skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing costs to add a driver does not prevent company's from adding new drivers it just makes that more expensive. Thus, you need to consider it as another form of cost savings not a difference in the number of drivers.

A company that pays 50$ less to get an employee can reduce fairs on the order of 1 cent or make an extra 1 cent per ride. It's possible Uber might add a few cents per ride this way, but it's not particularly significant even assuming the average driver does not last that long.
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So I understand the whole "SLOC doesn't always need to be positive to have made useful contributions to a codebase" thing, I do it fairly frequently. However, is the argument for removing support ("known working good code"), aka functionality, a good thing? Do people now need to draw a line in the sand and say: If I want to put linux on my m32r sound mixer, I can't use a kernel newer than 4.16?

I'm not really sure I'm arguing for or against the dropping of support, more just curious about others thoughts.
Pedagogical understanding is pretty good (given enough effort in a particular field).

But NLP's accuracy isn't high enough for anything more than basic tasks.

It's just not good enough at understanding mistakes, or giving well calibrated probabilities of complex meanings given a context.

(I work in NLP professionally, and I've worked in the education space previously).
How easy would it be to do this at home by snorting half a gram but over the course of an hour?
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There is a couple of attempts:

https://neo900.org/

https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
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Just pulled up their filings[1], and I'm almost certainly misreading it, but in Q3 2017:

NA Retail Revenue: $25,446M
NA Retail Profit: $ 112M
AWS Revenue: $ 4,584M
AWS Profit: $ 1,171M

Pedantically, it seems like AWS is not Amazon's primary source of revenue, but is the primary source of profit.

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[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872417...
If you can listen to it, it can be downloaded into a file. If you can read it, it can be scraped. etc
This was a motivating factor for us. If a market solution doesn't appear and remedy the problem, then we'll get government regulation.
I feel you. It really sucks that ASUS's recovery media doesn't let you replace or upgrade your memory or storage. Those are user-serviceable parts, IMO.
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> Advertising does not in any fundamental way depend on micro targeting. Advertising existed and thrived long before the existence of the internet.

I get that.

The comparative advantage of Google and Facebook was that they could provide a demographic with greater specificity than anyone before, by a lot. There is an old saying, "I know half my advertising is wasted, I just don't know which half." Google and FB were going to end that.
Rebuilding the web we lost – Anil Dash (2012)
program xfact
integer::i
print *, fact ([(i, i = 0, 5)])

contains
elemental function fact (n)
integer, intent (in)::n
integer::i

fact = product ([(i, i = 1, n)])
end function fact
end program xfact
R and Matlab are definitely array-oriented in that sense (though not fully). Here's how you might do it in R:

prod(1:x)
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Not only people in North America — I’d say everybody that has an above average interest in movies. In Hollywood they use 555-xxxx all the time.
>I very rarely use Amazon

It's interesting to think about... the extreme would be to stop visiting websites hosted on AWS.
I think the internet has enabled subculture to flourish...some of it good...some of it..well..terrifying..
But then you just choose an ISP that doesn't do such dastardly deals. It might cost more, but that's your choice.
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Yep, free calls were awesome. I used to spend literally all afternoon to early evening tying up a second phone line!
You can also get these handy personal dispensers, have a look on eBay for "snuff bullet".
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I'd say slavery is not a new problem. It's nice that we have different names for it, and nice rationalizations, but the problem is really old.
Yes. Who makes the rules?

There is no safety in trusting government or associated companies.
How Xbox got its start – and its name
I already have multiple hobbies that consume more than 2% of my income per year. If you can find something to sell me that I enjoy more than skiing, you're more than welcome to my skiing budget.
Unfortunately, feature-cram and bloat seem to be the mostly inescapable reality of software, even in many open source projects where you don’t have someone from sales or marketing breathing down your neck for moar moar moar. It is nice when project maintainers can spend time on bug fixes, performance improvements, memory optimization, etc. Even better when a project can agree that they are “done” with features and all additional changes are maintenance.
I first ran into this in one of AK Dewdney's books (probably "The Tinkertoy Computer") when I was in high school. I actually took some classes with Tommaso Toffoli as an undergrad but I had totally forgotten that he invented this, so it was only years later when I came back across it that I made the connection.

I've always enjoyed mechanical implementations of digital logic.
I'll agree that dark UX is shop talk, and when talking to users as opposed to colleagues you'll need to clarify. Maybe we need a new word for that use case, but just expanding the UX acronym should be workable.
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TNW is a well respected and well established tech news site with a large team [0]. The author likely doesn't have direct control over the sharing buttons.

I take your point, but on the other hand it is probably quite difficult to be aware of all sites that use AWS, especially if they sit behind a CDN. I didn't know Reddit use AWS.

[0] https://thenextweb.com/team/
Other people have mentioned OSKit, but back in the day I also used oslib [1] to create a microkernel for my final engineering project.

[1] http://oslib.sourceforge.net/
I work in mid-sized Berlin startup. At least among startups, beer, and sometimes wine, in the fridge is completely normal.

Where I work it‘s not regularly consumed with lunch (kein Bier vor Vier applies) but it does happen on occasion.
Code that isn't executed and doesn't have anyone to care for it will often 'rot' inside of a larger codebase in my experience. When that happens, it adds mental overhead whenever anything related is refactored or changed, and can sometimes do nothing but create barriers for further improvements.

In this case, it looks like it was a number of unused architectures that were being put to pasture - anyone who is interested can look through commit history and pull back what they need if they're invested enough.
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I'm unfamiliar with kernel development cycles, but there might be some amount of maintenance needed each patch to ensure changes work for the various supported architectures, in which case leaving them in without updating them would result in insecure, increasingly buggy mess.
Except these days a real number is commonly used if it provides a marketing benefit, given how easy it is for people to pause movies and read all visible text.
How does it follow from that that it's not also facebook's fault?

If the government and parents are failing to prepare children for dealing with the adversaries that they encounter in life ... does that mean anyone who is using that lack of preparation to their advantage while knowingly hurting those under-prepared people cannot possibly be at fault for their actions?

If a child hasn't learned about the dangers of drugs in school or from their parents ... does that mean that someone selling them hard drugs cannot be at fault for making money from that situation?
>"Although all diseases claim almost 1,OOO times as many lives as do homicides, there were about three times as many articles about homicides than about all diseases. Furthermore, homicide articles tended to be more than twice as long as articles reporting deaths from diseases and accidents."

Doesn't that make sense? If diseases kill 1000x more people, they are not news -- they're same old, what has been going on since forever.

Now, if there a novel disease or epidemic, sure, that would get coverage.
Well I guess anytime the Internet has a problem these days, we are either going to delete the problem or boycott it into oblivion. If you look deeply into any giant Corp or business serving millions of people you’re going to find faults and deficiencies like this every time. Follow the production Chain of Apple, Google, Tesla etc etc you’re going to find someone at the deep end bearing the entire cost of their success.

So what happens now ? Assuming everyone boycotted Amazon and the unlikely event occurred and it shut down. What next? Tens of thousands of those works go home to what? Does the editor then start another campaign to employ all the people laid off? Think they’d be working there if they had a lot more options?

How about trying to fix the problem or at least fix as much as humanly possible? How about putting pressure on your reps to draw up some regulations? How about the government? Isn’t that what they’re there for? Do we have to resort to Social justice for everything now ? Because it obviously doesn’t work with these corporations. See Equifax, See Facebook ?
OK, that was certainly a thoughtless comment :(

I did mean seat belt + air bag vs seat belt alone. But even then, air bags apparently improve seat belt protection by less than 20%.

I was thinking of dramatic high-speed frontal collisions with ~immovable objects. Where forces from seat belts alone can cause damage.
Are the lower level financiers and consultants on Wall Street working for roughly 1.8x Amazon warehouse pay?
The Surface was factory reset only a few days back. I don't use it that much except for occasional ebooks. The only software I had in it were Firefox, Chrome, Office and Drawboard if you don't consider all that Candy crush/Soda crush/Animal kingdom bloat that MS likes to push on us (which I promptly uninstalled).

I have to admit that I downloaded the pdf ebooks from piracy sites. So don't know if they had some malware in them. I did scan them with MBAM, Avira, MS Defender before use though. Note that i didn't download them from Surface. I downloaded them using a Ubuntu VirtulaBox VM running on another laptop. I restore the VM to a previous snapshot each time after use.
Depends whether they cut their teeth on Matlab!

I'm not sure which is faster here, often writing out the loop is a little faster but less compact.
The problem is that often enough it is not "known working good code", because nobody has been compiling and/or running and/or stress testing this code for a long time. Given that constant churn in the kernel, refactoring of APIs etc., it's quite likely that subtle (or not so subtle) breakages creep into that code over time. (Even if people who perform this refactoring try to update these archs, too; or perhaps I should say: "especially if", because usually you can't test them, after all).

Leaving it in gives the wrong impression that this is "known working good code", which is one reason to remove it. Another is that removing them makes it easier to be agile and refactor things, because you don't have to worry about these archs anymore.
There’s and interesting video about Xi called Xi: An editor for the next 20 years. I remember it was a good talk and I would recommend watching it. https://youtu.be/4FbQre9VQLI
The Axios article[1] is better because it notes that later investors had preferential terms ("preference stack"). It's also says the post-money valuation was around $440m.

It's hard to know what they got back, but since the preference stack is noted I'd guess they made between 120% and 150%. There's no real way to know though - but we can tell they made their money back because the sale went though.

Also, A D round isn't looking for huge returns. They probably would have been outstandingly happy with 3x, so 1.2x is fine for them.

[1] https://www.axios.com/general-assembly-1523667905-ce940016-1...
Yeah, without bumping threads on new posts, there's almost no reason to even comment on older topics on HN/Reddit. If it's not on the first two pages, nobody is going to see it.

Even worse, the only person who might see it is the one person you responded to since it's in the profile comment feed, and a back-and-forth isn't very interesting.

This makes forums much different where each new reply bumps the topic into the eyes of any number of people who are online.

The upstream is wrong. Avatars and (ugh) signatures don't make a forum. Being able to converse over time is what does it. That's how you get to know regulars beyond spotting their one-off posts per submission.
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People complain about this constantly, but I look at my experiences with Amazon, and I have to wonder what they are buying that they have things that can be counterfeited so easily. I buy a ton of stuff on Amazon, and have never received anything fake.
Curious what conservatives thought of Silicon Valley show last night?
Watched SV last night and thought it was hilarious.

But curious what some of the conservatives on HN thought?

Funny?
https://leetcode.com/problemset/all/
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What recourse would a buyer have if they pay, and then never receive an item? If your answer to that is, "smart contract wouldn't release funds until they verify they've received item", then what recourse would a seller have if they send product, but the user never completes the transaction and verifies that they received the product?

This isn't a pithy response, I'm genuinely curious how this kind of thing could be worked around. Independent third party mediator that can contact both parties to figure out what happened (perhaps incentivized with a % of the smart contract's value?)
I understood that SPDX can easily be used in new projects, for example.

But when an earlier project has a license that explicitly states something like "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.", can you replace it by a single SPDX link?

I think that technology allows you to easily link something on the internet instead of providing a offline text file, but is it lawful? And justifiable, since having _n_ text files saying one thing is easily compressable ?

Got me thinking about it, does removing lines-of-not-code does really make it smaller or just a little
> slavery

Hyperbole much? Note that the article is talking about the UK, a country with very extensive (and expensive) social benefits system - so if these workers didn't want to work, they could simply choose not to, and still survive just fine. That's in no way comparable to slavery.
So? Then the market will adjust. Seems a net win for customer and seller.
It also costs more to do (even partially) in-person training than to sell SAAS software.
It's slow because if you don't have hardware support you end up moving around fairly large chunks of memory, and if you do it 'smoothly' you end up doing that 10 to 16 times more frequently still! It wasn't rare at all to see text editors not being able to keep up with the keypresses when scrolling up or down.
Tom Scott drives along a Californian singing road:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef93WmlEho0
A call for exploration
We've done the maths for you. Breaking down the costs for temp vs. perm staff
This documentary on BBSs is well worth the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnSz-Hb9LQY
Also, for those who have one: cancel the Amazon Rewards credit card.
Putting aside the silly music, there is a serious discussion about how we allow such ill-qualified people to question people in this sort of setup.
Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it 5 times!
Somewhat crazy idea but anyone know if sedentary behaviour or poor memory are associated with graying hair at the temples?
I'd like to see some statistics comparing Amazon to other retail jobs. Low-skilled retail jobs are often physically exhausting and not fulfilling. Many amazon workers might feel depressed, but would they feel better if they worked at Walmart instead?
> Mark has transcended from hacker-programmer to entrepreneur and ultimately CEO of one of the world's largest, most successful tech-media companies. He's done so before turning 40 years old.

Yet I still think the company evolved much faster than he did, and he's getting overwhelmed in a position he's no longer fit for.
In the US, one's choices are often (1) ISP A, (2) no internet.
> Independent third party mediator that can contact both parties to figure out what happened (perhaps incentivized with a % of the smart contract's value?)

Yes, I certainly see that as an option.

And perhaps a system like this needs more types of "special actors", e.g. for supporting alternative payment methods.
I am not sure if ASUS won't allow it by principle, but Eee PC 901 was using odd SSDs based on Mini PCIe with the same form-factor as mSATA SSD, but different electric circuitry, so regular mSATA drives couldn't work and you had to get an adapter converting mini PCIe into mSATA first. And once you plugged it in, primary master disappeared, so I guess that's what confused recovery media. They likely couldn't predict the future of SSD interfaces and were using some early prototypes before standardization.
Apple's India accelerator is not enough for the vast developer community
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Wow, thanks for sharing. Very interesting. Were you new to practicing meditation? I could definitely see why ten days would be harmful, its almost like solitary confinement.
This is a general HN policy question.

When I first opened this post it was a link to the Gizmodo article talking about the study. It, in turn, linked to the Endgadget article and the source PDF. Why was this HN post hijacked to remove the Gizmodo, and by extension Endgaget, article(s) and point directly to the PDF instead? Is there no value in the content of those two articles reporting on the study?
I bet every relatively complex program that ever tried to display Vietnamese chacters had to do something wonky at some point. There might have been more amazing engineering stories. They just don't get told very often because of the sanction and lack of communication in the olden days. Part of what I want to do in life is to document as many of those amazing stories as possible before they got lost.

Remember the BKAV splash screen with the running green man in DOS? I have never wondered why a TUI program like BKAV would bother going around just to make a graphical screen just to display a useless running man. Now as I thought about it, it perhaps was because the author faced the same issue, so it's just another graphical program pretending to be a textmode one. The running man is perhaps just because he could do it while he was at it.
A completely useless video which doesn't even play the full song for us to listen to. Why are news companies so braindead?
Old people vote, old people don't care about these issues. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
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Why algorithms can’t save us from trolls and hate speech
GDPR is a bit heavy handed where it counts, and generally ends up as a net-loss.

The US definitely has its problems, but as long as there's still an ISP in the Valley who upholds Net Neutrality, development is still probably going to happen there.

Asia will replace it, if anything.
I don't know how much equity they got for that, and without that exact information and the rest of the terms it is hard to know for sure how much they made. There are always lots of stories around an investment of this size but rarely is the real data out in the open. And I'm pretty sure of that because I know the details of some deals and those details are wildly different from the speculation in the press.

Some hints: the later investors likely had the best terms (they almost always do), they were most likely also in a position to block the deal if they did not make at least a certain ROI, they likely had liquidation preferences detailing exactly under what circumstances they would have to agree to a deal that was unfavorable to them and what the other shareholders would have to give up in compensation.
>While I acknowledge it's not a totally fair comparison, I find it interesting that you could replace "55" with "90+" and "Amazon blue collar workers" with "Lower level financiers and consultants on Wall Street" and get probably the same statistics. Maybe even true for some spaces in tech/entrepreneurship.

I believe the difference is, the wall street guys are in it voluntarily (they could probably take up a lower paying white collar job and still survive), and have a massive reward to look forward to after spending a few years there. While the warehouse workers are picking between unemployment\hunger and working in Amazon warehouses.
You've got to be kidding me. THATS what you take out of it? Are wall street bankers being forced to pee in bottles to avoid getting fired?
I think that the new part of this publication that they now have an easy to administer nose spray.
Before wishing death or removal from the gene pool on anyone, maybe you should look at why the accident rate is high, especially in the US.

Severely deficient mandatory motorcycle training, riders who refuse to wear helmets or any safety gear at all, a tendency to just go for the biggest most powerful engine right away, and of course shitty drivers, who either deliberately antagonize riders, or simply don't give a shit.

Squids and outlaw bikers heavily skew the numbers.
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TinyLetter is amazing. Simple, easy to use, just does what you need without templates, campaigns and other stuff that gets in the way between you and subscribers receiving an update from you.
Apple needs to tackle the issue of smartphone addiction
10 easy steps all organisations should follow to implement GDPR
This isn't just an Amazon problem. I've got a friend who worked at Wal-mart for a while. They give points against you for taking sick days no matter how bad it is. One time she got sent home for having some poison ivy on her arms and was still punished for it. Workers who have high points, but not so many to get fired get their schedules screwed with until they quit.
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> cut down on Facebook and move to other social media

Thanks for sharing, but I wonder if she realizes this isn’t going to help...
So, basically eBay with buzzwords?
Exactly. It's very hard to make any definitive statements about this without knowing all the deal terms and those will most likely never become public.
How does a mobile phone sync dats? The main drawback I see currently with beaker is their is no mobile version (for iPhone)
Freedom of speech is just one of the many freedoms granted by the rule of law, it's not a law of nature and not something unquestionable in any circumstances. There are always limits to it, even in the US constitution itself (which is quite outdated document, as we already know from the mass shootings made possible by it). Limits can and should be imposed to defend the sane way to elect the government, but of course it's up to you, American people, which way do you want to go. I just hope that you'll finally sort this out somehow, because the world cannot let America being a self-proclaimed "leader of free world" ruled by Trump-like oligarchy.