skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"there could certainly be competition in this space"

I was assuming governments forcing all fleets to share data. Probably via some "safety / think of the children / OMG terrorists" bill.
>Corruption inherently makes the system insolvent

False. Profitable private companies have to deal with loss all the time. It's called shrinkage. It can be mitigated, but like everything the costs of mitigation must be weighed against the benefits.

http://fortune.com/2015/06/05/walmart-theft/

Keep in mind, right-wing governments actively exploit this "corruption exists, therefore the entire social program is worthless" bug in our national consciousness. It's an effective political tool to transfer wealth away from the poor.

I agree with parent:

> Let’s us not make the perfect the enemy of the good.
In theory the share of the economy devoted to advertising should grow as the economy grows and becomes more complex. The more choices consumers have, and the more their base desires are already satisfied, the harder you have to work to convince them to buy your product. The harder you have to work, the bigger the rents that firms who already have control over peoples' attention can charge.

Similarly, the share of the economy devoted to the legal profession grows in proportion to the number of externalities in the economy (= the chance that some third party unrelated to your transactions will be wronged by your actions), and the share of the economy devoted to finance grows in proportion to the rate of change in the economy (the role of the financial industry is to destroy obsolete industries and redirect that capital into new, more modern ones; demand for its services is proportional to the number of opportunities there are to destroy incumbent industries with new technologies). The gains are at the expense of primary producers (natural resource extraction and manufacturing, and to a lesser extent retail, which is a complement of manufacturing). All of these effects fit observed recent history well.

There's no reason that this is a bubble except for the fact that once the rentier classes - government, finance, advertising, legal, real estate - have consumed the bulk of the economy, those previously employed in the destroyed industries tend to revolt, politically. In other words, the bubble ends with the destruction of society. Note that the usual outcome here is that the new rentier classes end up deploying their capital to hire outside allies and kill all of the people rising up against them, so I still wouldn't want to be on the side whose industries and skillsets have been destroyed. Historically, what tends to happen is that the whole society ends up marginalized, and some other world power who stayed out of the fighting ends up on top. (See eg. the French Revolution, where the peasants succeeded in killing the nobles...and then followed a century of wars and alternating dictatorships & republics, and when the dust settled, France had been eclipsed successively by Germany, England, and the U.S.)
You mean like the "tracking blocker" that is built-in to Firefox?
I don't know what the final outcome was, but there was a charity that would provide food for the homeless by having volunteers bring home-cooked casseroles. After operating for over a decade, the county health board shut it down because publicly serving food not made in a certified kitchen was illegal.

I moved away from there, so never found out if they were able to resolve it, but that wasn't that long ago and was a push in the opposite direction of what Josephine would need.
I could certainly see a "search of everything by user" be very much worth a $1 for groups like intelligence agencies or background check companies.

That cost is then passed back on to the requester.
Popularity and correctness are often confused, especially online :)
Timing could not be more perfect for this. There's a new generation of investors out there. Some flush with cash from crypto trades. Others simply benefiting from the record bull run in tech stocks. That are now seeking to re-invest. Get in on the ground floor. And discover the next great opportunity.

There is a decided lack of investor education. As well as rigor. And opening up YC's methodology will have as large an impact as the introduction of convertible notes. Further, introducing new investors to how their money can be used for maximum impact and progress. Which naturally leads to outsized IRR. Will steer them away from the pitfalls of say, going all in on their best friend from junior high school's BBQ-flavored tequila distillery.

And regarding the sourcing of dealflow. There are definitely myriad untapped ways for the greater YC community to introduce talented startup founders and seed stage investors. AngelList is fantastic. The ability to post MVPs to ShowHN is tremendous. But something like a curated Youtube channel or Twitch livestream where people can pitch or watch demos 24/7 around the world at their convenience would be amazing.
Adding 2 little corners at the top was a horrible idea.

I upgraded at Christmas. I'm sure that they put a lot of effort into it. But now my phone no longer displays battery percentage, and I keep finding myself noticing the missing chunk. Even after a month I notice it.

Squeezing the last square inch is emphatically not worth it. Not even a little bit.
Equally sad for this.. but Josephine is doing a great job handling the transition. My company just launched in this space (DishDivvy) and are truly appreciative of the work they've done on the legislative front, for bringing opportunities to homecooks. We are working with their COOK alliance and making sure AB 626 gets through the senate as successfully as it did the CA Assembly.
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At least they're proactive. >.<
I'd imagine I would have thought the same thing before I actively used a messaging tool that supports message editing (I use Slack for work)

Further, the goal of Signal is not to work well for people who are accustomed to the various quirks of text-based communications that have existed since forever, but to provide a secure, modern communication client that normies don't find difficult to use. Message editing has become a standard feature of any usable modern messaging client.
I'm guessing UAE. Qatar insists they are good for this stuff. But they only recently started making good on deregulation promises they have made for years. Not sure but I think the Qatari free economic zone near KSA is still only becoming an imminent reality. UAE has had them plural for years.
Also, the S8 is the smallest (even though it's got the same size screen as the iPhone X) and cheapest of the 8-series flagships from Samsung (the other two being the S8+ and Note 8).

The Note 8 launch price was pretty close to the iPhone X.
I wrote a script that runs a cronjob that checks if someone posted "What you have automated with Python".

If my bot is positive, it creates a post that says that we had this already a few months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14339959
> it is critical that all AVs are part of shared fleets, well-regulated, and zero emission.

Nope.

> Shared fleets can provide more affordable access to all, ...

Nope. Dressing up a monopoly as more efficient, is not fooling anyone anymore.
There are some news websites that blocks private browsing[1]. Private browsing is a method of bypass the paywall, so they they make a private-browsing-wall.

1: https://imgur.com/a/gXEtl
Regarding DACs, sure, that is quite the niche that I might be part of one day. But that does not in any way reduce the need nor the usefulness of the headphone jack.

I buy into "one port for everything", but headphone jacks will probably outlive usb-c. The stereo right beside me is 15 years old (nothing special but nothing wrong with it either) and the one I just bought will probably be used for way more than 30 years. They both have headphone jacks, none of them have usb-c. It monumentally moronic to have headphones that only work with certain types of devices, especially for no good reason. My car stereo is so old it doesn't even have an AUX input and I'm eventually gonna replace it solely for the reason of gaining an AUX input.

There is no way that you can convince me that removing the headphone jack is nothing but a travesty.
Agreed, wouldn't it match their business model to just demand interoperability, and maybe subsidies to get autonomous vehicles into the hands of people who'd take the risk of buying and insuring them to ferry Uber fares around?
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If you open the link SMPLC is actually Zipcar’s NGO and basically every mobility startup signed this proposal. Full list of signatories: “BlaBla Car, CityMapper, Didi, Cityway, Jetty, Keolis, LimeBike, Lyft, Mobike, Motivate, Ofo, Ola, Scoot, Transit, Uber, Via and ZipCar”
There needs to be a planned phase-out of human-driven vehicles. Supporting legacy incumbents can hugely hamstring automated technology.[1] It's a double-whammy: (1) enormous investment must go into designing around human drives in the first place, and (2) the existence of human-driven vehicles dramatically reduces the traffic mitigation advantages of self-driving vehicles (reducing the incentive to make the investment in (1) and adopt self-driving vehicles).[2]

[1] I spent the beginning of my career working on radios that dynamically share spectrum among themselves, instead of relying on FCC central planning. The need to support incumbents like television stations has probably set the technology back a decade or two, not to mention cost millions upon millions of dollars.

[2] E.g. https://readwrite.com/2017/06/06/hyperlane-self-driving-tl4/
This seems really out of touch with the market and reality in general. Esports isn't a thing because infinite money made it so - it's manifested from the competitive nature of the people involved with it. I know it sounds a bit cliche, but it's just Sports. Changing the arena of battle or the physical machinations doesn't make it any less of a competitive, skilled atmosphere where objectives drive conquest. This particular dismissive nature of thinking is just backwards and wrong.
I love that that's not even half of India.
I am so so torn on this. It's hard to put a price tag on a human life. I imagine some people would even say that a life is literally priceless.

Given infinite resources, I would agree: if a life can be saved at any cost, then save it. But we don't have infinite resources. If the quality of other patient care was reduced because of attempts to keep this girl alive (if "alive" is indeed the right term), is that trade off worth it? I'm not sure. I mean, given the extraordinary results they've gotten so far, it's possible that, given more time (perhaps on the scale of decades), she'd get to a point where she'd be able to communicate more richly with people around her. Is it worth spending tens (hundreds?) of millions of (public!) dollars to get her there, especially if other people with better prognoses are getting worse care because of it? I'm not sure I can say yes to that. But I've also never been in a position where a loved one was in dire straits to the point where throwing heaps of money at the problem would help, so I don't know how that feels.
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LoL takes a lot of skills and knowledge and experience to master, too. And I don't think it's accurate to imply that League of Legends owes its popularity as an e-sport to financing. Sure, it was a factor in its success, but remember how e-sports was regarded as utterly ridiculous when it first started being televised?
I think for safety you might get benefit out of cars communicating intent to neighbors. Pervasive tracking and reporting would be unnecessary - but that is the logic, of course various governments could require all sorts of stuff in the name of anything. So yea, good point.
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That sounds fair. Maybe it’s more of a volume issue. You get one or two ‘bot tweets’ per day without paying.

I know lots of people also use bots for cross posting from Instagram or something else. Or to post when they put a new article up on their site.

I’m sure you’d have to allow them to some degree. But there are some really noisy bots out there that need a fee attached to em.
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Are there any benchmarks for this Yahoo lib? To trade performance/accuracy numbers, rather than impressions.

There's no shortage of various streamed counting implementations; the sweet spot of Bounter [0], the Python lib from the original blog post, is its super simple use (drop-in replacement for Python's built-in Counter), small memory footprint & high performance (optimized C underneath).

[0] https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/bounter
This is NOT symtomatic of sonic effects, it fits perfectly Microwave effects.
The sidebar suggested I read another CEI article entitled "stop forcing unions on your workers".

Uh huh. This article sure seems like it represents facts in an unbiased way..
As a user I don't want you to know that information. I wish there was a way to click on links with the referer field removed entirely from the request(maybe via context menu)
If you want a chronological sort of HN, try https://hckrnews.com/ . I don't go straight to the HN main page anymore.
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How come no jobs in Sydney? :/
How's visa checkout? War under the impression that it was a direct PayPal competitor.
It's not about a better deal from Stripe, it's Europeans have to pay less in general.
You can sort of do that, context menu -> copy url -> open a new tab -> paste url
I liked what I read in "The Guide to a Good Life" [0] about the importance of a philosophy of life. I'd advise to start there's exploring what's available and finding out if anything in particular resonates. Maybe read/listen that book and go from there.

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Eric Zhu has a Python library called datasketch also. The docs are good and I found the code a great help in understanding implementation details of some methods. I am not using his code in production but it was a great outline for how to implement certain techniques I wanted to use in a Scala project.

https://ekzhu.github.io/datasketch/index.html

https://github.com/ekzhu/datasketch

I don't know how how CountMinSketch compares with Zhu's HyperLogLog and HyperLogLog++ for cardinality counting, in terms of speed/memory/accuracy. But if you're interested in Bounter you may well be interested in Zhu's code too.
No. I obviously mean real ad blocking that users are currently required to install as a third-party Firefox extension.

You don't find it curious that Mozilla has made the decision not to implement the most user-demanded browser feature for over a decade?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
> > huge expenses

> Pretty much this.

Maybe, but what's wrong with that? We don't have infinite resources. Let's assume for a second that we could keep this poor girl going for another few decades as she is now. Is it worth spending tens of millions of Medicaid dollars for that quality of life, when there are many other patients in need who could benefit much more from better care?
that's why there are medallions?
Duplicate. This is the official one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16282821
I like Curtis, but his style of narration always makes me think of Professor Brian O'Blivion[1] in Cronenberg's Videodrome (which for all I know is intentional...).

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I don't know how many people recommended HyperNormalisation to me already, yet I've never been able to sit through the whole thing. I absolutely dislike his style, the image so dispatched from the narrative... So thank you for that video, it really fits my feelings about his work.
Some websites rely (at least in part for verification) on referrer for the authentication process, I can imagine that causing some headaches for people.
Try asking on https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/

Sometimes they get very obscure stuff from vague descriptions.
I doubt Adyen is well known among North Americans either (the first market being rolled out for ebay). Ayden is used by Uber and Netflix and some other big names but that's mostly hidden in the background as they are integrated directly into the platforms. Unlike Paypal which has an obvious branded layer for all transactional layers.

I'm curious what the integration with Ebay will look like. Will users be redirected to their Ayden accounts ala Paypal or will it be branded via Ebay?
I work for Pivotal, which with IBM wrote a container scheduler (Diego) of similar vintage.

Nobody has the branding power Google has amongst developers.
I totally disagree with you on the Notes app. It’s not complicated at all, and it’s much more useful than it was prior to the redesign. I’m still not sold on Messages “apps”, but I do use the “Digital Touch” feature when texting my wife and kids.
No one is saying that they don't expertly engineer things, it's just that their design "solutions" look less like actual solutions with every successive product launch.
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So every mobility startup wants to ban consumers from owning what the mobility companies want to try to get people to rent.

Surprise, surprise.
Not quite sure, haven't looked into rxjs much.

We were running on an embedded micro with 256KB of RAM, so just making everything async and callback based was already pushing the boundaries of the industry. Vendors we worked with got extremely confused when we said they needed to hand us async code, that they had a few milliseconds to run in before they relinquished control, and that busy loops were verboten.

I really miss working in a code base where every component can be trivially subscribed to.

On the flip side, I've seen subscriptions taken too far, as people make every single value on a form a separate subscription. Seriously, it is A-OK to give the First and Last names together when the user hits submit.
I think it's especially interesting that this showed up on the player's tribune, which includes gems like Kobe Bryant's letter to his younger self. Esports is being treated like a conventional sport here

The fact that e-sports has exploded I think has a lot to do with how they've become more similar to real-world sports. We've moved from very artificial e-sports like Starcraft, fighting, racing (usually 1v1 games with extreme focus), to distinct role-based "MOBA" games like Overwatch, League of Legends that are much more similar to popular existing games like soccer and baseball.

Unlike in the earlier games, they rely slightly less than pure mechanical skill, which makes the sports accessible. They're team games with differentiated roles, allowing beginners a way into the game playing with, rather than against their friends. Sounds familiar? This could describe soccer, basketball, football, and all of the top spectator sports today.

Their only real substantial difference is that they're far more accessible, requiring only equipment that many already have (the games intentionally minimize system requirements) and don't require real physical athleticism.

I think it's no surprise they're becoming popular as spectator sports: they're building on a proven formula, but adding a dash of accessibility.