skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because people taking Ubers typically either aren't licensed or indisposed for some reason (attention, drunk, etc)
It's a mailing list, not a unix app. I'm not going to be piping the output from this into something else. To me the core "value prop" of this is "inspiration" for things to make. Adding specifics to that seems like a natural extension.
That might be another option, but then you risk the car getting stuck on its way to the customer. Also, I want to be able to Uber home from a bar drunk like an idiot, or take an uber because I can't drive.

I definitely see a place for share pool cars that deliver themselves to you when you need them and return autonomously when you are done, but maybe not Uber?
Node is fine, and I don't agree with the hate, but Rust and Go would both give you a single binary that just runs everywhere. Not everyone already has Node installed.
Why can't both things be true?

If you consistently deliver brilliant policies that help your people, you should be re-elected.

Plus, by still making the people pay, you can offer them an amazing tool to increase their productivity WITHOUT taking away their pride in providing for themselves or establishing a direct indefinite dependency.
I speed up only to 1.25X or not at all. I find there is a sweet spot between listening faster and actually taking in what is being said. I used to do 2x but found myself forgetting the contents rather than remembering like I normally would.
Accumulate more concrete knowledge. Our brains develop abstractions when we identify patterns in disparate phenomena. Can't identify those patterns if you don't study the concrete phenomena themselves.

As you learn more you'll build up a toolbox of abstractions that will make thinking and learning easier.
>Are those who exploit an addiction for profit complicit in that addiction?

When it comes to drug law, precedent would show that they are far more culpable than the user/addict.
Uber to buy 24,000 self-jumping sharks.
Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?
Do they have electricity? A mini-fridge runs <$70 (probably less second-hand). That's a little more than a week's worth of Panera. Pretty easy to do with dry goods and cup ramen that only requires hot water to heat up. Pressure cookers are even cheaper. Rice cookers can be had for <$25.

So while I recognize that not everyone in that situation may be resourceful enough to realize this and do something about it, the notion that cooking becomes impossible is not accurate.

The education for where to purchase these things cheaply and how to cook in restricted situations with them is admittedly still a problem though, and it seems like a lot of good could be done to solve it. Getting your nutrition bootstrapped up on a path that lets you save more money seems like a worthwhile goal.
Thanks SoftBank!
An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K
The Approaching Silicon Valley Meltdown
"Uber donates $1M to Meals on Wheels" -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15741798

(Your comment made me cynical; yet, this post is on the front page right now.)
How do you get 25,000 tons of food to the people who need it?
This is very cool! But I'm not sure how many companies it is suitable for. Any non-dev I work with does not use github, and it would not make sense for them to. I get that Github are releasing an MVP and this will improve but I've found facebook workplace to be pretty awesome for this use case (non-realtime communication / team and company announcements).
I misspoke, I should have included sales and property tax. When you take sales tax into consideration Connecticut has a much higher burden than just considering income alone. Edited my post accordingly.

> Connecticut's estate tax only applies to estates worth over $2,000,000. Either that doesn't apply to your parents' estate, or they're probably doing better than middle class.

There is a third option. He actually saved what the retirement planners recommend you save. Never went on vacations, never bought any luxuries, and was generally very frugal.

My father literally put every penny he had past food and shelter into retirement savings... add 60 years of interest, dividends, and market gains and $2M is not so crazy.

It also helps that he bought his house for $50k 40 years ago and it is now worth quite a bit more.

When he was working he was upper middle class for sure but still firmly in the middle class. He was also upper middle because he worked a blue collar job with plenty of overtime options and literally worked close to 40 hours of overtime a week for 50 years. The truly upper class don't need to work 80 hours a week.

Is he typical? No way. Would I even want to lie like that? No way either. But it is how he is able to be effected by estate tax and still be middle class.
nitpick: PATH != NJT. PATH is run by the Port Authority. NJT commuter rail is what connects to EWR AirTrain.

Also, don't take the subway to/from JFK, take LIRR it's like 40 minutes faster.
Yeah, I’m happy to pay but not sure anyone would consider for what would really be advice/discussion on an ad hoc basis. There’s not really a community around here but I could venture further afield I guess.
I think that Chrome still has an edge in performance when you consider the UI globally. In Firefox when creating a new window keypresses and mouse clicks are ignored until some point in the new page initialization. Before that they events are swallowed

In contrast in Chrome the keypresses are taken into account immediately, even if the window takes a bit longer to initialize as a user I don't have to wait, I can type my query, let Chrome do it's thing and eventually I'll get my result. In Firefox I have to wait until the adress box is ready before I can type something. Even if the whole process is faster it means it still takes more of my attention time.
Or the way that religions dominated the attentions of earlier times--with the occasional social surplus being squandered on cathedral building, crusades, heresy and it's suppression, pilgrimages, self-mortification etc.
No what sucks is they made a clickbaity article by not removing checked in dependencies right at the beginning.

There are even scenarios where I’ve seen Java projects check in their dependencies (in conservative industries) so this erodes the value of the numbers greatly.

We have a pretty big issue with duplication of effort. I was hoping for an article that would be a wake up call but instead it’s just measurement artifacts.
> but that applies more to library-type tools, IMO, than language features.

I'm a Lisp person of many years, so my perception of this distinction has gradually atrophied, dried and fallen off.
But even in this context, I would still rather have a larger language (more stuff which is Just There), even though more kinds of things can be add-on modules in Lisp than in something like Perl.
Exactly. If you can't consciously choose to turn off your phone and go read a book, you never had anything that remotely resembles free will.
Or a profoundly uninteresting job.
We run HVAC systems 100% of the time basically. If you turn a house HVAC off in Florida for a few months the house will generally be full of mold.
I can't comment on this specific course, but I took a compilers course from Tom Cormen that completely changed how I thought about computing. After several years in industry, it's not so much the specific techniques of constructing a compilers that remain useful, but the mode of thinking I learned.

I had an AHA moment along the lines of "Wow, the compiler writer is basically God." I had taken courses in software development and hardware architecture, but after writing a compiler I saw first-hand how a program--a description of a solution to a problem in a human readable language--is converted to the same description in a hardware readable language. The meaning of the program must be preserved by the compiler, but otherwise it has the freedom to generate any one of potentially many outputs that preserve the meaning.

There is a beauty I realized in the relationship between the programmer, the programming language, the compiler, and the hardware architecture. They are all in cahoots, but the compiler is the cornerstone. That relationship doesn't directly affect my decisions as a professional software engineer, but it forms the backdrop upon which I think about the act of programming and computing in general.
We had just started up an internal discourse to have this exact kind of functionality, kudos @github - great job.
Reproduction.
First company that integrates something like Google glasses and adblock gets my money.
EDIT: "even when one is ..."
People build a model of their world based on stimuli.

You cannot be present everywhere so you trust other people to perceive things for you.

That trust is often abused by injecting bias. And this is done to exert influence over people.

Same trust is abused to certain extent by historians through revisionism.

Same trust is abused by organized religion, where they control the rules of how you get favored by supreme beings. In some cases those rules are intrincated and arbitrary, like wasting your life building a pyramid, or entering a structure designated as temple every week, or believing other people belong to a better caste (where coincidentally the religious caste is usually at the top).
>> that their decisions are based on past experiences and that their free will is actually just the evaluation of their perceptions (of their truth)

This might be pretty close to the mark, actually. Our conditioning to past, even collective, social, experience can become so all encompassing that we cannot imagine something "other". Perhaps psychopaths can? And that's a pretty scary thought.
New lower prices for GPUs and preemptible Local SSDs
I remember the first time I heard the intro music to the fivethirtyeight politics podcast at 1x speed. Had a completely different feel from what I had grown accustomed to.
They are, actually. All your operationally necessary but not directly revenue generating business units/functions are cost centers, in this model. And they get beaten with the same stick.
Eve V
Reminder: you have a choice. You can turn off Facebook, the media, et. al. and regain your focus.
Jeff Bezos says it will always be “Day 1” at Amazon
What to know about the FCC’s upcoming plan to undo its net neutrality rules
This advice may make sense if you're either independently wealthy, or young enough and unencumbered enough with life's obligations that you can afford to work for a year or two without a salary.

Actually, I think Silicon Valley uses this as a bit of a filter. It filters for people with a background and social network where a couple hundred thousand dollars, or working for a year or two without pay, are not a big deal.

Exercise for the reader: what cohort of people does this filter exclude?
> The First Amendment protects freedom of speech, but it doesn’t necessarily protect freedom of attention.

Just to point out, it protects the freedom of speech in relation to what the government can do. Most of social and news platform are someone's property, and by default if they don't want users to talk about certain things they are free to ask them to leave. They might pay lip service and invoke a general desire for freedom of speech but are not legally bound to do any of that.
The gp never made this assumption, you're making it for them.

It's still not the same standard as the one society needs. The state wields a big hammer, and such it has relatively high standards. Us, individual society members, wield a tiny mallet, and as such we should feel more free to wield that than the state does. As the gp notes, we already do in many cases.

The courts should really be the last resort for this stuff; society should be dealing with it cleanly before it ever gets there.
In general, how can you distinguish between heartfelt philanthropy and PR moves?
Could you tell me where to find that counter? I've looked everywhere… I for the life of mine can find it. I even tweeted the author. Google, looked at lots of reviews to find a clue… eventually I gave up and figured the counter must have been removed in an update before I got the app.
Thank you for educating me on that aspect of the situation.

Is there typically electricity in these situations? I ask because per my post below, I wonder how common it is to bootstrap up to a mini-fridge + pressure cooker or rice cooker or something like that. Seems like a few weeks of PB&J + cup ramen could provide for a significant upgrade in nutrition from purchasing those tools.

I'm probably leaving out some important aspect of this, and unfortunately some of this might simply be around education of where to purchase these tools and what to do with them to eat smarter, but I can't help but think there are ways to improve the situation with the cards they currently have in their hand.

If I found myself suddenly living out of a car or storage unit (provided it had electricity), I'd probably do whatever I could to save for a mini-fridge and rice cooker (eventually upgrading to a pressure cooker), and go from there. Rice and beans purchased in bulk are affordable and solid staples, and easy to turn into more nutritious meals by adding other ingredients.
Simplest RL algorithm (Q-learning) achieves 100m in QWOP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27TUmMkOA0

Although it found and exploited a local maximum of "knee scraping" technique (which humans can replicate) :)
First thing that comes to mind for me is desk clerk at a u-store-it facility. Lot of those places try to hire students because the student can study most of the time and deal with the occasional customer. You could conceivably have whole days without having to interact with a customer.

I'm sure there are other jobs that are like that.
Thanks, I think I have tons of feedback from HN now, honestly, I did not expect this much! :) I am currently sorting out each feedback and converting to actionable items, will probably come with a blog post or something soon about the actions :)
My personal recommendation just based on personal experience would be to study philosophy. It doesn't much matter which philosophies, but a variety that differ fairly substantially would probably be best. When you read a very different viewpoint you can occasionally almost feel your brain shift sideways when you 'get' how the other viewpoint is seeing things. That leads to questions about the exact points where your viewpoint and their actually diverge, and considering a wider scenario where both exist or develop is inherently a move in the abstract direction.
It shouldn't be forgotten though that the original Lotus 1-2-3 was a masterpiece. Fast, easy to use, with a polished UI, a useful help system and tutorial. Almost all PC apps were amateur hour by comparison and that includes pre-Word MS.
> If people start switching to Firefox and turning on privacy more to get faster browsing - they will lose the game entirely.

I would love for this to be true, but there are a number of websites that simply refuse to proceed unless you whitelist them from script/adblockers (mainly news so far but even e-commerce sites could require you to submit to their analysis tools e.g.: Bloomberg).
Volvo has promised to sell uber cars. That's pretty much the gist of it.

Uber got a fleet quote, attached the words self-driving car to it, then issued a press release.

Volvo's part in the self-driving car is that their cars meet the minimum specs for uber's program, which are probably more stringent than "must have 4 wheels" and yet still falls far short of "must have a lidar system accessible through an api".
What's different is that the means are now present to customise the media that you see to your exact preferences, for one; That's a step change away from (say) a newspaper which is going to have some content which doesn't align perfectly with your existing views. There's a world of other things happening (in terms of apps also being engineered to be addictive in terms of their behaviour) as well - this isn't simply that people are being manipulated, it's that the means are now present to customise the manipulation and make it entirely personal for every user.
If they have 100x the wage, they should have 100x the liability
Neowin.net review: "Eve V review: Surface killer or bust?" [1]

Liliputing.com review: "Eve V review: A premium tablet designed by committee (that turned out pretty well)" [2]

Digitaltrends review: "Eve Technology Eve V review
Designed by the crowd, the Eve V proves that users know best (usually)" [3]

[1] https://www.neowin.net/news/eve-v-review-surface-killer-or-b...

[2] https://liliputing.com/2017/11/eve-v-review-premium-tablet-d...

[3] https://www.digitaltrends.com/tablet-reviews/eve-technology-...

Disclaimer: Just to be clear I'm in no way affiliated with this project. Just saw this mentioned as a crowdsourced Surface Pro alternative.
[video] a fascinating history of the web and JS. Know how HTML, CSS etc came about
ok, to really flesh it out for you then -- this is a desperate letter by the representatives of roman citizens in britain to Aetius, consul, to send help or do something since barbarians, crop failures, raids etc.
it certainly gives the impression of people witnessing and being subject to the collapse of the civic society.
if you want more than an anecdote read the whole account of roman collapse in britain by gildas, a contemporary. its pretty desperate in tone and attitude.
Can you please explain this a little bit more? I don't exactly get what you are asking!
I started studying economics in my free time because abstracting how humans behave with math fascinates me and you start to understand what a complex system really is.

Markets are very complicated and unpredictable in the short term, but you can understand the atomic unit of the market just fine; a transaction. It’s the same with all complex systems; try to work from the bottom and up, always begin with what you can wrap your head around.

After a while, you see that the methodology of building abstract models that are good enough is very similiar in most fields. You discover that it’s never easy and you should always be careful trying to recycle a model by mapping it to an entirely new system.
The only bad thing about the collapse of Soviet Russia is that it didn't happen sooner.
I like Discourse showing larger intervals:

Comment A

Comment B

2 years later

Comment C

Arbitrary example thread: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/parameterized-modules/2883...
So now they're in the business of shifting runway money from VC to nonprofits.

Bold! I like it.
This ex-trucker has some questions about the Tesla Semi – Autoblog
I would gladly pay for something like what is advocated for in this article, but I'm not aware of anything like it. A news publication that:

* Has the goal of filtering rather than flooding

* No ads

* No pop-ins 3/4 of the way through the article telling me about four other articles I should read

* No endless scrolling

* Upfront about bias

* Cites sources
> What might seem extreme in an American context might be just the top end of the "directness" scale in Finland.

Sure. But he knows that, right? In which case participating in an international project with the extreme of norms in your homeland is not a "he can't help it" situation. It's no different from me saying "I'm not Finnish, but I really like Finnish culture, so I'm going to be an asshole." I'm still choosing to be an asshole.

> Bigotry of low expectations is something like saying voter ID is racist because black people don't have voter IDs and are not reasonably expected to be able to obtain them.

(This is mostly off topic, but the standard claim here is that the legal system makes it intentionally difficult for black people, or people who live in majority black areas, or poor people to obtain voter IDs. I don't think I've seen a serious argument that anyone actually thinks black people are racially less competent at getting IDs.)
From the context? A hypothetical next release of a software product.
Gotta love this final sentence of the whole piece:

"[...] However, this essay uses the flat earth as a metaphor for explaining Wikipedia policy, not to describe any authentic historical controversy."

— Very clever! (and also quite amusing ;)
I've been coming to resent my smartphone more and more, essentially because of this.

I recently quit using tobacco. I remembered all the warnings from my school health classes about how hard it was to quit once you start, how there's a physical dependence and all that. It was uncomfortable at times, and there were plenty of cravings to get over, but I was ultimately successful.

I can compare this to the couple of times I've tried to "quit the Internet" (i.e. social media, reddit, etc.). The problem is that there's nowhere to run from the Internet. I can avoid tobacco stores, I can't avoid my iPhone. For what it's worth, I'd love to smash my phone and throw it in a ditch, but there are certain social and professional obligations that require me to hold onto it. I have to be able to check my work email on the go. I have to use Facebook to stay in the loop about social events because all my friends use Facebook to schedule those social events. I have to call my parents once in a while. One device is a tool for all of those, in addition to being an ultra-high-tech meme-box with which I can mainline information to make myself feel good. It is of course not all bad, but the wonderful connectivity of the Internet is inextricably wrapped up with the "DoS Attack on Your Free Will".

To get back to the analogy, I'd like to think I was successful at quitting tobacco because I can avoid it. If I were giving someone tips to quit something, that's the best advice I could think to offer: avoid it. If you want to quit smoking, wouldn't it be preposterous to buy a pack of cigarettes and carry it everywhere? The temptation would always be there.

So it is with smartphones. When the best minds in attention capitalism are trying to pull me in every time I send a text message, how can I quit that? It's always in my pocket, and I can't simply throw it away because there are now certain expectations that I carry that tool with me almost everywhere I go. There is nowhere to run from this modern media, and that terrifies me.
I have no idea why so many people choose to give any government more and more power. This is similar to a cultural nuclear weapon. Maybe it will work in the right persons's hands for an agent of good, but really, over the course of time, is limiting what people can hear going to be a good thing for them? How can you tune your personal BS meter, if you never hear any BS? Who watches the watcher?

There is no singular policy that will solve global, complex problems. Sometimes capitalism isn't the answer, sometimes it is. Sometimes regulations are the clear answer, sometimes not.
Nobody seems to have told Magic Leap.
So you're saying to fix the problem of you voluntarily surrendering your free will to distractions brought to you by profit-seeking entities, we need to take free will out of the equation by introducing a system where resources would be centrally allocated and there would be no free will involved in what is offered for you and what you could consume, thus no distractions - you always read the content that the People's Democratic Central Party Committee decided you should read, and nothing but that is produced, because what't the point in producing it if nobody would read it anyway?

I guess this is one way to solve it - if you have no free will or free time outside of People's Democratic Central Party Committee directives, you certainly couldn't spend it on Facebook and Buzzfeed. North Korea probably doesn't have any issues with distractions. I heard they solved the obesity problem too, by similar means.
An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine
Possibly the people who are creating Spam 2.0!