can manage everything from your slack/bot channel. Because at the end of the day, all we want for an uptime monitoring is alert. Charting is nice to have but alert is the most important thing. I want the service is just something like set and forget. Simple add the bot, tell it to monitor some service, and it message you when the service is down.
So that's is on next roadmap.

At this moment, noty is just yet another uptime monitoring tool. I plan to make the development transparency(issues/roadmap) and 100% open source all the component, including any infrastructure setup.

If you signed up and want to use SMS, but don't want to subscribe to a plan yet, just send me an email and I will assign free SMS credit for your testing.

Thank you for your time and looking forward to your feedback. You can also hit me directly at vinh@noty.im.
The issue with Uber is tipping can affect ratings and Uber plays like tipping isn't part of the mechanics. They've pushed driver payout so low it's now important for drivers to figure out how to get extra money from their fares. Lyft has pricing parity with Uber so the same issue exists but they help the situation by allowing tips to be collected in app but not expose the tip during the ratings process. It's a more honest and mature mechanic and why I've switched over to Lyft completely.
So let me get this straight: WASM is basically asm.js, but without having to go through javascript?

The future has changed!
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
People shouldn't need to beg for money in order to have a stable income when they are already working regular hours. The cash flow problems it creates for individuals and the awkward social dance it makes is problematic for everyone. No one likes two prices, they want to know what they are paying ahead of time everything included, any extras/feeds/charges/gratuities make for a bad customer experience
I've worked in several jobs where I've thought, "If I'm going to have to put up with this BS, they're going to have to pay me a lot more". And the funny thing is, often times they are willing to pay you more if you ask. So there have been times in my career where I've been miserable pretty much exactly because I decided to work in a really stressful environment while accepting a large salary.

As I get older, I'm not really that interested in putting up with the BS. So if I work in an environment without the BS, or if I have a boss who is willing to shield me from the BS, I'm very happy to pay for it.

Actually, there are tons of things I'll pay for. Remote working on a team that knows how to do it and respects remote workers? That's a big discount. A work process that allows me to work effectively in a different timezone or with flexible hours? Another discount. Guarantee that the work I'm doing will be released with a free software license? HUGE discount (really, huge). Working with interesting and talented people? Yep, discount. No inventions agreement? DISCOUNT.

You get the picture. Hell, I'll do a fair amount of work for free if you tick all the boxes. I'm nowhere near alone in this.

Edit: grammar... :-P
I treat tips the same way that sales managers treat commissions. (I wouldn't be surprised if that's the model it came from, actually.)

If you pretend to care about me and my company while we eat at your restaurant (or whatever) and do all that you can to make the experience a good one for us, then we will tip you well and we will more than likely come back. 20% is usually my minimum, but I've tipped 50-100% sometimes.

Treat us like shit, and you'll get tipped equivalently. (I've tipped 5% before for really crappy service. I don't like doing that, though.)
The scoping issue I mentioned was function scoping, not variable scoping. The language would be better for organizing code if it supported functions as methods of particular classes of objects, or functions with private scope. As a codebase gets large, how well organized the code is makes a big difference in how easy and how risky it is to change things, so it really pays for your language to make code organization as natural as possible.

I am actually not able to find statistics matching up M databases with non-M databases at the moment, but I'd be interested in seeing something like that. I don't know what you mean about having to roll your own C extension to talk to your database.
My uber drivers have been steadily dropping in quality, more often than not taking the wrong directions to my destination, despite the fact that the GPS right in front of them tells them where to go.

I've been using Lyft more and more lately. Drivers just seem.... better. And I don't mind tipping in the app.
I have 30/5 for around $60CND a month, I can get 100/10 with my current set up $13CDN more a month.

I haven't bothered upgrading. I have no problems with ping or downloads. My SO and I can both watch Netflix at the same time and we both have Backblaze running. When with stream HD TV or movies from iTunes it works fine and we get amazing quality. I get great ping times on WoW or TF2. I'm not sure what fiber would get me that I'm not getting and I'm sure the vast majority of people feel the same.

Now, if real time VR sports or live concerts ever becomes a thing ...
Reading the article I have thought twice and thrice about how to respond. Problem is every language can't be C/C++; it's like looking at LISP for first time and just diving into writing a blog ranting about it. Why does + comes before; hell = should have been assignment operator, why are things immutable and blah blah blah. It took me some time to develop taste, but all well engineered languages are tailored towards a mindset or problem-set. I might say few of points might be right here but language design is really really difficult and subjective topic. Try building the language yourself fixing stuff you just ranted about and I can guarantee you people ranting about the Frankenstein you will make.
I have been to Japan twice for 9 months in total (originally from Germany). I didn't experience culture shock in Japan at all, but I also never really came back. Reverse culture shock can last for long. It is impossible to talk about this experience to anyone but those who have experienced Japan (or Asia) themselves for long time because most people can not even imagine how different cultures can be.
Cool!

I briefly skimmed through the paper, and it seems like one of the advertised features is JOINs across chunks. How efficient is it? How do you figure out what join algorithms to use?
> Many states completely hamstring the ability to sell EV cars directly and some states are downright hostile towards Tesla.

This has nothing to do with EVs, it has to do with Tesla wanting to sell cars differently than anyone else sells cars. If Tesla wanted to do a dealer model they could certainly give it a go and be treated no differently than any other auto maker.
Tipping is an incentive for employers to squeeze the workers even more. Employers need to pay the workers a decent wage rather than them relying on tips.
Over a decade ago, a thief broke into my car and stole some items. The feeling of violation still burns within me now. It's terrible to think that someone was in my car, my space, and took my things, and used them for some unsavoury end.

In the grand scheme of the universe, those things are pretty minor. But they still hurt.

I don't know that I'd want to hurt the person or people who stole from me; I think that I'd like to get to know why he or they did it, that I'd like to see why that seemed like the right thing to do at the time. But it does hurt, even now.
Won't peole rate uber drivers who do this poorly?
Let's be honest, does anyone pay full price beyond 10 users? If there's anything I've learned it's that the word "enterprise" means "negotiable." I suspect they put that out there so they have a place to start without the costly interaction of emails coming in saying "how much for x people."
IANA expert, but as far as I can tell...

1) When it comes to sources of unpredictability, laziness is a way bigger problem than garbage collection

2) Assuming that by "GC" we mean "some variation on mark-and-sweep" (rather than meaning "any type of automatic memory management", which I hope is not the usage of anyone in this conversation), GC cost (in terms of CPU-time consumed) doesn't care how many allocations you've done, nor how much garbage it needs to collect. All it cares about is the size of the working set at the time that it runs. As such, all those lingering copies of the old tree nodes (etc, etc) are irrelevant. So I don't see why Haskell's additional allocations should cause GC to be any more of an overhead.
Can you give us a (as long as possible) tldr version of how you went from Idea to execution? Did you have relevant background around ISPs and or telecom? How did you investigate which ISPs you could partner with and how did you partner with them?
> Then some assholes sued and now Uber drivers are allowed to ask for tips. Nice job breaking it, hero.

err, tipping isn't mandatory. "The assholes" you are talking about are not employed by Uber therefore should be allowed to ask for tips if they want. Remember, Uber "is just an app", or so they say... "The assholes" want to make hands meet, just like you. You might not care about their point of view or their interests but nobody's going to be driving you at loss or with ridiculous margins for much longer. So there is no need to insult people who fight for their rights.

Rich and powerful people use the law to their advantage all the time when they don't blatantly violate it like Uber. I didn't see you complain about that, nor call them "assholes".
The original discussion was about generating keys from passphrases, which is much, much easier to exploit than what Keybase is doing. The discussion about whether Keybase's usability is worth the security tradeoff is one I'll leave to someone else.
To quote Mark Zuckerberg (about Hollywood and "The Social Network"):

"They just can't wrap their head around the fact that someone might build something because they like building things."
It appears only the desperate drivers are left in the system, making ranking and yanking self-defeating unless Uber wants to continue to canabilize its diminishing capacity.
Have you tried compiling your project with the -Os flag instead of -O2 or -O3, so the optimizer prefers to generate smaller code?

Performance will be slightly worse but a smaller wasm binary means less for the browser to deal with on initialization.
You seem to want to kill the messenger here. If Uber's practice was unlawful, it would've been stopped eventually.

And why was Uber's practice unlawful? The "free market" of contractors Uber relies on to drive down costs also allows drivers freedom of speech to ask for tips. Uber can either have an open driver market or they can limit their drivers' speech — they can't do both.
It seems like it would qualify under the rules of an Other Nontaxable Exchange - Property Exchanged for Stock.[0] I think there are enough cases like this and the IRS rules are sufficiently clear that it will be possible to structure the VC investment in a way that eliminates any tax liability on the conversion.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p544/ch01.html#en_US_2016_p...
I've fantasized about the Musk-esque projects I would take on if/when I have some money, and this is near the top of the list. Cultured animal products, without the cruelty or inefficiency of raising conscious, normal animals, has the potential to push humanity forward economically, morally, and healthfully (couldn't hurt to provide more nutritious options).

I wish that there was more of a focus on milk, because milk production is arguably the most cruel of them all, and it also seems to be more feasible, considering it's a homogeneous liquid solution. Granted, synthetic milk is getting some attention, too: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/genetic-engineering-synthetic-milk-...
Hmm that is true. It's probably been said before, but the Model X definitely made things a lot more difficult to get to a rollout of the model 3.

"I'm not sure anyone should have made this car," he said at a press conference just hours before the first Model Xs were delivered to VIP customers."

""We probably should have just [modified the Model S]," he added. "There are so many more features and difficult to build parts on [the Model X] than it is necessary for us to sell the cars.""
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I'm sorry it's harder to take advantage of underpaid service workers now. I'm sure folks will get over it.
So they might actually have a level playing field now?
I drive Uber from time to time. I've only gotten a tip once over ~50 rides.

A lot of the time the traffic conditions mean that after costs (I assume $0.40 per mile costs for mileage, gas, maintenance, etc.) my hourly is closer to $8 an hour (because after I drive for a while sometimes I need to drive a long way back as well on my own dime), which is below minimum wage. That's not including having to pick up plastic bottles after people or cleaning seats so they don't smell like sweat.

It's basically never worth to pick up anyone who is going far away from your house, you end up actually driving for free since you have to drive there and EVENTUALLY drive home. Why do you think Uber drivers don't want to drive 40 minutes away just to get paid less than if they drove for 40 minutes inside their own city? I'll never accept a ride to San Francisco (40 minutes away) ever again, it's never worth the price unless there's surge pricing in effect.

If I make $8-12 an hour, getting a $1 tip is like a 10% increase in my wage. I don't badger people for tips, but if I got like 10% of people to tip me, it would be super worth. The one tip I got was $20, btw. Even if we assume a 12% tip rate up from 2% if I ask for them explicitly, and the average tip size of $5 (median would be more like $2, but if I get a few more $20 tips the average would be higher than the median), I would make $0.50 more per hour which is a 5% increase in my earnings.

Maybe it's something I should actually start doing.
Not with Oracle being litigious pricks.
> So their lack of dealers who supply an automatic mark-up is something that they cite as a strength, not a weakness.

They don't have an automatic mark-up, but car dealers also operate on razor thin margins (the real money is in service and trade ins). However dealers pay their own rent and even spend money advertising. Tesla is on the hook for all of its dealerships, a significant cost that its competitors don't have. In the end I don't think it's such a game changer. It makes sense for Tesla, but doesn't magically make things cheaper.
Why aren't we standardizing on something like Java bytecode or LLVM IR or CLR?

What problems with those existing technologies could wasm solve better?