skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many many startups working on some fraction of the autonomy stack (e.g. Aurora) or the entire vertical (e.g. Zoox). I call out several specific ones in my comment if you care to read it through.
Uber has the data. They know all the trip prices, models of cars (costs can be calculated), and time that drivers are online. This could be figured out, but would you trust what they said?
our ability to cripple Russia economically

What would be the point of that? And, come to think of it, what do you think the likely outcome of such a situation would be? Good for you, you laid evil Putin low. And what about all the actual people living in Russia? Collateral damage?

Warfare, economic or otherwise, is only the answer for people who lack the ability to think creatively.
And? Gopher (the protocol) is not dead yet. There's an active retro community keeping it alive and developing it. Just because it's no longer mainstream doesn't mean it should be erased from our lexicon.

How about I invent something and call it COBOL, is that OK?

If we expect our industry to ever grow up, we need to respect its history, and not keep overwriting it.
Introducing Myself – Ursula K. Le Guin [pdf]
There's a certain mean time between new HN users rediscovering things.
More ‘boomerang’ employees return to Microsoft as corporate culture shifts
You’re able to deduct the miles driving while actively seeking a passenger. My Lyft driver was sharing this hack with me while driving me home from the airport yesterday; he turns the app on while driving home from work everyday. If he has a ride, good. If not, he’s gotten to deduct his commute home as a business expense.
This is like all other power stations in a privatised economy. For example the Hinkley Point C power station is subsidised by the UK but constructed, operated and will send profit (if any) to the French state-owned EDF.

Energy is a reserved area and not within the remit of the Scottish Parliament.
Correct. But databases are not programming languages.

I have never done any SW development in the commercial domain. Do you say in banking system the amounts never make it to the host language, they are always calculated in the database?

A cashier system most likely doesn't even have a database. At least not used for every item.
Autonomous vehicles will make it much safer to be a cyclist, a pedestrian, or a child near a road. These are some positive changes I am really looking forward to.

Imagine knowing that if your child runs in the road, the cars will stop? Safety is a great feeling.
It would be nice if there's a plugin that launches vim/emacs with a tmp file in the background, and replaces the textarea with a terminal like canvas that connects to it. Upon exit, the content gets copied into the textarea.
> What vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc does meat provide?

But this can be fixed by one multivitamin pill, correct?

> Finally why are you focused on protein to begin with?

My belief is that you need certain amount of protein, if you are highly engaged into sport activities. Maybe it is not very educated belief of course.
The time saved has been rather extreme. It is more than just a couple of hours a week, if I recall. Something on the order of 14 or so hours in a given week. (Seriously, that isn't even that much. Couple of hours a day. Which would be about right, considering that laundry takes a long time to dry by itself.)

But even not counting for how much time it actually costs. The energy costs are lower for a washing machine. The detergent necessary is tiny. The health risks are minimized. (Let that one sink in. Touching dirty laundry is a great way to get sick. Especially if you are scrubbing it to wash away the soiled parts.)

So no, it is more than just a great theoretical argument. And the idea that folks are being wasteful by having a laundry machine is... well, astonishing to me.
It's not nonsense at all. Women were barely in the workforce before all of these inventions became commonplace because running a household entirely by hand was a full-time job. You'd be crazy to give up the income of a full-time job in order to go back to olden-times full manual labor for all tasks.
I like the design.

Someone should make a matte, black phone shell that goes over the screen, bundled with an app with an UI like this phone has.
That could be a start for a prototype browser plug-in.
if only we had so simple and effective of a way to express outrage as dumping tea.

the question is, what is the 21st century version of dumping tea into the harbor?

we are long overdue.
You can run DOSBox in your browser, the Internet Archive has a bunch of games emulated that way,

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
So, why aren't DIY Powerwall guys snapping up Volt battery packs? I can see two reasons to DIY a Powerwall: Price and to work around Tesla's stupid rules about where/how Powerwall can be installed. Seems like you'd want the cheapest batteries you could get if price is your motivating force in building a DIY Powerwall.
I think you can just use headless firefox[1] or headless chrome[2].

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Headless_mode

[2]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-c...
It is a curve in homogeneous coordinates. You can set z=1 to obtain an affine view of it, and draw it as a regular curve in the plane. Points with z=0 are points at infinity (directions). The two rational points with z=0 that you describe mean that the curve has two asymptotes at 45 and -45 degrees.
Depending on the subreddit, reddit comments could be worth combining in as well.

As to "how" to accomplish it, my mind is immediately jumping towards a browser extension that automatically searches the other sites for matching content when you're viewing the discussion page on any of them, and then incorporates the relevant info somehow.
This 13-foot robot cost over $100M
Undoubtedly the washing machine is an amazing invention. They save you time and energy, they do a better job, and they're more water efficient. My point was that the economic argument, and only that argument, is nonsense. Washing machines don't need a spurious argument like "Think of the money you could make while it's washing your trousers!" to be considered a sound purchase.
"the modern American housewife probably spends more time on housework than her grandmother" is quite ridiculous. For her grandmother, housework was a full time job while in the modern American family housework can be done even if all adults are employed in other full time jobs.
Can you use AWS for extraordinary peaks and DIY solution for cooler periods of time?
does sway offer pdf export u_u ?
Most people don’t have 10/week hours that are needed for hand washing that’s comparable in quality to machine wash.
Before dosbox there were dosemu (which let you use hardware but was pain to configure) and things like qemu (emulate any hardware but even more pain to configure). You still had to install OS into VM. Dosbox just changed the rules of this emulation game. It was unbelieveably good even when it didn't do 32 bit yet.
Many drones can carry many kg of load. Any number of heavy (e.g. kinetic) or explosive payloads are an option.

Molotov cocktail delivery vehicle? Why not? Requires a remote control lighter and remote release. How about dropping steel rebar? Needs tail fins for directional stability and some testing but that would be plenty troublesome. Drone mounted pistols are already here. (YouTube them.)

And yet the skies are considered safe enough today. I just think there are bigger concerns out there.
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aka "black bag jobs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bag_operation
Seems like I've been wrong then, sorry. This was the impression I got from our HR office (it is true that we require relocation).
> It seems as though when the group that holds the most political power (men, white people, Christians) has concerns, it's not viewed as identity politics, whereas for political minorities, it is

I have no support for trump, but the level of identity politics was nowhere near comparable. This is when the phrase "check your privilege" became a meme - because it was being used to shut down the conversation. Progressives literally had a scorecard for if they'd consider talking to you. (Gay +1, Trans + 3, Black +2, Female + 1.5, Hetero Parents -5).

It's disheartening to see people turn down the opportunity to discuss ideas and then feel morally righteous about it. I can't think of anything more anti-intellectual. If this attitude doesn't change I only see things becoming more polarized and nasty. We need people discussing ideas with those who don't always agree. That's the engine for progress.
It seems you've really gone down the rabbit hole with your reply and I'm not sure why.

Money is incredibly important and valuable in our society. We've largely arranged our society around acquiring it, spending it, saving it and (sometimes to a sickening degree) glorifying it. Please see the fact that most people spend roughly 4,000 hours a year in their pursuit for money.

The rest of your post seems a bit incoherent to me. My original post was not a demand or a policy prescription; just wistful thinking. If pressed for something even more specific I would say: "It would be great if there was a more concrete path coupled with high demand for creative careers as there is for writing more code."

Out of curiosity I did look up average sculptor salaries in CA, but they are more than half that of an average software engineer so I guess I'll still be heading in to work on Monday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If we extended these rules to the internet, Facebook and Twitter would go out of business.
Correct. Precision must be parameterized for every variable.
2 is the most commonly used value (for money), but not the only reasonable one. And rounding needs to be done at certain steps but not a others. Typically internal calculations are expected to be done with maximum precision, and every time you have an item visible to the customer you round. Often to full cents, but there are cases where you show a fixed number of decimal cents even to the customer. I doubt that cases where you show maximum precision to a customer are common.
+10 for the OpenPandora, the community is incredible. It really gives me hope and confidence that the Pyra- while it may take a while to gain momentum- will be an incredible platform for many, many years. That said while I have a first batch Pandora and a silver 1Ghz unit I don't game much anymore and they're a little neglected. I enjoy breaking them out every now and then to find dozens of updates to various PND apps and check up on what's new.

I love having a complete set of Robert's visually consistent emulator front-ends.

Don't get me started on iControlPad :D I've never seen a "lol" so loaded!

I'm keeping a close eye on the Gemini since I love the form-factor and my phone is getting a little crusty. The GPD Pocket has definitely also tempted me.
> Why? Because the introduction of the iTunes store in 2003 made buying music even more convenient than illegally downloading it. Convenient beat out free.

tldr; Convenient does not beat free. A convenient system with fees and with no propaganda against it whose use carries no risk of ruining one's life/finances/reputation beats a gratis system with widespread propaganda against it whose use, development, and distribution carries a risk to everyone's life/finances/reputation.

* you can get sued into oblivion for even using the free option. This is such a danger that Bram Cohen, original author of Bittorrent, has stated publicly he decided from the outset never to download content over it so that nobody could ever impeded his current or future work with threats of lawsuits over copyright infringement. (And the current debacle with Project Gutenberg shows how big a danger those lawsuits can be.)

* you can get jail time for publishing the locations of the free options

* you can be threatened with lawsuit and/or criminal penalties for developing an application like Popcorn Time that makes the free options discoverable and user-friendly

* you will eventually get your domain name suspended if you ignore all the risks above and serve up an app/site for the free option

* even projects like Gutenberg and IMSLP which serve up content exclusively that is no longer under copyright have to spend considerable resources consulting with lawyers to make sure parties who would rather sell what they offer cannot simply strongarm them or sue them out of existence

Take all those risks into account, plus the fact that RIAA and Hollywood have enormous resources to throw against the free option. It is amazing that the free options have existed at all, much less in the user-friendly and convenient form of something like Popcorn Time.
You are correct.

I'm a Virginia Tech alumni. A roommate was wounded, and my academic advisor and several former professors of mine died. The killer had handguns.

When NBC chose to air the recorded manifesto that Cho recoded after he killed two students, but before he had gone to Norris Hall to kill entire classrooms, I knew they were ringing a dinner bell for more killers.

Gun availability hasn't changed. Media reporting has. However they shape the narrative by selecting who to interview. Many Parkland students blame the FBI and Broward County police for ignoring dozens of specific warnings regarding the killer. They aren't included in interviews, at all.

I resent the fact that the media repeatedly ignore the recommendations from the American Psychology Association and report the name and picture of the killers, fueling copy cat incidents, and conveniently ignore this in favor of guns.

When NBC gave the killer of my academic advisor his dying wish to get ratings, I knew that they don't care about victims. They just want ratings and the controversy that feeds them.
Cheerio is so much faster and more lightweight than jsDOM. If you can do it with Cheerio, you absolutely should.
The EarthWindMap gives one a sense of how much stronger (in general) the wind is over the sea than it is over the land:

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/ort...
A Marriott employee hit 'Like.' Then China got mad.
Hence the "originally" part prefixing my post. I absolutely agree it later become a monetary thing (bare in mind DVDs came a long time after the time period I was discussing) but many early consoles didn't have region locking and some that did, did so because games timed for NTSC consoles would have ran slower on PAL systems due to the difference in refresh rates between PAL and NTSC (50Hz and 60Hz respectively). You can see this in effect whenever you play games on a modded Mega Drive (for example).

That all said, some NTSC games were still released for European markets without changing their timings. Sonic is one example of this - it runs slower, the music plays slower etc. For that reason I usually play Sonic on NTSC console rather than the PAL one (yeah, I have a whole room full of old computers and games consoles. It's sad but I love it).
> Twitter is the closest thing to Orwell’s “Two Minutes Hate” in 1984.

I guess this means that Orwell was too much of an optimist. If we only could reduce Twitter usage to mere two minutes a day...
One would also perform better at work, if one's free time weren't filled with time-consuming and often exhausting chores. To be available and energized enough to perform well professionally requires that one be able to take care of the life stuff and still sleep.

I may be the only one in the thread who has washed clothes by hand (Granny made me acquire the skill), so let me say doing it correctly is a real upper body workout. A family load of laundry would take many hours and an athlete to do it in a day. Each piece must be done individually. Hanging it all up to dry requires a lot of space too.
I'd count SQL as a programming language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
I'm still on the sidelines with the Pyra, but keen to see how it pans out! It's looking really really close now, though.

Two Months?
Wind power is big on-site construction though, which doesn't decrease much in cost over time (if at all). Yes, there'll be some economies in scale if we're making ten times as many turbine blades in the future versus now, but that won't come close to the orders of magnitude improvements we've seen in cost efficiency in photovoltaic cells over the past decades.

To use a simple example outside of renewables, it's now more expensive than ever before in US history to complete a large infrastructure project (say, a new bridge across the Hudson River), but you can buy a $40 Raspberry Pi that has more processing capacity than all the billions of dollars worth of computers that existed in the 60s.
I've had that as well. I suspect Nintento intentionally added that so it felt more like consoles of old (joke).
Code your own blockchain mining algorithm in Go
Or ctrl-t n enter.

For this I made a separate chromium profile who's tabs reopen on boot, homepage is hn, and search engine is hn algolia. It's
stopped the ctrl-t n enter habit successfully.
>the consequences would be similar to you getting paid for doing nothing

You're right in that I'm having trouble seeing your point because what you write doesn't follow at all. If I'm a sculptor I'm producing something. Arguably something that people want and are willing to pay at least some money for. I would even disagree that society needs me to do anything. Certainly it doesn't need me to be a software engineer - a large corporation needs me to do that so they can sell more features.

If I want to maintain a certain standard of living then in many cases I have a limited set of paths on how to achieve that. The balance comes in having more ways of reaching the same goal.
Most food services go away as well. Probably over 95% of all restaurants cease to exist.

> these appliances ... free up an entire person to go work

And they help free up the other eight or nine hours that you don't spend working or sleeping during a day as well. They also help to free up many hours on the weekend.

The time savings and improvement to quality of life is immense. And we're just beginning. We're only fully 50-60 years into the appliance revolution.
I talked to one guy who drives for Uber just for his hour long commute. If he was going to drive anyway, why not have someone else pay for it?
I was about to chime in with this, but you beat me to it. (HZJ79 Land Cruiser, lockers rear, center and front, full underbody and steering protection, expedition tank, water tanks, upgraded shocks, the mandatory snorkel, a real mother of a roof rack, steering damper coming up...

Sigh. Any hobby you can get blokes interested in eventually turns into gadget madness...
Did a similar thing with engraver software (which had a parallel port hardware serial key dongle that DOSBox allowed access to) and a dBASE IV program at a client's factory. Amazing piece of emulation that enables "ancient" code to run forever in small businesses around the world.
For some people even the 140 characters were too much, so they started retweeting hashtags instead. And the conversation gradually evolved to an exchange of screams...

#onlyMe! #notYou! #myProblemsMatter! #yoursDont! #killYourself! #killEveryone! #etc
You are talking about countries where university education and hospital care are free or priced at symbolic rates.
Is it intentional though? Like the old proverb goes--never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
i tend to agree, but there's a lot of secondary effects that may lead different people to be saving money in different areas, just not 'making' money directly. you can spend more time cooking, which may save on meals out. you can spend more time helping kids with homework, vs spending on a tutor, etc. the general idea is that you can do something else more productive (instead of, or in parallel) with your time has merit, but most people would be doing something else that doesn't make extra cash directly (but again, may be saving them an expense somewhere else in their life)
You talk about science behind things like we have 100% knowledge. There is no science in celiacs and sinus headaches, but many celiacs report them.

Our knowledge of food is super limited. Our medicine is super limited when it comes to auto immune disorders.

My headaches don't exist according to science, but I dealt with them for 23 years and figure out a fix. Keep your mind open a bit, we don't have everything figured out and people's experiences are very real.
Reminder: Beware of the "Cloud"
Check pdf.cool (hosted API)
VisiData Lightning Demo at PyCascades 2018 [video]
In this sense, Linux already is the OS for hundreds of millions, in the form of Android.

It just got a very different UI and somehow reworked userland.

Is this what you'd prefer on the desktop, too?
The society also has ways to mediate conflicts, but Twitter removed them.
Don't know about the (8-rotor) eHang, but the 18-rotor Volocopter remains fully controllable with 3 rotor failures (or more, if they're benignly distributed), and has a ballistic rescue chute in addition (which is hard to fit on a heli).

(Of course, you need a certain altitude for the BRS to kick in successfully, so low-level hover is a risk, just as with a helicopter.)
That is flat-out embarrassing to report an hourly pre-tax income of $3.37, which implies accuracy down to the cent, when the actual reporting methodology is bucketing within ranges of powers of two. And then on top of that to completely screw up the accounting methodology anyway.

Much more accurate would be to actually get real data from drivers, by giving them instructions to extract desired monthly data from the app itself showing income and hours online (I presume the driver-side apps include this data?).
This sounds pretty accurate to me, thanks.
How does this work? He can't choose the passenger's destination.
Three girls, a dead raccoon, and a crockpot
Amazing ... are Shopify, Github and Gitlab using a similar stack at their scale? I feel less bad about not using an exotic stack now.
There's also no upside for Uber to release the numbers if they're not really that high - it'd be discouraging to their future contractor pool.
The large corporation needs you to be a software engineer so it can sell things that people want and are willing to pay money for. If you can sell your sculptures for as much as your software engineering job pays, you should do that. Otherwise, you're asking for society to subsidize your hobby in the same way that society would be subsidizing my hobbies if I were paid to stay home all day. I'd probably even sculpt sometimes if that were the case.
VisiData 1.0 released
> I would even disagree that society needs me to do anything.

Then why shouldn't you receive a salary without doing anything?
Exactly, vim is better than emacs, and I've always known this. It wasnt until recently that i found out emacs is a better vim than vim. Spacemacs really is a masterpiece.
>I have no support for trump, but the level of identity politics was nowhere near comparable. This is when the phrase "check your privilege" became a meme - because it was being used to shut down the conversation. Progressives literally had a scorecard for if they'd consider talking to you. (Gay +1, Trans + 3, Black +2, Female + 1.5, Hetero Parents -5).

This kind of PC-obsessed SJW seems to me to be a total fabrication of the right disconnected from what actual leftists and progressives are fighting for.

#metoo wants men to stop harassing and assaulting women with impunity

#blacklivesmatter wants cops to stop murdering black men with impunity

You know what, I think these are issues where people should be polarized "morally righteous" about, whatever that means. They are real injustices that affect a large number of people on a daily basis. Activists rightly view these struggles as ideological battles to be won, not conversations to be had. What is the "other side" to affirming the basic humanity of women or black people?