skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you get confident with your static site generator, you don't even have to download it or run it locally (not kidding).

I have my Hugo-based blog on Gitlab (content, themes, config, etc).

I just need to commit changes to my plain text content (Org/Markdown) -> Netlify sees the commit -> Runs hugo to generate the site -> Site gets published.
I'm not familiar with the presenter, but I found this "case-study" to be mostly filler. ie a case study by someone looking for things to say, but doesn't really understand the problem.

A summary of his critiques:

"They grew too quickly for their own good."
Ok, so his conclusions, they should've grown more slowly

"The giant Amazon entered the market and scared people away from them"

Being an even smaller company wouldn't have helped fight amazon. Being larger and in a sufficient position with high enough revenue to try to fight amazon or get negotiate better rates would've. But this exactly contradicts growing too fast]

"Don't buy a ranch"
This point is funny, and makes for a catch phrase, but buying that single ranch had no significant impact on their profits. They aren't succeeding or failing because of that ranch. It's something convenient to point to and say a cliche like "you're not focusing on your core competencies", but honestly that likely had a .001 percent impact on their actual business. And no I don't imaging 70% of their management team is focusing on that ranch at the expense of their core business.

This entire video feels like fluff, mad-money style analysis to me. And really gives no insights as to what is happening to their business.

Things I would've found interesting. Are they losing customers? Has growth stopped? What are competitors spending on marketing? What are competitors acquisition rates? How long does the average customer stay? Was it priced assuming it was long term customers, but customers actually only stay less than 1yr then move on? Are single people using it to learn cooking then leave? Do customers that leave, leave the industry or just move to another service? Are customers just hopping/rotating between multiple services?

Answers to those questions would provide some insight. this presentation really had nothing to me. The closest thing was the food safety issue, but again did that actually impact delivery rates? Or costs? is it just normal cost of doing business in produce/meat delivery?

I really expected more from this.
The Renaissance Precursor of Rap Battles and Flow
No matter what the motive for this, it does not look good for the future. Uber kind of showed its hand here. What is the guarantee that they will not ask for a fee to get rides in the future? Or may be ask for a recurring fee of some sort as a privilege to drive for them? I know I am extrapolating too much here may be, but the path is there.
I don't regret leaving either.

I do wish that 24-year-old me had either enough wisdom (or perhaps, say, an ethical advisor) to skip getting into massive debt.

I don't agree that folks get paid what they are worth, but that's probably a deeper disagreement than warrants discussion on this forum.
Taxis are a typical market of critical mass. The bigger a company gets, the better its product inherently gets. This tends to be something that leads to monopolization. Taxi transportation was (and is) already a monopoly in many areas. And in that case they're mostly obtaining their monopoly just based on the critical mass aspect since the real benefits of an economy of scale is reduced when you have a human in the car as the price floor far higher than just the maintenance cost of the car.

And that floor is also regionally dependent. With self driving taxis there no technical reason that taxis in San Francisco couldn't cost the same as taxis in places with reasonable living expenses, at least so long as things like basic maintenance could also be reasonably automated to similarly remove humans from the picture.

And finally it will be incredibly difficult to convince consumers to swap to another brand. One taxi is, more or less, the same as another. When one works well, has an overwhelming critical mass, and offers fair prices - where is a new company supposed to compete? Also there will be minimal need to pick and choose markets, at least not in the scale you're implying. I think most of these imminent monopoly factors are going to be self evident to investors. That's going to drive absurd investment enabling companies to deploy in mass. The bottle neck will likely be how fast cars can be produced which is likely why we're seeing riding sharing come autonomous taxi companies currently partnering with vehicle manufacturers. And I've yet to touch on the final issue (though I'm sure I'm neglecting others) and that can be stated simply as what it is - mergers and acquisitions.
> It seems to me we are making a rhetorical space for bourjois marxists. Why?

??? Academically they're interesting questions to ask? Have you ever taken a class on Marxist critical theory or Marxist feminism or ...

A "marxist" is someone who uses Marx's method of analyzing class and capitalism to talk about whatever they want. One specific example is a Marxist critical theorist I know who likes to discuss the way class and capitalism as Marx discussed them arise in philosophical interpretations of modern literature.

Marxism is a political philosophy - one that has a lot of negative connotation in the United States due to its ties to communism, but Marxism is just philosophy so of course we'd want a space where academics can talk philosophy.

See this comment for a better explanation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15512846
From the preface to his current book (on the web[1]):

"However, there are two fundamental problems whose difficulty is a clear reminder of our limited knowledge, and whose solution would require a more sophisticated understanding than the one currently within our immediate grasp:

• The construction of a theory of quantum gravity (QG)

• The Riemann hypothesis (RH)

The purpose of this book is to explain the relevance of noncommutative geometry (NCG) in dealing with these two problems. Quite surprisingly, in so doing we shall discover that there are deep analogies between these two problems which, if properly exploited, are likely to enhance our grasp of both of them."

The connecting of quantum gravity and the Riemann hypothesis blows my mind. I may never get any great understanding of it, but I have to try.

[1]http://www.alainconnes.org/docs/bookwebfinal.pdf
This seems like a great application of VR.
Hmm, testing it here on Mac Office 15, it does work if you use .xls, but it throws an error message first. So much for that trick...
> Look, at the end of the day, these drivers can just as easily 1) go to lyft,

But does lyft have the capacity to take on huge number of uber drivers? Given the gap in revenue numbers it looks unlikely.
A Dying Doctor, Peter Thiel and a Rogue Herpes Vaccine Trial
Yup. The price I'm seeing is $7.99/mo.

Sorry - I switched to a laptop, as it's easier to type this out.

Now, 10 pictures is $7.99 is $0.77 each.

To keep that in mind, and do some quick math...

Package 2 is 25 pictures. If we use the $0.69, then $17.25, which can be rounded down to $16.99.

It's not major until you get higher.

Package 3 is 50 pictures. Using the same progression, now at $0.59 per image, we get $29.50.

Package 5 is 100 pictures. Again, that's now $0.49 which works out to a price of $49.99.

If you wanted...

Package 1 could be $7.99 for 10 (each additional is $0.75)

Package 2 would be $16.99 for 25 (each additional is $0.65)

Package 3 would be $27.99 for 50 (each additional is $0.55)

Package 4 would be $49.99 for 100 (each additional is $0.45)

Something like that. 100 well printed pictures each month? That's well worth $49.99 for many of us.

That's also a lot of pictures - so the idea comes into play of having a single recipient who can have multiple authorized senders. So, the grandparent's three kids could all send pictures to the account. (There's a number of ways to decide if only x-amount get printed, perhaps the final choice is done by the payee.)

You can just email me, if you want. uninvolved@outlook.com is certain to be seen and responded to, eventually.

I don't want to derail the thread too far. I'm just trying to share some quick and dirty marketing data.

If each of my kids made me a grandfather, I'd buy a package of 100 - if they can distribute it between them. If not, I'd buy two packages of 100 - and I'd do so at the $49.99/mo price, no questions asked.

I kinda like the idea of X-dollars for X-number of pictures and then X-number for each additional pictures.

I guess if you were to do that part, you should do the ethical thing and automatically charge them the less expensive price if, for example, they want to send 25 pictures in one month. If they want to send 25 pictures that month, you might as well just charge them for Package 2.

It'd be more ethical and probably encourage people to try higher packages - and then commit to keeping that same level of shared pictures.

And, as said before, there's ton of value-added services that you could toss into this.

Feel free to email, if you want. I'll throw some time at you. I wasn't doing anything better and HN is always good at helping me out when I have a question.

Edit, I typed a number wrong.
The "market will fix everything eventually" crowd never seem to think much about all the people who get steamrolled before "eventually".
"Capitalism" and "free markets" are not the same thing, in fact they are in contention with each other. The natural end of pure capitalism is monopoly and exploitation of labor. I think you might have an idealistic view of what these words mean. Currently, both are on display in all their glory. You think Uber drivers don't know what the other apps pay?
I think the options were leading to failure, so complete loss.

Or taking loss in share, inturn for long-term gain and short term atleast something than nothing
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15506334
>Full stop, you call the police immediately.

In an ideal world where calling the police does not invite greater danger, yes.
Computing and the Fermi Paradox: A New Idea Emerges – The Aliens Are All Asleep
Tackling the Affordability Crisis with Rentvesting
Ooops. That should be "Weinstein benefits", of course.
Why a U.S. Navy Hospital Ship in Puerto Rico Has Hardly Been Used
Worth noting FRIST Robtics competition is also a great place to get students involved in STEM and involved in team building, since running a FIRST team requires fundraising, design logos, order t-shirts, promote team event, so there are things for students who are not interested in the engineering part to do too, while learning more about STEM. Also parents are usually involved too... so more bonding time and more school-parent engagement.

I co-founded FIRST Robotics team in my high school (all started because I wanted to run a club for college app lol). Then the following year after we won the All-Start award, our school created an “engineering program”, and our teams (yes, teams), battle with other nearby teams :) in NYC during off season.
How long have you been reading his blog?

Do you agree with ESR that blacks are lazy, the people in the open source community who wanted Russ Nelson to step down from being president of OSI for saying "blacks are lazy" were fools and thugs, and that blacks have lower IQ and are more violent than other races ("violent idiots" in his own words)?

Because I'm wondering why you're not planning on calling him on all of that stuff, too...

But I'm telling you in advance: nothing you say is going to change his opinion or behavior one bit. But be careful that he doesn't change yours.
When the DC-8 Went Supersonic (2011)
This 10th grader is doing more than almost any person I know at University...
I think this advice applies most to layout - at work we still heavily use Bootstrap components, but the grid layout we started out with turned into hellspawn really quickly.
A nice beginner friendly book about Probabilistic Programming is the book by Avi Pfeffer: "Practical Probabilistic Programming" (published by Manning). The only downside of the book is that it used Pfeffer's own Scala library called Figaro, which does not seem to get as much attention as projects such as Stan and Edward.
the difference is that the novice is nearly always combining models and code written and trained by the expert.
Just out of curiosity, what do you think is a better (and more probable) answer?
This assumes you catch it before it falls below $24, which you'll have to by hand since you said you don't have an automatic stop loss, just a notification.
Mind to share the stack behind?

And is it indexing all popular tools into one place and providing a search box?
Support contracts, setup, etc.
100 Days of Fonts
I feel it’s a lot easier to identify when someone other than you is harassing someone. If you are harassing someone you can justify those actions to yourself that you’re just trying to get what you want, they’re not that bad, the other person is overreacting, etc.
If you pay someone to keep your home clean and tidy, have ample space, free beer, good coffee, and very comfortable furniture, then by all means. Not everyone has that luxury! WeWork (and similar co-working spaces) is a workspace where all the little details are taken care of for you. The location is also important - I don't live that close to a main train station or hotels so having a relatively centric workspace is handy for visitors. They also create an atmosphere that I wouldn't be able to create at home, with nice break out areas. The only thing I miss is not having a proper kitchen to myself, like I do when I work from home.

Oh and yes, I do work from home, sometimes the entire week.
For a company with international sales, sales tax (and VAT) should be handled in the district where the sale occurs, not where the product is manufactured. The big problem with the USA is that it doesn't have a VAT system in place to make it all work out equitably.
The field is poisoned by money, I haven't seen a single paper ever use a statistical test of significance, hell most don't even have multiple trials! Most papers can't be reproduced and when you ask the authors they'll literally say to change the random seed . This includes, often especially so, the big labs. All so people can have a piece of the big tech company money pie.
Ya, that plan doesn't always work out :)
I don't have any issue with this; it's basically just opt-in A/B testing. Better than other companies that force their A/B testing on you randomly. The conditions of the deal are pretty obvious, it's not like they're hidden in some abstruse legalese. The only potential issue with this is that Uber could manipulate the driver/passenger matching so that the driver doesn't come out ahead.
Sorry, reselling? How does this work, exactly? Would you find an upstream CA that is trusted, implement automation around their API, and sell certs?

Why would I pay you instead of just using the upstream vendor?

Why would I go to the trouble of dealing with you instead of a conventional provider like GoDaddy or Verisign?

What about Let's Encrypt?
Only really works if all of your friends work in the same environment though right
You've illustrated why I'm against the kind of simplistic programming maxims you'll find in "Effective X" books. It's easy to brand certain syntactic constructs as "bad", but unless you teach people good taste (which is fiendishly difficult to learn), all you do by telling people to avoid certain easily-recognizable syntactic patterns is to get them to come up with new horrors.
Seeing that the author of this is a security engineer, I now understand why I relate so much to this. I know this to be true - the infosec field does have it's overworked so-called rockstars.
It’s an interesting point. In my experience traditional taxis are just as bad as ride-sharing taxis, and their ability to use bus lanes means they usually end up driving 80km/h+ through the city rather than be stuck in traffic.

I have noticed that drivers of car sharing schemes (where you pay per minute) are a bit eratic at times though. I’m not sure if that’s because they are inexperienced drivers, or just the mentality of “I need to rush, this is costing me money!”.
They weren't bullied...they were wasting money. It still used compiz, which the maintainer even said was...my own words...junky. Then they decide to go mir and convergence even when the community said not to.

I like what ubuntu has done for linux use, but they seem really good at blowing money. Upstart, Mir, Unity, etc...
I would say that NoSQL was more popularized by Amazon’s whitepaper on Dynamo, which they published in 2007.
> I doubt very much Ubuntu has made python3 /usr/bin/python, since the official recommendation of the Python project is to not do that.

Tell that to Arch. :(
Autoshed is leading car and bike service center in hyderabad
Building ReactPHP Memached Client
Great talk, best Js framework!
Announcing AVA: A Finely Labeled Video Dataset for Human Action Understanding
Another Woman Has Accused Robert Scoble of Sexual Harassment

https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/woman-accuses-robert-scoble-o...

I wonder how many more will come forward in the tech Industry. The Weinstein saga did open the gates.
I am curious about the bias. B2c still requires sales.
‘Origami robot’ that can be ingested
I was thinking something like: https://www.ge.com/reports/post/118394013625/these-engineers...

I think you can do a crappy jet engine out of boring sintered stainless steel (316L), barely. Particularly if you could throw in some basic stuff from McMaster-Carr (seals/bearings/etc.)
Is there any other new hardware other than Purism and Chromebooks that uses Coreboot/Libreboot?

EDIT: A list from coreboot site [1] does not look comprehensive as it is not mentioning Chromebooks or Purism.

[1] https://www.coreboot.org/Products
No fractional scaling => no deal, better luck next time. I can't use this on my X1 _or_ on my 4K desktop display: everything is too large at 2x and too small at 1x. Unity supported this near perfectly.
That’s the problem. Not calling the cops doesn’t solve the problem. It turns it into a civil matter rather than the criminal act it is. By not calling the authorities and pressing charges, they just gave tacit approval to the behavior. It wasn’t like this assault was some he-said, she-said — it was indisputable with witnesses.

Call the cops. Get these guys sent to prison. That does a lot more than blogging vigorously about one’s displeasure.
What do the security experts think about Librem products? Does it live up to what's promised? Any gotchas users need to be aware of? I have not come across their comments on this topic, so links to the same would be appreciated if I missed them.
Restricted Shares (founder shares, etc.) are not RSUs. They are just regular common shares subject to a buyback provision (reverse vesting)
If you care about the stuff on that computer, you really want it synced somewhere anyway.

I don't personally see the utility in having my phone be my computer. I don't need Visual Studio or Photoshop on my phone. If I don't have my laptop/desktop, I'm not going to work on the things I typically do with a full-power computer. The phone is just not the right form factor, so it doesn't help for that stuff to be on my phone.
That was a different victim and the way the story was related it seems that her identity was leaked to that particular community. Scoble's victim at the campfire has remained anonymous.
Our CEO doesn't know what UX is and tried to get a marketing email designer to rebuild our whole tool. he figured the kid knows photoshop so he must know best.
What is your solution? This course of action got the victim killed. If you don’t call the cops it will happen again. Sexual predators don’t stop at one. Life is devastated when you are the victim of a crime, but you need to save the next person too.
We're not talking about forking here. Python/Ruby apps are actually spawned as several separate processes.
A JS Framework not talked enough!! Keep them coming!
Agreed.

I just counter this by offering up my Salary during the first few interactions unprompted.

Example:

Hi Mr. Nice Recruiter/Employer,

Thanks for getting in touch. My current position pays X/year and offers (1 very important perk to me).

It sounds like a great opportunity and I would love to learn more ...

See how easy it is? The best will give them the "Premium Pricing" advantage and everyone else will now fight from rock bottom.

I can't wait to see the results in a few years time when meaningful studies have been done.

My prediction:

- Total pay goes down (inflation adjusted).

- It will create a larger gender eage gap since aggressive and ambitious males will game these bullshit red tape.

Date of measurement: December 1 2021.
I don't know why everyone doesn't have one of these yet
SQL = structured query language. That's all it is, a language to access and manipulate data and data structures. It comes in several variations, standards and dialects. Any system can implement (a form of) SQL as an interface, just as any system can also implement ACID guarantees around data access, but these are completely separate concepts. ACID isn't even mentioned on the SQL wiki page. [1]

Relational databases have a history of offering both in a single package, but there is no "true" SQL. There are also plenty of non-relational data stores that offer SQL and/or ACID guarantees so this limited generalization isn't accurate or useful.

"NoSQL" has no meaning other than originally describing systems that did not have any SQL access at all, usually due to different storage layers, distributed architectures, custom access protocols, and general immaturity around usage. A decade later, all of these systems have evolved and there's both convergence and specialization everywhere.

It would be far better to just talk about the actual type of database, and the interfaces and guarantees it provides, rather than marketing jargon like nosql.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
It is far from clear that the company is going to fail. In fact, there are more signals that point to the company's eventual success than it's failure. It's the quality of that success that is at stake, if anything. Not all successes are created equal.

All internal metrics from what I've heard are rapidly increasing with no signs of stopping. The recent negative PR doesn't really affect their core business and their operations are so well oiled at this point that even not having a CEO for a while really had no major impact.

Look, I get it. Uber is easy to rag on and they've bought themselves no favors through their past actions. But let's look at this objectively. There are many parts of their business that are unprecedented and to pretend we know how this is going to play out for sure is impossibly naive. For example, they even have a 20% stake in China's Didi and that's a huge piece of the puzzle internationally.

Ride sharing is here to stay, and the market will only grow. That much is clear. What Uber’s position in a mature market looks like is what’s unclear.
This is a monstrous position. It should not be on the victim to be held responsible for the perpetrator's subsequent victims.
He was a Microsoft MVP award winner for a couple of years. I win the award a number of times, back when I was still using Windows, and he was around back then.

I'll avoid offering my own impressions except to say he reminded me of the Lockergnome guy.