skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why wouldn’t it get bound up with carbon or iron or aluminum etc etc
You can’t put a laptop in my pocket and carry it around though.

The only realistic options for a smartphone are android and iOS. Between the two (and I have used both), I much prefer iOS.

Not for features or smoothness, mind you. I actually felt like my Android experience was better.

With google, however, I always felt like they were trying to sell me something and harvest my data through android. Not the case with Apple.
Can you provide some assurance re: how far removed this is from killing / caging humans? I know that it's impossible in our society to be completely removed, but can you at least ensure that this job doesn't involve building tooling that directly empowers those activities?

(I'm not looking for work, but I surmise you'll have more success in this forum if you're clear about that.)
That sounds... less than accurate. Will a sponge float in water? It's less dense...

I'm trying to imagine how the result of a close encounter between Saturn and a Saturn-sized bathtub full of water could be anything other than a single merged sphere with a lot of water content.
Google fighting against The Bell Curve.
All good points.

I used to drive a taxi - I fell into it when I needed a job but was overqualified for just about everything. I learned a lot from my passengers.

The taxi company I used to drive for has adapted. I think they'll survive until uber runs out of money, simply because fleets of similar vehicles are cheaper to maintain. A Prius will last 400,000 miles, with rebuilt batteries and cheap parts from a boneyard (retired/wrecked vehicles).

The taxi company now leases unbranded cars that can be used by drivers for any of the app-based services. The company's contracts pay better than non-surge uber fares, which motivates the drivers to take care of the company's contracts too.

> Point is, the gig economy is here because almost every strata of people below "upper-middle-class" have been getting slowly screwed for decades.

I call the phenomenon "economic cancer".
My guess: Someone with flagging rights either likes Bitcoin, or feels that it's a divisive topic.
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We’re building up a team of engineers at our internal startup, dubbed “Factory of the Future”, to completely revolutionize the electronics manufacturing industry. We’re looking for a full-stack web developer to work on custom web-apps that enhance and streamline the PCB manufacturing process. You'll be involved in developing tools that get orders through production as seamlessly as possible, with the opportunity to drive interesting projects involving automation, data visualization, and machine/3rd party integration. These include developing 3rd party integrations for use with popular CAD and CAM packages, optimizing our factory processes to get real-time feedback to and from jobs on the floor, and offering real-time feedback on the manufacturability of a customer’s design the instant design files are uploaded.

Our stack is built around React, GraphQL, Python, Django, Postgres.

We're happy to offer excellent benefits and competitive salaries, flex hours, and the opportunity to work remotely. Our main office is in Hollister, CA, just south of San Jose, and we're working on building up this team in NYC.

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I am in the middle of a project similar to what uber is doing and it leans very heavily on this library. Thank you so much for this! I would not have been able to pull it off without libpg_query.
> After the free-tier expires it will be less than $5, but the fact remains: it's crazy cheap.

I like the idea behind serverless development, but DO is $5/month and is easy to setup and maintain. From what I understand as your business grows AWS costs skyrocket and just starting out it's more complicated than a DO solution.

The idea is great, but looking forward to the day where serverless is the default solution because it's easier and cheaper. Not sure we're there yet.
It can be somewhat inconvenient to being so debilitating that you need to plan years in advance.
Arab here. Don’t get me started. It’s not much the visa itself than the entire procedure. You have to book an interview in an embassy and the dates are usually fully booked so you would have to skip work or endure other costs. A lot of forms to fill and required documents from a variety of administartions. The worst part is the uncertainty.
This is why I dislike that Ubuntu starts services by default after installing them.
How is that not censorship? Their opinions are wrong and disgusting but kicking them as a customer for their beliefs is very obviously censorship.
If there are specific things that trigger these feelings for you, please do your best to remove those things from your life.
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Hi, I'm a junior software developer with 3 years experience in iOS development (Objective-C and Swift). I'm feeling like it's time to go to the next level in my career so I asking you for resources, mentors, advice, etc. Anything that you would have wanted to know when you were in the same situation than me. Thank u all!
Subsidized public transportation is nearly essentially for a world-class city, but it anchors the value of a ride in people's minds, which is brutal for the private transportation market. My own labor is valued at a lot more than $12 per hour, but I don't even blink at getting in the car for 20 minutes for $4 - if anything, Lyft and Uber start to look expensive in comparison to the local metro.
Have you seen https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... ? Elasticsearch does take into account disk usage when balancing shards. Perhaps you haven't yet hit the (configurable) high water mark where that rebalancing would occur?

I work for Elastic, but not on Elasticsearch.
> For example, I suppose two planets of equal size, orbital plane, and 180 degrees from one another would mute their gravitational effect on their host star.

Such orbits are extremely rare. Any such orbit would be highly unstable, as any perturbation would cause the planet to deviate from its location. (Strictly speaking, there are five points where objects can have an orbit that matches that of another planet. They're called the Lagrangian points, and the only ones that are stable are L4 and L5, 60˚ ahead and behind the planet in its orbit.)
When I last renewed my insurance it offered me coverage for driving for rideshare for an extra $50 per 6 months (I think - I've never driven Uber/Lyft, so I didn't look too closely).

If I'm remembering it right that sounds like a very reasonable price
Absolutely. You are not understanding what you are reading. Let's differentiate between 'mover' and 'observer' for clarity. In reality they're completely interchangeable as being at rest relative to something moving 10m/s is the same as you moving 10m/s if we consider the other particle to be at rest.

As you accelerate more and more you will never observe yourself or anything else exceeding the speed of light. Instead what will happen is that time will begin to slow down and distances will begin to contract. If in our frame of reference a distance is 100 meters, it would begin to seem to be, for instance, 10 meters.

And the people observing you will also never see you exceed the speed of light. Instead they will see you approach it, and then start to level off asymptotically. Both views are correct. Time itself is what changes. From the perspective of the observer, time will be moving more slowly for the observed. e.g. this is why particles at CERN travel vastly greater distances than they 'should' be able to before decaying. Imagine what it would be like to experience that travel from the particle's perspective.

This is why we see our particle last much longer than it should. And if humans could live for 1500 years, this is why we would see things like our ship make it's 700 light year journey, and then beam back a message that would only hit us 1400 years later - telling us that they're safe and sound and got there in 12 years. Quite fun stuff!

Put another way, this would be the timeline of our ship in years from its perspective and from earth's perspective:

0 earth relative = ship leaves
0 ship relative = ship leaves

700 earth relative = ship arrives at planet
12 ship relative = ship arrives at planet

1400 earth relative = message from ship on planet arrives at earth
712 ship relative = message from ship on planet arrives at earth

One final clarification, which might be unclear from the above. The ship obviously does not magically warp through time or anything like that. If there was a clock on the planet that started at T=0 when that ship left Earth, it would read T=700 years when that ship arrived since that planet is itself also roughly at rest relative to the ship.

This is the most counter intuitive thing about relativity, and time dilation. It's not some 'trick' or matter of perspective. Time itself does literally move at different rates for different people in different scenarios, even when we're all in the same universe. Our ship pilot could make the 12 year journey back and indeed 1400 Earth years would have passed in the interim, and if was somehow able to measure the age of the other planet - 1400 years would have also passed there as well. Even though he himself had only aged 24 years.

Should we achieve the ability to reach relativistic rates of travel - some people may get their wish. Expect huge chunks of the rich to up and leave 'to the future' (from our perspective we'd just see them constantly zipping around near the speed of light... for centuries) in hopes of discovering if humanity has overcome mortality by then! Reality is much stranger than fiction.
I agree that market forces push down the prices below minimum wage. I don't think that itself is necessarily a bad thing. For one this labor is relies on a skill that most people (in US at least) already can do, so is almost unskilled labor. And unemployed people who can't find a minimum-wage job (which may be limited especially in places that set high minimum wages) are actually able to earn something. Plus these low salaries do help lower transportation costs for Uber/Lyft users.

But what I don't like is how Uber/Lyft market themselves into tricking poor people that this can be a worthwhile career, especially when all these hidden costs are not clearly communicated to drivers.

I think the solution relies in potential drivers becoming aware about these hidden costs.
The problem with "big deals" is the shift in focus required to even have a shot at getting one. It's not so much "problems encountered", it's that there's no way to maintain focus or vision before or after the big deal. If your focus itself is big deals, then this doesn't apply.

But most startups have to focus on the product and that's hard to do when dealing with a large company who's priorities are generally misaligned with the broader market's values.
This is precisely the compensation scheme that seems best.

I think I'd be comfortable paying 1/3 of the boost, for as long as I keep the job (probably with repeat business for the agent, when I change jobs). Maybe with a cap of a few years?

On the other hand, that's probably not a very large slice of total wage, so it's still pretty small compared to the 20% that recruiters apparently get. But maybe agenting is a lot easier than recruitering.

Not that I'm looking for a dev job currently.
That looks like going back to imperative/functional instead of the declarative syntax of SQL...

Have you used C# before? I think the LINQ query syntax could be a good evolution for some uses cases, but it again goes back to decades of dialects already being defined. Seems anything new would have to be implemented as some kind of proxy that then maps back to SQL or uses low level db access, but then why not just use an ORM or query builder in the first place and query from inside a language?
Any chance for full remote in EU? Your website mentions coming into office a day a week.
Bill Gates says cryptocurrencies have “caused deaths in a fairly direct way”
Do you have any evidence that the TF developers are going to do that?
$75 per Mbps per month is a weird figure. If they plan to resell transponder kHz capacity on a commercial basis, the Mbps capacity will be a function of the modulation scheme/coding density that can be pushed through a link. Let's say I write them a check for $1500 a month worth of transponder frequency, FDD, and set up a 3.0m earth station on a roof in Cologne, Germany and another identical 3.0m terminal in Skardu, Pakistan. Both with modern SCPC modems. This hypothetical example assumes crosslinked spot beam coverage between the two regions and appropriate satellite position in the geostationary arc.

The amount of Mbps I could push through that will be greater than if I do the same setup with a pair of 1.8m dishes. You can't know your Mbps figure for a dedicated geostationary satcom link until you know you RF link budget, system gain, and how close you can get to the Shannon limit. The same amount of kHz (same dollar spend per month) could be used at 16QAM 5/6 or at QPSK 1/2 modulations, with very different Mbps figures.
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Python “abuses” exceptions in a similar way every time you iterate over a generator: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1124...

At the end of the day it’s just a control flow mechanism. And theoretically, if you lack data needed to render, it’s an exceptional condition.
How is that misusing a wildcard certificate? Should proxy server websites be HTTP only since the content is loaded from a different origin server?
I have my doubts about this. The interviews made IH take off when the forums had maybe one Post per day or less.

I bet the interviews get way more traffic than the forums.

For lurkers, it’s the interviews for sure.
data- comes out of HTML5 but jQuery was one of the first libraries to touch it.

It’s likely a significant fraction of people who jumped to the same solutions had some prior exposure to jquery.
I got Fred Hampton.
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i'm glad to hear that, and i assume it comes from personal experience, but do you have links to any public information about it?
Yeah the Samsung Mobile part was implied. ;)

Definitely an interesting counter factual to think about.

I wonder if the Nokia board from that time ever think about the collosal mistake they made hiring some MS guy. I wonder if anyone wrote anything about it.
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Well, it's a bit disappointing that this patent explains more of a high-end Hololens than the fiber-scan displays they were pitching in 2015.

Excited to see how raising almost $2 billion pre-revenue turns out.
> If you exclude research due to funding sources and potential conflicts of interest, you wouldn't be left with much.

If the majority of research is tainted by conflicts, that doesn't somehow make it any less tainted by conflicts.

It's trivially easy to design a study to produce the results you want it to, just by selecting things like accounting methods at the outset.

For example, one method of accounting is to allocate costs based on usage. So if you have a car and you drive it 90% for Uber and 10% for your own usage, allocate 90% of all costs to Uber. That makes Uber look really bad.

But if you would have bought the car either way and the question is the incremental cost of driving for Uber, that accounting method is the sunk cost fallacy. It allocates large fractions of a bunch of fixed costs to the incremental use, like the original purchase price of the car, even though they're sunk and can't be avoided either way.

And the money actually does taint the study, because the funders know the parameters of the study ahead of time and only fund the ones that will produce the results they want, which makes the results tainted by selection bias.
I haven't looked into Amazon's finances extensively, but I bet this is at least partly due to Net Operating Loss. In US tax law net operating loss means that you can deduct losses for prior years from this year's earnings. The funny thing about this is that by losing money you actually add an asset to your balance sheet (deferred tax assets). Since Amazon has lost a lot of money in the past that probably helped with their 2017 taxes. Another interesting thing about this is with the new tax law cutting the corporate tax rate to 21%, many companies had to take a charge against earnings in order to write down the value of the deferred tax assets. If you lost $1M last year, you had $350,000 in deferred tax assets that got written down to $210,000 meaning your company technically lost $140,000, even though you got a tax cut. Accounting is truly amazing.
Visas are really different per country. In some cases you need an appointment, with an interview. In other cases fill something online and pay a fee. A few are really an entry tax to get extra money off of foreigners so you get it on arrival after you pay the "visa fee".
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Uber is probably profitable in NYC (and if it isn’t, it could be by raising prices and cutting costs). The question is everywhere else.

And NYC taxis relied on mostly immigrants driving 12 hours a day; in cheap fleet cars.

The medallions (for a long time) were an appreciating asset. So only the interest on the loans were an actual expense. 5% interest on a million dollar loan is only 50k a year. And they’d offer split it amongst drivers (two or three split a car).
> cherryh.freenode.net set mode +ns ##irc_can_be_easy

Some welcome message. You may be too used to IRC to recognize this, but this is frightening gibberish to 99.99% of computer users.

Also, this interface does not get you crucial features provided by other chat services, such as seeing what previous users have said.
Is this for commercial or personal drivers?
Using Codenvy for development, Github for code, Netlify for deployment and hosting, and Firebase for a database, in total I spend exactly nothing on my side projects.
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You can add a sixth class. I have been told that Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes (CFRD) is neither Type 1 nor Type 2.
> Fortunately, btrfs is really good at backups.

For backing up to another file system? How so? Is there something like "zfs send" or even "xfsdump"?

Honest question - I haven't look that closely at btrfs.
There is certainly a need for a new category beyond "Type I" and "Type II".

Estimates are that of Type II Diabetics who are overweight or obese, 85% of them would be asymptomatic if they simply reduced their weight to a healthy one, and didn't consume more calories than they burned each day.

Obese people with "Type II" should be reclassified as "Type F Diabetes". This will help our healthcare system allocate funds and resources better. Why spend money on a population who has a free, safe, and natural remedy (eating less) available to them?
https://help.uber.com/h/ba03b1db-46f9-4350-9a39-8a98b83f813e

Uber is partnered with a company that provides driver injury insurance for ~4c/mile.
> Other discussion communities are more inclusive and more diverse - and by that I mean the only meaningful flavour of diversity - diversity of opinion.

Would you mind sharing. The HN hive-mind has started getting to me lately. If I wanted to see well-intentioned, well-reasoned but fairly unpopular conversations being flagged and shut down, and illogical popular opinions up-voted to the top, I'd rather go to FB or some other place.
It's usually not terribly expensive, but difficulty varies between painless and trip-cancelling.

Most countries these days will do it online for a nominal fee, easy as pie.

If you travel around Africa you'll semi-often find yourself sitting in waiting rooms on touchdown for a few hours while nobody can tell you what's going on, but I've never had an actual problem.

The only close shave I've had was Egypt, who required me to hand my passport into the embassy, then proceeded to delay for so long that I didn't have my passport the day before my (Sydney-Europe) flight. They wouldn't even give it back without the visa, insisting that they hand it handled. I was only able to get it after going to the embassy and refusing to leave until I had it in hand. Five hours later.

But I did get the visa.
There was nothing wrong with Ethereum's implementation of smart contracts, just Parity's source code for multi-sig wallets.
I've participated on several >$10M Canadian Gov't IT projects over the years and you nailed it.

Business groups will fight tooth-and-nail to keep their existing processes - partly to maintain status-quo, but also because the folks who represent the business know little about system's analysis/design, so they just simply aren't in a mindset to re-engineer.

Combine this with the vendor's (not so hidden) agenda of milking the gov't and it's a recipe for disaster... every damn time.
This sounds like the basis for a class action lawsuit that eventually settles for a $15 gas card for the affected drivers and $2m in fees for the plaintiffs' lawyers.
The project sizes are fine. The team sizes are too large.

There's too much empire building and career-minded politicking going on in companies of this size, which gets in the way of actually working on the product. Managers increase scope to increase their budget, then do busy make-work to justify the budget so they can get more next round. The engineers need to look busy even though things aren't defined, and optimize to internal-facing metrics as opposed to product-oriented productivity. Anybody who steps back and mentions that progress isn't being made towards actually getting the customer a working product is reprimanded as undermining the unquestionably accepted established processes (which usually aren't working anyway).

The actual deliverable gets lost in the shuffle, as the lumbering hulk of the company and career paths within it overshadow the customer.
Sounds like the kind of ridiculous lesson one files away when they realize their critical thinking skills have surpassed those of the teacher.
Taxicabs such as in NYC are (were) monopolies. The price you paid was far above what the market rate should have been, which is why drivers were able to make livings on them. Uber/Lyft are simply forcing prices back down to the market rate which is where the prices should be in a free market. Driving isn't really something that should be a career.

> "Why is it that a company that's supposed to be vastly more efficient due to use of computers can't make a profit?"

Well Uber/Lyft are probably focused on growth now. They will make plenty of profit once they dominante every city with driver-less cars.
That sounds insane, even with American medical prices. How much are insurance premiums in Germany?

I just don't see how anyone could cause that much damage with their vehicle.
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If the other party is at fault, their insurance should cover their liability for your damages.
> Perhaps there is a filesystem out there that supports CoW in a way that fits this usecase

I'd recommend zfs snapshots - or for something a bit different, maybe nilfs2:

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7345/
Whiners can downvote all you want, but you can't say I'm wrong. So either admit you're wrong or go pound sand.

Such sensitive.
Also lol at "support ticket with your ISP." We're talking about major tier 1 carriers here.