skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. I was a kool-aid drinking Google fanboy but started looking elsewhere a couple years ago. I found myself using Google products just because they were Google. Part brand loyalty and also it was nice to just have one account for everything. After a while I admitted to myself that there were better products. Deezer is awesome and I like it much better than Google Music, I've been on Firefox for a year now and much prefer it to Chrome (tried switching back just to see if Chrome had made any changes and I was back on Firefox in 24 hours). I prefer Simplenote to Keep and, other than my one spreadsheet in Google Docs I use Libre Office locally for my other docs/sheets.

The other thing I've noticed is how fickle Google is with their products, either not advancing them or straight up killing them. I used to use Listen for Podcasts and Reader for RSS and got disheartened when those were killed off. Dropbox is my latest switch, hell I even use DuckDuckGo more these days, too. The only Google products I can see myself using long term are Gmail (with my Google Apps Domain account) and Photos. Also, Maps is still the best Maps software. Other than that I don't use their services much at all these days.
It was a bit before that, iirc. LWN article summarizing the changes at [1], which are mostly delaylog, if we are referring to the same thing. Was default-enabled in 2011 on Linux 3.3.

... I’ve happened to spend much of the last three weeks learning about XFS.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/476263/
Much of news is based on the same style of rhetoric. You're asking both the pro and con positions to be neutral in their speech. That's not going to happen.

Media with positions I agree with do this, I recognize it. It's not going way. NPR likes to say during their pledge drives that they only give us facts... Uhhuh. I mean Innskeep is notorious.
R.I.P. Medium. It was good to know you. If there isn't a blockchain based censorship-proof publishing platform soon, I will work on one. Promise.
These are relatively small and very personal problems. The media portrays it as some great social injustice when it's really just a few people making rude comments. The author claims that we should all be more supportive of women in CS, but there's already a lot of support. At some point, you just have to wait for people to help themselves.
1 million is far far higher than what most people carry. It's plenty.
that's not true. it covers the driver while the app is on.

https://www.uber.com/drive/insurance/

> While you’re online with Uber before you accept a request, you are covered by our insurance policy for your liability to a third party if you are in an accident when you’re at fault
If you're looking for books, have a look at Schaum's Outline of Precalculus [0]. Khan Academy [1] is also good and there's this MOOC on coursera called Data Science Math Skills [2].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Precalculus-3rd-Probl...

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/math

[2] https://www.coursera.org/learn/datasciencemathskills
My theory is they are attempting to put the competition out of business by running at a loss then adjust the rates to where they can make money which, coincidentally, will be be almost exactly the amounts the "evil" taxi companies were charging.

I could be totally wrong but if I were a betting man...
I really would like more data about it. My impression is that the biggest limitation that btrfs suffers nowadays is a severely lacking communication. Even the official wiki is not so up to date, and there are a lot of horror stories surviving from years ago.

The situation has been quite reliable for some time now (single disk, raid{0,1,10}), moreover the feature set of btrfs is really wide (on par with zfs), with a very high flexibility: you can mix and match disks of different capacities, shrink and expand pools, change their redundance level through filtering, everything can be done online...
Building credit bureaus that have no personal information
Saying the truth is racist now? Are these cheap knock-offs Chinese or not? China remains the main source of counterfeit goods. This is a fact.

> Counterfeit goods are estimated to amount to approximately 12.5 % of China’s total exports and over 1.5 % of its GDP. This results in estimations that 72 % of counterfeit goods currently in circulation in three of the world’s largest markets for such products, namely the EU, Japan and the USA,have been exported from China.

https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/...
I drove a cab for beer money back in college, and a year or so ago, I had an interesting discussion with a cab medallion owner, after some typical uber driver cut us off. He thought it was a suckers' game where it looked like you were making money - until you had your first breakdown and you had no money and no income. He was pretty confident the average cab driver couldn't plan for this, and the whole thing would collapse like a house of cards. For him, breakdowns weren't an issue because he still had the old Crown Victoria.

He also said "they're all from turnip town" which I thought was hilarious.
Subway trains carry hundreds of people, so the cost of the driver for each passenger is low.

Also, subway systems are monopolies with strong drivers' unions. Subway managers have no strong financial incentive to reduce costs because the taxpayer foots the bill. In contrast, if Uber doesn't produce a driverless taxi service soon its management will be fired and will miss out on billions of dollars in bonuses.

I think we'll see driverless public taxis in Phoenix before we see driverless subway trains in New York. Self-driving trains are technically easier to develop, but self-driving cars will win thanks to the efficiencies of the free market.
Interesting that cross-platform builds are available on .net core.
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"the failures of us foreign policy"
that sure is a fancy way of saying "neoimperialism"
What you are saying here is that you would like to demonstrate the possibility of commercial space flights to other solar systems by showing off a paper airplane. I'm not trying to be offensive but you really should understand the difference between Spectre and what you were doing.
> The misunderstanding first...we are not selling anyone to anything. We have no involvement in finding you the job, we are not recruiters, we are not headhunters. So we have no alignment with anyone other than YOU.

How do you get paid? ... and the obvious corollary, why should I trust that our interests are aligned? (either as a candidate or a hiring manager?)
No they don't?
I would love to believe that too. Please show me one in California
both microsoft a george lucas had connections to the boards of ibm and fox.

it's hardly examples applicable to the real world, and both of those most likely involved some sort of insider winning something on the side. one have to be very naive to attribute this to good negotiations.
Wait but where do you host gitlab? You need an ec2 instance for that, right?
I wonder if AOHell would run on Windows 10...
I drove for Uber part-time last year in Canada and made less than $3 an hour on paper at tax time.

However, this is highly misleading simply because I was able to deduct fixed "business expenses" that I would have spent anyways to own a car. Insurance, parking, licensing, registration, and finance interest, were all things that I would have spent anyways in the exact same amounts even if I only drove the car for personal use.

In addition, cars are considered to depreciate 30% every year by the CRA (Canadian IRS). This is obviously nonsense; cars depreciate based on kms driven and I did not drive nearly enough kms to reach 30%. So this is not a real expense either, but one I can deduct nonetheless.

So, really, I was subsidizing my expensive car ownership tax-free. The real rate after adjusting for those fake "expenses" was around minimum wage which is fair considering it's a better job than flipping burgers.
We used to: the ‘liberal arts’ originally referred to the ‘quadrivium:’ arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy; and the ‘trivium:’ grammar, logic, and rhetoric.
Electric cars are replacing a definite fossil fuel with something potentially renewable.

Bitcoin is a brand new, utterly pointless use of electricity.
Maybe people don't want to interact with you because of your behavior?

I appear to be the only woman to have ever made the leaderboard of HN (under a different handle). As far as I can tell, other women are not generally being more warmly welcomed with open arms by the community than I am.

I do everything in my power to examine my behavior and correct any defects I can find. This only goes so far because there are, in fact, larger societal forces at work.

If all women are incapable of getting the results they need, it is disingenuous to blame them as individuals and deny that society has some problem.
Can you elaborate on how this process works? How the fuel gets used based on demand?
My Pixel 2 is lasting me 6 hours after the latest software update (February 5th patch?). One month ago it was great. Now I have to recharge it twice a day. I'm not happy about that.
Every part of the project went not as planned. Most bright example is billing. I was initially implemented everything using PayPal preauthorized payments API and only going live it appeared that this API only available to merchants with personal account manager, and to get one you need to already accepting more than 2500$/mo in paypal. So I have to re-implement it. And not only billing as subscription management also depends on billing. Then getting many IP addresses for outgoing proxies appeared to be much more problematic than I was expecting.
Answering the second part of the question. I use it for my other project where I need to pull data from many websites on a daily basis. And I use it in my browser to change IP location and avoid country level blocks. I hope that eventually I can convert it into more or less profitable project, but the main lesson I learned from this is that when something looks simple it doesn't mean it simple in reality.
"Is wasting a fire extinguisher on making pretty foam angels worse than using it to extinguish a fire? The used up fire extinguisher is never coming back in either case... I mean, why one is considered a sensible use of a fire extinguisher and the other not?"
Counterfeiters on Amazon have been hitting the board game market hard. From an interview [1]:

> We feel, and this number is speculative (but it's going to be somewhere on that range), that Asmodee North America’s sales are going to be affected somewhere between five and ten million dollars, this year alone. We believe for some games, that more than 70% of all sales in the U.S. market have been counterfeit.

1. https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/39296/icv2-interview-asm...
It seems this is an issue many don’t want to talk about. Is the solution to ignore systemic discrimination that led us to where we are today? That only leaves one group happy.
You're underestimating the problem here. For those of us who have awakened to the fact that mainstream media is a giant shitshow that is literally used to brainwash the masses into agendas of unelected powers, this is a major, major issue.

The reason this planet is waking up now is that the media can't be controlled as they used to. People share on facebook, other social media, Medium, youtube - there's no stopping ALL information from coming out!

In the past, if you had control of the media, you would control what people were thinking. It's that simple! All media is owned by 6 entities which have very close ties to each other, so it's really just one entity for all purposes.

You are falling for an illusion when you think that media is in any way independent or impartial.

Media mind control tells you what to think about. You get 2 or 3 prefab opinions that you can have about it, but they control what you're thinking about. You don't get to think about anything else. You don't get to think about things they don't want you to think about. Because they get you up in arms about whatever, they create a grand circus of different opinions, one against another - while you shout at your neighbor, or loudly complain how stupid NRA supporters are, they are doing whatever the hell they want behind the scenes, and nobody even thinks about questioning it.

They start entire wars where millions die, while they have you talk about a staged shooting! It's absurd!

So Medium going the way of censorship means they have joined the masses, the mainstream, and they are going to be controlled, just like anyone else. There's simply a myriad ways to control the feed once censorship has been established. It's sold to you with images of child molesters and nazis, but it's actually for one purpose only: To control your thinking.

Have a good day :)
Diabetes is actually five separate diseases, research suggests
For someone who claims to want nothing to do with me, you are talking to me an awful lot and those remarks are not exactly kind.
Are you looking for local candidates or those that would be interested in relocating?
> That sounds like a good plan if you have good insurance, but it doesn't sound like a sustainable way to improve health care service to a wider population

A home visit of a physician is hardly a new concept.

If I'm not mistaken, it's a norm in France, and I know that it functioned that way in the USSR (not sure about the modern Russia). The doctors were indeed complaining about the number of visits but somehow it functioned: while booking a specialist or finding quality equipment was an issue, there was rarely an issue to book a visit of a family doctor within a couple of days' notice, at least in a big city.
Anecdotally I only knew two Trump voters in the Bay Area. One is Chinese and the other Indian. Polling was not great in the last election, maybe because pollsters can mainly call people with landlines [1] which excludes large pools of people.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/03/12/t...
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Pretend you're a customer. Would you buy from someone who promises everything at a price that cannot sustain his organisation and accepts no responsibility?
Where do they get the money to buy new extinguishers?
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This is a common misunderstanding, and was the point of the example. A stationary observer observing a particle being accelerated towards the speed of light would observe that particles apparent mass begin to approach infinity as its observed velocity approached the speed of light, thus requiring an amount of energy approaching infinity to continue to accelerate it further. However, this has nothing to do with the scenario with you being that particle.

You are currently moving at near the speed of light relative to many things at this very moment, yet your mass is certainly not approaching infinity, America notwithstanding! And if you accelerated enough in the opposite direction of your relative partner to exceed the speed of light it's not like you'd suddenly start finding it impossible. No, it's a matter of observation. From the other particle's perspective it would see your mass approaching infinity and your speed would slow, but the distances you covered would remain the same due to length contraction.

A similar effect explains why, for instance, particles in CERN's reactors travel distances that should be impossible for them to travel before decaying. E.g. if the speed of light was 10m/s and a particle decays after 3 seconds then it should be impossible to see that particle travel more than 30 meters. Yet we see it travel hundreds of meters. Isn't relativity fun?
This sort of issue is exactly where Wikipedia fails, actually, and as a devout user and lackadaisical editor of Wikipedia, I'd like to see it get freer of propaganda wars, not more embroiled in them.
China has shot far ahead of the US on AI patents
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eventually they will raise prices, and hope everyone is out of business who competes with them.
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Both of these statements are false, at least here in Canada. My insurance knows exactly what I'm doing and I'm covered at all times [0]

[0] https://www.intact.ca/on/en/personal-insurance/vehicle/car/u...
Because SpaceX is known to over-promise and under-deliver? They seem to have an extremely powerful institutional engineering capability. That's not fanboy talk e.g., we're going to mars! Just look at what they've accomplished. Landing a rocket on its business end is no mean feat -- for any engineering team, ever.

I know this is a YC forum but seeing the Astranis team's responses to people asking very incisive questions is troubling. Maybe they're far better at engineering than building confidence but I detect that sort of single minded dismissal (often of objective reality) that plagues a lot of entrepreneurs.

Maybe this is unfair but it sounds like someone got latched onto the idea of "micro-satellites" and won't let it go, ending up with "we can conceivably put up only X, so they'd have to be geosynchronous". Maybe there's a reason SpaceX is doing a LEO constellation, regardless of their unfair advantages in that regard.

Of course latency is an issue. Engineers will run away. Maybe you don't need them to succeed, maybe they are 0.1% of the market. Of course, where would Apple be without software engineer and designer buy in? Maybe the average customer shouldn't care, 'cause they're all high latency ok. Doesn't stop them from being swayed by marketing. A single infographic showing why low latency is better -- all else being equal -- what are customers going to choose?

Not sure why YC would have invested in this other than to broaden their portfolio. The chances of this company becoming a unicorn must be vanishingly small. If unicorns are no longer the VC mantra, cool, I've got a lifestyle business you can throw money at, provided there are zero expectations.

By all means prove me wrong and best of luck to you. Take this is as constructive criticism. If you're going to engage anyone in public bring your A game.
Applied. Got zero responses though. Would be nice to show on the website, how many potential companies out there it’s going to reach.
Lots of phones available now have a microSD slot.

Removable batteries... not so much.
How does the fuel in your car get used based on demand?

In all seriousness, there are many types of power plants, the exact mechanism depends on how the actual energy is produced. It is true that for some renewable energy sources like e.g. solar energy, you cannot regulate production and need to store excess energy. But for fossil fuels, you (roughly) produce by demand.
Some do. With hydro, nuclear, solar or wind the production is driven by other factors and can lead to market imbalances at times http://fortune.com/2016/05/11/germany-excess-power/
Happily. I used to work at a power company.

So the power company has a grid, and they monitor the amount of power generated with the amount of power consumed.

They know this because they have sensors at the substations that can tell how much power is being used.

If too much power is being generated, they can sell the power to another company, or turn off excess capacity.

If not enough power is being generated, they can buy the deficit from another company, or increase the generation.

It's really straightforward.
> starting to move in that direction

Just want to point out that these things are not new at whole foods. I can recall eating at the hot bar 3+ years ago, and they've always had take home already cooked items as well.
Thank you for this! I loved the GIFs and videos in the stream, it's very mesmerizing to watch.
Instead of giving in to a gut reaction, you should read the paper. All research must get funding in one way or another. If you exclude research due to funding sources and potential conflicts of interest, you wouldn't be left with much.
So... what do you think I am doing?

Would you please give me a appropriate outline?
It seems that yet again, "efficiency" in startup-speak just means "offloading cost onto other people".
Depends on who buys them. The point, to completely overdraw the analogy, is: Fire extinguishers are finite, and using them damages everybody's house. So wasting them excessively on pointless activities might not be the smartest thing to do, even if you just waste your own money on them.
It would not be sufficient to be a proof of evidence. Oxygen could come from various sources.
The point isn't that he was outed as only a scapegoat. The point is why you'd spend time waiting to see who you should fire before letting your victims know.
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As a New England resident I was always curious about the heat output efficiency of a miner compared to electric resistance heating. Somebody really wants that waste heat. If only it were useful in warm weather...
Yep I have heard about several similar promotions in the LA area from drivers.

A lot of drivers tell me often that as they close to hitting their number they get rides that are far away from where they are.

They then have to drive across town to pick the rider up and then drop the rider off at their destination ( which can be 15min to hours away).

The net effect is drivers rush during these promitions for quotas they usually don't hit.

Would not be surprised if Uber's algorithm started placing rides for drivers far away to avoid paying out promotions.
Is this necessary? What are you getting out of this comment?
There's many "red flags" from many postings in these pages, complaining about them is weird.
> Drivers earn a median of 59 cents per mile while incurring a median cost of 30 cents per mile, the report said, adding that for nearly a third of drivers, the costs are ultimately higher than the revenue.

> The paper reported the average driver profit to be $661 per month.

The posted $3.37 number is before taxes!
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The SkyTrain in Vancouver, Canada does not have drivers.

It has been in service since it was built for the 1986 World Expo.

Autonomous trains are not nearly as widespread as they could be, but this is not for technical reasons - it is for political reasons.
The median driver, huh?

I'd guess 90% of the Uber/Lyft miles driven are done by 5% of the drivers.

The median driver is probably someone halfassing it like I did. Trying it occasionally for an hour or two, without much of a plan. Seeing what it's like.
"Thinking past the sale" is not a thing. It's some gibberish Scott Adams made up to sell books and podcast ads.

Let's take your example. Is there a documented case of someone who started out being against the wall and then got confused into supporting it by the "Mexico pays" canard? I'd love to see that.

There are various rhetorical tactics and yes they can be effective... but none of them amount to Jedi mind tricks.

edit: to test my assertion, google that phrase. then google it with only results from 2015 or earlier. Scott Adams all the way down.