skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same argument can be made about user's of cholesterol and blood pressure medicine, as well.

Exercise more, eat 'better'.
Yeah, I when I thought about it I realized when I say "SV VC" I mean probably only the top 10-20 firms or so - the "top tier" or whatever, Sequoia, Accel, KPCB, Benchmark, etc. (highly subjective but you get the idea) - and I think those guys tend to do OK, and it has been mostly the same ones my whole time in tech (~10 years), and I know many go back considerably before that.

I meant that a lot of those people are down with the land-grab now / rent later model.
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A lower population would help.

Despite people's knee-jerk reactions, allowing the population to decrease doesn't have to mean anything about eugenics and economics doesn't require growth. On the contrary, growth and even staying at current levels have many problems.

The belief that we need to grow is carrying us toward disaster.
His quote was:

> "The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

It seems opposite of what you mentioned regarding C++/Java/Python.
if you buy water and turn it into coca cola then you have to put a margin on the price for the energy and resources needed to produce cola! isn't that obvious?

what you don't get is that you have to distinguish between two prices:

- price for buying water from a source

- price for buying water in a shop

Nestlé will buy cheap water from a source - and not just part of it but pretty much all of it. then sells it overpriced as cola.

obviously if Nestlé would sell water immediately after buying from a source and just bottling it - then it would have to be cheaper than Cola (b/c of less processing).

but if Nestlé would buy all the water and just resell it - then this would be obviously crooked - the people's water source should not depend on a corporation who is bribing the elite and politicians for an exclusive access to that resource.

got it?

and to state that it doesn't matter if the primary fluid source of a human being is Cola or water and to deny health affects or downplay them - that's ridiculous.
Even if wages grew, it won't help enough--regular Americans are still dealing in terms of $5, $10, $20, the occassional $100. Pocket change is still a thing (barely). Meanwhile, the Federal budget is almost $4 Trillion. To be "rich" in the US, you have to be at least a deca-millionaire, and there are thousands of hundred-millionaires and plenty of billionaires. That's a lot of extra zeros that regular people will never have.

That's the reality of the situation--even a typical building construction, road or bridge project costs millions and that's more money than a regular person will see in their lifetime.
Mugging is a colloquial term. Yes I did report the faulty reader. The reader was reading cards and acknowledging them ergo it wasn't faulty and I was charged correctly apparently. Unfortunately this was, to use another colloquial term, bollocks.
I used to live outside the M25 and a black cab was £110 from central London (around 30 miles). Uber was around £50-£60, so much cheaper by comparison.
Game theory makes it clear why anonymous cabs paid in cash will almost always provide worse service than a rating sensitive system.

The notion that people will be kind and nice because of social norms or "plain decency" or something is sentimental hogwash. People behave well when the system rewards them for doing so and penalises them for not.
The case for open source by default
Citibank (India) Account closed because of Bitcoin purchase
Asking people to be competitive on prices with a company whose business model is to lose money by undercutting until all the competition is gone ... well, seems like that won’t end well for London
Having lived in London for several years, I have a special hatred of black cab drivers. I have never had a single good experience using a black cab, and very few of my friends do either. Complaints range from refusing to take a fare (which would've been four miles but crossed the river - cabby flatly said "I'm not going south of the river this late, I won't get any fares to come back") to deliberately taking long routes (I took a cab from Covent Garden to Islington once, when we were about to cross the river I told the cabby I'm a Londoner, not a tourist, and if you cross the river then I'm getting out).

I really dislike Uber, but there's no question I'd rather use them in London than a black cab. This is one of those decisions that are likely to be fully justified, but will still suck for those who have come to rely on them.
What is an immutable infrastructure?
Visual scripting are a really powerful tool. I have never used Godot, but in UE4 you have 3 different styles of visual scripting, and each is a powerful tool in its own style

there are blueprints, that are really easy to use, and are really powerful. just decorate any function in c++ with UFUNCTION() and bam! you have a blueprint callable function.
besides, there are things that just work better in blueprint, like latent actions (in c++ you would have to code timers and stuff, in BP is just action1()->delay(0.5)->action2() ) and curve driven stuff is easier in blueprints

there are animation blueprints: in these you get 'animation data' and you have nodes that help you mix different sources of animation, transform, blend, or simulate rigidbody on certain bones, is like a functional programming where you have this `animationstate` type that you operate with in every node. It also has a graphic state machine where you can describe the animation output in each state, and the rules of transition (for example, transition from idle to run if velocity>5.

also you have materials, is also like another functional programmming, where you grab inputs and put it in material outputs, again like functional programming, you sample textures, pan the samples, mix with colors and do a lot of stuff.

These uses (mostly animation and shaders) are mostly for people without technical inclinations, I would recommend you to try UE4 or godot and see how well visual scripting fits the project.
Speaking of auto & home insurance, mine has risen at a fairly good clip for no reason--just another fleecing.
What's required and reality are sometimes very different. I know I've been told the card machine doesn't work, then magically after saying I have no cash it'll start working a minute later...
SaferCPlusPlus[1] is the library that's probably closer to Rust "in spirit and intent". And more importantly, safety effectiveness. And it does address the data race issue.

[1] shameless plug: https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus
This seems like a great step. I had no idea the accuracy was only 5 meters right now. My phone feels like it is more accurate than (like 2 meters) that but I suppose that is because software does a good job at guessing where you actually are?

It's awesome that it is half the power of current chips too. Because I think smart phone users care more about battery life than accuracy.

Edit: Changed my messages because I reread the article and caught something I missed the first time. I missed the power usage statement the first time.
I've been using Qbserve for maybe 6 months. It has saved me, I don't know, 4-6 hours a month ret-conning and tuning timesheets. It's also meant I've gotten paid for those trivial jobs that I always forget to enter into even the simplest manual tracker. The productivity boost (which I have absolutely noticed) is a nice bonus. I don't know what you charge for your time, but Qbserve paid for it for me several times over in the first month.
FYI historically we did away with many of the debt related laws and centralization, because that could / will likely lead to debters prison. That being said, obviously things need to change, but based on your description, it's not really a credit agency. If they can't determine how credit worthy you are (historic payments are the #1 indicator), then they really don't have any information besides current debt.
That's really awesome to hear. I think it is fair to say that app-level partitioning on top of Postgres is now obsolete.
Yes that sounds like a sane system.

It's worth nothing that though that this breach also affected some non-US citizens as well, most reports mentioned UK residents and Canadian residents as well.
This is only a part of the entire equation. Politics could be happy and sell their triumph for a while, but entrepreneurs an companies at this point would had a big problem and probably not so happy
Please point out a country that actually implemented Communism. The Soviet Union never got past Socialism, where capital was owned by the state, not by workers. Communism doesn't imply a state-controlled economy, and that's the inefficient part. Socialism combines the worst aspects of a late-stage capital ruling class with a command economy.
"They do? You sure about that?"

Yes, I pay with credit card 9/10 times and get a receipt. I doubt any of these companies are big enough to have offshore companies to route their income through.

"Then why not just let them compete?"

They do. There's quite big competition in my city among public transport (city owned), many local taxi companies, private taxi drivers and Uber. Competition is quite fierce and costumers can choose freely whatever they prefer. I prefer taxi, I call taxi, some of my friends prefer Uber - they call Uber. What other competition do you have in mind?
Endangered your safety? Did someone force you into the vehicle?
Maybe they were more lucky. In case of my grandparents, they were children whose parents were executed by Nazis or sent to Auschwitz to die, or who themselves were sent, as teenagers, to a Stalinist prison.
That comment was about the city I live in now, Southampton, where we have multiple cab firms with reasonable prices and reasonable apps.

That said I used to live in Streatham in the mid 00s, and sure, the transport situation wasn't great. There was choice back then, but between terrible or worse.
Investigative journalism? Sort of is their job.

You're not just supposed to blindly reprint things people say.

Admittedly everyone does it anyways, but still.
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You are asking me what I like, I like having freebies. I am unsure how my preference makes a difference to the substance of fact.

They are economically easier, because the firms I know can bring economies of scale to bear on them, which I can't do on my own.

But that's opinion.

You are arguing the merits of Real Comp - as if there is some world in which Real comp will NOT exist.

The issue I am pointing out, is that this is a theoretical world, like round cows.

In the real world, this will always be the case, so aside from a rhetorical device, or thought experiment to examine certain models, its not a practical item.

There will always be a situation, Such that, firms in different industries, will possess capital and service advantages, which make it easier for them to pay X$ in costs to the firm, and provide (1+C)*X$ of benefit to their employees.

You can't escape that.

Therefore, you must deal with it.
Thank you for posting this. This is, imo, the most important front end to hn. I'm surprised it was left out of the list.
I don't know about that; if anything I'd say the easy availability of salary information tips the scales in favor of job seekers, since an organization doing hiring regularly naturally has more information on how much people are being paid. The information on the Internet is also pretty low quality.
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Uber's response to the assault claims. https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/vv598m/uber-drivers-a...

I suspect that this is actually behind doors shenanigans by the hands of incumbents.

Uber is big... They have many more rides than anyone else (outside of Central Central London), and there doesn't appear to be any evidence that more crime proportionally is happening with them than any other company.
Wait. What? In 2017? There are instructions and I have to report broken equipment? I have to figure out instructions on payment system?! There's no button to handle it all on my phone?

Cabs should either operate as well as Uber or die. Instead of figuring out how to become as good or better than Uber they are trying to push Uber out. That just means someone else would show up.
While I specifically disagree with the OP that "You can't do anything meaningful about these events," the rest of the advice is pretty dead-on. I've read it from a spectrum of authors as wide as Dale Carnegie ("How To Stop Worrying and Start Living") to Dr. Andrew Weil ("8 Weeks to Optimum Health") to Cal Newport ("Deep Work").

Think of it this way: it's good to be well-informed about the state of political affairs today and to understand the issues. What's not healthy is obsessively reading Twitter every hour, constantly being outraged and getting into flame wars (does anyone even use that term anymore?)
>> The Taxi business in every city is a 'monopoly'. Shares in this 'rent seeking entity' are bought by owning 'medallions'.

This is just not true, and the medallion system doesn't seem to exist outside of the US.

The rest of your post is just as much nonsense. There's a whole list of reasons Uber are having this happen, and none of it's political.

Oh, and according to Uber, they aren't jobs - or else they'd have to comply with employment law, something else they'd rather avoid.
Lots of make-work jobs in local and state governments, an over-supply of police in many locales (due to unions dictating "correct" force size).

What really gets me is how many tech recruiters there are--how do all those people make enough to live given their low quality of service and expertise they provide?
The current "California" tops out at ~$60,000.

Just looking at a picture of that little space gives me a tight feeling in my chest.
Oh yeah, by "communism" I mean whatever was implemented in Soviet block, China, India, Vietnam etc., not what Marx and others envisioned in their theories.
It’s not volume sliding, but close to it. Having a button to move a running audio stream from speakers to headphones to network playback on my phone is amazing.
I'm so grateful that HN has such a fine-tuned BS detector - filters out the noise (eg. suspicious apps like this) very quickly.
I mean no disrespect, but I think you are perhaps misunderstanding the concept of a monopoly.
I remember when PulseAudio came out. I loved it! I could actually have two programs open playing audio at the same time[0]. The future was now.

[0] If I remember correctly, this was due to driver issues, but somehow PA just handled it.
You should install apulse and run that with Firefox! Works like a charm.
The Surprising, Ancient Behavior of Jellyfish
This should really be solved in software...

However, I remember trying to map capslock to control on windows a few years back. It involved becoming an administrator and entering an opaque hexadecimal key into the registry.

Simply popping off the key is probably easier.

Oh, on linux it boils down to "setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps", which doesn't require root...
If I'm going to be downvoted... some kind of counterpoint or explanation would help progress the discussion, and avoid my making similar errors in the future.
I've learned to always, ALWAYS ask when I first step into a cab whether they accept card payments, anywhere in the world. As far as I can remember, every time I've done this the answer has always been "yes" and the card payment worked without a hitch at the end of the ride. Yet just about every time I took a cab without asking about cards upfront, the driver would tell me his reader isn't working and he'd have to drive me to an ATM. Funny how conveniently finicky those readers are...
That looks fantastic. I look forward to buying the low end model on craigslist in a few years :p
And in states with robust worker protection laws the benefits of a union are less valuable.
this is neat! thanks, this wasn't a thing a year or so ago. Now if only I can figure out if I can add Slack teams without fucker or the reverse.
The seatbelt broke 10 mins into the journey while we were on a motorway. It's illegal to stop on the motorway, and being left at the side of the road isn't exactly a great alternative.
FWIW when I was still a student and not in a 9-5 I wondered what if would feel like to use basecamp. Now here I am happily going with flow using slack on the fre eplan. One of my coworkers sometimes asks if we shouldn't go with a subscription to have the whole logs but we rarely have to dive so far in the past at all.
discovering that I could REFILL plastic bottles was a life-changer for me.
Investors and the Government are the first in line to profit from inflation, since it devalues the one thing only they can afford: debt.

And investments in the stock market, real estate or anything else than actual money are at least protected by usually rising with inflation.

The one group that suffers disproportionally from inflation are the elderly, who receive a fixed pension (/social security) based on their lifetime dues.

Right after that are employees, because wages typically lag behind when inflation picks up.
Is Facebook building a voice assistant to compete with Siri, Alexa?
I've been making the switch from Chrome to Firefox over the past month, and HNES is the one thing I truly miss that I haven't found a good replacement for.
The Brain Fuck Scheduler
Option #1 hckrnews and some of the other options don't disrupt voting or commenting much at all, they're just a bunch of links to the main Hacker News web site: you have to click through to Hacker News to read the comments, so that's how you upvote and/or comment.

Preventing you from upvoting without actually reading the articles and/or comments is probably a good thing.
Seveneves is in two distinct parts (near future and far future). Let's just say the last part is ... different than the first part.
You absolutely 100% must report them. Seriously. Every time. It's the only way we make it better for everybody.

The requirement for it to always be available is a new one - it was introduced in recent months. So if your experience pre-date that, that behaviour may have changed.

If it hasn't you absolutely 100% need to report the driver to TfL.
Good point, I hadn't considered those second order effects.

> There are plenty of low income workers that would quit their jobs, driving their wages up

I don't think we have enough information currently to unequivocally state that. How many low income workers would quit? It's not like many people in better paying jobs reduce their working hours up to a point where they make the equivalent amount of money as a UBI. How many currently unemployed people would be picking up the slack?

> thereby either driving up the cost of goods or reducing supply.

Labor costs are a small part of the price of basic goods. I couldn't find much good information, but e.g. [1] says that for fresh fruit and vegetables a 40% increase of labor costs amounts to a 4% increase for consumers.

[1] https://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=2005
I've been thinking about this as well and not only for Uber. Airbnb and other similar companies could create platforms to allow people to do this on their own. The sad reality, though, is you don't make billions by enabling people, you make billions by controlling people.
At least this is one problem new MacBook users won't have!
It's all good until "my attempt is a half-ass attempt"

This requires self consciousness.

Lack of self consciousness (the same trait that prevents them from recognizing themselves in a mirror) logically makes it more of a "my nest is the best. It sure will do the trick" invariably.

Self conscious individual w/o much experience to learn from (i.e. not instinctual) will be at loss in the grand scheme of evolution of beauty and nest weaving.
I've looked at Reviewable several times, and I'm afraid to say I've never been convinced to try it. There's obviously a huge cost to moving team process over to a new tool like this, but also I just found it more difficult to understand what was going on compared to GitHub reviews, so it wasn't particularly compelling for us. Hope you don't mind the candid feedback!
I see that as a way to clean up rivers. If you’re environmentally conscious, let your tap run 24 hours a day :-)

Seriously: I don’t think separate quality sources makes much sense. Firstly, citizens would have to be aware that there is tap water they cannot drink (where can you safely use it, and be sure kids wouldn’t drink it? Showers and garden hoses definitely are out. Farming and industry probably are the only use cases that make sense, and those already can have separate lower quality feeds, if they want it), and secondly, the effort needed to keep the streams separate and the impact of that going awry would make it difficult.

On the exit side, there is discussion about keeping runoff water separate from more contaminated water (greywater vs blackwater. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greywater, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(waste)). That already is done a bit in new neighborhoods by having separate pipes for rainwater runoff and sewage. Possible problem there is that adding rainwater to sewage helps it flow through the system. Also, again, constructors would have to conscious about never feeding blackwater into a greywater pipe.
Not too different from me accidentally triggering so many undesired things with the MacBook Pro TouchBar. I previously had no idea how many interfaces respond to the Esc key, now I do.
Presumably the US RV market mostly wants more space.

Sort of the same thing with housing. I guess that permitting would get in the way of building really tiny efficiency apartments, but if people really wanted to live in ~10 square meters at a vaguely inconvenient location, housing would already be less of an issue.
There are dozens of us. It's massively disrupting to the state of flow to miss a key by one, and suddenly another window pops up, but there's no text inside. It takes several seconds for the window to compose itself, and several more to close.

I do keep the F1 key somewhere safe, to put back onto the keyboard, for the next keyboard user.
I see cab drivers in my city have gone to the same cab driver school.
> gitlab

is written in Ruby.
That's great to hear, I haven't used GitLab for code review before. I struggle to use the rest of GitLab, but it's improving all the time so we might consider it once it's up to the usability of GitHub for the rest of the experience.
I saw the same at my hometown (São Lourenço-MG, Brazil).
It's not fresh news Nestlé doing this.

https://www.cartacapital.com.br/sociedade/em-guerra-contra-a... (pt-BR)
"Awesome mate, they can find me at that time"
What is new in Java 9
Most of local cab companies in my city also let you rate a driver now, so it's not a unique selling point of Uber anymore.
tl;dr F1 is generally help . Excel's help is apparently slow to load and close. Hence, the interviewees removed the key to avoid pressing it, when they meant to press F2.

It's disappointing but unsurprising they didn't just have windows (autohotkey?) map it to F2.
I totally agree, I wish it had that too!
My experience does not match what you are saying. I was always taught that (unless a service charge is already included) you should tip 10-20% in good restaurants. Not to tip I believe is generally seen as rude/a sign that service was bad.
I see what you mean now, you are correct there are parts of the Trump movement that are more mainstream, but this article and others try to lump all 63 million voters, and anyone who supports any of his policies into the extreme fringe of hate groups that also support him ( which he hasn't distanced himself from enough )
I thought this text adventure approach is a cool way of learning: http://wwwlgis.informatik.uni-kl.de/extra/game/